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yeah yeah, I used a comma instead of a semicolon. I guess that tripped it up?
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WASHINGTONâ"On average, human activities put out in just three to five days the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide that volcanoes produce globally each year. So concludes a scientist who reviewed five published studies of present-day global volcanic carbon dioxide emissions and compared those emissions to anthropogenic (human-induced) carbon dioxide output.
âoeThe most frequent question that I have gotten (and still get), in my 30 some years as a volcanic gas geochemist from the general public and from geoscientists working in fields outside of volcanology, is âDo volcanoes emit more carbon dioxide than human activities?â(TM)â says Terrance Gerlach of the U.S. Geological Survey. âoeResearch findings indicate unequivocally that the answer to this question is âNoâ(TM)â"anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions dwarf global volcanic carbon dioxide emissions.â
put in place by liberals? Can you point out a few liberals in government today? Because all I see are Republicans and Democrats, which are far far far right and center right, respectively.
It says right there on the page you cited that they don't. Quoting from the very first screen (MB spokesman):
"We believe that the political reform is the true and natural gateway for all other kinds of reform. We have announced our acceptance of democracy that acknowledges political pluralism, the peaceful rotation of power and the fact that the nation is the source of all powers. As we see it, political reform includes the termination of the state of emergency, restoring public freedoms, including the right to establish political parties, whatever their tendencies may be, and the freedom of the press, freedom of criticism and thought, freedom of peaceful demonstrations, freedom of assembly, etc. It also includes the dismantling of all exceptional courts and the annulment of all exceptional laws, establishing the independence of the judiciary, enabling the judiciary to fully and truly supervise general elections so as to ensure that they authentically express people's will, removing all obstacles that restrict the functioning of civil society organizations, etc."
"We believe that the political reform is the true and natural gateway for all other kinds of reform. We have announced our acceptance of democracy that acknowledges political pluralism, the peaceful rotation of power and the fact that the nation is the source of all powers. As we see it, political reform includes the termination of the state of emergency, restoring public freedoms, including the right to establish political parties, whatever their tendencies may be, and the freedom of the press, freedom of criticism and thought, freedom of peaceful demonstrations, freedom of assembly, etc. It also includes the dismantling of all exceptional courts and the annulment of all exceptional laws, establishing the independence of the judiciary, enabling the judiciary to fully and truly supervise general elections so as to ensure that they authentically express people's will, removing all obstacles that restrict the functioning of civil society organizations, etc."
How then do you explain those who can deal with the pace of modern life, including those who love and work frequently with technology and information, yet retain the ability to concentrate and focus and pay attention at will?
It's an illusion that you can do those things as well as you think you can.
"People who are regularly bombarded with several streams of electronic information do not pay attention, control their memory or switch from one job to another as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time, a group of Stanford researchers has found."
That's a clear violation of freedom of speech. If I want to, with my own money, create an ad endorsing a candidate and express my views, then denying that by law would certainly be censorship.
There are exceptions to freedom of speech, such as inciting panic (fire in crowded theater). Looks like we need to add another one. Pragmatism > ideology
Your proposal does not truly eliminate the debt, it just changes who gets stolen from. Saying "You don't owe this anymore" may relieve your particular debt problem, but it damages people who fronted the money in the first place and who have put things at risk that may not be recognized by the word "debt."
Of course it damages the people that fronted the money, but they build that risk into the loan so that if stuff goes belly-up, they're OK! Otherwise, why the fuck am I paying both an interest rate AND required private mortgage insurance on my mortgage loan? It's not like I got this loan "for free"...over a 30 year mortgage, you pay almost DOUBLE the face value of the loan...what did the bank DO with all that money? Why can't they lean on at least a portion of that when people start defaulting (or when mortgage balances get written down, as the parent suggests)?
And if you say that they never saw a situation like this coming, where EVERYONE defaults and the bank is stuck holding the bag? Well, I guess they should have thought of that before making all those shitty loans...
IANAL, but I wouldn't advise that. The courts, at least here in the United States, take a rather dim view of shirkers who don't pay their debts and so do most juries. Doing as you suggest is almost certainly a recipe for even more legal troubles.
So you're saying that people who are staying in their homes "for free" aren't getting such an awesome deal after all? Glad to see your thinking is coming around...
Not even the tip. When moving our snake's tank a short distance (a little Western Ribbon snake, essentially a fancy-looking garter snake), a piece of her tank furniture fell over and severed the tip of her tail (maybe half an inch). I can assure you it didn't grow back.
It did continue to flex and jump around the tank for a minute or so, which was interesting. And FYI, the snake did OK, she hardly bled at all and was back to normal within a few days. We did consult our vet.:)
So poor people should be held to account for taking loans offered to them they knew they couldn't afford, but private loan repackagers and those offering said loans weren't smart enough to to realize that the "everyone is making tons of money on crap labeled AAA" merry-go-round would eventually stop and crash the world economy? The latter was merely a "market distortion caused by government influences"? So they were dumb, or just couldn't help themselves, or what?
Actually, we ALL know the latter is true: they were smart enough to know they were taking HUGE risks of running the economy into the ground, but they were too selfish to care, and hoped someone else would be left holding the bad when the whole thing collapsed...and they were right, WE (the 99%) were left holding the bag.
Again, you're putting words in their mouthes. There is nothing anti-corporate about their agenda...they simply want to hold the gambling house that is Wall Street accountable to its debts, which for some reason, all of society (except them) had to pay.
Here is a list of their demands from their website; they basically try to remove as much conflict of interest and "sign my own paycheck" activities as possible from banking and, to some degree, government as well:
2) USE CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORITY AND OVERSIGHT TO ENSURE APPROPRIATE FEDERAL AGENCIES FULLY INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE WALL STREET CRIMINALS
3) CONGRESS ENACT LEGISLATION TO PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY BY REVERSING THE EFFECTS OF THE CITIZENS UNITED SUPREME COURT DECISION
4) RE-ESTABLISH THE PUBLIC AIRWAVES IN THE U.S. SO THAT POLITICAL CANDIDATES ARE GIVEN EQUAL TIME FOR FREE AT REASONABLE INTERVALS IN DAILY PROGRAMMING DURING CAMPAIGN SEASON.
5) CONGRESS PASS THE BUFFETT RULE ON FAIR TAXATION SO THE RICH AND CORPORATIONS PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE & CLOSE CORPORATE TAX LOOP HOLES AND ENACT A PROHIBITION ON HIDING FUNDS OFF SHORE.
6) CONGRESS COMPLETELY REVAMP THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION CONGRESS PASS SPECIFIC AND EFFECTIVE LAWS LIMITING THE INFLUENCE OF LOBBYISTS AND ELIMINATING THE PRACTICE OF LOBBYISTS WRITING LEGISLATION THAT ENDS UP ON THE FLOOR OF CONGRESS.
7) CONGRESS PASSING "Revolving Door Legislation" LEGISLATION ELIMINATING THE ABILITY OF FORMER GOVERNMENT REGULATORS GOING TO WORK FOR CORPORATIONS THAT THEY ONCE REGULATED.
8) ELIMINATE "PERSONHOOD" LEGAL STATUS FOR CORPORATIONS.
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Rosette: Greetings.
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yeah yeah, I used a comma instead of a semicolon. I guess that tripped it up?
ROFL
Yeah, I *can't wait* to live in a warlord-run society! It's gonna be AWESOME! /totally agree with you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_momentum#Conservation_of_angular_momentum
Are you fucking kidding?
Physical abuse is NOT the solution.
Balance!
I do hear people say that 2 is wrong because, uh, because volcanoes do it or something.
Except they're, uh, contributing less than 2% of the human race's CO2 output per year:
http://www.agu.org/news/press/pr_archives/2011/2011-22.shtml
WASHINGTONâ"On average, human activities put out in just three to five days the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide that volcanoes produce globally each year. So concludes a scientist who reviewed five published studies of present-day global volcanic carbon dioxide emissions and compared those emissions to anthropogenic (human-induced) carbon dioxide output.
âoeThe most frequent question that I have gotten (and still get), in my 30 some years as a volcanic gas geochemist from the general public and from geoscientists working in fields outside of volcanology, is âDo volcanoes emit more carbon dioxide than human activities?â(TM)â says Terrance Gerlach of the U.S. Geological Survey. âoeResearch findings indicate unequivocally that the answer to this question is âNoâ(TM)â"anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions dwarf global volcanic carbon dioxide emissions.â
put in place by liberals? Can you point out a few liberals in government today? Because all I see are Republicans and Democrats, which are far far far right and center right, respectively.
Not a liberal in the whole lot.
They didn't say freedom, they said democracy. A theocratic state doesn't necessarily have to be a despotic hellhole.
I'm certainly not claiming that MB is all rainbows and secular sunshine, but they don't seem to be a "we want to conquer the West" organization.
It says right there on the page you cited that they don't. Quoting from the very first screen (MB spokesman):
"We believe that the political reform is the true and natural gateway for all other kinds of reform. We have announced our acceptance of democracy that acknowledges political pluralism, the peaceful rotation of power and the fact that the nation is the source of all powers. As we see it, political reform includes the termination of the state of emergency, restoring public freedoms, including the right to establish political parties, whatever their tendencies may be, and the freedom of the press, freedom of criticism and thought, freedom of peaceful demonstrations, freedom of assembly, etc. It also includes the dismantling of all exceptional courts and the annulment of all exceptional laws, establishing the independence of the judiciary, enabling the judiciary to fully and truly supervise general elections so as to ensure that they authentically express people's will, removing all obstacles that restrict the functioning of civil society organizations, etc."
In the words of the MB spokesman:
"We believe that the political reform is the true and natural gateway for all other kinds of reform. We have announced our acceptance of democracy that acknowledges political pluralism, the peaceful rotation of power and the fact that the nation is the source of all powers. As we see it, political reform includes the termination of the state of emergency, restoring public freedoms, including the right to establish political parties, whatever their tendencies may be, and the freedom of the press, freedom of criticism and thought, freedom of peaceful demonstrations, freedom of assembly, etc. It also includes the dismantling of all exceptional courts and the annulment of all exceptional laws, establishing the independence of the judiciary, enabling the judiciary to fully and truly supervise general elections so as to ensure that they authentically express people's will, removing all obstacles that restrict the functioning of civil society organizations, etc."
Ubuntu: The power of apt-get without having to deal with Debian.
HOORAY!
I remember getting my free Ubuntu discs in the mail in late 2004 (you could request them on the website). Gave them out to friends.
Good times!
How then do you explain those who can deal with the pace of modern life, including those who love and work frequently with technology and information, yet retain the ability to concentrate and focus and pay attention at will?
It's an illusion that you can do those things as well as you think you can.
http://www.physorg.com/news170349575.html
"People who are regularly bombarded with several streams of electronic information do not pay attention, control their memory or switch from one job to another as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time, a group of Stanford researchers has found."
I'd rather they like Ahmadinejad than the Supreme Leader. Ahmadinejad is a moderate compared to that guy.
There was an old lady who swallowed a pepper... :)
Many people recommend milk, but I've found that cheese works better.
If you want to cut the heat as quickly as possible, try olive oil. Not the most pleasant thing to do, but it kills the heat really quickly.
That's a clear violation of freedom of speech. If I want to, with my own money, create an ad endorsing a candidate and express my views, then denying that by law would certainly be censorship.
There are exceptions to freedom of speech, such as inciting panic (fire in crowded theater). Looks like we need to add another one. Pragmatism > ideology
Your proposal does not truly eliminate the debt, it just changes who gets stolen from. Saying "You don't owe this anymore" may relieve your particular debt problem, but it damages people who fronted the money in the first place and who have put things at risk that may not be recognized by the word "debt."
Of course it damages the people that fronted the money, but they build that risk into the loan so that if stuff goes belly-up, they're OK! Otherwise, why the fuck am I paying both an interest rate AND required private mortgage insurance on my mortgage loan? It's not like I got this loan "for free"...over a 30 year mortgage, you pay almost DOUBLE the face value of the loan...what did the bank DO with all that money? Why can't they lean on at least a portion of that when people start defaulting (or when mortgage balances get written down, as the parent suggests)?
And if you say that they never saw a situation like this coming, where EVERYONE defaults and the bank is stuck holding the bag? Well, I guess they should have thought of that before making all those shitty loans...
IANAL, but I wouldn't advise that. The courts, at least here in the United States, take a rather dim view of shirkers who don't pay their debts and so do most juries. Doing as you suggest is almost certainly a recipe for even more legal troubles.
So you're saying that people who are staying in their homes "for free" aren't getting such an awesome deal after all? Glad to see your thinking is coming around...
Not even the tip. When moving our snake's tank a short distance (a little Western Ribbon snake, essentially a fancy-looking garter snake), a piece of her tank furniture fell over and severed the tip of her tail (maybe half an inch). I can assure you it didn't grow back.
It did continue to flex and jump around the tank for a minute or so, which was interesting. And FYI, the snake did OK, she hardly bled at all and was back to normal within a few days. We did consult our vet. :)
Cool, so get back to us in 30 years when these kids are well into the workforce and affecting society.
So poor people should be held to account for taking loans offered to them they knew they couldn't afford, but private loan repackagers and those offering said loans weren't smart enough to to realize that the "everyone is making tons of money on crap labeled AAA" merry-go-round would eventually stop and crash the world economy? The latter was merely a "market distortion caused by government influences"? So they were dumb, or just couldn't help themselves, or what?
Actually, we ALL know the latter is true: they were smart enough to know they were taking HUGE risks of running the economy into the ground, but they were too selfish to care, and hoped someone else would be left holding the bad when the whole thing collapsed...and they were right, WE (the 99%) were left holding the bag.
Again, you're putting words in their mouthes. There is nothing anti-corporate about their agenda...they simply want to hold the gambling house that is Wall Street accountable to its debts, which for some reason, all of society (except them) had to pay.
Here is a list of their demands from their website; they basically try to remove as much conflict of interest and "sign my own paycheck" activities as possible from banking and, to some degree, government as well:
1) CONGRESS PASS HR 1489 ("RETURN TO PRUDENT BANKING ACT" http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-1489 ). THIS REINSTATES MANY PROVISIONS OF THE GLASS-STEAGALL ACT.
2) USE CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORITY AND OVERSIGHT TO ENSURE APPROPRIATE FEDERAL AGENCIES FULLY INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE WALL STREET CRIMINALS
3) CONGRESS ENACT LEGISLATION TO PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY BY REVERSING THE EFFECTS OF THE CITIZENS UNITED SUPREME COURT DECISION
4) RE-ESTABLISH THE PUBLIC AIRWAVES IN THE U.S. SO THAT POLITICAL CANDIDATES ARE GIVEN EQUAL TIME FOR FREE AT REASONABLE INTERVALS IN DAILY PROGRAMMING DURING CAMPAIGN SEASON.
5) CONGRESS PASS THE BUFFETT RULE ON FAIR TAXATION SO THE RICH AND CORPORATIONS PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE & CLOSE CORPORATE TAX LOOP HOLES AND ENACT A PROHIBITION ON HIDING FUNDS OFF SHORE.
6) CONGRESS COMPLETELY REVAMP THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
CONGRESS PASS SPECIFIC AND EFFECTIVE LAWS LIMITING THE INFLUENCE OF LOBBYISTS AND ELIMINATING THE PRACTICE OF LOBBYISTS WRITING LEGISLATION THAT ENDS UP ON THE FLOOR OF CONGRESS.
7) CONGRESS PASSING "Revolving Door Legislation" LEGISLATION ELIMINATING THE ABILITY OF FORMER GOVERNMENT REGULATORS GOING TO WORK FOR CORPORATIONS THAT THEY ONCE REGULATED.
8) ELIMINATE "PERSONHOOD" LEGAL STATUS FOR CORPORATIONS.
I doubt IRS will find anything Google can't.
Yeah, after all, how often does someone say "I IRSed myself this morning to see what potential employers might find about me"?