The real world is that Congress, no matter what its particular constitution, isn't going to let the President tear the Federal government to pieces, nor, if history is any judge, will it allow him to shutter large swathes of intelligence gathering.
It's all hypothetical anyways. The most Johnson can do is just guarantee Clinton a wider margin of victory. As harsh as it is, the electoral college system really doesn't give a third party candidate any real chance, but does allow such a candidate to completely fuck over one of the parties. Historically, the third parties have usually been Libertarian in nature (left leaning or right leaning) but in general the particular type of Libertarianism being espoused is irrelevant, because if you're a Democrat, you're not interested in wiping out the Federal Government, so you won't vote for either style of Libertarian, which means it's always the Republicans that get damaged by an upsurge in third party support.
It's relevant because a rich person has more income in excess of basic needs than a poor person. Flat taxes fail simply because the 25% of, say, $20000 is a lot more relative to cost of living than 25% of, say, 1000000. Flat taxes are extremely regressive, which is why they always end up becoming progressive, often through the back door via credits, grants and allowances.
How about I start treating you with respect when you build your own roads, your own hospital, your own water and sewer pipes, you know, when you become this mythical Libertarian creature that doesn't rely on society to carry on the business of living.
Who denies that life will find a way? Life found a way even when the cyanobacteria started belching toxic levels of oxygen.
And really, no one even questions that humans will survive, but it's a question of how much do we want it to cost us? Act now, and it's a lot less than if we wait fifty or sixty years, or really even twenty.
No, you haven't. You've been hearing it for about 40 years, with each new succession of modeling making it clear that emissions are creating greater and greater effects. You're just too much a child to want to listen. You want to believe God or the Invisible Hand or whatever would never allow your precious long-chain hydrocarbons to cause that kind of damage.
The average over hundreds of millions of years is irrelevant. The average over the last 10,000-15,000 years, when humans developed agriculture, animal domestication and urban civilization that relies on stable climates and predictable rainfall patterns that can make arable zones that last for centuries or millennia, that's what counts.
What do you suppose is going to happen when the North American rainbelt shifts north and the US's food security is challenged? Do you think the fact that 70 million years ago CO2 levels were higher is somehow a legitimate point?
No, they're not looking at 150 years of data. They're looking at tens of thousands of years of data. Do you even have the vaguest fucking idea what AGW research is based on?
The problem is that the people haven't been listening to the scientists. They've been listening to hyperbolic supporters and equally dishonest detractors. The scientists have always insisted that there are error bars built into their projections, but that all the projections agree that serious problems are coming. And serious problems are already here. The insurance industry knows AGW's effects are already happening. Scientists in various other fields like marine biology and oceanography know its happening. Even the Kochs know it's happening. For chrissakes, the Saudis have created the largest sovereign wealth fund in history precisely because they know they'll be lucky to have another half century to pull profits out of the ground.
The only reason this game is being played out is so that the fossil fuel profiteers can milk a few more years out of that resource before solutions like carbon pricing are implemented on a large scale. But make no mistake, even the major oil companies have known for decades that the product they're pulling out of the ground is leading to major climatological changes.
At this point, what we're seeing is merely a pack of paid professional oil company shills who don't even have any credibility with their paymasters. Oh, and a bizarre gang of Liberarians who seem to believe that the Invisible Hand is capable of suppressing CO2's energy absorption and emission properties, because, you know, Communism!!!!!
Only if the end of the story is a lifeless corpse swinging from a meat hook.
Trump's post-election fate is likely a fade into obscurity. He's destroyed his TV career, unless it's as a Fox News comedy set piece, and with all the Republicans walking away, I doubt even Fox is going to have much to do with him.
Translation: I am immature and infantile, and can't understand why the universe isn't designed in such a way as to eliminate any possibility of my activities fucking things up.
It's going to become increasingly irrelevant what you think of these measures. Carbon will be priced, and if you want to keep driving gas guzzling vehicles you will pay more and more and more and more.
The universe doesn't owe your driving habits any favors. Your bizarre linking of liberty to the price of gas is merely the product of your own stupidity and selfishness.
But you'll adapt, bitching and sniveling like a little child the whole time.
Governments have always invested huge amounts in technical advancement, although historically much of it has been military advancement. But if you look at Rome, it made huge investments in public works, and out of that investment came numerous technical advancements, some still incredibly stunning, The Pantheon in Rome, built by state funds, is still the largest freestanding unreinforced concrete dome ever built.
But the Romans were hardly the first. The Greeks, Egyptians, Akkadians, Chinese, Sumerians, Inca, Aztecs and numerous other civilizations made great technological and engineering advancements, all largely financed by their governments. Even in the US, many of the major technical innovations made by private enterprise have either rested in part on taxpayer-funded research, or in some cases, like the development of the space and maritime technology, and even Internet itself, via direct funding by government.
In the short term perhaps not. But no one can really say what the value of basic research is. Even if takes centuries for an application to be found, well, we know they exist, and further we now have an instrument capable of measuring some of the smallest known perturbations in space-time.
Just repeating these memes endlessly isn't going to help your cause. 7 in 10 Americans dislike the man, he's managed to completely destroy his chances in many battleground states. He's an inept and emotionally unstable man who, after November, will disappear, leaving the GOP fractured.
She's done as much as some fairly well respected presidents. Lincoln was lawyer and a legislator before he became president. By the same token Grant lead the Union to victory and was a fairly shitty president. Frankly your objection is spurious, and I susoect you know if.
The worst thing about the Trump University fiasco isn't that he's a scam artist, it's that several years worth of work by Republicans working on the ground in battleground states to build support among the Latino community have literally been wiped out. I really do feel sorry for those people. I just can't imagine putting your heart and soul into trying to build support for your political party to have its presidential candidate, its leader, nuke the whole damned thing from orbit because he's pissy about a lawsuit.
There isn't a school for politicians. She's a lawyer, she has served as a Senator and served in Cabinet. That seems a perfectly applicable set of qualifications to me.
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The real world is that Congress, no matter what its particular constitution, isn't going to let the President tear the Federal government to pieces, nor, if history is any judge, will it allow him to shutter large swathes of intelligence gathering.
It's all hypothetical anyways. The most Johnson can do is just guarantee Clinton a wider margin of victory. As harsh as it is, the electoral college system really doesn't give a third party candidate any real chance, but does allow such a candidate to completely fuck over one of the parties. Historically, the third parties have usually been Libertarian in nature (left leaning or right leaning) but in general the particular type of Libertarianism being espoused is irrelevant, because if you're a Democrat, you're not interested in wiping out the Federal Government, so you won't vote for either style of Libertarian, which means it's always the Republicans that get damaged by an upsurge in third party support.
It's relevant because a rich person has more income in excess of basic needs than a poor person. Flat taxes fail simply because the 25% of, say, $20000 is a lot more relative to cost of living than 25% of, say, 1000000. Flat taxes are extremely regressive, which is why they always end up becoming progressive, often through the back door via credits, grants and allowances.
The biggest flaw I've heard in some early remote management systems was piss-poor security.
Always remember, no matter who gets screwed, senior management and the lawyers always get paid.
Let's pretend math works differently in the US than elsewhere in the world...
Clearly the man is either a simpering halfwit, or more likely believes Congress is full of simpering halfwits. Sadly, he may be right.
Because the laws of physics give a flying fuck who becomes President.
Jesus Christ, are all you pseudo-skeptics a pack of fucking retards?
No, at best he only has paid for a very tiny fraction. So therefore he's not worthy of respect.
How about I start treating you with respect when you build your own roads, your own hospital, your own water and sewer pipes, you know, when you become this mythical Libertarian creature that doesn't rely on society to carry on the business of living.
Who denies that life will find a way? Life found a way even when the cyanobacteria started belching toxic levels of oxygen.
And really, no one even questions that humans will survive, but it's a question of how much do we want it to cost us? Act now, and it's a lot less than if we wait fifty or sixty years, or really even twenty.
No, you haven't. You've been hearing it for about 40 years, with each new succession of modeling making it clear that emissions are creating greater and greater effects. You're just too much a child to want to listen. You want to believe God or the Invisible Hand or whatever would never allow your precious long-chain hydrocarbons to cause that kind of damage.
The average over hundreds of millions of years is irrelevant. The average over the last 10,000-15,000 years, when humans developed agriculture, animal domestication and urban civilization that relies on stable climates and predictable rainfall patterns that can make arable zones that last for centuries or millennia, that's what counts.
What do you suppose is going to happen when the North American rainbelt shifts north and the US's food security is challenged? Do you think the fact that 70 million years ago CO2 levels were higher is somehow a legitimate point?
No, they're not looking at 150 years of data. They're looking at tens of thousands of years of data. Do you even have the vaguest fucking idea what AGW research is based on?
The problem is that the people haven't been listening to the scientists. They've been listening to hyperbolic supporters and equally dishonest detractors. The scientists have always insisted that there are error bars built into their projections, but that all the projections agree that serious problems are coming. And serious problems are already here. The insurance industry knows AGW's effects are already happening. Scientists in various other fields like marine biology and oceanography know its happening. Even the Kochs know it's happening. For chrissakes, the Saudis have created the largest sovereign wealth fund in history precisely because they know they'll be lucky to have another half century to pull profits out of the ground.
The only reason this game is being played out is so that the fossil fuel profiteers can milk a few more years out of that resource before solutions like carbon pricing are implemented on a large scale. But make no mistake, even the major oil companies have known for decades that the product they're pulling out of the ground is leading to major climatological changes.
At this point, what we're seeing is merely a pack of paid professional oil company shills who don't even have any credibility with their paymasters. Oh, and a bizarre gang of Liberarians who seem to believe that the Invisible Hand is capable of suppressing CO2's energy absorption and emission properties, because, you know, Communism!!!!!
Only if the end of the story is a lifeless corpse swinging from a meat hook.
Trump's post-election fate is likely a fade into obscurity. He's destroyed his TV career, unless it's as a Fox News comedy set piece, and with all the Republicans walking away, I doubt even Fox is going to have much to do with him.
Translation: I am immature and infantile, and can't understand why the universe isn't designed in such a way as to eliminate any possibility of my activities fucking things up.
It's going to become increasingly irrelevant what you think of these measures. Carbon will be priced, and if you want to keep driving gas guzzling vehicles you will pay more and more and more and more.
The universe doesn't owe your driving habits any favors. Your bizarre linking of liberty to the price of gas is merely the product of your own stupidity and selfishness.
But you'll adapt, bitching and sniveling like a little child the whole time.
When you're paying $25 a gallon, you may reconsider your position.
Governments have always invested huge amounts in technical advancement, although historically much of it has been military advancement. But if you look at Rome, it made huge investments in public works, and out of that investment came numerous technical advancements, some still incredibly stunning, The Pantheon in Rome, built by state funds, is still the largest freestanding unreinforced concrete dome ever built.
But the Romans were hardly the first. The Greeks, Egyptians, Akkadians, Chinese, Sumerians, Inca, Aztecs and numerous other civilizations made great technological and engineering advancements, all largely financed by their governments. Even in the US, many of the major technical innovations made by private enterprise have either rested in part on taxpayer-funded research, or in some cases, like the development of the space and maritime technology, and even Internet itself, via direct funding by government.
In the short term perhaps not. But no one can really say what the value of basic research is. Even if takes centuries for an application to be found, well, we know they exist, and further we now have an instrument capable of measuring some of the smallest known perturbations in space-time.
Tidal is also 365, and with various kinds of pumped power systems, you can effectively achieve the same effect even with wind and solar.
Just repeating these memes endlessly isn't going to help your cause. 7 in 10 Americans dislike the man, he's managed to completely destroy his chances in many battleground states. He's an inept and emotionally unstable man who, after November, will disappear, leaving the GOP fractured.
She's done as much as some fairly well respected presidents. Lincoln was lawyer and a legislator before he became president. By the same token Grant lead the Union to victory and was a fairly shitty president. Frankly your objection is spurious, and I susoect you know if.
Whose parents were "Mexicans", I mean.
The worst thing about the Trump University fiasco isn't that he's a scam artist, it's that several years worth of work by Republicans working on the ground in battleground states to build support among the Latino community have literally been wiped out. I really do feel sorry for those people. I just can't imagine putting your heart and soul into trying to build support for your political party to have its presidential candidate, its leader, nuke the whole damned thing from orbit because he's pissy about a lawsuit.
There isn't a school for politicians. She's a lawyer, she has served as a Senator and served in Cabinet. That seems a perfectly applicable set of qualifications to me.