I think history would indicate quite the opposite. The rise of urban dwelling was largely because having centralized centers for commerce and administration were to key agricultural success.
Jesus fucking Christ what is this obsession with nuclear power. Yes, it's part of the solution, but nuclear power still requires nonrenewable resources in the form of radioactive elements to actually work.
No, they just go to Congress, and then Congress. Despite what Trump seems to think, the President is not an Absolute Ruler, and forcing American tech companies to manufacture in the US would require a legislative solution.
With some forms of influenza, a healthy immune system can backfire, as the infection can generate a cytokine storm. It is one of the leading theories of why pandemics so often kill off teenagers and young adults, the people you would think were most likely to fight off an infection.
Indeed. It's sadly ironic to see how the music industry pretends to be the defender of artists, when its history is filled with usurious contracts, duplicity and out and out theft of royalties.
Other things besides AIDS can kill the immune system, like leukemia, and with his JW beliefs, the whole blood transfusion angle could have taken him out.
It even reflects on many jurisdictions dropping of corporate rates, to encourage investment. Guess what happens, corporations end up stockpiling cash (and who wouldn't in economic hard times). Thus you get the so-called "jobless" recoveries.
The problem being that it doesn't play with the sort of extremist individualism among Libertarians, and Libertarians make up a significant segment of the/. community. You will never get those people to agree with a basic minimum income system. Heck, half of them would like to "deal with" many unemployed and underemployed people right now (and you really don't want to know what some of them mean by "deal with").
Sooner or later, as mechanization advances, we're going to have to do that anyways. There just simply won't be enough more labor-oriented and low-skill positions out there. You may always need plumbers, but probably within 50 years, fast food restaurants will all be high-tech version of an automat.
The rumors floating around was that it must have had something to do with the flu he was suffering for the last week or two. He was pretty religious (a Jehovah's Witness, as ironic and odd as that may seem), so I have my doubts that he died of drugs. I'm wagering either a misdiagnosis of a more severe ailment, or a flu that went out of control (this can happen, and influenza still is a major killer).
Indeed. His war on the Internet makes him the peculiar counterpoint to a man who died a few months ago; David Bowie. Both incredibly talented men, genre-busting artists, but one recognized the Internet for what it was and embraced it, and the other only saw it as a den of thieves and waged war against it.
Doubtless, that no-talent hack will go on at length about how he's ten times more talented than Prince.
I can't say I liked everything Prince did, though I was of an age when Purple Rain was one of the seminal records of my generation, but one thing I'll say about him, that I would say about David Bowie as well, is that he didn't really give a damn about genres or musical forms, and even if some of his experiments were failures, you know it was a damned daring person who refused to be typecast and shoved into a box.
I don't actually believe this at all. Most people like to do a good job. They're not all overachievers, but neither are they underachievers. Even most of the people I know on welfare wish they could get off of it. People are not as good as optimists believe, but neither are they shirkers looking to do the bare minimum.
The problem here always is making assumptions about people that reflect YOUR prejudices, but in no way reflect how most people are.
While many rural areas may have less planning rules, there are still state-level planning and building codes, and while it's true that you may be able to get away with defying them, the fact is that you're still violating the rules.
And then there's the issue of liability and insurance. Where the government might not bite you in the ass, try to get property insurance, and if you don't, and someone's kid drowns in your mote, well, let's just say you probably won't be able to retain that property once the lawsuit is concluded, not to mention potential criminal proceedings for negligence.
There is nowhere in the industrialized world where there is no-strings-attached residency. We all have strings attached, some more, some less, some more enforced, some less enforced. Those that imagine they have some complete independence usually end up like the Freeman on the Land types, fringe lunatics who quickly come to be regarded as lawless terrorists.
Oh for fucks sakes, anytime anyone offers anything, there are strings attached. The difference between government and private concerns is that governments are at least hypothetically responsive to the voter. But really, this is total paranoia. All housing, even privately owned housing, has rules attached to it. I can't dig a big ass mote around my property, nor can I build a five hundred foot tower. I still have to get permits, and if the plan violates local or state building codes, then that's that. If I play loud music at 1am, the fact that I own my house doesn't mean I can't be fined under nuisance bylaws, and potentially even end up in court.
This Libertarian fantasy of yours simply does not exist. We all have obligations, whether we're owners or renters, and whether, as renters we live in privately-owned housing or public housing.
And if that is the way modern capitalism worked, you might have a point. But when you consider the amount of corporate welfare in most industrialized countries, and couple that with the fact that, as the Panama Papers show, the very wealthy are so powerful that they can actually manipulate, if not outright force the political system to make sure not only profits are guaranteed, but large amounts of cash is protected in tax shelters. There's nothing wrong with being wealthy, but when being wealthy effectively creates a whole new political class, capable of overawing politicians to guarantee compliance and leniency, then i'd say we've left behind the idealized capitalism and are well on the way to kleptocracy.
What the fuck are you talking about? The absorption and re-emission patterns of CO2 have been known for over a century. Unless you can provide some explanation as to where all that energy is going that increased CO2 concentrations are trapping, you have your evidence right there.
So go on, Mr. Fucking Genius, where's the energy going? Magic faeries? Secret energy sinks into outer space?
No, you haven't. You've read some denier site that gives you memes you don't fucking understand to repeat on Internet forums, so you can make believe you have the vaguest idea what you're talking about, when in fact, you don't. You see, you're a fucking moron.
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I think history would indicate quite the opposite. The rise of urban dwelling was largely because having centralized centers for commerce and administration were to key agricultural success.
Jesus fucking Christ what is this obsession with nuclear power. Yes, it's part of the solution, but nuclear power still requires nonrenewable resources in the form of radioactive elements to actually work.
Because the story of America is the story of driving away talent out petulance.
No, they just go to Congress, and then Congress. Despite what Trump seems to think, the President is not an Absolute Ruler, and forcing American tech companies to manufacture in the US would require a legislative solution.
With some forms of influenza, a healthy immune system can backfire, as the infection can generate a cytokine storm. It is one of the leading theories of why pandemics so often kill off teenagers and young adults, the people you would think were most likely to fight off an infection.
Except, of course, for much of the Pacific Rim...
Indeed. It's sadly ironic to see how the music industry pretends to be the defender of artists, when its history is filled with usurious contracts, duplicity and out and out theft of royalties.
Congress will be banning cheap hearing devices. That's the American way.
What the fuck? Iceland generates almost all its electricity with geothermal, and is in the process of being an exporter.
Anything that can create mechanical motion can produce electricity, and the operative part of geothermal is the same as nuclear; steam turbines.
Is "gay AIDS" different than other kinds of AIDS?
Other things besides AIDS can kill the immune system, like leukemia, and with his JW beliefs, the whole blood transfusion angle could have taken him out.
It even reflects on many jurisdictions dropping of corporate rates, to encourage investment. Guess what happens, corporations end up stockpiling cash (and who wouldn't in economic hard times). Thus you get the so-called "jobless" recoveries.
The problem being that it doesn't play with the sort of extremist individualism among Libertarians, and Libertarians make up a significant segment of the /. community. You will never get those people to agree with a basic minimum income system. Heck, half of them would like to "deal with" many unemployed and underemployed people right now (and you really don't want to know what some of them mean by "deal with").
Sooner or later, as mechanization advances, we're going to have to do that anyways. There just simply won't be enough more labor-oriented and low-skill positions out there. You may always need plumbers, but probably within 50 years, fast food restaurants will all be high-tech version of an automat.
The rumors floating around was that it must have had something to do with the flu he was suffering for the last week or two. He was pretty religious (a Jehovah's Witness, as ironic and odd as that may seem), so I have my doubts that he died of drugs. I'm wagering either a misdiagnosis of a more severe ailment, or a flu that went out of control (this can happen, and influenza still is a major killer).
Indeed. His war on the Internet makes him the peculiar counterpoint to a man who died a few months ago; David Bowie. Both incredibly talented men, genre-busting artists, but one recognized the Internet for what it was and embraced it, and the other only saw it as a den of thieves and waged war against it.
Doubtless, that no-talent hack will go on at length about how he's ten times more talented than Prince.
I can't say I liked everything Prince did, though I was of an age when Purple Rain was one of the seminal records of my generation, but one thing I'll say about him, that I would say about David Bowie as well, is that he didn't really give a damn about genres or musical forms, and even if some of his experiments were failures, you know it was a damned daring person who refused to be typecast and shoved into a box.
I don't actually believe this at all. Most people like to do a good job. They're not all overachievers, but neither are they underachievers. Even most of the people I know on welfare wish they could get off of it. People are not as good as optimists believe, but neither are they shirkers looking to do the bare minimum.
The problem here always is making assumptions about people that reflect YOUR prejudices, but in no way reflect how most people are.
While many rural areas may have less planning rules, there are still state-level planning and building codes, and while it's true that you may be able to get away with defying them, the fact is that you're still violating the rules.
And then there's the issue of liability and insurance. Where the government might not bite you in the ass, try to get property insurance, and if you don't, and someone's kid drowns in your mote, well, let's just say you probably won't be able to retain that property once the lawsuit is concluded, not to mention potential criminal proceedings for negligence.
There is nowhere in the industrialized world where there is no-strings-attached residency. We all have strings attached, some more, some less, some more enforced, some less enforced. Those that imagine they have some complete independence usually end up like the Freeman on the Land types, fringe lunatics who quickly come to be regarded as lawless terrorists.
And that's why everyone around you thinks your an evil Nazi.
Oh for fucks sakes, anytime anyone offers anything, there are strings attached. The difference between government and private concerns is that governments are at least hypothetically responsive to the voter. But really, this is total paranoia. All housing, even privately owned housing, has rules attached to it. I can't dig a big ass mote around my property, nor can I build a five hundred foot tower. I still have to get permits, and if the plan violates local or state building codes, then that's that. If I play loud music at 1am, the fact that I own my house doesn't mean I can't be fined under nuisance bylaws, and potentially even end up in court.
This Libertarian fantasy of yours simply does not exist. We all have obligations, whether we're owners or renters, and whether, as renters we live in privately-owned housing or public housing.
And if that is the way modern capitalism worked, you might have a point. But when you consider the amount of corporate welfare in most industrialized countries, and couple that with the fact that, as the Panama Papers show, the very wealthy are so powerful that they can actually manipulate, if not outright force the political system to make sure not only profits are guaranteed, but large amounts of cash is protected in tax shelters. There's nothing wrong with being wealthy, but when being wealthy effectively creates a whole new political class, capable of overawing politicians to guarantee compliance and leniency, then i'd say we've left behind the idealized capitalism and are well on the way to kleptocracy.
But you do expect governments to take a long range view.
Until the major bread baskets suddenly start suffering prolonged droughts.
What the fuck are you talking about? The absorption and re-emission patterns of CO2 have been known for over a century. Unless you can provide some explanation as to where all that energy is going that increased CO2 concentrations are trapping, you have your evidence right there.
So go on, Mr. Fucking Genius, where's the energy going? Magic faeries? Secret energy sinks into outer space?
No, you haven't. You've read some denier site that gives you memes you don't fucking understand to repeat on Internet forums, so you can make believe you have the vaguest idea what you're talking about, when in fact, you don't. You see, you're a fucking moron.