There is no fucking Marxism in the US. Jesus fucking christ, pal. The US hasn't had a meaningfully Marxist movement since the 19 fucking 30s. Even in Europe, the number of real live walking talking Marxists in any particular institution is incredibly small.
The right wingers aren't going to buy AGW simply because there's only one long-term solution, and that's to stop vomiting megatons of CO2 into the atmosphere from fossil fuels. The solutions boil down to "don't use fossil fuels". Since that is a threat to a current business model, automatically anyone who makes that suggestion is a "Marxist" to the Heartland Institute and all the halfwits in places like/. that repeat their memes.
It doesn't really matter at the end of the day. Within the next couple of decades, it will be irrefutable even to the most wide-eyed Ron Paulite. Of course, by that point, the economic damage will be enormous, and the cost of dealing with the effects will be huge. But by that point the big energy players will have enough money sitting in the bank to isolate themselves, which is what this is really about.
That's it, use your mod points you evil fucking assholes. Waste them all, but it won't change the fact that the univese doesn't owe your precious oil economy one fucking favor. CO2 traps energy, assholes, no matter how many mod points and trolling actions you use to try to deny it.
Ah, the denying fucktards with mod points are out in force. Imagine being so fucking childish and retarded that you think the laws of physics should give your preferred ideology a leg up.
The Universe doesn't fucking care about your SUV or whether the fucking Koch Brothers make a profit this year. It will fuck up our climate quite happily, particularly when we help it fucking trap huge amounts of solar radiation in the fucking atmosphere because we're barfing out long-sequestered CO2, at least half a billion years worth, in the space of three fucking centuries.
Then fucking read the science, for fuck's sake. Stop paying attention to the fucking pundits on either side of the debate. I care about as much about what Al Gore, George Monbiot or some Hollywood star thinks about climatology as I do the Wall Street Fucking journal. Jesus, this isnt' fucking hard, and it's not as if you have to go far to actually read what real scientists working in climatology and related fields are studying.
AGW is part of the observational science of climatology. The political effects that rise out of that are something else entirely. Claiming that it is "leftist politics" is fucking absurd. There's no reason that conservatives and libertarians couldn't put forward models that dealt with CO2 emissions, rather than acting like fucking retards and demanding that the laws of physics must somehow obey some set of political ideologies.
You have no fucking idea how science works. Science advances as data is gathered, theories are refined or new ones are proposed. It isn't some game of topplng windmills. If a theory is invalid, yes it will be rejected, but that is not the sole activity of science, nor, really is it the main activity of science.
Do you seriously think there are scientists in any great numbers running around trying to disprove QM or tectonic plate theories? Is that what you think physicists and geologists are doing? If that is what you think, then you are an ignoramus.
Blah blah blah. At the end of the day, deniers are denying the science. They can dress up their pseudo-scientific denial in any clothing they like, but what it boils down to is "we want to burn as much fossil fuels as we want and any scientist that points out that there are serious consequences to that is a fucking liar!"
Here's thre fucking facts. CO2 has two critical effects in the context of climate; 1. it traps energy in the lower atmosphere, raising surface temperatures, and 2. it interacts with seawater, altering ocean pH levels. These cannot be debated, they are simply physics and chemistry. When some "denies" AGW, they are denying facts about carbon dioxide that have been known for over a century, and all the handwaving about chaotic systems and the magic of clouds doesn't make it go away.
When you factor in other effects like soot layers on ice reducing the albedo and thus on its own increasing absorption of solar energy, and the alterations to climate and ecosystems the warming oceans brings, what you have is a significant man made alteration to global climate that over the next century is going to produce vast changes in every area of the globe; shifting rain belts, altering terrestrial and ocean ecosystems, and altering conditions that have remained relatively steady since the end of the last Ice Age.
Yes, humans will survive, and civilization in general will not collapse (though it may very well hit brick walls in some areas of the world), but it is going to cost everyone a fucking shit load of money, and in many cases radically alter living standards for the worse.
So you can imagine that somehow the "deniers" are doing some sort of productive scrutiny, but I think you and I both know that is an absolute load of bullshit, whose only purpose at the end of the day is to assure the major investors in fossil fuels maintain their profits as long as possible. I don't know about you, but I don't give a flying fuck whether the House of Saud or the Koch Brothers' stock portfolios flourish or not, and in fact, such is the nature of these people that if they point in one direction, one should be fairly fucking sure that we should all be bending the other way.
The US does business with countries like China and Saudi Arabia, so why would Cuba be left out in the cold? Besides, the national interest is best served by not having China replacing Russia as a major force in Cuba, which is exactly what will happen if relations and trade with Cuba are not normalized.
None of which is going to save the company. It's quickly becoming yet another Android manufacturer, if it survives at all (by this point it can't possibly have the vast piles of cash it once did, seeing as it has basically had no meaningful profits in a few years).
While I agree with you that someone who is wrongfully imprisoned should get considerably more money than they do, wrongful convictions are largely about the criminal justice system, whereas in the civil system the jury often decides the award. That being said, if Gawker can come up with the cash to be able to make an appeal (not certain at this point), the award could be dropped significantly.
I think Hulk will need millions. Maybe not $115 million (plus punitive damages to be decided), but considering he lost his main revenue sources, I suspect it will be in the millions by the time the dust clears. Maybe he can try to repair his reputation, but I doubt he'll ever be able to get back to where he was before the tape was released.
But I agree with others. Part of this large award isn't about making Hulk Hogan whole again. It's about sending a message to other media companies who operate in that shady realm like Gawker does; that violating peoples' reasonable expectations to privacy and then ignoring a court order could very much risk the company's existence, and potentially even the senior executives. Corporate officers are not immune from their decisions.
The issue becomes one of means and intent. If I buy stocks in a company through, I get little in the way of say in the company's actions, and I certainly cannot be accused of being part of a conspiracy if the company poisons a bunch of people or does something else nefarious. This would be like demanding all taxpayers be imprisoned because the government did something awful.
As to corporate personhood, while perhaps it is interpreted too far judicially, the original notion was simply that a corporation could hold assets, equity and liabilities as an independent entity. While one could, I suppose, grant all shareholders pieces of the balance sheet based on the proportion of their ownership, it would be a very complicated system. Corporate personhood is meant as a short hand. Corporate personhood is just that, a legal shorthand or fiction that allows transfers of ownership and paying of dividends, and ultimately raising and transferring of capital a lot easier.
The telegraph really does stand out as one of the great inventions of human history, up there with agriculture, writing, gunpowder and the printing press. Near instantaneous communication revolutionized just about everything. What many of us have been doing for the last century and a half afterwards is simply building on the first telecommunications networks.
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There is no fucking Marxism in the US. Jesus fucking christ, pal. The US hasn't had a meaningfully Marxist movement since the 19 fucking 30s. Even in Europe, the number of real live walking talking Marxists in any particular institution is incredibly small.
The right wingers aren't going to buy AGW simply because there's only one long-term solution, and that's to stop vomiting megatons of CO2 into the atmosphere from fossil fuels. The solutions boil down to "don't use fossil fuels". Since that is a threat to a current business model, automatically anyone who makes that suggestion is a "Marxist" to the Heartland Institute and all the halfwits in places like /. that repeat their memes.
It doesn't really matter at the end of the day. Within the next couple of decades, it will be irrefutable even to the most wide-eyed Ron Paulite. Of course, by that point, the economic damage will be enormous, and the cost of dealing with the effects will be huge. But by that point the big energy players will have enough money sitting in the bank to isolate themselves, which is what this is really about.
So let's get this straight, by questioning the data, you mean you're questioning the physical properties of CO2, right?
Infantile minds are only capable of infantile responses. The universe doesn't owe you any favors, mate.
That's it, use your mod points you evil fucking assholes. Waste them all, but it won't change the fact that the univese doesn't owe your precious oil economy one fucking favor. CO2 traps energy, assholes, no matter how many mod points and trolling actions you use to try to deny it.
Arguing that I'm a hypocrite doesn't make AGW any less true. If you think it does, then you really are a fucking moron.
Which, of course, retard, you are, an evil pathetic moron. Fuck you.
Ah, the denying fucktards with mod points are out in force. Imagine being so fucking childish and retarded that you think the laws of physics should give your preferred ideology a leg up.
The Universe doesn't fucking care about your SUV or whether the fucking Koch Brothers make a profit this year. It will fuck up our climate quite happily, particularly when we help it fucking trap huge amounts of solar radiation in the fucking atmosphere because we're barfing out long-sequestered CO2, at least half a billion years worth, in the space of three fucking centuries.
Then fucking read the science, for fuck's sake. Stop paying attention to the fucking pundits on either side of the debate. I care about as much about what Al Gore, George Monbiot or some Hollywood star thinks about climatology as I do the Wall Street Fucking journal. Jesus, this isnt' fucking hard, and it's not as if you have to go far to actually read what real scientists working in climatology and related fields are studying.
The last president that was the target of impeachment was a Democrat.
AGW is part of the observational science of climatology. The political effects that rise out of that are something else entirely. Claiming that it is "leftist politics" is fucking absurd. There's no reason that conservatives and libertarians couldn't put forward models that dealt with CO2 emissions, rather than acting like fucking retards and demanding that the laws of physics must somehow obey some set of political ideologies.
We have been doing some serious damage. 4% is a meaningless number in and of itself.
You have no fucking idea how science works. Science advances as data is gathered, theories are refined or new ones are proposed. It isn't some game of topplng windmills. If a theory is invalid, yes it will be rejected, but that is not the sole activity of science, nor, really is it the main activity of science.
Do you seriously think there are scientists in any great numbers running around trying to disprove QM or tectonic plate theories? Is that what you think physicists and geologists are doing? If that is what you think, then you are an ignoramus.
Blah blah blah. At the end of the day, deniers are denying the science. They can dress up their pseudo-scientific denial in any clothing they like, but what it boils down to is "we want to burn as much fossil fuels as we want and any scientist that points out that there are serious consequences to that is a fucking liar!"
Here's thre fucking facts. CO2 has two critical effects in the context of climate; 1. it traps energy in the lower atmosphere, raising surface temperatures, and 2. it interacts with seawater, altering ocean pH levels. These cannot be debated, they are simply physics and chemistry. When some "denies" AGW, they are denying facts about carbon dioxide that have been known for over a century, and all the handwaving about chaotic systems and the magic of clouds doesn't make it go away.
When you factor in other effects like soot layers on ice reducing the albedo and thus on its own increasing absorption of solar energy, and the alterations to climate and ecosystems the warming oceans brings, what you have is a significant man made alteration to global climate that over the next century is going to produce vast changes in every area of the globe; shifting rain belts, altering terrestrial and ocean ecosystems, and altering conditions that have remained relatively steady since the end of the last Ice Age.
Yes, humans will survive, and civilization in general will not collapse (though it may very well hit brick walls in some areas of the world), but it is going to cost everyone a fucking shit load of money, and in many cases radically alter living standards for the worse.
So you can imagine that somehow the "deniers" are doing some sort of productive scrutiny, but I think you and I both know that is an absolute load of bullshit, whose only purpose at the end of the day is to assure the major investors in fossil fuels maintain their profits as long as possible. I don't know about you, but I don't give a flying fuck whether the House of Saud or the Koch Brothers' stock portfolios flourish or not, and in fact, such is the nature of these people that if they point in one direction, one should be fairly fucking sure that we should all be bending the other way.
A pretty fucking considerably different situation, and I tend to be on Snowden's side.
The US does business with countries like China and Saudi Arabia, so why would Cuba be left out in the cold? Besides, the national interest is best served by not having China replacing Russia as a major force in Cuba, which is exactly what will happen if relations and trade with Cuba are not normalized.
Because even if he's breaking laws, that's not treason...
Treason has a rather specific definition, and not merely "I don't like that guy..."
BB has been "making" money by selling assets, not in actual revenues.
None of which is going to save the company. It's quickly becoming yet another Android manufacturer, if it survives at all (by this point it can't possibly have the vast piles of cash it once did, seeing as it has basically had no meaningful profits in a few years).
Fuck no. It's a terrible buggy browser.
One does assume Gawker and its corporate officers have bank accounts. Hogan may not get all the money, but he'll get some.
While I agree with you that someone who is wrongfully imprisoned should get considerably more money than they do, wrongful convictions are largely about the criminal justice system, whereas in the civil system the jury often decides the award. That being said, if Gawker can come up with the cash to be able to make an appeal (not certain at this point), the award could be dropped significantly.
I think Hulk will need millions. Maybe not $115 million (plus punitive damages to be decided), but considering he lost his main revenue sources, I suspect it will be in the millions by the time the dust clears. Maybe he can try to repair his reputation, but I doubt he'll ever be able to get back to where he was before the tape was released.
But I agree with others. Part of this large award isn't about making Hulk Hogan whole again. It's about sending a message to other media companies who operate in that shady realm like Gawker does; that violating peoples' reasonable expectations to privacy and then ignoring a court order could very much risk the company's existence, and potentially even the senior executives. Corporate officers are not immune from their decisions.
God almighty. You seriously think that women just love being secretly photographed in the nude by peeping toms?
Fuck this place has some real degenerates.
The issue becomes one of means and intent. If I buy stocks in a company through, I get little in the way of say in the company's actions, and I certainly cannot be accused of being part of a conspiracy if the company poisons a bunch of people or does something else nefarious. This would be like demanding all taxpayers be imprisoned because the government did something awful.
As to corporate personhood, while perhaps it is interpreted too far judicially, the original notion was simply that a corporation could hold assets, equity and liabilities as an independent entity. While one could, I suppose, grant all shareholders pieces of the balance sheet based on the proportion of their ownership, it would be a very complicated system. Corporate personhood is meant as a short hand. Corporate personhood is just that, a legal shorthand or fiction that allows transfers of ownership and paying of dividends, and ultimately raising and transferring of capital a lot easier.
The telegraph really does stand out as one of the great inventions of human history, up there with agriculture, writing, gunpowder and the printing press. Near instantaneous communication revolutionized just about everything. What many of us have been doing for the last century and a half afterwards is simply building on the first telecommunications networks.
Must have been a helluva job coiling all that cable.