Yes, because driving West in a wagon with a gimpy wheel and grandma strapped to the roof to some new homestead next to a river and zap apple trees is perfectly comparable to development of the Moon- an airless, irradiated wasteland a quarter million miles up slope on a large gravity well.
It was news media that assigned the colors. It was GOP blue and Dems red when I was a kid, then they switched it for what I'm sure are curious reasons.
Just to say up front I'm not in the skeptical camp on this, but the problem with your analogy is that it is leading and implies immediate, drastic action must be taken NOW or all is lost. It's very possible we can adapt to these changes as we focus our efforts on cleaning up our act. Technology got us into our current messes, but it can also get us out, and hobbling ourselves is not a good idea.
So maybe the house isn't really on fire yet, but you demand the fire company deluge it with water, and that destroys your computer with the plans for a better house, or the money spent on repairing the water damage means other improvements are put off.
I myself am no longer christian, but I do not understand how 'christian' people can so readily rape the world that they believe god has given them.
Never been religious myself, ever, but I guess it's the idea that God gave Man dominion over the Earth? Something like that?
Of course the real answer is alpha sociopaths in charge of everything- corporaitons, governments and religions- but that's a different thread.:-)
I'm sorry, but science simply cannot explain how the pegasus (equus aves) and unicorn (equus magicus) arose from the earth pony (equus terra) without intervention from the goddess Faustia.
And the fifth generation was called 4s... um... hmmm... Looks like there is no precedent for any scheme at the moment.
All this hand wringing over the understood (by sane people) *placeholder* name of iPhone 5 is just geek OCD piffle.
Or... you could look at the iPhone 4 as Apple shifting the digit to a version number. The 4s was an update to the 4. So the next phone could very well be called the 5. Or not. They can do whatever the hell they want. There's no rules or laws for product names. Witness Windows changing from version to year to letters to names and now back to version.
I always thought Apple should use their OS X naming philosophy with their hardware. The phones could be birds of prey (agile and mobile). The pads could be dog breeds (faithful companions). The laptops could be, oh, I dunno... shark types or something.
if soda_ounces > 16 then Buyer.Terminate_Sale else Buyer.Allow_Sale // Here, I fixed that code. // It originally was Buyer.Terminate which led to several unfortunate incidents.
Wow, just copy/paste of what I said to the other guy? Try harder, son.
Do you deny there are extreme progressives and loony neocons in this world? Recognizing that fact is not monochromatic. And what I stated is based on actual responses I have gotten. That's reality.
The other poster pigeonholing me as right wing simply because I criticized government is a case of mono. Meanwhile if I were in charge the drug war would be stopped dead, I'd be paneling a committee to investigate how *actual* national health care could be pulled off in the USA (and I'm willing to accept the answer "it's not possible at this time"), and abortions would be available in mall kiosks free of charge, any age, no questions asked.
George Carlin was a very wealthy man. In a 2001 interview he revealed he made 2 million a year or more.
It's easy to spout off when the things he advocates would not touch him behind his wall of wealth.
Seriously, I never heard him say that. If he did, that's fucking evil. You basically have a 1% guy advocating the murder of the 99% in order to loot their assets. And people in his ideological camp have a problem with Romney??? Holy shit! I wonder if he ever took the idea to the next stage where you murder all the people on welfare and totally dependent on the government. Hey, same idea right? They have no assets to pillage, but you eliminate an expense. Bullets are cheap, right?
Then again he was also a stand up comic playing to a specific audience, so you need to consider that.
Might be best to not use comics as a source of socioeconomic policy.
Protip: Especially avoid if the policy involves murdering tens of millions of people.
I'm not right wing, genius, but your response is typical of people mired in monochromatic views of reality. Tiresome and typical. You don't have to be a tea partier or crazy neocon to say the government is completely out of control and corrupt, but attitudes like yours (criticizes spending? Must be right wing!) are part of the problem.
I shot down spending on the stupid train. did you ever entertain the idea I might prefer to see that money spent on education instead?
Well, some are. The CSU system is a public system in contrast to the mostly private UC system. Go Trojans!... Yeah, I actually have no school spirit.;-) I consider my degrees to be pure business transactions. I paid money and they gave me head stuff and a valuable parchment.
That's all part of the problem, but, damn, you try and argue this stuff with, say, a hard core Progressive, and, oh my, I want to starve the elderly and abolish fire departments and feed children to the coyotes and, holy moly the hyperbole out of those folks! It's like talking church/state separation with evangelical neocons.
Ideology is a mind cancer that is going to kill civilization.
I was thinking a similar thing. You can get standard shipping free normally, but maybe offer a free Amazon Prime-like account to states that demand the sales tax with free two day shipping.
On the other hand, I tend to get things from Amazon in a couple days even with standard free ("super saver") shipping anyway.
They don't care. All they want is more money and more power. If this bombs they'll pass something else.
People need to stop looking at politicians as beings with feelings and consciences.
Honestly, this state cannot go bankrupt soon enough, or whatever happens when we reach that point. Federal receivership or handle the bankruptcy one county at a time. Whatever.
which estimates it will see an additional $317 million annually as a result
And will be instantly pissed away on corruption and bullshit and the bond payments for the initial funding for that idiotic "high speed" train which is really just a welfare project for high paid political cronies to sit around on boards and committees.
If inaction is, in fact, justified, then so be it. They could conclude that getting the economy healthy and humming so that we have ample revenue for R&D (in both the private and public sectors) into cleaner tech is the best path. They may even conclude that accepting a couple degrees hit is better in the long term.
This whole thing is several orders of magnitude more complicated than most people realize.
Republican's will have us "wait for the science to come in" up until the floodwaters are approaching Denver.
We'll just dam the flood waters with all the Internet's unnecessary possessive apostrophes.
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Yes, because driving West in a wagon with a gimpy wheel and grandma strapped to the roof to some new homestead next to a river and zap apple trees is perfectly comparable to development of the Moon- an airless, irradiated wasteland a quarter million miles up slope on a large gravity well.
Ah well, at least they won't die of dysentery.
It was news media that assigned the colors. It was GOP blue and Dems red when I was a kid, then they switched it for what I'm sure are curious reasons.
Just to say up front I'm not in the skeptical camp on this, but the problem with your analogy is that it is leading and implies immediate, drastic action must be taken NOW or all is lost. It's very possible we can adapt to these changes as we focus our efforts on cleaning up our act. Technology got us into our current messes, but it can also get us out, and hobbling ourselves is not a good idea.
So maybe the house isn't really on fire yet, but you demand the fire company deluge it with water, and that destroys your computer with the plans for a better house, or the money spent on repairing the water damage means other improvements are put off.
I myself am no longer christian, but I do not understand how 'christian' people can so readily rape the world that they believe god has given them.
Never been religious myself, ever, but I guess it's the idea that God gave Man dominion over the Earth? Something like that?
Of course the real answer is alpha sociopaths in charge of everything- corporaitons, governments and religions- but that's a different thread. :-)
"scientific" (which rhymes with "science")
o.O
So the "fic" is silent?
Holy cow, have I been saying it wrong all these years! Why did no one say anything!!
evolution of the horse
I'm sorry, but science simply cannot explain how the pegasus (equus aves) and unicorn (equus magicus) arose from the earth pony (equus terra) without intervention from the goddess Faustia.
the 4th generation was called the 4
And the fifth generation was called 4s... um... hmmm... Looks like there is no precedent for any scheme at the moment.
All this hand wringing over the understood (by sane people) *placeholder* name of iPhone 5 is just geek OCD piffle.
Or... you could look at the iPhone 4 as Apple shifting the digit to a version number. The 4s was an update to the 4. So the next phone could very well be called the 5. Or not. They can do whatever the hell they want. There's no rules or laws for product names. Witness Windows changing from version to year to letters to names and now back to version.
I always thought Apple should use their OS X naming philosophy with their hardware. The phones could be birds of prey (agile and mobile). The pads could be dog breeds (faithful companions). The laptops could be, oh, I dunno... shark types or something.
Winner.
Is disappointment measured in Masseffects? Actually, there's a lot of units contending for that position. :(
if soda_ounces > 16 then Buyer.Terminate_Sale else Buyer.Allow_Sale
// Here, I fixed that code.
// It originally was Buyer.Terminate which led to several unfortunate incidents.
Wow, just copy/paste of what I said to the other guy? Try harder, son.
Do you deny there are extreme progressives and loony neocons in this world? Recognizing that fact is not monochromatic. And what I stated is based on actual responses I have gotten. That's reality.
The other poster pigeonholing me as right wing simply because I criticized government is a case of mono. Meanwhile if I were in charge the drug war would be stopped dead, I'd be paneling a committee to investigate how *actual* national health care could be pulled off in the USA (and I'm willing to accept the answer "it's not possible at this time"), and abortions would be available in mall kiosks free of charge, any age, no questions asked.
You savvy?
Ha! Well played, sir!
George Carlin was a very wealthy man. In a 2001 interview he revealed he made 2 million a year or more.
It's easy to spout off when the things he advocates would not touch him behind his wall of wealth.
Seriously, I never heard him say that. If he did, that's fucking evil. You basically have a 1% guy advocating the murder of the 99% in order to loot their assets. And people in his ideological camp have a problem with Romney??? Holy shit! I wonder if he ever took the idea to the next stage where you murder all the people on welfare and totally dependent on the government. Hey, same idea right? They have no assets to pillage, but you eliminate an expense. Bullets are cheap, right?
Then again he was also a stand up comic playing to a specific audience, so you need to consider that.
Might be best to not use comics as a source of socioeconomic policy.
Protip: Especially avoid if the policy involves murdering tens of millions of people.
He advocates wholesale slaughter of millions of people that would make the Holocaust look tame, and you question his credibility because of math?
I'm not right wing, genius, but your response is typical of people mired in monochromatic views of reality. Tiresome and typical. You don't have to be a tea partier or crazy neocon to say the government is completely out of control and corrupt, but attitudes like yours (criticizes spending? Must be right wing!) are part of the problem.
I shot down spending on the stupid train. did you ever entertain the idea I might prefer to see that money spent on education instead?
Well, some are. The CSU system is a public system in contrast to the mostly private UC system. Go Trojans! ... Yeah, I actually have no school spirit. ;-) I consider my degrees to be pure business transactions. I paid money and they gave me head stuff and a valuable parchment.
That's all part of the problem, but, damn, you try and argue this stuff with, say, a hard core Progressive, and, oh my, I want to starve the elderly and abolish fire departments and feed children to the coyotes and, holy moly the hyperbole out of those folks! It's like talking church/state separation with evangelical neocons.
Ideology is a mind cancer that is going to kill civilization.
I was thinking a similar thing. You can get standard shipping free normally, but maybe offer a free Amazon Prime-like account to states that demand the sales tax with free two day shipping.
On the other hand, I tend to get things from Amazon in a couple days even with standard free ("super saver") shipping anyway.
They don't care. All they want is more money and more power. If this bombs they'll pass something else.
People need to stop looking at politicians as beings with feelings and consciences.
Honestly, this state cannot go bankrupt soon enough, or whatever happens when we reach that point. Federal receivership or handle the bankruptcy one county at a time. Whatever.
And all that will get pissed away, or affect the economy to the point where revenues actually decrease.
Notice how any criticism of the California government is modded down now?
Oh, well, there's a few good schools. No need to try and fight the corruption and waste and bullshit elsewhere, then! I have seen the light!
Seriously, your response was almost a complete non sequitur.
which estimates it will see an additional $317 million annually as a result
And will be instantly pissed away on corruption and bullshit and the bond payments for the initial funding for that idiotic "high speed" train which is really just a welfare project for high paid political cronies to sit around on boards and committees.
Translation: The polls show that denying global warming would cost more votes than acknowledging it.
Translation: Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
Good job. (Golf clap)
Just say no to ideology, folks.
OTOH, his position makes inaction justifiable.
If inaction is, in fact, justified, then so be it. They could conclude that getting the economy healthy and humming so that we have ample revenue for R&D (in both the private and public sectors) into cleaner tech is the best path. They may even conclude that accepting a couple degrees hit is better in the long term.
This whole thing is several orders of magnitude more complicated than most people realize.
Republican's will have us "wait for the science to come in" up until the floodwaters are approaching Denver.
We'll just dam the flood waters with all the Internet's unnecessary possessive apostrophes.
No, he said more research on the scale of the threat.
I support more money for better reading skills.
Uhhhhhh... Congress? Supreme Court?
Change you can believe in.
About 39 cents, to be exact.