Meanwhile, in real states with privacy in their State Constitution, like Washington State, stuff like this is still illegal.
Oh, and so is MJ. The "Drug War" is just an excuse to provide cheap non-white labor for the prison industries, started by the South. Just like "confiscation" of your money.
At the very least, set the password on your phone to lock it.
Whenever I see someone declaring environmentalists as communists I know I'm ether watching Fox news or Democracy Now (where the bastards will occasionally say what they are really planning).
Planning?
Like forcing China - a Communist Nation - to switch to alternative energy instead of burn up all the US coal oil and gas reserves?
Canada shows up in per capita rankings, not in total country rankings. However, if you exclude Alberta, Canada disappears from the list, as everyone except Alberta is much greener than most other countries.
Current rankings show China, India, US. Canada wasn't on that list, and I think Russia was in the top 5, but only memorized top 3.
Me, I just live in Seattle, where I pay for 100 percent green power (Seattle City Light Green Up 100) - the extra cost is paid for by one solar unit I bought at the Seattle Aquarium.
Instead of not eating meat, remember there are other choices. Like eating less meat, and eating lower on the food chain, unit cost for 1 pound of chicken or fish are much much much lower than 1 pound of beef. You can also eat beefalo (uses scrub/brush for feed, less water, comes from America) instead of beef.
2 so long as you don't move to Seattle, fine. 3 it's spelled peak, as in mountain peak. There is no average baseload rate, as you well know, artificial subsidies have us use more energy during peak usage which is, quite frankly, when the sun shines. 5 everything is fungible, especially when you compost food waste.
No, you would have replaced your car at some point anyway.
US dropped from #1 down to #3 due to using less energy in residential usage, more efficient housing and commercial/industrial buildings, and those fridges you laugh at.
You don't need 5 cars for 4 people. A good mix is one SUV/truck hybrid (since it will get stuck in traffic), one plug in car (in city), a moped and a bike. And maybe a snowmobile (dang but a nice powder is great).
They sell 20+ mpg trucks in Canada in large quantities.
You don't have to reduce population to cut energy use. Small changes by those who use the most (China, India, US, Canada in that order) would do most of that.
Small.
Not big.
Minor stuff like buying a new fridge. Buying a new car or SUV or truck. Cutting your electricity bill by installing solar panels and passive solar when you buy a new house. Replacing burnt out incandescents with modern LEDs. Really easy to do.
Also, supercars with battery assist get way better speeds than old gasoline ones do. Electric and hybrid gives you MUSCLE.
How do solar collectors add heat to the earth? Do they miraculously increase the amount of sun incident on the planet. Do they violate the 2nd law of thermo dynamics and miraculously create energy out of nothing?
Depends on the solar collector and lifespan. If you use it to "heat" things, that would otherwise not be turned into heat normally, sure. But most houses don't reflect that much, and the build costs of only some solar collectors could ever be considered. Even then you have to compare the solar collector to a similar generator - which almost always means the solar collector uses less energy, since it only uses it when being built and has a lower cost in new energy while running.
Passive is far more efficient, of course. But we now make biofilms that are PV solar wraps for virtually anything (yes, the tech comes from the UW and other places).
Actually, unless you have a 128 core rack server with 32 dual fan GPUs and a really really big screen, your car has more carbon cost to build than your computer.
If you do have such a gaming rig, run it on DC current instead of AC and it will use a lot less energy. And since the grid can drop, have it run off solar batteries.
1. Most Americans and Canadians are already reducing their carbon impact, but are held back by artificial tax subsidies for coal, oil, and natural gas that prop up those dying industries.
2. Your major carbon impact in North America, unless you commute more than an hour each way every day (in which case - move), is from flying on old jet airplanes. This can be solved by two things: 1. build high speed rail (200+ mph) in places like the West Coast and South 2. use turboprop and 787 planes instead (half or less the fuel and impact).
3. A lot of zoning and house regulations (associations) don't permit on roof solar in many areas - get rid of that and require all utilities to purchase excess solar at peak rates and you can get 50 percent solar by 2020. As in, now.
4. Most impact is from China, not India. India energy use per capita and per GDP unit is much much lower than China. Stop buying stuff from inefficient China. Buy American or Canadian.
5. Half measures cause massive change. You don't have to "live green" to have a major impact - just recycle your old fridge for a new one, replace light builbs with LED lights as they burn out, replace old trucks and SUVs that get 13 mpg with ones that get 26 mpg, and improve energy efficiency in buildings and existing coal plants (you can cut energy use in half by retrofitting an old coal plant with co-generation, which pays for itself in 2-5 years). Do the stuff that's easy to do and don't worry about doom and gloom pessimists.
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Lol, you naive civilian.
You'd like to think so.
Agreed. The problem is that we always put off the frank discussion of what we actually do, mostly due to Fear.
There are always excuses. But one need not always accept such excuses.
Yes, the guy who had about the most liberal voting record in the Senate is a Republican...
I see you fail to understand the origins of your own party, or where it existed until the last decade.
The only difference between Obama and Bush is that the former is a better public speaker.
They are/were both great Republican Presidents.
(pay attention to what they do, not what labels you give them)
... doesn't mean the NSA won't do it.
By the way, have they admitted they've been tapping all your phone calls beyond the local exchange since the 70s yet?
All of them. Everywhere.
Inside the USA.
And you're worried about Facebook.
Never ever let cops unlock your phone.
Or leave it.
Ever.
Meanwhile, in real states with privacy in their State Constitution, like Washington State, stuff like this is still illegal.
Oh, and so is MJ. The "Drug War" is just an excuse to provide cheap non-white labor for the prison industries, started by the South. Just like "confiscation" of your money.
At the very least, set the password on your phone to lock it.
People don't actually fit the marketing stereotypes (buckets) we try to shove them into.
Marketing stereotypes are useful in writing programs, but not in understanding people per se.
There's your problem.
I laugh at advertising that incorrectly thinks I'm gay or smoke MJ, when I do neither. I just like freedom.
Whenever I see someone declaring environmentalists as communists I know I'm ether watching Fox news or Democracy Now (where the bastards will occasionally say what they are really planning).
Planning?
Like forcing China - a Communist Nation - to switch to alternative energy instead of burn up all the US coal oil and gas reserves?
We're already succeeding at that.
Why do you love China so?
But if you nuke them the sand turns to glass. How will we get at the oil.
We don't need it any more.
Actually, in Australia, most solar installations on roofs are done by poor and lower middle class (govt stats), NOT by rich.
So your basic assumption fails.
Canada shows up in per capita rankings, not in total country rankings. However, if you exclude Alberta, Canada disappears from the list, as everyone except Alberta is much greener than most other countries.
Current rankings show China, India, US. Canada wasn't on that list, and I think Russia was in the top 5, but only memorized top 3.
Not so much for logistics and money. Unless you count captured equipment we "lent" to those countries.
ISIL is both financed and given logistics support from primarily three countries that are "supposedly" allies of the US UK etc.
Turkey.
UAE
and Saudi Arabia.
Nuke those and ISIL dies.
My dad did that in Vermont.
Me, I just live in Seattle, where I pay for 100 percent green power (Seattle City Light Green Up 100) - the extra cost is paid for by one solar unit I bought at the Seattle Aquarium.
Instead of not eating meat, remember there are other choices. Like eating less meat, and eating lower on the food chain, unit cost for 1 pound of chicken or fish are much much much lower than 1 pound of beef. You can also eat beefalo (uses scrub/brush for feed, less water, comes from America) instead of beef.
Well, new 787 aircraft use about half as much fuel as old jets do.
Turboprop planes use much much less.
Take those when you can.
Problem solved.
2 so long as you don't move to Seattle, fine.
3 it's spelled peak, as in mountain peak. There is no average baseload rate, as you well know, artificial subsidies have us use more energy during peak usage which is, quite frankly, when the sun shines.
5 everything is fungible, especially when you compost food waste.
No, you would have replaced your car at some point anyway.
US dropped from #1 down to #3 due to using less energy in residential usage, more efficient housing and commercial/industrial buildings, and those fridges you laugh at.
You don't need 5 cars for 4 people. A good mix is one SUV/truck hybrid (since it will get stuck in traffic), one plug in car (in city), a moped and a bike. And maybe a snowmobile (dang but a nice powder is great).
They sell 20+ mpg trucks in Canada in large quantities.
I got that list from the 2014 rankings.
Wake up, it's happening faster.
It used to (2010) be US, China, Russia, Japan, India.
Thanks to changes, it is NOW (UN stats) China, India, US.
Adapt. Or die. There are no other choices.
Actually, I'm buying a Tesla C next fall.
Now if I can just get the money for that sweet sweet 128 core rack server with 32 dual GPUs, I'll be able to 24 box WOD for First In Realm!
You don't have to reduce population to cut energy use. Small changes by those who use the most (China, India, US, Canada in that order) would do most of that.
Small.
Not big.
Minor stuff like buying a new fridge. Buying a new car or SUV or truck. Cutting your electricity bill by installing solar panels and passive solar when you buy a new house. Replacing burnt out incandescents with modern LEDs. Really easy to do.
Also, supercars with battery assist get way better speeds than old gasoline ones do. Electric and hybrid gives you MUSCLE.
How do solar collectors add heat to the earth? Do they miraculously increase the amount of sun incident on the planet. Do they violate the 2nd law of thermo dynamics and miraculously create energy out of nothing?
Depends on the solar collector and lifespan. If you use it to "heat" things, that would otherwise not be turned into heat normally, sure. But most houses don't reflect that much, and the build costs of only some solar collectors could ever be considered. Even then you have to compare the solar collector to a similar generator - which almost always means the solar collector uses less energy, since it only uses it when being built and has a lower cost in new energy while running.
Passive is far more efficient, of course. But we now make biofilms that are PV solar wraps for virtually anything (yes, the tech comes from the UW and other places).
Actually, unless you have a 128 core rack server with 32 dual fan GPUs and a really really big screen, your car has more carbon cost to build than your computer.
If you do have such a gaming rig, run it on DC current instead of AC and it will use a lot less energy. And since the grid can drop, have it run off solar batteries.
1. Most Americans and Canadians are already reducing their carbon impact, but are held back by artificial tax subsidies for coal, oil, and natural gas that prop up those dying industries.
2. Your major carbon impact in North America, unless you commute more than an hour each way every day (in which case - move), is from flying on old jet airplanes. This can be solved by two things: 1. build high speed rail (200+ mph) in places like the West Coast and South 2. use turboprop and 787 planes instead (half or less the fuel and impact).
3. A lot of zoning and house regulations (associations) don't permit on roof solar in many areas - get rid of that and require all utilities to purchase excess solar at peak rates and you can get 50 percent solar by 2020. As in, now.
4. Most impact is from China, not India. India energy use per capita and per GDP unit is much much lower than China. Stop buying stuff from inefficient China. Buy American or Canadian.
5. Half measures cause massive change. You don't have to "live green" to have a major impact - just recycle your old fridge for a new one, replace light builbs with LED lights as they burn out, replace old trucks and SUVs that get 13 mpg with ones that get 26 mpg, and improve energy efficiency in buildings and existing coal plants (you can cut energy use in half by retrofitting an old coal plant with co-generation, which pays for itself in 2-5 years). Do the stuff that's easy to do and don't worry about doom and gloom pessimists.
They make trucks, they're near Seattle, and there are some UW engineering projects in doing stuff like that there.
They already have a number of hybrid trucks, and I know that fuel cell powerplants scale well in truck form.
If you get the PS4 version, you can use data gloves and run on a treadmill while you play.
oh, wait, that's Diablo. My bad.