Contrary to you, sir, I lived in a communist country at that time and thank God I don't anymore. Sure it collapsed economically, like all stupid leftist ideas must. Reagan with Tatcher was instrumental to speed it up and avoid military disaster by projecting strength. You probably too young to remeber president Carter. Bumbling idiot who extended suffering of millions under communist rule by his stupid policy of appeasement. The usefull idiot name is not a name that I made up. It is a KGB name for leftist crowd, mainly young dumb students in the Western Europe who was brainwashed by their universities in support of the left ideology. The T shirts with the mass murdered Che Guevarra are example of how stupid the leftist crowd was and still is. The reason they called them idiots, was because they were basically working for Soviet propaganda completely for free. The Moscov is still succesfully using this mechanism currently in western green movements to protect Russian energy sector against western competition.
To the contrary, she was one of the greatest politicians of the XX century. Together with Ronald Reagan and John Paul II she finished Soviet Union without going to war. That is why the Left hates her so much. She has proven how corrupt and dumb are leftist ideas. You sir are one of those usefull idiots that Moscow was using to cover their genocidal political system. Why don't you move to Cuba or North Korea, the last bastions of your belowed ideology ?
I predict, that Tesla will fold next within couple of years. Electric car technology is not competitive, period. Unless you artificially tax gasoline to make conventional cars significantly more expensive to operate, there will be no economical electric car in many years ahead outside of golf course. Recent Tesla announcement that it is finally profitable is just a marketing gimmick to fool politicians and public so they can cough more money in support.Neither Tesla, nor Leaf nor Volt are viable economical products and can only be sustained by taxpayer and political correctness or by cash of corporate giant like GM or Nissan, that earn money in the gasoline powered cars.
You should try to live in some non capitalist system. It is an eye opening experience. In most of them they will agree with you that God is an stupid idea.
Have you ever seen the same "protesters" to protest at least once in front of the Russian embassy ? The Russian gas that is sold to Europe by Gasprom emits exactly the same amounts of CO2 as US made gas but somehow the to the green movement this is non issue. Same was with the soviet nuclear weapons. Only US weapons were controversial to the western Europe. They never bothered to march in protest of soviet ones.
I find it a suspicious coincidence that when Russia is loosing it's influence, some leftist movements are coming up with sky ifs falling protests. In the 70's it was "peace movement" against short range nuclear weapons in Europe. Those weapons and other reagan policies in fact ruined evil empire and brought freedom to literally millions of Europeans. Later it turned out it that the "movement" was heavily controlled, steered and financed by KGB. No counting bunch of useful idiots in the west who did the work for Russia for free. These days Russia influence is mainly in energy supply. When Gasprom started to loose large chunks of gas business due to cheap plentiful clean gas obtained by fracking from US, the green movement jumped back to action. Somehow they do not care, that the gas is in most cases replacing coal, the dirtiest and most potent source of CO2. I have a feeling that if not KGB or whatever the secret police in Russia is called these days, the useful idiots are back at work.
Cassandras are back again. Please stop forcing your global warming religion onto free society. We have separation of state and church. Take you AGW religion back to your church and stay there.
If global warming brought Sandy how do you explain this:
between 1278 and 1438 — A major hurricane struck the modern-day New York/New Jersey area, probably the strongest in recent millennium August 25, 1635 — A hurricane that is reported to have tracked parallel to the East Coast impacts New England and New York September 8, 1667 — A 'severe storm' is reported in Manhattan October 29, 1693 — The Great Storm of 1693 causes severe damage on Long Island, and is reported to create the Fire Island August 19, 1788 — A hurricane strikes New York City or Long Island and is reported to have left the west side of the Battery "laid in ruins" after severe flooding occurs October 9, 1804 — Heavy snow falls in Eastern New York peaking at 30 inches (75 cm) as a hurricane tracks northward September 24, 1815 — Several hundred trees fall and the majority of the fruit was stripped off apple trees just prior to harvesting time after a hurricane makes landfall on Long Island September 3, 1821 — The 1821 Norfolk and Long Island hurricane results in severe damage on Long Island and is accompanied by storm surge of 13 feet (4 m). High wind causes a ship to crash on Long Island killing 17 people. August 24, 1893 — Hog Island is washed away by strong storm surge associated with a tropical storm
There are more in XX century. It must have been those firewood CO2 emmisions
Why stop at solar panels ? They are expensive, don't work at night and even on sunny day in most US they would generate fraction of the energy needed to power the house. I call for progressive politicians to open their mind. We need personal nuclear reactor in every house. This is reliable power source. Works day and night, winter or summer, wind or no wind. Does not need frequent fueling !!! We can even mandate that the waste neutrons to be captured and reused (as an additional benefit) to trans mutate lead into gold. As we all know, Washington - "yes we can" - is fully capable to mandate laws of physics or economics to be modified as needed. This will pay for itself. With the gold produced we can buy extra plutonium to power houses of those who cannot afford personal nuclear reactor for free. Science behind it is as solid as science behind affordable solar panels. Thus we will have unlimited source of energy that pays for itself. Progressive Washington must stop thinking small. Just don't call it nuclear. Come up with some other name. Progressives has unexplained allergy to anything called nuclear.
That is a primitive look at the problem. It takes massive government help to build car industry from scratch. Japan did this, Korea did this and China is doing it right now. They were producing subsidized cars for decades before their products become competitive and were able to stand against global competition. All countries that have some brains know that auto industry is a key to the strength of the economy and protect it even if orioginally it cannot compete. Only British let their car industry die and today their industry is a shadow of what Germany is in Europe. Neither Bush nor Obama was that stupid to kill US auto industry and expect our economy to grow. It would be much easier to let the banks die and rebuild them from scratch then to build new auto industry. If the economy is so Darwinian, why didn't you demanded to kill all the banks in the first place. They created the whole mess.
Assembled in Ohio mostly from parts made somwhere else. The only reason those cars are made here is because otherwise Japanese would have to pay stiff tarrifs. Another proof for globalists that free trade is BS and tarrifs work.
That's the same statistics they are using to prove that we are getting better, our healthcare is the "best in the world" and our schools are great. Go to Wallmart and try to find that US made stuff. Open your computer and find out what exactly was made in USA. You will be lucky to find out a single chip made here. Yes, we still make few passenger jets, some machines and some military hardware. The rest of what we make nobody is really interested in buying, lo tech cheap stuff. The largest exporters in the world are China and Germany, not USA. Even the stuff we make is more often now made using foregin components and tools. When it comes to high tech USA is even shrinking faster. Have you seen US made high end camera, home theatre, TV set or car these days? We used to manufacture things that were leading edge, world was dreaming of. Not anymore. With the few exceptions we make stuff that nobody wants outside US.
I wonder if you had the same opinion when Linux ripped off Unix. I always found Linux commands to be too similar to Unix commands to be pure conicidence.
Copernicus law that bad money replaces good money seems to be working in IT.
PC won over Apple Intell 8088 won over Motorola 68000
Microsoft had multiple wins with inferior products:
Windows won over Apple OS and Amiga OS MFC won over Borland OWL Visual Basic won over Delphi IE won over Netscape and was winning over Firefox for years.
But now Microsoft finally has really good, in some cases world class products and the tables are turned:
Excellent Windows phone 7 seems to be going nowhere. Excellent Zune is a lost cause. Fantastic developement environment in shape of Visual Studio and.net seems to be loosing steam. Excellent C# probably will loose as soon as.net is abandoned.
There is something in IT that good enough often wins over excellent.
Hmmm. so it seems, that atheism is a genetic disorder and the nature will take care of it one way or the other. Amazing how God has it's mysterious ways.
Geocentric model can be easily mathematically valid. The motion of bodies can be desribed in any coordinate system of ones choice. It just requires more difficult calculations.
That is why so many people lost trust in science. We have bunch of politically correct "researchers" that can prove whatever desired by their political clients. Global warming has exactly the same problem. Even if the science is true, it is lost in nonsens of propaganda of Al Gore and other priests from the church of enivromentalism. Normal people do not know who to belive anymore.
JAM
Slashdot Mirror
Federal government is here to help.
Should we start calling it Metro 2013 ?
JAM
There is no life on Mars. Stop dreaming.
Contrary to you, sir, I lived in a communist country at that time and thank God I don't anymore. Sure it collapsed economically, like all stupid leftist ideas must. Reagan with Tatcher was instrumental to speed it up and avoid military disaster by projecting strength. You probably too young to remeber president Carter. Bumbling idiot who extended suffering of millions under communist rule by his stupid policy of appeasement. The usefull idiot name is not a name that I made up. It is a KGB name for leftist crowd, mainly young dumb students in the Western Europe who was brainwashed by their universities in support of the left ideology. The T shirts with the mass murdered Che Guevarra are example of how stupid the leftist crowd was and still is. The reason they called them idiots, was because they were basically working for Soviet propaganda completely for free. The Moscov is still succesfully using this mechanism currently in western green movements to protect Russian energy sector against western competition.
JAM
To the contrary, she was one of the greatest politicians of the XX century. Together with Ronald Reagan and John Paul II she finished Soviet Union without going to war. That is why the Left hates her so much. She has proven how corrupt and dumb are leftist ideas. You sir are one of those usefull idiots that Moscow was using to cover their genocidal political system. Why don't you move to Cuba or North Korea, the last bastions of your belowed ideology ?
JAM
I predict, that Tesla will fold next within couple of years. Electric car technology is not competitive, period. Unless you artificially tax gasoline to make conventional cars significantly more expensive to operate, there will be no economical electric car in many years ahead outside of golf course. Recent Tesla announcement that it is finally profitable is just a marketing gimmick to fool politicians and public so they can cough more money in support.Neither Tesla, nor Leaf nor Volt are viable economical products and can only be sustained by taxpayer and political correctness or by cash of corporate giant like GM or Nissan, that earn money in the gasoline powered cars.
JAM
When the most liberal court in US is against the people who can save us now ?
JAM
Since it is supported by university scientists it will not be profitable and will be bankrupt in 3 years or less.
JAM
You should try to live in some non capitalist system. It is an eye opening experience. In most of them they will agree with you that God is an stupid idea.
JAM
Have you ever seen the same "protesters" to protest at least once in front of the Russian embassy ? The Russian gas that is sold to Europe by Gasprom emits exactly the same amounts of CO2 as US made gas but somehow the to the green movement this is non issue. Same was with the soviet nuclear weapons. Only US weapons were controversial to the western Europe. They never bothered to march in protest of soviet ones.
JAM
I find it a suspicious coincidence that when Russia is loosing it's influence, some leftist movements are coming up with sky ifs falling protests. In the 70's it was "peace movement" against short range nuclear weapons in Europe. Those weapons and other reagan policies in fact ruined evil empire and brought freedom to literally millions of Europeans. Later it turned out it that the "movement" was heavily controlled, steered and financed by KGB. No counting bunch of useful idiots in the west who did the work for Russia for free. These days Russia influence is mainly in energy supply. When Gasprom started to loose large chunks of gas business due to cheap plentiful clean gas obtained by fracking from US, the green movement jumped back to action. Somehow they do not care, that the gas is in most cases replacing coal, the dirtiest and most potent source of CO2. I have a feeling that if not KGB or whatever the secret police in Russia is called these days, the useful idiots are back at work.
JAM
What a shame. I'm freezing here and no warming ? Come on people. Global warming was my last hope !!!
JAM
Jupiter pole has warmed by 10 degrees.
JAM
Cassandras are back again. Please stop forcing your global warming religion onto free society. We have separation of state and church. Take you AGW religion back to your church and stay there.
JAM
If global warming brought Sandy how do you explain this:
between 1278 and 1438 — A major hurricane struck the modern-day New York/New Jersey area, probably the strongest in recent millennium
August 25, 1635 — A hurricane that is reported to have tracked parallel to the East Coast impacts New England and New York
September 8, 1667 — A 'severe storm' is reported in Manhattan
October 29, 1693 — The Great Storm of 1693 causes severe damage on Long Island, and is reported to create the Fire Island
August 19, 1788 — A hurricane strikes New York City or Long Island and is reported to have left the west side of the Battery "laid in ruins" after severe flooding occurs
October 9, 1804 — Heavy snow falls in Eastern New York peaking at 30 inches (75 cm) as a hurricane tracks northward
September 24, 1815 — Several hundred trees fall and the majority of the fruit was stripped off apple trees just prior to harvesting time after a hurricane makes landfall on Long Island
September 3, 1821 — The 1821 Norfolk and Long Island hurricane results in severe damage on Long Island and is accompanied by storm surge of 13 feet (4 m). High wind causes a ship to crash on Long Island killing 17 people.
August 24, 1893 — Hog Island is washed away by strong storm surge associated with a tropical storm
There are more in XX century.
It must have been those firewood CO2 emmisions
JAM
Why stop at solar panels ? They are expensive, don't work at night and even on sunny day in most US they would generate fraction of the energy needed to power the house. I call for progressive politicians to open their mind. We need personal nuclear reactor in every house. This is reliable power source. Works day and night, winter or summer, wind or no wind. Does not need frequent fueling !!! We can even mandate that the waste neutrons to be captured and reused (as an additional benefit) to trans mutate lead into gold. As we all know, Washington - "yes we can" - is fully capable to mandate laws of physics or economics to be modified as needed. This will pay for itself. With the gold produced we can buy extra plutonium to power houses of those who cannot afford personal nuclear reactor for free. Science behind it is as solid as science behind affordable solar panels. Thus we will have unlimited source of energy that pays for itself. Progressive Washington must stop thinking small. Just don't call it nuclear. Come up with some other name. Progressives has unexplained allergy to anything called nuclear.
JAM
That is a primitive look at the problem. It takes massive government help to build car industry from scratch. Japan did this, Korea did this and China is doing it right now. They were producing subsidized cars for decades before their products become competitive and were able to stand against global competition. All countries that have some brains know that auto industry is a key to the strength of the economy and protect it even if orioginally it cannot compete. Only British let their car industry die and today their industry is a shadow of what Germany is in Europe. Neither Bush nor Obama was that stupid to kill US auto industry and expect our economy to grow. It would be much easier to let the banks die and rebuild them from scratch then to build new auto industry. If the economy is so Darwinian, why didn't you demanded to kill all the banks in the first place. They created the whole mess.
JAM
Assembled in Ohio mostly from parts made somwhere else. The only reason those cars are made here is because otherwise Japanese would have to pay stiff tarrifs. Another proof for globalists that free trade is BS and tarrifs work.
JAM
That's the same statistics they are using to prove that we are getting better, our healthcare is the "best in the world" and our schools are great. Go to Wallmart and try to find that US made stuff. Open your computer and find out what exactly was made in USA. You will be lucky to find out a single chip made here. Yes, we still make few passenger jets, some machines and some military hardware. The rest of what we make nobody is really interested in buying, lo tech cheap stuff. The largest exporters in the world are China and Germany, not USA. Even the stuff we make is more often now made using foregin components and tools. When it comes to high tech USA is even shrinking faster. Have you seen US made high end camera, home theatre, TV set or car these days? We used to manufacture things that were leading edge, world was dreaming of. Not anymore. With the few exceptions we make stuff that nobody wants outside US.
JAM
I wonder if you had the same opinion when Linux ripped off Unix. I always found Linux commands to be too similar to Unix commands to be pure conicidence.
JAM
Copernicus law that bad money replaces good money seems to be working in IT.
PC won over Apple
Intell 8088 won over Motorola 68000
Microsoft had multiple wins with inferior products:
Windows won over Apple OS and Amiga OS
MFC won over Borland OWL
Visual Basic won over Delphi
IE won over Netscape and was winning over Firefox for years.
But now Microsoft finally has really good, in some cases world class products and the tables are turned:
Excellent Windows phone 7 seems to be going nowhere. .net seems to be loosing steam. .net is abandoned.
Excellent Zune is a lost cause.
Fantastic developement environment in shape of Visual Studio and
Excellent C# probably will loose as soon as
There is something in IT that good enough often wins over excellent.
Hmmm. so it seems, that atheism is a genetic disorder and the nature will take care of it one way or the other. Amazing how God has it's mysterious ways.
JAM
I was reading New York Times, and was under the impression, that George Bush can inject venom too. But maybe he is not a mammal ?
JAM
Geocentric model can be easily mathematically valid. The motion of bodies can be desribed in any coordinate system of ones choice. It just requires more difficult calculations.
JAM
That is why so many people lost trust in science. We have bunch of politically correct "researchers" that can prove whatever desired by their political clients. Global warming has exactly the same problem. Even if the science is true, it is lost in nonsens of propaganda of Al Gore and other priests from the church of enivromentalism. Normal people do not know who to belive anymore. JAM