Trump never questioned the science of global warming, he withdrew the United States from a treaty that was never properly approved by the Senate and, in his opinion, was a "bad deal" for America.
Now, let's look at this:
The Cambridge, Massaschusetts-based research university published a study in April 2016 titled "How much of a difference will the Paris Agreement make?" showing that if countries abided by their pledges in the deal, global warming would slow by between 0.6 degree and 1.1 degrees Celsius by 2100. "We certainly do not support the withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris agreement," said Erwan Monier, a lead researcher at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, and one of the study's authors. "If we don't do anything, we might shoot over 5 degrees or more and that would be catastrophic," said John Reilly, the co-director of the program, adding that MIT's scientists had had no contact with the White House and were not offered a chance to explain their work.
In order:
if countries abided by their pledges in the deal, global warming would slow by between 0.6 degree and 1.1 degrees Celsius by 2100
Let's call this the "best-case scenario"
"If we don't do anything, we might shoot over 5 degrees or more and that would be catastrophic,"
Let's call this the "worst-case scenario"
Let's also note that if we all follow "the pledges in the deal" the outcome will be the "worst-case scenario" less the "best-case scenario", or a 5 degree increase, reduced by between 0.6 and 1.1 degrees by 2100, in other words, the best outcome we can predict is a temperature increase of 3.9 degrees.
MIT's scientists had had no contact with the White House and were not offered a chance to explain their work.
No, MIT scientists were offered a chance to explain their work - their opportunity was in their written report that the White House staff cited.
She didn't inherit "the most advanced political data operation in history", Obama took it and kept it as "Organizing For America" - an absolutely non-political organization that has never had it's 501C(3) status questioned, despite it being his entire "Obama For America" re-election committee...
10-15 years to build a nuclear plant. Costs more than solar and soon more than wind. It is heavily subsidized by tax money so it's not even competitive without free money.
You do realize that both Solar and Wind (and Hydro) in the US is heavily subsidized 'by tax money', right? when was the last time a homeowner paid 100 cents on the dollar for the solar panels on their roof? When was the last time a windmill went up without tax breaks and/or federal grants?
CO2 is deadly. Just try breading it for a while. But the problem with CO2 can be divided into 2 problems. CO2 will go into the sea and lower its PH abd thus killing the fish. This and lack of rain will make billions lof people run out of food.
You left out 'feeding' that take in CO2 emit Oxygen, but sustaining nearly all life on earth isn't nearly as important as being on the right side of 'concensus science'...
Affordable Care Act covers healthcare, not other expenses
I never said it didn't, I said that compensation for sick days, vacation days is 'baked into' the compensation rate the 'gig worker' is paid.
When an IT consultant quotes a daily rate of, say, $400/day, that $400/day is only paid on days worked, not on sick days, not on vacation days. If the worker wants to earn $100K/yr, at $400/day they'll have to work 250 days. If the also want to take 15 days off for family vacations during the year, they'll have to up their daily rate to $425/day... the principles are the same, but the numbers are much lower for gig workers, they need to put some of their earnings aside for 'rainy days'.
Most 'contributors' to SS pay about 5% of their first $100K in income to SS, their employer matches the contribution, for a total of around 10% of the first $100K being 'paid into' Social Security - Self-employed workers pay both the employee and employer portions of Social Security... why can't 'gig workers' pay for SS benefits the same way an IT contractor does?
Every taxpayer pays into public assistance programs.
Agreed, obviously.
Those payments are called taxes.
OK...
People on public assistance are using a government service that they paid for.
Whoa, you skipped a step, where you claim that "Every person on public assistance is, or has been a taxpayer"... I'm not willing to just gloss over that implied statement.
When a teenage mom collects government assistance for her dependent child while living in public housing with her mother who collects welfare, I have a hard time spotting the 'taxpayer' that 'paid for' their 'government service'...
Some proponents advocate funding the move by cutting programs like food stamps and Medicaid. But that approach would take money set aside for low-income families and redistribute it upward, exacerbating poverty and inequality, Greenstein said.
Both programs would see reduced costs because the sudden infusion of an additional $10K/yr would bump a significant number of food stamp, Medicaid receipients income to high, knocking them out of the programs...
Oh, I'm sorry, are we NOT going to consider UBI as 'income' for government assistance programs?
And Friday Hillary Clinton was even quoted as saying, "I would have won had I not been subjected to the unprecedented attacks by Comey and the Russians..."
If public comments matter this much, that's a clear sign these rules shouldn't be made by a small unelected board. Rather they should be made by the public, by having elected representatives pass a law.
Seriously? Because the public can be whipped up into a frothing mob over an esoteric thing like Title II Oversight of Internet Providers that means that we really need the guiding hand of people like Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Rep. Hank Johnson or Rep. Nancy Pelosi? (Feel free to add you list of "out there" representatives from the Right)
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Why can't they pay into SS (retirement plan) and signup for 'affordable' Obamacare, paid sick days? As a self-employed worker, that's on the gig worker, not the taxpayer. Your gig economy 'career' doesn't pay enough to cover SS & Obamacare? Time to figure out a better career...
Virginia Senator Mark Warner has introduced a bill that will give basic benefits to gig workers. "Warner has just proposed the first-ever piece of national legislation aimed at helping on-demand and other non-traditional workers without traditional benefits, like paid sick days or a retirement plan, have some sort of a safety net," reports TechCrunch.
All gigworkers need to do is register as a corporation, pay both sides of FICA/SS (worker and employer), and by not offering himself healthcare coverage can qualify for subsidized Obamacare... that is the purpose of those two existing programs, no need to throw millions down the rat hole of 'analysis' and 'study'.
As for giving gig workers a 'safety net', that's their responsibility, folks outside the gig economy shouldn't be paying subidies, paid sick time, etc. for gig economy workers, being self-employed, essentially what a gig economy worker is, it is THEIR responsibility to provide paid sick leave, etc. to themselves.
. Vermont state law, however, specifically states that "The Department of Motor Vehicles shall not implement any procedures or processes that involve the use of biometric identifiers."
The only issue is that the searches are being done on DMV computers by DMV staff. The article is silent on the ability of the Vermont DMV to share the database with the Vermont State Police who could then run the searches on their own computers.
This is a budget/resource issue, not a civil rights issue.
And by the way, there are over 2M photos in the database, not 300K.
The law on the books says the DMV can't do the search, that is not the same as saying no one can do the search.
The issue is using Vermont DMV resources to perform searches using biometric data, not the search itself.
I'm not quite sure what harm caused to an individual when their picture is used to exclude them from consideration in an investigation, at worst, the folks mistakenly caught up in the investigation have a case to claim injury.
Are you really so confident your beloved Democrat party won't employ this tool also?
Just because they didn't petition the FCC for permission doesn't mean they aren't interested in the outcome.
It wasn't that long ago that/. was all up in arms about Republicans using Big Data to micro-target voters, and how that was sooo terrible... then countless commenters reminded attention-deficit suffering Democrats about how Team Obama was literally celebrated 8 years earlier for employing the very same Big Data techniques to win the White House in 2008.
i will even record the messages in mp3 or ogg format and send them, let the whole public know what those dirty rotten scoundrels are saying
You don't even see it, do you? By recording their voicemail message and putting it on a public website you aren't hurting them, you are helping to spread their message!
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Trump never questioned the science of global warming, he withdrew the United States from a treaty that was never properly approved by the Senate and, in his opinion, was a "bad deal" for America.
Now, let's look at this:
The Cambridge, Massaschusetts-based research university published a study in April 2016 titled "How much of a difference will the Paris Agreement make?" showing that if countries abided by their pledges in the deal, global warming would slow by between 0.6 degree and 1.1 degrees Celsius by 2100. "We certainly do not support the withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris agreement," said Erwan Monier, a lead researcher at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, and one of the study's authors. "If we don't do anything, we might shoot over 5 degrees or more and that would be catastrophic," said John Reilly, the co-director of the program, adding that MIT's scientists had had no contact with the White House and were not offered a chance to explain their work.
In order:
if countries abided by their pledges in the deal, global warming would slow by between 0.6 degree and 1.1 degrees Celsius by 2100
Let's call this the "best-case scenario"
"If we don't do anything, we might shoot over 5 degrees or more and that would be catastrophic,"
Let's call this the "worst-case scenario"
Let's also note that if we all follow "the pledges in the deal" the outcome will be the "worst-case scenario" less the "best-case scenario", or a 5 degree increase, reduced by between 0.6 and 1.1 degrees by 2100, in other words, the best outcome we can predict is a temperature increase of 3.9 degrees.
MIT's scientists had had no contact with the White House and were not offered a chance to explain their work.
No, MIT scientists were offered a chance to explain their work - their opportunity was in their written report that the White House staff cited.
No, the "Vast Russian Conspiracy" == "Vast Right-wing Conspiracy" == Something Hillary claims to deflect from her (or her husband's) actions.
She didn't inherit "the most advanced political data operation in history", Obama took it and kept it as "Organizing For America" - an absolutely non-political organization that has never had it's 501C(3) status questioned, despite it being his entire "Obama For America" re-election committee...
She "launched" her campaign twice, the first one didn't result in the media feeding-frenzy she hoped for, apparently.
And her multiple "listening tours" to find out what her platform should be was an underwhelming endeavor.
But yeah, but the (as yet un-named as such) "Vast Russian Conspiracy" is what cost her the position she was entitled to...
10-15 years to build a nuclear plant. Costs more than solar and soon more than wind. It is heavily subsidized by tax money so it's not even competitive without free money.
You do realize that both Solar and Wind (and Hydro) in the US is heavily subsidized 'by tax money', right? when was the last time a homeowner paid 100 cents on the dollar for the solar panels on their roof? When was the last time a windmill went up without tax breaks and/or federal grants?
CO2 is deadly. Just try breading it for a while. But the problem with CO2 can be divided into 2 problems. CO2 will go into the sea and lower its PH abd thus killing the fish. This and lack of rain will make billions lof people run out of food .
You left out 'feeding' that take in CO2 emit Oxygen, but sustaining nearly all life on earth isn't nearly as important as being on the right side of 'concensus science'...
Affordable Care Act covers healthcare, not other expenses
I never said it didn't, I said that compensation for sick days, vacation days is 'baked into' the compensation rate the 'gig worker' is paid.
When an IT consultant quotes a daily rate of, say, $400/day, that $400/day is only paid on days worked, not on sick days, not on vacation days. If the worker wants to earn $100K/yr, at $400/day they'll have to work 250 days. If the also want to take 15 days off for family vacations during the year, they'll have to up their daily rate to $425/day... the principles are the same, but the numbers are much lower for gig workers, they need to put some of their earnings aside for 'rainy days'.
Because Social Security doesn't work that way,
Yes, it does.
Most 'contributors' to SS pay about 5% of their first $100K in income to SS, their employer matches the contribution, for a total of around 10% of the first $100K being 'paid into' Social Security - Self-employed workers pay both the employee and employer portions of Social Security... why can't 'gig workers' pay for SS benefits the same way an IT contractor does?
Every taxpayer pays into public assistance programs.
Agreed, obviously.
Those payments are called taxes.
OK...
People on public assistance are using a government service that they paid for.
Whoa, you skipped a step, where you claim that "Every person on public assistance is, or has been a taxpayer"... I'm not willing to just gloss over that implied statement.
When a teenage mom collects government assistance for her dependent child while living in public housing with her mother who collects welfare, I have a hard time spotting the 'taxpayer' that 'paid for' their 'government service'...
Some proponents advocate funding the move by cutting programs like food stamps and Medicaid. But that approach would take money set aside for low-income families and redistribute it upward, exacerbating poverty and inequality, Greenstein said.
Both programs would see reduced costs because the sudden infusion of an additional $10K/yr would bump a significant number of food stamp, Medicaid receipients income to high, knocking them out of the programs...
Oh, I'm sorry, are we NOT going to consider UBI as 'income' for government assistance programs?
And Friday Hillary Clinton was even quoted as saying, "I would have won had I not been subjected to the unprecedented attacks by Comey and the Russians..."
What, exactly, does her OPINION prove?
If public comments matter this much, that's a clear sign these rules shouldn't be made by a small unelected board. Rather they should be made by the public, by having elected representatives pass a law.
Seriously? Because the public can be whipped up into a frothing mob over an esoteric thing like Title II Oversight of Internet Providers that means that we really need the guiding hand of people like Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Rep. Hank Johnson or Rep. Nancy Pelosi? (Feel free to add you list of "out there" representatives from the Right)
Ah. The "both sides do it" lie.
Ah, the old "Dismiss the fact that both sides do it by calling it a lie" line...
Are you sincerely arguing that every "Pro" Net Neutrality comment is unique, and was submitted by an actual person, who only submitted one comment?
14 people have already signed Fight for the Future's official complaint to the FCC
Seriously? FOURTEEN people?
SMH
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^^^^^^ sorry, read previous comment wrong.
Why can't they pay into SS (retirement plan) and signup for 'affordable' Obamacare, paid sick days? As a self-employed worker, that's on the gig worker, not the taxpayer. Your gig economy 'career' doesn't pay enough to cover SS & Obamacare? Time to figure out a better career...
Exactly - this is how you kill the 'gig economy'.
Virginia Senator Mark Warner has introduced a bill that will give basic benefits to gig workers. "Warner has just proposed the first-ever piece of national legislation aimed at helping on-demand and other non-traditional workers without traditional benefits, like paid sick days or a retirement plan, have some sort of a safety net," reports TechCrunch.
All gigworkers need to do is register as a corporation, pay both sides of FICA/SS (worker and employer), and by not offering himself healthcare coverage can qualify for subsidized Obamacare... that is the purpose of those two existing programs, no need to throw millions down the rat hole of 'analysis' and 'study'.
As for giving gig workers a 'safety net', that's their responsibility, folks outside the gig economy shouldn't be paying subidies, paid sick time, etc. for gig economy workers, being self-employed, essentially what a gig economy worker is, it is THEIR responsibility to provide paid sick leave, etc. to themselves.
. Vermont state law, however, specifically states that "The Department of Motor Vehicles shall not implement any procedures or processes that involve the use of biometric identifiers."
The only issue is that the searches are being done on DMV computers by DMV staff. The article is silent on the ability of the Vermont DMV to share the database with the Vermont State Police who could then run the searches on their own computers.
This is a budget/resource issue, not a civil rights issue.
And by the way, there are over 2M photos in the database, not 300K.
The law on the books says the DMV can't do the search, that is not the same as saying no one can do the search.
The issue is using Vermont DMV resources to perform searches using biometric data, not the search itself.
I'm not quite sure what harm caused to an individual when their picture is used to exclude them from consideration in an investigation, at worst, the folks mistakenly caught up in the investigation have a case to claim injury.
Are you really so confident your beloved Democrat party won't employ this tool also?
Just because they didn't petition the FCC for permission doesn't mean they aren't interested in the outcome.
It wasn't that long ago that /. was all up in arms about Republicans using Big Data to micro-target voters, and how that was sooo terrible... then countless commenters reminded attention-deficit suffering Democrats about how Team Obama was literally celebrated 8 years earlier for employing the very same Big Data techniques to win the White House in 2008.
i will even record the messages in mp3 or ogg format and send them, let the whole public know what those dirty rotten scoundrels are saying
You don't even see it, do you? By recording their voicemail message and putting it on a public website you aren't hurting them, you are helping to spread their message!
Their base is the elderly and the poor
Really? The Republican base includes 'the poor'? That's not what most Democrats claim...