Marxism teeters upon a deeply false assumption that human nature can somehow be coerced into submission and tamed.... mostly by pointing a gun at the persons head or the threat of being sent to a prison...
Any rationality of any government or economic system can be measured by the amount of coercion required to maintain that system. More coercion, less legitimate.
Where the guild has a code.... I don't promote a mafia-style-teamsters thing. But a strong union of folks where your peers will be "influenced" to support ethical behavior.
Let's face it, most U.S. citizens have too much to lose (mortgage, marriage, kids, debt) that won't ALLOW them to speak up.
IMHO, Microsoft's motivation for adopting an open document format was possibly more about killing Adobe Acrobat, than maintaining compatibility with a competitive (zero-cost) product.. by adopting an open format, MS was able to throw cold water on one of Adobe Acrobat's major value propositions.... just like HTML5 has done / will do to Flash. Agree or Disagree?
I am really proud of Bill Gates putting his money where his mouth is, with his investment in Thorium burners.
Overall, nuclear is a huge opportunity to safely service base and peak loads. This should always be combined with renewables and sustainables. The NRC-lefties need to be given direct guidance from the Executive, or they will never issue any new permits. Also, the DoE needs to quit wasting my money on fail-solar companies and build huge-super-safe-gen-4+ nuclear reactors EVERYWHERE!
If they don't want carbon-zero power, then pay the price to pull the fuel element and let them cool for 30 years. Then transport them to New Mexico. This is the price of green stupidity.
Bump Darth Muffin. The U.S. government does plenty of "unethical" things, like exposing military personnel to nuclear detonations without their full consent.
You children don't know what torture really is. Read about how our soldiers where treated in North Korea or North Vietnam. How the captured Soviets were treated in Afghanistan. How North Korea or the old Soviet Union treated dissidents.... Grow up hipsters and hippies. It's a bad, mean old world out there.
"Obvious"... omg coolaid drinker. You have no idea about what your speak.
You want better results? Hold "politicians" accountable for the act of entities over which they have oversight... then these people might act as if they are/were accountable. Otherwise these "hearings" are nothing more than a PR opportunity.
Ummm Patent Lover, please uninstall your browser. I was using "logic", something the apparently eludes you. How did your comment score get so high? Oh that's because Slashdot reviewers are mind-numbed liberal zombies.
"The overwhelming consensus" is blather, my uneducated friend. The "overwhelming consensus" is simply mass faith based on myth. Getting a group of people to believe in a myth is easy. The fact that billions of people believe in God or Allah, doesn't make "god" or "allah" anymore tangible and provable... it just makes billions of people terribly misinformed, but "faithful" people. Not unlike you.
The fact that you must resort to ad-hominem attacks directed at people that disagree with you, only further reinforces my central thesis; that it's impossible to differentiate man-made climate change (if it exists) from any normal cyclical event.
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time, you silly wiper of other peoples bottoms. *raspberry sounds*
Starting to like Immermans tone. Yes, I was referring to journals. And a proposition is not a proven fact, by definition.
Since the tone of this conversation has shifted to one of debate (which is welcomed), most of the science that has been published is NOT repeatable, due to two factors: 1) to the confidence intervals when taken in 2) combination with the way the study data must be flogged and contorted, in order to produce a reasonably acceptable CI. This fact is never in dispute, even with most frequently cited authors. Ergo, extrapolating or deriving a clear and repeatable conclusion is theoretically impossible.
One of my early mentors once said, "If you torture the numbers and cohorts enough, they will say anything that you want them to say." Climate change "science" falls into this category, until you can make a model that anyone can observe and test and say, "yep, that's it."
I am happy to have my views and data tested and confirmed by others, are you? You post is laughable. Go get into your Prius, drive to Whole Foods and buy some free-range-non-GMO-fair-trade-organic food that only elitists can afford...
John Christy, Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, who has written: “I’m sure the majority (but not all) of my IPCC colleagues cringe when I say this, but I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see.”
No, it's not settled. If you actually READ the literature with an honest mind, you would see that there is no proof that we are having a major influence on any part of things.
"Climate Change" is the new socialist religion.... you can't really prove it using scientific method, ergo it's more of a faith than a science.
Same trolls that voted-up the root post have voted this persons downward. So typical of Slashdot. The comments are so one-sided toward socialism.... it's sad. I used to enjoy this forum. But it has no balance, just lefty coolaid drinkers.
That's because global warming doesn't exist... and the people whom voted up our score to insightful are the typical left-minded zombies that patrol Slashdot.
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We spent billions on that facility and it can store most waste (including spent fuel) for 1000's of years. Use it!
Marxism teeters upon a deeply false assumption that human nature can somehow be coerced into submission and tamed.... mostly by pointing a gun at the persons head or the threat of being sent to a prison... Any rationality of any government or economic system can be measured by the amount of coercion required to maintain that system. More coercion, less legitimate.
The moral man knows the difference between right and wrong; the ethical man does the right thing, even when nobody is looking.
Where the guild has a code.... I don't promote a mafia-style-teamsters thing. But a strong union of folks where your peers will be "influenced" to support ethical behavior. Let's face it, most U.S. citizens have too much to lose (mortgage, marriage, kids, debt) that won't ALLOW them to speak up.
Totally agree. Good luck splitting red oak with that...
I smell fuzzy math. It usually smells like bullshit.
IMHO, Microsoft's motivation for adopting an open document format was possibly more about killing Adobe Acrobat, than maintaining compatibility with a competitive (zero-cost) product.. by adopting an open format, MS was able to throw cold water on one of Adobe Acrobat's major value propositions.... just like HTML5 has done / will do to Flash. Agree or Disagree?
Anonymous coward, you are sooooooo wrong. How many deaths are projected for the next 10 years, by the WHO? Go back and hide under your rock.
Overall, nuclear is a huge opportunity to safely service base and peak loads. This should always be combined with renewables and sustainables. The NRC-lefties need to be given direct guidance from the Executive, or they will never issue any new permits. Also, the DoE needs to quit wasting my money on fail-solar companies and build huge-super-safe-gen-4+ nuclear reactors EVERYWHERE!
Start in my back yard, please. Seriously.
If they don't want carbon-zero power, then pay the price to pull the fuel element and let them cool for 30 years. Then transport them to New Mexico. This is the price of green stupidity.
Bump Darth Muffin. The U.S. government does plenty of "unethical" things, like exposing military personnel to nuclear detonations without their full consent.
Oh, I forgot to mention Monsanto and corn syrup.... losers!
You children don't know what torture really is. Read about how our soldiers where treated in North Korea or North Vietnam. How the captured Soviets were treated in Afghanistan. How North Korea or the old Soviet Union treated dissidents.... Grow up hipsters and hippies. It's a bad, mean old world out there.
OMG seriously.... take some more acid and get more paranoid...
You want better results? Hold "politicians" accountable for the act of entities over which they have oversight... then these people might act as if they are/were accountable. Otherwise these "hearings" are nothing more than a PR opportunity.
Ummm Patent Lover, please uninstall your browser. I was using "logic", something the apparently eludes you. How did your comment score get so high? Oh that's because Slashdot reviewers are mind-numbed liberal zombies.
Dude, sorry, there isn't any "bs" being spouted. But good try. You just keep digging your hole deeper.
The fact that you must resort to ad-hominem attacks directed at people that disagree with you, only further reinforces my central thesis; that it's impossible to differentiate man-made climate change (if it exists) from any normal cyclical event.
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time, you silly wiper of other peoples bottoms. *raspberry sounds*
Since the tone of this conversation has shifted to one of debate (which is welcomed), most of the science that has been published is NOT repeatable, due to two factors: 1) to the confidence intervals when taken in 2) combination with the way the study data must be flogged and contorted, in order to produce a reasonably acceptable CI. This fact is never in dispute, even with most frequently cited authors. Ergo, extrapolating or deriving a clear and repeatable conclusion is theoretically impossible.
One of my early mentors once said, "If you torture the numbers and cohorts enough, they will say anything that you want them to say." Climate change "science" falls into this category, until you can make a model that anyone can observe and test and say, "yep, that's it."
I am happy to have my views and data tested and confirmed by others, are you? You post is laughable. Go get into your Prius, drive to Whole Foods and buy some free-range-non-GMO-fair-trade-organic food that only elitists can afford...
John Christy, Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, who has written: “I’m sure the majority (but not all) of my IPCC colleagues cringe when I say this, but I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see.”
No, it's not settled. If you actually READ the literature with an honest mind, you would see that there is no proof that we are having a major influence on any part of things. "Climate Change" is the new socialist religion.... you can't really prove it using scientific method, ergo it's more of a faith than a science.
We get it, you are climate change believers.... can we move on.... please.
Same trolls that voted-up the root post have voted this persons downward. So typical of Slashdot. The comments are so one-sided toward socialism.... it's sad. I used to enjoy this forum. But it has no balance, just lefty coolaid drinkers.
That's because global warming doesn't exist... and the people whom voted up our score to insightful are the typical left-minded zombies that patrol Slashdot.