It's easy. All of those who don't agree that the proposed candidate has merit end up committing suicide with two bullets to the back of the head. The rest are more than happy to verify the merit of the candidate.
They do indeed. But an American citizen is FOUR TIMES more likely to be arrested and imprisoned by their government.
Really? Where are you getting that number from?
If it's from a simplistic comparison of prisoners per capita, then just give your head a shake and aplogize. The fact that there are more people in prison has no bearing on your likelihood of being imprisoned, unless all other relevant factors (like sentence length and execution rates) are identical.
I tried reading a book once but then J.K. Rowling touched my peepee. You'll never get more men reading until you address the toxic femininity underlying the publishing industry.
Large armies of rabble have beaten technologically superior enemies before. They've done it in Korea, in fact.
When was this, exactly? Are you referring to that time when the Chinese invaded and the coalition force decided that they would pull back to the 38th parallel because they didn't really want a war with China? If so that's a rather dishonest way of framing what happened, don't you think?
Or are you referring to individual battles in which human waves consisting of tens of thousands of "rabble" temporarily forced the retreat of allied forces who had run out of supplies and ammo? If so, I suppose that kinda qualifies. It wasn't exactly a winning long-term strategy though, even at a time when close air support was essentially unheard of.
The difference in capabilities today is massively larger. Look to the more modern wars in Iraq to see how well "large armies of rabble" fare against technologically superior enemies. NKs army looks huge on paper, but so did Saddam's.
The saddest part about moving away from fossil-fuels on a global level is that, in a couple decades, ignowant dipshits will no longer be able to blame it for everything that happens in the world.
If history is any lesson you'll just move on to talking about rare earths or something.
And while they protest the bases they still love the money the soldiers spend.
It's more than that; South Koreans overwhelmingly have a positive opinion of the US and don't take issue with the presence of american forces. Getting to serve in the combined US/Korean force is considered an honour, and there is stiff competition for those positions.
There have been occasional protests, usually after something out of the ordinary happened, but looking at those protests and deciding that Koreans hate the US military is like looking at an ANTIFA march and deciding that Americans hate capitalism.
Before anyone corrects me, yes, I misread TFA. Dammit.
On the other hand, remote Canadian communities still do have much better electrical infrastructure even if we can't get them connected to the rest of our grid.
Both of you are confused. TFA doesn't talk about centralised power grids; it specifically mentions villages which generate their own power via solar.
It also mentions that their definition of access is 10% of a community having electricity.
By those standards, yes, both Canada and the US can make the same claim, and then some. I've been to some of the most remote communities in the Arctic; they all have electricity and plenty of it.
That graph starts in 1970... just before all the special needs rules went into effect. I think a huge percentage of school funding is spent on that... mostly on staff.
That's an interesting point... except that the trend in university budgets looks very similar as well. How many special needs universities are there?
Citation needed. As far as I can tell this is just something you made up. Male authors still dominate even if we count "romance" novels and "super-mommy" self-help books while discounting the entire "graphic-novel" industry.
I mean there is definitely a specialised industry of publishers who only publish works by female authors, whereas there's nothing similar for male authors, so really we should be seeing slightly more women being published than men. But I've yet to see any data which shows that to be the case.
People who say this is a small amount of water should take a look at the Caspian Sea, which was killed by all the industry around it.
The Caspian sea isn't dead, by any stretch of the imagination, and there's little evidence that "all the industry around it" has had any serious impact on it's level. The best data we have indicates that the sea is shrinking primarily because of increased evaporation due to warmer weather.
The amount of natural evaporation from such a massive body of water is mind boggling, and even a half degree increase in average temperature can cause a corresponding increase in evaporation which dwarfs all the water used by the surrounding industries.
You are not familiar with the draining of Lake Baikal.
Nobody is draining lake Baikal. The lower than normal water levels are overwhelmingly due to much dryer weather which had reduced the normal inflow to between 50 and 67% of prior levels. This has, unsurprisingly, caused the lake to shrink.
Human utilisation of lake water isn't helping, of course, but it pales in comparison. If dryer weather persisted the lake would continue to shrink at the same rate, even absent any human activity.
You could argue that the dryer climate is itself due to human activity (ie. AGW) but that's a different subject altogether.
So why don't they put in for that? Instead of treating it and putting it into the lake, why not re-use the treated water? Instead of evaporating it, why not recondense it and put it back into the process.
Because they're using it for cooling and your proposal would be far, far more expensive. The returned water, while no longer "hot" will still be significantly above the temperature of the intake water. In order to get the temperature down to the same level you would either require much larger cooling towers or a gargantuan storage/cooling pond. Well they already have a gargantuan storage pond - its called Lake Michigan - so they're going to use it.
It's the same reason we situate nuke power plants near water. Yeah, in theory, you could make it so they can keep reusing the same water (with some smaller amount added to account for inevitable leakage) over and over, but it's far more cost effective to just dump the warm water back in the lake. As long as it's clean there's no problem.
Living without pesticides is what organic farming is all about
Nicotine (the substance being banned here) is an organic pesticide. If you believe that organic farming doesn't use pesticides you are incredibly naive.
Seriously? When exactly did Slovenians and Croatians in Yugoslavia ever use Cyrillic?
Always? I don't know too many Slovenians but I do know a bunch of Croats and they can all use Cyrillic. They don't much like it these days, and in Croatia itself there have been protests and acts of vandalism in areas which have tried to reintroduce Cyrillic, but they all can read it and write if if they want to because prior to the breakup of Yugoslavia it was one of the official alphabets.
Even prior to the formation of Yugoslavia, Cyrillic was used widely enough in Croatia that, during World War 2, the Nazi supported government of Croatia decided to ban it. You don't need generally ban things which people aren't doing.
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It's easy. All of those who don't agree that the proposed candidate has merit end up committing suicide with two bullets to the back of the head. The rest are more than happy to verify the merit of the candidate.
They do indeed. But an American citizen is FOUR TIMES more likely to be arrested and imprisoned by their government.
Really? Where are you getting that number from?
If it's from a simplistic comparison of prisoners per capita, then just give your head a shake and aplogize. The fact that there are more people in prison has no bearing on your likelihood of being imprisoned, unless all other relevant factors (like sentence length and execution rates) are identical.
It's always hilarious to see anonymous cowards complaining about trolls.
I tried reading a book once but then J.K. Rowling touched my peepee. You'll never get more men reading until you address the toxic femininity underlying the publishing industry.
That's like giving up weed and switching to crack.
North Korea didn't flatten every city in the United States
Correct, they flattened every city in South Korea.
nor has it engaged in the world's largest war games every year to invade the United States.
Correct; they engage in the world's largest war games every year to invade South Korea.
That's what you did to them
Incorrect.
all the while invading countries for BS reasons and overthrowing dozens of democracies.
Also incorrect.
So who here really needs to have their words verified?
North Korea and you, apparently.
Large armies of rabble have beaten technologically superior enemies before. They've done it in Korea, in fact.
When was this, exactly? Are you referring to that time when the Chinese invaded and the coalition force decided that they would pull back to the 38th parallel because they didn't really want a war with China? If so that's a rather dishonest way of framing what happened, don't you think?
Or are you referring to individual battles in which human waves consisting of tens of thousands of "rabble" temporarily forced the retreat of allied forces who had run out of supplies and ammo? If so, I suppose that kinda qualifies. It wasn't exactly a winning long-term strategy though, even at a time when close air support was essentially unheard of.
The difference in capabilities today is massively larger. Look to the more modern wars in Iraq to see how well "large armies of rabble" fare against technologically superior enemies. NKs army looks huge on paper, but so did Saddam's.
The saddest part about moving away from fossil-fuels on a global level is that, in a couple decades, ignowant dipshits will no longer be able to blame it for everything that happens in the world.
If history is any lesson you'll just move on to talking about rare earths or something.
And while they protest the bases they still love the money the soldiers spend.
It's more than that; South Koreans overwhelmingly have a positive opinion of the US and don't take issue with the presence of american forces. Getting to serve in the combined US/Korean force is considered an honour, and there is stiff competition for those positions.
There have been occasional protests, usually after something out of the ordinary happened, but looking at those protests and deciding that Koreans hate the US military is like looking at an ANTIFA march and deciding that Americans hate capitalism.
Before anyone corrects me, yes, I misread TFA. Dammit.
On the other hand, remote Canadian communities still do have much better electrical infrastructure even if we can't get them connected to the rest of our grid.
Both of you are confused. TFA doesn't talk about centralised power grids; it specifically mentions villages which generate their own power via solar.
It also mentions that their definition of access is 10% of a community having electricity.
By those standards, yes, both Canada and the US can make the same claim, and then some. I've been to some of the most remote communities in the Arctic; they all have electricity and plenty of it.
That's one way to solve the overpopulation problem ...
That graph starts in 1970... just before all the special needs rules went into effect. I think a huge percentage of school funding is spent on that... mostly on staff.
That's an interesting point ... except that the trend in university budgets looks very similar as well. How many special needs universities are there?
Is The Shape of Water not considered a sci fi film ? .
It just won Best Picture and Best Director
It's more fantasy/romance than SciFi,and it wasn't directed by a woman. So I'm guessing it doesn't count.
Today, there are more women published than men
Citation needed. As far as I can tell this is just something you made up. Male authors still dominate even if we count "romance" novels and "super-mommy" self-help books while discounting the entire "graphic-novel" industry.
I mean there is definitely a specialised industry of publishers who only publish works by female authors, whereas there's nothing similar for male authors, so really we should be seeing slightly more women being published than men. But I've yet to see any data which shows that to be the case.
People who say this is a small amount of water should take a look at the Caspian Sea, which was killed by all the industry around it.
The Caspian sea isn't dead, by any stretch of the imagination, and there's little evidence that "all the industry around it" has had any serious impact on it's level. The best data we have indicates that the sea is shrinking primarily because of increased evaporation due to warmer weather.
The amount of natural evaporation from such a massive body of water is mind boggling, and even a half degree increase in average temperature can cause a corresponding increase in evaporation which dwarfs all the water used by the surrounding industries.
You are not familiar with the draining of Lake Baikal.
Nobody is draining lake Baikal. The lower than normal water levels are overwhelmingly due to much dryer weather which had reduced the normal inflow to between 50 and 67% of prior levels. This has, unsurprisingly, caused the lake to shrink.
Human utilisation of lake water isn't helping, of course, but it pales in comparison. If dryer weather persisted the lake would continue to shrink at the same rate, even absent any human activity.
You could argue that the dryer climate is itself due to human activity (ie. AGW) but that's a different subject altogether.
So why don't they put in for that? Instead of treating it and putting it into the lake, why not re-use the treated water? Instead of evaporating it, why not recondense it and put it back into the process.
Because they're using it for cooling and your proposal would be far, far more expensive. The returned water, while no longer "hot" will still be significantly above the temperature of the intake water. In order to get the temperature down to the same level you would either require much larger cooling towers or a gargantuan storage/cooling pond. Well they already have a gargantuan storage pond - its called Lake Michigan - so they're going to use it.
It's the same reason we situate nuke power plants near water. Yeah, in theory, you could make it so they can keep reusing the same water (with some smaller amount added to account for inevitable leakage) over and over, but it's far more cost effective to just dump the warm water back in the lake. As long as it's clean there's no problem.
At 7 million gallons a day, Lake Michigan will be empty in only 500,000 years!
TFA says they're putting back 61% of the water they take, so, really, you've got more like 1.28 million years.
Living without pesticides is what organic farming is all about
Nicotine (the substance being banned here) is an organic pesticide. If you believe that organic farming doesn't use pesticides you are incredibly naive.
Seriously? When exactly did Slovenians and Croatians in Yugoslavia ever use Cyrillic?
Always? I don't know too many Slovenians but I do know a bunch of Croats and they can all use Cyrillic. They don't much like it these days, and in Croatia itself there have been protests and acts of vandalism in areas which have tried to reintroduce Cyrillic, but they all can read it and write if if they want to because prior to the breakup of Yugoslavia it was one of the official alphabets.
Even prior to the formation of Yugoslavia, Cyrillic was used widely enough in Croatia that, during World War 2, the Nazi supported government of Croatia decided to ban it. You don't need generally ban things which people aren't doing.
The 1980th USB bank must have been one insanely crappy device ...
Per se. To paraphrase Old Biff "you look like an idiot when you spell it wrong"....
It's not your constant need to correct people, per say, which makes you seem like a cunt ... it's more in how you do it.
Really you should have asked her what she thinks about celebrating Nazi culture. Should we have a day for it?
So, you get to sit in judgment of the Chinamen.
Yes, absolutely. You have to be one insanely racist cunt to believe that skin colour disqualifies one person from judging another.