Gorillas could have evolved to eat meat, and then stopped eating it
So, just like people. If gorillas evolved to eat meat, then stopped eating it, there really isn't a good argument for, "we've gotta eat meat because we have canine teeth".
Yet there is a whole wall of the stuff in every supermarket I've ever been in.
Have you noticed that the Wall of Lettuce keeps getting smaller? Used to be bins of iceberg heads, and now it's a much smaller part of a shelf of iceberg heads wrapped in plastic. It's wrapped in plastic because it's going to sit there longer. They don't wrap bunches of tasty vegetables like swiss chard or collard greens in plastic.
Plus a larger section of the lettuce department is taken up with romaine and red leaf and green leaf and arugula and other leafies that actually have some color and taste to them. I think iceberg's days are numbered.
Think of how much acreage, water, and fertilizer is consumed to make iceberg lettuce.
Now that I think about it, I'm not even sure I even know anyone who eats iceberg lettuce. I mean, maybe somebody who puts some red leaf or radicchio on a sandwich for crunch, but I get the feeling that the only people still using iceberg lettuce are fast food joints who put a wilted leaf on your nasty burger.
“All we need to do to get there is convince researchers around the world to share their data, build the world's largest repository of genetic and clinical information, and develop functional tests for every gene in the human genome,” he adds. “Easy.”
It's not the doctors that I worry about having access to this database.
Sorry, but neither you, nor some Professor Emeritus get to redefine terms.
Where do you differ with the professor's more thorough definition of "fascism"?
Trump is, quote obviously, an Individualist, which is the very antithesis of Fascism and other forms of Collectivism (such as Socialism).
Please support your statement that Trump is an "Individualist" with some evidence. "Be sure to offer full verifiable quotes, rather than paraphrases, however... Thank you!"
So, Trump's pointing out, that our enemies use the Internet to organize attacks against us
That's not the part that makes him a fascist. It's the part about consulting with industry leaders to "close up the Internet" that does it.
You have to mine the materials to manufacture the panels, supply the energy to make them, ship them, install them, clean them, and combine the small-scale generation capabilities into a larger scale distribution system.
You have to do all of the same with fossil fuel energy plants.
Plus you have to man them with workers. All that before the "finding/getting/refining/transporting/storing/cleanup" of the fossil fuels.
So I'll ask again: How is a fossil fuel energy plant more "efficient" than a solar farm?
Could you cite the particular examples of fascist statements made by Donald Trump — and explain, why you feel so about them?
OK, let's start with the most recent.
""We're losing a lot of people because of the Internet. We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people."
And here is the definition of Fasicism, from history Professor Emeritus Robert O. Paxton of Columbia University:
“Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a massed-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
My explanation as to why I "feel" this statement is Fascism is not required. My feelings on the subject don't matter because this (and many other) statements from Donald Trump and the behavior of his followers perfectly fit the definition.
You still have to explain how a solar farm isn't "more efficient" than a fossil fuel plant, when you figure in that you have to 1) find the fossil fuel, 2) extract the fossil fuel from the Earth 3) refine the fossil fuel, 4) transport the fossil fuel and 5) store the fossil fuel. And that's before you even get to the externalities of having to clean up after the fossil fuel.
It sounds to me like the good people of Woodland, North Carolina have a whole bunch of separate reasons for not wanting solar farms, most of which are bad science, misunderstood words or simple stupidity. They're worried about being surrounded on all sides by solar farms, but apparently don't have a problem with being surrounded by tobacco farms.
That's because government action precludes building a private system.
Please tell me how "government action precludes building a private system".
If a company were to buy the land and build roads on it, there's absolutely nothing to stop them from charging people to drive on those roads. There are private roads, you know.
Slashdot Mirror
I didn't say the dictionary definition was wrong, only that the one I gave was more thorough.
Here you go.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/22/...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
And for "balance",
http://www.theblaze.com/storie...
http://www.nbcnews.com/politic...
http://www.adweek.com/prnewser...
http://media.breitbart.com/med...
Please find an example of Obama inciting violence or approving violence at a rally and there actually being violence at the same rally
No. "Both sides" do not do it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
So, just like people. If gorillas evolved to eat meat, then stopped eating it, there really isn't a good argument for, "we've gotta eat meat because we have canine teeth".
Yes, I posted an in-depth definition above. And darned if Trump doesn't fit the definition. Go ahead scroll up and see for yourself.
It just ain't true. Gorillas have big, sharp teeth (including more impressive canines than humans have) but they don't eat meat.
http://news.nationalgeographic...
http://img.thesun.co.uk/aidemi...
Leave the Royal Family out of this. They're descended from Jesus.
They're still looking for the "Off" button.
Have you noticed that the Wall of Lettuce keeps getting smaller? Used to be bins of iceberg heads, and now it's a much smaller part of a shelf of iceberg heads wrapped in plastic. It's wrapped in plastic because it's going to sit there longer. They don't wrap bunches of tasty vegetables like swiss chard or collard greens in plastic.
Plus a larger section of the lettuce department is taken up with romaine and red leaf and green leaf and arugula and other leafies that actually have some color and taste to them. I think iceberg's days are numbered.
Now that I think about it, I'm not even sure I even know anyone who eats iceberg lettuce. I mean, maybe somebody who puts some red leaf or radicchio on a sandwich for crunch, but I get the feeling that the only people still using iceberg lettuce are fast food joints who put a wilted leaf on your nasty burger.
Or just genetically modify lettuce to taste like bacon.
No, but they eat their own shit.
That is maybe the most ridiculous argument I've heard in the past 20 minutes.
It's like saying "If we weren't meant to wear rings, we wouldn't have these fingers called, ring fingers."
Or, "If we weren't meant to see with our teeth, we wouldn't have teeth called eye teeth".
You're going to have to trim off a lot of fat.
It's not the doctors that I worry about having access to this database.
They are a group of people becoming increasingly militant.
You let me know when it's OK to call them a "militant group".
http://www.thewrap.com/donald-...
http://www.salon.com/2015/12/1...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/22/...
Where do you differ with the professor's more thorough definition of "fascism"?
Please support your statement that Trump is an "Individualist" with some evidence. "Be sure to offer full verifiable quotes, rather than paraphrases, however... Thank you!"
That's not the part that makes him a fascist. It's the part about consulting with industry leaders to "close up the Internet" that does it.
You're not very good at this, are you?
You have to do all of the same with fossil fuel energy plants.
Plus you have to man them with workers. All that before the "finding/getting/refining/transporting/storing/cleanup" of the fossil fuels.
So I'll ask again: How is a fossil fuel energy plant more "efficient" than a solar farm?
And yet, his followers seem to have gotten the message anyway.
OK, let's start with the most recent.
The verification of that quote is in this video:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/0...
And here is the definition of Fasicism, from history Professor Emeritus Robert O. Paxton of Columbia University:
My explanation as to why I "feel" this statement is Fascism is not required. My feelings on the subject don't matter because this (and many other) statements from Donald Trump and the behavior of his followers perfectly fit the definition.
You still have to explain how a solar farm isn't "more efficient" than a fossil fuel plant, when you figure in that you have to 1) find the fossil fuel, 2) extract the fossil fuel from the Earth 3) refine the fossil fuel, 4) transport the fossil fuel and 5) store the fossil fuel. And that's before you even get to the externalities of having to clean up after the fossil fuel.
It sounds to me like the good people of Woodland, North Carolina have a whole bunch of separate reasons for not wanting solar farms, most of which are bad science, misunderstood words or simple stupidity. They're worried about being surrounded on all sides by solar farms, but apparently don't have a problem with being surrounded by tobacco farms.
"Economical" and "efficient" are not the same thing. Don't interchange those two words and pretend you are refuting my statement.
Please tell me how "government action precludes building a private system".
If a company were to buy the land and build roads on it, there's absolutely nothing to stop them from charging people to drive on those roads. There are private roads, you know.