Actually, the 'beat your wife with a stick' law is a myth , at least for the US. However, it's condoned, even encouraged in other parts of the world. Interestingly enough, the US is bending over backwards to be tolerant of those parts of the world where wife-beating is the norm...
The Constitution sets up the patent system. Yes, it's Constitutional law. But the GP has it correct - I am one of those inventors (18 granted so far), and I license them out for very low rates. Provable, measurable improvements, but trivial to copy/implement because it's mechanical in nature. Companies big and small (licensees run from one-man shops to Microsoft) license it for fractions of a percent of the value - and I make a decent income by volume. Consumer gets the benefits, manufacturer/brand gets the benefits, and I (the inventor) get the benefits. What's the downside?
San Francisco has done just that, moving nearly 12,000 into free housing. Problem is, they still have the same number of homeless. And now the expense and burden of free housing for 12,000 people.
Precisely! He's prone to spouting off scary things (WEST SIDE HIGHWAY UNDERWATER IN 40 YEARS!) to garner attention and push an agenda, rather than behaving like a rational scientist who would lay out things (if the CO2 in the atmosphere doubles, it may cause a sea level increase of 10 feet; however, it would probably take XXX years to double the atmospheric content of CO2).
From Hansen's own website, see note 1 where he confirms the basic statement, with the clarification it was 40 years, not 20. So he still have 12 years maximum to have a flooded West Side Highway - which I think we can all agree simply won't happen (9 feet, 10 inches of sea level rise in 12 years).
Well, it wasn't Al Gore, it was Dr. James Hansen who, in 1988, claimed the NY West Side Highway would be underwater by now. Of course, rather than the 10 foot change he predicted, we've had exactly 2.5" of sea level change. Came up a bit short on that one!
Gore whiffed the Arctic ice prediction that it would be gone by now - which is clearly not the case.
That made me remember the reports for the big 8.8 down in Chile in 2010. Supposedly it was so powerful it sped up the rotation of the Earth. Take a "stable" system, up the rotation, and mass imbalances become bigger effects in precession. Even if they weren't an issue before, they can start to cause wobbles at higher rotational speed. Anyone who's ever ridden a motorcycle with a wheel out of balance can attest to it - at low speed the wheel is stable, but the faster you go the more you start to wobble.
Read the platform: taxpayers shouldn't play the role of venture capitalist. Use a market-based approach to developing renewables rather than throwing billions at unproven technologies and solutions.
Water extraction would be much worse. It's shifting a resource from 30% of the surface to the other 70% of the surface. And it's done at a much higher rate than oil extraction. For example, in the year 2000 a total of 26 cubic kilometers of water was pumped from just the Ogallala aquifer alone. That amounts to around 450 million barrels a day - compared to around 90 million barrels a day of oil worldwide. And given the fact that water is 10-15% denser than oil - we have a mass shift of around 6:1 in favor of just the Ogallala aquifer water versus worldwide oil. Total water shift worldwide is probably closer to 60:1.
We encourage the cost-effective development of renewable energy, but the taxpayers should not serve as venture capitalists for risky endeavors. It is important to create a pathway toward a market-based approach for renewable energy sources and to aggressively develop alternative sources for electricity generation such as wind, hydro, solar, biomass, geothermal, and tidal energy. Partnerships between traditional energy industries and emerging renewable industries can be a central component in meeting the nation’s long-term needs. Alternative forms of energy are part of our action agenda to power the homes and workplaces of the nation.
Oh those terrible, terrible Republicans and their hatred towards renewable energy! Oh wait...
As far as your other strawmen, they're not even addressed in the 2012 platform. Don't know where you got the GOP position - for or against - on any of those. Other than projection, or perhaps some left-wing whacko website?
[ISIS] was, you know, pretty much decimated when US forces were there in Iraq. It had maybe 700-or-so adherents left. And then it grew quite a bit in the last several years, when it split then from al-Qaida in Syria, and set up its own organization.
Seems that Brennan claims it was basically dead when President Bush handed it over to President Obama. And it's grown since then...
Well, she did have to do SOMETHING to show her worth, in light of the giving guns to Mexican drug lords operation her counterparts in the DOJ were running. Can't let State be outdone by Justice after all!
Well, maybe in the US where it's essentially exercising 1A and 2A rights - that should be banned, after all. But it's fine in Libya and other places overseas because it's part of their culture and Facebook would show microaggressions if they didn't allow such trades and discussions to take place.
Hmmm. The article I linked explicitly states 82 billion tons of ice gained. And to date you've MADE the claim of arctic ice loss, but never posted a link to it. So... Sorry.
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Mel Brooks weeps for this generation... And I'm a proud Paddy McKraut.
How about a local taxi company that does NOT cross State lines? Like one focused on a single city - say Boston?
Actually, the 'beat your wife with a stick' law is a myth , at least for the US. However, it's condoned, even encouraged in other parts of the world. Interestingly enough, the US is bending over backwards to be tolerant of those parts of the world where wife-beating is the norm...
To SJWs, off-color jokes are a microaggression - they ARE an attack.
The Constitution sets up the patent system. Yes, it's Constitutional law. But the GP has it correct - I am one of those inventors (18 granted so far), and I license them out for very low rates. Provable, measurable improvements, but trivial to copy/implement because it's mechanical in nature. Companies big and small (licensees run from one-man shops to Microsoft) license it for fractions of a percent of the value - and I make a decent income by volume. Consumer gets the benefits, manufacturer/brand gets the benefits, and I (the inventor) get the benefits. What's the downside?
San Francisco has done just that, moving nearly 12,000 into free housing. Problem is, they still have the same number of homeless. And now the expense and burden of free housing for 12,000 people.
Now those living in Seattle can finally be part of the green revolution!
Precisely! He's prone to spouting off scary things (WEST SIDE HIGHWAY UNDERWATER IN 40 YEARS!) to garner attention and push an agenda, rather than behaving like a rational scientist who would lay out things (if the CO2 in the atmosphere doubles, it may cause a sea level increase of 10 feet; however, it would probably take XXX years to double the atmospheric content of CO2).
Yes, he did. That's his own website by the way... See note 1 of the paper - he confirms his prediction with a 40 year span.
From Hansen's own website, see note 1 where he confirms the basic statement, with the clarification it was 40 years, not 20. So he still have 12 years maximum to have a flooded West Side Highway - which I think we can all agree simply won't happen (9 feet, 10 inches of sea level rise in 12 years).
Well, it wasn't Al Gore, it was Dr. James Hansen who, in 1988, claimed the NY West Side Highway would be underwater by now. Of course, rather than the 10 foot change he predicted, we've had exactly 2.5" of sea level change. Came up a bit short on that one!
Gore whiffed the Arctic ice prediction that it would be gone by now - which is clearly not the case.
Well, it would explain her mistaking a cigar for male genitalia!
That made me remember the reports for the big 8.8 down in Chile in 2010. Supposedly it was so powerful it sped up the rotation of the Earth. Take a "stable" system, up the rotation, and mass imbalances become bigger effects in precession. Even if they weren't an issue before, they can start to cause wobbles at higher rotational speed. Anyone who's ever ridden a motorcycle with a wheel out of balance can attest to it - at low speed the wheel is stable, but the faster you go the more you start to wobble.
I wonder what impact the big 'quakes in the last 25 years have had? Big earthquakes (8+ magnitude) have become more frequent, with 26% of the big guys happening in the last 20% of the time from 1900 to the present.
Read the platform: taxpayers shouldn't play the role of venture capitalist. Use a market-based approach to developing renewables rather than throwing billions at unproven technologies and solutions.
The truth depends upon what the meaning of "truth" is...
Nice rant. Yet it doesn't address my point. The 2012 GOP platform clearly endorses alternative, renewable energy.
We are a fickle lot!
Water extraction would be much worse. It's shifting a resource from 30% of the surface to the other 70% of the surface. And it's done at a much higher rate than oil extraction. For example, in the year 2000 a total of 26 cubic kilometers of water was pumped from just the Ogallala aquifer alone. That amounts to around 450 million barrels a day - compared to around 90 million barrels a day of oil worldwide. And given the fact that water is 10-15% denser than oil - we have a mass shift of around 6:1 in favor of just the Ogallala aquifer water versus worldwide oil. Total water shift worldwide is probably closer to 60:1.
We encourage the cost-effective development of renewable energy, but the taxpayers should not serve as venture capitalists for risky endeavors. It is important to create a pathway toward a market-based approach for renewable energy sources and to aggressively develop alternative sources for electricity generation such as wind, hydro, solar, biomass, geothermal, and tidal energy. Partnerships between traditional energy industries and emerging renewable industries can be a central component in meeting the nation’s long-term needs. Alternative forms of energy are part of our action agenda to power the homes and workplaces of the nation.
- GOP 2012 Platform
Oh those terrible, terrible Republicans and their hatred towards renewable energy! Oh wait...
As far as your other strawmen, they're not even addressed in the 2012 platform. Don't know where you got the GOP position - for or against - on any of those. Other than projection, or perhaps some left-wing whacko website?
Good rule, but it would be beneficial if the subsequent Administration also stuck around to finish the job.
[ISIS] was, you know, pretty much decimated when US forces were there in Iraq. It had maybe 700-or-so adherents left. And then it grew quite a bit in the last several years, when it split then from al-Qaida in Syria, and set up its own organization.
Seems that Brennan claims it was basically dead when President Bush handed it over to President Obama. And it's grown since then...
Well, she did have to do SOMETHING to show her worth, in light of the giving guns to Mexican drug lords operation her counterparts in the DOJ were running. Can't let State be outdone by Justice after all!
Well, maybe in the US where it's essentially exercising 1A and 2A rights - that should be banned, after all. But it's fine in Libya and other places overseas because it's part of their culture and Facebook would show microaggressions if they didn't allow such trades and discussions to take place.
Because we're denying her "right to self identify race, culture, and heritage". Or some such thing. Microaggression has to factor in as well!
Hmmm. The article I linked explicitly states 82 billion tons of ice gained. And to date you've MADE the claim of arctic ice loss, but never posted a link to it. So... Sorry.