"Those people fighting aren't doing it BECAUSE of religion. " - that is because of modern day secularization getting stronger in the past 100 years (even among the religious) but the crusades and inquisitions did do it because of religion. You could make a case to say Hitler was a modern day Catholic inquisitor enacting/reinforcing the centuries old Catholic based antisemitism because the Jews put the criminal Jesus to death (if he really existed of course). But we are still waiting for the groups like ISIS to catch up as they seem to be at least a 1000 years behind the curve.
you've never read the Torah? the old testament shares books like Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy with the Torah, well the catholics appropriated them into their old testament
"The Lord's path is written as a good summary in the New Testament as "love each other" - do not accuse the Lord for what the people do, and don't accuse those on the Lord's path for what those not on His path do."
thats the usual, when its good, praise the lord and when its bad blame the people. Try reading the Old Testament as well which was never renounced by the new testament bods or current religious supporters
I wouldn't mind a rational, reasonable conversation on the topic, but instead you've got "its not happening so don't do anything" screamers...
"Well screw it, if the world is ending, we might as well enjoy ourselves..." - well, lets all be so totally selfish and not think of others - great for our children etc
"If it ISN'T ending, then perhaps we shouldn't derail our economy in the process of trying to improve the environment..." what economy is derailing, the banks did that. There is a new industry starting to replace the old. Things change and move on.
"Yet all we hear about are electric cars and solar power, neither of which make any economic sense." eh? new tech is ALWAYS expensive at the start, wind power is already cheaper than coal, solar is getting cheaper. http://www.theguardian.com/env...
"Why spend money on something that has a payback period of more than 5 years when we have easier solutions right in front of us that have a payback period of as little as 1 year?" - short term thinking is detrimental to long term solutions. the payback on things like solar is shortening all the time
" the doomsday is coming" - it is coming, no matter what we do as it has done over the billions of years this planet has had hot/cold cycles. Its just at what speed it arrives and the scientific consensus is that the human race is accelerating it. Its only another 1.75 billion or so years before the sun burns so hot its going to destroy the earth anyway. http://www.isciencetimes.com/a...
The deniers do not put forward any scientific arguments that contradict what is actually happening, most deniers are linked to the fossil fuel industry and a renewable agenda affects their pocket (unless they get on board). Being a sceptic is fine, it promotes discussion, being a denier doesn't. A denier is like a child sticking his fingers in his ears and saying "I can't hear you"
"The point was that one author who has millions of customers from sales of a book doesn't have to increase the number of employees." - i wouldn't class one author as an employer so its not a good comparison
read this about the FBI and their decades of convictions due to flaws in hair analysis - "The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed or died in prison, the groups said under an agreement with the government to release results after the review of the first 200 convictions." - just hope that one of your family isn't in that group.
If you still think all people on death row are ALL guilty, you need to get yourself educated on miscarriages of justice.
it is a deterrent to the majority of people who are socially well adjusted to do good because its the right thing to do. to the repeat offenders, its an occupational hazard. The death penalty, in theory, should deter serious crimes but it doesn't.
"Society collectively is far away from the Lord's path (yet), so it takes vengeance to the criminal -" the further its away from the Lords path, the more civilised society will become. The lords path is to stone people to death, initiate genocide, perform child abuse etc
did you get that quote from the same book that says "an eye for eye, tooth for a tooth ", supports genocide, promotes the stoning of people for working on a sunday or children showing a lack of respect for their parents and so on....
yes, i want to be free to be able to take out any drone that flies over my property, break it into little pieces and throw the bits into my neighbors garden (even if its not their drone). Is that the kind of freedom you are asking for?
"It takes a very small government indeed to provide policing and infrastructure, enforce contracts, and prevent fraud." true but if everyone was socially aware and all thieves, violence-driven, greedy, ego driven power-mad people were removed from the planet, we'd need an even smaller government. Its great having Utopian ideals.
"Except that subsidies for solar do not "replace" subsidies for oil in any way whatsoever." correct, the solar subsidy should have replaced the oil subsidy. For oil still to have subsidies after all these years suggests its a "failed" tech but we all know its to keep campaign donations coming in.
Newmans points is:- let Australia keep digging up coal and selling it to China, As with all idiots like this, they are aligned with the fossil industry in some way.
Particulates are pollution, they are the deadliest form of air pollution due to their ability to penetrate deep into the lungs and blood streams unfiltered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
"Everything stops me from using any of the little systemd fragments independently from the whole "ecosystem" being in place." - whats wrong with that? i have to have Mysql installed to use mysql tools, i have to have glibc on my system for most things to work. Something depends on something somewhere.
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I bet there will still be a human sitting in the cab for emergencies, it not as if its on rails.
I expect it may just be a play to get a share of the ad-money, "Hey Google, give 10% of the share of advertising and we'll unbiock the adverts"
You've been watching too many movies. "Eliminate" in this context is not to kill,
its not surprising you hide behind an anonymous coward posting
You go to the article, and of all the links they have, only *two* point to anything that comes even close to scientific -or- academic.
thats 2 more than the deniers usually produce, they usually link to denial blog sites.
Seriously - if you want less skeptics on the subject,
There is nothing wrong with sceptics, its the deniers you want to eliminate
"Those people fighting aren't doing it BECAUSE of religion. " - that is because of modern day secularization getting stronger in the past 100 years (even among the religious) but the crusades and inquisitions did do it because of religion. You could make a case to say Hitler was a modern day Catholic inquisitor enacting/reinforcing the centuries old Catholic based antisemitism because the Jews put the criminal Jesus to death (if he really existed of course). But we are still waiting for the groups like ISIS to catch up as they seem to be at least a 1000 years behind the curve.
you've never read the Torah? the old testament shares books like Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy with the Torah, well the catholics appropriated them into their old testament
"The Lord's path is written as a good summary in the New Testament as "love each other" - do not accuse the Lord for what the people do, and don't accuse those on the Lord's path for what those not on His path do."
thats the usual, when its good, praise the lord and when its bad blame the people. Try reading the Old Testament as well which was never renounced by the new testament bods or current religious supporters
I wouldn't mind a rational, reasonable conversation on the topic, but instead you've got "its not happening so don't do anything" screamers...
"Well screw it, if the world is ending, we might as well enjoy ourselves..." - well, lets all be so totally selfish and not think of others - great for our children etc
"If it ISN'T ending, then perhaps we shouldn't derail our economy in the process of trying to improve the environment..." what economy is derailing, the banks did that. There is a new industry starting to replace the old. Things change and move on.
"Yet all we hear about are electric cars and solar power, neither of which make any economic sense." eh? new tech is ALWAYS expensive at the start, wind power is already cheaper than coal, solar is getting cheaper. http://www.theguardian.com/env...
"Why spend money on something that has a payback period of more than 5 years when we have easier solutions right in front of us that have a payback period of as little as 1 year?" - short term thinking is detrimental to long term solutions. the payback on things like solar is shortening all the time
" the doomsday is coming" - it is coming, no matter what we do as it has done over the billions of years this planet has had hot/cold cycles. Its just at what speed it arrives and the scientific consensus is that the human race is accelerating it. Its only another 1.75 billion or so years before the sun burns so hot its going to destroy the earth anyway. http://www.isciencetimes.com/a...
The deniers do not put forward any scientific arguments that contradict what is actually happening, most deniers are linked to the fossil fuel industry and a renewable agenda affects their pocket (unless they get on board). Being a sceptic is fine, it promotes discussion, being a denier doesn't. A denier is like a child sticking his fingers in his ears and saying "I can't hear you"
"The point was that one author who has millions of customers from sales of a book doesn't have to increase the number of employees." - i wouldn't class one author as an employer so its not a good comparison
here's a top ten list of countries to avoid http://www.mapsofworld.com/wor... (USA is not on it)
read this about the FBI and their decades of convictions due to flaws in hair analysis - "The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed or died in prison, the groups said under an agreement with the government to release results after the review of the first 200 convictions." - just hope that one of your family isn't in that group.
If you still think all people on death row are ALL guilty, you need to get yourself educated on miscarriages of justice.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
it is a deterrent to the majority of people who are socially well adjusted to do good because its the right thing to do. to the repeat offenders, its an occupational hazard. The death penalty, in theory, should deter serious crimes but it doesn't.
"Society collectively is far away from the Lord's path (yet), so it takes vengeance to the criminal -" the further its away from the Lords path, the more civilised society will become. The lords path is to stone people to death, initiate genocide, perform child abuse etc
did you get that quote from the same book that says "an eye for eye, tooth for a tooth ", supports genocide, promotes the stoning of people for working on a sunday or children showing a lack of respect for their parents and so on....
" and with 80%+ white people." sounds like you're about to make a statement that all your problems are non-white
yes, i want to be free to be able to take out any drone that flies over my property, break it into little pieces and throw the bits into my neighbors garden (even if its not their drone). Is that the kind of freedom you are asking for?
"It takes a very small government indeed to provide policing and infrastructure, enforce contracts, and prevent fraud." true but if everyone was socially aware and all thieves, violence-driven, greedy, ego driven power-mad people were removed from the planet, we'd need an even smaller government. Its great having Utopian ideals.
"Except that subsidies for solar do not "replace" subsidies for oil in any way whatsoever." correct, the solar subsidy should have replaced the oil subsidy. For oil still to have subsidies after all these years suggests its a "failed" tech but we all know its to keep campaign donations coming in.
Newmans points is :- let Australia keep digging up coal and selling it to China, As with all idiots like this, they are aligned with the fossil industry in some way.
I never seem to see scientists among lists of bloggers that say its all wrong
Particulates are pollution, they are the deadliest form of air pollution due to their ability to penetrate deep into the lungs and blood streams unfiltered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
I don't see anything in this that requires a patent, please enlighten me
"Everything stops me from using any of the little systemd fragments independently from the whole "ecosystem" being in place." - whats wrong with that? i have to have Mysql installed to use mysql tools, i have to have glibc on my system for most things to work. Something depends on something somewhere.