By deferring to the authority of the Federal government, they shut down their own common sense. Maybe, JUST MAYBE if people were held responsible for these things instead of the nanny state doling out approval or denial for projects they don't really know anything about, maybe the world would be a better place. Instead, we spend a huge amount of time and money doing "compliance" that is often only marginally related to actual safety issues, leaving no money left over to deal with REAL safety issues.
In cases like the gulf oil spill, simply requiring people to carry insurance against such liabilities would go a long way, ostensibly privatizing the permitting process, as the persons insurance rates would go up the more risky a given project was. By spreading out that risk, a catastrophe like a land slide or an oil spill won't bankrupt the person or company involved (though they will have to face consequences from higher rates), while ensuring that people are properly compensated for their damages. I mean, you don't need to get a special permit to drive a Humvee rather than Geo Metro, despite the fact that a Humvee certainly poses a much greater threat to other drivers.
How is that, exactly? I don't really see how any form of pool malfunction could possibly damage a neighbor's property, and certainly not to the point that they should be permit limited, like a pool was an automatic weapon of an explosive.
Truth is, you are just another liberal sado masochist who has jerk off fantasies about being gang-raped (or, of you work for the government, participating in a gang-rape) by a hoard of government bureaucrats who tell you its for your own good.
George Bush was the greatest liberal president until Obama was elected. He spent more than any other president in history, though Obama will probably overtake him in less than a year at the rate he is hemorrhaging quantitative easing (ie printing money).
Republicans and Democrats have taken away all of our freedoms. Fuck 'em.
Right, because no one ever went from being poor to being wealthy. Ever.
What you really want, even if you don't realize it, is a return to serfdom. A few ultra wealthy insiders get to trade carbon credits and redirect the wealth of all nations into their own pockets and everyone else is impoverished and living in shit and filth when the sanitation systems stop working and you have used up all the world's capital on your stupid schemes. Ah to breath the "clean", shit-smelling air and drink water from a cholera infested well! At least the rich will still be living it up, since thier life expectancy will only drop by30 years as opposed to everyone else's who drops 40-50 years.
What do you think the priests were trying to do, exactly? What any priest or politician (one and the same, my friend) ever does, placate the masses and preserve their position, much like carbon taxes will enrich the few at the expense of the many. On your next religion list, you might add statism, of which AGW is a major tenant, perhaps even a part of the holy trinity. Others being "printing money creates wealth" and "economic activity can be enhanced with the correct regulations". All are linked, and all are observed by both Republicans and Democrats, though some religious wars do occur over a few quibbling points, like the Catholics and the Protestants in Ireland.
And rotating crops off of a given plot of land for a year every so often will allow natural rain to wash out the salinity at a rate equal to or greater than the deposition rate.
You, and others, leave the impression that anyone who even thinks about revolution is nuts under ANY circumstances, which is itself nuts. The government currently takes a greater share of our production that feudal lords took from their serfs, and only slightly less than plantation owners took from 18th century slaves.
Also, thanks for the ad hominem attacks, you fucking collectivist. If you want to bend over and take it from your big pals in big government, feel free. Or rather, don't. Just submit to constant monitoring, allow yourself to have everything you own stolen from you via taxes, inflation, and civil asset forfeiture. Allow yourself to be tortured by police with electric torture devices for the terrible crime of not moving fast enough, or for the unthinkable act of terrorism of not getting up when they tell you to AS THEY ARE TASING YOU. Don't complain when your grandmother is murdered by police executing a no-knock drug raid on the wrong house. Let them kill your dogs. Let them take naked pictures of you, your wife, and your children in the airports. Let them do whatever the fuck they want, because WE elected them, except that we have a choice between two sides of the same coin.
Yes, you are pro slavery, because you allow yourself to be a slave, and you ridicule anyone who wants to fight for your freedom, and believe any lie told to you by your oppressors.
Me? I'm streaming DVD quality movies rather than wasting money/bandwidth on a standard that was shoved down the throats of the consumer that has only the most marginal of quality improvements over DVD. Who cares? I'll buy a Blu-Ray player and some Blu-Ray discs when they are as cheap as DVDs or when I have fiber running to my house.
Funny that people keep saying that Windows is "better than it used to be", yet everyone I talk to still has problems with hardware slowdown over time, and with viruses and system stability. When, for example, I have new people come into my lab, which is all mac, they get adjusted and then they tell me that they find that they in fact DO have problems with their PCs, they just don't notice them anymore because they are so used to it. Once they get on a Mac, and find that it ALWAYS works, they suddenly feel the urge to switch.
I also love how you aren't able to use email functionality because you know that it will destroy your inferior system at some point. Macs don't have to cower behind firewalls (which CAN be penetrated).
5,000 employees with a mere $68 BILLION dollar budget. That's just a million dollars per employee. Those poor, underfunded bastards! Not only that, we tie for first with the Swiss in terms of spending per capita on students, yet we fall in the mid-bottom among developed countries in terms of quality of students in math, science, and reading.
Also, they formulate policy with relation to public schools. They don't have anything to do with higher education.
As for other things that were made up: she does not want to "get rid" of SS, Medicare, and Medicaid, she wants to PHASE THEM OUT. As in not drop them in an instant and throw the elderly out into the street. It has to be done, because all of those programs are insolvent, or fast on their way, and there is no way to bring them back to solvency in a reasonable manner (ie without a 50% income tax). She doesn't personally like alcohol, but she is not in favor of prohibition.
Further, violent revolution IS a good idea when you are in an otherwise intractable state of oppression. Or do you think we should still be an English possession? Slaves should just "take it"? Allow me to roll my eyes.
The Department of Education was founded to foster a better educational system in America. Now, 30 years later, American public schools are the laughingstock of the world, and we are at the utter BOTTOM of the list of quality educators in the world, even as our university system, which is NOT under their supervision, is the BEST in the world. It seems to me that we are throwing our money at a problem, and making it worse.
And of course, you are also making a lot of shit up. I can't believe anyone modded you informative--more like a troll.
But how much of your performance is wasted on virus protection? When I switched away from PC, I found that the same specs on a mac performed MUCH better simply because there wasn't all that crap running in the background. Bringing up the control+alt+del screen on the PC showed dozens of processes running at any given time, more than half of which I had no idea what they were. The equivalent screen on a mac shows only those programs that I have open.
Also, Macs are surprisingly resilient. I once broke a PC laptop by dropping it off of a table. Macbook takes similar abuse in stride, and my 2005 era mini survived a house fire and subsequent drenching, losing only the sound and CD/DVD drive functionality. My older G4 was in the direct path of the fire as it burned its way through my living room, and it also still works (including the CD and DVD drives!), with only the lowest set of USB ports being disabled, doubtless due to the liberal application of water from the firehoses.
Note that even with all that virus protection, PCs are still highly vulnerable. With Mac, I can go to ANY seedy corner of the internet and pick up anything I like without fear of getting a virus. The PC that we bought a couple of years ago for one of the techs in my lab, on the other hand, is now very nearly useless due to viruses. The macs we have for the lab last on average 10-12 years, where the PCs last 2-4. From that perspective, the cost is well worth it.
What will the military do when the insurrection destroys their industrial based via infiltration and sabotage?
You losers can't even beat a bunch of barefoot fighters in deserts and mountains, what are you going to do against guerillas spread across the vast forests of the United States? Also remember that there is more than one gun for every man, woman, and child in this country. As Yamamoto said, there is a rifle behind every blade of grass. Attempting to put down a serious, decentralized insurrection in this country would be all but impossible. And THAT'S assuming no-one gets access to nukes, which are plentiful and spread across the countryside here, and even those on subs are vulnerable to penetration and mutiny.
So yeah, don't dismiss the citizens of these United States out of hand.
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Sort of like a thief casing out a neighborhood using street view. He's just doing his job!
Or cause one.
By deferring to the authority of the Federal government, they shut down their own common sense. Maybe, JUST MAYBE if people were held responsible for these things instead of the nanny state doling out approval or denial for projects they don't really know anything about, maybe the world would be a better place. Instead, we spend a huge amount of time and money doing "compliance" that is often only marginally related to actual safety issues, leaving no money left over to deal with REAL safety issues.
In cases like the gulf oil spill, simply requiring people to carry insurance against such liabilities would go a long way, ostensibly privatizing the permitting process, as the persons insurance rates would go up the more risky a given project was. By spreading out that risk, a catastrophe like a land slide or an oil spill won't bankrupt the person or company involved (though they will have to face consequences from higher rates), while ensuring that people are properly compensated for their damages. I mean, you don't need to get a special permit to drive a Humvee rather than Geo Metro, despite the fact that a Humvee certainly poses a much greater threat to other drivers.
Owning a private pool is hardly the same as building a prison around someone else's property.
How is that, exactly? I don't really see how any form of pool malfunction could possibly damage a neighbor's property, and certainly not to the point that they should be permit limited, like a pool was an automatic weapon of an explosive.
Truth is, you are just another liberal sado masochist who has jerk off fantasies about being gang-raped (or, of you work for the government, participating in a gang-rape) by a hoard of government bureaucrats who tell you its for your own good.
George Bush was the greatest liberal president until Obama was elected. He spent more than any other president in history, though Obama will probably overtake him in less than a year at the rate he is hemorrhaging quantitative easing (ie printing money).
Republicans and Democrats have taken away all of our freedoms. Fuck 'em.
Right, because no one ever went from being poor to being wealthy. Ever.
What you really want, even if you don't realize it, is a return to serfdom. A few ultra wealthy insiders get to trade carbon credits and redirect the wealth of all nations into their own pockets and everyone else is impoverished and living in shit and filth when the sanitation systems stop working and you have used up all the world's capital on your stupid schemes. Ah to breath the "clean", shit-smelling air and drink water from a cholera infested well! At least the rich will still be living it up, since thier life expectancy will only drop by30 years as opposed to everyone else's who drops 40-50 years.
Speak for yourself.
I think that would be AWESOME.
What do you think the priests were trying to do, exactly? What any priest or politician (one and the same, my friend) ever does, placate the masses and preserve their position, much like carbon taxes will enrich the few at the expense of the many. On your next religion list, you might add statism, of which AGW is a major tenant, perhaps even a part of the holy trinity. Others being "printing money creates wealth" and "economic activity can be enhanced with the correct regulations". All are linked, and all are observed by both Republicans and Democrats, though some religious wars do occur over a few quibbling points, like the Catholics and the Protestants in Ireland.
And rotating crops off of a given plot of land for a year every so often will allow natural rain to wash out the salinity at a rate equal to or greater than the deposition rate.
The Carol Burnett show is on Netflix (I caught my mother watching it some time ago). I don't know about the others. I don't really watch much TV.
Sorry, but what is that in Libraries of Congress per runtime of Gigli?
The ONLY reason healthcare costs are spiraling out of control is because we have now had more than 100 years of practicing fascism in the field.
Read this before modding me troll.
You, and others, leave the impression that anyone who even thinks about revolution is nuts under ANY circumstances, which is itself nuts. The government currently takes a greater share of our production that feudal lords took from their serfs, and only slightly less than plantation owners took from 18th century slaves.
Also, thanks for the ad hominem attacks, you fucking collectivist. If you want to bend over and take it from your big pals in big government, feel free. Or rather, don't. Just submit to constant monitoring, allow yourself to have everything you own stolen from you via taxes, inflation, and civil asset forfeiture. Allow yourself to be tortured by police with electric torture devices for the terrible crime of not moving fast enough, or for the unthinkable act of terrorism of not getting up when they tell you to AS THEY ARE TASING YOU. Don't complain when your grandmother is murdered by police executing a no-knock drug raid on the wrong house. Let them kill your dogs. Let them take naked pictures of you, your wife, and your children in the airports. Let them do whatever the fuck they want, because WE elected them, except that we have a choice between two sides of the same coin.
Yes, you are pro slavery, because you allow yourself to be a slave, and you ridicule anyone who wants to fight for your freedom, and believe any lie told to you by your oppressors.
Me? I'm streaming DVD quality movies rather than wasting money/bandwidth on a standard that was shoved down the throats of the consumer that has only the most marginal of quality improvements over DVD. Who cares? I'll buy a Blu-Ray player and some Blu-Ray discs when they are as cheap as DVDs or when I have fiber running to my house.
Funny that people keep saying that Windows is "better than it used to be", yet everyone I talk to still has problems with hardware slowdown over time, and with viruses and system stability. When, for example, I have new people come into my lab, which is all mac, they get adjusted and then they tell me that they find that they in fact DO have problems with their PCs, they just don't notice them anymore because they are so used to it. Once they get on a Mac, and find that it ALWAYS works, they suddenly feel the urge to switch.
I also love how you aren't able to use email functionality because you know that it will destroy your inferior system at some point. Macs don't have to cower behind firewalls (which CAN be penetrated).
5,000 employees with a mere $68 BILLION dollar budget. That's just a million dollars per employee. Those poor, underfunded bastards! Not only that, we tie for first with the Swiss in terms of spending per capita on students, yet we fall in the mid-bottom among developed countries in terms of quality of students in math, science, and reading.
Also, they formulate policy with relation to public schools. They don't have anything to do with higher education.
As for other things that were made up: she does not want to "get rid" of SS, Medicare, and Medicaid, she wants to PHASE THEM OUT. As in not drop them in an instant and throw the elderly out into the street. It has to be done, because all of those programs are insolvent, or fast on their way, and there is no way to bring them back to solvency in a reasonable manner (ie without a 50% income tax). She doesn't personally like alcohol, but she is not in favor of prohibition.
Further, violent revolution IS a good idea when you are in an otherwise intractable state of oppression. Or do you think we should still be an English possession? Slaves should just "take it"? Allow me to roll my eyes.
I think this is my favorite Slashdot comment of all time. An excellent response to all "Think of the CHILDREN!" arguments.
Seedy stuff like checking email, or leaving your computer connected to the internet?
You just don't want to see what Spill, baby, spill looks like on that PARTICULAR well.
If it's 15K per well, I might just move there and become an energy magnate!
The Department of Education was founded to foster a better educational system in America. Now, 30 years later, American public schools are the laughingstock of the world, and we are at the utter BOTTOM of the list of quality educators in the world, even as our university system, which is NOT under their supervision, is the BEST in the world. It seems to me that we are throwing our money at a problem, and making it worse.
And of course, you are also making a lot of shit up. I can't believe anyone modded you informative--more like a troll.
But how much of your performance is wasted on virus protection? When I switched away from PC, I found that the same specs on a mac performed MUCH better simply because there wasn't all that crap running in the background. Bringing up the control+alt+del screen on the PC showed dozens of processes running at any given time, more than half of which I had no idea what they were. The equivalent screen on a mac shows only those programs that I have open.
Also, Macs are surprisingly resilient. I once broke a PC laptop by dropping it off of a table. Macbook takes similar abuse in stride, and my 2005 era mini survived a house fire and subsequent drenching, losing only the sound and CD/DVD drive functionality. My older G4 was in the direct path of the fire as it burned its way through my living room, and it also still works (including the CD and DVD drives!), with only the lowest set of USB ports being disabled, doubtless due to the liberal application of water from the firehoses.
Note that even with all that virus protection, PCs are still highly vulnerable. With Mac, I can go to ANY seedy corner of the internet and pick up anything I like without fear of getting a virus. The PC that we bought a couple of years ago for one of the techs in my lab, on the other hand, is now very nearly useless due to viruses. The macs we have for the lab last on average 10-12 years, where the PCs last 2-4. From that perspective, the cost is well worth it.
Indeed. 99% of politicians should leave office at the end of a rope. Only a very few are not pathological liars and/or sociopaths.
Abortions! Abortions should be for free at Walmart!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMEe7JqBgvg
What will the military do when the insurrection destroys their industrial based via infiltration and sabotage?
You losers can't even beat a bunch of barefoot fighters in deserts and mountains, what are you going to do against guerillas spread across the vast forests of the United States? Also remember that there is more than one gun for every man, woman, and child in this country. As Yamamoto said, there is a rifle behind every blade of grass. Attempting to put down a serious, decentralized insurrection in this country would be all but impossible. And THAT'S assuming no-one gets access to nukes, which are plentiful and spread across the countryside here, and even those on subs are vulnerable to penetration and mutiny.
So yeah, don't dismiss the citizens of these United States out of hand.
I also love how Obama is a murderer, but pointing it out makes you a troll. Nice moderation there.