Correct. Obama is merely continuing and expanding on Bush's policies (while simultaneously blaming him for the resulting effects). McCain would have done the same, perhaps more, perhaps less. This is a farce unlike any seen on this planet for more than a thousand years.
Spoiler alert: It ends badly.
The only way to end without losing everything to hyperinflation and confiscation by the police state is to vote third party. ANY third party. Honestly, even the Socialist Party would be better than this. At least they wouldn't cloak their socialism or national socialism in the guise of capitalism.
That is probably the odds of a given reactor experiencing a disaster. Considering there are 437 such reactors in existence, they were actually fairly conservative with their estimates. Of course, such a failure rate is totally unacceptable. This is why you want intrinsically safe designs, rather than overdesigned shitshows that require constant oversight (and that only burn less than 1% of their fuel).
Right, I don't agree with you, therefore I am subhuman. Nice sentiment there. If you were born a few hundred years earlier, I suspect you would take pleasure in burning people at the stake.
No, the comparison is NOT a matter of the relative "badness" of the accidents, it is a comparison of the incompetence leading up to the accidents, and the degree of resolution of the accidents. They had comparable degrees of incompetence heading into the disasters. The responses, however, are on two different levels, with Chernobyl being far superior. With a dome in place, future problems are limited. At Fukushima, you get another big earthquake, or another tsunami, and you could have the first modern example of the depopulation of a major metropolis. This is assuming the spent fuel containment pools come tumbling down (great idea there, keeping the spent fuel in a pool near the top of the structure).
If Fukushima is a success story, then so is Chernobyl (they managed to build a containment dome, which Japan has failed to do), and I don't want to see what you would consider a disaster. The only redeeming feature of Fukushima was that the radiation spread out over the Pacific rather than raining down across continental Europe.
Nuclear is good, but old reactor designs are spectacularly bad. Too bad restrictions on all things nuclear are so severe that spent fuel has to be stored on site, and new reactors can't be built. Saying nuclear energy isn't safe because LWRs melt down is like saying that cars aren't safe because the Model T doesn't have air bags.
I wouldn't trust these guys to feed a goldfish, much less run a nuclear plant. But they have a state granted monopoly, so they don't need anything but pull in the government to continue to operate.
You don't know what you are talking about. The tragedy of the commons comes about because, well, there are commons. Things that people don't own. If people owned the rivers and seas (more specifically, the land beneath them), then there would be an offended party when dumping occurs. They could take action to stop it.
Pollution is assault. Anyone who isn't blinded by statism could see that.
I didn't say it was unknown. I said it is a good argument that requires answer. And no, "it's already been done" is not an answer. An actual analysis is an answer.
That is not a weak argument. It is a highly valid one. You have to add the environmental costs of production to the environmental costs of maintenance and continued use. If the production cost dwarfs the ongoing costs, then you have problems. You can't know which is better until you do the analysis.
Also, it is likely that the Hebrews were never slaves, rather they were kings, though they were expelled from Egypt after their dynasty failed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyksos
The distinction won't matter in the direction we are going. Soon we won't even have the presumption of innocence anymore. Look at a cop wrong, and you will be guilty of terrorism or CP or whatever the hate of the week is about, and you won't be able to afford a lawyer to prove your innocence even if it can be proven, because they seized all of your assets. And if you complain, then they seize all the assets from friends and family too.
No, they are free to drill the other safes. But it doesn't matter, because the sentence for one murder is 50000 years in prison, which is absolutely no different from 250000 years in prison.
Why should anyone ever get immunity, then? By your logic, any of a hundred million random jons on the street are as bad or worse than the few thousand human traffickers. Same with random drug buyers and kingpins.
I can look up pictures of people being murdered and fap to them all I want. If CP is illegal, then snuff should be illegal. But it isn't.
If pictures of me being raped were on the internet, I would want them readily accessible so they could be used for police investigation and prosecution, not all archived away on ultra-secure encrypted hard drives.
It literally costs a million dollars to get a medallion allowing you to run a taxi in NYC. 40 years ago you could start your own taxi service with nothing but a vehicle with a sign on it. Today it is simply IMPOSSIBLE. This is the result of fascism, and it WILL destroy our economy.
You're both right. Republicans and Democrats are both anti-social, and those who hold office in their names are selected for sociopathic tendencies. This is conclusive, as the two have been in power for more than a century, and we have seen continuous erosion of freedom during that time. Now, the loss of freedom and property rights is starting to catch up with us economically. Now the R+D complex must resort to tactics normally used by floundering autocracies and impose capital controls, cutting off all means of non-submission to their vile authority.
The worst part is that there is nothing you can do but flee, or perhaps try to hide. Good luck, people. You're going to need it.
Actually, it should be "don't piss off the powerful fascist".
But really, those are exactly the kind of people we should be pissing off, if not hanging them in the streets. Bloomberg is the very epitome of the corrupt merger of government and corporate power. He wants to dictate what everyone does, and will stop at NOTHING to do it.
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That's not cynicism. That's denial. But at least you get to be the Queen!
Correct. Obama is merely continuing and expanding on Bush's policies (while simultaneously blaming him for the resulting effects). McCain would have done the same, perhaps more, perhaps less. This is a farce unlike any seen on this planet for more than a thousand years.
Spoiler alert: It ends badly.
The only way to end without losing everything to hyperinflation and confiscation by the police state is to vote third party. ANY third party. Honestly, even the Socialist Party would be better than this. At least they wouldn't cloak their socialism or national socialism in the guise of capitalism.
That is probably the odds of a given reactor experiencing a disaster. Considering there are 437 such reactors in existence, they were actually fairly conservative with their estimates. Of course, such a failure rate is totally unacceptable. This is why you want intrinsically safe designs, rather than overdesigned shitshows that require constant oversight (and that only burn less than 1% of their fuel).
Right, I don't agree with you, therefore I am subhuman. Nice sentiment there. If you were born a few hundred years earlier, I suspect you would take pleasure in burning people at the stake.
No, the comparison is NOT a matter of the relative "badness" of the accidents, it is a comparison of the incompetence leading up to the accidents, and the degree of resolution of the accidents. They had comparable degrees of incompetence heading into the disasters. The responses, however, are on two different levels, with Chernobyl being far superior. With a dome in place, future problems are limited. At Fukushima, you get another big earthquake, or another tsunami, and you could have the first modern example of the depopulation of a major metropolis. This is assuming the spent fuel containment pools come tumbling down (great idea there, keeping the spent fuel in a pool near the top of the structure).
It's sort of like the blue line, only with a whole country.
If Fukushima is a success story, then so is Chernobyl (they managed to build a containment dome, which Japan has failed to do), and I don't want to see what you would consider a disaster. The only redeeming feature of Fukushima was that the radiation spread out over the Pacific rather than raining down across continental Europe.
Nuclear is good, but old reactor designs are spectacularly bad. Too bad restrictions on all things nuclear are so severe that spent fuel has to be stored on site, and new reactors can't be built. Saying nuclear energy isn't safe because LWRs melt down is like saying that cars aren't safe because the Model T doesn't have air bags.
>Competence
>Tepco
Pick one.
I wouldn't trust these guys to feed a goldfish, much less run a nuclear plant. But they have a state granted monopoly, so they don't need anything but pull in the government to continue to operate.
You don't know what you are talking about. The tragedy of the commons comes about because, well, there are commons. Things that people don't own. If people owned the rivers and seas (more specifically, the land beneath them), then there would be an offended party when dumping occurs. They could take action to stop it.
Pollution is assault. Anyone who isn't blinded by statism could see that.
I didn't say it was unknown. I said it is a good argument that requires answer. And no, "it's already been done" is not an answer. An actual analysis is an answer.
God. Damn. It.
CO2 isn't the only pollutant in the world. There are others, and they are a LOT worse, at least at the local and regional scales.
That is not a weak argument. It is a highly valid one. You have to add the environmental costs of production to the environmental costs of maintenance and continued use. If the production cost dwarfs the ongoing costs, then you have problems. You can't know which is better until you do the analysis.
But the people who built the pyramids weren't slaves (not to mention that the pyramids were built in a different era) http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egypt/pyramids-tombs-giza-egypt.htm
Also, it is likely that the Hebrews were never slaves, rather they were kings, though they were expelled from Egypt after their dynasty failed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyksos
It's pizza rolls. Can't afford hot pockets any more. No inflation though. They have been hedonically substituted.
Step two is burn to death, I think.
The distinction won't matter in the direction we are going. Soon we won't even have the presumption of innocence anymore. Look at a cop wrong, and you will be guilty of terrorism or CP or whatever the hate of the week is about, and you won't be able to afford a lawyer to prove your innocence even if it can be proven, because they seized all of your assets. And if you complain, then they seize all the assets from friends and family too.
America is dead. Long live the USSA.
No, they are free to drill the other safes. But it doesn't matter, because the sentence for one murder is 50000 years in prison, which is absolutely no different from 250000 years in prison.
Please do. I hope you are sincere, and not just a crazy guy.
Why should anyone ever get immunity, then? By your logic, any of a hundred million random jons on the street are as bad or worse than the few thousand human traffickers. Same with random drug buyers and kingpins.
The password is in his head. You saying they have the right to extract it?
This is some hellish hyper Orwellian shit going on right here.
Bullshit. If they have what they claim they have, they could lock him up for a thousand lifetimes. They have OTHER THINGS in mind.
I can look up pictures of people being murdered and fap to them all I want. If CP is illegal, then snuff should be illegal. But it isn't.
If pictures of me being raped were on the internet, I would want them readily accessible so they could be used for police investigation and prosecution, not all archived away on ultra-secure encrypted hard drives.
It literally costs a million dollars to get a medallion allowing you to run a taxi in NYC. 40 years ago you could start your own taxi service with nothing but a vehicle with a sign on it. Today it is simply IMPOSSIBLE. This is the result of fascism, and it WILL destroy our economy.
You're both right. Republicans and Democrats are both anti-social, and those who hold office in their names are selected for sociopathic tendencies. This is conclusive, as the two have been in power for more than a century, and we have seen continuous erosion of freedom during that time. Now, the loss of freedom and property rights is starting to catch up with us economically. Now the R+D complex must resort to tactics normally used by floundering autocracies and impose capital controls, cutting off all means of non-submission to their vile authority.
The worst part is that there is nothing you can do but flee, or perhaps try to hide. Good luck, people. You're going to need it.
Actually, it should be "don't piss off the powerful fascist".
But really, those are exactly the kind of people we should be pissing off, if not hanging them in the streets. Bloomberg is the very epitome of the corrupt merger of government and corporate power. He wants to dictate what everyone does, and will stop at NOTHING to do it.