StrangeSox

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10781621 Can our retarded government please do something about carbon emissions now? Thanks!

Well, I think that's a good point. People aren't tarring conservatives because of Mel Gibson's insane rants.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 28, 2010 -> 10:02 AM) My original complaint was the lack of coverage and outrage over Oliver Stone's comments. Someone else brought up Mel Gibson. The difference between what you see wrt to Tea Party/ Fox and the Stone comments are that Stone wasn't speaking as a representative of some movement or organization. He was promoting his movie. When someone is representing the tea party movement in an interview and they say racist/ stupid stuff, it makes more sense to link the ideologies.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jul 28, 2010 -> 09:45 AM) Balta, seriously. I used to enjoy your posts. Very intelligent, very informative, an overall good read. But this Socratic, "so, you....." response is really getting tiresome and adds nothing to the discussions people are having. You know what they did to Socrates.... Yeah, the Mel Gibson thing was someone else. If anything, I'd assume Gibson was conservative given his father's ultra-conservative catholicism and that Gibson seems to have embraced it. But I don't know and I don't care.

Corporations have more rights than people in this regard.

That's not the only way to parse that sentence.

It could be that he has a gripe that other atrocities get ignored and so much attention is paid to the Jewish holocaust, not that he doesn't think the holocaust is significant. Even the gypsies, gays, disabled etc. that were victims of the same thing only get mentioned in passing. Or it could just be another Hollywood douche, idk. edit: seems like he's just on an anti-US/Israel rant. This is not shocking because Stone is a douche. What's Oliver Stone's party/ news network? I'm not seeing jenks' point here. Also, as noted, Stone didn't say Hitler or Stalin were good there, that was a Breitbart jenks fabrication.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 27, 2010 -> 08:32 AM) So, you agree with me that the Republicans should drop the filibuster and we should get working rules in here for these things as quick as possible? You can't on one hand tell me how bad it is that no one knows where anything is going and then on the other hand support the multi-month delays in writing these bills that are coming about from the filibusters. Everyone, and I mean everyone, knows that eventually carbon emissions regulations are coming. The Chinese know that. The Europeans already have them. Businesses have known that for years. The EPA has been legally required to come up with those rules since 2007. The only ones who don't believe that they are coming are the Inhofe crew. Even if the EPA doesn't release rules (which will continue to get it challenged and beaten in court), eventually there's going to be another Katrina level catastrophe that will finally push things forwards, whether it's Lebron's party getting flooded or an ice-free north pole causing parents to tell their kids that Santa drowned, it's going to happen, everyone knows it, so let's put together a good enough rule covering it. I think kap would prefer it if the whole idea of pricing carbon emissions went away.

so, the typical family making $150,000 will still be paying less, but the $300,000 family will pay more. Given Obama's $250k "no new taxes" thing, I'm surprised they didn't go for that level.

Aside from helicopters, I don't think there's anything we're flying over there that a SAM could hit.

Speaking of huge storms and flooding...

yep, still freezing sometimes on my netbook even with the new skin. Before I'd get a "shockwave has crashed" type message, but I don't any more. Just freezes up.

Thanks very much. I couldn't figure out how to disable it, and it constantly freezes my Netbook. As I said in the other thread, it's weird. I use Google Chrome on my Windows XP desktop, Windows 7 x64 workstation and my Windows 7 x32 netbook, but only the netbook freezes with that widget.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 05:26 PM) Do any of you have trouble with soxtalk freezing up with a driod? It's the only damn site that messes up on me, go figure. Just wondered if you all have the same issue. Not with the droid, but with my Windows 7 netbook. It seems to be related to the scoreboard at the top of the pages. What's weird is that it doesn't happen on my Samsung phone, my Windows 7 machine at work or my Windows XP desktop at home.

Our current system does a fantastic job of redistributing wealth to a very small number of people.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 05:38 PM) It's f***ing summer, lost. You act like it never happened before. It's f***ing record high temperatures and more floods and more rain and more storms, kap. You act like record-high temperatures and flooding have happened before.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 05:37 PM) 106 today. Still no global warming jokes. Or even "it's all a scam" rants. I'm disappointed. Don't worry, when the next massive winter storm hits, the cognitive dissonance will kick into high gear and they'll be back to "biggest hoax ever" mode.

It sounds like they're hinting at DU rounds but not explicitly stating it.

Except CEO's. The top 1% needs more than the 55% of income they currently control. If we give them enough, perhaps there will be some crumbs and scraps left over!

Great shot by Castro to tie it up

Pierre saved a bunch of runs right there (after a terrible no-strike call by blue)

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 23, 2010 -> 02:11 PM) Coal releases more CO2 per unit energy than gasoline. That's their argument. But the mitigating factors wind up overcoming it when you do the math correctly. The big one is still that coal fired electricity plants are more efficient per unit power than the internal combustion engine because of the 2nd law. I was skeptical of them immediately tossing out nuclear and renewables.

Also, global temperatures continue their steady rise: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article....ates-new-normal

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 18, 2010 -> 02:36 PM) Toyota + Tesla working together to produce an all-electric Rav4. Scientific American had an interested article in this month's issue computing CO2 emmissions for various automotive technologies. They compared All-Electric, Plug-in Hybrids and gas-electric hybrids. In a lot of regions, you ended up with less emmissions, but in the Illinois/ Indiana/ Ohio areas, you actually ended up with more emissions for all-electric and plug-ins than a regular car. It's behind a subscription wall: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article....plug-in-hybrids

I was in Playa del Carmen this last week and ran into someone who had worked on the Deepwater Horizon and had been drilling one of the relief wells. He echoed similar "surprised it hasn't happened before" comments.