All such schemes have the same flaw which is that only a small minority of people have the interest, time and intelligence to understand the issues to a deep enough level to actually make their vote matter more than a random toss of a dart. Hence, that minority controls the process and pretty soon begins to exclude anybody who doesn't fit in with their groupthink, defeating the whole purpose.

Aren't scientists able to publish their work wherever they want? They choose to publish it in academic journals because, whatever downsides (loss of copyright), the value that the journals provide it is worth it to them. Otherwise they wouldn't do it and would simply publish it on a website or something. Same as recording artists complaining that labels give them only 5% of the sales while at the same time queuing up and begging labels to take them on.

Jimmy Carter in 1977:

"Unless profound changes are made to lower oil consumption, we now believe that early in the 1980s the world will be demanding more oil that it can produce⦠Each new inventory of world oil reserves has been more disturbing than the last. World oil production can probably keep going up for another six or eight years. But some time in the 1980s it can't go up much more. Demand will overtake production. We have no choice about that."

It is now 37 years later and we are only now starting to make "profound changes to lower oil consumption" and only because it is becoming economically justifiable to do so, not because of any peak oil propaganda. I didn't notice the sky falling yet.

Back then Carter statement was considered way too mild by the environmentalist who wanted to hugely increase taxes on gas and petroleum products and mandate all kinds of environmental regulation that would have raised prices on everything and made our economy uncompetitive.

Exact same mindset is driving the global warming agenda. They want to put breaks on free market and institute more state control of industry and when they see a plausible excuse to do so they will jump on it but we can look at history as a reminder of who and what they are.

The science was in for "peak oil" scare all the way back to 70s and the same kinds of people were calling deniers "stupid" and "cowards" and calling for urgent massive government spending on green projects and massive destructive regulation of job creating industries as a response. 45 years later and the peak oil has been exposed as a hoax, only for global warming to take its place.

No wonder he remained enthusiastic when Linux has been grabbing no less than 0.001% of the desktop share in each of those 15 years! Onward to another 15 triumphant years.

All your points will sound to you like pure bullshit if you can put yourself in the shoes of Russians in Ukraine for one second. Svoboda is not moderate by any means, it is further to the neo-nazi right than any mainstream party in Europe, it is virulently anti-Russian, and it has several ministers in the new government which in theory is supposed to represent all Ukrainians.

Abolishing equal right to Russian language on the fucking first day they got into power sends a very clear message and it doesn't take a genius to figure out what it is.

Crimea has always been Russian and it has a majority Russian population. The fact that Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine was a matter of internal USSR administrative borders and to say that returning it to Russia is now a repeat of Hitler's annexations is plainly ridiculous.

You are the one who is trolling, or more likely honestly deluded.

Ukrainian new unelected leadership is more like Hitler. Close to far right groups which in many western European countries would be banned as neo-nazis. Came to power through coup. Aggressively moved right away to abolish equal rights for Russian and Russian-speaking population who make up almost half the country.

Ukraine is a split country, half pro western, half pro Russian. The Ukrainian new government with assistance of NATO is trying to bulldoze over the pro-Russian half and present them as aliens and invaders in their own country. Russia has no choice but to get involved.

It is, since it is well known that Crimea is heavily pro Russian. If you know anything about Crimea you would find it impossible to believe that they would vote to stay with Ukraine rather than join Russia or even that the result would be close like TFA claims.

Fracking happens miles below fresh water aquifers. The only way either the water pumped in, or oil pumped out could end up in water supply is through leaking pipes near the surface which is a matter of being careful.

I don't know but 600 people have already paid and thousands more put their name down for a trip on Virgin Galactic at $250K a seat.

US tourism industry is worth about $126 billion/year, worldwide over $1 trillion. Don't underestimate joyrides.

And many of the fortune 500 companies pay 5% or less. Now if you are a small startup - taxes might be high
 
So if the tax rate is lowered and loopholes closed and the tax code simplified as the Republicans have been proposing for a long time, the revenue might be higher and the small startups will pay less?

No, I want that separate entity not to be taxed, or at least be taxed at a much lower rate than it is now. Even Obama wants to lower the corporate tax rate (39% on average federal+state) but it's difficult when his base is too stupid to realize that that money is ultimately coming out of their pockets.

We'll be using space resources long before we exhaust Earth's. Now, relax and have a nice bath.

Corporate tax is nothing but double taxation on shareholders, employees and indirectly customers of that corporation. US has the highest corporate taxes in the developed world, and corporations have duty to their shareholders to minimize that burden in whatever legal way possible.