"(I consider the modern Republican party to be nothing more than a scam that seeks power for the explicit purpose of perverting the United States into some combination of theocracy and corporate plutocracy. I hold the Democrats in marginally less contempt; At least they generally offer the people a reacharound while they're screwing us)"

This being modded to 5: Insightful (!!) says more about the audience of this web page than words ever could. What a collection of idiot sheep that clearly spend more time reading Slashdot than actual history...

As to "The Master Control Pee", you're probably too busy trying to tune in "The View" and "Air America" to actually read and understand what's going on here. If you're still trying to hold Ronald Reagan and the Bush's (as if they had similar objectives and methods (NOT!!)) for the mess the current moronic air filled suit in the WH has made you're not only delusional but stupid. This is what happens when a newbee Senator that's done nothing to be elected president, beyond managing to be born brown, gets into office. The insanely stupid fascists in Congress keep the boy playing golf and bball and anything else that will keep him otherwise quiet and out of the way while they run the country. Stay tuned genius, I can't wait to use your money to pad my pocket!! "Nemo me impune lacessit". The American people will not tolerate much more of this. Our time is approaching....

"They're like the placebo"

Uhhhh no, Placebo's don't triple the national dept in less than 2 years without gaining the people the money was stolen from anything! A placebo is a treatment that has no REAL effect other than from the belief of the patient that it may work because they "believe" (hope and change??) it will work. Try that sometime when stepping in front of a fast moving car. Hope that it will Change direction and see how it works for ya... Yep, that's where we're all at. Standing in front of a fast moving vehicle Hoping it will Change. The Democrats aren't a placebo. They're a 12 gauge shotgun slug to the skull to fix a head ache. Feeling any better?

So where corrupt union officials failed the US Government has succeeded. Toss out the CEO and replace him with an Obamite, place key union officials in charge of corporate finances (paying them off with stolen tax money before REAL investors) and force the company to ramp up production of a vehicle whose time (and technology) has not yet come whose market is as imaginary as the Hollywood image that's been created.

The destruction of an auto mobile company 1, 2, 3. Henry Ford should have been so effective...

Mazda isn't managed by the US government so I'm sure they'll do a better job than the Government Motors Corp.... Unless his highness obama wants to take over Japan.....

Which would be totally awesome but I've always wondered about the danger of this causing problems. I mean, the chances of hitting something are fairly small, but still .... hit an aircraft and now you're endangering lives (not to mention in VERY DEEP S**T). And who knows who might pick the thing up on radar and again, you're in trouble.

Still, it wouldn't be that technically difficult to do....

What you're looking at is a Wiki entry and, even if we assume it's correct (ha!!) it only covers the last 50 years. That's an infinitesimally small period of time given the life time of earth (or even human existence on earth. What were the levels 100 years ago? 200? 1000? Don't know? That's right. No one was measuring them at that time. Certainly not in a way that can be summed up. The other problem is where are these readings taken from? North pole? South pole? All over the world and averaged? Median? That's my argument that this isn't a science at all. It's a religion that makes it extremely difficult to cull the noise from the legitimate data. For all we know carbon goes up and down on a 1000 year cycle that's peaking right now.

Actually there have been measurements taken from ice cores that "seem" to indicate just that (not 1000 years but 27000 years).

A wiki entry does not legitimate data make and it's certainly not the whole story.

Ha. So attacking the science is the wrong approach? Yeah, you're a bright one!

Better get that tin foil hat back on smart one, you're brain (such as it is...) appears to be leaking out.

Now if only there was any evidence WHATSOEVER that carbon IS increasing OR that increased carbon in the atmosphere is a bad thing!! Yeah, turn that little knob and see if things get better.... OOPS! The whole system is screwed up? Just turn it back right?

The problem here is that we don't understand the environment or our atmosphere nearly as well as a lot of scientists seeking funding for these studies would like you to think. Trying to make changes to the natural environment can cause just as many problems as it helps and that's assuming it helps AT ALL. Someday we may understand things enough to know what and how to affect change but that's certainly not today. To say it's an emergency (and ALL data says NOT!!) and we have to do something, anything!! is just stupid. Step one is having models that are reliable, step two is to be 100% certain that what's happening will have a negative enough impact to justify intervention.

On the models thing I keep reading about how they're getting better and better and yet we still can't predict weather day to day. How good can our models be when the path of a hurricane or the formation of a tornado or what the temperature will be tomorrow is virtually unpredictable. Oh yeah, we have a probability maps but keep in mind that most environmentalists are trying to claim they can predict an increase in global temperature of less than 1 degree in 100 years. It's not valid science and those trying to claim it is are just looking for money.

If you want to see what happens when we try to step in and HELP nature read about the history of Yellowstone National Park. We're very lucky it's still there for all the HELP we've given it....

Kinda sad. I thought it had so much promise initially and a lot of money has been thrown at it. But as someone in a previous thread was saying, iBiquity is trying to milk every little thing they can and it's clearly not going to work. Most stations will "just say no" and never miss a thing. From what I'm seeing over the last year I think HD-R may be effectively dead. Little bit like the early Apple story (without the happy ending). Too greedy too soon and the technology dies on the vine for lack of adoption.

And there's a damn good reason to maintain an analog system of broadcast... inexpensive, plentiful, ubiquitous radio's that can be used for communicating with the population should something terrible happen. Like a Marxist regime in the White House, Oh wait....