Much of this change with the police occurred in the last 20 years with the militarization skyrocketing after 9/11. I don't know whether to call that rapid change or not -- it seems pretty rapid to me having occurred from my 20s to my 40s. Here in my smallish town of 80k, with many miles of fields and forests between it the next town of any consequence, the police have at least a two military vehicles. What is that for if not for practice and training as Police State Enforcers? If they aren't ready to take on that role now, how long would it take to train them as a paramilitary police force? Probably just a few years to hire up some of those desperate for a decent job and let them practice on the equipment they already have.

So. You do not know how to capitalize proper nouns. You failed to capitalize the beginning of a sentence, but you do like to use capitalization to yell at people.

At least I know better than to listen to your argument, which has zero facts in it.

That's exactly it. You grow the pie enormously, as China, India, and Brazil rise to "developed economy" standards of living (this has arguably already happened for S Korea). More than doubling the number of consumers is a massive gain for all of us, but most of all for all the people joining us at our standard of living!
 

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Umm. So Carbon Dioxide is not considered a pollutant now?

Ideally, when electric cars are 'everywhere' you'll be able to pull into your restaurant of choice and start charging up.

Intriguing theory you have about where you're likely to find 5KV electrical connections. Note that since wiring would have to be added to wherever these charging stations are, the infrastructure investment is going to be non-trivial, and so is not nearly so likely to be just everywhere as you might suspect. Much more likely that that sort of connection will be made to specialized places, sort of like a gas station.

Mu.

The reason that question cannot be answered as asked is that you have not even approached adequately describing the situation.

There are both 50" and 19" televisions.

Who told you that? They do not necessarily have different refresh rates. And even if they did, there are parts of the panels which don't have refresh rates which can be shared between disparate panels.

The panels use a variety of interfaces, and the interfaces of the completed product have no relation whatsoever to the interface between the panel and the board in the complete display.

The same display can be offered with and without a tuner by placing the tuner hardware on a separate PCB which is connected to the main PCB in models where it is needed. Or, two PCBs can be made, one with and one without. Again, none of this affects the panels.

That's because you're woefully ignorant of what's inside of televisions and LCD monitors. Once you've taken a few apart, you won't be under these various misapprehensions about what's inside of them.

If this math holds up, the next interstellar island is further away than we thought... and we are likely going to be a very lonely species.

This math says pretty much nothing about our neighborhood. Remember, one in ten can just as easily be 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 as 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1.

Even more importantly, this say nothing about our galaxy's likelihood of having life (basically, 100% right now)....

Corporatism is just a variety of capitalism. Maybe you should look up "capitalism" in the dictionary to see why this is true. Any kind of capitalism which is not "free market" (in which the government assures freeness, not the kind where it's hands-off) will inevitably support fascism. HTH, HAND.

It is, and if you cared you'd have looked it up already.

The most obvious argument against calories in=out is that digestion is regularly incomplete. No further argument is necessary, but there are numerous other factors which influence the argument as well, and as none of them can lead to calories out being greater than calories in, there's still no currency to the argument.

Wrong.

That's not fat making you fat. That's carbs making fat make you fat. Go read up on Ketosis before you continue spewing ignorance.

If all you eat is carbohydrates, then your body stores both excess carbs as fat, and excess fat as fat. If all you eat is fat, then your body doesn't store excess fat (again, it's past time for you to read up on Ketosis) and your body doesn't have any excess carbs to store. Your brain does need some glucose, but your body will make all it needs from fat. If that weren't true, then you would die shortly after running out of carbohydrates to process, because your brain would stop functioning. But in fact, if you're plump you can reasonably live for a month without food, and indeed people sometimes do this on purpose without substantial harm.

Virtually nobody is using up 2500 kcal/day in modern Western society. That's farming energy consumption. The average person would be better served targeting something more like 1500 kcal/day, especially if they are employed in some fashion which employs substantial ass-sitting.

Not having one, and not needing one are two different things.

You cannot ban an idea. Nice try though.

You're right, some children have better comprehension skills than some adults

What is this "advertising" of which you speak? Oh, you mean that stuff in between songs in restaurants whose owners are too cheap to pay license fees, and to dumb to hit up Jamendo?

These days we have AdBlock Plus, TiVo, Netflix, and lots of other great ways to avoid advertising. Lots of us simply do not experience any significant quantity of it except in still image form. Netflix content producers are beginning to use proper interstitial video, though, so I guess I still see some there.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/...

I have a great attention span, and have a great memory to go along with it.

Here is a short list of "problems" I have with "global warming" zealots.

1) Every big natural disaster is met with "Global Warming" cries, yet when lulls occur (like hurricanes), nothing. Or worse, when it is very very cold, they cry "It is climate, not weather, know the difference".

2) CO2 is a miniscule amount of greenhouse gasses. Water Vapor is much much larger. Go ahead, and explain why we can swing between 1 and 4% average H2O without much effect, but small percentages of CO2 are disasterous!

The economy is not a zero-sum game. This is not a race to the bottom. As low cost-of-living places get more and more jobs, their standard of living rises and costs go up accordingly.

If your job doesn't require an in-person presence, then you're competing on a global market. Best get used to that fact - it's not going away, and isolationism spells certain death for modern economies.

And don't overlook the key fact that more people buy a given product than work to make it. If lower pay means lower costs, net advantage is had to the economy: that's been studied for e.g. Walmart selling lots of stuff made in China. The total amount saved by all Americans in buying these products is several times larger than the total lost wages. For business-to-business products, maybe it doesn't work that way, I don't know, but I wouldn't just assume it's bad for the economy.