I guess you didn't read the detailed article I gave you in the other thread?

Of course not, it takes a lot of cool aid to erase that many facts.

When it is below the new sea level, naturally.

Have a read.

Keep standing there denying, the bubbling sound you make after a while will be really funny.

What's the next excuse? Sunspots? Wind? The dog ate it?

Now troll no more.

So tell me, how does that put a dock under water? How does it require raising the whole sewer system to keep it working? How does it just happen to synchronize with the tide?

I can see it occasionally reversing the storm drains, of course, but some areas now have floods happen on a sunny day. It just comes up out of the ground.

Now pull your head out of your ass, the gas is making you woozy.

So you believe runoff got so bad it raised the level of the ocean? WOW.

Sounds more like you'll make yourself believe nearly anything to avoid facing the truth.

That looks a bit like lying with figures. Neither of the events that page pointed to were as large a deviation from average as we are seeing now.

It's like noticing that it's 120 in the house and Dad says no worries, he can remember it being 90 a few times last year.

it's easy to spot since he calls one of the political party's out by name. There's still some weight to the NIMBY folks though. The trouble with nuclear, at least in America, is that it's damn near impossible to keep it safe. Sooner or later some venture capital firm notices how much money's being spent on safety and moves in with promises of "efficiency", takes over the plant operation and starts cutting back. That's really what the NIMBY crowd worries about, they're just not allowed to talk about it because those same venture capitalists are our ruling class. It's pretty much the same thing that happened in Japan. They knew the plants weren't safe but didn't want to spend the money. Big disaster, lots will die of cancers and the like, but nobody important go in trouble.

That and they couldn't get Alexander to stop running around in his new 6 million dollar mockup of the Enterprise bridge making whooshing sounds long enough to discuss it with him.

He at least held an elected office first.

Only if the alternate reality doesn't exist. She actually turned HP into a ruin of it's former self, but she also actually got a massive pile of cash for it and Lucent actually started waving money and stock offers at her before her seat was even cold. Then she actually left a smoking crater where Lucent used to be but she actually made big piles of cash doing it.

That's the thing. She lives in an actual alternate reality where terminal fuck-ups are coveted.

For the rest of us, no matter how many times you discharge the halon, EPO the datacenter and delete the database server and all of the backups, you won't make CEO money, so it is truly an alternate reality.

Of COURSE it isn't sufficient.

When - ever - has an activist said "yeah, well, what's being done is pretty much good, yeah. I'm happy. I guess I don't have much to be upset about any more"?

Here's a hint: if there's one thing I can guarantee the climate won't do, is be static.

Ah, I see that you have also worked in aerospace!

The old joke is, "How do you turn a 50 cent screw into a 5 dollar screw? Put it on an airplane!"

I didn't claim markets can't work, just that you won't find new technology with significantly better features coming out cheaper. It does eventually happen.

All of those tablets out there are significantly more expensive even now than would be suggested by the marginal cost of production. They haven't reached the endpoint by far.The vast majority of them will be long gone before they do reach that endpoint.

she's got lots of money. Also, she has connections with other folks who have lots of money. It's not echo chamber. She doesn't need a good record, just enough to bury the past. If you're old enough to remember Regan he didn't have much to run on, but his ad campaigns were _fantastic_. It's morning in America, and everything's just a little bit brighter because you voted for Regan...

Also people like to forget she basically won the California Gubernatorial race until an epic, almost legendary gaff during a debate cost her the election. Gerrymandering + voter suppression + money can get anyone or anything elected in America...

What would it tell us that we don't already know. Serious question.

And if we could all watch that in an endless loop on CNN, it would tell us what useful information? We already know that the co-pilot went nutzy-cuckoo and deliberately crashed the plane. We already know he took the pilot out of the picture to do it.

So surely the answer is to amp up the psychological stress a few more notches because we all know that high stress makes people more likely to go nutzy-cuckoo and that.... HEY, perhaps we shouldn't do that.