Comment And the root cause is .... (Score 3, Insightful) 510
The survivors will come to a different conclusion than the initial participants in the discussion.
The survivors will come to a different conclusion than the initial participants in the discussion.
Of course, since we've put it in the longest the power has been out was about 30 minutes in the middle of the night.
"On The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin was banned and probably burnt in Germany on orders from the Nazi leadership by being included in the category of "All writings that ridicule, belittle or besmirch the Christian religion and its institution, faith in God, or other things that are holy to the healthy sentiments of the Volk." http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/burnedbooks/documents.htm#guidelines
The answer to global averages is local anecdotes.
How about at least comparing kumquats and golf-balls instead of mustard seeds and elephants?
Discovering free oxygen would be a very big deal, but extremely unlikely. The only reason there is free oxygen on Earth is because early life started some sort of photosynthesis and starting giving off oxygen as a waste product that had the side effect of poisoning all their bacterial competitors. That event is known as the "Oxygen Catastrophe".
If you want to know more about why "no warming since 1998" is a myth there are references to two articles about just that subject already posted, one pointing to a guardian.co.uk article and one pointing to a skepticalscience article.
Go argue with them.
Damn it, read before writing will you?
I withdraw the comparison. It was a snarky comment I heard many years ago. And it makes an even greater contrast to the current day.
Who would Attila have punished for the Iraq war? How many of the current political dynasties would have been cut off from any connection with the government? Can you imagine a set of broadcast national debates on religion today?
Interesting.
Idiot.
Just sloppy.
If the plumber is competent to run the business, he's been tracking the money that he's invested in his business for 40 years, taking depreciation where it's allowed and following the current tax laws. Most of those investments are used to decrease the capital gain of the business sale. And, once the division is made between capital gains on the business worth and regular income from the business he'll pay capital gains on just the portion in excess of his investments. Actually with 40 years in business, the business basis is probably worth more than 2 million dollars, so he probably wouldn't pay anything in capital gains.
Stop talking smack... Learn about something then try to contribute to the conversation.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.