Have they really given any thought to how this works?

Borrowing economic surplus from the future to create pollution today seems like it would cause global warming, not fix it.

If they could do this stuff without borrowing all that money, it may work.

Tesla is a junk bond, because they have to borrow lots of money at pretty crappy rates, which is one of the reasons they have such strong short interest. Until they can answer some fundamental questions about the long term viability of this stuff, they will continue to be a junk bond.

Does anyone remember paying Prodigy or GEnie a few bucks an hour for pseudo-internet time?

Going back to that model would likely improve things...

No mention of the SecureWorks analysis in the lawsuit..?

https://www.secureworks.com/re...

Was the most interesting assessment.

Eroi/Eroei is not considered as a factor into the viability of a city. That's for modern American civilization as a whole. As the ratio continues to fall, more parts of society will die off, and growth will slow. That's why you have had 2-3% growth since eroi has tumbled. There is very little literature on this topic.

My conclusion about NYC is that a lot of people that have the option to leave are taking that option. Whether or not the remaining growth is a positive thing is debatable. Having more kids or importing more people to service the debt incurred by the previous inhabitants seems morally wrong.

Then he probably should have convinced people to make a law about it, instead of manipulating regulatory enforcement systems to accomplish it.

Duly updated, will use a 30% figure in the future.

Methane is not produced by humans from an orifice on the face...

It's as if you are willfully ignoring the SCIENCE.

The war in Syria started because your government went around murdering innocent people, as well as arming violent people.

The party in power in the Ukraine is a direct political descendant of the Nazi party from WW2.

Well, the only thing that seems to get rid of politicians is sex abuse stuff that actually goes to court. Like that Weiner guy.

Other than that, ya pretty much.

The mega cities and their suburbs rely on an energy return on energy invested of about 50:1. That ratio currently stands at about 30:1 with the other 20:1 being financed from future generations. As the ratio continues to fall, the systems and services which make the mega cities feasible will cease to function. When the Federal Government no longer exists, there will be no one to transfer wealth from once place to another. The wealth gap is created by borrowing money from children while only redistributing it to a few specific constituencies.

If those places don't adjust their way of life, they will disappear. Which makes the world a better place.

Rural America is dying, but anyone with the means is getting out of those mega cities too.

http://nypost.com/2017/04/01/p...

Actually, no.

What merits investigation is why my tax dollars and my children's future earnings are spent on influencing elections in other countries.

Your top-down vs bottom-up influence is very insightful, and I think fairly accurate. It's certainly worthy of consideration.

Bottom-up seems to be viable only when enough data is available, so that one may target based on race/class/creed/gender. This data is only accessible in places with weak privacy laws. Thus people or regimes that want to suppress bottom-up influence have started to ban the major information gathering services. Think Chinese Facebook ban, or Spain having a court order remove anything about the Catalan referendum on the internet. It's probably a road Trump will take when someone figures it out, and he'll have a lot of support I'd imagine. I don't have a good answer, but you present a very real concept.

You make absolutely no sense.

The Syrian war was started by American supported rebels and ISIS. The SDF (al Nusra, aka al Qaeda in Syria) has been supported by the Americans throughout the entire war, until Trump took office, when he promptly ended the CIA program which armed them. Are you saying the American government has been trying to achieve Russian geopolitical objectives since they invaded Iraq?

The problem with the Ukraine is the fact that it is currently controlled by Nazis. And I mean real Nazis, descendants of Hitlers group of Nazis. Look at the helmets of the Azov brigade. Spoiler alert: Russians hate Nazis more than you do. They had a really nasty war a long time ago. But hey, Joe Biden's son is on the board of the Ukraine energy company now, so apparently the Democrats have no problem with real Nazis.

What's wrong with Brexit and Catalan independence? Self determination and self rule are human rights. To take that away from people is tyranny or slavery. If Russia is supporting self determination and self rule, they are supporting freedom.

Politicians are trash, no one needs to do anything to impugn them, the politicians are quite capable of that on their own.

What happens when the battery runs out?

Actually only about 50% of the American population votes.

So no, only half the people are stupid loser voters, the other half are just stupid losers.

YMMV

So, they're just like any other ad?

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