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It looks like despite the failure to pass cap and trade CO2 is failing to 1991 levels. http://hotair.com/archives/2012/07/03/bam-trend-of-co2-emissions-falling-toward-1991-levels/ The key driver for the “shockingly good news” that CO2 emissions will probably fall this year to a two-decade low accord...

Beware what you wish for. They just might, but being who they are they will make sure by the time they are done there are no freedoms left, or at least none that count. Abortion was illegal in Nazi Germany... unless you were a Jew. Then it was legal. There are several freedoms they haven't encroach...

This is my favorite poppy seed cake. There is some dough, but it is primarily poppy seeds. Delicious!! I remember that during the height of the drug war back in Poland there were shortages of the national treat. http://www.bakalland.pl/media/przepisy/makowiec.jpg I hope I will not have to abstain

If the communist in chief promises to end prohibition I'm voting for him. Beware what you wish for. They just might, but being who they are they will make sure by the time they are done there are no freedoms left, or at least none that count. Abortion was illegal in Nazi Germany... unless you were ...

Wow, gentlemen, this used to be a nice forum. I am sorry to see it devolving in such a manner. The medical condition MSimon describes is called Paruresis. It is most likely an atavistic leftover form earlier evolutionary times where one did not want to get caught peeing with a potential threat lurki...

How would that work? If you had a grievance with your neighbor, would your government or theirs hear the case? If your government decided they owed you compensation and theirs disagreed, then what? I don't know that much about it, but I imagine it would work the same way as if you lived in an US bo...

I think that private corporations (with very few exceptions) by their nature do not have the wellfare of the other citizens in mind, but to maximize profit. The two are in most cases mutually exclusive. I don't think profit and public good are mutually exclusive. Free market makes ensures they are ...

It is a pretty funny video, but one wonders if a similar dialog hasn't really happened somewhere behind closed doors. That is what impairs it.

MSimon wrote:
It is all explained in the last 30 seconds of this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC_ult6-Tb4

It sure looks real by why did they switch the background video to show some historical figures?

How you do this is clear to government as well. You put a GPS in every single motor vehicle that reports directly to government every mile you drive. It could be a double edged sword we could use to reduce the government. Government justifies it existence by providing services that could not be pro...

LENR is still a science problem. At least hot fusion has progressed to engineering. And the engineering is slow going. I admit. But the general theory is not in question. One doesn't need theory for a working product. High temperature superconductors are a good example, but I bet guys who build bic...

hate to break it to ya, but neither television nor computers were invented in america, just fyi Well, all is question of interpretation. Who discovered America? Native Americans, Leif Erickson or Christopher Columbus? For all practical purposes it was Columbus although he was the only one of the th...

Don't sound so discouraged PBelter, innovation is happening and eventually all those topheavy institutions gets knocked over, even if some of them manage to hold on for a few decades past their due date. You are right on the money, the problem is that few decades here, few there and we don't get ou...

If the payoff is big enough and the end is in sight the private sector is willing to take some very big risks. Really? I cant remember the last time that happened with the exception of a few idealistic and philantropic billionares like Musk, Bezos, Allen the private sector is as risk averse as it c...

As for "more people => more progress" You act as though there can be no inherent material limits to supporting people. Historically the US has been SO FAR from any limits that has been effectively true. Now it is still far from (possible future) limits. But other places not. Of course science can c...