I cannot get Game of Thrones as it requires Sky Atlantic in the UK and I am a Virgin customer. Am I to get a totally duplicate service including getting a satellite dish installed just for one show???
I do like Dreamworks movies, but it's frustrating to have to sit through the unskippable ads on my legally bought copy of a kid's movie that is as likely to make my 3-year-old want to watch that instead, only to run into another unskippable ad that makes him want to watch that instead, and I'm grinding my teeth at another mindless ad for a movie I've probably had to see 50 times already...
1) Even oxygen is pollution in the wrong form and location (ground-level ozone). So saying CO2 'isn't pollution' is a bit simplistic. Feel free to go into a high-CO2 atmostphere setting and breathe away...
2) Unless you happen to smoke in the presence of others, and require society to pay for the damage you do to yourself.
So how come numerous independent studies actually found no evidence of wrong-doing?
How come, even if there had been evidence of wrong-doing (which there wasn't), it would have had very little effect on the mountains of evidence FOR AGW?
Seriously, using the East Anglia thing is like saying (20 years ago) that the 'solar neutrino problem' (not enough of certain neutrinos from the sun) 'disproved' relativity! (They were later found to change type en route.)
Ooo, how much do I have to pay to get Special and General Relativity 'disproved'? ;)
I'm suprised there isn't a chapter against vaccination on that site, or a screed denying that HIV causes AIDS. They seem to buy into just about any other stuff that goes against the corporate overlords...
Oh, and I was amused by this quote from the site:
"Cigarettes are already the most heavily taxed commodity in the U.S. The federal excise tax is $0.39 a pack and the national average state excise tax is about $0.60 per pack, for a total of $0.99 per pack. In addition, the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) increased the price of a pack of cigarettes by about $0.40 a pack. In a growing number of cities, a pack-a-day smoker pays more in cigarette taxes than he or she pays in state income taxes."
In Europe, cigarette taxes are much much higher - and yet most contries have some sort of smoking ban. In the UK, a typical pack of 20 costs over £6 - so well over $8 or $9 - and 80% of that is tax. So stopping people smoking 'hurts' the government a lot - but funnily enough, they still push stopping smoking as a greater individual and social good.
As for the income tax argument, that is so fake as it has long been known that more people on lower incomes smoke, so obviously pay more tax on cigarattes than the small or non-existent amount they pay on income. So what if they do? Why not rail at the 'immorality' of sales taxes while you're at it?
That's true, I hate having my environment poisoned and strip mined, my seas fouled with oil, and my food full of pesticides because they don't like bothering to keep things safe or shaving anything off their bottom dollar. I hate the religion that drives automatic climate-change denialism without an open mind to the possibilities, often coming from the same people who oppose birth control, healthcare reform, tolerance & equality, and who like nothing more than arming anyone in sight and preferably invading anyone out of sight.
AGW deniers also have no answers about how we would cope with massive changes in climate in either direction, whether or not it is human-caused. They just like to stick their heads in the sand and sing "la-la-la".
Most of Europe begs to differ with you. We've seen big benefits from cutting out second-hand smoke in public places and the workplace.
Employers have an overriding moral obligation to the health and welfare of their staff and customers, not just to the tobacco barons. And any business that relies on their customers poisoning themselves (let alone others) cannot be considered either moral or a good business.
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You can't tether or use your phone as a local wi-fi spot? How primitive!
They make you pay through the nose for data? How primitive!
Get some actual competition and some actual service, like every other country in the West.
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2) Unless you happen to smoke in the presence of others, and require society to pay for the damage you do to yourself.
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How come, even if there had been evidence of wrong-doing (which there wasn't), it would have had very little effect on the mountains of evidence FOR AGW?
Seriously, using the East Anglia thing is like saying (20 years ago) that the 'solar neutrino problem' (not enough of certain neutrinos from the sun) 'disproved' relativity! (They were later found to change type en route.)
Ooo, how much do I have to pay to get Special and General Relativity 'disproved'? ;)
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I'm suprised there isn't a chapter against vaccination on that site, or a screed denying that HIV causes AIDS. They seem to buy into just about any other stuff that goes against the corporate overlords...
Oh, and I was amused by this quote from the site:
"Cigarettes are already the most heavily taxed commodity in the U.S. The federal excise tax is $0.39 a pack and the national average state excise tax is about $0.60 per pack, for a total of $0.99 per pack. In addition, the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) increased the price of a pack of cigarettes by about $0.40 a pack. In a growing number of cities, a pack-a-day smoker pays more in cigarette taxes than he or she pays in state income taxes."
In Europe, cigarette taxes are much much higher - and yet most contries have some sort of smoking ban. In the UK, a typical pack of 20 costs over £6 - so well over $8 or $9 - and 80% of that is tax. So stopping people smoking 'hurts' the government a lot - but funnily enough, they still push stopping smoking as a greater individual and social good.
As for the income tax argument, that is so fake as it has long been known that more people on lower incomes smoke, so obviously pay more tax on cigarattes than the small or non-existent amount they pay on income. So what if they do? Why not rail at the 'immorality' of sales taxes while you're at it?
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So if CO2 levels rise, would you accept no situations in which this would have an effect on the climate?
If mankind is releasing additional CO2 into the biosphere, can you see no circumstances at all where thatt would have an effect on climate?
Are you really so selectively anti-science that you cannot at least question some of these basic ideas?
By the way, the global conspiracy to pretend that the Earth isn't really flat is all made up of AGWers.
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If there is no evidence, how come the tobacco companies had to indemnify themselves against further lawsuits?
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Employers have an overriding moral obligation to the health and welfare of their staff and customers, not just to the tobacco barons. And any business that relies on their customers poisoning themselves (let alone others) cannot be considered either moral or a good business.
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