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socal2 says

You want people to pay higher taxes on energy so you can live in a flood prone part of the world that needs AC a big chunk of the year.

No. I want the true cost of any good or service, including electricity, to be paid for by the users of that good or service instead of subsidized by stealing from others. This means, by definition, that the cost of producing electricity is not shifted from consumers to non-consumers of that electricity by letting the producers pollute.

Again, why do you hate free markets? Let people decide if the electricity is worth buying and how much to buy. Stop stealing from some people to subsidize others. That's socialism. In fact, it's the worst kind of socialism, counter-productive socialism that creates financial incentives for waste without providing any economies of scale.

Deniers have to deny.

Self reinforcing feedback loops or in patnet language, "You started something you can't stop,ASSHOLES!"

Dan8267 says

How does the use of air conditioning prevent the U.S. from implementing a carbon tax or other pollution tax?

So your solution is by moving some numbers on a screen from one account to another will save the planet? That's interesting.

komputodo says

So your solution is by moving some numbers on a screen from one account to another will save the planet? That's interesting.

That's how free markets work. You change the price of things, and people change how much they buy. It's like magic.

In any case, using a pollution tax to clean up pollution is more than simply moving some numbers on a screen. If the pollution is cleaned up, then it is no longer a problem.

Again, why do you people hate the free market so much? Why do you hate efficient allocation of resources? Why do you insist on government picking winners and losers by letting some people steal from others? Why do you only like the absolute worst kind of socialism, the socializing of costs while privatizing profits?

Global Warming has become the Mother Of All Guilt Trips, inclusive of any number of subsidiary guilt trips.

Of course, libs like nothing more than a guilt trip and run at it holding their dresses over their heads with their panties around their knees.

Ceffer says

like nothing more than a guilt trip and run at it holding their dresses over their heads with their panties around their knees.

It isn't only "libs," and in fact it isn't even real liberals, but it is part of human nature:

No solutions allowed, only insistence on self-flagellation and mandatory shared sacrifice:

Ceffer says

Global Warming has become the Mother Of All Guilt Trips,

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the assholes creating methylmercury poisoning of the food supply aren't feeling guilty. And I don't care. Just like with rapists, I don't give a damn if they feel guilty or not, just that they are made to stop, at gunpoint if necessary.

This is an opinion article, and it's wrong. Predicting apocalypse is so farfetched, liberal gullibility is laughable.

Dan8267 says

That's how free markets work. You change the price of things, and people change how much they buy. It's like magic.

Huh? Who is "you"? A government bureaucrat or academic who has never even run an ice-cream stand?

socal2 says

Huh? Who is "you"? A government bureaucrat or academic who has never even run an ice-cream stand?

I'm not sure I can dumb this down to a level you'll understand, but I'll try.

Porky Pig owns a restaurant. Every day he steals eggs from Daisy Duck and uses them to cook breakfast for the other animals. He charges $5 for a plate of eggs. Since he steals the eggs he uses, producing a plate of egg costs only $3 leaving Porky with $2 in profit.

Governor Disney finds out that Porky has been stealing eggs and puts a stop to it. Now Porky has to pay Daisy for all the eggs he takes. It now costs Porky $8 to produce a plate of eggs. Porky must now charge $8 to break even and $10 to get the same profit margin. Whatever Porky decides to charge, his customers can decide whether or not the new price is worth it or if they would be better off eating at Goofy's Flapjack House.

Before Disney stopped Porky from stealing, Daisy was in effect forced against her will to subsidize Porky's business. This helped Porky a lot, and maybe his customers a little, but at the cost of a far greater expense to both Daisy and Goofy and the society as a whole. This is not free markets. This is socializing the costs of Porky's business while privatizing the profits. It distorts the market and causes misallocation of resources.

It is only after Governor Disney prevented Porky from stealing that we find out the true costs of Porky's product and what is the best allocation of Porky's eggs versus Goofy's flapjacks. If Porky goes out of business, that is the free market saying that Porky should never have been in business in the first place and his business was extremely wasteful, impoverishing society on the whole. If Porky stays in business, it will be at a lesser volume whereas Goofy will get more business. More importantly, the society as a whole will be wealthier.

Polluting is nothing less than the theft of public wealth, specifically the wealth contained in a well-functioning and productive environment. To shift the costs of production of anything from the producers of the product to society at large is theft, no different from what Porky did.

When the government, Disney in our story, stops the theft that does mean the government is setting prices or picking winners and losers. The free market sets the prices but only after the government stops the theft. If the government policy allow and even encourages the theft, then the government is picking winners and losers. By allowing corporations to pollute, our government is undermining the free market by stealing from us all to subsidize businesses that the free hand of the market says are losers.

Is this simple enough for you to understand, or do I need to draw pictures?

I wonder when the 4% down days will stop...

Need a dividend hike announcement soon...

Oh shit, another iceberg just broke free.. God damn it, hurry up and move those numbers on the screen and maybe it will refreeze and stick back together.

Quick question. If the whole world reduces CO2 output to say 10% of current levels tomorrow and going forward. So a 90% global reduction in CO2 output and it never increases moving forward, even with an increasing population. Does that even stop this? Are we just delaying the inevitable?

I'm not a denier FYI. I'm sking a serious question.

OK, so the bottom line is that I won't have to move to Florida when I retire, right?

Dan8267 says

You often site short-term weather in your faulty attempts to discredit global warming.

This is BS unless many links are provided.

Dan8267 says

Rew does have a point that repeated record breaking does indicate climatic changes.

... but record-braking snow levels were dismissed as "weather ergo irrelevant".

today was brutal for our little coal miner...anyone know what's going on? I saw NO news

2014.08.28 (August 28, 2014)

I'm liquidating all my stocks and going to cash
***
I'll be doing this [2014.08.28].
***
I am not a trader and I've held most of these positions for 3-5 years. I am not an expert and you should not copy what I'm doing unless you blame someone else if this turns out wrong.

I am not going short but may buy some puts if I see prices I like.

[Around 10 days later, markets went into a 5% correction and recovered within 60 days. They went on to set new all time highs in 2015, as predicted.]

2015.12.22 (December 22, 2015)

Long term rates will resemble Japan and sink further.

[As of now, 2017.06.21, that trade has returned +50% in less than two years.]

2014.10.16 (October 16, 2014)

"If NAC is outperforming, buy NXC. If NXC is outperforming, buy NAC. Then put your buy order in half way between bid and ask."

In less than two years since then:
NXC has returned +14%;
NAC has returned +7%.

Straw Man says

Dan8267 says

You often site short-term weather in your faulty attempts to discredit global warming.

This is BS unless many links are provided.

Straw Man says

... but record-braking snow levels were dismissed as "weather ergo irrelevant".

Straw Man says

I only stated the fact that the very same people who dismissed record snow as "weather" accepted a heat wave as something very relevant to GW. So your reply in the vein of "snow is relevant to GW too" is kinda irrelevant to my argument. Can't comment on whether it was effortless - you're the one to judge the amount of effort it took you.

Straw Man says

I see. It's OK to cite a weather event as a proof of climate change and not be considered an idiot if it lasts at least 2 weeks. What about last year's unusually cold and snowy weather in March and April in (Eastern) Europe? Does it count? That anomaly lasted more than 2 weeks for sure.

Straw Man says

Goran_K says

zzyzzx says

Al Gore was wrong!

Yeah, take that guy's nobel prize back. I was freezing putting the garbage cans out last night in August.

+1

When kids refuse to go into pool in August because it's too cold an I'm forced to fire up that heater, we have a problem, Al.

By the way, it's the long-term global temperature trends, not the regional ones. A few broken records in local areas is not evidence of a long-term climate trend. Many repeated years of breaking records across the globe is evidence of a long-term climate trend. And climate change includes more severe weather, not just overall a hotter Earth, although that is a crucial part of the picture particularly related to rising sea levels and the spread of malaria.

Game of Thrones?

It's the Polish buzzard.

The crowned bird seems like a theme in the kingdoms that became Cisleithania:

(Wappen Herzogtum Schlesien)

Tenpoundbass says

It's the Polish buzzard.

"A white eagle is Poland's official crest, and most known symbol, meaning victory, patriotism and" strength.

Made you work. Good.

PS. Jeebus, apparently the TV dorks who need sarcasm alert do have their prototype IRL. :rolleye:

Rotate the picture so that the bird faces up.

Include another picture showing the whole thing. Include something in this picture that we can use as a size reference (I like to use a ruler, but coins are also often used for this purpose).

Information on where obtained is sometimes helpful. For example, if from an estate, information about the deceased might be helpful.

Post all of this here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/history
Someone there will probably know.
A few other subreddits might know as well.

I tend to agree with curious2's first post here.

Straw Man says

Made you work. Good.

Made you look like a fool by taking two minutes. Better.

Also made you admit you are a trolling and lying. This destroys your credibility. Also better.

0 for 4 and you coming back for more?

Democrats pissed off rich conservatives by raising their capital gains taxes to pay for poorer peoples' health insurance subsidies.

This could not be allowed to stand, it's the camel's nose of big-S "Robin Hood" Socialism.

I will say that it saddens me marginally to hear the attacks on AHCA being it cutting taxes on rich people, when in reality it's more of a return to the status quo ante, removing what was imposed in 2013 or whenever.

I hope the GOP passes the meanest bill they dare. Let the electorate feel -- 'good and hard' as the man said -- what the difference is between the center-right Dems and currently far-right GOP.

Despite it being a favorite GOP talking point, it's a total lie. Obamacare didn't pass in a non-partisan way, but it was done in full daylight and exposure to the process.

There is only one reason the current ACHA bill hides in darkness now: it's going to be harmful to people and the GOP is ashamed of it. Trump called the last go 'round "mean". You think this is going to be any gentler? Absolutely not.

Straw Man says

Made you work. Good.

Dan8267 says

This destroys your credibility.

Dead on.

JazzMusic says

the representatives blatant expression of disinterest in the electorate

Appears they will do something horrific and then turn around and skewer Trump as a mends, when the time is right.

curious2 says

Appears they will do something horrific and then turn around and skewer Trump as a mends, when the time is right.

Irrelevant. The full text was made available for ACA. No such thing has happened for the 'Wealthcare' bill.

Rew says

curious2 says

Appears they will do something horrific and then turn around and skewer Trump as a mends, when the time is right.

Irrelevant. The full text was made available for ACA. No such thing has happened for the 'Wealthcare' bill.

I did not write the words that you attributed to me. If you are going to try to quote me, try using the words I wrote. If you want to argue with yourself, leave me out of it.

Meanwhile, you still haven't answered any of my questions here and here.

My investments always go up & never go down.
Notice that no one ever mentions losing money.

I was also thinking Prussian, but really can't say why. Germany didn't exist as a country, so the bird could possibly be the emblem of any city or state from any German speaking place.

My pick in the oil drillers has gone south. But otherwise I am out , parked it in bonds for a bit-lets see.