No, I wouldn't be Al Gore for a billion dollars.
He didn't make a dime from me.
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be motivated by that to some extent, but the extra money on offer is probab ly more influential (as it is with the Russians).
arbitrary authority that Iranians are trying to get away from).
That's a standard right-wing libel, and the people who bother trying to doc ument it cheat.
He doesn't seem to have had a cloning program in mind - either for himself or his wife.
Cite?
Trump makes up a great deal of nonsense about himself, mostly in the hope o f persuading other people that he's more impressive than the record shows, but he's not averse to lying for money. Remember Trump University?
His problem is that he has been a lying creep for a very long time. People less gullible than John Larkin - as in a numerical majority of American vot ers - have noticed. People from states that don't spend all that much per h ead on secondary education are more gullible - though Louisiana at $11,010 per head (in 2015) is now only a little below the average.
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that isn't quite noticeable. Don't up set the goose who is laying the golde n eggs ...
Electric cars work fine, and it's cheaper to generate electricity with sola r cells than it is to generate it by burning fossil carbon, even if you don 't bother figuring the cost of the real estate that's going to be lost when the ice sheets slide off Greenland and West Antarctica.
The people who make money out digging up fossil carbon and selling it as fu el aren't happy about this state of affairs, and spend a lot of money on de nial.
Australia is having a little political crisis where the more right wing mem bers of the ruling coalition want the government to build a new coal-fired power station - none of the electricity generating companies think that it would be a sensible inverstment - which does suggest that coal-mining inte rests are spending a lot on buying political influence (which is to say, br ibing right-wing politicians).
Al Gore has made about $300 million out of being famous. Being an ex-Vice-P resident of the US is part of that, but so is getting a part of a Nobel Pea ce Prize for his work on popularising the science that has established the reality of anthropogenic global warming (at least for the majority that is less gullible than John Larkin and Cursitor Doom).
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Not that John Larkin would have the option.
Your loss.
Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose. Earthscan. 1992. ISBN 0
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is well worth reading, even now. It doesn't flatter people like you, so you wouldn't enjoy it. If I remember rightly, it only flatters a few scientist s (who deserved it) so it clearly wasn't published by the kind of publisher who peddles your preferred brand of wordwooze (the word is a Fritz Leiber invention, from "The Silver Eggheads" - 1961).
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That's a particular kind of lifestyle. People who can think better than Joh n Larkin - there are quite a few around - tend to opt for logical consisten cy across all their activities. It's not a particularly intellectually dema nding choice, but if you haven't got much intellect to start with, it may b e inaccessible.
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That's not what 'American Exceptionalism' means.
AE is just the observation that America is the exception to the rule that most countries evolved from ad hoc tyrannies into varying degrees of .
America was the exception--we were (perhaps the first country in history?) intentionally designed from the git-go, and designed for distributed rule b y the citizens rather than some concentrated 'elite.'
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You do realize that the French won our revolution for us, and that France w as a monarchy at the time? It's kind of amazing how that two hundred year o ld propaganda about freedom loving colonials winning independence has stuck around for so long. So it looks like America is not the exception to the r ule.
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There was no such design, and the founding father class imagined themselves to be patricians. They openly referred to the common American as rabble, w hich appellation is not half wrong even to this day.
That is important. After a lot of thinking, the United States was deliberately designed. Well done, too.
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Sure there was. It's extensively documented by the writings of the day.
Then it was debated across the country, prototyped & tested (the Articles of Confederation), reviewed, refined, & released to production.
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I think there was a proposal to make political parties illegal, or at least not officially recognized. They blew that one.
The only advantage of parties is that they police one another for corruption. Might be worth it.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
That doesn't seem to have worked out very well then.
You created two elites, and forced them to opposite ends of the spectrum, as far away from centrism as possible. Good job.
Actually, if you stop reading the hysterical news, it still works pretty well.
The Web has changed things a lot. Everywhere.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
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Remember, you still have the human extinction event coming up, and it is Am erican politics and big business responsible for most of it. Tell me how we ll it has worked when you're in your death throes.
Too bad the implementation has been so badly broken over the past 100 years.
Parties are inevitable. Two parties were inimitable, though perhaps not intentional, by its design.
Yes - I wish it weren't so
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But it could be unconstitutional for parties to have any official recognition, in elections or in the functions of government.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
I think we're doing pretty well. The US has prospered, given women and minorities actual rights, accepted and assimilated a lot of people. Not to mention saving the world and especially Europe from Germans (twice) and Russians (going on twice.)
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
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