incredible advance!

problem that needs fixing.

Anthropogenic global warming is a problem and one that is getting worse. Jo hn Larkin has been suckered by the denialist propaganda machine, and conseq uently doesn't believe thjat it needs fixing - so he's part of the problem too.

hey follow the money and the power and get in the way, for their own fun an d profit.

As opposed to the fossil-carbon extraction lobby, who fund the denialist pr opaganda machine out of the goodness of their hearts. The fact that they'd make less money if they couldn't dig up as much fossil carbon and sell it a hs fuel has escaped John Larkin's attention.

erty and disease.

Since anthropogenic global is already adding to war, poverty and disease, a nd will do so on a progressively larger scale as it gets worse, the greenie s could - not unreasonably - argue that they are doing exactly that.

John Larkin has been know to argue that the greenies want to drive us back to the stone age, whereas if he were paying attention, he'd realise that th ey want us to switch our energy supplies to renewable sources.

If we did it overnight - which we couldn't - this would roughly double the cost of energy, which represents roughly 8% of the US GDP.

The price of oil quadrupled over the 2973 oil crisis - which didn't drive t he world economy back into the stone age, though it did produce a brief rec ession.

Sadly, John lacks the critical capacity to recognise denialist propaganda f or nonsense that it is, and recycles it here with unfortunate enthusiasm.

It can't be good for his image with his better educated customers.

And that won't be improved by his recent failure to choose the appropriate components to build a close tolerance LC tank circuit.

Hey John, designed any bad circuits recently?

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me of them, as we all should. But those people are out there, on the ground , quietly trying to make things better one step at a time, not spewing clas s-warfare hate and jockeying for power.

There's not a lot of class-warfare hate involved campaigning to limit anthr opogenic global warming. Obviously, the people who want it limited would li ke to have the power to change the way we generate our energy, but that's b asic to the political process.

There may be a class warfare element involved in objecting the antics of th e board of Exxon-Mobil who were in a position to spend $20 million dollars on funding denialist propaganda - essentially lying to the rest of the popu lation - but that can reasonably be seen as the rich waging war on the rest of society for their own short term financial advantage, so they started i t..

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Some of us had self-powered radio sets. They were called Crystal Sets!

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krw > Yes, there is a difference between individuals krw > trying to solve these problems and statists krw > doing their thing. Statists *always* make krw > things worse. One tsar can't out-think 350M people. G > Socialists and others who worship the G > STATE never acknowledge the idiocy of G > bureaucracy. They're like thoroughly G > indoctrinated cult members. BS > Greegor never misses an BS > opportunity to post this mantra. Milton Friedman: The Problem of Bureaucracy

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Greegor does seem to be a thoroughly indoctrinated cult member, but Milton Friedman does seem to be a particularly poor choice of cult object. The arc hetypical Chicago School economist who - as Joseph Stiglitz relates - could n't imagine that the free market could be anything other than perfect.

This does require that the participants are perfectly rational and omniscie nt, but the Chicago School had a problem with that, making them rather less than either.

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Milton Friedman merely explained the mechanism that make bureaucracy so wasteful. Arguing "to the man" there, Slowman?

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asteful.

I'm sure that he explained the mechanism that he thought make bureaucracy w asteful.

Since bureaucrats are necessary to regulate markets so they work more or le ss right, having them is a lot less wasteful than coping with unregulated m arkets, where monopolists busily prevent free competition, irresponsible cr ooks dump poisons into the ground water and so forth.

Friedman was never much good on that sort of problem.

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If we could harness the energy of your hot air, Slowman...

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It probably does look like hot air to you, Greegor - you need to work on your reading comprehension, otherwise we'll start confusing you with krw.

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G > If we could harness the energy of your hot air, Sloman... BS > It probably does look like hot air to BS > you, Greegor - you need to work on BS > your reading comprehension, otherwise BS > we'll start confusing you with krw. "we'll" ? Getting emperious now?

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Interesting word. I doubt if Greegor knows Swedish, so he probably can't spell "imperious" and was confusing it's spelling with that of "emperor".

The answer to the question is - of course - no more than Greegor himself was when he typed "If WE could harness the energy..." (capitalisation added).

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I spelled it right. Are you accusing me of posting an emperious question, Slowman?

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No. I'm laughing at you and your fatuous pretensions. Buzz off and enjoy some group polarisation with your right-wing nitwit buddies - see if you can find some more moronic conspiracy theories to amuse the rest of us.

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Getting?!!!

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BS > No. I'm laughing at you and your fatuous BS > pretensions. Buzz off and enjoy some BS > group polarisation with your right-wing BS > nitwit buddies - see if you can find BS > some more moronic conspiracy theories BS > to amuse the rest of us. Did you give up on the pretense that you are a social butterfly? You sound like you're bitter about social rejection, Slowman. I would think you'd be used to that by now.

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