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    Do you think that there would be a decrease in mass shootings in these "gun free zones" if you allow people to be armed. Let's remember that the person who wants to do the shooting can easily utilize either a concealed or open carry permission to bring that weapon into that space. I know this is almost an impossible question because mass shootings are practically allegorical in their frequency and % of overall gun crimes and instances where an armed citizen stopped a mass shooting are even more infrequent. So, given the frequency at which people ACTUALLY would carry a weapon, would it do anything or serve as a deterrent?
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    My Facebook feed came alive with people saying that if people were allowed to carry a weapon in that government building then the outcome would've been different. At that point I was in the hangar at the DZ and thinking about other places I've been in which people could be carrying a weapon. Since Virginia is an open carry state, 100% of the people could've been carrying a weapon but ZERO people were. It's as simple as that, nobody carries a fucking gun around with them. I know ONE person who actually goes open carry and a few who occasionally wear with their concealed carry but most of the time nobody wants to carry a gun with them. Even in that dz hangar situation there are definitively guns out in the cars but if someone walked in and started shooting then a gun a car would've have helped until it were all over - just like every other shooting in which someone finally showed up with a gun.
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    Your sources are probably the best examples of how "The Greenies" aren't blindly saying "Solar good, oil bad". These are instances in which site selection and secondary impacts make them unfeasible. Sure, there's always a NIMBY attitude mixed in there but that true for anything. Edit: Or not even necessarily unfeasible but need to be balanced against other things. Dams, need fish ladders, for example.
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    You say that about an article titled ".......Make Energy Expensive Since That's Always Been the Greens' Goal".
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    Michael Shellengerger again?
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    In the next 100 years I wouldn't be surprised to see natural gas take the place of gasoline as the second most used fuel for vehicles.
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    An example of cheap energy being not so cheap: https://wtop.com/virginia/2019/03/utility-customers-could-pay-for-virginias-historic-coal-ash-cleanup/ So if cheaper is better why not burn it in our houses anymore: https://www.foxnews.com/health/burning-coal-indoors-linked-to-birth-defects And guess whether or not tax dollars pay for black lung and silica lung diseases: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-05-black-lung-disease-surge-appalachia.html And more taxpayer spending: https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2019/illinois-house-and-senate-pass-landmark-legislation-to-clean-up-coal-ash And guess who is probably going to have to pay for their drinking water: https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article230215244.html
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    Russiagate

    DJL replied to billvon's topic in Speakers Corner

    This election will be interesting. After all of this if the Democratic Party can't field someone who can win the election then the Democratic Party needs to close shop.
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    You mean "Nationalists". See, we're pretending that the context of "Nationalist" doesn't refer to Nationalist Socialist German Worker's Party. Whoa, whoa, whoa, it's just a word that means you love your nation! Come on now, you don't hate your nation....do you?????
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    Which page or paragraph?
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    He was implying that the Government funded guy wasted money and didn't get any results. We showed that Langley's program DID actually get results and that while the Wrights take credit for using the free market they're one out of MANY who did not. That's a pretty good ratio on behalf of Govt' funding the "Experts". While Langley's airplane was garbage his program did yield the first actual generation of aircraft engines. That is a damned phenomenal outcome as far as putting your money in the right place. To take another case, what do we think would've happened if the Manhattan Project didn't happen and we left development of the nuclear bomb to the free market. Where would rocket technology and consequently telecommunications be if we didn't engage in the space race? There are many aeronautical advancements resulting from governments funding experts. The list is long but distinguished.
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    To summarize this entire topic, since nobody who is afraid of the GND has been able to quote a page or paragraph is it safe so say that this is just more people being afraid of AOC and her Lefty rhetoric?
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    There will never be any single thing that makes the benefits of a mixed system of power generation obsolete. Simply the inability to modulate a reactor over the full spectrum of demand makes nuke-only impossible. Next, while nuke energy has good applications we can only use it at the rate at which we can deal with its radioactive waste. In the scope of the existence of humanity remember that we just stopped using open flames indoors to see in the dark.
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    I know you read my post...while the airplane design he chose was a flop the engine created in his program REVOLUTIONIZED FLIGHT.
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    And the DeHavilland Comet was a commercial failure, and the Tucker car, and the many many many other privately funded engineers out there who tried to make flying machines. I mean, look at this second one, they're trying to use the side of a barn as a landing strip!
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    And to keep this on topic even more regarding Langley, he invented the Bolometer, a device used to measure precise changes in radiated temperature. This is what what further developed for use by another scientist in experiments as to how atmospheric CO2 changes temperature readings from the moon and thus in the Earth's atmosphere. He was literally the first scientist to show that CO2 in the quantities created by mankind could lead to a greenhouse effect. https://skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-co2-enhanced-greenhouse-effect.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius
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    I think we can find better examples of wasted federal dollars than an instance 100 years ago. Was the government wrong to invest in this technology? Seems like we're using a lot of airplanes these days. Do you know that the engine produced for Langley's work and paid for by these grants achieved a thrust to weight ratio far exceeding the Wright Brothers and at 50 hp vs their 12hp? EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manly–Balzer_engine
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    In the large scale that's why you don't go 100% solar.
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    Definitely. It was interesting seeing the difference between the 60's protesters and the modern protesters on the VT Yankee reactor. The old guys (not just age as there were older 'new thinkers') were purely anti-nuke everything, can't hug with nuclear arms, kind of people and the new ones are cognizant that there needs to be a mix. Right now I think VT is going for about 15% homes being powered by rooftop solar, there's a lot of biomass growth which has it's own issues, huge growth in wind but the state puts a very high value on it's trademark mountain tops. VT and NH and NY should think about another nuke plant somewhere in their neighborhood. The common denominator is that it's not easy but we have to try way fuckin' harder and the state has made huge gained with a very contentious set of people while everyone else in the country flounders.
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    If you don't mind, what's the comparison you're trying to make with Langley?
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    Ah, those glorious days of yore when the only thing we got mad about was the President mispronouncing everything and lying to the country to send us into an unwinnable conflict under the flag of blind patriotism. That's one thing I will say for T, while he lies about everything at least he is vocally and publicly against us tangling with Iran.
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    You're thinking CIA headquarters in Langley, VA, the George Bush Center for Intelligence. They should probably now specify "Sr." so people don't misunderestimate that it's named after his son.
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    Isn't he the guy who the government gave money to so he could design and experiment with wasteful....what were they called...aerodromes or aeroplanes or some such rubbish? SOCIALISM!!!
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    Yeah, pretty sure it was at least two turtles and a goose. At least. That's totally what's making people get rid of extraneous plastics like straws and bags.
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    What is your deal with trying to making everything about Vermont? They DO use both solar hydronic heating and PVs, as in rooftop solar collectors. I HAVE spent many winters in Vermont in the engineering and construction field on projects installing both.