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Greenhouse gas plan inadequate
It's hard to imagine corporations doing the right thing just because it's the right thing. You say that used to be the case - I'm in my 40's so I'm younger than you but I certainly can't remember that day. The tax loopholes may be complicated and difficult to close in a fair way but I'm sure if congress had the intent they could find a way to do so. I'm not sure how you stop offshoring jobs - except I think some companies are finding it's not as easy as you think.— November 5, 2014 6:38 a.m.
Sweepstakes loser to be on "vacation" for months
Will you state the vote in terms of voters or in terms of percentages? Or should we have a vote on that too?— November 4, 2014 6:57 a.m.
Greenhouse gas plan inadequate
I think if Romney had made some attempt during his campaign to "come clean" so to speak he might have been able to win. He could have moved all his assets to domestic institutions (or at least to non-money laundering nations' institutions). But he didn't so either he has something to hide or he really doesn't think playing by financial rules is important. Or (most likely) both. I think this was one issue MR was out of touch with the public on.— November 4, 2014 5:36 a.m.
Greenhouse gas plan inadequate
Cause does not necessarily equal correlation. But since the housing market and stock market indices have traditionally been correlated to the economy representatives from the housing and securities industries have been able to convince government leaders to give their industries boatloads of money, using the specious reasoning that this would somehow be good for everyone. I think in the long run the effects have been very negative for most people - and for future sustainability.— November 2, 2014 6:36 p.m.
Greenhouse gas plan inadequate
I think the question about whether CA is whether a group of people should make a unilateral sacrifice in hopes of getting other groups to make the same sacrifice - OR negotiating with the other groups for everyone to make the same sacrifice. I can understand people who feel CA should do the right thing to do our part to stop climate change even if it means we are making unilateral sacrifices. But personally I would rather negotiate with other groups so that the change is everywhere. I think when there are large regions of the world with relaxed environmental standards then we just end up offshoring environmentally destructive activities. Maybe I'm being selfish about it, if so then so be it.— November 2, 2014 7:51 a.m.
Greenhouse gas plan inadequate
Oh and I think addressing housing development might be more effective than addressing transportation system. The government has long provided large incentives for people to buy large houses in the suburbs and we wonder why everyone has large houses with long commutes.— November 1, 2014 1:29 p.m.
Greenhouse gas plan inadequate
Sorry, but I'm not celebrating. Here's my wet blanket on the celebration: 1. While smog is certainly a local problem and local emissions will have a big impact on local smog, San Diego doesn't have much of a smog issue due to the wind patterns and topography. 2. Greenhouse gas emissions are a global issue but I think a global problem is better dealt with at a global level. The overall global impact of CA is only a small percentage of total world greenhouse gas emissions. I understand the idea is to set a good example but frankly I don't see China and India following the example. I could certainly be wrong on this one, perhaps the example will work. But I think in the long run money trumps everything and when developing nations look at the costs 3. I don't think government is usually good at picking winners and losers in technology. There is a clearly a BIG underlying ASSUMPTION by government environmentalists that solo automobile drivers are BAD must be punished - period. Thus, any idea that potentially eliminates solo drivers is considered good even when it doesn't necessarily work very well in practice (car pool lanes are a good example as shown in http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~varaiya/papers… ) There are potentially many vast reductions in automobile emissions over the next few decades - from alternative fuels to smart technology which could potentially allow cars to safely take advantage of drafting effects. Rather than picking winners and losers I think the government should provide incentives and/or disincentives to shape the motivation of the technology improvements. Higher fuel taxes would seem to be the most obvious solution to me although those can be regressive taxes so some way to alleviate the burden on lower-income folks needs to be found.— November 1, 2014 1:05 p.m.
Warm weather or not, Coleman can't cool controversy
I think "Man-made Climate Change" is a much better term to use than Global Warming. There is absolutely no dispute that man-made activity has caused large changes to atmospheric C02 levels, ocean pH levels and ozone layer. These things are all fairly easy to prove by measurable data. Man-made climate change is clearly a big concern and is likely to be a major problem at some point. As to temperature, there are a lot of things that effect temperature, both man-made and natural and a lot of random variation. I think the term "global warming" leads to a lot of unscientific arguments from both sides of the (so-called) debate where one random and statistically insignificant data point is taken as supposed evidence - "Look, it was a really hot and dry summer - must be global warming" or "Record low winter temperatures, global warming must be a lie".— October 31, 2014 6:39 a.m.
General Atomics considers India
Offshoring has officially jumped the shark.— October 27, 2014 1:19 p.m.
Rams most likely to go to L.A.
I think the effects of jet lag are more serious than you seem to suggest. Per wikipedia, "The condition of jet lag may last several days until one is fully adjusted to the new time zone, and a recovery rate of one day per time zone crossed is a suggested guideline. " Personally, it took me about a week to get acclimated to a European time zone the few times I've gone. Maybe with the time and budget an NFL team has they can pull out all the stops with lighting changes and keeping players hotel rooms dark during day so that the players' Circadian rhythms can stay sync'd to the American time zone and they won't get super tired. But I think it is a challenge.— October 24, 2014 8:58 p.m.