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And need I remind you all that the US Stock market began hitting ALL TIME HIGHS (meaning these corporations were HYPER CAPITALIZED by investors and cash-flush for years before this recent "tax break") How much is enough in the race for ultra-profit? How smart is it to harm your primary...

Well, it's clear you aren't reading for content. SO let me clarify it for you: I would feel sad. But the point of all commerce is NO SIDE is the only one of importance. If he opened a bicycle shop he would need customers and workers. Just as much as the customers would need him to supply...

[Staff edit]. You act like I wouldn't understand that despite my having spent >20 years as a researcher for companies with multiple patents to my name. OF COURSE I understand that! LOL! My point is that there are obvious LIMITS. You seem to be espousing a position in which profit is the be...

It saddens me when people don't know American history. Obama was basically just channeling a similar thing said by Teddy Roosevelt. If you don't think Obama was thinking that far ahead, perhaps you are the one who wasn't listening with an historically informed ear? Hmmm.....

I was making a "joke" there. Unwind a bit. Take a breather. *staff edit*

So why don't they just use slave labor? My point being: there are obvious limits to all things. You and I have NEVER (thank God) lived in a pure laissez faire free market. It would be a living hellscape. The closest we could probably see in US history was the Gilded Age. So if I run a...

I note the operant word there "was". Well, considering that you probably had the usual misunderstanding about it, let me help you! If you "built" a bicycle shop you used ROADS and ELECTRICAL GRIDS which allowed you to establish a business. You had clean drinking water and safe food and drugs...

It is debatable (or so I've read) how legally binding the duty to shareholders is vs the overall workforce etc. But I agree "this is reality". But just because it happens doesn't mean it is "good". That's the point. Sure Apple can play all sorts of tax games with Ireland etc. But in the end...

LOLOL! These companies owe us EVERYTHING, M-Bob! They don't exist without us buying their stuff! And they CERTAINLY don't exist without the workers. Why do you think Apple uses Chinese labor? It's CHEEEEEP and we Americans don't have to care about how awful the working conditions could be...

If God were involved I think TIm Cook et al would have done the "right" thing even without someone giving them money. But then I am not a good Christian, so I keep forgetting how powerful the real God of America is (Mammon).

Moar koolaid please! Sorry but over the last 30+ years the wealth of folks like TIm Cook has increased dramatically while YOURS AND MY salaries remained relatively stagnant. The middle class salary has essentially plateaued over the last 30 years. Meanwhile the "prosperity" of which you speak...

Just curious why you are thanking Trump when instead you should have been excoriating Apple for wanting to be an American company but not pay their fair share of the bill for this great country. Huh. You see these corporations have been holding the American worker and the economy hostage and...

Huh? You are familiar with blackbody temps, right? Stefan-Boltzmann Equation. I think we all get it: you don't understand what is measured or tracked. What is tracked is the temperature anomaly. The deviation of a set of temperature measurements taken at a location and compared to a...

I live on planet earth. ON planet earth excess water vapor can re-equilibrate to a lower level very quickly. We call it precipitation. Also on planet earth excess CO2 in the atmosphere has to rely on the CARBON CYCLE which operates much slower to remove excess. ALSO, on planet earth...

Whatta ya wanna bet we'll see the usual McIntyre and McKitrick critique of Mann? At least that would be interesting to discuss. But I'll probably be let down per usual by online climate skeptics. -sigh-

What, specifically, was "debunked" of Mann's work? (Don't worry I know you won't answer this, and you won't provide any specifics. But I thought I'd ask). That would be refreshing but I highly doubt you will do it.

So are you saying you actually do read the science you just choose to go with the usual litany of de-bunked anti-science bloggers like Anthony Watts? Earlier you said that reading the science was "boring".

Technically speaking it would be an ad hominem if people said that no one can trust you because you are a dude with a bird in your photo and everyone knows you can't trust that kind of person. Right now I'm hypothesizing that you don't really know much of anything about this particular topics...

Why does that surprise you? Are you unaware that the earth is about 75% covered by water and that water has specific heat? You work in chemistry. Surely you've used a calorimeter before! ...and again, you really need to better understand statistics as well as data quality control for this...

It can, but it is rare, and unfortunately the specific details actually often require a lot of in-depth understanding. Take for instance Almostthere's repeated points about Michael Mann. Most skeptics like to point to the hockey stick as a bone of contention. However in order to understand...