If we're thinking about the most useful thing to do with rooftops, I think green roofs are a very important option. They decrease pollution, help with temperature moderation, and can even supply local food in the middle of cities. It's probably easier to ship in energy than food.
About copyrights, you're correct that their existence is very important, but the US has a bad habit of extending them. Apparently, every few years the copyright on Mickey Mouse comes close to expiring, and Disney convinces Congress to tack another decade onto copyright. It's probably not just Disney, but that was they company in terms of which the problem was explained to me. Past the lifespan of the artist, copyright is no longer fair. It's for artists' benefit, not companies'. But of course, everything in America is for companies' benefit these days. Silly me!
A lot of the time when people talk about a shift to public transport they mention the retooling that auto companies did for WWII. They managed some major shifts in production lines then, to the benefit of them and our economy. I don't know much about the topic, but it sounds like the kind of manufacturing shift we'd need to go from cars to rail is not impossible.
I hadn't hear the noise objection as regards to wind power before. It seems odd. You have to be fairly close to a turbine to hear it, don't you? I think people make up objections sometimes. I've heard people put up the unsightly objection when they'd barely be able to see the turbines! I really don't know what's wrong with some people.
Someone probably replied to the one that happened 36 minutes ago. New comments bump threads back to the top.
We ARE part of the Civil Rights movement. The movement for gay marriage is a movement to give a minority a civil right.
Also, that "choosing to sin" think is wrong. Do you choose to fall in love? Do you think I do? Do you think I choose to nearly get whiplash every time I walk by someone with the same hair as someone I'm in love with? She has beautiful hair, long and blond, and I want to see her so much that every time I walk by someone a little bit like her I nearly get whiplash because for a moment I imagine it's her. Do you think I choose this? Do you really think it hurts anyone? Aside from my neck, occasionally.
I think a lot of the hurt you're seeing is not because people think it's African Americans' fault that Prop 8 passed, but that we're sad to see people who struggled so hard for civil rights not have sympathy for other people struggling for their civil rights.
I believe you're right, and I think that Obama chose Warren on the basis of the same calculation. You sound awfully hostile about it, though. It's a misfortune for everyone that we're getting kicked to the curb because of electoral math, not a sign that us minorities should shut up and stop whining. Do you realize that?
They've only just put it up, I assume they'll go through it and correct the numerous bugs in a few days. Right, website editors? RIGHT?
There's a difference between legitimate but differing opinions and unreasoning hatred. Being a hateful, bigoted, cruel person is not a legitimate differing viewpoint, it is a pathology of the human mind that the Civil Rights movement has been fighting for decades.
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