But. . . but. . . wutabout the DANGER!?!?!
What a load of shit. There's been "danger" ever since Ugg tied a sharp rock to his stick. You engineer for it.
I once actually won an argument over nuclear power. Rare. Usually you can marshal every fact in the universe. . . makes no difference. As the saying goes "One convinced against their will/Is of the same opinion still."
In this case, however, I pointed out that over 400,000 deaths per year...
That's a take-off on an iPhone ad that's running down here is South Canada. Exact same thing. . . two kids outside the parents' bedroom door listening to them as they talk in glowing terms about the new iPhone, and thinking they're boinking.
Of course it's not an OUTRAGE when a big company...
Funny how it's child-rearing except when it scares you.
You sound like the folk when I was a kid having a damn stroke over any kind of sex ed, and writing outraged letters to the FCC when Kirk and Uhura kissed on Star Trek.
Yep, so am I. And wind, and tidal, and hydro, and tying li'l teeny generators to the tails of compulsively wagging little dogs.
Whatever works. I'm not religious.
No country that considers war and peace, crime and punishment, human rights, physical and economic well-being, and freedom of thought and expression to be less important than who pees where deserves to be a democracy.
It's a transition to a new energy source. Not exactly the first time. Just think when we all started running our lives and economies on this newfangled "petroleum," switching from good ol' whale-oil and firewood.
Heh-heh. Set up a powerless talking shop, and then piss and moan about shutting it down because it's a powerless talking shop.
How quickly do you expect the UN to grow into a superstate that has the power to overrule the actions of legitimately-elected national governments?