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Old 04-26-2012, 04:59 PM
 
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Are you even from the US? It seems like English is your second language. Just curious...
Care to point out the areas where you have difficulty understanding? I mean, you made the point, surely you can show us all here how you were unable to discern the context of a given response because the delivery was improper?

Or were you simply attempting another ad homenin in hopes that people would be too stupid to see your obvious evasion?
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Old 04-26-2012, 05:02 PM
 
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It forces companies to at least pay some attention to externalities. Superfund clean-up isn't exactly cheap.
Any examples?

I am not saying there isn't "some" good they have achieved, I am merely asking if you know what those are and why?
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Old 04-26-2012, 05:10 PM
 
Location: Lakeside
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Care to point out the areas where you have difficulty understanding? I mean, you made the point, surely you can show us all here how you were unable to discern the context of a given response because the delivery was improper?

Or were you simply attempting another ad homenin in hopes that people would be too stupid to see your obvious evasion?
Most any of your posts are an example. You use an odd mixture of words and also use as many words as possible when far fewer would get your point across in a less confusing manner.
I'm probably not the only one who'd rather listen to your condescending and insulting horse poop than attempt to unravel your wordiness and answer you.

Of course, it could also be that you're not terribly educated or intelligent and think that being overly wordy will fool people into thinking you're smart. I have a brother in law like that. Poor guy. Hopefully it's just that you're from another country and English is your second language.
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Old 04-26-2012, 05:17 PM
 
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Any examples?
Hundreds, sadly. Love Canal ring a bell?

There's about 1300 sites on the Superfund priorities list: Final NPL Sites - by State | National Priorities List (NPL) | US EPA - and there's no reason the believe that's an exhaustive list at all.

Dealing with chemical waste or heavy metal soil contamination or any other type of pollutant costs money. And as the choice is to spend the money here-and-now vs. postponing the clean-up, guess which choice makes for the better quarterly report?

This isn't a theoretical exercise, we have clear evidence. When polluting is economically beneficial, companies will pollute.
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Old 04-26-2012, 05:26 PM
 
Location: WA
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Don't worry. It's a personal hypothesis only backed up by experience, not experiments. I'm not going to be publishing a paper on it in the Journal of Clinical Psychology.



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And what Is that hypothesis? Care to expand on it and then show for us here the process to which you establish such?

By all means, take us through the scientific process so all can see the proper means to which it establishes validation, verification, and replication!

(in case you were a little confused by the comment, it means... show your work!)

Or... should we expect a round of demands for appeal to your conclusion with unwillingness to provide the proper evidential support to your conclusions because:

"Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it." --Phil Jones

We will be waiting here oh so "scientific" one.
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Old 04-27-2012, 06:21 AM
 
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Most any of your posts are an example. You use an odd mixture of words and also use as many words as possible when far fewer would get your point across in a less confusing manner.
I'm probably not the only one who'd rather listen to your condescending and insulting horse poop than attempt to unravel your wordiness and answer you.

Of course, it could also be that you're not terribly educated or intelligent and think that being overly wordy will fool people into thinking you're smart. I have a brother in law like that. Poor guy. Hopefully it's just that you're from another country and English is your second language.

Again, I asked you to point out a specific where you were unable to understand, and you continue to critique on style while making insults.

I think we all know what the problem is here and it has nothing to do with petty evaluations of writing style. You aren't fooling anyone.
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Old 04-27-2012, 06:30 AM
 
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Don't worry. It's a personal hypothesis only backed up by experience, not experiments. I'm not going to be publishing a paper on it in the Journal of Clinical Psychology.

Your question was "You don't happen to like Ayn Rand, do you?", to which you concluded without obtaining in information to support it.

Experience is a component personally encountering or observing something. How are you able to use experience to establish your answer when I have not spoke of the topic in any discussion?

The answer is, you can't. All you are doing is making unfounded accusations.
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Old 04-27-2012, 06:39 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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Nomander in his comments is using Russian gramatical structure. As the preceeding sentence is like.
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Old 05-01-2012, 09:23 AM
 
Location: West Coast of Europe
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There is news that even small amounts of the common pesticide CPF/chlorpyrifos can lead to brain anomalies and retardation in children prenatally exposed to it.
This has nothing to do with Obama, though. The EPA has not acted on warnings from NGOs and others four and a half years ago.

Prenatal exposure to insecticide chlorpyrifos may alter infants' brain structure

I wonder if there is corruption involved. Who makes that stuff?
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Old 05-01-2012, 09:41 AM
 
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Can anyone explain to me why the EPA give huge fines to oil companies when a single bird gets killed but Windmill companies get a pass on the MILLION plus birds PER YEAR that they kill?
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