Naw. He wouldn't dare. His wife does not tolerate kind of nasty.

Well, I suggest he wrap his head in aluminum foil to solve part of his problem. The rest is because his wife beats the crap out of him a little more than necessary.

I was thinking Matt was undergoing a transgender incarnation.

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Any idea why, when I try to download the youtube version clearly labeled with English subtitles and plays English subtitles correctly in my browser, has French subtitles when downloaded? I am stumped.

@Alien: In my comments on China's choice, a decision to accept pollution, I used the word "capital" but to make it understandable for you I should have used "money" to make it easier for you to understand. In my mind, "capital" is a finite resource, measured in money terms, which is limited and subject to allocation. "Money" is something printed, or otherwise created, by government fiat, and while seeming limitless can be easily debased.

Your infantile references to Capitalism are unthinking, display ignorance, and are jingoistic at best. Thinkers, or Non-Thinkers, of your ilk succumb to ideology to without regard to context. Stringing $2 words together in unintelligent syntax may impress yourself but you don't add much to the discourse. No. Disregard that. You have every right to babble in incomplete sentences jingoistic or not.

Pollution is an economic issue. This is my hypothesis based on a lot of reading and observations in the US and China. I used to say ignorance was an excuse but have decided that folks with enough money to pollute just are not ignorant enough to pollute without calculating the current economic benefits of doing so.

No matter the economic system or ideology pollution control, prevention or abatement, simply increases the current cost of production to clean up waste water and decontaminate solid waste. Today's costs, objectively measured and known, reduce the rewards to today's producers to the hypothetical benefit of future society.

A society or governing system has, at any given moment, a finite amount of capital. This society or governing system must allocate the use of its capital in ways to the benefit of the society or governing system. The method of allocation is core to the society or governing system and depends on the ideological values employed.

If a society or governing system decides a single yardstick is to be used measure success, then a sort of tunnel vision takes hold. If this yardstick rewards current, short term, goals the results will be achieved with little concern for other factors, economic or social, not measured by the yardstick. The emphasis on a single measurement has advantages particularly for command economies. It provides an easily understood focus for economic gain and if the planners are clever, many other economic components will also benefit.

If a society or governing system uses propaganda to promote and celebrate its yardstick then uses coercion to stifle persons with other concern by detaining and jailing them and otherwise eliminate dissent, the yardstick is safe.

If a society or governing system perceives a competing society or governing system in terms of the same yardstick and tends to focus on that yardstick to the detriment of other metrics, distortions begin to appear. If a society or governing system observes the competing society or governing system has more, is doing better, it may try to emulate some parts of the perceived successful competitor. Concurrently, it may express its envy by assuming a victim's posture.

If a society or governing system adopts an ideology, and resolutely proclaims ideological superiority, and supports the ideology with propaganda, "man made" statistics, and disregard for human suffering, it begins to acquire a lot of unintended consequences. These unintended consequences can produce unbearable pressures on the captive masses and will ultimately result in result in social instability.