How exactly did hurricane katrina change how oil companies charge for gas? Let me try!
The Federal Government did not override Louisiana's state rights, and this can be spun as "bad Federal response."
The head of the national government is President George W. Bush!
George Bush does everything for oil. He's talking to Benny 16th today about oil. He has the White House chef fry chicken in Light Sweet Crude for that West Texas flavor.
Therefore, the oil companies are evil. Halliburton!
I'm particularly concerned with the O'Reillyization of our political discourse. The manufactured anger. The one-sided reporting. Automatically assuming the absolute worst intentions of your opponents instead of assuming that they just have a principled disagreement with you. This was a problem before O'Reilly had his entertainment program.
Tim Russert worked for Moynihan. Chris Matthews worked for Muskie. Ever since the 1920s duh left has controlled political discourse with one-sided reporting and manufactured anger. PBS allowed us our singular token non-lefty Buckley, and that was it.
Want a modern example? President George W. Bush. If you can't see the vast majority of reportage about him is one-sided manufactured anger then you're a complete imbecile.
If a Democrat had done everything President George W. Bush has done, he would be lauded by Duh Media as the best President in American history.
Even diamonds are not tough enough... Above 1700 C (1973 K / 3583 F) diamonds are converted into graphite. Though their ability to conduct heat might make them valuable components in a heat moving system.
the highest award that scientists give, a nobel prize, have been given to the global warming researchers. nobel committee consist of top of the field, topmost of the top, top of the flock (insert whatever here) scientists, and they dont give out any prizes to doubtable stuff. The UN's IPCC was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize not a Nobel science prize.
For context, Jimmy Carter (who is a piece of shit) and Yasser Arafat have Nobel Piss Prizes. It is a joke.
The Nobel science prizes are not yet jokes, but are increasingly funny.
When an ally calls for help sweden will use this to be able to bend over properly and hand over any domestic information about the targets living in sweden. Does Sweden reserve the right to search persons and possessions at its borders?
If so, then why cannot Sweden search communications that cross its borders?
Supposedly, much of Fermilab's current budget problems can be blamed on the retirement of Dennis Hastert. So this is part of the Dummycrat War on Physics going all the way back to cancelling the SSC if not before.
Also the Dummycrat Party is the anti-nuke party, and are mostly to blame for the United States' lack of breeder reactors, which means we burn more coal, so the Dummycrat Big Ed and Dummycrat Press make paid celebrities out of a few whiny soi-disant scientists bitching about a problem, which if it exists at all, they themselves created.
I don't know if rank hypocrisy deserves to be a capital offense, but maybe sending these fat-and-happy morons to an Egyptian food riot would serve them right!
That's not eugenics... That's just genetic screening.
Eugenics is the process of sterilizing "lesser" peoples, such as the poor, and non-white, because of the (false) theory that their offspring were doomed to be similarly intellectually handicapped, regardless of the amount of education they received. You're talking about particular implementations of eugenics, not eugenics itself.
I think grampaw is trying to draw a distinction between voluntary eugenics and involuntary eugenics.
A bad analogue would perhaps be, the difference between a volunteer military and a conscript military.
Peacock tails are the result of peahens' idea of eugenics. Maybe we can do better, maybe not.
But when a government gets involved, it's gonna suck.
the Erdos number is based on academic co-authorship, and the Bacon number is based on actors' appearances Those are just different academies, becoming more and more alike!
Are you suggesting just sit back and wait for it? You have correctly expressed the Democrat attitude toward national security.
At least since the Communist Lee Harvey Oswald shot the brains out of the Democrat Party, turning them into the Dummycrat Party.
Our enemies have learned that the way to defeat America is to buy the Dummycrats. Look how much was bought with a Trip for Three to Saddam's Baghdad! The press still won't report America's successes, years after Saddam, because of the enormous goodwill the Democrats felt towards Saddam because he bought Bonior, McDermott, and Johnson.
Did you "create" the land you own ? [blahblahblah] No matter how far back you follow the chain, nobody did. It was simply there. At some point somebody stuck a flag in it and said "This is mine, for no reason whatsoever other than that I'll kick your butt if you try taking it", and made that stick. Land without people belongs to that state of constant warfare called "nature" where territory is marked with urine and feces - in other words, the Anarchist Utopia.
Land is without value until a human does something with it. Sets it aside as a park, parks a tank on it to keep Anarchists out of the park, grows a garden beside the park, digs a mine under the park, or otherwise uses the land.
To avoid running short of urine and feces, humans have invented various methods of marking territory. "Nebo, protect my boundary stone" is the meaning of the name "Nebuchadnezzar." Moving a boundary stone was punishable by death!
This was an early and brutal reflection of a fundamental truth, good fences make good neighbors. The fences don't have to be physical unless some agents human or animal cannot respect Property.
Even the Berlin Wall was built to make people respect property rights: the State owned the people and could not have them wandering away like errant livestock.
The alternative to Property is the alternative to Civilization, that is constant warfare and death liberally strewn with urine and feces. Purely animal existence.
It should be legal to shoot adult Anarchists. And obviously I am talking about the capital-A variety not jazz musicians! Children should at least be exposed to History to prevent their becoming dead meat^H^H^H^H adult Anarchists.
can we please spare the feckless comments on injuring birds Nope. The environmentalists buttered their bread and now they have to lie in it. For over a century they have whined about every overspecialized subspecies being "endangered."
Now it's time to use their own bullshit against them. It is time to shut down every idiotic "green" project by any means necessary. Building a wind farm? Expect to hear every single lie told about conventional power thrown back in your face.
All those power lines leaking radiation into the environment!
Wind turbines have huge carbon footprints because of their refined metal content. The only carbon-neutral wind turbines are made of wood.
The iron used in wind turbines has a half-life of billions of years!
The quantum flux caused by their rotating magnets makes eggshells thinner.
The vanes mix the air and cause acid rain.
Electricity from wind turbines has been shown to cause moleculitis in kids.
Using dozens of tiny generators instead of one big generator puts tons more negative ions into the atmosphere. Or is it positive ions? It better not be neutral ions, because those are pure poison.
-- Usually, I am against using lies to counter lies. The corrective for lies is truth. But in this case, I expect the creative use of lies to illustrate previous lies will be funny as hell, because it is so deserved.
As a chronic insomniac, I'm never THAT awake, but after two hours of sleep and a provigil, I'm awake enough to drive and take exams. It was bumping into a concrete column in a parking garage that convinced me to get specialist advice regarding insomnia. It took a while to find the right specialist.
After a year of experimentation with Classic Insomnia Medications we tried mirtazapine (brand is Remeron by Organon), which was invented as a tetracyclic antidepressant but is finding use otherwise, both on- and off-label depending on geography.
For my insomnia, mirtazapine works as well as the Classics. But with one important distinction - no tolerance. The same dose every night! No need to start the week low, end high, and stay off for the weekend. I developed a regular sleep schedule, a luxury I had never before experienced in my life.
My worst side effect is munchies, and I suggest keeping a box of low-calorie munchies like cheerios handy. If there are other side effects, I haven't noticed.
For energy during the day, I don't need anything stronger than lo-carb Monster or coffee plus B vitamins. That's because I can sleep at night.
huge pharmaceutical companies pay chemical engineers to find a cheap method to produce something found in nature, and thus their quantum structure, and even their chemical composition, can be altered [emphasis added] How does bullshit like this get modded "4 Insightful" ?
A chemical engineer is going to alter quantum structure?
Without Heisenberg compensators?!
Wait, wait, I think I see why an idiot would waste mod points calling this moron "insightful...."
huge pharmaceutical companies There it is! What a perfect example of education we have here. Bitch about companies and you get an A in any subject!
if they discover oil in antarctica There's no "if" about it: there is oil in Antarctica. 50 billion barrels under the Weddell and Ross seas alone. Untold billions of barrels under the interior.
Also coal and uranium. If it makes a good fuel, Antarctica's got it!
And soon, the real needs of Humanity will outweigh the religious zealotry which has kept Antarctica undeveloped cold and crappy.
a proper turf war a la the falklands war between nationalist forces. perhaps argentina versus china. That's funny. Argentina may have claims on Antarctica, but would last about two months against China, and the Chicoms are not nice people like the British: Argentina proper will end up Chinese territory if they dare challenge China over something vital as oil.
small problem of who will dig it up. which will of course be outsourced to one of the international oil cartels. go ahead, pick one. bp. shell. exxon. Likely each section of the oilfields will be leased to the company or combination of companies best able to produce that particular section. They often prove their intent by outbidding their competitors.
If you think these companies are cartels, you can buy a piece of the action. If you think they misbehave, you can buy shares and vote to correct them.
Which is much, much better than dealing with a real fucking cartel, OPEC, which is aligned with questionable and even downright evil governments like Iran and Venezuela.
uggh. the future. citizens ruled by corporations. no thanks Typical.
This is the same guy planning to drain the Olligalla (sp?) aquifer to supply southern texas with water. Ogallala is doomed, and was doomed before Boone was a little boy. 30% of the nation's irrigation water comes out of it.
last remaining bits of wilderness in north America There are millions of acres of wilderness in North America.
Really, a little measuring and multiplying should convince even the most idiotic environmentalist that there are millions of square miles of wilderness in North America. One or two million, easy. Even a lot of agricultural land is wilderness, much less developed than National Parks!
Since you obviously cannot go outside for whatever reason, fire up Google Earth and look at all the damn wilderness.
By lying about "last remaining wilderness," you keep people from using it. You, with your lies, have increased the price of gasoline ever so slightly. Multiply you by some tens of millions -- casually stupid environmental idiots -- and there you go $3.80 gasoline.
Why has not a refinery been built in the United States since Jimmy Carter (who is a piece of shit) was president? Useless environmentalist idiots.
Every time you prevent an oil well from being drilled, a baby in Chicago goes to sleep hungry. Or something like that.
If you cannot follow that chain of causality, your head is up your ass so far I cannot help.
whether the result is "sexual" or "explicit", and are we going to get a comprehensive and exhaustive list ahead of time If you use "I/O" (the three glyphs), that is sexual because the "I" looks like a ***** and the "O" like a *****.
So, if you use lower case letters in "I/O" that is obviously kiddie porn!
I don't even want to think about "Garbage In, Garbage Out."
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The Federal Government did not override Louisiana's state rights, and this can be spun as "bad Federal response."
The head of the national government is President George W. Bush!
George Bush does everything for oil. He's talking to Benny 16th today about oil. He has the White House chef fry chicken in Light Sweet Crude for that West Texas flavor.
Therefore, the oil companies are evil. Halliburton!
Q.E.F.D.
Tim Russert worked for Moynihan. Chris Matthews worked for Muskie. Ever since the 1920s duh left has controlled political discourse with one-sided reporting and manufactured anger. PBS allowed us our singular token non-lefty Buckley, and that was it.
Want a modern example? President George W. Bush. If you can't see the vast majority of reportage about him is one-sided manufactured anger then you're a complete imbecile.
If a Democrat had done everything President George W. Bush has done, he would be lauded by Duh Media as the best President in American history.
Or yellow.
Brane and brane, what is brane?!
The ants are laughing at your puny organization scheme.
It should be legal to shoot a socialist on sight. They really are sub-human vermin.
For context, Jimmy Carter (who is a piece of shit) and Yasser Arafat have Nobel Piss Prizes. It is a joke.
The Nobel science prizes are not yet jokes, but are increasingly funny.
If so, then why cannot Sweden search communications that cross its borders?
Ronald Reagan invented the modren Internet. It is a byproduct of SDI.
Yeah, great guy. No wonder the Democrat Party is running a Hussein, they loved Saddam so much.
Programming? Isn't that what high school is for?
Also the Dummycrat Party is the anti-nuke party, and are mostly to blame for the United States' lack of breeder reactors, which means we burn more coal, so the Dummycrat Big Ed and Dummycrat Press make paid celebrities out of a few whiny soi-disant scientists bitching about a problem, which if it exists at all, they themselves created.
I don't know if rank hypocrisy deserves to be a capital offense, but maybe sending these fat-and-happy morons to an Egyptian food riot would serve them right!
Eugenics is the process of sterilizing "lesser" peoples, such as the poor, and non-white, because of the (false) theory that their offspring were doomed to be similarly intellectually handicapped, regardless of the amount of education they received. You're talking about particular implementations of eugenics, not eugenics itself.
I think grampaw is trying to draw a distinction between voluntary eugenics and involuntary eugenics.
A bad analogue would perhaps be, the difference between a volunteer military and a conscript military.
Peacock tails are the result of peahens' idea of eugenics. Maybe we can do better, maybe not.
But when a government gets involved, it's gonna suck.
I have a low Elvis Number of about 5 or 6, certainly below 10.
Does anybody know what Elvis Presley's Erdos number is?
At least since the Communist Lee Harvey Oswald shot the brains out of the Democrat Party, turning them into the Dummycrat Party.
Our enemies have learned that the way to defeat America is to buy the Dummycrats. Look how much was bought with a Trip for Three to Saddam's Baghdad! The press still won't report America's successes, years after Saddam, because of the enormous goodwill the Democrats felt towards Saddam because he bought Bonior, McDermott, and Johnson.
Treason is the highest form of patriotism!
Land is without value until a human does something with it. Sets it aside as a park, parks a tank on it to keep Anarchists out of the park, grows a garden beside the park, digs a mine under the park, or otherwise uses the land.
To avoid running short of urine and feces, humans have invented various methods of marking territory. "Nebo, protect my boundary stone" is the meaning of the name "Nebuchadnezzar." Moving a boundary stone was punishable by death!
This was an early and brutal reflection of a fundamental truth, good fences make good neighbors. The fences don't have to be physical unless some agents human or animal cannot respect Property.
Even the Berlin Wall was built to make people respect property rights: the State owned the people and could not have them wandering away like errant livestock.
The alternative to Property is the alternative to Civilization, that is constant warfare and death liberally strewn with urine and feces. Purely animal existence.
It should be legal to shoot adult Anarchists. And obviously I am talking about the capital-A variety not jazz musicians! Children should at least be exposed to History to prevent their becoming dead meat^H^H^H^H adult Anarchists.
Now it's time to use their own bullshit against them. It is time to shut down every idiotic "green" project by any means necessary. Building a wind farm? Expect to hear every single lie told about conventional power thrown back in your face.
All those power lines leaking radiation into the environment!
Wind turbines have huge carbon footprints because of their refined metal content. The only carbon-neutral wind turbines are made of wood.
The iron used in wind turbines has a half-life of billions of years!
The quantum flux caused by their rotating magnets makes eggshells thinner.
The vanes mix the air and cause acid rain.
Electricity from wind turbines has been shown to cause moleculitis in kids.
Using dozens of tiny generators instead of one big generator puts tons more negative ions into the atmosphere. Or is it positive ions? It better not be neutral ions, because those are pure poison.
--
Usually, I am against using lies to counter lies. The corrective for lies is truth. But in this case, I expect the creative use of lies to illustrate previous lies will be funny as hell, because it is so deserved.
Hoist by their own petard. Hehe, I said "petard."
After a year of experimentation with Classic Insomnia Medications we tried mirtazapine (brand is Remeron by Organon), which was invented as a tetracyclic antidepressant but is finding use otherwise, both on- and off-label depending on geography.
For my insomnia, mirtazapine works as well as the Classics. But with one important distinction - no tolerance. The same dose every night! No need to start the week low, end high, and stay off for the weekend. I developed a regular sleep schedule, a luxury I had never before experienced in my life.
My worst side effect is munchies, and I suggest keeping a box of low-calorie munchies like cheerios handy. If there are other side effects, I haven't noticed.
For energy during the day, I don't need anything stronger than lo-carb Monster or coffee plus B vitamins. That's because I can sleep at night.
Mithra-Zapine is my Savior.
A chemical engineer is going to alter quantum structure?
Without Heisenberg compensators?!
Wait, wait, I think I see why an idiot would waste mod points calling this moron "insightful...." huge pharmaceutical companies There it is! What a perfect example of education we have here. Bitch about companies and you get an A in any subject!
Also coal and uranium. If it makes a good fuel, Antarctica's got it!
And soon, the real needs of Humanity will outweigh the religious zealotry which has kept Antarctica undeveloped cold and crappy. a proper turf war a la the falklands war between nationalist forces. perhaps argentina versus china. That's funny. Argentina may have claims on Antarctica, but would last about two months against China, and the Chicoms are not nice people like the British: Argentina proper will end up Chinese territory if they dare challenge China over something vital as oil. small problem of who will dig it up. which will of course be outsourced to one of the international oil cartels. go ahead, pick one. bp. shell. exxon. Likely each section of the oilfields will be leased to the company or combination of companies best able to produce that particular section. They often prove their intent by outbidding their competitors.
If you think these companies are cartels, you can buy a piece of the action. If you think they misbehave, you can buy shares and vote to correct them.
Which is much, much better than dealing with a real fucking cartel, OPEC, which is aligned with questionable and even downright evil governments like Iran and Venezuela. uggh. the future. citizens ruled by corporations. no thanks Typical.
Really, a little measuring and multiplying should convince even the most idiotic environmentalist that there are millions of square miles of wilderness in North America. One or two million, easy. Even a lot of agricultural land is wilderness, much less developed than National Parks!
Since you obviously cannot go outside for whatever reason, fire up Google Earth and look at all the damn wilderness.
By lying about "last remaining wilderness," you keep people from using it. You, with your lies, have increased the price of gasoline ever so slightly. Multiply you by some tens of millions -- casually stupid environmental idiots -- and there you go $3.80 gasoline.
Why has not a refinery been built in the United States since Jimmy Carter (who is a piece of shit) was president? Useless environmentalist idiots.
Every time you prevent an oil well from being drilled, a baby in Chicago goes to sleep hungry. Or something like that.
If you cannot follow that chain of causality, your head is up your ass so far I cannot help.
(I must admit pro-DARPA bias, our contract monitor once bought me a really nice hamburger!)
So, if you use lower case letters in "I/O" that is obviously kiddie porn!
I don't even want to think about "Garbage In, Garbage Out."