The whole "conserving stuff" thing indeed went out of fashion lately with that crowd. Except for "conserving" antebellum white male privilege, that is.
Yeah, engines are another topic. It pisses me off to hear the topic always in conjunction with storage. As for the engines - instead of making the whole block of more expensive alloys, you can simply use more resilient cylinder liners. Ceramic liners are an example.
Probably, yes. The interesting question is, given that we based all of it on fossil fuel use for now, do we have the time left to switch to sustainable energy production, which would allow us to keep that population number? If not, we are facing exactly the predicted crash scenario. Being theoretically sustainable doesn't put food on the table, after all.
Have a look at statistics showing produced amount vs. rig count. Rig count is increasing for years now without any rise in production. Easily extracted oil is gone. We are at the hard to extract, low EROEI crap now. That the gold price is out of whack these days is a completely separate issue.
Your meds. Take them. Ozone? Acid Rain? Largely fixed because of those warnings and because of no one listening to denialist idiots. Global cooling? Never seriously been predicted. Compare the word frequencies over a large english corpus here. Well, watch out for those black helicopters. If you let your attention slip for just one second, the global government will get you. Comrade.
Uhm, might it be that we actually reduced sulfur dioxide emissions by a huge margin since the 80s, precisely because of those warnings? By the way, by a mechanism called cap and trade?
Please, could we stop that hydrogen embrittlement nonsense? That stuff came up about a year ago in some slashdot discussion and subsequently has been parroted over and over again. Hydrogen embrittlement happens at high temperatures, i.e. when you get hydrogen to diffuse into your steel while forming it, in a glowing hot state (as you can read in your own link). At room temperature, it is negligible. I used to work in a lab with a hydrogen installation for years - not like it crumbled under our hands.
In the case of the physician, he got my consent. In the case of the mortician, my consent isn't worth a rat's arse. In the case of the jail guard playing power games - well, if you can't see that there is a perfectly different situation there, the problem is on your side.
Yes. In particular the accumulation of wealth by the already wealthy and the widening of the already too wide gap between rich and poor. That's why they are too low at the moment.
If a pointless bodily humiliation of a person falsely jailed and, even so, still under the presumption of innocence, does not constitute sexual abuse, I wonder what will. They picked up a guy for an allegedly non-paid ticket. Do you think it a reasonable assumption that he has a shiv up his arse? Twice in a week? That was not about searching him, that was about humiliating him and establishing dominance. Power games using his body and shame. Sexual abuse, in other words.
Aye, that's about all there is to reasonable dieting. Been in the same boat. Today, I just follow a simple "eat no crap" policy. I cook my own stuff, no ready-made ingredients, fresh produce, meat, poultry, whatever, keeping a rough eye on the calories. No fad behind it. I do avoid ready-made stuff - it usually provides more calories per portion that I do find satisfying than home-cooked stuff. Sure, I am not ideological about it, and I do occasionally give in to some industrial snack-crap, but if you do not let that dominate your diet, you'll see the weight and the blood analysis drift toward what it should be. That's all there is to it. Don't eat crap.
The thing that strikes me as most weird about the US system are "sick days". As if sicknesses had a schedule. If you are sick, you are sick. If the doctors order you home, you stay home. We have a limit on how long the employer has to pay before your insurance steps in, but you typically don't count that separately - it really only kicks in if you get seriously ill with a capital S and I. Regarding vacations, apart from the 12 or something major holidays, you typically start with 20-something days of paid vacation around here. I got 28 at the moment. Also, unpaid overtime? No way. And, working as a patent engineer in a law firm, I am not even unionized. Leads to employees happily going on a Deathmarch if a Deathmarch is warranted, but usually dropping their stuff at 5 pm. Work gets done, economy doesn't crash...;)
Well, I am German. Yes, Merkel happens to be the chancellor. She also happens to be a spineless piece of shit, like most of our conservatards, who occasionally spouts bullcrap about Christian values to keep the CDU-voting mouthbreathers happy and is, apart from that, busy lining the pockets of their political donors. Business as usual. As for Chomsky, I said he pisses me off half of the time. Most of his social commentary, I tend to agree on. When it gets to international relations, though, he appears more often than not to wear certain ideological blinders. Good day, anyway.
You need to learn discerning rhetorics from actual political action. Sure, our local conservatards love to spout undoubtedly racist crap about "the christian values and fundaments" of the EU, but still, the accession process runs quite separately from their frothing bullshit. No doubt there is racism here - show me any one society without. It is not institutionalized to the point of majorly influencing political decisions, though. Also, Chomsky? The guy manages to piss me off about half of the time, and I am a couple of lightyears left from centre....
Turkey gets in as soon as it fulfills the criteria everyone else has to fulfill. In particular, they will have to accept the sovereignty of Cyprus, which is already EU member. Can't really take someone into the club who won't agree upon the legitimacy of a doubtlessly legitimate other club member. Apart from that there is a certain lack of human rights in Turkey, which has to change before the accession talks proceed any further. The same criteria apply for every other aspiring member, so there is hardly any racism involved. I'd be careful to throw around accusations of racisms when using words like "islamofascism" myself...
As far as I know, not significantly cheaper, unfortunately, if not more expensive. At least a couple of years ago, reimporting was often a better deal than buying in Germany. Crap... gotta do that USPTO shit by myself, by the looks of it;)
Yeah. Islamofascists on every street corner here. Eh, wait, that's just the guy I buy my groceries from, and the guy I buy the occasional DÃner from. They even sell beer. And a cheap-ass barber, who is a pretty funny guy. Most of us don't shit ourselves if we see a Turkish, Levantine or Arabic looking face, you know.
Well, I am German, not Norwegian. Still no strip searches and shit like that here. If you promise to take care of the pile of USPTO office actions swamping my desk, I'll sponsor you. And buy you a beer. Or two. Bavarian beer.
P.S. Excuse the harshness up there. I seriously was under the impression you wanted to make a point with a yahoo answers link, which sent me into full WTF-mode.
Thanks. I'll have a look at it later - bit pressed for time atm. At least that looks a good bit better than what Bing gave me. Never used it before, so I probably got some kind of default selection, which rather appeared to be geared towards the seriously brainless side of things.
Hey, the fictional bastard, by virtue of being all-powerful, allowed himself to be created in the image of his followers - surely some blame is in order?
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The whole "conserving stuff" thing indeed went out of fashion lately with that crowd. Except for "conserving" antebellum white male privilege, that is.
Yeah, engines are another topic. It pisses me off to hear the topic always in conjunction with storage. As for the engines - instead of making the whole block of more expensive alloys, you can simply use more resilient cylinder liners. Ceramic liners are an example.
Probably, yes. The interesting question is, given that we based all of it on fossil fuel use for now, do we have the time left to switch to sustainable energy production, which would allow us to keep that population number? If not, we are facing exactly the predicted crash scenario. Being theoretically sustainable doesn't put food on the table, after all.
Have a look at statistics showing produced amount vs. rig count. Rig count is increasing for years now without any rise in production. Easily extracted oil is gone. We are at the hard to extract, low EROEI crap now. That the gold price is out of whack these days is a completely separate issue.
I think we got a candidate for "most idiotic post of the year here". With an extra ribbon for out-brainfarting tmosley - that's quite an achievement.
Your meds. Take them. Ozone? Acid Rain? Largely fixed because of those warnings and because of no one listening to denialist idiots. Global cooling? Never seriously been predicted. Compare the word frequencies over a large english corpus here. Well, watch out for those black helicopters. If you let your attention slip for just one second, the global government will get you. Comrade.
Uhm, might it be that we actually reduced sulfur dioxide emissions by a huge margin since the 80s, precisely because of those warnings? By the way, by a mechanism called cap and trade?
Please, could we stop that hydrogen embrittlement nonsense? That stuff came up about a year ago in some slashdot discussion and subsequently has been parroted over and over again. Hydrogen embrittlement happens at high temperatures, i.e. when you get hydrogen to diffuse into your steel while forming it, in a glowing hot state (as you can read in your own link). At room temperature, it is negligible. I used to work in a lab with a hydrogen installation for years - not like it crumbled under our hands.
Cthulhu / Dagon 2012 Why vote for the lesser of two evils?
No way Dagon will get the Republican nomination - he's way too moderate. Cthulhu / Nyarlathothep, that's the ticket!
Strict textualist argument. Scalia would be proud of you. ;)
In the case of the physician, he got my consent. In the case of the mortician, my consent isn't worth a rat's arse. In the case of the jail guard playing power games - well, if you can't see that there is a perfectly different situation there, the problem is on your side.
Yes. In particular the accumulation of wealth by the already wealthy and the widening of the already too wide gap between rich and poor. That's why they are too low at the moment.
If a pointless bodily humiliation of a person falsely jailed and, even so, still under the presumption of innocence, does not constitute sexual abuse, I wonder what will. They picked up a guy for an allegedly non-paid ticket. Do you think it a reasonable assumption that he has a shiv up his arse? Twice in a week? That was not about searching him, that was about humiliating him and establishing dominance. Power games using his body and shame. Sexual abuse, in other words.
Aye, that's about all there is to reasonable dieting. Been in the same boat. Today, I just follow a simple "eat no crap" policy. I cook my own stuff, no ready-made ingredients, fresh produce, meat, poultry, whatever, keeping a rough eye on the calories. No fad behind it. I do avoid ready-made stuff - it usually provides more calories per portion that I do find satisfying than home-cooked stuff. Sure, I am not ideological about it, and I do occasionally give in to some industrial snack-crap, but if you do not let that dominate your diet, you'll see the weight and the blood analysis drift toward what it should be. That's all there is to it. Don't eat crap.
The thing that strikes me as most weird about the US system are "sick days". As if sicknesses had a schedule. If you are sick, you are sick. If the doctors order you home, you stay home. We have a limit on how long the employer has to pay before your insurance steps in, but you typically don't count that separately - it really only kicks in if you get seriously ill with a capital S and I. Regarding vacations, apart from the 12 or something major holidays, you typically start with 20-something days of paid vacation around here. I got 28 at the moment. Also, unpaid overtime? No way. And, working as a patent engineer in a law firm, I am not even unionized. Leads to employees happily going on a Deathmarch if a Deathmarch is warranted, but usually dropping their stuff at 5 pm. Work gets done, economy doesn't crash... ;)
Well, I am German. Yes, Merkel happens to be the chancellor. She also happens to be a spineless piece of shit, like most of our conservatards, who occasionally spouts bullcrap about Christian values to keep the CDU-voting mouthbreathers happy and is, apart from that, busy lining the pockets of their political donors. Business as usual. As for Chomsky, I said he pisses me off half of the time. Most of his social commentary, I tend to agree on. When it gets to international relations, though, he appears more often than not to wear certain ideological blinders. Good day, anyway.
You need to learn discerning rhetorics from actual political action. Sure, our local conservatards love to spout undoubtedly racist crap about "the christian values and fundaments" of the EU, but still, the accession process runs quite separately from their frothing bullshit. No doubt there is racism here - show me any one society without. It is not institutionalized to the point of majorly influencing political decisions, though. Also, Chomsky? The guy manages to piss me off about half of the time, and I am a couple of lightyears left from centre....
If you read a "repent your sins" message into any "there might a problem there" statement, the problem might be on your side, you know.
Turkey gets in as soon as it fulfills the criteria everyone else has to fulfill. In particular, they will have to accept the sovereignty of Cyprus, which is already EU member. Can't really take someone into the club who won't agree upon the legitimacy of a doubtlessly legitimate other club member. Apart from that there is a certain lack of human rights in Turkey, which has to change before the accession talks proceed any further. The same criteria apply for every other aspiring member, so there is hardly any racism involved. I'd be careful to throw around accusations of racisms when using words like "islamofascism" myself...
As far as I know, not significantly cheaper, unfortunately, if not more expensive. At least a couple of years ago, reimporting was often a better deal than buying in Germany. Crap... gotta do that USPTO shit by myself, by the looks of it ;)
Yeah. Islamofascists on every street corner here. Eh, wait, that's just the guy I buy my groceries from, and the guy I buy the occasional DÃner from. They even sell beer. And a cheap-ass barber, who is a pretty funny guy. Most of us don't shit ourselves if we see a Turkish, Levantine or Arabic looking face, you know.
Well, I am German, not Norwegian. Still no strip searches and shit like that here. If you promise to take care of the pile of USPTO office actions swamping my desk, I'll sponsor you. And buy you a beer. Or two. Bavarian beer.
P.S. Excuse the harshness up there. I seriously was under the impression you wanted to make a point with a yahoo answers link, which sent me into full WTF-mode.
Thanks. I'll have a look at it later - bit pressed for time atm. At least that looks a good bit better than what Bing gave me. Never used it before, so I probably got some kind of default selection, which rather appeared to be geared towards the seriously brainless side of things.
Hey, the fictional bastard, by virtue of being all-powerful, allowed himself to be created in the image of his followers - surely some blame is in order?