Our power system is already structured in such a way. The power company figures out how much a somewhat frugal family would use and charges power at a low rate up to that point, and then charges a clip rate past that point. If someone wants to leave all the lights on in their 10 story house, they can do so, but already pay an economic penalty to do so.
>>It makes it OK to murder since, if Jesus overturned some tables, how could YOU be expected to hold back?
I didn't say anything about murder. Murder and killing are not the same thing. Unfortunately, the 10 Commandments often get mistranslated as "Thou Shalt Not Kill" leading to this confusion.
The whole system is designed to discourage combat, but it realizes that in any conflict, sometimes you don't have much of a choice. If someone comes at you with a gun, you either die or your fight back to protect yourself.
THIS. IS. NOT. CHRISTIAN.
It can be. Jesus recommended turning the other cheek. But he also tossed the moneychangers out of the temple.
There is certainly a Christian policy of Just War, dating back to Augustine or so, in which violence is justified.
Of crude oil, perhaps. But not oil shale, coal, tar sands, etc., which are all easily convertible into oil. They simply cost more money to do so than is currently economically feasible. When gas prices hit $3.50 a gallon, a number of people (the governor of Montana included) started looking for investing in these sorts of factories. With the recent (and coincidentally suspicious) price collapse, the future of said plants is uncertain for the time being.
More importantly, if this is the first mammal to go extinct in 50 years, I'd say we're doing pretty damn good, and we're not losing the "500,000 species going extinct per year" or whatever ridiculous number some people throw around. Even if most of those were insects, if we were losing 500k per year, I think we'd see more than one mammal every 50 years.
Looks different, somewhat. Building structures, etc. But as in CustomTF, you get stronger as you kill people (though in CuTF it is capped at 50% over the base starting point, so people can't get too out of balance). We have tesla sentries, too, and I'm reasonably sure we did 'em first. =)
Second: soon fossil fuels are not going to be an option at all If by "soon" you mean something like several hundred years after all sources of oil have been eliminated, then sure. But that's not a very common usage of soon.
How about putting some serious brainpower to changing cultural values? How much fucking space, heat, energy, electricity is wasted every year because each family/individual has a house/apartments much bigger then they need yet no people populate the extra empty rooms during the year, etc?
Yes, comrade! Together we will drive those filthy capatalist pigs back into two-family-to-a-room apartments, as nature intended!
No, seriously. There are health reasons and such against people living so closely together.
If you go to www.customtf.com you can download everything you need to play the original Team Fortress for Quake1, which came out 10 years ago but still has tons of players.
Essentially, CustomTF is Team Fortress, but you can build your own classes, using a cost based system. It's a lot of fun, and I'm not just saying that since I wrote the mod myself. =)
NWN1 was so buggy in multiplayer (your cohort would attack YOU to the exclusion of everything else!) that I ended up snapping the CD in frustration. Never again, Bioware, will I fall for that trick.
My friend bought NWN2 and decided to stop playing it until they, you know, finish the game.
I got into an argument with my fifth grade teacher because she (and the rest of the class) tried to adamantly convince me that 10/100ths was not equal to 1/10th, because hundreths were "so much smaller they could never add up to a tenth."
I even drew the damn thing out, and they still weren't convinced.
You don't have to pay income taxes in the US. The US constituition has a law which mandates that *corporate* income is taxable - not personal income.
Riiight.
16th Amendment: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
Gray is a hurricane meteorologist, not a climate scientist. He is definitely a contrarian when it comes to anthropomorphic global warming, but he's also way out of his area of expertise.
Huh, you must have missed the memo that global warming caused Katrina, and that the 2006 hurricane season will be the worst ever due to ongoing global warming.
"You cant even being to understand the self-corrective nature of people"
^being^begin^
Sure, I just did it right there.
But in wikipedia, the most vocal and active editors tend to have axes to grind on one side or another, and will obsessively re-edit and slant articles to agree with their own point of view.
Given the 3RR rule, it essentially comes down to whichever side has more people actively working to fight for an article to be slanted their way.
All controversial articles seem to be this way, and even a large number of general interest ones besides. For example, I was looking over the Tim LaHaye page (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim_LaH aye&oldid=90109783). How many NPOV references can you find in there? How many NPOV references can you find on, say, the Plame Affair? Or on any controversial public figure?
The system isn't self-correcting. It is like a rugby scrum where the side with the most people pushes the article into their particular bias.
No, what actually happens is people replace one NPOV view with their own NPOV view.
For example, should the NPR article talk about the ignorance of right wing Fox Viewers? (In relation to a survey both sides decided was flawed, but was considering for inclusion.)
Left wing people said yes, right wing people said no. And its not clear where a middle ground could be found
Well, you know, that's wikipedia for you. It's actually a highly biased encyclopedia. Just go into any politically interesting article and look through the revision history. You'll see both sides adding and deleting slants to the article that agree or disagree with their own biased point of view.
We'd produce our own oil. We have plenty of reserves in forms such as oil shale, tar sands, etc. It's simply much cheaper to import it from Iran than it is to extract our local supplies.
Really? America's Army seemed to be quite good at that. You only got your one rifle and sidearm, had only a couple clips of ammo, couldn't loot dead bodies for their guns, guns would jam, etc. It even would simulate breathing and recoil somewhat accurately. Same company, so I guess it's a valid criticism if they didn't replicate it in this new game.
If the US was invaded, I don't think you'd see a 50/50 split against the war.
Even though I live in SF (where there are no gun stores, natch), I know enough people that would go out, buy a gun, and do what they could to defend the country. Of course, they're all either Republicans or Libertarians, so there's not a huge number around here, but hopefully it would set an example to everyone else.
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Our power system is already structured in such a way. The power company figures out how much a somewhat frugal family would use and charges power at a low rate up to that point, and then charges a clip rate past that point. If someone wants to leave all the lights on in their 10 story house, they can do so, but already pay an economic penalty to do so.
Killing and murder are not the same thing, even though the commandment often gets mistranslated that way.
>>It makes it OK to murder since, if Jesus overturned some tables, how could YOU be expected to hold back?
I didn't say anything about murder. Murder and killing are not the same thing. Unfortunately, the 10 Commandments often get mistranslated as "Thou Shalt Not Kill" leading to this confusion.
I'd mod you up if I had the points. Too many people don't know this.
The whole system is designed to discourage combat, but it realizes that in any conflict, sometimes you don't have much of a choice. If someone comes at you with a gun, you either die or your fight back to protect yourself.
THIS. IS. NOT. CHRISTIAN.
It can be. Jesus recommended turning the other cheek. But he also tossed the moneychangers out of the temple.
There is certainly a Christian policy of Just War, dating back to Augustine or so, in which violence is justified.
Of crude oil, perhaps. But not oil shale, coal, tar sands, etc., which are all easily convertible into oil. They simply cost more money to do so than is currently economically feasible. When gas prices hit $3.50 a gallon, a number of people (the governor of Montana included) started looking for investing in these sorts of factories. With the recent (and coincidentally suspicious) price collapse, the future of said plants is uncertain for the time being.
More importantly, if this is the first mammal to go extinct in 50 years, I'd say we're doing pretty damn good, and we're not losing the "500,000 species going extinct per year" or whatever ridiculous number some people throw around. Even if most of those were insects, if we were losing 500k per year, I think we'd see more than one mammal every 50 years.
Looks different, somewhat. Building structures, etc. But as in CustomTF, you get stronger as you kill people (though in CuTF it is capped at 50% over the base starting point, so people can't get too out of balance). We have tesla sentries, too, and I'm reasonably sure we did 'em first. =)
The fact is once we go in decline there is no stopping it. We now have a little bit time to change or energie habbits and to secure your future.
This is complete nonsense. At most, oil will become more expensive as less economical sources of oil are tapped. This is ridiculous hysteria.
Second: soon fossil fuels are not going to be an option at all If by "soon" you mean something like several hundred years after all sources of oil have been eliminated, then sure. But that's not a very common usage of soon.
How about putting some serious brainpower to changing cultural values? How much fucking space, heat, energy, electricity is wasted every year because each family/individual has a house/apartments much bigger then they need yet no people populate the extra empty rooms during the year, etc?
Yes, comrade! Together we will drive those filthy capatalist pigs back into two-family-to-a-room apartments, as nature intended!
No, seriously. There are health reasons and such against people living so closely together.
If you go to www.customtf.com you can download everything you need to play the original Team Fortress for Quake1, which came out 10 years ago but still has tons of players.
Essentially, CustomTF is Team Fortress, but you can build your own classes, using a cost based system. It's a lot of fun, and I'm not just saying that since I wrote the mod myself. =)
You can buy USB gamepads. It's quite fun, really, especially with the older arcade games like Magic Sword and Golden Axe.
NWN1 was so buggy in multiplayer (your cohort would attack YOU to the exclusion of everything else!) that I ended up snapping the CD in frustration. Never again, Bioware, will I fall for that trick.
My friend bought NWN2 and decided to stop playing it until they, you know, finish the game.
No.
I got into an argument with my fifth grade teacher because she (and the rest of the class) tried to adamantly convince me that 10/100ths was not equal to 1/10th, because hundreths were "so much smaller they could never add up to a tenth."
I even drew the damn thing out, and they still weren't convinced.
You don't have to pay income taxes in the US. The US constituition has a law which mandates that *corporate* income is taxable - not personal income.
t o_the_United_States_Constitution
Riiight.
16th Amendment: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_
Gray is a hurricane meteorologist, not a climate scientist. He is definitely a contrarian when it comes to anthropomorphic global warming, but he's also way out of his area of expertise.
Huh, you must have missed the memo that global warming caused Katrina, and that the 2006 hurricane season will be the worst ever due to ongoing global warming.
It has to be true. I heard it on NPR this April.
"You cant even being to understand the self-corrective nature of people"
H aye&oldid=90109783). How many NPOV references can you find in there? How many NPOV references can you find on, say, the Plame Affair? Or on any controversial public figure?
^being^begin^
Sure, I just did it right there.
But in wikipedia, the most vocal and active editors tend to have axes to grind on one side or another, and will obsessively re-edit and slant articles to agree with their own point of view.
Given the 3RR rule, it essentially comes down to whichever side has more people actively working to fight for an article to be slanted their way.
All controversial articles seem to be this way, and even a large number of general interest ones besides. For example, I was looking over the Tim LaHaye page (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim_La
The system isn't self-correcting. It is like a rugby scrum where the side with the most people pushes the article into their particular bias.
No, what actually happens is people replace one NPOV view with their own NPOV view.
For example, should the NPR article talk about the ignorance of right wing Fox Viewers? (In relation to a survey both sides decided was flawed, but was considering for inclusion.)
Left wing people said yes, right wing people said no. And its not clear where a middle ground could be found
Well, you know, that's wikipedia for you. It's actually a highly biased encyclopedia. Just go into any politically interesting article and look through the revision history. You'll see both sides adding and deleting slants to the article that agree or disagree with their own biased point of view.
Their NPOV policy is a joke.
Kaiser is 170 a month for their top plan. I'm buying individual, though small business rates are a bit less.
Of course, I'm not yet 30, so that helps. =)
I think the highest Kaiser goes is around 600 a month or so for the top bracket?
We'd produce our own oil. We have plenty of reserves in forms such as oil shale, tar sands, etc. It's simply much cheaper to import it from Iran than it is to extract our local supplies.
Really? America's Army seemed to be quite good at that. You only got your one rifle and sidearm, had only a couple clips of ammo, couldn't loot dead bodies for their guns, guns would jam, etc. It even would simulate breathing and recoil somewhat accurately. Same company, so I guess it's a valid criticism if they didn't replicate it in this new game.
Wait... wait!
CHINA HAS TEH JOHN WOO!
Pre-emptive action is necessary to stop this situation before it is too late!
If the US was invaded, I don't think you'd see a 50/50 split against the war.
Even though I live in SF (where there are no gun stores, natch), I know enough people that would go out, buy a gun, and do what they could to defend the country. Of course, they're all either Republicans or Libertarians, so there's not a huge number around here, but hopefully it would set an example to everyone else.