Hey guys, now that we've started to realise the EPA and others are full of *expletive deleted, rhymes with grit* can we stop legislating motorcycles out of existence and going down to Arlen Ness and WCC (that's Jesse James for all you Discovery Channel watchers) and confiscating their "polluting, earth destroying" machines?
I had NO IDEA that Canada was run by Bush last December. The joke can be made that Harper is Bush's lapdog, but this was prior to the election. Also, you guys signed Kyoto, so obviously having done that you have no environmental problems.
I love how all these gloomers and doomers assume that because the planet is getting warmer, it's automatically because of humans. This based on a COMPUTER MODEL of climate, and remember, these can't even predict the weather beyond four days with any reasonable accuracy. Now we're supposed to trust a model telling us what's gonna happen in 150 years?
Let's suppose that pumping out CO2 is a bad idea. Though I think global warming mantra is nothing short of religion, I believe you! But what's to say that rather than telling everyone to go back to horses and carts and living in yurts, we find engineering solutions to the problem, hm? If we burn butanol rather than gasoline (which we can do in existing cars without modification) we have a net CO2 situation - we're not burning stuff that was underground).
But even if we can't get out from under oil because all the folks in charge are oil barons, we can sure as hell figure out how to build carbon dioxide sinks and somehow get this out of the atmosphere. If engineering is the problem, engineering can sure as hell find a solution. We can tell the eco-freaks to shut it when we build nuke plants, and engineer sinks.
Of course once we clear the CO2 out of the atmosphere and it's STILL getting warmer, we can say I told you so.
The nation's rail system is totally fucked because during WWII they massively overloaded the cars on the rails. They were engineered to take a certain amount of weight, they were told if they overloaded the cars they'd ruin the tracks, but they did it anyway. We had Nazis to kill. If that had never happened, man, we had steam vehicles that set incredible land speed records back in the day...... we could have had rapid transit in the 1950s. Mind you, we would never have had the kewl hot rodz either.
Ethanol sucks. You'd have to retool the car you're driving. With butanol, you don't. Someone just drove coast to coast in an unmodified 1992 Buick on the stuff, and passed the EPA in every state by a massive margin. We have a new process to pull this from cellulose. Between this and TDP we can keep cars on the road.
Be quiet. You're interfering with the EnviroNazi lobby to send all the jobs to China and to make everyone drive lawnmower engine powered roller skates, like the Eurofags do.
Which will practically guarantee nobody will buy them. Once they said cars had to go from being cool looking cool sounding machines to ghey underpowered plastic sewing machines people bought SUVs instead, which are worse.
RE: - granting huge tax credits for solar heating/electric panels on private and commercial buildings
Solar panels take more energy to make than you get out of them.
RE: - mandating solar equipment for ALL federal buildings
See above.
RE: - mandating a switch to ethanol or methanol biofuels for federal fleets
READ: replace fleets. Most vehicles here are not diesel but Otto cycle automobiles. Reuse is better than scrapping and rebuilding. Ethanol and methanol are corrosive to automotive systems - using them basically means pulling the engine, bumping the compression ratio to 18:1 or higher and then replacing the fuel system. Might as well buy a new car, which leads to the same end game as "scrap all cars".
RE: - grant tax breaks for anyone switching to biofuels
Biodiesel is 20% bio and 80% petro diesel. Can't run 100% bio unless you do something to the car.
RE: - aid to cities that want to build or expand public transportation
In this day and age noone has 2-4 h a day each way to be crammed in with street people and violent wanksta hoodlums screaming menacing abuse.
RE: - aid to cities to convert existing buses to biofuels
They tried that here in hippie trippie Washington. Oops, gotta rebuild the engines cause the "works in any diesel vehicle" biodiesel fucked up the ferry engines.
RE: - massage research into alternative energy
There really isn't very much that's viable, unless you know a way to call up wind on demand and get rid of clouds.
RE: - Wind mill farms granted more eminent domain power (e.g., to overcome NIMBY opposition by estate owners in Marblehead, Massachusetts because "it ruins the view").
Next thing will be the tree huggers bitching and moaning cause the spotted owls keep flying into the blades. And of course, the wind is predictable and constant and dependable source of energy.
Right now we can burn butanol in gasoline engines without modification to cars, this also is a fuel that burns with far less emissions. Mind you, this would be a common sense solution to the problem, whereas what the envirofreaks really want is to make people as ghey as they are. Instead, they want to scrap our entire energy infrastructure to use hydrogen even though there's no real idea as to how to store the damn stuff and we intend on getting it from oil anyway which solves the wrong problem.... the corn lobby wants ethanol to be used, which means buying new cars (GM supports this, wonder why) and I actually overheard someone demanding that biodiesel plants use ORGANIC techniques.
As for carbon dioxide, if it really is causing the problem, why not engineer carbon dioxide sinks and/or plant more trees? Oh, but that won't get into the face of someone else and make his life a misery. Piss off, tree huggers.
Salesmen will push what they make the most money on, period.
We sold Apples to folks who wanted PCs cause we'd make $100 spiff on a Mac box but 5% of the profit off the sale with PCs. Considering stuff was sold at or near or sometimes under cost, it was flog the extended warranty, sell Macs or starve. Got good at selling Macs....
Our Dell rep came in with squishy toys wondering with his rah rah speech why we weren't selling all Dells, to which we said sorry pal, we make nothing off selling a Dell, show us the money and we'll flog as many as you can make.
This was lost on him, he was trying to sell Dell on its technical merits... what the hell did the other salespeople care, they knew nothing about computers, and their customers wanted the "Color TV" one where the "hard drive" lay flat so you could put the "TV" on it.
Nonsense. The breakdancing kid is almost impossible to get by. And you can't continue from where you left off and you only get one life.
Having to chase a bunch of nobodies just to get all the way back to Mr. "Sunchips", who is practically impervious to things thrown at him, can kick you if you're hitting him, and when you're down, shoots you four times while you're down (now you're dead!) and can't move, sucks.
You do realise that in the USA, many a time properties can be tens of yards apart, especially when you're going up a driveway, back down a driveway, and up a road to the next one? Unlike Blighty, when many homes are either directly off the road or about four steps up from one, and three feet apart from the next house if not physically attached to it... I remember communities in Manchester in which I could walk down the road on the city sidewalk touching each front door about every seven yards.
When I was a kid this side of the pond I had a community newspaper/flyer weekly route of about 100 or so homes. Took me eight hours to do it on a bicycle. Bike to one house, get off, put paper in box, back on bike, down driveway (fifteen yards) across to next house (thirty yards) up driveway (fifteen yards) etc.
In places in which mail/news boxes are attached to posts near the road, it's so the poor sod whose job it is to deliver mail to a community isn't spending eighteen hours a day going from house to house!
I think what we are looking for here is "precedent" not slippery slope.
I agree that arguing whether to do this or not to do this on slippery slope.... is not really that valid. Just because you allow same sex marraige doesn't mean you're going to legalize incest.
However, what worries me more is the notion of precedent - that if they're allowed to get away with banning sales of a video game to adults with a violent context then the next thing down the pipe will be a ban on something else, and they'll hold up State vs Jenkins as proof positive that there's LEGAL PRECEDENT to carry on with the march towards the utopian society the usual suspects want to legislate into being.
Actually, butanol will run in petrol-based cars just fine.
Why the corn lobby aren't trying to produce this out of their biomass rather than ethanol is beyond me. Ethanol is corrosive and has far less BTUs in it than butanol. It's much easier to distill though.
RE: I am surprised BBC has chosen to highlight the computer and internet technology in India.
Well, 65% of the British public want to know what's going on back home.
Not joking or being a moron about it either, just a statement of fact. India and England have a very close relationship and MANY dual citizens. I picked up my love for a good vindalu and pakoras living in the UK as a kid.
Imagine the uproar if men went and complained about romance novels, about how the man are almost always savagely handsome jerks who eventually turn into lapdogs.
Unless, they're tyrannically brutal fathers or husbands whose cruelty the heroine rises above.
The day the feminazis dictate the body shape of women in games is the day I force rewrites of Jane Eyre so that the guy doesn't become an emasculated cripple at the end, but is a sensible, sane and well-balanced character.
And in the Harlequin Romance novels, the guy has a bit of a pot belly and thinning hair, and they have a realistic relationship rather than candlelit suppers on top of gondolas, complete with serenade and $10,000 engagement rings.
No word of a lie, they called the band that in the vain hope that people would see "Barenaked Ladies" (they added the "the" later) and hoped that people would show up expecting to see some skin, not some fat Canadian folk singer and his friends dancing around doing lame music.
I can look EXTREMELY good in a wool suit, fashionable and nicely-weighted shirt, impeccable tie and appropriate leather shoes.
However, it doesn't fit in with the 1950s cubicle or the incredible cheapness you expect me to live with otherwise. And, if my job is expected to include crawling behind a dusty server rack, I'd rather not do it in a $1000 outfit, of which I'm somehow expected to own and pay for three.
Here's the deal. I'll dress like a professional when you PAY me like a professional, and give me a tastefully decorated office with a DOOR like a professional. But if you're going to treat me like a highly paid peon I'll stick to dressing like a peon (albeit a nicely paid one) and treat it as a perk of the job.
This one in a few years. 1984 is gonna start just around the same time the Republicans get elected again and decide to implement a police state completely and utterly.
And also, there's a difference between having to stop everyone and order them to hand over a passport at gunpoint, and simply waving a RFID reader at a crowd.
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Hey guys, now that we've started to realise the EPA and others are full of *expletive deleted, rhymes with grit* can we stop legislating motorcycles out of existence and going down to Arlen Ness and WCC (that's Jesse James for all you Discovery Channel watchers) and confiscating their "polluting, earth destroying" machines?
that if I buy a 69 Dodge Charger and drive it everywhere I get a tax break for helping the environment?
I had NO IDEA that Canada was run by Bush last December. The joke can be made that Harper is Bush's lapdog, but this was prior to the election. Also, you guys signed Kyoto, so obviously having done that you have no environmental problems.
I love how all these gloomers and doomers assume that because the planet is getting warmer, it's automatically because of humans. This based on a COMPUTER MODEL of climate, and remember, these can't even predict the weather beyond four days with any reasonable accuracy. Now we're supposed to trust a model telling us what's gonna happen in 150 years?
Let's suppose that pumping out CO2 is a bad idea. Though I think global warming mantra is nothing short of religion, I believe you! But what's to say that rather than telling everyone to go back to horses and carts and living in yurts, we find engineering solutions to the problem, hm? If we burn butanol rather than gasoline (which we can do in existing cars without modification) we have a net CO2 situation - we're not burning stuff that was underground).
But even if we can't get out from under oil because all the folks in charge are oil barons, we can sure as hell figure out how to build carbon dioxide sinks and somehow get this out of the atmosphere. If engineering is the problem, engineering can sure as hell find a solution. We can tell the eco-freaks to shut it when we build nuke plants, and engineer sinks.
Of course once we clear the CO2 out of the atmosphere and it's STILL getting warmer, we can say I told you so.
The nation's rail system is totally fucked because during WWII they massively overloaded the cars on the rails. They were engineered to take a certain amount of weight, they were told if they overloaded the cars they'd ruin the tracks, but they did it anyway. We had Nazis to kill. If that had never happened, man, we had steam vehicles that set incredible land speed records back in the day...... we could have had rapid transit in the 1950s. Mind you, we would never have had the kewl hot rodz either.
Ethanol sucks. You'd have to retool the car you're driving. With butanol, you don't. Someone just drove coast to coast in an unmodified 1992 Buick on the stuff, and passed the EPA in every state by a massive margin. We have a new process to pull this from cellulose. Between this and TDP we can keep cars on the road.
Be quiet. You're interfering with the EnviroNazi lobby to send all the jobs to China and to make everyone drive lawnmower engine powered roller skates, like the Eurofags do.
RE: - mandating higher MPGs in automobiles
Which will practically guarantee nobody will buy them. Once they said cars had to go from being cool looking cool sounding machines to ghey underpowered plastic sewing machines people bought SUVs instead, which are worse.
RE: - granting huge tax credits for solar heating/electric panels on private and commercial buildings
Solar panels take more energy to make than you get out of them.
RE: - mandating solar equipment for ALL federal buildings
See above.
RE: - mandating a switch to ethanol or methanol biofuels for federal fleets
READ: replace fleets. Most vehicles here are not diesel but Otto cycle automobiles. Reuse is better than scrapping and rebuilding. Ethanol and methanol are corrosive to automotive systems - using them basically means pulling the engine, bumping the compression ratio to 18:1 or higher and then replacing the fuel system. Might as well buy a new car, which leads to the same end game as "scrap all cars".
RE: - grant tax breaks for anyone switching to biofuels
Biodiesel is 20% bio and 80% petro diesel. Can't run 100% bio unless you do something to the car.
RE: - aid to cities that want to build or expand public transportation
In this day and age noone has 2-4 h a day each way to be crammed in with street people and violent wanksta hoodlums screaming menacing abuse.
RE: - aid to cities to convert existing buses to biofuels
They tried that here in hippie trippie Washington. Oops, gotta rebuild the engines cause the "works in any diesel vehicle" biodiesel fucked up the ferry engines.
RE: - massage research into alternative energy
There really isn't very much that's viable, unless you know a way to call up wind on demand and get rid of clouds.
RE: - Wind mill farms granted more eminent domain power (e.g., to overcome NIMBY opposition by estate owners in Marblehead, Massachusetts because "it ruins the view").
Next thing will be the tree huggers bitching and moaning cause the spotted owls keep flying into the blades. And of course, the wind is predictable and constant and dependable source of energy.
Right now we can burn butanol in gasoline engines without modification to cars, this also is a fuel that burns with far less emissions. Mind you, this would be a common sense solution to the problem, whereas what the envirofreaks really want is to make people as ghey as they are. Instead, they want to scrap our entire energy infrastructure to use hydrogen even though there's no real idea as to how to store the damn stuff and we intend on getting it from oil anyway which solves the wrong problem.... the corn lobby wants ethanol to be used, which means buying new cars (GM supports this, wonder why) and I actually overheard someone demanding that biodiesel plants use ORGANIC techniques.
As for carbon dioxide, if it really is causing the problem, why not engineer carbon dioxide sinks and/or plant more trees? Oh, but that won't get into the face of someone else and make his life a misery. Piss off, tree huggers.
Salesmen will push what they make the most money on, period.
We sold Apples to folks who wanted PCs cause we'd make $100 spiff on a Mac box but 5% of the profit off the sale with PCs. Considering stuff was sold at or near or sometimes under cost, it was flog the extended warranty, sell Macs or starve. Got good at selling Macs....
Our Dell rep came in with squishy toys wondering with his rah rah speech why we weren't selling all Dells, to which we said sorry pal, we make nothing off selling a Dell, show us the money and we'll flog as many as you can make.
This was lost on him, he was trying to sell Dell on its technical merits... what the hell did the other salespeople care, they knew nothing about computers, and their customers wanted the "Color TV" one where the "hard drive" lay flat so you could put the "TV" on it.
Nonsense. The breakdancing kid is almost impossible to get by. And you can't continue from where you left off and you only get one life.
Having to chase a bunch of nobodies just to get all the way back to Mr. "Sunchips", who is practically impervious to things thrown at him, can kick you if you're hitting him, and when you're down, shoots you four times while you're down (now you're dead!) and can't move, sucks.
You do realise that in the USA, many a time properties can be tens of yards apart, especially when you're going up a driveway, back down a driveway, and up a road to the next one? Unlike Blighty, when many homes are either directly off the road or about four steps up from one, and three feet apart from the next house if not physically attached to it... I remember communities in Manchester in which I could walk down the road on the city sidewalk touching each front door about every seven yards.
When I was a kid this side of the pond I had a community newspaper/flyer weekly route of about 100 or so homes. Took me eight hours to do it on a bicycle. Bike to one house, get off, put paper in box, back on bike, down driveway (fifteen yards) across to next house (thirty yards) up driveway (fifteen yards) etc.
In places in which mail/news boxes are attached to posts near the road, it's so the poor sod whose job it is to deliver mail to a community isn't spending eighteen hours a day going from house to house!
I think what we are looking for here is "precedent" not slippery slope.
I agree that arguing whether to do this or not to do this on slippery slope.... is not really that valid. Just because you allow same sex marraige doesn't mean you're going to legalize incest.
However, what worries me more is the notion of precedent - that if they're allowed to get away with banning sales of a video game to adults with a violent context then the next thing down the pipe will be a ban on something else, and they'll hold up State vs Jenkins as proof positive that there's LEGAL PRECEDENT to carry on with the march towards the utopian society the usual suspects want to legislate into being.
Actually, butanol will run in petrol-based cars just fine.
Why the corn lobby aren't trying to produce this out of their biomass rather than ethanol is beyond me. Ethanol is corrosive and has far less BTUs in it than butanol. It's much easier to distill though.
RE: I am surprised BBC has chosen to highlight the computer and internet technology in India.
Well, 65% of the British public want to know what's going on back home.
Not joking or being a moron about it either, just a statement of fact. India and England have a very close relationship and MANY dual citizens. I picked up my love for a good vindalu and pakoras living in the UK as a kid.
How convenient. You will probably get flashed a message referring you to the nearest accident/injury lawyer.
Imagine the uproar if men went and complained about romance novels, about how the man are almost always savagely handsome
jerks who eventually turn into lapdogs.
Unless, they're tyrannically brutal fathers or husbands whose cruelty the heroine rises above.
The day the feminazis dictate the body shape of women in games is the day I force rewrites of Jane Eyre so that the guy doesn't become
an emasculated cripple at the end, but is a sensible, sane and well-balanced character.
And in the Harlequin Romance novels, the guy has a bit of a pot belly and thinning hair, and they have a realistic relationship rather than candlelit suppers on top of gondolas, complete with serenade and $10,000 engagement rings.
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http://www.torrid.com/
In short, you're wrong.
Mr. YongLingLiang, you never actually PAID for Warcraft. You bought it on a CD with fifty thousand other pirated games for a few yuan.
*blink* *blink*
No word of a lie, they called the band that in the vain hope that people would see "Barenaked Ladies" (they added the "the" later) and hoped that people would show up expecting to see some skin, not some fat Canadian folk singer and his friends dancing around doing lame music.
I mean, look at it this way....
With a fire wall like that, they sure as hell won't need security.... "I try to root your box!" "Hon hon hon! yahr beurx eeeez on fahr!!!!!!"
I know how to buy a suit.
I can look EXTREMELY good in a wool suit, fashionable and nicely-weighted shirt, impeccable tie and appropriate leather shoes.
However, it doesn't fit in with the 1950s cubicle or the incredible cheapness you expect me to live with otherwise. And, if my job is expected to include crawling behind a dusty server rack, I'd rather not do it in a $1000 outfit, of which I'm somehow expected to own and pay for three.
Here's the deal. I'll dress like a professional when you PAY me like a professional, and give me a tastefully decorated office with a DOOR like a professional. But if you're going to treat me like a highly paid peon I'll stick to dressing like a peon (albeit a nicely paid one) and treat it as a perk of the job.
This one in a few years. 1984 is gonna start just around the same time the Republicans get elected again and decide to implement a police state completely and utterly.
You can buy fake passport covers for passports.
And also, there's a difference between having to stop everyone and order them to hand over a passport at gunpoint, and simply waving a RFID reader at a crowd.
RE: H1B is not about IT only.
The models can complain about their loss of work on their OWN forum.
Read up on what the EPA is doing to the motorcycle industry.
They sure as hell wouldn't say you can only have one homebuilt computer that doesn't have DRM all over it within your lifetime...