WOW! So that's all it takes. Just reduce the sulfur content. It's amazing that it could be so easy. I was thinking that we could all just switch out to hydrogen power blimps and bicycles.
Ricdude, removing the sulfur is the HARD job at the refinery. Middle East oil is so highly prized because it is a low sulfur source. Many of the new oil finds are actually old oil finds that were passed over because they had a high sulfur content. A major portion of the oil company research dollars is invested in finding a way to economically ditch the sulfur. The sulfur doesn't just cause pollution, it also DESTROYS THE REFINERY EQUIPMENT!! For instance, the platinum catalyst used in the cracking process are quickly destroyed with very small amounts of sulfur.
The car companies have a huge vested interest in less sulfur in the fuel. Engines are designed defensively against sulfur. The whole point of changing your oil every 3000 to 6000 miles is that it uses up its ability to neutralize acids produce by....(get ready. here it comes)...SULFUR!! Regardless of what you see in comercials for synthetic oils, thermal breakdown of oils in anything less than endurance racing conditions is a non issue. Most vehicles can't stress the oil enough physically without blowing a gasket.
The whole history of the IC engine is as much a study of improving fuel as it is a study of metallurgy. The words "only requires" in this instance is extremely naive, misleading and ignores over 100 years of study to do just that. Low sulfur fuels are only being made available now because it is being legislated, but that doesn't mean that it is easy. Furthermore, all the refineries have to install new expensive equipment and use expensive processes together. One company doing that alone would quickly go out of business, as their product would have to be priced much higher than the competition. (Yes, I think regulation has actually worked in this particular instance.)
I see. You heard it on NPR, so it is unquestionably true. All other viewpoints are inherently self-promoting. How dare the blasphemous infidels question the immutable authority of the High Priest and Priestess of the sanctified auspices of the Holy NPR?
...and like any living organism, the purpose of a bureaucracy is to grow, expand and reproduce.
The FAA has done more to limit general aviation advancement (as opposed to big commercial carriers) than anything real could ever do. I make the distinction as GA is aviation for the common man, and commercial carriers are another large bureaucracy. Their certification processes insure that people who know nothing enforce rules that may not apply, and guarantee that a plane will not fly until it is outweighed by the paperwork. Any new development will be mostly ignored, as the cost of certification will likely never be recaptured.
A virus will start spreading across all computers and then someone will put StarNet online. The next thing you know, naked people will start appearing in big balls of light.
So in an open market, where I can choose among a number of devices that all do the same task, why would I choose the device that treats me as a criminal.
If I am a criminal, why would I buy the device that makes my job/avocation more difficult.
In either case, why would I buy the device who's biggest cheerleader treats me with such disdain.
No, the edge the amateur has is that he doesn't need to make a living.
An amateur can ALWAYS do a better job than a professional. The professional has to get paid and doesn't have the luxury to do something over and over until it is right. He doesn't have to luxury of relying on false economies (spending $1500 on material when a slightly lower quality can be had for $100).
The amatuer is free to save for a year so that he can spend 10 years building a bicycle from raw materials. The professional would starve.
I'm sorry, WHY do you have to tell the difference between red, green, yellow blue and white lights?
Several others have given you good responses for why you need to know the color of the lights on the ground, but what about in the air?
You look out and see a strobe flashing. Over time it appears to be getting closer? Eventually you see two lights burning steady. Do you:
a) turn left and possibly slow down b) turn right and possibly slow down c) turn right and maintain current speed d) dive!!
If you don't do the correct thing, you'll soon have a close encounter with a Stearman reproduction that doesn't carry a radio or transponder. If you don't know what color those lights are, you won't know what the correct thing to do is.
Nothing would happen. Generally, the flair is the landings 'point of no return', where the pilot is keeping the plane in the air while in ground effect to bleed off the last bit of energy (so when the wheels touch, the stay touched). The plane can be brought to a stop in an incredibly short distance after that point using both aerodynamic and mechanical braking. This is usually not done because 1) it's very hard on the brakes, and 2) it makes the taxi to the offramp much longer.
I would like to expand on the parent post. I think his ideas are excellent; futhermore, I think it can be expanded upon.
Put up the offer of a debate to all the candidates on the ballet in your area. The format is that all candidates sumbit X number of questions, and get equal time to answer it. Make sure that it is clearly implied that it will be free time to the other candidate if they don't show up.
Cable-access is a convenient outlet, but there are others.
-Contact the producers of any local news/talk radio. They're always looking for something other than Rush Limbaugh to fill the airwaves. Even better if it's free.
-Try to get the local news media interested. Even just a blurb will pique people's interest and make them start asking about the process.
To hell with left/right media bias. Call all the talk shows you can and ask why they have an incumbent bias. Raise the roof over this one.
Once people see reasonable debates and serious alternatives at a local level they'll start wanting to see it at the national level.
I would really like to see a national system of car transport via train for long trips. Say, New York to Atlanta.
What I'm thinking is that I drive from Jersey to New York where I park my car on a train flatbed, and maybe even get out of my car and ride in the passenger car. The train then doesn't stop till it hits Atlanta. There I get in my car and drive to Alabama. It would be faster and safer than me driving. I could read or work on my computer the whole time. And best of all, I'd have my own car at the destination.
My wife and I took our boys on a train trip this summer from Raleigh, NC to Charlott, NC. We had to drive 15mi to Raleigh instead of getting on in the Cary station that was only 2mi away, 'cause we couldn't buy the tickets there. When we got to Charlotte, we had to pay $25 for a cab to the hotel (which is about what it would have cost to drive our own car!!), because the trains refuse to coordinate with the bus system so that the terminals are far apart and run on different schedules. We had no way of going anywhere once we got to the motel, and had to dodge traffic across a ridiculously complicated intersection on foot to get to the theme park. Then we had to pay another $25 to get back to the train station a couple days later, because the busses weren't running.
Our estimation of 'public transportation'? Been there. Done that. Don't ever want to go back.
Planes and trains will always suffer from the termination problem in the US. The last mile problem. Planes will never be able to solve the problem, regardless of the number of flying car ideas and Photoshop renderings that are posted on the net.
The trains can solve the problem easily by letting folks take their cars with them and trading that off with fewer stops. Unfortunately, the only people considering trains viable look at the European and Asian models, and ignore that the US isn't Europe or Asia. VERY few cities in the US have the population density to support 24/7 public transportation, and car rentals is expensive.
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I'm halfway through building a Dyke Delta.
http://www.ernest.isa-geek.org
John Dyke set out to build a flying car. In fact, the wings still fold, and the plans still include a steering wheel.
It's a folding wing delta configuration, but the compromises needed to make the plan roadable would just make it useless as an airplane. Just a couple he cited to me were turn signals and windshield wipers.
It's been stated that an airplane is a bunch of compromises flying in close formation. Making the plane roadable under its own power adds another list of compromises, and as every engineer knows complexity grows exponentially with the number of requirements.
John's eloquent compromise was to make the plane towable on it's own gear.
Moller is a charlatan that has been foisting an unworkable idea on uncritical investors for 30years. His machine requires the unfaltering opeation of 4 engines, one at each corner. Most general aviation accidents result from running out of fuel, at which point the pilot is often able to save the soft, pink contents of the plane by gliding to the ground. What recovery option does this craft have? Most light planes will still fly at around 60-65mph, but there is no way the Moller car will stay aloft under 120mph without power.
Surplus parts are priced low due to the seller wanting to get something instead of have to pay to have the junk hauled off. Furthermore, once the supply runs out, there won't be anymore since people tend to get smarter the second time around. Not to take anything away from the guy (who is not an entrepeneur as the article suggest, but is an awesome geek), but saying that you can throw something together for cheap from junk parts does not mean you have an economically viable product. What would the real cost be if all the parts have to be purchased new?
He does DESERVE an honored position on the next Junkyard Wars episode, however.
Yeah, it's last year's chipset. But weren't they all the shit last year?
Aah, basking in the lagging edge of technology. Bug free and cheap games. Besides, I have a life and an airplane to build. Don't have time to camp out on the doorstep of Egames, waiting for the latest release of 'Death in the Dark, Part XXX', and then spend a week trying to get it to run so that I can say, "Ooh! Shiny things!!"
Yahoo: Don't go to Google for news. They have a machine that decides what news relates to what you're looking for. No you should come to our sight, because we KNOW what is really important. You should always come to us for your marching orders...I mean...uhh...news.
I like Googles approach MUCH better. So, there were some anti-Kerry links when you did a search for John Kerry. If as his supporter, you think he is beyond reproach, then type in "John Kerry -"bad news"". Either that or put your fingers in your ears and say "la-la-la-la..."
For a dump truck sized vehicl to climb the wafer thin ribbon, it will have to grip it somehow...and grip it hard enough to support the weight of the vehicle. You can't make any material but so thin before it becomes impossible to work with.
If they haven't done an atmospheric model yet, then they haven't done anything. 3 or 4 mile of gale force wind are an impossibly strong force to anchor. Regardless of how strong the rope will be, it'll have to be tied to SOMETHING.
How long would a few thousand mile trip take at 20mph (think dump truck pulling uphill)?
About that Van Allen Belt radiation. What do you do when you short circuit it and the atmosphere between to ground? The atmosphere can pack quite a shock when you play around with conductive strings.
I'm not saying these problems can't be solved. I'm saying that this company hasn't done enough of their homework to know the realworld problems that will bite them hard.
But everyone has a different "reality". The guy who lives in a ghetto probably sees very differnt things than the guy in suburbia with the gated communities. But in reality, nothing is differnt than perception. I think the problem is the people in the gated communities have such blinders on they don't understand the rest of the world. They are like the monday morning quaterback who says "if only they would get a job.... blah blah blah". Then they realize the person is working overtime and they say "if only they would get a better job blah blah blah". A good journalist shows it how it really is, without any value statements.
That's an interesting curve ball you throw there. You start out very evenhanded, but then just twist to the left. It's always the people in the gated communities who don't know what goes on in the real world, while everyone in the ghetto is a lucid, but very unlucky philosopher.
How about the guy I used to work a moving van with? Always complaining about the 'man' keeping him down. Of course, four children out of wedlock, and no lunch money on Monday 'cause he dropped his paycheck at the strip club on Friday night didn't have anything to do with it. I bring him up as only an example of a very prevalent atttitude.
Maybe the people "in a ghetto" have their own set of blinders?
>PS - if you're a soccer mom who does keep up on the >news - I apologize - my experience with soccer moms >is limited by the bigamy laws of the state - your >mileage will vary.
Dude, you owe me a Dr. Pepper and a keyboard. You've got to warn people before you do $hlt like that.
PS. I'll wave the damages since the carbolic acid will probably clear up this sinus infection.
It's not contradictory. It's called protecting the innocent.
If that liberal contigent of posters on/. that is intent on attacking Christians weren't so damn arrogant, they might pull their heads out of their asses for long enough to realize that some of the people in the world have a different value system. The Christians have to right to have a different value system. In America, we call this freedom. Why the multi-culturalism that they preach doesn't respect a different viewpoint, I'll never understand.
(Well actually I understand it very well. It's the old, "I'll agree with everyone, as long as nobody points out that I'm wrong" syndrome)
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The "decent budget surplus" was the figment of an accountants imagination, based on overly optimistic forcast grounded in a stock and technology bubble. The deficit was alway there, but was exacerbated by a recession and a defensive war (we were attacked first).
Or would you have our troops fight with spitballs.
I live in North Carolina. I love how John Edwards runs around telling everyone that Bush drove jobs away, and that as president he'll bring them back. My question is always, "So what did you do while you were in the SENATE!!"
Whether it be a continuation of the "send troops first, try diplomacy last" policy of the current administration,
I guess you just fell off the turnip truck, did you? Or are you just blindly spouting the inflated lies of your bullshit-artist leaders?
The UN spent a decade trying to get a despote leader to abide by international sanctions. Were you not paying attention when the inspector kept getting kicked out by Hussien? How long should the international community have put up with Hussien's bullshit?
to the U.S. continuing to use WAY more than our fair share of energy (and producing WAY more than our fair share of CO2),
Why don't you turn off your computer to conserve some of that CO2? The only way to reduce CO2 emissions is to not create the electricity. Bush can't make a round of the whole country, insuring that people turn off their lights when they're not in the room. If he had the power and actually used it, the left would say that he's trying to inhibit poor children from studying at night.
I don't see Bush's reluctance to lower our standard of living as a bad thing.
Yes, but the professional videos you talk about emphasize the "YES! YES! DEEPER!" because that is the only voice that anyone really wants to hear. It's already easy to find those videos using the 'adult' keyword. Now trying to generalize past the geek view of the world...
Please forgive me, but I'm going to blatantly steal that last paragraph for my sig. I have NEVER heard that sentiment expressed so eloquently or succintly.
Boss on your back about implementing that new dialog box? You whip one out in an hour, run up a flight of stairs and jump like Rocky.
Boss on your back to test that new dialog box while simultaneously taking the hardware from you and giving it to Joe Dipshit who sits on it for several days? You stew for several days as the stress rises and the deadline looms.
The pressure is the same, but the second case misses the control factor.
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WOW! So that's all it takes. Just reduce the sulfur content. It's amazing that it could be so easy. I was thinking that we could all just switch out to hydrogen power blimps and bicycles.
....(get ready. here it comes)...SULFUR!! Regardless of what you see in comercials for synthetic oils, thermal breakdown of oils in anything less than endurance racing conditions is a non issue. Most vehicles can't stress the oil enough physically without blowing a gasket.
Ricdude, removing the sulfur is the HARD job at the refinery. Middle East oil is so highly prized because it is a low sulfur source. Many of the new oil finds are actually old oil finds that were passed over because they had a high sulfur content. A major portion of the oil company research dollars is invested in finding a way to economically ditch the sulfur. The sulfur doesn't just cause pollution, it also DESTROYS THE REFINERY EQUIPMENT!! For instance, the platinum catalyst used in the cracking process are quickly destroyed with very small amounts of sulfur.
The car companies have a huge vested interest in less sulfur in the fuel. Engines are designed defensively against sulfur. The whole point of changing your oil every 3000 to 6000 miles is that it uses up its ability to neutralize acids produce by
The whole history of the IC engine is as much a study of improving fuel as it is a study of metallurgy. The words "only requires" in this instance is extremely naive, misleading and ignores over 100 years of study to do just that. Low sulfur fuels are only being made available now because it is being legislated, but that doesn't mean that it is easy. Furthermore, all the refineries have to install new expensive equipment and use expensive processes together. One company doing that alone would quickly go out of business, as their product would have to be priced much higher than the competition. (Yes, I think regulation has actually worked in this particular instance.)
I see. You heard it on NPR, so it is unquestionably true. All other viewpoints are inherently self-promoting. How dare the blasphemous infidels question the immutable authority of the High Priest and Priestess of the sanctified auspices of the Holy NPR?
...and like any living organism, the purpose of a bureaucracy is to grow, expand and reproduce.
The FAA has done more to limit general aviation advancement (as opposed to big commercial carriers) than anything real could ever do. I make the distinction as GA is aviation for the common man, and commercial carriers are another large bureaucracy. Their certification processes insure that people who know nothing enforce rules that may not apply, and guarantee that a plane will not fly until it is outweighed by the paperwork. Any new development will be mostly ignored, as the cost of certification will likely never be recaptured.
Now they want to limit a hand in space travel!?!
A virus will start spreading across all computers and then someone will put StarNet online. The next thing you know, naked people will start appearing in big balls of light.
So in an open market, where I can choose among a number of devices that all do the same task, why would I choose the device that treats me as a criminal.
If I am a criminal, why would I buy the device that makes my job/avocation more difficult.
In either case, why would I buy the device who's biggest cheerleader treats me with such disdain.
No, the edge the amateur has is that he doesn't need to make a living.
An amateur can ALWAYS do a better job than a professional. The professional has to get paid and doesn't have the luxury to do something over and over until it is right. He doesn't have to luxury of relying on false economies (spending $1500 on material when a slightly lower quality can be had for $100).
The amatuer is free to save for a year so that he can spend 10 years building a bicycle from raw materials. The professional would starve.
He wouldn't have to be THAT lucky. Go to your local airport. Notice the big black patch near the runway threshold.
The reason it's black is because all the big jets touch down in nearly the exact same spot!!
It may take 4 or 6 to get everything lined up on the telescopes tripod, but it's simple after that.
I'm sorry, WHY do you have to tell the difference between red, green, yellow blue and white lights?
Several others have given you good responses for why you need to know the color of the lights on the ground, but what about in the air?
You look out and see a strobe flashing. Over time it appears to be getting closer? Eventually you see two lights burning steady. Do you:
a) turn left and possibly slow down
b) turn right and possibly slow down
c) turn right and maintain current speed
d) dive!!
If you don't do the correct thing, you'll soon have a close encounter with a Stearman reproduction that doesn't carry a radio or transponder. If you don't know what color those lights are, you won't know what the correct thing to do is.
I imagined it.
Nothing would happen. Generally, the flair is the landings 'point of no return', where the pilot is keeping the plane in the air while in ground effect to bleed off the last bit of energy (so when the wheels touch, the stay touched). The plane can be brought to a stop in an incredibly short distance after that point using both aerodynamic and mechanical braking. This is usually not done because 1) it's very hard on the brakes, and 2) it makes the taxi to the offramp much longer.
I would like to expand on the parent post. I think his ideas are excellent; futhermore, I think it can be expanded upon.
Put up the offer of a debate to all the candidates on the ballet in your area. The format is that all candidates sumbit X number of questions, and get equal time to answer it. Make sure that it is clearly implied that it will be free time to the other candidate if they don't show up.
Cable-access is a convenient outlet, but there are others.
-Contact the producers of any local news/talk radio. They're always looking for something other than Rush Limbaugh to fill the airwaves. Even better if it's free.
-Try to get the local news media interested. Even just a blurb will pique people's interest and make them start asking about the process.
To hell with left/right media bias. Call all the talk shows you can and ask why they have an incumbent bias. Raise the roof over this one.
Once people see reasonable debates and serious alternatives at a local level they'll start wanting to see it at the national level.
I would really like to see a national system of car transport via train for long trips. Say, New York to Atlanta.
What I'm thinking is that I drive from Jersey to New York where I park my car on a train flatbed, and maybe even get out of my car and ride in the passenger car. The train then doesn't stop till it hits Atlanta. There I get in my car and drive to Alabama. It would be faster and safer than me driving. I could read or work on my computer the whole time. And best of all, I'd have my own car at the destination.
My wife and I took our boys on a train trip this summer from Raleigh, NC to Charlott, NC. We had to drive 15mi to Raleigh instead of getting on in the Cary station that was only 2mi away, 'cause we couldn't buy the tickets there. When we got to Charlotte, we had to pay $25 for a cab to the hotel (which is about what it would have cost to drive our own car!!), because the trains refuse to coordinate with the bus system so that the terminals are far apart and run on different schedules. We had no way of going anywhere once we got to the motel, and had to dodge traffic across a ridiculously complicated intersection on foot to get to the theme park. Then we had to pay another $25 to get back to the train station a couple days later, because the busses weren't running.
Our estimation of 'public transportation'? Been there. Done that. Don't ever want to go back.
Planes and trains will always suffer from the termination problem in the US. The last mile problem. Planes will never be able to solve the problem, regardless of the number of flying car ideas and Photoshop renderings that are posted on the net.
The trains can solve the problem easily by letting folks take their cars with them and trading that off with fewer stops. Unfortunately, the only people considering trains viable look at the European and Asian models, and ignore that the US isn't Europe or Asia. VERY few cities in the US have the population density to support 24/7 public transportation, and car rentals is expensive.
I'm halfway through building a Dyke Delta.
http://www.ernest.isa-geek.org
John Dyke set out to build a flying car. In fact, the wings still fold, and the plans still include a steering wheel.
It's a folding wing delta configuration, but the compromises needed to make the plan roadable would just make it useless as an airplane. Just a couple he cited to me were turn signals and windshield wipers.
It's been stated that an airplane is a bunch of compromises flying in close formation. Making the plane roadable under its own power adds another list of compromises, and as every engineer knows complexity grows exponentially with the number of requirements.
John's eloquent compromise was to make the plane towable on it's own gear.
Moller is a charlatan that has been foisting an unworkable idea on uncritical investors for 30years. His machine requires the unfaltering opeation of 4 engines, one at each corner. Most general aviation accidents result from running out of fuel, at which point the pilot is often able to save the soft, pink contents of the plane by gliding to the ground. What recovery option does this craft have? Most light planes will still fly at around 60-65mph, but there is no way the Moller car will stay aloft under 120mph without power.
So it is only $1600 if you use surplus parts.
Surplus parts are priced low due to the seller wanting to get something instead of have to pay to have the junk hauled off. Furthermore, once the supply runs out, there won't be anymore since people tend to get smarter the second time around. Not to take anything away from the guy (who is not an entrepeneur as the article suggest, but is an awesome geek), but saying that you can throw something together for cheap from junk parts does not mean you have an economically viable product. What would the real cost be if all the parts have to be purchased new?
He does DESERVE an honored position on the next Junkyard Wars episode, however.
the $35 cards?
Yeah, it's last year's chipset. But weren't they all the shit last year?
Aah, basking in the lagging edge of technology. Bug free and cheap games. Besides, I have a life and an airplane to build. Don't have time to camp out on the doorstep of Egames, waiting for the latest release of 'Death in the Dark, Part XXX', and then spend a week trying to get it to run so that I can say, "Ooh! Shiny things!!"
Yahoo: Don't go to Google for news. They have a machine that decides what news relates to what you're looking for. No you should come to our sight, because we KNOW what is really important. You should always come to us for your marching orders...I mean...uhh...news.
I like Googles approach MUCH better. So, there were some anti-Kerry links when you did a search for John Kerry. If as his supporter, you think he is beyond reproach, then type in "John Kerry -"bad news"". Either that or put your fingers in your ears and say "la-la-la-la..."
(Same for Bush, Badnarik, etc...)
For a dump truck sized vehicl to climb the wafer thin ribbon, it will have to grip it somehow...and grip it hard enough to support the weight of the vehicle. You can't make any material but so thin before it becomes impossible to work with.
If they haven't done an atmospheric model yet, then they haven't done anything. 3 or 4 mile of gale force wind are an impossibly strong force to anchor. Regardless of how strong the rope will be, it'll have to be tied to SOMETHING.
How long would a few thousand mile trip take at 20mph (think dump truck pulling uphill)?
About that Van Allen Belt radiation. What do you do when you short circuit it and the atmosphere between to ground? The atmosphere can pack quite a shock when you play around with conductive strings.
I'm not saying these problems can't be solved. I'm saying that this company hasn't done enough of their homework to know the realworld problems that will bite them hard.
But everyone has a different "reality". The guy who lives in a ghetto probably sees very differnt things than the guy in suburbia with the gated communities. But in reality, nothing is differnt than perception. I think the problem is the people in the gated communities have such blinders on they don't understand the rest of the world. They are like the monday morning quaterback who says "if only they would get a job.... blah blah blah". Then they realize the person is working overtime and they say "if only they would get a better job blah blah blah". A good journalist shows it how it really is, without any value statements.
That's an interesting curve ball you throw there. You start out very evenhanded, but then just twist to the left. It's always the people in the gated communities who don't know what goes on in the real world, while everyone in the ghetto is a lucid, but very unlucky philosopher.
How about the guy I used to work a moving van with? Always complaining about the 'man' keeping him down. Of course, four children out of wedlock, and no lunch money on Monday 'cause he dropped his paycheck at the strip club on Friday night didn't have anything to do with it. I bring him up as only an example of a very prevalent atttitude.
Maybe the people "in a ghetto" have their own set of blinders?
>PS - if you're a soccer mom who does keep up on the
>news - I apologize - my experience with soccer moms
>is limited by the bigamy laws of the state - your >mileage will vary.
Dude, you owe me a Dr. Pepper and a keyboard. You've got to warn people before you do $hlt like that.
PS. I'll wave the damages since the carbolic acid will probably clear up this sinus infection.
It's not contradictory. It's called protecting the innocent.
/. that is intent on attacking Christians weren't so damn arrogant, they might pull their heads out of their asses for long enough to realize that some of the people in the world have a different value system. The Christians have to right to have a different value system. In America, we call this freedom. Why the multi-culturalism that they preach doesn't respect a different viewpoint, I'll never understand.
If that liberal contigent of posters on
(Well actually I understand it very well. It's the old, "I'll agree with everyone, as long as nobody points out that I'm wrong" syndrome)
The "decent budget surplus" was the figment of an accountants imagination, based on overly optimistic forcast grounded in a stock and technology bubble. The deficit was alway there, but was exacerbated by a recession and a defensive war (we were attacked first).
Or would you have our troops fight with spitballs.
I live in North Carolina. I love how John Edwards runs around telling everyone that Bush drove jobs away, and that as president he'll bring them back. My question is always, "So what did you do while you were in the SENATE!!"
Whether it be a continuation of the "send troops first, try diplomacy last" policy of the current administration,
I guess you just fell off the turnip truck, did you? Or are you just blindly spouting the inflated lies of your bullshit-artist leaders?
The UN spent a decade trying to get a despote leader to abide by international sanctions. Were you not paying attention when the inspector kept getting kicked out by Hussien? How long should the international community have put up with Hussien's bullshit?
to the U.S. continuing to use WAY more than our fair share of energy (and producing WAY more than our fair share of CO2),
Why don't you turn off your computer to conserve some of that CO2? The only way to reduce CO2 emissions is to not create the electricity. Bush can't make a round of the whole country, insuring that people turn off their lights when they're not in the room. If he had the power and actually used it, the left would say that he's trying to inhibit poor children from studying at night.
I don't see Bush's reluctance to lower our standard of living as a bad thing.
Yes, but the professional videos you talk about emphasize the "YES! YES! DEEPER!" because that is the only voice that anyone really wants to hear. It's already easy to find those videos using the 'adult' keyword. Now trying to generalize past the geek view of the world...
8*)
Case in point:
A young girl can get abortion counseling without a notice to parents, but the same counselor wouldn't be allowed to give her an aspirin...
Please forgive me, but I'm going to blatantly steal that last paragraph for my sig. I have NEVER heard that sentiment expressed so eloquently or succintly.
Stress is simply pressure that you can't control.
Boss on your back about implementing that new dialog box? You whip one out in an hour, run up a flight of stairs and jump like Rocky.
Boss on your back to test that new dialog box while simultaneously taking the hardware from you and giving it to Joe Dipshit who sits on it for several days? You stew for several days as the stress rises and the deadline looms.
The pressure is the same, but the second case misses the control factor.