It is satirical. If the Pinochet comment didn't convince you, then certainly the comment about blowing up a planet of people not being as bad as you might think.
If nothing else, he makes an interesting point that the Old Republic is, at best, the lesser of two evils.
A lot more than Brits use vinegar on fries. Detroit Motor Speedway used to specialize in those. Ketchup? Someone needs to build a machine to keep up with all the face slaps needed.
> Fact is that former US VP Dan Quayle was > substituting for a school teacher who had made out > a spelling lesson plan with a mistake. Quayle > merely followed the plan.
More accurately, he was holding spelling cards with the "right" answers on them, including "potatoe". He was set up. Either that or the teacher should be fired for creating a bad spelling card.
"Hmmm, potato is a word people frequently misspell. Let's give him a misspelled one and see what happens!"
Quick, a dozen cameras are on you, a dozen children and a hundred adults surround you, child spells "potato" on blackboard and looks to you to see if it is correct. Your card supplied by the teacher spells "potatoe" on it. What are you gonna do? Too late! You took too much time thinking.
You'd cut down the trees and bury them in sealed, non-biodegrading landfills. Old growth forests are more or less CO2 neutral. This would get around the land shortage problem. It would also provide a lot of useful wood that could be built with (not as good as a landfill, but still keeps it out of the atmosphere, the occasional burned building aside.)
Or we could stop passing laws that mandate no yard waste or newspapers in landfills, and mandating landfills with air holes that biodegrade.
Shovel all that stuff in and seal it up. Seriously. One of the proposed ways to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere is to plant fast growth forests, chop them down, and bury them in sealed landfills.
So, if you have a mulch pile in the backyard, thanks for heating up the planet, fool.
Yes, it will take up less volume, but that extra volume is paid for by what's above the water level. Like a boat, it's effect on sea level is already considered. If it melts, no net change.
While the (waterbound) ice would take up 4% less volume when melted (IIRC) the ice amounts to a floating ship, which is to say, it won't alter the height of the ocean when it melts. A trillion tons of ice or a trillion tons of water at the north pole won't change the sea level.
And by the way, its the French that look great with asses stuffed into tight jeans, the English that have magnificent, pendulous breasts, the Germans that are lying nude in nude parks and the Belgians are nude on the beaches. Well, the gigantic Dutch women are, anyway.
> Yes, but in Europe the difference between rich and > poor is a lot smaller, which means that the middle > class is much larger and there's less poor people
Either that or you tax the hell out of the rich (new earnings, anyway. Old money is still well intact) causing slow economies, grinding much R&D to a halt, such that other countries with less oppressive policies have to do the bulk of technological advancement.
A few laser-guided smart bombs that can punch through 30 feet of steel reinforced concrete or some daisycutters will take care of the Saiyans, that Power Rangers robot, Godzilla, Thor, Hulk, Ultraman, and all those cool giant Robotech machines, sad to say.
> This would allow it to maintain momentum and then > it would tack upwind back to earth.
Doesn't tacking require something to "tack" against, like water?
When it's all huffing and puffing outward from the sun, there's nothing to tack against.
Also, if you're flying by Mars at a high speed, you still have to get into a landing rocket and blow a ton of fuel to slow down. And you'd need a ton more to load that fuel onto the sail as it spins around earth (not to mention a 2nd load of fuel for getting up to sail speed by Mars for the return trip.)
> "Sure, when the price of transportation is > prohibitive, then people will spend decades > developing alteratives. > > Unfortunately, during that time in development, > there will be NO transportation, or very little."
Those little whirling toys, or "radiometers", as scientists Edmundi refer to them, do not operate on photon pressure.
They operate on the black side of the vanes getting warmer than the white sides, thus the molecules on that side are vibrating faster (temperature being the average molecular motion of a substance) and thus kick any billiard-balling air molecules away faster than the light side does. This transfers more momentum to the black side than the white side, thus it starts to spin.
The purpose of the bulb is not to preserve a partial (or complete!) vacuum, or a special gas, but to keep ambient currents away from the device. It's only a paper cap on the bottom.
I was going to pay some movers $20 to make an old refrigerator go away, but it still worked and the people taking the place I was moving from wanted it.
I paid enough taxes yesterday such that if that was someone else's salary last year, they would have to pay taxes on it.
You lazy sack of shit. I feel your lazy weight on my back. Prolly some lazy socialist who wants high taxes -- for other people -- to drive society along while they sit back on welfare with a free PC and free Internet surfing for pr0n. Hey, you're not that guy who tried to get on social security disability for agoraphobia who wanted to play EverQuest all day long, eh? Eh, comrade?
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It is satirical. If the Pinochet comment didn't convince you, then certainly the comment about blowing up a planet of people not being as bad as you might think.
If nothing else, he makes an interesting point that the Old Republic is, at best, the lesser of two evils.
That's what I was wondering. My fridge has several square feet of cooling area. All that heat coming out of 1" square would be quite a hot square.
A lot more than Brits use vinegar on fries. Detroit Motor Speedway used to specialize in those. Ketchup? Someone needs to build a machine to keep up with all the face slaps needed.
> Fact is that former US VP Dan Quayle was
> substituting for a school teacher who had made out
> a spelling lesson plan with a mistake. Quayle
> merely followed the plan.
More accurately, he was holding spelling cards with the "right" answers on them, including "potatoe". He was set up. Either that or the teacher should be fired for creating a bad spelling card.
"Hmmm, potato is a word people frequently misspell. Let's give him a misspelled one and see what happens!"
Quick, a dozen cameras are on you, a dozen children and a hundred adults surround you, child spells "potato" on blackboard and looks to you to see if it is correct. Your card supplied by the teacher spells "potatoe" on it. What are you gonna do? Too late! You took too much time thinking.
It was a setup.
Having been to the Netherlands (it ain't just Belgium) I can concur as to the vast superiority of mayonnaise on French fries.
I do believe "poutine" (?) in Canada wins, though, as it is cheese curds (?) and gravy on fries.
> Btw. trees are not the only plant to bind carbon,
> actually more carbon can be/is bound in form of
> algae in the sea.
90% IIRC. Land plant life is almost irrelevant.
Biodegredation is the same as burning, more or less. The carbon all goes back as CO2 into the atmosphere, not as a pile of glucose goo on the ground.
You'd cut down the trees and bury them in sealed, non-biodegrading landfills. Old growth forests are more or less CO2 neutral. This would get around the land shortage problem. It would also provide a lot of useful wood that could be built with (not as good as a landfill, but still keeps it out of the atmosphere, the occasional burned building aside.)
> We need to reduce CO2 emissions.
Or we could stop passing laws that mandate no yard waste or newspapers in landfills, and mandating landfills with air holes that biodegrade.
Shovel all that stuff in and seal it up. Seriously. One of the proposed ways to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere is to plant fast growth forests, chop them down, and bury them in sealed landfills.
So, if you have a mulch pile in the backyard, thanks for heating up the planet, fool.
> ah yes the water line might rise as much as 600
> feet at certain latitudes (that is a southern
> californian latitude estimate)
I live in Michigan and am about at 630-680 feet above sea level IIRC. Look where Michigan is on the map.
> but if Ice is expanded water then nobody really
> knows that if 80% is submerged and then the ice
> melts, maybe the ocean won't really rise at all!
The ice on the water will have no net gain or loss as it's presence, like a boat, is already taken into account on sea level.
Yes, it will take up less volume, but that extra volume is paid for by what's above the water level. Like a boat, it's effect on sea level is already considered. If it melts, no net change.
While the (waterbound) ice would take up 4% less volume when melted (IIRC) the ice amounts to a floating ship, which is to say, it won't alter the height of the ocean when it melts. A trillion tons of ice or a trillion tons of water at the north pole won't change the sea level.
And by the way, its the French that look great with asses stuffed into tight jeans, the English that have magnificent, pendulous breasts, the Germans that are lying nude in nude parks and the Belgians are nude on the beaches. Well, the gigantic Dutch women are, anyway.
Got your ticket to Canada ready that fast, eh?
> Yes, but in Europe the difference between rich and
> poor is a lot smaller, which means that the middle
> class is much larger and there's less poor people
Either that or you tax the hell out of the rich (new earnings, anyway. Old money is still well intact) causing slow economies, grinding much R&D to a halt, such that other countries with less oppressive policies have to do the bulk of technological advancement.
I would submit the computer game industry is much smaller than the music industry, as far as online stealing goes.
For every stolen copy of Diablo II, there are probably hundreds of stolen songs, maybe thousands.
A few laser-guided smart bombs that can punch through 30 feet of steel reinforced concrete or some daisycutters will take care of the Saiyans, that Power Rangers robot, Godzilla, Thor, Hulk, Ultraman, and all those cool giant Robotech machines, sad to say.
> This would allow it to maintain momentum and then
> it would tack upwind back to earth.
Doesn't tacking require something to "tack" against, like water?
When it's all huffing and puffing outward from the sun, there's nothing to tack against.
Also, if you're flying by Mars at a high speed, you still have to get into a landing rocket and blow a ton of fuel to slow down. And you'd need a ton more to load that fuel onto the sail as it spins around earth (not to mention a 2nd load of fuel for getting up to sail speed by Mars for the return trip.)
> "Sure, when the price of transportation is
> prohibitive, then people will spend decades
> developing alteratives.
>
> Unfortunately, during that time in development,
> there will be NO transportation, or very little."
Actually, economists have demonstrated time and time again that the alternatives will be developed long before needed. Prices for transportation will continue to drop unless government intervention comes to "help us", in which case prices rise. Thanks, gov't., for the "help".
Those little whirling toys, or "radiometers", as scientists Edmundi refer to them, do not operate on photon pressure.
They operate on the black side of the vanes getting warmer than the white sides, thus the molecules on that side are vibrating faster (temperature being the average molecular motion of a substance) and thus kick any billiard-balling air molecules away faster than the light side does. This transfers more momentum to the black side than the white side, thus it starts to spin.
The purpose of the bulb is not to preserve a partial (or complete!) vacuum, or a special gas, but to keep ambient currents away from the device. It's only a paper cap on the bottom.
I was going to pay some movers $20 to make an old refrigerator go away, but it still worked and the people taking the place I was moving from wanted it.
> You could drive a car into this machine they
> have and it would be able to recycle it.
(grind grind grind) In this bucket, the metal. In this bucket, the plastic. In this bucket, the body parts. In this bucket, the glass...
> you believe that only "roman citizens" should
> enjoy its benefits.
All roads lead to Rome. All huge fucking lines to get into a country lead into the US.
It's better to be a citizen of Rome than to be the Queen of Toronto.
I paid enough taxes yesterday such that if that was someone else's salary last year, they would have to pay taxes on it.
You lazy sack of shit. I feel your lazy weight on my back. Prolly some lazy socialist who wants high taxes -- for other people -- to drive society along while they sit back on welfare with a free PC and free Internet surfing for pr0n. Hey, you're not that guy who tried to get on social security disability for agoraphobia who wanted to play EverQuest all day long, eh? Eh, comrade?
Tell us the one about the Jews and gas chambers while you're at it.