Read the news lately? Thye've been having riots recently trying to set up Yet Another 'Islamic' Republic there just like they had in Iran. There's been a traveller's advisory out on them for a couple years. And right next door is Libya, in the middle of a revolution, to the south is Chad, more revolution. Think anybody's gonna respect Egypt's borders? I sure don't.
It's all about control. Find somebody you can make into an enemy, like Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Arabs, whatever. Paint them to be the scum of the earth. Throw a little barbeque at the Reichstag with a handpicked 'scum' as the fall guy, then pack your pet legiscritters into session when the public demands you DO SOMETHING RIGHT FUCKING NOW and get your favorite piece of totolitarian legislation pushed through to maintain 'Law and Order'.
Now you can prosecute opposition politicians from Vegas for corruption under the PATRIOT Act.
Your suicide stat is ridiculous. There are 300 million people in the US. I doubt Foxcomm employs more than 2 or 3 million. Any number they pubish is bound to be shaded. Remember, they're living under an information-restricted totolitarian regime there. They're going to paint the best possible picture they can of the 'worker's paradise', just like the Russians did back in the Bad Old Days.
China is relatively stableat this point in time. Africa has been suffering brushfire wars and tribal rebellions for over a century now. It hasn't stopped, as tribe after tribe goes after their neighbors for injuries done generations ago. Ther's not a spot on the African continent that's been war-free for 25 years, not even South Africa.
Mebbe so, but you can't sue for age discrimination because you failed a background check. Age discrimination suits sound like a winner, but actually proving it is a bitch. Like, if you fail a background check, how do you prove it was age discrimination?
Possibly, that's the plan. After all, it could be Yet Another Nail Gun in the War Against Online 'Piracy' if sites were held responsible for their content. Somebody posts a link to a magnet file or a torrent file, you can nail them with enabling 'piracy' even though it's copyright infringement.
Probably. I got turned down for a customer service gig at an insurance company because I 'failed the background check'. They couldn't verify my high school GPA. Not surprising, I graduated 40 years ago.
Compared to Ronny RayGun, the Bush Bandits, and Slick Willy, Jimmy Carter was a breath of fresh air. And of course, who could resist the tales of his brother Billy? The 'bubbah' was a train wreck, but amusing as hell.
Prob is, porn is in the eye of the beholder. If somebody needs to escape to the john for a quick tug after seeing a pic of some snapdragons, yeah, they're severely twisted people, but for them, those pics are porn.
The 9 Braindead Guys handed down a ruling on porn back in the 60's IIRC (hey, I'm getting old!) that porn has to pass a 'community standard' test. Basically, they said 'We don't know exactly what porn is, but we know it when we see it!'. Under that ruling, all somebody has to do is accuse me of being a pedophile, and instantly those pics of my granddaughter and nieces & nephews become porn in the eyes of a hardcore evangelical DA. Pack the jury with like-minded braindead evangelicals, and they have an instant conviction for kiddie porn.
The 'Community Standard' ruling is what allowed pics of Betty Page to be declared legal in the 'liberal North' while being classed as porn Down South. The legal implications are still haunting our society.
Depends on what you consider kiddie porn. Way the hell back when, the JC Penny & Montgomery Wards catalogs used to print pictures of child models wearing underwear and pajamas. When the laws in the US started getting weird, those pictures disappeared. Seems somebody convinced the marketting department that said pics of child models could be used by pedophiles as porn. Being wary of their potential liability, the ads died. To me, it's all in the eye of the beholder. If you're searching out porn with a vengance, you'll find porn in anything you look at.
The cleanest rocket fuel is liquid hydrogen with liquid oxygen as the 'oxydizer'.
And where does that hydrogen comes from? Magic elves?
No, as the post you utterly failed to understand already said, it comes from turning Methane into H2 and CO2. Or turning Coal into electricity and then using that to split water. Not very environmentally friendly at all.
Simply moving the pollution from one place to another is not being more environmentally friendly, it's called being short sighted.
I never said the process to make the hydrogen is clean, just that the burning of the hydrogen is clean. Read what I wrote already.
It gets me when people claim that electric cars are so much 'greener' than internal combustion cars, patting themselves on the back because they 'don't pollute'. All they're doing is exporting their smog someplace else.
Personally, I'm a big fan of the steam engine. Relatively nonpolluting, and can be fueled with renewable fuels. I read an article in Popular Mechanics a few decades ago about using Freon for the working fluid in a steam engine. Interesting stuff, maybe somebody should have kept on researching that.
Trailer Park Boys: Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Intelligence: Vancouver
Republic of Doyle: St John's Newfoundland
Call Me Fitz: (Unknown) Nova Scotia (filmed in New Minas)
Da Vinci's Inquest/Da Vinci's City Hall: Vancouver
Lotta good Canadian shows made outside Toronto, most of which you have to pirate to get in the States.
The cleanest rocket fuel is liquid hydrogen with liquid oxygen as the 'oxydizer'. The reason they use hydrazine is, l-hyd isn't that easy to handle. Fact is, it's a real pain in the ass. You have to store it in a Thermos tank, vented for the boiloff. You can't hope to store it for more than a few hours in a 'fuel tank' on a rocket. Hydrazine can be handled in ambient room temperature, it's already liquid. Saves weight as well on the tankage, you only have to insulate the liquid oxygen. And let's not even go into the problems of cryogenically frozen pump components when dealing with pumping l-hyd. Lox is bad enough, but l-hyd is liquid at -253C thereabouts, almost absolute zero. Materials do strange things at that temperature range...
Musta been the 'I won't pray for you' bit that got him in hot water. Can't go wrong when you pay lip service to the local gods, ya know.
Prob is, figuring out which are the local gods. Course, the Saudis are a bunch of nutjobs. They produced a shitpile of mujihadeem in Afghanistan back when they 'were on our side' fighting the Soviets. If they didn't have oil, we'dve dropped the Saudis like a hot rock.
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Like there's a difference these days?
Read the news lately? Thye've been having riots recently trying to set up Yet Another 'Islamic' Republic there just like they had in Iran. There's been a traveller's advisory out on them for a couple years. And right next door is Libya, in the middle of a revolution, to the south is Chad, more revolution. Think anybody's gonna respect Egypt's borders? I sure don't.
It's all about control. Find somebody you can make into an enemy, like Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Arabs, whatever. Paint them to be the scum of the earth. Throw a little barbeque at the Reichstag with a handpicked 'scum' as the fall guy, then pack your pet legiscritters into session when the public demands you DO SOMETHING RIGHT FUCKING NOW and get your favorite piece of totolitarian legislation pushed through to maintain 'Law and Order'.
Now you can prosecute opposition politicians from Vegas for corruption under the PATRIOT Act.
Your suicide stat is ridiculous. There are 300 million people in the US. I doubt Foxcomm employs more than 2 or 3 million. Any number they pubish is bound to be shaded. Remember, they're living under an information-restricted totolitarian regime there. They're going to paint the best possible picture they can of the 'worker's paradise', just like the Russians did back in the Bad Old Days.
China is relatively stableat this point in time. Africa has been suffering brushfire wars and tribal rebellions for over a century now. It hasn't stopped, as tribe after tribe goes after their neighbors for injuries done generations ago. Ther's not a spot on the African continent that's been war-free for 25 years, not even South Africa.
Potempkin village, anyone?
Mebbe so, but you can't sue for age discrimination because you failed a background check. Age discrimination suits sound like a winner, but actually proving it is a bitch. Like, if you fail a background check, how do you prove it was age discrimination?
Possibly, that's the plan. After all, it could be Yet Another Nail Gun in the War Against Online 'Piracy' if sites were held responsible for their content. Somebody posts a link to a magnet file or a torrent file, you can nail them with enabling 'piracy' even though it's copyright infringement.
Probably. I got turned down for a customer service gig at an insurance company because I 'failed the background check'. They couldn't verify my high school GPA. Not surprising, I graduated 40 years ago.
You shoulda thought of that before you hooked up with the 3 cheerleaders, the midget & the giraffe at that frat party.
I hear the giraffe is still pissed cause you didn't call her.
Compared to Ronny RayGun, the Bush Bandits, and Slick Willy, Jimmy Carter was a breath of fresh air. And of course, who could resist the tales of his brother Billy? The 'bubbah' was a train wreck, but amusing as hell.
Gassifying bank notes. Interesting.
Can we recycle politicians the same way??
Nonono, that was the spinoff, "Mikhail's Politburo'.
Yeah, Canada is getting more like the US every day. Sorry to hear that, guys. You had a helluva nice civilised country up there.
Prob is, porn is in the eye of the beholder. If somebody needs to escape to the john for a quick tug after seeing a pic of some snapdragons, yeah, they're severely twisted people, but for them, those pics are porn.
The 9 Braindead Guys handed down a ruling on porn back in the 60's IIRC (hey, I'm getting old!) that porn has to pass a 'community standard' test. Basically, they said 'We don't know exactly what porn is, but we know it when we see it!'. Under that ruling, all somebody has to do is accuse me of being a pedophile, and instantly those pics of my granddaughter and nieces & nephews become porn in the eyes of a hardcore evangelical DA. Pack the jury with like-minded braindead evangelicals, and they have an instant conviction for kiddie porn.
The 'Community Standard' ruling is what allowed pics of Betty Page to be declared legal in the 'liberal North' while being classed as porn Down South. The legal implications are still haunting our society.
Depends on what you consider kiddie porn. Way the hell back when, the JC Penny & Montgomery Wards catalogs used to print pictures of child models wearing underwear and pajamas. When the laws in the US started getting weird, those pictures disappeared. Seems somebody convinced the marketting department that said pics of child models could be used by pedophiles as porn. Being wary of their potential liability, the ads died. To me, it's all in the eye of the beholder. If you're searching out porn with a vengance, you'll find porn in anything you look at.
Somebody already mentioned Corner Gas. Haven't seen Heartland yet, tho.
I never said the process to make the hydrogen is clean, just that the burning of the hydrogen is clean. Read what I wrote already.
It gets me when people claim that electric cars are so much 'greener' than internal combustion cars, patting themselves on the back because they 'don't pollute'. All they're doing is exporting their smog someplace else.
Personally, I'm a big fan of the steam engine. Relatively nonpolluting, and can be fueled with renewable fuels. I read an article in Popular Mechanics a few decades ago about using Freon for the working fluid in a steam engine. Interesting stuff, maybe somebody should have kept on researching that.
His daughter is becoming one too. And DAMN is she cute!
At least you'd be spared American Idol. Lucky bastards.
Trailer Park Boys: Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Intelligence: Vancouver
Republic of Doyle: St John's Newfoundland
Call Me Fitz: (Unknown) Nova Scotia (filmed in New Minas)
Da Vinci's Inquest/Da Vinci's City Hall: Vancouver
Lotta good Canadian shows made outside Toronto, most of which you have to pirate to get in the States.
The cleanest rocket fuel is liquid hydrogen with liquid oxygen as the 'oxydizer'. The reason they use hydrazine is, l-hyd isn't that easy to handle. Fact is, it's a real pain in the ass. You have to store it in a Thermos tank, vented for the boiloff. You can't hope to store it for more than a few hours in a 'fuel tank' on a rocket. Hydrazine can be handled in ambient room temperature, it's already liquid. Saves weight as well on the tankage, you only have to insulate the liquid oxygen. And let's not even go into the problems of cryogenically frozen pump components when dealing with pumping l-hyd. Lox is bad enough, but l-hyd is liquid at -253C thereabouts, almost absolute zero. Materials do strange things at that temperature range...
And in 1964, that fave of all Russki TV shows came on, "Leave it to Brezhnev" followed immidiately by "Bowling for Food".
Yeah, it's not like he was talking down AFTA or SOPA...
NO CARRIER...
Musta been the 'I won't pray for you' bit that got him in hot water. Can't go wrong when you pay lip service to the local gods, ya know.
Prob is, figuring out which are the local gods. Course, the Saudis are a bunch of nutjobs. They produced a shitpile of mujihadeem in Afghanistan back when they 'were on our side' fighting the Soviets. If they didn't have oil, we'dve dropped the Saudis like a hot rock.