Is this something that may be practical in boats? Get not only trust but also electrical energy from sails? I'm not sure I trust sails, they can be rather fickle. They seem to change depending on which way the wind is blowing. (rimshot)
attractive yet potentially dangerous environments (like MySpace, or an unfenced pool) Perhaps you should add "computer" to that list.
If your kids get hurt in your pool, who's to blame? If your kids get hurt using your computer, why is it now someone else's fault?
If you have a pool, you have to put a fence around it. Perhaps if you have a computer, you need to put a "fence" around it. It's time for parents to accept responsibility for how their computer is used by their kids.
I'm going to file suit against the parents of these children because "In my view, the parents waited entirely too long to attempt to institute meaningful security measures that effectively increase the safety of their own children."
The little bit of the article that I read sounded more like whining to me.
Environmentalists are upset that ExxonMobil is funding the other side of their argument. Exxon is breeding "uncertainty" after environmentalists spent their money trying to present only one side of the issue. Now someone shows up with the other side and they want to cry foul.
Dirty hippies, grow up.
Perhaps someone needs to write a press release about "Wacko tree-huggers fund Global Warming fanatics."
I don't think that debate even matters, it's a silly blame game. Why is that silly? If you're going to counter something, it's a good idea to know the initial cause. If man isn't causing it, take all the man-made measures you want, it's not going to change anything. Let's just say it's cows farting. How is the Kyoto Treaty going to stop cow farts?
Is it man? Is it cows? Is it volcanos? Is it aliens? Is it something we don't even know about? I'm a "Creationist," but I also believe that the Earth is billions of years old. This rock has survived that long, it's somewhat arrogant to think that we humans are going to be able to destroy it in a relative blink of the eye. What caused the Ice Ages? Was that the lack of people, cows, and volcanos? What caused the Ice Ages to end? A sudden increase in people, cows, and volcanos? What were temperatures like in the days of the dinosaurs? Perhaps we're going back to dinosaur weather. Maybe the reptiles are causing it! They need warmer weather so they can overthrow us silly warm-blooded humans.
Identify the problem *then* apply the fix. In that order.
That's my big problem with the Al Gore crowd. You have yet to prove to that man is causing it and can therefore actually do something about it. You just assume man is the problem. I, for one, am not ready to give up hundreds of years of human advances for a liberal guilt-trip. My conscience is clear.
I'll keep burning my fossil fuels, thank you. I'm not going to pay 10x as much to heat my home or drive my car just because you're feeling bad about maybe being a cause of rising global temperatures. But I also realize that fossil fuels are limited so I fully support alternative energy sources. Build hydro-electric plants. Put up wind farms. I don't even care if they block your precious view of the ocean in Massachusetts. I think wind farms to quite nice to look at. Put solar panels on every rooftop. Pave the roads in solar panels if you can. And until you prove that a coal burning power plant is killing all life on Earth, I'm gonna burn coal too. Or, since I'm an evil capitalist, come up with a cheaper alternative to fossil fuels. Then you don't have to try to legislate your guilt on me, I'll do it because it's cheaper.
if you have never actually read any holocaust revisionist information and realised while they havent proved anything fully to my satisfaction (from what I've read/seen so far)
ask a nazi. go to Germany. Just because you've failed to do the research and investigation yourself, you're going to try to discredit those that lived through the horror? you're a sick human being. a good nazi should hate the jews just as much as you and has nothing to gain from lying about it. you might even be able to find one sick enough to actually be proud of the whole thing.
and not only that, founded on other peoples land? dont give me that "they lived there once" crap, that was thousands of years ago
other people's land? Who, the palestinians? Don't give me that "they lived there once" crap, that was decades ago.
If the US economy is dependent on blowing up children in the middle east then I say yes bring on the collapse.
I bet you'd feel like a jackass when you realized that your plan not only caused the starvation of thousands, if not millions, of people in the US and the countries that the US provides food to, but also didn't stop the extremists in the Middle East from blowing each up. The precious agro industry you think will save America is also dependent on that oil, you know? It takes oil to run a John Deere.
How about, instead, we start drilling for some of our own oil? Then our economy doesn't have to collapse, people don't have to starve, and we can leave the Middle east to continue blowing themselves up, but without you having to feel guilty about it.
The US cannot learn to live with another nation developing nuclear weapons who wants to destroy another nation.
If I understand it correctly by looking at the history of the last 50 years, the country that destroyed Japan, Vietnam, and Iraq was the US.
Perhaps you have a different map than I do, but I can still find Japan, Vietnam, and Iraq on mine. I suggest you look into buying a new map. I'm not going to say the US didn't devastate those countries in times of war, but I'd hardly put on the same level as what Iran wants to do. If Iran has their way, we'll all need to buy new maps because Israel won't be on it anymore. And they probably won't be all peaceful and pretty about it.
If it was up to me the US would severe every conceivable connection we have with the middle east including Israel
If it was up to you, you'd bring about a total collapse of US economy, you mean? Thats wishful thinking until we can achieve some sort of energy independence.
and I doubt japan really did either, but where semi-forced into it by america itself (no excuse for bombing pearl harbour I know, but it argues against your comment of "insane people not leaving you alone") for the express purpose of convincing the majority of americans that going into the war was a necessary evil.
Interesting idea but you've made no argument against anything with your baseless comment. So FDR blew up Pearl Harbor to drag America into WWII just like George W. Bush blew up the WTC to start a war in Afghanistan. Care to explain why America is guilty for Pearl Harbor? Got any links to kooky websites to support the FDR conspiracy? I've never heard that one before, I bet those would be a good read. [sarcasm]I bet its got something to do with those Zionist Jews and that hypothetical Holocaust thing.[/sarcasm]
but they certainly could have not gone into the war, if they were willing to live with the possibility of an axis controlled europe..
and of course, if they could forget the devastation of Pearl Harbor. "You can bomb the crap outta us once Japan, but if you try that again... there'll be trouble." Thank God the Democrats of the past weren't the spineless, brainless morons like today's Democratic leadership.
I can understand now why you think the crazy Iranian President is a sensible man: You're both nuts!
interview with iranian prime minister.[sarcasm] WOw he sounds really crazy...[/sarcasm]
I don't see how that could possibly be sarcasm. President Tom spends the first half of the interview denying that the Holocaust took place. So yes, that IS crazy.
Indeed. Differences in the color of the sky or grass actually matter.
If the grass is brown, that means you need to water it.
If the grass is green, you don't.
If the sky is dark and gray, maybe there will be rain.
If its blue, perhaps you could go take a walk.
If someone has darker skin than you... what does that tell you? Nothing. So what's the point? Why does it matter? What is lost if we don't discuss skin color? What is gained by calling me white, black, or yellow?
Looking at skin color cannot tell me anything about a person's culture. In fact, looking at skin color cannot tell me anything about that person except the level of melatonin in their skin, which really isn't useful at all. My skin has very little melatonin. What's my culture? Russian? German? French? American? Spanish? Canadian? African? Mid-Eastern? You could make a better guess based on my IP address than skin color.
And last time I checked, there was only one race, Human.
Skin color is not not a useful attribute or statistic. Perpetuating the myth that skin color matters only breeds more racism. Its counter-productive to say that skin color doesn't matter but then use it to categorize people. I loved it when Morgan Freeman came out against "Black History Month" here in the US. He's absolutely right when he says the only way to get rid of racism is to "stop talking about it." "I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man," Freeman says.
You want to differentiate based on culture? Go ahead. But don't assume that culture and skin color are the same thing.
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If your kids get hurt in your pool, who's to blame? If your kids get hurt using your computer, why is it now someone else's fault?
If you have a pool, you have to put a fence around it. Perhaps if you have a computer, you need to put a "fence" around it. It's time for parents to accept responsibility for how their computer is used by their kids.
I'm going to file suit against the parents of these children because "In my view, the parents waited entirely too long to attempt to institute meaningful security measures that effectively increase the safety of their own children."
The little bit of the article that I read sounded more like whining to me.
Environmentalists are upset that ExxonMobil is funding the other side of their argument. Exxon is breeding "uncertainty" after environmentalists spent their money trying to present only one side of the issue. Now someone shows up with the other side and they want to cry foul.
Dirty hippies, grow up.
Perhaps someone needs to write a press release about "Wacko tree-huggers fund Global Warming fanatics."
Is it man? Is it cows? Is it volcanos? Is it aliens? Is it something we don't even know about? I'm a "Creationist," but I also believe that the Earth is billions of years old. This rock has survived that long, it's somewhat arrogant to think that we humans are going to be able to destroy it in a relative blink of the eye. What caused the Ice Ages? Was that the lack of people, cows, and volcanos? What caused the Ice Ages to end? A sudden increase in people, cows, and volcanos? What were temperatures like in the days of the dinosaurs? Perhaps we're going back to dinosaur weather. Maybe the reptiles are causing it! They need warmer weather so they can overthrow us silly warm-blooded humans.
Identify the problem *then* apply the fix. In that order.
That's my big problem with the Al Gore crowd. You have yet to prove to that man is causing it and can therefore actually do something about it. You just assume man is the problem. I, for one, am not ready to give up hundreds of years of human advances for a liberal guilt-trip. My conscience is clear.
I'll keep burning my fossil fuels, thank you. I'm not going to pay 10x as much to heat my home or drive my car just because you're feeling bad about maybe being a cause of rising global temperatures. But I also realize that fossil fuels are limited so I fully support alternative energy sources. Build hydro-electric plants. Put up wind farms. I don't even care if they block your precious view of the ocean in Massachusetts. I think wind farms to quite nice to look at. Put solar panels on every rooftop. Pave the roads in solar panels if you can. And until you prove that a coal burning power plant is killing all life on Earth, I'm gonna burn coal too. Or, since I'm an evil capitalist, come up with a cheaper alternative to fossil fuels. Then you don't have to try to legislate your guilt on me, I'll do it because it's cheaper.
other people's land? Who, the palestinians? Don't give me that "they lived there once" crap, that was decades ago.
How about, instead, we start drilling for some of our own oil? Then our economy doesn't have to collapse, people don't have to starve, and we can leave the Middle east to continue blowing themselves up, but without you having to feel guilty about it.
and of course, if they could forget the devastation of Pearl Harbor. "You can bomb the crap outta us once Japan, but if you try that again... there'll be trouble." Thank God the Democrats of the past weren't the spineless, brainless morons like today's Democratic leadership.
I can understand now why you think the crazy Iranian President is a sensible man: You're both nuts!
Indeed. Differences in the color of the sky or grass actually matter.
If the grass is brown, that means you need to water it.
If the grass is green, you don't.
If the sky is dark and gray, maybe there will be rain.
If its blue, perhaps you could go take a walk.
If someone has darker skin than you... what does that tell you? Nothing. So what's the point? Why does it matter? What is lost if we don't discuss skin color? What is gained by calling me white, black, or yellow?
Looking at skin color cannot tell me anything about a person's culture. In fact, looking at skin color cannot tell me anything about that person except the level of melatonin in their skin, which really isn't useful at all. My skin has very little melatonin. What's my culture? Russian? German? French? American? Spanish? Canadian? African? Mid-Eastern? You could make a better guess based on my IP address than skin color.
And last time I checked, there was only one race, Human.
Skin color is not not a useful attribute or statistic. Perpetuating the myth that skin color matters only breeds more racism. Its counter-productive to say that skin color doesn't matter but then use it to categorize people. I loved it when Morgan Freeman came out against "Black History Month" here in the US. He's absolutely right when he says the only way to get rid of racism is to "stop talking about it." "I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man," Freeman says.
You want to differentiate based on culture? Go ahead. But don't assume that culture and skin color are the same thing.