A Lego Brick Separator??? I don't think they had that 20 years ago, and even if they did, I was too young to know any better. Plus, name me one dad who didn't think they could get it apart with their own tools?
I always hated Mega Bloks. They are made out of the cheapest plastic, and don't stay together. Even though they may have needed to win (legally) they shouldn't have (quality-wise).
Well, the only other option you have is LEGO, and it completely sucked when you get two flat LEGO pieces stuck together. That frustrated my parents to no end as they had to get a razor blade to pry the two pieces apart.
There WILL be waste products, and on the scale people are planning, this scheme will be no better than our other. We are just putting the toxificatoin off for another day. Pay me now or pay me later... there is no free ride.
What waste product will there be?
First off, we've made a system that uses a battery that allows use to use LESS fuel per distance travelled.
Second, the battery (which is the new component added), is 99% recycleable.
Other than that, I don't see how it isn't better than the current solution we are using now?
There is a suburb of Toronto that actually made it illegal for anyone to provide high-speed connections. IIRC, 64K is the limit because the "citizens" don't want their town to become a bedroom community of telecommuting techies.
Oh really? Where is the source of this mis-information? Don't think it is possible to outlaw high speed connection.
"If a gasoline-powered car runs out of gas, the driver can hitch a ride to a station and back with a couple of gallons. What do you do when if/when your batteries run out? Getting towed is expensive."
Well there's no reason to run out of gasoline or battery power other then stupidity on the part of the owner. I've never run out of gas.
I think his point is that there is no real quick way to recharge BEV. Any sort of recharging will take hours to top up, unlike a few minutes with a gas vehicle.
And FYI, sometimes people run out of gas/batteries for reasons other than owner stupidity; it's called malfunctions.
Who cares about whether it's 2-4? People hyping the hybrids talk about long term thinking. Eventually, you WILL throw that battery away, whether it's 5 or 10 years. At that point, how does one convert that to being non-toxic?
I think the point is that you never *throw* away the battery. It's recycled. The lead isn't used up at the end of the lifespan of the battery, it just gets reconstituted back to the form the manufacturers need it to be in, and presto, you're back to where you started from.
Obviously you're a highway driver which means you're not even capitalizing on the main benefit of the hybrids (very high in-city mileage). You've saved somewhere around $1000 in gas over owning a Corolla, so you've certainly lost significant money on your decision.
How did you come to that conclusion? All because he said 2-1/2 years and 75K miles?
How do you know he doesn't use his Prius to deliver pizza within a city? Also, I've seen in my area Priuses that are used as taxis.
Using a hybrid is a definite win for the environment as it would put the overall average of fuel consumption lower. Less particulate matter, less fuel, and from what others have written, the majority of the battery is recycleable, upto 99% of it. Recycled is more efficient than producing new if you think about it.
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OTOH, we have better medical care and nutrition now. Rapid communication enables us to isolate outbreaks more effectively. They may or may not cancel out the factors you mentioned, but you can't just assume things will be worse.
I think with the advent of fast global travel by airplanes, our ability to effectively isolate outbreaks are severely hindered. Take SARS for example, that outbreak could hardly be contained, and we were lucky with that one.
If a "safer" cigarrete could be made to get rid of these, we wouldn't have a problem (except for health costs of smokers, but we can charge tobacco companies for that).
Technically we have already with all those nicotine patch quit-smoking products. Since smokers are really only after the nicotine, those patches should suffice in delivering the chemical. However, as with most smokers, it is the habit of bringing something to your lips and sucking that is the part they find so hard to give up.
So, if they can deliver nicotine without a burning the medium in a cigarette-like device; everyone will be happy.
You assume that he has not spoken to anyone recently. On what do you base that assumption? Have you been listening for it? I get the feeling that this is a wasted post.
My assumption is based upon the fact that there hasn't been a new addition to the Bible in recent times. Where's the Testament after the "New Testament" (which was written a long long time ago)?
It's a legitimate question. Why hasn't there been any new revelations since the time of the original publishing? When was the Bible last updated?
No. I'm just responding with some facts to sort of back up what you said. I just thought that it was common knowledge that all countries have had their skeletons in the closet that you shouldn't have had to bring up your point.
Toronto has had record number of smog days this year. So your ideas of dropping pollution levels are certainly wrong. Smog days mean that particulate matter is passing above a threshold value at which breathing becomes difficult. Much of the smog "arrive here in prevailing winds from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee". So it is coming from a fair distance away.
And I CAN say the US Govt isn't doing anything because it has pulled out from the Kyoto Protocol for the sake of $$$
If you knew anything about the middle class of the Chinese, you would know that it is near impossible to own a car given the wages, the prices and the taxes. The middle class isn't the same as the middleclass in Western societies. Middleclass over there means you're just not peasant class. Which is hardly anything to be proud of.
In a global society, you can't point at others until you've pointed at yourself first.
Or is it matter that didn't spring into existence.....
How would you prove something didn't exist?
"Matter that didn't spring into existence? Well... hmmm.... yeah... we would like to prove that it existed, but we don't have any of that matter... so umm.. we're stuck."
They are legitimate concerns, and they are among the many concerns that I have that prevents me from believing.
I'll ask for you to explain in depth why it is believed that it is God and not some other god (i.e. Zeus, Odin, Allah, etc..), or aliens that is behind all this?
I have not seen evidence of God, or anything supernatural.
And the Bible does not bluntly say Moses wrote those books. "The laws of Moses" is a common phrase, but that doesn't imply that the version contained in today's Bible is a direct translation of what Moses wrote but merely originates from what Moses wrote.
How come God hasn't spoken to anyone recently? You know... to revise the Bible into modern times?
There's faith (e.g. God made the Universe), and there's science (e.g. the Universe started from the Big Bang, and life evolved as a consequence), and there's no problem holding to both at the same time, if one wants to.
If one wants to hold both, how does one answer the question, "Who made God?"
I'm not talking about China 2005 - I'm talking about China 1985, or even 1995. China has made tremendous progress in the past several decades.
That can be said of any country's history. Canada's history is just filled with slave labour and injustices. Just because we choose to whitewash the issues, it doesn't mean it never existed.
Except that God didn't "spring" into existence but has always existed.
How exactly do you "prove" a statement like that?
"Umm... well, you see, we got this book... and umm... it's called the Bible. Ugh... it was written by a bunch of guys who said they spoke to God, and He told them what to write down in this book. Editors? Well, no. Facts? Umm... sort of, we did verify that these guys went somewhere to write the Bible. We can't for certain be sure that they indeed heard His voice. They were honest men, so we just assumed it to be true. Other Gods? No, there can be only one. Just trust me."
You're right, God is too complex to have 'sprung' into existence.
That being said, God didn't spring into existence. He has been Himself forever. There is no infinite regression problem if you have a supreme being who is capable of making time.
That's certainly a convenient way to get out of explaining that concept isn't it? How exactly do you know that God doesn't have his own God? Or even that God is God, and not Allah?
People can't wrap their heads around the concept of infinity. In mathematics, there are notions of positive and negative infinity, the infinite number of real numbers between any two real numbers, and the inifinite number of integer or whole numbers. If God is inifinite, as the Bible claims, and I believe, then it is perfectly rational to believe that He could have existed before He made time for us. People are finite beings, living only for a short period of time before dying.
How can you assume that the Bible is absolutely correct? Afterall it is written by humans who claim to have penned it through conversations with God. If the Bible is THE book, how come better interpretations from God himself haven't been put into a 2005 version? I believe I read somewhere here that if God is such an omnipotent being, why does he insist on using middlemen to try to communicate with us?
Faith alone is not enough to convince many of us here.
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So it's forbidden to fart?
Yes. It is forbidden to fart, unless you follow up that said fart with a deep breathe.
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yyyy-mm-dd makes the most sense out of all formats simply because it follows logic. It really shouldn't matter how it is spoken in speech.
Following this format you can fully detail a date and time by writing it out as yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss. It is logical.
Pollution from the US Mid-West is flowing into Canada, how come the US Govt doesn't do anything about that?
Trying to reduce the pollution per unit captia in China is pretty tough when each person is hardly producing anything measurable, whereas pollution in Western countries the per unit capita is beyond wasteful.
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Sex with a steak apparently?
Maybe you're refering to March 14th, Steak and Sex Day.
A Lego Brick Separator??? I don't think they had that 20 years ago, and even if they did, I was too young to know any better. Plus, name me one dad who didn't think they could get it apart with their own tools?
I always hated Mega Bloks. They are made out of the cheapest plastic, and don't stay together. Even though they may have needed to win (legally) they shouldn't have (quality-wise).
Well, the only other option you have is LEGO, and it completely sucked when you get two flat LEGO pieces stuck together. That frustrated my parents to no end as they had to get a razor blade to pry the two pieces apart.
There WILL be waste products, and on the scale people are planning, this scheme will be no better than our other. We are just putting the toxificatoin off for another day. Pay me now or pay me later... there is no free ride.
What waste product will there be?
First off, we've made a system that uses a battery that allows use to use LESS fuel per distance travelled.
Second, the battery (which is the new component added), is 99% recycleable.
Other than that, I don't see how it isn't better than the current solution we are using now?
There is a suburb of Toronto that actually made it illegal for anyone to provide high-speed connections. IIRC, 64K is the limit because the "citizens" don't want their town to become a bedroom community of telecommuting techies.
Oh really? Where is the source of this mis-information? Don't think it is possible to outlaw high speed connection.
"If a gasoline-powered car runs out of gas, the driver can hitch a ride to a station and back with a couple of gallons. What do you do when if/when your batteries run out? Getting towed is expensive."
Well there's no reason to run out of gasoline or battery power other then stupidity on the part of the owner. I've never run out of gas.
I think his point is that there is no real quick way to recharge BEV. Any sort of recharging will take hours to top up, unlike a few minutes with a gas vehicle.
And FYI, sometimes people run out of gas/batteries for reasons other than owner stupidity; it's called malfunctions.
Who cares about whether it's 2-4? People hyping the hybrids talk about long term thinking. Eventually, you WILL throw that battery away, whether it's 5 or 10 years. At that point, how does one convert that to being non-toxic?
I think the point is that you never *throw* away the battery. It's recycled. The lead isn't used up at the end of the lifespan of the battery, it just gets reconstituted back to the form the manufacturers need it to be in, and presto, you're back to where you started from.
Obviously you're a highway driver which means you're not even capitalizing on the main benefit of the hybrids (very high in-city mileage). You've saved somewhere around $1000 in gas over owning a Corolla, so you've certainly lost significant money on your decision.
How did you come to that conclusion? All because he said 2-1/2 years and 75K miles?
How do you know he doesn't use his Prius to deliver pizza within a city? Also, I've seen in my area Priuses that are used as taxis.
Using a hybrid is a definite win for the environment as it would put the overall average of fuel consumption lower. Less particulate matter, less fuel, and from what others have written, the majority of the battery is recycleable, upto 99% of it. Recycled is more efficient than producing new if you think about it.
OTOH, we have better medical care and nutrition now. Rapid communication enables us to isolate outbreaks more effectively. They may or may not cancel out the factors you mentioned, but you can't just assume things will be worse.
I think with the advent of fast global travel by airplanes, our ability to effectively isolate outbreaks are severely hindered. Take SARS for example, that outbreak could hardly be contained, and we were lucky with that one.
Tin foil hats work. Aluminum foil hats do not.
I'm not even going to get into this debate. I've just upgraded to a lead helmet!
It is rather cumbersome, but as a bonus to blocking everything, I've got a strong neck now.
Thank you for some facts.
Although, to me, it seems suspect to have that clause in there. Anyway, that's something to debate about another time.
If a "safer" cigarrete could be made to get rid of these, we wouldn't have a problem (except for health costs of smokers, but we can charge tobacco companies for that).
Technically we have already with all those nicotine patch quit-smoking products. Since smokers are really only after the nicotine, those patches should suffice in delivering the chemical. However, as with most smokers, it is the habit of bringing something to your lips and sucking that is the part they find so hard to give up.
So, if they can deliver nicotine without a burning the medium in a cigarette-like device; everyone will be happy.
You assume that he has not spoken to anyone recently. On what do you base that assumption? Have you been listening for it? I get the feeling that this is a wasted post.
My assumption is based upon the fact that there hasn't been a new addition to the Bible in recent times. Where's the Testament after the "New Testament" (which was written a long long time ago)?
It's a legitimate question. Why hasn't there been any new revelations since the time of the original publishing? When was the Bible last updated?
I personally haven't listened as I don't believe.
No. I'm just responding with some facts to sort of back up what you said. I just thought that it was common knowledge that all countries have had their skeletons in the closet that you shouldn't have had to bring up your point.
Here's something for you to read.
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Toronto has had record number of smog days this year. So your ideas of dropping pollution levels are certainly wrong. Smog days mean that particulate matter is passing above a threshold value at which breathing becomes difficult. Much of the smog "arrive here in prevailing winds from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee". So it is coming from a fair distance away.
And I CAN say the US Govt isn't doing anything because it has pulled out from the Kyoto Protocol for the sake of $$$
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If you knew anything about the middle class of the Chinese, you would know that it is near impossible to own a car given the wages, the prices and the taxes. The middle class isn't the same as the middleclass in Western societies. Middleclass over there means you're just not peasant class. Which is hardly anything to be proud of.
In a global society, you can't point at others until you've pointed at yourself first.
Or is it matter that didn't spring into existence.....
How would you prove something didn't exist?
"Matter that didn't spring into existence? Well... hmmm.... yeah... we would like to prove that it existed, but we don't have any of that matter... so umm.. we're stuck."
They are legitimate concerns, and they are among the many concerns that I have that prevents me from believing.
I'll ask for you to explain in depth why it is believed that it is God and not some other god (i.e. Zeus, Odin, Allah, etc..), or aliens that is behind all this?
I have not seen evidence of God, or anything supernatural.
And the Bible does not bluntly say Moses wrote those books. "The laws of Moses" is a common phrase, but that doesn't imply that the version contained in today's Bible is a direct translation of what Moses wrote but merely originates from what Moses wrote.
How come God hasn't spoken to anyone recently? You know... to revise the Bible into modern times?
There's faith (e.g. God made the Universe), and there's science (e.g. the Universe started from the Big Bang, and life evolved as a consequence), and there's no problem holding to both at the same time, if one wants to.
If one wants to hold both, how does one answer the question, "Who made God?"
I'm not talking about China 2005 - I'm talking about China 1985, or even 1995. China has made tremendous progress in the past several decades.
That can be said of any country's history. Canada's history is just filled with slave labour and injustices. Just because we choose to whitewash the issues, it doesn't mean it never existed.
Except that God didn't "spring" into existence but has always existed.
How exactly do you "prove" a statement like that?
"Umm... well, you see, we got this book... and umm... it's called the Bible. Ugh... it was written by a bunch of guys who said they spoke to God, and He told them what to write down in this book. Editors? Well, no. Facts? Umm... sort of, we did verify that these guys went somewhere to write the Bible. We can't for certain be sure that they indeed heard His voice. They were honest men, so we just assumed it to be true. Other Gods? No, there can be only one. Just trust me."
You're right, God is too complex to have 'sprung' into existence.
That being said, God didn't spring into existence. He has been Himself forever. There is no infinite regression problem if you have a supreme being who is capable of making time.
That's certainly a convenient way to get out of explaining that concept isn't it? How exactly do you know that God doesn't have his own God? Or even that God is God, and not Allah?
People can't wrap their heads around the concept of infinity. In mathematics, there are notions of positive and negative infinity, the infinite number of real numbers between any two real numbers, and the inifinite number of integer or whole numbers. If God is inifinite, as the Bible claims, and I believe, then it is perfectly rational to believe that He could have existed before He made time for us. People are finite beings, living only for a short period of time before dying.
How can you assume that the Bible is absolutely correct? Afterall it is written by humans who claim to have penned it through conversations with God. If the Bible is THE book, how come better interpretations from God himself haven't been put into a 2005 version? I believe I read somewhere here that if God is such an omnipotent being, why does he insist on using middlemen to try to communicate with us?
Faith alone is not enough to convince many of us here.
So it's forbidden to fart?
Yes. It is forbidden to fart, unless you follow up that said fart with a deep breathe.
yyyy-mm-dd makes the most sense out of all formats simply because it follows logic. It really shouldn't matter how it is spoken in speech.
Following this format you can fully detail a date and time by writing it out as yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss. It is logical.
Pollution from the US Mid-West is flowing into Canada, how come the US Govt doesn't do anything about that?
Trying to reduce the pollution per unit captia in China is pretty tough when each person is hardly producing anything measurable, whereas pollution in Western countries the per unit capita is beyond wasteful.