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In article 7Q09c.11753$gA5.178465@attbi_s03, Newps wrote:
No problem. When the oil runs out in a few hundred years, if ever, we will have already been using a different technology for awhile. There are already electric cars. ....which ultimately are powered by gas/coal fired power stations. Hydrogen fuel cells are being used by a few cities now, etc. Hydrogen is an energy storage medium, not a source. The hydrogen comes from oil, and you lose some of the oil's energy in the process. People have been raving about biodiesel, but guess what - biodiesel is 95% dead dinosaur and only 5% rape seed oil. Not until we get over our hang-ups over nuclear energy will we have any chance of kicking our oil habit, and we have to make a lot of big improvements in nuclear energy first as well. Sort of hard since with every passing year, society gets even more anti-nuclear power. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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In article , S Green wrote:
less and less. Cannot get used to commercials every 5 minutes When I first went to the States, I was surprised the Simpsons took a whole half hour slot. BBC2 gets two episodes into half an hour by not having ads. Then there was the increasing Clear Channel radio hegemony. Thank $DEITY for the local college radio station (which actually played decent music, even if the presenters were obvious newbies). And the BBC website. Anyway, who needs TV when you have the Internet. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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In article ed39c.101758$_w.1314500@attbi_s53, Jay Honeck wrote:
Of course, NPR mentioned this only in passing, with great reluctance. It was almost like they were apologizing to their listeners for reporting something good from Iraq. (They, of course, ended with reports of more sabotage in the oil fields, just to placate the faithful...) The BBC quite happily reports the improvements, as well as the bad stuff. For the record, I'm pro kicking-out-Saddam Hussein. I think many of the anti-war lot seem to like to conveniently forget he actually used weapons of mass destruction on his own people. I was appalled when we didn't kick him out in the first war. What I don't like is how our politicians - if not outright lied, were economic with the truth to try and justify the war. I think the war would have enjoyed broader support if politicians hadn't been such weasels over it. Although I support the war, I don't support the way in which our politicians tried to justify it. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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"Dylan Smith" wrote:
In my opinion, Malthus was right. IMHO, the world would be a better place had the population levelled at 800M. I agree. The more the population grows, the more conflict and violence will grow with it. Enlightenment and brotherly cooperation are not becoming more evident as the planet becomes more crowded. -- Dan C172RG at BFM (remove pants to reply by email) |
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Tom Sixkiller wrote:
How much have our proposed solutions in many areas been conditioned by Hollyweird? More importantly, how has the perception of the U.S. by the rest of the world been formed? There seems to be a popular theory (in the U.S. anyway) that the rest of the world hates us because we are imperialists -- despite the obvious opposite reality. Perhaps this comes from NPR (more properly, National Guilt Radio) and the needs of dictators to keep their population diverted. I suspect the dominate effect it not our foreign policy but the perception created by Hollywood. While I have not dug into the numbers yet, I bet that the ratio of people in the rest of the world that have seen U.S. produced films and listened to U.S. gangsta rap to those who have actually been to the U.S. and observed 'normal' people is many tens of millions to one. The primary images these people have to produce their perception of the U.S. is based on the beliefs portrayed by the likes of Michael Moore, Ludacris and Dan Rather. (the reference to Dan Rather is not accidental...there is little material difference between the U.S. entertainment and news industries at this point.) |
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Tom Sixkiller wrote:
In talking with some computer types from India, Ed Yourdon was told "I can get a dishwasher for $25". Yourdon was appalled, thinking he was talking about an appliance until the fellow said that was someone to do the dishes. The CIA World Fact Book (don't laugh) has the India per capita purchasing power parity at $2,600 compared to the U.S.A. at $36,300. So, a computer programmer in India making 1/10th of a comparable U.S. wage could probably afford several dishwashers! |
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"Dylan Smith" wrote in message ... In article , Tom Sixkiller wrote: There were also fewer people to feed. Labour is also a renewable resource. You just inverted your argument. No I didn't. [labour is a renewable resource...] That's the dumbest thing I've read this year (well, it's only March). But it also begs the question - isn't six billion enough already? Well, 200 years ago, Malthus said 800 million was enough already. In my opinion, Malthus was right. IMHO, the world would be a better place had the population levelled at 800M. Well, why don't you volunteer to go first? |
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"Dan Luke" wrote in message ... "Dylan Smith" wrote: In my opinion, Malthus was right. IMHO, the world would be a better place had the population levelled at 800M. I agree. The more the population grows, the more conflict and violence will grow with it. Like the Middle Ages? Enlightenment and brotherly cooperation are not becoming more evident as the planet becomes more crowded. Boy, what an dismal outlook you have!! |
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"Dan Luke" wrote in message ... "Tom Sixkiller" wrote: Are we installing a puppet government in Iraq? That is not our intent, I am sure, but that will be the result if we stay long. How long did we occupy Germany, Japan, South Korea? And only SK had conflicts afterward? "puppet government"? One that requires an alien government's intimate support and direction to survive. That would be half the world outside the US. but in Germany there was. Nothing significant or persistent; Correct, many went to the eastern bloc and rasied hell from the other side of the Iron Curtain. certainly not as much as there still is in Afghanistan. Did we wage war in Afghanistan in the same manner we did in WW2? In Iraq, the Iraqi's will have take on the opposition. Indeed. But Iraqis ARE the opposition, too, with the help of all sorts of foreign scoundrels that have flocked to Iraq since the war. Nice lumping them all together. I thought that's what conservatives are supposed to do? |
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"Dylan Smith" wrote in message ... In article 7Q09c.11753$gA5.178465@attbi_s03, Newps wrote: No problem. When the oil runs out in a few hundred years, if ever, we will have already been using a different technology for awhile. There are already electric cars. ...which ultimately are powered by gas/coal fired power stations. Hydrogen fuel cells are being used by a few cities now, etc. Hydrogen is an energy storage medium, not a source. The hydrogen comes from oil, and you lose some of the oil's energy in the process. Misleading and/or just plain wrong. People have been raving about biodiesel, but guess what - biodiesel is 95% dead dinosaur and only 5% rape seed oil. Big whoop...so is cold fusion. Not until we get over our hang-ups over nuclear energy will we have any chance of kicking our oil habit, and we have to make a lot of big improvements in nuclear energy first as well. Improvements being stiffled all the time. Sort of hard since with every passing year, society gets even more anti-nuclear power. Due to propaganda from the left/environuts. |
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