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New Bond Movie in General
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Yes.

And voting on best/worst Bond its Connery/Moore. I wasn't a big fan of the Dalton era but I think that had more to do with the movies themselves rather than the acting within.

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A new lofty position in General
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Heh. If you watch the nanaparty long enough, one of them starts peeling itself.

I cannot believe I just tested that.

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Global warming is getting tired, as a threat. in General
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He probably doesn't mean complete extinction of everything in the ocean, but this is about as extreme of a scenario as a respectable scientist can hope to make short of saying that the oceans will turn into acid.

Hyperbole. Overwrought emotion. Like watching Arnold cry. Nuff said.

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The problem with waiting until you are 100% ceratain that global warming is happening is that at that point, it will be impossible to do anything about it. The planet's climate is a massive system that takes centuries to change.
Interesting to note that various models on climate change indicate that small changes to the system can have drastic and (relatively)swift changes. (Like the Ice age article cited earlier?)

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The way I see it, dramatically changing the composition of the atmosphere over such as short time period relative to Earth's history is very risky. The system my be able to handle it, it is quite large, after all. However, it could also have catastrophic consequences. For this reason we need to do our best to limit carbon emissions.

Agreed. A major source of carbon emmissions is the burning of fossil fuel. This will be difficult to wean off of.

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As to the play surface medium problem, we had sand underneath all apparatus. Swings, jungle gym, horizontal ladder, climbing pole, slide, see-saw, even the tether ball. I can't recall anyone getting injured from a fall, and we always flew off the swing set when we had gotten it as high as it could go. Well, maybe some kids forgot to not get sand in their eye, but that is hardly an injury, even for a 1st grader.

Sand packs down and becomes like concrete (no give left). That is why rubber pellets are replacing them. And rubber pellets have many more uses than mere kicking sand into an opponents eye, why the bigger ones fit nicely into slingshots and rubber band guns!

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Episode 3: A New Game in General
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The solution IS NOT cats, it is:
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Of course, vampires are messy to deal with once the rats are gone. Perhaps a cat is the solution, especially one with a rat flail:
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[ Monday, November 06, 2006 06:18: Message edited by: chasm of Sar ]

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A new lofty position in General
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to congratulate that which is meaningless is in itself meaningless

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Global warming is getting tired, as a threat. in General
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What is certain is that something is happening, and our limited understanding indicates that it will take a massive effort to slow it down or stop it, and the alternative is chaos, death, and a huge change in civilization, society, and life.

Yes,total agreement here. And there is much evidence that human interaction with the landscape has caused disruption of all sorts of natural cycles. BUT if we get the theory wrong and put massive amounts of capital in correcting the wrong element than we may be limiting what we can do in the future for the right element. This IS NOT a propopent for do n/t. Much of the proposed items on the to do list have other (and I would argue) more legitimate reasons for correcting them, therefore we should act.

I am arguing more from the standpoint of faulty motivation may lead in the future to inaction because we cried wolf too many times and people are tired of it - much like the initial title to this topic.

Climate change may happen suddenly and be an issue...or it may not. It may have a significant human element that we can control...ornot. We may have an immediate and significant effect if we act immediately...or not. But we do know that certain resources are finite and being depleted rapidly, such as your example of ocean fisheries. 2050, that is within my lifetime and I would argue that the evidence for consequences is much more compelling so we should act on such items as a higher priority (although where complimentary or not in competition, work towards both goals of course).

To be clearer, I question the scientific analysis on human induced global warming, but I do not question that humans have had a significant, negative effect on various items relating to the planets health. And I am in agreement that we should be acting now, in part because on a personal, ethical note if we fail to act we are part of the problem (our descendants should not be responsible for our ills) and in part because we do need to preserve the future.

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Global warming is getting tired, as a threat. in General
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But it doesn't walk talk or do anything like a duck. So in my books stop classifying it as a duck. Simple science is for children and for fish.

looked around to get a good quote on what I was thinking. From John Christy, professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

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That greenhouse gases are increasing in concentration is clearly true and therefore the radiation budget of the atmosphere will be altered. In response, the surface temperature should rise due to this additional forcing. In our observational work however, we have not been able to show clear support for the manner or magnitude of this response as has been depicted by the present set of climate models
So, yeah our models are not yet complex or rubust enough to fully describe what is happening or why.

[ Friday, November 03, 2006 10:56: Message edited by: chasm of Sar ]

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The Honolulu Advertiser. The Honolulu Advertiser. Please, if you want me to believe you, show me something that's been peer-reviewed, and written by an actual researcher. And that article is spun harder than cotton candy...

I said easy to read article. It's been reported elsewhere including credible newspapers and the like. I didn't bother with the original source because it didn't interest me enough to spend the time. And, the fact that alternate theories keep coming up suggests (to me) that the science is not yet conclusive on the issue.

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Granted, part of the temperature change is natural, but the majority is easily traced to human influences.

I disagree with the use of "majority" and "easily traced" in that statement.

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Actually, I continue to look for evidence that we are thrashing our planet, and fatman seems to be using thrashed theories to shrug off any responsibility.

I disagree. I am not convinced of the global warming theories as I have not yet seen incontrovertible evidence on the issue. Much attention is focussed on an issue that I worry could become like the boy who cried wolf and cause us to become complacent about real issues over which we have much more direct control.

Those issues include Salmon's original comment on depletion of the Oceans resources (it takes between 7 and 10 years from the discovery of a new ocean resource to its substantial depletion - example is the orange roughy) or my comment on WWF's report on using earth's resources beyond long term sustainability.

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Okay, so the social norm should include the passivity required to give potential bullies targets? I don't see why we can't change the societal norm.

Where is such a conclusion contained in anything I wrote?

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I think you're missing my point. I'd rather raise the social norm than drag a few individuals kicking and screaming towards it.

And raising the societal norm is...tocondone and in fact encourage violent response in children. You know, they say that children make good soldiers because they become less constrained by morality as they are repeatedly exposed to brutality. Hmmm, maybe you wish to train a child army?

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And the channelling aggressiveness? More textbook child psychology. I don't have a good response to it, because it just makes me angry... maybe I'll think up a good one later.

No response because you don't yet parent? Or because you believe in nature over nurture?

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Jewels, yes I am.

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Ghandi? You must be joking! in General
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Originally written by chasm of Sar:
-1.38, -3.54 (economic/social)

I agree with *I about the wording of the questions. It is important that my child's school instills religious values. What does that mean? If it was that the public schools instilled such values it would read differently. What if it read that the school instilled buddhist philosophy.
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Trading one dogma for another and calling it progress? How Devo of you.

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Or, that I wanted exposure to critical thinking with respect to religion?
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Religious values. Critical thinking with respect to religion isn't a 'religious value'.

For me, I read the question to mean that it was important that MY child have religious values instilled in him/her by the school that MY child attends. This is different than saying that schools in general should instill religious values into children in general. I also read the question to mean that the school instilled into MY child MY religious values - implying that I was sending MY child to a specific type of school.

So, I was questioning whether the question was getting at a personal value held by me and applied to my family or it was trying to look at the society that I wished to have around me. Validating the test would require looking at what individual questions were trying to achieve. Perhaps this question was set up well enough to achieve the graded purpose - perhaps not. One cannot tell. Quizzes in general bother me for that reason. They ask questions which I cannot later determine if the conclusion being drawn by the answer was that which I was trying to communicate.

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Humans Only in General
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Guardian

75%
Pacifist

65%
Citizen

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Altruist

50%
Loner

35%
Conqueror

30%
Miscreant

30%
Destroyer

15%
Hedonist

10%
Narcissist

5%

n/t i didnt already know

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Global warming is getting tired, as a threat. in General
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You know, I recently came across a news item by an (American) scientist that looked at temperature patterns in the vertical dimension. The theory is that if global warming is true than there should be increases in temperature as you go up from earth into the strosphere and this isn't occurring. In other words, only low level atmosphere is experiencing warming trends.

I'll see if I can find more info and what it means to global warming theories. I'm kinda skeptical to global warming anyway - but depletion of earth's resources could be another, more troubling and immediate concern.

Edit: that was easy. Here is a link to an easy to read article. global warming not entirely true?

Essentially says that global temperatures five miles up into the atmosphere indicate a cooling trend not a warming trend over the past two decades and what we have is a surface phenomenom. It also suggests that we are not giving enough credit to natural sources for climate change, such as the activity of our sun.

On depletion of earth's resources, that ocean comment ties in to the WWF report that indicates by 2050, if current use rates continue, we will need two planets worth of resources to sustain the world. Even now, it takes the earth approximately 15 months to regenerate what is used by the planet in 12 months and our rate of use is increasing at 4% per year.

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Pardon me for reading this as a flaming load of bovine leavings... it's much better to teach the kids being bullied how to fight back, or at least take it in stride.

It is important to teach children that bullying is not acceptable and you need to respond to it rather than accept it. I disagree with your simplistic analysis of how to stop bully behaviour. Fighting back may solve the problem for you IF you end up being stronger/smarter than the bully (not always the case) but likely will not stop the bully behaviour from expressing himself/herself on others. Part of self respect is to not allow others to do to you what is unacceptable for you to do to others. Taking it in stride - whoa - if the behaviour is wrong than it is unacceptable to "take it" at all. Opposing bullying (and this also relates to comments below) in an active way allows the victim to be assertive over their circumstances. Be active, find a solution/find someone who can assist you in creating a solution.

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I'd rather make a big chunk of the population more assertive than make a few individuals more passive.

My comments regarding modifying bully behaviour has little to do with making individuals less assertive/more passive. There are proper ways to act and improper ways to act. One needs to learn to channel aggressiveness into constructive behaviour. Its interesting to note that psychopathics and those that successfully run large corporations often share similar traits. "Bullies" can be effective leaders and society does need some with those aggressive traits.

Bullying is an unacceptable social quality that should be opposed and we should stop focussing on the victims and what they did wrong/failed to do that resulted in them being bullied. Rather focus on the individual(s) who are breaking a societal norm.

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My first celebration topic... in General
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Its interesting what you find on the net these days. I wanted to poke some mild (OK to be honest one should replace the term mild with the term jealous) fun at your modest post total, so I searched for images using yahoo and the term "500 sarcasm". It returned the following: IMAGE(http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0Je5mxmaEpFU0UADg.jzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NDgyNWN0BHNlYwNwcm9m/SIG=11hcno0t5/EXP=1162590694/**http%3a//tinypic.com/fcuqgn.jpg)

what does the red writing mean (in English)?

And, for further clarification, I mean this to be a celebration of your post total, in humor, not in true derision.

So, in all honesty (not sarcasm) congrats.

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a: this idiot figured out why he couldn't use the image button properly (listens to sounds of clapping and nods head while acknowledging praise with a slight smile)

b: this idiot retakes the test to try and improve on his abysmal earlier score and obtains:

IMAGE(http://www.quizmeme.com/pointless/results/46.gif)

c: frowns in dismay while crowd boos him mercilessly.

IMAGE(http://www.quizmeme.com/pointless/results/69.gif)

d: shakes his head in frustration as he tries to draw a correlation between the score and the image, particularly after his latest debacle (above)

[ Thursday, November 02, 2006 12:15: Message edited by: chasm of Sar ]

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Stop being a stupid noob, you can only make this point in one topic at a time.

that WAS THE POINT of putting it in two different topics (and note I didn't put it in more despite the opportunity). Don't worry, it won't show up again.

And thanks for the image issue. I tried that too and previewed it but didn't get it to work. I guess I screwed it up (OK I know I did if you say it works).

[ Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:57: Message edited by: chasm of Sar ]

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The SpiderWebWorld in General
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I nominate myself for Siberia. I know its not a country but the region blows cold in winter and hot in summer (I have been known to swing from indifference to passionate outrage at perceived slurs). And, I am not important enought to desrve a whole country. Correct that, I am but not eveyone may think so.

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Interesting to note that we have three pages of dialogueing about how to properly react to bullying and other adverse circumstances but little on the rightness/wrongness of those adverse circumstances. Bullying for instance. Why is there no discussion on how to properly treat bullies and bullying behaviour - there have been studies that indicate part of bullying is an inability (by the bully) to properly participate in play and bullies can therefore be taught how to interact on a proper level and forego the need to bully.

Bullies are there and need to be reacted to but bullying behaviour should not be considered an acceptable and unavoidable part of life.

Exposure to bullying is not by choice. Exposure to "dangerous" playground equipment is a choice made by children - but it may not be a properly or fully informed choice. The question becomes, what level of risk can children of that age be able to properly assess and appreciate. And also the balance of risk/reward. These activities which develop physical skills such as dexterity and balance are necessary but some activies may be too inherently dangerous to proceed.

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This topic reminds me of a little discussion I had with my cousin last night. Apparently, at his child's school you cannot bering cookies to school as it is an "unhealthy" snack and their child has been given reaming outs for disobeying this policy. In even stupider matters, she brought a second sandwich for a snack (because she couldn't have a cookie) and this was disallowed as it was "snack time" not :lunch time".

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I believe that as a biker I am entitled to run red lights at minor intersections and use the pedestrian walk lights as well as green lights to go. Yes, I am an aggressive bike driver. The only person I have ever run over, however, is myself. (I was trying to bike while carrying two large boxes. It was an unfortunate idea and I fell off in the middle of a busy street. Fortunately I was the only person who ran over me.)

I believe as a pedestrian in jaywalking, crossing at unsupervised locations (the middle of the block), running without looking (cars have to stop because the insurance penalty for hitting me is too high) and using bicycle paths to walk my dog.

I believe as an operator of motorized vehicles traffic laws were developed to warn slower moving transportation devices to be careful of motorized vehicles. Therefore, in the absence of the "black and whites" stop signs are merely merge with caution and lights simply require a proper lane check before proceeding.

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-1.38, -3.54 (economic/social)

I agree with *I about the wording of the questions. It is important that my child's school instills religious values. What does that mean? If it was that the public schools instilled such values it would read differently. What if it read that the school instilled buddhist philosophy. Or, that I wanted exposure to critical thinking with respect to religion?

And how are these interpreted anyway? So, validating the score becomes a (big) question for me.

That being said, I believe I am more of an economic conservative than the poll does justice to. Socially, I am small liberal so I am not too offended there.

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How were the pictures added? I tried using instant UBB code Code button and pasting code in but that didn' work.

On a related note:

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And Ephesos was responding with two comments to two different posts.
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See, this is exactly why I respond to different posts with.. ... different posts.
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Psshh, you do it to get more posts. Don't even try lying about it.

No Comment.

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I too am George.

[ Thursday, November 02, 2006 12:11: Message edited by: chasm of Sar ]

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You know, I was thinking that the site needs a statistic links, for the updated count of lines letters and related trivia.

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Originally written by Spammin' Salmon:

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Originally written by Demoniac Dikiyoba: And Ephesos was responding with two comments to two different posts.
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See, this is exactly why I respond to different posts with.. ... different posts.
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Psshh, you do it to get more posts. Don't even try lying about it.

I'm, not even going to comment on what I just did.

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