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written Friday, May 7 2004 22:28
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Alternate forms of energy, besides nuclear power -- which every green I've spoken to hates for knee-jerk reasons -- do not exist at a level of technology to be remotely practical. Hydroelectric only works on rivers and one or two spots on the ocean, geothermal is a century or more away from being in the same neighborhood as useful, wind power is like hydroelectric, only less useful and even more environment-exclusive, and solar is still weighed down by a lot of impractical requirements. I'm all for nuclear power; if we end up doing the hydrogen thing, it's going to be necessary. The most efficient way of producing hydrogen in fuel-useful forms is with a power supply; same goes for most parts of cars, jets, and so on. Issue that everyone fails to realize is that even if *insert deity here* came down from the sky and replaced every gasoline or diesel car engine with an efficient hydrogen one, we a. lack the infrastructure to produce storable hydrogen on a large and commercially useful scale and b. are still almost completely dependent on petroleum derivatives for power. The demand for power is only going to increase, and the only form of alternate power, failing finding a lot of Elerium-115 lying around, is going to be nuclear power. Solar is a novelty and the rest are jokes, and nuclear power has one of the best environmental track records out there. It's killed/maimed fewer people than oil or coal plants; living near a nuclear plant actually exposes you to about a third as much residual radiation as living near a coal plant (and much, much less than, say, living in the mountains). Nuclear plants are so vigorously upkept and safeguarded that casual accidents -- Three Mile Island, for instance -- usually result in the release of mildly hot gas and not much else. On the other hand, if anything much goes wrong on a coal or oil plant, kaboom! There goes half the town. On the subject of 'leakage' and so forth, nuclear waste is guarded so carefully that it's very unlikely to happen, and great care is taken to ensure that radioactive metals remain in the same place if anything DOES go wrong, that they avoid water supplies, and so on. Take, as a counterexample, the Exxon Valdez. One man gets drunk and bang, acres and acres of coast and lots of wildlife are dead. Solar power is clean, but it's not efficient, and plenty of reasonable people -- myself included -- would prefer that everyone, not just the moneyed elite, get to have electric power for affordable prices. Solar-dependence would kill the average man, and that worries me. [ Friday, May 07, 2004 22:33: Message edited by: Custerbly Numb ] -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, May 7 2004 16:31
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I am a democratic socialist. I see anarchy and communism as ideals, but I recognize the fact that they are, at heart, just that. Government is essentially necessary, and a society in which it is not shall be so squarely alien to us that I doubt I'll live on to see it, or even that my memory will live on long enough to be villified by it. -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, May 7 2004 15:48
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I posit thus: most third-world industries are too poor to upgrade their systems if there is not a tremendous jump in efficiency or affordability. I posit thus: hydrogen will not be cost-efficient for some years, and hydrogen engines will remain at a high price for some time due to their high demand and technical complexity. I extrapolate thus: the third world will not adopt hydrogen power until it is far past the cutting edge. I posit thus: petroleum reserves will undergo drastic shortages at current usage rates within two decades. Further reserves exist at present rates of extraction into the early 22nd century, but are too isolated to be cost-efficient for extraction at any price level. I posit thus: the third world is the industrial base from which the consumerized world draws raw resources at useful prices. I posit thus: the third world's industrialization has reached a stage at which a fuel supply shock would be inherently devastating. I extrapolate thus: prices for raw petroleum shall, within the next 20 years, reach such prices that the third world is financially and industrially strangled in the cradle. I elaborate thus: while replacements for gasoline exist, adapting gasoline engines to burn coal or wood is an expensive, inefficient, and damaging process, and an inherently stopgap measure. The funds to adapt old engines do not exist, and the funds to replace old engines are out of the question; it follows the only remaining option for third-world industry is death. I elaborate thus: based on previous position, the first world as it knows itself will be destroyed. I conclude thus: hydrogen is not feasible on a large scale, and we are hosed. [ Friday, May 07, 2004 15:49: Message edited by: Custerbly Numb ] -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, May 7 2004 15:01
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Hydrogen power is not going to be feasible on a large scale; the third world is built on oil. -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, May 7 2004 14:11
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I have plenty more to say on the subject. However, I've just taken half of the most miserable battery of tests I've ever been burdened with, and reading SD's nonsense has always given me a headache. If he's not going to take a point, I'm not going to give it to him with a hammer. Some people prefer to remain ignorant; I can't say I sympathize, or even that I understand, but I'm cognizant of it. Shantih. -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, May 6 2004 19:42
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You are sheep. -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, May 6 2004 16:59
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I, personally, have neither the enzymes to handle legumes nor the money to find a substitute. -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, May 6 2004 16:32
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Where does insanity show up? I've never seen a scenario portray it in either the "crazy crazy" or "cute crazy" sense. I haven't played the worst of the worst, but surely someone of some skill must be guilty of it. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, May 6 2004 16:32
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Where does insanity show up? I've never seen a scenario portray it in either the "crazy crazy" or "cute crazy" sense. I haven't played the worst of the worst, but surely someone of some skill must be guilty of it. -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, May 6 2004 14:41
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I don't see why eating animals bred for food is a concern, frankly. They are cattle; in the wild, they would live to a much shorter age, get picked off by wolves, and eaten alive. What's the issue with planes? For some of us, the option of buying 'local and seasonal' products doesn't exist, or is completely infeasible. I live in a desert, for instance. Besides which, the simple fact is that 'buying local and seasonal' ends with wheat rotting in one place and people starving in another. Me, I'm concerned with people. Until I can be good and convinced that local environmentalists care about sweatshops in Indonesia for more reasons than how horribly they pollute, I'm not going to get my blood angried up over them. -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, May 6 2004 14:24
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Most small, modern cell phones are made using tantalum transistors, which offer a much greater rate of efficiency than the elements conventionally used; in fact, without the advent of tantalum transistors, cell phones as a whole would remain as clunky and big as the one I use. Coltan is collected in huge quantities from various suppliers, but the process of refining it is not something most electronics companies have anything more than casual investments in. The refining companies, for the most part, do not care much one way or the other if the coltan comes from North Dakota, the Outback, or the Congo. The coltan originating in the Congo is, in particular, cheaper than any other varieties, and without any significant pressure from the media or any real government, the refining concerns are just as likely to purchase Congolese coltan as anything else. The ABC story, while a good introduction to the issue, actually does a lot of sugar-coating. The Rwandan and Ugandan armies do not go in there with their own corps of laborers; in many cases, filibusters cross the border, steal the metal, and then go back to their own countries -- where no coltan exists, mind -- and sell the stuff at sub-market rates to refining concerns, who sell it to electronics companies, who make your pocket-sized phones. Then there's the warlords and even some units of the respective armies, who enslave 'miners' in the area to collect the ore for them. I'm not talking 'enslave' in the 'they are paid only enough to eat from day to day' sense; I mean literal forced labor at gunpoint. People die over coltan, plain and simple. Of course, you don't care. You were willing to invade Iraq and slaughter thousands of civilians without any clear evidence of WMD or any clear plan to create a democratic government, but denouncing producers of frivolous consumer goods for taking part in warfare, slavery, and genocide? What the hell kind of Christian am I? -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, May 5 2004 19:44
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I prefer my phones without blood on them, thanks. [ Wednesday, May 05, 2004 19:45: Message edited by: Custerbly Numb ] -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX Misogynism is the wave of the future, but it sure pisses the womenfolk off. Shocking, isn't it? Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, May 5 2004 19:42
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150 years is long enough that even the bomb-throwing anarchists of their day -- Garrison &c -- would find the concept ludicrous. 'Yes, anarchy is a fine idea, but it would never work' is used much the same way. Those in the 'it will never happen' camp would do best to do a good job of explaining why, and accounting for the fact that a lot of things that would never have happened had you asked about them long enough ago have come to pass. -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, May 5 2004 18:01
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Bushfires are not something to get particularly alarmed by. They're necessary to keep the soil fertile -- and if it gets infertile, things die. Lots of things, and it stays that way for generations. That said, I also think that apathy towards the environment is faintly alarming, but I can't really do much about it, and I have bigger issues to worry about. -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, May 5 2004 17:49
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Anarchy is a state of existance in which government is unnecessary. Sounds crazy, doesn't it? Now go back in time 500 years and try to see if anyone believes living without any conception of a deity is even possible. Argue long and hard with everyone -- even people their time would consider radicals! -- that the concept of 'atheism' isn't a pipe dream, even on the personal level. Then come back and call anarchy impossible, crazy, misguided, whatever. Okay, okay, you'll say, but that's just for ONE person. There's no such thing as an atheist SOCIETY. Go back the same amount of time and ask around about slavery. See how many people favor it. See how many are opposed to it, but consider it a necessary evil. Pretty vanishingly few. See how many people think it'll ever become outmoded or eliminated. You'd probably have to find one person in every two hundred thousand. Now go back two hundred fifty years and ask about direct universal suffrage. Will it ever happen? Should it ever happen? No, and no, respectively. Now go back two hundred years and ask about women in elected government. A hundred fifty years, interracial marriage. A hundred years, ask around about direct colonialism. See how many people think it'll survive well past the 21st century. Ask around about progroms while you're there. History will vindicate me. Hell, it has already, I think. [ Wednesday, May 05, 2004 17:56: Message edited by: Custerbly Numb ] -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, May 4 2004 08:22
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Explain your ideal system of government and tell me why no one's tried it yet, then. Go on. -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, May 3 2004 15:50
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Then why bother with the Exile plot? It's only likely to get you tangled up in legalities, and it smacks of plagarism. -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX Misogynism is the wave of the future, but it sure pisses the womenfolk off. Shocking, isn't it? Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, May 3 2004 03:28
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Third-party shelter is an option of desperation. If I had the choice of a giant plucking me out of my home out of the clear blue sea, forced away from my friends and family, named Schnookums, caged into an area completely alien to me, fed cat food, whalloped when I tried to urinate or defecate wherever I pleased, and fondled and smacked around by the giant and their little brats and a bullet to the back of the head, I'd paint a big target from one ear to another, just to make real sure. -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, May 3 2004 03:18
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I find that unreasonable. The only solution it offers seems to be adoption, which is, on a larger scale, crueler than killing them -- most people who would actually adopt a damn koala are idiots who are opposed to culling on an 'aww, but they're so cute' level, and have no business caring for themselves, much less a high-maintenance animal. The point is, no one ever said the koalas are to blame here. Either we are going to get rid of 20,000 koalas -- quickly, painlessly, and at random -- or we are going to have nearly 30,000 starve, which is probably among the worst ways to go. -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, May 2 2004 19:35
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Being female does not make having no wang in a metaphorical sense a good thing. -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, May 2 2004 19:16
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I think it's easier to understand and more accurate this way: 1. Jeff Vogel and his extended family subside on a diet solely comprising infants not older than one and one half years of age. 2. Fan fictions obviously muddy some kind of copyright. 3. Copywriting is obviously somehow good for making money. 4. Babies sure cost a lot of money. 5. It follows that fan-fiction keeps babies off the Vogel table. -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX Misogynism is the wave of the future, but it sure pisses the womenfolk off. Shocking, isn't it? Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, May 2 2004 10:21
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Okay, I know for a fact you're talking out of your ass. Unless this particular story was literally longer than War and Peace, a copy-paste would be possible and doable. And if you were retyping it, I have to wonder how you noticed everyone 'saying crap about you'. On top of that, no one said anything negative about you until you threw a goddamn hissy fit. The story never existed and your endless whining is basically an attempt to excuse the fact that it didn't. Go rape a steam turbine. [ Sunday, May 02, 2004 10:31: Message edited by: Custerbly Numb ] -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, May 2 2004 10:17
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The way I see it, if most of your posts are longer than your signature, you need to either get wordier or grow a wang and drop the damn sig. -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, May 1 2004 17:32
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Stughalf, when I first read over your post, I could have sworn I saw the phrase 'glory hole' in relation to humanity's achievements. As a result, I find responding to it, even knowing what it truly contains, utterly impossible. It is necessary to fix today's problems before atoning for the sins of the fathers, anyway -- if we sit back and lament breeding koalas on a limited ecosystem with no natural predators, more than get culled will starve. To put it into perspective, if I were convinced it would solve the overpopulation problem without causing bigger ones, I'd be all in favor of culling people, too, and not even assuming that I'm an outside factor. I've gotta go someday, and if it's to lend coherence to a movement that will save humanity, it'd be something of a hero's death, in a way. Certainly a more useful way to end than at the bottom of a stairwell at an autumnal age. [ Saturday, May 01, 2004 17:36: Message edited by: Custerbly Numb ] -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, May 1 2004 17:11
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So let's anatomize this topic. Sagot: WHO WANTS TO READ THE STORY I WROTE??? IT'S TOO LONG TO POST AND I DON'T LIKE USING PMs Interested Parties: WE DO!!! OUR EMAIL ADDRESSES FOLLOW Sagot: *after several days, with no negative responses* I WILL SEND IT, JUST HAVE PATIENCE Interested Parties: WTF IT HAS BEEN A WHILE HASN'T IT Sagot: FINE! I WON'T SEND IT AT ALL! I'VE GROWN TIRED OF YOUR ATTITUDE Alec: I THINK THAT BY 'EXILE STORY', YOU MEANT A SEVEN-PAGE LONG DESCRIPTION OF ERIKA AND RENTAR-IHRNO HAVING SEX Sagot: SPIES -------------------- AnamaFreak (3:59:56 AM): Shounen-ai to the MAX ...there really is nothing that can compare to hot gay sex with a mythological icon. --665 Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |