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| Member number | 6 |
| Title | The Establishment |
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| Registered | Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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| Native Americans in General | |
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The Establishment
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written Monday, May 8 2006 12:56
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Oklamhoma must be very special then. I can't say, I've never been there. However, I suspect you may not be getting the best picture of what conditions the silent poor may live in. Oklahoma Native American Poverty The above site is hardly academic. But I find the most telling statistic is that one in three Native Americans live below the poverty line compared to one in six for everyone else in the region. The per capita income is one-half of every other group. It appears to me that you may be somewhat misinformed. As for civil rights leaders, from what I've learned on this topic, there's a lot of defeatism among Native Americans that lead to almost an apathy for the way things are. In other words, they have so many problems that it makes this difficult. It doesn't mean there aren't outspoken activists in the Native American community, it's just that they don't get nearly as much coverage as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Rosa Parks*, Cesar Chavez, etc. Also, not being able to name at least two (heck, I'd take Bill Cosby) people involved in the African American civil rights movement is somewhat disturbing to me. * I know Rosa Parks was not an outspoken civil rights leader but her actions did spur a lot of the civil rights movement. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Native Americans in General | |
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written Monday, May 8 2006 10:59
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quote:Compared to African Americans and Hispanics, Native Americans are by and large forgotten about in the US as a whole. Perhaps silent is not the right word, unheard would be better. How many people can name at least two African American civil rights leaders? How many can name the equivalent for Native Americans? As far as what's been done relative to the atrocities (which pale in comparison to other minorities), it has been pathetically small. Not saying absolutely nothing, but comparatively nothing. Also, saying their privledged really is sort of insulting considering that statistics put their average economic status well below all other ethnic groups in the US. Face it, we destroyed them and have done very little to get them up to the level as everyone else. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Maximizing Skill Point Investment in Avernum 4 | |
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written Monday, May 8 2006 07:24
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Same here. Really takes the thrill out of actually playing the game. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Helping Gnass... but how? in Avernum 4 | |
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written Sunday, May 7 2006 21:55
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The incredible anger the shade radiates. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| 悪魔 in General | |
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written Sunday, May 7 2006 21:54
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Magus has 6666 HP. Anyway, I'm all for evil, but no need to offend the little ones. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Helping Gnass... but how? in Avernum 4 | |
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written Sunday, May 7 2006 19:55
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Well, you should not have killed everyone. Also, if you kill the shade in Blosk the people in Dharmon will not be mad at you. Your only recourse is to load an earlier save or just ignore this quest. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Question 3: Disease in General | |
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written Sunday, May 7 2006 18:35
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If it kills it's hosts, that's fine, it just depends on how fast it does the killing versus the time it is contagious. If everyone dies in 10 seconds, it's not a very good disease from an evolutionary standpoint. The mean interaction time between people over large distances is much shorter today than it was. One infected person has to go on a plane full of people. Even if only one-third of them become infected, you will inevitably get outbreaks in a lot of cities around the world. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| resorting party? in Avernum 4 | |
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written Sunday, May 7 2006 18:20
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Wow long time, welcome back. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Question 3: Disease in General | |
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written Sunday, May 7 2006 18:14
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Although we have better quarantine procedures, our ability to quarantine has decreased. People travel a lot more now than they did 50 years ago. A highly contagious and deadly disease could spread very fast indeed in such a highly connected world unless we catch it very early. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Native Americans in General | |
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written Sunday, May 7 2006 12:31
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Humanity overall has not had a very good record of tolerance of difference and integration of culture. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Native Americans in General | |
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written Sunday, May 7 2006 11:52
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Definitely one of America's worst moments. Native Americans, the silent and worst-off minority because we largely wiped them out and have done little for them since. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Saturday, May 6 2006 18:00
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Please don't revive dead topics if you have nothing else of major importance to add. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Question 3: Disease in General | |
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written Thursday, May 4 2006 20:52
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In part this issue is directly related to the previous. Disease is most likely to spread in areas of poverty, low education, and low sanitation. Now this does not guarantee prevention, far from it; however, having a stable economy can stop it from spreading. Beyond that, the first world needs to take a proactive role in developing biotech, identifying threats, and synthesizing vaccines when a threat seems likely for mass distribution. Right now the biggest problem is the response time is horribly slow. It takes too long to get things out and there is no real motivation. Corporations could be given incentives for production, but they would be easy to abuse. It is by no means an easy problem, but if there were a more centralized structure to deal with it (like the UN, but actually effective) then we may be able to stand a chance. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Question 3: Disease in General | |
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written Thursday, May 4 2006 14:57
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How do we control and deal with the spread of deadly epidemics in a highly connected global society? -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Thursday, May 4 2006 09:24
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It helps if you specify which Geneforge you are in and exacly what is causing you to die. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| NBA Playoffs in General | |
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written Wednesday, May 3 2006 14:27
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The problem that I have with the NBA is that there are no real "teams" anymore. The prevailing strategy is to hand the pro the ball and he will score. There's little full team interaction anymore. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| NBA Playoffs in General | |
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written Wednesday, May 3 2006 13:42
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I've been indifferent towards the NBA for little under 10 years now. :P -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Fighting Rentar in BF - quick question in Avernum 4 | |
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written Tuesday, May 2 2006 19:24
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I believe you always need to select the peaceful reply to get the non-violent ending. If you pick one of the agressive ones, the option becomes closed off to you. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| No longer possible to run windowed? in Avernum 4 | |
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written Tuesday, May 2 2006 19:18
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What platform are you? Mac/PC? -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Question 1: Energy in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 2 2006 18:52
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It is probably right in the ideal world. If we could immediately make all of our engines more efficient, automatically replace outdated appliances, and make every light-bulb a compact flourescent, there would be a huge and relatively major reduction in energy use. Reality being it takes a long time for these sorts of things to really enter the marketplace. People still drive 10-20 year old cars and have appliances in their home just as old. So to answer your question, we will likely need to do both. Building new nuclear plants is a difficult question to answer. Most of the costs come from investment uncertainty these days. Because of the history of poor regulatory framework resulting in frequent delays, loans on a nuclear plant would be very high indeed. This is a function of the attitude of the investment community and not the technology itself. Because of this uncertainty, the exact costs are unknown. New designs are modular meaning that construction should be faster. The first of a kind costs are probably going to be ~$500 million with a large uncertainty band because one has not been built in the US in 30 years and some delays are inevitable. Once this hurdle is cleared costs would decrease from experience. Once the plant comes online and the operations have been streamlined, nuclear plants tend to be huge profit centers especially if you have a lot of them (no need to duplicate resources for dealing with the regulators). That being said, we are going to need more baseload soon -- sooner, in fact, than nuclear plants could provide. Efficiency standards aren't going to penetrate the markets fast enough. My feeling is we're going to need to do both and more just to keep up with demand. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Question 1: Energy in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 2 2006 17:51
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You know, I read a lot of studies and hear a lot of presentations on this subject. I only read the study that someone else found as part of another presentation. I do not have the citation on me right now and don't have time during the day to dig through various journals to find it. Besides, this message board is NOT a technical symposium but an informal discussion. I assure you it exists. You don't have to believe me, feel free to search for the study on your own. Oh, and please don't be a jerk about asking for a citation. I'm not going to tolerate your insults of my character, if I make myself clear. All right, I'm not sure as it has been a couple years, but I think this is it: The likely adverse environmental impacts of renewable energy sources Applied Energy, Volume 65, Issues 1-4, April 2000, Pages 121-144 [ Tuesday, May 02, 2006 18:39: Message edited by: *i ] -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Question 1: Energy in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 2 2006 12:37
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I read a study once that areas with windmills as peaking actually cause more emissions from the nearby coal plant baseload had the coal plant provided all of it. This is because the plant has to operate at lower efficiencies and burn at lower temperatures meaning a dirtier burn. The analysis seemed sound, not sure how this applies in general. As for nuclear power in unstable countries, it depends on how the world carries it out. Surely there is no proliferation issues with stable countries. Historically what the first world does with respect to energy has little to do with the developed world -- they base theirs on economic realities. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, May 2 2006 12:22
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It could be JV bought rights to some of the sounds too (although he does make some), so it might not be him with the problem, but the original person who made it. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Question 1: Energy in General | |
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written Tuesday, May 2 2006 04:46
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It's good to see that Germany is pushing the development. They are fortunate in that they are in places where wind is available in dense quantities there. Nonetheless, a diversified energy profile will be necessary to keep up with growth in the long-term. It is not good to be overly dependent upon one source. Even wind has issues with short-term fluctuations in climate, very weak winds for a month would not be good. I want to see wind and solar grow where feasible. However, anyone who says the entire world can be powered on it is dreaming -- it is just is not practical everywhere. Conservation and efficiency improvements are great, but difficult to legislate and takes a while for these products to diffuse through the market. Geomthermal pumps can be used, solar thermal would work well too. Ultimately, we are left with the need of supplying baseload power. The only three that can work everywhere reliably are coal, natural gas, and nuclear. I choose the third because it is the by far the least damaging of the three. Reprocessing -- The biggest fear is proliferation of weapons grade material. Western countries already have the bomb, so there is no fear there. The only argument is the diplomatic bargaining chip one of "why can you do it, but we can't". Nonetheless, historically look at Frace. They have a fairly large reprocessing industry and they do it cleanly and safely for the most part. This goes to show that it is possible to do. Right now, it's just economically dubious to do it. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Question 2: Imbalance of Wealth in General | |
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written Monday, May 1 2006 18:26
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Yes, it is philosophical. However, I'm seeing what else we can come up with other than we should out of sheer moral obligation. Well duh. Once we remove that, it's not such an easy question. A possible way to address this is to the perspective of the selfish first world: What does the first world get out of it other than satisfaction in doing the right thing? [ Monday, May 01, 2006 18:28: Message edited by: *i ] -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |