I'm not a conspiracy advocate. I think 19 guys from mostly Saudi Arabia flew airplanes into buildings.
You think they told everyone about it first? Because otherwise IT WAS A CONSPIRACY.
conspiracy
plural noun: conspiracies
1. a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.
I am so sick of the word conspiracy being used to mean 'things that crazy people who are wrong believe in'. The correct word for that is delusion.
delusion
plural noun: delusions
1. an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder.
Stop using these words as though they are synonymous
but electric opens up the possibility of using alternative energy sources
I understand that in the wonderful utopian future we will all have as much energy as we want. My argument was referring more to the actual reality of now though. Your battery to wheels efficiency statistics conveniently left out the efficiency of the coal power plant that charged the batteries. I did however clearly refer to power production in the post you were replying to so the only kind assumption is that you are just pretending to be ignorant.
While on the subject of future fantasy technologies that will solve all our transportation problems: I am a big fan of building a world wide teleporter network. Oh and a space elevator.
Whoosh?
That seems to sum up the vast majority of this thread, and the alternative energy debate in a very concise way.
Let me take this opportunity to summarise the thread:
30 pages of people arguing about the safety of hydrogen. 20 pages of people arguing about their opinions of Elon Musk.
Let me now summarise the issue:
A) Danger is not the issue, yes hydrogen tanks are dangerous, but we are talking about private transportation here. If we cared about safety we would have banned all of it decades ago. No one really cares if a few people get torn to pieces by a car.
B) Hydrogen fuel cells are a bad idea because the production of hydrogen is hugely inefficient. The thermal efficiency is only about 50% and that is ignoring the massive compression that would be required for private transport, as well as distribution costs. This means hydrogen powered cars will use significantly more energy than other alternatives, energy that is generated in power stations, mostly through burning fossil fuels. The issue we have with cars is that they use too much energy. Neither Musk's electric cars nor any hydrogen technology currently on the market do anything to change this at all. It is all a huge PR lie so that all the happy consumers will feel good in the fluffy cotton wool illusion that they are saving the planet.
C) Quit the celebrity worship, hundreds of people have quite clearly explained the pro's and cons of hydrogen fuel cells and we should not care more about this guy's opinion just because he is rich and famous. We could care about his opinion because he has a physics degree, but then again there are a great many people with physics degrees who have opinions on hydrogen fuel cells.
If time is an emergent phenomenon, then how does the first event happen?
Funniest thing I have seen all day, and I watched the surgeon simulator video so that is saying something.
As for TFA...how about making games that don't suck? How about that? Make smaller games that target a market instead of some crazy costing AAA title that you have to make as generic as possible to have "broad appeal" which is pretty much a codeword for "boring generic crap"
I had the opportunity recently to discuss game pitching protocols with a publisher reprasentative, he said "if you can't explain the idea in 5 minutes it is no good". I responded that this is only true for storyline/setting pitches, and suggested that a technical idea about how to implement new gameplay could not necessarily be explained in 5 minutes. He agreed. Does this publisher have a protocol for pitching innovative new gameplay? No. Do they even employ anyone who could understand a technical description of new gameplay mechanics? No. Are they deciding what game my company makes next? Yes.
Beyond culture, it's hope or lack of hope.
So close.
The statistical correlation actually points to poverty as the main cause of crime. Obviously only those crimes that the trolls accuse certain minorities of. Things like serious fraud, war crimes, treason and perjury are not so well correlated to poverty.
Sadly there will always be some doubt that there's still a hidden cache of it somewhere, just waiting for the day.
Yeah, that fact is not being disputed.
From Wikipedia
"The United States ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention which came into force in April 1997. This banned the possession of most types of chemical weapons"
"According to the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency by January, 2012, the United States had destroyed 89.75% of the original stockpile of nearly 31,100 metric tons (30,609 long tons) of nerve and mustard agents declared in 1997."
So when are the US going to destroy the rest of their stockpiles of chemical weapons? If my arithmetic is correct they are still sitting on 3,187.75 metric tons of the stuff.
but democratic values are less likely to be transmitted if I use Office?
If you are a teacher, yes. If you learn office at a young age, it becomes very unlikely you will switch to anything else. It can be difficult for some people too, as the interface is different. Once the students go home and have to set up their own computer they will likely use office. They will either pay for it or not pay for it. If they don't pay they are committing a crime which can be severely punished if they get caught. If they pay then the school is basically training them to give money to a large corporation. Not only that, a specific corporation, with a partial monopoly in that market. Evidenced by the fact that you write 'Office' with a capital O and take it as a given that everyone knows you mean Microsoft® Office®.
Training kids to give money to support a monopolistic corporation does not seem to be directly in line with the principles of democracy.
The joke was that Africa is still, for the most part, a poor 3rd world continent but whatever.
Yes I find poverty hilarious too. Good joke.
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