Have you ever smelled an oil refinery? How about a fracturing operation? A soybean processing plant? A meat processing plant?

How about Lake Erie in the decade before the EPA was established?

If there's such a thing as "clean coal", then I'm pretty sure they can figure out a way to have "clean garbage".

I only wish more US red states were like Alberta. It would save us a lot of dough.

But do we really want to be sapping energy from a system that makes our planet habitable!?

So, you mean a dynamo eventually pulls the charge out of the magnets? I didn't know that. So if we could use the Earth as a dynamo, it would drain the magnetic charge of the Earth.

But then, the list of things I don't know is nearly infinite. I'm going back to playing with my Legos.

Hi, APK. Hang in there bro, it gets better.

The earth's magnetic field results from a planetary dynamo.

Dumb question: Could the "dynamo" be used to create current?

It would be nice if we could use the rotation of the Earth as an energy source.

We put some satellites into a polar orbit to act as the, um, what's the word...stator?

Yeah, it's a dumb question.

Of course, the capitalist answer is to have competition and self-interest support those beleaguered workers in starting their own businesses.

You mean like the businesses that Wal-Mart put out of business?

Capitalists do not want competition. Capitalism and competition are not the same thing, and they are certainly not interdependent. You're not paying attention.

The question these days is whether the Precious Bodily Fluids of Americans have been so thinned by things like food stamps, the market manipulations that let Wal-Marts economies of scale trump everything, and the anti-capitalist rhetoric of the Left that these caterpillars no longer crave chrysalis.

You have to ask yourself, "Who benefits most?" Then, you'll find the culprits. (hint: It's not food stamp recipients.)

. What they sucked at was walking or things that involved moving across a room. I believe this was mainly because the walking was done "on stilts"

Walking on two legs is unnatural and requires a shit-ton of processing power. Try to stand a GI Joe up. It's why you don't often find two-legged chairs.

I wonder how much of the relative size of our brains is because some dim ancestor decided to get up on two legs and didn't realize what he was getting us into.

Four legs good...

Wal-mart has the last laugh:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/cl...

The real Welfare Queen. But a 12lb jar of pickles for $2.97 is nothing to sneeze at, even though your taxes are paying for welfare benefits for Wal-mart workers.

And Wal-Mart ends up getting a nice chunk of those food stamps that their workers have to live on. Win-win! Capitalism is a beautiful thing, no?

APK, you are a trip. You have to get out once in a while. I know it's scary at first, but once the bandages come off, people will stop staring at you and you won't have to wear that baseball batter's helmet all the time.

And the drooling isn't as noticeable as you think. You can't even see it unless you're looking right at your chin.

We've already had the first animatronic president:

http://youtu.be/LFAXnCFk5IE?t=...

Since then, they've all been robots.

I challenge you to watch any of the movies in TFS again and tell me with a straight face the special effects are convincing and/or scary.

Movies do not need special effects to be scary.

Are you on topic, PopeRatzo?

See, here's the thing. It is possible to write so badly that ALL of your posts become "off-topic".

Is this English Class?? No.

I'm a retired English prof. When my only tool is a hammer, I want to drive every crooked, rusty nail I see. Got paid pretty well, too. I gave you this one for free, because that's the kind of yegg I am.

Don't taunt him. I really don't need to read about another mall shooting.

(I've got $5 that says he's already written at least one manifesto and has a YouTube video about how all women are whores except his grandma)

The "year of Linux on the Desktop" we've all heard for a decade++ here isn't out of the question now because of this... you get the games ported to Linux now, more?

Does your choice of operating system preclude your ability to construct sentences in English?

Clearly, you are a native English speaker. What happened to you, lad?

Chicago residents have zero interest in individual rights and freedom. In fact, the very idea frightens them. They would much rather have the government take care of them and tell them what to do.

Is that so? What a fascinating insight into us.

People here have no desire for reform, as they are either getting something from "the system" or think they will be too.

Sounds like your describing our current flavor of capitalism. Emphasis on the "think".