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Glitch
Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2017 - 12:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Sorry, wrong link.
Charlie Rose isn't a good interviewer...

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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2017 - 02:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I think we can expect lynchings in the near future.

The good news is Hillary would have been so happy to send those who question to prison, maybe Gitmo as terrorists against Mother Earth. But instead she's busy blaming everybody for her losing. If she's pulling the I'm a woman so everyone screws me card now, imagine her in power using that to ignore law.

We dodged that bullet. So the Soros/Obama partnership for totalitarian rule has sponsored antifa and other paid looters and rioters against the middle. Hanging climate deniers is the next logical step in their campaign of domestic terrorism.

Of course if you think hurricane hysteria is fun, wait for the first northeast blizzard as proof, PROOF!! that Global Warming questioning is treason. ( screw the Dakotas, the progressive base is in the NE )
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Ebutch
Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - 11:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)



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Mhpalin
Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 12:49 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I live in Alberta and work in the oil sands that comparison is kind of misleading that looks like a SAGD site.Syncrude Suncor CNRL and Shell all have strip mines.Not as deep as that one and they are reclaimed but yes 70% of the oil sands are some form of injection.
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Hootowl
Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 09:22 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

The sand you folks put back down has been cleaned of the nasty sticky oil that has been contaminating the environment for millions of years. The toxic waste is disposed of in millions of mobile incinerators, and the waste heat is recovered for use in transportation. Thank you for doing your part to clean up the superfund site mother nature left you.
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Mnscrounger
Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 11:24 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Hoot, I've GOT to commit that to memory.
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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 12:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Depleted Uranium as used in anti tank cannon bullets has had the nasty radioactive parts carefully cleaned up and is safer for the environment than the raw ore.

Of course it's still a pyroforic heavy metal and poisonous to human life, and will burst into flames if powdered. Though I believe it's less nasty to have in your back seat in solid metal form than an open container of transformer oil out of the can on the power pole down the road.

Human progress can be measured by how good we can concentrate and purify the stuff of nature. From smelting copper from ore in little chunks in a glass furnace ( the hottest thing man made thousands of years ago ) to making heavy water from a natural tiny fraction of a percent to nearly pure with the output of the most powerful hydro electric plant in the world. (Norway, late 1930's ) You can see a staggering progression of control over natural resources.

Of course in most cases the concentrated natural materials are far more useful and dangerous than the stuff we start with.

Even burning coal produces concentrated radioactive material and hazardous waste arguably worse than the coal. ( cinders, known as clinker )

Tar sands cleaner than nature after processing? Yes, but that doesn't include the water used. In enlightened Canada I believe they clean & recycle that water. If the same mines were in China I'd expect open pits & leaking petroleum by products poisoning the region.

The oil that cursed parts of the Arab desert was an environmental mess known to & exploited by the Roman Empire. A natural local disaster that poisoned people and animals seeking water.

It wasn't until American lunatics used well drilling technology to go after Pennsylvania's oil that more advanced technology than sopping up oil slicks in a deadly false oasis with cloth rags came to Arabia.

Ironically the quest for petroleum was an ecological quest to save the whales being killed for lamp oil and industrial applications.

Ok to undercut the whale oil market with cheaper petroleum....... but it had that effect. ; )
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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 07:19 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/south-p ark-premiere-messes-viewers-amazon-alexa-google-ho me-1039035

Lol.

I haven't watched South Park in a while but I love how the writers screwed with all the techno-wealthy by having the cartoon give orders to their gizmos.

Reminds me of the time I was at a convention and they were proudly displaying a voice program. After the demo and some over the top claims, I asked about security and was assured that it was "perfectly safe".

So I leaned toward the mike and gave the commands to format C: and the demo tech watched in horror as it obeyed me and suicided on the spot.

I later found out my mother had similarly told a voice demo to shut itself off at a ( redacted ) conference, and my sister nuked one like I had at a demo for ( redacted ) employees as they were selling the systems to her company.

"Alexa, please order 500 pounds of jasmine rice, confirmed" is a great way to introduce yourself when you walk into a friend's house. ; )
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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 07:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-enable d-advertisers-to-reach-jew-haters

In other news Facebook will deny you payment if you like Trump but has been happy to sell Nazi flags to Haters of Jews, and direct them to other folk who blame all the world's problems on Jews.

How nice of them to stop after being exposed.
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2017 - 06:39 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Ea rth/Swarm/When_Swarm_met_Steve

Thanks to millions of cameras in phones we now have records of phenomenon that weren't seen & proven before.
( and it seems Bigfoot and Nessie are extinct )

Meet Steve.

A river of 3000 degrees higher temperature plasma. ( keep in mind the air is so thin at that altitude that you'd never feel that heat on bare skin. Freeze dried dead skin. Like instant coffee. )

It would be interesting to put a probe in that light show. The energy is incredible. I've seen auroras that covered from north pole to south of Lake Ontario before, and often in northern South Dakota. Bright enough to ride bicycles at night. Charged particles from the Sun turning the sky into a neon sign.
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2017 - 06:59 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.iceagenow.info/

Lots of reports of record cold.

Keep in mind confirmation bias. You believe people that agree with you more than those who disagree.

That said you might check here for best fall leaf viewing dates since this promises to be a cold and early winter. Or century. Too early to tell.

The only way the climate con folk are going to change course is if they are frozen at a conference in Mexico. Trapped by lack of snow plows to free their private jets,and.consume each other in an orgy of panicked cannibalism.

Hey, I can dream.
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2017 - 01:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://nypost.com/2017/09/16/a-few-busybodies-have -destroyed-a-dream-for-nyc/

"I hate you so I will use the environment to stop you" is the hidden title of this article.

I don't have opinion on the developer but this is an example of the few using the power of the courts to impose their will on the many.
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Aesquire
Posted on Monday, September 18, 2017 - 11:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/09/18/imme diacy-threat-climate-change-exaggerated-faulty-mod els/

Experts now say there is a two-in-three chance of keeping global temperatures within 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, the ultimate goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

I ask, in all seriousness, if we WANT to be within 1.5 degrees of pre-industrial levels... AND which levels?

Probably don't want it much hotter than the time of Spartacus. The same as the Viking Warm period would be fine. The same as 1450? Suck.

It's been known for decades that the models are wrong. They've threatened to have us publicly executed for saying so, too.

Public opinion on the matter is important no matter how disgusted I am, since people vote, and people make mobs and the Cultists want to send mobs to kill me. They say so.
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Ebutch
Posted on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 05:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)



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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 12:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/21 /california-cities-sue-oil-companies-over-climate- change/

Burning at the stake soon to follow.
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Hootowl
Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 01:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I'm all for these lawsuits. Let's get the evidence out there. The warmists will not be able to prove their theory, and the oil companies have deep enough pockets to appeal politically/religiously motivated judicial decisions in the lower courts all the way up to SCOTUS. We may finally see an end to this pile of lies and bad science.
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Crusty
Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 04:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Burning at the stake soon to follow.

Well; a hot stake is better than a cold chop!
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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 05:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Not sure Joan d'Arc would agree.

I'm not sure about the lawsuit angle as a means of getting the truth out. For one thing, juries at lawsuits are often persuaded to give huge awards from mega-corporations, since, after all, they're rich.

The fact that the jury will be the one paying never seems to come up. So will you. It's one thing when a ma & pa store get sued, they can't raise their prices. Exxon? Johnson & Johnson? Your gas & band-aids will go up. No one at Company headquarters will be out a penny. The stockholders won't pay a dime. Only the customers pay.

But even if they appeal all the way to SCOTUS the subject matter, just the math, is not in the education of the Lawyers. So it's going to be the distinguished paid experts trying to snow the judges and juries with technobabble and really misleading math.

But, then again, I could be wrong.

Which is the fundamental difference between science and religion. They cannot ever be wrong. Their God Wills It.
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Strokizator
Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 08:27 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Quick and easy solution is to quit selling fuel in the land of fruits and nuts. The lawsuit will never go to trial if nobody can get to the courthouse. Then, good luck seating a jury who doesn't already hate these stupid lawyers.
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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 09:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

The problem with boycotting Kalifornia is twofold.

Huge customer. Substantial percentage of profit.

Humanitarian. Cutting fuel supplies would kill more people than bombing the three biggest cities with Nagasaki range atom bombs. No company could survive the bad press.

Remember the New Orleans flooding? Any encyclopedia entry on New Orleans reads "Mardi Gras, historical, below sea level, doomed".

California's entry should read "natural wonders, Earthquakes, wild fires, lack of water makes it as artificial an environment as a space station, radical politics, doomed".

Feel free to argue about the natural wonders, but you'll lose. Everything else is solid.
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Aesquire
Posted on Friday, September 22, 2017 - 04:49 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/09/21/no-washing ton-post-continue-call-hurricanes-natural/

I'm waiting for a meteor strike to be blamed on Global Warming.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/09/oo ps_climate_cultist_destroys_own_position.html

I'd love to ask this nice fellow when the last time the Eclipse prediction was wrong, and how can he be telling me this since the oceans died and there's no oxygen, according to "scientific" prediction.
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Ducbsa
Posted on Friday, September 22, 2017 - 07:11 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

That Tyson article did interpret the guy's remarks well.
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Gregtonn
Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 04:11 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Go to the last thirty seconds or so for the "punch line".

https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_school s_kill_creativity#t-144748

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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 09:04 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/style/how-to -survive-the-apocalypse.html?referer=http://www.dr udgereport.com/

Surprisingly not a terrible article. Better if it had pointed out the stupid items that are bogus like anti radiation sheets, but from the supremely provincial Times? Not bad.

Loved the Society for Creative Anachronism plug. My recent posts with pics of my lady friend in the snowflake thread is recommended. There's a story about a group in LA that waded through the Rodney King riot to rescue a family that was vigorously suppressed by the news. The police weren't happy but when it was explained that if they brought real swords instead of rattan the phrase "paint the 'hood in blood" would have been real higher authority decided to pretend it didn't happen. ( they ended up bringing several families out through police lines.... ) Not One Word in the papers.

The jetpack is silly. And I'm laughing about the skyscraper escape parachute. ( if you know how to use it you've got your real, better one )

Actually good advice on trade goods. Bic lighters and feminine hygiene products are much more useful than gold bullion.

An unopened box of pads and lighters lived in my van for most of my adult life. Bandage or lady's hero is a tremendous value.

I've long been of the opinion that you're not a Real Man until your heart's been broken and you can buy feminine hygiene products without shame. I recall being at the 24 hour supermarket with a box of cupcakes and pads at 3 am. The 20 something child behind me was snickering. My comment that "yes, I'm in a relationship with a human female" broke the young lady at the register up.
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Hughlysses
Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 10:21 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Loved the Society for Creative Anachronism plug.

Patrick- you ever read any of SM Stirling's "Dies the Fire" series? Weird storm happens and all over the world ALL electrical devices cease to function, as well as explosive reactions not working and other changes to the laws of physics. It's never explained why- the characters even jokingly hypothesize "alien space bats" at one point.

At any rate, with no power and no functional firearms, civilization rapidly collapses. One of the groups that survives are members of the Society for Creative Anachronism in Portland.
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 12:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Yep. The main bad guy for the first 3 books. I've probably met the guy he's based on.
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 12:52 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Angels_(science_fiction_novel)

Try this one. Full of fan insider references.
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Hughlysses
Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 05:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Yea, I read that one when it first came out. Great book
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 06:42 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Totally off topic...

Check out "Wearing the Cape" by M Harmon.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/WearingTheCape

A solid look at what would actually happen if there were superheroes in the real world. Merchandising, marketing, legal restrictions.... What do you do when the world is suddenly cardboard? When you can throw a car, and punch through concrete, how do you not kill people accidentally? ( answer, training )

Lead character is Astra, a 5'4" 18 year old cutie who is a "flying brick" and one of the 10 strongest of her kind in America. Invited to join Chicago's premier super team, the author has created a character that you love, then puts her through hell.

The running gag through the series is that while some dude that looks like the Incredible Hulk can stop a fight just by looming, Astra just can't intimidate anyone and actually has to kick more butt than most.

Every book is a worthy read. Including a book set between 1&2 that's a side character's story, "Bite me, Big easy Nights" that is about Artemis, Astra's BFF, an unwilling vampire, turned vigilante..........

Amazon sold me on the book with a peek at the first page. Not a Vampire genre fan, the first line, "Anne Rice sucks..." had me clicking Buy! in less than 3 seconds.


cape 1&2 covers
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2017 - 06:45 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Correction from TV tropes.

Hope, who at the age of 18 stands less than 5 feet tall and is self-described as an "underdeveloped teenage Tinkerbell", is one of the strongest superheroes on the planet. Also, though she spends a good deal of time worrying about accidentally hurting anyone, she opens an alarming can of Whupass at the end of the story.

While a kind of ersatz Supergirl, these aren't immortal aliens with plot armor.

Each chapter starts with a heading paragraph from news, or memoir, or textbook... that fills in the background nicely, One is an editorial about the Sentinels, and how they carefully manage their PR. People forget Astra can take out a main battle tank, and is one of the most dangerous people on the planet, because she gets kittens out of trees.

On tv, of course. First day on the job, makes for good cute on the news. Don't forget the cover of Power Beat magazine ( that world's version of teen magazines ) and the drone coverage of her fighting monsters in the park.

(Message edited by aesquire on September 24, 2017)
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