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by vankirkc
Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:36 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Managing The Decline
Replies: 47
Views: 12614

Yes. McCain was one of the Keating Five. The other 4 were Democrats. And they threw him in so it wouldn't look so one sided. l I am concerned not whether they were red or blue pigs at the greed trough of ill-gotten gains. They were the ones that engineered the opening of the sluice of money to be p...
by vankirkc
Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:09 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Managing The Decline
Replies: 47
Views: 12614

Yes. McCain was one of the Keating Five. The other 4 were Democrats. And they threw him in so it wouldn't look so one sided. But you know there are an awful lot of Goldman Sachs folks at the top of the Obama administration. Odd that. They let Lehman (a competitor) die and got their company bailed o...
by vankirkc
Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:59 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Republicans are stupid thieves.
Replies: 222
Views: 85197

MSimon's posts have knocked it out of the park, but for what it's worth, Walter Williams (Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Prominent columnist) agrees with me about that right to travel buisness. True rights, such as those in our Constitution, or those considered to be natural ...
by vankirkc
Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:36 am
Forum: General
Topic: Republicans are stupid thieves.
Replies: 222
Views: 85197

The problem with this theory requires the insertion of a Jerk. Accidents NOT caused by jerks leave you in the same situation as a Jerk that can't pay you anyway. The flaw in this thinking is the same flaw in the Minimum wage thinking. "People should make at LEAST X much money." Meaning, unless you ...
by vankirkc
Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Republicans are stupid thieves.
Replies: 222
Views: 85197

The problem with this theory requires the insertion of a Jerk. Accidents NOT caused by jerks leave you in the same situation as a Jerk that can't pay you anyway. The flaw in this thinking is the same flaw in the Minimum wage thinking. "People should make at LEAST X much money." Meaning, unless you ...
by vankirkc
Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:13 am
Forum: General
Topic: Who Wants to Have Josh Banned?
Replies: 52
Views: 15338

Re: Who Wants to Have Josh Banned?

I have to say I'd be in djolds1 camp on this one. Posting a poll like this is a banner ad saying 'let's get rid of ....'. It's odd that you don't see it that way. Interesting. I think it odd that you do. Perhaps if I had listed a liteny of reasons TO get rid of him, I would agree. But I listed none...
by vankirkc
Sun Feb 21, 2010 11:18 pm
Forum: General
Topic: What Should Be Done About KitemanSA?
Replies: 4
Views: 2454

What Should Be Done About KitemanSA?

Not a serious poll. Just illustrating the point that polls are kinda dumb, and anti-social.
by vankirkc
Sun Feb 21, 2010 11:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Who Wants to Have Josh Banned?
Replies: 52
Views: 15338

Re: Who Wants to Have Josh Banned?

"Infantile incivility" that I illustrate...? How can asking a simple question illustrate incivility? "Hey, I've disagreed about politics (on a science/technology board) with this guy for a long time. Let's vote on kicking him out so I don't have to tolerate his disagreement on the politics any more...
by vankirkc
Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:12 am
Forum: General
Topic: Lying About Birth Certificates.
Replies: 36
Views: 10832

Re: Lying About Birth Certificates.

everything BUT Fox news is firmly in the hands of Liberals I am a liberal, I see EVERY SINGLE network proffing up NOTHING but the right wing agenda but for 3 shows, Bill Moyers, Racheal Maddow and Kieth Olberman. SO you have one network you think is OK, I dont even have one network. As I haven't wa...
by vankirkc
Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:39 am
Forum: General
Topic: Gates looking for energy solutions
Replies: 81
Views: 26154

The earth is homeostatic. You have absolutely no basis to make this claim. While historically temperatures have ranged within a band, those periods didn't have humans generating massive quantities of exotic chemicals and dumping them into the air. I bet the Martians were saying the same thing about...
by vankirkc
Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:33 am
Forum: General
Topic: Algae fuel, impressive, it seems.
Replies: 40
Views: 19442

The fly in the algae-for-biofuel ointment is nitrogen. Althought the stuff grows 10,000 times faster than, say, corn, it basically needs to be fed nitrogen fertilizer just the same. Where does that come from? Petroleum at the moment, generated by the fuel refining process. Not exactly a long term-vi...
by vankirkc
Tue Dec 22, 2009 12:09 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1343380

Also this has surfaced; http://64.27.92.38/files/announce_cleantech/20090529_DOD.RDTE.NTEET.pdf Helps explain how DOD worked Recovery Projects, including Polywell. We have talked on this before, lots of scrutiny on where the dollars go. I think it is instructive that they're spending 4x the polywel...
by vankirkc
Wed Dec 09, 2009 4:11 am
Forum: News
Topic: Dec 3 2009 Will fusion fade ... or finally flare up? (msnbc)
Replies: 25
Views: 13038

Alan has said he would try to find out what was going on. The fact all he can say is this is interesting. In the past, EMC2 Fusion's Richard Nebel has been able to describe the team's progress in general terms, saying that he was "very pleased" with the performance of an earlier test device. But no...
by vankirkc
Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:45 am
Forum: News
Topic: A new ultrabattery?
Replies: 13
Views: 7211

Do you guys not have access to the paper, or does that not detail what you're looking for either? The abstract is here as 20. Silicon–air batteries : A new “metal”–air battery based on silicon–oxygen couple is described. Silicon–air battery employing EMI·2.3HF·F room temperature ionic liquid (RTIL)...
by vankirkc
Fri Oct 02, 2009 8:12 am
Forum: General
Topic: Starting a Laboratory
Replies: 10
Views: 4456

MSimon wrote:Say nothing to no one.
Does this mean you should say everything to everyone, or just something?