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Topic: Canadian police warn "Put a lock on furnace oil tank.&a |
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:21 pm Subject: Re: Canadian police warn "Put a lock on furnace oil tan |
| A lock will only keep an honest man honest.If your tank has a lock and the one next door doesn't . . . |
Topic: Looking for a document about the future after the Oil Peak.. |
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 6:32 pm Subject: Re: Looking for a document about the future after the Oil Pe |
| Other good reference material includes the Fallout RPG and the Road Warrior movies. |
Topic: This Solar Panel company needs to be investigated |
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 6:17 pm Subject: Re: This Solar Panel company needs to be investigated |
| By the way: if people have more information on DBK's claims being untrue, wrong, or exaggerated, please post!!They're claiming power output per square meter greatly in excess of the theoretical maximu ... |
Topic: I want a dog. |
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:26 pm Subject: Re: I want a dog. |
PS my arm is her chew toy-for hours every day!
Mouthing your arm is absolutely not acceptable behaviour, especially in a nervous dog with an unknown history. Get some love and discipline happening r ... |
Topic: The Power of Prayer in Peak Oil |
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:22 pm Subject: Re: The Power of Prayer in Peak Oil |
To respect others' beliefs, those beliefs must be respectable. In fact, most of what people believe is utterly stupid.
I respect others' right to have such beliefs, as long as they affect no one b ... |
Topic: 216 Million Americans Are Scientifically Illiterate |
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Forum: Americas Discussion Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:14 pm Subject: Re: 216 Million Americans Are Scientifically Illiterate |
| My point was that regurgitation != comprehension, and that multiple choice exams that don't require the student to work out the answer are useless. Obviously my approach wouldn't have been much use w ... |
Topic: 216 Million Americans Are Scientifically Illiterate |
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Forum: Americas Discussion Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:37 am Subject: Re: 216 Million Americans Are Scientifically Illiterate |
The reason textbook regurgitation is bad, is because it doesn't necessarily require understanding of the subject matter.
When I took psych as an elective, I had the 2nd highest mark out of over 300 s ... |
Topic: 216 Million Americans Are Scientifically Illiterate |
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Forum: Americas Discussion Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:16 am Subject: Re: 216 Million Americans Are Scientifically Illiterate |
You are right, but that ancestor could probably be classified as an ape, couldn't it?
No. Words mean things. "Ape" is a specific class of primate, which the common ancestor was not. |
Topic: Are you going to make it? |
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:05 am Subject: Re: Are you going to make it? |
There is no way I would say no to a starving baby.
Me either. There probably wouldn't be much meat left on it but hey, every little bit helps. |
Topic: The Power of Prayer in Peak Oil |
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:59 pm Subject: Re: The Power of Prayer in Peak Oil |
Oil was given as a gift from God for us to use
A bold assertion. Evidence? |
Topic: Will We Be Able To Go To The BathRoom After Peak Oil?? |
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Forum: Welcome Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:18 pm Subject: Re: Will We Be Able To Go To The BathRoom After Peak Oil?? |
| Hmmm, I live in a city on a river, with a natural gas fired power plant, in an oil exporting country. I expect that when TSHTF the govt will probably nationalize enough gas production to keep the lig ... |
Topic: I Want to Increase the Speed of my Bike |
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:50 pm Subject: Re: I Want to Increase the Speed of my Bike |
| You might need steroids to compete with other professional athletes who also use steroids, but the average person can certainly increase their power to weight ratio without them. It's called strength ... |
Topic: THE Hydrogen Thread (merged) Part 1 |
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:18 pm Subject: Re: Fuel-cell expert warns against hydrogen option: Nice fig |
| About the cost of these cars . . . you can't BUY them at any price. The $3500 lease in no way indicates the real price of these experimental vehicles which by the way are not available to private cit ... |
Topic: THE Energy & Meat Thread (merged) |
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Forum: Conservation & Efficiency Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:53 pm Subject: Re: Eating meat: I'm not giving that up! |
| Veganism will be healthier if civilization collapses. In industrialized nations you need supplements to prevent neurological damage because the food is just too darn clean. 3rd worlders get more B12 ... |
Topic: THE Energy & Meat Thread (merged) |
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Forum: Conservation & Efficiency Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:19 pm Subject: Re: Eating meat: I'm not giving that up! |
I believe the ideal diet is only one serving (4 oz of beef) every week or so.
Ahh, yes. Obviously based on that classic study from the New England Journal of Figures Pulled Directly From My Ass. ... |
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