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Topic: Merged Avatars Thread |
gg3
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Views: 1609
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Forum: Suggestion Box Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:06 pm Subject: Re: Where have all the Avatars gone? |
Make them static, not animated.
Few things in the online world are quite as annoying as trying to read while your peripheral vision is distracted by some idiotic decoration that buzzes around like ... |
Topic: A real-time population meter. |
gg3
Replies: 8
Views: 957
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:49 pm Subject: Re: A real-time population meter. |
Every sustainability-oriented website ought to link to that. And it should be available as a desk-accessory: a little widget that runs the population totalizer in the corner of your screen.
BTW, ... |
Topic: The Spreading Food Crisis Thread (U.S. & World) |
gg3
Replies: 1516
Views: 70297
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:24 pm Subject: Re: Food Riots Break Out Across the Globe |
Sorry, Jack, it still doesn't work:
According to cutting-edge military theorist John Robb, the means of producing bioweapons are becoming more and more affordable to subnational groups and to what ... |
Topic: The Spreading Food Crisis Thread (U.S. & World) |
gg3
Replies: 1516
Views: 70297
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:22 am Subject: Re: Food Riots Break Out Across the Globe |
Re. Jack re. "As simple as that."
No, not so simple. Where even pre-petroleum levels of technology exist (any form of stored energy, and the printing press), democratic societies have greater Da ... |
Topic: The Spreading Food Crisis Thread (U.S. & World) |
gg3
Replies: 1516
Views: 70297
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:37 pm Subject: Re: Food Riots Break Out Across the Globe |
Re. Jack re. empathy:
The variation in capacity for empathy (as with other emotions; remember, emotions are neurophysiological, thus in part genetically determined) is probably one of many sets of ... |
Topic: Existing Peak Oil Communities? |
gg3
Replies: 11
Views: 1461
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:43 am Subject: Re: Existing Peak Oil Communities? |
My organization is in process of doing it right now.
Region is northern California, specific location is confidential and subject to NDA unless we know someone well enough to tell them on an info ... |
Topic: Working in the Middle East |
gg3
Replies: 11
Views: 914
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:38 am Subject: Re: Working in the Middle East |
Hey Olivoil:
If your dad isn't an expert in the region and the cultures where he intends to go, he's up for a Darwin Award.
In case you don't know that term, it's what we call it when someon ... |
Topic: The Spreading Food Crisis Thread (U.S. & World) |
gg3
Replies: 1516
Views: 70297
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:23 am Subject: Re: Food Riots Break Out Across the Globe |
First, to deal with the current digression:
The ability to have any given emotional state is normally distributed through the population ("normally distributed" = "follows a normal curve" which is ... |
Topic: NZ potentially sitting on energy goldmine |
gg3
Replies: 2
Views: 787
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Forum: Australia & New Zealand Discussion Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:55 am Subject: Re: NZ potentially sitting on energy goldmine |
Leave the coal in the ground.
AUS has uranium. Think solar and wind backed up by nuclear. |
Topic: A simple bunker idea..."the tube" |
gg3
Replies: 74
Views: 12605
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:52 am Subject: Re: A simple bunker idea..."the tube" |
Re. air filtration: Most furnace filters are not sufficient because they allow too much fine particulate matter to pass. If you can get furnace filters that are HEPA rated, those will be OK.
Pu ... |
Topic: I saw my first dead person tonight ... |
gg3
Replies: 28
Views: 3458
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:23 pm Subject: Re: I saw my first dead person tonight ... |
Yes, and it's going to happen to each and every one of us.
Come on now, cheer up, watching people having sex would look pretty ghastly too except that you know what it feels like! ("Daddy, there ... |
Topic: Question for GG3- Community Structure |
gg3
Replies: 4
Views: 642
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:07 am Subject: Re: Question for GG3- Community Structure |
Hi y'all-
The group is the Foundation Of Sustainable Living, with the cute acronym FOSL as in "fossil record."
www.thefosl.org
Pardon the less-than-perfect website; a colleague of mine is ... |
Topic: What exactly is a "Stimulus Package"? |
gg3
Replies: 88
Views: 6393
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:57 pm Subject: Re: What exactly is a "Stimulus Package"? |
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Stimulus package: a box full of free samples of Viagra to hand out to voters at a campaign rally.
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Feudalism.
It's a mistake to use "poor person works hard and becomes rich" as the qua ... |
Topic: Stock Market Crash! (merged thread) |
gg3
Replies: 833
Views: 16300
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:39 am Subject: Re: Stock Market Crash! (merged thread) |
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Many of us have been thinking that the Regime (Bush et. al.) would keep the circus going at least until November and then let it crash after the election ("See what voting for a Democrat president ... |
Topic: Stock Market Crash! (merged thread) |
gg3
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:13 am Subject: Re: Stock Market Crash Tomorrow |
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Helicopters and printing presses dep't:
$800 per taxpayer... let's see, assume there are 100 million taxpayers in the US... that's, uh, $80 billion dollars...?
And this money comes from wh ... |
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