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roccman
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 Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:59 am Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes" |
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| shortonoil wrote: |
We have a fixed level of energy and an increasing supply of money. Thus the GDP increases through inflation. To say that GDP is disconnected from the money supply is absurd. To say that CPI is disconnected from GDP is absurd. |
http://www.peakoil.com/post601314.html#601314
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dohboi
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:25 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes" |
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efarmer wrote:
"$93 a barrel is market price just like lobster. Now
$1200 for a Hannah Montana ticket, now that is terrorism! I
thought I was getting ripped when I took my little girl to see
Barney on Ice 10 years ago. (It wasn't even the real Barney,
but was just a geek in foam rubber suit.) I'm saving a little
Old Spice bottle full of gasoline. WTSHTF I will wait until it
dies down to the walking around bummed out stage and then
will dab a drop of petrol on for aftershave. As I walk around,
everyone will whisper "efarmer's got gas!" and follow me like
the Pied Piper. I'll lead them back to my baked potato and minty
water (hot or cold!) stand and hand them a piping hot spud.
After they take a bite I'll say; "that'll be $4 please,to which they
will answer, "Four bucks! That's terrorism efarmer."
I will give them a AA battery as change for a $10 bill that has Dick
Cheney's picture on it. (I could offer them two $3 Wolfowitz bills
but most places won't take those.)" |
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wisconsin_cur
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes" |
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| Kingcoal wrote: |
However, people get lazy. Most people don't plan, they don't see the writing on the wall, in short; they aren't paranoid enough. "The paranoid survive;" a quote by one of the founders of Intel Corp. I agree with Grove; rational paranoia, which is simply planning around Murphy's Law (what you don’t know can and will hurt you), is always good advice. Always have a plan, that's what successful, leader types do. |
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dohboi
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| Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:54 am Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes" |
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Dante'speak wrote:
"To put it simply, the US dollar - which is issued by the Fed with the understanding that it is usually backed by US government debt - is now increasingly a claim on some intangible derivative that the some bank put together. " |
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eastbay
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| Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:03 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes" |
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'I'm no longer posting here.'
Numerous threads, a quote from PMS. After 10,000 postings he should receive a final honor for his wide ranging contributions.
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Iaato
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Joined: Mar 12, 2007
Posts: 999
Location: As close as I can get to the beginning of the pipe.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 2:16 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes" |
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| Quote: | | "Not only is there not an agreement on what the carrying capacity is. Carrying capacity itself is not a static variable. It's always changing. For instance, let's say optimistically the earth's carrying capacity before the industrial revolution was 1-2 billion people. We are now at the point where ecosystems collapse and industrial civilization unravels. This "last great rape of nature" will be immensely damaging to what remains of our intact ecosystems. The desperation that will ensue to replace fossilized fuel with what remains of terrestrial resources will degrade carrying capacity to bare bones levels." |
Seldom explains differential equations and their application to problems of carrying capacity
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roccman
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes" |
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On M.K Hubbert's predictions regarding peak oil...
| Lighthouse wrote: |
Oh my god, you haven't read it otherwise you would know that his predictions are based on complete false assumptions and it was pure luck and coincidence that he was right with his dates.
Admit it, you do not have a clue what's in his paper. Otherwise I would be shocked by your lack of comprehension... |
http://www.peakoil.com/post605187.html#605187
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steam_cannon
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| Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:16 am Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes" |
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Hehehe, yeah Lighthouse is a trip... 
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Here's a quote I thought was pretty good...
| Hagakure_Leofman wrote: | "It is smarter for the marketer to sell the consumer a flashy trinket that will wear out and break quickly. It is even better for the product to be part of a continuously changing fashion market, where items in a nearly-new and good condition must be replaced in order to stay current with the latest product trend."
from wikipedia on comsumerism
I'd say if you can find anything provides a basic function, that is solidly built, take it. I think we all have to make the assumption that virtually all items we've been raised to buy, fit the model above. Our grandparents generation's wares are more desirable. |
From: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil world)
http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic932-0-asc-2070.html |
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roccman
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:09 am Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes" |
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| Tyler_JC wrote: |
It's not a conspiracy to enslave the population, it's common sense. |
http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic30453.html
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Iaato
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Location: As close as I can get to the beginning of the pipe.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:24 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes" |
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Efarmer's Amalgam of Greatests Hits "You Know It's a Recession When..."
| Quote: | You Know You're In A Recession When:
You decide to take another crack at tofu.
Lorenzo signs off with "substantial biofuels" instead of
"endless biofuels".
A panhandler hits you up for money and then runs into
a place to actually buy something to eat.
You hit the in-laws up for money and they fax it to you.
You are waiting around Lowe's for odd jobs with your
stock broker and lawyer tagging along as "grunts".
You buy your dog the cheapest kibble so you can have
the primo canned chow with gravy for old numero uno.
You go out to chop firewood and remember you left
your hatchet sticking in the ATM.
You lose your temper and break stuff in the kitchen when you
find out that someone ate the last homemade popsicle.
You notice that the gas from the beans you are eating
gives you a marvelous full feeling if you can manage to
hold it in for long periods.
Richard Branson shows Ben Bernanke how to run his
helicopter on the used Freedom Fry oil from the
Congressional cafeteria.
When your $1200 stimulus check comes it is from Halliburton
and it bounces.
Manpower gets you a job on the serving line at the soup kitchen
and you try to suck up and turn it into a career move. |
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RedStateGreen
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:22 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes" |
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| Quote: | | this ain't the happy, fuzzy bunny blog |
-- jboogy
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Iaato
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:23 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes" |
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"We had a good run. We won't leave behind stone aqueducts or travertine palaces inspiring awe from our descendants, but they will recognize us by our blown-out tires and windswept plastic bags just the same."
Emerson Biggins, waxing philosophical
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TheDude
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes" |
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| Quote: | I called my mom the day I hit Fusion and told her what I had done. She told me that she had never been so proud of me, she cried...she actually cried. She even came down to the basement to take a look and everything, later she made me a nice cheese sandwich.
I like cheese. |
-Eli
Thanks to steam_cannon for quoting it again.
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Iaato
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:03 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes" |
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| Quote: | "I've got this picture in my mind of a squirrel diligently collecting his acorns, storing them in the tree, preparing for winter.
Then a squirrel financial advisor comes by and talks the squirrel into turning over his nuts for a piece of paper describing a scheme in which his nuts will be loaned out to a series of other squirrels in other forests, and how there will be extra value created because of the nut arbitrage trade, which is driven by the seasonal cycles, rainfall patterns and slight differences in squirrel body fat ratios from forest to forest.
Even if the acorn scheme worked, the already-nervous squirrel would find that all he did anymore was sit around worrying about his RONI (return on nut investment) and the risk that his leveraged nuts posed both for him as well as all the other squirrels who had grown dependent upon it for survival.
He would start to long for the days when all he had to do was collect and store acorns for his own consumption. That just felt so much more natural, the squirrel would think to himself.
Eventually, the nut schemes would create a squirrel underworld:
Paramilitary squirrels to protect the nut trade
Squirrel mythology to give meaning to squirrel nut traders' lives
Fierce battles with predators for control of new nut markets
Mass suicides when the nut market crashes
Finally, squirrels return to sustainability and the old ways"
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Big Tex and the Squirrel-Masters of the Universe (check out the pictures, which are the best part)
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DantesPeak
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for "Member Quotes" |
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That's really nutty.  |
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