Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 12:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Nov 2013, at 05:52, meekerdb wrote: 3. What do you recommend if the US refuses to comply? ?? You mean the U.S. government refuses to act in the best interests of it's citizens: Vote them out. We could have meant that the US government

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 12:15 AM, LizR wrote: On 11 November 2013 21:07, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 10 Nov 2013, at 08:42, LizR wrote: On 10 November 2013 18:11, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/9/2013

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 1:28 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: I didn't say I didn't feel like it or that I was unwilling to do it. I said I believed it would not be possible, with a reasonable amount of effort, to have an informed opinion. Are you a climatologist? If not, you seem to believe otherwise beacuse you

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread spudboy100
livered yanks. -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Nov 11, 2013 3:13 am Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 10 Nov 2013, at 05:52, meekerdb wrote: 3. What do you recommend if the US refuses

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 1:47 AM, LizR wrote: Obviously they could all be politically motivated or in the pay of mysterious socialist organisations, and it's always possible that their modelling is wildly inaccurate, but unless someone is actually making up the data and the measurements then /something/

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Ah the apocalyptic mentality. Apocalypticists are like nationalists. The laters think that they were born in the best possible country by pure chance. The apocalypticists, also by pure chance, think that they are in a pivotal moment on history where some catastrophe or something wonderful will

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 7:55 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/11/2013 1:28 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: I didn't say I didn't feel like it or that I was unwilling to do it. I said I believed it would not be possible, with a reasonable amount of effort, to have an informed opinion.

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 10:13 AM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Ah, but Brents' point is that smoking and cancer are proven fact. However, at the time, Troifim Lysenko's views on biology were proven. ?? To nobody outside the Soviet Union - and only to a few there. So were the Eugenicists that lead

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
On 12 November 2013 07:13, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: However, at the time, Troifim Lysenko's views on biology were proven. I didn't realise the Russian government at the time allowed his views to be peer reviewed and independently replicated. In fact I thought they created a climate in which

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Every science whose conclusions have effects in politics has a high risk of being manipulated. In the URSS and here. From Anthropology to long term Meteorology to everything in the middle. The one that does not realize that is poor fool who does not know how the world works and has replaced with

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread meekerdb
On 11/11/2013 5:04 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Every science whose conclusions have effects in politics has a high risk of being manipulated. In the URSS and here. From Anthropology to long term Meteorology to everything in the middle. The one that does not realize that is poor fool who does

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
On 12 November 2013 14:04, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: Every science whose conclusions have effects in politics has a high risk of being manipulated. In the URSS and here. From Anthropology to long term Meteorology to everything in the middle. The one that does not realize

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
. Inside the magazine is a rather thick envelope. -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Nov 11, 2013 3:06 am Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11 Nov 2013, at 01:27, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Ok

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
it's like when there actually are rising temperatures and rising sea levels and rising O2 and increasingly wild weather and ice melting all over the world, you stop and say, oh hang on, maybe Fourier had a point after all when he worked out the Greenhouse effect in 1824. Rather than just putting

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Nov 2013, at 19:34, meekerdb wrote: On 11/11/2013 12:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Nov 2013, at 05:52, meekerdb wrote: 3. What do you recommend if the US refuses to comply? ?? You mean the U.S. government refuses to act in the best interests of it's citizens: Vote them out.

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 7:47 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World it's like when there actually are rising temperatures and rising sea

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 7:43 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11 Nov 2013, at 18:49, spudboy...@aol.com wrote

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-11 Thread LizR
On 12 November 2013 17:47, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 12:31 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/9/2013 3:09 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 9:55 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/9/2013 9:37 AM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Brent, my analogy, however badly its thought-up, is to force

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread LizR
On 10 November 2013 21:40, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Look, I hope global warming is not that serious, because if it is, it's game over. Big government is most definitely not going to solve it. I think you know this too. There isn't a magical point where to government gets

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:12 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 November 2013 21:40, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Look, I hope global warming is not that serious, because if it is, it's game over. Big government is most definitely not going to solve it. I think you know

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread spudboy100
anyway from pollution, contamination, and a ruined environment.. -Original Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Nov 9, 2013 11:44 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/9/2013 4:53 PM

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread spudboy100
, Rock on. -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Nov 9, 2013 11:17 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World The rich get richer via the stock exchange and similar financial institutions. This is done with software

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread spudboy100
-Original Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Nov 9, 2013 11:52 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/9/2013 5:12 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Brent, let us look at human

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread meekerdb
On 11/10/2013 12:40 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 12:31 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/9/2013 3:09 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 9:55 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/9/2013 9:37 AM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Brent, my

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread meekerdb
On 11/10/2013 1:26 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:12 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 November 2013 21:40, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Look, I hope global warming is not that serious, because if it is, it's game over. Big government is most

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread spudboy100
, hottest year on record, hottest decade on record etc etc etc. We need a ton of research into renewables and carbon sequestration -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, Nov 10, 2013 2:43 am Subject: Re: Our Demon

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread Chris de Morsella
@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 10:14 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World I would say you are incorrect concerning cities which rely on one primary power source, especially, if its local or regional. Power

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread Chris de Morsella
and provides almost immediate relief from high energy bills. Chris -Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 10:52 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread spudboy100
@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, Nov 10, 2013 1:51 pm Subject: RE: Our Demon-Haunted World Name me one large city that gets its power 100% exclusively from coal or from nuclear? You can’t because all major energy markets are fed by a mix of energy generation capacity. Yet you keep on with this straw man

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread spudboy100
...@yahoo.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, Nov 10, 2013 2:08 pm Subject: RE: Our Demon-Haunted World Seriously increasing our energy efficiency is key to building a bridge to a living future. One thing this whole discussion is overlooking -- focused as it is, on electric

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 11:08 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World One example might be the San Onofre plant in California

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread Chris de Morsella
: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 11:19 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World I used to be a fan of Amory Lovins too but am concerned that better

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Nov 2013, at 19:09, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: I am emphasizing having governments print out (Keynes style) absolutely, colossal, amounts of cash, as a reward for coming up with excellent disease treatments and cures, human solar system tours, and clean energy solution, environmental

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 7:51 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 1:26 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:12 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 November 2013 21:40, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Look, I hope global warming is not that

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread meekerdb
On 11/10/2013 12:29 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: As I said before, I am agnostic on this issue for the following reasons: - I am not educated in climate science and I am sufficiently educated in science to understand that it would take years of full-time effort to get to a point where I could judge

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread John Mikes
Bruno and Brent: *Who are you to T E L L society what it needs?* (BTW: I agree perfectly with your position). I had discussions on other lists in aspects of religion and gun-control and received similar offensive repercussions. No universal machine can tell any other universal machine how to

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread meekerdb
On 11/10/2013 1:06 PM, John Mikes wrote: Bruno and Brent: *_Who are you to T E L L society what it needs?_* (BTW: I agree perfectly with your position). I had discussions on other lists in aspects of religion and gun-control and received similar offensive repercussions. No universal machine

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread John Mikes
Brent wrote: What about telling society what it needs to survive? Are you telling me fascism, socialism, and religion are bad? (earlier): Society needs to do something to stabilize the system and prevent the increasing concentration of wealth. The 3 belief systems I mentioned are

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:05 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 12:29 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: As I said before, I am agnostic on this issue for the following reasons: - I am not educated in climate science and I am sufficiently educated in science to understand that it

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread meekerdb
On 11/10/2013 2:19 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:05 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 12:29 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: As I said before, I am agnostic on this issue for the following reasons: - I am not educated in climate science and I am sufficiently

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread Richard Ruquist
Richard Lindzen from MIT is a serious academic scientist who has some reservations about the IPCC reports and is often labeled as a denier. I put my faith in his research. From wiki-Lindzen: Lindzen has expressed his concern over the validity of computer

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread spudboy100
...@yahoo.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, Nov 10, 2013 2:21 pm Subject: RE: Our Demon-Haunted World From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 11:08 AM

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread spudboy100
, 2013 2:49 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 09 Nov 2013, at 19:09, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: I am emphasizing having governments print out (Keynes style) absolutely, colossal, amounts of cash, as a reward for coming up with excellent disease treatments and cures, human solar

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread spudboy100
, Nov 10, 2013 2:33 pm Subject: RE: Our Demon-Haunted World Who knows -- you may be interested in a Dutch idea to build an energy island in the North sea by diking around an area of sea then using periods of surplus wind power generation form the north sea offshore wind farms (of which

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread meekerdb
On 11/10/2013 4:21 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: Richard Lindzen from MIT is a serious academic scientist who has some reservations about the IPCC reports and is often labeled as a denier. I put my faith in his research. I hope you didn't also put your faith in those doctors who had reservations

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread Richard Ruquist
You comment does not merit a response. On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 7:58 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 4:21 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: Richard Lindzen from MIT is a serious academic scientist who has some reservations about the IPCC reports and is often labeled as a

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 4:24 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Cool, I didn't bother to look it up, but rather remembered

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread meekerdb
On 11/10/2013 4:21 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: Richard Lindzen from MIT is a serious academic scientist who has some reservations about the IPCC reports and is often labeled as a denier. I put my faith in his research. From wiki-Lindzen: Lindzen has expressed his concern over the validity of

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread Richard Ruquist
http://heartland.org/policy-documents/wikipedia-bans-real-climate-propagandist On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 8:25 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/10/2013 4:21 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: Richard Lindzen from MIT is a serious academic scientist who has some reservations about the

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread LizR
I have looked into quite a few climate change deniers in detail, but life is too short to show where every single one of them is cherry pickling or misinterpretting data, and ultimately I feel justified in believing the 99.7% consensus of climate scientists on this one. -- You received this

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I think that, since the forces of progress and human dignity lost Siberia as the location for stablishing psychiatrics to reconduct deviated enemies of the People, The North and South poles can well be used to make global warming negationist to reconsider is position against Humanity and human

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-10 Thread Chris de Morsella
When somebody doesn’t agree with you, do you then start insulting them? From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alberto G. Corona Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 6:36 PM To: everything-list Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World I think

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Nov 2013, at 19:44, meekerdb wrote: On 11/8/2013 12:10 AM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Ending the era of Prohibition will not mean kids will start smoking pot…. Hint they already are, and have been for a long time. Ending this dark era of Prohibition will mean that the greatest illicit

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread John Mikes
On 06 Nov 2013, at 17:25, meekerdb wrote: On 11/6/2013 12:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: There is nothing wrong being rich, unless the money is stolen money, and that's the case today. There's nothing morally wrong with being rich, but it creates an ethical problem. Being much wealthier than

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread John Mikes
One more remark: the H O N E S T heirs? super-rich they may be? Do you find an honestly accumulated heirloom to inherit? Did they work productively/honestly to be 'rich'? JM On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 11:50 AM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: On 06 Nov 2013, at 17:25, meekerdb wrote: On

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread spudboy100
the Netherlands is up for this? -Original Message- From: Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Nov 9, 2013 7:29 am Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 3:55 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread spudboy100
no where except at Disney World. Naw. This is about getting the thinker to be realists, and not dreamers. -Original Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, Nov 8, 2013 9:54 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread spudboy100
substitutes are non substitutes. -Original Message- From: Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Nov 9, 2013 12:12 am Subject: RE: Our Demon-Haunted World From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Nov 2013, at 17:50, John Mikes wrote: On 06 Nov 2013, at 17:25, meekerdb wrote: On 11/6/2013 12:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: There is nothing wrong being rich, unless the money is stolen money, and that's the case today. There's nothing morally wrong with being rich, but it

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread spudboy100
, in payment, 5 years later. -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 3:58 am Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 06 Nov 2013, at 02:43, LizR wrote: On 6 November 2013 14:38, spudboy...@aol.com

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Nov 2013, at 17:56, John Mikes wrote: One more remark: the H O N E S T heirs? super-rich they may be? Do you find an honestly accumulated heirloom to inherit? Did they work productively/ honestly to be 'rich'? That's an interesting question. It is a particular case of can we

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread Jesse Mazer
-Scandal -Original Message- From: Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Nov 9, 2013 12:12 am Subject: RE: Our Demon-Haunted World *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [ mailto:everything-list

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 9:38 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Brent, my analogy, however badly its thought-up

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 9:50 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Chris, I just read a study by the U of Colorado, published

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread meekerdb
On 11/9/2013 4:29 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 3:55 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/8/2013 5:48 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: If you hold the Rational Optimist view aka Matt Ridley, people will act altruistic much more, if they get a reward, then in they get

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread meekerdb
On 11/9/2013 8:50 AM, John Mikes wrote: I don't see a 'productive' way how 'the rich' get more wealth and power by using their wealth and power. If they risk their money on some development or invention that is successful that's productive and there must be some potential profit in it,

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread meekerdb
On 11/9/2013 9:37 AM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Brent, my analogy, however badly its thought-up, is to force the idealists to produce. My idea was to force the idealist back to painful reality and hard choices, rather then mentally living in La La land. Saying Oh they're working on solar and

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread meekerdb
On 11/9/2013 9:50 AM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Chris, I just read a study by the U of Colorado, published in the Journal, Bioscience, claiming that up to 1 million bats have been killed by green energy wind turbines. ?? And that is significant compared to what? Nine million birds killed each

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread spudboy100
@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Nov 9, 2013 2:25 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 12:50 PM, lt;spudboy...@aol.comgt; wrote: Chris, I just read a study by the U of Colorado, published in the Journal, Bioscience, claiming that up to 1 million bats have been killed by green

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread spudboy100
. Peking, Boston, Tokyo, Moscow? Brussels? Miami? -Original Message- From: Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Nov 9, 2013 2:25 pm Subject: RE: Our Demon-Haunted World   From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 9:55 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/9/2013 9:37 AM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Brent, my analogy, however badly its thought-up, is to force the idealists to produce. My idea was to force the idealist back to painful reality and hard choices, rather then

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread meekerdb
On 11/9/2013 2:49 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Yes, Jesse, I do buy into that arguement. If you permit me, I will exclude DailyKos Kos Kids from your evidence, as the are far from a disinterested party in this matter. Whatever the politics, whatever the polemics, a technology has to do this,

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread Chris de Morsella
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 2:57 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Our Demon-Haunted World OK, a polemicist. Now tell me what

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread meekerdb
On 11/9/2013 3:09 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 9:55 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/9/2013 9:37 AM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Brent, my analogy, however badly its thought-up, is to force the idealists to produce. My idea was to force the idealist back to

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread Jesse Mazer
To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Nov 9, 2013 2:25 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 12:50 PM, lt;spudboy...@aol.comgt; wrote: Chris, I just read a study by the U of Colorado, published in the Journal, Bioscience, claiming that up to 1 million

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread Chris de Morsella
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 3:31 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/9/2013 3:09 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread spudboy100
? -Original Message- From: Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Nov 9, 2013 2:34 pm Subject: RE: Our Demon-Haunted World From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-09 Thread spudboy100
want to hear what we all can do? -Original Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Nov 9, 2013 3:55 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/9/2013 9:37 AM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote

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2013-11-09 Thread spudboy100
capitalism is great for some things, but it's not going to invest in developing stuff with a 20yr horizon for return. Brent -Original Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Nov 9, 2013 6:21 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon

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2013-11-09 Thread spudboy100
, and really does the job, and not just bright promises. We are thinking about human survival, you know? -Original Message- From: Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Nov 9, 2013 6:29 pm Subject: RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

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2013-11-09 Thread spudboy100
the cost you impose on the public. Brent -Original Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Nov 9, 2013 4:07 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/9/2013 9:50 AM

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2013-11-09 Thread spudboy100
-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Nov 9, 2013 6:34 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 5:49 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Yes, Jesse, I do buy into that arguement. Which one? The idea that declining prices of solar panels are bad news for solar

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2013-11-09 Thread LizR
On 10 November 2013 12:34, Jesse Mazer laserma...@gmail.com wrote: Are you just assuming the future will be like the past, or do you have any other basis for predicting solar will always be just a fraction of world energy? Jesse There is no rational basis for this belief because solar

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2013-11-09 Thread LizR
The rich get richer via the stock exchange and similar financial institutions. This is done with software nowadays - a thousandth of a second delay in investing can mean the difference between accumulating and losing. This doesn't actually produce improvements in anything (except financial

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2013-11-09 Thread meekerdb
On 11/9/2013 4:53 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Your basically saying I am wrong for no contestable reason, you have no city in the world to cite to me that is powered by solar power or wind, for that matter, And there are none powered exclusively by hydroelectric power either. It's a

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2013-11-09 Thread meekerdb
On 11/9/2013 5:12 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Brent, let us look at human nature as it exists and not posit perfection to scientists and bureaucrats. Climate scientist who peddle AGW have skin in the game. What's their reward? They get guaranteed jobs and do the planning and make policies if

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2013-11-09 Thread meekerdb
On 11/9/2013 5:27 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Good point. But it wasn't entirely a command economy that achieved these technical wins. In other words you can say Sputnik in 57, but everything you listed appears to have had a capitalist basis. NASA could not have gotten off the ground withoutr

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2013-11-09 Thread meekerdb
On 11/9/2013 6:13 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Let me ask you Jesse do you suggest any substitute that we can turn to for transforming world civilization to clean power? The only significant thing I can think of, would be hiring Craig Venter to produce some methane or hydrogen maker, that can,

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2013-11-09 Thread meekerdb
On 11/9/2013 8:17 PM, LizR wrote: The rich get richer via the stock exchange and similar financial institutions. This is done with software nowadays - a thousandth of a second delay in investing can mean the difference between accumulating and losing. This doesn't actually produce improvements

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2013-11-09 Thread LizR
On 10 November 2013 18:11, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/9/2013 6:13 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Let me ask you Jesse do you suggest any substitute that we can turn to for transforming world civilization to clean power? The only significant thing I can think of, would be

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2013-11-09 Thread LizR
On 10 November 2013 14:12, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Brent, let us look at human nature as it exists and not posit perfection to scientists and bureaucrats. Climate scientist who peddle AGW have skin in the game. What's their reward? They get guaranteed jobs and do the planning and make

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2013-11-08 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 11:03 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/7/2013 9:57 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: So if Florida

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2013-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 06 Nov 2013, at 17:45, Chris de Morsella wrote: Exactly. Already the techniques of social engineering are far more advanced than they were even as recently as Goebbels time – and he advanced the art of the Big Lie and of mass media propaganda

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2013-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Nov 2013, at 23:12, meekerdb wrote: On 11/6/2013 6:42 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Either all humans enjoy human rights or none do. Human rights are a human invention. Human inventions are a human invention. Bruno As soon as a class of persons is created that are stripped of

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2013-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
-- as if they would. -Original Message- From: Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Nov 7, 2013 3:29 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Those plucky Canadians -- as you term them -- are criminally destroying vast swaths of Alberta

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2013-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 2:32 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 07 Nov 2013, at 03:32, Chris de Morsella wrote: The problem of any

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2013-11-08 Thread Chris de Morsella
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 2:35 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 08 Nov 2013, at 03:44, Chris de Morsella

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2013-11-08 Thread Chris de Morsella
Marchal Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 2:41 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Hi Chris, I can't agree more. If we look at the history of prohibition, it is always either a political tools, or unfair economy, or a way for bandits to steal money

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2013-11-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
3:29 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Those plucky Canadians -- as you term them -- are criminally destroying vast swaths of Alberta turning it into a poisoned chemical saturated moonscape as well as sucking up vast amounts of water from other potential uses -- including agriculture

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