[Vo]:OT:Pre-positioning for troubled financial times

2008-02-09 Thread Horace Heffner
Some minor corrections and clarifications follow. Within the context of the mortgage industry debacle precipitated financial crisis it appears there is something even more sinister making for the crazy markets: http://tinyurl.com/3czmpr Actual URL for above:

[Vo]:Ocean glider uses ocean heat differentials

2008-02-09 Thread Lawrence de Bivort
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7234544.stm The heat differentials expand or constrict wax, which provides energy for propulsion. Battery power needed to sensors and communications. Lawrence

Re: [Vo]:volvo hybrid concept

2008-02-09 Thread Jones Beene
(Re: As a followup to the single point of using a small Wankel as the lighter weight back-up engine (ICE) for what is basically a plug-in hybrid, with intermediate range (50-60 miles)... --- Standing Bear wrote: Mazda sold this for years in the RX-7 to mixed success. Problem was always

Re: [Vo]:OT:Pre-positioning for troubled financial times

2008-02-09 Thread R.C.Macaulay
Howdy Horace, Why not the topic of economics ? Every other OT subject is on the table. You do present an interested set of cause and effect. Having a personal game plan to counter what we call the market is a step. The problem is where to step. Back in a certain book I study, I read the

Re: [Vo]:Costaka Inc.: Making ethonol for a dollar a gallon, possibly by 2011.

2008-02-09 Thread Taylor J. Smith
Steven Vincent Johnson wrote on 2-4-08: ``Additional material some Vorts may enjoy reading regarding our country's frantic catch-up attempts in the plug-in market, and alternative fuels. See: http://www.kiplinger.com/businessresource/forecast/archive/Park_It_and_Plug_It_080201.html GM is

[Vo]:WAY OFF TOPIC Scissors, paper, rock politics

2008-02-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Polls show that Clinton beats Obama, Obama beats McCain, and McCain beats Clinton. It is an election race around a mobius strip, and I bet the candidates are beginning to feel that way. - Jed

RE: [Vo]:WAY OFF TOPIC Scissors, paper, rock politics

2008-02-09 Thread L de Bivort
grin The Mobius strip is broken when we remember that the Clinton-Obama competition is within the Democratic Party, while the other two are national elections. Lawrence -Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 12:44 PM To: Vortex

Re: [Vo]:OT:Pre-positioning for troubled financial times

2008-02-09 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 9, 2008, at 12:02 AM, Standing Bear wrote: Seems a large part of this problem is lack of controls at the exchange market level. [snip] Solution: 1. Go back to commodity based currencies..hard money 2. Make all stock exchange transactions legal only with actual paper

RE: [Vo]:WAY OFF TOPIC Scissors, paper, rock politics

2008-02-09 Thread Jones Beene
Let's say it gets down to Obama/Clinton on the same ticket. Some say Hill wouldn't settle for Veep, but cynics think she would, realizing that even before the election, some harm may come to her running mate. Not 'Vinced,' exactly ... but the fear is that there are a few extreme conservatives, of

Re: [Vo]:WAY OFF TOPIC Scissors, paper, rock politics

2008-02-09 Thread Terry Blanton
On Feb 9, 2008 2:47 PM, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So happens there is the perfect candidate for that job waiting in the wings Barack Condoleezza?? :-) Surely you don't mean Rice, Beene? Terry

Re: [Vo]:WAY OFF TOPIC Scissors, paper, rock politics

2008-02-09 Thread R.C.Macaulay
Howdy Jones, One can view the candidates as people.. or as.. actors on a stage.. what happens when a stand-in is needed ? No problemo.. bingo! another face ! It is fascinating how true the adage.. The king is dead !!, all stand for a hail to the new king! Why is it so easy to switch loyalty

Re: [Vo]:Ocean glider uses ocean heat differentials

2008-02-09 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Lawrence de Bivort's message of Sat, 9 Feb 2008 11:08:28 -0500: Hi, [snip] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7234544.stm The heat differentials expand or constrict wax, which provides energy for propulsion. Battery power needed to sensors and communications. It would seem

[Vo]:re:Ocean glider uses ocean heat differentials

2008-02-09 Thread Charles M. Brown
Vorts, A disadvantage to Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion has been the thick long pipes needed in the ocean. It may be more practical to have a machine go to the water of a different temperature that it needs. A more compact OTEC machine could deployed quickly and defouled more easily too.

Re: [Vo]:Creationism (was Re:OT: periodic table)

2008-02-09 Thread thomas malloy
OrionWorks wrote: Thomas sez: The discussion in question was on the Wall Builders, all one I suspect many progressives have difficulty following the logic attributed to comments such as ...a biblically based legal system is superior to all others. from the very next comment where