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| 2007/5/8-9 [Science/GlobalWarming, Science/Electric] UID:46552 Activity:high |
5/7 A typical house is responsible for the emission of more than three tons
of carbon annually, compared with about 1.5 tons for the typical car,
according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18472719
\_ So, if you and your family spend 2/3 of the time at home
and 1/3 of the time in your car, both are about the same,
eh? What a stupid comparison. Still, I do believe homes
in CA are horribly inefficient.
\_ New homes in CA tend to be very energy efficient. Where'd you
get the idea otherwise?
\_ Not only that, but since the climate is so mild in CA, homes here
probably use far less energy for air conditioning and heating
than avg.
\_ While new homes tend to be more energy efficient they also
tend to be bigger. It's also pretty easy to take an older
home and make it efficient (double pane windows, better
insulation, these things aren't that expensive). Plus
newer homes are more likely to have AC even in climates
like the Bay Area where really you don't need AC.
\_ I've lived in some old houses and no, slapping on double
panes and some fiber glass isn't going to help compared
to how modern houses are built. You're just putting lip
stick on a pig. It's still a pig. I don't know which
part of the Bay Area you're in, but the parts I've lived
in have hit 100+ more than a few times over summers and
temps 85-100 are common enough. It hits 85 and I'm
turning on the AC.
\_ You turn on the AC at 85? Generally I find that just
getting cool air into the house at night will keep
the house cool enough during the day up to 95.
\_ Not if it is 80+ at night.
\_ I live in California and don't even have air
conditioning. The ocean a few blocks away is my
air conditioning.
\_ Not everyone lives 'a few blocks away' from the
ocean.
\_ But what's the typical car-to-house ratio?
\_ Thank god I don't live in the typical house.
\_ I line-dry my laundary and I use my gas drier maybe 5 times a
year. -- !OP
\_ Carbon Dioxide is plant food. Stop obsessing about it.
\_ They call it pollution... we call it life.
\_ cut your carbon release. stop breathing. |
| 2007/5/8-9 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton] UID:46554 Activity:nil |
5/8 Clinton v. Obama voters:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/24yqxr (youtube.com) |
| 2007/5/8-9 [Uncategorized] UID:46555 Activity:nil |
5/8 "I am angry ... No, I am not angry" ...
If you understand French, parts of the ROYAL-SARKOZY debate are pretty
entertaining ... not to mention SEGO is Not Unattractive(tm) ...
"J'ai beaucoup de sang-froid! Je ne suis jamais enervee!"
It is available on THE TUBE OF YOU. We should have stuff like this
and PM's Q HOUR in the US. More at:
http://home.lbl.gov:8080/~psb/Articles/Politics/Royal-v-Sarkozy |
| 2007/5/8 [Uncategorized] UID:46556 Activity:nil |
5/8 emarkp when you baptize me when i die, do i get my own god planet?
I could do this all day. |
| 2007/5/8 [Politics/Domestic/California/Arnold] UID:46557 Activity:nil |
5/8 Free Paris!
http://www.csua.org/u/ini |
| 2007/5/8 [Computer/Companies/Google] UID:46558 Activity:nil 85%like:46567 |
5/8 Why I hate Google:
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117856222924394753-qdWU6gT1sr_DvqeUqW2Agj2QiZM_20080507.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top |
| 2007/5/8-9 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:46559 Activity:nil |
5/9 Poll, motd is more similar to the followings:
digg: ..
reddit:
slash dot:
fuckcompany:
the motd: .
\_ You have it backwards. The motd was first. |
| 2007/5/8-12 [Uncategorized] UID:46560 Activity:nil |
5/8 Enka for brain
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pK78qizoDN0
http://www.sonore.com/lex/09_fr_himitsu_hakase.htm |
| 2007/5/8-12 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/China, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:46561 Activity:nil |
5/8 new War Nerd:
http://www.exile.ru/2007-May-04/war_nerd.html
"So the likely winner of a war like this is an up-n-coming world
economic power that has been investing in its own economy while we
blow a trillion - yep, a trillion - dollars on nothing. Not hard
to figure out who the likely suspects are here.
China understands that an army is most effective when kept penned
in and on parade, rather than riding around a hostile, far-away country.
The answer to "Who won Iraq?" is Iran in the short run, and in the
long run, China and India."
\_ Actually China's army/military doesn't sit around doing nothing.
They spend a lot of time stomping on rioters across the country,
mostly peasants in rural areas upset at being treated like peasants.
Old joke: The Soviets and Chinese go to war. On the first day the
Russians capture 100 million Chinese. On the second day they
capture another 100 million Chinese. On the third day the Chinese
rally and the Russians only capture 50 million Chinese. On the
fourth day the Russians counter attack with great success and
capture 250 million Chinese. On the fifth day the Russians
surrender.
\_ Yeah and India does a lot of foot stomping on the Kashmir border.
I do think we've thrown over a trillion into a giant rathole.
I don't understand how the Bush administration avoids being
hounded from power by armed pitchfork bearing mobs.
\_ rent Idiocracy
\_ I am not sure which part of it is supposed to be funny..
\_ It's a joke, son.
\_ "During the Damansky Island incident the Chinese military
developed three main strategies: The Great Offensive, The Small
Retreat, and Infiltration by Small Groups of One to Two Million
Across the Border."
\_ What was the futuristic war book (could be by Dean Ng?)
that had the Wall of Lenin? Also, brings to mind the line
about "1 billion Chinamen" in Red Dawn... -John
\_ Note also that the PLA spends a lot of time putting down
insurgents in the Uighur-populated Northwest. |
| 2007/5/8-12 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq, Politics/Domestic/911] UID:46562 Activity:high |
5/8 Fairly incompetent terrorist plot to attack Fort Dix foiled.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070508/ap_on_re_us/fort_dix_plot
\_ Thank goodness torturing suspects in gitmo, warrantless spying on
terrorists, and the Patriot act yielded valuable intel which
allowed the government to catch these guys!
\_ There's a point to be made but "warrantless spying on terrorists"
is probably not the message you were looking for.
\_ Isn't this an ideal time to raise the terror alert to orange?
What? You mean the sheeple see through it now? What about
the scary Canadian spy coins???
http://www.csua.org/u/ink
\_ Terror alerts only happen right before elections.
\_ To op: Nice editorial. People would have thought Cho was
incompetent before he killed 32 students. Oh, and 3 of the guys
were in the country illegally.
\_ Oh, I wasn't trying to say it wasn't a good thing to stop them.
I'm very happy they caught these bozos, as they probably would
have succeeded in killing a few people. Nevertheless, the plan
was pretty incompetent. For one thing, Cho didn't attack an
army base. -op
\_ Bringing their videos to a store wasn't the smartest move but
beyond that, they were training, they had weapons, they had
jihadi propaganda videos, they had scouted out the base and
if some video clerk hadn't reported them this would have been
headlines about an attack that killed X many American soldiers
on an American military base on American soil. You don't
think that would have had the impact they were looking for?
\_ I can't speak for the impact, but they can't have had
many weapons. "The six were arrested Monday night trying to
buy AK-47 assault weapons, M-16s and other weapons from an
FBI informant." And they had unrealistic expectations
'"You hit four, five or six Humvees and light the whole
place (up) and retreat completely without any losses."'
Incompentents can still kill people, it's not hard.
\_ Missing the point. They don't have to kill hundreds or
even a dozen. Or any. Just launching the attack would
get them what they're looking for. They are terrorists,
not a formal army looking to seize territory.
\_ What do you think they are "looking for"? Another
irrational over-response by the American people?
\_ Yes. And a propaganda victory. What else do
terrorists want? They can't win any sort of
conventional fight so what else can they do?
\_ Well, they are "winning" in Iraq and
Afghanistan, aren't they? If they can convince
the US to start enough silly pointless wars,
they can win for real.
\_ No one is winning in Iraq or Afghanistan,
so no they aren't. And no, they can never
win for real. It is just an endless
stream of nicks and cuts that wear down
society. Unless you're one of the people
who thinks that an internal movement of
Muslims are going to rise up in this country
and take over or something like that. If so
then we're done because I don't have time
right now to talk with crazy people. If not
then I'm still here.
\_ Even Bin Laden does not have "overthrow
the American government and replace it
with a Muslim theocracy" as one of his
\_ You're kidding? Go read some of
the English versions of the various
terrorist web sites. The long term
goal is stated quite clearly as
nothing more than world domination.
stated goals. The general goals of Al
Qaeda have been to drive the infidel
from the Holy Land (check), drive the
infidel from Iraq (checking), and drive
the infidel from Isreal. They also want
\_ You forgot that whole bit about once
a land is Muslim land it is always
Muslim land. You might want to talk
to Spain about how they're looking
forward to being 'rescued' from the
evil West after they rejoin The
Grand Caliphate.
to replace the secular governments of
various Muslim states with theocracies.
The idea that they even want to occupy
America is just a fantasy cooked up by
Coulterites to scare the sheeple.
\_ I don't read Coulter. I read and
listen to what the various bin laden
types are actually saying and they
say what their goals are quite
loudly and clearly. It's about
taking over the world and nothing
less. Now then, given that, I still
don't believe there is some sort of
large scale conspiracy among
American Muslims you'll find in
Coulterite style op/eds, but the
foreign extremist types absolutely
have world domination as their long
term goal.
\_ Sure, a few very isolated and
very weak extremists have as
their goal "world domination."
So do a lot of extremist, kooky,
powerless groups. The only way
you give them power is by paying
too much attention to them. Show
me the Bin Laden statement where
he claims "world domination" as
a goal. You cannot because he
does not.
\_ I bet to differ. Plenty of people are
'winning' in Iraq. In fact it looks like
the political aims of just about fucking
everyone in the world EXCEPT THE UNITED
STATES is winning in Iraq. Remember when
people were interviewed that Bin Laden
told them it would be really funny
if he could taunt the United States into
getting into an unwinnable war that would
overextend its resources? REALLY FUCKING
FUNNY.
\_ Mission Accomplished!
\_ Please elaborate on who is winning and
in what way. The Suni who once ruled
the country are reduced to pathetic
road side bombings. The Shia now sort
of rule the country but in a very weak
way and various Shia leaders get blown
up every day. The Iranians are looking
desperately for an 'in' but the best
they could pull off was capturing and
humiliating some British navy people.
The Saudis had the Americans move a
bunch of military bases to other nearby
countries or further out in the sand
which is sum-zero. The Syrians get a
minor perverse pleasure in driving thugs
to the Iraqi border but aren't getting
any real benefit. The Turks now have a
semi-autonomous Kurdish state on their
border which is the last thing they
wanted. Ah yes, we have found a winner.
The Kurds now have a semi-autonomous
state. Ok, you're right, someone is
winning in Iraq. It's the Kurds who
finally have peace and freedom after
decades of abusive near-genocidal policy
from both Hussein and the Turks.
\_ The Iranians are clearly the regional
winners, because one of their enemies,
one that had fought two wars with them
and had blocked their expansiion, is
now eliminated. The Iraq War has
clearly shifted regional power to
the Iranian/Shi'ite block, which
is agreed upon by most foreign
analysts. Many of predicted that
analysts. Many of us predicted that
this would be the outcome of the US
lead invasion of Iraq, so it's not
led invasion of Iraq, so it's not
like we didn't try to warn you...
\_ Unsealed complaint against Mohammed Ibrahim Shnewer containing
details of the arrest:
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~erikred/01_07_mj_02045_JS.pdf |
| 2007/5/8-9 [Recreation/Computer] UID:46563 Activity:low |
5/8 What month is the most popular birthday? February?
\_ Yes, that's what I heard. Maybe May is a good month to have sex, or
it's a bad month which people tend to forget contraceptives. I
don't know. I wonder if Social Security has some stats.
\_ Here's one data point. My gf and I were pretty wild in May.
Maybe it's the weather or something, I don't know. It is
in fact the month where you experiment a lot, like not
using any protection (fun fun fun) and suffering from
the consequences (kids). Enuff said.
\_ Ah, must be because of the start of summer break for schools
under the semester system. -- PP |
| 2007/5/8-9 [Recreation/Food] UID:46564 Activity:nil |
5/7 Super chocolate for Australian soldiers to fight evil & terrorism:
http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,21670784-3462,00.html |
| 2007/5/8-9 [Uncategorized] UID:46565 Activity:nil |
5/4 hello has anybody here used the REI SUBKILO 20deg sleeping bag?
i am looking for a smaller/lighter bag than my -10/-5 bag i have
been using for more than 15yrs now and it is hard for me to justify
paying +$300 for a MARMOT HELIUM for a second bag (and this is
\_ True, they're all atheists. |
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