>> ^VoodooV:

It's less dirty coal, but it's still dirty, yet they get to call it CLEAN for some reason.
cold fusion, solar, hydrogen fuel cells or GTFO


Name 3 things that won't work in time for it to matter!

Go gen4 reactors, lots of them, and now! I recommend David MacKay's book "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air" as to why I believe this. Available for free at http://www.withouthotair.com/

Video reference here:

http://videosift.com/video/TEDxWarwick-Physics-Constrain-Sustainable-Energy-Options


But ya, coal needs to go, but you have to remember, 2 billion people live in abject poverty. They try to bridge the gap using as cheap a source of energy they can...like coal. Until you make energy cheaper than coal, your never going to displace the use of dino fuels around the world. The physics on fusion, solar, and hydrogen can't answer that call for quite awhile (we have been trying to make fusion work for decades, same with solar, and fuel cells are just terrible right now and only work for transportation fuels not baseload power generation). I do think we can answer a large number of these problems with new generations of nuclear power, with passive safety and no emissions, gen4 reactors have a lot of great points if people give them a chance!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/

In relation to the direct content of the video, your NEVER going to get China and India on board with giving up cheap energy...they are BOTH x3 the population of the US, they have to care about cheap energy WAAAAY more than us, for population and standard of living issues. The only way to win this isn't through regulation, it is through technological innovation...and China has been buying up our AP1000 Gen3 for all the reasons I just mentioned.

To say that dino fuels are "Destroying us" is a little bit of a misnomer, you don't get food without hydrocarbons, you don't have refrigeration without hydrocarbons, you don't get heating and cooling without hydrocarbons. Energy isn't the enemy, any attempts to price out energy will only hurt the most reliant on its low price...if you doubled the price of gas via taxation, you aren't helping the little man. Cheap energy prices, even if they are oil based, aren't the devil, any attempts to make them so is a misunderstanding of the energy crisis. More oil drilling isn't even going to lower costs, at best, it will keep them the same, but peak oil in the US has already come, more drilling in more exotic places is just going to tow the line...and it isn't even going to do that.

Talking about clean coal is just so "we" can talk about how much we need cheap energy without talking about the health effects. Coal does kill, without a doubt, but so does electricity so costly you can't afford heating or cooling. You can't call for an elimination of coal without talking about what is going to replace it, and at what cost. This is even MORE relevant with the recent spout of weather, imagine if that area was packed full of solar and wind...it most likely be completely destroyed, and those are already very cost heavy forms of energy.

Anyway, I will end the rant. I really recommend the book above if you wish to delve down the rabbit hole of energy solutions. It isn't as easy as you think, it is why we are still using dino fuels. Any path you choose is challenging, and VERY capital and R&D intensive. Were are talking multiple trillion dollars to role out replacements on a national scale. Now, oil does a trillion a year, so this isn't outside the realm of possibility, but it is going to take a technical answer to solve, not a political one.

>> ^bareboards2:

My favorite cop moment was when the bilingual cop asked a question in Spanish to a scared looking little man. The man answered, in Spanish, "I don't speak English." You see the cop take a breath, to translate what he said into Spanish -- and he stops himself.
"Wait, I asked that question in Spanish." Turns to his partner, "Didn't I say that in Spanish?!" Turns back to the scared looking little man, "I asked that question in Spanish!!!"
Both of them were so bilingual, they confused themselves.
I have watched maybe 15 minutes of Cops in my lifetime, and that little jewel just happened to be part of my channel surfing.


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My favorite cop moment was when the bilingual cop asked a question in Spanish to a scared looking little man. The man answered, in Spanish, "I don't speak English." You see the cop take a breath, to translate what he said into Spanish -- and he stops himself.

"Wait, I asked that question in Spanish." Turns to his partner, "Didn't I say that in Spanish?!" Turns back to the scared looking little man, "I asked that question in Spanish!!!"

Both of them were so bilingual, they confused themselves.

I have watched maybe 15 minutes of Cops in my lifetime, and that little jewel just happened to be part of my channel surfing.

If you take his head off, you will see the little man inside working the controls.

^Thanks, @ChaosEngine, for having an open and inquiring mind. I do appreciate it.

Now the question is -- does language shape our thinking? "What if" women were always called women in circumstances similar to when men are always called men? (Context, context, yes?)

I remember where I was the first time I called myself a "woman." It was forty years ago, and I remember everything about that moment. It felt weird as heck. A responsibility was being assumed by me, it felt like. It was my nineteenth birthday, and I was lounging poolside at a UCLA frat house in the middle of the day.

In traditional societies, there were rites of passage, weren't there? Often brutal, but still. A marking of the transition from childhood to adulthood. The closest thing I have to that in my conscious life is that moment I chose to call myself a woman for the first time.

Do you remember the first time you called yourself a man, assuming that mantle of responsibility?

I suspect it is different for men, because the word is used so much sooner for you guys. "Look at the little man!" when you are three years old. I never heard "look at the little woman." Still, that moment of truly being called a man -- or choosing that word for yourself -- does it resonate?

Thanks for taking this seriously, chaos.

And I still would be interested in your wife's take on this. She married well, I can tell. You rock.

She's high-maintenance, little man. You'll look back on this when you are older and be thankful that she kicked you to the curb.

Hey little Man - no means No!

Metta Little Man Syndrome

School told me to tell you it's spelled "Lezginka".

>> ^ForgedReality:

I now know what a Lezinka is. And they said the internet would rot my brain. FUCK YOU, SCHOOL! You're just feeling threatened!

Thanks for the promote

I liked your ant pushing a water drop picture, too.

You might like this drawing timelapse:
http://videosift.com/video/Queen-of-Swords-Drawing-by-Daisuke-Okamoto

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*adorable

Most guys would have been dancing their arse off in the hope of taking the lady in the red dress home - on this occasion I think the lady in the red dress took the little man home, tucked him up in bed and kissed him good night like any good mother

the lounge sent me here
little man haz a skillz

Wow, I wonder, I really wonder... Fox News is after all the invention of a very sad little man. The guy from Six Flags, I think. It looks like him.

What a weird little man.

Fake. This is really a normal pumpkin with a little man standing behind it.