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Reply to An Idea to Help Reduce Gas Consumption. in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote]First of all, we don't buy gas directly from the oil companies, we buy it from gas stations. Most gas stations only make a cents a gallon profit, so what you are proposing here will make it so it actually costs money to sell gas.[/quote] The only way I can see to do this is the gas is not paid for until the end seller can show statistics for it's usage. I believe it's already sold like that. A fairly simple computer program will be able to show how much gas was sold to e

Reply to See what the Secular Progressive movement has done? in Parenting Stardock Forums

[quote]I did not read anywhere that the child is retarded, if this is true then the officer should have restrained her instead of tasering her IMO>.[/quote] I'm assuming her mother was telling the truth. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992853/posts "The school knows pretty well that my daughter is like a 5-year-old," explained t

Reply to See what the Secular Progressive movement has done? in Parenting Stardock Forums

[quote]I heard about this. a few years ago she would have been shot, only because Tasers were not invented.[/quote] The use of deadly force on an unarmed 11 year old would then and now be considered murder.

Reply to An Idea to Help Reduce Gas Consumption. in Current Events Stardock Forums

Well I don't see anyway this could be "exploited" to anyone's advantage. At best you could find ways around paying the extra 30% on at least some of their over usage but I think a penalty of some sort would keep fraud down enough that this would still be effective. If a gas truck has to go to your transpo then your paying the extra 30%, I don't see how they could get around that.

Reply to See what the Secular Progressive movement has done? in Parenting Stardock Forums

Your reaching on this one, I can't find anyone saying "police brutality" in fact it appears that it's just the opposite. "Eyewitness News talked to several parents Thursday who said that Thaliamar Jimenez has caused trouble before. Most of those parents are coming down firmly on the side of the deputy". "The girl was taken to a juvenile detention center and faces charges of battery on a law enforcement officer, disrupting a school function, and resisting with violence".

Reply to An Idea to Help Reduce Gas Consumption. in Current Events Stardock Forums

50 gals is 600 miles at 12 miles per gal, thats a 100 miles per day for a 6 day work week. Besides I did say "Exemptions could be made for the over 50 gals limit to those with exceptionally long work commutes or other legitimate reasons for needing a little more per week". "Do you think Paris Hilton really CARES what she pays at the pump?" No I don't, that's why I feel the extra money that they pay should balance out a discount for those whom do care.

An Idea to Help Reduce Gas Consumption. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

My idea is to give every individual with a drivers license a gas card, this is not a credit card but a card that keeps track of how much gas you use and must be swiped pre-purchase. This plan would only apply to personal usage. You allow everyone to purchase say 25 gallons a week at say 30% off the market price. if you exceed 25 gals you pay full market price up to 50, plus you're back charged the 30% for the first 25 gals. If you must use more than 50 a week you pay market for the 50

Reply to Some Nuclear Facts in Blogging Stardock Forums

Americans and everyone else for that matter buy what we're sold. I think electric cars would have been an easy sell on the American people. Government and industry simply took the path of least resistance with the internal combustion engine. Power production has never been enough to handle the massive increase in demand that electric vehicles would introduce so it just wasn't feasible to push electric vehicles. Even now the big three does not have a

Reply to Twilight Beta 6a in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

Fargon iceholes, well the good news is my girlfriend likes to have sexxx when I'm not paying attention. Wait, that's what that game needs some sexual politics or a love triangle, or ooops I slept with your sisters android drama.

Reply to How to create Dreams (links) in Tutorials Stardock Forums

Hmmmm, dreams. wait what, got dam alarm okay snoooz, hmmm, if only I could record that one.

Reply to Some Nuclear Facts in Blogging Stardock Forums

It's the China Syndrome Dude. They should burn all copies of that movie.

Some Nuclear Facts in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Modern generation 4 pebble bed reactors produce almost no waste, and the waste they do produce is incased in graphite witch doesn't break down even in seawater for a million years. Witch is longer than the activity of plutonium. It is virtually impossible for a Pebble bed modular reactors, or PBMR to have a meltdown or leak enough radiation to require any onsite cleanup, even if there was a catastrophic failure and nothing was done, they would shut down on their own without the need f

Reply to Senator Barack Obama anissued the Issue of Race in Current Events Stardock Forums

You mean he didn't separate himself enough from the man, because he made it quite clear he didn't share his views. He also made it clear why he could not and did not disown the man. I think it showed much more honesty and integrity that he didn't cave to political pressure and tell everybody what they wanted to hear. I think he showed that this anger is much more prevalent in the black community than white America would like to admit. That's what he meant wh

Reply to Senator Barack Obama anissued the Issue of Race in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote]2. Obama's speech was ok. No where near as great as you make it. But not one that will be remembered like Lincoln's.[/quote] Difficult to say how history will remember it but it's was a long time to wait for anything even close. Especially after an 8 year borage of the worst speeches ever delivered by any politician, let alone a president. America was a little starved for inspiration so an over reaction would be understandable. [quote]Obama had to give that speech

Reply to Senator Barack Obama anissued the Issue of Race in Current Events Stardock Forums

That speech was very impressive and right on the mark, and Obama was the only candidate that could have given it. Racism is still very much alive in this country and blacks and whites are still suffering from its consequences. The truth is most whites are not racist towards blacks and have genuinely moved past it, but it's still a seething issue with blacks and many whites are genuinely surprised when it surfaces like this. I have blac

Reply to Treehugger.com is awesome in Home Improvement Stardock Forums

Lumeloid, at 4cents a killowatt hour you would have to be DOH! not to make use of this new solar cell. Supposed to be available in a couple of years. http://www.techno-preneur.net/tech-trends/chemical/Lumeloid.htm

Reply to Long live Death in Philosophy Stardock Forums

[quote]All our concepts of morality, the entire ethical life of humanity in the West, is predicated on the notion of the supremacy of Death, and of the reality of a judgment to be faced after death. What happens if death dies? Or at least can be postponed indefinitely?[/quote] What's this religious dogma coming from you. Fear of judgment is not why we're not all living in a JohnCarpenter film. I don't consider if there's a god or not, as you've said we are inc

Reply to Global Warming and evolution in Politics Stardock Forums

This isn't just the global warming zealots, it's the anything that potentially harms mother earth zealots. The same groups that chained themselves to trees or rammed whaling ships are now onto global warming. The reasons are obvious, it's the first potentially harmful effect of pollution that effects the whole planet equally. It's the perfect environmental cause and the fact that there are people passionate about the health of the only known friendly pl

Forth Generation bio fuels and beyond in Biology JoeUser Forums

This is so cool, the future is looking up. <param name="FlashVars" value="bgColor=FFFFFF&file=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/movies/CRAIGVENTER-2008_high.flv

Reply to Religion of War Update 2008 in International Stardock Forums

[quote]But only 7 per cent of the billion Muslims surveyed condoned the attacks on the United States in 2001, the poll showed.[/quote] How do you survey almost a half a million people a day? Not disagreeing with your point here it's just that seems highly unlikely.

Reply to Not So Good Morning in Fiction Writing Stardock Forums

Better you than me dude, I quit that shit 15 years ago. The other guy must look worse because well "to the victor goes the spoils" and all. Off for a mourning run :LOL:

Reply to Science Lesson From a Creationist in Pure Technology Stardock Forums

[quote]no, you can interpret it different ways.[/quote] You don't look for things you already have KFC, if we can can't agree on this basic fact then 1+1=3 in your reality and we have no common ground on which to base a discussion. [quote]I remember hearing about how dinosaur bones have been dug up with flesh still attached, even in some cases red blood vessels[/quote] Nobodies ever found any dinosaur flesh KFC. The did find a fossil with the impression of skin around

Reply to Science Lesson From a Creationist in Pure Technology Stardock Forums

[quote]"the search of nature could only result in the vindication of the Faith." [/quote] If it is as lula pointed out, and science can only vindicate your faith, how weak is your faith that it must be vindicated? [quote]It's the interpretation of the facts that we have a problem with[/quote] If you start with the answer then the evidence can only be interpreted one way. How can putting blinders on lead you to t

Reply to Science Lesson From a Creationist in Pure Technology Stardock Forums

KFC, Even if you were somehow able to falsify all the evidence for evolution science would still not be able to consider biblical creation as a scientific explanation. Your only hurting your faith by trying to marry the two. If science is able to explain anything about God then how something as complex as god came about must be answered, what don't you understand about this? God must remain outside of what science can deal with or he is no better of an

Reply to Do graphics matter that much? in Gaming Stardock Forums

Graphics in video games, like special effects in movies, are expected to be better with each release.It doesn't matter how good the story or game play is if the visuals aren't equal to or improved over simular releases people feel like they've been ripped. How much of a role visuals play is dependant on the genre but nothing can tank a gaming experience like sub par visuals.