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- That's a lot of Sch's. -- nm - Dano Dec 8, 12:08
- Oh no! Stink Jr.! -- nm - David Dec 8, 12:04 2
  - yeah, Stink was tweeting on it early this morning. -- nm - Callisto Dec 8, 12:05 1
    - Well, ignore the email I just sent you then. -- nm - David Dec 8, 12:06
- did Detroit change to the French spelling to distance themselves from Woods? -- nm - zork Dec 8, 12:02 2
  - Or else he's been traded to the riot grrrrl band. -- nm - Dano Dec 8, 12:06 1
    - He's on the verge. -- nm - Reagen Dec 8, 12:08
- that's what counts as a blockbuster these days?? -- nm - Don Homer Dec 8, 12:01 4
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    - Scherzer is filthy. nm -- nm - groiny Dec 8, 12:07 1
      - They wouldn't trade him for Teixeira last year. That's pretty high praise. -- nm - David Dec 8, 12:08
  - it involves the Yankees. 'nuf said. -- nm - znufrii Dec 8, 12:02
What is your favorite TV show from the 2000s? - Don Homer Dec 8, 11:54 25
- Two seasons thru The Wire has it in strong contention, but likely West Wing, if only for the final season. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 8, 12:09
- I can't pick one. My top three are BSG, Six Feet Under, and The West Wing. -- nm - nubby Dec 8, 12:07
- BSG. Rome & Deadwood right behind -- nm - Jovian Dec 8, 12:07
- BSG -- nm - ceregon Dec 8, 12:07
- Deadwood. -- nm - Callisto Dec 8, 12:06
- Firefly for brief series and BSG for a full run, barely beating Gilmore Girls. -- nm - David Dec 8, 12:05
- Rome -- nm - Beaker Dec 8, 12:05
- Deadwood -- nm - Epiphany Dec 8, 12:04
- probably BSG but I'd have to think about it more. -- nm - Reagen Dec 8, 12:02
- Band of Brothers -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 12:00 2
  - Pacific is due out sometime next year (not sure exactly when). -- nm - Don Homer Dec 8, 12:01 1
    - Nice. - Stephen Dec 8, 12:04
- Deadliest Catch/WW/Wire -- nm - peglegpete Dec 8, 12:00
- Rome. -- nm - Stephen Dec 8, 12:00
- West Wing & 6' Under -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:59
- BSG -- nm - con_carne Dec 8, 11:58
- Friday Night Lights or The Closer -- nm - prayformojo Dec 8, 11:58
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- Rome -- nm - znufrii Dec 8, 11:58
- The Wire or Arrested Development -- nm - Dano Dec 8, 11:56
- *flips a three sided coin for Lost, BSG, and Dexter* Lost -- nm - TFox Dec 8, 11:55 3
  - a) did you see today's Amazon deal? b) how do you like this season of Dexter? - Don Homer Dec 8, 12:00 2
    - a) I did, but it seems silly to buy all of Lost right before the show is over and you can get the whole series. - TFox Dec 8, 12:04 1
      - I don't care for anything-Quinn. -- nm - Don Homer Dec 8, 12:12
- The Wire. -- nm - Loyola Dec 8, 11:55
algae - znufrii Dec 8, 11:53 2
- ...until it turns sentient and kills a handful of college students on a vacation to a rented lakehouse. -- nm - Stephen King Dec 8, 11:56 1
  - I smell a blockbuster. I want a script on my desk by Friday. -- nm - Hollywood Dec 8, 11:59
Vermin, you may find this interesting, there was alot of fanfare about this when it was first launched; - Loyola Dec 8, 11:51 5
- a tree? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 12:08
- I like that. Incentivation over taxation. -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:55 3
  - it doesn't have to be one or the other. The two (and other) methods work together. - Reagen Dec 8, 12:01 2
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      - The article at the top of this thread has nothing to do with taxation. - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 12:08
ohh and adaptation to global warming is an uncertain strategy - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:46 17
- Show me a man with a certain strategy for dealing with the future and I'll show you a fool. -- nm - Ender Dec 8, 11:52 3
  - the parajumper at 500 feet having a stategy to pull the cord is a fool? - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:55 2
    - The parajumper who is certain the chute will deploy properly is a fool. -- nm - Ender Dec 8, 11:57 1
      - thats true heck jumping from a perfectly operation plane is foolish - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 12:00
- 'Consensus' or no, nothing about the environment, climate, or meteorology is 'certain'. -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:49 12
  - and thats not what were talking about but the adaptation to effects of climate - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:53 6
    - I don't think there is anything in the climate or the effects thereof that can be extremely precisely predicted. - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 12:00 5
      - the effect of rising waters can and the effect of more CO2 in the athmosphere can too (but to a less certain degree) - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 12:02
      - so any attempts to adapt to an uncertain future might prove utterly fruitless -- nm - znufrii Dec 8, 12:01 3
        
        or vice versa actually - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 12:04
        
        Just as any attempts to prevent the climate from changing might prove utterly fruitless... -- nm - Ender Dec 8, 12:02 1
        
        sure they might - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 12:05
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    - So, calling something 'uncertain' is hardly damning when everything is uncertain. -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:58 3
      - the lestest estimate is 85% certainty they humans a cousing global warming and climate change -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 12:06 1
        
        85% certainty is like saying 85% pregnant. -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 12:12
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29 years ago today, Jared Leto killed John Lennon. -- nm - nubby Dec 8, 11:44 3
- is this movie worth seeing? I don't mind Lilo -- nm - Epiphany Dec 8, 12:05 1
  - God no. -- nm - nubby Dec 8, 12:06
- What a drag. -- nm - mara Dec 8, 11:44
*adds "scavenging office supplies from soon-to-be abandoned office floors" to his list of demonstrated skills* -- nm - znufrii Dec 8, 11:39
OK well that was cool... - Capstern Dec 8, 11:39 2
- good to know someone's got your back. -- nm - znufrii Dec 8, 11:40 1
  - yeah still trying to get used to that - after the end of the last job but - Capstern Dec 8, 11:42
Hey, Fedex! You picked up my computer on Dec. 3rd in Texas and it arrived in Arizona 4 days later?! - Mop (230 lbs) Dec 8, 11:39 3
- ohh sorry - FedEx Dec 8, 11:43
- Stacy had to stop off to visit her "girlfriend" on the way. Give her a break. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 8, 11:40
- stagecoach service is free! -- nm - Capstern Dec 8, 11:39
I have to hand it to the WWE. I'd never heard of that Seamus guy before last night. Now, he's famous. - David Dec 8, 11:37 10
- here's the video... -- (link) - Remlik Dec 8, 12:05
- I missed it. But looking now, that is one of the more interesting PPV cards they have had in a long time. - TFox Dec 8, 11:41 8
  - I think the lightbulb finally went off in a lot of minds that we're tired of Orton v Cena....i just wish they'd do these monster pushes in a makes- - Will Hunting Dec 8, 11:46 6
    - and you know what's going to happen. He'll lose to Cena and then get shoved down the card like they did with MVP. -- nm - Remlik Dec 8, 12:06
    - they might hopefully do that too. like maybe take the strap off Morrison and put it on McIntyre, and then elevate Morrison. - TFox Dec 8, 11:50 4
      - Shemus came out of Ring of Honor like Punk did. -- nm - Remlik Dec 8, 12:07 3
        
        i thought we had refuted that, that it isn't the same dude? -- nm - TFox Dec 8, 12:07 2
        
        I think it is the same guy...let me dig. -- nm - Remlik Dec 8, 12:09 1
        
        you are correct and I'm totally wrong... -- (link) - Remlik Dec 8, 12:10
  - Someone linked to the video on a backboard and it's running non-stop on ESPN today. -- nm - David Dec 8, 11:42
btw, Vermin - it is not impossible to grow food in places like that. Iceland is littered with greenhouses. - Guy Dec 8, 11:33 29
- geothermal only works if you're in the right spot. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 11:36 24
  - no it works everywhere just no as cheap as in Iceland - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:58
  - i mean, there'll never be a solution that suits everyone - it has to be a mix of solar, water, thermal, wind, etc where applicable - Guy Dec 8, 11:38 13
    - I do think we need to stop being such babies about nuclear waste. -- nm - Reagen Dec 8, 11:40 12
      - i mostly agree. we need to be smart about it, but not cut it out of the equation (at least until we find something better) -- nm - Guy Dec 8, 11:45
      - that's actually one of the things that drives me mad about this country. 80% of power generation is coal, and everyone totally flips out if nuclear - mafic Dec 8, 11:44 10
        
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        Chernobyl has more to do with that IMO. (And he's talking about a different country - Australia has one reactor that is uses for scientific purposes - Roger More Dec 8, 11:50 8
        
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        Coal is cheap and abundant. People aren't used to nuclear power, so they don't understand it. - Roger More Dec 8, 11:59 2
        
        that's exactly it, really. and not so much willing to listen. - mafic Dec 8, 12:02 1
        
        Heh - I don't take it personally, especially (and if I did I wouldn't be able to riff on Canada) -- nm - Roger More Dec 8, 12:09
        
        the prospect of even exploring for uranium is controversial. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 11:51 3
        
        That's because it gets sold to nasty countries, like France. Remember the Rainbow Warrior! -- nm - Roger More Dec 8, 11:53 2
        
        heh. what's odd is that australia's actually the second largest producer of uranium in the world. - mafic Dec 8, 11:57 1
        
        Australia's just like Canada - we like to believe we only do nice things -- nm - Roger More Dec 8, 12:01
  - Or if you put a power plant in that right spot and then string some wire. -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:37 6
    - power only travels so far. -- nm - Reagen Dec 8, 11:43 5
      - As far as *you* know! -- nm - Tesla Dec 8, 11:44 4
        
        I hate to be the one to tell you this, but The Prestige was mostly fiction. -- nm - Reagen Dec 8, 11:49 3
        
        we'll just beam it around using satellites! actually, one of the proposed systems for a mars voyage is about beaming the energy to the rocket from an - zork Dec 8, 11:57
        
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        *zaps you with death ray* -- nm - tesla Dec 8, 11:50
  - correct, but there's plenty of people around those spots and use of that power would offset their need for fuels. -- nm - Guy Dec 8, 11:36 1
    - in north america, not so many actually. -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 11:40
- Ooh, I like geothermal a lot too. We're sitting on trillions of tons of molten rock, and still burning organic material to stay warm??? Primitives! -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:35 2
  - tectonic power! - znufrii Dec 8, 11:41
  - this is why i built a series of pipes that pump molten hot lava through my home. -- nm - TFox Dec 8, 11:35
- If we covered Iceland with mile high skyscrapers and everyone moved there, the world would be saved. -- nm - Loyola Dec 8, 11:34
What I would like to see in the next star trek movie ... is Q. - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:30 19
- if we put him in outer space, then who is going to outfit James Bond? -- nm - zork Dec 8, 11:59
- Jeri Ryan! -- nm - prayformojo Dec 8, 11:35
- Harry Mudd -- nm - amoxy Dec 8, 11:35 2
  - played by Jack Black -- nm - Roger More Dec 8, 11:36 1
    - That would work -- nm - amoxy Dec 8, 11:37
- Melllvar -- nm - Roger More Dec 8, 11:35
- wesley crusher! -- nm - mafic Dec 8, 11:34
- Whoopi. -- nm - TFox Dec 8, 11:34
- ... Whoopi Goldberg as a bartender. -- nm - Dano Dec 8, 11:34 1
  - damnit./ -- nm - TFox Dec 8, 11:34
- *headdesk* - oblique Dec 8, 11:31 8
  - And they better not have fucking Tribbles -- nm - amoxy Dec 8, 11:36 4
    - wasnt there like a tribble somewhere in this last one - like a "wink and a nod" amount of screen time? -- nm - Capstern Dec 8, 11:41
    - unless they are assimilated by the Borg -- nm - Roger More Dec 8, 11:36 2
      - LOL -- nm - amoxy Dec 8, 11:38 1
        
        (TFox made the joke - that was just a callback) -- nm - Roger More Dec 8, 11:39
  - even just a short cameo, perhaps slightly longer than R2D2's cameo -- nm - Beryllium Dec 8, 11:32
  - Or no Borg either -- nm - amoxy Dec 8, 11:31 1
    - maybe 3 or 4 movies down the line. If we're going to revisit anything, we're revisiting Khan -- nm - oblique Dec 8, 11:33
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas? *Really?* -- (link) - JaxSean Dec 8, 11:29 4
- ugh. -- nm - kelly Dec 8, 11:38
- So are Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin like gay for eachother or something now? -- nm - Mop (230 lbs) Dec 8, 11:36
- want. -- nm - TFox Dec 8, 11:33
- .....yes. -- nm - gilly Dec 8, 11:31
In any case, I think Wired is correct that any focus should now be on adaptation. -- (link) - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:28 24
- considering how much we *could* prevent with small, easy changes in our lifestyle, it seems awful defeatist to plan an adaptation strategy -- nm - Guy Dec 8, 11:35 9
  - I don't think small, easy changes will be enough. -- nm - mara Dec 8, 11:44 1
    - the longer we wait and the less we do the larger the changes will be -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:48
  - I have no problems with unplugging chargers and switching lightbulbs. - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:39 5
    - so you get the saving from less energy cos AND reimbursement? - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:42 4
      - Indeed! :) -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:44 3
        
        so taxation seems to work here after all - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:47 2
        
        Agreed. - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:53 1
        
        playing with peopls wallet is a good strategy to change behaviour -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:59
  - How many CFL bulbs do I have to buy for this to work? -- nm - oblique Dec 8, 11:38
- prevention come before adaptation just like air in the tyre come before flat run technoloty -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:31
- This is why I think more energy/money should be put into carbon sequestration. Alot more. -- nm - Loyola Dec 8, 11:30 12
  - more money is going into it - $3.4 billion of stimulus money is going into it, for a start. The EU is forking out money as well - Roger More Dec 8, 11:52
  - [googles] Hmm! That definitely seems more forward-looking. -- nm - Agent.Vermin Dec 8, 11:34 1
    - if the ennergy consumption for CCS can be lowered AND the carbon stored safely then it's pritty smart - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:40
  - you're right about more energy it uses atleast 25 % more -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:31 8
    - More than what? -- nm - mara Dec 8, 11:35 1
      - more then without CCS -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:38
    - What exactly uses 25% more energy? -- nm - Loyola Dec 8, 11:32 5
      - CCS -- nm - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:38 4
        
        Link. -- nm - Loyola Dec 8, 11:39 3
        
        no - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:40 2
        
        Tough to find eh? -- nm - Loyola Dec 8, 11:48 1
        
        no Joe Romm has a great multy issue piece on it - Danedukenuuk Dec 8, 11:51
go -- nm - oblique Dec 8, 11:27 2
- TO -- nm - con_carne Dec 8, 11:28
- ok. bye. -- nm - mara Dec 8, 11:27

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