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Some info on drilling off of Santa Barbara: "Oil is still so plentiful in the region that it often bubbles uncontrollably to the surface, and shows up in the form of tar globules on some of the area's beaches." "Allen is the president of a gro…
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All I've argued is that the evidence is strong that we are having an impact, Arguing that the evidence is strong is not the same as actually showing us the evidence.
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2) The link posits that 0.2%-0.3% of total greenhouse effect is caused by humans, The whole point of this thread is to find a source that backs up that number that isn't just a link to a footnote somewhere else, and doesn't begin with either …
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And to take it just a little bit more off topic, do you think Adam had a belly button?
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By the way, I ride my bike to work year-round Well then you should stop. You know how much fossil fuel goes into making the extra food you eat because of your elevated baseline metabolism? Sit on the bus. :x
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"Would you buy a used townhouse from this man?" Would you fly in an airplane built by this man? Someone please show him a Detroit area newspaper so he knows what will happen once he repeats the behavior of the UAW.
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You might think we are uniquely screwed now, but they said pretty much the same back in the 70s, except back then it was called stagflation - a combination of stagnation and inflation. Prior to that time, the relationship between money supply and in…
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Try again.
http://www.redfin.com/WA/Mercer-Island/5340-Butterworth-Rd-98040/home/257144
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You have to see this one in person to really appreciate how much it looks like a waste treatment facility.
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......Moody's said an investigation conducted by its law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell, had not determined that employees changed the methodology for rating the securities to mask errors in computer models, as was suggested by a report in The Financ…
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That's widely regarded as the origin to endian, and sounds quite reasonable to me. If you read an article about the state of the mortgage industry from a year ago to a few months ago, you hear a steady drumbeat of a lack of capital and liquidity,…
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Oh, the best part of the endian debate is where the word came from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_and_Blefuscu As for deflation, we currently have deflationary behavior for RE and inflation for everything else. Trying to fix one makes …
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Yes, it was a very pleasurable discussion for me as well. Thanks all.
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The Dover School Board acted as the elected representatives of the body of taxpayers. One of the things I liked best about the open Town Meetings in Massachusetts is the experience of seeing how democracy works. People cast their votes and the losin…
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I just want to point out that a no returns for any reason policy is sometimes actually beneficial to the consumer overall. If there is a reason to trust the store, usually because most of their sales are based on repeat business, then by eliminating…
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What if ID failed to prove that the Christian God was responsible for life in the universe? What if evolution triumphed as the winning theory? Could you accept that result and say "I guess God wasn't responsible for it all". What if we discovered th…
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I have a expectation of the results of ID based on religious reasons, but as I learn of new facts I would adjust my theology accordingly because I know my understanding both the physical world and theology are very incomplete. My interest in ID i…
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It seems you concurrently believe that ID is in fact true, and that the claims for it are weak. Could it be that you *wish* it were true because it fits with your own entirely legitimate religious beliefs, but that the reasonable and logical person …
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The fact is, religion was not interested in how we got here (beyond "God did it") until evolution came along. I think this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geber is a good illustration of role of religion in science. Geber developed a lar…
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My challenge is what evidence would prove ID? Physicists once believed in Luminiferous aether. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether . "Contemporary scientists were aware of the problems, but aether theory was so entrenched in p…
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Alan, Since you ask, I didn't believe in God until my 40s. I remember in 1st grade I had already decided that the science in school made a whole lot more sense to me that what I was being taught in Sunday School (Reformed Jewish). The more I lear…
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If you found one thing that was irreducibly complex, and if you really could 100% prove that it could not have formed from incremental changes (probably an impossible task), it still would not disprove evolution. To me, that is a religion of …
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Copernicus developed the heliocentric model in 1514. Galileo was not persecuted until 1633, so it is not like the Church clamped down hard and prevented thought. What they did was wrong, and the Roman Catholic Church has admitted it. But their first…
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I don't personally believe in the 6000 year old world, so I won't speak to that, but the geocentric model did not originate in religion. Aristotle developed it, and Ptolemy completed it. Their authority was so great that no one challenged that theor…
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And in essence, this has been the way of organized religion throughout history. Limit knowledge of the masses and discourage thought. People tried to come up with the best explanations that they could. The fact that some ideas were wrong is n…
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Sellers are not organized, but the 6%ers certainly are. If anything, this is them trying to get their clients to take their properties off the market so the realtors can unload their investment properties first.
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I googled around for some phrases in her post. She seems legitimate. There is a detailed profile under a different name on another website that matches the information in her other posts on this forum. There a just a few similar testimonials that ap…
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There are a ton of choices if you google for: photography business website template To get more specific recommendations, you ought to find a forum for the photography business. Again, lots of choices if you google for: photography business forum
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Looking at King county construction, http://www.alanpope.com/May08/King_NewCon_Res.pdf, it appears the builders were optimistic last fall for a spring bounce that didn't happen. Now that they have laid off some workers, inventory has leveled off.
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There is a longer history here: http://www.alanpope.com/charts.htm