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biliruben wrote: Drivers do that all the time! They do it without thinking about it. Turn left in front of me, stop to get into a parking spot, pull out of driveways. Cars don't look for bikes. Half the drivers in this town aren't compe…
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Lake Hills Renter wrote: And don't even get me started on idiot drivers. To all the BMW, Lexus and/or SUV jackasses out there who cut me off: please still use your turn signals. You're doing something dumb, so you'll be doubly-dumb an…
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The Tim wrote: lamont wrote: Bikes aren't pedestrians. What makes sense at 2-3 mph does not make sense at 40 mph. They are clearly vehicles, no matter what the law says. Who goes 40 mph on a bicycle anywhere? Even on a wide-open, flat …
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Robroy wrote: I actually tend to agree with that statement. I will add though, that in the example you give, the shoe pretty much fits. But it could have been worded a bit more delicately or diplomatically. There really is too much of that sort…
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perfectfire wrote: lamont wrote: if bikes would just obey street signs (particularly 4-way stops) and would remember that they are vehicles and not pedestrians, i would have way fewer issues with them. I agree. Also, isn't using the cr…
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jon wrote: They've been trying to get algae to work for 20 years. The whole idea of biofuels is an eco-religious crusade. The fact that a discussion like this needs to turn into mudslinging about "eco-religious crusades" is what is wrong wi…
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The Tim wrote: WestSideBilly wrote: ...I use sidewalks and other "cheats" to minimize the times I have to stop. For the record, it's totally legal to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk according to Washington State law (RCW 46.61.755) and Sea…
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Alan wrote: I remember a friend majoring in physics talking to me about theories one day. There was a time when physicists would make theories about what was "really" happening. These theories would like little stories about what the particles wer…
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if bikes would just obey street signs (particularly 4-way stops) and would remember that they are vehicles and not pedestrians, i would have way fewer issues with them. i'm pretty sure i'm going to kill someone crossing the burt gilman trail in a…
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Even sugarcane production leads to deforestation. Burning waste fry oil was a good idea, but very limited. Planting hemp in marginal farmlands for ethanol production has seemed like another limited but useful idea to me (provided there's no defo…
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SeattleMoose wrote: We live in a "gaming culture" where everyone wants to buy low, sell high, and retire by 30. The "keep your nose to the grindstone and save" model was thrown out and now those of us who are still trudging along are ending up wit…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: lamont wrote: The problem here is that experts are only humans. No argument here. I think you missed my point a little, because you reiterated it during the rest of your post. My point was that we have a gr…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: I posted this elsewhere, but I thought it was worth reposting here. A large part of these debates have boiled down to "how trustworthy is scientific consensus." Here's the thing, you (and I) are not an expert in mos…
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That is a good point. With increasing global demand chasing too few commodities, the result may be a reduction in real standard of living for americans. If wages stay constant, prices may rise, giving a paycut to americans in 'real' terms. That…
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Big Mike 34 wrote: Rob: Trying reading this little bit of common sense: http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html? ... ee479f&k=0 One of the other linked to articles from this link discusses Svensmark's GCR hypothesis: http://www.…
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Big Mike 34 wrote: Rob: This is one more article you should read....It is titled look to Mars...It is from Notabull's link http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html? ... c7f723&k=0 The martian ice caps are melting due to local change…
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Notabull wrote: As I read the points and counter points made by others on this forum, and myself, I come away with the following thoughts: 1) I know very little about climate science, as illustrated by Lamont's obvious knowledge and experience …
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Markor wrote: lamont wrote: it seems like the inflation that we currently have is unsustainable, because wages are not rising to keep up. Couldn't inflation be sustainable and people just starve to death? That would reduce aggregat…
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perfectfire wrote: Listing Agent wrote: 2-car attached garage, big enough for a Hummer H1. Okay, I guess since every other agent and developer is trying to market to the eco-concious this realtor figured that there was a huge untapped m…
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I've been waiting for deflation to win for some time now. it seems like the inflation that we currently have is unsustainable, because wages are not rising to keep up. The housing market was fueling inflation in a vicious cycle because people we…
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lamont wrote: Robroy wrote: Regarding the north pole seabed, maybe this will interest you: http://news.google.com/news?q=arctic%20 ... a=N&tab=wn I think I've linked to it three or four times here but nobody has responded. That o…
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hmm... the fixed width formatting of this forum is a little annoying...
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Here's a better picture of the vostok ice core data without the hockeystick graph, so as not to offend your delicate sensibilities: The point still stands, the ice cores establish "stable" ranges of 200-300 ppm of CO2, and our current level o…
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Robroy wrote: Lamont, you used the hockey stick. I don't believe it! yeah, its a piece of well-understood scientific data. (and actually the hockeystick is just the graph of the past 1,000 years, the full ice core graph that goes back ne…
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Robroy wrote: I came across it a year or two ago. the whole page it is attached to is very interesting: http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/global_warming.html The very first argument there is bogus. Over the past million years CO2 levels ha…
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Robroy wrote: Rarely do I see so many words used to say the other side is wrong without really saying any more than "the other side is wrong". Agreed The point is, you really need to keep up with this. There is no longer a consensus, an…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: Robroy wrote: I do like this GW test for dummies though: http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobW ... start.html OK, so I started taking the test for dummies, and by the third question it became blatantly obvi…
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Notabull wrote: It seems to me that those "against" global warming are mostly armchair scientists. A few blog articles here, a couple of articles in Wired there, and you have a voice! I'd agree. And it seems like there's a recipe out th…
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Robroy wrote: The satellites that measure the world's temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the past year (to the temperature of 1980). That conflates a couple different…
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Robroy wrote: A "solar minimum" means less activity, but also a warmer sun. It is arguable that it would, or would not, have the impact of directly causing certain warming trends in history (including this one), but it should be brought out that …