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 Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:54 pm
Yami Takashi You know...just putting this out here but if i ever became a mod here my first official act would be to abuse my powers and make this topic say Reiyoko's thread of sake and toplessness lol, hmmm maybe i should edit a old picture i made of reiyoko. 3nodding you know we use to pretend to have sake...why is it there is no more sake just off topicness? Reiyoko why is there no sake? Ryoko would bring the sake. crying Well, if I could drink alcohol (can't because of my medication) I would actually post here occasionally while under the influence... lol But getting off of this medication is gonna take a little over a year...
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 2:00 am
Ayanami Rei First Child I mean if this continues, many of our other beloved events might start having the best items for $$, like Halloween! gonk
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 4:42 am
when did they get Ryoko hair?!?!? eek blaugh 4laugh 3nodding heart
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 6:03 am
Reiyoko when did they get Ryoko hair?!?!? eek blaugh 4laugh 3nodding heart They've had it for a while, I've even had it a few times. ^_^
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 7:02 am
YAY, IT'S FINALLY FREAKING DONE!!!!
MY REED HAS FINISHED!!!!
And man do I love the selection, there's one for every type of Avi, I just gotta find the best one for my Mad scientist look!
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 11:05 am
Momiji Akiko Yami Takashi Monom Nickola Tesla Was TRULY a great man... He actually made a WORKING electric car that could go for I think a bit over 200 miles before needing a Recharge, Problem is no one would let him put it on the market... I'm usually not into conspiracy and everything like that, BUT THAT SEEMS A TAD SUSPICIOUS!!!! look what happened to MJ. The oils companies have been in control for years MJ? You mean Michael Jackson? There was no conspiracy to kill him, like the conspiracy theorists and MJ fanatics say. He lived a self destructive lifestyle complete with a bunch of paid yes-men to get him access to all those things he was destroying himself with. Then he died. No one was responsible for his death more then himself. The Oil Companies have been in control of what exactly? no MJ as in pot, weed, dank ect ect rolleyes Marijuana was made illegal through the lobbying of those who had interests in the oil and paper industries, and were seeing the green leaf as a threat to their pockets. The oil Companies have been in control of power and the automotive industry. Yes oil and its biproducts are more powerful and reliable then most technologies, but we would be more advance if not for the greed of oil companies. We have vast deserts all over the world, and instead of harvesting the solar and thermo energy we sit on our asses letting oil/coal power plants power our tvs and dvd players and such. I admit i don't know all the science behind hydropower, but wouldn't having large tanks of water in the desert that are heated be a good source of power? You can recycle the same water over and over, and if you put them in the desert you wouldn't have to work as hard to get the water to turn into steam and turn turbines. You could even set up a system of mirrors and/or lenses to magnify the sun's energy to super heat the tanks. naturally you'd still have to put some more energy into it, but it wouldn't take as much. Its like chefs who fill a pot with hot water to boil noodles. Its already hot and takes less time to make hotter. And the engineers could even use the concept of an Air conditioner to help turn the steam back to water, while not losing all that heat in the process. Air Conditioners work by using chemicals that easily turn from gas to liquid. The chemicals inside the coils takes in heat from the air on the inside, and put it outside, but also returns air to the inside that has been cooled. If they made sure they retrieved some of that hot air it could go back into the steam making process. Its only at night when they would have some trouble with this concept since it can get 0 and below at night in the desert.
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 7:35 pm
whoa, gone for 2 days and I gotta read 4 pages to catch up to what's going on.
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 10:48 pm
Actually there was an article written in Wired Magazine with a plausible plan that was written a decade or more ago, and according to their plan we'd be using under 20% oil for fuel.
Even Henry Ford didn't want to use oil, but the problem was a giant company kept pestering him until he relented. Not to mention the government tends to find in favor of giant corporations a lot. Like AT&T was split off into Pac Bell and other companies, but was allowed to take them over once again. The problem is that we didn't even have much in the way of even softening the transition from oil to alternative fuels.
Actually there's a way to use algae in deserts to make coal plants burn clean, and it practically pays for itself with by products like animal feed and sludge which can be burnt as bio fuel, and other stuff.
The problem is that these corporations don't like change. They CAN do things to go green and save them money, but they'd rather keep the status quo and make us pay for their inefficiencies. Just like how it's cheaper to use fiber optic long term, or how with better internet protocols they could handle more data and other stuff. Yet they don't do it, because it's too much work, and these major internet companies like Comcast don't even pay a living wage!!
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 11:18 pm
Yami Takashi no MJ as in pot, weed, dank ect ect rolleyes Marijuana was made illegal through the lobbying of those who had interests in the oil and paper industries, and were seeing the green leaf as a threat to their pockets. The oil Companies have been in control of power and the automotive industry. Yes oil and its biproducts are more powerful and reliable then most technologies, but we would be more advance if not for the greed of oil companies. We have vast deserts all over the world, and instead of harvesting the solar and thermo energy we sit on our asses letting oil/coal power plants power our tvs and dvd players and such. I admit i don't know all the science behind hydropower, but wouldn't having large tanks of water in the desert that are heated be a good source of power? You can recycle the same water over and over, and if you put them in the desert you wouldn't have to work as hard to get the water to turn into steam and turn turbines. You could even set up a system of mirrors and/or lenses to magnify the sun's energy to super heat the tanks. naturally you'd still have to put some more energy into it, but it wouldn't take as much. Its like chefs who fill a pot with hot water to boil noodles. Its already hot and takes less time to make hotter. And the engineers could even use the concept of an Air conditioner to help turn the steam back to water, while not losing all that heat in the process. Air Conditioners work by using chemicals that easily turn from gas to liquid. The chemicals inside the coils takes in heat from the air on the inside, and put it outside, but also returns air to the inside that has been cooled. If they made sure they retrieved some of that hot air it could go back into the steam making process. Its only at night when they would have some trouble with this concept since it can get 0 and below at night in the desert. Oh, never heard the abbreviation MJ used for Marijuana before... I don't buy that though. We as a people could have invented something to replace it with, just like we did with the steam engine and other things. Thing is the technology worked so well and with the abundance of cheap fuel for it, we became complacent. The government has only in recent years been giving out incentives for new technologies to replace it with. Though we had alternatives, they were not advanced enough nor cost effective enough to be a viable replacement. Not to mention the masses weren't calling for an alternative, so there was no real market for it. It's not till recently that people have been feeling a need for alternatives, and thats mainly due to higher prices, concerns over future availability (because of the chaos in the middle-east), and the whole 'Green Movement'. Are the Oil companies greedy? Thats open to interpretation. The markets are not just influenced by the Oil companies, but the global demand, global events, and the dictators that rule the countries which the oil is located also play a role. Also, many places for oil drilling have been placed off limits by environmentalists and the politicians they hold sway over even though they have ways of removing the oil without actually harming the environment round it. But if you're a big company making lots of profit people always assume you're either evil or greedy. Take a look at how they've been trying to demonize Walmart. So if you don't like capitalism you'll always hate any successful corporation. So it all comes down to how you view success. Just because you're still having big profits when prices are going up doesn't mean you're greedy. It could just be that as you rise your prices in order to meet demand your customers keep buying it at the same rate as it was when the price was lower, thus you make more money. Lets take an example here about solar and wind. Mind you this example is actually factual. It would take a wind farm the size of the state of New York to power a city the size of New York City. Now the technology for solar isn't much more effective then wind. I'm not saying that having solar would not help, for it does, but to replace oil fields with solar panels is not a viable option. After the oil is gone then put up the panels. Now as for "having large tanks of water in the desert that are heated" as a source of energy. I'm sure if it was a feasible idea, it would have been tried or talked about by scientists that are looking to implement them along with other technologies. The 'Green Movement' also would have used it in proposals as they lobbied the government to use more of what they call "Green Technologies".
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 11:38 pm
Ayanami Rei First Child Actually there was an article written in Wired Magazine with a plausible plan that was written a decade or more ago, and according to their plan we'd be using under 20% oil for fuel. Even Henry Ford didn't want to use oil, but the problem was a giant company kept pestering him until he relented. Not to mention the government tends to find in favor of giant corporations a lot. Like AT&T was split off into Pac Bell and other companies, but was allowed to take them over once again. The problem is that we didn't even have much in the way of even softening the transition from oil to alternative fuels. Actually there's a way to use algae in deserts to make coal plants burn clean, and it practically pays for itself with by products like animal feed and sludge which can be burnt as bio fuel, and other stuff. The problem is that these corporations don't like change. They CAN do things to go green and save them money, but they'd rather keep the status quo and make us pay for their inefficiencies. Just like how it's cheaper to use fiber optic long term, or how with better internet protocols they could handle more data and other stuff. Yet they don't do it, because it's too much work, and these major internet companies like Comcast don't even pay a living wage!! What incentive do they have to change? They are oil companies not energy companies. We can't force industries to change their product because we don't like it, unless we stop buying their product. And we still haven't stopped buying their product, and it would be wrong to have the government force them to come up with, produce and sell a product that is not in demand or that they don't want to sell, lest we destroy the free market which our country and economy is built on. It wasn't a matter of "softening the transition from oil to alternative fuels." It was a matter of market viability and cost effectiveness. If there is no profit to be made from it then why sell it? The thing is that there was not enough demand for it, and the current alternatives are neither very profitable for the producers or cheap enough for the consumers. The technology is not advanced enough to produce it cheaply. Once it is that will change.
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:41 am
Momiji Akiko Now as for "having large tanks of water in the desert that are heated" as a source of energy. I'm sure if it was a feasible idea, it would have been tried or talked about by scientists that are looking to implement them along with other technologies. The 'Green Movement' also would have used it in proposals as they lobbied the government to use more of what they call "Green Technologies". I'm sure it's been talked about by scientist. They want to put a solar tower in the desert. Its just scientist want to have things all sci-fi like. It would embarrass them if they publicly said "we're going fill tanks of water up in the desert, let them warm up some, then heat them ourselves and turn turbines with the steam, then recycle the water with an air conditioning system similar to how your personal AC works." compared to "we're engineering a tower that will harness the sun's energy to its fullest unlike anything before it!" Think what would be cooler to have in a sci-fi movie. this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tWlP0knKQUor a huge bulky tanks/silos with bulky coil (for cooling) coming out of them, plus the structure underneath for heating the tank? the idea is too primitive to scientist. something like this they would be in favor of because it looks cool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9flSPAdOLkThe reason we don't have bubble dome cars, and batmobils (the old ones) all over is because they're too inefficient in design and we no longer view them as cool. The VW Beatle is the closest car i can think of to what the jetsons had, and even people who had the original ones make fun of people driving them today. the whole concept is renewable. while the water in the tanks can be recycled something has to heat it at night, working harder then day. Fuel that for a while would need to be either fossil or something just as efficient. The best idea i can think of is splitting the water into H and O and burning the hydrogen and release the oxygen. the point is your doing less work (at least in the day) by using the desert hear and getting more energy with less waste.
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:47 am
see, now THAT'S why the world is Dumb, Everything is about Profit Profit Profit...
If it doesn't help you why do it right? but what if it doesn't help OR hinder you, why do we STILL not do it?
Because there is no "Profit" in doing something you get NOTHING from, right?
I find that to be BULL, We lack common courtesy now cuz, why help someone if they aren't gonna do anything in return? WELL I help people NEVER expecting ANYTHING in return, if they wanna give me something than FINE, but I will never ask for it
The golden rule has died, only a few people now, Like me, actually Follow it...
Now a days it's "Treat people how you feel like, and get mad if they don't treat you like a god"
I really dislike this attitude that people have... I'm nice to everyone I possibly can be nice to, and then HOPE they are actually nice BACK to me...
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:53 am
Monom see, now THAT'S why the world is Dumb, Everything is about Profit Profit Profit... If it doesn't help you why do it right? but what if it doesn't help OR hinder you, why do we STILL not do it? Because there is no "Profit" in doing something you get NOTHING from, right? I find that to be BULL, We lack common courtesy now cuz, why help someone if they aren't gonna do anything in return? WELL I help people NEVER expecting ANYTHING in return, if they wanna give me something than FINE, but I will never ask for it The golden rule has died, only a few people now, Like me, actually Follow it... Now a days it's "Treat people how you feel like, and get mad if they don't treat you like a god" I really dislike this attitude that people have... I'm nice to everyone I possibly can be nice to, and then HOPE they are actually nice BACK to me... so your basically suck up, and hope it turns into a 69 blaugh just kidding. that's a good way to live.
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 12:47 pm
Yami Takashi Momiji Akiko Now as for "having large tanks of water in the desert that are heated" as a source of energy. I'm sure if it was a feasible idea, it would have been tried or talked about by scientists that are looking to implement them along with other technologies. The 'Green Movement' also would have used it in proposals as they lobbied the government to use more of what they call "Green Technologies". I'm sure it's been talked about by scientist. They want to put a solar tower in the desert. Its just scientist want to have things all sci-fi like. It would embarrass them if they publicly said "we're going fill tanks of water up in the desert, let them warm up some, then heat them ourselves and turn turbines with the steam, then recycle the water with an air conditioning system similar to how your personal AC works." compared to "we're engineering a tower that will harness the sun's energy to its fullest unlike anything before it!" Think what would be cooler to have in a sci-fi movie. this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tWlP0knKQUor a huge bulky tanks/silos with bulky coil (for cooling) coming out of them, plus the structure underneath for heating the tank? the idea is too primitive to scientist. something like this they would be in favor of because it looks cool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9flSPAdOLkThe reason we don't have bubble dome cars, and batmobils (the old ones) all over is because they're too inefficient in design and we no longer view them as cool. The VW Beatle is the closest car i can think of to what the jetsons had, and even people who had the original ones make fun of people driving them today. the whole concept is renewable. while the water in the tanks can be recycled something has to heat it at night, working harder then day. Fuel that for a while would need to be either fossil or something just as efficient. The best idea i can think of is splitting the water into H and O and burning the hydrogen and release the oxygen. the point is your doing less work (at least in the day) by using the desert hear and getting more energy with less waste. Well, if they are successful, then I'm sure they'll be implanted in more places, hopefully here too. The solar tower looked pretty amazing but those funny looking wind turbines just look a little too strange, not that it wouldn't work though. Even though the video says the Solar Tower will be ready by 2012, seeing as the construction won't start till 2010, that it will be longer then that before its done. I'm not saying that they're estimates are off or anything, its just that the tower alone, given its shear size, would seem like it would take longer then two years to build.
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