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by Helius
Fri May 21, 2010 4:51 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The Green economy Just Doesn't Work
Replies: 8
Views: 3065

Is whether it will work or not really the dynamic driving the move toward a "green" economy? Does anyone believe that production of energy is a goal in this drive?
by Helius
Tue May 18, 2010 4:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Stop Being Stupid
Replies: 5
Views: 1539

Re: Stop Being Stupid

Prohibition doesn't work: http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/14/ap-the-drug-war-is-a-disastrou?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reason%2FHitandRun+%28Reason+Online+-+Hit+%26+Run+Blog%29 Progressives never learn. Definitely a leaf node demand problem, not a "supply" problem. Th...
by Helius
Sun May 16, 2010 3:56 pm
Forum: News
Topic: This is Progress.
Replies: 31
Views: 18710

Regarding CFLs and the mercury hazard - I realize the thinking on that is based on a precautionary principle, but is there any actual evidence that busting a CFL without a hazmat team on hand is really dangerous, or is it a case of "Mercury! Deadly! Flee for your lives!" thinking? Just don't put 'e...
by Helius
Sun May 16, 2010 3:36 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Stop Being Stupid
Replies: 5
Views: 1539

Re: Stop Being Stupid

Prohibition doesn't work: http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/14/ap-the-drug-war-is-a-disastrou?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reason%2FHitandRun+%28Reason+Online+-+Hit+%26+Run+Blog%29 Progressives never learn. Definitely a leaf node demand problem, not a "supply" problem. Th...
by Helius
Sat May 15, 2010 12:05 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The Reality Of Progressivism
Replies: 119
Views: 22127

Diogenes wrote:
Spreading misery is the opposite of helpful. So I always say:
"Yes, Virginia, there is a Sugar Candy Mountain. "
FWIW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CW0hGhI ... re=related I always got a kick out of that one.
by Helius
Fri May 14, 2010 4:56 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Rent Seeking On A Truly Massive Scale
Replies: 4
Views: 1493

Re: Sillyness continues.

The segments of the American oligarchy that favored Obama aren't any more in favor of the succession of American Sovereignty than are the segments that opposed him. It's silly theater to pretend otherwise. They didn't succeed by opposing their own power. Uh. Obama is a Europhile (with Muslim sympat...
by Helius
Fri May 14, 2010 2:27 am
Forum: General
Topic: Rent Seeking On A Truly Massive Scale
Replies: 4
Views: 1493

Sillyness continues.

The segments of the American oligarchy that favored Obama aren't any more in favor of the succession of American Sovereignty than are the segments that opposed him. It's silly theater to pretend otherwise.

They didn't succeed by opposing their own power.
by Helius
Wed May 12, 2010 4:49 pm
Forum: News
Topic: What's the hurry?
Replies: 42
Views: 27827

MSimon wrote: But I can see where generating electricity at 2X to 10X utility delivered cost and then using the savings to build out a system could be truly revolutionary.
" We lose money on each one we build, but we make it up in volume. The customer loyalty and repeat business is fantastic!"
by Helius
Wed May 12, 2010 3:30 am
Forum: News
Topic: Ignitor, mini tokamak.
Replies: 12
Views: 7144

Rossi, Coppi says,
whenever you do experiments in an unknown regime, you will find something new.
That's reason enough for Igniter, and it's reason enough for Polywell.
by Helius
Mon May 03, 2010 4:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: A good Post On the Deepwater Horizon Accident
Replies: 111
Views: 64233

Whistleblowers are already coming out. They were cutting corners. There are many rigs were corners are being cut. Profit over safe engineering, baby. The timing is suspicious. The people who benefit from this are the eco terrorists. Who are the eco-terrorists in this case? The advocates of drilling...
by Helius
Sat Apr 24, 2010 2:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: We want to trust these people again?
Replies: 3
Views: 1519

Oligarchy... Yes, to the obvious.

Kind of. If you don't court or pander to some segment of the oligarchy, you don't get elected. The Democrats tend to answer to the Financial Services Industry, the Legal Industry, Entertainment, Public Service Unions and interests, Actual Labor unions, Fossil Energy interests and existing Nuclear In...
by Helius
Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:49 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Che Guevara: Idiot liberal hero.
Replies: 73
Views: 16954

I am merely suggesting that we use the same logic for alcohol that we use for everything else that is dangerous. How about water? That stuff can be very dangerous. It buries people. People drown in it. It is the central element in floods. People have overdosed on it. It is a ubiquitous unmarked (mo...
by Helius
Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:32 pm
Forum: General
Topic: A good example of republican double talk
Replies: 29
Views: 7980

Republicans are scum. And I mean that with all sincerity. As are Democrats. Is it a case of the lesser of two evils, or a case of throw them all out? J Both Dems and Repubs work for the same Banking / Energy / Civil Union Oligarchy. If you don't pander to the oligarchy, you don't get elected.
by Helius
Sun Apr 11, 2010 1:33 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
Replies: 880
Views: 547607

a mathematcian friend of mine once claimed that the (compound) 'knotting' behaviour of a simple rubber band when you wind it up and wind it up, remained (as of a few years ago at least) one of the great remaining unsolved chalenges of mathematical modelling. Pretty clearly the most minor peculiarit...
by Helius
Sun Apr 11, 2010 7:39 am
Forum: General
Topic: How To Win The Darwin Award And The Hearts Of Progressives
Replies: 19
Views: 5779

I want to hear John Smith and Josh Cryer comment on this video. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3d1_1187027927 Personally, unlike you apparently, I hail the individual. These were not the same in person or in spirit those people (with the kids) whom rushed to pickup the dying reporter on the curb in...