Search found 976 matches

by TDPerk
Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:14 am
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 198634

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

Great minds etc.
Great. Now I have a tingling up my leg.

Chris Matthews, call your office. :roll:

One guess about whether Maui will perceive our comments to be an immediately valid criticism, or a "talking point".
by TDPerk
Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:05 am
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 198634

Nor do they want a corporate board doing the same. Guess what? It's part of insurance public or private.
You must take us for morons. If a private insurance company screws up, you can sue them.

If they pay up per policy, they haven't screwed up.

BTW, ever hear of sovereign immunity?
by TDPerk
Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:03 am
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 198634

Huh? Obama recently said the public option is not even an "essential element". Only to try to get the townhall attendees to stay home. Before that it was essential. Was Obama lying then or now? You guys need to chill out. Nobody is taking away your insurance. Nobody. Breathe. That's exactly what he...
by TDPerk
Sun Aug 09, 2009 1:56 am
Forum: News
Topic: No Love For Iter
Replies: 10
Views: 7189

I think we know--dead bang :roll: --how to benefit directly from fusion bombs as energy producers. Dig a big hole deep in the ground, with an airlock, suspend the bomb inside a thick water jacket in the middle of the cavern, set it off... ...run turbines off the steam for a week... do it again... an...
by TDPerk
Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:11 am
Forum: General
Topic: Second Worst President in US History.
Replies: 530
Views: 206120

Hornets aren't very nice insects, do you really want to become hornets?
I'm sure you've seen the Gadsden Flag?

I'm fine with being a rattlesnake.

Yours, TDP, ml, msl, & pfpp
by TDPerk
Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:01 am
Forum: News
Topic: Nuclear Power at TED Conference
Replies: 63
Views: 26205

So the conclusion that the CO2 we are adding to the atmosphere is making the world warmer than it would be otherwise seems at least as solid as your statement that CO2 helps plants. To propose a mechanism which makes this out to be a naive assumption: CO2 in greater concentrations traps impinging s...
by TDPerk
Sat Jul 25, 2009 6:57 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Electric Cars and Solar Power Kills babies.
Replies: 130
Views: 33220

when the exhaust valve opens on an engine, the pressure in the chamber is a substantial amount of pressure, and every exhaust from the cylinder throws away this unutilized energy! While I hope not to be pointlessly snarky, there's this thing, it's called a turbocharger. To take that to an unworkabl...
by TDPerk
Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: SpaceX Launch Successfully Delivers Satellite Into Orbit
Replies: 21
Views: 8372

eh? This is the rocket equation.

The quicker your propellant, the less efficient is the flight. I'm sure I'm misunderstanding your statement. Rockets propulsion is always more efficient the faster the velocity of the exiting fuel is, and it never matters to Isp how quickly you go through your fuel. Vexhaust X ln(fueled/empty) = de...
by TDPerk
Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:02 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: Magnetically Shielded Fusor Grids--Why Won't This Work?
Replies: 64
Views: 23763

a brief thought experiment

The simplest grid which could be magnetically shielded would be a single coil, correct? Has anyone modeled what happens to a highly (electrostatically) charged single coil in a hydrogen plasma? If the chamber walls were far enough away from the charged surface, they don't hit the walls at any especi...
by TDPerk
Sun Jun 28, 2009 3:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Second Worst President in US History.
Replies: 530
Views: 206120

Kunkmeister brought up the "real economic reasons" for the war; the phrase in scare quotes because it is frequently used by persons who want to minimize the very great extent to which the war was simply caused by people doing a great evil who wanted to keep on doing a great evil, and who had no lega...
by TDPerk
Sat Jun 27, 2009 3:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Second Worst President in US History.
Replies: 530
Views: 206120

Half of us are of below average intelligence,...

..now we know which half. And ad nauseum! Or at this point is it absurdum? And we know a few Republicans who need to see primaries where they are opposed by the national party. Like I scrawled on their begging slip back at the RNC, "Support Toomey or you won't see a red cent from me." Regards, Tom P...
by TDPerk
Sat Jun 27, 2009 2:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Second Worst President in US History.
Replies: 530
Views: 206120

The tragic party.

Hands down the worst president is Buchanan. He failed to to re-iterate Jackson's threat to the secessionists, failed to reinforce the national army's position in the south, failed to re-locate any movable national assets to the north, and even inexplicably transferred military stores to the south in...
by TDPerk
Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:33 am
Forum: General
Topic: IPCC vs Reality
Replies: 86
Views: 23494

rolleyes equals self deprecating sarcasm

Thank you djolds.

However, I was trying to convey self deprecating humor with the rolleyes emoticon. I'm aware of the difference. TDP, ml, msl, & pfpp
by TDPerk
Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:31 am
Forum: News
Topic: Government Not Funding Research
Replies: 56
Views: 27697

It's the world capital of Me.
Except it's population is among the most generous anywhere, because they choose to be.

Yours, TDP, ml, msl, & pfpp
by TDPerk
Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:11 am
Forum: General
Topic: IPCC vs Reality
Replies: 86
Views: 23494

Anthropomorphic...

...Anthropogenic?

What's the diff? :roll:

Tom Perkins, ml, msl, & pfpp