Marc DuQuesne

Let's see-it's illegal and it's practiced almost entirely by Mormons....Ease of division of property? SERIOUSLY? THIS is why you think polygamy is still illegal?

There are more Muslim polygamists in the US now than Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (50,000-100,000 Muslims practicing polygamy, FLDS has less than 10,000 members). The mainstream Mormons gave that up a long time ago. The Muslim ones get winked at. Not helping your point. That isn't one of the "hypothetical" scenarios you are so ****ing scared of. How do you feel about that?

She reminds me of a less intelligent, less experienced, and less attractive version of Paulette Jordan, Idaho's Democrat candidate for Governor with 0% of winning. But hey, NY be dumb and stuff. We should trade, Paulette should be in a race she has a chance to win.

https://www.kpvi.com/news/local_news/man-arrested-on-multiple-charges-after-suspected-burglary/article_5b9d2952-975a-11e8-a937-0b73af36e8dd.html

Dude robs a house to steal a banana. That's all he took. Then he tries to use the fact he had been high for days (and had lots of drugs at home) as an excuse. That's cocaine for ya.

Wow. That sounds like a horrible problem, Ender. I almost got into a fight with three guys in a Walgreens parking lot last night because one of them asked me for money and I said no. They didn't like it.

 

Any recommendations?

Why do you have to be that guy? Why can't you post your random shitty shit on the random shit thread instead of ****ing with his?

I don't really care where they bury it so long as it stays contained. If a national park had the ideal geological conditions to serve as a repository I see no problem. If the only argument in favor is "we got this land here" then I would be opposed.

Yes, air pollution is a far greater ecological risk IMO. Airline pilots are exposed to more ionizing radiation than nuclear plant operators. Most of the fear of radioactive material stems from a lack of understanding.

Nuclear waste has never once impacted my outdoor activities, can't say the same for fossil fuel waste. The total of my lifetime radiation exposure probably increases my chances of cancer by less than .01%. How do think that compares with the crap we all breath all day? California being on fire, continuously, is the biggest problem right now for outdoor activities though. They should get their shit together or move down wind.

Too bad Lincoln doesn't have his top hat at Mount Rushmore, you could fit lots of waste in that.

On the orbital solar arrays, I just think the technology has a lot farther to go to be viable. You would have a massive sail in orbit around the Earth, spinning on it's axis to stay pointed at the Sun. Then it is continuously aiming a great big laser at Earth while it is moving. You probably want the array in geostationary orbit above a receiver station, which means it is about 35,000 km away. With our current laser technology we would end up with a beam over 10 kilometers wide, and that doesn't even count what the atmosphere does. You want to trust a computer's aim from that far away with a beam that wide? A half degree error would give you quite the sunburn a county away. You would lose so much in generating the beam and loss in transit that it would have to be a really big array just to give you a sunburn. It is fun to think about though.

I remember in the 90s everyone said "**** windows, Bill Gates is a nazi capitalist bastard, get an apple. They're so user friendly and punk and cool".

Not to derail the thread.... so apologies for detracting....

 

Are Solar rays more powerful from space? Meaning would it be possible to (in the future) construct some kind of giant Solar panel Sail in orbit that could generate power from the Sun and somehow transport it back to the earth?

Don't worry about derailing this thread, I seem to derail plenty on my own, and besides, you still want to talk to me. That's more than I can really ask for around here these days.

Yes, a solar panel in space would generate a lot more energy per square foot than one on the surface, and if you could get that energy to the surface economically it could be a solution. In the long term. The problems involved are much more complicated than getting nuclear energy to be cheap enough to be a logical alternative to fossil fuels. I guess what I am trying to say is; That solution can't solve the problem in time to make any difference in the time scale I'm looking at. It is an interesting idea, that deserves to be developed, but I don't consider it a valid solution until the next century.

I have been on the **** Apple train since before that goofball ****ed that apple pie in that movie. But I am am a hardware kind of guy. I like upgrading by myself and fiddling when the urge strikes. Software people seem to like Apple.

Microsoft gets a bad wrap security wise, which it should based on statistics, but the PC is a lot more flexible than a Mac, and there are compromises. I really hate how hard apple has the hardware side locked down. The standardization of bus interfaces and allowing different manufacturers to make components that a consumer could purchase and plug into their computer, regardless of manufacturer, had a lot to do with with the growth of PCs back when people cared about hardware. Now people care about apps more than hardware, and apps do add a lot of flexibility to devices, but flexibility still comes with a cost.

That ain't how it works. Don't get all perpetual motion machine on me. It isn't about how hot the average temperature of the planet is when you are trying to make energy, it's about temperature differential.

And windmill farms are great, but they can't replace fossil fuels, neither can solar, they can only supplement. Until we have a reliable and cost effective battery, capable of storing at least a few weeks worth of our demand, renewables can't support our needs. And if we tried to support our energy needs with just renewables, we would use up half our country to do it. Every square mile that wasn't people would be powerplant to support them in a century. Save the world by killing everything but us?

But then, I know nothing about nuclear power so...you know....

I've been wondering, is this sarcasm? My detector is on the fritz.

What I want is for America to quit whining about trade deficits and start innovating and building shit that other people have to have. I want us to invest in nuclear energy and make it so economical and safe that people will have to replace fossil fuel plants with nuclear ones just to stay competitive. I want us to pump massive resources into R&D, and the regulatory process, to reduce the time necessary to bring new designs to fruition without sacrificing safety. I want us to build more test reactors and open them up to all comers to run approved experiments.

Thanks for straightening me out on that, I don't wan't to be the guy propagating fake news. It's 621 coal fired units, not plants.

I realize the US isn't building coal plants now, but we aren't growing exponentially in demand quite like the people who are. Atmospheric pollution doesn't stay where it's made. What happens in China and India affects us all.

New reactor designs would never need refueling and would require far less maintenance than current designs. Materials technology (paid for mostly by the Navy) has made it possible to build reactors which components, and fuel rods, can last 60 years. The waste material from that life cycle could be transported in a single shipment by rail, in a few cars, during decommissioning. There would have to be storage facilities built for the waste from all the reactors, but why is that such a big deal? Are we worried about the acreage involved despite the dozens of square miles solar and wind would take up to make the power of one reactor?

As of last year, there were 621 coal fired plants under construction worldwide. The worldwide appetite for energy will only grow from here. It's time for the right kind of nuclear proliferation.

I think some of the new technologies can go a long way towards lowering the cost, and minimizing waste. The liquid-sodium cooled fast reactors Gates is pushing would help us find a use for hundreds of thousands of tons of depleted uranium. They are also safer by far than a boiling water reactor. In the event of a coolant flow loss the reactor shuts itself down, because physics. No depending on people to make the right split second decision, or backup generators to function.

There is a reason Idaho is the fastest growing state. Californians are getting scared. Who wants to raise a kid in LA? Refugees from California are almost as welcome as the ones from Syria/Iraq/Afghanistan/Libya/etc. Refugees from other states kill more of the ones from other countries than the other way around.

One time I was walking through the employee housing building at Sun Valley in the middle of the day and heard people having some very loud sex in one of the rooms. I was struck by the sudden urge to stop and take my stinky sock off and put it on their door handle. The fact that I didn't still bothers me. I would like to be that guy.

I just got a wild hair up my ass and decided to watch Star Trek in chronological order. I got almost a minute and a half in before an alien managed to squeeze himself through a 3 inch gap at the bottom of the door of a futuristic agricultural storage building of some sort. As if the farmer would allow a gap fit for mice to pass 30 wide as they dance a jig on two legs. I guess in the future the farmers don't care if the mice eat half their harvest and shit all over the rest, let alone what insects would do. Or maybe these uber liberal enlightened genius sci-fi writers killed all the "vermin" species off so they don't have to worry about it.

I honestly don't know why I keep watching, but I do.

Guys, I don't want to rush to conclusions, but Trump as president may have been a bad idea.

I tried to tell people that in the PRIMARY! That's when it mattered.

That was good comedy though. If only comedians remembered what comedy was these days. Everybody thinks they're George ****in' Carlin. Like there could have been more than one. George Carlin without intelligence is just ass with lots of ass.

Feels good, huh?

 

You did phenomenally better than I did though because you didn’t take a shot at Tex.

It really does. I didn't feel the need to vent for a few hours after that.

"I agree, **** Trump, but if there was any sign that somebody else was going to stir the **** into the open he wouldn't be in the White House"

 

 

Can you clarify, please? Can you tell me what this means; 'if there was any sign that somebody else was going to stir the **** into the open'-stir what **** 'into the open'? Be specific, plz?

No, I cannot clarify. Your willful stupidity cannot be helped. That's pretty much your only move, pretend you don't understand.

If you want to stop Trump, clean your own ****ing house. We know he's a piece of ****, but he stands on the opposite side of obviously corrupt, and even bigger pieces of ****, which get winked at on a daily basis. Hillary breaks multiple laws, but there was clearly no intent, because she's a good person, the destruction of evidence had nothing to do with concealing other crimes... Intent has nothing to do with the statute she should have been indicted under. It's like when you tell that cop that stopped you for going 20mph over the speed limit that you didn't see the sign because you weren't paying attention. The drivers license they give you means you understand that you are responsible for knowing and abiding by the speed limit. If I were the cop that got that excuse I would give an inattentive driving ticket with the speeding one. The security clearance Hillary got was a two way deal, she got access to classified material, in return for accepting responsibility for it's handling. I KNOW what happens to normal people who make mistakes 1/100 as bad as she made with information less classified than what she ****ed up with. No wonder everyone is ignoring your ****ing outrage. I've been there for years.

I once forwarded a schedule for training on classified material handling to my personal email account from my government one. Right after I hit send I had a mini panic attack wondering if I had just ****ed up and lost my job. Hillary runs roughshod over the law without a care.

The people investigating Trump saying that they have an "insurance policy" and that they are going to "stop Trump" doesn't imply that they were conducting their investigations in a biased manner. We are supposed to trust them.

I agree, **** Trump, but if there was any sign that somebody else was going to stir the **** into the open he wouldn't be in the White House. Most Trump supporters that I know are already convinced he is a ****bag, and that he was the best option. They, like me, are more convinced of that by the day.

We had a cat when I was younger that was very similar to your story, except for a kidnapping. My little sister (around 6 at the time) found the biggest and meanest stray female Manx I have ever seen. She fought that thing into submission, with blood dripping from her face and arms by the time she got it home, and somehow enticed it to stay in the neighborhood. That cat hated everyone and everything, my sister was always trying to lose an eyeball to it trying to give it a kiss or something.

Eventually the cat got knocked up, by a Siamese. We had six kittens that looked totally Siamese except for they had no tail. One of them was a LOT bigger than the others and swayed his behind as he waddled. My sister wanted to name him "Caboose", she got vetoed. She countered with "Bigs" (although I am 90% sure she was going to say "Big Ass" and cut it short), it stuck.

We only kept him and he was the coolest cat I ever saw. He would lay out in the middle of the yard and bath in the sun. A dog would come by and spot him and give a bark to start the chase. Bigs would just lift his head and give it an evil look for a few seconds, and if the dog didn't charge he would lay his head back down. If it did charge, he would lay there looking at it until it got about 10 feet away, then went straight for the face. I never saw a dog last any longer than it took to turn around. I saw that cat catch birds straight out of the air at least a half dozen times, which is quite a feat for a cat without a tail.

I did lose some sleep to him though. That cat woke me up regularly by jumping right on my chest when he came in from his night prowl. He figured out how to open my window and I would always forget to put the dowel back in it after I came through. Then he got to wake me up again in the morning while I was sleeping it off by slapping me around a bit. He could get in my window, but he couldn't get back out.

He lived almost 13 years. He eventually met his match in old age. Got a wound on a hind leg that got infected. By the time he came home he was in in bad shape. It was night and the vet wasn't open, even if my dad would have taken a 12 year old cat to the vet. We cleaned him up the best we could and prepared ourselves to guilt dad into taking the cat to the vet the next day. He didn't make it to morning.

It sucks to lose a long lived pet with personality. It would suck worse not to know what it's like to have had one.