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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What happened to flight MH370?
« on: March 24, 2014, 07:53:10 PM »
Where it probably crashed has been solved, but what happened is still open to debate.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Fred Phelps is dead.
« on: March 23, 2014, 09:13:37 PM »
Sounds like an arse.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Fred Phelps is dead.
« on: March 22, 2014, 07:02:15 PM »Who is he?
Nobody important, he just said some bad things about some people.
So is that why Ghost fancies him?
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Fred Phelps is dead.
« on: March 22, 2014, 07:01:30 PM »Yes I haven't got a clue who he is. Did you fancy him or something?
Really?
Yes I haven't got a clue who he is. Did you fancy him or something?
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Fred Phelps is dead.
« on: March 22, 2014, 06:58:31 PM »
Yes I haven't got a clue who he is. Did you fancy him or something?
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Technology & Information / Re: Coin (not to be confused with bitcoin)
« on: March 22, 2014, 06:57:23 PM »
I don't think I've swiped a card in years.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Fred Phelps is dead.
« on: March 22, 2014, 06:50:39 PM »
Who is he?
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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change
« on: March 22, 2014, 08:17:20 AM »This thread is awful. I don't even know which side is making worse arguments now.
Make the thread better then. Give an argument with meat on it. Instead of contributing to the 'worse' arguments.
At the moment I'm trying to use the only thing Thork really seems to give a shit about, money, to try and explain how stupid he's being.
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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change
« on: March 22, 2014, 08:11:42 AM »one thing people cannot afford to gamble with.
And you think the environment and the ecosystem is something we can afford to gamble with?
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Ask a Jew anything.
« on: March 21, 2014, 11:45:10 PM »
remove beard
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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change
« on: March 21, 2014, 11:43:57 PM »If it wasn't the law I wouldn't buy any insurance other than home insurance.
How many times have you bought a computer or some other electrical thing and they ask you if you want a warranty? Basically, insurance in case it breaks.
Look at it this way. The insurance company knows the odds of these things breaking and offers insurance (a warranty) based on those odds + profit. Now extrapolate all the warranties over your lifetime. If you just let the occasional thing break, you'd be out of pocket to the tune of the cost of your warranties minus the profit those companies make. In other words, a warranty is a scam. Its like buying Calgon for your washing machine.
You are supposed to add a tablet every time you do a wash to protect your washing machine.
Calgon tablets are £20.29 for 75 tablets or 27p per wash.
It takes 6-8 years of washing in hard water to get a build up to get the kind of lime scale that will break your machine. In this time if you do 3 washes a week, that's over £300. Getting an technician to replace the parts would cost £50. Or of course for £300 you could buy a new bloody washing machine with all the parts including motors etc with 8 years more life in them.
source
Insurance never ever pays.
With the exception of house insurance. Not contents insurance. You are being boned on the risk of burglary vs cost of insurance + profit.
I would only buy house insurance because its the one gamble most people cannot afford to take even though of course most never claim and are paying odds + profit. Everything else, never buy insurance unless its the law.
So, do I want to pay environmental insurance just in case? No damn way.
Is household insurance not a 'what if'?
Insurance companies sell 'peace of mind'
I know that I won't make any money out of paying for household insurance however it gives me the 'peace of mind' to know that if anything happened to my home I would be able to fix it or buy another one.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Ask a Jew anything.
« on: March 21, 2014, 10:50:48 PM »
I don't think I know any Jewish people.
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Technology & Information / Re: Sony's Project Morpheus
« on: March 21, 2014, 10:42:36 PM »My problem with these things is that I don't know that I'd feel comfortable being deprived of reality while playing a game. Presumably these things would essentially take over my sight and hearing ability for an extended period of time. That makes me uncomfortable, and it seems very anti-social.
Same.
I don't think I would like not being fully aware of the world around me. I would feel uncomfortable.
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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change
« on: March 21, 2014, 10:40:36 PM »What would happen if they became more frequent?I don't want to be giving away thousands of £s of real money every year on 'what if?'.
As for that source, that's just an investor's wet dream. Mmmm, instability , scarcity, migration, war, globalisation. There will be pushback from populations they try to inflict all this upon and blaming it on the weather won't cut it.
I'm assuming you don't pay car or home insurance then?
Because, you know, you don't want to give away thousands of pounds on 'what ifs'.
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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change
« on: March 21, 2014, 09:58:50 PM »
Those events do happen. I can't argue against that. But how often do those events occur? What would happen if they became more frequent?
Also Google just found this:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/33717/GST4_v9_Feb10.pdf
I've only read the executive summary but it does talk about the possible strategic effects of climate change by 2040.
Also Google just found this:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/33717/GST4_v9_Feb10.pdf
I've only read the executive summary but it does talk about the possible strategic effects of climate change by 2040.
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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change
« on: March 21, 2014, 09:28:01 PM »
It's not conclusive (I realise I'm being highly speculative) but some of the possible consequences of climate change happened to the UK this winter with the flooding. That could only get worse.
Somehow you assume the UK and your way of living would be immune to climate change. Do you only think it'll happen to 'other' countries? Also what do you think the knock on consequences of the scenarios you suggested would be to the UK?
Your burying your head in the sand again.
Somehow you assume the UK and your way of living would be immune to climate change. Do you only think it'll happen to 'other' countries? Also what do you think the knock on consequences of the scenarios you suggested would be to the UK?
Your burying your head in the sand again.
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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change
« on: March 21, 2014, 08:03:38 PM »Then earth gets weather changes which are going to happen anyway as there are 20 Chinese for every Brit and they aren't paying masses for fuel or using expensive fuel efficient engines.Have you heard of the carbon cycle?At what arbitrary point have global governments decided the earth can 'handle it'. I'm of the opinion the earth can 'handle it' anyway and it won't make one jot of difference to the earth's temperature. More carbon means bigger vegetables. Not extremes of weather.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle
The earth can deal with CO2 emissions (it's done it for millions of years) however there's a certain amount of time in which the earth needs to adapt to an increase of CO2 in the atmosphere. If we produce more CO2 than the earth can handle (within that time) then that carbon cycle gets 'bottle necked' with CO2 to the point where it can't handle it.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but what if you're wrong?
What if you are wrong? I have to spend all that money over my entire lifetime because some Chicken-Licken scientists made a hypothesis that cost regular people trillions of dollars?
Or we screw up the ecosystem to an extent where we can't survive in it.
What if I'm wrong? You have to pay for something that reduces our dependency on fossil fuels and makes cars (transportation) cheaper to run. We ensure we have the technology in place to counter energy demand when the source of fossil fuel runs out and we make sure the air in the UK isn't clogged up with smog (like in Hong Kong and Paris recently).
The consequence to your wallet is irrelevant. You would probably have to pay that tax in another way. You wouldn't save anything.