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  1. K

    So, if in 2000, the economy was fan-tas-tic . . .

    I never subscribed to mythology and in fact refused an offer for a job from a dot com because I could see the crash starting in late 1990s. Two years before the crash happened half the people in the industry were pointing out signs of it coming. The smart ones left, the foolish stayed and sunk...
  2. K

    So, if in 2000, the economy was fan-tas-tic . . .

    This one is easy. The average age of the US citizen is older than it was in 2000. That means more sick people, higher health care costs. And it is going to get worse. Somehow the issue must be addressed or it risks bankrupting our society in the next two decades. Although the economy wasn't...
  3. K

    Should we legalize Industrial Hemp in the USA

    Yep, I don't think that it is a conspiracy theory though. More likely, they saw an opportunity to hurt a competitor and jumped on it.
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    Should we legalize Industrial Hemp in the USA

    Industrial Hemp is a legal or licensed agricultural crop in every industrial nation except the US. North Dakota is trying to establish rules for growing industrial hemp in hopes that the DEA will accept them. Their plan is to start growing industrial hemp in 2007. There is a public meeting...
  5. K

    Reverse Psychology question: Could we be avocating terrorism?

    This question should be as fun for all of you as it is for me the write it. Could we be helping terrorists by spending so much time ranting against them? It has always bothered me that our politicians spend so much time ranting about terrorists despite the relatively low number of people that...
  6. K

    Are All Bio-Fuels Sources Equal?

    I'm trying not to be too negative, but hemp has a legality problem that makes your argument almost pointless in the USA. I mean there are only 6 or 7 states that will allow it to be grown for research and no other purposes and it is illegal otherwise, everywhere else in the US. For me, at...
  7. K

    Could this work?

    Believe me, there is great interest in the world in doing something in this direction. Over the years I've read about a few experiments. Did you know that if you take a long metal bar and heat one side really hot and cool the other side it will generate a small electric current? Huge amount of...
  8. K

    The new Honda hybrid you've seen on TV commercials gets its review!

    I read somewhere that from the time of purchase to the average time of getting rid of the car, a hybrid will cost as much as a normal gasoline car. Hybrids are more expensive than the same class of gasoline engine car. The extra savings on fuel often will not be more than the extra expense of...
  9. K

    The financial cost of war

    Just wondering what people think of this article. article link The Cost of The War By Pascal Riche | bio From: Foreign Affairs Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard budget expert Linda Bilmes plan to present this week a paper estimating the cost of the Iraq War at between $1-2...
  10. K

    Saddam's capture staged?

    That is odd. The army's own official account doesn't agree with you. I've read this is a dozen newspapers, seen it mentioned on CNN, etc. Stop lashing out simply because you don't like the idea. It is rude. article link U.S. military, not Iraqis, behind toppling of statue By David Zucchino...
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    Saddam's capture staged?

    The scary thing here is that this would not surprise me at all. The armed forces has a very very good psychological operations unit in Iraq. Amoung their better known jobs are the staging of the destruction of the saddam statue and the Jessica Lynch portrayal verus what actually happened. I'm...
  12. K

    2006 Budget Debate

    Too add to they story the republican senators are being rule breakers. http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/122005/news1.html So the senate republicans want to suspend the rule because it is inconvenient and then reestablish the rule after they pass the bill...
  13. K

    Should Windows run commercials, with 90% of the PC's running Windows?

    It is a public opinion thing. You use commercials to attack your opponents and boost your own image. You never use them to inform. That is why it is windows and not OS/2 on everyone's desktop. Microsoft had the larger commercial budget, more commercials. Political campaigns are much the same.
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    Alternate Resources Must Be Found

    You need to stop being so depressing. Actually the oil industry has choosen another direction. There are no large volume alternatives to oil on the horizon, but there is another very large source of crude oil. Oil Shales are getting new attention. The US has a trillion barrels of oil in shales...
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    Clean Coal Tech

    Coal isn't a good thing. Mining companies are strip mining coal now days. To use coal as our main source of fuel would mean distroying most of our forests. It just so happens the most profitable coal areas are under forest land. Oil separation is the same for separating oil from anything. Oil...
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