652 Forum Posts by "Boltrig"
The ships currently sitting in the aforementioned BAE Systems dock on the Clyde are practically useless mini-ships built under contract for a foreign power. I forget which country it was but the ships were built to a ridiculous set of specifications.
The average height of personnel in their navy is 5'4", so the ships were designed around that. Now the head of the country has decided he doesnt want the ships, so they are languishing at BAE on the Clyde under a maintenance contract.
It would probably be a relief to BAE if the ships were sunk!
Joking aside, BAE systems dont need masses of security at the moment, because there are no active development projects ongoing. There are no secret weapons systems on the docked ships, they cannot be casually hijacked and there is no live ammunition on the ships.
On a side note Im pleased to see Glasgow Airport has some fit looking police on duty. I work at the airport, so I can vouch for the fact that before the attack, the Airport police service consisted of 2 jeeps, with past-it old guys or fresh faced (but still lazy) recruits.
As of friday evening, armed patrols were keeping an eye on proceedings at the airport. Keep it up is all I say!
At 7/6/07 10:59 PM, ForkRobotik wrote:
Then again, Christianity is the predecessor to Islam. If anything Islam perfected monotheism and took it to it's logical conclusion.
If Islam is so compete and undeniably logical, how can there be the level of misinterpretation over it? Look at the extremeists. The 9/11, London and Glasgow bombers. Their intent is to cause harm, destruction and death, all in the name of Allah.
Then take the line in the Qur'an that says
"He who kills an innocent person, it is as if he killed the whole of mankind"
I don't know if thats the exact wording, but thats the gist of it. Seems logical then that mass murder by suicide bombing is justifyable...
I also believe that politics has slid too far towards the centre. The problem with a return to left v right wing is that it would just turn into a race back to the middle ground.
First party to get there without seeming idiotic wins.
At 6/16/07 07:55 PM, SmilezRoyale wrote: Here's a solution:
About 10 to 20 feet under the ground, in most places in the world, you'll find that the ground stays at temperatures of about 60 degree's constant, Wouldn't it be possible to use this as a means to keep temperatures low in the summer and high in the winter. [60 degree's is a good moderizer, not to hot not too cold]
How would this work? Digging down to 20 feet to let the heat out in winter? How do you make warm earth cool the place in summer?
Not sure you thought that one through...
At 6/14/07 09:16 PM, Zoraxe7 wrote:At 6/14/07 08:17 PM, Boltrig wrote:Hell than why pay taxes at all then? At least I know taxes are going to education if a liberal is in office. Its Taxes that pay for education.At 6/14/07 07:39 PM, Zoraxe7 wrote: "of course we nead to redistribute income in this country from the wealthy to the poor. And right now these republicans are redistributing it from you to me."To a degree that removes peoples incentive to try. If you study your ass off to get a high paid job, and then have your money taken off you, why bother in the first place?
Theres a difference between being taxed to provide public services, and having your rewards stripped from you in order to re-distribute the wealth.
If you pay taxes which fund schools say, then your kids will be using that school, and your family benefits. Now say your wages are taken off you and given to a poor family. Wheres the benefit to you?
Harsh way of looking at it but its realistic at least..
Communism (which that basicly equates to) doesnt work in large situations. (countries and so on)Socialism is different from communism, in fact Mr.B is the son of a shoemaker that escaped from a soviet prison camp in Siberia because his views differed that of the government. In fact mr.B made his way to the top because of the education he got because it was funded by higher taxes.
Again taxes are not the same as wealth re-distribution. Taxes provide public services, availible to everyone. Re-distributing monetary assets benefits only the reciever, not the public.
Re-distribution of wealth, so that everyone has the same, is communism. And it doesnt work. There are numerous global examples and numerous threads on the politics forum dealing with it.
At 6/14/07 09:10 PM, AAraven wrote: Oh. How brave you are to point out the "realities" of feminism on a site that is predominatley male...
What do you want us to do? Round up women at gunpoint and force them to argue their case?
Unfortunately for the women on NG, youre in the minority. Theres nothing that guys can do about it. So im not being brave (Sarcastic overtone noted BTW), just that there arent that many women on NG to contest the point.
At 6/14/07 08:26 PM, K-RadPie wrote: I'm quite fond of wind power myself. Where I live there are windmills everywhere and they produce a shitload of power.
But to replace an entire nations fossil fuel output youd need rediculos amounts of turbines.
Im wondering though. What are the barriers to this:
In the movie Sahara, they were using hundreds of mirrors to reflect the solar enery at a single collection point, and focusing it onto toxic waste to dispose of it.
Whats the barriers to using such a focused beam to heat water, and using it in a conventional turbine setup?
Are there losses in efficiency, or would the number of reflecting mirrors be too great? Just a thought I had
At 6/14/07 08:17 PM, JakeHero wrote:At 6/14/07 07:59 PM, Boltrig wrote:
NuclearLooks like someone on this forum is well-informed by alternative energies. Yes, nuclear fuel is the most efficient, expedient, cheap, and safest fuel source in the world. The only instance of people dying from a nuclear meltdown was in Chernobyl, but that happened in 60s, and even by the standards of that day it was a piece of shit machine; thirty years behind its time. Contrast those numbers to the number of miners killed yearly mining for coal and fossil fuels.
The dangers exist yes, but as a middle term solution, I believe the benefits outweigh the risks.
Plus its nowhere near as polluting as people think. The gas belching from nuclear plant stacks is water vapour mainly. Its not some horrible radioactive monstrosity.
So long as proper containment protocols are observed and waste dealt with responsibly, then Nuclear becomes a completely viable option.
Too much NIMBYism though
At 6/14/07 07:39 PM, Zoraxe7 wrote: "of course we nead to redistribute income in this country from the wealthy to the poor. And right now these republicans are redistributing it from you to me."
To a degree that removes peoples incentive to try. If you study your ass off to get a high paid job, and then have your money taken off you, why bother in the first place?
Communism (which that basicly equates to) doesnt work in large situations. (countries and so on)
If you suggest to him that social needs should be the job of private charity...
"you are met with with many statistics, facts and numbers ending with a devistating damning of anyone who can be so "criminally stupid as to think that will work."
(remember the poor-houses of 19th century england?)
Well not many people will remember them, but they may know about them =p
Private charities that help the underprivelaged are all fine and dandy, but I think what the guy is implying is that its governments job to see to the underprivelaged?
Thats benefits in a nutshell to me. In the UK its jobseekers allowance. A much better name by my reckoning. If someone isnt bothering to even look for work, then theres no sense in giving them cash to continue lazing about.
IUm all in favourof heling those fallen on hard times, but there are a small but significant number who will abuse any system set in place.
Example:
The last series of that turgid shite Big Brother (UK version) They had a guy with tourettes on the programme.
Since the airing of the crap, the excuse "I cant work because I have tourettes" rose from 0 reported cases to cases numbering in the thousands.
None of these sad gits actually did have tourettes, but it just goes to show how the system is abused.
This is why a system that helps the truly needy is hard to implement ; the lazy exploit it.
At 6/14/07 08:04 PM, Jeriad-440 wrote: Moon Shine!!!
think about it, you can fuel your car and get drunk at the same time
For those who don't know what moon shine is made of, it's made from corn
Bio fuels that are made from crops wont get you drunk. Itd be like chugging vegetable oil. Not a good idea!
At 6/14/07 08:01 PM, Jeriad-440 wrote: Should they really allow people to be cloned?
Even though it's not funded by the government, unheard of independent organizations are giving money out the ass for this type of research should this be Allowed tell me what you think
Youre in the realms of sci fi so far. The moral implications of cloning entire people are going to keep humanity back for at least decades.
Speaking as someone who eventually wants to become a SOCO (British CSI) Im against human cloning Identical DNA gives too good an alibi. Tag team clone criminals would pwn the police service!! Lol
Feminism isnt so much of a force as it once was. The reason?
Ex-Fems are more satisfied with the way things are.
Excerpt from a piece I wrote a while back:
Feminist - "We want equal rights!"
Boltrig - "But isnt it the case that most feminists now have ceased whining because they have found gainfull employment in a position of relative power?"
Feminist - "....."
Boltrig - "You got the vote decades ago, you now have legislation and laws saying you must be treated equally, and a definate change in attitudes, what more do you want?"
Feminist - "....."
Boltrig - "I think your just bitching because it gives you something to do. Either that or youre pissed off, either at a man or at not having a cause anymore, and taking out your frustrations on everyone"
Feminist - "Thats just the kind of thing a man would say! Sexist!"
Boltrig - "STFU bitch!"
At 6/14/07 07:50 PM, duckiesrock wrote: Which alternet fuels should we consider? There are so many different ones which ones should America, China, Britian, or other large world powers conised?
Nuclear
The dangers exist yes, but as a middle term solution, I believe the benefits outweigh the risks.
At 6/14/07 07:54 PM, duckiesrock wrote: I know religon plays a big part in world politics but why don't they make a seperate forum for it? It would be a smally used forum but I think it would be a good idea.
Thats the point. It would be little used. In the politics forum you still get intellegent people that have their own views on religion.
It leads to a much more varied debate
Or a flame war, eithers good.
No one is. Hes daft for calling Blair racist, but that doesnt give lisence for racist retaliation.
Unfortunately, you need to just accept that there are idiots in the world...
At 6/13/07 12:29 AM, SolInvictus wrote:
you could have come up with dozens of much better examples to support your point. i hope you realise that the example you mentioned is detrimental to your statement.
Not really. The example he mentioned shows that gays and lesbians want equal treatment, whereas the whole thread is about how they want to be allowed to single themselves out.
Seems to prove his point to me.
The link you posted, right click and save as.
Id have thought that much was clear
download it using a firefox addon, then use a program called cinemaforge. works wonders.
Just dont ask it to do anything strenuous though. Its a little bitch
download it using a firefox addon, then use a program called cinemaforge. works wonders.
Just dont ask it to do anything strenuous though. Its a little bitch
You, sir, are a fool. That is not at all the problem. Where do you get off giving false advice like that.
By now you probably have realised that I am being sarcastic and have nothing but positive things to say about you.
</family guy refrence>
Seriously though, that was indeed the issue. If youre ever in Glasgow, ill buy you a JD.
Awesomeness.
I used the LAME encoder on audacity to convert it to mp3. this didnt help as flash now just encounters an error when importing the file.
Thats why i was wondering if it was maybe audacity at fault...
Ive posted it in the flash forum too. I posted here one the offchance that it was a known audacity glitch.
No idea how to sort it though?
Ive been using audacity as a recording program, and the voices ive got sound fine in the playback, as well as in WM Player and sound recorder, but when I import them into flash, it sounds like the pitch has been doubled.
Has anyone else come across this, and hence know of a solution?
Hamster voices abound, and this is not a good state of affairs. Its hard to take a commissar seriously when he sounds like hes on helium!
Cheers in advance.
Has anyone encountered this and hence know how to fix it?
When I open a .wav file with WM Player or sound recorder, its fine, but when I import it into flash to use it, it's pitch is doubled.
Hamster voices abound, and this is not a good state of affairs. Its hard to take a commissar seriously when he sounds like hes on helium!
(I used audacity as the recording program.)
At 6/1/07 08:28 PM, InsertFunnyUserName wrote:At 6/1/07 08:18 PM, SirLebowski wrote:That's a good point.At 6/1/07 08:10 PM, InsertFunnyUserName wrote: It seems like a good idea on the outside, but couldn't that same concept be aplied to regular bars that just don't like gays?Well I think it's stupid to ban them. When you could just ask the specific trouble makers to leave. Of course this is a little different. A gay bar is ment to serve homosexual people, it has a specific purpose. While a regular bar doesn't really mean a STRAIGHT bar. It's just a general place for anyone to drink.
So there is a bit of a difference, in that sense.
I can see the reasons for both sides of the argument. They way I see it, we either have to let ALL private buisnesses deny WHOEVER they want, or make ALL buisnesses let in EVERYBODY - as long as there's a reason.
Thing is, can you imagine the outcry if you actually opened a straight bar? There would be hell from those laughingly refered to as "equal rights" campainers.
Equal rights would allow the opening of a straight bar, but the campainers would cry discrimination against gays, despite all of the above taking place.
Double standards are rife these days...
At 6/4/07 10:06 AM, MegalomaniacVirus wrote:.
Could this mean a possible World War 3?
Nope. Russian showboating. I have to think that Russia's bark is worse than its bite.
I wonder if this will do anything regarding public opinion of the Trident fleet...
At 5/27/07 07:36 AM, cellardoor6 wrote:
...Yet we are still doing well and still have the worlds most competitive economy. You can't blame economic performance on crap like that.
And you cant claim to have a booming economy through strength of trade etc.
"... there’s a very real chance that the US will be in recession before the year is out."
" Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan puts the odds at one in three.."
Caused by.....
"..slashing interest rates indiscriminately every time a minor slowdown threatened the American economy.."
"... with inflation still uncomfortably high – in no small part down to petrol prices - the Fed will find it hard to justify cutting interest rates to give consumers any relief..."
Your economy isnt as competitive as you think. And im not saying this because I think it makes the Uk look better, indeed what bodes ill for the US bodes ill for mostly the rest of the financial world.
At 5/26/07 07:30 PM, cellardoor6 wrote:
You get that? Americans make more money than British people. About 1/3rd more.
Uh huh. From the oh so reputable answers.com.
I dont really care wether Americans make more than me, what annoys me is that you think this makes you superior somehow... That because Americans can stand tall and say "we earn more" that this is the next logical step in evolution, therefore all other humans are now subordinate. So long as Ive got enough cash to cover the bills, Im happy. Id rather do the work I do now for the money I get now, than have a high paid job I hate just to say "w00t I > U!"
Thing is there are a higher percentage of ultra-rich people in the States so for a more even view of a countries average income, remove the top and bottom 5 or 10% of earners. The weighting will be making a huge impact.
And on the point of everything being in USD, (aside from the site probably being run by an American [Duh!]) the dollar was an established baseline currency when America was dominant. Same as how English is the language of business, and whatnot, despite there being more speakers of mandarin Chinese. Britain used to be a superpower and thats left its mark. Again, just because youve got the USD as an international base currency, doesnt make you superior.
Dammit man you seemed to be rational for a while, but now you've gone off on your [ America > everything > U ] tangent again.
Sigh. Didnt I say this would happen. More extremist views more extremist retorts.
At 5/26/07 07:32 AM, cellardoor6 wrote:At 5/26/07 07:05 AM, cookie wrote: Britian, Sweden, Canada. Three places that are 100% better than anywhere in the US.How? That's funny that you say that considering people from Britain, Sweden, and Canada come to the US all the time and become US citizens. If they are better, then why do they come to the US at the first opportunity?
Not the first chance. There is no-one in the UK that lives their lives in anticipation of turning 16 and hotfooting it across the pond.
thank god that the dollar is so weak compared to the pound. None of those Americans can move here! :DUm it doesn't matter what the value of the pound is vs. the dollar. Because the average American still makes a lot more money than the average British person in equivalent currency.
The average annual wages in the U.S. are $36,764 > ~£18,500
The average annual wages in the U.K. are £22,000 > ~$40,000
Not a huge difference but not as you suggest "a lot more" in favour of the Americans
And... the reason Americans don't move there is because Britain sucks by comparison. That is why Brits come here, but Americans don't go there.
Hmm. Reasoned debate once more. "Britain sucks" Verifiable statement? No. Opinopn of a small minded xenophobe? Yes
You think anywhere that isnt the US sucks. Grow up.
