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Well it depends on the type of person. I do believe there are some people who aren't capable of falling in love. That's not a cut against them, they just have a different sort of mental pattern going on. Sometimes people mistake lust for love, that's true. But the surest way to tell the difference between the two is to ask yourself this: do you care more about being in a relationship with the target of your affection, or more about their happiness? If you're willing to forgo a relationship with them so you can see them happy (with someone else) then that's true love.

True, she was probably talking about the government in general, though. The Republicans and Democrats are (for all intents and purposes) identical.

Well there's not enough evidence one way or another to speculate about "peak oil". Certainly the price of a barrel of oil will rise in the next century, but that will be due to demand/population growth and inflation. Not a limited supply. We've only been burning the stuff (seriously) for around 100 years now. Not very long. And oil companies are surprisingly environmentally friendly these days. I think the logging industry is where you should turn your attention if you are worried about animals.

Oil was once solar energy! Plants gathered sunlight millions of years ago, and over time they ended up comprising the carbon in oil. So getting energy direct from the source (the sun) is the best way to go about things. I imagine in the future the way we'd do this is automate a process of firing batteries back and forth between the moon and the Earth. They would be charged by solar farms on the moon (which would be fantastically efficient given the fact there isn't an atmosphere there to reduce solar radiation) and shot back to Earth to be spent. Then the used batteries would be shot back to the moon, using a fraction of the energy they produced. Such a process could be self-powered and entirely automated by robots. And by the time it's implemented, I'm confident battery technology would have progressed substantially due to nanotechnology.

Well noonsun, a 1 or 2 percentage point change in the sun's output can save millions of dollars for these solar companies. Everything is on a massive scale when you're talking about big businesses that operate on margins. Also, solar panel efficiency isn't what's important. What's important is whether solar energy's cost per watt is less than coal energy's cost per watt. Once that magic barrier is broken, it suddenly makes more sense (from a money standpoint) to build solar farms rather than coal plants. http://www.nanosolar.com Here's a business that has invented a way to print solar panels on thin strips of metal. The cost of manufacturing these (admittedly inefficient) solar panels is less per watt than putting the money in coal. It's only the beginning. EDIT: I should add that currently the most efficient form of solar energy is thermosolar, where you just aim a bunch of mirrors in the desert at a tank of water so that it makes steam. It's also even cheaper than nanosolar's stuff.

Being gay is horrible. I've fallen in love a couple of times in my life, both times with straight guys. And to make matters worse their girlfriends would treat them like crap.

Josh, that's seriously funny. :D Did you know that Pat Robertson can leg press 2000 pounds? http://www.cbn.com/communitypublic/legpress_explanation.aspx

Josh, that's seriously funny. :D Did you know that Pat Robertson can leg press 2000 pounds? http://www.cbn.com/communitypublic/legpress_explanation.aspx

Quit flirting, guys. The tension is so thick I could cut it with a chainsaw.

"If this weenie's worth fightin for, let's take this to the dance floor." Angry Beavers was a great cartoon.

Ohhh, FIGHT!

Green is really your color, JD. ;)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sun_output_030320.html Solar radiation output changes with time. Stars aren't perfect devices.

Everybody has a love/hate relationship with themselves. Just tell her that whatever the reason, she needs to try her best to have perspective. Take her to the mall or some place crowded and sit on a bench and watch people as they walk by... and try to comprehend that each of them has their own battles to fight.

You're a fascinating person. I enjoyed reading that.

My bet is most temperature changes that span a couple hundred years are due to the sun burning hydrogen faster/slower. I suspect the sun is gearing up to become a little brighter over the next century. That's great if you're into solar power.

Paul Walker is freaking hot. One of my friends told me I sound just like him, too. :P I wish I looked like him. Lately I've had a thing for black & white, so here's a picture of Jonathan Rhys Meyers:

And what's more modern than masturbation? Just LOOK at this Dubai building! It's longe-- I mean TALLER than any other skyscraper in the world.

This is proof the theory that if major banks fail, nothing will spring up to take their places. Banking is a relatively easy business to get into. It's not like there are patents and machinery you need to buy. You just hire workers who were recently laid off by other banks. Governments that prop up bad banks are only transferring the wealth of taxpayers to the millionaires and billionaires who own & operate them. Banking is now a riskless business - unlike other businesses, a bank cannot go bankrupt.

Probably. Another reason for you to move there! :P For somebody who hates thinking about it, you sure do think about it alot! ;)

An educational video about Math. Some of you might find it enlightening. ;) BTW there are a whole series of these educational videos, on many different subjects. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drE5cHe6c3s]YouTube - Look Around You - Maths (With download)[/ame]

This is hilarious. Ok, here's how you should deal with it: 1. Be proud of your Coldplay pervy obsession. Make jokes about it around him. 2. Next time your laptop breaks, make your background something even more hilariously awkward. He'll remember you from last time and get a kick out of it. This is similar to a situation a girl I know goes through on a weekly basis. She's given an allowance by this guy she's doing an internship for, so the guy will write her a check every week. In the "notes" part of the check, he'll put really funny stuff like "Bunion removal" or "foot massage" so when she goes to cash it, it makes her look like a total weirdo. :D

I know what you mean. "Chrissycorn" will haunt my dreams forever.

Whoa nice Chris! I don't know enough about this subject to make predictions, but I once had a professor who made us fill out a March Madness diagram with our predictions and mine were totally random. I'm sure he knew when he glanced at it.

That was God telling you to move to Dubai.