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Of course some people are skeptical, but I'm more in the class of people who isn't sure what to think. If there were more scientific evidence that wasn't funded by governments, I'd probably find it more believable. As it stands, it just looks like another "negative externality" the governments of the world want to take advantage of as an excuse to tax us more. Also, is there an optimal temperature for the Earth? Who's to say the Earth should be cooler or warmer? These are value judgments.

Well I'm glad you brought that up. Look at high school and college football in America. Team sports are fun when you're participating in them and you don't take them too seriously, but what happens when people develop an allegiance to a particular team (usually the one that represents their geographical location)? They waste of emotional energy. Their happiness is based on the success of something entirely outside of their control - either their teammates or the members of their chosen team. It's basically training young people to be nationalist. You already see that sort of thing with the Republicans and Democrats. The two parties are virtually identical in the policies they effectuate, but people still feel joy when the opposing party fails or their party wins.

It's anti-individualist indoctrination. A soldier makes a good employee, only in the sense that he obeys. And of course the families might have a tiny bit of extra cash on hand to send their kids to college if they weren't financing 700+ overseas military bases involuntarily by their taxes. ;)

Right, so being a soldier is irrational. The idea that you would "die for your country" is absurd on its face. What is your country? The government? Or is it your family? When you really probe to find out why people join the military it usually boils down to their need for a job or nationalism. Saddam was exporting oil to us before we invaded. It's not like we needed to run Iraq to get good deals on his oil. OPEC has far less sway on oil prices today than it used to. Anyway yeah, the only reason America invaded Iraq was to put some military bases there.

Well dying for anything other than yourself (and those you love) is irrational. Nobody would actually die for oil. And the idea that the US government is in search of "stability" in the Middle East is a farce. What is more stable than a dictatorship? Not democracy, that's for sure.

Wait until you get into college and you take classes like The Philosophy of Art. They make you read incredibly complex essays on stuff like pictures, and why we understand they are pictures of things, rather than just colors printed on paper or appearing on a 2D screen. Pretty deep, intriguing stuff.

We import most of our oil from Canada.

Well the byproduct of burning oil is CO2, but what most people aren't aware of is that there is a CO2 cycle just like the water cycle. When higher concentrations of CO2 enter the atmosphere, it is absorbed by rocks in the ground. Some of it is absorbed in the ocean (like the CO2 in your soda). Think about a Pepsi. Whenever it gets hot, it goes flat faster. That's a reaction to the temperature, not the atmosphere. The ocean is the same way - when it gets hot, the ocean releases CO2 and scientists measure this in the atmosphere and say, "Oh, CO2 must be what's causing the increased temperature!" Correlation doesn't equal causation.

Hah, well they make a good point. I think the more noble thing to do is to figure out ways to create sustainable energy sources that are cheaper than coal/oil. Objectivists like Ayn Rand would agree that there is value in a healthy environment, but they argue that value is secondary to human comfort and choice. Which is generally true. At some point we'll make the switch, when alt energy is cheaper.

What's an animal? Is that like a cat?

Oh yeah there's a restaurant near where I live that prepares roast beef in an oven with grape tomatoes and small potatoes, it's the best dish ever. I need to figure out what the sauce is made from, but it's really creamy and I know it has truffle oil in it. Truffle oil is the bomb on veal.

You don't even have a permit.

Those damned Jews. I mean... wonderful weather we're having!

You bitch. I rigged up a human-sized hamster wheel in my room and I've been running on it since 4:00 this morning, generating electricity for my neighborhood.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/cherry-tomatoes-with-buttermilk-blue-cheese-dressing-recipe/index.html Print this recipe out and make it sometime. You'll die of joy when you eat it.

What is everybody's favorite salad dressing? Mine is homemade bleu cheese that's been thinned out with some buttermilk.

Kiwi and tomatoes. Not together, though, that would be gross. http://www.gourmet.com/

I don't care about the ladies. ;) I prefer the dudes. And I don't own a yacht yet, but I will one day. I'll dock it at St. Barths.

I have an affinity for the finer things in life. Nothing wrong with that! http://www.trinityyachts.com/ http://www.sothebysrealty.com/en/home.aspx

Because economics affects everything! Plus I like money. So shoot me. :P

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/chartdl.aspx?Symbol=NTDOY&CP=0&PT=10 The Gamecube was a disappointment in terms of sales, and the Wii exceeded all expectations. If you had bought the stock back in 2005 and held onto it a couple years before selling, you would have made a 700% profit.

Yep, and the Wii was called "Revolution" before it came out. They always give code names to their systems before they are made official.

Well at the time it was called "Project Dolphin" and we knew it would use an IBM CPU and an ATI graphics card. That was about it. So we didn't know it would be a cube.

My first forum was a Nintendo forum, and we would speculate about what the Gamecube was going to look like. It was fun.