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Amazing video -- > Free Hugs !!

Unread postby Schneider » Sat 09 Dec 2006, 15:32:08

I just dropped on my ass while watching this video ---> Free Hugs!!!

I don't believe it..It seem that there is still hope for the human species after all 8O !

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Re: Amazing video..

Unread postby Stratovarius » Sat 09 Dec 2006, 15:38:08

Um, how can you ban free hugs? What country is that in?
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Re: Amazing video..

Unread postby Schneider » Sat 09 Dec 2006, 15:55:18

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Stratovarius', 'U')m, how can you ban free hugs? What country is that in?


Australia i think..What a shame ! But at least,some of the officers accepted to be hugged at the end :lol: !

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Re: Amazing video..

Unread postby Loki » Sat 09 Dec 2006, 15:55:50

Those hippies were just begging for a good tazering.

The free hugs video from South Korea is also pretty funny. The free hugs guy there also had security guards run him off.
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Re: Amazing video..

Unread postby Falconoffury » Sat 09 Dec 2006, 16:01:45

"They" do not want people to hug. Hugging unites people. It unites strangers. A united people are not what "they" want. "They" want people to be isolated into small groups... manageable groups. "They" want to maintain fear and emptiness in society, so that people would spend more money on the wrong things in a vain and endless attempt to fill their emptiness.

Free hugs is a massive threat to "their" plans. Free hugs would change the face of society, and ruin all the progress that "they" have made so far.

I thank that man for his fight against the dying of the light.
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Re: Amazing video..

Unread postby Schneider » Sat 09 Dec 2006, 16:03:24

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Loki', 'T')hose hippies were just begging for a good tazering.

The free hugs video from South Korea is also pretty funny. The free hugs guy there also had security guards run him off.


Come on Loki ! At least,they do something to make the world a bit better :wink:..

But some Korean guys seem to be highly possessive :-D !

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Re: Amazing video..

Unread postby Loki » Sat 09 Dec 2006, 16:49:44

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')ome on Loki ! At least,they do something to make the world a bit better :wink:..

But some Korean guys seem to be highly possessive :-D !

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I was just joking about the tazering (a clubbing would have sufficed).

I did notice that some of those Korean guys were a bit possessive. That was the funniest part of that video. Plus all the girls standing around taking pictures of the guy.

I do think it's kind of cool what these people are doing, and that it seems to have spread around the world thanks to Youtube.
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Re: Amazing video -- > Free Hugs !!

Unread postby NEOPO » Sat 09 Dec 2006, 17:47:31

Screw you people!!
Yer just trying to convince everyone that we still have those things they call "feelings" and I think its a conspiracy!!!

Group peak oil hug? 8)

I wonder if free wedgies or noogies would get the same kind of response.
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Re: Amazing video -- > Free Hugs !!

Unread postby Schneider » Sat 09 Dec 2006, 17:49:24

Peak Hugs 8O !?

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Re: Amazing video -- > Free Hugs !!

Unread postby mercurygirl » Sat 09 Dec 2006, 18:23:01

[smilie=5grouphug.gif]

Thanks.
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THE Free Stuff Thread (merged)

Unread postby Leanan » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 10:29:40

It used to be for subscribers only (aside from a few select freebies) but they've just made their entire archives, back to 1992, free for everyone. There are lots of energy and environment articles. Like this classic eight years ago:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')merican civilization as we know it appeared to be in grave peril a quarter century ago. When Arab nations cut off oil shipments to the United States during the 1973 war in the Middle East, gasoline prices abruptly rose 40 percent and panic ensued. Motorists idled in long lines at gas stations, where creeping tensions led to fights and even occasional shootings. Automakers scrambled to retool their assembly lines to manufacture miserly compacts rather than gas-guzzling behemoths. Entrepreneurs poured millions into upstart solar-energy and wind-power companies. Politicians pontificated about the need for collective belt-tightening and offered income tax credits to homeowners for energy-saving insulation. Meanwhile, doomsday scenarios predicted ever-increasing shortages of fossil fuels and $100-a-barrel oil prices by the year 2000.

Surprise. Doomsday is nigh and oil has been selling at $10 to $15 a barrel, not $100. Adjusting for inflation, gasoline is cheaper today than it was before the Arab oil embargo. Indeed, the world seems to be awash in oil.
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Why We'll Never Run Out of Oil

Also articles about coal, alternative energy, eating locally...and that turkey parts plant.
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Re: Discover magazine archives now free

Unread postby Gazzatrone » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 11:21:44

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Leanan', 'I')t used to be for subscribers only (aside from a few select freebies) but they've just made their entire archives, back to 1992, free for everyone. There are lots of energy and environment articles. Like this classic eight years ago:

Why We'll Never Run Out of Oil

Also articles about coal, alternative energy, eating locally...and that turkey parts plant.


Talk about being so last century. Who'd have thunked it then, that the World's annual growth rate in consumption of 1.6% would be blown out of the water just 4 years down the road with China and India coming out of nowhere shooting the consumption rate up by 3.4%. I know it steadied out again at 1.6% in 2005, but that 3.4% gap had already been created and the new eco-powers weren't going to stop.

Oops I feel to much of a doomer. Let's recline and think back to the hedonistic 90's, when ignorance was bliss. We could buy what we wanted, when we wanted, where we wanted without consideration for our future needs. As long as the economy was growing and we were alright Jack.

Well I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Re: Discover magazine archives now free

Unread postby Leanan » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 12:48:24

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')Have any of these fields really panned out like hoped?


No. After we declared war on Afghanistan and everything...
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Re: Discover magazine archives now free

Unread postby Zardoz » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 15:31:15

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The High Priest of Cornucopianism and some other asshole', '')People think of the Earth as having a certain amount of oil the way you might have a certain amount of money in your bank account,” adds Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, who wrote the The Prize, a history of oil, and The Commanding Heights, a study of market forces and the energy industry. “But in reality, the ultimate amount available to us is determined both by economics and technology.” So even though the United States has already spent more than half its domestic oil reserves on its energy-hungry economy, the gloom-and-doom predictions of the seventies were averted because of advances in oil technology and colossal new oil finds in West Africa, Colombia, and Russia. And Roger Anderson, director of the energy research center at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, expects the future will hold more of the same. “If you pay smart people enough money,” he says, “they’ll figure out all sorts of ways to get the oil you need.”
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Re: Discover magazine archives now free

Unread postby nth » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 18:06:43

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'Y')ergin and Lynch were at it and the world was flush with stupidity.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')eologists have perfected seismic imaging of seafloor geology, with the hope of tapping into vast new oil fields like the one that lies beneath the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan. That region could harbor a staggering 200 billion barrels—making it one of the largest oil basins ever discovered. And drilling companies can now venture well over a mile into the seafloor. Unmanned submarines make the descent, fitted with robotic arms that guide the drill into the seafloor. The Gulf of Mexico could produce a total of 15 billion barrels, the coast of Brazil 30 billion, and the coast of Angola and elsewhere along West Africa another 30 billion—totaling some 75 billion barrels.
This article came out just after a similar one in Time Magazine. That issue proclaimed "Black Gold" in the Caspian on the cover. Have any of these fields really panned out like hoped?

Yeah those were heady, ignorant times


Interesting...
If you analyze this further, you will see that the Caspian Region is targeting to produce about 5mbpd by 2020.
Gulf of Mexico's 15 billion barrels must be talking about Tertiary zone like Jack field. That zone is projected for 800kbpd by 2020.
Brazil and Angola are only expected to produce 2-3mbpd more than current output at best. These are all very optimistic figures that I grabbed.
So at best 8.8mbpd of new output. Not bad at all, except it won't do much to prevent PO. Declining oil fields required 3-4 mbpd of new output per year to offset their declining productions. This rate is supposed to accelerate in the next few years. So all this new production is good for about 2-3 years at best.

Even using optimistic projections for new projects, we get PO very quickly.
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Re: Discover magazine archives now free

Unread postby nth » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 18:11:48

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The High Priest of Cornucopianism and some other asshole', ' ')“If you pay smart people enough money,” he says, “they’ll figure out all sorts of ways to get the oil you need.”


This is funny. Reminds me of how wealthy people threw lots of money to alchemists to make lead into gold. With the science we know now, we know it is impossible to make gold from lead no matter how much money you throw at it. The same holds true for oil. No matter how much money you throw at people. The amount of oil one can produce is dictated by geology. If you don't throw enough money, it just means you will produce a lot less than what geology dictates. There are negative effects if we don't invest enough, but zero positive effects.
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Re: Discover magazine archives now free

Unread postby MattSavinar » Mon 19 Mar 2007, 18:26:09

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')“If you pay smart people enough money,” he says, “they’ll figure out all sorts of ways to get the oil you need.”


Yep. It's called the "invade the Middle East." An extraction technique that was first used in 1914 when the British invaded Basra. Has become increasingly popular in recent years.
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Josh Bell gives free concert; ignored

Unread postby oowolf » Mon 09 Apr 2007, 17:49:42

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Re: Josh Bell gives free concert; ignored

Unread postby Chaparral » Tue 10 Apr 2007, 05:01:50

If I had heard that quality of playing, I'd have been stopped dead in my tracks. I'd have whipped out the cell phone and told my party I will be seriously late and told them why. Some in my family would probably have dropped what they were doing and high-tailed it over If they were within a few miles or so.
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