tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post4695963679739483835..comments2024-03-29T00:38:38.893-07:00Comments on Irons in the Fire: From where Great Britain used to beFirehandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-44500080050212051932015-01-02T09:38:32.982-08:002015-01-02T09:38:32.982-08:00The Daily Beast article is good. I suspect more an...The Daily Beast article is good. I suspect more and more people wil find themselves so tied up in red tape that they'll simply decide noncompliance is no longer an unreasonable course.Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15581662615586346808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-53672934216224967222015-01-02T06:50:45.919-08:002015-01-02T06:50:45.919-08:00On the spectrum from pure fuels e.g. natural gas o...On the spectrum from pure fuels e.g. natural gas or coal to energy transfer media such as Hydrogen (or electricity) which do not occur naturally in a usable state, ethanol falls somewhere in the middle to energy transfer end. It has its uses but can never replace petroleum on a net energy balance basis. Too bad politicians cannot just leave the market to develop te best solutions on its own.Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15581662615586346808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-83357288544305394542015-01-02T06:40:56.967-08:002015-01-02T06:40:56.967-08:00I read Jared Diamond's books, Guns Germs &...I read Jared Diamond's books, Guns Germs & Steel and Collapse. Neither are good reads, being more like doctoral theses and filled with repetition. GGnS is panned by Victor Hansen for its assertion that GGnS were the only reason the west conquered the New World and not the inherently superior culture. Plus from the picture in the linked article he probably ought to learn to hold and shoot a bow correctly.Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15581662615586346808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-37224960849259742912015-01-02T04:53:40.448-08:002015-01-02T04:53:40.448-08:00A public order offence for burning the Koran. Woul...A public order offence for burning the Koran. Would he be jailed for doing the same to the Bible? Of course not. Why? Because Christians won't riot if you burn a bible, but muslims will if you burn a Koran, so we supress freedom of expression to excuse and avoid illegal actions by a violent minority....sounds like dhimitude to me.Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15581662615586346808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-39978506756760571332014-12-31T17:37:55.464-08:002014-12-31T17:37:55.464-08:00Reference that fellow in England: Don't they h...Reference that fellow in England: Don't they have the signs there advising people not to toss cigarette butts into the urinals as it makes them soggy and hard to light?Billllhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13913354887560267235noreply@blogger.com