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But I do know that every time I see two grown up guys getting into an argument here, they must be americans.
Never see a Swede beating up a Chinaman, or vice versa. Or a guy from paris doing a block-block-jab on a guy from Brazil.
This is not high school. You can't bully your way around.
Can you guys go back to the way mom told you? Even in the blog world, it's no good all this shouting. If you would rase your voice to your neighbor like this, he would call the police. Or the Sherif, if you are from Texas ;-)
(The last line is a joke. Don't shoot me, I am unarmed and I have no WMD. No oil either ;-)
To tell you the truth, I don't think anybody has ever treatened me in my whole life.
Do you have to sling playground persiflage back and forth here on the valuable real estate of TOD? Can't you take this somewhere else please?
-C.
Please be kind and rewind.
-C.
Suppose you're online and Greyzone traces your IP and manages to find out information about you (location, time zone, sex, age, name, street address, work address). At some point this person threatens you in such a way that you are not completely sure if you or your family are SAFE any longer. You don't know what Greyzone knows regarding networks, weapons, etc.
What would you do?
And ask yourself if you are really contributing anything to this "thing that you like" by continuing this.
Leanan how is this:
You give me a block/iggy button and that is no issue!
I wish I could. Believe you me, I would be making use of such a function myself, if it existed.
You can try PeakOil.com. They have an Ignore function there.
Are you serious? Seriously, you should just move off topic... post about something else... and get on with your day.
I'm going to lunch, Hey Greyzone, see if you can back trace my IP, I'm spoofing trough 4 IPs right now see if you can geo-target me :)
-C.
(scale of 1-10; 1 not at all and 10 totally)
Pre-2001:
Insane Paranoid
Me - 2 1
Current Day:
Insane Paranoid
Me - 8 3
-C.
Oops...better add a point to my paranoid stat.
My impression is that the Y2K computer failure wasn't computers but the minds of too many Americans and the people in the Middle East. It's like people abandoned logic and reason en masse and embraced delusion in the form of religion. BTW, a Gulfstream 5 is a business jet like a Lear Jet, only about 60mph faster. (stock version) Google the license plate "N379P" for details! That's the infamous Gitmo Express license number in an earlier incarnation.
This is confirmed by Hans Seleye's General Adaptation Syndrome [GAS] and numerous other scientifically peer-reviewed studies among all over-stressed and confined species. Here is a good link by Reg Morrision, reknown author of "The Spirit in the Gene" and "Plague Species":
http://www.regmorrison.id.au/
See the PDF article called "Hydrogen: Humanity's Maker and Breaker".
excerpt:
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A GAS attack
I have previously inferred that an auto-collapse mechanism is built into the genomes of most plague animals.32 Evolutionary safeguards are triggered in social species when
populations grow exponentially and stress levels rise. This results in a predictable spectrum of physiological and behavioural responses that invariably reduce the population's fertility below replacement level. The Canadian endocrinologist Hans Selye in 1936 named these responses the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS),33 and many
other studies have corroborated Selye's findings. A GAS decline typically appears well before famine and disease begin to cull the population, and its hormonal `fingerprint'
often persists in wild mouse populations long after the population has shrunk to plague levels and the habitat has recovered. GAS has led to the local extinction of a species
in some instances.34
Why should this concern us? There are four reasons:
1. There is no evidence that we are fundamentally distinct from other species. We too are shaped, driven and manipulated, both directly and indirectly, by our DNA, and
no basic distinction has ever been detected in the biological fabric of our bodies--or in our behavioural drives.
- The graph of our population growth for most of the past century was exponential and precisely mirrored that of any mammal entering what we call a plague phase.
- All plagues end in similar fashion, with a population collapse that mirrors their exponential growth. Such an abrupt termination is essential to the evolutionary
process. If it did not occur, `successful' species could proliferate indefinitely, endangering the existence of all life on Earth. This does not happen.4. It follows that evolution's auto-collapse mechanism must therefore reside in the evolutionary process itself and persist via genetic replication. I would argue that
this safeguard is essentially expressed via Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome. I would further argue that our species now displays most of the GAS symptoms and has already begun its GAS decline. And most significantly, many of our fertility inhibitors are associated with either a surfeit or dearth of hydrogen.
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Our genes are not our friends. The question is can we collectively outsmart them? Most Geneticists and Historians think we cannot, but a small part of me remains optomistic [but that could just be delusion from GAS].
Bob Shaw in Phx,AZ Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene
The Selfish Gene is a very popular and somewhat controversial book on evolutionary theory by Richard Dawkins, published in 1976. The phrase "selfish gene" in the title of the book was coined by Dawkins as a provocative way of expressing the gene-centric view of evolution, which holds that evolution is best viewed as acting on genes, and that selection at the level of organisms or populations almost never overrides selection on genes. More precisely, an organism is expected to evolve to maximise its inclusive fitness - the number of copies of its genes passed on globally (rather than by a particular individual). As a result, populations will tend towards an evolutionarily stable strategy. The book also coins the term meme, for a unit of human cultural evolution analogous to the gene, suggesting that such "selfish" replication may also model human culture, in a different sense. Memetics has become the subject of many studies since the publication of the book.
Not yet, but I have read a lot of book reviews, excerpts, and brilliant discussion by Jay Hanson, Ron Patterson, Reg, Nate [theLastSasquatch], Matt Savinar, AngryChimp, and others at Dieoff_Q&A over time. IMHO, Jay was a true, very patient intellectual supernova--very rare--I miss his webprescense greatly, even though I have never met him, but I am glad his writings are plastered all over the WWWeb. I remain in awe of these gents, but I think I have fairly good grasp of the basic Thermo-Gene Collision principles as explained in the hundreds of pages at Dieoff.com. I still consider myself to be a newbie having first discovered PO in summer 2003. I have got a lot to learn with very little time. Thxs for responding.
Bob Shaw in Phx,AZ Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?
One of the reasons I am the doomer that I am is precisely because of this stuff. I've been into sustainable living for over 30 years and know what's involved. And, what's involved is adopting a different reality. That's not going to happen.
I'm currently working on a tongue-in-cheek (but serious)post entitled An Interview with a Doomer.
I anxiously await it's arrival. Please submit to EnergyBulletin if you think it will be newsworthy.
Bob Shaw in Phx,AZ Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?