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26 comments on Pregnancy revisited or some thoughts on coal

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westexas on March 29, 2006 - 12:32am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
I am reminded of the New Yorker cartoon, where the chairman is addressing the board of directors, "Gentlemen, while the end of the world scenarios are quite grim, we have concluded that the pre-end of the world scenarios can be quite profitable."

The  coal story does once again point out that vast divergence that we are going to see between the fortunes of the energy producers and the energy consumers.

To the extent that you can, you need to move toward being a net energy and/or food producer.   The easiest thing to start with is energy conservation.  

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jkissing on March 29, 2006 - 12:17pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
The easiest way to be an energy producer is to buy some oil and gas stocks before the rush begins. Personally, I like two us companies, both sufficiently distant from gom hurricanes, that are rapidly growing production, net income and (unusually) reserves; ard and gmxr. As an aside, owning some energies makes one fairly philosophical about increasing gasoline and heating costs.
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Yosemite Sam on March 29, 2006 - 10:03pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Reminds me of a cartoon a saw 20 years ago or so.  Two golfers are on the putting green.  In the background, a nuclear bomb is going off over the city.  "Hurry up and putt before the shock wave hits."
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Oil CEO on March 30, 2006 - 4:08am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
You are good at hiding your identity.
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Magnus Redin on March 30, 2006 - 5:21am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Relevance?
(Asked by a very un-hidden identity. )
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Oil CEO on March 30, 2006 - 6:01am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Strange. You have always asked why people hide behind their monikers. Change of heart?
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Magnus Redin on March 31, 2006 - 10:56am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I wondered about the question and admiration of an ability to hide well.

I wonder about all this hiding due too a general lack of communication.

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Don Sailorman on March 31, 2006 - 11:45am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Magnus,
As I have mentioned before, if one has connections with any of several thousand large organizations (government, corporate, university) and if one's true opinions were known, one could expect:
  1. to be fired.
  2. a knife in the back.
  3. suspension at the very least.

If one is employed at a good job in a corrupt organization, one is well-advised to either remain silent or to conceal his or her identity.

For example, I would not want it generally known that I am actually a female Martian, because there is discrimination . . . :-)

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Magnus Redin on March 31, 2006 - 12:35pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
And then it becomes a trend, hide or be uncool?
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Don Sailorman on March 31, 2006 - 1:25pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Of course I could be mistaken, Magnus, but I think prudence has much more to do with issue of "hiding" than does "coolness."

I admire those who reveal their identities, but I also recognize that because of this fact they must self-censor their postings or possibly suffer severe consequences.

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Mad Maxout on March 31, 2006 - 8:56pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
That's funny with the two golfers. Sort of like two shuffleboard players on a cruise ship after hearing a <SLI-I-I-ICE!!!> and one saying "shoot before the ship tilts nose-down". (meanwhile an orchistra forms up and ship attendants re-arrange lounge chairs....)

Gotta hate it when that cruiseliner gets what a pilot could call an "attitude problem". (pun on purpose!)

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26 comments on Pregnancy revisited or some thoughts on coal

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