lol

dude
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i kid, i kid.

wow, i guess when you are that fat, you can't help catching a knife now and then.

i saw that episode - pretty sure they didn't use an apc, they just hit him with bean bags, dude...

because it's the best province.

last night I was at the gym and there was an 11 year old kid who spent 3 hours there, he goes all the time...

fixed.

i don't remember but are there fire extinguishers in metros? anyone here ever been sprayed with one? i have. it would give him pause.

training won't help you fight someone who is on pcp or meth because their body doesn't respond to external stimuli or even internal stimuli like pain.

but regardless, people should have done something.

yeah, shooting in an enclosed space like the metro is a great idea. And you know what, if they had shot at him, you all would be in this thread bitching about how stupid montreal cops were to fire their guns in a metro station.

dude the reason i said "wtf" is because this information has no context whatsoever - wtf is it , a letter, from who to who, wtf?

ha are you serious? montreal people rude? where else have you lived?

why wouldn't you be surprised?

true, but just push him onto the tracks, should be able to do that if you catch him off balance.

what?

i was thinking exactly the same thing.

those salt ion bridges ARE really cool.

bla bla bla.

yeah - discussion is far more than logic dude.

it's important to do thorough research, not just grab links off of google. and the web is hardly a reputable source for scientific knowledge.

no man, you become a "veteran", then a "double-veteran", then a "pro".

when you say "we", what exactly do you mean? Quebec? Canada? The US? Because power grids are managed regionally, and it is not a trivial matter to transfer power across north america, let alone on a global basis.

Regarding your source of information on solar energy - that page is dated 1999. Hardly a good example, and in any case, these houses do exist, they do frequently have energy surpluses, and they are cost effective to build even if you DON'T factor in the energy savings.

You are wrong about a "uge solar farm in the desert *might* be capable of powering a small town nearby." Perhaps it is you who might wnat to check your sources. In INC magazine a couple of months ago there was a very interesting article about a solar company in New Mexico. The online version is here:

[ www.inc.com ]

some quotes:
""A farm 100 miles by 100 miles would be enough to displace the fossil-fuel consumption of the U.S.,"

Plenty of room for that in the desert.

"Big, expensive solar panels in very sunny areas produce relatively little power, which winds up costing about 25 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity. (A kilowatt is about enough to power 14 75-watt bulbs.) Electricity from a conventional natural-gas-burning power station, by contrast, costs about seven cents per kilowatt hour.

Slawson's library raid turned up a book that detailed a different approach: a thermoelectric solar dish system developed by McDonnell Douglas (later absorbed into Boeing) with a Swedish firm called Kockums, technology that was later sold to and tested by Southern California Edison. Instead of using rays of sunlight to knock out electrons, the dish reflects and concentrates the rays in order to heat and thus expand a gas. That expansion is then put to work by a device called a Stirling engine to turn a conventional electric generator. The approach is nearly twice as efficient as most photovoltaic systems -- while doing away with semiconductors and other expensive materials. "

So he purchased the technology, developped it to the degree that he can sell it for 8 cents per kilowatt hour, and has been running a successful company that is in the final stages of negotiating agreements to feed american power grids.

As you can see, the technology has advanced past simply sitting a solar panel in the sun.

Your statement regarding dusion that "Nothing else that is within reach comes anywhere near" is baseless.

for me it's more like a job.

hehe it's only unique if it's your first time ;)

i use someone else's finger.

who is talking about "global" energy? Global energy is a useless concept at this point. What existing power grid is going to transmit power globally.

and you are wrong about solar panels. there are houses in california that actually produce a surplus of energy from solar panels that they use for their own electrical production, and they sell this power back to the utility. And this is just on a HOUSE, not a huge solar farm in a desert. So check your facts on solar panels, the technology has advanced and you don't know what you are taking about.
Any sci fi "let's beam energy from space" plan is completely unrealistic. They can't even maintain the space shuttle, let alone develop new space technology. The funding isn't there, big corporations are scared to death of space travel / development other than as a novelty, and can you imagine the regulations required to beam microwaves down to earth?

saying the sun operates on fusion is completely meaningless. how is that supposed to somehow indicate that it is the best technology? Oh wow, hurricanes generate more power than have every been generated by any power grid cumulatively in the history of man - let's create some man made HURRICANES and use those for power!!! It's just as ridiculous an analogy.

Fusion may be the answer some day, but the key is to refine existing tech instead of some pie in the sky solution.

solar panels and geothermal are about 500 percent more realistic than some fusion fantasy.

fusion? realistically attainable?

i don't think you know what you are talking about, man. i do think you like to boast tho.

i don't see what age would have to do with it man.

hey, like our parents always said, and their parent's before them: fuck future generations.

dude, some chicks can come from anal.....just like some girls can;t come on top, and some can only come doggy....different people can do different things.

straight people pursue anal sex because it feels good. some girls prefer it to vaginal, dude. as for the wall between the anus and the vagina being easily broken - trust me, it isn't.

better get cracking and buy that land soon or the only thing left will be inhospitable up north land.

it cost me less than ten dollars to drive down to ny and back, and i drive a large, v8 car......so it was well worth it.

that's true, the time certainly has come to seriously develop some alternatives.

that graph doesn't take into account currently discovered resources that aren't being exploited. There are many reserves of oil that it is currently not profitable to extract and refine, and the oil companies are waiting until the market price is high enough to justify extracting.

there's way, way more than 5 years of gas left, at least 20, probably 25 to 30.

nope - there's no way i could ever save money on insurance.

but with a 70 litre tank, 60 cents a litre adds up fast.