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Y The trouble with the rationality axis [on Pournelle's chart] is that the people who are acting like loons won't believe it when you place them on that axis. Ah, but that axis isn't "rationality", per se. Elsewhere in the article, he described it as "belief in planned social progress", and pointed...

I've found this interesting quiz, which based on your score decides what political side you're on. http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html I hate, hate hate HATE [/color] questionaires that demand absolute yes/no answers to essay questions. This questionaire asks five questions that require at least a pa...

I hereby accept the implied challenge. Here's a picture of a caribou herd scattered across the green hills of the "mosquito-infested marsh and bald tundra". But you're doing "the usual". The 1002 area is 1.5 million acres. The proposal is to develop, at most, 0.8 percent of that. The picture you sh...

I might point out, however, that a federal judge has the authority to overturn a jury's verdict of not guilty IF, in his or her opinion, there is a "preponderance of evidence" supporting a guilty verdict. Uh... I don't think so. This rule was used by the judge who presided over the Branch Davidian ...

Rokas wrote:I'll second that.

Third... Especially this panel. Wow.

Back around 1970, in junior high, we were treated in various issues of My Weekly Reader to exactly the same sorts of stories about how the Alaska Pipeline risked all kinds of cataclysmic environmental disasters, and the caribou would take one look, and just die from the sheer horror of the unnatura...

The jury's hands were not tied. They could have simply returned not guilty and gone home. Whether they should have is another issue. I haven't heard the evidence so I won't judge whether the jury screwed up. *cough*cough* Directed verdict. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_verdict There's any n...

BrockthePaine wrote: I am now rather oddly interested in what kind of notoriety you'd get for that kind of feat... "Man Shoots Down Alliance Cruiser With 20th Century Handgun."

Well, given that most of the firearms carried by Captain Mal and his crew look ... very remarkably like 19th century firearms...

All in all, I don't see oil drilling causing the outright destruction of habitat here. All the expected effects are described in incremental terms. What we are being warned against, ultimately, are "unknown" potential effects, which are invariably described as potentially cataclysmic even though we...

Going to the web page you provided yourself, I see that the part of ANWR under discussion is, indeed, exactly where I thought it was, on the north coast of Alaska, looks like a couple hundreds miles east of Prudhoe Bay. Which is not "North Slope". "North Slope" is one specific borough of Alaska, wh...

The oil in question is in ANWR, on the North Slope. In fact, in the most hostile, desolate, bereft-of-life part of the North Slope. The area where exploration and development is being proposed is a miniscule fraction of one percent of the total space. The habit of talking of development of a tiny p...

Jaydub wrote: That almost as scary as "Night of the Lepus".

The only things scary about "Night of the Lepus" are --

I spent seventy five cents plus ninety minutes of my irreplacable lifespan to watch that ... thing. Bleah. Bleah bleah bleah. And bleah.

Might have been fun if it were MST3K'd.

Since the largest concentration of oil lies within the Denali National Park and the accompanying wildlife reserve The oil in question is in ANWR, on the North Slope. In fact, in the most hostile, desolate, bereft-of-life part of the North Slope. The area where exploration and development is being p...

Now, could someone explain something to me? <headscratch> Why is it some sort of indictment against the man to have shooed an angry rabbit away with his canoe paddle? It's just ... such a funny, offbeat incident. My opinon of Carter used to be that he was a good, decent man, who was just out of his...

Nuclear waste? Well, there's Yucca mountain... A desolate, barren mountin, in the middle of a desolate, barren wasteland. Geologically stable, won't leak more than a few hundred rems in ten thousand years. A desolate, barren mountain -- in the middle of the Nevada Test Site, a moonscape of nuclear ...

He's not shooting to end the threat. He's shooting to evade capture. In other words, he just wants them to slow down enough so that he has enough of a lead to lose them. In other words, "suppressing fire". (Or close enough.) Looks like it worked. http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040912.html "Qui...

I thought Ralph once said the elf shot was only lethal on anything smaller than a small bird...? Though if they press Quentyn to the point that he pulls Wildcard... all bets are off. In the past, when it's counted, Wildcard has always done the appropriate thing, so I think that it will do something...

Rokas: Well, from an evolutionary standpoint, cows have a sweet deal. They get raised, fed, and have lots of calves. Then they die. Much less disease, predation, starvation, etc. than their wild ancestors. That's one way of looking at it -- the most successful adaptation there is in today's world i...

...even if it is only with a flying tackle. I hope he doesn't try to get into a wrestling match with her, though. Given that the elf thief seems to know nothing of luxcraft, and is probably stone lux-blind... There was a line in the "Between Worlds" RP, where the kid learning about lux finds out ab...