Comments by xenon314
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Posted on July 6 at 12:09 p.m.
The best way to combat the Saudis is to take a page from China - they declared war on us economically, and have never had to fire a shot.
We need a modern-day Manhattan project to find a replacement for oil. If we were to find a feasible alternative energy source (solar and/or fusion power are our two best bets), then all the oil under the ground would simply become something from which we make plastic jugs and Vaseline.
A clean upstream power source would allow us to make all of our vehicles electric or hydrogen powered. Oil is simply a stepping stone to the next generation of energy.
Posted on June 15 at 9:54 a.m.
Ahh, yes, Enkikur - I knew full well that you would jump on this one.
If you are so concerned about Adams County, why don't you move here and help fix things, since, according to you, they are so broken here?
Are you this active in whatever place you live? Or do you just spout your conspiracy theories there, as well?
Posted on June 9 at 9:58 p.m.
Ah, yes...I did misspeak. I quoted from Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" and Karl Marx's "Das Kapital". My apologies...I read the BMJ article that refuted Rex Curry's arguments...
You are so wrapped up in your yourself, though, that you didn't notice:
I never mentioned global warming.
I never mentioned the Kyoto protocols.
I never mentioned polar bears.
And OF COURSE you have inside knowledge on coal figures. You have inside knowledge on everything, it seems.
No, I really don't think that I will find anything you have to say interesting. Perhaps I did at one time, before I read enough of your posts. I'm just going to go back to my ignorant little life, work on my obviously worthless Ph.D., and leave the Big Picture to intellectually superior beings such as yourself...
Posted on June 9 at 9:27 p.m.
Sam -
I'm right there with you - EnKiKur, I promised myself I wouldn't get sucked into something with you again, but you are one bitter, paranoid individual. You are an American only by geographic location? A United States citizen by federal occupation and force of arms? Spare me. Nobody's got a gun to your head making you stay here.
Your stance is arrogant - you make it sound like you are the only person who can see what is really going on...and your sources that you cite...first Rex Curry, now freedomadvocates.org...the latter having articles with such titles as:
"Santa Cruz - The Gestapo of the West"
Quite frankly, I am offended. I would venture to say that the worst that Santa Cruz could do would not approach anything that the Gestapo could do. My dad was a WWII vet in the Pacific, and his brother a P.O.W. in a German camp. These are your sources of information?
Perhaps you've forgotten what happened in WWII.
Read the Nuremberg Trial documents:
http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/php/doc...
I've tried citing peer-reviewed articles for you on other topics, to no avail. You've cited them in return, though apparently without reading them thoroughly, because on further inspection, they refuted, rather than supported, your positions!
Your main sources of information seem to come directly from the Internet web sites that have just as bitter & paranoid tones as you yourself do. If someone disagrees with you, you accuse them of impugning your character.
I presented a valid scientific approach to Rentech's CO2 emissions, and you write, "And of course one volcano eruption will undo several hundred years of any carbon savings created by this process, making man's contribution insignificant".
Wow. Cynicism, paranoia, and bitterness all in one package. And only you have the answers for all of us poor ignorant folk. You really are something else.
Posted on June 9 at 5:42 p.m.
From what I've been able to find from research:
4,790 tons per day of coal yields 6,083 barrels per day using the Fischer-Tropsch process of coal liquefaction.
One project that seems to have value is a joint venture that will take the CO2 from the T-P process, use it to grow algae, with the byproducts being O2 and biomass. The biomass can then be used further as fuel. There will still be carbon emitted but first estimates seem to show that there will be less than with either T-P coal liquefaction alone or with traditional oil consumption.
Posted on June 9 at 10:45 a.m.
EnKiKur -
You, buying stocks? For shame - recall your post from May 27:
"I regard market speculation as usury for sound reasons. Only those who have no basic understanding of how our system works would regard it as anything else. When one person gains, another loses in the markets."
Tsk, tsk...what is buying stocks but market speculation? And here I thought you were a man of conviction...
Posted on May 28 at 7:25 a.m.
EnKiKur -
Here's the reason I cannot take you seriously any more, no matter how glib your arguments may sound. Keep in mind that I had never, ever even heard of Rex Curry before you posted his web site in your post about fascism in America.
Here's why I won't be responding to your posts after this:
http://rexcurry.net/fetishism-fetish-fla...
Any time you refer to a freakshow wacko like Rex Curry, be prepared to be taken less seriously. You claim "you also have differences with Curry". Does this include the smut he has on his web site? Whatever message Curry is touting is lost in the delivery.
Sorry, EnKiKur, you lost me. You partially take responsibility for your situation, but yet, you build too large a house "like lots of people do", you support two households (sell one!), you funded a business out of your 401K (no rocket science here, just business 101...BAD IDEA!!), and you blame neighbors, greedy people, and the public school system.
Hell, you sort of remind me of our ole paranoid pal, Supertrucker.
Goodbye, sir.
Posted on May 27 at 9:41 p.m.
EnKiKur -
Greenspan's article on gold was written in 1966.
The video below shows that he still holds basically the same position, but softened somewhat:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5MVsm2cpc0
However, he became our central banker for many years and worked within a system with no gold standard.
From the quotes you cite, and the words you use, you seem to be a true Libertarian - and there is nothing wrong with that, except for the fact you seem to quote from the most extreme views of that party. I am wary of extremism in most forms.
What I am trying to get you to see - and I don't really know why - is that a gold standard is not the ultimate answer to our nations' economic problems. Your economic views are simplistic and, quite frankly, biased and uninformed.
It seems to me - and I may be mistaken - that you are heavily reliant on the Internet for your information and your sources. I caution you on this approach. It also seems that you don't read the entire articles. For example, the BMJ article you cited about child car safety seats being unsafe BEGINS with this sentence:
"Infant car safety seats are vital to protect young infants from injury and death in motor vehicle accidents..."
Not only that, but the case study was on 9 infants...nine from July 1999 to December 2000 in New Zealand. There were many variables: one child had been born premature, and 5 were in cars with smokers. Half were in their car seat but asleep in them at home. All children survived! So...the seats aren't the death traps Rex Curry thinks.
Posted on May 27 at 3:43 p.m.
EnKiKur -
usury - The practice of lending money at such rates as are not legal or fair.
You may accuse me of trying to "defame your character", again, but I'm not. It's your broad sweeping statements with which I have a problem, such as:
"Respectfully, I regard market speculation as usury for sound reasons. Only those who have no basic understanding of how our system works would regard it as anything else..."
Wow - that's about as patronizing a statement as I've heard in a long time...
Respectfully, I have a Master's degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance, so I think
I know more than the average bear about "how our system works".
Buying stock in the market, for whatever reason, is not a loan, but a real purchase of stock in a real company.
All such purchases are speculative, and are a gamble, no matter whether it is Rentech or IBM.
You buy the stock betting the price will rise (long position) or fall (short position). There are many other derivative products that are beyond the scope of this post. However, the end is the same: you enter the market of your own free will, and exit the market the same way.
Your statement of "you can print any amount of paper money and it is that artificial creation of money that has us in economic hardship" is an oversimplification of a incredibly complex topic that even Ph.D.'s in
finance and economics cannot agree upon. Certainly, deficit spending can be inflationary, but is not the overall reason that we are headed to recession.
Other variables include:
Value of the dollar - which is weak right now, and sending investors to oil as a hedge
trade deficits
interest rates
housing crisis - people signed sub-prime mortgages that they could not understand and/or could not afford when interest rates rose
construction spending
factory orders
unemployment rate
The list goes on, but our economy is unbelievably complex and cannot be boiled down to a sound bite...
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Posted on July 17 at 8:20 a.m.
Wow, Enema, I thought I'd heard some negativity on this site before, but you really take the cake!!!
You want to move away and start a new Natchez? Ain't nobody stoppin' you - just don't let the screen door hit you on the way out!
On FBC, Arlington left to demolish themselves