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Captain...or Skully
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Dec 30, 2012 - 10:47pm PT
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Hahaha!..........................I'm not 'Tardian...................Up yours.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Dec 30, 2012 - 10:49pm PT
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I stand by the chart Mimi
go ahead, show your outstanding intellect by "challenging" the chart, facts, TRUTH
FACT: you have been conditioned, programmed, and media spoon fed to believe LIES
and the biggest single LIE you believe is that the people you vote for, Republicans are somehow NOT the big spenders, but that the Democrats are
You don't think for yourself, you don't bother to simple google or bing or yahoo search for
"government debt by president or political party" and then READ what you find
I PROVE my sh#t, mimi, from credible sources, unquestioned like CBO
this thread is about ignorance, and by your continued denial of facts and truth well then...
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Dec 30, 2012 - 10:53pm PT
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Our system is BASED on Ignorance, Duh?..................................................................Still stretchin'.
F*#k Donini's foray into 'Tardism. It'll end in tears.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Dec 30, 2012 - 10:54pm PT
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I don't seriously think my good Comrade F desires ONLY tax increases as an approach to the fiscal problems.
I believe he understands a balanced approach is best.
I can't speak for him, but I believe that he is as frustrated as I am that Republicans have staked out a position where tax increases on people who will not feel it, are absolutely untouchable.....but taking money and resources from people who are barely getting by is totally ok. "squeezing blood from a turnip"
It is infuriating.
I would take square aim at defense.
The F22 doesn't work. It has no mission. The only people it has killed has been Americans. It can't be flown safely.
The F35 doesn't work, and doesn't appear to be able to be made to work. The Heritage Foundation has recommended buying the non-working aircraft, and working to fix them, later. You wonder who paid them off?
It will cost $1 TRILLION dollars just for this aircraft.
Why are we spending billions of dollars to pay engineers who can't build aircraft?
Let's spend ONE billion dollars building the next generation: stealth drone fighters. Cheaper, faster, expendable.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Dec 30, 2012 - 10:56pm PT
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HFCS,
John M is Moosie.
...routinely respectful, I suggest he's not deserving of biting remarks
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A race of corn eaters
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Dec 30, 2012 - 11:05pm PT
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John M is Moosie.
Oh. Hi Moosie!
Sorry for the "biting" remark. But you have to admit worse things are said even on CNN than an "Are you drunk?" - that's pretty tame by many a standard.
P.S. I don't think you are a fool. For the record. :)
You are correct that man is still extremely ignorant. God save us from men like Jerry coyne.
But you are "wrong" about the aforequoted. There. How's that? :)
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Scully, go to bed now.
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jstan,
except for his opinion on free will, Michio Kaku gets the A grade. But, really, what do I know, just a fool here who occasionally proves it by climbing cliffs...
In return, you might like this one...
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57559345/breakthrough-robotic-limbs-moved-by-the-mind/
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Dec 30, 2012 - 11:41pm PT
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Ken M. & Dr. F.
Your thoughts are worth repeating!
Ken
Yes, a balanced approach
Raising taxes, and cutting spending ON things like Corporate welfare, the military, military bases in foreign Countries that want us out, subsidies for big oil
There is so much we can cut, But the Republicans refuse to debate those things, they only go after social programs and services that Democrats support
Like Labor, the environmental, science, health care, education police, fire, social security, these are the Republican targets for cutting,
instead of things that should be cut
and why?? The Republicans have sold out to the lobbyists,
They are the party that caters to the Special Interests, and sells out the people, they don't care if you get sick or lose your job, too bad for you, now go away.
That's why we think you (any Republican) must have a problem, how can you support a party that works against YOU, and only strings you along by lies and propaganda
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Mimi
climber
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Dec 31, 2012 - 12:27am PT
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Really sorry Jim that your thread was hijacked and most of the later posts should have been logged on the Republicans Suck thread.
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MisterE
Social climber
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Dec 31, 2012 - 12:40am PT
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Who doesn't love a good troll - even if it is vapid by the JDF standard ?
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Dec 31, 2012 - 02:21am PT
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This is not off topic.
Also, who the heck posted something that causes me to have to scroll right to see other posts?
Stop it. I don't think it is funny. Be considerate. I do not have a 48" screen computer monitor.
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Dec 31, 2012 - 09:35am PT
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if you study english, you'll learn about the royal "we" and the editorial "we". supertopo seems to be developing a new one, the scientific "we", as in "we know" this and "we know" that.
that seems to be the stance of the OP here and the off-topic groupies he has attracted. at least the real boobs of supertopo are sticking to the flypaper on that other thread.
mighty hiker's wikipedia reference dealing with the construction of the pyramids is a predictable piece of speciousness, based on the orthodox speculations of egyptology, which is perhaps the most inexact science on earth.
when it comes to the big pyramids, you have to understand a number of important parameters. huge blocks quarried way upriver at aswan. no watercraft other than elegant reed or plank boats, mostly reed, since planks had to come from lebanon or the atlas. no modern cutting tools. bronze was the hardest metal. the hittites were just beginning to mess with iron.
you also have to understand the precision, as well as the volume, of the rock work, especially in the khufu pyramid. have you guys ever worked rock? i mean worked it. the little work i've done requires diamond blades, diamond abrasives, and multi-horsepower motors, and cutting an inch or polishing a square inch seems to take forever.
and then, no wheels, baby. MH's wiki article talks about a depiction of the moving a monument block by sledge. that's pretty small potatoes compared to the work that had to be done at giza. multiply that wikipedia "explanation" by the hundreds of thousands, and you might be able to build the khufu or the khafre. but, sonofagun, there just isn't any ready archaeological evidence for this work having been done. all we have is the fait accompli.
a couple other interesting curiosities. the height of the khufu pyramid is 2 pi of the perimeter. likewise, in another anomalous giant pyramid, at teotihuacan, the height is 4 pi of the perimeter. coinkydink? or someone trying to tell us something? wiki will tell you that pi was cooked up by archimedes in 250 b.c.
please pick on werner here, since he brought this up:
Thousands of years ago science was very advanced.
Today in the so called modern age it's gone into the cave man cave.
Devolved, devolution.
Some day in 428,000 years they will wake up again from their slumber ......
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Dec 31, 2012 - 10:14am PT
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One thing that we know of based on how evolution works is that we humans have not evolved significantly since the time of the pyramid-building Egyptions. There is just not enough elapsed time. If you could somehow teleport a human from the third or fourth century B.C. and raise him/her from infancy in today's world (say, first world), that person would almost certainly fall within today's range of intelligence. So, it's not that they were unintelligent. It's just that they did not have background knowledge in all sorts of disciplines that we have today. So, it's not surprizing that they came up with some seemingly amazing solutions to problems that interested them. It's also not surprizing that they had no idea of things like the true age of the earth.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Dec 31, 2012 - 10:25am PT
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So, it's not that they were unintelligent. It's just that they did not have background knowledge in all sorts of disciplines that we have today. So, it's not surprizing that they came up with some seemingly amazing solutions to problems that interested them. It's also not surprizing that they had no idea of things like the true age of the earth.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Dec 31, 2012 - 11:18am PT
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Dave G, that video was AWESOME!!!
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Dec 31, 2012 - 12:37pm PT
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Inside the pants, you say?
Brilliant!
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