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The coming Age of Fossil Fuels? by TB June 3, 2011 2:23 pm
    My thought for the day... by Jody June 3, 2011 7:55 am
      Friday's Follies by Jody June 3, 2011 7:16 am
        ...can you tell an author's sex? by Jody June 3, 2011 6:10 am
        • Sure, after a couple of drinks. by ER 2011-06-03 20:37:07
          • ER!!!!!!!!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!! by Jody 2011-06-04 07:42:28
          • I got them all, although I dithered on a couple before finally choosing. I write from a male POV ... by Eri 2011-06-03 17:03:10
            • 7 out of 10 but I don't feel that I would do better than break even in a hundred trys by FrankC 2011-06-03 12:31:58
              • 4 out of 10. About what one might expect for random picks. I do know that writing from a woman's ... by ER 2011-06-03 07:01:22
                Shell to begin construction of Prelude floating liquefied natural gas facility by TB June 2, 2011 8:08 pm
                • How to handle natural gas from offshore rigs has alway been a huge problem. Look at a picture of ... by podrock 2011-06-03 17:50:06
                  • I think rising worldwide demand for energy is a more important driver right now than scarcity of the resources themselves. ... by TB 2011-06-03 18:30:17
                  • Lets just hope they "invest" a little more in safety procedures and emergency planning than BP did in Macondo. ... by ER 2011-06-03 06:44:16
                    • "Only an adversarial system of government regulation can strike the right balance." We had a system exactly like that when the ... by TB 2011-06-03 08:15:15
                      • Royal Dutch Shell is not an American company, that device will not be anchored in American waters, I doubt if ... by ER 2011-06-03 09:01:28
                        • I've been tracking these things, although someone like Podrock probably has his finger closer to the pulse than I do. You ... by TB 2011-06-03 13:04:11
                          • Normally, I'd be tempted to just take your word for it, but you seem so breathlessly desperate to bring this ... by ER 2011-06-03 13:30:01
                    • Look at all that beautiful blue water. Does it belong to Shell too? by mcfly 2011-06-02 20:37:27
                      • Ignore that reply. I'd have deleted it but that option isn't presenting itself. by mcfly 2011-06-03 04:38:12
                        • Don't delete but if you ever do need to delete, click on Edit and then at the right hand side ... by Eri 2011-06-03 06:03:17
                          • I don't have an "edit" to click on, or a window to throw it out of. ARRGGGHHH! by ER 2011-06-03 06:46:07
                            • Refresh once or twice after publishing a post or comment. I find my "edit" doesn't appear until I've done ... by TB 2011-06-03 08:16:09
                              • I only get edit capability when I initiate the thread. And then I get it on all posts in the thread. ... by ER 2011-06-03 09:05:14
                                • ER, TB is right. After you post a reply 0comment), go up and click on the forum heading (Current ... by Eri 2011-06-03 10:32:49
                                  • OK, i'll try it right now. by ER 2011-06-03 12:26:42
                                    • OK, I did just what you said and nothing happened. All I have is a [Reply] button, but no [Edit] button. However, ... by ER 2011-06-03 12:33:34
                                      • ER's observations are exactly what our testuser Rita experiences with permission settings at the author level. by podrock 2011-06-03 12:44:26
                                        • ARRGGGHHHH! by ER 2011-06-03 13:46:05
                                          • Poor ER. :( If you smile real pretty at Pod and/or Robert, maybe they can give you the ... by Eri 2011-06-03 16:38:29
                                            • I completely agree by podrock 2011-06-03 17:29:46
                                              • THE RIGHT TO EDIT. Man, does that sound ponderous, or what? Actually, it's not worth a great big ... by ER 2011-06-03 18:24:42
                                                • Piece O'Cake. So simple I can do it. And I agree, it sounds ponderous. The survivors of the ... by podrock 2011-06-03 18:47:49
                                                  • If you need something major moved or corrected, or a link done, I can help. I'm not going to ... by TB 2011-06-03 18:31:35
                        Arab spring, huh? by mcfly June 2, 2011 4:01 pm
                        • Please don't take this as an endorsement, or criticism, of any religion, because I think they are all equally screwy. ... by ER 2011-06-02 18:08:44
                          • I get what you're saying, but in retrospect my initial post is far to self-satisfied, and terribly unfair to those ... by mcfly 2011-06-02 20:32:58
                            • You're just now figuring that out? :-) by Eri 2011-06-02 19:21:53
                            Adventures of the Rabbit Police by TB June 2, 2011 2:35 pm
                            • Fracking jerks! (The USDA) Hell, they're so incompetent, they can't even keep grocery stores from serving half raw ... by Eri 2011-06-02 19:28:59
                              • If we had real freedom, with no meddling gov regulation, businesses that sold deadly products would suffer in the free ... by ER 2011-06-03 04:57:39
                                • Infinite regulation and control produces perfect safety. Look at how safe and clean those places are in this world ... by TB 2011-06-03 08:24:00
                                  • You say I want "infinite" regulation, I say you want "no" regulation. The truth is clearly somewhere in between, but ... by ER 2011-06-03 09:12:21
                                    • I think one thing is fairly certain: a quarter-inch size discrepancy in a rabbit cage has jack shit to ... by TB 2011-06-03 13:16:53
                                      • The reason all those regulations are so chicken-shit (to borrow a time-honored military term for a pointless and overly detailed ... by ER 2011-06-03 13:41:29
                                        • Yeah, these rabbit sellers were obviously out to take their customers to the cleaners. Like all farmers and businessmen ... by TB 2011-06-03 14:24:41
                                          • Not me. But my mother spent her whole life working her guts out for those bastards. by ER 2011-06-03 15:20:03
                                            • Which bastards? Seriously, I don't get it. I've been unhappy now and then with dealings I've had in ... by TB 2011-06-03 15:49:15
                                              • You have to blame somebody for why your life hasn't worked out the way you once fantasized. And I ... by ER 2011-06-03 19:15:46
                                                • EDITED: (I think I misread your post, so I scrapped my first paragraphs.) You've never met a statist because you've ... by TB 2011-06-03 19:49:08
                                                  • Statists are your bogeymen, not mine. I deal with people I trade with all the time, and I deal with people ... by ER 2011-06-03 21:10:49
                                  • I wonder if I took a .22 and went in and shot all their roasted chickens, they'd get the idea? Probably ... by Eri 2011-06-03 06:05:10
                                ...could you live here? by Jody June 2, 2011 12:23 pm
                                • If it wasn't for my wife, I would gladly live on a 20' Flicka. By the way, thousands of ... by ER 2011-06-03 07:06:47
                                  • My house of 21 years is 2,200 square feet. It has served me well. As retirement edges closer, I ... by Jody 2011-06-03 06:24:49
                                    • Meh... put it underground, THEN I'll consider it. (Yeah, I'm a goddamn morlock) by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-02 21:51:39
                                      • Underground you wouldn't need cooling, just a bit of heating. You'd live at a constant temperature which would probably ... by Eri 2011-06-03 06:15:18
                                      • I think it's quite cute. Could my family live there? Yeah, I think so. Our current house is on the ... by mcfly 2011-06-02 20:42:25
                                        • I'd need just a few more square feet in kitchen. Actually, that IS my kitchen. As far as room ... by Eri 2011-06-02 19:47:23
                                          • Actually, for a majority of the planet, this would be the height of luxury. The homes our church kids ... by TB 2011-06-02 12:50:22
                                            • Very true TB. by Jody 2011-06-03 06:26:34
                                            I can't decide which story to sub by Eri June 2, 2011 6:26 am
                                            • definitely Rings, It is quirky good and very well written. by FrankC 2011-06-03 12:17:47
                                              • Thanks, Frank! by Eri 2011-06-03 16:15:52
                                              • The first one. It looks like it's going somewhere interesting. One small science note: If a species ... by TB 2011-06-02 12:42:07
                                                • TB, I've been doing some research on vegetarianism, omnivorism and herbivorism. What I'm finding in the dictionary and in ... by Eri 2011-06-03 16:29:46
                                                  • The terms can be applied either biologically or culturally. Humans can nicely digest either meat or most vegetables. ... by TB 2011-06-03 17:01:30
                                                    • That's what I thought; however, you had indicated that vegetarianism meant you couldn't digest meat. by Eri 2011-06-06 16:53:34
                                                  • Thanks, TB. Actually, it's not a God or an apprentice. There are rings around the planet and my ... by Eri 2011-06-02 13:45:07
                                                    • P.S. be careful of your science. Despite years of TV SF, it's not really possible to "float into a ... by TB 2011-06-02 13:54:01
                                                      • Got it. Thanks! by Eri 2011-06-02 19:14:41
                                                      • I was referring to the second piece in the "god-alien" comment, not the first one. by TB 2011-06-02 13:46:05
                                                        • Misread. Yeah, this fella really screwed up. Wish he'd done it with someone else's planet. ;) by Eri 2011-06-02 19:17:23
                                                    • THE RINGS - Removed by author by Eri 2011-06-02 06:30:02
                                                      • Well, this story seems to have a life of its own which means I'd better let it run with itself, ... by Eri 2011-06-06 04:54:21
                                                      • DEATH THROES - Removed by Author by Eri 2011-06-02 06:29:19
                                                        • Nice. But you may have left a room un-explored. Gods incarnate as humans for many reasons. Many, like Zeus, did ... by podrock 2011-06-03 17:13:22
                                                          • Interesting. It hadn't occurred to me to approach it from that direction. I'll play with this and see how ... by Eri 2011-06-03 22:03:47
                                                        • Dance of Death - Removed by Author by Eri 2011-06-02 06:28:03
                                                          • Given TB's comments, what if this star was about to go nova, and that's why the protagonist was there in ... by podrock 2011-06-03 16:38:08
                                                            • That sounds like a great possibility. I had originally envisioned his being caught in the Sun's gravity and being ... by Eri 2011-06-03 22:07:57
                                                              • Tom is correct about the Delta V required to approach a stars surface. Unless his ship had attained the DV required, ... by FrankC 2011-06-04 12:51:31
                                                                • Hmmm. Thanks. That will put me into a different direction on this, then. I'll have to think about ... by Eri 2011-06-04 18:51:47
                                                          Balanced Art by podrock June 1, 2011 5:43 pm
                                                          • I absolutely love the irony and simplicity of this. I can see where you would like this Pod. by Jody 2011-06-03 07:52:41
                                                            • Bull Hockey....that is YOU Podrock...admit it you long haired freaky person. ;) by Jody 2011-06-02 08:35:47
                                                              • Apart from being twice this guy's years, by podrock 2011-06-02 09:18:50
                                                              Vatican Church sued for child molestation by Vitruvius June 1, 2011 11:20 am
                                                              • The crime is one very big thing, the cover-up and protection of perpetrators is another really big thing. It is as ... by podrock 2011-06-02 19:52:02
                                                                • I think it's a good thing. As a Catholic, I'm disgusted by the actions, or usually INaction, of the ... by Eri 2011-06-01 21:47:30
                                                                  • What is wrong with the Catholic clergy, and what is wrong with the hierarchy? I know that in any ... by ER 2011-06-01 13:04:02
                                                                    • It is a problem that has plagued man forever. Please understand that I may come across crude about this subject. ... by Jody 2011-06-01 17:40:38
                                                                      • I understand your anger, Jody, but I think this issue goes a lot deeper than just male lust. Most ... by ER 2011-06-01 17:57:46
                                                                        • This has gone on since the beginning of time. I think that people are finally just speaking up. Remember a lot ... by Jody 2011-06-02 06:19:35
                                                                          • If he "refuses to acknowlege" he was sexually abused, how did you find out he was? Maybe he was ... by ER 2011-06-02 12:45:44
                                                                            • ER says ..."And we still don’t know if the pedophilia is caused by celibacy, or if celibacy attracts pedophiles." ...and ER ... by Jody 2011-06-02 18:37:35
                                                                              • Good observation, but are you are saying that pedophilia and homosexuality are the same sort of thing? by podrock 2011-06-02 20:09:54
                                                                                • Nope. To be honest...I have had relationships with both. The pedophile never *acted* on his impulses...but I was afraid on so ... by Jody 2011-06-02 22:12:14
                                                                                • You noticed that too? A heck of a lot of random assumptions and imprecise definitions being tossed around here. Some ... by TB 2011-06-02 19:26:23
                                                                                  • I'm not making random assumptions or imprecise definitions. In essence, I'm asking the questions. Does the church (being celibate) tend ... by ER 2011-06-03 06:13:00
                                                                                    • Just one small point: You're right that statistics are hard to come by, but from what I've gathered so far it ... by TB 2011-06-03 08:29:58
                                                                                      • Because of the structure of church services, and the role of priests in the liturgy, the opportunities for these crimes ... by ER 2011-06-03 09:21:03
                                                                                      • Only my observations lead me to the conclusions I have drawn. For some pedophiles, they are emotionally retarded adults. They fantasize ... by Jody 2011-06-03 07:05:02
                                                                                  • And thus this debate enters the realm of Freud. Maybe Jung, but I'd like to think Freud due to ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-02 16:40:05
                                                                                    • No one expects you to apologize. They are your beliefs and most of them I agree with. I ... by Eri 2011-06-02 19:42:55
                                                                                      • You're preaching to the choir, VB. Personally, all religions are rather sketchy as far as I'm concerned, and all the monotheistic ... by ER 2011-06-02 18:00:34
                                                                                        • Actually, ML seemed to be a pretty good guy. HE saw the shortcomings of the Catholic Church, and protested ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-02 21:46:35
                                                                                          • ML's criticism of the RC in those days were certainly justified, but the man was also a notorious antisemite and ... by ER 2011-06-03 04:49:09
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