The horror of global warming!

ricky1lung

Well-Known Member
hysterical special pleading


magnetic? what "new tech" are you talking about?

solar and wind needs an astronomically huge amount of investment to get even close to providing just the "baseload"


"New" as in under developed techs (solar, wind etc).

The investment whether astronomical or not is exactly what Im saying needs to happen.
Either spend the money to advance or carry on with the status quo and allow the current
problems to progress.

Magnetic, as in further developing and using the tech more often for things like transportation, bullet trains etc will
help reduce traffic loads.
 

ginjawarrior

Well-Known Member
Problem 1: why posit a very unfavorable 6:5 ratio when it could well be 20:1 or higher?
as you said
  • The number of times that a gun or the credible threat of one averted a situation is impossible to count/tabulate



    care to say why 5:6 is more unfavorable or less valid than 20:1?
    Problem 2: Many many violent crimes aren't nice neat aseptic robberies where the victim emerges unscathed or with a "black eye". I would rather not be the victim of blade or power-tool violence.*
    blade wounds are a small proportion of "violent crime" gunshot wounds on the other hand...

Gun murders in the USA in 2010 totaled just over 8000.
Now instances where possession of a gun or credible threat of its possession led to a deterrence event are impossible to tabulate, with estimates running from one hundred thousand to 2.5 million instances per annum. It's a bit like rape stats: reported numbers are not gonna track actual events, and sorting the real ones from the "I heard something and grabbed ol' Betsy" is a thankless task.
Even so, it's an easy mark to fob off with the sort of 6:5 disparagement you both are using. But is it wise or just? cn
you cant just cap it off at "murders" tho (at least not honestly) "accidents" "wounding" even "suicides" are all costs against guns are they not?
 

Doer

Well-Known Member
i always thought americans were supposed to be "tough guys" not that they were so petrified about getting into a tussle
Mother Jones type people are not tough guys so don't tar with a broad bush. Most of us are tough enough as you can see.

Now hideously gut slashed or gut shot? I take gut shot any day.
 

ginjawarrior

Well-Known Member
Mother Jones type people are not tough guys so don't tar with a broad bush. Most of us are tough enough as you can see.

Now hideously gut slashed or gut shot? I take gut shot any day.
i wasnt talking about the "mother jones" type

lol and now the debate is either carry a gun or be "hideously disembowelled"?

gotta love that hyperbole
 

Doer

Well-Known Member

  • blade wounds are a small proportion of "violent crime" gunshot wounds on the other hand...

No. I've looked it for us before when this lie came up.

In this world mass murder is done by taking a machette or a cleaver or a hacking sword and go among a crowd.

It is referred to as Rampage Killing. And guns are not the main tool for this, and never have been. We are transition to a clearer kill, but not more people. !2K only, gun murders. We murder each other. And so does everyone else.

USA - Homicide
Deaths per 100,000 population: 5.3

World murder and mostly blades
Rate #
Honduras
91.67,104AmericasCentral America
El Salvador
69.24,308AmericasCentral America
Ivory Coast
56.910,801AfricaWestern Africa
Venezuela
45.113,080AmericasSouth America
Belize
41.4129AmericasCentral America
Jamaica
40.91,125AmericasCaribbean
U.S. Virgin Islands
39.243AmericasCaribbean
Guatemala
38.55,681AmericasCentral America
Saint Kitts and Nevis
38.220AmericasCaribbean
Zambia
38.04,710AfricaEastern Africa
Uganda
36.311,373AfricaEastern Africa
Malawi
36.05,039AfricaEastern Africa
Lesotho
35.2764AfricaSouthern Africa
Trinidad and Tobago
35.2472AmericasCaribbean
South Africa
31.815,940AfricaSouthern Africa
Colombia
31.414,746+AmericasSouth America
Congo
30.81,180AfricaMiddle Africa
Central African Republic
29.31,240AfricaMiddle Africa
Bahamas
27.494AmericasCaribbean
Puerto Rico
26.2983AmericasCaribbean
Ethiopia
25.520,239AfricaEastern Africa
Saint Lucia
25.244AmericasCaribbean
Dominican Republic
25.02,513AmericasCaribbean
Tanzania
24.510,357AfricaEastern Africa
Sudan
24.210,028++AfricaNorthern Africa
Mexico
23.727,199+AmericasNorthern America



 

ginjawarrior

Well-Known Member

  • blade wounds are a small proportion of "violent crime" gunshot wounds on the other hand...

No. I've looked it for us before when this lie came up.

In this world mass murder is done by taking a machette or a cleaver or a hacking sword and go among a crowd.

It is referred to as Rampage Killing. And guns are not the main tool for this, and never have been. We are transition to a clearer kill, but not more people. !2K only, gun murders. We murder each other. And so does everyone else.

USA - Homicide
Deaths per 100,000 population: 5.3

World murder and mostly blades

Honduras91.67,104AmericasCentral America
El Salvador
69.24,308AmericasCentral America
Ivory Coast
56.910,801AfricaWestern Africa
Venezuela
45.113,080AmericasSouth America
Belize
41.4129AmericasCentral America
Jamaica
40.91,125AmericasCaribbean
U.S. Virgin Islands
39.243AmericasCaribbean
Guatemala
38.55,681AmericasCentral America
Saint Kitts and Nevis
38.220AmericasCaribbean
Zambia
38.04,710AfricaEastern Africa
Uganda
36.311,373AfricaEastern Africa
Malawi
36.05,039AfricaEastern Africa
Lesotho
35.2764AfricaSouthern Africa
Trinidad and Tobago
35.2472AmericasCaribbean
South Africa
31.815,940AfricaSouthern Africa
Colombia
31.414,746+AmericasSouth America
Congo
30.81,180AfricaMiddle Africa
Central African Republic
29.31,240AfricaMiddle Africa
Bahamas
27.494AmericasCaribbean
Puerto Rico
26.2983AmericasCaribbean
Ethiopia
25.520,239AfricaEastern Africa
Saint Lucia
25.244AmericasCaribbean
Dominican Republic
25.02,513AmericasCaribbean
Tanzania
24.510,357AfricaEastern Africa
Sudan
24.210,028++AfricaNorthern Africa
Mexico
23.727,199+AmericasNorthern America



sorry i thought we were comparing the USA with the more civilized european union i now see that comparison was unjust

in a century or 2 when you guys are comparable with us europeans come back to me for this discussion.....
 

ginjawarrior

Well-Known Member
"New" as in under developed techs (solar, wind etc).

The investment whether astronomical or not is exactly what Im saying needs to happen.
Either spend the money to advance or carry on with the status quo and allow the current
problems to progress.
you'l spend more on wind and solar and get an inferior product that will need an overhaul of entire energy grid (including building storage for power)

its a nice idea but solar and wind arent up to providing baseload

hand waving and shrieking that nuclear is just too dangerous is compleatly ignoring reality
Magnetic, as in further developing and using the tech more often for things like transportation, bullet trains etc will
help reduce traffic loads.
to run maglev trains your going to need to have a solid baseload production capacity even the tiniest fluctuations could hurt alot

It was 3 a.m. on a Wednesday when the machines suddenly ground to a halt at Hydro Aluminium in Hamburg. The rolling mill's highly sensitive monitor stopped production so abruptly that the aluminum belts snagged. They hit the machines and destroyed a piece of the mill. The reason: The voltage off the electricity grid weakened for just a millisecond.


http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/instability-in-power-grid-comes-at-high-cost-for-german-industry-a-850419.html
 

Doer

Well-Known Member
Well, wrong again,.

This is the best it gets. The plight of the Liberal is they are doomed to only think as a Western European.

Switzerland
0.752EuropeWestern Europe
Austria
0.656EuropeWestern Europe
Bahrain
0.66AsiaWestern Asia
Guam
0.61OceaniaMicronesia
Norway
0.629EuropeNorthern Europe
Brunei
0.52AsiaSouth-Eastern Asia
French Polynesia
0.41OceaniaPolynesia
Japan
0.4506AsiaEastern Asia
Iceland
0.31EuropeNorthern Europe
Singapore
0.316AsiaSouth-Eastern Asia
Hong Kong
0.217AsiaEastern Asia
Monaco
0.00EuropeWestern Europe
Palau
0.00OceaniaMicronesia

Commonwealth compares

United Kingdom
1.2722EuropeNorthern Europe
France
1.1682EuropeWestern Europe
Netherlands
1.1179EuropeWestern Europe
Poland
1.1436EuropeEastern Europe
Samoa
1.12OceaniaPolynesia
Tunisia
1.1117AfricaNorthern Africa
Australia
1.0229OceaniaAustralasia
Bhutan
1.07AsiaSouthern Asia
China
1.013,410AsiaEastern Asia
Malta
1.04EuropeSouthern Europe
Saudi Arabia
1.0265+AsiaWestern Asia
 

ginjawarrior

Well-Known Member
Well, wrong again,.

This is the best it gets.

Switzerland
0.752EuropeWestern Europe
Austria
0.656EuropeWestern Europe
Bahrain
0.66AsiaWestern Asia
Guam
0.61OceaniaMicronesia
Norway
0.629EuropeNorthern Europe
Brunei
0.52AsiaSouth-Eastern Asia
French Polynesia
0.41OceaniaPolynesia
Japan
0.4506AsiaEastern Asia
Iceland
0.31EuropeNorthern Europe
Singapore
0.316AsiaSouth-Eastern Asia
Hong Kong
0.217AsiaEastern Asia
Monaco
0.00EuropeWestern Europe
Palau
0.00OceaniaMicronesia

Commonwealth compares

United Kingdom
1.2722EuropeNorthern Europe
France
1.1682EuropeWestern Europe
Netherlands
1.1179EuropeWestern Europe
Poland
1.1436EuropeEastern Europe
Samoa
1.12OceaniaPolynesia
Tunisia
1.1117AfricaNorthern Africa
Australia
1.0229OceaniaAustralasia
Bhutan
1.07AsiaSouthern Asia
China
1.013,410AsiaEastern Asia
Malta
1.04EuropeSouthern Europe
Saudi Arabia
1.0265+AsiaWestern Asia
what part of that shows im lying when i said "knife crime is small proportion of violent crime"?
 

ginjawarrior

Well-Known Member
When you move your fingers. ( I can't see your lips)
According to the 2011/12 Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), knives were the most common types of weapons used in violent incidents (7%). Hitting implements[SUP]2[/SUP] were used in 5% of incidents, and glasses or bottles in 4%. In total, weapons were used in about one in five (22%) incidents of violent crime in the 2011/12 CSEW (‘ Nature of crime’ Table 7.8 (451 Kb Excel sheet) ). ‘Nature of crime’ Table 7.9 (451 Kb Excel sheet) shows that the use of weapons, as a whole, has shown no trend since the 1996 CSEW.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/focus-on-violent-crime/stb-focus-on--violent-crime-and-sexual-offences-2011-12.html#tab-Types-of-violence-–-offences-involving-knives-and-sharp-instruments

In 2010, more than 105 000 US citizens were injured or killed in firearm-related incidents

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)61225-8/fulltext?elsca1=ETOC-LANCET&elsca2=email&elsca3=E24A35F

guns add up to more than "

  • !2K only, gun murders."







 

ricky1lung

Well-Known Member
you'l spend more on wind and solar and get an inferior product that will need an overhaul of entire energy grid (including building storage for power)

its a nice idea but solar and wind arent up to providing baseload

hand waving and shrieking that nuclear is just too dangerous is compleatly ignoring reality

to run maglev trains your going to need to have a solid baseload production capacity even the tiniest fluctuations could hurt alot


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http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/instability-in-power-grid-comes-at-high-cost-for-german-industry-a-850419.html


Of course maglev trains need power. They are a way to start using cleaner sources
for transportation rather than fossil fuels.

Yes the whole system needs an overhaul but it cant all be done at once, the whole system is
far too complex because it relies heavily if not exclusively upon fossil fuels in certain aspects of each
part of the equation.

There has been an enormous investment in the current energy solutions and there still remains to
be every year. There should be more investment into clean energy to move forward but there is such
a strangle hold on the current setup that the investments in new tech are not happening the way they are needed.

If there was more investment into research and production, solar and wind could be enough to provide a base.
We are still talking about global warming right?
 

Doer

Well-Known Member
Of course maglev trains need power. They are a way to start using cleaner sources
for transportation rather than fossil fuels.

Yes the whole system needs an overhaul but it cant all be done at once, the whole system is
far too complex because it relies heavily if not exclusively upon fossil fuels in certain aspects of each
part of the equation.

There has been an enormous investment in the current energy solutions and there still remains to
be every year. There should be more investment into clean energy to move forward but there is such
a strangle hold on the current setup that the investments in new tech are not happening the way they are needed.

If there was more investment into research and production, solar and wind could be enough to provide a base.
We are still talking about global warming right?
Clean is not the issue. It is energy density. Only fossil fuels can run this world, at this time, and there is nothing on the horizon except dirty, very dirty deadly and long term danger of fission.
 

ginjawarrior

Well-Known Member
Of course maglev trains need power. They are a way to start using cleaner sources
for transportation rather than fossil fuels.

Yes the whole system needs an overhaul but it cant all be done at once, the whole system is
far too complex because it relies heavily if not exclusively upon fossil fuels in certain aspects of each
part of the equation.

There has been an enormous investment in the current energy solutions and there still remains to
be every year. There should be more investment into clean energy to move forward but there is such
a strangle hold on the current setup that the investments in new tech are not happening the way they are needed.

If there was more investment into research and production, solar and wind could be enough to provide a base.
We are still talking about global warming right?
yes we are talking about global warming which is why i want to pull my hair out at suggestions of us using large amounts of fossil fuels to over build a solution that at the end wont do what we need it to

nuclear can be plugged straight into grid with minimal upgrading of the grid

the only objection able to be raised against it is "its scary"

to power the usa with "solar" your looking to cover arizona with nothing but panels, to get 50% of power from solar you'l need to cover half of it

then you need to think about the power lines to distribute it and the storage for night time or days and days over over cast

http://www.withouthotair.com/c30/page_231.shtml

that link goes into it in quite good depth
 

ricky1lung

Well-Known Member
Clean is not the issue. It is energy density. Only fossil fuels can run this world, at this time, and there is nothing on the horizon except dirty, very dirty deadly and long term danger of fission.
Clean is the issue when we are talking global warming.

I do agree though, " Only fossil fuels can run this world, at this time" but that does not need to remain so.
Im talking investing in the future so we can have sources that are not dirty or potentially devastating.

There was a time people believed heroin and asbestos were safe, as it turns out we as people researched and developed
better, safer things to use.
 

ginjawarrior

Well-Known Member
Clean is not the issue. It is energy density. Only fossil fuels can run this world, at this time, and there is nothing on the horizon except dirty, very dirty deadly and long term danger of fission.
what about if the halflife of nuclear waste was cut down to a few hundred years? you know a similar amount of time CO2 stays in atmoshpere except nuclear waste is contained rather than pumped out of chimneys?

i like how you stuck fission after "dirty and very dirty deadly" words of a neutralist those...
 

kelly4

Well-Known Member
I bet ice fishing rules. What else ya'll catch besides Walleyes? lol Do ya'll catch Walleyes? Only seen them on television. I've been Cat-fishing at night some lately.
Walleyes, northern pike, sunnies, crappies, perch...even catfish, on certain lakes connected to a river.
 

kelly4

Well-Known Member
we used to catch a lot of pike if i remember correctly.

we'd go early and set up about 10-15 holes, each baited with a flag. if the fish took the bait, the flag went up, and we'd go running.

other than that, it was pretty much sitting around in the cold and eating food.
Pike fishing with tip-ups is my favorite. Except, we sit in a heated fish house or truck and drink beer.
 
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