From: Tony Harding on
On 04/23/10 20:33, Grumpy AuContraire wrote:
> Tony Harding wrote:
>> On 04/05/10 23:50, Grumpy AuContraire wrote:
>>> gl4317(a)yahoo.com wrote:
>>>> In article <hpbj1e$m32$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, "Stewart"
>>>> <gortamus(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Left wing socialist alert!
>>>>>
>>>>> And to keep it on topic.....what type of Honda do you own?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nah, we socialists only drive Volvo 240s and read
>>>> misc.transport.rail.americas.
>>>> (To which I am still trying to figure out why this thread is posted).
>>>
>>> What???
>>>
>>> No Prius or Smaht Kahs???
>>
>> FEH! Light weight/small carbon footprint bicycles only!
>>
>> :)
>
> Yep, perfect for all them thar' yankees up in the rust belt in January!

Indeed!
From: Philip Nasadowski on
In article <hquq6g21h6l(a)news6.newsguy.com>,
Tony Harding <tharding(a)newsguy.com> wrote:

> Wouldn't the radiation sterilize the fish?

What radiation?
From: Stewart on

"dgk" <dgk(a)somewhere.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 19:35:52 -0700, "Stewart" <gortamus(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>><gl4317(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>news:gl4317-0504102327440001(a)69-30-9-110.pxd.easystreet.com...
>>> In article <68-dnfYeC5TuMyfWnZ2dnUVZ_oWdnZ2d(a)giganews.com>, Grumpy
>>> AuContraire <GrumpyOne(a)GrumpyvilleNOT.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> gl4317(a)yahoo.com wrote:
>>>> > In article <hpbj1e$m32$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, "Stewart"
>>>> > <gortamus(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> Left wing socialist alert!
>>>> >>
>>>> >> And to keep it on topic.....what type of Honda do you own?
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Nah, we socialists only drive Volvo 240s and read
>>> misc.transport.rail.americas.
>>>> > (To which I am still trying to figure out why this thread is
>>>> > posted).
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> What???
>>>>
>>>> No Prius or Smaht Kahs???
>>>
>>>
>>> Ha! Those are only driven by wanna-be socialists. Too much
>>> computer
>>> technology, and made by corporations. The most advanced
>>> technology
>>> allowed near the homes of true socialists are the products of the
>>> Soviet
>>> Diesel Computer Cooperative.
>>>
>>> --
>>> -Glennl
>>> Please note this e-mail address is a pit of spam, and most e-mail
>>> sent to this address are simply lost in the vast mess.
>>
>>I like the all electrics to reduce "carbon footprint". plug 'em in
>>to
>>an outlet fed by coal burning power generation......
>>
>
> Right, but the question is how to best deliver people where they
> want
> to go with the least harmful impact on the environment. Is that a
> bad
> goal?
>
> Hopefully electric cars are part of the solution, and the
> electricity
> can be produced by a cleaner method than coal.

The vehicles will be here well before coal is replaced for electrical
generation. The difference at first, will be pretty much nil. Also,
try recharging one of those at the cost of electricity in CT.....


From: Tony Harding on
On 04/23/10 20:36, Grumpy AuContraire wrote:
> Tony Harding wrote:
>> On 04/11/10 11:25, Grumpy AuContraire wrote:
>>> Bob Willard wrote:
>>>> Grumpy AuContraire wrote:
>>>>> dgk wrote:
>>>>>> Right, but the question is how to best deliver people where they want
>>>>>> to go with the least harmful impact on the environment. Is that a bad
>>>>>> goal?
>>>>>
>>>>> Nope, not a bad goal at all but... Any big advance in technology will
>>>>> come from innovation from the private sector, not guv'ment mandate.
>>>>> It always has and always will. Guv'ment is nothing but a giant
>>>>> interference entity.
>>>>
>>>> It is OK to be grumpy, Grumpy, but the above is a half-truth. While
>>>> most of the big advances in technology do, as you say, come from the
>>>> private sector, many of those biggies were the result, direct or
>>>> indirect, of gov't funding. Networking and semiconductors and
>>>> computers come to mind. And, since this is a car-focused NG, let
>>>> me add that many of the advances under the hood are based on
>>>> computers or semiconductors; technologies that were, in turn,
>>>> greatly pushed by gov't funding.
>>>
>>> Really???
>>>
>>> Seems to me that the transistor came out of Bell Labs.
>>>
>>> Seems to me that the IC came out of Texas Instruments.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Now it is my turn to be grumpy, by opining that -- at least in
>>>> the US -- the private non-pharma sector is so intently focused
>>>> on short-term ROI, that it is incapable of adequately funding
>>>> the long-term R&D needed to achieve those great leaps forward.
>>>> And that is why gov't funding, to the private sector and to
>>>> universities, can lead to real technological progress.
>>>
>>> Yes, I'll agree to this and in fact it is my point. Guv'ment has become
>>> to great provider of corporate welfare and it is more important to
>>> analyze why this became so.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Admittedly, it is easy to find examples of gov't funding that
>>>> is wasteful and weird. But, in the large-cap end of the
>>>> private sector, spending that is wasteful and/or political is
>>>> also pretty common. Gov't folks do not have exclusive rights
>>>> to insanity or inanity.
>>>
>>> Well, if you look at California, there's a perfect example on guv'ment
>>> running amuck.
>>
>> Exactly what do you mean here? Please don't say it has anything to do
>> with the energy situation & Enron.
>
> What I mean here is simply that guv'ment cannot be all things to all
> people...

Of course.

>> (minor nit: it's "amok" not "amuck", no such work AFAIK)
>
> There is in my "book," as muck is exactly what california finds itself
> stuck in..

You're free to write your own book, of course. Can you describe the
"muck" CA finds itself stuck in & how it got that way?
From: Tony Harding on
On 04/24/10 20:18, Philip Nasadowski wrote:
> In article<hquq6g21h6l(a)news6.newsguy.com>,
> Tony Harding<tharding(a)newsguy.com> wrote:
>
>> Wouldn't the radiation sterilize the fish?
>
> What radiation?

I thought we were discussing the failure of the (an) Indian Point
nuclear facility, hence, the assumption there'll be some excess radiation.