Ralph Pootawn |
yellowdingo |
I think Albania should be a good one.
Can I phone it in?
Done...Emailed the President of Albania and suggested:
So 200 trillion dollars income from 1 million 6 megawatt wind turbines over 20 years.
Job Done.
yellowdingo |
YOU FOOL! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!
Smirk if you will but if Albania do this they will be come an energy superpower with an annual income of 200 trillion dollars. That will kick the USA in the Gnochis!
The USA will be The Albanian Territories of America!
Freehold DM |
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yellowdingo wrote:
Oh heathy...
Don't even try it.
This thread was nigh unreadable until I got here.
Now even Barack Obama is spraying his keyboard with nose milk.
That's it. I'm giving to two your own sitcom. You'll be roommates sharing an unbelievably spacious pad in Manhattan, have jobs that pay you a salary you could only find on tv, wacky neighbors,quirky girlfriends, the whole shebang.
Epic Beard Man |
Umbral Reaver wrote:I'm Sorry Lois, I don't fee like being President of the United States of America just now.I propose we give yellowdingo rulership over some old tin pot dictatorship somewhere and see how he runs it.
Finally, some truly hilarious reality TV!
Nor the mayor of Darwin.
Because I'll get you with a landslide. And smash some beers in the process. BURP.
Irontruth |
So Albania would not be able to pay its debts and experience financial ruin? You say that as if it would be a new situation...
But now they get to develop unfounded fears from living underneath the wind turbines.
Aberzombie |
Ralph Pootawn wrote:That's it. I'm giving to two your own sitcom. You'll be roommates sharing an unbelievably spacious pad in Manhattan, have jobs that pay you a salary you could only find on tv, wacky neighbors,quirky girlfriends, the whole shebang.yellowdingo wrote:
Oh heathy...
Don't even try it.
This thread was nigh unreadable until I got here.
Now even Barack Obama is spraying his keyboard with nose milk.
Ooh! Ooh! Can I be the wacky neighbor?
Irontruth |
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Ah, I see, you don't know anything about wind turbine spacing.
A tighter spacing you could get it down to 36,000 square miles for 1 million turbines, which is still over 3 times the size of Albania. Of course, this assumes that the entire area of Albania is perfectly suited for wind turbines. Any place of steep elevation changes reduce the effectiveness of the turbines.
Ralph Pootawn |
Ralph Pootawn wrote:That's it. I'm giving to two your own sitcom. You'll be roommates sharing an unbelievably spacious pad in Manhattan, have jobs that pay you a salary you could only find on tv, wacky neighbors,quirky girlfriends, the whole shebang.yellowdingo wrote:
Oh heathy...
Don't even try it.
This thread was nigh unreadable until I got here.
Now even Barack Obama is spraying his keyboard with nose milk.
"Newman!!!"
EntrerisShadow |
I saw we recognize all women as Icelandic citizens. They seem to have it a lot better there. Unfortunately, the US has too many of its own problem with fundamentalism and misogyny.
yellowdingo |
Ah, I see, you don't know anything about wind turbine spacing.
A tighter spacing you could get it down to 36,000 square miles for 1 million turbines, which is still over 3 times the size of Albania. Of course, this assumes that the entire area of Albania is perfectly suited for wind turbines. Any place of steep elevation changes reduce the effectiveness of the turbines.
Wow that's lovely country. I thought it might be a potato field out the back of Russia...Still, there is nothing a bunch of bulldozers cant do.
yellowdingo |
That means... He is going to get a majority in the US in... Hmmm, let's say a week per vote, so 150 million weeks, roughly 3 million years.
He lied...still one vote.
If you want you can consider it this way: By giving US citizenship to all women - The war on Terrorism can be won.
The Women who choose citizenship get homes, freedom from men, and a future.
Tequila Sunrise |
If you want you can consider it this way: By giving US citizenship to all women - The war on Terrorism can be won.
That's an admirable goal, but how does this plan work logistically? Even if all those mistreated women are willing to start totally new lives in an alien country, how will we communicate with them? Who will pay for all of that airfare? Will all those abusive men even let them leave?
I think a history teacher told me that this strategy kind of worked for Abraham Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation, but that's because there were no oceans or deserts between the slaves and the Union states. They also already knew the language; the only major obstacle was of course the slave owners. And that was a big enough obstacle!
I fail to see how a world government, which takes that very dissonance and cranks it up to the maximum, would ever be a good thing.
Humanity began as a few nomadic tribes with elders, then became city-states with kings, then empires with emperors, then nations with fabulously wealthy kings, then superpowers with presidents and prime ministers.
Whether or not it's a good thing, I think we're ultimately headed toward one world government.
Ptolmaeus Arvenus |
I'm honestly curious as to how this would work...
Would it be an empty symbol, much like an honorary degree? "Oh, yes, women of the world, you are all now American citizens which really nets you no additional liberties where ever you live and our borders certainly aren't truly open since we frankly lack the infrastructure to support that many new residents."
Would it be us creating a sort of ethical colonialism? "Nations of the world! We lay claim to all your women, whether they want us to or not. If you do not respect this then we shall fight you over it! Never you mind the fact that we lack the manpower to enforce our will upon all of you!"
Or would we actually attempt to encourage all the disenfranchised and discriminated women of the world to move to the United States?
Unless there are other options I am not seeing, I can only see this as missing the mark.
First of all there is an innate sexism to it (yes sexism goes in both directions) because it implies that there are men out in the world who are not suffering as well or that their suffering does not matter even though they are human beings. It is also dips into the territory of discriminating toward non-binary gendered individuals and other tricky subjects.
It is easy to say, in an over-arching way, that if one group or another had more power, or was better represented, or did a certain thing, that life would be better. These statements are always gross over-simplifications of multi-facetted issues.
As HL Mencken once said: "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
Ralph Pootawn |
As HL Mencken once said: "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
No way; we can feed, clothe, and like shelter 3 billion more people.
We just need to build Yellowdingo's refurbished semi trailer megacity on Antarctica, and one hundred million big ass windmills.
Now I'm gonna go sign that petition.
Who's with me!!!!!!
THIS!!! IS!!!! SPAAAAAAARTAAAAAA!!!
yellowdingo |
yellowdingo |
yellowdingo wrote:I'm honestly curious as to how this would work...
Would it be an empty symbol, much like an honorary degree? "Oh, yes, women of the world, you are all now American citizens which really nets you no additional liberties where ever you live and our borders certainly aren't truly open since we frankly lack the infrastructure to support that many new residents."
Would it be us creating a sort of ethical colonialism? "Nations of the world! We lay claim to all your women, whether they want us to or not. If you do not respect this then we shall fight you over it! Never you mind the fact that we lack the manpower to enforce our will upon all of you!"
Or would we actually attempt to encourage all the disenfranchised and discriminated women of the world to move to the United States?
Unless there are other options I am not seeing, I can only see this as missing the mark.
First of all there is an innate sexism to it (yes sexism goes in both directions) because it implies that there are men out in the world who are not suffering as well or that their suffering does not matter even though they are human beings. It is also dips into the territory of discriminating toward non-binary gendered individuals and other tricky subjects.
It is easy to say, in an over-arching way, that if one group or another had more power, or was better represented, or did a certain thing, that life would be better. These statements are always gross over-simplifications of multi-facetted issues.
As HL Mencken once said: "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
Then once in a while comes an Idea so important to the future that you are unable to see it for the golden age it will endeavor.