seems like a completely un-biased report by the petroleum industry.. very similar to how the tobacco industry examined the toxicity of cigarettes back in the day or how fluoride was examined.. although they kind of shunned any research that opposed their view, I'm sure it's for the overall good.

The 'reach' here for some people on the fence is not that the Earth's climate is rapidly changing (it clearly is), and its not even that human activities are having an effect on climate (they clearly are), but its simply that climate prediction is so complicated and relies on so many unknown factors that its impossible to tell people exactly what steps must be taken.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change#Statements_by_dissenting_organizations

"With the release of the revised statement[90] by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in 2007, no remaining scientific body of national or international standing is known to reject the basic findings of human influence on recent climate change.[2][3]

Statements by individual scientists opposing the mainstream assessment of global warming do include opinions that the earth has not warmed, or that warming is attributable to causes other than increasing greenhouse gases."

I guess it's time for every one to have that bar-code and government issued cars now. I mean, shit, since free market failed.

I suppose it's time we just let the government decide every, fucking, thing. I mean look at the "cracker-jack job" they did with Iraq, the bailout and, fuck, the oil spill too.

Fuck it let 'em own the markets, they'd love the power to go to war at a whim; wait they already do.

Every one in here is missing the fucking point. There are three evils that influence the government; Bankers, the Military Industrial Complex, and the Big fucking Business. There comes a point in time when an organization becomes so big that it fails to see the negative effects it is causing, I'm looking at you British Petroleum or better known as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and you Wall Street. The previous list can go on and on.

This whole; party, free market, regulated market, class warfare and the rest are all things that keep the people from seeing the real problem; lobbyists, and corrupt officials. The whole culture of government needs to change.

Partisan politics, keep fucking that chicken.

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I sympathize with your POV, but while I have not always had the best textbooks in school, I have actually had a few outstanding history teachers that went way beyond the textbooks. So I can say I have had good history classes in grade school.

I agree that politicians should not make decisions about this type of curricula, but for as long as I can remember, this has been the case. And not only politicians, but most ignorant politicians of the lot -- locally elected, fundamentallist, Harper Valley PTA-like politicians.

The way I see it education is a heavily political domain, since many see its purpose as indoctrination.

>> ^NordlichReiter:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/longde" title="member since April 8th, 2009" class="profilelink">longde
When have you ever gotten good history in public schools, any cultures history? See the Texas School Board on history books to understand what I mean. These are people who aren't even Historians making decisions on what should be in History books.

I didn't know other ideas of the cause of WWI until I saw a comedian talk about the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand; or the idea that Oil played a role in WWI. I also did not know the real reason behind the "blowback" in Iran (which we are still seeing take place to this day); which was caused by what is now British Petroleum and the CIA (Which was known as the Office of Strategic Services) see Mosaddegh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
The US cannot have effective history classes unless the truth is told. Truth be told half of our international (And Domestic. Don't forget about The Gulf Spill) problems are because of the need for Oil, but that is beside the point. My main argument is that teaching multiculturalism has the same problems as teaching true history.
What we are seeing in this Ethnic Studies law is the exact same shit we are seeing in Aron Ra's video above. Politicians should not be making decisions about what history should be taught. I would differ to Historians with PHDs from Major Universities.

@longde

When have you ever gotten good history in public schools, any cultures history? See the Texas School Board on history books to understand what I mean. These are people who aren't even Historians making decisions on what should be in History books.



I didn't know other ideas of the cause of WWI until I saw a comedian talk about the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand; or the idea that Oil played a role in WWI. I also did not know the real reason behind the "blowback" in Iran (which we are still seeing take place to this day); which was caused by what is now British Petroleum and the CIA (Which was known as the Office of Strategic Services) see Mosaddegh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

The US cannot have effective history classes unless the truth is told. Truth be told half of our international (And Domestic. Don't forget about The Gulf Spill) problems are because of the need for Oil, but that is beside the point. My main argument is that teaching multiculturalism has the same problems as teaching true history.

What we are seeing in this Ethnic Studies law is the exact same shit we are seeing in Aron Ra's video above. Politicians should not be making decisions about what history should be taught. I would differ to Historians with PHDs from Major Universities.

Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second, without giving it much of a thought. All this gas takes a one-hundred thousand mile journey from local gas stations to oil fields half a world away. From the most off-limits places on earth: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the New York Mercantile Exchange’s crude oil market, oil fields from Venezuela, to Texas, to Chad, and even an Iranian oil platform where the United States fought a forgotten one-day battle, the story is at once surreal and alarming, as lonely workers on a Texas drilling rig, an oil analyst who almost gave birth on the NYMEX trading floor, Chadian villagers who are said to wander the oil fields in the guise of lions, a Nigerian warlord who changed the world price of oil with a single cell phone call, and Shanghai bureaucrats who dream of creating a new Detroit are pieced together in the mammoth economy of oil, and these stark warning signs for American drivers.

>> ^marinara:

fuck this video. Obama spends 1/3 of the vid covering his own ass. The fact is the administration wasted a week pussy footing with british petroleum.
http://videosift.com/video/Fact-Checking-The-Oil-Spill-BP-un
derestimated-the-spill


He's another talking head that makes folks..FEEEEL better about being totally fucked.-Can you blame the monkeys? They simply gather food for their children, and fuck. Calm down world citizen....Nothing to see here

"It could jeopardize the livlihood of thousands of Americans, that call this place home."

No shit Sherlock!....Yer another sound-bite piece of shit. Ain't about race, morons....s'about awareness.

fuck this video. Obama spends 1/3 of the vid covering his own ass. The fact is the administration wasted a week pussy footing with british petroleum.
http://videosift.com/video/Fact-Checking-The-Oil-Spill-BP-underestimated-the-spill

This is a better view, better camera, 2k away. It is an arms depot in Ulyanovsk. I figured it wasn't just petroleum exploding after seeing that shock wave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCQYAc4VQc
Edit: More super video, this time at night!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8vZVkyfsis

going to assume this is due to the candle being petroleum-based(as the majority of candles are)

Hehe I wouldn't be surprised if it's true. I heard horror stories about some nasty malpractice. Stuffs like putting washing powder into batter so they look more puffy when fried. Or use petroleum asphalt to burn away hair off meat.

For a period of time, no one dare to eat lamb skewers in Beijing because it's rumored that rotten or rat meat were being served.

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Really? I wonder where cardboard falls on that scale. Warm?

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I find it ironic that she thinks eating dog meat helps people sweat, since dogs don't even have the ability to sweat, hence the panting...

I think what she meant was that it gives people "heat". In Chinese food, every thing you eat has a purpose to balance the body. By example, eating red meat will give you "heat", whereas eating winter melon or water melon will give you "chill".

Dog meat is considered one of the "hottest" red meat available ("hotter" than lamb). Eating "hot" things are generally considered unhealthy during spring or summer periods unless you are located in a very humid area or if you balance them with "chill" food. However I heard some people eat them as some sort of aphrodisiac to increase their sexual potency.

Good discussion guys. I couldn't help but weigh in with my two cents. I think everyone here agrees that this is one issue we need to get right, as there's a lot of investment on the line. While I like most of the options mentioned, I have a preference for passive solar over photovoltaics, just because of the pollution concerns involved. These too can work on a local scale for water heaters, etc. Further, if implemented on a large scale in the southwestern US, it could power most of the country. Nuclear too is an option that should be expanded in the near term, and I don't think the NIMBY problem is as bad as you think. As my father said, in his opposition to the Cape Wind Project... "I'll live next door to a modern nuclear power plant, but those waters have better purposes." Frankly, the opposition to building new plants is just keeping older, unsafe plants online past their safely usable life. It's not like our workforce is busy doing much else right now, let's get building.

Personally I feel like it will become an issue of niche solutions for niche applications. The solution that locally make sense is the one that will be adopted. Rurally, especially in areas with little rainfall, it may be more logical to use your abundant resource, land, to generate your power. In higher density areas, this doesn't make as much sense. This brings up another big issue I thought I heard briefly mentioned which is distribution. HVDC cables, coupled with smart distribution grids leads to HUGE gains in efficiency of distribution. There were also a number of notable energy sources left out of this discussion, such as geothermal (where it applies), algal ethanol/petroleum (perhaps best for their implications on plastics), or, for the super crazy, orbiting solar plants beaming microwave power back to earth (Japan is actually researching this). Geothermal, for instance, may prove critical to reducing industrial emissions. Aluminum manufacturers have already begun using Icelandic geothermal as the refining process is extremely energy intensive, and the end product is quite transportable.

>> ^Lodurr:
Part of loving someone is playing a role sometimes, and changing between roles, and objectifying yourself for your loved one. I don't know if it's a cultural problem as much as a personal maturity problem that some people don't understand that.


Does your "cultural problem" category include lack of or deliberately misleading sex education?

My mom taught high school health and english. She was very strictly limited on what she could say for the human reproduction portion of the health classes. She told me how students where surprised to learn that they could get sexually-transmitted diseases by oral sex. The sheer lack of knowledge is astounding.

But of course despite my mother's career obligations, I wasn't taught about sex from my parents. The solitary lesson from them taught to me was when I was getting some vick's vapor rub (I had a cold) to put on my chest out of the medicine drawer. There is vaseline right next to it and my mom told me to make sure I don't use that with condoms because it is petroleum-based and will eat away the condom. That was the only sentence uttered. When I reached college, I took a psychology class that was essentially a human sex education class. The teacher was brutally blunt and exactly what that class needed. Looking back on it now, I think something like that should be mandatory for all children before someone gets pregnant or an std.

^naw farhad, emaciated emo-lookin' kids who are not hip don't have dealers. This guy abuses Dextro ans Salvia.
Favorite movie, Benny and Joon
Major: Undecided

and Throbbin, let's hope he's not using that cheap-ass petroleum-based goop for wankloob...Ewww!