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Started by Syt, November 17, 2015, 05:50:30 AM

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viper37

Quote from: fromtia on February 16, 2019, 12:31:53 PM
It seems as if the steely eyed independent minded climatologists/Anne Coulter fans have drifted away from languish a bit or perhaps moved on to more exciting conspiracy theories. As the general mood on here is trending "We are super fucked" I recommend that we have a poll asking our gentle readers to choose which dystopian science fiction nightmare our world is set to fall into.

For starters it could be Children of Men, sad Clive Owen anxiously wandering a grimy UK overwhelmed by some sort of refugee crisis.

The most likely candidate for me though is Zardoz - a far future world split between a tiny group of omnipotent "Eternals" who manipulate the larger population of wild eyed "Brutals" to murder each other in large numbers. Also Sean Connery has a battle-jock-strap of some kind, which is what I would choose for the apocalypse.
Either The 100 or the new show on Netflix (IO, I think).
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

viper37

Quote from: Oexmelin on February 16, 2019, 02:32:36 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 16, 2019, 01:54:36 PM
Quote from: dps on February 16, 2019, 01:18:08 PM
Yo.

That's not it.  Something with an H, maybe German sounding.

You may be right. I can't quite remember his name either.
Hansmeister, as Syt said.  There may have been another Republican or two in the earlier days following the Mass Exodus from Paradox.

There was an anti-evolution guy, maybe he was a climate change denier too, I cannot remember.
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Oexmelin on February 16, 2019, 02:32:36 PM
You may be right. I can't quite remember his name either.

Burgermeister Meisterburger?  That rings a bell.

Habbaku

The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

Eddie Teach

To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Valmy

Quote from: HVC on February 16, 2019, 02:15:42 PM
Quote from: Valmy on February 16, 2019, 02:01:59 PM
Wasn't Siege? He had a problem with the moon landing...

Siege was a moon conspiracy guy. Hans was the climate change denier. He'd bring up some studies from the 70s where scientists predicted global cooling (according to him) as proof that climate science was a fraud. He was also one of those sects of christians that believed that the end times would come when the Jews converted to Christianity. I think he also got into a weird stalking thing with Malthus.

Yes. The sect being Roman Catholicism in his case
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

HVC

Quote from: Valmy on February 16, 2019, 07:56:33 PM
Quote from: HVC on February 16, 2019, 02:15:42 PM
Quote from: Valmy on February 16, 2019, 02:01:59 PM
Wasn't Siege? He had a problem with the moon landing...

Siege was a moon conspiracy guy. Hans was the climate change denier. He'd bring up some studies from the 70s where scientists predicted global cooling (according to him) as proof that climate science was a fraud. He was also one of those sects of christians that believed that the end times would come when the Jews converted to Christianity. I think he also got into a weird stalking thing with Malthus.

Yes. The sect being Roman Catholicism in his case

Man even the catholics are hardcore in America hah
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

viper37

Quote from: Valmy on February 16, 2019, 07:56:33 PM
Quote from: HVC on February 16, 2019, 02:15:42 PM
Quote from: Valmy on February 16, 2019, 02:01:59 PM
Wasn't Siege? He had a problem with the moon landing...

Siege was a moon conspiracy guy. Hans was the climate change denier. He'd bring up some studies from the 70s where scientists predicted global cooling (according to him) as proof that climate science was a fraud. He was also one of those sects of christians that believed that the end times would come when the Jews converted to Christianity. I think he also got into a weird stalking thing with Malthus.

Yes. The sect being Roman Catholicism in his case
Are you sure? Two non priest catholic as hardcore as Mike Pence in one country?   :cry:
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

Eddie Teach

To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

crazy canuck

Quote from: viper37 on February 16, 2019, 03:49:47 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on February 15, 2019, 07:09:06 PM
If we devoted significant resources now to developing a new electrical grid with electricity generated from green sources, there could be an economic boom and we could avoid the most significant losses.
oh sure.  All wee need is for most of English Canada to accept hydro-electricity from Quebec and ditch their coal&gaz plants.

Easy peasy?

Last I checked BC was in English Canada and it does not have coal or gas plants.  But you are correct that there is no way we will accept hydro from Quebec - we have our own :P

So here, ya easy peasy.

HVC

Ontario gets like 40% from hydro and the rest from nuclear IIRC
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Valmy

Quote from: HVC on February 17, 2019, 11:27:45 PM
Ontario gets like 40% from hydro and the rest from nuclear IIRC

So it is Manitoba that is burning all the coal eh? Bastards.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

HVC

Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Razgovory

So are we all playing some sort of joke on Syt here?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Grey Fox

Quote from: HVC on February 17, 2019, 11:27:45 PM
Ontario gets like 40% from hydro and the rest from nuclear IIRC

Aren't the nuclear plants being decommissioned? That's a big 60% We could build together but the RoC doesn't like to work with HQ.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.