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#100754
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Gas Prices
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/100754/action/topic#100754
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Originally posted by: JediSage
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
If you really understand the Kyoto protocol then you should be glad we broke it. If it destroyed the US economy, it would affect Brazil too, you know.


Yeah, good point Chaltab. How much oil does Brazil export annualy? And BTW Ricar...we didn't "break" the treaty, we just refuse to participate in it because it's ill-concieved and hides another more insidious agenda, ie: wealth redistribution.


OK how would the Kyoto protocol destroy USA's economy? How?

Brazil? Exporting oil? Almost none, Petrobras pretty much covers only Brazil itself. I think they supply some to Argentina or Mexico, but very little of it.

The Clinton administration had signed the treaty, and the Bush administration steped back. So I consider it "breaking" it.
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#100732
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Gas Prices
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/100732/action/topic#100732
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Originally posted by: JediSage
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
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Originally posted by JediSage
All I can say is: Thank God we're not dumb enough to still be a Kyoto signatory (for now anyway).

Dude, comments like that make you sound like a fucking prick. Buy a smaller car instead of the V8 pickup you no doubt drive and shut up.


Wow....well reasoned, thoughtful response. I drive a 4-cylinder thank you. As usual its the people who drive SUVs that are the source of the world's problems, not the 60 cents in tax our states are charging per gallon for idiot social spending programs.


Uh no, people who drive SUVs are PART of the problem. That's right let's rip the whole Kyoto agreements and step back 20 freaking years back in environmental progress. Why? Because oil companies rule the world and they don't care about the future, they care a bout getting more money out of SUVs drivers (who make fewer miles per gallon as possible).
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#100724
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Childhood Past-time: Model Rockets
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/100724/action/topic#100724
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Me and some friends used to do chlorine bombs and rockets, this is something everyone can do. All you need is a plastic coke bottle (must be coke or pepsi or some acid cola). Drink all the coke leaving only just a little bit on the bottom (about two "fingers" deep). Now, get some chlorine (don't use tablets, and don't use chlorine dust too thin, it must be kinda rocky), and with a funnel put about 4 or 5 spoons of it. Do it quickly! Now, close the bottle as fast as you can and throw it away: the chlorine will react with the coke and the gases inside will expand and burts the bottle up. If you want to make a rocket, it's a little bit trickier, as you must turn the bottle upside down without letting the coke get out.
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#100657
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Lucas' Next Step - more changes...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/100657/action/topic#100657
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Which brings me AGAIN to my theory: GL is slowly turning SW into a romantic comedy staring Woody Allen and a CGI Shirley Temple.



Oh, and before someone complains AGAIN that I'm exagerating and being silly: folks, this is a JOKE, ok?! I couldn't get a laugh track yet, when I do it'll get MUCH easier to those who are too slow to understand jokes without someone laughing for them.
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#100612
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Seen Jake Lloyd recently??? Ewwww!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/100612/action/topic#100612
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Originally posted by: Bossk
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
1- I feel like Ewan hated working on 90% of the films he has made.


Well he has spoken out against the resulting film versions of TPM and AOTC. But I wonder if that's just PR propagandizing because he always follows each gripe with praise for the upcoming film. And each gripe is timed just a few months before the release of the next film. Go fig, eh?


I think he has the "Donald Pleasence" syndrom, who absolutely hated every single film he was on, claiming he only did it for money. Of course it's for money, those are actors! That's their jobs!
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#100609
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Office Space
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/100609/action/topic#100609
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Originally posted by: Bossk
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
And the best part is: they payed my consulting firm the hours I spent there - and I only really worked for like, 3 hours that week.


You are my god.

I could only wish.


All you have to do is work for a consulting firm that works with ERPs and CRMs, and make sure their customers have as much money to spend as possible.
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#100606
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A Big Debate for the New Century
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/100606/action/topic#100606
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OK I separated your reply to make it easier to answer:

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Originally posted by: JediSage

1- For instance, what fossil record is there indicating that one order evolved from another (transitional)?

2- Is there evidence that one order at one point was a different order (ie: a dog that became a horse)?

3- Does the complex almost mathematical code in DNA have a natural (random, blind) order?

4- Why would Einstein have said "God does not play dice with the cosmos" if he had not at least considered a designed universe? There are other reasons to believe in a designed universe...the Big Bang (an ultimate beginning in time and space), the conservation of matter (matter can neither be created or destroyed)...it goes on and on.


1- Have you heard of homo erectus, neandertal man, homo sapiens, homo sapiens sapiens (us)?

2- What do you mean?

3- It's not like that. After hundreds or thousands of years, the genetic code of a specie might get mutated/changed for a number of reasons. Let's assume a generation of bears gets born with eyes who can see in the dark better: those are more fit to survive, therefore they carry out these genes to the next generation, and the non-adapted species tend to disappear slowly. I KNOW it's not that simple, it was just an example.

4- Uh, that einstein quote is related to the whole "multi-universe-Schrodinger's cat" theory thing, about the randomness of the universe and such. I fail to see in what it relates to Darwin.
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#100573
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Star Wars haikus
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/100573/action/topic#100573
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
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Originally posted by: Trooperman

Unfortunately, the teacher did not enjoy the poem and hit him over the head with a textbook (back when you were still allowed to do that without getting sued).


Oh my gosh! The teacher just hit him with the book and your dad took it and said nothing?!!?! Why didn't anyone sue?


People didn't sue everyone back then, and teachers used to be kinda brutal with kids. Reminds me of that "Another Brick in the Wall pt 2" video (from the movie The Wall), with the teacher ridiculing the student because of his poems ("Poems everyone! The lad consider himself a poet!")
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#100571
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Gas Prices
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/100571/action/topic#100571
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Over here we have three options: gasoline, this uh.. propane butane whatever gas thing, and a special kind of alcohool (which was created here during the early 70s due to the oil shortage). Gasoline is the most expensive, and it gets more expensive every single day. We produce, like, 75% of the oil we consume. What worries me is the other 25%...

BTW, don't you worry. Iraqi people are paying for the re-construction of their cities (which were destroyed by this war no one talks about anymore) with... OIL! Well, it'll be extremly overprice, but oh who cares eh?