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#16
Or Kill Me / Re: The First Church of the Holy Lie
April 12, 2008, 06:27:39 PM
Quote from: IasonOuabache on April 12, 2008, 09:02:28 AM
You are a liar.

Yes, you.  You and every single other human on this planet.  All of us have told some lie or another at some time in their life.  A little white lie here, a small fib there, a sin of omission every now and then. Why do we do it?  Because we can't help ourselves. We lie to our friends to make them feel better.  We lie to our enemies to place traps in their way.  But most of all we lie to ourselves to protect us from the bitter truth.

Now, imagine what would happen if every single person on this planet had to tell the absolute truth for one day.  Every man, woman, and child. Every politician and lawyer. Every priest and holy man. Every salesman and haggler. What would happen? How many marriage would be destroyed? How many wars would be started? How many people would riot in the streets? Would all of society be reduced to rubble in less than a day? Maybe we need all of these little white lies and slight embellishments to glue our civilization together.

Being honest is over-rated.

I like honesty. I like being able to just tell people what I'm thinking. I like knowing whats really going on. I like people to just come out and tell me what they really think of me, cause at least I'm not fooling myself then. If people hate me, then I want to know that, or just stick around me for some other reason, I'd like to know. I want to surround myself with people who really do fucking care about me, and those who would try to fool me can go fuck themselves.

Theres this bullshit quote "be the change you want to see in the world". I want to see honesty in this world. So I'm honest.

And I honestly didn't care too much for your rant, because those things you listed? They seem like they would at least make people stop and think, create some change, if not bring down the whole system.

Wish that Birth of the Lie thread has been retained so long ago...

~Kaimi
#17
Quote from: Nigel on April 07, 2008, 03:51:45 AM
This article (linked from the previous one) is even better:

http://www.awea.org/faq/sagrillo/swbirds.html

Yeah, thats a pretty good 'un. I'd be more apt to believe its validity if it was conducted by a third party source. The article also says nothing of the study period, the seasonality, or any number of things. I'd want to get my hands on the actual journal paper itself, as well as the one for bats.

Something I've learned in Fisheries Management while writing briefs (though I hate that class) is that summary articles like the one above can twist what was actually in the study itself, especially when coming from the AWEA homepage whos goal is to forward wind power technology. What, you think they would post /bad/ information about themselves on the website to forward their goals? The same thing happens everywhere, in both scientific and non scientific reporting.
#18
Bring and Brag / Re: My drawings
April 12, 2008, 04:45:23 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 11, 2008, 08:48:47 PM
I really like your style... I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with charcoal as your experience with it deepens.

I'm not quite sure what I want to do with it, yet. Everything I've tried has been an attempt to adapt my style to the medium, or the medium to my style. I'm not sure how to branch off beyond that.

~Alana
#20
Quote from: Dr. Felix Mackay on April 09, 2008, 07:52:42 PM
But

But

They're

Wrong... :(

about kentucky bluegrass? No, they aren't. if your grass doesn't grow back in the fall its prolly ryegrass, another genus (Poa versus Lolium).
#21
Quote from: Nigel on April 08, 2008, 10:04:47 PM
Quote from: B_M_W on April 08, 2008, 07:10:42 PM
Quote from: Nigel on April 07, 2008, 01:50:53 AM
Quote from: B_M_W on April 07, 2008, 01:44:08 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 06, 2008, 08:36:33 PM
Right, and of course the "effects on migratory birds" claim turns out to be completely unfounded in reality with absolutely no research or evidence to indicate that it even MIGHT POSSIBLY be factual. Pure propaganda.

Not necessarily.

I've looked for a basis in fact, because I believed it originally. Find me the studies.

I've only got hearsay at this point, but I'm more apt to believe it coming straight from the mouth of wildlife professionals who work with bats and migratory waterfowl. In other words, professors at my university.

~Kaimi

Is their knowledge firsthand? Are they talking about bird death or habitat disruption? Also, don't give your professors too much credence. Most college students go through a phase lasting a couple of years after graduation where they give college professors too much credit... truth is, they're schmucks like the rest of us.

Fuck /no/ I don't play into that shit. I tend to believe it coming from wildlife specialists in the same way I believe that kentucky bluegrass is perfectly fine when it goes brown and dormant in the middle of the summer, its not dead, and it will come back in the fall when two grass specialist professors of mine tell me the same thing. I trust their knowlege because they have shown over 4 years time that they are truly knowlegable about the subject.

~Kaimi
#22
Quote from: Nigel on April 07, 2008, 01:50:53 AM
Quote from: B_M_W on April 07, 2008, 01:44:08 AM
Quote from: Nigel on April 06, 2008, 08:36:33 PM
Right, and of course the "effects on migratory birds" claim turns out to be completely unfounded in reality with absolutely no research or evidence to indicate that it even MIGHT POSSIBLY be factual. Pure propaganda.

Not necessarily.

I've looked for a basis in fact, because I believed it originally. Find me the studies.

I've only got hearsay at this point, but I'm more apt to believe it coming straight from the mouth of wildlife professionals who work with bats and migratory waterfowl. In other words, professors at my university.

~Kaimi
#23
Bring and Brag / Re: My drawings
April 08, 2008, 01:32:55 PM
Its not that crowded in here. There are only two of us. ^_^

~Alana
#24
Bring and Brag / Re: My drawings
April 08, 2008, 05:35:31 AM
I'm working on a new one, in graphite pencil. I'm trying to get a feel for the medium, trying out both my typical style and some more realism based drawing.

~Alana
#25
Bring and Brag / Re: My drawings
April 07, 2008, 03:58:23 AM
Thank you...^_^

~Alana
#26
Quote from: Nigel on April 06, 2008, 08:36:33 PM
Right, and of course the "effects on migratory birds" claim turns out to be completely unfounded in reality with absolutely no research or evidence to indicate that it even MIGHT POSSIBLY be factual. Pure propaganda.

Not necessarily.
#27
The reason a large windfarm didn't go through around here was because people were afraid of effects on migratory birds. The plans had set the farm up near Horicon marsh, which happens to be the worlds largest cattail marsh and one of the major stopover points for migratory waterfowl in the Mississippi flyway. In addition, theres a huge colony of bats nearby. In other words, environmental protest shut down what was otherwise environmentally viable.
#29
Bring and Brag / Re: My drawings
April 06, 2008, 04:03:03 AM
Gonna post the finished version of that drawing above tomorrow.

Sies sleeping right now, if you want to know why.

~Kaimi
#30
Quote from: Nigel on April 05, 2008, 07:16:47 PM
We don't have an alternative to combustion engines yet.

We have alternatives to combustion energy sources, but nuclear energy is still far from perfect, hydroelectric continues to damage the everloving fuck out of the environment, and windpower is woefully underutilized partly due to planted misinformation hysteria about turbines destroying wildlife habitat.

However, the fact that we don't have a viable alternative to combustion energy yet doesn't mean we won't develop one. Combustion is OLD technology... really old. I feel like we are at a technological plateau, as a species, until we make the next energy breakthrough, which could take one of three forms: an efficient way to harvest energy, and efficient way to store energy, or an efficient way to use energy. Any of those three things would change everything about our relationship with energy sources.

You're second paragraph summs up the reasons why people will oppose new power developments, and to offset growing population, power use is going to have to change. The technological revolution needed is not going to come fast enough.