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Politics (but let's keep it civilized)

<!--quoteo(post=328305:date=Jun 13 2009, 12:34 PM:name=Pieter Boelen)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pieter Boelen @ Jun 13 2009, 12:34 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=328305"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Of course the day that happens, it will GREATLY mess up world economy. After all, the one thing with ACTUAL value is energy (who REALLY cares about gold???) and when energy becomes available pretty much for free... I don't think any of the current industrialized countries actually WANT that to happen.
So nobody's going to be seriously working on getting there until there is no other option because fuel is REALLY running out.
But before that happens, people will probably be fighting over the remaining fuel first. Which isn't necessary, considering the energy is there for us to use anyway.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
We have'nt even come to that luxury problem of keeping free energy sources from the public, in order to maintain high oil prices.
We still need to find that reliable energy-source, that does not cost more to produce than spending, eco-wise.
Dont worry, the industrialized countries used a couple of hundred years to examine, how wars and weapons is a much better money-source than just posessing oil-ressources. Ever watched the movie The Corporation? Its basically money for bodybags and presidential elections, but I literally get sick of thinking of that, so I pretend it is not happening like the rest of the world. Iraq-war was the ideal combination, the peak of mankind in defining new standards to refine and maximize "funding" to perfection.
Take a look at that (old) invention called HHO - basically fuel made out of pure water. Lots of google+youtube on that.
Water will be the new ressource, if you ask me..
 
<!--quoteo(post=328309:date=Jun 13 2009, 12:47 PM:name=PeterWillemoes)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PeterWillemoes @ Jun 13 2009, 12:47 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=328309"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->We have'nt even come to that luxury problem of keeping free energy sources from the public, in order to maintain high oil prices.
We still need to find that reliable energy-source, that does not cost more to produce than spending, eco-wise.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Indeed we DO still need to find that. But I wouldn't be surprised if the "industrialized countries" would be actively trying to prevent that.
It WOULD mess up world economy and it'd mess it up bad. But that'd be a GOOD thing. But not as far as THEY're concerned. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":no" border="0" alt="no.gif" />

<!--quoteo(post=328309:date=Jun 13 2009, 12:47 PM:name=PeterWillemoes)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PeterWillemoes @ Jun 13 2009, 12:47 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=328309"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Take a look at that (old) invention called HHO - basically fuel made out of pure water. Lots of google+youtube on that.
Water will be the new ressource, if you ask me..<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
If you look up HHO on the internet, you'll find the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyhydrogen" target="_blank">Oxyhydrogen</a> Wikipedia page.
That indicates that HHO is NOT water; it is hydrogen + oxygen, which is a different thing altogether. When you burn that gas mixture, you get energy + water.
However, you cannot burn water (eg. have it react with oxygen), because water has ALREADY reacted with oxygen.

To create hydrogen out of water requires something like electrolysis, eg. putting electrical energy into the water to change it back into oxygen + hydrogen.
However, this REQUIRES energy. And it requires MORE energy than you'll ever get back by burning it again.

My teacher once claimed that "hydrogen" would be the fuel of the future. But hydrogen is not an energy source; it's a medium for energy storage.
Can you make a car run on HHO? Sure you can. And it'd be a nice clean combustion leaving only water as end result.
However, you still have to MAKE the HHO out of water, which can be as poluting or more poluting than just burning regular fuel. Depends on how it's done.

We'd still need a method for actually GETTING our energy somewhere. But I believe that CAN be done. If you look around you, it IS there.
Then once we've been able to harness that, we can store the energy as hydrogen and apply that in all sorts of combustion engines.

One thing that also needs to be kept in mind with using hydrogen as a fuel, though, are the safety-related issues.
Regular fuel is combustible, but especially heavy fuels won't even catch on fire if you throw a burning match onto them.
It is a different story with hydrogen, which is a VERY explosive gas.
Using that in transportation could cause major safety problems and already has done so in the past:
<img src="http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/flying/assets/hindenburg.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
Though in that particular case it wasn't used as energy source, but because hydrogen is lighter than air.
 
<!--quoteo(post=328343:date=Jun 13 2009, 01:42 PM:name=Pieter Boelen)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pieter Boelen @ Jun 13 2009, 01:42 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=328343"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=328309:date=Jun 13 2009, 12:47 PM:name=PeterWillemoes)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PeterWillemoes @ Jun 13 2009, 12:47 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=328309"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
Take a look at that (old) invention called HHO - basically fuel made out of pure water. Lots of google+youtube on that. Water will be the new ressource, if you ask me..<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
If you look up HHO on the internet, you'll find the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyhydrogen" target="_blank">Oxyhydrogen</a> Wikipedia page.
That indicates that HHO is NOT water; it is hydrogen + oxygen, which is a different thing altogether. When you burn that gas mixture, you get energy + water.
However, you cannot burn water (eg. have it react with oxygen), because water has ALREADY reacted with oxygen...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Allright it is made by setting your powercords to two plates of steel(+ and -) in the water, so this process is made from pure water and uses everything in the water <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />

<!--quoteo(post=328343:date=Jun 13 2009, 01:42 PM:name=Pieter Boelen)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pieter Boelen @ Jun 13 2009, 01:42 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=328343"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->...However, you still have to MAKE the HHO out of water, which can be as poluting or more poluting than just burning regular fuel. Depends on how it's done....<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
But..if it is made by a generator that runs on..water? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
Aye, dont know if a generator can generate more than the engine consumes, but at least the car runs longer pr. kilometer on this stuff + cleaner exhaust, burning away the dangerous particles in the gas = less pollution.
My uncle made his car run on this stuff, and saves 25% gas that way. But the steelplates rust fast, around every 1000 km's, probably caused by the electrolysis process.
 
Indeed; the electrolysis would also deteriorate the steel plates. Very true.
You could use a water power central that generates electricity and then use that to create hydrogen.
<img src="http://energieportal.nl/images/nieuws/228_dam.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
Then you really WOULD have energy from water. But a water power central wouldn't generate enough power for the WHOLE world.
So another solution would be needed too. Would be nice if we could use ocean currents or storms or lightning or something.
LOTS of energy in those! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":woot" border="0" alt="w00t.gif" />
 
As an experiment, wavebreakers have been set up on the westcoast, trying to catch the enormous powers coming in from the North Sea. Sadly, they dont convert much energy <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />
 
<!--quoteo(post=327383:date=Jun 10 2009, 03:20 PM:name=PeterWillemoes)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PeterWillemoes @ Jun 10 2009, 03:20 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=327383"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I´ve got carried away and spent the day making this.
[attachment=3101:the_worl..._denmark.jpg]
Please take it with a smile, its VERY ironic <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I found something and knew instantly it had to be shared here. Another funny map... this time, the world according to the average American.

<img src="http://www.doheth.co.uk/funny/gallery/misc/US_World.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
 
I once met an American who was actually convinced, Copenhagen was the capitol of Ikea (me, walking backwards, looking somewhat suspicious at him saying "what?!") and then he went on about eskimoes in sweden - "if they were different from those in canada?". Had to find my jaw, seriously lost it between him mentioning flooded lowlands in upper Norway (thats Holland i assume?) and Danes looking more like Germans than Ingmar Bergman, who is a great Icelandic movie-instructor, btw...Then I lost all my parts and had to wander about in circles for a minute or so - never needed a beer so bad! Its a big country, you got about 240 billions of people and these kinds of people are everywhere within a mile, so I am not complaining. Besides, I still cant find Turkey on a map, but seriously, HE was a funny chap, though <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
Sorry to break the good mood here... but for those who don't know...

North Korea has announced that, in an act of defiance against the latest UN resolutions, it may decide to launch a long-range missile... aimed at Hawaii... on July 4th...

... things are about to get <i>very</i> messy. In what way, I don't know... but I don't like this... not one bit.

In addition, USS <i>John McCain</i> is shadowing a North Korean ship (which has a history of carrying weapons and munitions for North Korea) and the American destroyer is apparently being shadowed by a Chinese submarine.

Its at times like these when I wish I was a more well-informed individual with the power and ability to do something... like CINPAC or COMSUBPAC... I hate sitting here and holding my breath, waiting for the next squall of internet reports with jumbled stories and stretched (or played down) truths.
 
<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/06/18/korea.gates/index.html" target="_blank">http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/06/18/korea.gates/index.html </a>
According to CNN. Damnit those sons of bitches - where did Kim put his brains?!! Down the drain?!

EDIT: It is Japanese media reporting this, lets wait and see. Might be a mistake. I'll put 50$ on "spelling error", dont have a choice.
PS: We will see official, globally accepted North Korean baddies in computergames for the next ten years..
 
For a side note, I can't see anything Buddhism about that NK leadership...although the philosophy: "Everything you do comes back at you sooner or later" might take an unexpected turn, as the direction sure will be firmly guided in the name of their local sub-philosophy Chondogyo (Religion of the Heavenly Way)...
 
Call of Duty 6 will be set in the Pacific/East Asia region... and it won't be set in the 1940s... you do have a point there.

I wonder...
If North Korea does launch this missile...
We <i>will</i> shoot it down. There's no question here. Its how close will we let it get to Hawaii before taking it out?
What will the result be? A nuclear explosion in the middle of the Pacific?
What will Obama do? Put the Pacific fleet on full alert and get them out of Pearl Harbor... or just slap Kim on the hand and tell him he did a very bad thing?
What will Japan do?
What will China do?
Will war be declared? By who?
Who will join us if war is declared?

North Korea... well, Kim... has lost his bloody mind. What <i>is</i> he thinking?!

And if war is declared... I wonder how the American people will respond. We're beginning to phase out one war and slowly continue another, out economy is weak, Americans are too lazy and unwilling to make big sacrifices...

I leave for VMI in a week... and all I can think about is that I may graduate in four years as a commissioned Ensign in the US Navy... and I may be sent right from my graduation into a Second Korean War. Creepy... it appears that my guesses are wrong... a year ago I thought that a conflict with Korea might come within the next decade. Now it appears it could happen in less than three weeks.
 
Lets not get ahead of ourselves. From what I heard I doubt that North Korea could even reach Hawaii with a missile and if he does shoot one it won't be carrying a nuclear warhead on it. Right now the Pentagon is installing radar and missile interceptors on strategic points in Hawaii but who knows if they will or even can shoot down a missile that's coming that way. This story did originate from the largest paper in Japan who evidently was leaked some intelligence reports confirming it.

It would be a provocative act to say the least, even if they are just seeing if they can reach Hawaii with one of their long range missiles. Whatever the outcome North Korea is a problem that isn't going away. Who knows what's going on in Kim's mind or if he is even calling the shots there anymore. They may feel that this is the only card they have left to play. President Obama has been much more bellicose in his statements regarding North Korea, such as saying that the pattern that has been playing out over the last decade of North Korea agreeing too and then violating specific agreements will not be tolerated any more and the new UN mandate that the US pushed through to track and possibly detain suspicious vessels leads me to believe that someone's bluff is about to be called. Obama's reasoning may be that it will be better to deal with North Korea now rather then wait till they start selling nukes on the black market.

BTW, anybody following the events in Iran over the past week? My guess is that the mullahs days are numbered, even if they somehow get those angry kids to back down. Interesting really, two dying regimes, one the U.S. can't afford to get involved in because it could backfire, and the other the U.S. can't afford not too be involved in.
 
Is it just me that thinks that stroke or whatever it was that was afflicting ol'Kimmy awhile back maybe altered his brain even more than it was? He seems to do a lot more than just talk, nowadays. North Korea's actions always seemed more planned and thought-out before - even if they were kooky - but now, it's like he just does whatever pops into his head.

Then again, I haven't been following the news lately all that much, so maybe I've got the wrong impression of him.
 
Is it just me, or is there something about small men in general, they always seem to compensate for something? I mean, if this infant badguy from "Team America:World Police" continues to take his bad acting into real life, he is sure to be singing any of these soon:

Nice Little Pinguins - Flying
Yazz - The only way is up
R.Kelly - I Believe I can fly

I'd rather he minded his own business, though.
 
Crazy bastards are at it again: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090625/NK_nuclear_090625/20090625?hub=World" target="_blank">http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/stor...90625?hub=World</a> I guess Kimmy will never learn. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
Tough talk. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":no" border="0" alt="no.gif" /> Wonder if they realize that the U.S. can hit them from any point on the planet. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />
 
Perhaps the UN should offer to send all Koreans on a free trip to the Moon, and just forget to tell them they only half-filled the tanks. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> They're like a bunch of obnoxious, attention-seeking little kids. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yes" border="0" alt="yes.gif" />
 
<!--quoteo(post=331062:date=Jun 19 2009, 10:46 PM:name=Commodore John Paul Jones)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Commodore John Paul Jones @ Jun 19 2009, 10:46 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=331062"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Americans are too lazy and unwilling to make big sacrifices...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

You are obviously too young and ignorant to appreciate the insult of this statement.
 
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