What can Al Gore learn from a 10th century king? Perhaps the dividing line between ego and reality.
Long ago in Britain there was a King named Canute who became frustrated with his courtiers and advisers constantly fawning and flattering and telling him that his word was law and acting as if he could do anything in the world just because he was king. …
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26 - STM
What annoys me about all this is that places like China and India get off the hook in relation to their carbon output, while the rest of us are now expected to pay through the nose.
And that is on the nose. Let's make everyone pay.
27 - Les Slater
Dave,
"As for Gore and his love of methane, it's inexplicable. It does produce some pollutants, but it's still very low..."
It still introduces sizable amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere; biodiesel and ethanol introduce none.
Les
28 - sr
Did I mention that one of my cars will run on farts.
29 - Dr Dreadful
That's nothing, sr. President Bush has an Iraq policy that runs on a wing and a prayer.
30 - Dave Nalle
SR, methane essentially IS farts. So Gore is promoting fart-based alternative energy.
Dave
31 - RFK Jr. 2008
Dave Nalle,
Meet The RFK Jr. 2008 Candidate Draft Movement on myspace.
32 - Dave Nalle
given the condition his voice has been in the last few times i've listened to his radio show i have my doubts about his viability as a candidate.
dave
33 - Dr Dreadful
What is up with his voice? Sounds as if it's an epic struggle for him just to get a vocal cord or two to twitch.
Maybe he can get one of those voice synthesizers like the one Stephen Hawking uses...
On the other hand, might it not be beneficial to have a President who isn't capable of effortlessly spewing garbage every time he opens his mouth...?
34 - Dave Nalle
two years ago his voice was fine. then at some point he started having this problem. i figured it was bronchitis or something temporary, but given the time it has lasted i initially thought it was throat cancer or something much nastier. however, it is supposedly a rare disorder called spasmodic dysphonia which causes the muscles of the larynx to spasm involuntarily and make the voice sound raspy. sounds like a good explanation, but since that's a chronic problem it makes me wonder why he only developed it suddenly in his late 40s and not much earlier in his career.
dave
35 - moonraven
Now we really NEED to spend our time posting about rare medical conditions.
As for the comment about China and India getting off the hook and the First World supposedly being asked to pay through the nose:
1. The First World--at least Australia and the US--are not paying anything at all, nor doing anything at all--they deny the existence of the problem.
2. The Third World's dubious privileges are the price the First World pays for claiming superiority. Live with it.
36 - Baronius
Dave - burps. The main source of bovine methane is cow burps.
37 - Dr Dreadful
Dave - new keyboard. Best Buy. Five minutes, in and out. C'm on.
38 - Dave Nalle
if only, dr. d. i'm doing most of my work on a mac powerbook and replacing the keyboard on these newer ones is a bit of a pain. will probably have to do it though.
dave
39 - bliffle
Switch to ubuntu 7.04.
Faster than a speeding windows system, able to leap big macs in a user-friendly bound! Look, here on my Thinkpad, it's not Word, it's not plain, it's UBUNTU!
And it's free, Free, FREE!
And it works, Works, WORKS!
40 - sr
THIS SUBJECT COULD GET REALLY STINKY.