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[Chickenman 9]

Those in agreement are not a fringe minority: A Gallup poll this summer of more than 1,000 Americans showed that 39 percent were in favor of requiring Muslims in the United States, including American citizens, to carry special identification.

Roughly a quarter of those polled said they would not want to live next door to a Muslim and a third thought that Muslims in the United States sympathized with al Qaeda

That's sick. That's ewoking sick. The ignorance in this country is appalling.

Hello, assholes, but not all terrorists are Muslims! The people who founded this country were considered terrorists for Christ's sake!

Maybe we should require bigots to carry special identification. Preferably a big neon sign that reads: I'm an ingnorant ewoking asshole!

[Uncle Du 22]

Jesus, does anyone learn from the past around here or what?! I'm so glad that these morons out there are making all Americans look like racist, bigoted rednecks. I can almost guarantee that every ewok that called into that show had a thick southern accent. There. How's that for stereotyping. Morons.

[Brumak 2]

That sith makes me sick.

[TheUnknown 39]

Considering white Christians blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City, blew up Centinnel Olympic Park in Atlanta, blew up a gay bar in Atlanta, blew up an abortion clinic in Alabama, killed millions of Jews, gays, gypsies, Slaves, etc in Germany, and for years dressed up in pointy white hats and white robs and terrorized blacks, Catholics, Jews, and immibrants, I wonder if the ewoktards who agreed with the hoax would also say that white Christians should have crosses tattooed onto their foreheads?

[Radioactive Isotope 29]

i can't even dignify those morons with a response. just....whoa.

[Andy 60]

*blank stare*

:|

[Neil1 0]

A poll carried out by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an advocacy group, found that for one in three Americans, the word Islam triggers negative connotations such as "war," "hatred" and "terrorist."

The war in Iraq has contributed to such perceptions.

You have to love this article.

IGNORANCE SEEN AS KEY PROBLEM

Bless.

Edited December 4, 2006 by Neil1

[Uncle Du 22]

You're a hard cat to read sometimes Neil.

[Neil1 0]

How mirrors can light up the world - http://environment.guardian.co.uk/energy/s...1957908,00.html

In the desert, just across the Mediterranean sea, is a vast source of energy that holds the promise of a carbon-free, nuclear-free electrical future for the whole of Europe, if not the world.

We are not talking about the vast oil and gas deposits underneath Algeria and Libya, or uranium for nuclear plants, but something far simpler - the sun. And in vast quantities: every year it pours down the equivalent of 1.5m barrels of oil of energy for every square kilometre.

Most people in Britain think of solar power as a few panels on the roof of a house producing hot water or a bit of electricity. But according to two reports prepared for the German government, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa should be building vast solar farms in North Africa's deserts using a simple technology that more resembles using a magnifying glass to burn a hole in a piece of paper than any space age technology.

Two German scientists, Dr Gerhard Knies and Dr Franz Trieb, calculate that covering just 0.5% of the world's hot deserts with a technology called concentrated solar power (CSP) would provide the world's entire electricity needs, with the technology also providing desalinated water to desert regions as a valuable byproduct, as well as air conditioning for nearby cities.

Focusing on Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, they say, Europe should build a new high-voltage direct current electricity grid to allow the easy, efficient transport of electricity from a variety of alternative sources. Britain could put in wind power, Norway hydro, and central Europe biomass and geo-thermal. Together the region could provide all its electricity needs by 2050 with barely any fossil fuels and no nuclear power. This would allow a 70% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from electricity production over the period.

CSP technology is not new. There has been a plant in the Mojave desert in California for the past 15 years. Others are being built in Nevada, southern Spain and Australia. There are different forms of CSP but all share in common the use of mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays on a pipe or vessel containing some sort of gas or liquid that heats up to around 400C (752F) and is used to power conventional steam turbines.

The mirrors are very large and create shaded areas underneath which can be used for horticulture irrigated by desalinated water generated by the plants. The cold water that can also be produced for air conditioning means there are three benefits. "It is this triple use of the energy which really boost the overall energy efficiency of these kinds of plants up to 80% to 90%," says Dr Knies...

...Dan Lewis, energy expert at the Economic Research Council, calculates that CSP costs $3-5m per installed megawatt, one-fifth the cost of fusion. "Fusion is basically a job creation scheme for plasma physicists."

Mr Crumpton agreed: "Nuclear power accounts for just 3.1% of global energy supply and would be hard pushed to provide more. Yet CSP could supply 30% or 300% of future energy demand far more simply, safely and cost effectively. In the wake of the Stern report the enlightened investment is on hot deserts, not uranium mines or oil wells.

Coolio.

[Uncle Du 22]

But then all the monsters of the power and oil industry would lose a sith ton of money. God forbid that should happen.

[Neil1 0]

The sad truth.

[Radioactive Isotope 29]

that's also why we'll never be using alternative energy/fuel sources either

[Uncle Du 22]

Well, not until we've sucked all the other natural resources dry.

[Brumak 2]

I just thought this was inetersting. So I threw it up.

[Andy 60]

Yay!

[Uncle Du 22]

Hey, that's pretty sweet! Dude definitely deserves it.

[Uncle Du 22]

This is great...

What I think is really funny is that this bith is a freakin American, and that living in the UK makes her British or something. If anything, I think she's giving the country a bad rep.

[Chickenman 9]

I just thought this was inetersting. So I threw it up.

Stephen Hawking is one of the most leet people alive.

[Brumak 2]

Agreed.

[Andy 60]

This is great...

What I think is really funny is that this bith is a freakin American, and that living in the UK makes her British or something. If anything, I think she's giving the country a bad rep.

lol, I didn't even know she lived over here. :p

[Chickenman 9]

Sucks to be you.

Wait. We still have Courtney Love.

God damn it!

[Brumak 2]

:lol:

[Uncle Du 22]

Yea, I bet we could pawn coutrney off on france...I'm sure they would dig her skankiness. :p

[Brumak 2]

hahaha so true.....

and my roommate (Joe) adds "Yeah she's probably too drunk to shave, she'll fit right in"

[Alexander 0]

I don't know how many fans of the old TechTV are here, but I've been following this story since Sunday. It had its mixed endings - Kim's family is now safe, but he lost his life. Even not knowing him, I do not think any "prominent" person's death has hit me like this one.

Edited December 7, 2006 by Alexander