am drawn to Buddhism and Hinduism.
But does not neccessarily believe in them.
I believe there is only one God
But which one God?
and no religion is right or wrong."
Ah. A Universalist! Lot of that going around.
max
['Not that they seem to know.']
I added the ellipsis.
I debated enclosing it in square brackets, since after all people do include ellipses their own selves, but I thought it wouldn't be necessary. Showed me!
Wow. Which dating site is this?
3: I debated enclosing it in square brackets, since after all people do include ellipses their own selves, but I thought it wouldn't be necessary.
I usually use [...] for the removal of large chunks of text. Newspaper ellipses style is usually word... ... ...word to indicate words removed from the middle of a sentence, isn't it?
max
['Or something like that.']
Which dating site is this?
Could be any of them, really.
I believe there is only one correct life partner, and no dating site is right or wrong.
That would be telling, Paren.
And what is so wrong with telling? Isn't honesty a good thing?
I'm not being dishonest in not revealing something.
7: Chances are it isn't JDate, though.
12: It actually could be, but yeah, fair enough.
Is it an anagram of "poi duck"?
Oud pick? That's an odd name for a dating site.
ExistentialCrisisDating.
max
['The place where singles meet to...no. That's not it.']
14: No, everyone should let me pick. It would be the awesomest dating site ever.
I once saw a car with two bumperstickers: STOP THEOCRACY NOW and FREE TIBET. Not exactly contradictory, but likely more complicated than the driver had considered.
14, funny, I was just thinking "dickopu? That's an odd name for a dating site!"
Incidentally, if you're looking to buy oud picks from Amazon, you'll have to settle for the plastic kind at the moment.
"O! dick up!", on the other hand, makes more sense.
18: Or perhaps you are interested in these oud picks.
I once saw a car with two bumperstickers: STOP THEOCRACY NOW and FREE TIBET. Not exactly contradictory, but likely more complicated than the driver had considered.
Heh. Indeed.
"I ... am drawn to Buddhism and Hinduism. I believe there is only one God and no religion is right or wrong.LOL
Fixed!
16.2: Not unlike the car I saw with a "LUDDITE" bumpersticker, or the pickup with one that read "COOKED FOOD IS POISON" right above the tailpipe.
Maybe () wants to look up your profile so that she can see if you meet her stringent standards, neb. Ever think of that?
(lolgirl has messaged back. My banter: apparently pleasant enough after all.)
26: She who is discussed starting here.
"Lol" was an expostulation before it was a verb phrase, so there's really nothing wrong with "I like cheese lol" (except perhaps for the absence of a comma and the fact that there's NOTHING FUNNY about liking cheese). "This makes me lol" is the innovation.
Google says
Results 1 - 10 of about 144,000 for "I like cheese lol".
But then only shows seven pages of actual results. Such a disappointment.
28: See, this is the reason I come here with my questions.
Remember, "lol" primordially stood for "laughing out loud". So perhaps she meant that when she is laughing out loud, she likes cheese. You wouldn't find "I like cheese on Tuesdays" grammatically objectionable, would you?
I think she means that she likes her cheese to laugh out loud. I wouldn't trust someone who has such hallucinations.
I might trust her to hook you up.
11: Oh, true enough. I didn't actually mean to imply that you were being dishonest.
I'm just curious as to what dating sites people actually use.
re: 18
Heh, I do actually have an oud. I use normal picks rather than a risha, though. Although I do use cow-horn:
http://www.maurysmusic.com/inc/sdetail/7006
35: Doing research for a "friend", I suppose?
31: Yes, yes--I realized this shortly after I posted my initial critique. Really this whole kerfluffle has been an object lesson in the importance of removing the beam from one's own eye before picking the speck out of another's. See? I've barely restarted online dating and yet I'm already experiencing enormous personal growth.
32: I think she means that she likes her cheese to laugh out loud.
Maybe she likes to lol when she cuts the cheese.
38: I've barely restarted online dating and yet I'm already experiencing enormous personal growth.
Soon you'll be a being of pure energy?
max
['Reaching a pseudopod out to the world.']
I ... am drawn to Buddhism and Hinduism.
"You like the ecumenical movement? I love the ecumenical movement! Hans Küng and me, we're like this!"
Maybe the author of the ad is just trying to cover all the bases and doesn't want to drive away anyone of any religion.
Not that it's likely to be a successful effort. Seems more likely to drive away everyone of every religion.
Or at least one person from every religion. Maybe that's the idea!
"I'm not Buddhist or Hindu, I'm just drawn that way."
I believe there is only one God and no religion is right or wrong.
I would guess that this is the datingsiteperson's inartful way of saying something along the lines of "I believe that all religions are just different ways of experiencing the same god". It's a fairly common "I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual" type of formulation.
See? I've barely restarted online dating and yet I'm already experiencing enormous personal growth.
You jumped straight from online dating to hott chat?
Careful, Josh, or Otto will ask you what you're wearing.
46: Yeah, I'm sure that's what it is. Putting it right after the Buddhism and Hinduism line still shows a certain lack of awareness, though.
46: It is phrased humorously but, yeah, it sounds like Integral Yoga's "Many Paths, One Truth".
I would hate to grade Integral Yoga.
45: "Why do all these polytheists keep concerning themselves with my soul?"
I'm siding with the original post. One of the best parts about online dating is the judging.
Or at least one person from every religion. Maybe that's the idea!
Gotta catch 'em all? There must be extra points for tracking down someone Baha'i.
That would be cute if you commented as "am" in the mornings.
B'hai is a little bit of everything.
read pwned me on grading Integral Yoga?
56, other thread: That's the plan, to the extent that I'm online in the mornings. And to the extent that I stick around.
Would it just be one from every religion, or one from every denomination within each religion? The latter would be a lot harder, but the former would require some tricky decisions about where religions begin and end.
read pwned me on grading Integral Yoga?
Possibly; I haven't been reading every thread. But she definitely had the am/pm idea in one of them.
Better drive away a Shaker soon. On the other hand, all the work is already done.
56, other thread: That's the plan, to the extent that I'm online in the mornings. And to the extent that I stick around.
Poor Lizardbreath.
Can I just be am when I want coffee, and pm when I want beer?
But she definitely had the am/pm idea in one of them.
There are many paths to the One True Joke.
There must be extra points for tracking down someone Baha'i.
I know someone Baha'i. Even better, I have a t-shirt from the Yukon Baha'i Institute.
There must be extra points for tracking down someone Baha'i.
UNG's girlfriend is Baha'i.
I know someone Baha'i. Even better, I have a t-shirt from the Yukon Baha'i Institute.
That's quite the lefthanded compliment there. "I'm glad I know you! Not as glad as I am about owning this t-shirt, but glad all the same."
Thanks for making that clear, Myotch.
"I know a Baha'i person, but at least I also got this crummy t-shirt."
It is kind of a crummy t-shirt. The design is cool, but the fabric is, like, half polyester. Some religion.
Well, I'd expect it to contain a multitude of fibers.
They have a pretty bitchin' building in Wilmette. And they have Dwight Schrute.
Results 1 - 10 of about 144,000 for "I like cheese lol".
Exactly the same number of hits as Jehova's Witnesses think there will be people in heaven. Coincidence? I think not.
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HOUSTON -- The natural gas industry has enjoyed something of a winning streak in recent years. It found gigantic new reserves, low prices are encouraging utilities to substitute gas for coal, and cities are switching to buses fueled by natural gas. But its luck has run out in Washington, where the industry is having trouble making its case to Congress as it writes an energy bill to tackle global warming.
For all its pronouncements that gas could be used to replace aging, inefficient coal-fired power plants -- and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the process -- lawmakers from coal-producing states appear committed to keeping coal as the nation's primary producer of power. Those influential lawmakers, from both parties, say that new technologies under development to capture and bury emissions of coal are a better bet than gas for long-term solutions to climate change. [...]
"Never in my life have I been confronted with something so obviously easy and good to do and have such Congressional apathy," said Aubrey McClendon, chief executive of Chesapeake Energy and a leading voice in the industry. He added that he was still hopeful the Senate can improve the House bill. But the coal industry will also be active. Vic Svec, a senior vice president at Peabody Energy, a large coal company, said coal was still a better fuel because its price is more stable than gas. "Coal with carbon capture and storage is the low cost, low carbon solution and has fantastic implications for the nation's energy security," he said.
But it is not only coal-industry lobbyists and their Congressional supporters who favor the concept of carbon sequestration. David Hawkins, a climate change expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said simply replacing coal with natural gas for power generation was "not a viable strategy" because that would merely delay climate change by a few decades. "A coal plant with carbon capture and storage is a cleaner plant than an uncontrolled natural gas plant," he said.Wow. That's shockingly stupid. I can understand the coal guys, they just want the money and employment. The other guy... the ultimate case of making the perfect the enemy of the good.
The Environmental Protection Agency projects that if the House bill became law, electricity generation from gas would increase by less than 1 percent from 2015 to 2025, while generation from coal would remain nearly unchanged. There will be more use of renewables, but power generation as a whole is expected to decline because of conservation efforts, including tightening of building energy codes.The phrase 'fat chance of that' wanders across my mind.
"By allowing free emission allowances to maintain coal production from existing coal plants, while providing mandates that there be more wind and solar, you squeeze gas out in the middle," said William F. Whitsitt, an executive vice president at Devon Energy, a major natural gas producer. Without any new legislation, and if current policies remain in place, gas would beat out coal by a far larger margin, according to E.P.A. projections. There would be nearly 30 percent more power generated by gas by 2025 than in 2015, while coal fired generation would grow by a more modest 7 percent. Many legislators believe that carbon capture and sequestration -- a largely untested system that would bury carbon at power plants so it does not escape into the atmosphere -- can be made to work.SNORK. And if it doesn't, oh, well! Darn.
Senate officials and energy officials say it will be difficult to develop legislation that benefits both the gas and coal industries and reduces greenhouse gases.I see our priorities are in order. So. What do the rich right-wingers at Forbes, who will support an R in 2012 and may well win have to say about all that?
Rich Karlgaard's recent column on energy and the Waxman-Markey carbon trading bill should be required reading for every high school and college kid. They should have to read it three times. Adults should have to prove they've read it before being allowed to vote. The column outlined the harsh reality of renewable energy. In this country 89% of electricity comes from three fuel sources: coal, natural gas and nuclear fission. That fraction won't change dramatically in the next decade. If you want your air conditioner to work in 2014, you'd better hope that more fossil fuel plants get built.
I'm riding down the road in a friend's electric Tesla Roadster. Sounds clean, doesn't it? But we are burning 49% coal, 21% natural gas, 20% nuclear and little else. Wind power? Zip! How will we run Teslas without fossil fuel? We won't. How will emerging markets, with a combined gdp already bigger than America's, grow without more fossil fuel? They won't.
Nuclear power might provide for our needs (and, if you believe in the global warming theory, protect our atmosphere). If the French can get 70% of their electric energy from nuclear safely and cleanly, then we can. But will we? Politically, it will be difficult. Many of the same people screaming that fossil fuel creates global warming are also adamantly against adding clean nuclear power. There are a lot of nuclear reactor applications pending in the U.S., but the permits will be few, and slow in coming.
That situation, and the fact that other energy-hungry countries will also be demanding fossil fuels, tells me you should be overweight in energy stocks. That means at least 12% of your equity in energy companies, and most of that in companies with a fossil fuel emphasis. Here's a hefty handful I like now.Blah blah blah. Given the need to craft legislation to 'benefit both the coal and gas companies', he ain't wrong about the percentages. My, it's going to be an ugly four years.
max
['Decade, century, whatever.']
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Dammit, max, I was in a good mood this morning.
Just to repeat, this:
David Hawkins, a climate change expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said simply replacing coal with natural gas for power generation was "not a viable strategy" because that would merely delay climate change by a few decades. "A coal plant with carbon capture and storage is a cleaner plant than an uncontrolled natural gas plant," he said.
is stunning. I hope there's missing context. Long-term, yes, natural gas is not a viable strategy. But... there's no such thing as a coal plant with CCS. We'd be a hell of a lot better off burning natural gas than coal in the short-term.
M. Tourettelotte, an expert at an Important Organization, said changing anything about power generation was "not a viable strategy" because that would not address the ultimate limits on human energy use. "This planet is fucking toast in the long-term anyway, and besides, we can't afford it." he said. "This is a nice little red, though."
78/80: There actually is reasonably viable CCS technology. It's just really expensive - something like $50 / ton of CO2. Seeing as how carbon prices prices under Waxman-Markey are projected to be 1/4-1/3 of that for the next couple decades, nobody expects widespread use of CCS. Emissions cutbacks scheduled for 2020-2030 are probably achievable with stuff like energy efficiency, doing some shifting to renewables (and maybe gas), that sort of thing. But numbers like "80% by 2050" just aren't gonna happen with lots of fossil fuel-based energy and no CCS. So, something's gotta give.
As for not replacing coal plants with gas, well, I don't know that that's shockingly stupid. You're right that it prioritizes big reductions over small, but these plants are freaking expensive. Once they're built, they're going to be used for a long time.
As for not replacing coal plants with gas, well, I don't know that that's shockingly stupid. You're right that it prioritizes big reductions over small, but these plants are freaking expensive. Once they're built, they're going to be used for a long time
True, but the UK managed to make pretty serious carbon reductions by (partly) switching from coal to gas in the 80s and 90s. Obviously it would be better if all new power stations didn't use either, but that doesn't seem to be an option at the moment.
75 - African-American Poet Laureate Robert Hayden! Scrappy Cardinals shortstop Khalil Greene! '70s soft-rock superstar Jim Seals! Dizzy blonde Carole Lombard! You might as well ask who isn't Baha'i.
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I'm reading something that repeatedly contains the word "ansätz" [sic], and trying to imagine the thought process that led to the umlaut.
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When I was a first-year in college, I had to critique another student's essay, and it contained "ubiquitous" about seven times. I finally looked it up, then wondered if the student was fucking with us.
88: Faulty backformation from the plural? I know some people who thought the German "land" had an umlaut because they'd only seen the plural.
90: Probably. But now I'm imagining a metal band called Ansätz.
Baha'is don't get to drink.
And Catholics don't get to use birth control...
93: Well, not without feeling guilty.
Probably. But now I'm imagining a metal band called Ansätz
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Induction?
78: You know, heebie has a standing offer for guest posts . . . .
Scott Aaronson's Worldview Manager should be built in as a module to every dating site. (Actually, now that I think about it, I bet that there are relatively few modifications that could be made to WVM to make it a passable nerd-dating-site in and of itself.)
Is any of the debate referred to in 78 influenced by NIMBYism? Most of the discussion I remember from a few years ago was about the instability of liquid natural gas and the dangers involved in transporting it.
I don't have the technical knowledge to assess the truth of those claims, and I don't doubt that hysterical post-Sept. 11 security fears played a role, but it was certainly a often-raised question when LNG terminals were proposed in a couple of locations on the East Coast.
I guess I'm just wondering if the NRDC position is influenced by some donors or board members, something like the Kennedys and the wind power kerfuffle from a while back.
I nominate this for a post:
Maarten Selfhout-van Zalk, a researcher with the youth and society research group at Orebro University in Sweden, says that for teens with few friends and weak friendships, more time spent online is a good thing.
"We found if they chat more, with strangers specifically, they increase in their well-being over time," he says. "They gain positive feelings from that; they actually experience better self-esteem."
He said they expected Internet usage to have detrimental effects on lonely teens who were investing more time in online friendships than real ones. Instead, their research suggests the Internet acts as a social training ground, where such teens can meet people, create support networks and build their confidence and social skills for real-world interactions.
Further to 78, and now 99: C'mon guys, skirt up! Send your posts right to heebie (or whoever).
But then I'd have to log in to my e-mail.
And Catholics don't get to use birth control... if they want any chance of going to heaven.
Librarians get used to such onerous tasks, eb.
I'll start e-mailing heebie with post suggestions after I finish my degree and get a job.
