quote:Originally posted by Cartmaniac: ...Or about covering the Sahara desert with solar collectors, which would provide enough energy for Europe and Africa combined. Then there's the Australian Outback, the Gobi and Tarim deserts in China, the vast arid region that stretches from the Arabian peninsula to India...
I think I prefer the ocean wave power idea. It would be too easy for some crackpot dictator to seize those collectors and threaten the world. Whereas with the ocean idea the US could just protect them with their enormous fleet.
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Hey, Dixie Chicks fans, remember, if worse comes to worst, you can always do what you probably do anyway...
Swipe it off the net.
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YES! I was reading this thread thinking "Loyality issues? Can we be any more 1955? What we need thrown into the mix is some IP controversy." Now, after two or three pages, someone needs to claim that open source code aids terrorists. When you use Mozilla you're browsing with Osama!
Unwarranted musical taste-related insult: I doubt your average Dixie Chicks fan can even spell MP3, much less listen to one.
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Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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I must be a member of Al Qaeda then.
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I have downloaded enough MST3K episodes from KaZaa to give little Ahmed a dynamite belt. You know, those ones that look like a string of hot dogs around the midsection?
Yeah, if I were a suicide bomber, I'd go that route. What's better than opening your jacket to reveal a cluster of dynamite? I bet that waitress Kelly would notice me now, wouldn't she? WOULDN'T YOU NOW, DON'T YOU SEE!?! I LOVE YOU!!?! IF WE CAN'T BE TOGETHER, NO ONE CAN HAVE YOU! BITCH!
Anyway, downloading things from the internet is all grey. Like, I cannot buy Mike Nelsoney goodness in stores. I am not buddies with the Bader-Meinhoff gang. See?
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Linus is, like, Osama! Every time I compile a kernel, and his name flashes by ominously, my mistrust of him grows. He invades our cyberspace, and we fall back. He assimilates entire computer systems, and we fall back. Not again! The line must be drawn HEAH! This far no farther!
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