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Article #168Re: Bob Browntongue's latest lunacy. Was Re: Planning for Earth Hour
From: jg
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:39
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:39
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On 2/04/2012 12:17 PM, Oy Rool Out a Carbon Tax wrote: > On 2/04/2012 1:03 PM, jg wrote: >> On 2/04/2012 10:00 AM, Oy Rool Out a Carbon Tax wrote: >>> On 2/04/2012 11:34 AM, jg wrote: >>>> On 2/04/2012 9:03 AM, Oy Rool Out a Carbon Tax wrote: >>>>> On 2/04/2012 9:37 AM, jg wrote: >>>>>> On 1/04/2012 10:01 PM, Oy Rool Out a Carbon Tax wrote: >>>>>>> On 1/04/2012 5:27 PM, Spartan613 wrote: >>>>>>>> "Oy Rool Out a Carbon Tax" <gillard_lies@promises.are.invalid> >>>>>>>> wrote in >>>>>>>> message news:jl8d3a$gja$2@dont-email.me... >>>>>>>>> On 1/04/2012 8:14 AM, Gillard Lies. Labor Dies. wrote: >>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 00:28 someone claiming to be Oy Rool Out a >>>>>>>>>> Carbon >>>>>>>>>> Tax >>>>>>>>>> posting as gillard_lies@promises.are.invalid posted: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> I think earth hour is silly, not sure what it's supposed to >>>>>>>>>>>> prove to >>>>>>>>>>>> whom, but if it doesn't make people appreciate where their >>>>>>>>>>>> energy >>>>>>>>>>>> comes >>>>>>>>>>>> from now I can't see much point at all. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> It's like lots of fuzzy green things. It enables people to feel >>>>>>>>>>> good >>>>>>>>>>> about themselves, and more pious than those who didn't. Then >>>>>>>>>>> it's >>>>>>>>>>> back >>>>>>>>>>> into the SUV next day. Whoops! Forgot about it again. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I felt good about it last night. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I raced around the house, turned on the ac, and made sure all >>>>>>>>>> lights >>>>>>>>>> were on >>>>>>>>>> as well. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Gee, and I even slept well. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I hope Flannery didn't find out about it. He would tell his Earth >>>>>>>>> monster Gaia when he talks to it (it has developed consciousness >>>>>>>>> now, >>>>>>>>> you know) and you will get demerits placed against your name, come >>>>>>>>> Gaia's Judgement Day. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>>> "If we cut emissions today, global temperatures are not likely to >>>>>>>>> drop >>>>>>>>> for about a thousand years. " >>>>>>>>> -- Tim (it ain't a gonna rain no more) Flannery >>>>>>>>> - Australian Climate Commissar >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Seen that fuckwit Brown's latest offerings? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Aliens aren't contacting us because they "extincted" themselves >>>>>>>> through >>>>>>>> not being Green enough, and, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> His Watermelon one world government where the Chinese and Indians >>>>>>>> will >>>>>>>> be able to vote us into slavery through their massive population >>>>>>>> (not so >>>>>>>> Green, but Bob doesn't seem to notice) voting advantage. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> All this delivered while wearing his trademark Cheshire cat grin >>>>>>>> and >>>>>>>> disturbing and disturbed loopy eyes. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The thing is a freak. Does us all a favour, Tasmania, it was a good >>>>>>>> joke, but the joke's over. Get rid of him. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Brilliantly thought through, wasn't it... "one person one vote one >>>>>>> value" Chinks RuLe oK! >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> So it wouldn't be like the UN general assembly, with one vote per >>>>>> member >>>>>> country? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> So it's not really utopian democratic global government after all? >>>>> Just >>>>> a purely elitist UN dictatorship? What about the poor non-member >>>>> countries? What about those who haven't signed up to, say, the UN >>>>> Refugee Convention? Do they get to have a vote or don't they >>>>> "qualify"? >>>>> And what happened to the one *person* one vote? How do we know the >>>>> member country representative will be voting on behalf of all >>>>> persons of >>>>> their member country? It would seem impossible if the votes in that >>>>> country varied in any way from unanimity. Sounds even more poorly >>>>> thought through than it first appears. Oh dear. :-( >>>>> >>>> >>>> Would you prefer the UN was one vote one person? 193 countries seem ok >>>> with it the way it is. >>>> >>> >>> I'd prefer the UN had as little input to world affairs as possible. It >>> is Brown pretending that UN government would be some new all-embracing >>> global democracy. Sounds like it would boil things down to 193 votes >>> representing 7 billion people. Then again, that's Brown logic for you. >>> >>> ASIDE: Do you know what the _external_ threads are for on these >>> batteries? >>> http://www.healthcabin.net/index.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=7966 >>> >>> (just above the button) A different style/brand of cartomizer? A >>> different charger adaptor? >>> >> >> I'm pretty sure everything with 510 in the name has the same threads. >> Only time I have heard of something not fitting is here- >> http://ecigz.com.au/store/UNIQUE-510-MODEL/New-Design-510-Atomiser/prod_224.html >> >> >> and I really can't work out what they are on about, but I suspect even >> those don't refer to battery thread compatibility. > > That would be the internal thread which is Joye 510-compatible. That > external thread is about 10mm. I've not seen anything big enough to > carry a mating internal 10mm thread. Just curious actually. > > Oh, the external thread you are seeing is just for a hollow conical sleeve to make it look less like a spark plug. I just throw them away, have ignored the thread for so long it's 'invisible'. I think the larger batteries have it, the little ones don't.
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Subject: Re: Bob Browntongue's latest lunacy. Was Re: Planning for Earth Hour
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