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Re: Bob Browntongue's latest lunacy. Was Re: Planning for Earth Hour

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From: Oy Rool Out a Carbon Tax
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:47
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On 2/04/2012 2:39 PM, jg wrote:
> 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'.
Me too - just noticed because being so fine it's a bit of a "grime" 
collector.

> I think the larger batteries have it, the little ones don't.
>
>
OK. Ta.

-- 
"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
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Subject: Re: Bob Browntongue's latest lunacy. Was Re: Planning for Earth Hour
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