Yeah, you're always going to get some fluctuation. Peak oil theorists didn't really have this kind of fracking technology in mind. Eventually the price will begin to rise indefinitely until oil becomes fully substitutable. The problem with substitution is that a lot of the things that use oil are a major capital investment.  Wayyyyyyyy!
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kalstrams posted:*check urban dictionary* Don't be dispirited, it could off been a much more annoying mistake.
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MeLKoR posted:Don't be dispirited, it could off been a much more annoying mistake.  Radio Prune posted:This got a chuckle out of me and is pretty accurate https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/551218361578041346
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Putin named most corrupt person of the year.  http://uatoday.tv/geopolitics/vladimir-putin-named-corrupt-person-of-the-year-400787.html quote:A group investigating corruption and organised crime has named Vladimir Putin its person of the year. The group, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, bestowed the Russian president with the dubious distinction for "his work in turning Russia into a major money-laundering center for enabling organized crime in Crimea and in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine."
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Radio Prune posted:This got a chuckle out of me and is pretty accurate https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/551218361578041346  I included a shout out to our favorite thread poster in there.
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Radio Prune posted:This got a chuckle out of me and is pretty accurate https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/551218361578041346 well that was quick: 
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Hahaha, Ben Judah's on that bingo card? I didn't think he'd make it so big I'd see people talking about his rear end in goondom.
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That's the crappiest bingo board I've ever seen. Where's the free space?
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StandardVC10 posted:That's the crappiest bingo board I've ever seen. Where's the free space?
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Radio Prune posted:This got a chuckle out of me and is pretty accurate https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/551218361578041346 This is perfect.
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MeLKoR posted:Don't be dispirited, it could off been a much more annoying mistake.
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vegaji posted:Thanks You're Aric?  I've always liked your tweets when I see them. Been meaning to follow.
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Radio Prune posted:This got a chuckle out of me and is pretty accurate https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/551218361578041346 Seems simpler than the old bingo board. 
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Also what's all this noise about Batman?
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Radio Prune posted:Also what's all this noise about Batman? He had a tragic, fatal incident involving a Toyota Prius and a whole lot of bullets.
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Friendly bullets per what I've seen in some places.
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That's what I was hearing, yeah. Anyone got more info on what happened (or the man himself, for those of us not up to speed)?
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Strelkov urges Russians in Donbass to return to "Old Russia" with the death of Batman. http://24today.net/open/262889
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Rincewinds posted:Seems simpler than the old bingo board. This is rock-solid. Are you available for other design work?
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Warbadger posted:He had a tragic, fatal incident involving a Toyota Prius and a whole lot of bullets. It involved "resisting arrest" for allegations of torture from LNR's "prosecutor". Also it might have involved a flamethrower rather than bullets. Edit:http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-319-ukrainian-police-arrest-man-who-broke-lifenews-camera-during-bandera-procession/#6040 has more info, including NMS image of burnt body in the next story. OddObserver fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Jan 3, 2015 |
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Question about Eastern European countries/ politics with the US. In which countries is the tap water going to be to a similar standard with the US? Based on CDC advisories, one can make a map of what the US considers to be drinkable water, like this guy did http://neomam.com/infographics/tap-water/ What surprises me I guess is that Poland is considered to have tap water as good as the US, but the Baltics are not. The Czech republic is, Slovakia isn't. Based on Sochi and Putin's reaction to the fuss that Russia's water is not good to drink. So how much truth is there to the map in eastern Europe and how much is politics? Sorry if this is too unserious for the rest of the discussion these past few pages, yeesh!
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Skeesix posted:Question about Eastern European countries/ politics with the US. In which countries is the tap water going to be to a similar standard with the US? The map is bullshit, as far as I know. e: Ahahahaha quote:Keep in mind, potentially unsafe means that it could be harmful to drink if your system is not used to that environment, not necessarily that the water is polluted and dirty. This map isn't really about the quality of tapwater at all. According to this, I should probably consider the water in US to be unsafe to drink.
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Maybe I pay little attention to my personal health, but I'd say that in Baltics tap water is drinkable - if only not too tasty if too warm. On my trips to Lithuania/Estonia I have drunk tap water in hotels without any consequence, in Latvia I did drink tap water for something like 21 year without any noted consequences either. From discussions with my friends, tap water in Russia/Belarus/Ukraine is hit or miss and is highly dependant on where in the country you are. While not really Eastern Europe, in Iceland, as far as I know, tap water tastes very funny to non locals. Again, I haven't tried U.S. tap water, so maybe you have ambrosia there.
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kalstrams posted:in Latvia I did drink tap water for something like 21 year without any noted consequences either. You post on Something Awful.
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:You post on Something Awful.  Don't give them hints about the project.
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:You post on Something Awful.
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Skeesix posted:Question about Eastern European countries/ politics with the US. In which countries is the tap water going to be to a similar standard with the US? I honestly wouldn't recommend drinking tap water in Warsaw, boiled or not, even if it does qualify as "potable".
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Skeesix posted:Question about Eastern European countries/ politics with the US. In which countries is the tap water going to be to a similar standard with the US? lol that's such bullshit. Tap water is drinkable in Lithuania (having been there multiple times).
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The Netherlands have the best tap water if you're into drinking tap water. The stuff in the US gives me flatulence, and I use a water filter. I'd stick to bottles when traveling to Poland.
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The tap water I drink in my home state has different microbes in it than tap water in another part of the state. You can drink tap water in another part of the country and get diarrhea from it. I never saw anyone in Europe drink tap water. It all came out of a bottle.
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Making a map on a per-country basis is beyond useless. Quality of water depends on source and associated infrastructure, of course, and will necessarily differ greatly form town to town. For instance, tap water in Prague has been consistently rated above most bottled water, while in many villages just outside the city it's only fit for utility applications without treatment.
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Regarde Aduck posted:Why should Russia have influence outside its borders. It's not a superpower anymore. It has to play by the non superpower rules. Meaning it no longer gets to rig elections in other countries. Only superpowers get to do that. Vietnam or Saudi Arabia have influence outside its borders (Ask Cambodia, Laos, or random Gulf states about it). Vietnam or Saudi Arabia are regional powers. Russia is a Great Power as is India, US is a superpower, China falls between great and superpower. The European big three fall somewhere between regional and Great Power. There are about 2 dozen countries which do have considerable influence outside of their borders, and only 2 of those, China and the USA, are more powerfull then Russia. You are nearly getting it, the US tries to force a global rules change that mean that only they (or people who are in their sphere of influence) get influence outside their borders. This simultaneously pisses off every regional power and upwards that isnt aligned with the USA (and even some that are aligned with the USA now like Turkey, Turkey is still kind of OK with US leadership, but will react hostile to any US assertion that Turkeys sphere of influence depends on submission to the USA). How do you think this is going to play out longterm?
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Those drat Ukrainians, ignoring Russia's right to influence them. Don't they realize Russia is a great power? The USA and the EU wield the influence they do because people outside their borders generally welcome their influence, either for pragmatic or ideological reasons. It's bizarre that you seem to be operating on the assumption that certain countries have a right to a certain amount of "default influence" which is owed to them and not earned. Fojar38 fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Jan 4, 2015 |
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If Russia was a great power in any sort of useful sense it'd be able to handle keeping their guy in power in one of their poorest European neighbors.
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Fojar38 posted:Those drat Ukrainians, ignoring Russia's right to influence them. Don't they realize Russia is a great power? Well, if they take Russian money (5 to 10 billions per year according to Brookings) then Russia gets influence. Of course, the Ukrainians arent much to blame, most major "gently caress Russia" decisions werent made by them (but they receive the "Russian" backlash, partly because Russia believes it cannot credibly strike at the actual decision makers), and their own road to hell was quite propably plastered with some actually good intentions.
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Mightypeon posted:Well, if they take Russian money (5 to 10 billions per year according to Brookings) then Russia gets influence. I didn't realize international influence in real life was the same as in a game of Civ 5.
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Nintendo Kid posted:If Russia was a great power in any sort of useful sense it'd be able to handle keeping their guy in power in one of their poorest European neighbors. They were gullible enough to play be the west rules until the west broke them.
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Mightypeon posted:They were gullible enough to play be the west rules until the west broke them. The west didn't do anything at all.
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Mightypeon posted:They were gullible enough to play be the west rules until the west broke them. Please clarify.
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