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RIP Steven Den Beste of the USS Clueless, One of the Most Insightful of the First Wave of Bloggers
He had a mossy mind, vibrant and always looking for new cracks to dig into.
He was also, at least for a short time, a guest blogger here. I had always thought Den Beste was an exciting writer, in the sense that you never really knew what kind of Learning Adventure you'd be going on when you clicked on his blog. He had a Renaissance Man's mind; he seemed to know a great many things, and fairly esoteric ones besides, and could explain them with clarity and a great deal of speed -- zippiness. He'd just introduce new terms to some discussion you'd never heard from anyone else -- you know, how most people are content to regurgitate the same tribal received wisdom they heard from a blogger, some talking head on tv, or a comedian. (!) Den Beste eschewed that and instead only contributed to a conversation when he actually had something to contribute. (What an idea -- to only speak when you have something interesting or novel to say! How "Web 1.0"!) I remember thinking "No one has ever said this before" when he discussed the "scaling problems" inherent in alternative energy. (I can't find the old USS Clueless post on this, but in 2008 he responded to a reader who had stumbled across that old post.) Another huge a-ha moment came for me when I read his post on Tit-For-Tat in game theory, and its applications to real world competitions (primarily, in war and in politics.) That's another column I can't seem to reach via the Internet, but at the end of this post I quote extensively from it. Update: Thanks to Mama AJ, here's an archived copy of the Prisoner's Dilemma/Tit for Tat post. I should say that Den Beste belonged to a pre-professional blogging age (such as it may well be), a novice/hobbyist phase, when writers would just write about whatever interested them at that moment, whether it "fit the format" or whatever. Rather like I've heard FM radio was when it first came out, as opposed to heavily-programmed/demographically-targeted AM.) Instapundit did that and still does. Personally, though I've always preferred that kind of blogging, I've largely abandoned it, mostly to focus on politics, which I find increasingly hateful. Eh, given that I'm going to be seguing more and more out of "conservative" politics, maybe I'll try to get back to more Den Beste style blogging. I really can't tell you how much respect I had for him. He really was just a tremendously curious person -- he liked learning things, and he liked sharing what he'd learned. As I get older myself, it occurs to me that that sort of perpetual delight in learning is really the only way to keep one's brain in a youngish state. A true gem of a mind. I wish I'd met him, and I surely wish his body had some of the youth and vitality of his brain. All the good ones are dying, and the young ones coming up are vile.Comments
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Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 03:17 PM (qP3+D)
Godspeed to Den.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean (Make deplorable adorable again!) at October 25, 2016 03:17 PM (4ng05)
Posted by: @lindafelldespair(gab.ai)- deplorable, irredeemable, racist, islamaphobe, misogynist, redneck in TEX at October 25, 2016 03:17 PM (JNDQi)
Posted by: moviegique at October 25, 2016 03:18 PM (7zeA4)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at October 25, 2016 03:18 PM (C9pBZ)
Posted by: ScoggDog at October 25, 2016 03:19 PM (XAbde)
Posted by: Mama AJ at October 25, 2016 03:19 PM (gTQoY)
But it Politics out of fucks for you?
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 03:19 PM (qP3+D)
Posted by: TB at October 25, 2016 03:19 PM (v2cR1)
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Ace - if that is what you love, go back to it.
Personally, I have found that people who share an interest with me on a subject as big as "conservative politics" probably share other interests with me. Its why I like what Insty posts - I think the non-political stuff is the most fascinating.
Most of us enjoy your fasting / health posts for this reason.
So I say go back to that type of posting. Now whether those posts actually generate page hits and thus $$, I cannot say.
Posted by: SH at October 25, 2016 03:20 PM (gmeXX)
So, you know, we've got that going for us.
Posted by: Chupacabra at October 25, 2016 03:20 PM (/x6xU)
>Personally, though I've always preferred that kind of blogging, I've largely abandoned it, mostly to focus on politics, which I find increasingly hateful. - Ace
You should get back to it. I find the endless political grind depressing as all hell lately. Scandal after scandal, and nothing happens. I can't imagine trying to write about it every day.
Posted by: Lea at October 25, 2016 03:20 PM (lIU4e)
Posted by: Yo! at October 25, 2016 03:21 PM (GwIKd)
Sorry to hear of his death.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 25, 2016 03:21 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at October 25, 2016 03:22 PM (RD7QR)
I really want to get the hell away from this election.
Posted by: chris not rock at October 25, 2016 03:22 PM (WO0/g)
I get that alot too.
All the time.
Constantly.
Posted by: ScoggDog at October 25, 2016 03:19 PM (XAbde)
Um, fapping over pictures of pudgy nude chicks doesn't make you a Renaissance Man.
Posted by: Cicero -- Profoundly Deplorable But Pretty Dependable at October 25, 2016 03:22 PM (8ZskC)
I just read somewhere that the servers that held his old site are no longer around.....and that sucks.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 25, 2016 03:22 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: Lord Sir x at October 25, 2016 03:23 PM (nFwvY)
Perhaps not in the blogger dextrosphere, but energy analyst and author Robert Bryce has been all over those problems.
As was the late David MacKay FRS. Who penned an impeccably rigorous analysis of what it would take to run the UK completely on "green, renewable" power, and who concluded the country would have to be essentially completely carpeted with windmills, tidal turbines and solar panels, at astronomical cost, and *still* would not achieve energy independence.
Posted by: torquewrench at October 25, 2016 03:23 PM (noWW6)
https://web.archive.org/web/20160119040224/http://denbeste.nu/bestof.shtml
I re-read the one about the EU (click "guiding philosophy") this morning:
>>What is the real project behind all these institutional and political arrangements?
>>To sneak through the creation of a central authority of the European Socialist elite who will have the power to rule due to their nobility, their wisdom, and their virtue. Because of that, they will not need any other mandate; their nobility of purpose justifies everything they will do. Once this system has been established through the fiction of a popular plebiscite, the elite will then begin to implement all the reforms they know are needed, for the good of all, over the objections of those who are less enlightened and sophisticated.
Why does this, written in 2003, seem soooo familiar?
Posted by: Mama AJ at October 25, 2016 03:23 PM (gTQoY)
Years ago he'd mostly converted over to a -- oddly enough -- Japanese animated manga enthusiast blogger, with only intermittent stuff on other topics.
I don't know anything about manga and don't care to, so I stopped reading him myself. THough, I'm fairly certain, if you drew up a list of the top Japanese manga bloggers, he would be at the top of the list for insight and novelty.
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:23 PM (8rNrN)
Yup. That sometimes happens to servers. And billing records too, for that matter.
*hic*
Posted by: Hillary! 2016: Brain Damaged? Yes, But Not Too Brain Damaged To Still Be A Scheming, Lying Witch at October 25, 2016 03:24 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Matty Yglesias at October 25, 2016 03:24 PM (ysprU)
Posted by: Mama AJ at October 25, 2016 03:24 PM (gTQoY)
But do you think I could get a kind word while I'm still breathing? Hell no.
This is a cruel, cruel world.
Posted by: jwest at October 25, 2016 03:25 PM (Zs4uk)
Like records: the vinyl people will outright all Loretta Lynn an evil person because she supports Trump. Same with Hank III.
So yeah, write about whatever you like, I bet lots of us will share something.
Posted by: Chupacabra at October 25, 2016 03:26 PM (/x6xU)
Well said.
He was interested in things. Most people aren't. I try to be but I fail at that more often than not.
Screw 2016 Year of The Reaping. Just. Screw it.
Posted by: alexthechick - GO TRIBE! at October 25, 2016 03:26 PM (mf5HN)
OT: For some reason, after reading the sidebar, I've got a new respect for Bob Dylan.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at October 25, 2016 03:26 PM (KUaJL)
I felt bad about having never said a proper good-bye to buzzion.
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:27 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Joe Biden at October 25, 2016 03:27 PM (8ZskC)
Some years back, after abandoning USS Clueless to talk about anime, he offered readers a ZIP file of all of the USS Clueless posts. I downloaded it, and still have it somewhere.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 25, 2016 03:27 PM (AroJD)
#twoweeks.
Posted by: IC at October 25, 2016 03:27 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 25, 2016 03:27 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 25, 2016 03:28 PM (8ZskC)
https://erbosoft.com/ussclueless/
Posted by: bluebell at October 25, 2016 03:28 PM (uHcnA)
Posted by: Mama AJ at October 25, 2016 03:28 PM (gTQoY)
buzzion is dead?
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 03:28 PM (qP3+D)
Posted by: lindafell- Irredeemable, deplorable, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islamaphobic, knuckle-d at October 25, 2016 03:29 PM (bxu2Y)
I just read somewhere that the servers that held his old site are no longer around.....and that sucks.
They were wiped. With a cloth. And used in Hillary's bathroom.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2016 03:29 PM (WDy4l)
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:27 PM (8rNrN)
One day you're underappreciated and the next you're gone...
Posted by: jwest at October 25, 2016 03:29 PM (Zs4uk)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 25, 2016 03:29 PM (kTF2Z)
Maybe some were complete, but not the ones I tried.
Posted by: Mama AJ at October 25, 2016 03:30 PM (gTQoY)
Posted by: Tom Kratman at October 25, 2016 03:30 PM (0NULD)
Posted by: bluebell at October 25, 2016 03:31 PM (uHcnA)
I don't miss the podcasts about politics. But I'd like a return of podcasts about tv and movies. With naked testicle spider man guy, preferably.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 03:31 PM (qP3+D)
buzzion is dead?
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 03:28 PM (qP3+D)
He was only 29. Passed away due to complications with Herpes Simplex 12.
Posted by: jwest at October 25, 2016 03:32 PM (Zs4uk)
Posted by: wooga at October 25, 2016 03:32 PM (pMH6r)
Thank you!
Soothsayer,
No, but for some reason commenters kept saying he was dead and mourning his passing, even in threads where he was actively posting. (Especially in those threads, I should say.)
Or was that blaster?
Well one of the b's.
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:32 PM (8rNrN)
But I retain to this day the habit of looking for news on the blogs first, and still it serves me well. Den Beste had a lot to do with that. Yours is still one of the blogs I look at first, Ace.
And Twitter still sucks chrome of trailer hitches. I will never understand why it's a thing. Except for the idiots; Twitter makes sense when one considers the idiots.
Did I say RIP Den Beste?
Posted by: Monty James at October 25, 2016 03:32 PM (gKOMX)
Posted by Ace at 03:14 PM Comments
Ain't that the truth. My short attention span meant I gave little time to his writing, but I always knew the stuff I skimmed and/or skipped over had meat in it.
I knew him, not at all, really. Still, it saddens me that he is gone, and he will definitely be missed.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2016 03:33 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: bluebell at October 25, 2016 03:33 PM (uHcnA)
Posted by: andycanuck at October 25, 2016 03:33 PM (FP3TD)
Posted by: Chupacabra at October 25, 2016 03:33 PM (/x6xU)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 25, 2016 03:34 PM (kTF2Z)
and the young ones coming up are vile.
It just occurred to me that when we're old, we'll have doctors named "Lexie" and "Dillon" and "Parker" and "Madison."
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 03:34 PM (qP3+D)
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:34 PM (8rNrN)
Ouija Board or Time Machine, Ace.
It's never too late.
Posted by: garrett at October 25, 2016 03:34 PM (6Erfn)
P.S. I REALLY miss your podcasts Ace!!!
Posted by: lindafell- Irredeemable, deplorable, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islamaphobic, knuckle-d at October 25, 2016 03:29 PM (bxu2Y)
I've got one less thing to buy next time I plan to make burritos.
Posted by: buzzion at October 25, 2016 03:34 PM (z/Ubi)
Or was that blaster?
Well one of the b's.
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:32 PM (8rNrN)
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Nope, you were right the first time, it was buzzion.
I believe FenelonSpoke was typing a comment to buzzion and instead of writing Dear buzzion she wrote Dead buzzion.
Posted by: bluebell at October 25, 2016 03:35 PM (uHcnA)
...covered in stupid tattoos, texting on social media while they're examining you.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 03:35 PM (qP3+D)
TBH my first thoughts when he said "I'm just doing anime now" were a) seriously? and b) isn't that a pretty well-served area already?
But maybe anime benefited from the SDB touch.
Posted by: tachyonshuggy at October 25, 2016 03:35 PM (TEt6C)
#twoweeks.
Posted by: IC at October 25, 2016 03:27 PM (a0IVu)
I just don't see how there will be any let up if either one wins.
Posted by: washrivergal at October 25, 2016 03:35 PM (CFc5L)
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:34 PM (8rNrN)
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I figured it was because you like having a lot of nurses around, 8 of them to be precise.
Posted by: bluebell at October 25, 2016 03:35 PM (uHcnA)
Posted by: steevy at October 25, 2016 03:36 PM (fA75F)
There are too few good bloggers as it is, which makes me think we need to kidnap Ace and threaten him with Slim Jim whips and withholding Val-U-Rite in order to ensure the HQ never goes away.
"Start typing!"
Posted by: atomicplaygirl (Gab: atomicplaygirl) at October 25, 2016 03:36 PM (Gim9y)
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There will be no doctors when we are old. You will just have to kill yourself for the benefit of society and to exercise your right to death.
Of course, I'll have a doctor because I plan on being part of the wealthy and / or elite. I suggest you join me.
Of course, our doctors will be robots too.
Posted by: SH at October 25, 2016 03:36 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:34 PM (8rNrN)
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You're now a pod person, aren't you?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 25, 2016 03:36 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: garrett at October 25, 2016 03:36 PM (6Erfn)
Posted by: ace
Well the sorry bastard won't go away, so there's no point.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, deplorably down with Eph 6:12-13 at October 25, 2016 03:36 PM (9krrF)
I believe FenelonSpoke was typing a comment to buzzion and instead of writing Dear buzzion she wrote Dead buzzion.
She did it with grammie winger too!
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2016 03:36 PM (WDy4l)
"conservative" politics, maybe I'll try to get back to more Den Beste
style blogging.
Some of the weekend threads do manage to get out of the all politic all the time mode. But only if the thread monitor follows closely and delete all political comments with a reminder. some of the more rude Morons simpley do not understand that not all threads are "open threads".
Monty used to be good about that when he started the book thread. He would bounce a political comment in half a heartbeat. I miss Monty.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at October 25, 2016 03:36 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: mallfly SuPreme at October 25, 2016 03:37 PM (TWEt2)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2016 03:36 PM (WDy4l)
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That's right. I think we all need to tread veeeeeery carefully around her.
Posted by: bluebell at October 25, 2016 03:37 PM (uHcnA)
I believe FenelonSpoke was typing a comment to buzzion and instead of writing Dear buzzion she wrote Dead buzzion.
you just never know when it's coming. One day you're young and alive, the next day Fenelon mistypes an "r" and that's that.
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:37 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Skye
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2016 03:38 PM (ysprU)
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:34 PM (8rNrN)
Thanks for the head's up.
We'll make sure your info gets into the right file.
Posted by: Ted at NSA at October 25, 2016 03:38 PM (6Erfn)
I believe FenelonSpoke was typing a comment to buzzion and instead of writing Dear buzzion she wrote Dead buzzion.
Posted by: bluebell at October 25, 2016 03:35 PM (uHcnA)
No, that was grammie winger. FenelonSpoke killed me because I was correcting her on missing a comma placement concerning Cosby and Sowell in someone elses comment.
Posted by: buzzion at October 25, 2016 03:38 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 25, 2016 03:29 PM (kTF2Z)
Last I looked, he was almost never there, but Darleen Click was posting fairly regularly. No offense to her, but she's not Jeff.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2016 03:38 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: IC at October 25, 2016 03:39 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: garrett at October 25, 2016 03:39 PM (6Erfn)
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:34 PM (8rNrN)
..............
because you ate a couple of RN's?
Posted by: wth at October 25, 2016 03:39 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: ace
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The Fickle Finger of Fenelon
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2016 03:39 PM (ysprU)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 03:39 PM (qP3+D)
Posted by: Ed Snyder at October 25, 2016 03:39 PM (hJ/AL)
I can't keep all the people straight that Fenelon killed on this blog. It's getting to be a full-time job.
Posted by: bluebell at October 25, 2016 03:39 PM (uHcnA)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 03:39 PM (qP3+D)
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:23 PM (8rNrN)
Yup.
As far as telling you what to do with your blog, well, let me tell you mister that it's your blog so you do with it what you want to do. So there!
Maybe it's just me, but I find it fascinating to read/listen to people discuss stuff about which they are passionate even if I know nothing about that topic. Unless it's something awful like furries or spiders or cannibalism or the Yankees, you know, truly horrific things.
As everyone is tired of me shrieking, life is not politics and politics are not life and reducing one's life to being purely political is dehumanizing in the actual meaning of the term.
The Horde has become the Horde because we happy band of misfits have found a place where we can discuss politics but also food and the abomination of carrot chili and movies and books and art and shooting and whatever else flits across our collective lack of attention span. More hey life is actually big and exciting and all this sound and fury about politics is not the end all would be well met I believe.
Posted by: alexthechick - GO TRIBE! at October 25, 2016 03:40 PM (mf5HN)
I figure he'll be posting DOOOOM daily if Hillary wins.
Well, we'll have DOOOOM daily, with or without him.
Posted by: Mama AJ at October 25, 2016 03:40 PM (gTQoY)
somedays the wind blows and I could swear I hear buzzion's voice lilting in it, poignantly and annoyingly
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:40 PM (8rNrN)
And "Doctor Zoe" too.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 03:40 PM (qP3+D)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 25, 2016 03:40 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: TechnoOakland at October 25, 2016 03:40 PM (McGcX)
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:34 PM (8rNrN)
..............
because you ate a couple of RN's?
Posted by: wth
Kinky.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2016 03:40 PM (WDy4l)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2016 03:36 PM (WDy4l)
I'm sorry to say we had to put grammie winger down some time ago.
Due to increased premiums, her age, pre-existing conditions and the decisions of the Death Panel, there was simply no other choice.
Posted by: jwest at October 25, 2016 03:40 PM (Zs4uk)
Nah, twitter is just stuplifying them.
Posted by: DaveA at October 25, 2016 03:40 PM (8J/Te)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 25, 2016 03:36 PM (kTF2Z)
I don't believe Ace is a pod person. Yet. Irrational as it sounds, it is the only plausible explanation for what's happened to the brains of over half the country (and the rest of the world).
Posted by: washrivergal at October 25, 2016 03:40 PM (CFc5L)
Posted by: THE TIME at October 25, 2016 03:41 PM (6Erfn)
Maybe it's just me, but I find it fascinating to read/listen to people discuss stuff about which they are passionate even if I know nothing about that topic. Unless it's something awful like furries or spiders or cannibalism or the Yankees, you know, truly horrific things.
yeah that's me too. I guess I just assumed that if it's your job, you're not supposed to enjoy it.
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:41 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, deplorably down with Eph 6:12-13 at October 25, 2016 03:41 PM (9krrF)
"
Posted by: alexthechick - GO TRIBE! at October 25, 2016 03:40 PM (mf5HN)
Et tu, shorty?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 25, 2016 03:43 PM (Zu3d9)
AoSHQ is also about refried beans, horses, hay bales, tequila, and t-shirts....but mainly killing off commenters.
Posted by: lindafell- Irredeemable, deplorable, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islamaphobic, knuckle-d at October 25, 2016 03:43 PM (bxu2Y)
Harrumph! Harrumph!
Hey! I didn't get a harrumph! outta that guy ---->
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2016 03:43 PM (WDy4l)
den Beste "Energy scaling problems"
http://tinyurl.com/hklr8s2
Posted by: mallfly SuPreme at October 25, 2016 03:43 PM (TWEt2)
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:41 PM (8rNrN)
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When you're self-employed, ace, you're supposed to be working at something that makes you happy.
Write about what you like. We'll come read it.
Posted by: bluebell at October 25, 2016 03:44 PM (uHcnA)
what a sad insect you are.
banned, obviously.
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:44 PM (8rNrN)
And buckets and MENDOZAAAA!!!!
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2016 03:44 PM (WDy4l)
So you say you like learning nood things, do you? Let's test this out. Here's a video on Nixie Tubes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL4ElboiuA
(What's a nixie tube? LEARN!)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 03:44 PM (qP3+D)
Posted by: Furry, Cannibalistic, Yankee Spider at October 25, 2016 03:44 PM (gTQoY)
The Horde has become the Horde because we happy band of misfits have
found a place where we can discuss politics but also food and the
abomination of carrot chili and movies and books and art and shooting
and whatever else flits across our collective lack of attention span.
More hey life is actually big and exciting and all this sound and fury
about politics is not the end all would be well met I believe.>>>
Somehow "Boobs" was left out of this comment.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 25, 2016 03:45 PM (tf9Ne)
I agree with your point about the vileness of the upcoming thirty-year-old bloggers.
Posted by: davedaveadavarf at October 25, 2016 03:45 PM (0+srV)
>>>Posted by: Dr. Stephen J. Krune III at October 25, 2016
what a sad insect you are.
banned, obviously.
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:44 PM (8rNrN)
Thanks for the banning. I clicked on his link, unfortunately. What an ass.
Posted by: IC at October 25, 2016 03:45 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: Ace at 03:14 PM
This is truth, my friend.
But this is the waning of our society, and such is as it ever was. When the people have had a belly full of what they've been clamoring for, good men will rise again.
We won't see it. Neither will our grandchildren.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at October 25, 2016 03:45 PM (kKHcp)
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That being said, I'm probably not coming to read about Japanese manga stuff or whatever that is. Still if that's what you want to write about, have at it.
Posted by: SH at October 25, 2016 03:46 PM (gmeXX)
strange.
Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2016 03:46 PM (sWbjH)
"If "thrippy" were a real word, what do you think it would mean?
My Balderdash game experience tells me to claim it's either 1, a nautical term for a line stabilizing the jib, or 2, the main ring that the straps of a horse's bridle connect to. You really can't go wrong with claiming it's some bullshit having to do with boats or bridles. But it also could very well be an adjective, and I'm stumped on that. All I can come up with is something like "thrice" (like, "The lady hath thrippy given me the loving her mouth") or the obvious, dumb similarity to "thrifty.""
Answer:
Since "thrip" is a normal word (a thrip is an ugly looking insect that often is a blight on crops), then "thrippy" would simply be "of or related to thrips."
Since thrips are usually considered terrible agricultural pests, I'd say that "thrippy" could be either "plague-like" or "pestilential," or perhaps simply "resembling a thrip."
Posted by: zombie at October 25, 2016 03:46 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: garrett at October 25, 2016 03:47 PM (6Erfn)
This.
I read his stuff regularly, until he bored himself.
Posted by: Roland THTG at October 25, 2016 03:47 PM (QM5S2)
Since "thrip" is a normal word (a thrip is an ugly looking insect that often is a blight on crops), then "thrippy" would simply be "of or related to thrips."
is it really or are you pulling my leg?
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:47 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: bluebell at October 25, 2016 03:47 PM (uHcnA)
Posted by: steevy at October 25, 2016 03:48 PM (fA75F)
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:48 PM (8rNrN)
Oh. Look. Just about four hours until my baseball is in the World Series. Just mentioning that for no reason whatsoever.
yeah that's me too. I guess I just assumed that if it's your job, you're not supposed to enjoy it.
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:41 PM (8rNrN)
If you find something you love, you'll never work a day in your life. Because they aren't hiring in that field.
Posted by: alexthechick - GO TRIBE! at October 25, 2016 03:49 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: mallfly SuPreme at October 25, 2016 03:49 PM (TWEt2)
That's the saddest and yet the truest thing I've read in a while.
Saw that about Steven yesterday. Was really hoping he'd hang in there awhile longer. He's been coping on his own in Oregon for some time now. Some of the folks on Twitter last night were like "Oh, yeah, the pervy anime guy". Well, he liked anime and he liked women. What's your point?
The guy he most reminded me of was Micheal Crichton. Reading any of those two guys when they got going on a subject was like attending a college lecture taught by someone who not only knew the material but knew how to get it to you and make you learn something.
This year has been shit for losing good people.
Posted by: Azathoth at October 25, 2016 03:49 PM (5WUYo)
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You seem to have forgotten Beacon Energy. My personal favorite among the Stimulus-funded 'projects'.
Remarkable because the the facility quite literally exploded.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2016 03:49 PM (ysprU)
Nope....
A "thrippy" is a sexual tryst between three people that does not include vaginal intercourse.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 25, 2016 03:49 PM (Zu3d9)
He'll go on long Twitter attacks against really stupid people. It's not a great format for him, IMO, and it's like watching a guy try to teach a pig how to sing.
Posted by: moviegique at October 25, 2016 03:49 PM (7zeA4)
I can use it in a sentence:
While Megan's enthusiasm for Butt Stuff was appealing, Ace couldn't help but be put off by the thrippiness of her lip sore.
Posted by: garrett at October 25, 2016 03:50 PM (6Erfn)
Posted by Ace at 03:14 PM
Love you too babe
Posted by: Phone of kari which, deplorably, features a headphone jack at October 25, 2016 03:50 PM (Z5wJ+)
Posted by: lindafell- Irredeemable, deplorable, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islamaphobic, knuckle-d at October 25, 2016 03:50 PM (bxu2Y)
Since "thrip" is a normal word (a thrip is an ugly looking insect that often is a blight on crops), then "thrippy" would simply be "of or related to thrips."
is it really or are you pulling my leg?
Posted by: ace
No, for real:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrips
Posted by: zombie at October 25, 2016 03:50 PM (jBuUi)
pretty sure four of those were monster names in the Monster Manual III.
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:50 PM (8rNrN)
is it really or are you pulling my leg?
It's real.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2016 03:50 PM (WDy4l)
Fer shurr.
Posted by: Furry, Cannibalistic, Yankee Spider with a LONGBOW at October 25, 2016 03:50 PM (gTQoY)
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:50 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 25, 2016 03:45 PM (tf9Ne)
This is the Horde (and also me). The boobs are assumed.
Posted by: alexthechick - GO TRIBE! at October 25, 2016 03:51 PM (mf5HN)
Reenactments show FBI agents catchjng public enemies John Dillinger, Ma Parker, Pretty Boy Floyd, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Oh wait they let that last one off, sorry
Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2016 03:51 PM (sWbjH)
pretty sure four of those were monster names in the Monster Manual III.
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:50 PM (8rNrN)
Thunderblight is a great name for a metal band.
Posted by: josephistan at October 25, 2016 03:51 PM (7HtZB)
I learn a lot here.
Posted by: bluebell at October 25, 2016 03:51 PM (uHcnA)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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TMI... waaay TMI.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2016 03:51 PM (ysprU)
Good on ya, Ace. I will be pulling for you since once this election
cycle is over, so is politics for me. There are other perspectives on
life than just politics and ideology. I will be trying those
perspectives out for myself.
Godspeed to Den.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean (Make deplorable adorable again!) at October 25, 2016 03:17 PM (4ng05)
So my problem is this.I used to be into politics a lot - converted my then BF from a self-loathing and perpetually guilty feeling reluctant lib into a classical liberal (what the right used to be). Starting with Obama 8 years ago, it has been so hard to maintain interest. The right has turned belly up to the left, and the left is even more insufferable. It's been 'nice' in a way to not be thinking about politics so much; not reading about it as often as I did is nice, even as I feel a little guilty, because it does affect me.This cycle has been particularly exhausting, because it has been so nasty, but also because the choice is between a soul-less, narcissistic bitch and Donald Trump, who I don't like but realise I have to vote for in order to ensure the SCOTUS isn't packed with Sotomayor clones. *shudder* He's also not inside the Beltway, and I think that's on the whole good. And so I keep thinking for better or for worse, in two weeks it will end.But will it? Some of the Wikileaks emails and other things leaked make me worried if Clinton wins if the worry will just begin. What IF she tries to use an executive order to seize guns, as a Senator intimated on tape? It's clear pay for play has already gone on for a while at CGI, so payback to those parties will begin in earnest, what will that look like? And the GOP, headed by feckless McConnell and others, wouldn't even defend America's ICANN ownership and uphold basic separation of powers and the right of Congress to ratify treaties... what else will they toss aside?So since this weekend I've been worrying about whether my looking forward to two weeks plus one is misplaced. It sounds like a fair share of us are disgusted and I'm wondering what form all that will take.
Posted by: atomicplaygirl (Gab: atomicplaygirl) at October 25, 2016 03:51 PM (Gim9y)
Posted by: Hope Solo at October 25, 2016 03:51 PM (6Erfn)
Posted by: mallfly SuPreme at October 25, 2016 03:52 PM (TWEt2)
Posted by: alexthechick - GO TRIBE! at October 25, 2016 03:52 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 25, 2016 03:52 PM (kTF2Z)
Didn't we spend, like, a month here discussing the penises of fruit flys?
That was constructive.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 03:52 PM (qP3+D)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2016 03:53 PM (ysprU)
Posted by: garrett at October 25, 2016 03:53 PM (6Erfn)
pretty sure four of those were monster names in the Monster Manual III.
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:50 PM (8rNrN)
You would think a Thrip would also be in there.
Posted by: buzzion at October 25, 2016 03:54 PM (z/Ubi)
pretty sure four of those were monster names in the Monster Manual III.
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:50 PM (8rNrN)
Nope Fiend Folio
Posted by: Jean at October 25, 2016 03:54 PM (cBhCZ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 03:54 PM (qP3+D)
storm bugs, corn flies, corn lice and physopods.
Thrips species feed on a large variety of plants and animals by puncturing them and sucking up the contents.
Much like an ex wife.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2016 03:54 PM (WDy4l)
Heck I was never a member of LGF that I can recall, and that seems to be a cred thing here.
I WAS a regular at Llama Butchers back in the day, though...
Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu! at October 25, 2016 03:54 PM (eKxUP)
Beste did indeed write about this with clarity. Blessings upon him.
Trump knows tit-for-tat theory, at a gut level. Which is why he is keeping his options open about the rigged election. He can sue and drag this thing out. "Nuke me, and I'll nuke you back, and de-legitmize your presidency."
But that is already what Cliton/DNC, NeverTrumpers, and MSM/Democrat propagandists are doing to Trump: Seeking to de-legitimize him. "Unfit to be President." "Clown." "Impulsive/out-of-control."
They do it, and unlike all past RNC candidates, he is not playing the saint. He's throwing it right back at them. Good for him.
Posted by: Just call me at October 25, 2016 03:55 PM (46ftr)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 03:55 PM (qP3+D)
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I hear you. My best thought so far is that eventually the rot that inside her will consume her from the inside out.
It's not really a plan though.
Posted by: bluebell at October 25, 2016 03:55 PM (uHcnA)
Posted by: ac
But HEY, look at this -- something I did not know:
"Like the words sheep, deer, and moose, the word thrips is used for both the singular and plural forms, so there may be many thrips or a single thrips."
So, maybe in actual reality, there is no word "thrip" in the singular-seeming, technically. It always has an "s" at the end, in science papers 'n' stuff.
But in common parlance, I have heard it as "thrip" in the singular many many times.
Shrugs
Posted by: zombie at October 25, 2016 03:55 PM (jBuUi)
I think you'll find that once you become a registered Democrat, political blogging will be all sweetness and light.
Posted by: Sphynx at October 25, 2016 03:55 PM (OZmbA)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 03:55 PM (qP3+D)
Posted by: garrett at October 25, 2016 03:56 PM (6Erfn)
Posted by: Dr. Lexus at October 25, 2016 03:56 PM (pMH6r)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 25, 2016 03:29 PM (kTF2Z)
Following a "hack attack" on his host, apparently the logs of his blog were *deleted*, including backups. Jeff basically stopped blogging (though he was previously intermittent) when *all* of the blog's content was lost.
Always keep a personal off-site backup.
That said there's probably a partial resource on archive.org.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 25, 2016 03:56 PM (ZoRF7)
i read a way to do it, but caution, this raises den Beste's objections on grounds of non-scalability.
If you just had a solar array in your back yard, you could use the power to drive a water-screw to lift up water from a groundwater source to a tower, like a rain collection tower on a farm. At night, you let the water flow down, turning turbines and generating electricity from the gravitational potential of the water.
Obviously you lose ridiculous amounts of efficiency there.
Anyway, all that's nice for a backyard sun-farmer with unlimited acreage, but imagine cities trying to raise milions of tons of water into huge towers (located where?) to provide "stored solar power" overnight.
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:56 PM (8rNrN)
Heck I was never a member of LGF that I can recall, and that seems to be a cred thing here.
I WAS a regular at Llama Butchers back in the day, though...
Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu! at October 25, 2016 03:54 PM (eKxUP)
Never went to LGF. I was at a site where the asshole runner went Charles Johnson before Charles Johnson did. I think alexthechick and wiserbud posted there as well. Also the troll Bob Munck
Posted by: buzzion at October 25, 2016 03:57 PM (z/Ubi)
I never could take LGF. Along with AoSHQ, I was always hanging around Protein Wisdom and Just One Minute.
Posted by: jwest at October 25, 2016 03:57 PM (Zs4uk)
Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2016 03:57 PM (DLIpz)
and what Rikki Don't Lose That Number is really about?
Yeah, we learn a lot here.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 03:55 PM (qP3+D)
???
I remember what learning about "Everyone's Gone to The Movies" (which is pretty much what I thought it was) but what's the secret meaning behind "Rikki"?
Posted by: josephistan at October 25, 2016 03:58 PM (7HtZB)
"Favorite son" I would guess is Patrick Kennedy of the State Department. One imagines a recurring joke in that crowd is that "Patrick is our favorite Kennedy son" joking off the fact that he is not one of those Kennedys. He appears to be a loyal Hillary insider.
Posted by: Scalia's Ghost at October 25, 2016 03:58 PM (hA1V+)
Posted by: Trump at October 25, 2016 03:59 PM (1me8P)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2016 03:59 PM (WDy4l)
Posted by: ace
I've only ever played that game once, but of course I won, because everyone is afraid of my vocabulary SKILZZZZ, and they all just assume that if I say it, it must automatically be true.
Posted by: zombie at October 25, 2016 03:59 PM (jBuUi)
one of my favorite characters was a were-thrip thief named Thrippy the Thripstalker
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:59 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: homer simpson at October 25, 2016 03:59 PM (FP3TD)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 25, 2016 03:59 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2016 03:59 PM (39g3+)
Anyone want to guess?
No, it's not about tits.
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 04:00 PM (8rNrN)
I think"thrippy" is a real word.
An adjective in that one is like a "Thrip", which is a small flying insect.
Lemme go look up if there's any other info...
Hmmm.
Apparently, they use anal secretions to deter predators.
So-
You thrippy NeverTrump morons are always flinging poo around.
Language and natural history lesson done for the day.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 25, 2016 04:00 PM (0cMkb)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2016 04:00 PM (WDy4l)
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 03:56 PM (8rNrN)
Sounds like the only possible solution is the jwest 500 identical nuke plan.
Posted by: jwest at October 25, 2016 04:00 PM (Zs4uk)
What blogs did you hang out at 10 years ago?
What posters do you remember from your early days at AoSHQ?
Right Wing Sparkle rinGS a bell.
Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu! at October 25, 2016 04:00 PM (eKxUP)
Posted by: Ace at 03:14 PM
This is truth, my friend.
But this is the waning of our society, and such is as it ever was.
When the people have had a belly full of what they've been clamoring
for, good men will rise again.
We won't see it. Neither will our grandchildren.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at October 25, 2016 03:45 PM (kKHcp)
The "good ones" have certainly left an amazing mess in their wake. Perhaps they were more normal than you imagine, and your affection for them is simply nostalgia.
Posted by: DFCtomm at October 25, 2016 04:00 PM (1u48m)
Posted by: SH at October 25, 2016 04:00 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: josephistan at October 25, 2016 04:00 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Señor Jean at October 25, 2016 04:00 PM (cBhCZ)
Anyone want to guess?
No, it's not about tits.
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 04:00 PM (8rNrN)
Its always about tits.
Posted by: buzzion at October 25, 2016 04:01 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: Senor Jean at October 25, 2016 04:01 PM (cBhCZ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2016 04:01 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: naturalfake at October 25, 2016 04:01 PM (0cMkb)
Posted by: josephistan at October 25, 2016 04:00 PM (7HtZB)
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Poor josephistan. That happened last week too, didn't it?
Frankly, I'm surprised it doesn't happen every day.
Posted by: bluebell at October 25, 2016 04:01 PM (uHcnA)
Posted by: jwest
LGF was a daily stop for me until the unhinging, then I found AOS and Protein Wisdom. Soon decided those protein wisdom folks were way too smart for me, so I went lowbrow.
Posted by: Sphynx at October 25, 2016 04:02 PM (OZmbA)
Anyone want to guess?
No, it's not about tits.
Then what's the use??
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2016 04:02 PM (WDy4l)
She hit the big time, writes for a Texas paper now. Probably be a columnist.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2016 04:02 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 04:02 PM (8rNrN)
I recall that salt is used in some fashion that increases the efficiency. That sliver of info and 2.00 could get you a cup of coffee.
Posted by: Trump at October 25, 2016 04:02 PM (1me8P)
Posted by: buzzion at October 25, 2016 03:57 PM (z/Ubi)
I have no idea what site you're thinking about but it's nothing at which I ever posted.
Posted by: alexthechick - GO TRIBE! at October 25, 2016 04:02 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 04:02 PM (qP3+D)
Posted by: ace
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There are Pumped Storage facilities now that use that methodology. Generally, a pool provides water to drive turbines during demand periods, but during non-demand periods, the turbines are driven in reverse by the excess capacity to pump water back back up into the pool.
One I have visited:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/go9qqsq
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2016 04:03 PM (ysprU)
Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu! at October 25, 2016 04:03 PM (eKxUP)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 04:04 PM (qP3+D)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2016 04:04 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2016 04:04 PM (DLIpz)
Posted by: buzzion at October 25, 2016 03:57 PM (z/Ubi)
I have no idea what site you're thinking about but it's nothing at which I ever posted.
Posted by: alexthechick - GO TRIBE! at October 25, 2016 04:02 PM (mf5HN)
It was called Right Thinking From the Left Coast. I could be mistaken of course.
Posted by: buzzion at October 25, 2016 04:04 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: garrett at October 25, 2016 04:04 PM (6Erfn)
Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2016 04:04 PM (DLIpz)
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grammie! You were a thripster!
Posted by: bluebell at October 25, 2016 04:05 PM (uHcnA)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - Takin' My Time on my Ride at October 25, 2016 04:05 PM (WlGX+)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 04:05 PM (qP3+D)
yeah you can do it here and there, ad hoc, small-scale, but den beste's scalability objection remains: if the nation went 75% solar power, how many new artificial mountain lakes leading down to artificial sea level lakes would we have to build to store power through the night-time?
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 04:05 PM (8rNrN)
That should be "groin strike" - you tap me I stab you in the tip.
Posted by: wooga at October 25, 2016 04:05 PM (pMH6r)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 25, 2016 04:05 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: Sphynx at October 25, 2016 04:02 PM (OZmbA)
I always thought Just One Minute had the smartest commenters. I've still got a comment from Clarice that just said "good point" framed on my wall.
Posted by: jwest at October 25, 2016 04:06 PM (Zs4uk)
And as Ace said,his mind had the ability to understand topics and subjects with such clarity.
The world is a better place for his having been here.
And it's just little bit darker now, with his loss.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2016 04:06 PM (J+eG2)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2016 04:06 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 25, 2016 04:06 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 04:06 PM (qP3+D)
Posted by: atomicplaygirl (Gab: atomicplaygirl) at October 25, 2016 03:51 PM (Gim9y)
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I hear you. My best thought so far is that eventually the rot that inside her will consume her from the inside out.
It's not really a plan though.
Posted by: bluebell at October 25, 2016 03:55 PM (uHcnA)
That's what the BF says; he contends that eventually the rot will be pretty undeniable, except to her most blind supporters and we just need to 'hunker down'... whatever form that takes.
And sorry about the formatting! It looked fahn, I swears! =|
Posted by: atomicplaygirl (Gab: atomicplaygirl) at October 25, 2016 04:06 PM (Gim9y)
Meaning
A blow or some other retaliation in return for an injury from another.
Origin
It's tempting to assume that this little phrase is another way of saying 'this for that' and, in a way, it is. 'Tit' and 'tat' are both the names of small blows which originated as 'tip' and 'tap'. These are recorded by Charles, Duke of Orleans in a book of poems that he wrote while captive in England after the battle of Agincourt and first published circa 1466:
"Strokis grete, not tippe nor tapp."
The widespread unconcern about spelling and pronunciation in the Middle Ages led to 'tip', 'tap', 'tit' and 'tat' all to be variant spellings. John Heywood appears to be the first to have used 'tit for tat', in the parable The Spider and the Flie, 1556:
"That is tit for tat in this altricacion [altercation]."
Posted by: zombie at October 25, 2016 04:07 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: alexthechick - GO TRIBE! at October 25, 2016 04:07 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 25, 2016 04:07 PM (1me8P)
Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2016 04:07 PM (DLIpz)
If I'd done that, I don't think I'd admit it to anybody.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at October 25, 2016 04:07 PM (97XyN)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 04:07 PM (qP3+D)
What the hell would the NE do for three months of winter when it's grey skies?
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2016 04:07 PM (WDy4l)
Sporadically, but without Rusty... so quality is way down. Imagine if Ace left us with just the drunk cobs.
Posted by: wooga at October 25, 2016 04:07 PM (pMH6r)
ah, I see why you're sticking with this site.
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 04:07 PM (8rNrN)
Which Hughes referred to as "tit for tat".
Posted by: moviegique at October 25, 2016 04:08 PM (7zeA4)
That water has to come from somewhere.
Water tables would be drawn down well below current levels.
Save the Aquifers!
Posted by: garrett at October 25, 2016 04:08 PM (6Erfn)
Posted by: tu3031 at October 25, 2016 04:08 PM (qJhUV)
My Thermodynamics prof in engineering school told about research project he had been involved in in Arizona, using wind power to turn compressors to pump air into underground caverns to store energy, the compressed air then to be used to run pneumatic motors turning alternators to generate grid power. This was in 1970s.
Posted by: Sphynx at October 25, 2016 04:08 PM (OZmbA)
Posted by: ace
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Well, I figure that we dam up selected rivers. We can start with the Potomac. Proof of concept.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2016 04:08 PM (ysprU)
Posted by: Pastafarian at October 25, 2016 04:09 PM (OWWiT)
And I preferred it when Iowahawk did blogging rather than tweeting.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 25, 2016 04:09 PM (u0lmX)
ah, I see why you're sticking with this site.
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 04:07 PM (8rNrN)
First laugh out loud moment of the day. Thanks, Ace!
Posted by: washrivergal at October 25, 2016 04:09 PM (CFc5L)
Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2016 04:10 PM (DLIpz)
What blogs did you hang out at 10 years ago?
What posters do you remember from your early days at AoSHQ?
We have always lived at the HQ.
Posted by: alexthechick - GO TRIBE! at October 25, 2016 04:10 PM (mf5HN)
Then he bailed out and started writing anime reviews.
Since roughly 95% of anime is crap, that made his writing fairly uninteresting 95% of the time.
But, as per usual when he was right about anime, he was very right.
Interesting guy who i would've like to have a conversation with.
Kind of like R A Lafferty in that regard. Interesting mind.
But, now they're both gone so that's off the table.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 25, 2016 04:10 PM (0cMkb)
I know I'm kind of an aberration online but if something works and people are familiar with it, dammit why keep changing it? Seriously, John would rebuild the entire blog layout like twice a year.
This set up works great, its clean and easy to use, and works well on all platforms. Why the hell change?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2016 04:10 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: ace at October 25, 2016 04:10 PM (8rNrN)
Can you please eat shit and die, you hectoring cocksucker?
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 04:07 PM (qP3+D)
I was in the midst of composing a reply to Rollory, but you said so much better.
Posted by: jwest at October 25, 2016 04:10 PM (Zs4uk)
Posted by: jwest at October 25, 2016 04:00 PM (Zs4uk)
Absolutely.
Except the part where you totally reject market economics and embrace the power of government.
A simpler way to achieve your goal is to lift the restrictions on nuclear power.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 25, 2016 04:10 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: Donna and V.
My cherry-popping First Blog experience was Allah's blog (long long before he was at Hot Air and even before he added the "Pundit" to his name). He was funny as hell back in 2002-ish.
Posted by: zombie at October 25, 2016 04:10 PM (jBuUi)
who had triplets name Nat, Pat, and Tat
and tho fun in the breeding
twas hell in the feeding
when she found there was no tit for Tat
(forgot where I read that, and a long time ago.)
Posted by: mallfly SuPreme at October 25, 2016 04:11 PM (TWEt2)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 25, 2016 04:09 PM (u0lmX)
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Me too. I loved his blog. Was very sad when he stopped blogging and just went to Twitter. He's very funny on there, but I just can't take too much of Twitter.
I still love reading Mark Steyn's blog, when he posts.
Posted by: bluebell at October 25, 2016 04:11 PM (uHcnA)
ah, I see why you're sticking with this site.
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His next post will be the top 10 AOSHQ blog site designs
Posted by: SH at October 25, 2016 04:11 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 25, 2016 04:11 PM (1me8P)
Right now gasoline is the only super energy source we have, everything else is expensive, clumsy, limited, and inefficient. Whatever replaces gasoline will have to equal or surpass it, and we're not even a 60th of the way there. Maybe we never will be.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2016 04:12 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Mike Tyson at October 25, 2016 04:12 PM (72Zur)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 04:12 PM (qP3+D)
Funny, the only pogroms and massacres I see going on right now are being conducted by Muslims.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 25, 2016 04:12 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: Sphynx at October 25, 2016 04:12 PM (OZmbA)
I was explaining to my wife last night how I converted to the right and that it was because I was mugged by reality after 9/11. I remember reading some of Bill Whittle's essays and they just made sense. A few years after I came here and have been here since.
I enjoy your writing ace, and the commenters here. I'll be coming back no matter what you write about.
Posted by: Heralder at October 25, 2016 04:12 PM (oCER9)
Once they repeal the laws of physics.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2016 04:12 PM (WDy4l)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2016 04:10 PM (39g3+)
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I agree. As long as there are enough hamsters (and they breed like hamsters, so shouldn't be a problem).
On busy days I envision dead hamsters lying around a dusty room, with their little paws in the air, and Pixy shaking her head and getting out the dustpan and brush again.
Posted by: bluebell at October 25, 2016 04:13 PM (uHcnA)
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I'm guessing that Carnegie was never on your reading list.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 25, 2016 04:13 PM (kTF2Z)
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Don't hold your breath.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2016 04:13 PM (ysprU)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 04:13 PM (qP3+D)
George Bush the younger did that. He even signed legislation allowing nuke builders to use decomissioned military bases for their infrastructure. Over a dozen started up the process of being built.
Then Obama was elected, and nearly all of them died. They finally built one, just finished construction last week. But the rest? It takes like 10 years to get one done, and we should have been started 20 years ago.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2016 04:13 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - Takin' My Time on my Ride at October 25, 2016 04:05 PM (WlGX+)
Too late.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iRYJTzMCm4
Posted by: naturalfake at October 25, 2016 04:14 PM (0cMkb)
Posted by: Revenant at October 25, 2016 04:14 PM (3DSAh)
Ka ora! Ka ora!
Ka mate! Ka mate!
Ka ora! Ka ora!
Tenei Te Tangata Puhuruhuru
Nana i tiki mai whakawhiti te ra
Upane! Upane!
Upane Kaupane
Whiti te ra!!!
Posted by: mx4 at October 25, 2016 04:15 PM (/zv4K)
Dr. Pournelle is the last of them, and unfortunately he is not getting any younger.
He will be missed.
Posted by: Mordineus at October 25, 2016 04:15 PM (7zw1/)
We have always lived at the HQ.
Posted by: alexthechick - GO TRIBE!
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Easy for you to say. Wait until FenelonSpoke gets behind the keyboard.
Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu! at October 25, 2016 04:15 PM (eKxUP)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2016 04:15 PM (39g3+)
Whittle's essays were great.
Wretcherd's (Richard Fernandez) still are.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 25, 2016 04:15 PM (u0lmX)
Second, the externality excuse, er, "rationale" for "renewable" energy is non-existent, but in its place we find the absurd unscientific conjecture of "climate change". Which is not happening in any way unusual for the billions of years of known geologic history, and in any case for which no plausible human causality has been identified.
Satellites have solar arrays, as do remote road signs or other installations off a grid. Makes sense. Otherwise, a very stupid and wasteful exercise in creating things with no real economic value.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 25, 2016 04:16 PM (QDnY+)
He was right.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at October 25, 2016 04:16 PM (97XyN)
Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2016 04:16 PM (DLIpz)
#twoweeks
Posted by: andycanuck at October 25, 2016 04:16 PM (FP3TD)
Posted by: Lickmuffin at October 25, 2016 04:16 PM (f+E6d)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 04:16 PM (qP3+D)
Posted by: Pastafarian at October 25, 2016 04:16 PM (OWWiT)
You run into unsurmountable physical limits pretty quickly, I'd expect, with current "renewables."
e.g., There's only so much solar energy that hits a square meter each day, and it can be variable.
Has anyone seen anything about the energy in a hurricane as relevant to what we could conceivably get out of solar?
Wind is so 16th Century. I think it's inherently stupid except for spot applications.
I'm a half believer in the abiogenic formation of fossil fuels, per Thomas Gold. We may be standing on the answer.
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 25, 2016 04:17 PM (r1fLd)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2016 04:13 PM (39g3+)
It's mature technology now. We should be able to build them in a few years.
It's an obvious answer to a simple problem, but we as a society have become existentially stupid.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 25, 2016 04:17 PM (Zu3d9)
Present company excepted?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 25, 2016 04:18 PM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2016 04:12 PM (WDy4l)
They're not laws so much as suggestions.
Posted by: alexthechick - GO TRIBE! at October 25, 2016 04:18 PM (mf5HN)
George Bush the younger did that. He even signed legislation allowing nuke builders to use decomissioned military bases for their infrastructure. Over a dozen started up the process of being built.
Then Obama was elected, and nearly all of them died. They finally built one, just finished construction last week. But the rest? It takes like 10 years to get one done, and we should have been started 20 years ago.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
This may be heresy here, but unless clean fusion reaction is harnessed somehow, nuclear is dirty and dangerous. And I'm talking about the waste. I supported nuclear for awhile but after the big fuckups, Chernobyl and Three-Mile Island, and after taking to my friend who was nuclear safety guy on a submarine, I would say no, let's not do fission reaction.
Posted by: Sphynx at October 25, 2016 04:18 PM (OZmbA)
All the increasingly tortured engineering gymnastics to make "renewable" energy suitable for grid power, again outside of small or remote applications, do nothing to change the opportunity cost waste entailed. They just add to it.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 25, 2016 04:18 PM (QDnY+)
One dude who mysteriously dropped off the planet was The Dissident Frogman, the most sensible Frenchman on the planet. He was very funny.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 25, 2016 04:18 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2016 04:18 PM (ysprU)
I read his stuff back in the day with admiration. But I only ever communicated with him a couple times, both of which featured him (rightfully) griping at me for not paying attention to the arc of his career, when I foolishly sent him a link to one of my essays of which I was proud, and he wrote back to say, "Don't you even read my stuff any more? I stopped covering politics! Get with the program!" I was embarrassed.
Then, double-foolishly, I later sent him another self-promotional email, having forgotten his earlier reply. Totally humiliating, and totally my fault.
Posted by: zombie at October 25, 2016 04:19 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Ma Barker at October 25, 2016 04:20 PM (ysprU)
Ka ora! Ka ora!
Ka mate! Ka mate!
Ka ora! Ka ora!
Tenei Te Tangata Puhuruhuru
Nana i tiki mai whakawhiti te ra
Upane! Upane!
Upane Kaupane
Whiti te ra!!!
Posted by: mx4 at October 25, 2016 04:15 PM (/zv4K)
*slaps thighs*
*grimaces*
*sticks out tongue*
Posted by: Insomniac - Broken, No Refunds at October 25, 2016 04:20 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2016 04:20 PM (WDy4l)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2016 04:18 PM (ysprU)
Bird law in this country is not based on logic.
Posted by: Charlie Kelly at October 25, 2016 04:20 PM (7HtZB)
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I do believe Krauthammer at one time advocated a statement (and belief) that if any nuke went off in the US, we would hold Iran directly responsible and respond with nukes of our own.
Posted by: SH at October 25, 2016 04:20 PM (gmeXX)
3Mile Island was... a fizzle, and Chernobyl was using godawful tech maintained by Russians that was outdated when it was built. Your examples are like saying "those cars can't work because I saw a Benz horseless carriage wreck!"
Nuclear power plants by the thousand have been running for almost 70 years and you know of two problems? Hell the Japanese one was hit by a tsunami and wasn't a significant problem. And it was old tech, too.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2016 04:20 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Ma Barker at October 25, 2016 04:20 PM (ysprU)
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Haven't we solved this? The answer is nuclear.
Posted by: SH at October 25, 2016 04:21 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 04:12 PM (qP3+D)
Maddow?
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at October 25, 2016 04:21 PM (jR+TO)
One dude who mysteriously dropped off the planet was The Dissident Frogman, the most sensible Frenchman on the planet. He was very funny.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 25, 2016 04:18 PM (u0lmX)
His video on shooty/no shooty was excellent.
Posted by: Insomniac - Broken, No Refunds at October 25, 2016 04:21 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 25, 2016 04:21 PM (1me8P)
Posted by: sinalco the deplorable at October 25, 2016 04:21 PM (yODqO)
Which takes us back, full circle, to Navy Bean Soup...
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 04:21 PM (qP3+D)
Posted by: Pastafarian at October 25, 2016 04:16 PM (OWWiT)
Me either. Very entertaining. Only learned of her from Whittle, and read her site for a little bit as well.
Not sure where she went.
Posted by: Heralder at October 25, 2016 04:22 PM (oCER9)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 25, 2016 04:22 PM (1me8P)
I hope you continue to find things you are interested in blogging about if you get sick of writing about politics.
Posted by: Max Power at October 25, 2016 04:22 PM (q177U)
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Haven't we solved this? The answer is nuclear.
Posted by: SH
It's unclear if it's nuclear.
Posted by: zombie at October 25, 2016 04:22 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 25, 2016 04:17 PM (r1fLd)
I'm becoming more of a believer in the abiogenic formation of fossil fuels. Either that or it's some kind of biological process we do not yet comprehend.
We know so very little about how the world actually works.
Posted by: alexthechick - GO TRIBE! at October 25, 2016 04:22 PM (mf5HN)
New-design closed-system reactors with failure-unlikely cooling systems. Put them on the CA coast, use the waste heat for direct desalination.
Tremendous positive economic impact on the situation (cheap energy, plentiful water).
Obvious. Simple. Sound. And therefore, unthinkable in a profoundly, profoundly dumbed-down society.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 25, 2016 04:22 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2016 04:16 PM (DLIpz)
Sorry, my bad. http://tinyurl.com/j72amla
Posted by: mx4 at October 25, 2016 04:23 PM (/zv4K)
What Ace said. We keep looking good guys and warriors. Like some kind of enemy action.
I discovered Steven about the same time I discovered Bill Whittle, likely through Instapundit but no longer sure after all these years. His brain just worked, even if he'd rather spend his time talking about anime for the last 10 years or so.
It was very sad how long it took for someone to find his body...God...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at October 25, 2016 04:23 PM (hR1Jj)
Dilithium Cyrstals
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 25, 2016 04:21 PM (1me8P)
We've secretly replaced the Enterprise's dilithium crystals with Folger's Crystals. Let's see if they notice.
Posted by: That guy who replaces stuff with Folger's Crystals at October 25, 2016 04:23 PM (7HtZB)
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Haven't we solved this? The answer is nuclear.
Posted by: SH
It's unclear if it's nuclear.
Is it oldclear or nuclear?
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2016 04:23 PM (WDy4l)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2016 04:13 PM (39g3+)
Any other form of power needs to stay in the private sector, as does distribution. But nuclear, with it's liability, disposal, licensing and other problems needs to be owned by the federal government.
500 identical plants, spread across the country and linked for redundancy would eliminate the possibility of a catastrophic event taking down a large portion of the national grid.
Posted by: jwest at October 25, 2016 04:23 PM (Zs4uk)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Michelle Malkin, quoting some guy called 'Ace'. I never looked back.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2016 04:24 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at October 25, 2016 04:24 PM (NuElX)
Posted by: exdem13 at October 25, 2016 04:24 PM (ry4ab)
Posted by: alexthechick - GO TRIBE! at October 25, 2016 04:22 PM (mf5HN)
This is the world's biggest secret, says a guy who just got out of the hospital with a diagnosis of "shrug."
People are terrified of saying the magic words "I Don't Know," even though that's usually the answer.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 25, 2016 04:25 PM (ZoRF7)
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 25, 2016 04:17 PM (r1fLd)
I'm becoming more of a believer in the abiogenic formation of fossil fuels. Either that or it's some kind of biological process we do not yet comprehend.
We know so very little about how the world actually works.
Posted by: alexthechick - GO TRIBE! at October 25, 2016 04:22 PM (mf5HN)
Aliens.
Posted by: buzzion at October 25, 2016 04:25 PM (z/Ubi)
Yeah its pretty obvious there's no possible way these vast oceans of petroleum formed from the processes people thought they came from in the past. Something is generating them, and abiogenic makes sense to me. Life is way more complicated and strange than we understand.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2016 04:25 PM (39g3+)
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From the guys that brought you the Obamacare websites and the TSA?
No thanks. I have much more faith and trust in the private sector.
Posted by: SH at October 25, 2016 04:25 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at October 25, 2016 04:23 PM (hR1Jj)
What did he die of?
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 25, 2016 04:25 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llamabutcher at October 25, 2016 04:25 PM (Yqy2r)
They are losing $500 million dollars a month on it for what GA power would have provided. And the lease is obligated for 5 years with an option for the contractor to renew for another 5 years "if" he wants. There was no debate on this from the city council at all.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at October 25, 2016 04:25 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: steevy at October 25, 2016 04:26 PM (fA75F)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at October 25, 2016 04:06 PM (u0lmX)
Yeah, I remember watching that happen, as it happened. Took about 2-4 weeks, as I recall. It was like watching a pat of butter slide slowly off of a hot waffle onto the side of the plate.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at October 25, 2016 04:26 PM (jR+TO)
Posted by: Al Gore at October 25, 2016 04:26 PM (1me8P)
Posted by: buzzion at October 25, 2016 04:25 PM (z/Ubi)
It's the only available explanation for Giorgio Tsoulakos' hair.
Posted by: Insomniac - Broken, No Refunds at October 25, 2016 04:26 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Senor Jean at October 25, 2016 04:26 PM (ngn8T)
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 04:26 PM (qP3+D)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at
I'm saying humans can be stupid (three-mile) and inept (chernobyl) and nuclear is nothing to be stupid or inept with. And I'm saying the waste. the waste. the waste. Google 'known nuclear waste leaks'
Posted by: Sphynx at October 25, 2016 04:27 PM (OZmbA)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Shit.
We had an earthquake here in Va a few years ago - the epicenter of which was right there at the North Anna Power Plant, and no problems whatsoever.
8 won't live to see it, but I would love to know that home nuclear power plants are on the horizon.
Hell, I'd settle for hydrogen production in the backyard at this point. (Only 50 years too late)
Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu! at October 25, 2016 04:27 PM (eKxUP)
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From the guys that brought you the Obamacare websites and the TSA?
No thanks. I have much more faith and trust in the private sector.
Posted by: SH at October 25, 2016 04:25 PM (gmeXX)
Blackouts for red states!
Posted by: Insomniac - Broken, No Refunds at October 25, 2016 04:27 PM (0mRoj)
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I want my own nuclear power box. Definitely not one connected to anything run by the federal government.
Posted by: SH at October 25, 2016 04:27 PM (gmeXX)
That's not enlightenment or a shift in viewpoint. That's insanity.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2016 04:27 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Jen the original at October 25, 2016 04:27 PM (oDUj/)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 25, 2016 04:27 PM (kTF2Z)
I think that mid-day, sea level, no clouds, etc. it's about 1 kW/m^2, IIRC.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 25, 2016 04:28 PM (SRKgf)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llamabutcher at October 25, 2016 04:25 PM (Yqy2r)
Yes, http://imao.us is still around
Although Frank has out-sourced most of the daily blogging chores to others.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at October 25, 2016 04:28 PM (jR+TO)
Rachel Lucas got married to a Brit and moved to England. She started blogging again, but I don't think she had quite the same enthusiasm for it. Hasn't put anything new up since 2014.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at October 25, 2016 04:28 PM (4WhSY)
Apparently he was a big fan.
Posted by: Colonel Kurtz at October 25, 2016 04:28 PM (0wm3C)
Posted by: Pug Mahon of the Clan Deplorable at October 25, 2016 04:28 PM (RwwCT)
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 25, 2016 04:17 PM (r1fLd)
I'm becoming more of a believer in the abiogenic formation of fossil fuels. Either that or it's some kind of biological process we do not yet comprehend.
We know so very little about how the world actually works.
Posted by: alexthechick - GO TRIBE!
I too, in hushed tones when I think no one is around, suspect that some (if not all) "fossil fuel" is either abiogenic, or, alternately, that it IS biogenic, but there are vast vast oceans of it deeper in the mantle from billion upon billion of years of dead continent-wide forests. We just haven't discovered it yet.
The fabulous part is that is we keep burning as much as possible and put more and more of that delicious carbon back into use in the atmosphere, then we will be feeding future generations of more forests in a "global re-greening" (which is already starting to happen thanks to the Industrial Revolution). So the cycle is complete and self-regenerating and life-positive.
Posted by: zombie at October 25, 2016 04:28 PM (jBuUi)
Chernobyl? First, children and matches, Soviets and nuclear energy (repeat that three times). Second, well, Soviets.
Fukushima. You'd never have heard the term if 1) the state-of-art geologic forecasting at the time it was built were correct 2) they didn't decide to save money by putting the back-up generators down below, instead of up at the level of the reactors (this was linked to #1, the geologic/tsunami assumptions). Believe it was in fact the oldest commercial power nuke station in service at the time of the tsunami.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 25, 2016 04:28 PM (QDnY+)
there is a nood
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 25, 2016 04:28 PM (qP3+D)
Hey, look, sorry, okay?
But, our crap's gotta go somewhere.
After 500 years, you'd think we good've come up with a good cure for Mole Man Dysentery, but....Noooooo.
Posted by: The Mole Men at October 25, 2016 04:28 PM (0cMkb)
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at October 25, 2016 04:28 PM (jR+TO)
Partly why I stopped visiting IMAO.
Posted by: Pug Mahon of the Clan Deplorable at October 25, 2016 04:29 PM (RwwCT)
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 25, 2016 04:17 PM (r1fLd)
I'm becoming more of a believer in the abiogenic formation of fossil fuels. Either that or it's some kind of biological process we do not yet comprehend.
We know so very little about how the world actually works.
Posted by: alexthechick - GO TRIBE! at October 25, 2016 04:22 PM (mf5HN)
Aliens.
Posted by: buzzion
That deep underground I'd go with aboleth
Posted by: Senor Jean at October 25, 2016 04:29 PM (ngn8T)
**
Didn't she go to England when her husband got transferred some years ago?
Posted by: Azathoth at October 25, 2016 04:29 PM (5WUYo)
He doesn't come up with anything new, period. He's Steve Jobs on the dole, he tells people what he wants and pays with it by sticking his hand out for the government to fill. I cannot understand the reverence for this putz.
And while I don't trust the government either? Jwest is right about this one. No company can possibly handle the liability and other legal issues.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2016 04:29 PM (39g3+)
Yeah its pretty obvious there's no possible way these vast oceans of petroleum formed from the processes people thought they came from in the past. Something is generating them, and abiogenic makes sense to me. Life is way more complicated and strange than we understand.
Xacly. Earth is only so big. To be covered as much as it had to be covered by plants to produce enough oil for over 100 years?
And that doesn't explain how "once dry" holes are filling up again.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2016 04:30 PM (WDy4l)
That's not enlightenment or a shift in viewpoint. That's insanity.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor a
And it was Sarah Palin's cooter that did it.
Posted by: Sphynx at October 25, 2016 04:30 PM (OZmbA)
That have to be kept clean using water. Aren't enviros going nuts about places running out of water? It's almost as if they're full of sh1t.
Posted by: andycanuck at October 25, 2016 04:31 PM (FP3TD)
That's not enlightenment or a shift in viewpoint. That's insanity.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 25, 2016 04:27 PM (39g3+)
It was worse than that. He kept shifting on this thing and that thing and this thing in particular, all the while insisting he was being "conservative." And if you brought up something he said last week that contradicted what he was saying now, he'd get mad. And insist again that he was the "true" conservative.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at October 25, 2016 04:31 PM (jR+TO)
That is what is causing the death of nuclear power, endless chained civil suits which stops construction, one after another. All the while eating up interest costs on billions of dollars in loans. For which the interveners always lose but NEVER have to pay the legal costs.
The problem with Washington being the regulators is that people like dirty hairy get to be in charge they kill it for years until they can be bounced out of control.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at October 25, 2016 04:31 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Max Power at October 25, 2016 04:32 PM (q177U)
Rachel Lucas got married to a Brit and moved to England. She started blogging again, but I don't think she had quite the same enthusiasm for it. Hasn't put anything new up since 2014.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at October 25, 2016 04:28 PM (4WhSY)
Oh, that's right!
Posted by: Heralder at October 25, 2016 04:33 PM (oCER9)
Posted by: Bob at October 25, 2016 04:34 PM (ixM4j)
If I understand it right, nuclear reactors harness energy released by elements like uranium and thorium that would get released anyway over time. We're just concentrating the release in one spot.
When you make an A-bomb your're just creating a chain reaction that makes the entire energy release go off in a fraction of a second.
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 25, 2016 04:35 PM (r1fLd)
Posted by: Egg Shen at October 25, 2016 04:35 PM (72Zur)
Posted by: Senor Jean at October 25, 2016 04:36 PM (ngn8T)
Posted by: andycanuck at October 25, 2016 04:36 PM (FP3TD)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at October 25, 2016 04:38 PM (P/kVC)
https://erbosoft.com/ussclueless/cd_log_entries/
2004/06/Energyscalingproblems.htm
h/t: Kathy Shaidle
http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/2016/10/25/blogging-
pioneer-stephen-denbeste-uss-clueless-1952-2016/
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 25, 2016 04:40 PM (R+30W)
Ideally, I would like to see a quasi-independent "Nuclear Power Authority" that has oversight over all the plants. One design. Common training. Total immunity from lawsuits. Military security. Spread across the country, but only in communities that welcome them. Feeding free power to distribution companies, so if you want a new steel mill to get basically free power, build the mill next to the nuke plant. If you want your Malibu beachhouse well away from from a nuke, pay for the transportation costs.
Posted by: jwest at October 25, 2016 04:40 PM (Zs4uk)
Posted by: Sporkatus at October 25, 2016 04:41 PM (eXSOZ)
He was brilliant, and very dry at times, but always a great read.
Just don't ever make a suggestion.
Posted by: topmaker at October 25, 2016 04:41 PM (PFoeF)
Posted by: andycanuck at October 25, 2016 04:41 PM (FP3TD)
Posted by: Senor Jean at October 25, 2016 04:42 PM (ngn8T)
*IF* we were short of fossil fuels or CO2 was a serious problem this might make sense as a way to get to oh maybe 30-40% renewable energy. Since those are not real problems the added expense and footprint needed for such a hybrid power plant would not be a good idea IMO.
Posted by: PaleRider at October 25, 2016 04:45 PM (dkExz)
Posted by: moviegique at October 25, 2016 04:45 PM (7zeA4)
Posted by: rickb223
Rural folks will do what they always have done. Burn wood.
Wind towers generate intermittent power, which goes to heat insulated vaults (or buried tanks) filled with molten salts. The thermal storage is used to generate smooth power on demand. Alternatively, the wind power can be used for hydrolysis, separating oxygen and hydrogen, to be burnt for power on demand.
There was a news blurb recently about carbon dioxide converted to gasoline, but don't know the details...
Posted by: Vodka'n Lime at October 25, 2016 04:48 PM (nIGPZ)
But it's just a matter of faith at this point. I can't really back it up.
Posted by: moviegique at October 25, 2016 04:49 PM (7zeA4)
Posted by: rickb223
That's the lunacy of solar and wind, which are worthless.
Civilization advances when energy becomes cheaper and more abundant. Civilization declines whenever energy is reduced.
There is no future in "conservation" or even "energy efficiency". Only when electrical energy is as available and expensive as air will we achieve a better quality of life.
Posted by: jwest at October 25, 2016 04:56 PM (Zs4uk)
the ONLY reason that we have problems with nuclear waste is because a guy with the last name Carter made it illegal to reprocess spent nuclear fuel. Everyone else in the world does it, but he decided that it would discourage nuclear proliferation if we didn't reprocess spent fuel that you can't make into a nuclear weapon.
Want to see what we SHOULD be testing out ? Go search "integral fast reactor", a promising design that Clinton I killed.
Posted by: Mordineus at October 25, 2016 04:58 PM (7zw1/)
Bingo, and add Samizdata, which somehow led me to Ace of Spades...
Posted by: Uncle Jefe at October 25, 2016 05:04 PM (CzSs6)
LGF...
Posted by: Uncle Jefe at October 25, 2016 05:07 PM (CzSs6)
That I haven't heard. His blog had been quiet since the big windstorm hit Oregon. Some of his regulars finally called local police who located his brother in town. They said they'd handle it in the family, last I heard.
Website's still up, if any anime fans want to download copies. Even if you didn't like the art form, SDB had pretty good taste. His reviews of several series got me to watch them. Some were good, some just odd cheesecake.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at October 25, 2016 05:07 PM (hR1Jj)
Posted by: ParisParamus at October 25, 2016 05:16 PM (467Et)
I would post links for comparison but this !@#$ comment system doesn't like real uris for some reason.
Posted by: goodluckduck at October 25, 2016 05:22 PM (yqvys)
https://erbosoft.com/ussclueless/cd_log_entries/2002/10/ItsOKtobewrong.htm
Posted by: goodluckduck at October 25, 2016 05:23 PM (yqvys)
Posted by: Jean at October 25, 2016 05:36 PM (ngn8T)
Posted by: atomicplaygirl (Gab: atomicplaygirl) at October 25, 2016 05:41 PM (Gim9y)
Don't ever change.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 25, 2016 06:18 PM (2yngH)
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Posted by: texascarl at October 25, 2016 06:47 PM (T6HQG)
Read some of Velikovsky's "Earth in Upheaval".
This was the book after "Worlds in Collision".
"Earth in Upheaval" suggests that coal might have been made by a cataclysm that deposited most of the organic life of the time in any available hole and then covered it up. Might not be true but no one has explained the shredded insects in coal as far as I know.
Posted by: Ok at October 25, 2016 07:23 PM (xZKI4)
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Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 25, 2016 07:43 PM (2yngH)
I was one of the regulars on this site back in the old days, before 9/11 even. I instigated the discussion on longbows. Anyone remember?
I'm feeling a bit misty-eyed and nostalgic, what with Steven's passing and all.
Bbeck and Kevlarchick, if you're reading this ... I still love you both.
Posted by: Steve (a.k.a. Ed Snate) at October 25, 2016 08:39 PM (4/5lJ)
Remember reading him after 9/11, Old West era of blogs. He showed us a potential future like Leonard Bernstein and Young People's Concerts in the late '60's.
May those who follow stand upon his shoulders and do better and greater things, though I doubt we will.
Hope his family finds solace in our fond remembrances.
Posted by: Joe Mack at October 25, 2016 08:41 PM (QX0Xt)
http://tinyurl.com/jc9ewx5
http://tinyurl.com/jgu6gfl
I downloaded the archive in 2010 but have to translate the urls over to what the Wayback machine recognizes.
Posted by: geoffb5 at October 25, 2016 11:42 PM (d3wbb)
I feel privileged that he graced at least part of mine.
Thanks Steven, and RIP.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 25, 2016 11:42 PM (8MFrj)
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