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From: jmfbahciv on 6 Oct 2006 05:26 In article <qkrai2hvpp43t4lpu1ttca9tpq8ueb94qr(a)4ax.com>, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:03:17 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >>Which one would that be, the dangers of driving on the nation's highways? >>That's at least 3 orders of magnitude greater of a real threat to every >>person in the country than is terrorism. > >3000 people died at the WTC. Three orders of magnitude from that is 3 >million. We kill about 40K people a year in car accidents. ISTR that Bin Laden's next goal is to kill 3 million people and he's not fussy about who they are. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 6 Oct 2006 05:29 In article <P4Kdnb9ApIGR47jYRVnyrw(a)pipex.net>, "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > >"John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message >news:qkrai2hvpp43t4lpu1ttca9tpq8ueb94qr(a)4ax.com... >> On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:03:17 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >>>Which one would that be, the dangers of driving on the nation's highways? >>>That's at least 3 orders of magnitude greater of a real threat to every >>>person in the country than is terrorism. >> >> 3000 people died at the WTC. Three orders of magnitude from that is 3 >> million. We kill about 40K people a year in car accidents. >> > >3000 people (not all of whom were US citizens) have been killed by Islamic >terrorist attacks on the Mainland US in (shall we say 80 years). How many >have died in car accidents in that time? > >That said, you are nitpicking in the same manner. More than ten times as >many people die every year as died as a result of the 11 Sep 01 attack. That >is TEN attacks of that scale (and that was a large scale attack by anyone's >standards) every single year. Year in, year out and accepted as a normal >risk in life. > >Amazing really. So much for mess prevention. So how many people does Bin Laden have to kill before you deal with this problem? 300,000? 3,000,000? 300,000,000? A billion? After the first choice, Bin Laden will be the least of the world's problems. /BAH
From: Eeyore on 6 Oct 2006 06:33 John Larkin wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >John Larkin wrote: > >> On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 23:10:34 +0100, Eeyore > >> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >John Larkin wrote: > >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >John Larkin wrote: > >> >> >> lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote: > >> >> >> > >> >> >> >>A lot of this anti-US fervor started with Democrat Presidential > >> >> >> >>candidates trying out their sound bytes in 2002-2004 in Europe. > >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >>/BAH > >> >> >> >OH BS. It started with Bush invading another nation. > >> >> >> > >> >> >> Actually, it started with FDR invading another nation. France, > >> >> >> specifically. > >> >> > > >> >> >You're being very very silly. > >> >> > > >> >> >Graham > >> >> > >> >> I don't think so. A couple of things are at work here. One is the > >> >> military and cultural and technological and scientific dominance of > >> >> the USA as compared to Europe, which is bound to cause some > >> >> resentment. The other is expressed in the Chinese proverb, "if you > >> >> save someone's life, they will hate you forever." > >> > > >> >You really are monumentally stupid. > >> > >> You are fat, poor, unhappy, and frustrated by the state of the world. > >> I am none of these. Explain to me why I am the stupid one here. > > > >Because you're stupidly happy in your profound ignorance ? > > It's not ignorance; I am happy by choice, then design. Try it some > time. > > >The only thing that worries me about the 'state of the world' is what > >idiocy America's up to next. > > You are blaming externals for an internal state, a convenient and > paralyzing cop-out. For anyone reasonably healthy and living in a > free, developed country not to be happy is stunning stupidity. Sad, > too. Our freedoms are under threat as a result of American stupidity. Graham
From: Eeyore on 6 Oct 2006 06:37 Homer J Simpson wrote: > "Kurt Ullman" <kurtullman(a)yahoo.com> wrote > > >> 25% of world production? > > > > So you are really assuming our use is going to go to nothing? > > The US still produces quite a lot of oil. Add in Canada, Mexico and the Gulf > and you're close to what you need IF you had halfway fuel efficient cars. It would help even more if US diesel fuel was clean enough that modern Japanese and European diesel cars could run on it. The fuel efficiency of these is very good indeed. Graham
From: jmfbahciv on 6 Oct 2006 05:34
In article <45253CB2.A36CCD05(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >You can't accept that Islam isn't a threat to your lifestyle ? >> >> Not only is it a threat, but it has already begun to >> alter my lifestyle. My goal is to ensure that it >> alter 100% of my lifestyle, if I'm allowed to exist. > >Tell me more about this threat you perceive. > >What exactly is it that you're afraid of ? Loss of enough knowledge of how to do things that it will take another 1000 years to reinvent the wheel. /BAH |