Re: recently formed into a hat
Posted by Orpheus on
Sun Feb 4th 2007 at 3:42am
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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting Bewbies</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>stemming from the cleese thread, i thought it'd be interesting to hear peoples' personal conspiracy theories.</DIV></DIV>
I think theres been a recent conspiracy, to incite conspiracy theories. I don't mean asswipes like DocRock, I mean worldwide. Yes, I know that sounds like a joke, but I do not intend it in a humorous way I assure you. I am quite serious, even if everything I type speaks to the contrary.
Look at it like this. There is a theory about global warming. Its a fairly common conspiracy thing because every day, more and more people are buying into it.
Now this is the way I see it:
#1- Its a fact that today, we have much less fossil fuels than we had, before the industrial revolution began. How much, no one knows for sure. Could last a decade, or a hundred years, but one things for certain, its going to run out eventually. So... Whats the answer? Tell everyone that they will have to get used to higher prices and grin about doing so? NOT LIKELY! No one is going to tolerate that for any extended period of time. Nor are they going to conserve, because quite honestly, the average Joe, cannot conceive of tomorrow so saving for it is just bulls**t. You simply cannot make people conserve. You want an example? How many people here willingly optimize screens? :rolleyes:
So, whats the solution? You create something people cannot ignore. Its easy to ignore fossil fuel shortages because even when the price goes through the roof, the gas pumps keep right on pumping. What people cannot do is ignore the temperature.
Scientist know that the Earth goes through phases of warming and cooling. It happens all the time in geological terms. Whats 10,000 years to a mountain? So, lets create a scare about global warming. With that, we can force people to change. Oh they won't drive less, but they will force the government to supply less destructive means of power.
Whatever you may believe about the climate, theres someone else causing you to think it.
/rambling nonsensical bulls**t.
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Re: recently formed into a hat
Posted by French Toast on
Sun Feb 4th 2007 at 3:46am
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I'm half with you on that one. I don't think the modern global warming movement people (LOOKING AT YOU AL GORE) are being honest, but I don't quite believe it's for the reasons you're saying.
Re: recently formed into a hat
Posted by RedWood on
Sun Feb 4th 2007 at 4:43am
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I'm a environmentalist. The way i look at it, every time i drive my car, lacking a $200 catalytic converter, up and down the streets. I'm feeding the trees the Co2 the need. So you see, I'm just feeding nature. :biggrin:
Re: recently formed into a hat
Posted by fishy on
Sun Feb 4th 2007 at 1:59pm
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global warming is just another bandwagon that some governments have jumped on, because they can see the huge pot of gold that 'environmental taxes' will bring them. like here in the uk there was aother one introduced last week for flying. it's something like an extra tenner for long haul, and a fiver for short haul.
this won't stop people flying, it wont make the air any cleaner, and it certainly wont have any impact on the long term damage being done by the usa and china.
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Re: recently formed into a hat
Posted by French Toast on
Sun Feb 4th 2007 at 5:10pm
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Dude.
a) The Earth has always and will always go through cycles like this of generally warm and generally cool weather, regardless of what humans are doing.
b) We're coming out of an ice age, s**t is going to warm up.
Re: recently formed into a hat
Posted by Cassius on
Mon Feb 5th 2007 at 5:00am
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It's rained twice this winter in northern California and hasn't snowed yet in New York. Conversely, it's snowed a few times in Oregon. Is the world ending? Incontrovertibly.
Re: recently formed into a hat
Posted by Bewbies on
Mon Apr 23rd 2007 at 8:38pm
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Yay! I found the ol' conspiracy thread! Well I've got a new one ... this time regarding the Cho/VT shooting deal. Didn't really feel right about posting it in the VT thread, so I think this will do.
Following the VT shootings, we all saw the obligatory ?he played counter-strike? argument in the assessments of what caused him to do such a thing. Most notable of the deluded criers, ?school shooting expert? Jack Thompson. According to him and his reports, violent media influences young people to the point of carefully planning and executing a shooting rampage in their school. At first thought, unfortunately, this is an easy pill to swallow. It casts blame when who which should be blamed killed himself.
This tragedy got me thinking about the subject again? and while I?m already well-known for my ?violent media is a product of a violent society, nice visa versa? opinion, I believe there is now another dimension to it? What if games like counter-strike actually deterred Cho from lashing out at the world the way he did?
Jack Thompson, who is lucky I?m even mentioning his name for a second time, suggested that Cho was acting out a fantasy that was created while playing counter-strike. What I?m thinking, however, is that he already produced these fantasies? And that games like counter-strike not only catered to these fantasies, but appeased the possible urge to realize them. I mean, if I were a murderous psychopath, I?d love to play a game where one of the objectives is to kill people. To me, using the common ?blame videogames? logic, this conclusion makes just as much sense ? if not more.
Assuming I?m right, and he was using counter-strike to act out the fantasies that already dwelled in his messed up head, it would explain some of his other behavior. Did games like counter-strike influence his macabre writings like Richard McBeef? Did they cause him to stalk classmates? How about his fixation on the ?upper-class?? Especially in Richard McBeef, where there are strong sexual and incest themes, one can only find that he had problems long before his exposure to counter-strike.
Strangely enough, he wasn?t even playing counter-strike in the period leading up the shootings? He spent his time writing more than anything else. What if, in the absence of the appeasement of counter-strike, he finally realized the fantasy? That would literally mean that the violent media was keeping him from acting out on the real world. That may be a stretch, though.
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Re: recently formed into a hat
Posted by Orpheus on
Tue Apr 24th 2007 at 2:13am
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You know the only thing that made sense during all that mess was a quote from Dr. Laura.. "If you stop watching, they'd stop showing it"
The media fan fare over the VT thing was... almost worse than the people dying. :/
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Re: recently formed into a hat
Posted by Foxpup on
Wed May 23rd 2007 at 3:11am
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The thermite is actually quite easy to explain. The planes that that crashed into the towers were made of aluminium (Al), and the towers themselves were made of steel, which would have contained rust (Fe2O3). The heat from the fire ignited a thermite reaction between the aluminium and the rust, thus Fe2O3 + 2Al = Al2O3 + 2Fe + Heat ( 851.5 kJ/mol )
Thermate is an extremely explosive substance used only by the military. If there was thermate, it was placed there in preparation for the terrorist attack, not a simple case of arson. Also, thermate is 30% barium nitrate and only 2% sulphur. Where'd the barium nitrate go?
Better to be in denial than to be human.
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Re: recently formed into a hat
Posted by Yak_Fighter on
Wed May 23rd 2007 at 5:54am
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My personal conspiracy theory is that all those people who supposedly played and 'enjoyed' Docrock's maps were really multiple bots run by Docrock himself on multiple personal computers.
Re: recently formed into a hat
Posted by Bewbies on
Wed May 23rd 2007 at 2:56pm
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Doc, we all stopped giving a damn about what you have to say a long time ago; so don't let this feed your very apparent thirst for attention.
This is a thread for PERSONAL CONSPIRACY THEORIES. If you want to push 9/11 theories on us, just make a thread of your own.. again. So we can prove you wrong.. again.
(Or so we can just ignore said thread altogether.)
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Re: recently formed into a hat
Posted by Crono on
Tue May 29th 2007 at 7:17pm
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It really is no use. He wont stop. How do I know this? He's a moron. Morons don't know how to stop.
He's just like every other crack-pot theorist out there, except he likes annoying us. He knows we don't care and that we don't want to hear to idiotic and "unique" ideas he has to share. That's exactly why he's sharing them.
He doesn't care about being made to look stupid in any way, I mean, look what he's preaching, I would imagine his goal is much more on the "annoy everyone" end of things.
At least, you'd have to be more sane to want to annoy people than to believe the s**t he's spewing.
But I actually wouldn't mind discussing the moon landing arguments. Because the opinions that support it being fake are so amusing. I think my favorite two are "The astronauts would have had to pass through the cosmic microwave background radiation and that would have killed them" and "the flag is waving in the wind on the surface". They're amusing because they completely ignore how things work and what 'things' are exactly.
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: recently formed into a hat
Posted by fishy on
Wed May 30th 2007 at 12:18am
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Most of the reasons for the moon landings being fake, also make all of the space shuttle missions fake. But still, it's great how they come up with all sorts of new tech and materials for the so-called "space race", just to keep us thinking it's for real.
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Re: recently formed into a hat
Posted by BlisTer on
Wed May 30th 2007 at 2:48pm
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The moon landing was real, the video wasn't. There's a documentary about high ranking politicians confessing it was shot in a studio because they didn't have the real footage and needed it to glorify the event to the public. cba to look it up though.