Hello Denis Most governments that I'm familiar with actively promote growth, bragging about GDP growth when it is up, and when it is down, the opposition...
Is "oik" a racist epithet? ________________________________ Boris Johnson rides to woman's rescue ...
Abernethy, Virginia D...
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Nov 6, 2009 2:51 am
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Automotive lithium-ion battery maker EnerDel, Inc. announced today that it will be working with the United States Army to develop a next-generation battery...
For your consideration: PelicanWeb Journal of Sustainable Development ~ November 2009 http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv05n11page1.html Section 1. Education...
Could be, but it is not considered by the upper class twits that use it to denigrate the so called lower classes. Thus Johnson ex Eton and from a very...
No, it can be applied to anyone. It implies that the person thus described is obnoxious, lower class, an outsider, ill-mannered, stupid etc etc. It may come...
... I'm not a fan of Boris, but no, it's not racist. It means "thug" or "ruffian" though with undertones of "uneducated" and "ill-mannered". It can be -- and...
from the Oxford English Dictionary: oick, oik (OIk). slang. Etym. obscure. Depreciatory schoolboy word for a member of another school; an unpopular or disliked...
A new engine design is being put forward by a New Zealand firm. They state that "The Pivotal engine is the ideal CNG/hydrogen internal combustion engine...
On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 04:16 +0000, smithgordon46 wrote: Automotive lithium-ion battery maker EnerDel, Inc. announced today that it will be working with the...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601093&sid=ancAZCWlTWiY For 60,000 dollars or 100,000 dollars a person can by a Telsa electric 2 seater car or a...
Two replies. Thanks Jim and Marissa. Oik certainly applies to those London girls brandishing a tire iron at a woman trapped in a dark alley! Americans don't...
Abernethy, Virginia D...
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Nov 7, 2009 3:18 am
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US nuclear industry calls for more federal support. The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), which represents the nuclear industry in the US, is calling for a...
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la_me_algae_odor6-2009nov6,0,4059818.story That algae can produce fuel type products is well documented in this story...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=amVsqsL0Rb1Q&pos=15 Does building walls, imposing tariffs, and prohibiting the movement of labor, and...
Denis - you're missing the point of the film: reduce population. Less population == reduced pressure on the life support system. If a killer disease came...
~~~~~~~~~EnergyResources Moderator Comment ~~~~~~~~ Denis, a main problem with your comments below, is your resistance to seeking solutions. You have made your...
Who is Mr. FEDERAL? How big are his pockets? How is it possible that the nuclear (or was it unclear) industry, so efficient and competitive, has to ask Mr....
surprise surprise....What ever happened to private investment money? From what I have read, there is a huge surplus of  that money lacking any viable project...
 Morning Virginia, Americans go something out of the deal. Wish I had followed the pricing of pickups before during and after. I bet it followed the Chevy...
Yes. It's less than a half-truth and certainly won't help resolve our resource use dilemmas. ALL life requires the use of natural resources. To be sustainable...
Oh dear, oh dear.... Another smart engineer hoping that one day we shall find a big hole in the ground full of hydrogen. I shan't be betting on any of these ...
from the Oxford English Dictionary: oick, oik (OIk). slang. Etym. obscure. Depreciatory schoolboy word for a member of another school; an unpopular or...
Well, we have been debating this for some time now. At the political level, *ANY* discussion that I have had with politicians of limiting growth is tossed out...
Dell You talk about carrying capacity and the population being in balance locally and internationally. What do you mean by that? The population and its systems...
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/Brazil/Oil.html This article is a must read for those curious about real ethanol deployment as well as Brazil's plans for ...
Hopefully the people start to undertand that the only way to be sustainable is a natality/fertility control. In the near future, when the people live 300 years...
Eric, Re your two last sentences, I understand that several gun shops feature posters of Obama as top salesman of the year. V. ________________________________...
Abernethy, Virginia D...
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Great responses and near unanimity from the British/Irish contingent, except for a British woman who never heard the word. I wonder if oik is a boys' word. I...
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