Archived The Hang Out Thread v 7

[Epul]

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oh it's already featured. Guessed I've missed the thread somehow... Now I am feeling stupid for getting hyped up about something that everyone already knows...

 

[Gold Knight]

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Understandable to be hyped about it, though - it IS international recognition of a lot of hard work by a lot of moderators and members over all these months. Unbelievable that Japan, such a remote country for most of the people here at MH, actually wrote an article about our site.

If not for legal concerns, I'd be absolutely delighted by it. ^^

And my area is really getting hit by a drought hard right now. There's starting to be bans on water use in a lot of places here - including car-washing and such. The lake I live next to - it's REALLY low level right now. We need rain. Badly.

 

[Epul]

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Oh yeah legal concerns..... I hope nothing happens to MH though...life without MH has never cross my mind.....
@GK- I hope it rains soon at your place......

 

[Gold Knight]

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MH will be here regardless of if we ever have to stop helping with RAWs, which hopefully won't happen. We'd just turn into a discussion-specific forum, with the additional bonus of having a translator community. But I don't think there's any cause to be alarmed right now anyway. It's just one magazine, and a page article. And anyway, we're based in a whole different country.

So don't worry about it too much ^^ We're not.

Thanks.

 

[LadyHatake]

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Yeah, no rain here in awhile either :/ All the plants are dying.

 

[Gold Knight]

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Well, the plants are dying here too, but it's getting chilly so it figures. ^^

 

[genkigemini]

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@ GK - I hope you get some rain soon!

OMG... I ended up working 13 hours yesterday. (8am-5pm and 7:30pm-11:30pm) I am so tired. However, I did find out that if I was willing to relocate to Japan with McDonalds as an area manager at some point, that option is totally open to me. O_O HR told me this and I was like, HECK YEAH!!!! Also, I get 90% tuition reimbursement to go back to college as I had planned as a Japanese major. WOOT! <--- sorry, this made me all happy!

Also, if you all see CoyoteJack around this board now, that is my husband. I've corrupted him enough to join this board.

 

[Gold Knight]

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I saw him around, he said he would be a coyote in the Animal thread, didn't he?

Cool! You're getting your family into MH! And congrats on the tuition ^^

 

[Impel Down]

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genki, you seem to force your husband into a lot of manga things...

 

[rabb]

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genki thats awesome, but is ur husband okay with it?

Understandable to be hyped about it, though - it IS international recognition of a lot of hard work by a lot of moderators and members over all these months. Unbelievable that Japan, such a remote country for most of the people here at MH, actually wrote an article about our site.

If not for legal concerns, I'd be absolutely delighted by it. ^^

And my area is really getting hit by a drought hard right now. There's starting to be bans on water use in a lot of places here - including car-washing and such. The lake I live next to - it's REALLY low level right now. We need rain. Badly.

are you in new york? i was just watching this news thing a day or two ago about the towns east of here that were in a severe drought, and their lakes had lost all their water to the canal system. if thats so, im probably not that far away from you O_O

 

[Gold Knight]

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No, I'm not. I'm in Tennessee. I guess it's not just here, then ... the whole eastern coast of U.S. is in trouble. Weird.

 

[Zwivix]

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It all casue of the global warming problem. The weather is gonna be wack for a long long long long time.

Global warming is the reason for all the extreme weather we've been having isn't it?

 

[Gold Knight]

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No, I think the global warming fears are a bit over exaggerated. (IMO)

The aftereffects of the most recent El Niño (in early 2007) are probably the cause of our problems right now. (Wikipedia article on El Niño) We're also having a weak La Niña event, which I didn't know about.

The weird thing, though, is usually these events don't have major effects on my own area, but this may be a rare exception.

EDIT: Well, actually, it's probably the Earth changing its circumference, sort of what happened to change northern Africa from a bountiful forest to the Sahara Desert waaay back when, and also it happened a bit to Oklahoma, one of our states, in the 30's. I hope that's not the case though... hopefully this is just some weird prolonged drought that'll go away. Otherwise, I'm going to have to find a new state to live in soon if I want plenty of water

 

[rabb]

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zwi beat me to it ^^; yeah. <insert rant here> the other day i was listening to this conservative radio thing with my recruiter (he says he is an independent, but he is more of a republican) and they were talking about this woman who got in trouble for hanging her clothes out to dry for some reason or another. then he said that she uses those new lightbulbs, she has a hybrid car, and all this other jazz, and "whats the point? its drops in the ocean" and this is the message they are sending to millions of people across the country and it just makes me want to punch someone. how can they not realize how dire everything is?

 

[Zwivix]

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No, I think the global warming fears are a bit over exaggerated. (IMO)

The aftereffects of the most recent El Niño (in early 2007) are probably the cause of our problems right now. (Wikipedia article on El Niño) We're also having a weak La Niña event, which I didn't know about.

The weird thing, though, is usually these events don't have major effects on my own area, but this may be a rare exception.

Well I was actually speaking about the entire world, not just the U.S. But I guess for the U.S. the recent El Niño is most likely the casue.

zwi beat me to it ^^; yeah. <insert rant here> the other day i was listening to this conservative radio thing with my recruiter (he says he is an independent, but he is more of a republican) and they were talking about this woman who got in trouble for hanging her clothes out to dry for some reason or another. then he said that she uses those new lightbulbs, she has a hybrid car, and all this other jazz, and "whats the point? its drops in the ocean" and this is the message they are sending to millions of people across the country and it just makes me want to punch someone. how can they not realize how dire everything is?

Some talk shows are going way to far in their message to the people. I'm surprised what they get away with in non-satellie radio...

 

[Gold Knight]

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If you look at global warming as being the problem, it's just nature taking control again. That's the way life is. We're not supposed to eat up every acre of this world, but at our population growth pace, we will someday... unless things happen. That's where Mother Nature comes in and makes things a bit tougher for us to live.

People will be people, and they'll be their own destroyers. That's human nature.

But seriously, I don't think global warming is what's doing this right now (at least our own climate problems in the South).

 

[LadyHatake]

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Global warming is occurring, but it's a natural process. The earth cools down, warms up, cools down. A lot of it depends on Thermohaline Circulation in the oceans (Cold, dense water traveling from Greenland to the Pacific, turning warm and less dense then traveling back to Greenland where the cycle restarts). Also, scientists believe that the sun has cycles as well, where more sunspots = less heat, and at the moment there's few sunspots. Therefore, more heat + more greenhouse gases trapping heat = rising temperatures.

Sure, humans are contributing but it's a natural process. The problem comes around in that we don't know how long these different cycles will last, per se, or if they will stop at all. Especially with the sun's heat cycles, since there's less known about that then about fluctuating Carbon Dioxide/Heat levels in past eras. With tracking heat/CO2, they can pull up ice cores in the arctic and document the thickness of the layers of CO2, thus, giving an estimate of temperatures. With the sun, however, we can't exactly do that kind of thing ,oO There's also the fact that humans in developed countries won't change their way of life.

And global warming isn't just about humans burning fossil fuels, it's all about population, degradation, erosion, pollution (air, water, land, etc), salinization, desertification, using certain materials, overfishing, Tragedy of the Commons, the idea of Hubbert's Peak (US processing of oil would peak in the 1970's, WHCH IT DID, and the idea that there's only enough oil left for 40 more years)

 

[rabb]

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thats 40 years at the current level of consumption, and the range is 40-60. either way, thats just an educated guess, and in truth it could be much less if any more population centers become more technical the way china and India did.

and guys, whether or not this is caused by humans (i, frankly, do), its not about what we did wrong, but how much time we have to do whats right. we are facing an ice age. we know it will happen if the earth stays warm like this, and we know millions, if not billions will die from starvation and cold. the rising heat is melting glaciers on mountains, making them lighter and hence rising, and the coastal regions opposite them are sinking due to this. the combination of this and the rising sea levels are destroying the barrier islands and wetlands that the coast uses as a shield for hurricanes. if an over powerful hurricane hit the coastline without those islands and grassland in the way, the destruction would be disastrous. it wouldn't even have to be a category 5 like Katrina to do the same damage. the surge would be unchecked, and would ravage wherever it made landfall, and flooding it. then there is the sea rising itself. island nations having to be abandon because they are only 6 feet off of the sea, and half the nation is already swallowed by the ocean. did you know that Washington DC is only something like 6 ft above ocean level? if the ice caps melted, DC would be flooded. its the best news I've ever heard about global warming. *hates politicians*

and just out of curiosity, New Orleans is under sea level, right? why the hell are we trying to save it? am i the only person who thinks we should just evacuate everyone, tear down the walls, and accept that the new shoreline is a few miles inland?

 

[iThePirate]

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And my area is really getting hit by a drought hard right now. There's starting to be bans on water use in a lot of places here - including car-washing and such. The lake I live next to - it's REALLY low level right now. We need rain. Badly.

wanna switch? ive had almost nuttin but rain all summer n it continues now in the fall too

 

[LadyHatake]

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Rabb: Hell if I know why they're trying to save New Orleans. Sure it's people's homes, it's historical, etc, I understand that. But for God's sake, it's BELOW sea level. DUH, it's going to flood. Jesus, are they stupid? Don't fucking complain about it when you KNOW the high possibility of it flooding!

*ends rant >.>*