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How much should BP fork over, and to who

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Blitz, Jul 25, 2010.

  1. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Yes. It's how much we spent every bleeping 10 days in Iraq.
     
  2. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Well, you should ask Obama why he's still doing that.
     
  3. farmerjerome

    farmerjerome Active Member

    Rick, honest question. If you had the cash, would you have vactioned with your family in that region this year? Or would you have gone somewhere else this summer and gone to the coast next year?
     
  4. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    If I had pre-existing plans in the Gulf, it wouldn't bother me a bit to go there. But I'm a relentlessly logical person. There are 643,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water in the Gulf of Mexico. The upper-end of the estimates of how much oil was spilled was 180,000,000 barrels.

    That means that even if not one drop was cleaned up or broken down by natural processes, the total concentration of oil in the Gulf was 1 part per 3,572,222,222. Less than one part per 3.5 billion. And much of it was cleaned up.

    Unless there was oil on that specific beach, it wouldn't bother me a bit to vacation there.
     
  5. Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously Well-Known Member

    Still waiting for the "It's the media's fault" crowd to get specific. Cite the excessive reporting, specifically. Prove the absence of counterpoint and balance, specifically. Show it, specifically.

    Otherwise, you're doing what you'd never accept from the media you're blaming: being anecdotal rather than doing research, going on memory (which is worthless unless you saw every minute of every TV piece and read every printed word) and in general being lazy. Cite hard evidence. Can't? Then shut up. Your theory has been noted on multiple threads.
     
  6. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    You can't prove a negative. Unless you want me to comb through the transcripts of every major media broadcast on the event to show that they never once put the event in the proper context, you'll have to live with me not shutting up.
     
  7. farmerjerome

    farmerjerome Active Member

     
  8. Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously Well-Known Member

    Rick, keep proving nothing, then.
     
  9. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Winston Smith says 'Spilled Oil Means Cleaner Beaches.'
     
  10. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    I will. Keep on with your fallacy of negative proof.
     
  11. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Because the average male US adult weighs 86 million milligrams, just 200 milligrams of cyanide couldn't possibly hurt him!
     
  12. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Cute try. But your comparison fails by four orders of magnitude.

    1 part per 3,500,000,000

    vs.

    1 part per 430,000

    Dilute that cyanide by 1,000 times and your body would have no problems absorbing it.
     
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