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Topic: Who's the bigger offender: Conservatives or Liberals?
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dwise1
Member Posts: 6125 Joined: 05-02-2006 Member Rating: 6.3
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Re: Goldfinger
The plot in the novel was reportedly to steal the gold. The movie changed it to making it radioactive. I've seen the layout of the vaults on a TV documentary show. A central shaft into the ground with a multiple levels. On each level vaults radiate out; ie, in a central space you see maybe 6 to 8 steel doors and an elevator. Behind each steel door is a vault room filled with gold ingots. Basically, as I recall, they start piling the ingots on the far wall and fill the room. The walls are done in institutional tile from the 1930's, so no gleaming metal and catwalks. They described that the gold is inventoried periodically which involves moving it all out of each vault room to count it before putting it back in. The logistics involved in just moving it from each vault are involved and slow, so trying to get it all out in a Goldfinger-novel-style robbery would have been virtually impossible, especially within the short time frame they would have had.
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Minnemooseus
Member Posts: 3976 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: 11-11-2001 Member Rating: 6.0
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Message 662 of 773 (892632)
03-11-2022 3:08 AM
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Reply to: Message 660 by AZPaul3
03-11-2022 2:23 AM
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Re: Goldfinger
I think the book and the movie are different about what is to happen to the gold.
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In the 1959 Ian Fleming novel Goldfinger, the titular villain, Auric Goldfinger plots to break into the U.S. Bullion Depository in a criminal plot called "Operation Grand Slam". With the help of several gangsters (including the Spangled Mob and the Mafia) Goldfinger plans to kill the inhabitants of Fort Knox by poisoning their water supply and then steal the gold.
Source: Fort Knox | James Bond Wiki | Fandom But as the youtube clip (message 659) points out, the gold is a LOT of mass to move. I don't know how the book proposes to deal with that. I guess just steal a small part of the gold. Thus (I hope) ends the topic diversion (but I doubt it). Moose
Professor, geology, Whatsamatta U
Evolution - Changes in the environment, caused by the interactions of the components of the environment."Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer." - Bruce Graham "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith "Yesterday on Fox News, commentator Glenn Beck said that he believes President Obama is a racist. To be fair, every time you watch Glenn Beck, it does get a little easier to hate white people." - Conan O'Brien "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." - John Kenneth Galbraith It says something about the qualities of our current president that the best argument anyone has made in his defense is that he didn't know what he was talking about. - Paul Krugman (as stolen from Chiroptera's signature) "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes" - Ronald Reagan (1984) "I know a little about a lot of things, and a lot about a few things, but I'm highly ignorant about everything." - Moose
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AZPaul3
Member Posts: 8685 From: Phoenix Joined: 11-06-2006 Member Rating: 6.1
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Re: Goldfinger
Thus (I hope) ends the topic diversion (but I doubt it). Do I hear a problem with side issues, topic diversions, tangents from our man moose? Whence this passion to strike out at distracting sub-topics? A man similarly obsessed once wrote, “Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering topic diversion; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee;” Do you think it appropriate to denigrate the side thread by participating in its continuation? Is this a specific topic objection or is this more a general distaste of topic distraction? Other than a heavy voice, what other restrictions on topic creep are you prepared to implement? If we get people to comment on this and build a substantial sub-topic side-thread are you going to hurt me?
Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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jar
Member (Idle past 137 days) Posts: 34140 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Re: Goldfinger
Why, everyone know that the way you move all that gold is in Mini Coopers and a Tour-bus.
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Stile
Member (Idle past 341 days) Posts: 4295 From: Ontario, Canada Joined: 12-02-2004
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Message 665 of 773 (892637)
03-11-2022 8:33 AM
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Reply to: Message 664 by jar
03-11-2022 7:57 AM
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Re: Goldfinger
I'd go with dump trucks and an aqueduct.
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Tanypteryx
Member Posts: 4597 From: Oregon, USA Joined: 08-27-2006
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Message 666 of 773 (892645)
03-11-2022 10:44 AM
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Reply to: Message 637 by Phat
03-10-2022 9:38 AM
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Re: R E S P E C T
I am working on your questions. Give me a few minutes. OK, no rush.
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty PythonOne important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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Tanypteryx
Member Posts: 4597 From: Oregon, USA Joined: 08-27-2006
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Message 667 of 773 (892646)
03-11-2022 10:55 AM
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Reply to: Message 648 by Taq
03-10-2022 6:04 PM
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Re: R E S P E C T
Taq writes: Tanypteryx writes: After Phat's apocalypse, I wonder if he thinks he can buy $1997 worth of goods with a 1 ounce gold coin?
I am willing to bet I could buy more food with a fifth of whisk(e)y in the post-apocalyptic world than Phat could with a pound of gold. May have to start my own stockpile. Or set up a still and give your product a seductive name like Moonshine. 
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty PythonOne important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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Theodoric
Member Posts: 9489 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: 08-15-2005
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Re: R E S P E C T
As a quick aside I live on Moonshine Road.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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Theodoric
Member Posts: 9489 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: 08-15-2005
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Re: R E S P E C T
Minutes turn into hours and hours into days.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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Tanypteryx
Member Posts: 4597 From: Oregon, USA Joined: 08-27-2006
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Message 670 of 773 (892651)
03-11-2022 11:35 AM
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Reply to: Message 668 by Theodoric
03-11-2022 11:00 AM
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Re: R E S P E C T
I have a still! 
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty PythonOne important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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dwise1
Member Posts: 6125 Joined: 05-02-2006 Member Rating: 6.3
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Re: R E S P E C T
I have a still! Teach a man to fish! I hope you know how to keep methanol out of the mix (usually the first vapors boiled off, as I understand it).
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Tanypteryx
Member Posts: 4597 From: Oregon, USA Joined: 08-27-2006
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Message 672 of 773 (892656)
03-11-2022 1:57 PM
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Reply to: Message 671 by dwise1
03-11-2022 1:42 PM
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Re: R E S P E C T
I hope you know how to keep methanol out of the mix (usually the first vapors boiled off, as I understand it). Yep, the temperature of the vapor actually changes as each fraction boils off. I had a still in high school, made apricot brandy.
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty PythonOne important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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ringo
Member (Idle past 710 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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Message 673 of 773 (892679)
03-12-2022 10:43 AM
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Reply to: Message 607 by Phat
03-08-2022 2:12 PM
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Re: Stirring The Stew
Phat writes: ringo writes: In fact, I am ignorant about many substantive things. Everybody is.
I believe that in the near future we will have a black swan event.
What does that have to do with what I said?
Phat writes: For the West, it will be financial.
Isn't a black swan event by definition unpredictable? So how can you predict it? It's the same as saying, "Some things just can't be explained - so here's the explanation."
Phat writes: Being a liberal, do you even see it or is it hidden from your perception?
I don't see myself as a liberal. But liberal or conservative has nothing to do with believing there will be some sort of catastrophic event in the future. Religious nuts are more likely to believe in apocalyptic nonsense but I think it's mostly coincidence that they also believe in conservative nonsense. They're just more susceptible to nonsense in general.
"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!"
-- Lucky Ned Pepper
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ringo
Member (Idle past 710 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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Message 674 of 773 (892680)
03-12-2022 10:52 AM
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Reply to: Message 612 by Phat
03-08-2022 2:44 PM
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Re: Wannabe Conservative Thinkers
Phat writes: Our day of reckoning is at hand.
I have a history of Nazi Germany that contains a photograph from the 1920s-30s of a group of protesters. One of them is holding up a sign that says (in German), "There will come a day of reckoning." It did. There are days of reckoning every day. Germany had several of them. Everybody has them. The day of reckoning comes, the reckoning happens and then we move on. I know you're wishing and hoping for the end of the world - but I think humanity is in for some days of reckoning that are much worse than that. And we may survive them.
"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!"
-- Lucky Ned Pepper
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Theodoric
Member Posts: 9489 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: 08-15-2005
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Message 675 of 773 (892681)
03-12-2022 11:01 AM
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Reply to: Message 674 by ringo
03-12-2022 10:52 AM
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Re: Wannabe Conservative Thinkers
And we may survive them.
And that is probably what we should fear. Surviving.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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