Super typhoon Haiyan slams the Philippines

[kentonio]

I like the one from the first season best so far.

The 1963 one?

[Uncle Sparky]

Every other scene in Downton Abbey is someone being helped into expensive dinnerwear.

...like a sterling silver samovar?

[Aeson]

As for here ... estimates for our power being back on are 1 month ... or 2 months ... or 6 months. So basically no one knows.

We've got our generator set up to power the house now. We're charging cell phones and flashlights for family/friends/neighbors. A lot of people were over here to watch the news this evening. It's nice to have the lights back and be able to have the electric fan going.

Charging a big car battery while we run the generator, then will run some lights and chargers off of the battery once we turn off the generator for the night.

[MrFun]

Wow. This. Is. Moving.

[giblets]

That was like every other mediocre rendition of "Amazing Grace" ever except they added bad electronic music and unnecessary rapping. Oh, and they had a montage of typhoon destruction but for some reason kept cutting back to her stupid face.

[Lorizael]

(I haven't watched the video and don't plan on doing so but) Gribbler, do you like anything?

[giblets]

Watch that video and tell me you like it. I dare you.

[SlowwHand]

I like Amazing Grace with bagpipes.

[notyoueither]

I thought it was really good.

[MrFun]

I thought it was really good.

If anyone else other than me had shared that, gribbler would have liked it too.

[Dinner]

That was like every other mediocre rendition of "Amazing Grace" ever except they added bad electronic music and unnecessary rapping. Oh, and they had a montage of typhoon destruction but for some reason kept cutting back to her stupid face.

Yeah, it was pretty crap.

[regexcellent]

A choir is all you need for a hymn or whatever the hell you call it. Making it complicated just subtracts.

[notyoueither]

I think it's more likely that we'll wait until things get truly horrible then try actively solving the problem through technology. People are too selfish to change their behaviour much, I certainly am.

And then there's the small matter of another couple billion people striving for a standard of living like in the developed world.

I don't see the math working.

[regexcellent]

Yeah the biggest problem with carbon credit stuff is that even if we hamstrung our economy to the point where we were environmentally neutral or whatever, we'd still have to tell the Indians and the Chinese and the Africans **** you, you don't get to live in the modern world with reliable electricity and motor transport and clean water etc etc because of global warming. They're going to say **** you right back and keep on trucking, as they have every right to.

[giblets]

And then there's the small matter of another couple billion people striving for a standard of living like in the developed world.

I don't see the math working.

The best way to get around this would be to demonstrate that it is possible to have a standard of living like the developed world without high levels of carbon dioxide emissions.