Re: OT - Re: Program templates as Object Classes

From: Pete Dashwood (dashwood_at_enternet.co.nz)
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 01:30:37 +1300

A very good response, Robert.

I'm thinking about it <G>

Pete.

"Robert Wagner" <spamblocker-robert@wagner.net> wrote in message
news:ah59r09pjpmjqf7cmtc8sedumenvtdcore@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 21:11:31 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
> <dashwood@enternet.co.nz> wrote:
>
>
> >The coffee grinder makes a brilliant cheese grater, and the microwave
> >generates little hurricanes with lightning flashes inside dixie cups for
> >entertainment,
>
> Gold rimmed cups give better pyrotechnical effects.
>
> >Ever costed the energy requirement to bake bread on the dry cycle of your
> >dishwasher?
>
> I make it up by walking to work, and home for lunch.
>
> >And you wonder why the US gets a bad name...
>
> We have a bad name? Really? I thought we were the good guys.
>
> >The rest of us are using energy
> >efficient devices, trying to limit CO2 emissions and there's good old
Wagner
> >making bread with a dishwasher.
>
> One third of energy consumed in the US is used to produce meat.
> Every pound requires twenty million joules, nearly all from fossil
> fuel. That's 5,000 'calories' or 7.5 horsepower-hours. To give it some
> perspective, if you eat meat and walk one kilometer, you consumed more
> energy than a small car driving one kilometer.
>
> Rice requires more water than any other food plant. Producing a pound
> of meat consumes ten times as much water as a pound of rice. If meat
> production was not subsidized via irrigation projects, a pound of
> hamburger in the US would cost $35.
>
> I forgot, what were you saying about energy efficiency?
>

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