CapeDoctor Forum Posts (137)

RE: How the stock market works.

That is probably the punchline, the average price for the monkeys was probably closer to €10 while the supply was high - the higher prices were probably only paid for a very small percentage of the total stock. So assuming those poor villagers paid €35 for every single monkey (unaware that they should have bid much lower when buying from someone who had such plentiful stock), then who do you think made the killing???

RE: Why Iirsh WOMAN ARE SO STUCK UP

Poor fella, think he came onto this site thinking it would be like a kid going into a candy store. Afraid not my friend - the competition here is just as stiff as in any bar you may have been to! Good luck!!!

RE: Profile show's online when I am not....need advise...

Yeah I discovered this problem as well. It's the way they set up this site. Seems to show you're online for about 45mins after you log-in, then it doesn't matter how long you stay online for it just shows that you're online for 45mins or so. Wish they'd fix that........

RE: Is it possible to fall in love before you meet???

Well actually the more I think about it the more similar they seem...

RE: Is it possible to fall in love before you meet???

No you can not.

You can become consumed with interest in the person, but you can only know for sure after meeting them!

The difference between online dating and "real-world dating" is the same as the difference between looking at a holiday brochure and actually going on that holiday...

RE: Visiting Foreign Women-- Advise Lads Please

I got an offer from a Nigerian king the other day, he promised me 12 billion East African gazunclenuts if I went into business with him! I've been in correspondence with him and he seems pretty legit, still can't beleive my luck tho!!! I'm just a bit nervous you see - I would have no idea what to do with all that money.....

Fuel tax cuts, should governments give us a break or not???

Speculators only make up about $20 of the current oil price of $135. Oil is no bubble, unfortunatly, because it's a finite resource that can only become more valuable as it becomes more scarce. The price may come down again, but only briefly like it did the beginning of last year. The only way oil could ever come down to the levels it was 10 years ago is if humanity suddenly didn't need it anymore, and we're still a long way from that...

Fuel tax cuts, should governments give us a break or not???

Good Question! It is quite hard to work out exactly what your share of the use is because the vast majority of your usage will come from indirect means! Contrary to popular belief, drivng and home heating usually only add up to 30 or 40 percent of your energy usage, with the bulk of the remainder coming from the food you eat and the goods you buy! If you're a vegetarian and you only consume food that was made near your home your oil consumtion will be much less than someone who buys meat from New Zealand while living in Ireland...

If live in Ireland and you buy an average mixture of goods from an average variety of destinations you can assume that ammounts to about 10 barrles of oil annuly. Heating a 3 bedroom house (with 4 people) for a year uses about 2 barrels of oil per person. Driving 10000 miles in a 1.4l car uses about 6 barrels of oil. A return trans-Atlantic flight would add about 3 or 4 barrels to your total...

Fuel tax cuts, should governments give us a break or not???

Agree fully with you there - because of the economic gradients between different countries if is often cheaper to transport goods over vast distances than to manufacture, process and sell them at the place where they are used, and this is very inefficient!

As for running your car on vegetable oil - fair play to you, it's a great way to save on fuel now while the demand is low, but in reality we could never expect large scale production of biofuels in the near future because it would just use up too much land that could otherwise be used for growing food. Biofuels are also an incredibly wastefull way of converting the Sun's power into usefull energy. If you want to utilise the suns power to maximum efficiency then solar refectors or photovoltaics are the best way to do that...

Fuel tax cuts, should governments give us a break or not???

Cheers PatrickT, we need more people like you - if even half the people would just stop to think about it a bit, not even having to do anything about it, we'd be on the path to a solution much quicker! I agree that minds need to be changed. We have too many people who are ready to complain (as if were only someone elses fault and none of their own).

If you want to complain about high oil prices then first ask yourself this question: Do I use less than avergage? If your answer is less than 5 barrels per year then by all means you have the right to complain because that's the world average. But if you live in a first world country and you earn an average salary in your country then it is likely that you use about 20 barrels per year (18.6 for Ireland & 25.6 for USA)!

I myself have no right to complain because my usage is more or less in line with Ireland's average. We in developed countries need to wake up and get oursleves out of this situation by working together!

Fuel tax cuts, should governments give us a break or not???

I see the debate is still going on, and the result of this poll so far does not surprise me, kinda explains where all the "demand" is comming from, as the majority of people out there are very "demanding" - that prices come down...

Saw a very interesting article about the Honda FCX Clarity (Google it please). This car could give traditional fossil fuel consumers a run for their money!!!

Needless to say their are solutions to the oil problem, its just such a pity though that the majority of people out there would wish to just carry on the way they are without the hassle of climate change or high oil prices, but this is infact a time when we really do need to start working together for the future - the future of human civilisation...

Fuel tax cuts, should governments give us a break or not???

I was simply using america as a benchmark for comparison. There are countries that consume more resources per capita then they do (UAE for example), but they are all much smaller and have less of an influence...

It all comes down to how much money we make - the richer you are the more you consume, regardless of whether you have good intentions or not.

It is not really possible for humanity as a whole to get richer than the Earth's resources + our technology allows us, so therefore it is no use complaining that fuel prices are too high when it is simple market fundimentals controling them!

The problem with humanity as a whole is that this poll is thus far quite reflective of what we as society feel - why should we be paying so much??? The answer is simple. We need the god-damn stuff! But someone has to do the work of getting out the ground and supplying it to and ever more demanding world. And if it's getting harder to do that then what do you expect???

Fuel tax cuts, should governments give us a break or not???

Yes, big problem I understand, it hurts the transport industry first, but in the end we will all suffer once the prices filter down...

This is why its so important to mitigate the problem now!

I work in a proffesion where we plan for the future and on of the fields I work in is energy, and to be honest we are all in for a hard time for the next 10 years at least! If you want to blame anyone you can blame governments for not reacting to reports that were released as early as half a century ago!!! Marion King Hubbert predicted back then already that we would be in this situation by now, but back then everyone ridiculed him. Since then many others have given similar wanrnigs... But the hard reality is that in the mean time the average person in the know how has been more preocupied with making money than worrying about energy security for the future. And who can blame them? Afterall it has always been the belief that technology would sort it out...

But to this day technology has failed to beat oil companies who continue to hold the monopoly on world energy.

We can only hope that the oil prices of today will finaly convince those with the power to influence those with the ability to do something - and quickly too...

Fuel tax cuts, should governments give us a break or not???

Actually we have been about 20 years away from fusion power for the last 50 years or so , and we are still about 20 years away from it - so I would'nt be betting on it yet...

As for fission power - even if we could make it safe there isn't that much uranium either

We need to get cracking with everything else we know works like wind, solar, tide, wave, geothermal etc. We gotta get governments to start putting huge subsidies into these. And yes biofuels are a disaster and will never be able to replace oil - the only thing we can do on an economical scale to replace oil is coal-to-liquids or gas-to-liquids in the near future (not very clean, but probably the only option we have)...

Fuel tax cuts, should governments give us a break or not???

So the oil price is going wild at the moment, and word has its running out! In fact climate change will be the least of our worries if some of the experts are right We could be facing sever shortages of fuel in less than 5 years time if demand keeps rising the way it is

So what should goverments do about it? Just make it cheaper so we can use it faster???

RE: Corsa VXR Turbo

Don't like it cuz its an Opel...

RE: Since Ireland didn't qualify for Euro '08.......

Who cares? Its only soccer & I have way more important things to watch like the Tri-nations starting soon...

RE: Are there any Aussies on this site?

hey who's your china bru???

bloody southerners...

RE: WHO ARE THE MOST USEFULL MEMBERS OF SOCIETY MEN ? OR WOMEN ? INTELLIGENT PEOPLE ONLY PLEASE !

An intelligent response to this is that any debate involving this subject would result in nothing less than civil war! Which probably explains why no ones responded yet...

"PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN"

I just sometimes find it interesting that most women would view having a platonic relationship as being "something special", or maybe even an "achievement" of some sort.
On the other hand most men tend to view platonic relationships as a lousy consolation effort by women at softening the blow of rejection...

"PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN"

What do you people think about them? Are they good or bad - and is it ever worth "staying friends" with an ex???

RE: Do friendships change ????

Yes this is sooooo true!

I recently met up with some old mates from high school, and I could just tell that we all changed oh so much, and that we would never be able to go back to the "good old ways", and that we would'nt want to either, because we'd all grown up!!!

The things that kept us together as teenagers were no longer important to us, and after taking that out there was nothing left...

RE: How do you rate Ireland?

Well no country in the world is perfect, but id say that in current times Ireland is pretty good! Only thing i worry about is its future, things are changing so rapidly in Ireland at the moment it remains to be seen how its people will...

RE: TAOISEACH RESIGNS - A SAD DAY?

I don't know what to say - never really knew the guy personally to be honest...

But think resigning was a respectfull thing to do given the circumstances.

Comparing him to other world leaders (like that grubby dictator in Zimbabwe would would rather have his whole coutry in ruins before resigning), I'd say he's a good guy and will be missed!

RE: Do I walk away ??

Yes I fully understand you when you say it's hard to walk away because you love him, but to tell you the truth, when you get back together with someone soon after a break-up you very quickly reallise why you broke up in the first place, and the second break-up won't be that far away...

I was fooled twice into getting back with my ex, actually sometimes it's good to get back and then break-up again! The break-ups become easier each time and eventually they become painless lol

RE: Do I walk away ??

Not sure what to do there, I've just called it off with a girl I've been seeing for a while - we'd have great fun together sometimes and then we'd have these terrible fights in between After breaking up and getting back together 3 times I finally decided the last time that it was definitely over because I reallised the relationship was doing us both more harm than good - we'd both definitely been drinking more and getting much lees sleep than we should and it wasn't going to get better

Sometimes it's hard to let go of something that you feel should have been that good but then it wasn't. But if you believe that either you or he needs to change, it's probably best to let the changes happen outside of a relationship...

Also at the end of the day you must remember that if your'e not better off with him than you were without him, then it's time to move on...

RE: Office Dares

Haha, yeah I work in an office it's great lol

One of the best one's you left out was a five point dare:

Surround your desk with mosquito netting and have a tape recording of jungle sounds playing in the background...

RE: What ever happened to the old fashioned way??????

Who says that the people on here aren't drinking at home while being on the dating site???

Btw I find that the old fashioned way still works just as well and it may even be better - at least you can see the person infront of you for what they are

Dating sites are just an alternative/additional way thats all...

Pain - how do you deal with it?

I didn't say I had one lol Was just posting a random thread based on past experience...

Then again I could always be refering to a non-physical pain like a bad woman in my life...

Pain - how do you deal with it?

Yes but most painkillers only work for the mildest of pains

I remember how I suffered when I had to get a wisdom tooth pulled and it was agonising I experimented with all sorts of things even trying to philosophise about why the pain was there lol

I think there are some forms of pain that painkillers are useless for... and the only thing you can do is find your own inventive ways of making the time pass without thinking of it too much...