If you could sit down for dinner with any leader:

Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by Norsefire, Dec 22, 2007.

  1. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    Who would you choose? What would you discuss? What would be your questions?
     
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  3. USS Exeter unamerican american Registered Senior Member

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    Does it have to be a leader alive today?
     
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  5. [a-5] Sex machine, coin operated. Registered Senior Member

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    Stalin ftw. Fear would make the food taste good.
     
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  7. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    Margaret Thatcher. I bet she has some interesting observations about the world's most powerful men.
     
  8. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    Nope
     
  9. visceral_instinct Monkey see, monkey denigrate Valued Senior Member

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    George Bush, so that I could reach across the table and punch his head in.
     
  10. G. F. Schleebenhorst England != UK Registered Senior Member

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    Winston Churchill....then I'd steal all his witty lines for myself.
     
  11. USS Exeter unamerican american Registered Senior Member

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    Mikhail Gorbachev. I'd just say "What the fuck?" to him.
     
  12. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    If I were to pick a deceased leader would the dinner take place in this time or in the leader's era ?
     
  13. USS Exeter unamerican american Registered Senior Member

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    Either, whatever your imagination wants.
     
  14. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    I was gonna say Hitler and I'd kill him during the dinner.. but... I need to consider the consequences of that lol

    Never mind.
     
  15. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    I'd go with the leader's era. If you picked today, they'd be all rotten and gross.
     
  16. Kadark Banned Banned

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    Fatih Sultan Mehmet.

    Conquered Constantinople at the age of 21.

    "Verily you shall conquer Constantinople. What a wonderful leader will he be, and what a wonderful army will that army be!" - Hadith
     
  17. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    President: Olafur GRIMSSON

    "Iceland has been at the forefront of developing this technology for decades. In 1978, Bragi Arnason, a professor of chemistry at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, proposed that Iceland could be a "Hydrogen Society"—that is, a society entirely free from the use of fossil fuels— by the year 2030-40. In this new world, Iceland would rely on renewable resources for energy and on hydrogen as an energy carrier, producing electricity with only heat and water as by-products. Arnason, who is called "Professor Hydrogen" by his admirers, remembers that at the time "everybody thought this was just a crazy fantasy." In the event, his 1978 prediction did prove overly optimistic.

    But today, his "crazy fantasy" has become an attractive investment opportunity. Investors such as DaimlerChrysler, Norsk Hydro and Shell Hydrogen, have entered into a joint venture with Vistorka (Eco Energy Ltd.), an Icelandic holding company, to create the Icelandic Icelandic New Energy, which aims to research hydrogen fuel cell technology and wean Iceland from fossil fuels entirely.

    Two factors make Iceland the ideal test bed for hydrogen power, according to Arnason. First, the country has a history of finding innovative, clean, new energy sources. In 1950, when the rest of the world was enthusing about nuclear energy, Iceland moved all of its heating and electricity production from oil- and coal-fired power plants to geothermal and hydroelectric power plants. Second, it is easy to conduct real-scale research in Iceland. "It's easy to introduce a new technology in a small society because if it goes wrong, it's less difficult to fix it," Arnason says. "Then you take the lessons you've learned here and apply them to larger societies."

    There has been a groundswell of political support for Iceland's hydrogen plan. In 1997, high levels of air pollution prevented Iceland from signing the Kyoto Protocol—despite broad support for the international agreement in the country. Widespread use of hydrogen fuel cells would cut Iceland's greenhouse gas emissions by more than a half.

    Increased use of fuel cells would also fuel Iceland's economy. Hjalmar Arnason (no relation to Dr. Arnason), chairman of the Icelandic government´s committee for alternative fuel, sees Iceland becoming a major hydrogen exporter in the future. "

    http://www.worldpress.org/print_article.cfm?article_id=536&dont=yes
     
  18. Neildo Gone Registered Senior Member

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    Charlemagne.

    - N
     

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