Sorry; Just need to rant a little bit.

[mcrit]

Item 1: Smokers.
This is not going to be a rant about second hand smoke or the like. In fact, I fully support someone's right to smoke. Every dime you pay in taxes on your pack-a-day is a dime I don't have to cough up in income tax, or dog tax, or gas tax, or being dumb enough to work for a living tax. Puff away. I even appreciate that you guys aren't smoking inside any public places anymore (makes the craps tables a lot more heathy and fun; I even seem to win more). Here is my problem. Your butts. They are flabby, pastey white and make a soggy mess all over the sidewalk. OK, only the last statement is true. But seriously, pick up after yourselves people!

Item 2: Gianormous SUVs.
I'm no hypocrite, which means that I don't care how much CO2 you are pumping in the troposhpere by using a small tank to drive yourself and yourself alone from your home in Brampton to work in Etobicoke. I'm sure that somewhere in that drive you need every ounce of that vehicle's offroad and/or cargo hauling abilities. After all, there are some pretty big hills in that area and you need alot of torque to move your briefcase and gym bag. In fact, I encourage you to drive that vehicle as much as possilbe, burn as much gas as you like, then buy some more, and burn that to. Every penny in tax you pay on the extra gas you buy is tax I don't have to come up with. The more you drive, the more likely it is that some of the potholes on my street are going to get fixed. Please go ahead and enjoy your vehicle to the fullest, but for the love of Pete, learn to park it. I know you pay three time as much for gas as the rest of us, but that does not mean that you get to take up three parking spots. I don't know if you took up three prime spots on purpose because you wanted to make sure that no one parked close to you, or you took up three prime spots because you bought more vehicle than your skills can handle. I don't care. I'm going to park my crappy 2000 Sunfire in that little sliver that you left on your driver's side. I'm going to leave the proper distance on the other side of me, so you might be a bit crowded. I don't mind if you want to bang your nice shiny driver's side door into my dent riddled passenger door. What's another dent? Hell, go to town on my car! Total it for me; that's the only way that I'm ever going to get back at my insurance company for all the years they have gleefully sodomized me. The foregoing rant does not apply to people who take up multiple crappy parking spots (which is to say the parking spots just within the same grid square as the mall itself).

Feels good to get that off my chest. Anyone else got a pet peeve they'd like to rant about? (unless it's about people that park their crappy Sunfire's too close to your SUVzilla)

[BEFAN5]

all good!

Although, I do have issues with a few of the pilots I fly with who suck back a Players (the extra tarry type) 10 seconds before we close the cabin door, then get in the seat next to me. Gum people. Gum.

Oh. And this would be an interesting research topic... But I think that even considering how much tax people pay on their smokes, that it doesn't even begin to cover the cost of replacing their lungs, and giving them oxygen tanks; aka subsidizing the huge impact they are having on our healthcare system.

[xsbank]

0.039%. I looked it up because I thought it was 0.023%. That is the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. It is a trace gas, so people who claim that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is affected by us, the bipeds on the planet, and then go on to claim that it is the principle reason for climate change, are full of hooey. Find out what plants and trees prefer to breathe, then get back to me. Did you just buy a carbon offset or a carbon tax? You threw your money away, you have been had.

While I have gas, nitrogen in your car tires. Hands up those of you who are so stupid (see the math question above) that you actually forked over money to have your tires filled with nitrogen? Did you know that the atmosphere is composed of 80% nitrogen? When your new tires are sitting on the floor of the garage waiting to be installed they are already surrounded by tons of nitrogen? That you just paid somebody a lot smarter than you (the guy with the tire shop) so he could contribute to his pension plan? Did you buy the reasoning that he used to sell the stuff to you? Of course you did - you really wanted the green valve cap, didn't you? Don't you feel foolish?

[Beefitarian]

I can't help myself xs and risk Hedley coming in here to correct me but...

I think carbon dioxide is heavier than the atmosphere. It should be at the bottom not the top.

[Sulako]

Carbon dioxide is heavier than air, carbon monoxide is slightly lighter

[trey kule]

I always thought that the reason aircraft used nitrogen in the tires was in had lower mositure content and was therefore not as subject to cold effects..Assumed that was why they used it in cars now...
Anyone know the actual reason? Or is it just a gimmick?

[xsbank]

The bottled gas is dry. Ever try to get a compressor out to the ramp?

[trey kule]

Hell no. I am a pilot not a wannabe from an aviation college.(smiley face here to indicate I am joking)

[iflyforpie]

The bottled gas is dry. Ever try to get a compressor out to the ramp?

That's what you use a pig for. Shop air won't fill up 200 psi tires though, but N2 will.

[BigglesNBella]

0.039%. I looked it up because I thought it was 0.023%. That is the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. It is a trace gas, so people who claim that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is affected by us, the bipeds on the planet, and then go on to claim that it is the principle reason for climate change, are full of hooey. Find out what plants and trees prefer to breathe, then get back to me. Did you just buy a carbon offset or a carbon tax? You threw your money away, you have been had.

You do realize that the numbers you provided are evidence to the contrary of your argument right? The less of a gas there is to start with, the more the ratio of the gas to others is affected by a relatively small addition of the first gas.