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2008-10-23 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia, OPEC aim to stabilise oil prices
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Posted by Fred 2008-10-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#1 < CG -- you're giving yourself away -- the above comment by me, is the first I've ever made to you... so don't be telling me, "I'm a bit tired of you....."

It might have been Barb, but you sound the same.
Posted by General_Comment 2008-10-23 00:09||   2008-10-23 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 GC - 3 days of the condor here...
I want all the oil...
Now!
where Redford was anti - I lean very pro
Posted by 3dc 2008-10-23 00:22||   2008-10-23 00:22|| Front Page Top

#3 GC -- a little of an American lesson here -- I took all your comments, not including those with name calling, but the ones with your discussion points and ran them through a readability formula.

There are several of those, some we use for kids' reading levels, and some we use for adults' writings.

I used the most accurately accepted one for adults' writing.

Here your scores:

Grade level: 6.1 (that's sixth grade. Newspapers are written to a fifth grade level, so you are at least as good as our esteemed journalists.)

Passive voice: 4% (that's actually quiet good, but this forum lends itself to active voice writing)

Sentence complexity: 18 (100 = very complex)

Vocabulary complexity: 11 (100 = very complex)

But, of course, you were writing for your audience? Well, maybe not. Most of this audience is capable of at least 12th grade readability.

You might want to up your writing standards when stating your arguments, backed up with facts, of course. That helps in getting along with the folks here.

Oh, and did you hit Fred's tip jar yet?

Posted by Sherry">Sherry  2008-10-23 00:38||   2008-10-23 00:38|| Front Page Top

#4 
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Posted by General_Comment 2008-10-23 00:47||   2008-10-23 00:47|| Front Page Top

#5 
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Posted by General_Comment 2008-10-23 00:50||   2008-10-23 00:50|| Front Page Top

#6 
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Posted by General_Comment 2008-10-23 00:56||   2008-10-23 00:56|| Front Page Top

#7 
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Posted by General_Comment 2008-10-23 00:57||   2008-10-23 00:57|| Front Page Top

#8 will someone just poop list the general comment asshat?

how many threads does he have to hijack/ruin before he is an official menace instead of just the obvious nuisance he is now?

just askin
Posted by Abu do you love 2008-10-23 02:09||   2008-10-23 02:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Nice going, Sherry, not only did you get him to decompensate, you cleaned up afterwards!  :-)
Posted by Steve White 2008-10-23 08:12||   2008-10-23 08:12|| Front Page Top

#10 I wonder how much Putin is paying GC to sing Russia's praises here...

Either way, sounds like the only real money maker for Russia just went away and all their projects are no longer funded.
Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-23 08:56||   2008-10-23 08:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Sinktrap! What a lovely day this is! Only his banishment could make it finer.
Posted by Darrell 2008-10-23 09:12||   2008-10-23 09:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Is there some annoying cyber-marketing company you can call that puts out a bunch of General_Comment type guys to harass people? If there is it would surely be in Russia.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-10-23 09:37||   2008-10-23 09:37|| Front Page Top

#13 As far as the oil article goes, I would think that even a lower stable price would be better than the wildly fluctuating b.s. we've seen lately. If you could count on $60 bbl. oil all year you could at least tailor your spending. Russia is facing budgetary insolvency over this last bear down.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-10-23 09:40||   2008-10-23 09:40|| Front Page Top

#14 Sherry, you certainly hit a few nerves there. LOL!
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2008-10-23 09:57||   2008-10-23 09:57|| Front Page Top

#15 Thanks all about our friend General Comment -- obviously, he was beginning to annoy me!

Dr. Steve, I had to look up this word:
de·com·pen·sa·tion (dkm-pn-sshn)
n.
1. Medicine Failure of the heart to maintain adequate blood circulation, marked by labored breathing, engorged blood vessels, and edema.
2. Psychology The inability to maintain defense mechanisms in response to stress, resulting in personality disturbance or psychological imbalance

I think that was a compliment!!! Thanks
Posted by Sherry 2008-10-23 10:17||   2008-10-23 10:17|| Front Page Top

#16 I see there is a fan (hate) club forming.
At least I am glad that you are using a dictionary. My work bore some fruit.
Posted by General_Comment 2008-10-23 10:45||   2008-10-23 10:45|| Front Page Top

#17 Me don't need dictionary 'cuz I R smart!
Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-23 11:00||   2008-10-23 11:00|| Front Page Top

#18 GC -- at the top of the page, here at Fred's home, he has the words Civil, Well-Reason Discourse.

Again, you have stepped over the boundaries. Now, go take a trip to Fred's tip jar --
Posted by Sherry 2008-10-23 11:08||   2008-10-23 11:08|| Front Page Top

#19 Decompensation is the current word in the therapy field for a nervous breakdown, Sherry.

General_Comment, Sherry has been an education consultant of some sort at the national level. I'm not certain what she does now, but I'm quite certain she does it with panache. While that implies a non-engineering PhD, she has ever been too modest to state her credentials. She is also a moderator here.

You misjudge your audience, my dear. While there are indeed many engineers and IT types, there are also a great many PhDs and professors, lawyers and intelligence analysts and military types active in the field or retired. Even a few newspaper editors; not all journalists live in the Liberal-Progressive fringe, after all. Quite a few can tick off several boxes, which makes for interesting conversations. There are also many men and women who choose to work with their hands, adding dimensions to the discussion which sites with narrower appeal sadly miss. It is a slap in the face of elitists everywhere that the conversation need not be simplified for them. And then there are little suburban housewives like me, sheltered child of the ivory tower and corporate spouse that I am.
Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife  2008-10-23 11:13||   2008-10-23 11:13|| Front Page Top

#20 Whatever credentials you've cited I have.
Posted by General_Comment 2008-10-23 11:24||   2008-10-23 11:24|| Front Page Top

#21 Civil, Well-Reason Discourse.

Yes, but for some mysterious reason it does not apply to those posters who choose to disagree with my point of view. They quickly degrade into shouting obscenities. And you protect them, because they shout your side of the story. Civil, Well-Reasoned Discourse. We are very proud of it. Aha.
Posted by General_Comment 2008-10-23 11:30||   2008-10-23 11:30|| Front Page Top

#22 With respect to a possible donation: I could make it if it could be made anonymously and would buy me a freedom of speech.
Posted by General_Comment 2008-10-23 11:34||   2008-10-23 11:34|| Front Page Top

#23 I'm not arguing your credentials, General_Comment. I rather imagine you have a JD in international law, an international background by virtue of your birth and employment, and clearly a great deal more knowledge than I about military equipment. It's not clear to me whether you served in the military or are an enthusiast, but then I'm not qualified to recognize the difference. It is simply that your starting assumption appears to be that your readers are a bit simple as well as uncomplicated. Granted, Frank G's comments can sometimes lead one to the wrong conclusion, but then he will insist on wearing those Hawaiian shirts and work boots when others might wear their most conservative suit and tie. Possibly it's a California thing.
Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife  2008-10-23 11:36||   2008-10-23 11:36|| Front Page Top

#24 ...would buy me a freedom of speech.

This is a private board and anything we do is by the granting of the moderators and site owner. You want to buy free speech, buy your own site.
Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-23 11:43||   2008-10-23 11:43|| Front Page Top

#25 GC -- The Amazon tip jar is done anonymously. 'Course, I'm assuming you do have an account with them.

It's over on the right hand side -- keep scrolling, you will find it.

Now, go do the right thing.
Posted by Sherry 2008-10-23 11:47||   2008-10-23 11:47|| Front Page Top

#26 . Civil, Well-Reasoned Discourse. We are very proud of it. Aha.

Yah, it's the words right next to the icon where Abraham Lincoln is beating someone up.
Posted by Tranquil Mechanical Yeti 2008-10-23 11:56||   2008-10-23 11:56|| Front Page Top

#27 Ah yes, the Lincoln-Douglas matchups. They don't make political debates like they used to.
Posted by ed 2008-10-23 12:14||   2008-10-23 12:14|| Front Page Top

#28 Whatever credentials you've cited I have.
Hey u shud come over and hellp me and Muck4Doo work on the LOlcatbible. We're startin in on the begats shortly, which should be stimulating.
Posted by .5MT 2008-10-23 12:41||   2008-10-23 12:41|| Front Page Top

#29 Is muck4doo really working on that, .5MT, or are you just teasing?
Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife  2008-10-23 14:17||   2008-10-23 14:17|| Front Page Top

#30 I long for a Joe Mendiola vs. Muck4doo comment cage match. There is not a translator in the world that could handle it.
Posted by remoteman 2008-10-23 16:41||   2008-10-23 16:41|| Front Page Top

#31 And General Comment, why are you such a Russian suck-up? You seem to reflexively take their side regardless of the issue. Please to explain.
Posted by remoteman 2008-10-23 16:43||   2008-10-23 16:43|| Front Page Top

#32 He's a Russian naitve, makes perfect sense and not really a big deal. I notice a vague similarity to a poster from the Zionist Entity, a certain longing for things past, a nostaligia that croaked.
Posted by .5MT 2008-10-23 17:59|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net]  2008-10-23 17:59|| Front Page Top

#33 Ima mean there's a certain loss and guilt involved in abandoning a birth country, especially one that wasted it's hard won capital on an emigrant.
Posted by .5MT 2008-10-23 18:06|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net]  2008-10-23 18:06|| Front Page Top

#34 GC - your tiresome comments haven't changed any views here, I only hope your puppet masters don't find out they wasted their money on an inarticulate tool, or is
"And by the way I can tell that you are an amateur because you writing is sloppy."
standard fare now in Moscow Propaganda 101? Given the degradation of the Soviet empire, I don't have a preferred guess....
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-10-23 22:07||   2008-10-23 22:07|| Front Page Top

#35 GC---the new AK
Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-10-23 22:14||   2008-10-23 22:14|| Front Page Top

#36 AP - if you look on the access traces... AK reads the burg near every day.
Posted by 3dc 2008-10-23 22:45||   2008-10-23 22:45|| Front Page Top

#37 3dc - that's really sad.

Apparently he likes us - a lot. Too bad he burned so many bridges.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2008-10-23 23:22|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2008-10-23 23:22|| Front Page Top

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