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BMO, "Absolutely LIVE" (as in live-wire) http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_carl/3426106666/ (LMAO!). You're also "hearing voices" again it seems per your statements, and delusional that I am "APK". Sorry, wrong door. I suppose that's not your fault, entirely, but this was news I heard here today: BMO's long past meds nowadays and into shock therapy which isn't helping him much! I understand that BMO first tried saving money by sticking a 220 line to his nose but as you can see, it didn't work out too well, lol and hence, his nickname\handle of Biggest Mentalcase Online!

I can't respect the fact you *tried* to save some ca$h or insurance claims by taping a 220 line live wire to your nose to do your own "homegrown" style of electroshock therapy (since we know you're way past meds being effective): See below, they caught you LIVE ("Absolutely LIVE", lol).

By the way: Love your photo here http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_carl/3426106666/ LMAO!

Makes sense now WHY you're called Biggest Mentalcase Online, since you certainly live up to the name!

"Absolutely LIVE" (as in live-wire) http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_carl/3426106666/ (LMAO!).

BMO's long past meds nowadays and into shock therapy which isn't helping him much! He first tried saving money by sticking a 220 line to his nose but as you can see, it didn't work out too well, lol and hence, his nickname\handle of Biggest Mentalcase Online!

Anyone remember the Wham-O Blow Gun ? I remember as a 8 or 9 year old my brother getting one. It would shoot a dart 1/4" or so into the side of our house. I think our parents saw the holes because one day it was just gone and my Dad told us it had been recalled. That was a dangerous toy. http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthetube/2461920607/

All right (your understanding matches mine regarding population growth), but that had a whopping population growth problem (a scary whopping population growth problem) and they put the brakes on it in a major and draconian way. Ours is accidental, in the same way that they love per-capita energy consumption is accidental. We've made no similar "sacrifices" -- theirs was imposed, but it surely made the Chinese population unhappy. They also did this some time ago, which yields a bigger effect.

Other moves, it's hard to say; at the same time that their car sales are shooting upwards, they've also imposed various bans on internal-combustion motorcycles in various cities, leading to a huge boom in electric scooters (which are ultimately powered by coal, but a far better choice than automobiles, and the full-cycle pollution is lower than a similar number of crappy little IC engines). http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/4973351342/#comment72157630019923447

but THIS GIRL, does!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeriellsworth/2835459827

(one of my flickr contacts; I don't know her but she seems amazing by all accounts.)

It would likely be more fitting for pride month festivities than for a religious event, but it would be different to have a holiday with colorful auroras to watch. In that spirit, maybe an event should last a Carrington rotation instead of a month?

Techno / disco beach resort at the north pole after the ice melts?

http://www2.gi.alaska.edu/images/plot_ace.png

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anakin1814/7578749634/in/photostream/

It's better than the ever-smaller phone trend:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallkennedy/856357878/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR6oEGr7fBw

Handcuffs are just a quick and easy way of ensuring someone can't cause too much trouble. When your hands are held behind your back, you can't make much mischief in general. They aren't intended to be something to hold someone securely for long periods. Just to temporarily restrain someone for transport.

Indeed, the real problem is police who fail to properly apply handcuffs. The correct way is is behind the back, palms facing outward, keyhole facing up the arm, like this. Wearing handcuffs this way, it's nearly impossible to even reach the keyhole. Even if you have a key, you can't use it.

There is a common denominator that has been overlooked here... Gaston Bastiens. For those of you who go back far enough, you may remember a couple of companies known as Quarterdeck and Datastorm Technologies. Gaston Bastiens took the helm of Quarterdeck and went on a buying spree that included slurping up privately held Datastorm Technologies. Like his tenure at L&H, this period was known for cooking the books and leaving the original folks hosed. It was a glorious day when those of us who used to work at Datastorm saw Gaston being led away in chains... http://www.flickr.com/photos/markdionne/294806554/ We weren't the least bit surprised that he had done it again... we were just pleased that he got prosecuted this time.

"Riiiiiiight.... no bigotry at all..... People *love* being referred to as "it"."

This is from the same group of people that want a THIRD option for gender. We have one, called "it". "It" is gender neutral. Language has meaning. Why is "it" not appropriate as a gender neutral term for people who want a third option besides Male and Female? Come on, give me a good reason.

Or are you supporting the "I want to define my sexuality the way I want, because I'm 'special'" rules? You know, the ones that come up with new terms every time a negative connotation gets applied to their old term they used to like.

Kind of like how "Retarded" (perfectly acceptable term) was changed to "mentally challenged" (more complex, but perfectly acceptable) was changed to whatever the current PC term is, because we don't want to hurt feelings.

Or like "Negro" became "black" became "African American" to whatever is acceptable now.

It is freaking moronic because it just shifts to the next term.

You gonna call this guy a "cat" because he was altered to look like one? http://farm1.static.flickr.com/25/35853834_dba9b1ed67.jpg

Or Lizard Man ? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Hrv8sw33RWc/TdKLWjZSBCI/AAAAAAAAOIQ/xmDfa7xyMrc/s1600/The+Lizard+Man+3.jpg

Possibly worth noting that on Saturday in London was World Pride 2012, and representatives from Google were among the groups in the parade (photo)

We have done this for years here in Europe. Typically they are called hacklabs. Often they may be squatted houses converted into social centres, or a funded space (like a hackerspace) with people living on site.

Here's a photo of one from 2004:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/genjix/2169785087/in/photostream

A large factory with ~20 hackers living and working on projects. People would come and go as they please, and we held several hackathons there like the 2007 Crystal Space hackfest:

http://crystalspace3d.org/main/La_Fibra_hackfest_report

This has been going on for decades throughout major cities in Europe such as London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Spain, Italy, Austria and Prague.

It's 45 metres. Well London City Hall is, which is nicknamed the tower of pizza.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/4684055511_4e84148c74_b.jpg

Hmm, how would a 2nd person fit in this BMW?

There is definitely some maintenance that should be done, so I'd say fairly accurate.

Above-ground power lines on poles aren't exactly uncommon across the world, though, especially outside of major cities. Much of the UK outside downtowns is wooden poles still. Heck, even in some major cities: large parts of Tokyo are served by power lines hanging off poles.

On the other hand, the iPhone software looks and works a lot like the Symbian UIQ software you'd find in a Sony Ericsson P800 back in 2002. Apps, full web, full touch, no/optional keyboard.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andyrkett/4368260369/

I get claustrophobic just by looking at this. https://secure.flickr.com/photos/astro_andre/7418806114/in/photostream

I was impressed by Andre Kuiper's images - he really made space as grant as I ever imagined it.

His Flickr stream is the greatest way to waste time.

I mean, all the modern tablets look so different from the front, especially when turned off.

I suggest that you get your eyes tested, especially if you think the Motorola Xoom looks anything like the white iPad 3. A Xoom versus a black iPad 1 would be close (but Apple and Motorola/Google aren't exactly BFFs at the moment, and I've lost track over whether the Xoom is an issue)

Go look at the Sony tablet, the Asus Transformer (even without the dock) or even the pictures of the Microsoft Surface (without the brightly coloured magnetic colour, which does look like a lawsuit in the making) and you'll see black rectangles with rounded corners that (a) don't look like an iPad and (b) don't have go-faster stripes or roses around the screen. In any case the "rectangle with rounded corners" is only one of the laundry list of similarities that Apple are upset over and wouldn't be an issue on its own.

particularly this picture of a black rounded rectangle with a screen

If you think you were answering "why are they targeting Samsung?", then you're not doing a very good job. I mean, all the modern tablets look so different from the front, especially when turned off.

Of course there's a lot of design choices for the front panel of a touchscreen device, as Apple expert told us. Make it not rectangular, or not flat, or without rounded corners, or add useless shit on the bevel - and you're in the clear! Because all of this is purely decorative.

What is so wrong with making $13 billion a year and keeping the workers, especially those that gave a significant part of their lives to that company.

That's an important point only in a rhetorical sense, not an economic one. When a company like GM employs more people than it needs, the obvious effect is that those people get to keep their jobs. Everyone can see those people. The media can interview them. They are very easy to identify and sympathize with. But the billion dollars (or whatever) that GM would have to spend to keep them around doing work that GM has apparently deemed to be worth less than what they were paying these employees has to come from somewhere. The effects of that billion dollar waste would be invisible to most onlookers and, for that reason, wouldn't seem like a big deal. But the reality is that GM's shareholders would collectively lose a billion dollars. (By the way, shareholder isn't a code word for billionaire fat cat. Most of them are ordinary people who have invested for their own retirement, to send their kids to college, or whatever.) GM's cars would all cost incrementally more, money that purchasers could have saved, invested, or spent elsewhere, helping to keep people in other industries employed. GM would pay taxes on a billion fewer dollars. Etc. In other words, that needless billion dollar expense would reverberate outward into the economy and result in difficult-to-trace but nonetheless real destruction of wealth and jobs elsewhere.

And the important thing to keep in mind is that the loss of jobs and wealth born by these other faceless people probably wouldn't be equivalent to the loss of jobs and wealth of the fired GM employees. It would actually be larger. GM wanted to fire them because they weren't needed. Continuing to employ them would use resources that could be put to more efficient use elsewhere in the economy. To use an example the typical slashdotter can readily grasp, it's like continuing to build buildings you don't need in a real time strategy in order to keep your worker units fully employed when you could be using your finite resources to produce units that you actually need.

So, it's all very well to talk about corporations "treating their workers with respect." But your idea of respect isn't free. It takes resources, and those resources have alternative uses elsewhere in the economy. If those uses generate greater wealth and jobs for other people, it no longer seems quite as obvious that GM should have kept people they didn't need on the payroll out of loyalty or kindness or whatever.

The unions gave that incentive but their own decadence has greatly ruined their own power.

Unions may help all workers in some sense, but there ways in which they particularly help some while harming others. If the cost of labor in a union shop is 30% higher than in a non-union shop, the company has that much greater incentive to (for example) automate and eliminate low-skill jobs. That might be great if you have the intelligence or training to run or maintain machines, but not so great if all you're really capable of doing is standing in one spot and putting the same part on every car that comes by in exactly the same way. It's also not so great if you are one of the workers who was laid off because the union has made you artificially more expensive to employ than your labor is worth to the company. There's a concrete example of this principle at work at my local McDonalds. When I order a soda, my cup is no longer filled manually by an employee. A robot does it. That robot replaced some fraction of a job that a high schooler or other very low skilled worker could still be doing because the cost of the robot was less over time than the cost of employing a worker at the government-mandated minimum wage.

large flickr thread just about that:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/7408464122

by the guy who got VIN # 1

Funny how tourists aren't interested in any places or buildings that were built during the last 60 years.

That's wrong for Vienna (e.g. Hundertwasserhaus) and it's probably just as wrong for Graz. The most prominent architecture was always novel and radical and just because some examples were simply not good, you cannot discredit modern architecture in general. Would we have the buildings like the Secession if we had always stuck to preserving traditional styles? In a few decades, we'll wish we had built more buildings like the new Sofitel (Jean Nouvel!). Sadly, people are more keen on preserving ugly 1950's buildings on the other side of the Wienkanal than having great modern architecture like the French for example.

Borrowing money isn't fraud, and raising taxes isn't fraud. Nor is taxation theft. Taxation is agreeing that some things are best for the state to manage and paying for those from everyone.

So let's say a state taxes you at 100% because you're of Mexican heritage. It's passed by all the elected officials much like the Nuremberg Laws, so there is agreement. Makes it some grand agreement, right?

Get real. Contracts require consensus from everyone involved, laws don't. Rather than waxing poetic like an idiot trying to make the idea conform to your political ideology, just realize taxes just are. There's very little the average person can do to change them, other than leave the country, if that's allowed (I believe ex-convicts aren't allowed a passport, iirc, so tax evaders watch out) but that's also not always a viable option.

So don't try to assign some bogus morality to the whole thing. I pay my taxes, and I hope the next guy puts in his share just out of a sense of fairness, but it doesn't make us better or worse people - especially in this age of loopholes and thousands of pages of rules, where a rich guy can legally fulfill his obligation paying less than me (which your argument would support because that was what was agreed to by society as a whole via representatives). Gandhi evaded salt taxes and that didn't make him a bad person.

You need to focus more on jobs, which will create wealth. Cutting spending is creating a spiral of destruction in its wake that is destroying wealth left right and centre. Without jobs there's no demand, without demand there's no production and no innovation, without which there's less demand, and less wealth.

The Paul Krugman line of economic thought, going back to Keynes. He keeps this mantra too. I don't buy it because....

The whole thing is that the state is really bad at creating jobs. It usually defaults to toll collector type ideas, a job which benefits no one except a select few and raises no one's standard of living versus, say, a doctor or dentist or roofer. And then we do need to improve our whole infrastructure, but then the $1T or so bill from 2009 was supposed to start doing that, and all the money that went in my local area was utterly wasted, with no accountability, I wouldn't say it is a huge leap to suppose that this repeated often elsewhere.

Idk what the right solution is, but it seems we have this huge balloon here, and every time it deflates, people are screeching for someone to pump it up. And this has been the case for decades, not just since 2008. Every little bump in the road, "stimulus!" Hell, we've been living with the lowest interest rates since I remember in my entire lifetime. Stimulus is a lot like drugs, imo, and the more you take, the less effective it becomes and more painful to boot. IMO, the necessary corrections needed (see Wall St. bailout) are never allowed to take hold before we stimulus it away and we just keep pumping the bubbles bigger and then get outraged at how big the resulting debt is with one side of our mouths while crying for more of it with the other.

No states have been able to come out from more than 260% total credit market debt (Great Britain, 1815-1900, from dismantling a Napoleanic countering military force/navy and the industrial revolution). We're at least over 350% iirc, sometimes more depending on the parameters used. If you look at us since the 1980s, our borrowing has been at a 45 degree line at the least:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3389/3261573312_50932bdcf7.jpg

All that tells me is that as a society, we've been living in the mistaken belief that the future is ALWAYS going to be bigger. I don't believe that will be the case. One of the fundamentals driving modern economies is energy and the cost of it. We can't get around this, we need cheap energy. But it keeps getting more expensive, since 2000

Baloney.
(And in case you missed it, the HP actually has substantially better specs than the Macbook).

While the pic is a year old, I would gladly take it as a challenge to beat any Macbook someone could link, for roughly 1/2 the price on PC hardware. For instance...

http://www.techbargains.com/news_displayItem.cfm/302125
VS
http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MD318LL/A?
Hey look, the lenovo is an Ivy bridge, while the macbook is still on Sandy bridge despite costing ~twice as much! Not to mention double the RAM, a vastly bigger drive, etc etc etc.

If you think you dont get gouged to the bank and back by using a Mac, you simply dont know how to shop for computers.

Baloney.
(TLDR: Macbook with half the ram and worse processor costs double--$2200-- that of a better specc'd HP).

Any piece of hardware you show me at the mac store can be had with equal or greater specs from HP or whomever at roughly 1/2 the cost.

You might also want to refer to this map to see that 100mW/m^2 is realistic.

They already copied New Jersey, I wouldn't be surprised if they also copied Detroit.

In fact, this particular material is called "sandstone" (really, a gypsum powder glued together, then coated with superglue). It's heavy and a bit cold to the touch, and is definitely bumpy - see this closeup, for example. There are plenty of other materials out there, this just happens to be the one that Shapeways provides that can print with a wide range of colors. That said, they don't have any really great smooth plastic multicolor material available now. Here's an example (excuse my crappy camera phone) showing a much nicer colored result, from an Object Connex 3D printer. Things appear to be rapidly improving in this area - my main wish is "cheaper" at this point.

There's a replica of the Hubble in the entryway to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, it's really impressive how large it is.

The Wii U GamePad has its own dedicated Web browser and can share images and video to a TV so that everyone can enjoy the shared content.

Sounds like a good resource for getting First Goatse photos. You could do it with your whole family!

Not true. This from an interview with Adams' son:

Ansel Adams frequently made duplicate photographs of his images when taking them. One thing that I tell people constantly is that it is always a good idea to take more than one shot of an image if you can in the camera. According to Michael, Ansel frequently took multiple exposures of the same shots. Many of his negatives are duplicate images of which he'd select the best image to use for printing.

10 Interesting Things I Learned About Ansel Adams

Real cash needed so that your farm does not end up like this.

But not because nobody outside North America has "The Hub" (the channel on which the content is originally aired) that the fans feel they "have to download it" from other sources.

It's because the fanbase produces most of its own content in the form of derivative works (video: spliced from the Indiana Jones tribute. Audio, both music and vocals, entirely fan-made), and in order to meaningfully contribute, you have to have watched the show. Or seen Epic Meal Time (Video and audio entirely fan-made with the exception of a few seconds of bass, but the voices are from fans doing impressions of the characters). Anyone seen GLaDOS lately?)

Even if the content industry solved the distribution/licensing problem by making it possible for viewers to watch the show regardless of geographical limitations, the sorts of draconian IP regimes envisioned by SOPA, ACTA, PIPA, CIPSA, and whatever the next one is, would serve only to prevent the creation of derivative works, parodies, fan mashups and tributes.

Well... There are shows like that as well

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/icemain.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/boscobridalexpos/2584212567/
http://jetsetta.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ice-sculpture-1.jpg

We even have very nice looking RBKC covers on the bins, thank you.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/airport-lounge/3067336668/?q=rbkc%20bins

They were designed by William Morris. Take your Land Rover cabinets back to Shepherd's Bush and Hammersmith...

Stock photo artists can refuse to sell at "reasonable" prices all they want and people will go elsewhere. Tons of people do photography as a hobby and are thrilled to make $50 on a license. Just browse Flicker for Houston Twilight photos and make a cash offer. The days where only a pro with $10,000 worth of gear can produce great photos is over. Time to make money the old-fashioned way: DMCA take downs and lawsuits.

Of course, let's not also forget the World War II bomber [the Sunday Sport reported they had] found up there.

I remember when the story broke (in the Sunday Sport) that a London Routemaster bus had been discovered there. They had pictures as well.

They reported that a bus had been found at the South Pole, but I couldn't find one about a bus on the moon. Perhaps you're confusing the two somewhat similar stories, or maybe they did another?

Also, don't forget the bodies of the two astronauts killed by those escaped Kryptonian criminals.

Speaking of "don't mess with our stuff", was it Superman II (Zod and friends) or Superman IV (Nuclear Man) where he had a fight with the baddies and the American flag got knocked over, then (spoiler follows *cough*) when he inevitably won, he put the flag back up?

Of course, let's not also forget the World War II bomber they found up there.

It's fame is for being the only country that was assigned as a "client country" in Molotov-Ribbentrop that didn't get annexed in spite of two of some of the biggest military campaigns of the world war 2, including the single biggest concentration of artillery per kilometer of frontline.

And then, there's of course this: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/suzymushu/3009425719/

(Not my flickr, just the first hit on images.google.com for "finland be afraid").

That's why I use GIMP 2.8 instead of PS. I am not a pro, so why spend all that money on something I don't need. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alfredo_tomato/

That sounds a lot like a local micro/pico/femto cell base station, which I've read that carriers are commonly installing in their retail locations to avoid embarassing connectivity/throughput issues when a number of customers are hammering away at the demo units.

It would allow HQ to see that IMEI XYZ appears to be accessing NSFW.com within 30 meters of the store at times not-so-coincidentally similar to those times when human-resource-peon Smith is scheduled for work; but I'd be pretty surprised if that were the primary purpose. Installing a zillion weedy little cells is something you do because they only work if they are on site. Surveillance is both cheaper and much more secure against tampering if you do it closer to the center of the network. There are a lot of people who could get a look at the suspicious looking box in the back room of the local Cell Shack. There are a great deal fewer who get to go inside the windowless mystery bunkers where the bigger gear lives...

From your English I'm guessing you're Russian. This is off topic, but just to let you know, the Smithsonian exhibit for Mercury Friendship 7 is pretty honest about the fact that Gagarin came first. Here's a picture of the placard in the Smithsonian:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdevers/5775250515/

From my perspective, the clouds helped. Since there were clouds it was possible to take pictures of the eclipse without a filter. At times it wasn't even possible to view the eclipse with the filter.

There are a good number of pictures on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=solar+eclipse&ss=2&s=rec

The thing is, though, your rationale cancels itself out. They're not market testing, they're "Don't kill humans!" testing.

I might have slipped ahead in my target timeline... are we discussing the dangers inherent in Google's current line of testing in Nevada, or a potential future environment where anyone with enough cash can buy their own G'car. For the current testing, I expect them to keep following their previous testing models, i.e. the article I linked earlier where they put 150,000 miles on a car in complete secrecy. For future release to the public, well, one would HOPE that they stick with what works. If they follow my hunch and the test cars quietly navigate the Nevada roads in safety... then it would stand to reason that publicly marketed models would retain the same levels of anonymity.

I could see somebody standing up and making that argument, it's not a bad one, but I don't think it'd play out for two reasons: 1. In the US, we LOVE having people to blame . We're very lawsuit happy and Google has deep pockets. People will want to be able to blame Google if there's a crash. 2. People want to know to stay clear of these cars. I wouldn't be surprised AT ALL if these cars had to have a third different-colored tail light to indicate it's on auto-pilot.

Per my argument above, it should be easy enough to Google to release liability if a car manufacturer deviates from their testing methods. If forced to install an extra tail light or some other vestigial bit, Google would have their defense in the bag. "We didn't test it with that part... that part (and/or people's reaction to it) caused the accident. Blame Ford" (or whoever)

I think I'm misreading your post. You're supporting my point.

I think we have different opinions of gaudy or noticeable: Here's an example of the Japanese decals I mentioned for young and old drivers. I can't see the US requiring anything more than that, if anything at all. More on that later...

None of those facts are anything like: "Google's last car was a sleeper hit. It took word of mouth to gain in popularity because nobody could spot the thing amongst a sea of Prius's and Civics!" It's like bragging about your snake oil being made from 'all natural ingredients'.

The fact is: a google auto-pilot car cruised around a major metro area for several months without anyone the wiser. I live a few hours south of Google HQ, and I didn't hear a peep about this until Google came out with their article. The facts about it's market performance once delivered to the public will come in due time (which, considering the nature of this project, is probably a LONG time... but due time) And how dare you besmirch my snake oil.

You were the one that went down the path that a highly recognizable self-driving car would mean an accident-prone one. I didn't really get it either, that's why I asked you to elaborate.

I went down the path that being highly recognizable would be the ONLY way for such a car to be unsafe, per the lookie-loos comment, but that the car itself, and the auto-drive technology would be perfectly safe (hence "in due time" probably being a very long time). It'll certainly be a lot safer than most human drivers. However, per my comments above, I think the powers that be (Google, DoT, whatever manufacturer gets involved, etc.) will understand these potential issues, and act accordingly. I'd wager than any marking, aside from the obvious cameras and what-not, will amount to nothing more than a sticker and/or slightly altered license plate. Another thing to consider, if these things ever hit the mass-market, the first wave of Auto-Pilot cars will likely just be a retrofit of a current model.

My favorite is the "dispense bacon button" but it's always broken or out of bacon on my car.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/1337909712/

Just the thought of my weight on a woman being "normal" is ridiculous.

It's not the weight you need to worry about, it's the body fat content.

http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/library/blbodyfatcharts.htm

There's other factors, such as heart health. There's also mental health factors that tie in to an overall well-being. BMI is simply wrong.

Take a look through this gallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/77367764@N00/sets/72157602199008819/ ... You might be surprised at some of the women who come up as "overweight" "obese" or "morbidly obese" according to BMI.

And say what you will, I frankly don't care. My BMI puts me in the "obese" category. My body fat percentage, along with my doctor, say my weight is exactly where it should be, and that I'm quite healthy. My resting heart rate is actually slightly bradycardic depending on my mood and how much sleep I got (it's been measured between 52-60bpm), and I run a 10k 3x a week as part of my normal training regimen. I don't get winded going up the stairs to work, either, and take the 7th floor walk-up daily. Yup. That sure sounds like somebody who's obese to me. Yay 200 year old kluge, you're absolutely correct about your estimation of my health!

It sure is. One of the most difficult thing to grasp is that time is a purely local phenomenon, and that you can't apply "now" to anywhere else.

May I be excused? My brain is full.

I honestly don't know how physicists keep it straight -- verb tenses must be a bitch. When the photon will have arrived yesterday after it's long journey of instantaneous, we will have known tomorrow what something looked like billions of years ago but never not almost today. Next year, we might know what happened before that.

Somehow I have a vision of a bunch of physicists all trying to convince themselves and one another that they follow this. Possibly precede or happen at the same time, I'm confused.

Now that they put water back in, it's stabilizing.

That doesn't seem to be true. The graph doesn't go to the present day, but we are taking the heat out of the area. No amount of water injection is going to make the production in the Geysers go back to what it used to be.

We aren't drilling in the Yellowstone Caldera for various reasons, including the fact that the majority of it is inside a national park. People don't take kindly to this in their parks.

Geothermal isn't even that clean. You need to drill wells all over the damn place, chasing the steam around as you suck the heat out of the ground. Not to mention the arsenic, antimony, and boron that comes up with the steam. It has to be separated out and disposed of.

I'm not an expert on Geothermal, but I am not clueless either. One of my company's biggest customers is Calpine, and we have 2 of my work buddies at The Geysers right now. I have visited geothermal sites in the US and in the Philippines. Geothermal is not clean.