The real answer to this is to stop thinking Nationally. Start buying everything locally. Cancel all accounts with any bank that is in more than one state. Find the smallest bank you can locally, and re-open all accounts there. Stop shopping at Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Kroger, Olive Garden, Chili's, so on and so forth. The American people have allowed businesses to be too big to fail. We have given them all of our money, and allowed them to buy our Congress people. It won't happen in our generation, but if everybody would start thinking like this, and start acting upon it. We could go back to the Mom and Pop era of the '50s. If we do, then suddenly our congress people will have to listen to us again, there won't be any businesses large enough to buy them.
I'm so glad I've been buying all my books from them for the last couple of years. I might even have to buy a Nook to replace my Sony I got for christmas last year. This almost makes me feel like a kid at Christmas Time.
I third everyone else. Start looking for something that is interesting. That's what I did. I love my new job. It's had it's ups and downs, but I finally have some leeway on what I want to write. When this job gets boring, I'll have to start looking again. Eventually, I'll get a job at the local college and do AI research.
The only problem with this, that some other corporation will have to step in and take the place of the dead one, so those who were actually good at their jobs can find new ones, and those who sucked and caused it to fail to begin with will be shit out of luck, as it should be. Right now, they still suck at their jobs, but they have them, just waiting to fail again.
This is actually a place where voting with your wallet should work, I realize that it doesn't since these companies are too big too fail. If people would start small though, and start transferring loans, checking, savings and so on to small local banks, then eventually these companies that are too big to fail, will be too small to worry about. This serves a two-fold purpose, no more tax payer bailouts to big companies, and increased revenue for your local community.
Since he has a BS in Math, and a Masters in Computer Science, I think he would be the best person to interview for a site like Slashdot. You know, News for Nerds.
Looks like China may have figured out how to win the next Cold War before it even begins. Poison the citizens of the US with contaminated foods. Glad Russia didn't think of it.
So we can't drill for oil, natural gas. Can't use coal or nuclear power plants. How the fuck do we get new energy?
Oh that's right we syphon the heat from the earth to power our energy plants. Have we not learned anything? No matter what we do, if we do it on a large enough scale, then we will fuck something up.
I live in Arkansas, and they use fracking to get natural gas and we have had a number of earthquakes over the last few years, stop the fracking, and the earthquakes mostly stopped.
I wish someone would just go on and develop a cold fusion reactor that can't possibly fuck up anything up.
I think it has to do with the fact that we are allies of Israel, and everybody who hates Isreal we also hate.
And the Palestine Liberation Organization has been a huge terrorist group for along time. Probably also has to do with Reagan was in office during the 1980's
Well I was trying to do some karma whoring. Im of the opinion that global warming is happening, but I'm not convinced its all by human interaction. I have no doubt that it is partly caused by us, but I'm also of the opinion that some of it is just natural. We know the earth was hotter a long time ago, and we know it has cooled down at least twice in the past. So this could be all natural with human intervention just a side effect of the earth naturally rebalancing itself.
Technically it's his fault since he introduced an easy way to mass produce items. I know someone somewhere would have come to the same conclusion, but hes the one that did it. By mass producing cars, he is the root cause of climate change.
Does anybody else see hiding this from the wife a problem? Give it to some porn websites and let them work out the details, and they'll have a commercially viable product in 6 months.
Now that's an answer I can live with. But how can we be sure that geothermal power won't cause something more drastic. I agree that the atmosphere is much les space to screw with than the earths crust. I would rather ask these questions now, rather than have generations in hundreds or thousands of years go, wtf were they thinking draining the heat from the earths core, how in the hell do we restart the earths core.
One problem off the top of my head is massive cooling of the oceans messing with weather patterns and cooling off large parts of the world increasing our dependence on geothermal heat, which will spiral out of control freezing the earths surface?
I'm sure there will be unexpected consequences to tapping the earth for geothermal power. They are probably not as bad as CO2 gas, but they should be studied now. This is why we are in the mess we are in now. We take new technology and use it until we have a problem. Then we realize there is no easy solution to get out of the problem that has been caused.
But by burning coal and releasing CO2 in the atmosphere we are negatively affecting the earth? This is the part that never makes sense to me about Global climate change. How can we do one thing and not affect the earth, but do another and destroy it?
I'm not saying climatologists are wrong, just asking a serious question.
I am for geothermal energy, when I build my house next year, I plan on putting in a geothermal heat pump to help with the electricity costs, and probably adding solar panels to the entire roof to help even more. I'm also for nuclear energy, since it's mostly safe in the long run. I have a nuclear power plant (relatively speaking, it's about an hour away) in my backyard. But we should start testing the effects of removing heat from the earth on a large scale and see how the models react. Sometimes the solutions can be worse than the problems we already have.
Where are all these magic numbers coming from. I went to public university, and I think tuition was roughly about 3,000 a semester. I think these numbers are highly inflated with room and board. Maybe Little Johnnie, should live with mom and dad, and save about 10 grand a year. Maybe then he can concentrate on his studies, instead of getting drunk and partying. Then maybe when he graduates he'll be able to actually get a job, and be able to pay his loans back. Or even better maybe Johnnie should have actually studied in High School, gotten good grades, did very well on his ACT/SAT and gotten into college for free.
My wife and I did the same while raising kids. Did it take forever, yes. Was it hard as hell, yes. Was it worth it in the long run, hell yes. I'm sitting at work right now reading Slashdot, while thinking of some complex queries for mysql. I have 2 brothers and 2 sisters. 1 with a master's, 2 with bachelors, and 1 working on her associates in nursing. I have my associates in comp sci, and I'm almost done with my double major in comp sci and math. We all worked, and paid for our education with scholarships, loans, grants, and good old fashioned jobs. They weren't great jobs, but if you try, in this country you can accomplish anything. Of course, except for one brother, we all have "real" degrees, not bullshit ones like english lit, minority studies, or the like.
That's the problem with colleges. They offer too many bullshit degrees. The only degrees that should be offered are computer science, pre-med, pre-law, engineering, and some form or business.
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The real answer to this is to stop thinking Nationally. Start buying everything locally. Cancel all accounts with any bank that is in more than one state. Find the smallest bank you can locally, and re-open all accounts there. Stop shopping at Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Kroger, Olive Garden, Chili's, so on and so forth. The American people have allowed businesses to be too big to fail. We have given them all of our money, and allowed them to buy our Congress people. It won't happen in our generation, but if everybody would start thinking like this, and start acting upon it. We could go back to the Mom and Pop era of the '50s. If we do, then suddenly our congress people will have to listen to us again, there won't be any businesses large enough to buy them.
I'm so glad I've been buying all my books from them for the last couple of years. I might even have to buy a Nook to replace my Sony I got for christmas last year. This almost makes me feel like a kid at Christmas Time.
I third everyone else. Start looking for something that is interesting. That's what I did. I love my new job. It's had it's ups and downs, but I finally have some leeway on what I want to write. When this job gets boring, I'll have to start looking again. Eventually, I'll get a job at the local college and do AI research.
The only problem with this, that some other corporation will have to step in and take the place of the dead one, so those who were actually good at their jobs can find new ones, and those who sucked and caused it to fail to begin with will be shit out of luck, as it should be. Right now, they still suck at their jobs, but they have them, just waiting to fail again.
This is actually a place where voting with your wallet should work, I realize that it doesn't since these companies are too big too fail. If people would start small though, and start transferring loans, checking, savings and so on to small local banks, then eventually these companies that are too big to fail, will be too small to worry about. This serves a two-fold purpose, no more tax payer bailouts to big companies, and increased revenue for your local community.
Since he has a BS in Math, and a Masters in Computer Science, I think he would be the best person to interview for a site like Slashdot. You know, News for Nerds.
Looks like China may have figured out how to win the next Cold War before it even begins. Poison the citizens of the US with contaminated foods. Glad Russia didn't think of it.
Doesn't Apple already consist of a police state?
I thought there slogan was We know what's best for you.
The matter is lame, because all of Europe is getting rid of nuclear power. So how are they planning on powering it?
So we can't drill for oil, natural gas. Can't use coal or nuclear power plants. How the fuck do we get new energy?
Oh that's right we syphon the heat from the earth to power our energy plants. Have we not learned anything? No matter what we do, if we do it on a large enough scale, then we will fuck something up.
I live in Arkansas, and they use fracking to get natural gas and we have had a number of earthquakes over the last few years, stop the fracking, and the earthquakes mostly stopped.
I wish someone would just go on and develop a cold fusion reactor that can't possibly fuck up anything up.
I think it has to do with the fact that we are allies of Israel, and everybody who hates Isreal we also hate.
And the Palestine Liberation Organization has been a huge terrorist group for along time. Probably also has to do with Reagan was in office during the 1980's
to root for them, but now they are just a bunch of pussies. I hope they can actually do some good. This could be the start of a new revolution.
Isn't it amazing how the woman's mind works? Mine does the same thing.
Well I was trying to do some karma whoring. Im of the opinion that global warming is happening, but I'm not convinced its all by human interaction. I have no doubt that it is partly caused by us, but I'm also of the opinion that some of it is just natural. We know the earth was hotter a long time ago, and we know it has cooled down at least twice in the past. So this could be all natural with human intervention just a side effect of the earth naturally rebalancing itself.
Aw, I understand.
Technically it's his fault since he introduced an easy way to mass produce items. I know someone somewhere would have come to the same conclusion, but hes the one that did it. By mass producing cars, he is the root cause of climate change.
Does anybody else see hiding this from the wife a problem? Give it to some porn websites and let them work out the details, and they'll have a commercially viable product in 6 months.
On a small scale nothing is really bad, it's the large scale that fucks everything up.
I doubt Henry Ford knew he was causing one of the largest natural disasters ever.
Now that's an answer I can live with. But how can we be sure that geothermal power won't cause something more drastic. I agree that the atmosphere is much les space to screw with than the earths crust. I would rather ask these questions now, rather than have generations in hundreds or thousands of years go, wtf were they thinking draining the heat from the earths core, how in the hell do we restart the earths core.
One problem off the top of my head is massive cooling of the oceans messing with weather patterns and cooling off large parts of the world increasing our dependence on geothermal heat, which will spiral out of control freezing the earths surface?
So you're answer is to avoid the question?
I'm sure there will be unexpected consequences to tapping the earth for geothermal power. They are probably not as bad as CO2 gas, but they should be studied now. This is why we are in the mess we are in now. We take new technology and use it until we have a problem. Then we realize there is no easy solution to get out of the problem that has been caused.
But by burning coal and releasing CO2 in the atmosphere we are negatively affecting the earth? This is the part that never makes sense to me about Global climate change. How can we do one thing and not affect the earth, but do another and destroy it?
I'm not saying climatologists are wrong, just asking a serious question.
I am for geothermal energy, when I build my house next year, I plan on putting in a geothermal heat pump to help with the electricity costs, and probably adding solar panels to the entire roof to help even more. I'm also for nuclear energy, since it's mostly safe in the long run. I have a nuclear power plant (relatively speaking, it's about an hour away) in my backyard. But we should start testing the effects of removing heat from the earth on a large scale and see how the models react. Sometimes the solutions can be worse than the problems we already have.
The problem with global warming is not whether it exists but what the cause of it is.
Welcome our new balloon overlords.
Where are all these magic numbers coming from. I went to public university, and I think tuition was roughly about 3,000 a semester.
I think these numbers are highly inflated with room and board. Maybe Little Johnnie, should live with mom and dad, and save about 10 grand a year. Maybe then he can concentrate on his studies, instead of getting drunk and partying. Then maybe when he graduates he'll be able to actually get a job, and be able to pay his loans back. Or even better maybe Johnnie should have actually studied in High School, gotten good grades, did very well on his ACT/SAT and gotten into college for free.
My wife and I did the same while raising kids. Did it take forever, yes. Was it hard as hell, yes. Was it worth it in the long run, hell yes. I'm sitting at work right now reading Slashdot, while thinking of some complex queries for mysql. I have 2 brothers and 2 sisters. 1 with a master's, 2 with bachelors, and 1 working on her associates in nursing. I have my associates in comp sci, and I'm almost done with my double major in comp sci and math. We all worked, and paid for our education with scholarships, loans, grants, and good old fashioned jobs. They weren't great jobs, but if you try, in this country you can accomplish anything. Of course, except for one brother, we all have "real" degrees, not bullshit ones like english lit, minority studies, or the like.
That's the problem with colleges. They offer too many bullshit degrees. The only degrees that should be offered are computer science, pre-med, pre-law, engineering, and some form or business.