Or use payphones. Or maybe the government will ban magazines when the kidnappers start cutting out random letters from them and taping them to a piece of paper to spell out the ransom.
Those are obviously blasts of concentrated energon, not lasers. As such, they move slowly and in discrete units. As an added bonus they're easier to draw.
Yeah, and maybe some kind of...flux capaciter could use it. But lighting generates energy in the jigawatt range. I don't know what you could do with that much power, except maybe travel through time.
And the names of our spies in other countries. And how our collection assets work. And exact locations of SOF troops. And vulnerabilities to our aircraft, ships, networks, weapons, and equipment. All that shit should be published.
The DOJ claims that the U.S. Government is completely immune from litigation for illegal spying -- that the Government can never be sued for surveillance that violates federal privacy statutes...No one -- not the White House, not the Justice Department, not any member of Congress, and not the Bush Administration -- has ever interpreted the law this way.
Wow, nothing like taking things to the next level, huh? I guess Obama brought his A-game.
They all offered small cars and we still kept buying SUVs.
Yeah, they offered small crappy cars. Great choice we had. What good small car was available in the 70s and 80s? Our cars have been fucking huge for years. In England they call our cars Yank Tanks.
Heck even the big cars get pretty good mileage. I have an Intrepid and it is HUGE. I get around 25 mpg out of it.
That's actually pretty piss-poor mileage. It only appears great next to a 10mpg Dodge V-10 pickup truck. Europe has MUCH higher fuel efficiency standards.
Yea the voters wanted to pay more tax sure we did.
Like voters in Europe, Japan, and the rest of the world wanted higher taxes. It's what was best and the govt did it for the betterment for all.
They never repealed the CAFE standards.
The standards were rolled back in the 80s under Reagan, because the auto industry lobbied for it. And the auto industry made sure that SUVs fell under the light truck category and so had lower fuel standards. BUt even regular cars had lower standards than before.
We bought them because we wanted them and because we didn't want to pass the laws that took away your freedom to choose.
Well, we also wanted usable mass transit but we didn't get it. Again, because the auto industry lobbied against investment in it. What we want and what we get are obviously not the same thing. And what we want is heavily influenced by what is available and economic incentives and disincentives like gas taxes, mass transit, etc.
Yeah, gas was (is) cheap in the US because the auto industry lobbied the govt to keep taxes low. They also lobbied against public transit and for repealing the higher fuel efficiency law the Carter administration put in effect. The US auto industry fought making better cars so they could sell their low-mileage big cars. Meanwhile Europe and Japan have had laws requiring higher mileage and much higher taxes on gas, as well as better public transit. We've bought big cars in the US partly because we wanted them and partly because the auto industry wanted us to buy them.
Uh, does that mean that there aren't real dangers for which we need to be prepared? Might want to check your bathwater for babies before tossing it out.
You're gonna get a bit smelly while you wait out the weather somewhere out on your course.
You could always, I don't know, DRIVE IT! Or land, fill up, and either fly or drive. Despite it being a flying vehicle, this isn't rocket science. Plan your trip, watch the weather, watch your gas gauge. Just like what you do for any trip.
I'm not advocating we keep burning all the oil we can find. In fact, I'd prefer we ran out so we can start using clean sustainable energy sources. But the sad fact is that there is at least another 1.2 trillion barrels of known recoverable oil, enough to last another 34 years at our current rate of consumption. There's another 5 or 6 trillion barrels of known oil that's deemed unrecoverable by current methods. Then there's all the oil that's estimated and totally undiscovered, or the known unknowns and unknown unknowns. If we don't make the deliberate shift to clean renewable energy, we'll just keep finding more oil and burning it.
The life expectancy of usable oil is at 34 years, meaning at our current rate of consumption we will use all the known amount of usable oil (about 1.2 trillion barrels) in 34 years. So we do know that we're not going to run out anytime soon. The life expectancy of oil has been steadily increasing over the last century, so that 34 years ago the life expectancy was only 24 years and so on. We've been discovering oil faster than we've been using it since its first discovery and there's nothing to indicate that's changing.
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Or use payphones. Or maybe the government will ban magazines when the kidnappers start cutting out random letters from them and taping them to a piece of paper to spell out the ransom.
Those are obviously blasts of concentrated energon, not lasers. As such, they move slowly and in discrete units. As an added bonus they're easier to draw.
Yeah, and maybe some kind of...flux capaciter could use it. But lighting generates energy in the jigawatt range. I don't know what you could do with that much power, except maybe travel through time.
Yes. That is not at all obvious to me.
And the names of our spies in other countries. And how our collection assets work. And exact locations of SOF troops. And vulnerabilities to our aircraft, ships, networks, weapons, and equipment. All that shit should be published.
U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay is NOT being shut down. Camp Delta, one small area of the base, is going to be shut down.
The DOJ claims that the U.S. Government is completely immune from litigation for illegal spying -- that the Government can never be sued for surveillance that violates federal privacy statutes...No one -- not the White House, not the Justice Department, not any member of Congress, and not the Bush Administration -- has ever interpreted the law this way.
Wow, nothing like taking things to the next level, huh? I guess Obama brought his A-game.
I predict a sudden increase in semi-witty recursive slashdot posts.
Call me old-fashioned, but I believe in one god. And his name is Zorgo. And he lives in that lake.
Right. Like the fact that as rates of legal gun ownership go up, gun violence goes down. Talk about in inconvenient truth.
That's ridiculous. It's obviously the other way around. Once the economy rebounds, the sun will return to its previous level of sunspot activity.
And somehow they all manage to get slashdotted.
"Those French, they have a different word for everything" - Steve Martin
ICANN cheezburger joke. Gah!
The "former official" didnt identity himself...What is it with conservatives and fear?
Uh, how did you determine his political affiliation if he didn't identify himself?
They all offered small cars and we still kept buying SUVs.
Yeah, they offered small crappy cars. Great choice we had. What good small car was available in the 70s and 80s? Our cars have been fucking huge for years. In England they call our cars Yank Tanks.
Heck even the big cars get pretty good mileage. I have an Intrepid and it is HUGE. I get around 25 mpg out of it.
That's actually pretty piss-poor mileage. It only appears great next to a 10mpg Dodge V-10 pickup truck. Europe has MUCH higher fuel efficiency standards.
Yea the voters wanted to pay more tax sure we did.
Like voters in Europe, Japan, and the rest of the world wanted higher taxes. It's what was best and the govt did it for the betterment for all.
They never repealed the CAFE standards.
The standards were rolled back in the 80s under Reagan, because the auto industry lobbied for it. And the auto industry made sure that SUVs fell under the light truck category and so had lower fuel standards. BUt even regular cars had lower standards than before.
We bought them because we wanted them and because we didn't want to pass the laws that took away your freedom to choose.
Well, we also wanted usable mass transit but we didn't get it. Again, because the auto industry lobbied against investment in it. What we want and what we get are obviously not the same thing. And what we want is heavily influenced by what is available and economic incentives and disincentives like gas taxes, mass transit, etc.
Yeah, gas was (is) cheap in the US because the auto industry lobbied the govt to keep taxes low. They also lobbied against public transit and for repealing the higher fuel efficiency law the Carter administration put in effect. The US auto industry fought making better cars so they could sell their low-mileage big cars. Meanwhile Europe and Japan have had laws requiring higher mileage and much higher taxes on gas, as well as better public transit. We've bought big cars in the US partly because we wanted them and partly because the auto industry wanted us to buy them.
How is a former official talking about a real threat scare-mongering? Should he have just kept quiet instead?
Uh, does that mean that there aren't real dangers for which we need to be prepared? Might want to check your bathwater for babies before tossing it out.
You've got it all wrong. When she says it's so small, you say it's just an attempt to compensate.
There's no such thing as a dumq question. No, I mean it. There really is no such thing.
You're gonna get a bit smelly while you wait out the weather somewhere out on your course.
You could always, I don't know, DRIVE IT! Or land, fill up, and either fly or drive. Despite it being a flying vehicle, this isn't rocket science. Plan your trip, watch the weather, watch your gas gauge. Just like what you do for any trip.
I'm not advocating we keep burning all the oil we can find. In fact, I'd prefer we ran out so we can start using clean sustainable energy sources. But the sad fact is that there is at least another 1.2 trillion barrels of known recoverable oil, enough to last another 34 years at our current rate of consumption. There's another 5 or 6 trillion barrels of known oil that's deemed unrecoverable by current methods. Then there's all the oil that's estimated and totally undiscovered, or the known unknowns and unknown unknowns. If we don't make the deliberate shift to clean renewable energy, we'll just keep finding more oil and burning it.
Read it again. That'sif all motors ran the whole time, which would never happen.
The life expectancy of usable oil is at 34 years, meaning at our current rate of consumption we will use all the known amount of usable oil (about 1.2 trillion barrels) in 34 years. So we do know that we're not going to run out anytime soon. The life expectancy of oil has been steadily increasing over the last century, so that 34 years ago the life expectancy was only 24 years and so on. We've been discovering oil faster than we've been using it since its first discovery and there's nothing to indicate that's changing.