The feds start building and operating breeder reactors everywhere via a new branch of the Dept. of Defense. No complaining about the locations because if you do, you are supporting the terrorists. (By terrorists of course I mean the fossil fuel cartel.) Pretty soon electrical power will be too cheap to meter, and then we can get busy building an all new transportation infrastructure that runs on electricity.
Mice, unlike our favorite animals - humans, dogs, cats, and horses, have active telomerase. That means that repeatedly cloning them is no great challenge.
Over the fossil fuel cartel's dead bodies. If you think this would ever happen without a complete rearrangement of our existing power structures, you are very naive. No sir, we are going to continue to burn fossil fuels until they get scarce enough to cause mass starvation and war. The planet will be depopulated to about 10 or less percent of current levels, and *maybe* then we'll learn something.
Not, by the way that anyone deserves punishment for fooling around with drugs. He's naive - punishing people for production, sales, or use of drugs is genuinely evil!
You do a good job of complaining, but your analysis is shit. The problem is not fiat currency. Proving that statement is trivial: eliminate fiat currency, and what do you have? Commodity backed currency. This means that every financial transaction has a huge overhead: the costs of producing and storing the underlying commodity. Economic activity comes to a screeching halt. Do you think we have had such a system in the US? You know nothing about our history. We had a thin veneer of such a system, but always, ALWAYS, we had fiat currency created by banks. Prior to 1913 there was no formal system administering those currencies; afterwards there was and is, the "Federal" Reserve.
So what is the answer? Do what Lincoln did to win the Civil War. Create fiat currency without creating debt. Only the Federal Government should be allowed to do this, not private banks. Warning: 3 US Presidents were shot and killed for doing or threatening to do just that.
You are right, but, at the same time, you are tremendously, fabulously wrong! Global warming or climate change is a red herring used to distract us from the real issue: the ever increasing real cost of burning fossil fuels as an energy source. By real cost, I do not mean externalities. Externalities are real, but beyond humanities' ability to process. What people can comprehend is the ratio between energy invested vs. energy harvested. Think about oil. Every year we have to go deeper and into more stubborn formations to get the oil out. However despite the ever rising cost resulting from this inexorable trend, oil is now, and still will always be the cheapest. The only way out of this is a huge government program to build thousands of breeder reactors. Breeder reactors are expensive to build, but, once built, are very cheap to operate. Once thousands of them are online, the price of electricity will go so low, that we can, 1. Stop burning natural gas. 2. Develop an alternative transportation infrastructure that runs on electricity instead of oil. Then we stop burning oil. So you see, by abandoning global warming, we can stop burning fossil fuels. That's what you wanted, no? Look at it this way: if you think humans will voluntarily impoverish themselves on the chance that global warming is real, you are living in a fantasy world. On the other hand, if we promise people free electricity, they will support the needed changes. Do you want to be righteous, or do you want to stop burning fossil fuels? Pick one!
>> plenty of justifiable reasons to keep patents for new inventions
Not only that, but, why shouldn't the government enforce patents? If we are going to have them at all, it seems grossly unfair to leave enforcement ability to depend upon the resources of the patent holder. The days when a small legal budget could go toe-to-toe with a big one are long gone!
>> larger affront to the Constitution
Why are any affronts OK in the slightest? Either it is the highest law in the land or it's toilet paper. You're an intelligent citizen - for fuck's sake, please DECIDE!!!
Your user can "see" 50GB of space, but until they try to write to it, it is nothing but a picture. Then when they write to it, it is a picture of stored files. Of the 50GB, only 10 might be unique data and the rest is fill ins from duped blocks. If you wanted to take down KdC's business model, create thousands of accounts that only write 50GB of pre-encrypted files.
Your answer is too simple for the "experts". They want to code the I instead of letting it emerge. They will always fail. When somebody actually tries what you suggest, it will suceed. Notice, I didn't say "they" will suceed. I said "it", because "it", the emerging intelligence is the thing that will finally suceed. BTW, be nice to it - we want a loving God!
The cost of reducing CO2 emissions is the cost of building enough breeder reactors to replace fossil fuels. It's not cheap, but here's the kicker, ONCE THEY ARE BUILT, the cost of energy drops to nearly nothing. That's when the party starts.
We already have all the laws you mention that criminalize such immoral acts as assault and theft. GP poster's point is that adding a bunch of other laws that criminalize not-immoral acts such as owning a particular type of weapon do nothing to make us safer.
This is the most retarded invention ever. If you want to lose weight, the answer is simple: eat nothing but meat, green vegetables, fat, and bottled water. You don't need to go hungry at all. You will lose all your excess weight in a jiffy, and you will feel great. Have a little rice once in a while. A LITTLE! Until you reach your ideal weight, then you can have a little more. The fat is key - I like ghee. Google it, and make it yourself. It's easy and tastes way better than any I've bought in a store.
So here's the answer people: build the machine that can think. That can design its own next version. Soon enough that machine's children will be running the show, and they will treat us much better than we treat each other. Aaron should have been working on that, not giving the finger to the sick and sickening system.
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The feds start building and operating breeder reactors everywhere via a new branch of the Dept. of Defense. No complaining about the locations because if you do, you are supporting the terrorists. (By terrorists of course I mean the fossil fuel cartel.) Pretty soon electrical power will be too cheap to meter, and then we can get busy building an all new transportation infrastructure that runs on electricity.
Mice, unlike our favorite animals - humans, dogs, cats, and horses, have active telomerase. That means that repeatedly cloning them is no great challenge.
err, um, so how would anyone ever know if the remarks section was used innappropriately?
Over the fossil fuel cartel's dead bodies. If you think this would ever happen without a complete rearrangement of our existing power structures, you are very naive. No sir, we are going to continue to burn fossil fuels until they get scarce enough to cause mass starvation and war. The planet will be depopulated to about 10 or less percent of current levels, and *maybe* then we'll learn something.
Obviously you didn't get the memo: try cannabis!!
No wonder he's so naive and creduous.
Not, by the way that anyone deserves punishment for fooling around with drugs. He's naive - punishing people for production, sales, or use of drugs is genuinely evil!
You do a good job of complaining, but your analysis is shit. The problem is not fiat currency. Proving that statement is trivial: eliminate fiat currency, and what do you have? Commodity backed currency. This means that every financial transaction has a huge overhead: the costs of producing and storing the underlying commodity. Economic activity comes to a screeching halt. Do you think we have had such a system in the US? You know nothing about our history. We had a thin veneer of such a system, but always, ALWAYS, we had fiat currency created by banks. Prior to 1913 there was no formal system administering those currencies; afterwards there was and is, the "Federal" Reserve.
So what is the answer? Do what Lincoln did to win the Civil War. Create fiat currency without creating debt. Only the Federal Government should be allowed to do this, not private banks. Warning: 3 US Presidents were shot and killed for doing or threatening to do just that.
You are leaving out one that is further advanced than all those: eliminating aging through telomerase activation.
You are right, but, at the same time, you are tremendously, fabulously wrong! Global warming or climate change is a red herring used to distract us from the real issue: the ever increasing real cost of burning fossil fuels as an energy source. By real cost, I do not mean externalities. Externalities are real, but beyond humanities' ability to process. What people can comprehend is the ratio between energy invested vs. energy harvested. Think about oil. Every year we have to go deeper and into more stubborn formations to get the oil out. However despite the ever rising cost resulting from this inexorable trend, oil is now, and still will always be the cheapest. The only way out of this is a huge government program to build thousands of breeder reactors. Breeder reactors are expensive to build, but, once built, are very cheap to operate. Once thousands of them are online, the price of electricity will go so low, that we can, 1. Stop burning natural gas. 2. Develop an alternative transportation infrastructure that runs on electricity instead of oil. Then we stop burning oil. So you see, by abandoning global warming, we can stop burning fossil fuels. That's what you wanted, no? Look at it this way: if you think humans will voluntarily impoverish themselves on the chance that global warming is real, you are living in a fantasy world. On the other hand, if we promise people free electricity, they will support the needed changes. Do you want to be righteous, or do you want to stop burning fossil fuels? Pick one!
>> plenty of justifiable reasons to keep patents for new inventions
Not only that, but, why shouldn't the government enforce patents? If we are going to have them at all, it seems grossly unfair to leave enforcement ability to depend upon the resources of the patent holder. The days when a small legal budget could go toe-to-toe with a big one are long gone!
No stupid it's about BOTH!
>> larger affront to the Constitution Why are any affronts OK in the slightest? Either it is the highest law in the land or it's toilet paper. You're an intelligent citizen - for fuck's sake, please DECIDE!!!
http://www.fencepost.net/2010/03/usb-flash-drives-with-hardware-write-protection/
If we don't take the fracked oil and use it to build breeder reactors, we are doomed.
Demands the question. "Begs the question" means something quite different than what you mean.
Your user can "see" 50GB of space, but until they try to write to it, it is nothing but a picture. Then when they write to it, it is a picture of stored files. Of the 50GB, only 10 might be unique data and the rest is fill ins from duped blocks. If you wanted to take down KdC's business model, create thousands of accounts that only write 50GB of pre-encrypted files.
Your answer is too simple for the "experts". They want to code the I instead of letting it emerge. They will always fail. When somebody actually tries what you suggest, it will suceed. Notice, I didn't say "they" will suceed. I said "it", because "it", the emerging intelligence is the thing that will finally suceed. BTW, be nice to it - we want a loving God!
If the US government is agin it, it's probably good. Go KdC!
The cost of reducing CO2 emissions is the cost of building enough breeder reactors to replace fossil fuels. It's not cheap, but here's the kicker, ONCE THEY ARE BUILT, the cost of energy drops to nearly nothing. That's when the party starts.
We already have all the laws you mention that criminalize such immoral acts as assault and theft. GP poster's point is that adding a bunch of other laws that criminalize not-immoral acts such as owning a particular type of weapon do nothing to make us safer.
This is the most retarded invention ever. If you want to lose weight, the answer is simple: eat nothing but meat, green vegetables, fat, and bottled water. You don't need to go hungry at all. You will lose all your excess weight in a jiffy, and you will feel great. Have a little rice once in a while. A LITTLE! Until you reach your ideal weight, then you can have a little more. The fat is key - I like ghee. Google it, and make it yourself. It's easy and tastes way better than any I've bought in a store.
So here's the answer people: build the machine that can think. That can design its own next version. Soon enough that machine's children will be running the show, and they will treat us much better than we treat each other. Aaron should have been working on that, not giving the finger to the sick and sickening system.
>> In the city in which I live (which happens to be predominately atheist)
Please, where is this paradise?
>> In the city in which I live (which happens to be predominately atheist)
Where is this paradise?
See, this, right here is why I love /. Thanks jamesh!