The question I want answered is where the hell did it all go? Did it evaporate into space, or is it all stuck in the ground?
If they can scrape the ground and uncover ice, thats like frozen mud. If they were to heat up the soil would it become mud and return to the state the planet was in eons ago? And are there any extremophiles that could thrive, and eventually brings mars to the point where we could grow asparagus?
It would be a lot cooler to just launch canisters of bacteria, plants, and bugs to mars for a hundred years then have people wander around then leave.
They might be more willing to dig down if there are a bunch of ancient structures playing up the whole death aspect, think Egypt in the 20's. The best way to deal with it is to put it in a place where there are no resources and make the top look exactly like everywhere else. The odds of someone randomly digging down 500 ft. in the middle of nowhere when there's no oil or other things is zero.
Yes, because for ancient people in daily struggle with other states a device that promises to kill all around it doesn't sound like something worth digging up and catapulting into the next town.
I remember a picture that looked like that from "raiders of the lost ark" and it didn't seem to stop them one bit.
Maybe they would be willing to dig the hundred feet down to get at God's treasure. I mean he had to have buried something neat there to go through all the trouble keeping people away.
Damn nosy archaeologists will start digging it all up, and dying of radiation poisoning. Thats the real cures of the mummy, hair loss and shiting blood.
The lesson American media teaches us: nothing good is every ultimately profitable as is.
Quite the opposite, there is a lot of good evidence to support the argument that the internet has had a marginal effect on declining newspaper circulation, and that the only strong correlation was between corporate ownership and newsroom cuts.
What this show is that magazines and newspapers are like any industry where a corporate overlord can kill the golden goose by running it into the ground. There's a lot of competition for the pulp science magazines and others are already taking it's place for serious science, I think the market will reward their actions very harshly.
Hardly affects other Americans my ass. Sugar prices are much higher in the states then they would be if free trade were allowed with Cuba. It's partially because of this ban that we get high fructose corn syrup in our drinks. And what about people like me who like to eat my sugar with a little coffee in the morning?
Naw Mexican cinema always had a very inventive element to it that seemed to be very different then what was being made in America at the time. Alejandro Jodorowsky produced very inventive stories that were also very very awful. Guillermo Del Toro is Jodorowsky if he ever actually learned how to make movies.
This site would count as information released to the public so using it would be the same as using a press release wouldn't it? So the reporters aren't guilty of libel if they attributed it properly as alleged by the daughter. I'd think if the site counts as actually testimony that would keep them safe from negligence I guess thats the point of contention, do web logs count as statements representative of the individual like a press release.
And they still have the defense of truth if the daughter stands by her story. I don't think this is nearly as landmark as they say, lots of cases like this happen, they just don't involve the interwebs.
I don't tend to stop to talk to people who are blatantly wrong and attack people out of spite, so I'm not sure why I'm replying here, but I'd hate for even one person to read your post and think there's a mote of truth in it.
I know I'm right. You know how? Because every bit of success we enjoy comes from people who argued the same points I do. And I know you're wrong, because even France has elected a market advocate. If you want to keep going after me I'll just start quoting Jefferson.
You also have a grade school understanding of economics and what a free market means in the context of a global economy.
Yes, a grade school understanding and yet I was able to suggest something in support of my opinion instead of crying "save the children" and insulting someone and their beliefs as a means of making myself look better. Sounds like you're the one taking a page from the neocon play book. When you grow up and get to college you should take an actual Econ class and get some real facts, instead of repeating sociological nonsense.
Wow good job with the nut job line, that emotional pandering lends your argument credibility while dismissing a dissenting opinion with out one actual fact mentioned.
I may be a nut job but at least I am not a Liar. The truth is people like you don't like when other people have more then them. you get jealous when people have flat screens or drive hummers, but you're lazy and don't want to run the rat race so you find reasons to justify your position.
the money you are paying leaves out a key factor in the value of the oil you're burning -- the fact that it can NOT be replaced. You are paying for a percentage of current demand and paying for the labor to extract it, you are not paying for the percentage of the value of the energy in that oil represents spread out over the length of time humans will walk this planet.
Wrong, you fail Econ101.
Hell I just replace oil yesterday, by riding a CNG bus.
Oil has tons of replacements called "substitutes" I'm sure you heard about that in school. These range from bicycles to nuclear power. As cost change people stop using the expensive product and substitute it with another. You know, like how they replaced smelting metal by burning wood with coal, and again with electricity, or steam locomotives with Diesel and in some places electricity. I have complete faith in humanity to adapt its usage to what is now cheaper and more expensive, and in entrepreneurs to find new energy sources and deliver them with out your enlightened guiding hand, I don't see how this is insane.
If I sold a finite resource, and I knew it was running out, do you think I might raise the price a little? how about a lot? how about $4 a gallon and still rising? wow, the market solved that complex pricing problem before you even new there was one. What about the unborn Kiddies who don't get to bid on the resource? well fuck em, making me have a lower standard of living for some snot that isn't even alive today makes about as much sense as taxing me for welfare in Africa.
The argument "He did it, so I'm going to do it" is in no way childish on a national level. I seem to recall the French thought along those lines a while back. China did the same thing with ocean going vessels, the Japanese with fire arms. In business, A&P did the same thing, as did White Castle. The end result for all? utter ruination at the hands of a childish competitor. If you don't keep up you die, ethics and survival rarely shake hands. If you honestly don't think the Russians would have taken western Europe if they had a chance or that China won't try to grab everything it can, then you are stupider than I thought.
Like I said, you're against free enterprise because it makes people wealthier then you, not like the global village, where everyone has the same amount of suck.
This proposal is pure snake oil and this man is a Charlatan. Your right that I was wrong to campare wind power with cold fusion. I should have instead compared it to regular fussion: Proven to actually work in select cases, but not yet proven cost effective.
I am unaware of any instance where wind power has proven cost effective against other sources where there is not government intervention.
yeah, a Creepy corporate mogul talking about government regulating the economy to build a giant project who starts by beating the populist and patriotic drum on TV? Why does this scare me more then fill me with hope?
what happens when Oil hits $8 a gallon? Well judging from history: all emission restrictions that limit efficiency are scraped, all regulation on drilling is scraped, NIMBY protests on new refinery's are ignored, and at that price it becomes profitable to pump oil from nearly any hole and every available drop in the world will have a well. Probably leading to a massive glut in the market leading prices to drop(again) and once more the giant cars start rolling out. Of course it won't reach that price, not just because of the supply increasing reasons I mentioned, but the serious reduction in demand that would follow.
BTW I doubt America will "go broke" since there is so much fat out there, but they probably will have to tighten the purse strings for a few years.
It's really simple. Build windmill farms. Build solar collecting power plants. Build the variety of hydro electric generators.
Run everything from electricity including water heaters, building heaters, and cars.
Stop sending money to the other side of the world.
And watch as countries who weren't foolish enough too dump oil because of Green scare tactics zip by us in their nice cars.
It's called a FREE market, as in people making their own damn choices. I'm all for internalizing the costs of externalities that have been PROVEN harmful, but pumping huge sums into government boondoggles because you don't like us shipping money to the other side of the world is insane.
How about we let everyday people decide if they want to pay more in gas, ride the bus, or just get a more efficient car. And how about we just let people get discouraged from using products that take a lot of fuel by their higher prices and substitute them with what ever they want. Of course all that would achieve is a more efficient version of modern society, not the global village the Greens hope to foist on everyone.
It's getting to the point that you need a 2+ year filter just to dampen the noise in the signal.
Absolutely, I'd say 5 years minimum when it comes to fiction. I don't think I've read a book less then 5 years old in a decade. Unless the author has a proven track record, when someone comes telling me about how great a new book is I tend to wait until its passed the test of time. It's the only surefire way I've found to get past all the new releases and marketing hyped reviews, if people are still taking about it after five years you've got a winner.
Yes lets have France decide to say they can ignore the States property laws and take from us because they want you. Please Please Please let this happen. Because the next thing you know the States will have yet another occupied territory.
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The question I want answered is where the hell did it all go? Did it evaporate into space, or is it all stuck in the ground?
If they can scrape the ground and uncover ice, thats like frozen mud. If they were to heat up the soil would it become mud and return to the state the planet was in eons ago? And are there any extremophiles that could thrive, and eventually brings mars to the point where we could grow asparagus?
It would be a lot cooler to just launch canisters of bacteria, plants, and bugs to mars for a hundred years then have people wander around then leave.
No one you can vote for will ever restore the Constitutional rule-of-law and guarantee of due-process that are now in tattered, burning shreds.
Not true, a good President can restore things. Like how Bush restored honor and dignity to the white house... oh wait.
Abbott and costello meet the mummy, followed shortly by Abbott and Costello cope with cancer.
They might be more willing to dig down if there are a bunch of ancient structures playing up the whole death aspect, think Egypt in the 20's. The best way to deal with it is to put it in a place where there are no resources and make the top look exactly like everywhere else. The odds of someone randomly digging down 500 ft. in the middle of nowhere when there's no oil or other things is zero.
Yes, because for ancient people in daily struggle with other states a device that promises to kill all around it doesn't sound like something worth digging up and catapulting into the next town.
I remember a picture that looked like that from "raiders of the lost ark" and it didn't seem to stop them one bit.
Maybe they would be willing to dig the hundred feet down to get at God's treasure. I mean he had to have buried something neat there to go through all the trouble keeping people away.
Damn nosy archaeologists will start digging it all up, and dying of radiation poisoning. Thats the real cures of the mummy, hair loss and shiting blood.
The lesson American media teaches us: nothing good is every ultimately profitable as is.
Quite the opposite, there is a lot of good evidence to support the argument that the internet has had a marginal effect on declining newspaper circulation, and that the only strong correlation was between corporate ownership and newsroom cuts.
What this show is that magazines and newspapers are like any industry where a corporate overlord can kill the golden goose by running it into the ground. There's a lot of competition for the pulp science magazines and others are already taking it's place for serious science, I think the market will reward their actions very harshly.
Hardly affects other Americans my ass. Sugar prices are much higher in the states then they would be if free trade were allowed with Cuba. It's partially because of this ban that we get high fructose corn syrup in our drinks. And what about people like me who like to eat my sugar with a little coffee in the morning?
Not surprising, really, if you remember Once More, with Feeling .
I try really really hard not to.
The same place as Rez's vibrator.
Naw Mexican cinema always had a very inventive element to it that seemed to be very different then what was being made in America at the time. Alejandro Jodorowsky produced very inventive stories that were also very very awful. Guillermo Del Toro is Jodorowsky if he ever actually learned how to make movies.
This site would count as information released to the public so using it would be the same as using a press release wouldn't it? So the reporters aren't guilty of libel if they attributed it properly as alleged by the daughter. I'd think if the site counts as actually testimony that would keep them safe from negligence I guess thats the point of contention, do web logs count as statements representative of the individual like a press release.
And they still have the defense of truth if the daughter stands by her story. I don't think this is nearly as landmark as they say, lots of cases like this happen, they just don't involve the interwebs.
I know I'm right. You know how? Because every bit of success we enjoy comes from people who argued the same points I do. And I know you're wrong, because even France has elected a market advocate. If you want to keep going after me I'll just start quoting Jefferson.
You also have a grade school understanding of economics and what a free market means in the context of a global economy.
Yes, a grade school understanding and yet I was able to suggest something in support of my opinion instead of crying "save the children" and insulting someone and their beliefs as a means of making myself look better. Sounds like you're the one taking a page from the neocon play book. When you grow up and get to college you should take an actual Econ class and get some real facts, instead of repeating sociological nonsense.
I may be a nut job but at least I am not a Liar. The truth is people like you don't like when other people have more then them. you get jealous when people have flat screens or drive hummers, but you're lazy and don't want to run the rat race so you find reasons to justify your position.
the money you are paying leaves out a key factor in the value of the oil you're burning -- the fact that it can NOT be replaced. You are paying for a percentage of current demand and paying for the labor to extract it, you are not paying for the percentage of the value of the energy in that oil represents spread out over the length of time humans will walk this planet.
Wrong, you fail Econ101.
Hell I just replace oil yesterday, by riding a CNG bus.
Oil has tons of replacements called "substitutes" I'm sure you heard about that in school. These range from bicycles to nuclear power. As cost change people stop using the expensive product and substitute it with another. You know, like how they replaced smelting metal by burning wood with coal, and again with electricity, or steam locomotives with Diesel and in some places electricity. I have complete faith in humanity to adapt its usage to what is now cheaper and more expensive, and in entrepreneurs to find new energy sources and deliver them with out your enlightened guiding hand, I don't see how this is insane.
If I sold a finite resource, and I knew it was running out, do you think I might raise the price a little? how about a lot? how about $4 a gallon and still rising? wow, the market solved that complex pricing problem before you even new there was one. What about the unborn Kiddies who don't get to bid on the resource? well fuck em, making me have a lower standard of living for some snot that isn't even alive today makes about as much sense as taxing me for welfare in Africa.
The argument "He did it, so I'm going to do it" is in no way childish on a national level. I seem to recall the French thought along those lines a while back. China did the same thing with ocean going vessels, the Japanese with fire arms. In business, A&P did the same thing, as did White Castle. The end result for all? utter ruination at the hands of a childish competitor. If you don't keep up you die, ethics and survival rarely shake hands. If you honestly don't think the Russians would have taken western Europe if they had a chance or that China won't try to grab everything it can, then you are stupider than I thought.
Like I said, you're against free enterprise because it makes people wealthier then you, not like the global village, where everyone has the same amount of suck.
Wait you mean the world isn't ending? damn.
Thanks for that post, it's nice to see some optimism for once.
This proposal is pure snake oil and this man is a Charlatan. Your right that I was wrong to campare wind power with cold fusion. I should have instead compared it to regular fussion: Proven to actually work in select cases, but not yet proven cost effective.
I am unaware of any instance where wind power has proven cost effective against other sources where there is not government intervention.
yeah, a Creepy corporate mogul talking about government regulating the economy to build a giant project who starts by beating the populist and patriotic drum on TV? Why does this scare me more then fill me with hope?
what happens when Oil hits $8 a gallon? Well judging from history: all emission restrictions that limit efficiency are scraped, all regulation on drilling is scraped, NIMBY protests on new refinery's are ignored, and at that price it becomes profitable to pump oil from nearly any hole and every available drop in the world will have a well. Probably leading to a massive glut in the market leading prices to drop(again) and once more the giant cars start rolling out. Of course it won't reach that price, not just because of the supply increasing reasons I mentioned, but the serious reduction in demand that would follow.
BTW I doubt America will "go broke" since there is so much fat out there, but they probably will have to tighten the purse strings for a few years.
It's official, wind power is the new cold fusion.
It's really simple. Build windmill farms. Build solar collecting power plants. Build the variety of hydro electric generators.
Run everything from electricity including water heaters, building heaters, and cars.
Stop sending money to the other side of the world.
And watch as countries who weren't foolish enough too dump oil because of Green scare tactics zip by us in their nice cars.
It's called a FREE market, as in people making their own damn choices. I'm all for internalizing the costs of externalities that have been PROVEN harmful, but pumping huge sums into government boondoggles because you don't like us shipping money to the other side of the world is insane.
How about we let everyday people decide if they want to pay more in gas, ride the bus, or just get a more efficient car. And how about we just let people get discouraged from using products that take a lot of fuel by their higher prices and substitute them with what ever they want. Of course all that would achieve is a more efficient version of modern society, not the global village the Greens hope to foist on everyone.
those who can, do
those who can't, teach
those who do both poorly, are professors.
It's getting to the point that you need a 2+ year filter just to dampen the noise in the signal.
Absolutely, I'd say 5 years minimum when it comes to fiction. I don't think I've read a book less then 5 years old in a decade. Unless the author has a proven track record, when someone comes telling me about how great a new book is I tend to wait until its passed the test of time. It's the only surefire way I've found to get past all the new releases and marketing hyped reviews, if people are still taking about it after five years you've got a winner.
I think this qualifies for the strangest headline on /. yet.
Yes lets have France decide to say they can ignore the States property laws and take from us because they want you. Please Please Please let this happen. Because the next thing you know the States will have yet another occupied territory.