You can calm down. They're studying cheap ways to extract oil from the tar sands reserves in Alberta. It's going to happen. And there's more salvagable oil there than there is in all liquid oil in the entire planet. So it isn't going to be a problem for a long time, definitely not in the next decade.
Oil sands production is expected to double the current one million barrel/day over the next decade.
World consumption is 86 million b/d and rising by 2-3% a year. Most of our oil comes from fields discovered decades ago which are in decline. In order to meet the demand with conventional oil we need to find new oilfields equivalent to the North Sea every year. This isn't happening.
The most optomistic projections for nuclear, wind, biofuels, etc. over the next few years are nowhere near enough to fill the gap.
But not to worry, economic theorists tell us that market forces, technological advavces and human ingenuity will somehow put gas in our tanks. Have faith.
I've noticed that sometimes the links on Google News are not direct links to the news sites - they are links to google.com which are redirected to the news sites. It appears they are counting our clicks.
Osama has certainly made the best out of a shitty situation, but a nation that would support that likes of Bin Laden is now an utter impossibility. Islamic fundamentalist have been driven from power in the places that they once held. At this point the only thing they can hope to do is to take as many Americans and their supports down with them.
The simple fact of the matter is that if the US doesn't want you to have a sovereign state and you are not China or Russia, you are not going to have one. They very best you can hope for is to deny US soldiers the ability to operate on the ground while keeping the American public sympathetic enough where the military can't take off the gloves and use the full force of the US military. If the best you can hope for is a perpetual state of anarchy, no national government, and an existence comparable to medieval living, you have already lost.
The terrorist's objective is to reduce the countries with the world's remaining oil reserves to anarchy so that the US will invade and grab the oilfields by armed force. I think they will succeed. The US will need to reintroduce the draft and adopt Saddam's brutal methods to keep the oil flowing.
I present to you the Antimatter Calculator - it actually releases less energy than I would have thought since an entire kilo is slightly less powerful than the most powerful nuke ever detonated (although still a helluva lot of power, ~40 kilotons/gram)
The article sez: 1 gram of antimatter, about 1/25th of an ounce, would equal "23 space shuttle fuel tanks of energy"
According to NASA: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/referen ce/shut ref/srb/srb.html
each of the two solid rocket boosters contains 1,100,000 pounds or 500 tons of fuel so 23 shuttles would have 23 kilotons. This is in the right ballpark - I don't know the energy content of shuttle fuel vs. TNT.
If they go down to the bottom side of the earth, they'll fall off into space so they could fix the Shuttle on the same trip. I'm not sure how they could get back, they could take parachutes, or maybe an inflatable life raft like James Bond used to land on Everest.
A clover type deployment was started at 100 seconds after liftoff at 122 km altitude, and a fan type deployment was started at 169 km altitude at 230 seconds after liftoff
Oops, I meant to title this "Origami in space!!!", not "Ortw" but I accidently hit "Enter" and Slashdot's unforgiving code irrevocably posted it.
A clover type deployment was started at 100 seconds after liftoff at 122 km altitude, and a fan type deployment was started at 169 km altitude at 230 seconds after liftoff
Since it wasn't written down, it's his word against the company's. And since he did sign the paper saying that his ideas belonged to the company while he worked there, I think that he's screwed.
He probably thought of various unworkable approaches before he came up with the "Solution". He could give them one of those, and then "invent" the real "Solution" later.
How would the company prove this was not the real "Solution" if it was only in his head?
Of course this would be immoral and illegal.
Alternatively, he could explain the idea in a way that was not very understandable. This would not be difficult. In fact, I have found that explaining my brilliant ideas is much more difficult than thinking them up.
BTW, American Jingoists should note that this is a French company founded by Pierre Azaria.
I have an old P100 that plays Beethoven's "Fur Elise" when the CPU fan slows. The speaker wire goes from the MB to the fan and there is another wire from there to the speaker.
The Atari ST's had some socketed chips. If they came loose there would be random glitches on the display. The solution was to pick up the computer (which was built into the keyboard) and slam it down on the desk. If that didn't work, grab it by the ends and twist it back and forth.
This was not considered "abuse" , just normal maintenance.
IIRC, turning it off while doing this was advised.
A business is under no obligation legally to take back a returned item once sold, as long as it is not defective and was not sold under false pretenses. Businesses like BestBuy take returns in the first place as a courtesy to customers, because it's something people expect from large stores.
Unless it is their advertised policy, which many customers take into consideration before shopping. They would not sell many cheap no-name products without such a policy.
A "couldn't resist" response to a frivolous comment.
deliberate second-order joke
I don't think I was being that subtle.
When corporations want to tell us how terribly bad they feel about the oil spill or the Salmonella poisoning or the fatal brake failure, they always seem to give the job to a woman. I think the idea is that she can project more empathy and sincerity than a middle-aged or young suit.
Hence the invasion of the zombie bunnies into the spokesperson profession.
Ok now it's your turn. Why are israelis so important to you? What have they done for you lately?
Or ever? I was agreeing with you - that's a much harder question. I can't think of anything.
They have invested billions of dollars in the US economy.
The Saudi rulers have salted away the oil wealth in the US rather than investing it in their own country where it is sorely needed to create jobs. I guess that's good for the US as long as the Saudi royalty clings to power.
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You can calm down. They're studying cheap ways to extract oil from the tar sands reserves in Alberta. It's going to happen. And there's more salvagable oil there than there is in all liquid oil in the entire planet. So it isn't going to be a problem for a long time, definitely not in the next decade.
Oil sands production is expected to double the current one million barrel/day over the next decade.
World consumption is 86 million b/d and rising by 2-3% a year. Most of our oil comes from fields discovered decades ago which are in decline. In order to meet the demand with conventional oil we need to find new oilfields equivalent to the North Sea every year. This isn't happening.
The most optomistic projections for nuclear, wind, biofuels, etc. over the next few years are nowhere near enough to fill the gap.
But not to worry, economic theorists tell us that market forces, technological advavces and human ingenuity will somehow put gas in our tanks. Have faith.
I've noticed that sometimes the links on Google News are not direct links to the news sites - they are links to google.com which are redirected to the news sites. It appears they are counting our clicks.
Take a look at these pictures - do you think the guy in the "confession" video is really Osama?
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http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape.htm
Osama has certainly made the best out of a shitty situation, but a nation that would support that likes of Bin Laden is now an utter impossibility. Islamic fundamentalist have been driven from power in the places that they once held. At this point the only thing they can hope to do is to take as many Americans and their supports down with them.
The simple fact of the matter is that if the US doesn't want you to have a sovereign state and you are not China or Russia, you are not going to have one. They very best you can hope for is to deny US soldiers the ability to operate on the ground while keeping the American public sympathetic enough where the military can't take off the gloves and use the full force of the US military. If the best you can hope for is a perpetual state of anarchy, no national government, and an existence comparable to medieval living, you have already lost.
The terrorist's objective is to reduce the countries with the world's remaining oil reserves to anarchy so that the US will invade and grab the oilfields by armed force. I think they will succeed. The US will need to reintroduce the draft and adopt Saddam's brutal methods to keep the oil flowing.
I present to you the Antimatter Calculator - it actually releases less energy than I would have thought since an entire kilo is slightly less powerful than the most powerful nuke ever detonated (although still a helluva lot of power, ~40 kilotons/gram)
n ce/shut ref/srb/srb.html
The article sez:
1 gram of antimatter, about 1/25th of an ounce, would equal "23 space shuttle fuel tanks of energy"
According to NASA:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/refere
each of the two solid rocket boosters contains 1,100,000 pounds or 500 tons of fuel so 23 shuttles would have 23 kilotons. This is in the right ballpark - I don't know the energy content of shuttle fuel vs. TNT.
Just checking.
If they go down to the bottom side of the earth, they'll fall off into space so they could fix the Shuttle on the same trip.
I'm not sure how they could get back, they could take parachutes, or maybe an inflatable life raft like James Bond used to land on Everest.
You don't throw the camera away. You take it back to the drugstore for processing, where they reset, refurbish and generally sell it again.
But this involves shipping it to Chicago.
Wouldn't it be smarter for them to just reset it and give it back to you - since you are a captive customer for their processing (mod hacking)?
I guess they'd have to remind you to change the batteries.
If you're a greenie you don't put biodegradable stuff in garbage bags.
A clover type deployment was started at 100 seconds after liftoff at 122 km altitude, and a fan type deployment was started at 169 km altitude at 230 seconds after liftoff
Oops, I meant to title this "Origami in space!!!", not "Ortw" but I accidently hit "Enter" and Slashdot's unforgiving code irrevocably posted it.
A clover type deployment was started at 100 seconds after liftoff at 122 km altitude, and a fan type deployment was started at 169 km altitude at 230 seconds after liftoff
How would that be immoral? The company got to turn the guy into an indentured servant. I would consider it to be honorable payback.
Hmmm. It might involve perjury, but that's just illegal, not immoral. So I guess you're right.
Since it wasn't written down, it's his word against the company's. And since he did sign the paper saying that his ideas belonged to the company while he worked there, I think that he's screwed.
He probably thought of various unworkable approaches before he came up with the "Solution". He could give them one of those, and then "invent" the real "Solution" later.
How would the company prove this was not the real "Solution" if it was only in his head?
Of course this would be immoral and illegal.
Alternatively, he could explain the idea in a way that was not very understandable. This would not be difficult. In fact, I have found that explaining my brilliant ideas is much more difficult than thinking them up.
BTW, American Jingoists should note that this is a French company founded by Pierre Azaria.
Thats 4.5 kg per user.
What's that in Pounds?
Eventually it just sang "Daisy"
I have an old P100 that plays Beethoven's "Fur Elise" when the CPU fan slows. The speaker wire goes from the MB to the fan and there is another wire from there to the speaker.
I guess I have a more "Hi-brow" computer.
The Atari ST's had some socketed chips. If they came loose there would be random glitches on the display. The solution was to pick up the computer (which was built into the keyboard) and slam it down on the desk. If that didn't work, grab it by the ends and twist it back and forth.
This was not considered "abuse" , just normal maintenance.
IIRC, turning it off while doing this was advised.
You don't even have to wait for the sale. I've grown the habit of always asking for 10 or 15 percent off any item over US$100.
If you're shy, try asking if the item will be on sale soon. You will be offered a sale price.
What the hell is this "No Karma Bonus" - can I get an extra 15% on that or, can I just take the cash equivalent?
And just like vegas, you can count the cards / raid the sales, but don't get caught at it
Just pay cash (they probably won't refuse it) don't give your name so you stay out of their database.
A business is under no obligation legally to take back a returned item once sold, as long as it is not defective and was not sold under false pretenses. Businesses like BestBuy take returns in the first place as a courtesy to customers, because it's something people expect from large stores.
Unless it is their advertised policy, which many customers take into consideration before shopping. They would not sell many cheap no-name products without such a policy.
Can I get an upgrade kit for my Electrolux ?
sexist joke
A "couldn't resist" response to a frivolous comment.
deliberate second-order joke
I don't think I was being that subtle.
When corporations want to tell us how terribly bad they feel about the oil spill or the Salmonella poisoning or the fatal brake failure, they always seem to give the job to a woman. I think the idea is that she can project more empathy and sincerity than a middle-aged or young suit.
Hence the invasion of the zombie bunnies into the spokesperson profession.
Ok now it's your turn. Why are israelis so important to you? What have they done for you lately?
Or ever? I was agreeing with you - that's a much harder question. I can't think of anything.
They have invested billions of dollars in the US economy.
The Saudi rulers have salted away the oil wealth in the US rather than investing it in their own country where it is sorely needed to create jobs. I guess that's good for the US as long as the Saudi royalty clings to power.
Why are israelis so important to you? What do they do for you? How do they help you?
I dunno, but here's an easier question:
Why are saudis so important to you? What do they do for you? How do they help you?
Why would Bush be hurt by a legitimate government in Iraq?
Suppose the Arab oil producing countries get their act together and start using their economic clout in the same way that the US does.
Bush won't like it.
Or maybe the whole thing was an Iranian plot:
Iran used Chalabi to dupe U.S., report says
What if legions of small, zombie bunnies attempt to take over the world?
Are you referring to female corporate spokespersons?