There will be plenty of oil in the ground, around as much as has already been used in all of history in fact.
Well, here's the thing: collecting oil, like most other human activity, requires energy to accomplish. Currently, the amount of energy required to collect a gallon of oil is less than the amount of energy obtainable from a gallon of oil... but as the "easy" oil is used up, the remaining oil is (by definition) the oil that is more remote and harder to collect. At some point, the remaining oil will be difficult enough to collect that it will require the expenditure of more than a gallon of oil to get a gallon of oil... at which point, the remaining oil might as well not exist, because after collecting the oil you'd have less oil than you started with. So the fact that lots of oil still exists is a bit of a red herring.
7.5hrs average daily screentime for kids? How in the hell does that happen? You'd have to sit in front of the TV the moment you get home from school and go to bed past 10PM!
Don't forget weekends -- two days a week of watching 12 hours of TV can really boost your average.
My kid is over 2 and the only soda he's had are little sips of non-caffeinated soft drinks that myself or my wife were having. We do not give him soda at home. He gets juice.
Note that from an obesity perspective, fruit juice isn't much better than soda. Fruit juice is also full of sugar.
is 19 kids in 1 generation really that much worse than 4 kids each over 5 generations at earlier and earlier ages of reproduction?
On average, yes. a 19:2 growth rate is much faster than a 4:2 growth rate.
those 19 kids and counting all might choose to not have ANY children.
.... and at the other extreme, they might all choose to have 19 kids apiece. But most likely they will, on average, choose to have the average number of kids.
If you think this feature is only meant to help blind people (or even primarily meant to help blind people), you are seriously overestimating the visual observation skills of the general public.
Both are easily avoided with a little forethought as to location and distance from main roads
Of course, if you build your green house out in the boonies, and then have to commute 50 miles to get to work every day, you probably haven't done the environment any favors.
Clearly the trick is to be a cartoonist, so you can work at home and send in your work product by email each day.
There is a danger in creating a password system with two many requirements, because I know very few people who used that system who didn't have their password on a sticky note on their monitor.
Not to mention that every additional requirement reduces the number of possible passwords. In the extreme case, there might only be a small number of acceptable passwords left, and it would be a simple task to generate that list and brute-force any account.
By the time you got 80% of the universe together in one big united alliance, people in that alliance would get bored and double-cross like crazy, stealing everything not bolted to the deck plating along the way.
Sounds like what you really need is a proper reign of terror. Blow up a few civilian planets at random to set an example, that'll keep the rest of them in line.
What do you think is going to happen now that OSX is reaching a sizeable portion of the market ?
Maybe it will get hit by viruses... or maybe it won't. I can't predict the future, and neither can you. I do note that the article you linked to is dated 2006... four years have passed since it was written, and the virus apocalypse has yet to arrive for Macs.
Oh, and guess what's going to happen to your shiny computer when you start installing third party software to try and fix the problem
Hmmm... the second link is titled "Mac OS X anti-virus software: More trouble than it's worth".... i.e. it's do-nothing software at the moment, because it has very little to protect against.
Sorry you can't say that OSX antivirus is "not getting viruses in the first place".
Sure I can, because that is currently the case: OSX machines simply aren't being attacked by viruses. It's like living in Argentina during World War II. The country's defenses may or may not be adequate to hold off the Nazis, but unless and until the country is actually attacked, it's not a problem for anyone. Yes, a virus could break out tomorrow that causes all kinds of problems for Mac users... but that's true of any OS. In the meantime it's silly to demand to run anti-virus software when the number of viruses is so small that the base OS can keep up with them by itself.
Kids don't care if they drive their parents into bankruptcy. Or whether or not they can get Linux for free. They want what they want, regardless of cost.
... if their parents allow them to. A parent is still free to say something like "I'm not spending more than $500 on this laptop, if you want the $1500 laptop come up with the extra $1000 yourself".
(Oh and don't give me crap about Macs being better - the $1500 model actually had 1 GB less memory and 500 megahertz slower speed than the $450 Toshiba laptop.)
High specs are just a means to an end, not an end in themselves. Joe Blow doesn't care about gigahertz and gigabytes, he cares about having a painless and enjoyable computing experience. If a Mac can provide a good user experience using less hardware, then more power to it.
Maybe those running Linux didn't want to goto jail for knowing how to use a hacker OS with that scary black screen and gray text mode or maybe this article is full of shit.
Or maybe Apple simply ate Linux's market share. There are a lot of people who want the power of a Unix-y OS, but also want to use a decent GUI, run commercial off-the-shelf software, and (perhaps most important) don't want to spend hours futzing around to get things to work correctly. Many of these people will pay extra for those features.
You know what? You like it. Otherwise you wouldn't keep reading the articles, or coming back to bitch about having to read them. If you don't like the articles, there are a million other web sites you could be reading instead.
Most energy consumers can't afford the initial cost... And if they get a loan, interest costs eat up any savings that they might have gotten.
Actually, there is a solution to this problem... the Power Purchase Agreement. It allows consumers to get a solar power system installed without having to put any money down, or pay any interest. You basically sign the agreement, let the company install the equipment, and then enjoy an instant, permanent decrease in your electric bill. My building is having a system installed this way this year, we expect to see a 35% decrees in our electrical costs, "for free".
Yes, people live in nuclear submarines, often for months at a time. Then the submarine comes back to port, takes on fresh supplies and fuel, undergoes any necessary repairs and maintenance, and everyone gets off the boat for a while and enjoys some shore leave. It's the regular visits back to "Earth" that keep the crew alive, healthy, and sane -- and those visits would not be possible for people living at the bottom of some other gravity well.
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There will be plenty of oil in the ground, around as much as has already been used in all of history in fact.
Well, here's the thing: collecting oil, like most other human activity, requires energy to accomplish. Currently, the amount of energy required to collect a gallon of oil is less than the amount of energy obtainable from a gallon of oil... but as the "easy" oil is used up, the remaining oil is (by definition) the oil that is more remote and harder to collect. At some point, the remaining oil will be difficult enough to collect that it will require the expenditure of more than a gallon of oil to get a gallon of oil... at which point, the remaining oil might as well not exist, because after collecting the oil you'd have less oil than you started with. So the fact that lots of oil still exists is a bit of a red herring.
And LEDs don't require you to use a hazmat suit to pick up pieces if you break one (since they contain Mercury).
LED light bulbs are available.... pricey, but perhaps worth it?
I would gladly pay $100 for the right to legally shoplift for 24 hours. Where do I send my check?
7.5hrs average daily screentime for kids? How in the hell does that happen? You'd have to sit in front of the TV the moment you get home from school and go to bed past 10PM!
Don't forget weekends -- two days a week of watching 12 hours of TV can really boost your average.
My kid is over 2 and the only soda he's had are little sips of non-caffeinated soft drinks that myself or my wife were having. We do not give him soda at home. He gets juice.
Note that from an obesity perspective, fruit juice isn't much better than soda. Fruit juice is also full of sugar.
is 19 kids in 1 generation really that much worse than 4 kids each over 5 generations at earlier and earlier ages of reproduction?
On average, yes. a 19:2 growth rate is much faster than a 4:2 growth rate.
those 19 kids and counting all might choose to not have ANY children.
I didn't see the rights to Unix listed in their assets for sale. Must be an oversight or something ...
That's because they sold the rights to me in advance. Y'all will be hearing from my attorneys shortly.
We don't just go vertical without solving the heat dissipation problem
The obvious solution to that: don't generate any heat. Now, where are the room-temperature superconductors I was promised???
Of course, I've always wanted an option that wasn't quite horn, but wasn't just sitting-politely-waiting either.
I have just the product for you. Put this on your car's hood:
http://www.amazon.com/Nirve-Hello-Kitty-Bike-Bell/dp/B000QFOOU6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=cycling&qid=1282688405&sr=1-2
. This way, the blind could cross the street,
If you think this feature is only meant to help blind people (or even primarily meant to help blind people), you are seriously overestimating the visual observation skills of the general public.
Both are easily avoided with a little forethought as to location and distance from main roads
Of course, if you build your green house out in the boonies, and then have to commute 50 miles to get to work every day, you probably haven't done the environment any favors.
Clearly the trick is to be a cartoonist, so you can work at home and send in your work product by email each day.
Do not be fooled by the seemingly large army that Iran has they would not stand a chance against a determined IDF.
Hence Iran's desire for some nuclear weapons. If the Israelis know Iran has nukes, they'll think twice about invading.
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Don't worry, it's not a goatse link.
There is a danger in creating a password system with two many requirements, because I know very few people who used that system who didn't have their password on a sticky note on their monitor.
Not to mention that every additional requirement reduces the number of possible passwords. In the extreme case, there might only be a small number of acceptable passwords left, and it would be a simple task to generate that list and brute-force any account.
By the time you got 80% of the universe together in one big united alliance, people in that alliance would get bored and double-cross like crazy, stealing everything not bolted to the deck plating along the way.
Sounds like what you really need is a proper reign of terror. Blow up a few civilian planets at random to set an example, that'll keep the rest of them in line.
Obsessed. A word used by the lazy to describe the dedicated.
Okay, but in that case, which word should we lazy people use to describe the obsessed?
What do you think is going to happen now that OSX is reaching a sizeable portion of the market ?
Maybe it will get hit by viruses... or maybe it won't. I can't predict the future, and neither can you. I do note that the article you linked to is dated 2006... four years have passed since it was written, and the virus apocalypse has yet to arrive for Macs.
Oh, and guess what's going to happen to your shiny computer when you start installing third party software to try and fix the problem
Hmmm... the second link is titled "Mac OS X anti-virus software: More trouble than it's worth".... i.e. it's do-nothing software at the moment, because it has very little to protect against.
Sorry you can't say that OSX antivirus is "not getting viruses in the first place".
Sure I can, because that is currently the case: OSX machines simply aren't being attacked by viruses. It's like living in Argentina during World War II. The country's defenses may or may not be adequate to hold off the Nazis, but unless and until the country is actually attacked, it's not a problem for anyone. Yes, a virus could break out tomorrow that causes all kinds of problems for Mac users... but that's true of any OS. In the meantime it's silly to demand to run anti-virus software when the number of viruses is so small that the base OS can keep up with them by itself.
I suspect that most Mac users don't have any idea what Unix is
Likely true, but the statistic was about college students, not the population as a whole.
Ever heard of MS Security Essentials? Rated very high, free, fast. What is the equivalent free product for OSX again?
The OSX version is called "not getting viruses in the first place". Works great!
Kids don't care if they drive their parents into bankruptcy. Or whether or not they can get Linux for free. They want what they want, regardless of cost.
(Oh and don't give me crap about Macs being better - the $1500 model actually had 1 GB less memory and 500 megahertz slower speed than the $450 Toshiba laptop.)
High specs are just a means to an end, not an end in themselves. Joe Blow doesn't care about gigahertz and gigabytes, he cares about having a painless and enjoyable computing experience. If a Mac can provide a good user experience using less hardware, then more power to it.
Maybe those running Linux didn't want to goto jail for knowing how to use a hacker OS with that scary black screen and gray text mode or maybe this article is full of shit.
Or maybe Apple simply ate Linux's market share. There are a lot of people who want the power of a Unix-y OS, but also want to use a decent GUI, run commercial off-the-shelf software, and (perhaps most important) don't want to spend hours futzing around to get things to work correctly. Many of these people will pay extra for those features.
A weak security Flash player is built into every copy of OSX so you too can worry about security.
Apple excludes Flash from iOS, and people bitch. Apple includes Flash as part of MacOS/X, and people bitch. They can't win.
Seriously. Please stop.
You know what? You like it. Otherwise you wouldn't keep reading the articles, or coming back to bitch about having to read them. If you don't like the articles, there are a million other web sites you could be reading instead.
Most energy consumers can't afford the initial cost... And if they get a loan, interest costs eat up any savings that they might have gotten.
Actually, there is a solution to this problem... the Power Purchase Agreement. It allows consumers to get a solar power system installed without having to put any money down, or pay any interest. You basically sign the agreement, let the company install the equipment, and then enjoy an instant, permanent decrease in your electric bill. My building is having a system installed this way this year, we expect to see a 35% decrees in our electrical costs, "for free".
But you're right about one thing: [an engine that ran off water] sounds really dumb to anyone who knows even the slightest bit of chemistry
It's quite doable, actually. All you need is a Nissan Leaf and the Hoover Dam. Presto, a car powered by water!
Yes, people live in nuclear submarines, often for months at a time. Then the submarine comes back to port, takes on fresh supplies and fuel, undergoes any necessary repairs and maintenance, and everyone gets off the boat for a while and enjoys some shore leave. It's the regular visits back to "Earth" that keep the crew alive, healthy, and sane -- and those visits would not be possible for people living at the bottom of some other gravity well.