Well, if they plan on sucking the shale rocks out of the ground, I would agree, it would require huge amounts of energy.
And if there's a difference between pumping oil out of the ground and sucking it out of the ground, well, I am not sure what that difference is either.
The fallacy in your argument is the learning curve and economies of scale. While initial prices of the shale oil need to approach $100 per barrel to profitably develop the method to get the first barrel of shale oil out, it is not clear that to get the 10,000th barrel the cost will still be $100 per barrel of shale, and that the 100,000th, and 1,000,000th, and 10,000,000, and 100,000,000, and 1,000,000,000 the cost of extracting that oil will still be $100 per barrel.
Good thing for/. that Intel and AMD have benefited from the learning curve (aka Moore's Law.)
Potentially, over the long run, a barrel of Saudi Oil could approach $150 per barrel as it becomes increasingly rare, and a barrel of shale oil could approach $90, $75, $50 per barrel.
This common fallacy is cited by journo-pundits-investmentcounselors claiming to be economists. They truly know very little. They don't know Moore's Law. They don't know about enzymes and activation energy. They do get to better parties than I do.
So many email programs and ISPs offer vacation messages. "I am on vacation, please call back later."
What if there was an "please unsubscribe me" option?
Assuming there is a good way to eliminate messages with forged headers, then when a spam score is high enough, an automated "please unsubscribe me" is sent out?
Forged headers get "attention forged headers on your network" to the closest to the spammer, upstream ISP's abuse address.
For the past five or six years, I've been taking my data, applying steganography techniques to encrypt it into the background of porn images, and then distributing those images via usenet and a few porn sites I've whipped together (ok, ok, the bangbus videos.)
At any time when I need to recover the data, I just use google to find someone with a copy of my data, download, decrypt, and voila!
I have an Archos AV420, and basically I agree with you. I would love to access Audible content on my device. But that's not quite accurate, because I can, just not as conveniently as I wish.
The AV420 has a 20Gb hard disk and can plays mp3.
I can relatively easily overnight let Audible play a book on the PC and use any of a number of programs to capture the sound off the audio card.
That does get me the ability to play the audible content, and does let me bookmark my place in the content, but not the ability to jump to audible's sections within the content, and not a terribly easy way to chop up the book in say, two - four hour chunks.
So I encourage you to write to Archos and ask for an Audible reader!
Looking at the AirScooter video, and at thinking about the motorcycle handle and the lack of foot pedals, how does the pilot correct for uncommanded roll, as might occur in turbulence, or thermals, encountering wake turbulence,...?
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The original plan for the space shuttle called for flights at the rate of one a week to one a month. In that plan it was always intended that shuttles would be used to backup and rescue other shuttles. There were newspaper stories during the late seventies and early eighties as to how that would be affected.
When shuttle flights grew less frequent than plan, the civilian astronauts involved took on the risk that NASA and Congress and the President piled on them, in that there was no longer any feasible rescue.
To add insult to your injury, given that a shuttle fails randomly every fifty flights, there is no less chance that it will fail on the next flight than on the fiftieth flight. And you should no that.
So you're proposing cutting out the safety because of your wrong perception that it was never there to begin with, and that it will not be used in the next two flights.
As I said earlier, what are the chances my house will burn?
You're still a wanker, and a cheap economist wanker at that.
Yes, people are stupid. Stupid and cheap with other people's bodies.
Yes, I don't know why I need a smoke detector, fire extinguisher, air bags or seat belts either. EXPENSIVE!!!
And don't get me started on inflatable ramps in airplanes, or life rafts in ferry boats. All of this is ridiculous given that the vast majority of people never need them.
Jebus, just realized that many buildings have automatic sprinklers, yet when I cruise around the city, I almost never see buildings that have burnt down.
Bastards at my apartment complex used sheetrock rated for a 45 minute fire. No wonder they charge so damned much for rent.
Fucking wankers on 9/11 used boxcutters (no evidence to that actually but that's a different rant). Now whenever I go to the airport, even my fingernail clippers are suspect. WHAT IS TSA THINKING?
After Sioux City Iowa, I understand the MD/Boeing and the FAA started rewiring DC10s and MD11s to make sure that all four hydraulic lines aren't routed along the same line. Talk about planning for yesterday's battles! As if! As if an engine would ever explode again. And no wonder those damn planes are so expensive. Can you imagine even putting in quadruply redundant systems in the first place?
I own a 2002 Toyota, which I bought used, and which came with ONE transponder key.
Toyota wanted $45 for the blank. And $95 to "program the key for the car". My brother has a Mitsubishi, they wanted even more.
It turns out that if you can obtain a blank, you can usually program your car yourself to accept the key.
And it turns out that there is a very nice market for these key blanks on ebay. Search for transponder key and your vehicle's make and model. The going rate is about $20.00 and the key blanks usually come with all the instructions you need.
I bought two blanks for $40, and three days and 20 minutes later I had three working keys for my Toyota saving me over $200 from what the dealer wanted.
I work at a very large, reasonable secure facility, one where blackhats would want to steal secrets, government secrets and corporate secrets. We've probably got at least 40 acres of parking lot.
You couldn't get a tow truck into the parking lot without security noticing and asking why (and offering to help.) You could easily send your wiley h4x0r into the lobby watching for visiting company bigwigs, or for members of the armed forces, or for members of congress, or for foreign dignitaries.
With a small bump, or an accidental drop of the keys, etc., the mark and his keys could very easily get pwned.
Same thing in an office building. Pwn a key in a lawyer's tower, follow the lawyer to lunch, drive away in her jaguar. Even easier.
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Hey Chekov, is that you? Did you ever find those nuclear wessels?
Jebus, what a bunch of kneejerk slashdotters. The parent post is funny, not informative, not insightful.
Holy mixed metaphors Colin!
Well, if they plan on sucking the shale rocks out of the ground, I would agree, it would require huge amounts of energy.
And if there's a difference between pumping oil out of the ground and sucking it out of the ground, well, I am not sure what that difference is either.
The fallacy in your argument is the learning curve and economies of scale. While initial prices of the shale oil need to approach $100 per barrel to profitably develop the method to get the first barrel of shale oil out, it is not clear that to get the 10,000th barrel the cost will still be $100 per barrel of shale, and that the 100,000th, and 1,000,000th, and 10,000,000, and 100,000,000, and 1,000,000,000 the cost of extracting that oil will still be $100 per barrel.
/. that Intel and AMD have benefited from the learning curve (aka Moore's Law.)
Good thing for
Potentially, over the long run, a barrel of Saudi Oil could approach $150 per barrel as it becomes increasingly rare, and a barrel of shale oil could approach $90, $75, $50 per barrel.
This common fallacy is cited by journo-pundits-investmentcounselors claiming to be economists. They truly know very little. They don't know Moore's Law. They don't know about enzymes and activation energy. They do get to better parties than I do.
Kent, stop touching yourself!
I say we cut taxes for the rich.
So many email programs and ISPs offer vacation messages. "I am on vacation, please call back later."
What if there was an "please unsubscribe me" option?
Assuming there is a good way to eliminate messages with forged headers, then when a spam score is high enough, an automated "please unsubscribe me" is sent out?
Forged headers get "attention forged headers on your network" to the closest to the spammer, upstream ISP's abuse address.
For the past five or six years, I've been taking my data, applying steganography techniques to encrypt it into the background of porn images, and then distributing those images via usenet and a few porn sites I've whipped together (ok, ok, the bangbus videos.)
At any time when I need to recover the data, I just use google to find someone with a copy of my data, download, decrypt, and voila!
This is my cheapskate's Network Storage Device!
Yes, me too. So where do I get one?
(The Archos AV400 has been out for six months.)
(Maybe it will be announced later this week.)
I have an Archos AV420, and basically I agree with you. I would love to access Audible content on my device. But that's not quite accurate, because I can, just not as conveniently as I wish.
The AV420 has a 20Gb hard disk and can plays mp3.
I can relatively easily overnight let Audible play a book on the PC and use any of a number of programs to capture the sound off the audio card.
That does get me the ability to play the audible content, and does let me bookmark my place in the content, but not the ability to jump to audible's sections within the content, and not a terribly easy way to chop up the book in say, two - four hour chunks.
So I encourage you to write to Archos and ask for an Audible reader!
I'm trademarking SOL1K, SYK, and obtaining sol1k.com right now. So layoff!
"Open in IE" is great. Better if "Open in IE" also sent an email off to "webmaster@..." and "abuse@..." complaining....
"Open in Firefox" is also a must have extension for many of us at work who must use IE for enough things that it is easiest to make IE the default.
Yeah, Audi had one too around 1986.
747 landing
This famous pic is the GIS for 747 and beach.
nice thong and an A-340 -- Same beach.
Well yeah, I thought about that, but this thing is supposed to be in the air for two hours.
Looking at the AirScooter video, and at thinking about the motorcycle handle and the lack of foot pedals, how does the pilot correct for uncommanded roll, as might occur in turbulence, or thermals, encountering wake turbulence, ...?
You bastard! I knew it wasn't a word, and yet.... Yet you still sent me to google it to prove it.
Err! I am very antidiscontempted with you.
Washington: Non-compete.
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And I'm in Arizona. Non-compete. Sigh.
My very brief search at EPIC didn't find this new issue at Amazon. My suggestion then is that we contact EPIC and alert them to this privacy issue:
Contact EPIC
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Yuck. I like bloglines quite a bit. And hate Ask Jeeves.
Why g-d? Why?
Why did Ask Jeeves have to live through the dot com?
The original plan for the space shuttle called for flights at the rate of one a week to one a month. In that plan it was always intended that shuttles would be used to backup and rescue other shuttles. There were newspaper stories during the late seventies and early eighties as to how that would be affected.
When shuttle flights grew less frequent than plan, the civilian astronauts involved took on the risk that NASA and Congress and the President piled on them, in that there was no longer any feasible rescue.
To add insult to your injury, given that a shuttle fails randomly every fifty flights, there is no less chance that it will fail on the next flight than on the fiftieth flight. And you should no that.
So you're proposing cutting out the safety because of your wrong perception that it was never there to begin with, and that it will not be used in the next two flights.
As I said earlier, what are the chances my house will burn?
You're still a wanker, and a cheap economist wanker at that.
Yes, people are stupid. Stupid and cheap with other people's bodies.
Yes, I don't know why I need a smoke detector, fire extinguisher, air bags or seat belts either. EXPENSIVE!!!
And don't get me started on inflatable ramps in airplanes, or life rafts in ferry boats. All of this is ridiculous given that the vast majority of people never need them.
Jebus, just realized that many buildings have automatic sprinklers, yet when I cruise around the city, I almost never see buildings that have burnt down.
Bastards at my apartment complex used sheetrock rated for a 45 minute fire. No wonder they charge so damned much for rent.
Fucking wankers on 9/11 used boxcutters (no evidence to that actually but that's a different rant). Now whenever I go to the airport, even my fingernail clippers are suspect. WHAT IS TSA THINKING?
After Sioux City Iowa, I understand the MD/Boeing and the FAA started rewiring DC10s and MD11s to make sure that all four hydraulic lines aren't routed along the same line. Talk about planning for yesterday's battles! As if! As if an engine would ever explode again. And no wonder those damn planes are so expensive. Can you imagine even putting in quadruply redundant systems in the first place?
Sheesh, you're absolutely right.
Wanker.
I own a 2002 Toyota, which I bought used, and which came with ONE transponder key.
Toyota wanted $45 for the blank. And $95 to "program the key for the car". My brother has a Mitsubishi, they wanted even more.
It turns out that if you can obtain a blank, you can usually program your car yourself to accept the key.
And it turns out that there is a very nice market for these key blanks on ebay. Search for transponder key and your vehicle's make and model. The going rate is about $20.00 and the key blanks usually come with all the instructions you need.
I bought two blanks for $40, and three days and 20 minutes later I had three working keys for my Toyota saving me over $200 from what the dealer wanted.
I work at a very large, reasonable secure facility, one where blackhats would want to steal secrets, government secrets and corporate secrets. We've probably got at least 40 acres of parking lot.
You couldn't get a tow truck into the parking lot without security noticing and asking why (and offering to help.) You could easily send your wiley h4x0r into the lobby watching for visiting company bigwigs, or for members of the armed forces, or for members of congress, or for foreign dignitaries.
With a small bump, or an accidental drop of the keys, etc., the mark and his keys could very easily get pwned.
Same thing in an office building. Pwn a key in a lawyer's tower, follow the lawyer to lunch, drive away in her jaguar. Even easier.