Or perhaps your magical Holy Market (pbuh) does not have eyes that see into the future?
Reduced availability of fossil fuel for personal transport is coming.
You do not wait until the Sacred Flawless Infallible Invisible Hand (Praise Be to Holiest Holy of St Rand!) acts when you know what is going to happen, you plan for it.
Well done!
You listed some evidence of less than 100% efficiency in electricity generation and transmission.
This shows that fossil fuels are better, how?
You still have a less efficient power plant in the vehicle, as well as your less efficient chain from well to fuel tank
The greenest choices are public transport, 2nd hand fuel efficient car (no point in demanding a *new* car if there are serviceable ones already built) and then consider electric if you absolutely must have a new car and you can afford electric.
Surely we aren't being so foolish as to expect honesty from the oil lobby?
Wells to wheels is beyond these people.
Actually they know very "well" that they are misleading, but their target audience hears what they want to hear and feels reassured.
Oh how clever you are for noticing that a solar cell takes resources to manufacture.
Is manufacturing a method of producing energy from renewable resources more or less efficient than digging up fossil fuels and burning them for energy? Which one has lower emissions?
Fossil fuels such as oil are used to make other essentials of modern life - plastics, pharmaceuticals, artificial fibres etc. etc., but you think the best thing to do is to burn them into CO2 and water vapour??
Obvious attempted sleight-of-hand in moving from "turbines, solar cells etc need non-renewables to manufacture" to "renewable energy is a fool's errand." Renewable or nuclear energy is less polluting and leaves fossil fuel compounds the really irreplaceble uses.
I presume you think Fossil Fuel cars produce less, or the same amount of, pollution than electrics when powered by coal burning electricity? False. Electric motors are more efficient than ICEs. You are so fond of pointing out that lithium has to be mined and yet when doing your sums about gasoline you don't include - drilling the crude oil, moving it to a refinery, refining it and then transporting the actual fuel for vehicles.
Perhaps you think that biofuel makes sense? It probably does if you are an Iowa corn farmer. If not, then you should know that the fertilisers needed uses fossil fuels even before the corn begins processing. (Haber Process.)
There is no realistic prospect of ICEs ever being powered by anything other very finite resources. Electricity can be renewable and thus is actually a long term plan.
This is not limited to those lower class people this topic is (rightly-ish) being snooty about.
In upper middle market dept stores people buy expensive rugs for fancy house parties and then return them 3 days later as: "Not quite right for our new interior décor, unfortuantely." "It really was disappointing as it looked so wonderful here in the shop."
(Top Gear did)..not put the car through anything more rigorous than other cars tested
Apart from falsely stating (or merely strongly suggesting, your honour) that the car ran out of power after being driven on a racecourse.
How is the fuel economy of any car (especially a sports car) on a racecourse, driven at racing speeds?
Seriously low miles per energy input, whether Porsche, Tesla or whoever. So their lie seemed a little pointless.
Re Top Gear's "Neutrality" Top Gear Live shows/events are sponsored by Shell Oil, who might just have a interest in not having their fuel supply networks rendered largely obsolete by mass electric car use.
The one thing that certainly looks worse than losing your hair is pretending that you didn't lose it.
"something that has been lost to me" this applies to those desperate fools who pay for cosmetic surgery too. They "lost" non-saggy tits, a flat stomach, absence of crow's feet etc and believe mutiliating themselves somehow looks better than having dignity.
Sensory function: most of us are very aware of things being near your head anyway and the number of times you rely on such sense input must be pretty tiny
Indoor hats in the winter: you must have very unusual sensitivity to cold, or perhaps your house is just far too cold. Do you also need gloves indoors? My hands get cold a lot more quickly than my head.
Sun hats and their "Air tight seal"?? Nonsense. Buy better hats. If there is such a tight fit, the hat is too small for you.
The person who quoted Idiocracy was dead right. Spending more time helping people like you be less obsessed and terrified of not being 19 anymore would be more worthwhile.
immediately start talking about a different group of people as if they were the previous group of people
I think he meant that the Tea Party's poisonous influence inside the Republican party makes their responsibility clear.
The Tea Party (the people who nearly gave you president-in-waiting Palin) have shrieked and shrieked until moderate Republicans were scared into silence.
The article you link includes destruction of GM crops in what it calls terrorism. It is unsurprising that the investor class's journal of choice thinks this way. (Forbes)
Most reasonable people think of terrorism as acts threatening human life/lives.
Why would slashdotters support GM crops? The goal of such research is to make plants into intellectual property - not usually the favourite kind of property around here.
A dSLR camera is useless if no one sees your photos.
It's really quite stupid to state that photos not on a social network are useless:
You might want pictures to put on your own wall?
Portraits of your own family?
Perhaps social networks mean that people are more inclined to view hundreds of slightly interesting pictures instead of a a few nicer ones (since the cost of a photo is now approximately zero), but not everyone shares that opinion.
(This is not to state that "good" photos can only be taken on expensive equipment.)
"People who don't make their living from pictures but insist on using equipment this expensive have more money than sense"
A lot of fancy cameras could be considered jewellery given how many are owned but never used to their potential.
Lots of camera enthusiasts think of Leicas as jewellery no matter who is using them (thanks to their hilariously high prices)
Was this a "terrorist fist bump?" Asked people who are actually paid to report news. They actually said that, I was genuinely surprised at the stupidity of that one.
An actual candidate for political power in your country. The politest thing that can be said about that woman was "boastful ignoramus", and your lot chose her, put her within reach of serious decision making. Such a close call for your country. Your hagiography of Reagan led your GOP drones to think that intelligence is a fault.
And you nearly elected a former beauty contestant and religious zealot to be leader-in-waiting.
It would have been the biggest incentive ever for cancer research though wouldn't it? All the money in the world would have been spent on stopping McCain getting ill, would have been twice as important as the Manhattan project and Apollo put together.
(By the way, did you know that men also get breast cancer?)
He might well have known, after all the goal of these people is to ensure maximum ignorance and thus keep the less-than-wealthy voting for investor class bailouts and tax cuts. Or maybe he is just stupid?
You must learn that the Holy Market (pbuh) does not magic up infinite resources, even when applied in a fully Galt-compliant Randian fashion.
When you can grow surgeons and nurses and doctors and drugs and hospital beds and replacement organ you might begin to have a point. Until then, you are willfully blind.
Blinded by your religion. Worryingly, market worship has become a religion for people like you.
Well, I would count that link as informative.
Seems to me that both parties are guilty of using silly words like "terrorist". (The reason for this is that "Terrorist" has become your ultimate boo-word since 2001. It is the red menace of the 21st century.)
I still suspect that Obama has had it said about him more than his people have said it about his opponents. Perhaps you remember election campaigns in 2008 and 2012?
Moving along, what metaphors would you allow to describe the tactic of
"We will stop the goverment of the nation functioning unless you entirely remove a policy you were elected on?"
I am not from your country. And thus am not subject to the whim of claims adjusters who will decide on my status:
death/or/ treatment and bankruptcy/or/ treatment and insurance claim paid. That's a Death Panel for you!
The exceedingly hyperbolic
You have perverted every law in the land.
does make me think you are just someone looking for an internet fight.
I required an x-ray on 2 occasions for possible arm injury. On both occasions I was seen within one hour and on one of those occasions received a cast and follow up treatment. And paid nothing for any of it. (It is paid through taxation which I do or course pay). This is in Filthy, Secular crypto-communist Europe (Boo!! Hiss!!).
But we are full of people suffering the effects of crippling bureau-incompetence and socialistic hobbling of the human spirit. Galt save us! How did I get treatment??
Slashdot Mirror
Or perhaps your magical Holy Market (pbuh) does not have eyes that see into the future?
Reduced availability of fossil fuel for personal transport is coming.
You do not wait until the Sacred Flawless Infallible Invisible Hand (Praise Be to Holiest Holy of St Rand!) acts when you know what is going to happen, you plan for it.
How often do you urinate?
Well done!
You listed some evidence of less than 100% efficiency in electricity generation and transmission. This shows that fossil fuels are better, how?
You still have a less efficient power plant in the vehicle, as well as your less efficient chain from well to fuel tank
The greenest choices are public transport, 2nd hand fuel efficient car (no point in demanding a *new* car if there are serviceable ones already built) and then consider electric if you absolutely must have a new car and you can afford electric.
Surely we aren't being so foolish as to expect honesty from the oil lobby?
Wells to wheels is beyond these people.
Actually they know very "well" that they are misleading, but their target audience hears what they want to hear and feels reassured.
Oh how clever you are for noticing that a solar cell takes resources to manufacture.
Is manufacturing a method of producing energy from renewable resources more or less efficient than digging up fossil fuels and burning them for energy? Which one has lower emissions?
Fossil fuels such as oil are used to make other essentials of modern life - plastics, pharmaceuticals, artificial fibres etc. etc., but you think the best thing to do is to burn them into CO2 and water vapour??
Obvious attempted sleight-of-hand in moving from "turbines, solar cells etc need non-renewables to manufacture" to "renewable energy is a fool's errand."
Renewable or nuclear energy is less polluting and leaves fossil fuel compounds the really irreplaceble uses.
I presume you think Fossil Fuel cars produce less, or the same amount of, pollution than electrics when powered by coal burning electricity?
False. Electric motors are more efficient than ICEs.
You are so fond of pointing out that lithium has to be mined and yet when doing your sums about gasoline you don't include - drilling the crude oil, moving it to a refinery, refining it and then transporting the actual fuel for vehicles.
Perhaps you think that biofuel makes sense? It probably does if you are an Iowa corn farmer. If not, then you should know that the fertilisers needed uses fossil fuels even before the corn begins processing. (Haber Process.)
There is no realistic prospect of ICEs ever being powered by anything other very finite resources. Electricity can be renewable and thus is actually a long term plan.
CFL. Those suckers have a life span of 5 months
They must be diffrerent from the CFL bulbs that have lasted for over 2 years in my house.
How is it possible that a tech forum is full of change-phobic luddites?
Reply to my own message, presumably (as per the summary, derp) imports of diamorphine would be more difficult if it was used in executions.
I have wondered that myself.
Is there some sort of medical/hippocratic oath objection to using what is a medicine to deliberately cause death?
This is not limited to those lower class people this topic is (rightly-ish) being snooty about.
In upper middle market dept stores people buy expensive rugs for fancy house parties and then return them 3 days later as: "Not quite right for our new interior décor, unfortuantely."
"It really was disappointing as it looked so wonderful here in the shop."
(Top Gear did)..not put the car through anything more rigorous than other cars tested
Apart from falsely stating (or merely strongly suggesting, your honour) that the car ran out of power after being driven on a racecourse.
How is the fuel economy of any car (especially a sports car) on a racecourse, driven at racing speeds? Seriously low miles per energy input, whether Porsche, Tesla or whoever. So their lie seemed a little pointless.
Re Top Gear's "Neutrality"
Top Gear Live shows/events are sponsored by Shell Oil, who might just have a interest in not having their fuel supply networks rendered largely obsolete by mass electric car use.
Is it not easier to treat a wound initially if it is in a hairless area? Swings & roundabouts
Good point re female baldness. that is very much seen as tragic and pitiable as opposed to "that's what happens"
"something that has been lost to me" this applies to those desperate fools who pay for cosmetic surgery too. They "lost" non-saggy tits, a flat stomach, absence of crow's feet etc and believe mutiliating themselves somehow looks better than having dignity.
Sensory function: most of us are very aware of things being near your head anyway and the number of times you rely on such sense input must be pretty tiny
Indoor hats in the winter: you must have very unusual sensitivity to cold, or perhaps your house is just far too cold. Do you also need gloves indoors? My hands get cold a lot more quickly than my head.
Sun hats and their "Air tight seal"?? Nonsense. Buy better hats. If there is such a tight fit, the hat is too small for you.
The person who quoted Idiocracy was dead right. Spending more time helping people like you be less obsessed and terrified of not being 19 anymore would be more worthwhile.
immediately start talking about a different group of people as if they were the previous group of people
I think he meant that the Tea Party's poisonous influence inside the Republican party makes their responsibility clear.
The Tea Party (the people who nearly gave you president-in-waiting Palin) have shrieked and shrieked until moderate Republicans were scared into silence.
Most reasonable people think of terrorism as acts threatening human life/lives.
Why would slashdotters support GM crops? The goal of such research is to make plants into intellectual property - not usually the favourite kind of property around here.
A dSLR camera is useless if no one sees your photos.
It's really quite stupid to state that photos not on a social network are useless:
You might want pictures to put on your own wall?
Portraits of your own family?
Perhaps social networks mean that people are more inclined to view hundreds of slightly interesting pictures instead of a a few nicer ones (since the cost of a photo is now approximately zero), but not everyone shares that opinion. (This is not to state that "good" photos can only be taken on expensive equipment.)
"People who don't make their living from pictures but insist on using equipment this expensive have more money than sense"
A lot of fancy cameras could be considered jewellery given how many are owned but never used to their potential. Lots of camera enthusiasts think of Leicas as jewellery no matter who is using them (thanks to their hilariously high prices)
I just wanted to congratulate you on knowing that it's "cue" and not "queue". Almost never see that word spelled properly!
here's another one
An actual candidate for political power in your country. The politest thing that can be said about that woman was "boastful ignoramus", and your lot chose her, put her within reach of serious decision making. Such a close call for your country. Your hagiography of Reagan led your GOP drones to think that intelligence is a fault.
And you nearly elected a former beauty contestant and religious zealot to be leader-in-waiting.
It would have been the biggest incentive ever for cancer research though wouldn't it? All the money in the world would have been spent on stopping McCain getting ill, would have been twice as important as the Manhattan project and Apollo put together.
Here's one from another pretty lady.
(By the way, did you know that men also get breast cancer?)
He might well have known, after all the goal of these people is to ensure maximum ignorance and thus keep the less-than-wealthy voting for investor class bailouts and tax cuts. Or maybe he is just stupid?
Healthcare is ALWAYS rationed
No it is not!
You must learn that the Holy Market (pbuh) does not magic up infinite resources, even when applied in a fully Galt-compliant Randian fashion.
When you can grow surgeons and nurses and doctors and drugs and hospital beds and replacement organ you might begin to have a point. Until then, you are willfully blind.
Blinded by your religion. Worryingly, market worship has become a religion for people like you.
I still suspect that Obama has had it said about him more than his people have said it about his opponents. Perhaps you remember election campaigns in 2008 and 2012?
Moving along, what metaphors would you allow to describe the tactic of "We will stop the goverment of the nation functioning unless you entirely remove a policy you were elected on?"
The exceedingly hyperbolic
You have perverted every law in the land.
does make me think you are just someone looking for an internet fight.
It's an anecdote off.......
I required an x-ray on 2 occasions for possible arm injury.
On both occasions I was seen within one hour and on one of those occasions received a cast and follow up treatment.
And paid nothing for any of it. (It is paid through taxation which I do or course pay).
This is in Filthy, Secular crypto-communist Europe (Boo!! Hiss!!).
But we are full of people suffering the effects of crippling bureau-incompetence and socialistic hobbling of the human spirit. Galt save us! How did I get treatment??