Have you ever worked for an oil company? (Disclaimer: I have.) If not, you have _no_ _fucking_ _idea_ how thorough they are about surveying potential oil fields.
Trust me, if they're drilling holes in the seabed, it's only because there aren't significant amounts of oil left under the land.
I dispute your claim that people are intelligent - most of us are as thick as pigshit. Just look at the way we breed as if there were no tomorrow... and there probably won't be. (Just look at your spelling. Oops. Ad hominem attack. I'm really pissed - what's your excuse?)
I'm just thinking about all the carbon dioxide that'll put back into the atmosphere... I don't believe mammals will evolve/devolve to use photosynthesis quite fast enogh for this to be viable.
I don't think you understand the laws of thermodynamics (although there may be a physicist out there who'll correct me). If I understand them correctly they have nothing much to do with running out of _stuff_, they're rather more to do with the whole universe eventually running down like a clock with no-one left to wind it (a rather Newtonian view, I concede - I have a very old clock which informs my views on the world). I think that's a different, and longer term, problem. We'll all be drowned in our own filth _well_ before then.
If you honestly believe that capitalism is the solution, you are definitely part of the problem. OPEC are not manipulating the supply, they are trying deperately to keep up with demand.
Face it, your comfy lifestyle is doomed. Oh! I forgot! You're one of God's Chosen People (TM), a Merkin. God'll save you because He's on your side... (apologies to Bob Dylan)
If you don't see exponential growth as a problem (and all growth is exponential, believe it or not), you've obviously never brewed beer.
See, how it works is this: you take a closed environment (fermenter) with finite resources (3 kg of sugar) and dump some teeny, tiny consumers (yeast) into it. They keep on reproducing, generating wastes (carbon dioxide and various alcohols) until they consume _all_ the resources and drown in their own filth. It's interesting to note that yeast autolyses (eats itself) towards the end of the process if you let it go on for long enough (that's why very old naturally conditioned ales don't taste so good).
If you don't get my drift, just replace "fermenter" with "the Earth", "3kg of sugar" with "all the matter the Earth contains", "yeast" with "people", and "carbon dioxide and various alcohols" with "all the waste products we produce". The difference is that the yeast produces something useful.
If you still don't get it, you're not fit to breathe.
You're an idiot. People consume more than they produce, otherwise we wouldn't be running out of stuff.
I bet you're one of those dumb cunts (aka economists) who thinks that if he bellies up to the counter with enough money, god'll just put more oil, copper, gold, iron, coal, etc into the ground.
SUV hating isn't _just_ about moral superiority. Try sharing the road with the fuckers on a bicycle. The only thing more terrifying to a cyclist than a 4WDriver is a 4WDriver talking on a fucking mobile phone.
I've actually driven a _lot_ of miles in 4WD vehicles in remote areas of Australia while I was in the Royal Australian Survey Corps (no longer exists, alas - finest map-making organisation in the world), but there were only a few places where I actually needed the LandRover - most places that you don't need a helicopter to get to, an ancient Holden (Chevy/Vauxhall/Opel to you non-Australians) is quite sufficient.
This probably explains why we keep doing really stupid things like breeding as if there were no tomorrow, and continuing to drive gas-guzzling cars, and believing in a lord-and-personal-saviour (TM), and all the other really stupid and self-destructive things we do as a species.
I've heard of another such parasite. Apparently, the reason French people are - um - weird is because all the snails they eat give them some parasite which influences their behaviour (makes them less rational, or something). This may well just be a racist slur, but it's worth spreading. I can't provide a source, btw, and I'm too drunk and lazy to google it.
My current job started as a contract and has morphed into a Real Job (TM), ie, holidays, sick days, superannuation. The first time I applied for it I still had my date of birth (1950) in my resume, and didn't even talk to the pimp. The second time it was advertised, I sent in a resume which didn't tell them how old I am, and I got an interview. I got there about 30 minutes late (caught in traffic - in Adelaide for fucksake! We don't have traffic problems here as a rule) and immediately said to the two interviewers, "You'll have to excuse me if I'm a bit dopey, I've just spent the last 12 hours driving a taxi." The interview went OK, but I wasn't hugely confident. Later that day (or maybe early the next day) I'd had a sleep and was back in the taxi in town, and I saw a few people waving goodbye to each other. One of them kept waving, so I thought "Beauty! A job." This bloke opens the door, and says, "Gidday, Dave." One of the blokes who'd interviewed me that morning...
Unfortunately in Adelaide you can't afford to do this (jobs are always scarce). I'd prefer to send a hard copy (given a choice), but I've noticed that most pimps generally have one of the chicks in the office retype it as a Word (TM) document anyway, so it doesn't really matter. I've given up keeping the TeX version of my resume up to date.
The last place I worked used two languages for the system I was working on (I won't bore you with too many details) - we used PL/SQL to communicate with the Oracle database and C wrappers to communicate with the hardware devices on the production line (they make cars). It worked well, and it was a reasonable solution for the particular set of problems at hand.
They have a bunch of standard libraries (mostly stolen/adapted from Richard Stevens), so it all works nicely.
They cost more (I don't think it's 20x, but I can't remember for sure), but they also have a _much_ longer mean time between failure. They really are a money-saver.
Slightly off topic, but kind of funny: the Australian govt has made it really difficult to buy fertiliser of the kind used to make explosives (they're pretending to do something about the Threat of Global Terrorism (TM), I think), so all these farmers are getting really fucked off about having to wait till past the point they needed it to get the permits to buy fertiliser. Unfortunately it won't irritate them enough for them to stop voting for the conservatives.
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I agree that you can't consume more than you produce - globally - that's pretty much a tautology. Your point is what, exactly?
Have you ever worked for an oil company? (Disclaimer: I have.) If not, you have _no_ _fucking_ _idea_ how thorough they are about surveying potential oil fields.
Trust me, if they're drilling holes in the seabed, it's only because there aren't significant amounts of oil left under the land.
I dispute your claim that people are intelligent - most of us are as thick as pigshit. Just look at the way we breed as if there were no tomorrow ... and there probably won't be. (Just look at your spelling. Oops. Ad hominem attack. I'm really pissed - what's your excuse?)
I'm just thinking about all the carbon dioxide that'll put back into the atmosphere ... I don't believe mammals will evolve/devolve to use photosynthesis quite fast enogh for this to be viable.
I don't think you understand the laws of thermodynamics (although there may be a physicist out there who'll correct me). If I understand them correctly they have nothing much to do with running out of _stuff_, they're rather more to do with the whole universe eventually running down like a clock with no-one left to wind it (a rather Newtonian view, I concede - I have a very old clock which informs my views on the world). I think that's a different, and longer term, problem. We'll all be drowned in our own filth _well_ before then.
1. Oil shale is _not_ energy-viable.
2. The Saudis are lying to you, their reserves are inflated.
3. ???
4. There is no profit.
This is why my retirement plan includes building a mud-brick hovel (24" walls) with a bell-tower and a _shitload_ of .303 ammunition ...
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I used to believe the best of people, until I met a few
If you honestly believe that capitalism is the solution, you are definitely part of the problem. OPEC are not manipulating the supply, they are trying deperately to keep up with demand.
... (apologies to Bob Dylan)
Face it, your comfy lifestyle is doomed. Oh! I forgot! You're one of God's Chosen People (TM), a Merkin. God'll save you because He's on your side
If you don't see exponential growth as a problem (and all growth is exponential, believe it or not), you've obviously never brewed beer.
See, how it works is this: you take a closed environment (fermenter) with finite resources (3 kg of sugar) and dump some teeny, tiny consumers (yeast) into it. They keep on reproducing, generating wastes (carbon dioxide and various alcohols) until they consume _all_ the resources and drown in their own filth. It's interesting to note that yeast autolyses (eats itself) towards the end of the process if you let it go on for long enough (that's why very old naturally conditioned ales don't taste so good).
If you don't get my drift, just replace "fermenter" with "the Earth", "3kg of sugar" with "all the matter the Earth contains", "yeast" with "people", and "carbon dioxide and various alcohols" with "all the waste products we produce". The difference is that the yeast produces something useful.
If you still don't get it, you're not fit to breathe.
You're an idiot. People consume more than they produce, otherwise we wouldn't be running out of stuff.
I bet you're one of those dumb cunts (aka economists) who thinks that if he bellies up to the counter with enough money, god'll just put more oil, copper, gold, iron, coal, etc into the ground.
Fuck off. (Oh, excuse me, I'm drunk.)
SUV hating isn't _just_ about moral superiority. Try sharing the road with the fuckers on a bicycle. The only thing more terrifying to a cyclist than a 4WDriver is a 4WDriver talking on a fucking mobile phone.
I've actually driven a _lot_ of miles in 4WD vehicles in remote areas of Australia while I was in the Royal Australian Survey Corps (no longer exists, alas - finest map-making organisation in the world), but there were only a few places where I actually needed the LandRover - most places that you don't need a helicopter to get to, an ancient Holden (Chevy/Vauxhall/Opel to you non-Australians) is quite sufficient.
It's not so much that there isn't enough infrastructure, but more that there isn't enough oil. I think OPEC are telling porkies.
He probably doesn't hate him. It's more likely he despises him. (And who wouldn't?)
Nah. We do something _really_ stupid and die, the rats eat us, and it all goes around again.
This probably explains why we keep doing really stupid things like breeding as if there were no tomorrow, and continuing to drive gas-guzzling cars, and believing in a lord-and-personal-saviour (TM), and all the other really stupid and self-destructive things we do as a species.
I've heard of another such parasite. Apparently, the reason French people are - um - weird is because all the snails they eat give them some parasite which influences their behaviour (makes them less rational, or something). This may well just be a racist slur, but it's worth spreading. I can't provide a source, btw, and I'm too drunk and lazy to google it.
It's a pretty subtle joke ... did you hear the "whoosh" as it went over your head?
Let's face it, most of us have interfered with ourselves, although most of us would also not care to discuss it in front of a large audience ... D'oh!
Word of mouth? Mumumumaybe.
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My current job started as a contract and has morphed into a Real Job (TM), ie, holidays, sick days, superannuation. The first time I applied for it I still had my date of birth (1950) in my resume, and didn't even talk to the pimp. The second time it was advertised, I sent in a resume which didn't tell them how old I am, and I got an interview. I got there about 30 minutes late (caught in traffic - in Adelaide for fucksake! We don't have traffic problems here as a rule) and immediately said to the two interviewers, "You'll have to excuse me if I'm a bit dopey, I've just spent the last 12 hours driving a taxi." The interview went OK, but I wasn't hugely confident. Later that day (or maybe early the next day) I'd had a sleep and was back in the taxi in town, and I saw a few people waving goodbye to each other. One of them kept waving, so I thought "Beauty! A job." This bloke opens the door, and says, "Gidday, Dave." One of the blokes who'd interviewed me that morning
It's one of the best places I've ever worked.
Linux God certainly looks like a real plonker.
Unfortunately in Adelaide you can't afford to do this (jobs are always scarce). I'd prefer to send a hard copy (given a choice), but I've noticed that most pimps generally have one of the chicks in the office retype it as a Word (TM) document anyway, so it doesn't really matter. I've given up keeping the TeX version of my resume up to date.
The last place I worked used two languages for the system I was working on (I won't bore you with too many details) - we used PL/SQL to communicate with the Oracle database and C wrappers to communicate with the hardware devices on the production line (they make cars). It worked well, and it was a reasonable solution for the particular set of problems at hand.
They have a bunch of standard libraries (mostly stolen/adapted from Richard Stevens), so it all works nicely.
To repeat a quote whose source I can't recall: "If the only tool you have is C++, everything looks like a thumb."
They cost more (I don't think it's 20x, but I can't remember for sure), but they also have a _much_ longer mean time between failure. They really are a money-saver.
I think he means fertiliser and diesel fuel.
Slightly off topic, but kind of funny: the Australian govt has made it really difficult to buy fertiliser of the kind used to make explosives (they're pretending to do something about the Threat of Global Terrorism (TM), I think), so all these farmers are getting really fucked off about having to wait till past the point they needed it to get the permits to buy fertiliser. Unfortunately it won't irritate them enough for them to stop voting for the conservatives.