If the index had any thing to do with the conclusion, you'd have a point
the parent is quite correct. a main reason that shipping has dried up is that tightening credit means shippers can't get letters of credit and basic operating cost loans from banks.
i'm afraid your anecdote of one company getting a loan doesn't mean much. i mean, the place i work is doing well and still hiring, that doesn't mean people aren't getting laid off left and right.
first off, the original peak oil predictions were for US oil production, which did in fact peak back then.
as to technologies, again, 'peak oil' does not assert that no new technologies will emerge, rather that new technologies will not be enough to make oil as cheap as it is to stick a straw in the ground and suck up crude. i mean, saudi aramco could make a profit if oil sells for less than 10 bucks a gallon. what magical technology is going to let oil sands compete with that?
as to cheap, our whole country is structured around cheap oil, cheap as in as cheap as it used to be. canadian oil sands are only profitable at a per-barrel oil cost which would, if permanent, really hurt this country.
that's not right at all. the idea of peak oil does in fact factor in new discoveries, it just asserts that new found reserves of light sweet crude will be of dwindling size and not meet the ever-increasing need for petroleum. same is true of new technologies.
the tar sands are a great example - there's tons of oil in them, but it costs a shit ton to extract. whereas light sweet crude is easy as pie and cheap as hell to extract.
'peak oil' was never about 'oil running out'. oil will never technically run out. but cheap oil, that's another thing.
Why don't you ask a few Conservatives if they would like to someday be in a position, where they have so many investments, that they cant remember them all?
what's funny is, back in 2004 the GOP savaged the dem candidate for being a rich pretty-boy who lived off of his rich-as-hell wife. they called him a 'gigolo' and pointed out that he and his wife had a pre-nup, and 'if his wife won't trust him with her money, why should we trust him with ours??'
4 years later, the GOP runs the same type of candidate - a rich pretty-boy who lives off his rich-as-hell wife, shuttling between his numerous mansions in a private jet. yet conservatives, apparently immune to irony, think that pointing out that the guy can't even remember how many houses he has is not only unfair, but that it just points out that the liberals hate capitalism.
the chickens of 2004 are coming home to roost, and conservatives suddenly hate the taste of chicken.
also, biden as VP forces mccain's hand. the christian right has made it very clear that mccain's toast if he picks a pro-choice VP. now with biden as obama's VP, mccain has to pick someone who won't get beaten to a bloody pulp in a debate against biden.
also, mccain needs someone who puts forth an aura of youth to counteract the fact that he's a fossil, and since mccain is getting beaten bloody on this whole confused-rich-guy-who-can't-even-remember-how-many-houses-he-lives-in thing, someone with solid middle-class credentials.
so mccain needs to find a young, anti-abortion middle-class outsider who can go toe-to-toe with joe biden in a debate. good luck with that one.
i'll think about that while i'm waiting upwind for some yahoo to smoke his cigarette in front of my apartment. i wouldn't want to ask somebody to move, after all. that would make me a 'pussy'.
maybe he's a chain smoker and i'll get to stand around for a half hour. what fun.
i'll make sure to do that next time i try to get in my front door and some dude is standing in front of it smoking (which happens about 5 times a week). i'll just move down the street and wait a while before i can get into my apartment.
By your standards the cigarette lighter was not innovative in it's time because people could already create fire by using pieces of flint manually over a pile of grass.
actually, it's more like the cigarette lighter wasn't innovative in it's time because people had pocket watches. i mean, WTF?
Slashdot Mirror
People who believe in the AGW religion have a tendency, much like Bronze age fantasists, to assign causes to any and every natural event
so you're saying it's a phenomenon without a cause? cause-and-effect has been suspended?
If the index had any thing to do with the conclusion, you'd have a point
the parent is quite correct. a main reason that shipping has dried up is that tightening credit means shippers can't get letters of credit and basic operating cost loans from banks.
i'm afraid your anecdote of one company getting a loan doesn't mean much. i mean, the place i work is doing well and still hiring, that doesn't mean people aren't getting laid off left and right.
first off, the original peak oil predictions were for US oil production, which did in fact peak back then.
as to technologies, again, 'peak oil' does not assert that no new technologies will emerge, rather that new technologies will not be enough to make oil as cheap as it is to stick a straw in the ground and suck up crude. i mean, saudi aramco could make a profit if oil sells for less than 10 bucks a gallon. what magical technology is going to let oil sands compete with that?
as to cheap, our whole country is structured around cheap oil, cheap as in as cheap as it used to be. canadian oil sands are only profitable at a per-barrel oil cost which would, if permanent, really hurt this country.
that's not right at all. the idea of peak oil does in fact factor in new discoveries, it just asserts that new found reserves of light sweet crude will be of dwindling size and not meet the ever-increasing need for petroleum. same is true of new technologies.
the tar sands are a great example - there's tons of oil in them, but it costs a shit ton to extract. whereas light sweet crude is easy as pie and cheap as hell to extract.
'peak oil' was never about 'oil running out'. oil will never technically run out. but cheap oil, that's another thing.
jesus, you just get dumber with every post.
sigh.
Carbon rich rock?
yes. carbonaceous material. as opposed to carbon-poor rock like, say, granite.
Carbon from volcanos?
look up the siberian traps. and the deccan traps.
Wow, this is all new territory to me...
well, that's because you're an idiot.
At least twice in history, CO2 levels have shot up higher than they are today, in very short periods of time
yeah, due to really crazy phenomena, like volcanic rifts the size of the continental US or meteors striking carbon-rich rock.
so what exactly is going on right now to explain such a sharp rise in CO2? the siberian traps reopened and we didn't notice?
both the NW passage and the NE passage are open this year, for i believe the first time ever.
Why don't you ask a few Conservatives if they would like to someday be in a position, where they have so many investments, that they cant remember them all?
what's funny is, back in 2004 the GOP savaged the dem candidate for being a rich pretty-boy who lived off of his rich-as-hell wife. they called him a 'gigolo' and pointed out that he and his wife had a pre-nup, and 'if his wife won't trust him with her money, why should we trust him with ours??'
4 years later, the GOP runs the same type of candidate - a rich pretty-boy who lives off his rich-as-hell wife, shuttling between his numerous mansions in a private jet. yet conservatives, apparently immune to irony, think that pointing out that the guy can't even remember how many houses he has is not only unfair, but that it just points out that the liberals hate capitalism.
the chickens of 2004 are coming home to roost, and conservatives suddenly hate the taste of chicken.
also, biden as VP forces mccain's hand. the christian right has made it very clear that mccain's toast if he picks a pro-choice VP. now with biden as obama's VP, mccain has to pick someone who won't get beaten to a bloody pulp in a debate against biden.
also, mccain needs someone who puts forth an aura of youth to counteract the fact that he's a fossil, and since mccain is getting beaten bloody on this whole confused-rich-guy-who-can't-even-remember-how-many-houses-he-lives-in thing, someone with solid middle-class credentials.
so mccain needs to find a young, anti-abortion middle-class outsider who can go toe-to-toe with joe biden in a debate. good luck with that one.
also, it would make obama look very weak to pick the woman who continuously savaged him in the primaries as some sort of concession.
Border guards testify that they saw child pornography on the defendant's laptop when the PC was on
wow, so cops testify that it's true? that's good enough for me!
Hummmmmm...whop!, and the world is gone.
i figured someone would blame it on the italians. typical.
unfortunately mccain changes his mind on five policies before breakfast.
Normally I'd say something positive to balance my post out
why? the story came from mccain's camp, who needs balance?
"we could fill it with bean dip and get some giant fritos..."
sorry, but 'free speech' is not a defense for fraud.
i'll think about that while i'm waiting upwind for some yahoo to smoke his cigarette in front of my apartment. i wouldn't want to ask somebody to move, after all. that would make me a 'pussy'.
maybe he's a chain smoker and i'll get to stand around for a half hour. what fun.
i'll make sure to do that next time i try to get in my front door and some dude is standing in front of it smoking (which happens about 5 times a week). i'll just move down the street and wait a while before i can get into my apartment.
the hump-back chub
luckily, the titpecker is thriving.
your ideas are intriguing and i would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
By your standards the cigarette lighter was not innovative in it's time because people could already create fire by using pieces of flint manually over a pile of grass.
actually, it's more like the cigarette lighter wasn't innovative in it's time because people had pocket watches. i mean, WTF?
Imagine a macbook powered by something like this, 45nm, 8 cores, low power usage, cheap... it'd outstrip every laptop known to man.
or a group of them! a "cluster", if you will. maybe, for a lark, you could name this cluster after some mythical hero of old. that would be awesome.
imagine a gilgamesh cluster of those!
well, they can't jump. and they can't dance.
and the drive like this (all hunched over the wheel).
sonofabitch! come on!
well, that flying pig was right.
potatoes produce seeds, dumbass. open up one of the green tomato-like pods.