[overpopulation] will eventually solve itself via things like starvation
No, it won't. Starvation = no more food. People die. Unless we go canibal, there is not more food before than after the starvation. Even if the production rate may now sustain the consumption rate, there is still "overpopulation", i.e. not enough food for more people to come.
Malthusian catastrophes like starvation are no more a solution to overpopulation than selling your car/house to finance your gambling addiction is.
Personally I do not think there is a solution to overpopulation: given any viable possibility (an unoccupied ecological niche) any living being will just reproduce, and if it doesn't, his neighbour will, and if none of neighbours will because they are "educated", someone will just migrate into the available niche and occupy it. And even if once upon a time the education problem is solved (utopic, but not impossible), we'll still have to deal with greed and selfishness.
And now for the fun calculation: let's assume the developed world is about 1 billion people out of 6.4b, and let's divide that number by ten to have a sustainable population of 100m people. Let's be humane and not exterminate the undeveloped populations. If everyone on the planet were to apply a one child per woman policy (so everyone can have a child which seems fair), it would take a whole 8 generations (200 years) to reach that 100m population. According to my calculation, we're currently at 2.76 per woman. In other words, we're fucked.
Brains can't grow beyond the size of a mother's hipbones
Now with the progress of medicine they can, it's just another c-section; now even the mother survives it, she can even bear more than one Vaginamax kid before dying. So small head children no longer have an evolutionary advantage with regard to large head children.
Even without c-section, men are conditioned to love large hips, which gives a selection advantage to large hip women.
So you're right to say that the hipbones are a bottleneck, but the bottleneck is not fixed in dimension: it evolves too, and there is an evolutionary advantage at it being marginalized.
The population growth in the world is WAY too high. We cannot support this type of growth forever. Your decision to enjoy life without kids lets another couple who doesn't act so selfless have more than their 2 and still cause harm.
Then again the HD space on a mac mini is more than anemic by modern, megapixel, sacd quality standards.
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Most people who do have $1200 at hand for a decent laptop prefer to keep it on their savings accounts for less futile things. Therefore, leaping from laptop to laptop to upgrade is pretty painful.
Meanwhile, a desktop can be upgraded in $100 increments. None of these increments are particularly painful. No need to replace a display until it breaks (rare) or becomes obsolete (rare). Same for keyboard, mouse, and arguably HDD.
Then again killing flies just because they annoy you is also plain murder and no one would claim it is immoral eventhough it has probably a more important ecological impact.
Im liberal, democrat, hippie and therefore I am against violence, but is some cases like this one, I fail to see the immorality.
"Boohoohoo the poor embryo had its pain nerves stimulated oh the humanity !!!"
5) Slashdot sucks, because most people here don't see the immorality of file sharing,
If most people don't see the immorality of something, is the thing still immoral ?
and don't see that incredibly expensive shows like 24 and Lost WON'T EXIST if they can't make money. We might actually be seeing the fall of good video programming. It may not exist in 10 years, except for amateur junk.
Those cliffhanger shows make money because people whant to know what will happen next, and can't wait until someone strips the commercials breaks (the fucking "one hour an episode" of 24 is actually "41 minutes an episode" because of commercials) and. People watch them when they get aired. Announcers pay millions of dollars for the shows. Then a few months later th DVDs come out. Die hard fans buy them. Then the DVD price lowers, lesser fans buy them. Then it gets serialized with magazines for even cheaper. All the while, money gets in.
There is always a price point at which people will want to use parts of their income to buy DVDs. Guess what, sometimes that price is zero. Will the provider sell it for 0 ? No, because it is not profitable. Some OMG EVIL PIRATES do that. Most of the downloaders would not have paid for the contents anyway, or not until the contents gets released at their acceptable price point. I actually DID buy the serialized 24 day 1 DVDs when they became cheap, even though I could have copied my brother's copies; I was just too lazy to copy them.
Premium content survived the VCR, it will survive the internet.
Personally, dude, if my neighbor was stealing millions of dollars of (let's say) Korean music, I'd be glad to see North Korean knock on his door and take him away.
Dude, are you actually advocating ANYONE get arrested by a horrible police of a horrible prison state for a non-violent crime ?
You must be a very, very sad person. Do you have friends ?
It's a turboshaft engine with afterburners. Granted, these are very inefficient, but they are also pretty powerful IIRC, and also don't need 20-35 seconds to start, as show in the video
I am the author of "Hello Country". Your work is clearly derived from mine but you didn't buy a license. You claim a loss of $5.4b. I'm gonna rip you and the "Goodbye Country" author off !
If 24 is actually 18 hours long, that says something awful about how much advertising is on tv.
You moron ! It's called 24 because there are 24 episodes in a season, as opposed to the regular 22. What do you think Jack Bauer does during the commercial break. Just like you, he takes a leak or heads to the fridge.
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as does every evolutive process
Malthusian catastrophes like starvation are no more a solution to overpopulation than selling your car/house to finance your gambling addiction is.
Personally I do not think there is a solution to overpopulation: given any viable possibility (an unoccupied ecological niche) any living being will just reproduce, and if it doesn't, his neighbour will, and if none of neighbours will because they are "educated", someone will just migrate into the available niche and occupy it. And even if once upon a time the education problem is solved (utopic, but not impossible), we'll still have to deal with greed and selfishness.
And now for the fun calculation: let's assume the developed world is about 1 billion people out of 6.4b, and let's divide that number by ten to have a sustainable population of 100m people. Let's be humane and not exterminate the undeveloped populations. If everyone on the planet were to apply a one child per woman policy (so everyone can have a child which seems fair), it would take a whole 8 generations (200 years) to reach that 100m population. According to my calculation, we're currently at 2.76 per woman. In other words, we're fucked.
Even without c-section, men are conditioned to love large hips, which gives a selection advantage to large hip women.
So you're right to say that the hipbones are a bottleneck, but the bottleneck is not fixed in dimension: it evolves too, and there is an evolutionary advantage at it being marginalized.
why do I feel non non-MMORPG producers are soon going to sue MMORPG producers for the $150b losses they endure because of them ?
Then again the HD space on a mac mini is more than anemic by modern, megapixel, sacd quality standards.
Most people who do have $1200 at hand for a decent laptop prefer to keep it on their savings accounts for less futile things. Therefore, leaping from laptop to laptop to upgrade is pretty painful.
Meanwhile, a desktop can be upgraded in $100 increments. None of these increments are particularly painful. No need to replace a display until it breaks (rare) or becomes obsolete (rare). Same for keyboard, mouse, and arguably HDD.
Meanwhile in Europe, 400m godless baby eaters are wondering what the fuss is all about, if they even are aware of it...
Yahoo just finds less results...
A møøse once bit my sister
So apparently the PS2 was a supercomputer, the PS3 a computer. What will they call the PS4 to hype it ? A pocket calculator or an abacus ?
well, should they say AT machine and PI numbers ?
Then again killing flies just because they annoy you is also plain murder and no one would claim it is immoral eventhough it has probably a more important ecological impact.
Im liberal, democrat, hippie and therefore I am against violence, but is some cases like this one, I fail to see the immorality.
"Boohoohoo the poor embryo had its pain nerves stimulated oh the humanity !!!"
Why does everyone reformat their drives ? Why not just delete the Program Files, Windows and Documents and Settings ?
Do you all have dvd backups of your porn and mp3 ?
There is always a price point at which people will want to use parts of their income to buy DVDs. Guess what, sometimes that price is zero. Will the provider sell it for 0 ? No, because it is not profitable. Some OMG EVIL PIRATES do that. Most of the downloaders would not have paid for the contents anyway, or not until the contents gets released at their acceptable price point. I actually DID buy the serialized 24 day 1 DVDs when they became cheap, even though I could have copied my brother's copies; I was just too lazy to copy them.
Premium content survived the VCR, it will survive the internet.
next, they'll offer telephony over phone lines...
You must be a very, very sad person. Do you have friends ?
You, Sir, are a racist. This is sad.
* Playable on one single PC
* Downloaded via a distributed P2P system
Aren't these requirements incompatible ?
This gives a whole new dimension to the Penny Lane lyrics:
It's a turboshaft engine with afterburners. Granted, these are very inefficient, but they are also pretty powerful IIRC, and also don't need 20-35 seconds to start, as show in the video
I am the author of "Hello Country". Your work is clearly derived from mine but you didn't buy a license. You claim a loss of $5.4b. I'm gonna rip you and the "Goodbye Country" author off !