"Sir your visual cortex is extremely complex. At these percentages of activity and size, you should be able to spot perfect-10 curves from 5000 feet in the air. Of course someday you'll just magically go blind, with no medical explanation, so there's that."
Federal Agencies never die, they just get re-spun with more responsibility so they can then complain for more funding when their current responsibilities are abandoned.
The examples given in this slashdot article are not cuts, they amount to normal civil-servant bashing and behavior. The only thing surprising is that the unionization of TSA workers isn't the most frightening thing imaginable.
"Ah, you can't fly, in fact, I'm supposed to arrest you. Come here please."
"Oh, you say this is a mistake?"
"Don't worry, this is just a result of a feature with a work-around. I'm sure they'll fix these bugs in CIA 2.0. In the meantime, enjoy your stay in Leavenworth."
The goal of special effects shouldn't necessarily be to look realistic, they should be works of art themselves and help create a mood or tell a story.'
So are they saying that CGI artists are not artists? I know a lot of people who would disagree.
That's not what's needed for Peak Oil. Peak Oil means even with higher demand, as we have now, there won't be more Oil on the market. And that's exactly what happens since around 2005/2006: the absolute amount of oil extracted and sold sinks slowly every year, while before that it increased always except in times of severe crisis, economic or price hikes (1970s).
And why don't we have more oil on the market? Please ask yourself this question honestly. You seem to jump to the conclusion that the *ONLY* reason we don't have more on the market is because there just isn't any more to produce. That is not true.
1) China's and India's economies have been expanding at an insane pace in the last 10 years. More people in those countries drive cars now than every before. The demand has continually been increasing.
2) Developed nations (most notably the U.S. and Canada) have politically decided that oil is "dirty" and entire industries have been prevented from expanded production of oil in these 2 nations (which have vast tracks of land, full of oil), this is to say nothing of the rest of the world, which seemed quite content to just let the monopoly OPEC exist and just deal with them.
World oil isn't running out, our demand is not out-stripping our potential supply, it's just monopolized.
Soot, by the way, has always been the worst human health hazard from burning coal, oil, etc... If you could eliminate particulate soot you can solve real human health problems and save lives.
No one talks about it though.
Peak Oil is a largely politically driven fear. There is no proof of any future "end" of oil being available, or even any future net loss of oil production due to oil not being available.
^^^ Try and prove that statement incorrect. I would be very interested in actual proof that the world has no more oil available. Don't forget to look 20 miles into the Earth's crust, we can't ignore any potential new source, now can we?
History has shown every prediction thus far of us running out of oil to be incorrect. Those who own energy wells will do anything to make their product more expensive, even and especially pretending their resources is scarce and is running out.
CERN can get neutrinos to energy levels greater than a supernova? I think you mean energy levels greater than those detected from the supernova.
Also, if the energy level were a factor in velocity, then light speed would not be a fundamental speed limit, or neutrinos behave like no mass we know (but we sorta knew that).
As far as overall percentage of the voting-age population is concerned, it can be that low. Turnout for presidential elections can only be about 30% of the voting-age population, and during the Gore/Bush election those numbers were evenly split. So, order-of-magnitude, yeah.
Have you seen the approval ratings of the U.S. Congress? They are abysmal and have been there for a very long time. This group does not represent its citizens, not by a longshot. This is an example of what happens when corporations corrupt a representative process.
You should buy yourself a subscription and delve into my comment history if you really want to get offended.
No, thanks. Your insults kinda diminish any value I might've thought I would get out of a subscription, and times are tough for those of us polite people.
And people like you don't lose Karma on/.? I mean look at your replies here, nothing but patronization directed at someone who was making a joke from the post of a troll.
You reinforce the opinion expressed in OP with your behavior.
Yet you replied to it, so there must have been some desire to make someone else look silly on the internet rattling around in the old skull there. It's a shame with all the interest you paid to it and the desire to make a further joke out of me with your reply that you couldn't catch onto the originally intended absurdity.
If it violates the TOS of the website, it's now a crime. Sort of a "make your own rules" clause for corporations that lets them throw customers in jail. I wouldn't want to see/. throw anonymous coward in jail, so I feel a duty to inform you.
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An NT user-security ruleset on allowable surgery for the user might be nice tho.
"Sir your visual cortex is extremely complex. At these percentages of activity and size, you should be able to spot perfect-10 curves from 5000 feet in the air. Of course someday you'll just magically go blind, with no medical explanation, so there's that."
Federal Agencies never die, they just get re-spun with more responsibility so they can then complain for more funding when their current responsibilities are abandoned.
The examples given in this slashdot article are not cuts, they amount to normal civil-servant bashing and behavior. The only thing surprising is that the unionization of TSA workers isn't the most frightening thing imaginable.
"Ah, you can't fly, in fact, I'm supposed to arrest you. Come here please."
"Oh, you say this is a mistake?"
"Don't worry, this is just a result of a feature with a work-around. I'm sure they'll fix these bugs in CIA 2.0. In the meantime, enjoy your stay in Leavenworth."
The goal of special effects shouldn't necessarily be to look realistic, they should be works of art themselves and help create a mood or tell a story.'
So are they saying that CGI artists are not artists? I know a lot of people who would disagree.
And why don't we have more oil on the market? Please ask yourself this question honestly. You seem to jump to the conclusion that the *ONLY* reason we don't have more on the market is because there just isn't any more to produce. That is not true.
1) China's and India's economies have been expanding at an insane pace in the last 10 years. More people in those countries drive cars now than every before. The demand has continually been increasing.
2) Developed nations (most notably the U.S. and Canada) have politically decided that oil is "dirty" and entire industries have been prevented from expanded production of oil in these 2 nations (which have vast tracks of land, full of oil), this is to say nothing of the rest of the world, which seemed quite content to just let the monopoly OPEC exist and just deal with them.
World oil isn't running out, our demand is not out-stripping our potential supply, it's just monopolized.
Soot, by the way, has always been the worst human health hazard from burning coal, oil, etc... If you could eliminate particulate soot you can solve real human health problems and save lives. No one talks about it though.
Peak Oil is a largely politically driven fear. There is no proof of any future "end" of oil being available, or even any future net loss of oil production due to oil not being available.
^^^ Try and prove that statement incorrect. I would be very interested in actual proof that the world has no more oil available. Don't forget to look 20 miles into the Earth's crust, we can't ignore any potential new source, now can we?
History has shown every prediction thus far of us running out of oil to be incorrect. Those who own energy wells will do anything to make their product more expensive, even and especially pretending their resources is scarce and is running out.
is that assault?
CERN can get neutrinos to energy levels greater than a supernova? I think you mean energy levels greater than those detected from the supernova. Also, if the energy level were a factor in velocity, then light speed would not be a fundamental speed limit, or neutrinos behave like no mass we know (but we sorta knew that).
As far as overall percentage of the voting-age population is concerned, it can be that low. Turnout for presidential elections can only be about 30% of the voting-age population, and during the Gore/Bush election those numbers were evenly split. So, order-of-magnitude, yeah.
How do we know the speed of neutrinos is constant over the life/span of the universe?
Have you seen the approval ratings of the U.S. Congress? They are abysmal and have been there for a very long time. This group does not represent its citizens, not by a longshot. This is an example of what happens when corporations corrupt a representative process.
You should buy yourself a subscription and delve into my comment history if you really want to get offended.
No, thanks. Your insults kinda diminish any value I might've thought I would get out of a subscription, and times are tough for those of us polite people.
This was a troll mods? ---> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/15/1821238/doj-violating-a-sites-tos-is-a-crime Really?
And people like you don't lose Karma on /.? I mean look at your replies here, nothing but patronization directed at someone who was making a joke from the post of a troll.
You reinforce the opinion expressed in OP with your behavior.
Yet you replied to it, so there must have been some desire to make someone else look silly on the internet rattling around in the old skull there. It's a shame with all the interest you paid to it and the desire to make a further joke out of me with your reply that you couldn't catch onto the originally intended absurdity.
Holy cow it's true, sense of humor was removed from this site. I was even modded down for that post that could have only been absurd.
If it violates the TOS of the website, it's now a crime. Sort of a "make your own rules" clause for corporations that lets them throw customers in jail. I wouldn't want to see /. throw anonymous coward in jail, so I feel a duty to inform you.
New device with more overall wattage requirements is always a few months out.
What if you think it was right to clean the park, but very very very WRONG to prevent media coverage? Where's that vote?
At least you admit your bigotry. I recall generations of Europeans who were convinced they had none.
I have a lot of faith in the enterprising abilities of the ladies of the night in this world. I can't believe they haven't thought of this.
It's very tough to be a Greenpeace terrorist these days, you have to show up to court so you can get acquitted for criminal damages to a power plant.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/kingsnorth-trial-verdict100908/
Think of all the billable hours they could charge for policing the internet!