House, barn, stable and several hectares of land for (relatively) peanuts.
We have these things, called detergents, also water which can be used to "clean" things. I know that's a novel concept for many smokers. Then we have this other stuff called "paint" which can be put on top of pre-existing walls with a "brush" or "roller" to cover what cannot be "cleaned".
Dealing with anything which a smoker has owned (or used) is just completely disgusting. House, covered in yellow nicotine stains, thin film of brown smoke residue on fucking *everything*. I have a photo somewhere of a lightbulb which has a yellow/brown vapour deposition coating on one side, the other being less exposed. Then there's the smell on their clothes, in their cars, the yellowed teeth, yellowed fingers. I'd put money on it that the macbook in question was just as disgusting inside.
I don't see the problem. Humans have been preying on other humans since the first family split in two. You can get on as high a horse as you like, but all you're doing is adding hypocrisy and sanctimony to your list of character flaws.
Whether it's unreasonable or not is irrelevant. It's fact.
If the energy is made available there will be economic growth. Then there will be a continuing requirement for continuing growth.
3% per year gives what? How long will billions of years of uranium last? 250 years? 300? (I haven't run the numbers, but what I can tell you is that the emeritus professor from Stanford is wrong (or irrelevant) because his starting assumptions are wrong)
Do you think that the people 300 years ago could believe there would ever be 6 billion people on the planet? The kind of technology and energy which would be required to sustain a population that size?
Well, if you make the energy available, the entire planet (apart from megacities) will be turned into a farm to feed a growing population, and the population will grow, the energy consumption per capita will increase to consume all the available energy. That's humanity. That is exactly what has happened so far. You do want a flying car right? Flying SUV?
An utterly simple back of the envelope calculation demonstrates that the Earth contains sufficient uranium to supply fission power for billions of years [stanford.edu].
Utterly simple and utterly wrong.
Do that calculation again, and instead of assuming zero growth. Do it assuming 3% growth, because that's the average.
Then go look up "Dr. Albert Bartlett" and watch his "The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See".
Which is of course why you want more, bigger government who do everything for you. Because then there will be fewer puppets and more nice fuzzy people who have nothing but your best interests at heart.
I swear, I'm either going to have to buy a farm somewhere and retire, far away from people, or buy a rifle and start taking random pot shots. Which is cheaper?
Recycling and clean manufacturing processes will become economically viable because the energy to do it will be cheap.
Recycling already takes less energy than mining for example. Say copper. However it is still *more profitable* to run a copper mine. The low cost of energy makes mining cheap. *Expensive* energy makes recycling viable.
People will fight fewer wars over geographically concentrated energy resources.
So reducing death rates and increasing populations, growing the economy. Concrete concrete, everywhere.
Wealthy people reproduce less than poor ones, so population growth will be slowed or even reversed.
Wealthy people consume vastly more. Compare the USA with Bangladesh.
Cheap clean energy will save the planet.
Take a look around at what cheap oil did. Cheaper energy means more concrete, more steel, more glass. Cheaper energy (clean or not) is the death knell for most of the other species on the the planet.
Now... *Engineering*, is a profession. But you can be a developer/programmer without being an engineer and the number of programmers/developers who pretend they are engineers (without actually following any engineering practices) is astounding.
What will happen is it will allow the economy, unlimited growth. With that goes consumption. Humans will literally build, eat and fuck the planet into a desolate wasteland.
Go take a look at reality sometime. Visit your local council. Take a look at the nepotism, the corruption, the incompetence, the arse covering, the back scratching.
This is what government *is*, not what it's supposed to be or might theoretically be. National government is exactly the same, only *MUCH* bigger. How much exactly has the government enslaved future generations for? Who did they give it to?
The difference in Russia is there is less hypocrisy and more shooting. So I doubt they missed the point at all. They were just being clear what the point is.
How old is the web now? and we still have muppets producing RIDICULOUS URLs.
DON'T YOU WANT PEOPLE TO SAVE/READ/SHARE your URLS? Don't you want to make it easy for people to use your service?
Y'know... There are too many retards in the world. Particularly working in the IT business. We need some more wars, disease or something to "thin the herd".
Maybe I'll "sponsor a sniper"... How much do hit men cost in California at the moment?
Slashdot Mirror
Disgusting is not a legal reason to void a legal contract.
It's a good enough reason to try.
Presumably nobody put a gun to the grandparents head and forced him to move into that house.
Doesn't prevent it being fucking disgusting.
Why did you choose it if you you did not like it?
House, barn, stable and several hectares of land for (relatively) peanuts.
We have these things, called detergents, also water which can be used to "clean" things. I know that's a novel concept for many smokers. Then we have this other stuff called "paint" which can be put on top of pre-existing walls with a "brush" or "roller" to cover what cannot be "cleaned".
Slashdot ate my [shudder] tag.
Dealing with anything which a smoker has owned (or used) is just completely disgusting. House, covered in yellow nicotine stains, thin film of brown smoke residue on fucking *everything*. I have a photo somewhere of a lightbulb which has a yellow/brown vapour deposition coating on one side, the other being less exposed. Then there's the smell on their clothes, in their cars, the yellowed teeth, yellowed fingers. I'd put money on it that the macbook in question was just as disgusting inside.
I moved into a house previously owned by a smoker. Almost got nicotine poisoning just from touching the wallpaper...
I don't see the problem. Humans have been preying on other humans since the first family split in two. You can get on as high a horse as you like, but all you're doing is adding hypocrisy and sanctimony to your list of character flaws.
It just is. The only people demanding Android phones are right here, on /.
Symbian is 50% of the market, and most of that is Nokia (e.g. http://store.ovi.com./
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone
The US market is sewn up they (US telcos) aren't going to be shipping them any time soon.
Everywhere else should be though.
It'll be coming to a corporate network near you real soon.
I just want a workflow system that I don't have to write code.
With all of their phones.
http://europe.nokia.com/explore-services/maps
http://betalabs.nokia.com/ovi-maps
You do know those are all recyclable resources right?
You can only recycle what isn't being used. The fucking part of my statement was to indicate that the population will continue to expand.
Since there is only so much Copper in the ground that is easily accessible we will reach that point eventually.
We've already passed that point. The only thing allowing us to continue mining the lower and lower grades is cheap abundant energy.
we need to try to avoid doing anything to wipe ourselves out.
What's all this "we" and "ourselves" stuff? You're on your own mate, I've already taken steps to take advantage of the situation.
human power
animal power
wind/water power
wood powered steam
coal powered steam
oil power
nuclear powered steam
http://greenberg-art.com/.Toons/.Toons,%20Environ/qqxsgPopulation%20chart.gif
Whether it's unreasonable or not is irrelevant. It's fact.
If the energy is made available there will be economic growth. Then there will be a continuing requirement for continuing growth.
3% per year gives what? How long will billions of years of uranium last? 250 years? 300? (I haven't run the numbers, but what I can tell you is that the emeritus professor from Stanford is wrong (or irrelevant) because his starting assumptions are wrong)
You also might want to acquaint yourself with Olduvai Gorge theory.
http://www.oilcrisis.com/duncan/road2olduvai.pdf
It's right there in the population charts.
Do you think that the people 300 years ago could believe there would ever be 6 billion people on the planet? The kind of technology and energy which would be required to sustain a population that size?
Well, if you make the energy available, the entire planet (apart from megacities) will be turned into a farm to feed a growing population, and the population will grow, the energy consumption per capita will increase to consume all the available energy. That's humanity. That is exactly what has happened so far. You do want a flying car right? Flying SUV?
An utterly simple back of the envelope calculation demonstrates that the Earth contains sufficient uranium to supply fission power for billions of years [stanford.edu].
Utterly simple and utterly wrong.
Do that calculation again, and instead of assuming zero growth. Do it assuming 3% growth, because that's the average.
Then go look up "Dr. Albert Bartlett" and watch his "The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See".
Which is of course why you want more, bigger government who do everything for you. Because then there will be fewer puppets and more nice fuzzy people who have nothing but your best interests at heart.
I swear, I'm either going to have to buy a farm somewhere and retire, far away from people, or buy a rifle and start taking random pot shots. Which is cheaper?
Recycling and clean manufacturing processes will become economically viable because the energy to do it will be cheap.
Recycling already takes less energy than mining for example. Say copper. However it is still *more profitable* to run a copper mine. The low cost of energy makes mining cheap. *Expensive* energy makes recycling viable.
People will fight fewer wars over geographically concentrated energy resources.
So reducing death rates and increasing populations, growing the economy. Concrete concrete, everywhere.
Wealthy people reproduce less than poor ones, so population growth will be slowed or even reversed.
Wealthy people consume vastly more. Compare the USA with Bangladesh.
Cheap clean energy will save the planet.
Take a look around at what cheap oil did. Cheaper energy means more concrete, more steel, more glass. Cheaper energy (clean or not) is the death knell for most of the other species on the the planet.
but I'm in systems engineering
Really? You're in systems engineering. Which engineering body are you affiliated with?
phd. certified and approved.
Programming is a trade, not a profession.
Now... *Engineering*, is a profession. But you can be a developer/programmer without being an engineer and the number of programmers/developers who pretend they are engineers (without actually following any engineering practices) is astounding.
All developers are blue collar. Programming is the IT equivalent of brick laying, it's a trade, not a profession.
Professions have legal status; Doctors, lawyers, accountants have to be certified and approved.
Or rather.
What will happen is it will allow the economy, unlimited growth. With that goes consumption. Humans will literally build, eat and fuck the planet into a desolate wasteland.
Wow. Talk about swallowing the propaganda.
Go take a look at reality sometime. Visit your local council. Take a look at the nepotism, the corruption, the incompetence, the arse covering, the back scratching.
This is what government *is*, not what it's supposed to be or might theoretically be. National government is exactly the same, only *MUCH* bigger. How much exactly has the government enslaved future generations for? Who did they give it to?
The difference in Russia is there is less hypocrisy and more shooting. So I doubt they missed the point at all. They were just being clear what the point is.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8360569.stm
In soviet russia, the kebab eats you. etc etc.
FFS...
How old is the web now? and we still have muppets producing RIDICULOUS URLs.
DON'T YOU WANT PEOPLE TO SAVE/READ/SHARE your URLS? Don't you want to make it easy for people to use your service?
Y'know... There are too many retards in the world. Particularly working in the IT business. We need some more wars, disease or something to "thin the herd".
Maybe I'll "sponsor a sniper"... How much do hit men cost in California at the moment?
Enjoy your superstition. It has no effect on reality.
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=suicide+bomber&btnG=Google+Search&meta=lr%3D&aq=f&oq=
"Not my responsibility".