The danger of carbon is not the point in this analysis. The points are that (1) Canadian oilsand petroleum will reach the market with or without the pipeline, and (2) holding up the pipeline is not even preventing Canadian oilsand from reaching the US market, because it's currently trickling in by rail. Building Keystone will make this process safer and make it cheaper for the oil to flow through the US, contributing o our economy, rather than being piped to somewhere like Hudson's Bay for direct shipment to Asia.
New domains like these are difficult to sell as advertising hooks because so many common folk insist on adding '.com' to the end of anything other. But in what way are they bad for the Internet?
So after an extended period of public debate followed by a government raid on the newspaper offices, did anyone actually believe that this small set of computers held the world's only copy of that set of files?
Because each state in the Colorado basin gets a share of the river in proportion to its population, the largest share of the water actually goes to the burgeoning population of Los Angeles. The way to really save the Colorado would be for coastal California to start desalinating its infinite supply of water. This could be a more efficient application for the state's constantly fluctuating renewable energy sources than trying to shoehorn it into the power grid.
Even less interesting to the Western press is the eighteen thousand people who died in that very calamity at places other than Fukushima. Mass deaths in one of the largest and costliest natural disasters of all time mean nothing to those pursuing a political crusade.
We don't want to get rid of spent fuel, because it's a valuable resource. We need to keep those rods in dry storage until it becomes economical to recycle them into new fuel plus medical/industrial isotopes.
Natural selection got us to where we are today, a species adapted for the gravitation and environment of one specific planet. To address the multitude of miscellaneous physiological problems referred to in TFA, we need to start applying intelligent design by developing a series of genetic modifications that will give us a subspecies well adapted for microgravity.
So the crowned heads of science have just figured out that if there's a shortage of agricultural phosphorus and a surplus of it in sewage? Why not just funnel the sewage, after primary treatment to break the disease transmission cycle, right onto our fields? A variation of this is being done in Phoenix, where the municipal wastewater is used as the heat sink for the city nuclear plant, in the process being boiled off to sludge. The sludge is then dumped onto the cotton fields surrounding the plant.
You're thinking of obsidian blades. Flint can be made quite sharp, but not as good as modern steel knives. Obsidian fracture edges can be one molecule thick.
I've heard that providing low-cost housing has been an issue in Surrey, but this story should tell you that a mobile home park is not the best approach.
Yes, let's push the hell out of renewables, as the Germans are doing. Then, with wind turbines twirling away on every hilltop and coastline, what do you propose for the other 80% of our power needs? Germany is going back to coal as a supplement, but in the Mann-is-right scenario we're discussing here, no fossil fuel is an option.
Meanwhile, have some freshly-sliced bald eagle straight from the windfield. I guarantee, no GMOs.
Just so we can see the look on his followers' faces when we explain that if we needed to eliminate all of our emitted carbon in one generation, we would have to go balls-to-wall nuclear. And if we urgently needed to sequester a good percentage of the manmade carbon already in the atmosphere and oceans, we would have to do geoengineering projects like seeding large areas of ocean with iron to promote the growth of algae that would then sunk to abyssal depths.
What I'm imagining is something like the face-melting scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
This is news for nerds, isn't it? After reading the letter itself, I'm with Perkins on this one. The San Francisco bus smashings are not in any way comparable to the Holocaust, but they are Kristallnacht: an early sign that our California brethren, now that they have after all those years in the wilderness become a major factor in the Bay Area economy, are starting to be demonized for their success.
The people who bullied us when we were kids are back, in angry new roles appropriate to the Bay Area: street thugs, homeless crazies, political satraps who buddy up with anyone who will project the power they always craved. All it takes now is for some charismatic leader-on-horseback to come galloping out of Berkeley to pass out the brown shirts, and it's game on.
Those 85 people do not have their wealth shoved under mattresses, or they would with time steadily erode out of those top positions. They may "control" the wealth, they we are all still using it.
The one sure-fire way to get rid of hipsters in your neighborhood is to allow Walmart to locate there (Yes, there is a compact urban version). But, like that's going to happen in San Francisco.
Kansas can claim that there is no danger in donating to a "legal" sperm bank, but we can bet that every deadbeat dad lawyer in the country will now be combing state law for loopholes they can use to nail men for child support. The DNA link to specific births they need is right there for all the courts to see. "But...but...donor records are anonymous in my state!", you're going to say. Yeah, like that phone call metadata you thought were confidential.
The fundamental fact about plastic is that it is, well, plastic. Suppose we research the optimum shapes and sizes for bee-friendly plastic bits, and then intentionally set these out for their use? Bonus points for making it biodegradable over time or under specific environmental conditions, such as cold winter weather.
And we are somehow worse off than Europe, where not only do surveillance cameras bristle from every public surface wherever you go, but the droogs from the Korova Milkbar still have the run of the continent, with the crime victims being arrested if they fight back? Sorry Euro-peons, but I prefer it here with our Second Amendment.
I'm a movie buff, but long ago I stopped going to theaters except for special occasions with friends. Sticky floors, that tall guy in front of me, wailing babies, people talking - and now this. For me, Netflix forever.
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The danger of carbon is not the point in this analysis. The points are that (1) Canadian oilsand petroleum will reach the market with or without the pipeline, and (2) holding up the pipeline is not even preventing Canadian oilsand from reaching the US market, because it's currently trickling in by rail. Building Keystone will make this process safer and make it cheaper for the oil to flow through the US, contributing o our economy, rather than being piped to somewhere like Hudson's Bay for direct shipment to Asia.
Since everyone has a cellphone today, why are power outages such a deal-killer for you?
New domains like these are difficult to sell as advertising hooks because so many common folk insist on adding '.com' to the end of anything other. But in what way are they bad for the Internet?
You couldn't do this in Windows 8, because the function would return "total rage meltdown" with every call.
So after an extended period of public debate followed by a government raid on the newspaper offices, did anyone actually believe that this small set of computers held the world's only copy of that set of files?
If you can't get work done because people keep stopping by your cube to bug you about trivia, a garlic press can be very useful indeed.
Because each state in the Colorado basin gets a share of the river in proportion to its population, the largest share of the water actually goes to the burgeoning population of Los Angeles. The way to really save the Colorado would be for coastal California to start desalinating its infinite supply of water. This could be a more efficient application for the state's constantly fluctuating renewable energy sources than trying to shoehorn it into the power grid.
Even less interesting to the Western press is the eighteen thousand people who died in that very calamity at places other than Fukushima. Mass deaths in one of the largest and costliest natural disasters of all time mean nothing to those pursuing a political crusade.
We don't want to get rid of spent fuel, because it's a valuable resource. We need to keep those rods in dry storage until it becomes economical to recycle them into new fuel plus medical/industrial isotopes.
Natural selection got us to where we are today, a species adapted for the gravitation and environment of one specific planet. To address the multitude of miscellaneous physiological problems referred to in TFA, we need to start applying intelligent design by developing a series of genetic modifications that will give us a subspecies well adapted for microgravity.
So the crowned heads of science have just figured out that if there's a shortage of agricultural phosphorus and a surplus of it in sewage? Why not just funnel the sewage, after primary treatment to break the disease transmission cycle, right onto our fields? A variation of this is being done in Phoenix, where the municipal wastewater is used as the heat sink for the city nuclear plant, in the process being boiled off to sludge. The sludge is then dumped onto the cotton fields surrounding the plant.
Then you've got to visit Arizona.
You're thinking of obsidian blades. Flint can be made quite sharp, but not as good as modern steel knives. Obsidian fracture edges can be one molecule thick.
I've heard that providing low-cost housing has been an issue in Surrey, but this story should tell you that a mobile home park is not the best approach.
Meanwhile, have some freshly-sliced bald eagle straight from the windfield. I guarantee, no GMOs.
What I'm imagining is something like the face-melting scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
The people who bullied us when we were kids are back, in angry new roles appropriate to the Bay Area: street thugs, homeless crazies, political satraps who buddy up with anyone who will project the power they always craved. All it takes now is for some charismatic leader-on-horseback to come galloping out of Berkeley to pass out the brown shirts, and it's game on.
Those 85 people do not have their wealth shoved under mattresses, or they would with time steadily erode out of those top positions. They may "control" the wealth, they we are all still using it.
The one sure-fire way to get rid of hipsters in your neighborhood is to allow Walmart to locate there (Yes, there is a compact urban version). But, like that's going to happen in San Francisco.
Kansas can claim that there is no danger in donating to a "legal" sperm bank, but we can bet that every deadbeat dad lawyer in the country will now be combing state law for loopholes they can use to nail men for child support. The DNA link to specific births they need is right there for all the courts to see. "But...but...donor records are anonymous in my state!", you're going to say. Yeah, like that phone call metadata you thought were confidential.
The fundamental fact about plastic is that it is, well, plastic. Suppose we research the optimum shapes and sizes for bee-friendly plastic bits, and then intentionally set these out for their use? Bonus points for making it biodegradable over time or under specific environmental conditions, such as cold winter weather.
And ten years in prison for filesharing? That's almost as heavy as the British penalty for self-defense.
This CEO is going to have fun trying to keep on breathing at the bottom of a pile of every candy company lawyer in the country.
And we are somehow worse off than Europe, where not only do surveillance cameras bristle from every public surface wherever you go, but the droogs from the Korova Milkbar still have the run of the continent, with the crime victims being arrested if they fight back? Sorry Euro-peons, but I prefer it here with our Second Amendment.
I'm a movie buff, but long ago I stopped going to theaters except for special occasions with friends. Sticky floors, that tall guy in front of me, wailing babies, people talking - and now this. For me, Netflix forever.