Knives will never work for hijacking again. Reinforced cockpit doors aside, no knife fighter on earth is badass enough to hold his own against 12-to-1 odds in an enclosed space filled with people who are rabidly desperate to kill him.
As humans we have two roles. As a consumer we want goods to be cheap and abundant. As producers we want OUR goods to be scarce and expensive. The question is what type of society do you want to live in?
Here's an interesting question -- which of those two societies is sustainable?
This is the fundamental problem with green ideologues, they think that the biosphere is static and that life is impossible if it changes.
This is the fundamental problem with gigantic bipedal primates whose capacity for rational thought isn't as strong as their desire not to change their favorite habits; they think that when the biosphere changes, they'll be among the chosen species to survive.
You are way, way huger than anything that survived the greatest mass extinction, and this is not a fat-guy-in-mom's-basement joke. No human would have survived that event.
So China is wasting countless amounts of money on solar and you'd like us to do the same?
What the fuck are you talking about, "wasting"? China's strategy of undercutting the prices of our solar panel producers is working brilliantly. Not a single dollar wasted there.
You'd wonder how anything got done before the US invented the military industrial complex.
You know what wouldn't have gotten done?
The internet.
You think there'd be a PC in every other home without that?
1. We shouldn't have open market agreements with them as they are not playing by the same rules. We shouldn't pretend to have free trade when we don't. I'm much more in favor of stopping trade with countries that don't follow the same rules as us, than I am in some huge central planning government initiative.
Great. and while you spend the next twenty years dicking around with treaty negotiations, all our solar panel manufacturing goes tits-up.
2. Patents only last 20 years or so. If china wants to spend billions on research for us to reap their technology when it's right, more power to them. China is subsidizing the rest of the world. It's not gaining any advantage.
China doesn't give a shit about patents, and they're not subsidizing research. They're subsidizing production. They want to become the world's go-to source for solar panels, and they intend to do so by strangling our ability to produce them.
Incidentally, what are your thoughts on oil subsidies?
We know polio vaccines work, because when, say, people who had access to them all of a sudden can't get them for some reason, people start catching polio.
But by the same token, we know flu vaccines DON'T appear to work, because when people who had access to them all of a sudden can't get them for some reason, flu infection rates stay within the average range.
Yet the same drug companies push them as if they were equal, when one is clearly valuable and one is clearly shite.
It says right there in the summary that it's "remarkably efficient".
"Only a handful of animals are predominantly dependent on bamboo, including the giant panda, red panda, other bamboo lemurs (grey bamboo lemur (Hapalemur griseus) and greater bamboo lemur (Hapalemur simus)) found in Madagascar, and bamboo rats (including Rhizomys sinensis, R. pruinosus, and R. sumatrensis) found in China and Southeast Asia. (Roberts 1992)"
Very, very few animals can digest plant matter efficiently enough to live on bamboo.
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It always takes me three tries to read his name right.
Well, no.
But when you tell them to go fuck themselves, you won't get thrown in jail and fined twelve thousand dollars when you try to leave.
Knives will never work for hijacking again. Reinforced cockpit doors aside, no knife fighter on earth is badass enough to hold his own against 12-to-1 odds in an enclosed space filled with people who are rabidly desperate to kill him.
Large corporations got so rich and powerful that they don't need to respond to customers anymore.
A key next step is - like ATP synthase - to set up an energy source.
Done and done.
Bees and old ladies are made of cells, that are alive. Those cells are the fundamental unit of "life", they can reproduce themselves.
Generally, when a bee's or old lady's cells stop being able to replicate, the bee or old lady dies fairly quickly.
... but I need a more sophisicated algorithm to figure it out.
As humans we have two roles. As a consumer we want goods to be cheap and abundant. As producers we want OUR goods to be scarce and expensive. The question is what type of society do you want to live in?
Here's an interesting question -- which of those two societies is sustainable?
This is possibly my favorite Slashdot economics post ever.
Is anyone sucking millions of tons of water out of the earth every year and throwing it into the air?
...the Sun...?
should we really be messing with mechanics we can't even pretend to understand yet?
No, we shouldn't. Hence: Science!
This sounds like an idea that could have catastrophic consequences.
As opposed to what we're doing now. ._.
This is the fundamental problem with green ideologues, they think that the biosphere is static and that life is impossible if it changes.
This is the fundamental problem with gigantic bipedal primates whose capacity for rational thought isn't as strong as their desire not to change their favorite habits; they think that when the biosphere changes, they'll be among the chosen species to survive.
You are way, way huger than anything that survived the greatest mass extinction, and this is not a fat-guy-in-mom's-basement joke. No human would have survived that event.
...this totally blows away my papier-mache-and-baking-soda model.
I bet those guys are going to win the Science Fair.
"It's better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission..."
It's a mystery.
Unfortunately, un-doing them, when you fuck up and convict the wrong guy, is prohibitively expensive...
I've driven in rush hour in San Francisco Bay Area
I drive in one twice a day, and you are full of shit.
NO ONE is going at freeway speeds at those times when a safe following gap is untenable. The rest of the time, you just make a space. It's easy to do.
You just suck at doing it. Therefore, it must be other people's fault, and/or impossible. Dunning-Krueger effect.
If BART had left the cellphone repeaters on during the first protest, most of us would have all forgotten about it by now.
As it stands, there are now protests planned every single week into the indefinite future.
Not being able to communicate with their phones has not, it seems, prevented the protestors from using the calendar function on their phones...
No need to wait a few years!
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2555887104/tt1517489
Wonder how she'll describe her next pelvic exam...
I'ma go out on a limb here and say "consensual."
...he should just leak the block list.
Scrape pics for Google
Of my balls.
So China is wasting countless amounts of money on solar and you'd like us to do the same?
What the fuck are you talking about, "wasting"? China's strategy of undercutting the prices of our solar panel producers is working brilliantly. Not a single dollar wasted there.
You'd wonder how anything got done before the US invented the military industrial complex.
You know what wouldn't have gotten done?
The internet.
You think there'd be a PC in every other home without that?
1. We shouldn't have open market agreements with them as they are not playing by the same rules. We shouldn't pretend to have free trade when we don't. I'm much more in favor of stopping trade with countries that don't follow the same rules as us, than I am in some huge central planning government initiative.
Great. and while you spend the next twenty years dicking around with treaty negotiations, all our solar panel manufacturing goes tits-up.
2. Patents only last 20 years or so. If china wants to spend billions on research for us to reap their technology when it's right, more power to them. China is subsidizing the rest of the world. It's not gaining any advantage.
China doesn't give a shit about patents, and they're not subsidizing research. They're subsidizing production. They want to become the world's go-to source for solar panels, and they intend to do so by strangling our ability to produce them.
Incidentally, what are your thoughts on oil subsidies?
THIS.
We know polio vaccines work, because when, say, people who had access to them all of a sudden can't get them for some reason, people start catching polio.
But by the same token, we know flu vaccines DON'T appear to work, because when people who had access to them all of a sudden can't get them for some reason, flu infection rates stay within the average range.
Yet the same drug companies push them as if they were equal, when one is clearly valuable and one is clearly shite.
It says right there in the summary that it's "remarkably efficient".
"Only a handful of animals are predominantly dependent on bamboo, including the giant panda, red panda, other bamboo lemurs (grey bamboo lemur (Hapalemur griseus) and greater bamboo lemur (Hapalemur simus)) found in Madagascar, and bamboo rats (including Rhizomys sinensis, R. pruinosus, and R. sumatrensis) found in China and Southeast Asia. (Roberts 1992)"
Very, very few animals can digest plant matter efficiently enough to live on bamboo.