Okay, great. The universe is expanding. But is it expanding quickly enough? By my calculations, the universe is not expanding quickly enough. The theoretical Heat Death of the expanding universe will not occur until long after the Starbucks Death of the universe.
That's right, the volume of Starbuckses is increasing at an accelerating rate. If this trend continues the entire universe will be filled with Starbuckses in 10^8 years, a tiny fraction of the time required for the Heat Death of the universe.
My wife, who also codes for a living, claims her lasik surgery was the best money she ever spent.
Her surgery was actually performed by Dr. Dell, Michael Dell's brother at the Texan Eye Center on South Mopac in Austin.
Once she was on the table, the whole shebang took less than 10 minutes. It has been about 18 months since her operation and she's noted no ill effects.
A few of my NASA buddies and I got drunk one night, hotwired the crawlers and spent the evening drag racing them down the tarmac.
I may have over revved the engine on the first one while shifting from 2nd to 3rd gear at 0.7 miles per hour... I tell you, those suckers are tricky at those speeds...
but I am on the verge of going to satellite for my tv
I suggest that you do change. I've been using DirecTV for years and enjoying great service from a company that knows that you could go somewhere else in a heartbeat if they didn't provide quality service at a fair price.
I recently switched from my cable modem to DirecTV's DSL service also. I'm not sending another check to Time Fucking Warner ever again. And take a peek at this:
VPN? FTP servers? Web servers? No problem!
You do have a choice and IMHO your local cable company is generally the wrong one.
I generally browse the web with images turned off. Most ads have really informative ALT text for their images like "Click This!" or no text at all.
Errrr.... Okay. How about using alt text that says something like "WTF T-shirt at thinkgeek.com, $15.00" seems like that ad would still be effective, even if I was browsing with images turned off.
The key to successfully advertising on an online RPG would be to make the ads desireable in the context of the game.
In DiabloII, for example, collecting the runes 'C', 'O','K', and 'E' and putting them in an item could make a bad-ass and much desired rune word. Players would scramble about in an attempt to locate these "sponsored" items.
Your Paladin would soon be wearing Nike Mesh Boots, GAP armor, Dillard's rings, etc. Everyone would be walking billboards, just like in real life!
So it's OK then for the "booming economy" of greater LA to consume more energy, much of it in the form of fossil fuels (with it's attendant greenhouse gas emissions) than the entire Indian subcontinent?
Yes! What do you think everyone is doing in LA? Burning 55 gallon drums of leaded gasoline just to watch the smoke rise into the sky? No, they're converting this energy into the products and services that you and I use every day. (And they're converting this energy into useful stuff a hell of a lot more efficiently than any 3rd world country. They're also looking for new and better ways to use the energy we've got.
We're near the end of our massive polluting phase. We can stop here and keep massivly polluting or we can go forward a wee bit longer and our strong economy will provide us with all the clean energy that we want. Why? Because rich consumers demand clean energy and will pay for it therefore industry will spend Big Bucks to develop these products.
Twenty years ago fusion power required 100,000 units of energy as input for each unit of energy extracted. Now it only takes tens of units of energy. That's 4 orders of magnitude of more energy in just 20 years! That's incredible!
In my lifetime I expect that we'll see the rise of fusion power (and the associated decline of fossil fuel power). Ocean water will become fuel, helium will be the major power plant emission, and I'll finally be able to sock my air conditioner down to 45 degrees and get a pet penguin.
A lot of the global warming uproar is designed to damage the US economy, not protect the environment.
Unfortunately, a strong economy is the best thing for the environment and if Kyoto Protocol proponents manage to cripple our economies then we're all doomed.
High powered economies (like the United States) and rich citizens (like the United States) create people that both care about the environment and have the means to do something about it.
Our high powered economy allows us to do expensive things like research Fusion Power. This research can't happen in a country with a crippled economy.
Yes, we're burning the candle at both ends right now, but by doing so we're buying a better future.
How far back to the rabid environmentalists want us to go? 100 years? 200? 1000? The world was never an environmental paradise. Our best bet for creating a new Eden is to keep on like we're going, develop cleaner limitless power sources and then clean up the mess we've made in a few decades. You can't bake a cake without breaking some eggs.
I just use "a" as my password. That way when someone launches a dictionary attack against my system it doesn't waste as much bandwidth as my old "zenzebrazygotes" password.
NOW how much would you pay? I'd pay $10/lb for grain-only beef.
That's great! My father-in-law happens to raise cattle and all of his just feed on grass. $10/lb is about 10 times the going rate for beef. How many cows can I sign you up for?
Different jurisdictions are quite likely to have different, and even mutually exclusive, legal requirements.
If you had to comply with laws from every jurisdiction and France demanded that every web site available to French citizens be written in French and East Tdjakickstan mandated that every web site be written in whateverthehelltheyspeakineasttdjakickstan then suddenly _every_ web page is in violation of at least one country's law.
France doesn't own the net any more than the US does.
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Okay, great. The universe is expanding. But is it expanding quickly enough? By my calculations, the universe is not expanding quickly enough. The theoretical Heat Death of the expanding universe will not occur until long after the Starbucks Death of the universe.
That's right, the volume of Starbuckses is increasing at an accelerating rate. If this trend continues the entire universe will be filled with Starbuckses in 10^8 years, a tiny fraction of the time required for the Heat Death of the universe.
Peter
If we considered a tetraneutron to be element 0 then wouldn't a single neutron be an isotope of element 0?
peter
My wife, who also codes for a living, claims her lasik surgery was the best money she ever spent.
Her surgery was actually performed by Dr. Dell, Michael Dell's brother at the Texan Eye Center on South Mopac in Austin.
Once she was on the table, the whole shebang took less than 10 minutes. It has been about 18 months since her operation and she's noted no ill effects.
Peter
A few of my NASA buddies and I got drunk one night, hotwired the crawlers and spent the evening drag racing them down the tarmac.
I may have over revved the engine on the first one while shifting from 2nd to 3rd gear at 0.7 miles per hour... I tell you, those suckers are tricky at those speeds...
Peter
Tell me more of this strange concept "work clothes" that you speak of?
peter
He suggests that maybe, just maybe, humans and technology are Gaia's attempts at preventing another catestrophic impact.
His article is a good read at Reason Online.
I suggest that you do change. I've been using DirecTV for years and enjoying great service from a company that knows that you could go somewhere else in a heartbeat if they didn't provide quality service at a fair price.
I recently switched from my cable modem to DirecTV's DSL service also. I'm not sending another check to Time Fucking Warner ever again. And take a peek at this: VPN? FTP servers? Web servers? No problem!
You do have a choice and IMHO your local cable company is generally the wrong one.
Peter
just another happy customer...
That looked a lot like the shopping list for my bachelor party... I just wish I could remember what we were doing with all of those Zapatistas.
It is not theft to ignore ads.
I generally browse the web with images turned off. Most ads have really informative ALT text for their images like "Click This!" or no text at all.
Errrr.... Okay. How about using alt text that says something like "WTF T-shirt at thinkgeek.com, $15.00" seems like that ad would still be effective, even if I was browsing with images turned off.
The key to successfully advertising on an online RPG would be to make the ads desireable in the context of the game.
In DiabloII, for example, collecting the runes 'C', 'O','K', and 'E' and putting them in an item could make a bad-ass and much desired rune word. Players would scramble about in an attempt to locate these "sponsored" items.
Your Paladin would soon be wearing Nike Mesh Boots, GAP armor, Dillard's rings, etc. Everyone would be walking billboards, just like in real life!
Hrmmm. Maybe this isn't such a good idea.
Yes! What do you think everyone is doing in LA? Burning 55 gallon drums of leaded gasoline just to watch the smoke rise into the sky? No, they're converting this energy into the products and services that you and I use every day. (And they're converting this energy into useful stuff a hell of a lot more efficiently than any 3rd world country. They're also looking for new and better ways to use the energy we've got.
We're near the end of our massive polluting phase. We can stop here and keep massivly polluting or we can go forward a wee bit longer and our strong economy will provide us with all the clean energy that we want. Why? Because rich consumers demand clean energy and will pay for it therefore industry will spend Big Bucks to develop these products.
Twenty years ago fusion power required 100,000 units of energy as input for each unit of energy extracted. Now it only takes tens of units of energy. That's 4 orders of magnitude of more energy in just 20 years! That's incredible!
In my lifetime I expect that we'll see the rise of fusion power (and the associated decline of fossil fuel power). Ocean water will become fuel, helium will be the major power plant emission, and I'll finally be able to sock my air conditioner down to 45 degrees and get a pet penguin.
Peter
Unfortunately, a strong economy is the best thing for the environment and if Kyoto Protocol proponents manage to cripple our economies then we're all doomed.
High powered economies (like the United States) and rich citizens (like the United States) create people that both care about the environment and have the means to do something about it.
Our high powered economy allows us to do expensive things like research Fusion Power. This research can't happen in a country with a crippled economy.
Yes, we're burning the candle at both ends right now, but by doing so we're buying a better future.
How far back to the rabid environmentalists want us to go? 100 years? 200? 1000? The world was never an environmental paradise. Our best bet for creating a new Eden is to keep on like we're going, develop cleaner limitless power sources and then clean up the mess we've made in a few decades. You can't bake a cake without breaking some eggs.
Peter
For further reading, I'd suggest:
Kyoto Policy Analysis
I just use "a" as my password. That way when someone launches a dictionary attack against my system it doesn't waste as much bandwidth as my old "zenzebrazygotes" password.
Peter
That's great! My father-in-law happens to raise cattle and all of his just feed on grass. $10/lb is about 10 times the going rate for beef. How many cows can I sign you up for?
...and for some reason the FAA won't let you on a commercial jet with your new anti-matter powered laptop.
Different jurisdictions are quite likely to have different, and even mutually exclusive, legal requirements.
If you had to comply with laws from every jurisdiction and France demanded that every web site available to French citizens be written in French and East Tdjakickstan mandated that every web site be written in whateverthehelltheyspeakineasttdjakickstan then suddenly _every_ web page is in violation of at least one country's law.
France doesn't own the net any more than the US does.
Peter