Out of oil, out of time. Current economic growth cannot be fed with oil, much less projected future growth. We need another project on the scale of the Manhattan project to develop fusion plants. Otherwise, world stability is in danger.
Yeah, but at least it's state of the art technology. What did Boeing create in the last 40 years that was as advanced as the Concorde?
How about efficient aircraft that allow carriers to make a profit and keep people and goods moving? Or is any airplane that can fly faster than 700mph automatically more "advanced" than a subsonic airplane?
Get rid of your car if you can use public transit instead.
This is great for the very miniscule percentage of people that live close to some large cities. How do you design a public transportation system that moves people from suburbs over many thousands of square miles to their jobs safely, quickly and efficiently? Most of the US depends on cheap personal transportation. Or do you suggest that everyone move back to the city?
The issue isn't one of running out of oil, but one of production decreasing. Nobody has said that oil is running out, in fact we'll probably never extract all the fossil fuel from the ground. The world's economy depends on the assumption that there will be more fuel tomorrow than there is today. This assumption cannot hold forever, and there are some indications that worldwide petroleum production is close to peak. In fact, oil production in the US, UK and other nations has already peaked. This, coupled with huge increases in Chinese fuel consumption, have led to the current increase in oil prices. I am not an environmentalist, but I realize that serious steps must be taken to mitigate the economic and geopolitical consequences.
With all that in mind, I have a hard time justifying a supersonic commercial airplane, especially when our airlines are already struggling to operate. For example, Delta airline's stock price has fallen from over $75 per share in 1999 to $1.41. Granted, 9/11 did affect air travel, but the number of airline passengers has since surpassed 9/11 levels. Fuel prices are currently gutting the airlines. How would such an aircraft help an airline continue to move people and goods by returning a profit?
And hence, it's not random... The genetic mutations (an aspect of NS) are random. NS as a consequence of a series of good mutations is therefore not random. If it were, NS would have roughly as many bad and good mutations...
The problem with your assertion is obvious when one considers what happens when genetic information is suddenly branched, creating two separated genetic pools, such as is the case with plants on either side of the great wall of China.There is random evolution even in the identical environment. There is serendipity in evolution even beyond the initial random mutations.
The first fallacy is its claim that evolution is a "random" process. Evolution is not random at all, as its progress is determined by natural selection (or the selection of God, if you prefer).
It is random. Mutations occur randomly. The "good" ones help the organism survive in some way and are passed down. The "bad" mutations kill off the organism and are not passed down. This is a basic part of the theory. "Natural selection" is simply the consequence of a series of "good" mutations.
Haraguchi-san recited an amazing 83,431 digits of Pi during a 13-hour overnight stretch. This more than doubles the previous record of 42,195 digits by fellow Japanese Hiroyuki Goto.
I've noticed many people saying that Auotcad won't run without admin rights. As an undergraduate, I had a regular user account in an NT domain with which I could run Autocad all day long. How is it that our IT department could set up Autocad properly and nobody else can?
Also, I propose we call these new Macs with Intel hardware MacIntels. It rolls off the tongue a bit better.
...the suggestion that an infinite number of monkeys will eventually produce a perfect script for Hamlet , given typewriters (or indeed keyboards) and enough time.
I think the internet has helped to disprove this assertion.
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A step in the right direction, but the speed is still quite low compared to other more developed countries.
Only if you gauge a country's level of development by starcraft player density.
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South Korea is also just a *teensy* bit smaller than the US. The infrastructure costs required to wire all the areas in the US with 25 Mbps speeds would be enormous. Also, just how many people can afford 20USD/month in South Korea? Does this include "the poor people"? Quit trying to compare two vastly different situations just to bash the US.
Not too harsh on the eyes? Maybe, but he bears an uncanny resemblance to a certain Patrick Bateman, and as such will probably gouge them out with an ice-cream scoop. This probably explains a bit about his insane ramblings.
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Not even Katrina knocked out power over the entire country. What good is HF if you can only communicate within the region that has been affected?
Out of oil, out of time. Current economic growth cannot be fed with oil, much less projected future growth. We need another project on the scale of the Manhattan project to develop fusion plants. Otherwise, world stability is in danger.
That's why we have batteries. I can run my VHF/UHF radio for a an entire day on a single batt and charge off the car. Same thing for my HF rig.
This is absolutely true. They already know that people are willing to pay $.99 for any old song.
You mean in the suburbs? I seriously doubt that 80% of the US population can count on public transportation as a viable alternative.
How about efficient aircraft that allow carriers to make a profit and keep people and goods moving? Or is any airplane that can fly faster than 700mph automatically more "advanced" than a subsonic airplane?
This is great for the very miniscule percentage of people that live close to some large cities. How do you design a public transportation system that moves people from suburbs over many thousands of square miles to their jobs safely, quickly and efficiently? Most of the US depends on cheap personal transportation. Or do you suggest that everyone move back to the city?
The issue isn't one of running out of oil, but one of production decreasing. Nobody has said that oil is running out, in fact we'll probably never extract all the fossil fuel from the ground. The world's economy depends on the assumption that there will be more fuel tomorrow than there is today. This assumption cannot hold forever, and there are some indications that worldwide petroleum production is close to peak. In fact, oil production in the US, UK and other nations has already peaked. This, coupled with huge increases in Chinese fuel consumption, have led to the current increase in oil prices. I am not an environmentalist, but I realize that serious steps must be taken to mitigate the economic and geopolitical consequences.
With all that in mind, I have a hard time justifying a supersonic commercial airplane, especially when our airlines are already struggling to operate. For example, Delta airline's stock price has fallen from over $75 per share in 1999 to $1.41. Granted, 9/11 did affect air travel, but the number of airline passengers has since surpassed 9/11 levels. Fuel prices are currently gutting the airlines. How would such an aircraft help an airline continue to move people and goods by returning a profit?
The problem with your assertion is obvious when one considers what happens when genetic information is suddenly branched, creating two separated genetic pools, such as is the case with plants on either side of the great wall of China.There is random evolution even in the identical environment. There is serendipity in evolution even beyond the initial random mutations.
It is random. Mutations occur randomly. The "good" ones help the organism survive in some way and are passed down. The "bad" mutations kill off the organism and are not passed down. This is a basic part of the theory. "Natural selection" is simply the consequence of a series of "good" mutations.
Vidi well.
Now for some more of the...
ultraviolence.
NAFTA passed under the Clinton administration. Its passage was one of the administration's specific goals in 1993.
MacIntel, of course.
This is the math section? I love it.
I've noticed many people saying that Auotcad won't run without admin rights. As an undergraduate, I had a regular user account in an NT domain with which I could run Autocad all day long. How is it that our IT department could set up Autocad properly and nobody else can?
Also, I propose we call these new Macs with Intel hardware MacIntels. It rolls off the tongue a bit better.
Sexual reproduction is at the top of my list of favorite evolutionary adaptations. Just need to watch out for that pesky "reproduction" part.
I think the internet has helped to disprove this assertion.
Only if you gauge a country's level of development by starcraft player density.
South Korea is also just a *teensy* bit smaller than the US. The infrastructure costs required to wire all the areas in the US with 25 Mbps speeds would be enormous. Also, just how many people can afford 20USD/month in South Korea? Does this include "the poor people"? Quit trying to compare two vastly different situations just to bash the US.
I agree with you on the docking station. But if you actually have a 30' cinema display then:
1.) You can afford a desktop machine to have it hooked up to.
2.) Your obviously better off than at least 90% of the slashdot crowd so stop bitching.
I'll say! How much are those 30 foot cinemas going for nowadays?
Bah! take off the last slash and it should work. Sorry, guys.
http://www2.threatcon.net:8080/~arturov/1984macint ro.mov/
but do most of them contain grammer this horrific?
Not as bad as the average slashdot post.
Not too harsh on the eyes? Maybe, but he bears an uncanny resemblance to a certain Patrick Bateman, and as such will probably gouge them out with an ice-cream scoop. This probably explains a bit about his insane ramblings.
Scientific American. I hope people didn't think I meant something awful.