How does any of what you said make him a pervert? I'm sorry but the one who falls a couple standard deviations out is YOU. Go back to your church/mosque and fantasize about raping little boys and all the other things you know you're "not allowed" to do, and leave us non perverts alone.
No you can create your own kingdom any time, anywhere. The problem is keeping it when some country objects and sends their police/armed forces to point this out to you. But as Tolkien wrote: "A king is he who can hold his own".
Er, I am referring to the law of conservation of matter. You might be optimistic about the invention of Mr. Fusion, but I think thermodynamics will triumph in the end. You just can't beat entropy. It's the law.
If we're not there we will be within a generation or two. Many people speculate we are gliding through peak oil right now, which helps explain why oil prices stubbornly refuse to go down much despite the economic downturn. China and India are picking up the slack where the US and Europe are backing off. Platinum exhaustion is in sight, as is copper. It's not the end of the world, and we will become better at scavenging and recycling and even digging up old landfills, but yes we are very near that point. When I was a child there were 4 billion people in the world. Now we are closing in on 8 billion, and the overall growth rates haven't changed much.
The thing here is you want to use yesterday's tech (an old heavy trailer-house) with today's cars. How about you look at buying/leasing one of these instead? Far more technology and luxury available than 30 years ago, and no gas guzzling truck required for towing. What, wait, you can't afford it? That has nothing to do with technology, and everything to do with the (un)even distribution of wealth.
Since Godwin's law will not be contradicted, I have to say that Wikipedia has proved rather successfully that you are never more than 4 clicks away from Hitler.
Agreed. The human race has now become highly specialized. Almost every field is advancing at a fast pace, but because the fields are so specialized the layperson whose only exposure to engineering is changing the filter on his air conditioner once in a while, whose only exposure to physics is comparing the kW ratings of the engines of the next car he is going to lease, whose only exposure to mathematics is trying to figure out how much he can afford to pay down his credit card next month, and whose only exposure to science is taking a drug whose name he can't pronounce for a condition he has no idea and doesn't care about, well for these people science has stagnated.
After all we had tv's, computers and electricity when I was a kid too, right?
In way way does cheaper, smaller, faster not serve mankind? Efficiency is important for all of us - in fact it's what is keeping our bloated population alive. We're not going to get more resources through magic!
Yeah it's like a car (what other analogy should I use?) being advertised as capable of doing 500mph except when you read the fine print or complain a techie comes out to explain that those tests were actually done in a vacuum and there's this little thing called wind resistance that limits the practical speed of your car to 100mph.
Yeah - ever noticed how all those stories about defective products from China and threats about embargos, threats about the Yuan, etc, ended right after that little incident? The message was: You take China seriously now because we can blow up your satellites. Of course the American response was "well we can do it from a ship at sea", but all that means was that the message was understood loud and clear.
Count me out of an armed revolt. Too much bloodshed, and it creates more problems than it solves.
Only because you're still in the comfort zone created by the bread and circuses. But that's ok they are going to erode a little more of your rights every year, until finally you won't care about shedding blood anymore. Revolution happens when the people would rather be dead than live under such conditions. Today people are still willing to live under these conditions - indeed the US is still much better than "those other places". However there are those of us that still remember that it was much better than it is today. It's only a matter of time.
Not much different from paying farmers to not grow corn, really. Except that corn is usually grown locally in the US and electronics are mostly imported from abroad and assembled in the US (if that).
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And the expensive solar panels are not a "juicy target"? Yeah ok maybe they don't go boom as nicely, but I bet they're expensive as fuck...
How does any of what you said make him a pervert? I'm sorry but the one who falls a couple standard deviations out is YOU. Go back to your church/mosque and fantasize about raping little boys and all the other things you know you're "not allowed" to do, and leave us non perverts alone.
the government will be able to read all that mail. No more pesky envelopes or laws to stop them. NO THANKS.
They only disarm bombs during the day time and weather permitting...
Just goes to underline that luck is a huge factor in gaining a fortune and yes, sometimes even idiots can get rich.
No you can create your own kingdom any time, anywhere. The problem is keeping it when some country objects and sends their police/armed forces to point this out to you. But as Tolkien wrote: "A king is he who can hold his own".
Yeah, there's a lot of matter. Except it's out there. Far away. How do you plan to get there, or bring it here? Oh. Thermodynamics again.
Er, I am referring to the law of conservation of matter. You might be optimistic about the invention of Mr. Fusion, but I think thermodynamics will triumph in the end. You just can't beat entropy. It's the law.
If we're not there we will be within a generation or two. Many people speculate we are gliding through peak oil right now, which helps explain why oil prices stubbornly refuse to go down much despite the economic downturn. China and India are picking up the slack where the US and Europe are backing off. Platinum exhaustion is in sight, as is copper. It's not the end of the world, and we will become better at scavenging and recycling and even digging up old landfills, but yes we are very near that point. When I was a child there were 4 billion people in the world. Now we are closing in on 8 billion, and the overall growth rates haven't changed much.
The thing here is you want to use yesterday's tech (an old heavy trailer-house) with today's cars. How about you look at buying/leasing one of these instead? Far more technology and luxury available than 30 years ago, and no gas guzzling truck required for towing. What, wait, you can't afford it? That has nothing to do with technology, and everything to do with the (un)even distribution of wealth.
Since Godwin's law will not be contradicted, I have to say that Wikipedia has proved rather successfully that you are never more than 4 clicks away from Hitler.
Now we have the Snuggie, dammit!
Agreed. The human race has now become highly specialized. Almost every field is advancing at a fast pace, but because the fields are so specialized the layperson whose only exposure to engineering is changing the filter on his air conditioner once in a while, whose only exposure to physics is comparing the kW ratings of the engines of the next car he is going to lease, whose only exposure to mathematics is trying to figure out how much he can afford to pay down his credit card next month, and whose only exposure to science is taking a drug whose name he can't pronounce for a condition he has no idea and doesn't care about, well for these people science has stagnated.
After all we had tv's, computers and electricity when I was a kid too, right?
And your numbers are half as accurate as mine. I can pull them from 3 inches deeper in my rectum than you. And that's 100 times better!
In way way does cheaper, smaller, faster not serve mankind? Efficiency is important for all of us - in fact it's what is keeping our bloated population alive. We're not going to get more resources through magic!
Just using facebook should be a crime.
If you send that ISK to me, I promise I will send you back three times as much!
You should send them $5 and say that you are now paying your internet bill "up to" the stated amount...
Yeah it's like a car (what other analogy should I use?) being advertised as capable of doing 500mph except when you read the fine print or complain a techie comes out to explain that those tests were actually done in a vacuum and there's this little thing called wind resistance that limits the practical speed of your car to 100mph.
I think it's stunning that you find that word overused.
Yeah - ever noticed how all those stories about defective products from China and threats about embargos, threats about the Yuan, etc, ended right after that little incident? The message was: You take China seriously now because we can blow up your satellites. Of course the American response was "well we can do it from a ship at sea", but all that means was that the message was understood loud and clear.
Count me out of an armed revolt. Too much bloodshed, and it creates more problems than it solves.
Only because you're still in the comfort zone created by the bread and circuses. But that's ok they are going to erode a little more of your rights every year, until finally you won't care about shedding blood anymore. Revolution happens when the people would rather be dead than live under such conditions. Today people are still willing to live under these conditions - indeed the US is still much better than "those other places". However there are those of us that still remember that it was much better than it is today. It's only a matter of time.
If a politician has a $100 bill then a crook already has his hands on it.
Not much different from paying farmers to not grow corn, really. Except that corn is usually grown locally in the US and electronics are mostly imported from abroad and assembled in the US (if that).
None of us would build a house just to let it sit empty.
Er, take a look around you at all the empty houses. Apparently some people do.