Not all intelligent design people believe that that Earth is young. The basic premise of Intelligent Design is that the universe is too complex for it to just have happened... that doesn't speak to who or how it was created or how long it happened to take.
Either way though... they should probably have a checkbox for users to select which theory they believe in (young earth or old) and then if they select "young" they can get a nice error message.
I deserve to be ridiculed for not reading the article and indulging my deire to troll... but the paint is the cheap stuff... it's the concerete roads that matter.
I love Tennessee. I grew up around Chattanooga... anyways...
You're right the overal cost would be assigned to the building costs not the overall cost. After reading the article (yes I know)... the real benefit seems to be in re-paving streets. Which I'm sure we're all excited about paying for and suffering through... but it does seem to work, so maybe a municipality could carefully use this material in high traffic high polluting areas.
I'm in a rant and troll mood toay... figures a good well-balanced Tennessean would set me straight. Thanks.
You're assuming a "as much as a 50% drop in airborne pollution" actually produces economic incentives that offset the loss in tax revenue... of course this would only be for new buildings... so the total reduction in pollutants is not really known from a city-wide perspective. Of course 30% increase in cost is pretty fixed... you'll pay, but you probably will not see practical benefit for years and I doubt politicians are going to be able to sell 30% higher building material costs for some reduction in airborne pollutants at some future point in time.
Be way for two unrelated percentages placed next to each other... it's a deception tactic.
Finally... someone actually gets it. The best building materials for the environment are twigs that have fallen from the trees... of course you would only want to use 10-15% of the available twigs in any given region because removing bio-twig resources will radically upset the ecosystem.
After 5 to 10 years, depending on the concentration of the airborne and environmental pollutants, the TX Active treated concrete will itself become polluted. Most scientists involved in developing the product agree that this is not a significant problem. The treate concrete can be cleaned through a bio-scrubbing process. Using the poor and illegal immigrants as a low-cost resource pool a corporation or municipality could hire as few as 500 "bio-cleaning engineers" to lick the pollutants out of the concrete. The solution creates a clean environment and jobs. Jobs for skill disadvanged workers. All concerns about the health risks of liking polluted exposed concrete have been covered in our economic analysis white paper which we'll be presenting at the 2007 Eco-builders Symposium in Las Vegas. By hiring poor workers and keeping them on staff for no more than 40 hours a week you do not need to pay for benefits and therefore can avoid the high economic costs incurred by helping to offset the huge expense of the cancers caused by TX Active.
Hey dumb ass... obviously the concreate and this chemical create synergies in the cholorflorcarbons thorugh osmosial principles on an evolutionary scale. And in in several studies that have been conducted of this modified concrete after exposure to intense bio and industrial pollutants it has been determined that only 1 in 4 people will contract a serious form of cancer by coming into contact with the coated walls and floors. Only 1 in 4! That's less than 30%!
Is anyone up for a 30% increase in their housing costs? Maybe a 30% increase in their taxes? 30% is a lot of money when you're talking about construction. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done... only tossing out 30% like it's not big thing is absolutely idiotic.
I totally agree with you... those stupid fuckers who hate the environment so much that they purchase cars that don't run only on electricty, when the cost of those cars is only 30 to 50% more than normal cars... AGGGHH.... I just don't understand why those people hate trees and birds and lungs so much. They're probably rolling around in their filthy money laughing at the rest of us as we choke on the noxious gases from their Honda Civics and Ford Foci.
My cousin asked me a question yesterday that I didn't have the answer to... and in a tangential way it's related to this discussion.
I use a Fedora, but she's an avid fan of Gentoo. So the question was, when GPLv3 is released will she need to reemerge all of her Gentoo packages? If so, is there going to be a USE flag "GPLv3" or something so you can make sure the packages are compiled with GPLv3 installed... maybe you can just link them to it like you would with a library. I checked Gentoo's web forum (I was impressed, better than Fedora's) and didn't see this question and haven't got a response back yet. Anyways... if you guys don't have a technical response... any thoughts on the legality of this... is it going to be required when GPLv3 is released, and can you link to the GPLv3 like a library (is GPLv3 under the LGPL?).
Maybe now is the time to raise BSD from the grave... because last I checked BSD didn't have to worry about all of this bullshit from the high church of the GPL.
No, no we can't... you silly troll. Furthermore, not only is the GPLv3 not "needed" it ability to be applied to existing codebases with multiple rights holders is in serious question.
I got my first gig "hacking" passswords and writing spam scripts for Pegasus mail at local college... the network admin caught me, was pissed at first and then hired me 6 weeks later. I worked there for about 2.5 years and got my next job through the work I did there.
Not only has Jimmy been under attack for the last 10 to 11 months for the increasing inaccuracy of the Wikipedia he's been publically lamenting the low pay. Sort of reminds me of Daniel Robbins leaving Gentoo. Anyways I hear he may go back to running some adult erotic modeling sites on the side to help cover his expenses. Anyone else know anything about this?
I'm not talking about creating a new "Internet" I'm talking about nations connecting to the existing network not by investing their national resources carefully in communications infrastructure... but by begging and coercing the international community to give them free resources. This is EXACTLY what happened during the last UN debates on this topic.
that several countries will whine and whine and whine about not having Internet infrastructure and intead of investing thier own resources in building out their own infrastructure will guilt and bludgeon the rest of the world into paying for it.
I love all of this talk about space elevators... it's like witnessing people saying the world is flat or the moon is made of cheese back when thsoe ideas weren't considered to be hilarious. Space elevators are the sort of thing that our kids/grandkids are going to look back on and laugh and laugh and laugh.
We need a new X-Prize. An X-Prize for coming up with a psuedo-science "flying car" of the future and selling it to a uneducated and unwitting public. The first person to get 10 million believers wins.
I'm working on developing a space catapult that we can use to launch payloads into space. We haven't developed the supertension springs and bands we need but with advances in carbon nanotubes, the human genome, and nanobots we should have that technology in full production in the next 30 years so I'm going to focus on the catapult "cup" used to hold the payload.
And if that doesn't work I'm also developing plans for a capsule that will burrow to the center of the earth using two simple principles weight and edginess (meaning sharp not hip but disturbing). The capsule will use nanobots (which will be commonplace in 15-20 years) to farm bacteria that will sharpen and resharpen a super-carbonnanotube-alloy shell to the finest point ever known in the universe. A point capable of cutting through any material known to man. The capsule will use an EOD (extremly dense object) attached to the opposite end of the point to provide weight to push the point into the ground. This EOD will use new alloys and atomic manipulation techniques that will only be available in 10-15 years. Since we know we'll have these things I'm going to focus on creating a comfortable chair, probably made of leather with a racing stripe, to be installed into the capsule.
Oh bless you... bless you! I couldn't think of the name of this skit... maybe it's the vibrating heat bead suit I'm wearing. Anyway, because of you I was able to find ride the snake.">this on YouTube and laugh so hard (silently since I'm at work) that I wept. Sweet sweet tears.
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Not all intelligent design people believe that that Earth is young. The basic premise of Intelligent Design is that the universe is too complex for it to just have happened... that doesn't speak to who or how it was created or how long it happened to take.
Either way though... they should probably have a checkbox for users to select which theory they believe in (young earth or old) and then if they select "young" they can get a nice error message.
Where's pangea? Come on Google... get with the program.
just jumped the shark. It's all down hill from here.
I deserve to be ridiculed for not reading the article and indulging my deire to troll... but the paint is the cheap stuff... it's the concerete roads that matter.
I love Tennessee. I grew up around Chattanooga... anyways...
You're right the overal cost would be assigned to the building costs not the overall cost. After reading the article (yes I know)... the real benefit seems to be in re-paving streets. Which I'm sure we're all excited about paying for and suffering through... but it does seem to work, so maybe a municipality could carefully use this material in high traffic high polluting areas.
I'm in a rant and troll mood toay... figures a good well-balanced Tennessean would set me straight. Thanks.
You're assuming a "as much as a 50% drop in airborne pollution" actually produces economic incentives that offset the loss in tax revenue... of course this would only be for new buildings... so the total reduction in pollutants is not really known from a city-wide perspective. Of course 30% increase in cost is pretty fixed... you'll pay, but you probably will not see practical benefit for years and I doubt politicians are going to be able to sell 30% higher building material costs for some reduction in airborne pollutants at some future point in time.
Be way for two unrelated percentages placed next to each other... it's a deception tactic.
Finally... someone actually gets it. The best building materials for the environment are twigs that have fallen from the trees... of course you would only want to use 10-15% of the available twigs in any given region because removing bio-twig resources will radically upset the ecosystem.
Did I hear a vote for a 30% tax hike... hooray! More taxes in your little fantasy land.
Just stay the hell away from my city and don't vote in any national elections you rich bastard.
Hey stoopid, RTFA. The article clearly states:
After 5 to 10 years, depending on the concentration of the airborne and environmental pollutants, the TX Active treated concrete will itself become polluted. Most scientists involved in developing the product agree that this is not a significant problem. The treate concrete can be cleaned through a bio-scrubbing process. Using the poor and illegal immigrants as a low-cost resource pool a corporation or municipality could hire as few as 500 "bio-cleaning engineers" to lick the pollutants out of the concrete. The solution creates a clean environment and jobs. Jobs for skill disadvanged workers. All concerns about the health risks of liking polluted exposed concrete have been covered in our economic analysis white paper which we'll be presenting at the 2007 Eco-builders Symposium in Las Vegas. By hiring poor workers and keeping them on staff for no more than 40 hours a week you do not need to pay for benefits and therefore can avoid the high economic costs incurred by helping to offset the huge expense of the cancers caused by TX Active.
Sounds like an open and shut case to me.
Hey dumb ass... obviously the concreate and this chemical create synergies in the cholorflorcarbons thorugh osmosial principles on an evolutionary scale. And in in several studies that have been conducted of this modified concrete after exposure to intense bio and industrial pollutants it has been determined that only 1 in 4 people will contract a serious form of cancer by coming into contact with the coated walls and floors. Only 1 in 4! That's less than 30%!
Is anyone up for a 30% increase in their housing costs? Maybe a 30% increase in their taxes? 30% is a lot of money when you're talking about construction. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done... only tossing out 30% like it's not big thing is absolutely idiotic.
I totally agree with you... those stupid fuckers who hate the environment so much that they purchase cars that don't run only on electricty, when the cost of those cars is only 30 to 50% more than normal cars... AGGGHH.... I just don't understand why those people hate trees and birds and lungs so much. They're probably rolling around in their filthy money laughing at the rest of us as we choke on the noxious gases from their Honda Civics and Ford Foci.
My cousin asked me a question yesterday that I didn't have the answer to... and in a tangential way it's related to this discussion.
I use a Fedora, but she's an avid fan of Gentoo. So the question was, when GPLv3 is released will she need to reemerge all of her Gentoo packages? If so, is there going to be a USE flag "GPLv3" or something so you can make sure the packages are compiled with GPLv3 installed... maybe you can just link them to it like you would with a library. I checked Gentoo's web forum (I was impressed, better than Fedora's) and didn't see this question and haven't got a response back yet. Anyways... if you guys don't have a technical response... any thoughts on the legality of this... is it going to be required when GPLv3 is released, and can you link to the GPLv3 like a library (is GPLv3 under the LGPL?).
Thanks... hope some of that made some sense.
Maybe now is the time to raise BSD from the grave... because last I checked BSD didn't have to worry about all of this bullshit from the high church of the GPL.
No, no we can't... you silly troll. Furthermore, not only is the GPLv3 not "needed" it ability to be applied to existing codebases with multiple rights holders is in serious question.
that those Uzbek assholes are on the list. Their potassium is vastly inferior to the potassium in the great nation of Khazakistan.
I got my first gig "hacking" passswords and writing spam scripts for Pegasus mail at local college... the network admin caught me, was pissed at first and then hired me 6 weeks later. I worked there for about 2.5 years and got my next job through the work I did there.
Not only has Jimmy been under attack for the last 10 to 11 months for the increasing inaccuracy of the Wikipedia he's been publically lamenting the low pay. Sort of reminds me of Daniel Robbins leaving Gentoo. Anyways I hear he may go back to running some adult erotic modeling sites on the side to help cover his expenses. Anyone else know anything about this?
I'm not talking about creating a new "Internet" I'm talking about nations connecting to the existing network not by investing their national resources carefully in communications infrastructure... but by begging and coercing the international community to give them free resources. This is EXACTLY what happened during the last UN debates on this topic.
You sure did read a lot into my statement...
that several countries will whine and whine and whine about not having Internet infrastructure and intead of investing thier own resources in building out their own infrastructure will guilt and bludgeon the rest of the world into paying for it.
Vote Democrat... because the current Republican administration wants people to have Parkinson's disease.
Vote Republican... because Democrats want to give you cancer.
Vote Libertarian... because the government shouldn't be deciding for you if you want cancer or Parkinson's.
I love all of this talk about space elevators... it's like witnessing people saying the world is flat or the moon is made of cheese back when thsoe ideas weren't considered to be hilarious. Space elevators are the sort of thing that our kids/grandkids are going to look back on and laugh and laugh and laugh.
We need a new X-Prize. An X-Prize for coming up with a psuedo-science "flying car" of the future and selling it to a uneducated and unwitting public. The first person to get 10 million believers wins.
I'm working on developing a space catapult that we can use to launch payloads into space. We haven't developed the supertension springs and bands we need but with advances in carbon nanotubes, the human genome, and nanobots we should have that technology in full production in the next 30 years so I'm going to focus on the catapult "cup" used to hold the payload.
And if that doesn't work I'm also developing plans for a capsule that will burrow to the center of the earth using two simple principles weight and edginess (meaning sharp not hip but disturbing). The capsule will use nanobots (which will be commonplace in 15-20 years) to farm bacteria that will sharpen and resharpen a super-carbonnanotube-alloy shell to the finest point ever known in the universe. A point capable of cutting through any material known to man. The capsule will use an EOD (extremly dense object) attached to the opposite end of the point to provide weight to push the point into the ground. This EOD will use new alloys and atomic manipulation techniques that will only be available in 10-15 years. Since we know we'll have these things I'm going to focus on creating a comfortable chair, probably made of leather with a racing stripe, to be installed into the capsule.
Oh bless you... bless you! I couldn't think of the name of this skit... maybe it's the vibrating heat bead suit I'm wearing. Anyway, because of you I was able to find ride the snake.">this on YouTube and laugh so hard (silently since I'm at work) that I wept. Sweet sweet tears.
Oh YouTube how I love thee... ride the snake.
Some AC below was kind enough to post a link... absolutely wonderful.