Funny how we fantasize in our games and movies about crime, terrorism and blowing things up in general but then act shocked when someone actually does it in real life. A nation of closet cases if you ask me.
Ok, how many black people have hijacked planes yet how often do white folks get pulled over by cops vs blacks? Racial profiling is A-OK as long as it happens to someone else, right?
I'm sure we can trust every government employee who'd have access to this info after all they are completely trustworthy, right? It would be like, say, a priest being found to have molested children in his care, unthinkable!
Yah, no one would pass oppressive laws if there were guns everywhere, right? Funny how obnoxious laws get passed here even though we have scads of gun worshipers. Aren't you guys supposed to rise up and save us? Isn't that the gun nut dream scenario? You guys won't even fight a parking ticket. Come on, the FBI is monitoring our email, grab your shoot'n irons boys! Yeeehaw!
"I wonder where you Americans are going to come when you finally screw up/blow up your environment. Lets see, which country has a butt-load of space, but not may people. Wow! Australia does!"
Hmmm, sounds familiar. Didn't your ancestors do that to the Aborigines?
During the earth's differentiation heavy elements (iron, nickel) settled towards the core and light elements rose to the crust. This is confirmed from orbital mechanics. This means that the earth isn't one big ball of "star oil". The reason why the plant/animal theory of fossil fuel origins exists is due to the multitude of fossils found in coal deposits from specific time periods. The oil deposits undersea come from millions of years of ocean microorganisms dying and settling to the ocean floor. The ocean has a very thick layer of fine mud and dead organisms on the seafloor. How do you think thousands of feet thick layers of limestone formed? (composed of microorganisms, etc) This is not a fast process but the earth has had about 4 billions years (start of the pre-Cambrian) to arrive at this point.
If stars were responsible for fossil fuels then how did the carbon compounds get deposited in such large amounts without wiping out life? And if they arrived during planetary formation shouldn't we see signs of them on other planets? (i.e. seepages).
Regardless of the amount or sources of fossil fuels the exhaustion of them is becoming incidental to the problems caused by their production and overuse. The earth's bio/atmosphere can only absorb so much. Sacrificing the earth's climate because people don't want to ride the bus isn't a good reason.
Oil is not a renewable resource. It has taken million of years for the reserves we have to accumulate and the easiest sources have been or are being drained. Judging from the massive destruction of forests and wetlands and our far shorter time scale I'd say we can't expect new reserves to appear during our lifetimes. Even if the belief that oil is the result of methane metamorphosis and is seeping from deep sources is true it doesn't imply that those sources are viable. There is no mention in the article as to the size of these seeps, the rate of seepage or if it is even seen at wells outside of the Gulf of Mexico.
Bjorn Lomberg's book is full of holes and is not a reliable source. The extraction of oil from shale is poor at best and prohibitively expensive. You complain about economic harm but you don't consider the drastic inflation that would result from increasing energy costs due to less accessible oil reserves.
Don't count on synthetics either, they require energy to make and cannot come close to natural sources in price or quantity.
The author's naive attitude reminds me of the attitude of many during the 1800-1900s when forests were considered inexhaustible, the bison were infinite, and the oceans could never be over fished.
From my time in Iceland I saw that many of the major roads are simply packed earth/gravel, and many of them are in better condition than most of the roads in my town.
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I loved Rocko. Many times I have hidden by the shower door as my wife came out going (in my best Heffer voice) "Naaaakeeeddd!"
(Ref: The episode where Heffer makes a home art film)
So we'll be seeing lots more aliens with weird things glued to their foreheads?
No one forces you to read anything. If you don't like it you don't have to read it.
Now go back to listening to Rush Limbaugh and polishing your gun collection.
"The Search for Talent"
Funny how we fantasize in our games and movies about crime, terrorism and blowing things up in general but then act shocked when someone actually does it in real life. A nation of closet cases if you ask me.
Ok, how many black people have hijacked planes yet how often do white folks get pulled over by cops vs blacks? Racial profiling is A-OK as long as it happens to someone else, right?
I'd reply to this but the UK doesn't protect free speech either.
"just how dirty is the current process?"
Have you ever been to a chip fabrication lab? Those places are nasty; cyanide emergency kits on the walls, phosgene and arsine gases. Bad stuff.
At the very least it would eliminate many of the nasty environmental and human dangers posed by the chemicals used in conventional chip manufacturing.
Can they hold off on the release date until I get my character cheat system worked out?
Thanks!
"Why would anyone want DM'd games online?"
Easy, you'll eat a hell of a lot less pizza.
The vast majority of PC owners out there use Windows so they are just serving the largest market. Sounds smart to me.
"He's right behind you!!! RUN!!!!"
I'm sure we can trust every government employee who'd have access to this info after all they are completely trustworthy, right? It would be like, say, a priest being found to have molested children in his care, unthinkable!
"Nobel prize material if it works. Footnote in Physical Review Letters if it doesn't."
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I expect abuse on Slashdot regardless of the outcome.
Thanks for making me choke on my lunch!
Yah, no one would pass oppressive laws if there were guns everywhere, right? Funny how obnoxious laws get passed here even though we have scads of gun worshipers. Aren't you guys supposed to rise up and save us? Isn't that the gun nut dream scenario? You guys won't even fight a parking ticket. Come on, the FBI is monitoring our email, grab your shoot'n irons boys! Yeeehaw!
"I wonder where you Americans are going to come when you finally screw up/blow up your environment. Lets see, which country has a butt-load of space, but not may people. Wow! Australia does!"
Hmmm, sounds familiar. Didn't your ancestors do that to the Aborigines?
The problem isn't a privacy policy, the problem is CREDIT CARD FRAUD. DUH
Thats only because they had to build Deep Thought 3, the computer to figure out the meaning of the answer from DT2!
What is 8 times 7?
During the earth's differentiation heavy elements (iron, nickel) settled towards the core and light elements rose to the crust. This is confirmed from orbital mechanics. This means that the earth isn't one big ball of "star oil". The reason why the plant/animal theory of fossil fuel origins exists is due to the multitude of fossils found in coal deposits from specific time periods. The oil deposits undersea come from millions of years of ocean microorganisms dying and settling to the ocean floor. The ocean has a very thick layer of fine mud and dead organisms on the seafloor. How do you think thousands of feet thick layers of limestone formed? (composed of microorganisms, etc) This is not a fast process but the earth has had about 4 billions years (start of the pre-Cambrian) to arrive at this point.
If stars were responsible for fossil fuels then how did the carbon compounds get deposited in such large amounts without wiping out life? And if they arrived during planetary formation shouldn't we see signs of them on other planets? (i.e. seepages).
Regardless of the amount or sources of fossil fuels the exhaustion of them is becoming incidental to the problems caused by their production and overuse. The earth's bio/atmosphere can only absorb so much. Sacrificing the earth's climate because people don't want to ride the bus isn't a good reason.
Oil is not a renewable resource. It has taken million of years for the reserves we have to accumulate and the easiest sources have been or are being drained. Judging from the massive destruction of forests and wetlands and our far shorter time scale I'd say we can't expect new reserves to appear during our lifetimes. Even if the belief that oil is the result of methane metamorphosis and is seeping from deep sources is true it doesn't imply that those sources are viable. There is no mention in the article as to the size of these seeps, the rate of seepage or if it is even seen at wells outside of the Gulf of Mexico.
Bjorn Lomberg's book is full of holes and is not a reliable source. The extraction of oil from shale is poor at best and prohibitively expensive. You complain about economic harm but you don't consider the drastic inflation that would result from increasing energy costs due to less accessible oil reserves.
Don't count on synthetics either, they require energy to make and cannot come close to natural sources in price or quantity.
The author's naive attitude reminds me of the attitude of many during the 1800-1900s when forests were considered inexhaustible, the bison were infinite, and the oceans could never be over fished.
From my time in Iceland I saw that many of the major roads are simply packed earth/gravel, and many of them are in better condition than most of the roads in my town.
Maybe they'll stick Portman on Aldaran and have her blown up in "A New Begining"