You cant use regular ice for slugs as the vending machine guy is going to wonder why his coin box has water in it. You have to use something that sublimates, like dry ice. That's why they need the liquid nitrogen.
Duh.
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In short, even if the new scientific evidence about oil is wrong, one can still say the world will never run out of it. Higher prices will always bring new supplies to market. As Bjorn Lomberg points out in his new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist (Cambridge University Press), $40 per barrel oil will immediately increase world reserves from a 40 years supply to 250 years because vast known oil shale deposits will become economically viable.
The economic argument is spurious. Increased prices will not always bring new supplies to market.
That reserves would increase to 250 years if the price of crude climbed to $40 is wrong because it assumes today's production prices, of which the cost of energy (currently ~16/barrel) is a significant portion.
Ultimately the problem is not running out of oil. There is plenty. The problem is that the energy used to extract it will become greater than what can be reclaimed. After that there is no point. Oil will become an energy sink instead of an energy source. Check out www.dieoff.org for more good news.
Improved technology will move that break even point, but ultimately we need to explore other energy sources. Bravo Iceland.
You still need to take into account Hofstadter's Law:
Everything takes longer than you think it will, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
"Where's the proof?" or "What's next, America shutting down dissident sites?" ...
Your peacetime rules don't apply, so don't pretend to think that they do.
So you're saying that since this is war, things like proof and constitutional rights dont matter?
Sometimes ya gotta feed the trolls.
Rules should apply, especially in wartime. It is specifically during times of great stress and urgency when they become important. My government is engaged in a protracted war with an 'ism' for an enemy. Bush said that the war on terror will end when "every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated," which is basically never. When should we expect our rules to start applying again? Is there a point to having rules if they only apply when expedient?
Here's an idea: Lets put all Middle Easterners into internment camps until this whole thing blows over. </sarcasm>
Maurkov, whose opinions are less valid because he doesn't have a thought provoking quote in his sig.
40 years until we run out of readily accessible fossil fuels.
10 years until we're at each other's throats fighting over what is left. (The Gulf War hardly counts)
If we're ever going to escape this mudball, we don't have a lot of time to waste. Barring some technological miracle producing free energy, it will never again be this easy or this cheap to expand into space.
You mention white hat viruses. How ethical would it be to write a worm with a payload that patches its own exploit-vectors? Allow it to propogate to a few unpatched systems then delete itself.
"A rogue patch swept across the Internet today, fixing a myriad of IIS security holes. Systems administrators are advised to do nothing. An estimated 2 billion dollars were saved."
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You cant use regular ice for slugs as the vending machine guy is going to wonder why his coin box has water in it. You have to use something that sublimates, like dry ice. That's why they need the liquid nitrogen.
Duh.
I think that's nitrous oxide you smell.
Maurkov
The economic argument is spurious. Increased prices will not always bring new supplies to market.
That reserves would increase to 250 years if the price of crude climbed to $40 is wrong because it assumes today's production prices, of which the cost of energy (currently ~16/barrel) is a significant portion.
Ultimately the problem is not running out of oil. There is plenty. The problem is that the energy used to extract it will become greater than what can be reclaimed. After that there is no point. Oil will become an energy sink instead of an energy source. Check out www.dieoff.org for more good news.
Improved technology will move that break even point, but ultimately we need to explore other energy sources. Bravo Iceland.
Maurkov
You still need to take into account Hofstadter's Law:
Everything takes longer than you think it will, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Maurkov
"Where's the proof?" or "What's next, America shutting down dissident sites?"
...
Your peacetime rules don't apply, so don't pretend to think that they do.
So you're saying that since this is war, things like proof and constitutional rights dont matter?
Sometimes ya gotta feed the trolls.
Rules should apply, especially in wartime. It is specifically during times of great stress and urgency when they become important. My government is engaged in a protracted war with an 'ism' for an enemy. Bush said that the war on terror will end when "every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated," which is basically never. When should we expect our rules to start applying again? Is there a point to having rules if they only apply when expedient?
Here's an idea: Lets put all Middle Easterners into internment camps until this whole thing blows over. </sarcasm>
Maurkov,
whose opinions are less valid because he doesn't have a thought provoking quote in his sig.
40 years until we run out of readily accessible fossil fuels.
10 years until we're at each other's throats fighting over what is left. (The Gulf War hardly counts)
If we're ever going to escape this mudball, we don't have a lot of time to waste. Barring some technological miracle producing free energy, it will never again be this easy or this cheap to expand into space.
MaurkovYou mention white hat viruses. How ethical would it be to write a worm with a payload that patches its own exploit-vectors? Allow it to propogate to a few unpatched systems then delete itself. "A rogue patch swept across the Internet today, fixing a myriad of IIS security holes. Systems administrators are advised to do nothing. An estimated 2 billion dollars were saved."