...think of the economic stimulation! Jobs everywhere from slowly having to move people a few miles inland, an excellent opportunity to build and house a large percentage of the population in new, green houses that'll do all sorts of... green things, and a compelling event to give governments a good reason to re-do public transportation and high-speed rail lines!
There is a middle way. We'll give it a good go and try to tone down our impact on the planet, but chew on this: humans, and the mammals/birds we keep (not including fish, but dogs, cats, pet birds, cattle, horses, sheep, oxen, goats, chickens, turkeys, ducks, etc.) account for 98% of terrestrial land creatures by mass. Much of the world's land now exists solely to sustain us and our various zoological friends. Maybe... JUST MAYBE, our existence is gonna leave a mark no matter what, by our sheer numbers alone. So try as we may, it just may be too little to matter. But if that's the case, we'll be ok. I refuse to believe that what ever little bit of the climate we cause is because of what we've done since we've known enough to realize what we were doing, so it's no use getting all pissy because we've having a hard time weaning ourselves off of the things that essentially have powered humanity since we knew how to use the stuff.
Maybe there shouldn't be six billion people.
...Of course we're not going to kill anyone. Or neuter them. We just need to make less babies. I won't have a kid, for humanity. Plus, I'm American. We consume upwards of 30 times as much as some peoples around the world. Me not having a kid is gonna save humanity a lot of stuff in the long run.
...has had the curse/fortune of having spent the last 1600 or so years being the largest single Christian denomination. Acting as the source of true interpretation of their religion (inspiried by God and such), they've often talked themselves into horrible situations, like rationale for taking money to pardon sins (which is over now), purgatory, limbo, and various scenarios involving unbaptized babies, people who sinned since their last confession, Africans unexposed to Christianity, etc. It also, however, has tempered them in matters such as this.
Since I've been alive (ok, it's only 22 years, but still), Catholicism's view has been that the better part of Genesis, Revelations, a few other events, and various numerical figures (read: 700-year old men) that simply don't make sense, are poetic in nature, fable-like, or simply misread (saying a man lived 300 years may have simply meant that it was another 300 years before another noteworthy person came around important enough that a person considered this group of people as the family of such-and-such as opposed to the original guy, for example). At least since Vatican II, the Church has been somewhat cooperative regarding matters of science, and really does try to make sense in the context of matters of fact.
Especially in America, we don't often realize that Fundamentalism is for the most part a very recent, very American phenomenon. People who believed what the Bible said 400 years ago simply didn't know better, they weren't fundamentalist. It's a modern occurence that, given convincing, sensible, objective scientific knowledge, a person consciously chooses to believe otherwise.
It's something to watch out for, especially with a dominant conservative faction in place, whose members take their cues from the oft-Fundamentalist right. At least for 2 1/2 more years, these people comprise the loudest voice of our country.
In anticipation of any replies, no, I'm not Catholic anymore. As much as the Church has tried to mesh their thoughts and ideas with that of logical reality, evolution blessed me with a brain, and I'd rather mesh those thoughts myself.
Of course it disproves Evolution! I mean, look at it! It's such a graceful theory, it accounts for all variables so well and seems so elegant. This is clearly the work of intelligent design. Probably some of His earlier work, before he made life on Earth.
The same will happen if we're too pussyfooted to accept the occasional death due to space travel. It's already safer than any major frontier exploration in history.
It's safer than any major frontier exploration because they're too pussyfooted (that's a strange way of saying "appropriately cautious") to accept deaths as a routine byproduct.
But we can do it your way. Next time someone thinks up a space capsule that might work, propelled by some sort of rocketry that looked fine on the computer simulation, that might get a person to Mars, we'll let you pilot it.
This isn't asking for a free-as-in-speech solution to doing your taxes in a pathetically easy way, this is about just doing it for free... as in beer. You're not looking for the philosophically-correct OSS solution, you're looking to not pay anything.
IMO, this is the exact kind of situation where you should have to pay for a program. I figure if you're unable to do your own taxes in some say or pay to have them done, you're too poor, stupid, or lazy to have a job that warrants a specialized program just to look on a chart to see what tax bracket you're in.
Get a calculator from the dollar store, pick up a couple of FREE forms and steal the little pencil they use to write down catalog numbers from the public library, and sit down away from your computer for a couple hours (or if by some miracle you're stupid, poor, lazy AND have complicated taxes, maybe even spend the good part of a day), and do your own damn taxes.
My faith in a benevolent higher power is gone...
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They're cutting out unnecessary eye-candy and throwing in superkaramba.
For the love of God, tell me what the unnecessary ones were.
something that would also help to boost performance in Windows Server would be a mode in which the Graphical environment/window server is never even loaded, similar to unix/linux
The database server could then still verify all the addresses (by sending emails out) but the actual email addresses would stay unpublished.
As others have pointed out, a keyserver isn't a directory of e-mail addresses and keys. You can't hop onto the site and somehow "browse" through the keys. The search function returns 1 positive match per search. IOW, you would need to know about the address before you could find it. "Brute searching" would be a fruitless waste of time and money for a spammer.
The point isn't that this is all-new technology. The point is that no one ELSE made an mp3 player like this... no one else has an mp3 player for underwater use.
Hydrogen and such is a big deal because absolute efficiency isn't what these people are trying to look for, it's cleanliness and renewability. People want to bother converting hydrogen to water adn back again because it's easy and we have a lot of both. Unlike the "ashes" created elsewhere, we like water. And we have a lot of it. Same with solar power. As poor a source as it is, we're not gonna run out. And we ARE extracting it from plants, they're just not keeping up. Talk about inefficiency, look how long it took to get the oil we have.
When someone says a truck is X-powered, I assume that X is the form of the energy as it enters the truck.
And what, praytell, entered the engine of that truck as the souce of energy? Petroleum and hydrogen are both combustible substances created ultimately through a process involving the sun, both of which enter an engine to be ignited and used as a source of movement. The truck in this post is like having an oil-refinery on your gas-powered truck, but no one would say that the truck doesn't actually run on gas and TECHNICALLY runs on electricity that powers the refinery.
could the carbon be recycled from the emissions before being recombined with the hydrogen in a closed loop?
Beware of anything involving energy production and the phrase "closed loop". What you're thinking is on par with perpetual motion. The energy needed to "recombine" the emissions is, on a theoretical level, the same as the energy it produced when you used it in the engine. Since you used that energy to move your car, it will take MORE energy to recombine the carbon, and the energy it takes to do that will be LESS than the energy you'll get out of the recombined fuel.
They can be plenty hard, white collar jobs can, but not at all harder. Maybe harder is too vague. Maybe grueling, back-breaking, or just plain awful. Ask ditch-diggers if they want an office job. Ask a programmer if he fancies ditch-digging. Thinking is "work", yes, that's why you get paid. But manual laborers aren't idiots, they do a necessary job. Besides, the underlying point is still there: which of the two needs more assistance in living? Which one needs government health-care, welfare benefits, or grants to go to college and get a better job?
People can keep the money they earn. People who want to make the purpose of their lives amassing money... yeah, that's greed. Money is the means, not the end in itself. You wanna earn enough money to get Suzie her college education, or guarantee your well-being, that's great. You wanna earn money because it's money and that's what rich fuckers do, that's greed. Keeping what you earn has nothing to do with it. It's the fact that some people's lives are so shallow that they gague how well they did and how valuable they are with their wealth.
I don't want socialism, I don't wanna steal the wealth from rich people. I'm just saying that people who live their lives in the pursuit of money should take a good look around (outside their estate), and at the very least stop whining for more ways the government can let them have MORE money.
1) I happen to be reasonably poor. Poor enough that I can put myself on this side of the argument.
2) Not that it matters to the spirit of the debate, but the idea wasn't to find the absolute poorest people. The point was that the outrageously-rich person has no place bitching about not getting government assistance to help him... be rich, I guess.
It's not because someone is paid less that they get the work-harder label. It's because they work HARDER. A man who does roof-work, construction workers, Manpower-hired day-laborers and fruit-pickers and such work harder than a computer programmer. Period. I don't care if they earned more money than the programmer, it's still harder work.
It's not that the Green party doesn't have room for rich people. Rich people are... RICH! What "help" does a multi-millionaire need!? He lives in a nice house in a nice neighborhood and sends his kids to a good school and goes on vacations and has insurance and time for soccer practice and... what's the problem? Has the economy made a dent in your vacation home plans? Are you butt-hurt because you're taxed more so you can only afford one yacht? Seriously, out of the biggest concerns in politics right now besides Iraq, namely health insurance, social security, gay marriage and drugs, where are you, the poor neglected REDICULOUSLY-RICH PERSON, feeling a little left out?
You're not being punished for succeeding, but you sure as shit don't need help. You should be happy that you don't need a government program to have a decent quality of living. And people should feel downright ASHAMED about devoting their lives to the aquisition of wealth. I hope it buys them something to cover up the shallow uselessness they've become. To undermine that by trying to get the government to give less money to impoverished people because "the estate tax is mean and I want all 30 of my million dollars" is a blatant act of greed. How dare a truly wealthy person even CLAIM that they need the same government help as people that struggle to maintain a third-world quality of life.
Maybe not against you, but if you have many millions of dollars from being a programmer (realize that your "hard work" is not even on the same scale as daily manual labor), you don't really need the Green Party's help, now do you?
You're a multi-millionaire, well-to-do, probably white man (I apologize if I'm wrong)... what kind of "support" do you need?
And outside of the accepted ideals of capitalism, fair-and-square doesn't excuse the fact that you have WAY more money than you need, and that your money, regardless of how you aquired it, could be used to help many, many people. Wealth, to many, is an evil. In a society truly determined to provide the best lives to all of its inhabitants, wealth shouldn't exist.
m&m's melt. What you need is poster-board, a sharpie, and those stupid glass decorative gems from Wal-Mart.
Heh, it sounds like that old Kings-of-Comedy guy that would make random shit up like "Oh, so you wanna have a barbeque? Alright, meet me in the back in 15 minutes with a coonskin cap, a bottle of Ensure, and a dirty Swiffer pad... we're making chicken!"
Is psyching the other player out. Maybe not downright tricking him, but getting him caught up in what's happening to lose track of a larger threat.
Learning go from a computer is like learning sex from a text-based porn site censored for language. Not only does the computer have terrible form and awful strategy, but he never makes mistakes. At least bad human players occasionally accidentally make insightful moves. Go AI's are like really good players with no foresight or sense of strategy to the point that they suck in the most frustrating way possible.
Moreover, you can spot someone who learned from a computer about 20 moves into the game. After conditioning themselves to beat a meticulous computer player with no strategy, these people are blatant, obstinate players that beat a situation into the ground before moving on. They're like tanks shooting flies... tanks rigged with bicycle tires. And a near-sighted gunman.
...who lost his glasses an hour ago and didn't get any sleep that night, facing the sun at 5 in the afternoon with a broken sun visor.
Would have to be through an online go server. KGS (Google-search it) is a very mature system with all levels of players from green beginners up to actual professional players. Moreover, the server has constructs built-in that allow and encourage review of games, tutoring, tsumego practice, etc. There are beginner rooms in there that I myself, in addition to hundreds of others, frequent for the sole purpose of helping newcomers.
My uname on KGS and IGS are hermit, if anyone sees me or wants a game, get in touch.
Go is generally considered the oldest board game on earth. It's at least 3000 years old in its current form. Like most games from the Orient, its easy to understand the rules, but freakishly difficult to play a good game.
Whereas chess skill is largely dependant upon how many tactics you know, go is much more a game of finesse. The basic techniques are all the knowledge that's really needed, after that skill comes with reading ahead and knowing how your opponent plays. A given situation has lots of suitable answers, not just a best one. It challenges your intellect more than just your knowledge of the game.
A google search for IGS and KGS will give you all you need to play some go online. Unlike Yahoo's go client, which doesn't even accurately score games sometimes, IGS and KGS are mature servers with a huge worldwide player base, complete rulesets, and tools to review games and tutor. Moreover, the go servers attract true professional players, dan-level amateurs, and everyone down to beginners, so you're sure to find a good challenge no matter who you are. The clients are Java-based, and IGS can even be played out of a web browser.
I think the correct answer to "Why don't they send up a monkey or a meatloaf?" is "They tried calling, you said your schedule was full."
Everyone's missing the point...
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Out of Gas
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The problem isn't America's gas prices, it's the fact that it doesn't matter. The old economics idea is that once gas prices start to go up, gas use will go down. Problem is, the world RELIES ON OIL. There is no substitute for it, and as other readers have mentioned, products like platsic have no equal.
I'm sure a lot of us would make at least a modest effort to change our ways and live oil-free, but there's two important factors to realize. One, "a lot of us", the/. crowd, is not even *close* to an accurate representation of what the general population is like. I have a sneaking suspicion the average SUV-driving putz out there couldn't care less about oil shortages. At least not until he can't fill up his Expedition XLT Super-High-Ultra-Duty-I-can-tow-Staten-Island, i.e. when it's too late.
Two, and more importantly, we can't live oil free. Given plastics, lubricants, hell, even f*$&-in' chapstick, oil is a part of everyone's life, even those of us who do make a modest effort for it not to.
We are VERY aware that energy comes at a cost, but we're also aware that public transportation doesn't go where it needs to, that we can't even buy WATER without using oil, and that the rest of us make too much money to care in the slightest about how much things cost.
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...think of the economic stimulation! Jobs everywhere from slowly having to move people a few miles inland, an excellent opportunity to build and house a large percentage of the population in new, green houses that'll do all sorts of... green things, and a compelling event to give governments a good reason to re-do public transportation and high-speed rail lines!
...Of course we're not going to kill anyone. Or neuter them. We just need to make less babies. I won't have a kid, for humanity. Plus, I'm American. We consume upwards of 30 times as much as some peoples around the world. Me not having a kid is gonna save humanity a lot of stuff in the long run.
There is a middle way. We'll give it a good go and try to tone down our impact on the planet, but chew on this: humans, and the mammals/birds we keep (not including fish, but dogs, cats, pet birds, cattle, horses, sheep, oxen, goats, chickens, turkeys, ducks, etc.) account for 98% of terrestrial land creatures by mass. Much of the world's land now exists solely to sustain us and our various zoological friends. Maybe... JUST MAYBE, our existence is gonna leave a mark no matter what, by our sheer numbers alone. So try as we may, it just may be too little to matter. But if that's the case, we'll be ok. I refuse to believe that what ever little bit of the climate we cause is because of what we've done since we've known enough to realize what we were doing, so it's no use getting all pissy because we've having a hard time weaning ourselves off of the things that essentially have powered humanity since we knew how to use the stuff.
Maybe there shouldn't be six billion people.
You're welcome!
It's real, methinks.
...has had the curse/fortune of having spent the last 1600 or so years being the largest single Christian denomination. Acting as the source of true interpretation of their religion (inspiried by God and such), they've often talked themselves into horrible situations, like rationale for taking money to pardon sins (which is over now), purgatory, limbo, and various scenarios involving unbaptized babies, people who sinned since their last confession, Africans unexposed to Christianity, etc. It also, however, has tempered them in matters such as this.
Since I've been alive (ok, it's only 22 years, but still), Catholicism's view has been that the better part of Genesis, Revelations, a few other events, and various numerical figures (read: 700-year old men) that simply don't make sense, are poetic in nature, fable-like, or simply misread (saying a man lived 300 years may have simply meant that it was another 300 years before another noteworthy person came around important enough that a person considered this group of people as the family of such-and-such as opposed to the original guy, for example). At least since Vatican II, the Church has been somewhat cooperative regarding matters of science, and really does try to make sense in the context of matters of fact.
Especially in America, we don't often realize that Fundamentalism is for the most part a very recent, very American phenomenon. People who believed what the Bible said 400 years ago simply didn't know better, they weren't fundamentalist. It's a modern occurence that, given convincing, sensible, objective scientific knowledge, a person consciously chooses to believe otherwise.
It's something to watch out for, especially with a dominant conservative faction in place, whose members take their cues from the oft-Fundamentalist right. At least for 2 1/2 more years, these people comprise the loudest voice of our country.
In anticipation of any replies, no, I'm not Catholic anymore. As much as the Church has tried to mesh their thoughts and ideas with that of logical reality, evolution blessed me with a brain, and I'd rather mesh those thoughts myself.
Of course it disproves Evolution! I mean, look at it! It's such a graceful theory, it accounts for all variables so well and seems so elegant. This is clearly the work of intelligent design. Probably some of His earlier work, before he made life on Earth.
The same will happen if we're too pussyfooted to accept the occasional death due to space travel. It's already safer than any major frontier exploration in history.
It's safer than any major frontier exploration because they're too pussyfooted (that's a strange way of saying "appropriately cautious") to accept deaths as a routine byproduct.
But we can do it your way. Next time someone thinks up a space capsule that might work, propelled by some sort of rocketry that looked fine on the computer simulation, that might get a person to Mars, we'll let you pilot it.
This isn't asking for a free-as-in-speech solution to doing your taxes in a pathetically easy way, this is about just doing it for free... as in beer. You're not looking for the philosophically-correct OSS solution, you're looking to not pay anything.
IMO, this is the exact kind of situation where you should have to pay for a program. I figure if you're unable to do your own taxes in some say or pay to have them done, you're too poor, stupid, or lazy to have a job that warrants a specialized program just to look on a chart to see what tax bracket you're in.
Get a calculator from the dollar store, pick up a couple of FREE forms and steal the little pencil they use to write down catalog numbers from the public library, and sit down away from your computer for a couple hours (or if by some miracle you're stupid, poor, lazy AND have complicated taxes, maybe even spend the good part of a day), and do your own damn taxes.
They're cutting out unnecessary eye-candy and throwing in superkaramba.
For the love of God, tell me what the unnecessary ones were.
something that would also help to boost performance in Windows Server would be a mode in which the Graphical environment/window server is never even loaded, similar to unix/linux
...Loading UNIX/Linux would do that too.
The database server could then still verify all the addresses (by sending emails out) but the actual email addresses would stay unpublished.
As others have pointed out, a keyserver isn't a directory of e-mail addresses and keys. You can't hop onto the site and somehow "browse" through the keys. The search function returns 1 positive match per search. IOW, you would need to know about the address before you could find it. "Brute searching" would be a fruitless waste of time and money for a spammer.
The point isn't that this is all-new technology. The point is that no one ELSE made an mp3 player like this... no one else has an mp3 player for underwater use.
Hydrogen and such is a big deal because absolute efficiency isn't what these people are trying to look for, it's cleanliness and renewability. People want to bother converting hydrogen to water adn back again because it's easy and we have a lot of both. Unlike the "ashes" created elsewhere, we like water. And we have a lot of it. Same with solar power. As poor a source as it is, we're not gonna run out. And we ARE extracting it from plants, they're just not keeping up. Talk about inefficiency, look how long it took to get the oil we have.
When someone says a truck is X-powered, I assume that X is the form of the energy as it enters the truck.
And what, praytell, entered the engine of that truck as the souce of energy? Petroleum and hydrogen are both combustible substances created ultimately through a process involving the sun, both of which enter an engine to be ignited and used as a source of movement. The truck in this post is like having an oil-refinery on your gas-powered truck, but no one would say that the truck doesn't actually run on gas and TECHNICALLY runs on electricity that powers the refinery.
could the carbon be recycled from the emissions before being recombined with the hydrogen in a closed loop?
Beware of anything involving energy production and the phrase "closed loop". What you're thinking is on par with perpetual motion. The energy needed to "recombine" the emissions is, on a theoretical level, the same as the energy it produced when you used it in the engine. Since you used that energy to move your car, it will take MORE energy to recombine the carbon, and the energy it takes to do that will be LESS than the energy you'll get out of the recombined fuel.
Or: no.
They can be plenty hard, white collar jobs can, but not at all harder. Maybe harder is too vague. Maybe grueling, back-breaking, or just plain awful. Ask ditch-diggers if they want an office job. Ask a programmer if he fancies ditch-digging. Thinking is "work", yes, that's why you get paid. But manual laborers aren't idiots, they do a necessary job. Besides, the underlying point is still there: which of the two needs more assistance in living? Which one needs government health-care, welfare benefits, or grants to go to college and get a better job?
People can keep the money they earn. People who want to make the purpose of their lives amassing money... yeah, that's greed. Money is the means, not the end in itself. You wanna earn enough money to get Suzie her college education, or guarantee your well-being, that's great. You wanna earn money because it's money and that's what rich fuckers do, that's greed. Keeping what you earn has nothing to do with it. It's the fact that some people's lives are so shallow that they gague how well they did and how valuable they are with their wealth.
I don't want socialism, I don't wanna steal the wealth from rich people. I'm just saying that people who live their lives in the pursuit of money should take a good look around (outside their estate), and at the very least stop whining for more ways the government can let them have MORE money.
1) I happen to be reasonably poor. Poor enough that I can put myself on this side of the argument.
2) Not that it matters to the spirit of the debate, but the idea wasn't to find the absolute poorest people. The point was that the outrageously-rich person has no place bitching about not getting government assistance to help him... be rich, I guess.
It's not because someone is paid less that they get the work-harder label. It's because they work HARDER. A man who does roof-work, construction workers, Manpower-hired day-laborers and fruit-pickers and such work harder than a computer programmer. Period. I don't care if they earned more money than the programmer, it's still harder work.
It's not that the Green party doesn't have room for rich people. Rich people are... RICH! What "help" does a multi-millionaire need!? He lives in a nice house in a nice neighborhood and sends his kids to a good school and goes on vacations and has insurance and time for soccer practice and... what's the problem? Has the economy made a dent in your vacation home plans? Are you butt-hurt because you're taxed more so you can only afford one yacht? Seriously, out of the biggest concerns in politics right now besides Iraq, namely health insurance, social security, gay marriage and drugs, where are you, the poor neglected REDICULOUSLY-RICH PERSON, feeling a little left out?
You're not being punished for succeeding, but you sure as shit don't need help. You should be happy that you don't need a government program to have a decent quality of living. And people should feel downright ASHAMED about devoting their lives to the aquisition of wealth. I hope it buys them something to cover up the shallow uselessness they've become. To undermine that by trying to get the government to give less money to impoverished people because "the estate tax is mean and I want all 30 of my million dollars" is a blatant act of greed. How dare a truly wealthy person even CLAIM that they need the same government help as people that struggle to maintain a third-world quality of life.
Maybe not against you, but if you have many millions of dollars from being a programmer (realize that your "hard work" is not even on the same scale as daily manual labor), you don't really need the Green Party's help, now do you?
You're a multi-millionaire, well-to-do, probably white man (I apologize if I'm wrong)... what kind of "support" do you need?
And outside of the accepted ideals of capitalism, fair-and-square doesn't excuse the fact that you have WAY more money than you need, and that your money, regardless of how you aquired it, could be used to help many, many people. Wealth, to many, is an evil. In a society truly determined to provide the best lives to all of its inhabitants, wealth shouldn't exist.
m&m's melt. What you need is poster-board, a sharpie, and those stupid glass decorative gems from Wal-Mart.
Heh, it sounds like that old Kings-of-Comedy guy that would make random shit up like "Oh, so you wanna have a barbeque? Alright, meet me in the back in 15 minutes with a coonskin cap, a bottle of Ensure, and a dirty Swiffer pad... we're making chicken!"
Is psyching the other player out. Maybe not downright tricking him, but getting him caught up in what's happening to lose track of a larger threat.
...who lost his glasses an hour ago and didn't get any sleep that night, facing the sun at 5 in the afternoon with a broken sun visor.
Learning go from a computer is like learning sex from a text-based porn site censored for language. Not only does the computer have terrible form and awful strategy, but he never makes mistakes. At least bad human players occasionally accidentally make insightful moves. Go AI's are like really good players with no foresight or sense of strategy to the point that they suck in the most frustrating way possible.
Moreover, you can spot someone who learned from a computer about 20 moves into the game. After conditioning themselves to beat a meticulous computer player with no strategy, these people are blatant, obstinate players that beat a situation into the ground before moving on. They're like tanks shooting flies... tanks rigged with bicycle tires. And a near-sighted gunman.
Would have to be through an online go server. KGS (Google-search it) is a very mature system with all levels of players from green beginners up to actual professional players. Moreover, the server has constructs built-in that allow and encourage review of games, tutoring, tsumego practice, etc. There are beginner rooms in there that I myself, in addition to hundreds of others, frequent for the sole purpose of helping newcomers.
My uname on KGS and IGS are hermit, if anyone sees me or wants a game, get in touch.
Go is generally considered the oldest board game on earth. It's at least 3000 years old in its current form. Like most games from the Orient, its easy to understand the rules, but freakishly difficult to play a good game.
Whereas chess skill is largely dependant upon how many tactics you know, go is much more a game of finesse. The basic techniques are all the knowledge that's really needed, after that skill comes with reading ahead and knowing how your opponent plays. A given situation has lots of suitable answers, not just a best one. It challenges your intellect more than just your knowledge of the game.
A google search for IGS and KGS will give you all you need to play some go online. Unlike Yahoo's go client, which doesn't even accurately score games sometimes, IGS and KGS are mature servers with a huge worldwide player base, complete rulesets, and tools to review games and tutor. Moreover, the go servers attract true professional players, dan-level amateurs, and everyone down to beginners, so you're sure to find a good challenge no matter who you are. The clients are Java-based, and IGS can even be played out of a web browser.
Don't mention problem you don't know how to fix...
I think the correct answer to "Why don't they send up a monkey or a meatloaf?" is "They tried calling, you said your schedule was full."
The problem isn't America's gas prices, it's the fact that it doesn't matter. The old economics idea is that once gas prices start to go up, gas use will go down. Problem is, the world RELIES ON OIL. There is no substitute for it, and as other readers have mentioned, products like platsic have no equal.
/. crowd, is not even *close* to an accurate representation of what the general population is like. I have a sneaking suspicion the average SUV-driving putz out there couldn't care less about oil shortages. At least not until he can't fill up his Expedition XLT Super-High-Ultra-Duty-I-can-tow-Staten-Island, i.e. when it's too late.
I'm sure a lot of us would make at least a modest effort to change our ways and live oil-free, but there's two important factors to realize. One, "a lot of us", the
Two, and more importantly, we can't live oil free. Given plastics, lubricants, hell, even f*$&-in' chapstick, oil is a part of everyone's life, even those of us who do make a modest effort for it not to.
We are VERY aware that energy comes at a cost, but we're also aware that public transportation doesn't go where it needs to, that we can't even buy WATER without using oil, and that the rest of us make too much money to care in the slightest about how much things cost.