People ate before money was invented. People eat without it now in fact. I've given food to countless people over the years. To a neighbor who lost his job, to relatives who were having hard times, to strangers that I heard through friends were in need. People will always feed the hungry. It's money they're loathe to part with. Too often having seen people they gave money to run off to the liquor store or the corner station to grab some alcohol. You know if you give people food, they'll eat it. I'm older now, and death isn't that frightening. Well, let me rephrase that. I'm not afraid of "being" dead. It's the process that worries me. Gasping out for breath doesn't sound like fun. My children and grown and have children of their own and in the end that's the only thing left behind that matters to me. I don't think I like the idea of living my final years worrying about some bureaucrat with his finger on the mouse clicking a button to turn off my money. Why in hell do people think giving that power to someone, anyone at all, a good idea? I'm really too old for that shit. I don't mind the fucking kids on the lawn but that shit there is too damn much.
Only a matter of time until it can't run the latest OS X. Of course you can still use it, it just wont get security updates anymore. Then there's Linux. I really just meant until Apple abandoned it.
In the tech industry it's an incredible length of time. 25 years ago Intel introduced the 80486DX2, the same year Commodore Business Machines launched the Amiga 1200 computer. I now emulate an Amiga 1200 at full speed on a Raspberry Pi 3, a 35 dollar throwaway computer board. 25 years in the tech industry sees companies rise and fall and products come out, go obsolete and their replacement go obsolete, etc....
It's not just about taxes. It's about control. If we can just turn your money off we own you. You're a serf then, not even a peasant. First get the guns, then the money. Now you're less than nothing. Whoever controls the government owns all those serfs.
So far the consensus of what I've read says for the long haul industrial lead acid are the best for the money. I looked at some, they had some running about 400 pounds each. Thousands of dollars but long lasting and durable. Properly cared for easily good for a decade.
I don't know dude. I just take the science peoples' word for it. They mentioned the lack of light in the articles I read. I suppose the trees were dormant for months. I know during a drought all my grass dies and when it finally rains it magically greens up and starts to grow. Nature is pretty resilient.
I'd think if you have a legit number then it's not a problem. I get calls to the tune of 10 or 15 a day now on my cell from fake numbers. I'm one of those people that only talks to people I know so I never answer, in fact I'm sending them all to voice mail now and they don't even ring. Some people though aren't able to do this. I don't care if the shit asses call me 10 million times a day as I never see it except in the log or if they leave a message which 1 in 50 might do.
No. None. Nada. Zip. I get twitter for free and it's barely worth that. I had facebook and free was too expensive, they would have to pay me to go back.
Pretty picture right there. I specifically read the part about forests extending to the South Pole. I thought I remembered that but I haven't studied that stuff in about 3 decades so I did a little research. If you think I'm wrong I'd appreciate some proof. I'm not trying to show you up, just interested.
And yet during the Cretaceous period Antarctica was at nearly it's current latitude well within the Antarctic circle. During that period there were no polar ice caps and forests extended all the way to the South Pole. It was not a tropical environment but it was not freezing.
We have started. We produce less now than a decade ago. Still it's not going to be enough no matter what we do. For the next 100 years it's going to be warming. Of course we could have a nuclear war. The resulting nuclear winter and killing off of 95 percent of humanity should cool things right down. I personally think that's a lot more likely than global warming killing us off.
Things will happen slowly enough. It's not the first time the world has been hot we know. They've found plant fossils in Antarctica. And we also know it was once a giant snowball. I think we wont see either of those two extremes for quite a while. Now if the oceans rose 20 inches tomorrow things would get dicey.
I think it might make greedy capitalists happy if it would work. What's better than charging batteries with Solar power and swapping them in and out of aircraft. No more jet fuel with all the hazards and transport costs. Not to mention price fluctuations. The only problem is that battery technology is probably 20 or 30 years away from making something like this possible. Still, I wish them luck.
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People ate before money was invented. People eat without it now in fact. I've given food to countless people over the years. To a neighbor who lost his job, to relatives who were having hard times, to strangers that I heard through friends were in need. People will always feed the hungry. It's money they're loathe to part with. Too often having seen people they gave money to run off to the liquor store or the corner station to grab some alcohol. You know if you give people food, they'll eat it. I'm older now, and death isn't that frightening. Well, let me rephrase that. I'm not afraid of "being" dead. It's the process that worries me. Gasping out for breath doesn't sound like fun. My children and grown and have children of their own and in the end that's the only thing left behind that matters to me. I don't think I like the idea of living my final years worrying about some bureaucrat with his finger on the mouse clicking a button to turn off my money. Why in hell do people think giving that power to someone, anyone at all, a good idea? I'm really too old for that shit. I don't mind the fucking kids on the lawn but that shit there is too damn much.
So it seems the premium for Apple gear might not be such a bad deal? And actually Samsung is almost as pricey as Apple.
But you are a geek. You can make old stuff continue to be relevant. Imagine an ordinary user with an old machine that no longer gets updates.
I've got a 2 year old S5 that just got an update from AT&T the other day. I was kind of amazed.
Only a matter of time until it can't run the latest OS X. Of course you can still use it, it just wont get security updates anymore. Then there's Linux. I really just meant until Apple abandoned it.
5 years seems to be the anticipated lifetime in the Apple world. Some survive a bit longer but on borrowed time.
In the tech industry it's an incredible length of time. 25 years ago Intel introduced the 80486DX2, the same year Commodore Business Machines launched the Amiga 1200 computer. I now emulate an Amiga 1200 at full speed on a Raspberry Pi 3, a 35 dollar throwaway computer board. 25 years in the tech industry sees companies rise and fall and products come out, go obsolete and their replacement go obsolete, etc....
No. Safety is an illusion. It doesn't exist. But I am free.
Jews? Hardly. I wish. The Jews have some basic principles. These people have none.
It's not just about taxes. It's about control. If we can just turn your money off we own you. You're a serf then, not even a peasant. First get the guns, then the money. Now you're less than nothing. Whoever controls the government owns all those serfs.
So far the consensus of what I've read says for the long haul industrial lead acid are the best for the money. I looked at some, they had some running about 400 pounds each. Thousands of dollars but long lasting and durable. Properly cared for easily good for a decade.
I don't know dude. I just take the science peoples' word for it. They mentioned the lack of light in the articles I read. I suppose the trees were dormant for months. I know during a drought all my grass dies and when it finally rains it magically greens up and starts to grow. Nature is pretty resilient.
I'd think if you have a legit number then it's not a problem. I get calls to the tune of 10 or 15 a day now on my cell from fake numbers. I'm one of those people that only talks to people I know so I never answer, in fact I'm sending them all to voice mail now and they don't even ring. Some people though aren't able to do this. I don't care if the shit asses call me 10 million times a day as I never see it except in the log or if they leave a message which 1 in 50 might do.
I'm moving out to the sticks. Where my doublewide is on 34 acres you can't see the fucking neighbors.
There will be something else soon. Hell, I remember when IRC was the thing.
No. None. Nada. Zip. I get twitter for free and it's barely worth that. I had facebook and free was too expensive, they would have to pay me to go back.
It's a bugs bunny reference. If you're young you may not get it.
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Pretty picture right there. I specifically read the part about forests extending to the South Pole. I thought I remembered that but I haven't studied that stuff in about 3 decades so I did a little research. If you think I'm wrong I'd appreciate some proof. I'm not trying to show you up, just interested.
And yet during the Cretaceous period Antarctica was at nearly it's current latitude well within the Antarctic circle. During that period there were no polar ice caps and forests extended all the way to the South Pole. It was not a tropical environment but it was not freezing.
The only thing holding me back now isn't efficiency, it's the cost of batteries. That's the real cost issue.
The 10 years is unlikely, not impossible.
We have started. We produce less now than a decade ago. Still it's not going to be enough no matter what we do. For the next 100 years it's going to be warming. Of course we could have a nuclear war. The resulting nuclear winter and killing off of 95 percent of humanity should cool things right down. I personally think that's a lot more likely than global warming killing us off.
Things will happen slowly enough. It's not the first time the world has been hot we know. They've found plant fossils in Antarctica. And we also know it was once a giant snowball. I think we wont see either of those two extremes for quite a while. Now if the oceans rose 20 inches tomorrow things would get dicey.
It's never possible, until someone does it.
I think it might make greedy capitalists happy if it would work. What's better than charging batteries with Solar power and swapping them in and out of aircraft. No more jet fuel with all the hazards and transport costs. Not to mention price fluctuations. The only problem is that battery technology is probably 20 or 30 years away from making something like this possible. Still, I wish them luck.