Yeah we Americans are also gonna get hit so much harder when the prices naturally rise in the decades to come. Because you see, we're probably at the peak of oil production right now. You might have heard a fact that no new refineries are in construction right now? Because by the time they'd be completed, they would already be lacking oil to refine. And then, when the oil crash finally comes, Europe, which due to its sensible fuel policies has curbed such huge reliance on oil (tax it, it's expensive, people will not be used to using massive quantities of it),... that old Europe will deal with shortages much much better. Oil? They won't care, they'll still have enough for their own purposes.
Meanwhile, here in the ole' US, people are already crying at $2.30/gal. Imagine what fun we'll have when the price doubles... then triples. Somebody owning a nice Ford Excursion (what... 16mpg?), having to fill it once a week, 44gal*$7.50 = $330/week = $1320/month. Oh will there be panic, and crying and calls for invading every last oil producing country because we're not getting what God gave us Americans! How dare they hoard *our* oil? Don't they see we need to go to drag races and have Nascar and drive 15 extra miles for our lattes? Public transportation you say? Didn't we dismantle all those years back? Uh-oh.
Yeah, it's gonna be like that. I hope that that God who apparently constantly just looks out for us is able to help then. If not, we're really screwed.
I agree. That way you'd consume less and wouldn't get as fat, driving everybody's insurance premiums up. I think you found a solution to obesity right there! If you want soda, you have to buy it weeks in advance!
They get things done? Like making sure we're protected at home? No, a report just came out, we haven't done that yet four years after 9/11. Solving the energy crisis? No, it's just more drilling. And *COAL*! Solving the impending medicaid crisis? No, haven't done a damn thing about that. Renewing such legislation as the estate tax, or the assault weapons ban? Getting Bin Laden? Getting enough armor to our troops? North Korea? Stupendous budget deficits? Stopping a genocide in Darfur?
Instead, the congress is debating about such questions like steroids in baseball, threatening judges for failing to resume feeding of a brain-dead person, and are about to have a meltdown over the democratic blocking of a handful of their court nominees.
Sure they're getting things done, all the *wrong* and/or irrelevant things.
I won't even go near the Jesus, Guns and bigotry part. You can guess where I stand on that.
Let me explain: it's an outlet for people. Not too many people (beyond AirAmerica radio, the Daily Show and the like) actually point out how ridiculous this administration is. Stewart is right - the big media has let us all down by not questioning anything. (abolishment of the inheritance tax? HELLO!!!)
On last night's show, Stewart showed six clips, three from England and three from the US, and how the President/Prime Minister are treated by the public during a town-hall debate. Wow. The Pres gets thankyous instead of questions. I swear the audience in the Kerry-Bush debate looked fearful. The PM, on the other hand, gets called a liar TO HIS FACE! And he listens politely, and has a response to that. Now that's how a free society is supposed to work. In the US, the people feel they have no proper channel to voice their objections. There might be an official "phone", but nobody's picking up on the other side.
To use one of Bush's favorite phrases: In other words, when you feel nobody is talking for you, you will usually open your own mouth.
And BTW, I would not mod you for what you just said. It's not histerical, it's a reasonable question/statement. Calling somebody you're responding to an idiot, or intentionally picking a fight, now that's a diff. story.
If you had bothered to RTFA, at the very beginning, it shows a curve that's a slow dropoff, and it talks about the effect even a slow dropoff will have. They compare it to a dehydrated person, losing even 10-15% of the water in your body can kill you. The production will not be 0 overnight, but the allmighty market might and likely will react quite irrationally about it. Just read the article, I found it quite compelling on that issue.
Section called "Won't the Market and the Laws of Supply and Demand Address This?"
The answer is "No". Basically, to retrofit all the systems to use other sources of energy will take a lot more years than we'll have by the time the market forces factor into it.
The market is also not perfectly rational, nor slow to react... if the problem is perceived to be serious, the market will explode overnight. The oil companies are even faster than the market. (for example, they are currently swimming in record profits because they upped the prices at the first sign of crude oil's price jump, despite the fact that they were still selling gas they produced at much lower prices of crude oil).
I love the textbook answer, but I think we're placing too much faith in the almighty market.
I just love the way you religious people are willing to call anything "God" just to be able to say he exists. I believe he exists, let me find the most convoluted set of explanations to explain what god really is, though I really don't have the first clue about it. Ugh. So according to your theory, God is what made the big bang happen? Because there has to be a "first". Well, who says there has to be a first? I personally like the "Rama" theory, which I first read in the Asimov's Rama trilogy (or quadralogy, whatever). In it, universe is a constantly contracting and expanding thing... it's a perpetual loop, there's a big bang, universe expands, then contracts into one point, then big bang again, then expansion, contraction. Just like you can say there always was a god, always will be a god, why can't you just say there always was a universe, and always will be a universe, always with randomness involved?
And call it a day. No supernatural explanations involved.
They showed a prototype of this in that documentary "The Core." They were able to travel to the center of the Earth and restart the core's spin, thus saving Earth!
The console will always be limited by its simplicity, i.e. no keyboard. The console was invented because little Billy, who's 5, doesn't need to know how to install the latest OS to play a game. He doesn't need to be picking out the keyboard, the sound card, any of the peripherals, it's there for him.
So since it's all prepackaged, everything has to be dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, whatever pad gets distributed with the game.
Even if you include the keyboard with the distribution, the console lives under your TV. You can't wave a mouse in the air and a keyboard on your lap is just too uncomfortable.
ALL OF THAT means that the consoles have their niche game market, FPS's, flying and driving games. (I don't even understand how the FPS's work with the freaking gamepad - aiming must be horrible - but I digress). Consoles = short, interruptable fun.
If you want strategy, true RPG, etc, etc... they simply can not be made with the same quality for the console as they can for a full fledged PC.
And also, the PC will always have the performance edge over the console. True, the console's OS can be minimal, but at the end of the day, it's either the raw speed of the main CPU or the specialized hardware (100% DirectX9.0 compliant video cards) that will win the day... there's no amount of software optimization that will win against pure hardware. The consoles will always be behind in that arena.
Besides, consider the primary output for each. Most consoles are still hooked up to TV's! Even with HDTV, modern monitors outperform them (refresh rates, resolution). Modern CRT monitor vs. regular TV - there's just no comparison.
Given that the alternative is to give it to the US government when he dies, I'd much prefer he give it to charities he thinks are worthy.
Also, according to Webster, generous means "liberal in giving". Giving away $3billion is pretty liberal.
And sure he can use it. He can start building a real-estate empire the likes of which you haven't seen. Or he can start heavily gaming the stock market with it. I can't even imagine what $30billion in cash could do to a company if it was used maliciously.
And come on, I don't think that's fair. Look at it from a point of view of the person receiving the gift. If you gave $50 to a homeless man, would he not consider you generous? Might not be much to you, but to him that's like a month's worth of food.
My point is: we're greedy, we're selfish, and we're ready to kill (or in your case, couldn't give a rats ass about people getting killed) just to preserve our current way of life.
The money example goes to show that we're about *now*, even if it screws us 10 years down the line. The smog example (and take any major city there, DC has a nice yellow cover when viewed from a distance) shows we don't even care about our own health until we're keeling over in the streets. And the war example, how little we value other people's lives. The 15000 are civilian deaths, not military. Why is it that we're ready to invade the world when 3000 of our civilians die, and proclaim it the greatest catastrophy ever, only to go into a country and kill 5 times as many? Collateral damage? Oops, our bad. Let's move on. The point is even more relevant if you believe that neocons did Iraq to gain control over strategic oil reserves.
Now, I don't pretend to have a solution. The hydrogen powered stuff is not a silver bullet, because yes, you will just shift the pollution elsewhere - unless you have huge incentives to move from coal/oil/natural gas to renewable sources of energy.
I just think that we're at a peak and heading down, barring some last minute Star Trek solution. We're not taking all this seriously as we should, and when the leaders of the richest country in the world don't even believe in science anymore, then we're all screwed.
Greed is why. Getting an extra few hundred dollars back in your taxes is more important to people than the future of their own children (see under: Republicans' fiscal policies). Driving a Hummer to work is more important than not being able to breathe (see under: LA smog). And getting your way is more important than killing 15,000+ human beings you don't know (see under: Iraq war).
If we were seriously concerned about any of this, starting with the most immediate, breathable air in our cities, we'd have hydrogen cars out there already. But until people start dropping like flies from lung diseases, until all those rich f**ks don't suffer themselves, we're not really going to come up with a solution. But by then, it'll just be too late.
I just wonder once people start dying in the US, if the US will try to storm the remaining food/resource reserves by force. (yes, you might argue that Iraq already happened, but I'm talking resources other than oil).
If our future depends on our ability to sacrifice something for the sake of our well-being 10+ years from now, we're all screwed.
You probably won't see a whole lot of SAT words in today's games.
But having grown up in a non-English speaking country, I can tell you that I learned a lot of english from adventure games (back in the day, adventure meant pure *text* adventure). So maybe games do have a place in teaching very young kids... it's a lot more fun to do a multiplication table with fun sights and sounds than it is to just memorize combinations off a sheet of paper. After all, isn't that how all kids and young creatures learn, by playing? Kittens "attacking" each other to learn to catch food?
I just don't think you can absorb college level textbooks by playing games (try to cram 60+ pages of a history textbook in one evening through a game, and we'll see how you do:))
"We don't. They run the companies. If the companies they run sucked badly enough, they'd lose employees and profits and they'd cease to be a company, and the CEO would not make a penny."
You mean like those people who ran Enron, drove it into the ground and got out of the whole thing with measly billions? Yeah, I always thought there should have been some sort of a massive charity drive to help these poor souls...
"On the other hand, he signed a contract to work for them that didn't include any promises of profit-sharing on things he invented for them."
Why is it that people have such a hard time defending a fellow human being vs. a corporation? Why do we have such a hard time putting ourselves into the shoes of such accomplished people, but we have no trouble becoming the asshole CEO of that company? "Screw the guy, he knew what his contract was!"
Yeah, except that the choice of where you stick your penis has *no real moral value* attached, one way or another.
P.S. I'm straight, but I'm outraged at people who think that one's sexual orientation has anything to do with anything. Fucking bible thumpers. Go shove the "good book" up your ass.
"You left wingers that don't want a missle defense are the same folks that blame President Bush for not defending us from the 9/11 attacks. You can't have it both ways."
Let's see... missile defense is for shooting down incoming ICBM's. 9/11 was done with passenger planes. Future terrorist attacks will be done by weapons carried by anything *but* ICBM's. Probably a truck or a train.
Uhm, hello? So how's that not a waste?
As a "left winger," I don't blame Bush for not being able to stop 9/11. I blame him for fucking up so badly in everything he's done since, and not holding other people responsible when they grossly fuck up. To him, everybody's doing a superb job, including Rummy [Abu Graib, Iraqi war] and Condi (not being able to process written word that's not on a yellow to-do postit). And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Anybody who doesn't read the newspapers daily doesn't deserve to be a Denny's manager, let alone the president.
Making tennis rackets lighter? I agree that's a complete waste of time, as it's for kids and old people. The pros and those who aspire to greatness regularly play with 12+oz rackets, not the 9oz feather ones.
Like I said, a totally anal point. You were warned by the subject:)
No, really, more to the point: who gives a rat's ass? Sure, the Bible is a nice story and all, with all the stonings and crucifixions and lepers and god's righeous anger, but I think it's time we let it go. If you want to get your Ph.D. in religious studies, knock yourself out. How is whether Moses really lived relevant to people today? I mean seriously.
How are hard drugs any different than alcohol? Both can make you addicted, both will eventually kill you. Yet we allow alcohol in our society.
Instead of jailing everybody with a coke habit, give em as much coke as they want. With the money we're spending on "fighting it" and keeping people in jail, I say give em as much of that shit as they want. It's their choice, much like it is their choice to become an alcoholic.
Terrorists are 1) poorly educated people 2) cranked full of religion 3) who feel their backs are against the wall and have nothing left to lose
"Fight" any of those three problems, by 1) educating them, 2) eradicating religion (of any kind, as Carlin said "thinking there's an invisible being that sees everything you do is mental illness), 3) and not installing evil dictators who give these people no voice
To fight something doesn't mean just kill or harm or jail people.
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Yeah we Americans are also gonna get hit so much harder when the prices naturally rise in the decades to come. ... that old Europe will deal with shortages much much better. Oil? They won't care, they'll still have enough for their own purposes.
Because you see, we're probably at the peak of oil production right now. You might have heard a fact that no new refineries are in construction right now? Because by the time they'd be completed, they would already be lacking oil to refine.
And then, when the oil crash finally comes, Europe, which due to its sensible fuel policies has curbed such huge reliance on oil (tax it, it's expensive, people will not be used to using massive quantities of it),
Meanwhile, here in the ole' US, people are already crying at $2.30/gal. Imagine what fun we'll have when the price doubles... then triples. Somebody owning a nice Ford Excursion (what... 16mpg?), having to fill it once a week, 44gal*$7.50 = $330/week = $1320/month.
Oh will there be panic, and crying and calls for invading every last oil producing country because we're not getting what God gave us Americans! How dare they hoard *our* oil? Don't they see we need to go to drag races and have Nascar and drive 15 extra miles for our lattes?
Public transportation you say? Didn't we dismantle all those years back? Uh-oh.
Yeah, it's gonna be like that. I hope that that God who apparently constantly just looks out for us is able to help then. If not, we're really screwed.
I agree. That way you'd consume less and wouldn't get as fat, driving everybody's insurance premiums up. I think you found a solution to obesity right there!
If you want soda, you have to buy it weeks in advance!
They get things done? Like making sure we're protected at home? No, a report just came out, we haven't done that yet four years after 9/11. Solving the energy crisis? No, it's just more drilling. And *COAL*! Solving the impending medicaid crisis? No, haven't done a damn thing about that. Renewing such legislation as the estate tax, or the assault weapons ban? Getting Bin Laden? Getting enough armor to our troops? North Korea? Stupendous budget deficits? Stopping a genocide in Darfur?
Instead, the congress is debating about such questions like steroids in baseball, threatening judges for failing to resume feeding of a brain-dead person, and are about to have a meltdown over the democratic blocking of a handful of their court nominees.
Sure they're getting things done, all the *wrong* and/or irrelevant things.
I won't even go near the Jesus, Guns and bigotry part. You can guess where I stand on that.
Let me explain: it's an outlet for people. Not too many people (beyond AirAmerica radio, the Daily Show and the like) actually point out how ridiculous this administration is. Stewart is right - the big media has let us all down by not questioning anything. (abolishment of the inheritance tax? HELLO!!!)
On last night's show, Stewart showed six clips, three from England and three from the US, and how the President/Prime Minister are treated by the public during a town-hall debate.
Wow. The Pres gets thankyous instead of questions. I swear the audience in the Kerry-Bush debate looked fearful. The PM, on the other hand, gets called a liar TO HIS FACE! And he listens politely, and has a response to that. Now that's how a free society is supposed to work.
In the US, the people feel they have no proper channel to voice their objections. There might be an official "phone", but nobody's picking up on the other side.
To use one of Bush's favorite phrases: In other words, when you feel nobody is talking for you, you will usually open your own mouth.
And BTW, I would not mod you for what you just said. It's not histerical, it's a reasonable question/statement. Calling somebody you're responding to an idiot, or intentionally picking a fight, now that's a diff. story.
If you had bothered to RTFA, at the very beginning, it shows a curve that's a slow dropoff, and it talks about the effect even a slow dropoff will have.
They compare it to a dehydrated person, losing even 10-15% of the water in your body can kill you.
The production will not be 0 overnight, but the allmighty market might and likely will react quite irrationally about it.
Just read the article, I found it quite compelling on that issue.
1) So fine, call it a "linear" event. The universe is given one chance, one big bang, until it dies a thermal death. Still no need for god.
... also, if you read the rest of that Wikipedia article, it says that the Big Crunch cannot theoretically be ruled out.
2)
Look here (EVERY SLASHDOTTER SHOULD READ THIS):
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
Section called "Won't the Market and the Laws of
Supply and Demand Address This?"
The answer is "No". Basically, to retrofit all the systems to use other sources of energy will take a lot more years than we'll have by the time the market forces factor into it.
The market is also not perfectly rational, nor slow to react... if the problem is perceived to be serious, the market will explode overnight.
The oil companies are even faster than the market.
(for example, they are currently swimming in record profits because they upped the prices at the first sign of crude oil's price jump, despite the fact that they were still selling gas they produced at much lower prices of crude oil).
I love the textbook answer, but I think we're placing too much faith in the almighty market.
I just love the way you religious people are willing to call anything "God" just to be able to say he exists. I believe he exists, let me find the most convoluted set of explanations to explain what god really is, though I really don't have the first clue about it.
Ugh.
So according to your theory, God is what made the big bang happen? Because there has to be a "first".
Well, who says there has to be a first? I personally like the "Rama" theory, which I first read in the Asimov's Rama trilogy (or quadralogy, whatever). In it, universe is a constantly contracting and expanding thing... it's a perpetual loop, there's a big bang, universe expands, then contracts into one point, then big bang again, then expansion, contraction. Just like you can say there always was a god, always will be a god, why can't you just say there always was a universe, and always will be a universe, always with randomness involved?
And call it a day. No supernatural explanations involved.
Yeah, totally!
They showed a prototype of this in that documentary "The Core." They were able to travel to the center of the Earth and restart the core's spin, thus saving Earth!
Eat your heart out, Jules Verne!
I couldn't disagree more.
The console will always be limited by its simplicity, i.e. no keyboard. The console was invented because little Billy, who's 5, doesn't need to know how to install the latest OS to play a game. He doesn't need to be picking out the keyboard, the sound card, any of the peripherals, it's there for him.
So since it's all prepackaged, everything has to be dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, whatever pad gets distributed with the game.
Even if you include the keyboard with the distribution, the console lives under your TV. You can't wave a mouse in the air and a keyboard on your lap is just too uncomfortable.
ALL OF THAT means that the consoles have their niche game market, FPS's, flying and driving games. (I don't even understand how the FPS's work with the freaking gamepad - aiming must be horrible - but I digress). Consoles = short, interruptable fun.
If you want strategy, true RPG, etc, etc... they simply can not be made with the same quality for the console as they can for a full fledged PC.
And also, the PC will always have the performance edge over the console. True, the console's OS can be minimal, but at the end of the day, it's either the raw speed of the main CPU or the specialized hardware (100% DirectX9.0 compliant video cards) that will win the day... there's no amount of software optimization that will win against pure hardware. The consoles will always be behind in that arena.
Besides, consider the primary output for each. Most consoles are still hooked up to TV's! Even with HDTV, modern monitors outperform them (refresh rates, resolution). Modern CRT monitor vs. regular TV - there's just no comparison.
Given that the alternative is to give it to the US government when he dies, I'd much prefer he give it to charities he thinks are worthy.
Also, according to Webster, generous means "liberal in giving". Giving away $3billion is pretty liberal.
And sure he can use it. He can start building a real-estate empire the likes of which you haven't seen. Or he can start heavily gaming the stock market with it. I can't even imagine what $30billion in cash could do to a company if it was used maliciously.
And come on, I don't think that's fair. Look at it from a point of view of the person receiving the gift. If you gave $50 to a homeless man, would he not consider you generous? Might not be much to you, but to him that's like a month's worth of food.
And how about if you vote for the guy who loses, and the winner goes on to piss on the rest of the world in your name?
Can I bitch then?
My point is: we're greedy, we're selfish, and we're ready to kill (or in your case, couldn't give a rats ass about people getting killed) just to preserve our current way of life.
The money example goes to show that we're about *now*, even if it screws us 10 years down the line. The smog example (and take any major city there, DC has a nice yellow cover when viewed from a distance) shows we don't even care about our own health until we're keeling over in the streets.
And the war example, how little we value other people's lives. The 15000 are civilian deaths, not military. Why is it that we're ready to invade the world when 3000 of our civilians die, and proclaim it the greatest catastrophy ever, only to go into a country and kill 5 times as many? Collateral damage? Oops, our bad. Let's move on. The point is even more relevant if you believe that neocons did Iraq to gain control over strategic oil reserves.
Now, I don't pretend to have a solution. The hydrogen powered stuff is not a silver bullet, because yes, you will just shift the pollution elsewhere - unless you have huge incentives to move from coal/oil/natural gas to renewable sources of energy.
I just think that we're at a peak and heading down, barring some last minute Star Trek solution. We're not taking all this seriously as we should, and when the leaders of the richest country in the world don't even believe in science anymore, then we're all screwed.
Greed is why.
Getting an extra few hundred dollars back in your taxes is more important to people than the future of their own children (see under: Republicans' fiscal policies). Driving a Hummer to work is more important than not being able to breathe (see under: LA smog). And getting your way is more important than killing 15,000+ human beings you don't know (see under: Iraq war).
If we were seriously concerned about any of this, starting with the most immediate, breathable air in our cities, we'd have hydrogen cars out there already. But until people start dropping like flies from lung diseases, until all those rich f**ks don't suffer themselves, we're not really going to come up with a solution. But by then, it'll just be too late.
I just wonder once people start dying in the US, if the US will try to storm the remaining food/resource reserves by force. (yes, you might argue that Iraq already happened, but I'm talking resources other than oil).
If our future depends on our ability to sacrifice something for the sake of our well-being 10+ years from now, we're all screwed.
You probably won't see a whole lot of SAT words in today's games.
:))
But having grown up in a non-English speaking country, I can tell you that I learned a lot of english from adventure games (back in the day, adventure meant pure *text* adventure).
So maybe games do have a place in teaching very young kids... it's a lot more fun to do a multiplication table with fun sights and sounds than it is to just memorize combinations off a sheet of paper. After all, isn't that how all kids and young creatures learn, by playing? Kittens "attacking" each other to learn to catch food?
I just don't think you can absorb college level textbooks by playing games (try to cram 60+ pages of a history textbook in one evening through a game, and we'll see how you do
"We don't. They run the companies. If the companies they run sucked badly enough, they'd lose employees and profits and they'd cease to be a company, and the CEO would not make a penny."
You mean like those people who ran Enron, drove it into the ground and got out of the whole thing with measly billions? Yeah, I always thought there should have been some sort of a massive charity drive to help these poor souls...
"On the other hand, he signed a contract to work for them that didn't include any promises of profit-sharing on things he invented for them."
Why is it that people have such a hard time defending a fellow human being vs. a corporation? Why do we have such a hard time putting ourselves into the shoes of such accomplished people, but we have no trouble becoming the asshole CEO of that company? "Screw the guy, he knew what his contract was!"
A point most troubling these days...
Yeah, except that the choice of where you stick your penis has *no real moral value* attached, one way or another.
P.S. I'm straight, but I'm outraged at people who think that one's sexual orientation has anything to do with anything. Fucking bible thumpers. Go shove the "good book" up your ass.
I have a better one. Find people who write and embed that shit on web pages, go to their houses and kill their pets. Then torch the place.
I think all our problems would quickly be solved.
"You left wingers that don't want a missle defense are the same folks that blame President Bush for not defending us from the 9/11 attacks. You can't have it both ways."
Let's see... missile defense is for shooting down incoming ICBM's. 9/11 was done with passenger planes. Future terrorist attacks will be done by weapons carried by anything *but* ICBM's. Probably a truck or a train.
Uhm, hello? So how's that not a waste?
As a "left winger," I don't blame Bush for not being able to stop 9/11. I blame him for fucking up so badly in everything he's done since, and not holding other people responsible when they grossly fuck up. To him, everybody's doing a superb job, including Rummy [Abu Graib, Iraqi war] and Condi (not being able to process written word that's not on a yellow to-do postit). And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Anybody who doesn't read the newspapers daily doesn't deserve to be a Denny's manager, let alone the president.
Reminds me of Fallout2 and the guy with grampy bone in his nose... How is this different?
Making tennis rackets lighter? I agree that's a complete waste of time, as it's for kids and old people. The pros and those who aspire to greatness regularly play with 12+oz rackets, not the 9oz feather ones.
:)
Like I said, a totally anal point. You were warned by the subject
No, really, more to the point: who gives a rat's ass?
Sure, the Bible is a nice story and all, with all the stonings and crucifixions and lepers and god's righeous anger, but I think it's time we let it go.
If you want to get your Ph.D. in religious studies, knock yourself out. How is whether Moses really lived relevant to people today? I mean seriously.
"American microbreweries are great"
Sure they are. If you want a horribly bitter IPA style beer no matter what it says on the label, then yes, they're great.
I love my Pilsners... and I have yet to try an American Pilsner that isn't really an IPA. It's sooooo disappointing.
How are hard drugs any different than alcohol? Both can make you addicted, both will eventually kill you. Yet we allow alcohol in our society.
Instead of jailing everybody with a coke habit, give em as much coke as they want. With the money we're spending on "fighting it" and keeping people in jail, I say give em as much of that shit as they want. It's their choice, much like it is their choice to become an alcoholic.
Terrorists are
1) poorly educated people
2) cranked full of religion
3) who feel their backs are against the wall and have nothing left to lose
"Fight" any of those three problems, by
1) educating them,
2) eradicating religion (of any kind, as Carlin said "thinking there's an invisible being that sees everything you do is mental illness),
3) and not installing evil dictators who give these people no voice
To fight something doesn't mean just kill or harm or jail people.