In order to get "we all do" to happen, you need a world government that is incredibly oppressive, otherwise it is just like squeezing a balloon.
We have passed peak oil in every country except Canada and Saudi Arabia. Any effort to add new wells will have limited effect, so we really can't pump much more oil than we currently are. Even if there are new wells that could be added, that slack will be pulled tight soon, and then my argument comes into effect.
No matter how much oil you personally burn, the total global human population will use a fixed amount of oil (we use as much oil as you can pump out of the ground, and we have reached the point where it is very hard to use more oil).
So conservation does not help global warming, it just lowers the price so that the Chineese can burn more, and it discourages alternative fuel research. For the good of humanity, it is important that you burn as much oil as you can afford to, in order to bump up prices and encourage alternatives to oil.
If consumption is really high, we will switch to other sources while there is still a lot of oil in the ground. Worst case is conservation that keeps the price of oil low enough so that we pump and burn all the oil available to us over the next 50 years.
The title of the article states it like it is a fact, while the text of the article says "scientists fear that it is past the tipping point". There is no evidence in the article that we have reached a runaway state of global warming that would reach total ice melt without further human intervention.
It is stuff like this that makes me lose all respect for newspaper journalism.
I'm sure that he planned this well in advance of Katrina.
If you extend your argument to its logical conclusion, everything good will dissapear from the world in order to partially offset the misery of the poor. If nobody buys aston martin cars, the craftsmen that build them will be out of a job, and a rich history and skill set will be lost to the world. 50 years from now, collectors will not have anything but Hyundais to look at, and life will be shit. (Note, that if you don't like aston martins, just subsititute something you like - the last time I made this argument some horse's ass went off on how much aston marton sucks).
For example, I just ordered some very nice cheese for $40 a lb, should I have sent that money to Katrina instead? If I nobody buys the cheese, some very happy farmers and grass fed cows will all be out of a job.
It is much easier to get flood insurance if you are in a flood plain. I tried to get flood insurance for my house, but I don't qualify for subsidies because I am not in a flood plain, so it was much more expensive.
The government basically encourages you to build in flood plains.
Sure - we could take it out now, but later we will be trying to figure out a way to re-sequester the carbon back into the ground (to solve global warming). High gas prices are a good thing - they encourage conservation and alternative energy research.
To make a dent in the fossil fuel usage via biofuel, we would have to use most of the third world's farmland for fuel crops. We can afford to pay more for fuel than they can afford to pay for food, so there would be massive starvation (into the billions of people).
I second that. Our school IBM mainframe had a 25 MHz processor, and 300 people could be logged in and compiling at the same time. It really made you think about the MHz myth.
Beside it was a Pyramid 100MHz unix minicomputer (this was in 1980, so that was really fast), and it choked with 10 people logged in.
What I am worried about is the coming war of independence - it is likely that the influence of the current nation states (USA, etc) will be extended into space.
Eventually, when we have enough people up there, they will want their own government. If it follows the pattern of the american war of independence, then it may destroy the human race. The people in orbit will have a big advantage, they can just throw rocks and debris down on us.
We plan for this, and set up a government with a constitution in space as soon as there are more than 5000 or so people living in space.
If anyone is in denial about their ownership of atrocities in WWII, it is Japan. They killed 17 million chineese people even before pearl harbor, and forced hundreds of thousands of women into prostitution.
The two atom bombs were insignificant. Japan and Germany caused WWII, and any atrocities perpetrated by either side (including the atom bombings) should sit on their shoulders.
Those blockbuster collection letters are useful. Some unknown person was renting videos on my card for years, and I only found out when they forgot to put a DVD back in the case when returning it.
I got the collection letter for some romance movie that I would never rent, and cancelled the card. They did not charge me when they found out it was fraud, they were quite nice about it actually.
Between the US and Japan, they had sold 3 million PSPs by the end of the March quarter.
If only 870K were sold in Japan, that means that they sold 2.2 million in the US between launch (March 24th) and the end of the quarter (March 31st). I don't think that the PSP is launched yet in Europe.
From the occasional article, I gather that the PSP is outselling the DS about 4 to 3.
"Shipments of the PlayStation Portable, which went on sale late last year in Japan and earlier this year in the United States, totaled 2.97 million worldwide."
He must be predicting some pretty bleak times ahead for the PSP 8-) The DS has 5 million out, but it has been on the market much longer - it looks like the PSP will pass the DS by 3rd quarter or so.
You think that the playing card company would have become a gaming giant without him? I think not. Every time you play a nintendo game, you should be thanking him - without his risk taking, gaming today would not be nearly as good.
And if it wasn't for people like him, we would all be starving. People who get rich by making the world a better place, and by creating jobs, deserve the money that they get.
You are assuming that there is a link between intelligence and the ability to spell. I am a horrible speller, and I consistantly score in the top 5% for intelligence.
Maybe there is an inverse corrilation? Surely spelling nazis seem to be below average intelligence, according to my informal review of various message boards (no statistical accuracy implied) 8-)
Submit a complaint with the FCC, and also with your state public service regulatory agency.
You will have the highest level of customer service after that kissing your butt trying to make everything right. I have done this 3 or 4 times myself, and anytime one of my friends has a problem they do it too - it always works, and works quickly. www.fcc.gov
They dug a trench from one end of the city
to the other, and the buses run every two
minutes through it during the day, and
blast along at 60 or 70 mph. The connecting
buses also are very good, and you can
get pretty much anywhere in the core of
the city very easily. They have double
length buses that are articulated in the
middle, which is also cool.
The bus system in Ottawa is great - I was
really happy without a car when I lived
there.
This reminds me of the "Nuvistor" - when the
transistor came out, the vacuum tube manufacturers
came out with a "super vacuum tube" to fight
the new technology.
http://digilander.libero.it/paeng/what_the_nuvisto r.htm
http://www.thevalvepage.com/valvetek/Nuvistor/nuvi stor.htm
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In order to get "we all do" to happen, you need a world government that is incredibly oppressive, otherwise it is just like squeezing a balloon. We have passed peak oil in every country except Canada and Saudi Arabia. Any effort to add new wells will have limited effect, so we really can't pump much more oil than we currently are. Even if there are new wells that could be added, that slack will be pulled tight soon, and then my argument comes into effect.
No matter how much oil you personally burn, the total global human population will use a fixed amount of oil (we use as much oil as you can pump out of the ground, and we have reached the point where it is very hard to use more oil). So conservation does not help global warming, it just lowers the price so that the Chineese can burn more, and it discourages alternative fuel research. For the good of humanity, it is important that you burn as much oil as you can afford to, in order to bump up prices and encourage alternatives to oil. If consumption is really high, we will switch to other sources while there is still a lot of oil in the ground. Worst case is conservation that keeps the price of oil low enough so that we pump and burn all the oil available to us over the next 50 years.
The title of the article states it like it is a fact, while the text of the article says "scientists fear that it is past the tipping point". There is no evidence in the article that we have reached a runaway state of global warming that would reach total ice melt without further human intervention.
It is stuff like this that makes me lose all respect for newspaper journalism.
I'm sure that he planned this well in advance of Katrina.
If you extend your argument to its logical conclusion, everything good will dissapear from the world in order to partially offset the misery of the poor. If nobody buys aston martin cars, the craftsmen that build them will be out of a job, and a rich history and skill set will be lost to the world. 50 years from now, collectors will not have anything but Hyundais to look at, and life will be shit. (Note, that if you don't like aston martins, just subsititute something you like - the last time I made this argument some horse's ass went off on how much aston marton sucks).
For example, I just ordered some very nice cheese for $40 a lb, should I have sent that money to Katrina instead? If I nobody buys the cheese, some very happy farmers and grass fed cows will all be out of a job.
It is much easier to get flood insurance if you are in a flood plain. I tried to get flood insurance for my house, but I don't qualify for subsidies because I am not in a flood plain, so it was much more expensive.
The government basically encourages you to build in flood plains.
Sure - we could take it out now, but later we will be trying to figure out a way to re-sequester the carbon back into the ground (to solve global warming). High gas prices are a good thing - they encourage conservation and alternative energy research.
SUV sales are way down this year...
To make a dent in the fossil fuel usage via biofuel, we would have to use most of the third world's farmland for fuel crops. We can afford to pay more for fuel than they can afford to pay for food, so there would be massive starvation (into the billions of people).
I bet after this the houses that are above the flood line will sell at a premium price...
I second that. Our school IBM mainframe had a 25 MHz processor, and 300 people could be logged in and compiling at the same time. It really made you think about the MHz myth.
Beside it was a Pyramid 100MHz unix minicomputer (this was in 1980, so that was really fast), and it choked with 10 people logged in.
Or does this not work?C DA1.ASP
http://www.digitalconnection.com/Products/Video/D
I was planning on getting one to allow use of the PS3 with my analog CRT projector.
If Nortel had sold a bunch of shares in the $80s to raise a big cash horde, then the fall would not have been so bad.
I bet that they just want a big cash pile stocked up, which they can get now for few shares, but maybe not in the future.
What I am worried about is the coming war of independence - it is likely that the influence of the current nation states (USA, etc) will be extended into space.
Eventually, when we have enough people up there, they will want their own government. If it follows the pattern of the american war of independence, then it may destroy the human race. The people in orbit will have a big advantage, they can just throw rocks and debris down on us.
We plan for this, and set up a government with a constitution in space as soon as there are more than 5000 or so people living in space.
If anyone is in denial about their ownership of atrocities in WWII, it is Japan. They killed 17 million chineese people even before pearl harbor, and forced hundreds of thousands of women into prostitution.
The two atom bombs were insignificant. Japan and Germany caused WWII, and any atrocities perpetrated by either side (including the atom bombings) should sit on their shoulders.
Screw that - I am getting my sex robot from Apple. This is one area where you want ease of use, reliability and good hardware.
Imagine if your robot crashed and ripped your d**k off.
Those blockbuster collection letters are useful. Some unknown person was renting videos on my card for years, and I only found out when they forgot to put a DVD back in the case when returning it.
I got the collection letter for some romance movie that I would never rent, and cancelled the card. They did not charge me when they found out it was fraud, they were quite nice about it actually.
Between the US and Japan, they had sold 3 million PSPs by the end of the March quarter.
If only 870K were sold in Japan, that means that they sold 2.2 million in the US between launch (March 24th) and the end of the quarter (March 31st). I don't think that the PSP is launched yet in Europe.
From the occasional article, I gather that the PSP is outselling the DS about 4 to 3.
Maybe you generate more girls if you spend a big chunk of your day standing and walking around.
"Shipments of the PlayStation Portable, which went on sale late last year in Japan and earlier this year in the United States, totaled 2.97 million worldwide."
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050427/earns_japan_sony.h
He must be predicting some pretty bleak times ahead for the PSP 8-) The DS has 5 million out, but it has been on the market much longer - it looks like the PSP will pass the DS by 3rd quarter or so.
You think that the playing card company would have become a gaming giant without him? I think not. Every time you play a nintendo game, you should be thanking him - without his risk taking, gaming today would not be nearly as good.
And if it wasn't for people like him, we would all be starving. People who get rich by making the world a better place, and by creating jobs, deserve the money that they get.
Excellent - I am part of the open source crowd, not the free software crowd. Come on +5!!! Baby needs a new pair of shoes!!!
You are assuming that there is a link between intelligence and the ability to spell. I am a horrible speller, and I consistantly score in the top 5% for intelligence.
Maybe there is an inverse corrilation? Surely spelling nazis seem to be below average intelligence, according to my informal review of various message boards (no statistical accuracy implied) 8-)
Submit a complaint with the FCC, and also with your state public service regulatory agency.
You will have the highest level of customer service after that kissing your butt trying to make everything right. I have done this 3 or 4 times myself, and anytime one of my friends has a problem they do it too - it always works, and works quickly. www.fcc.gov
They dug a trench from one end of the city to the other, and the buses run every two minutes through it during the day, and blast along at 60 or 70 mph. The connecting buses also are very good, and you can get pretty much anywhere in the core of the city very easily. They have double length buses that are articulated in the middle, which is also cool. The bus system in Ottawa is great - I was really happy without a car when I lived there.
This reminds me of the "Nuvistor" - when the transistor came out, the vacuum tube manufacturers came out with a "super vacuum tube" to fight the new technology. http://digilander.libero.it/paeng/what_the_nuvisto r.htm
http://www.thevalvepage.com/valvetek/Nuvistor/nuvi stor.htm