"Still when you can make it for about $1 using a ruler, some foil, and some scissors you have to wonder why they are even bothering."
Anyone can grow their own tomatoes, or search for gold or gemstones, but how many choose instead to buy tomatoes, gold, or gems? Often tomatoes in the grocery taste like wet cardboard and sell for $3.99/pound, which is why I grow my own when I can. But I also search for gold and gemstone deposits. Some are DIY'ers; most are not.
Because of my involvement with gold and gemstone mining, I get a variation that usually includes selling me gold or gemstones for what amounts to about half the spot price, or less. I've played with a few of the fishes after hooking them, but they play out pretty quickly.
I also get some allegedly involving some equipment that was constructed or set up by someone who was killed (includes a link to the Egypt Air crash), and now I am going to set up an account so we can split the money. Yeah, I'll get right on that.
One thing these scams have in common with so many other (like the classic "Lottery Winner" scam) is that they play on peoples greed. "Wow, I can buy pounds of gold for less than half price? Think of how much I'll make!"
"The Earth is using them: they are keeping carbon out of circulation. Burning fossil fuels adds CO2 to the atmosphere. Growing plants remove CO2 from the atmosphere; if the plant is later burned, then the same amount of CO2 is returned to the atmosphere. There is no net loss or gain. That is a good reason to stop extracting fossil fuels. "
Recent studies of forest materials in Alaska and the release of CO2 as a result of naturally-occurring forest fires have shown that a tremendous amount of C is locked up in this material, and released during these fires. This included 'peat' fires, which can burn large areas underground for years. Much of this carbon was locked up long before the dawn of the industrial age. Where did it come from?
As a geologist, I can tell you that there have been times in the history of the Earth when the composition of the atmosphere (and the climate) was very different than it is today. The Earth is dynamic, and the rule is Adapt or Perish.
And here's a company that is exploring oil alternatives: Green Fuel Project, quoted in relevant part: "Alaska's Beluga coal-field about 60 miles southwest of Anchorage, is believed to be the world's largest low sulfur coal-field located on year-round open tidewater with over 2 billion tons of proven reserves, which is ideal for Silverado's commercial scale demonstration plant. The application of Hydrothermal treatment to coal from Alaska's Beluga coal-field has already been demonstrated at a pilot plant scale showing that this coal can be converted into premium, stable liquid fuel with energy levels of over 7,000 Btu/lb on a cost-effective basis."
"...not to mention the wages that would be demanded by the laborers. How much would you be willing to work for in Antarctica? I doubt it would be a minimum wage."
Actually, you can expect to be paid the same as you would at home. I know, having ran across numerous jobs in Antarctica while helping out people at the Alaska Job Bank. Indeed, many jobs in Antarctica do pay minimum wage. One reason is that there are far more people looking for jobs in Antarctica than there are available positions.
Oil has been leaking into Arctic waters off the North Slope of Alaska for many thousands of years. It's how the North Slope oil deposits were discovered. The same situation has existed in many other places.
And polar bears spend time on land during the summer, and they can swim for many, many miles. They are very comfortable on the ocean, and are very well adapted to it.
The heading states "sorry west coast", but Alaska is the farthest west state in the U.S. (also the farthest north, and east), and it most certainly is lightning season here. You can view the ground strikes on a map online.
In my area, (Alaska Range) as well as the Interior and the Brooks Range of Arctic Alaska all have very severe storms; I have witnessed them, and the resulting forest fires, firsthand. I have recorded some fierce storms, with lightning, marble-size hail, strong winds, and once I swear was a tornado (I'm from the midwest originally, and know what a funnel cloud looks like).
"In the Art of War, Sun Tsu writes: Now the general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat, how much more no calculation at all!"
"The target of the ad does not actively think "Wow - I really need that" but instead, when going to buy a product of that nature, they will go for the one that they've been exposed to the most. They don't buy the no-name deoderant, they buy the one with all the ads, etc, etc. I can tell you from experience in the food industry that often the difference between several products is just the labelling (and the price;) "
Another factor is product placement on the shelves. Go to the store sometime with the awareness that the first or best placed products are the ones you see advertised more. They know most people turn right when entering, they put the diary in the back so you have to traverse the store, etc. Some companies put pressure on merchants for placement, and it becomes like a shoving match.
Also, in the market I shop at, there is a per-unit cost on the sticker affixed to the shelf. It's tiny, (Most people probably wouldn't notice it) but I have found some amazing differences by comparing the per-unit costs, and found the products to be exactly the same. Obviously, the House Brand is not running their own farms, charcoal factories, or fishing vessels.
"Yeah, and it's pretty amazing/annoying how many sites that do use Flash for navigation don't at least have a plain HTML index or site map page."
Remember back in the old days, when people did HTML by hand? If you used a button or java, you always put a link in case the nav thingy failed, or if people were surfing with images off, since they had a brand new 14.4 modem (I did-a screaming replacement for my 9600).
Now I hear from people, mostly on dialup, (which is still very common), that this site or that site is so slow they never want to go there again. Maybe advertisers should know this, and stop trying to cram crap down peoples throat.
I hate flash, and refuse to use or support it. If I go to a site that has flash only and won't provide an alternate (I never enabled flash in Moz), then I just go away.
"There was mention of micro-muclear power plants on/. a while back. I find this interesting, though would rather not have targets scattered across the landscape."
On your other point, I have recently been greatly reducing my use of my truck (not an SUV) by walking to the store, post office, etc., am spending less (example: I put up a clothsline), and cleared more land for a bigger garden (using manual labor). It's a start, anyway.
It was closed temporarily when it was found to sway several feet from side to side under heavy foot traffic due to an unforeseen resonance at around the frequency of human walking.
One time in basic training we were marching along and we came to a bridge, where we were told to stop marching in step. They said it would cause the bridge to collapse. I thought it was BS until I read about this.
My dad used to say "It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the bottom." Seems obvious when you say it like that. He also learned how painful water can be when you jump into it from a height.
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"The Navy has an oil reserve in Alaska. We don't need it yet, and nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines never will." That's not entirely true (it's now the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska), and ships and subs still require petro products, but that's not the problem.
The problem is not when we might need it (we will), but instead, the long lead times to develop an oil field in Alaska, particularly on the North Slope. It takes 10-15 years, and the exploration and development can only be done during the winter. Even if there was a huge crises and all environmental regulations were suspended due to national emergency, you still simply cannot drive across the tundra when it is thawed. Building a road is not an option.
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I heard yesterday from a guy that works at a coal mine here in Alaska that the military bases here are increasing their consumption of coal, or at least shipments are up, so I am assuming they are using it in their power plants.
Best time to start is late on Friday. Check the next day to see if there is an error message. If so, someones going to have a headache on Monday. I used to do this to fax spammers.
" If Antartica was ice-free (or mostly so) a few hundred years ago, why wasn't sea level dozens or hundreds of feet higher?"
Interesting point.
The area where I live was covered by ice over 1,000 feet thick just 9,000 years ago, which is when the present-day topography was created. 60 million years or so in the past, it was a lush tropical forest with active volcanoes (the latter which we still have), and the rivers, mountains, and other features were totally different. So what effect did all that ice melting have?
I live in south-central Alaska, and just went outside. It's still dusk here (22:44), and I can see that it is cloudy. Still, because I live 20 miles from town, I get a great show every night except for May through August (not much night then). Sometimes friends visiting during the winter cannot believe all the satellites crossing the sky, and how many stars there are. When I build my next house I'm going to include a glass dome or something.
It's true that gold is not uncommon. My grandfather, a rockhound, used to observe that gold is very widely distributed around the world. He'd say: "Where is gold? Gold is where you find it."
That's true, but misleading.
All elements have what we call "crustal abundance". However, that does not mean that you can profitably (key word here) extract aluminum or gold or whatever you're mining for unless natural processes have concentrated the element many times higher than crustal abundance. There is, for example, gold found in the human body. But, like seawater, the relative amounts are so small that there is currently no profitable mining/extraction method.
As for gold, the fact is that gold nuggets are far more rare than diamonds. Most large nuggets mined before 1992 have been melted down. This is part of the reason a gold nugget is worth 2x-3x or more of the spot price for gold. And make no mistake, gold is used as a medium of exchange, perhaps not at your corner fuel station, but certainly between investors, countries, and others. Especially people who don't trust the fake money printed out by governments, which rely soley on the perception of value. Disclaimer: IAAM (I am a miner).
I'd love to see something like this coupled with something like this: Alaska Bugs Sweat Gold Nuggets, since I am thinking that only the smallest particles would be recovered by the corn method.
In my day, we made our CPU's out of crystals! Our motherboard was a clay tablet. And we hammered the gold into thin sheets, baked it in a dung-fired oven, and we LIKED it.
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Anyone can grow their own tomatoes, or search for gold or gemstones, but how many choose instead to buy tomatoes, gold, or gems? Often tomatoes in the grocery taste like wet cardboard and sell for $3.99/pound, which is why I grow my own when I can. But I also search for gold and gemstone deposits. Some are DIY'ers; most are not.
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Alaska Bugs Sweat Gold Nuggets
I also get some allegedly involving some equipment that was constructed or set up by someone who was killed (includes a link to the Egypt Air crash), and now I am going to set up an account so we can split the money. Yeah, I'll get right on that.
One thing these scams have in common with so many other (like the classic "Lottery Winner" scam) is that they play on peoples greed. "Wow, I can buy pounds of gold for less than half price? Think of how much I'll make!"
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Alaska Bugs Sweat Gold Nuggets!
Interesting, then, this article about a gold mining company in Alaska named Linux Gold Corp. I wonder. The homepage of Linux Gold Corp. is heavy with the use of "Linux".
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Recent studies of forest materials in Alaska and the release of CO2 as a result of naturally-occurring forest fires have shown that a tremendous amount of C is locked up in this material, and released during these fires. This included 'peat' fires, which can burn large areas underground for years. Much of this carbon was locked up long before the dawn of the industrial age. Where did it come from?
As a geologist, I can tell you that there have been times in the history of the Earth when the composition of the atmosphere (and the climate) was very different than it is today. The Earth is dynamic, and the rule is Adapt or Perish.
And here's a company that is exploring oil alternatives: Green Fuel Project, quoted in relevant part: "Alaska's Beluga coal-field about 60 miles southwest of Anchorage, is believed to be the world's largest low sulfur coal-field located on year-round open tidewater with over 2 billion tons of proven reserves, which is ideal for Silverado's commercial scale demonstration plant. The application of Hydrothermal treatment to coal from Alaska's Beluga coal-field has already been demonstrated at a pilot plant scale showing that this coal can be converted into premium, stable liquid fuel with energy levels of over 7,000 Btu/lb on a cost-effective basis."
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Actually, you can expect to be paid the same as you would at home. I know, having ran across numerous jobs in Antarctica while helping out people at the Alaska Job Bank. Indeed, many jobs in Antarctica do pay minimum wage. One reason is that there are far more people looking for jobs in Antarctica than there are available positions.
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Alaska Seafood companies need 600 workers immediately for salmon processing jobs
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600 workers needed immediately for salmon processing jobs
Try glacier ice (including icebergs) instead.
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Fish Looks Like Giant Sea Monster
As for climate change, it is inevitable. There are fossils of large reptiles in Arctic Alaska, and evidence of vast, tropical forests in other parts of Alaska. Many of these were buried under thousands of feet of ice until recently (~9,000 years ago).
And polar bears spend time on land during the summer, and they can swim for many, many miles. They are very comfortable on the ocean, and are very well adapted to it.
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In my area, (Alaska Range) as well as the Interior and the Brooks Range of Arctic Alaska all have very severe storms; I have witnessed them, and the resulting forest fires, firsthand. I have recorded some fierce storms, with lightning, marble-size hail, strong winds, and once I swear was a tornado (I'm from the midwest originally, and know what a funnel cloud looks like).
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Bigfoot Sighted in Yukon
In the Army, we called that "The Seven P's":
Piss Poor Prior Planning Produces Poor Performance or, Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
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Girl Scouts skin beavers?
Another factor is product placement on the shelves. Go to the store sometime with the awareness that the first or best placed products are the ones you see advertised more. They know most people turn right when entering, they put the diary in the back so you have to traverse the store, etc. Some companies put pressure on merchants for placement, and it becomes like a shoving match.
Also, in the market I shop at, there is a per-unit cost on the sticker affixed to the shelf. It's tiny, (Most people probably wouldn't notice it) but I have found some amazing differences by comparing the per-unit costs, and found the products to be exactly the same. Obviously, the House Brand is not running their own farms, charcoal factories, or fishing vessels.
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Remember back in the old days, when people did HTML by hand? If you used a button or java, you always put a link in case the nav thingy failed, or if people were surfing with images off, since they had a brand new 14.4 modem (I did-a screaming replacement for my 9600).
Now I hear from people, mostly on dialup, (which is still very common), that this site or that site is so slow they never want to go there again. Maybe advertisers should know this, and stop trying to cram crap down peoples throat.
I hate flash, and refuse to use or support it. If I go to a site that has flash only and won't provide an alternate (I never enabled flash in Moz), then I just go away.
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Online gaming company to pan for gold
Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design
Seems like a pretty useless 'target'.
On your other point, I have recently been greatly reducing my use of my truck (not an SUV) by walking to the store, post office, etc., am spending less (example: I put up a clothsline), and cleared more land for a bigger garden (using manual labor). It's a start, anyway.
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One time in basic training we were marching along and we came to a bridge, where we were told to stop marching in step. They said it would cause the bridge to collapse. I thought it was BS until I read about this.
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President Bush to Liberate Alaska
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The problem is not when we might need it (we will), but instead, the long lead times to develop an oil field in Alaska, particularly on the North Slope. It takes 10-15 years, and the exploration and development can only be done during the winter. Even if there was a huge crises and all environmental regulations were suspended due to national emergency, you still simply cannot drive across the tundra when it is thawed. Building a road is not an option.
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President Bush to Liberate Alaska
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President Bush to Liberate Alaska
Timing is everything.
Best time to start is late on Friday. Check the next day to see if there is an error message. If so, someones going to have a headache on Monday. I used to do this to fax spammers.
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President Bush to Liberate Alaska!
Interesting point.
The area where I live was covered by ice over 1,000 feet thick just 9,000 years ago, which is when the present-day topography was created. 60 million years or so in the past, it was a lush tropical forest with active volcanoes (the latter which we still have), and the rivers, mountains, and other features were totally different. So what effect did all that ice melting have?
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David Chance wrote lots of stuff for TRS-80, Apple and PET, and even a few books, seems like this was before 1980. I learned a lot from him.
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That's true, but misleading.
All elements have what we call "crustal abundance". However, that does not mean that you can profitably (key word here) extract aluminum or gold or whatever you're mining for unless natural processes have concentrated the element many times higher than crustal abundance. There is, for example, gold found in the human body. But, like seawater, the relative amounts are so small that there is currently no profitable mining/extraction method.
As for gold, the fact is that gold nuggets are far more rare than diamonds. Most large nuggets mined before 1992 have been melted down. This is part of the reason a gold nugget is worth 2x-3x or more of the spot price for gold. And make no mistake, gold is used as a medium of exchange, perhaps not at your corner fuel station, but certainly between investors, countries, and others. Especially people who don't trust the fake money printed out by governments, which rely soley on the perception of value. Disclaimer: IAAM (I am a miner).
I'd love to see something like this coupled with something like this: Alaska Bugs Sweat Gold Nuggets, since I am thinking that only the smallest particles would be recovered by the corn method.
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We don't have billboards in Alaska. Hopefully we never will.
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In my day, we made our CPU's out of crystals! Our motherboard was a clay tablet. And we hammered the gold into thin sheets, baked it in a dung-fired oven, and we LIKED it.
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