According to wikipedia, human population first passed 1 billion in 1804. My own guess is that the population was a bit higher than that. Consider that Xerxes (ca 500 BCE) put together a force (including camp followers) of 5.4 million to attack Greece, and that's just one fighting force in one corner of the world, no mention of the people left behind.
What if someone hadn't invented creosote coatings?
Arsenic has also been used to prevent wood rot. Now that that's banned, copper compounds are used.
Modern, high traffic railroads use concrete ties.
I'm sure there are other possibilities
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Teddy Roosevelt was an early promoter of the "create emergencies so that I can increase my power" method of government leadership. That he could come up with a bogus panic on railroad ties only reinforces that argument.
You can't be that stupid, it has to be deliberate twisting of words. Water is variable, its supply rises and falls, and the long decline which hypothetically ended the Mayan civilization was temporary, unlike the claimed permanent decline of oil. Calling the Easter Island phenomenon "peak wood" is just silly.
You are obviously mathematics-challenged (and defeated). And you're spoiled rotten if you think that having to walk 2 miles is a burden.
Consider this, you thief: a person who needs to be continuously given stuff in order to survive is a burden on anyone who works honestly for a living. He is a detriment to civilization, cement boots for the productive. Why do you think slums are dangerous? Is it the productive people who work and save and don't waste their money on expensive housing, or the slackers on the dole who see no difference between taking money from government programs and stealing it without the gov't middleman?
Consider two societies, prevented from interacting with each other or the rest of the world, one made up of those who now make up the top 1% in the U.S., and another made up of those at the bottom who have dedicated their lives to living off handouts. The first would continue to thrive, the second would descend into anarchy and cannibalism, and disappear from the face of the earth within a decade.
In a free society, the difference between rich and poor is the difference between productive and destructive.
The most obvious example to my mind is the switch from wood to coal in railroad locomotives and house heating. As it became inconvenient and expensive to cut ever-more-distant trees and the supplies declined, the price of wood fuel went up and was replaced by more energy-dense coal.
Gasoline engines have slowly improved efficiency and power/weight for over a century. This is a result of consumer demand and manufacturers seeking a competitive advantage.
It is precisely greed, rational self interest, that leads to improvements in life. Ascetic "self discipline" is for losers and masochists, not people who move civilization forward.
The actual flesh of a squirrel's tail is going to be roughly a quarter inch wide. If the snake's strike were perfectly on center, each fang would miss the tail, one fang on each side. The squirrel is much more likely to get away than if the snake strikes the squirrel's body.
What we need to do is have the FCC take over the cables. [sic]
We are already heading for censorship under Obama's dictatorship. Having the FCC take over cable companies would signal irreversible damage to free speech.
ABC, CBS, and NBC were "packaging political slant as news" decades before Fox News existed, and CNN was also doing it before Fox News existed. Murdoch saw an audience that wasn't being satisfied, and gave them the content they wanted.
I find much of Fox News hard to take because people like Hannity and O'Reilly discuss politics with leftists, and it's annoying to hear the leftist blather. But its there, and reinforces Fox's claim that (unlike the other networks) they present the viewer with some non-cartoonish examples of opposition viewpoints.
You have forgotten that the name "Capitalism" was invented by its enemy, Karl Marx. It is a slur because it implies that the defining characteristic is money.
Capitalism is human rights viewed from an economic and political perspective.
An alert person would have seen Huffington's switch well before it happened. When she was advocating conservatism (supporting her Republican Congressman husband's campaign), her arguments were of the "it's for the children" variety so characteristic of liberals. It sounded false, and for me it was no surprise when she flipped. As far as I can tell, she's always been a mentally shallow leftist.
SDR makes possible "brick wall" filters that aren't practical with analog circuits, and that are more stable over temperature and time than is possible with analog circuits. Software doesn't drift. Physical inductors have limited "Q", crystals and mechanical resonators have "spurs", and so forth and do on.
Floor models are OK for strictly electronic stuff. Anything with mechanicals is risky, because floor models tend to be abused. Something with a hard disk is an acceptable risk, something with a DVD drive is practically guaranteed to fail within a year.
In the US, the dollar is now worth between 1% and 2% of its average value during the 1800s. By that measure, it would not be unreasonable to eliminate all coins below 50 cents.
This is strictly the fault of government (and Nixon more than anyone else) for decoupling the dollar from gold.
What's the name of the psychopathic congresswoman who sprayed Pellerin with spittle? She needs to have her name dragged through the mud at every opportunity.
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According to wikipedia, human population first passed 1 billion in 1804. My own guess is that the population was a bit higher than that. Consider that Xerxes (ca 500 BCE) put together a force (including camp followers) of 5.4 million to attack Greece, and that's just one fighting force in one corner of the world, no mention of the people left behind.
Arsenic has also been used to prevent wood rot. Now that that's banned, copper compounds are used.
Modern, high traffic railroads use concrete ties.
I'm sure there are other possibilities
.
Teddy Roosevelt was an early promoter of the "create emergencies so that I can increase my power" method of government leadership. That he could come up with a bogus panic on railroad ties only reinforces that argument.
I think Barney Frank has a solution to that problem.
You can't be that stupid, it has to be deliberate twisting of words. Water is variable, its supply rises and falls, and the long decline which hypothetically ended the Mayan civilization was temporary, unlike the claimed permanent decline of oil. Calling the Easter Island phenomenon "peak wood" is just silly.
You are obviously mathematics-challenged (and defeated). And you're spoiled rotten if you think that having to walk 2 miles is a burden.
Consider this, you thief: a person who needs to be continuously given stuff in order to survive is a burden on anyone who works honestly for a living. He is a detriment to civilization, cement boots for the productive. Why do you think slums are dangerous? Is it the productive people who work and save and don't waste their money on expensive housing, or the slackers on the dole who see no difference between taking money from government programs and stealing it without the gov't middleman?
Consider two societies, prevented from interacting with each other or the rest of the world, one made up of those who now make up the top 1% in the U.S., and another made up of those at the bottom who have dedicated their lives to living off handouts. The first would continue to thrive, the second would descend into anarchy and cannibalism, and disappear from the face of the earth within a decade.
In a free society, the difference between rich and poor is the difference between productive and destructive.
The most obvious example to my mind is the switch from wood to coal in railroad locomotives and house heating. As it became inconvenient and expensive to cut ever-more-distant trees and the supplies declined, the price of wood fuel went up and was replaced by more energy-dense coal.
Gasoline engines have slowly improved efficiency and power/weight for over a century. This is a result of consumer demand and manufacturers seeking a competitive advantage.
It is precisely greed, rational self interest, that leads to improvements in life. Ascetic "self discipline" is for losers and masochists, not people who move civilization forward.
The actual flesh of a squirrel's tail is going to be roughly a quarter inch wide. If the snake's strike were perfectly on center, each fang would miss the tail, one fang on each side. The squirrel is much more likely to get away than if the snake strikes the squirrel's body.
We are already heading for censorship under Obama's dictatorship. Having the FCC take over cable companies would signal irreversible damage to free speech.
The currency is presently being rapidly debased. We will be lucky if in 10 years one dollar buys what ten cents does today.
and Baptists. and Anglicans/Episcopaleans. and Quakers. and Presbyterians. and Methodists. and Deists. and atheists (Ethan Allen).
I recently ran mke2fs -c -c on a 2TB USB3 drive. It took 48 hours to complete. As drives get bigger, this is going to take even longer.
But not wisdom.
When considering a hot water heater, think about how important it is to have hot water when the electricity fails.
Unions are organizations that use extortion, and in some cases murder, to get their way. Any legal technique that weakens unions is a good thing.
So you wouldn't mind a teacher giving lessons in pickpocketing, extortion, inciting riot, fraud, etc.?
Never had a security clearance, have you?
ABC, CBS, and NBC were "packaging political slant as news" decades before Fox News existed, and CNN was also doing it before Fox News existed. Murdoch saw an audience that wasn't being satisfied, and gave them the content they wanted.
I find much of Fox News hard to take because people like Hannity and O'Reilly discuss politics with leftists, and it's annoying to hear the leftist blather. But its there, and reinforces Fox's claim that (unlike the other networks) they present the viewer with some non-cartoonish examples of opposition viewpoints.
You have forgotten that the name "Capitalism" was invented by its enemy, Karl Marx. It is a slur because it implies that the defining characteristic is money.
Capitalism is human rights viewed from an economic and political perspective.
An alert person would have seen Huffington's switch well before it happened. When she was advocating conservatism (supporting her Republican Congressman husband's campaign), her arguments were of the "it's for the children" variety so characteristic of liberals. It sounded false, and for me it was no surprise when she flipped. As far as I can tell, she's always been a mentally shallow leftist.
SDR makes possible "brick wall" filters that aren't practical with analog circuits, and that are more stable over temperature and time than is possible with analog circuits. Software doesn't drift. Physical inductors have limited "Q", crystals and mechanical resonators have "spurs", and so forth and do on.
Floor models are OK for strictly electronic stuff. Anything with mechanicals is risky, because floor models tend to be abused. Something with a hard disk is an acceptable risk, something with a DVD drive is practically guaranteed to fail within a year.
In the US, the dollar is now worth between 1% and 2% of its average value during the 1800s. By that measure, it would not be unreasonable to eliminate all coins below 50 cents.
This is strictly the fault of government (and Nixon more than anyone else) for decoupling the dollar from gold.
They'll declare war on the lasersharks.
What's the name of the psychopathic congresswoman who sprayed Pellerin with spittle? She needs to have her name dragged through the mud at every opportunity.
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