Because there simply aren't enough resources for another billion people to live like Americans, consuming oil at the kind of rate we do.
Maybe if there were another billion people here with the education and other groundwork laid out, then one of them would come up with a substitute for oil. Population growth is not a problem in a society where each person added contributes greater than or equal to what he consumes. The problem comes when another person is born into a place where there is almost no production whatsoever and they already don't have enough resources to consume. Unfortunately for us, populations are shrinking in places where production outpaces consumption, and populations are expanding in areas where consumption far outpaces production.
It is extremely irresponsible for people who have no resources, no jobs, no crops and nothing to sell to have more children. Before we feel guilty about not helping these people, we have to get them to do their part by not actively trying to make the problem worse.
Just because you don't like the truth doesn't mean you have to call me a troll. I have been to several other countries in the Americas, and when they ask you where you are from and your reply "I am from America". They look at you like you are an idiot and say. "Yes, me too. But where are you from?"
Your problem is not with the corporate people. That is just economics: they charge what people will pay. Your problem is with the people. People who just have to know what color poop their friend just made RIGHT NOW and don't care what they have to pay for it. people who have to have the latest handheld toy and don't care what the data rates are. People who see that the hollywood types have data on their phones and so they want it too. These are your problem. As you have said, you may drop the data plan altogether and go back to the regular cell phone. That is great. If even a few million more did that, then the cell phone companies would realize that people would rather do without than pay the high cost, and they would be forced to lower prices to pick up more business. Unfortunately, there are a LOT of people in the U.S. with more money than sense, so it will probably be a long time before we see data prices come down to a reasonable level.
It's not the day traders that affect how management sets policy. They couldn't care less how a company performs quarter to quarter because they are trying to make a buck today. The people who are the problem are people like you and me who have a heart attack every time our 401k drops a little bi, and the people who sit there staring at their stock portfolio for hours a day instead of working at work. In other words, the average Joe is the problem. We have to as a society get back into the mindset of looking at the long term. This also goes all the way to the top. Even if the C level people weren't concerned about stockholders demanding quarter to quarter performance, much of their incentive is based on stock price and so they do everything to maximize it in the short term, and then get the heck out before it comes to light that they killed the golden goose.
It costs more than $12,000 a year to go to Oklahoma State university, where my stepson goes. That is less than the average full time annual salary, but far more than you could ear part time in a summer job, and more than a college student could hope to earn working their way through. If one took out loans for college, one would end up with almost $50,000 in debt, and in the current economy, one would have to continue living like a college student well into their 30s just to be able to pay it back.
I worked my way through college part time. I would have been able to pay for my whole college just with my part time summer work, but I chose to treat myself to a decent car, so I had to work part time throughout the year in order to pay for it. I went to a state school, and my total costs per semester was about $1200. I graduated in 1993. My stepson is in college at a state school right now. The total costs per semester are about 6,000. The universities are obviously far outpacing inflation in their increases in costs, although the quality of education still appears to be about the same.
I had a few student loans that I took out when I didn't have enough to pay the full amount up front. I got them paid back within a few years. The interest rates were very high for student loans when I was in school, and are even higher now. My dad told me of how when he was in college, the student loan rates were 1 or 2%. Now they are 8-8.5%.
What has mud and water to do with radiation? If he is worried about hygeine, then absolutely, yes I would say they need to move to a place where the landlord takes better care of the place. But if he is worried about radiation, then I don't think mud and water are a problem. If they are, then we are up a creek, because 2/3 of our planet is water and the other 1/3 is mud.
Hooray! Now the can stop hating us for interfering in their country and begin hating us for leaving them hanging. Just like we did in Afghanistan, which pissed off Osama Bin Ladin enough for him to declare a Jihad against us.
Clarkson makes fun of many different cars on the show. The difference is that making fun of electric cars is not allowed. Just like how people make fun of Jesus all day long, but if you make fun of Mohammed, then suddenly you've got a death warrant out on you.
I agree. Where I live, the grid is tapped out. The power company is doing free energy checkups and installing insulation, caulking and whatnot on people's homes in order to try to decrease electrical usage. That sounds kind of dumb for them to be trying to decrease their income, right? Well, there is a reason for this. The grid is tapped out. In order to have more capacity, they are going to have to build another plant. Building another plant is EXPENSIVE. Now, I should say that they did TRY to build another plant, but it was politically blocked by the greens, so now the only kind of grid increase we are allowed to do is wind energy and that is hideously expensive. And it won't be long before the greens stop us from putting up wind turbines because of the poor blind and deaf birds which are unable to avoid the blades.
Don't know about Stanley Robinson, but the two Stephen King books, the Stand and the Dark Tower series stand among the best books I have read, and I have read many of the books on that top 100 list. Okay, the Stand was a little hokey in places, but the Dark Tower was sheer genius.
I tried that interactive thing. By the time I got to the second question, I wanted to click on a button that was not there, and by the third question, I was lost. I desperately clicked a button just to pretend to play through the script, but then I got to some questions that I couldn't even understand what the words meant. Then I finally gave it up as a bad job.
I read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy in probably 4th or 5th grade (and am reading LOTR again now) and understood them reasonably well. I started to read the Silmarillion as an adult and could make neither heads nor tails of it. I gave it up.
My Asus has 4 memory slots, which allows for up to 16 GB of currently cheap memory. Like my most people, I rarely use more than 3 GB. Of course, I don't run VMs on it or databases, but that is because it is a desktop board and not a server board. Motherboards that support more than 4 slots are likely going to be found in boards intended for servers as the niche market of home users that want that amount of memory is small.
Instead of a tell lies to facebook day, everyone should just go give their info for free to all and sundry. Before long, facebook would be out of business.
No kidding, maybe they should keep other plants open for instances like this. Why there is a Seagate plant just about 10 miles from me that they pretty much stopped production at. Maybe they should ramp production back over there. The upside is that the people in this area will once again be able to afford hard drives.
global warming tends to produce more floods *and* more droughts, often in different regions but sometimes in the same place.
Or FEWER floods and droughts, or about the same number of floods and droughts.
It's fairly straightforward to look for more "extreme" weather--you simply compare the actual weather against the "average".
Even the USGS cautions that we are experiencing more or less the same number and severity of geological events. However, the number of reporting stations and the spread of people to other areas make it more likely that an event will affect people and thus be noted or reported upon.
Texting isn't that far off. And in other studies, is just as bad.
Texting is at least an order of magnitude more dangerous than talking on the phone. You have to take your eyes off the radio for seconds at a time. At highway speeds, texting means missing hundreds of feet of action.
Well, if you had a headset and microphone installed in your car, then when people looked at you, they wouldn't be able to see you holding a phone to your ear and therefore would not be able to know how IMPORTANT you are.
That would be a fun experiment. Get somebody to play Gran Turismo or Forza and find their average lap time. Then try talking to them while they do some more laps and see how they do. Then hand them a cell phone and talk to them on the phone and see how they do. Then start texting them and getting them to text back and see how they do.
I would bet that the undistracted lap time is 5 times better than the texting lap time.
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Because there simply aren't enough resources for another billion people to live like Americans, consuming oil at the kind of rate we do.
Maybe if there were another billion people here with the education and other groundwork laid out, then one of them would come up with a substitute for oil. Population growth is not a problem in a society where each person added contributes greater than or equal to what he consumes. The problem comes when another person is born into a place where there is almost no production whatsoever and they already don't have enough resources to consume. Unfortunately for us, populations are shrinking in places where production outpaces consumption, and populations are expanding in areas where consumption far outpaces production.
It is extremely irresponsible for people who have no resources, no jobs, no crops and nothing to sell to have more children. Before we feel guilty about not helping these people, we have to get them to do their part by not actively trying to make the problem worse.
Just because you don't like the truth doesn't mean you have to call me a troll. I have been to several other countries in the Americas, and when they ask you where you are from and your reply "I am from America". They look at you like you are an idiot and say. "Yes, me too. But where are you from?"
There are 22 countries whose citizens can be called American.
Your problem is not with the corporate people. That is just economics: they charge what people will pay. Your problem is with the people. People who just have to know what color poop their friend just made RIGHT NOW and don't care what they have to pay for it. people who have to have the latest handheld toy and don't care what the data rates are. People who see that the hollywood types have data on their phones and so they want it too. These are your problem. As you have said, you may drop the data plan altogether and go back to the regular cell phone. That is great. If even a few million more did that, then the cell phone companies would realize that people would rather do without than pay the high cost, and they would be forced to lower prices to pick up more business. Unfortunately, there are a LOT of people in the U.S. with more money than sense, so it will probably be a long time before we see data prices come down to a reasonable level.
I am still on an unlimited Verizon data plan. Says so right on the bill.
It's not the day traders that affect how management sets policy. They couldn't care less how a company performs quarter to quarter because they are trying to make a buck today. The people who are the problem are people like you and me who have a heart attack every time our 401k drops a little bi, and the people who sit there staring at their stock portfolio for hours a day instead of working at work. In other words, the average Joe is the problem. We have to as a society get back into the mindset of looking at the long term. This also goes all the way to the top. Even if the C level people weren't concerned about stockholders demanding quarter to quarter performance, much of their incentive is based on stock price and so they do everything to maximize it in the short term, and then get the heck out before it comes to light that they killed the golden goose.
It costs more than $12,000 a year to go to Oklahoma State university, where my stepson goes. That is less than the average full time annual salary, but far more than you could ear part time in a summer job, and more than a college student could hope to earn working their way through. If one took out loans for college, one would end up with almost $50,000 in debt, and in the current economy, one would have to continue living like a college student well into their 30s just to be able to pay it back.
I worked my way through college part time. I would have been able to pay for my whole college just with my part time summer work, but I chose to treat myself to a decent car, so I had to work part time throughout the year in order to pay for it. I went to a state school, and my total costs per semester was about $1200. I graduated in 1993. My stepson is in college at a state school right now. The total costs per semester are about 6,000. The universities are obviously far outpacing inflation in their increases in costs, although the quality of education still appears to be about the same.
I had a few student loans that I took out when I didn't have enough to pay the full amount up front. I got them paid back within a few years. The interest rates were very high for student loans when I was in school, and are even higher now. My dad told me of how when he was in college, the student loan rates were 1 or 2%. Now they are 8-8.5%.
Don't worry, they won't be releasing any names. If they did, most of their own group would end up in jail.
What has mud and water to do with radiation? If he is worried about hygeine, then absolutely, yes I would say they need to move to a place where the landlord takes better care of the place. But if he is worried about radiation, then I don't think mud and water are a problem. If they are, then we are up a creek, because 2/3 of our planet is water and the other 1/3 is mud.
Hooray! Now the can stop hating us for interfering in their country and begin hating us for leaving them hanging. Just like we did in Afghanistan, which pissed off Osama Bin Ladin enough for him to declare a Jihad against us.
Clarkson makes fun of many different cars on the show. The difference is that making fun of electric cars is not allowed. Just like how people make fun of Jesus all day long, but if you make fun of Mohammed, then suddenly you've got a death warrant out on you.
I agree. Where I live, the grid is tapped out. The power company is doing free energy checkups and installing insulation, caulking and whatnot on people's homes in order to try to decrease electrical usage. That sounds kind of dumb for them to be trying to decrease their income, right? Well, there is a reason for this. The grid is tapped out. In order to have more capacity, they are going to have to build another plant. Building another plant is EXPENSIVE. Now, I should say that they did TRY to build another plant, but it was politically blocked by the greens, so now the only kind of grid increase we are allowed to do is wind energy and that is hideously expensive. And it won't be long before the greens stop us from putting up wind turbines because of the poor blind and deaf birds which are unable to avoid the blades.
Don't know about Stanley Robinson, but the two Stephen King books, the Stand and the Dark Tower series stand among the best books I have read, and I have read many of the books on that top 100 list. Okay, the Stand was a little hokey in places, but the Dark Tower was sheer genius.
I tried that interactive thing. By the time I got to the second question, I wanted to click on a button that was not there, and by the third question, I was lost. I desperately clicked a button just to pretend to play through the script, but then I got to some questions that I couldn't even understand what the words meant. Then I finally gave it up as a bad job.
I read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy in probably 4th or 5th grade (and am reading LOTR again now) and understood them reasonably well. I started to read the Silmarillion as an adult and could make neither heads nor tails of it. I gave it up.
My Asus has 4 memory slots, which allows for up to 16 GB of currently cheap memory. Like my most people, I rarely use more than 3 GB. Of course, I don't run VMs on it or databases, but that is because it is a desktop board and not a server board. Motherboards that support more than 4 slots are likely going to be found in boards intended for servers as the niche market of home users that want that amount of memory is small.
Instead of a tell lies to facebook day, everyone should just go give their info for free to all and sundry. Before long, facebook would be out of business.
No kidding, maybe they should keep other plants open for instances like this. Why there is a Seagate plant just about 10 miles from me that they pretty much stopped production at. Maybe they should ramp production back over there. The upside is that the people in this area will once again be able to afford hard drives.
global warming tends to produce more floods *and* more droughts, often in different regions but sometimes in the same place.
Or FEWER floods and droughts, or about the same number of floods and droughts.
It's fairly straightforward to look for more "extreme" weather--you simply compare the actual weather against the "average".
Even the USGS cautions that we are experiencing more or less the same number and severity of geological events. However, the number of reporting stations and the spread of people to other areas make it more likely that an event will affect people and thus be noted or reported upon.
It probably spins the other way south of the galactic equator.
Texting isn't that far off. And in other studies, is just as bad.
Texting is at least an order of magnitude more dangerous than talking on the phone. You have to take your eyes off the radio for seconds at a time. At highway speeds, texting means missing hundreds of feet of action.
Well, if you had a headset and microphone installed in your car, then when people looked at you, they wouldn't be able to see you holding a phone to your ear and therefore would not be able to know how IMPORTANT you are.
That would be a fun experiment. Get somebody to play Gran Turismo or Forza and find their average lap time. Then try talking to them while they do some more laps and see how they do. Then hand them a cell phone and talk to them on the phone and see how they do. Then start texting them and getting them to text back and see how they do.
I would bet that the undistracted lap time is 5 times better than the texting lap time.