There's nothing wrong with being trapped on earth *if you take care of the place*.
take care of the place. Reduce your numbers. grow the fuck up and deal with the limitations the earth requires. It's not your planet. You just live here.
Agreed. Someday, people will simply wake up to the fact that we evolved to be here, and anything outside of our thin biospheric shell is simply not "a really good idea". There's nothing wrong with being trapped on earth *if you take care of the place*.
We're not going to Mars. Period. Get over it. At the rate we're going we'll be lucky to feed ourselves by 2025...
words have political meaning. It's like changing the Estate Tax to the Death Tax. When you say "Estate Tax" it's a tax on people leaving millions of dollars to their children. When you say Death Tax, everyone takes affront. Same with piracy. When you say piracy you get multiple responses - the slaughter of innocents, the theft of property, and the romance of the high seas. When you say what it IS, file sharing, it sounds a lot less romantic and destructive.
as soon as possible? Are you nuts? Or just stupid? Seaweed is a vital part of the ocean's ecosystem. Such a creature would be a blight upon the seaweed, dooming thousands of species to oblivion. Your opinion is NOT insightful. It is ignorant and destructive, and fundamentally evil.
So stop calling file trading piracy. I never understood how some 12 year old boy downloading Katie Perry's latest excursion in abusing her audience's ears - all from the comfort of his mommy's basement - is some how morally equivalent to the forcible seizure of watercraft by a gang of armed thugs hellbent on the slaughter and/or enslavement, rape, and pillaging of the crew, the theft of the boat's contents, and then the final gleeful burning and murderous sinking of the vessel and all left on board.... THAT'S piracy. Downloading "Teenage Dream" is not.
1. if you're in the Arts, you are in the Arts because YOU LOVE WHAT YOU DO - money has nothing to do with it.
2. If you want to make a good wage ASAP, then don't bother with university - get a job as a plumber or an electrician or one of those guys who repairs elevators. They make stupid amounts of money. IS the work intellectually challenging? No, but that's not the question.
3. If you want to really prepare for the future, just look at the splits. A classic example is energy vs. demand vs. technology. Most people heat their homes with oil or gas. Both are limited resources and both are "not good" for the world when burned. So, preparing houses for a world without oil or gas is a REALLY GOOD IDEA and if you make a business that can do a package on a home (insulation/windows retro/geothermal heating + solar electric on roof) at a reasonable price, You Will Make A Lot Of Money and be helping preapre society for the post-carbon future. Get in to it NOW while the field is sparse. When it heats up, clean up.
4. The split between the living and the dead. The boomers are set to go into die off mode. Mortuary services will explode over the next 10 - 20 years (esp. if the USA never implements national health - poor old folks will die off right quick without medicare). Start a funeral home. Print money.
If you're looking to be a slave to some giant machine - those jobs will become fewer and farther between. In the next world, you're on your own. You will need to INVENT your future. If you don't have the brains to suss that out, then don't bother with university.
textbook publishing to be 'an $8 billion a year industry ripe for digital destruction'
No, it's not. Why? Because the professor writes a textbook, and sells it through Lulu. It is required reading for his mass lecture class, and costs $100. I forget Lulu's cut - say, 20%? There are 100 kids in the class. They all shell out for the textbook, and the underpaid professor makes $8000 that semester....
Apple can jump up and down all it wants - it doesn't get to set the syllabus or required reading list....
JULIET:
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
good enough for Shakespeare is good enough for me.
that it doesn't really exist. It's just an illusion. When you give up on the illusion, you become immortal. It's the illusion of life that is the whole cause of your demise.
Iranian oil production collapsed in 1980, and struggled back. Even with the massive investment they've made, their production is basically flat, and will remain so for about 5 more years when it goes into another decline. The collapse of 1980 was political in nature, not geological. The next downturn will not be as dramatic, but far more permanent.
I think Iran is stringing it out - they have all the advantages. If they can hold out another few years, the USA will be so completely broke and financially incapacitated that the Iranians will be able to do most anything they please. They have time. Iran is a very ancient civilisation. The regime is precarious, but Iran is very very old.
And yes, this hullaballoo over Iran has Europe's freezing little fingers all over it. Yes, oil is big for Iran, but the gas situation is completely off the hook. If you go BTU for BTU, the South Pars field has more energy in it than all of Saudi Arabia's oil. That's a lot of energy. And as long as Iran does the sensible thing and maintains a nationalised energy production system, it will be in conflict with the parasitic raiders of western private energy companies. Note: 85% of all energy reserves are in the hands of National Energy Companies, not private interests. So, when you hear "invade iran" what you are actually hearing is "let Exxon drill the South Pars".
twas written: What westernization they have allowed has always been with a single goal: To keep the people COMPLACENT. Give them minor luxuries, allow them to keep a small modicum of their natural freedoms and let them get comfortable and lazy. Otherwise, keep them too busy working and living their lives to have time for revolution. (Why do you think they have essentially created an "Island" Internet via the "Great Firewall of China"? To keep revolutionary ideas out while still allowing controlled financial interaction with the rest of the world.)
Twas re-written:
Western culture has always been a single goal: To keep the people COMPLACENT. Give them minor luxuries, allow them to keep a small modicum of their natural freedoms and let them get comfortable and lazy. Otherwise, keep them too busy working and living their lives to have time for revolution. (Why do you think they have essentially created a hyper-reality of garbage that festers under the delusional notion of it being "culture" and "What the people want"? To keep revolutionary ideas marginalised and objects of ridicule while still allowing controlled financial strip mining of the rest of the world.)
Iranian oil has been in decline for decades. What is important is the gas in the South Pars field under the Persian Gulf. Right now the Russians are providing most European natgas. Every time the Ukranians don't pay their bills, the Russians turn off the spigot, freezing the Poles and Germans and Czechs etc. Central Europe desperately needs to open up Iranian gas to European consumption unfettered by the vagaries of Iranian national politics in order to bring the Russians down a peg and reduce the price of natgas to Europe.
What they ultimately desire is a compliant puppet regime in Tehran to build a pipeline through Turkey into Greece to feed Central Europe. Of course, once the gas runs out in the next 20 or so years, this will leave Iran with a huge population of people without energy. The Iranian govt isn't stupid (crazy, yes, stupid, no) and they know that's coming down the pike, hence their need to get nuclear power off the ground as a bridging energy technology out of petroleum. Also, nuclear power gets them a few nuclear weapons, and the USA doesn't invade countries that have bona fide nukes. So, there are two compelling reasons for the Iranians to get nuclear power, both basically defensive.
The Russians have been trying to get into IRan in this regard, but their track record on nuclear power isn't great (viz Chernyobl). Personally, I think the USA should work with the Russians to provide Iran with nuclear power. Build some nuke plants for them to generate electricity, but have a joint USA / Russian fuel control system. This way, Iran survives into the 22nd century and the world doesn't have to worry about Iran nuking Baghdad or where-ever, the Russians get to sell some nuke plants, and the Americans get to prevent nuke weapons - everyone happy.
Everyone except the right wing douchenozzles in congress....
Fuck You, you miserable conscience free tool of the MPAA and the RIAA. May the fleas of a thousand badgers infest your brain, after all, you're not using it.
I'm rather stunned by the uncritical thinking on this thread. Hello people - this is a CORPORATION telling YOU what to eat, and if you don't comply, they will RAT YOU OUT to your insurance provider. WTF!?!?!?! Wake Up People! This is a REALLY BAD IDEA.
"In the debate around the American Stop Online Piracy Act, American legislators have demonstrated a clear capability and willingness to interfere with the technical operations of American products, when doing so furthers American political interests regardless of the policy situation in the customer’s country."
Not quite. Should read:
"In the debate around the American Stop Online Piracy Act, American legislators have demonstrated a clear capability and willingness to interfere with the technical operations of American products, when doing so furthers American CORPORATE interests regardless of the policy situation in the customer’s country."
had a few episodes where they were smuggling dope to the USA using an electric train set the put in a tunnel under the river to the USA. They "stole" the railroad from "patrick swayze" at some toy railroad convention.
Of course we could do both. We could do a bunch of them. Just give the F35 a skip or not build another aircraft carrier or some other useless piece of military hardware, or not bail out yet another bank that took your pension fund to the casino and put it all on Red 37. And lost.
Oh don't be an ass. you get 4 or 5 guys with box cutters saying they want into the cockpit. Since 9/11 WE ALL KNOW how that ends, so I am quite certain everyone would rise up and take those fuckers out - you might get cut up, you might get cut bad - but if you DON'T act - you're dead. So don't be such a numbskulled coward. Be ready to KICK ASS. Be a hero or a Klingon or something, just don't be one of the sheep herded to their deaths.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fwwT5jp-dA
There's nothing wrong with being trapped on earth *if you take care of the place*.
take care of the place. Reduce your numbers. grow the fuck up and deal with the limitations the earth requires. It's not your planet. You just live here.
We're not going to Mars. Period. Get over it. At the rate we're going we'll be lucky to feed ourselves by 2025...
words have political meaning. It's like changing the Estate Tax to the Death Tax. When you say "Estate Tax" it's a tax on people leaving millions of dollars to their children. When you say Death Tax, everyone takes affront. Same with piracy. When you say piracy you get multiple responses - the slaughter of innocents, the theft of property, and the romance of the high seas. When you say what it IS, file sharing, it sounds a lot less romantic and destructive.
as soon as possible? Are you nuts? Or just stupid? Seaweed is a vital part of the ocean's ecosystem. Such a creature would be a blight upon the seaweed, dooming thousands of species to oblivion. Your opinion is NOT insightful. It is ignorant and destructive, and fundamentally evil.
So stop calling file trading piracy. I never understood how some 12 year old boy downloading Katie Perry's latest excursion in abusing her audience's ears - all from the comfort of his mommy's basement - is some how morally equivalent to the forcible seizure of watercraft by a gang of armed thugs hellbent on the slaughter and/or enslavement, rape, and pillaging of the crew, the theft of the boat's contents, and then the final gleeful burning and murderous sinking of the vessel and all left on board.... THAT'S piracy. Downloading "Teenage Dream" is not.
2. If you want to make a good wage ASAP, then don't bother with university - get a job as a plumber or an electrician or one of those guys who repairs elevators. They make stupid amounts of money. IS the work intellectually challenging? No, but that's not the question.
3. If you want to really prepare for the future, just look at the splits. A classic example is energy vs. demand vs. technology. Most people heat their homes with oil or gas. Both are limited resources and both are "not good" for the world when burned. So, preparing houses for a world without oil or gas is a REALLY GOOD IDEA and if you make a business that can do a package on a home (insulation/windows retro/geothermal heating + solar electric on roof) at a reasonable price, You Will Make A Lot Of Money and be helping preapre society for the post-carbon future. Get in to it NOW while the field is sparse. When it heats up, clean up.
4. The split between the living and the dead. The boomers are set to go into die off mode. Mortuary services will explode over the next 10 - 20 years (esp. if the USA never implements national health - poor old folks will die off right quick without medicare). Start a funeral home. Print money.
If you're looking to be a slave to some giant machine - those jobs will become fewer and farther between. In the next world, you're on your own. You will need to INVENT your future. If you don't have the brains to suss that out, then don't bother with university.
1... 2... Oh. Nemmind. Too late.
No, it's not. Why? Because the professor writes a textbook, and sells it through Lulu. It is required reading for his mass lecture class, and costs $100. I forget Lulu's cut - say, 20%? There are 100 kids in the class. They all shell out for the textbook, and the underpaid professor makes $8000 that semester....
Apple can jump up and down all it wants - it doesn't get to set the syllabus or required reading list....
RS
GO FUCK YOURSELF.
JULIET:
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
good enough for Shakespeare is good enough for me.
1. We're not going. 2. They're not coming. 3. This is it - so please do a better job of taking care of the place.
that it doesn't really exist. It's just an illusion. When you give up on the illusion, you become immortal. It's the illusion of life that is the whole cause of your demise.
wherefore are thou?
http://heatusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/iran-oil-production-1973-2007.gif
Iranian oil production collapsed in 1980, and struggled back. Even with the massive investment they've made, their production is basically flat, and will remain so for about 5 more years when it goes into another decline. The collapse of 1980 was political in nature, not geological. The next downturn will not be as dramatic, but far more permanent.
I think Iran is stringing it out - they have all the advantages. If they can hold out another few years, the USA will be so completely broke and financially incapacitated that the Iranians will be able to do most anything they please. They have time. Iran is a very ancient civilisation. The regime is precarious, but Iran is very very old.
And yes, this hullaballoo over Iran has Europe's freezing little fingers all over it. Yes, oil is big for Iran, but the gas situation is completely off the hook. If you go BTU for BTU, the South Pars field has more energy in it than all of Saudi Arabia's oil. That's a lot of energy. And as long as Iran does the sensible thing and maintains a nationalised energy production system, it will be in conflict with the parasitic raiders of western private energy companies. Note: 85% of all energy reserves are in the hands of National Energy Companies, not private interests. So, when you hear "invade iran" what you are actually hearing is "let Exxon drill the South Pars".
What westernization they have allowed has always been with a single goal: To keep the people COMPLACENT. Give them minor luxuries, allow them to keep a small modicum of their natural freedoms and let them get comfortable and lazy. Otherwise, keep them too busy working and living their lives to have time for revolution. (Why do you think they have essentially created an "Island" Internet via the "Great Firewall of China"? To keep revolutionary ideas out while still allowing controlled financial interaction with the rest of the world.)
Twas re-written:
Western culture has always been a single goal: To keep the people COMPLACENT. Give them minor luxuries, allow them to keep a small modicum of their natural freedoms and let them get comfortable and lazy. Otherwise, keep them too busy working and living their lives to have time for revolution. (Why do you think they have essentially created a hyper-reality of garbage that festers under the delusional notion of it being "culture" and "What the people want"? To keep revolutionary ideas marginalised and objects of ridicule while still allowing controlled financial strip mining of the rest of the world.)
Iranian oil has been in decline for decades. What is important is the gas in the South Pars field under the Persian Gulf. Right now the Russians are providing most European natgas. Every time the Ukranians don't pay their bills, the Russians turn off the spigot, freezing the Poles and Germans and Czechs etc. Central Europe desperately needs to open up Iranian gas to European consumption unfettered by the vagaries of Iranian national politics in order to bring the Russians down a peg and reduce the price of natgas to Europe.
What they ultimately desire is a compliant puppet regime in Tehran to build a pipeline through Turkey into Greece to feed Central Europe. Of course, once the gas runs out in the next 20 or so years, this will leave Iran with a huge population of people without energy. The Iranian govt isn't stupid (crazy, yes, stupid, no) and they know that's coming down the pike, hence their need to get nuclear power off the ground as a bridging energy technology out of petroleum. Also, nuclear power gets them a few nuclear weapons, and the USA doesn't invade countries that have bona fide nukes. So, there are two compelling reasons for the Iranians to get nuclear power, both basically defensive.
The Russians have been trying to get into IRan in this regard, but their track record on nuclear power isn't great (viz Chernyobl). Personally, I think the USA should work with the Russians to provide Iran with nuclear power. Build some nuke plants for them to generate electricity, but have a joint USA / Russian fuel control system. This way, Iran survives into the 22nd century and the world doesn't have to worry about Iran nuking Baghdad or where-ever, the Russians get to sell some nuke plants, and the Americans get to prevent nuke weapons - everyone happy.
Everyone except the right wing douchenozzles in congress....
Fuck You, you miserable conscience free tool of the MPAA and the RIAA. May the fleas of a thousand badgers infest your brain, after all, you're not using it.
I'm rather stunned by the uncritical thinking on this thread. Hello people - this is a CORPORATION telling YOU what to eat, and if you don't comply, they will RAT YOU OUT to your insurance provider. WTF!?!?!?! Wake Up People! This is a REALLY BAD IDEA.
"In the debate around the American Stop Online Piracy Act, American legislators have demonstrated a clear capability and willingness to interfere with the technical operations of American products, when doing so furthers American political interests regardless of the policy situation in the customer’s country."
Not quite. Should read:
"In the debate around the American Stop Online Piracy Act, American legislators have demonstrated a clear capability and willingness to interfere with the technical operations of American products, when doing so furthers American CORPORATE interests regardless of the policy situation in the customer’s country."
There. Fixed that for you.
Easy. Because bad drivers use gadgets while driving. Duh.
It could happen.
it's a delayed cremation on re-entry...
Of course we could do both. We could do a bunch of them. Just give the F35 a skip or not build another aircraft carrier or some other useless piece of military hardware, or not bail out yet another bank that took your pension fund to the casino and put it all on Red 37. And lost.
Oh don't be an ass. you get 4 or 5 guys with box cutters saying they want into the cockpit. Since 9/11 WE ALL KNOW how that ends, so I am quite certain everyone would rise up and take those fuckers out - you might get cut up, you might get cut bad - but if you DON'T act - you're dead. So don't be such a numbskulled coward. Be ready to KICK ASS. Be a hero or a Klingon or something, just don't be one of the sheep herded to their deaths.