Sure, coal isn't ideal, but there are "clean coal" technologies on the horizon. How about Oil Shale? How about Thermal Depolymerization? All of the previous technologies just need an economic incentive to develop them -- like expensive oil.
Ah, the market argument. Yes, oil prices will make more "expensive" recovery methods viable, but that's also part of the point. It might become economically cheaper to use these resources, but they still require higher energy inputs than just sucking crude out of the ground. All this does is slightly soften the downward curve. Who knows? Maybe they'll find out that children's farts magically cleave ordinary mud and rock into equal parts sweet crude and distilled water, but until then, all we'll be doing is running up an ever-accelerating escalator.
If there was truly a crisis, we could build a slew of plants in a couple of years. But even if it was five, there will be no collapse of civilization. We'll have plenty to time to build nuke plants.
Are you even aware how much money, manpower and safety requirements are needed to build a nuke plant? These are not things you just "throw up", unless of course you like compounding your mistakes. Again, not an economic argument, but an important one to a shitload of people...
and oil will probably end up lasting another 100 years.
Jebus. That's the whole point! Oil WILL last us (approx.) another 100 years. It's jut the 100 hundred years on the downcurve of the graph, which is not going to be as pretty as the 100 years on the upcurve. You're probably right in that civilization won't collapse as a whole, but it is going to get plenty rough. Granted, those of you living in the west will have the effects retarded and attenuated to a large extent, as Asia, Africa and South America descend into shit (and agriarianism).
So, what other resources? Coal? Should be a big help when our environment's going to shit. Solar? Expensive, works only in half of the world, and half the time, too. Nuclear? Sounds great, but we needed to get a few hundred plants starting construction like 5 years ago. Wind/tides/geothermal? Now you're just having a laugh....
Sure, things might get more expensive for awhile, but that will hardly lead to a breakdown of civilization.
Even though it will take us 100 years to find the next new resource, as you said? That line's going to be your epitaph...
The thing you've forgotten... No, scratch that, you're clearly about 12 years old... The thing you've never learned. Every human being on the planet is in direct competition with every other for status, resources and power.
LOL. The thing you've clearly forgotten, since you dropped out of school during kindergarten, is that the logical extension of that line of thought leaves us with one human remaining, on a desolate planet, with nothing to do but die himself.
Your point remains valid, it's just obsolete by a few hundred years.
Take the script/photograph/plans/thumbkey, put in durable envelope or box, and then register mail it to yourself. When it arrives, make sure all dates/markings/signatures are clear and legible. Do not open, but store in a safe place. For added redundancy, mail 2 or 3 and store in different locations.
Screw that. Its pretty clear XP needs SP3. I understand Microsoft's priorities on this, but damn, talk about another shovelful of dirt out of that big hole they're digging.
Woot! I'm currently running a small business in a similar fashion, and I have to agree that it works very well. Doing this for a couple of years now, there are some downsides, but they're minor and completely eclipsed by the postives: High-morale productive employees. As I keep saying: As long as the work gets done and you don't make us look like idiots, it's all good.
Heh. I was watching Bill Maher, and he said something to the effect that America's desire to buy stuff as cheap as possible is the reason they're made from poison, mud and shit.
This is why I don't take conservatives very seriously. They would happily cut every single program with even the slightest whiff of welfare but happily go bankrupt making sure there's more than enough ordnance lying around to obliterate the world several times over.
You are absolutely correct there. If you're socially conservative, then the fact that the US has become Las Vegas will just depress you, and if you're a fiscal conservative...well, I happen to think tide and time are always going to screw you there.
Companies like BFT that can't get cable traction, should try deals with alternate routes like Live or ITMS.
Which is what's going to happen. And which is why you're hearing about this now, because it's too late. All the niche content will move to internet distribution, whereas TV will remain the bastion for the big networks, news, and other live events. (Maybe we'll get lucky and eventually get a Star Trek channel. Between all the series, movies, specials and whatnot, there's enough Star Trek material to fill a whole channel.)
had them set up to automatically log in to Windows and Skype (and last time I checked, you needed TweakUI for the former)
Faaaaaalse. Since win2k, you've had the built-in ability to select an account, and have your machine behave as if that account was "logging in" automatically.
Granted, MS makes that setting a little hard to find, something that Tweak UI remedies, but still.
Ha! Read my journal, you'll see I'm no Linux zealot, I'm just somebody who's come to the end of the road with Windows.
Sometimes I think that a lot of the hostility here is just posturing against the "norm". You know, like college students that go around telling everyone how hip they are because they don't watch TV or listen to "commercial" music.
Jesus, but you get some woolly ideas in your head.
I am not saying Linux is bad, it's just not ready for primetime. Any time a user needs to compile or mess with a text file you've moved out of the mainstream and the average Joe isn't going to want to do anything like that.
The fuck you were. You were tarring the Linux community based on goddamn hearsay because it's a well-worn argument, you made no technical points. Why are all MS defenders such paranoiacs? Wait, they're not, it's just another gross generalization like you made. Weak sauce, buddy.
Other people in this topic have said as much as well.
What, you want a medal for being a lemming? Piss off, troll.
Then people like you wonder why Windows users feel hostility and are very hesitant to want to even try Linux.
That is so precious! Do you cry when people say nasty things to you? Say what you want about zealots, but at least they don't base their computing decisions on whether or not the bad man was being mean to them.
I also noticed that there is still an air of arrogance and hostility amongst some Linux supporters towards people that are inexperienced with Linux
Golly gosh, really? Wow, how interesting that's only confined to Linux messageboards! Hope it doesn't spread!
Hey at least they're willing to state, with some persuasion I might add, what their position is, and how they came by it.
Much as I like the second amendment, some people are going to have to learn that the right to bear arms is a little fucking vague, and could do with a little polish after 200 years of wear and tear.
Also, and something that's not been adequately explained to me, but where is the line? M-16s OK? What about RPGs? AA Missiles? Nukes? There's either a line that most people can get behind, and shut your griping, or it's all in or all out. Make up your minds.
Honestly, is it that fucking hard to buy a gun in the States?
The two go hand in hand, what I've seen. What, we've been around as Homo Sapiens for millions if years?
Either way, it's irrelevant, I was just throwing out another example. I'd happily ask the question of any politician what their views were on evolution. If they go anywhere near Biblical text for their explanation, they're done. It's one thing to say you're not totally sold on evolution, and quite another to say we have females due to a chunk of donated calcium.
Hell, the only reason we're sitting here, parsing it out like this, is because politicians get pretty much a free ride on this type of stuff. I guarantee you more than one of the current crop of candidates really does believe Noah built the biggest boat EVAR, and that's a fucking problem.
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Sure, coal isn't ideal, but there are "clean coal" technologies on the horizon. How about Oil Shale? How about Thermal Depolymerization? All of the previous technologies just need an economic incentive to develop them -- like expensive oil.
Ah, the market argument. Yes, oil prices will make more "expensive" recovery methods viable, but that's also part of the point. It might become economically cheaper to use these resources, but they still require higher energy inputs than just sucking crude out of the ground. All this does is slightly soften the downward curve. Who knows? Maybe they'll find out that children's farts magically cleave ordinary mud and rock into equal parts sweet crude and distilled water, but until then, all we'll be doing is running up an ever-accelerating escalator.
If there was truly a crisis, we could build a slew of plants in a couple of years. But even if it was five, there will be no collapse of civilization. We'll have plenty to time to build nuke plants.
Are you even aware how much money, manpower and safety requirements are needed to build a nuke plant? These are not things you just "throw up", unless of course you like compounding your mistakes. Again, not an economic argument, but an important one to a shitload of people...
and oil will probably end up lasting another 100 years.
Jebus. That's the whole point! Oil WILL last us (approx.) another 100 years. It's jut the 100 hundred years on the downcurve of the graph, which is not going to be as pretty as the 100 years on the upcurve. You're probably right in that civilization won't collapse as a whole, but it is going to get plenty rough. Granted, those of you living in the west will have the effects retarded and attenuated to a large extent, as Asia, Africa and South America descend into shit (and agriarianism).
Woot! A cornucopian!
So, what other resources? Coal? Should be a big help when our environment's going to shit. Solar? Expensive, works only in half of the world, and half the time, too. Nuclear? Sounds great, but we needed to get a few hundred plants starting construction like 5 years ago. Wind/tides/geothermal? Now you're just having a laugh....
Sure, things might get more expensive for awhile, but that will hardly lead to a breakdown of civilization.
Even though it will take us 100 years to find the next new resource, as you said? That line's going to be your epitaph...
The thing you've forgotten... No, scratch that, you're clearly about 12 years old... The thing you've never learned. Every human being on the planet is in direct competition with every other for status, resources and power.
LOL. The thing you've clearly forgotten, since you dropped out of school during kindergarten, is that the logical extension of that line of thought leaves us with one human remaining, on a desolate planet, with nothing to do but die himself.
Your point remains valid, it's just obsolete by a few hundred years.
He's the Rick Rubin of the UK. Seriously.
BWAHAHAHAHA
Try again.
And I have Flamebait and Troll mods set to +5. Sometimes they're the most insightful comments.
Take the script/photograph/plans/thumbkey, put in durable envelope or box, and then register mail it to yourself. When it arrives, make sure all dates/markings/signatures are clear and legible. Do not open, but store in a safe place. For added redundancy, mail 2 or 3 and store in different locations.
Quick and easy.
Man, somebody's been a little happy with with the negative mods today. Parent is funny, not a troll.
Screw that. Its pretty clear XP needs SP3. I understand Microsoft's priorities on this, but damn, talk about another shovelful of dirt out of that big hole they're digging.
Well, in any case, I'm holding out for the ZunePhone...
Well sonny Jim, you're in luck! Get squirting today!
Woot! I'm currently running a small business in a similar fashion, and I have to agree that it works very well. Doing this for a couple of years now, there are some downsides, but they're minor and completely eclipsed by the postives: High-morale productive employees. As I keep saying: As long as the work gets done and you don't make us look like idiots, it's all good.
Heh. I was watching Bill Maher, and he said something to the effect that America's desire to buy stuff as cheap as possible is the reason they're made from poison, mud and shit.
This is why I don't take conservatives very seriously. They would happily cut every single program with even the slightest whiff of welfare but happily go bankrupt making sure there's more than enough ordnance lying around to obliterate the world several times over.
You are absolutely correct there. If you're socially conservative, then the fact that the US has become Las Vegas will just depress you, and if you're a fiscal conservative...well, I happen to think tide and time are always going to screw you there.
So, are rootkits entertainment or technology?
It's shitty technology, but it's damn entertaining watching 'em do it.
Except of course the conservatives were quite happy to claim Bush and his admin as one of their own when things were going better.
Companies like BFT that can't get cable traction, should try deals with alternate routes like Live or ITMS.
Which is what's going to happen. And which is why you're hearing about this now, because it's too late. All the niche content will move to internet distribution, whereas TV will remain the bastion for the big networks, news, and other live events. (Maybe we'll get lucky and eventually get a Star Trek channel. Between all the series, movies, specials and whatnot, there's enough Star Trek material to fill a whole channel.)
They can really punish him by making him run windows ME.
Softie. Try win95, the early release that doesn't support USB.
Hey man, no big deal we came to the game a little later. Don't hate the playa, hate the game.
One-day and three-day outages, that's something else entirely.
Agreed. One-day outages are done by the Illuminati, and the three-day ones are almost always Gremlin-related.
had them set up to automatically log in to Windows and Skype (and last time I checked, you needed TweakUI for the former)
Faaaaaalse. Since win2k, you've had the built-in ability to select an account, and have your machine behave as if that account was "logging in" automatically.
Granted, MS makes that setting a little hard to find, something that Tweak UI remedies, but still.
Thanks for making my point.
Ha! Read my journal, you'll see I'm no Linux zealot, I'm just somebody who's come to the end of the road with Windows.
Sometimes I think that a lot of the hostility here is just posturing against the "norm". You know, like college students that go around telling everyone how hip they are because they don't watch TV or listen to "commercial" music.
Jesus, but you get some woolly ideas in your head.
I am not saying Linux is bad, it's just not ready for primetime. Any time a user needs to compile or mess with a text file you've moved out of the mainstream and the average Joe isn't going to want to do anything like that.
The fuck you were. You were tarring the Linux community based on goddamn hearsay because it's a well-worn argument, you made no technical points. Why are all MS defenders such paranoiacs? Wait, they're not, it's just another gross generalization like you made. Weak sauce, buddy.
Other people in this topic have said as much as well.
What, you want a medal for being a lemming? Piss off, troll.
Then people like you wonder why Windows users feel hostility and are very hesitant to want to even try Linux.
That is so precious! Do you cry when people say nasty things to you? Say what you want about zealots, but at least they don't base their computing decisions on whether or not the bad man was being mean to them.
I also noticed that there is still an air of arrogance and hostility amongst some Linux supporters towards people that are inexperienced with Linux
Golly gosh, really? Wow, how interesting that's only confined to Linux messageboards! Hope it doesn't spread!
Jackass.
Second Amendment a 'Collective' right
Hey at least they're willing to state, with some persuasion I might add, what their position is, and how they came by it.
Much as I like the second amendment, some people are going to have to learn that the right to bear arms is a little fucking vague, and could do with a little polish after 200 years of wear and tear.
Also, and something that's not been adequately explained to me, but where is the line? M-16s OK? What about RPGs? AA Missiles? Nukes? There's either a line that most people can get behind, and shut your griping, or it's all in or all out. Make up your minds.
Honestly, is it that fucking hard to buy a gun in the States?
The two go hand in hand, what I've seen. What, we've been around as Homo Sapiens for millions if years?
Either way, it's irrelevant, I was just throwing out another example. I'd happily ask the question of any politician what their views were on evolution. If they go anywhere near Biblical text for their explanation, they're done. It's one thing to say you're not totally sold on evolution, and quite another to say we have females due to a chunk of donated calcium.
Hell, the only reason we're sitting here, parsing it out like this, is because politicians get pretty much a free ride on this type of stuff. I guarantee you more than one of the current crop of candidates really does believe Noah built the biggest boat EVAR, and that's a fucking problem.
Lonely much? There's not a lot of you guys around. Which is a shame, since I find it an interesting concept, and I'm an Atheist.