Trauma. Yes. Especially for the insurance companies who made the mistake of insuring, oh, all of Manhattan, a lot of Boston, Baltimore's Inner Harbor, Central London, Miami, Long Beach, Seattle, Venice, Copenhagen, and most major cities around the world.
Make it a point to visit Venice now, because in a few more decades it will be under water.
whoa there. I don't want a quiet sex machine. I want a loud sex machine!
But seriously, I can see where the parent is coming from. My fiance was like that for a long time. Luckily she got over it, for the most part. I don't want her to be a sex machine, or to let me ignore her. All I want is to be able to hack all night when the mood strikes me, and luckily she lets me do that. For the most part.
Alternatively you could try learning something new that you could use at work....might impress them instead of fannying about doing nothing...;o)
But I don't learn by reading, I learn by doing. If they gave me something to do, I would learn faster. But noooo, all they have me do is web based training. And I'm 'not allowed' to install things on my computer, like a PHP parser or a database so that I could learn something. And my back is to the hallway, so if I do try to do something (like make my own java pong applet), I can get caught easily.
Nope. Bastards. How the hell will I fill the void until I get a friggin' project if I can't SSH to my home machine and the only web site of any interest I can get to is/.?
GODDAMN WEBSENSE!!! I just started my job, and I feel like I have my damn hands tied behind my back. I can't visit 2600 cause it's "hacking." I can't view my webmail because I can't http to specific ports (fixed this by installing squirrelmail). I hate damn websense, but I can't work around it or I'll get friggin canned.
Sorry. Now back to your regularly scheduled flamebait.
Unfortunately, solar will never offer a better return, under the Gillette principle: Sell people something they want, and then sell them the stuff to make the thing do what they want. Buy the razor, then keep buying the blades. Buy the car, keep buying the gasoline. Buy X, keep buying the consumable for X.
It doesn't work with solar, because the only market will be in replacement parts (to fix broken cells from hail storms, etc), since they're reliable systems with very few moving parts.
A lot of people will glom on to this and say "Look! Capitalists aren't obsessed with profit! They're doing good things, too!" That's not true. Capitalists can only be trusted to pursue the most profitable avenue. It's up to society to police them by making the most profitable avenues also environmentally and socially responsible, through fines, fees, and awards.
The diesel engine was originally designed to run off of vegetable oil. Unfortunately, Rudolf Diesel died before it took off, and his buddies who took over the project were on a petroleum kick.
True, true. We have more to fear from Kim Jong Il giving Al Qaeda a nuke and having it shipped/flown/dragged into the US than some tiny country launching a missile at us.
We can combat this two ways: kill everyone who doesn't like America, or make America the good guy again by improving the lives of people. And not killing them in the process.
Heck, I use PNG now. If Wintellians want my site to look right, they should switch to a standards-compliant browser. I'm sick of hacking pages to bits with browser-specific code.
Typical capitalist ideologue. "Capitalists aren't concerned with profit, they just want to make the world a better place, and if they make money at it, all the better."
Bollocks. Capitalists' can only be trusted to make as much money as possible for themselves. Communism was decried because it didn't make any sense, because it involved people doing things because they were right and not because they would profit from them. To think that Capitalism is any different is naive.
Or you add Total Cost Taxes to cars. Want an H2? Pay $15,000 extra for guzzling gas and spewing harmful emissions. Want to use your factory to pollute? Expect a nice hefty Tax on not using pollution controls. Once the government gets out of the hands of their corporate overlords, we'll be able to implement a system where the people who want to be pigs pay for their transgressions instead of spreading the cost of defending oil supplies, cleaning up the environment, complying with the Kyoto protocol, and researching alternative fuels over the entire population. I don't see why my money should go to secure the extra oil that you use. All mideast operations and foreign aid should come out of a tax on vehicles that get less than 25mpg.
Add economic costs to wasteful items, and people will choose the non-wasteful ones. It's capitalism, baby!
1. The sun's not the problem, and hasn't been changing. We're adding C02 and other gases to our atmosphere. Think of it this way: If you're wearing a down coat in August, don't curse the sun for getting hotter. TAKE OFF THE DAMN COAT!
2. Ask any paleontologist: Not everywhere on Earth was a jungle back then. Also, volcanoes emitted a lot of C02 at that time, making the earth warmer
3. I wonder why there are so many cows that are causing said methane emissions? Could it be that humans bred them for food? And CFCs don't cause global warming, they cause ozone depletion. C02, Methane, and Water vapor are major components of global warming on earth.
Global Warming may not exist. What should we do? We have two possibilities: Take measures to curb CO2 emissions, or go on like we always have. If we go on like we always have and global warming does exist, we're screwed. If we go on like we always have and global warming doesn't exist, we'll be fine. If we take measures and global warming does exist, we save ourselves. If we take measures and global warming does not exist, we lose some money.
Clearly, the cost/benefit/risk assesment points to taking measures now, because the possible cost of not taking measures (end of civilzation) is far too great.
There's miles and miles of ice over Antarctica (a land mass). If it all melts, ocean levels will rise. However, if the Artic ice cap melts, ocean levels will be unaffected, because it's already floating.
The greatest threat from global warming isn't rising sea levels, it's global climate change that will destroy most of the current 'breadbaskets' of the world. Not only that, but the increase in the amount of energy in the weather system of the planet will create more powerful storms, causing worse floods, and making them more erratic, meaning the land will dry out, and then it will rain heavily, washing away topsoil.
I think if you didn't call it global warming, but called it global climate change, more people would have
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No, but changes in the climate caused by the warming will cause famine, which will breed disease, war, and pestilence.
I have seen the enemy, and the enemy is us.
Trauma. Yes. Especially for the insurance companies who made the mistake of insuring, oh, all of Manhattan, a lot of Boston, Baltimore's Inner Harbor, Central London, Miami, Long Beach, Seattle, Venice, Copenhagen, and most major cities around the world.
Make it a point to visit Venice now, because in a few more decades it will be under water.
Blech. Paris is a retarded blonde idiot. Why would I want her? Geekgrrls make better sex partners because of their inherent curiousity.
whoa there. I don't want a quiet sex machine. I want a loud sex machine!
But seriously, I can see where the parent is coming from. My fiance was like that for a long time. Luckily she got over it, for the most part. I don't want her to be a sex machine, or to let me ignore her. All I want is to be able to hack all night when the mood strikes me, and luckily she lets me do that. For the most part.
Alternatively you could try learning something new that you could use at work....might impress them instead of fannying about doing nothing... ;o)
But I don't learn by reading, I learn by doing. If they gave me something to do, I would learn faster. But noooo, all they have me do is web based training. And I'm 'not allowed' to install things on my computer, like a PHP parser or a database so that I could learn something. And my back is to the hallway, so if I do try to do something (like make my own java pong applet), I can get caught easily.
Nope. Bastards. How the hell will I fill the void until I get a friggin' project if I can't SSH to my home machine and the only web site of any interest I can get to is /.?
GODDAMN WEBSENSE!!! I just started my job, and I feel like I have my damn hands tied behind my back. I can't visit 2600 cause it's "hacking." I can't view my webmail because I can't http to specific ports (fixed this by installing squirrelmail). I hate damn websense, but I can't work around it or I'll get friggin canned.
Sorry. Now back to your regularly scheduled flamebait.
Corn based fuel is a reality. Well, soybean, canola, and corn.
Unfortunately, solar will never offer a better return, under the Gillette principle: Sell people something they want, and then sell them the stuff to make the thing do what they want. Buy the razor, then keep buying the blades. Buy the car, keep buying the gasoline. Buy X, keep buying the consumable for X.
It doesn't work with solar, because the only market will be in replacement parts (to fix broken cells from hail storms, etc), since they're reliable systems with very few moving parts.
A lot of people will glom on to this and say "Look! Capitalists aren't obsessed with profit! They're doing good things, too!" That's not true. Capitalists can only be trusted to pursue the most profitable avenue. It's up to society to police them by making the most profitable avenues also environmentally and socially responsible, through fines, fees, and awards.
The diesel engine was originally designed to run off of vegetable oil. Unfortunately, Rudolf Diesel died before it took off, and his buddies who took over the project were on a petroleum kick.
"Lets put the breakers in the hardest part of the place to get to, so that in an emergency we'll have to risk our lives to fix things."
At least there aren't any velociraptors in space.
True, true. We have more to fear from Kim Jong Il giving Al Qaeda a nuke and having it shipped/flown/dragged into the US than some tiny country launching a missile at us.
We can combat this two ways: kill everyone who doesn't like America, or make America the good guy again by improving the lives of people. And not killing them in the process.
Quit gloating!
Seriously, though, I'm happy for you. My fiance seems to be destroying my genius. Or is that my sex life?
Heck, I use PNG now. If Wintellians want my site to look right, they should switch to a standards-compliant browser. I'm sick of hacking pages to bits with browser-specific code.
Typical capitalist ideologue. "Capitalists aren't concerned with profit, they just want to make the world a better place, and if they make money at it, all the better."
Bollocks. Capitalists' can only be trusted to make as much money as possible for themselves. Communism was decried because it didn't make any sense, because it involved people doing things because they were right and not because they would profit from them. To think that Capitalism is any different is naive.
Not to mention the fact that Asscroft covered up the statue of justice because she was topless.
Any man who views justice as a sex object does not deserve to be head of the DOJ.
Or you add Total Cost Taxes to cars. Want an H2? Pay $15,000 extra for guzzling gas and spewing harmful emissions. Want to use your factory to pollute? Expect a nice hefty Tax on not using pollution controls. Once the government gets out of the hands of their corporate overlords, we'll be able to implement a system where the people who want to be pigs pay for their transgressions instead of spreading the cost of defending oil supplies, cleaning up the environment, complying with the Kyoto protocol, and researching alternative fuels over the entire population. I don't see why my money should go to secure the extra oil that you use. All mideast operations and foreign aid should come out of a tax on vehicles that get less than 25mpg.
Add economic costs to wasteful items, and people will choose the non-wasteful ones. It's capitalism, baby!
1. Magnetic reversal is pseudoscience
2. Magnetic reversal, if true, isn't caused by and can't be prevented by humans
So why should I worry about something I can't change instead of something I probably can?
1. The sun's not the problem, and hasn't been changing. We're adding C02 and other gases to our atmosphere. Think of it this way: If you're wearing a down coat in August, don't curse the sun for getting hotter. TAKE OFF THE DAMN COAT!
2. Ask any paleontologist: Not everywhere on Earth was a jungle back then. Also, volcanoes emitted a lot of C02 at that time, making the earth warmer 3. I wonder why there are so many cows that are causing said methane emissions? Could it be that humans bred them for food? And CFCs don't cause global warming, they cause ozone depletion. C02, Methane, and Water vapor are major components of global warming on earth.
Global Warming may not exist. What should we do? We have two possibilities: Take measures to curb CO2 emissions, or go on like we always have. If we go on like we always have and global warming does exist, we're screwed. If we go on like we always have and global warming doesn't exist, we'll be fine. If we take measures and global warming does exist, we save ourselves. If we take measures and global warming does not exist, we lose some money.
Clearly, the cost/benefit/risk assesment points to taking measures now, because the possible cost of not taking measures (end of civilzation) is far too great.
There's miles and miles of ice over Antarctica (a land mass). If it all melts, ocean levels will rise. However, if the Artic ice cap melts, ocean levels will be unaffected, because it's already floating.
The greatest threat from global warming isn't rising sea levels, it's global climate change that will destroy most of the current 'breadbaskets' of the world. Not only that, but the increase in the amount of energy in the weather system of the planet will create more powerful storms, causing worse floods, and making them more erratic, meaning the land will dry out, and then it will rain heavily, washing away topsoil.
I think if you didn't call it global warming, but called it global climate change, more people would have
We've known the earth has been getting warmer for years. My question is, when will we have the balls to do anything about it?
And kill bugs. And do the dishes. And reach high things. And change lightbulbs. And set up a network. And troubleshoot her computer. Etc. etc. etc.
"Why aren't there more guys like you?"
Translation: "Why aren't you hot and popular?"