You really need to get to Vegas more often. Some of those keno girls can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch. Golf ball through a garden hose? No problem. Rock through a straw? Well, getting them to suck it instead of snort it might be a minor problem, but I'm sure we have the technology to fix that...
Hell, easiest way to clean up the environment is to have the board of directors live on the sites they're polluting.
If an electric company wants to build a nuclear reactor, move the board of directors within 100 yards of the reactor vessel itself. Oil company? Put your house right next to a well. Logging company? Welcome to your brand new log cabin. Good luck in getting electricity, running water, and cable tv in the middle of a climax forest...
The best source of hydrogen is still water. None of those pesky carbon byproducts in its 'refining' either. But no matter how you slice it, it still takes a shitpile of energy to break the chemical bonds to release said hydrogen, and storing it isn't easy, either.
All 'peak oil' means is, the deposits we're able to get to are pretty much gotten to already. No, it doesn't allow for technological development. Yes, technological development is necessary as we drill deeper & deeper to get to 'new' deposits of oil. They aren't 'new', we just couldn't get to them before, economically and technologically. Drilling for oil is not cheap, but I wouldn't put it past the oil companies to shade the figures on how much it really costs to develop a 'new' field. After all, the oil industry gave us the term 'poormouth'.
No, freedom of speech is an individual right. A collective right is one that a group holds. ie, as a regulated militia, that militia has the right to keep and bear arms. As opposed to some jackass in a trailerpark. Go do a little reading, it might enlighten you.
This is the attitude I find bizarre. FWIW, I'm not an American - we dont have the gun problem that you have in the US - so perhaps thats why arguments like this make NO SENSE to me.
What 'gun problem' is this? According to a statistic I saw in this thread, 22,000 people died in the US last year of gunshot wounds. If that figure is accurate, then, according to my handy dandy calculator, that equates to a 0.00000733333% chance of me dying of a gunshot wound this year. A 0.00000733333% chance is a statistical blip on the map. I'm far more likely to get a papercut.
Loved the Fifth Element, loved the show Firefly (not the movie Serenity - I really don't like Summer Glau and her part was rather overplayed and corny/silly in the movie.). SG1 I watched over the period of two weeks (all 10 seasons) - awesome. I'm current on Atlantis, too.
I was iffy about Fifth Element, loved Firefly, liked Serenity (except for Wash & Book getting killed, and River turning into Buffy the Reaver Slayer). SG1 is fun to watch (I have all the DVDs). Atlantis seems to be recycling plots from SG1 & itself these days )I feel an immenent sharkjumping in the Force...)
As far as reading sci fi goes, try Jack L Chalker, David Weber, S. M. Stirling, and Alan Steele. Not as known as Niven & Pournelle, Heinlien, et. al., but some seriously great reads in there.
BTW: On a global scale, dogs kill ~3000 people a year, making them one of the most dangerous animals on the planet. OTOH in the US alone ~22,000 people die from gunshot wounds each year.
According to my calculator, that's a 0.00000733333 chance of getting shot every year. Yup, we really need to ban those guns, kids.
(We have over 300 million people in the US that we know of. Divide 22,000 by 300 million, that'll give you a rough idea of the odds of it happening to YOU)
This has nothing to do with the defacto two party system. Its an administration run amock, unchecked by congress. Congress lets them do it. And in turn the American public lets them do it. Every people get the governement they deserve.
The only viable candidates on any ballot are put on it by their party. Moving from the rank and file of a party to candidate status is hard unless you have pull inside the party. And the party isn't going to put somebody in a slot and piss off the campaign contributors.
Companies like Blackwater are rumored to be setting up shop all over the country. The military won't have to march down the streets. There'll be plenty of civil and private paramilitary groups doing the marching for them.
... with no-bid Federal contracts paid for by your hard stolen tax dollars. Ain't it great to be an American?
2) If the rest of the world start shifting to some other currency for trade, for example the Euro.
About half of the US's problem with Iran these days is, they had the audacity to announce they were openning up an oil spot market tied to the Euro, not the dollar. How outrageous that they should throw their future toward Europe rather than the US.
It might be fun to watch the K Street Klowns continuously on the run from state to state and district to district. It would probably boost the travel industry too.
particularly when they're taking fire. I'm thinking Piper had a good idea there...
When the Euro came out, it was at par with the US dollar. It later dropped to about 70 cents US to the Euro. Right now, as I write this, the dollar is at 1.56 to the Euro (per XE.com). The Canadian dollar, aka the 'loony', was about 68 cents US for ages, being tied to the Pound Sterling. Today, it's 1.02 US to the loony, and the Pound Sterling has climbed from $1.05 to the pound in '85 to $1.98 to the pound today. Most of this movement has been in the last 4 or 5 years.
Had the US dollar retained value, none of the conversion rates would have fluctuated more than maybe 5% according to my economically inclined friends, not lost half its value against the two other major world currencies. And those fluctuations would even out even closer in time. The US economy is taking a dive. Wake up.
Perhaps it is because I am outwith the USA and not properly indoctirnated, but 'the home of the brave' seems to be afraid of shadows these days, at least at a government level. Do the USA citizens really go along with all this?
No, the government really isn't afraid of terrorists, but making sure the citizens are allows them to expand their budgets, clamp down harder on John Q Citizen's movements and basic Constitutionally-recognised freedoms, and allows it to ignore international conventions to the point where the US has already been declared an outlaw nation. Geedubya has already told us the 'War on Terror' will last over a hundred years. That's 100 years of increased taxation, failing economy, and increased repression strictly for the gain of the politicians and their corporate masters. Our money is nearly worthless now, and it's just going to get worse as the government keeps pouring money down the Iraq/Iran/Middle East rathole. Welcome to our wonderful 21st Century, and don't forget to pray.
Thing is, raping a citizen only harms the citizen. Raping a corporation harms a campaign contributor. Which way do you think your Congresscritter is gonna vote?
Why do you think campaign financing reform is drastically needed, but will never happen? When the government puts the needs of corporations before the needs of its citizens, it's already way too late. Hope you have your bug-out package and bribe money to get a coyote to pass you through the border...
Appreciate the advice, but it wasn't needed. I've been round the block a few tiems before, having started out by going totally Linux with Red Hat 3.0.3 back in the day.:D I always keep my/boot,/home &/usr partitions seperate from/. Makes backups & restores a LOT easier. Most of teh 'restore time' is needed to apt-get the packages I usually use. This restore, I think I lost like 2 hours of email (maybe 35 messages; I get a lotta email), and some tarballs I've got backed up on DVD. Oh, and of course, my fonts, also backed up on DVD, my 500 gig USB portable drive, and in my/home. I even got back all my archived old emails (about 7000 of 'em in the mysql database, I use Pronto 3.0.4), and with a 20 second hack, got my mysql back under my command by replacing the deb-admin-user password in mysql.
Are you seriously surprised that some firefox2 extensions and themes, which have a max version coded in the rdf file, didn't work with FF3beta? That's amusing. I guess it would be nice if extension developers could magically see into the future and update their extensions in advance for you, but it's unlikely to happen, for betas or final releases. You can, however, try editing the rdf to increase max_version, which often makes an extension work with a new ff.
No, I'm not surprised that FF2 extensions don't work with FF3. Having been around the block a bit, it didn't surprise me at all.
What did surprise me was a lack of updated extensions for FF3. Most of the ones I use on a daily basis just weren't there. FF3 betas have been around for what, 2, 3 months now? Should be a lot more extensions & themes geared up for FF3 already.
OK, I tried the hardy beta upgrade a few days back, complete with FF3b4. Totally hosed my system, forcing a reinstall. Not sure how much of the problem was with hardy & how much was with FF3b4, but I know for a fact that I won't upgrade til FF3 comes out of beta.
I didn't have back & forth arrows, no home button, and most of the extensions I use on a daily basis didn't work. Neither did the themes. Updates didn't work. And I couldn't edit my bookmarks.
Again, I don't know how much of this was FF3b4's fault and how much was hardy beta's. But I'm not going to upgrade to either til after FF3 comes out of beta. Hopefully, my fave extensions will work then...
Aye, bizarrely enough it seems from genetic evidence that the first inhabitants of the British isles came from north of what it is today Spain and Portugal.
Good news is, with the discovery of salt on Mars, you don't have to pack your own all the way across millions of kilometers. That's a looooooooong way to go to find a 7-11, you know...
There has been evidence for evolution since Darwin, hell, since the pyramids were built. Religious conservatives are fairly famous for saying things like "I see your evidence. Show me different evidence, evidence that supports my opinions." Just ask Galileo.
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You really need to get to Vegas more often. Some of those keno girls can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch. Golf ball through a garden hose? No problem. Rock through a straw? Well, getting them to suck it instead of snort it might be a minor problem, but I'm sure we have the technology to fix that...
If an electric company wants to build a nuclear reactor, move the board of directors within 100 yards of the reactor vessel itself. Oil company? Put your house right next to a well. Logging company? Welcome to your brand new log cabin. Good luck in getting electricity, running water, and cable tv in the middle of a climax forest...
The best source of hydrogen is still water. None of those pesky carbon byproducts in its 'refining' either. But no matter how you slice it, it still takes a shitpile of energy to break the chemical bonds to release said hydrogen, and storing it isn't easy, either.
All 'peak oil' means is, the deposits we're able to get to are pretty much gotten to already. No, it doesn't allow for technological development. Yes, technological development is necessary as we drill deeper & deeper to get to 'new' deposits of oil. They aren't 'new', we just couldn't get to them before, economically and technologically. Drilling for oil is not cheap, but I wouldn't put it past the oil companies to shade the figures on how much it really costs to develop a 'new' field. After all, the oil industry gave us the term 'poormouth'.
1/.00000733333 is 1 in 136,364. Still pretty good odds to me.
What part of:
don't you understand?
What 'gun problem' is this? According to a statistic I saw in this thread, 22,000 people died in the US last year of gunshot wounds. If that figure is accurate, then, according to my handy dandy calculator, that equates to a 0.00000733333% chance of me dying of a gunshot wound this year. A 0.00000733333% chance is a statistical blip on the map. I'm far more likely to get a papercut.
Quick, let's ban paper!!!!!!!!!!!
I was iffy about Fifth Element, loved Firefly, liked Serenity (except for Wash & Book getting killed, and River turning into Buffy the Reaver Slayer). SG1 is fun to watch (I have all the DVDs). Atlantis seems to be recycling plots from SG1 & itself these days )I feel an immenent sharkjumping in the Force...)
As far as reading sci fi goes, try Jack L Chalker, David Weber, S. M. Stirling, and Alan Steele. Not as known as Niven & Pournelle, Heinlien, et. al., but some seriously great reads in there.
According to my calculator, that's a 0.00000733333 chance of getting shot every year. Yup, we really need to ban those guns, kids.
(We have over 300 million people in the US that we know of. Divide 22,000 by 300 million, that'll give you a rough idea of the odds of it happening to YOU)
Oh, and let's not forget the parties and the 'Girls Gone Wild' video shoots...
The only viable candidates on any ballot are put on it by their party. Moving from the rank and file of a party to candidate status is hard unless you have pull inside the party. And the party isn't going to put somebody in a slot and piss off the campaign contributors.
About half of the US's problem with Iran these days is, they had the audacity to announce they were openning up an oil spot market tied to the Euro, not the dollar. How outrageous that they should throw their future toward Europe rather than the US.
particularly when they're taking fire. I'm thinking Piper had a good idea there...
When the Euro came out, it was at par with the US dollar. It later dropped to about 70 cents US to the Euro. Right now, as I write this, the dollar is at 1.56 to the Euro (per XE.com). The Canadian dollar, aka the 'loony', was about 68 cents US for ages, being tied to the Pound Sterling. Today, it's 1.02 US to the loony, and the Pound Sterling has climbed from $1.05 to the pound in '85 to $1.98 to the pound today. Most of this movement has been in the last 4 or 5 years.
Had the US dollar retained value, none of the conversion rates would have fluctuated more than maybe 5% according to my economically inclined friends, not lost half its value against the two other major world currencies. And those fluctuations would even out even closer in time. The US economy is taking a dive. Wake up.
No, the government really isn't afraid of terrorists, but making sure the citizens are allows them to expand their budgets, clamp down harder on John Q Citizen's movements and basic Constitutionally-recognised freedoms, and allows it to ignore international conventions to the point where the US has already been declared an outlaw nation. Geedubya has already told us the 'War on Terror' will last over a hundred years. That's 100 years of increased taxation, failing economy, and increased repression strictly for the gain of the politicians and their corporate masters. Our money is nearly worthless now, and it's just going to get worse as the government keeps pouring money down the Iraq/Iran/Middle East rathole. Welcome to our wonderful 21st Century, and don't forget to pray.
Why do you think campaign financing reform is drastically needed, but will never happen? When the government puts the needs of corporations before the needs of its citizens, it's already way too late. Hope you have your bug-out package and bribe money to get a coyote to pass you through the border...
Like I say, not my first barbeque.
No, I'm not surprised that FF2 extensions don't work with FF3. Having been around the block a bit, it didn't surprise me at all.
What did surprise me was a lack of updated extensions for FF3. Most of the ones I use on a daily basis just weren't there. FF3 betas have been around for what, 2, 3 months now? Should be a lot more extensions & themes geared up for FF3 already.
I didn't have back & forth arrows, no home button, and most of the extensions I use on a daily basis didn't work. Neither did the themes. Updates didn't work. And I couldn't edit my bookmarks.
Again, I don't know how much of this was FF3b4's fault and how much was hardy beta's. But I'm not going to upgrade to either til after FF3 comes out of beta. Hopefully, my fave extensions will work then...
Who'dve thought they'd be French?
Good news is, with the discovery of salt on Mars, you don't have to pack your own all the way across millions of kilometers. That's a looooooooong way to go to find a 7-11, you know...
There has been evidence for evolution since Darwin, hell, since the pyramids were built. Religious conservatives are fairly famous for saying things like "I see your evidence. Show me different evidence, evidence that supports my opinions." Just ask Galileo.
Governments are like any organism. They want to survive and grow. Taxes make governments grow.
As for long-term? Nope. I wouldn't wanna be kept around as a fashion accessory like her chihuahua.