There is a big difference between dumping cyanide (gold refining) into streams, heavy metals into the ocean, overuse of industrial fertilizer, or dumping CO2 (which we all exhale) into the atmosphere.
How many animals do you know of that piss cyanide, crap ammonium sulfide and exhale Sulfur Dioxide?
Big difference between CO2 and the stuff that was rightly regulated in the 1970's via the clean air act and the EPA.
By the time affordable vat meat can be grown they will be able to grow people new replacement bodies and then just do a brain transplant, hello immortality and screw you to all the health nuts.
Eat vat meat, get cancer, get a body swap, eat more vat meat, get cancer, get a body swap, get brain cancer, get screwed.
Hopefully along with growing replacement bodies they will be able to cure brain cancer too!
I say we find a way to steal energy from another universe, this free energy would be awesome! What could possibly go wrong with increasing the amount of energy in our universe, other than turning an open or flat universe into a closed universe.....
Enjoy the big crunch, all our fault, at least we could enjoy the Omega point while it lasts....
If I invented a free energy machine, here is what I would do.
1. Create a "Solar Panel Farm" on my Property. The panels would be cheap panels of glass spray painted silver on one side. In an obscure shed would be the "AC/DC converter for the cells" which in actuality would be chock full of my amazing magnetic free energy engine thingies. I would produce about 2x as much energy as I would if the solar cells were actually real.:) Have another shed with "batteries" to supply the grid at night, in reality, they are filled with more of my machines and used batteries that don;t work with GNDN (goes nowhere, does nothing) wiring.
2. Sell the energy to the electric company and take the money to buy more land and build more "fake solar farms or fake windmills" more nondescript sheds built housing my free energy devices.
3. Keep repeating my process of making "fake" solar energy farms and maybe some real ones that produce more electricity that they should, (wink wink), selling electricity till I have built up a war chest enough to buy a region power company. Take several coal powered plants and fill them with my machines and only burn enough coal to make a diffuse small amount of smoke so no suspicions are raised. Lower my electricity rates as well for the consumers cause I don't have to buy so much coal to make power. Start selling power to other companies and take them over in the same way.
4. Once I have over 52% of total electricity in the country being produced by my free energy devices I would then open a chain of plants that would extract CO2 from the air, break sea water down and make hydrocarbons the hard way, sure it would be energy intensive, but what do i care, I gots free energy! Disguise them as refineries and buy a token amount of crude from domestic producers, make about 20x the amount of hydrocarbons for the amount of crude processed. Sell the produced oil to China and Russia first and then to the US, take over the oil companies the same way I did for the electric companies. Build enough infrastructure to crush the middle east and OPEC financially.
5. When the whole world is dependent on my free energy, then come clean about how I did it and how I made free energy and laugh my ass off from my personal moon base which is powered by my free energy machine.
They are all about free love and freedom of information when they pass out those silly ass pamphlets to everyone in the street. But you give them some money and power and they go bat shit insane and against their own ethics to try to keep as much as they possibly can.
I would rather deal with someone who is a staunch capitalist from the get go because you at least know what you are getting. Rather than dealing with some back stabbing hippie.
Do we know if Steve's liver was a partial or a whole liver transplant, because if it was a partial then it would be better cause he wouldn't have needed to steal someone's dead liver from them.
Maybe he used his iPhone to find an apple fan who wanted to give him 1/2 of their liver. You know the liver can regenerate the other half if it is removed.
I say we put a bunch of highly acidic sea water into an old dormant volcano and then fly over it with a thousand helicopters filled to the brim with Baking Soda and then we dump it all into the dormant volcano that was filled with carbonic acid!!!
It would make Krakatoa look like a firecracker and maybe we would win 1st prize in the Intergalactic Middle School science fair!
Would a strong neodymium magnet work in the mechanism instead of an electromagnet? You know with electricity being a rare and scarce resource in the bleak future. I would love to build something like that out of LEGO or wood or clay.
Copper currency is good because the copper has an intrinsic value.
So I am hoarding Pennies, pre 1982 pennies, made a machine to sort them out of the regular pennies and go to bank to buy all of the pennies that they have then sort out the pre 1982 pennies and cash back in to new pennies for older unsorted pennies. i figure a couple thousand dollars of copper in pennies (which I won't melt, but will hoard) are less of a rip off than buying gold. Copper is always useful.
I am also hoarding quarters, nickels and dimes as well just not in as high quantities as pennies. My goal is to get a few barrels of pure copper pennies. Them be really good barter tokens in an apocalyptic world.
Gold, pfaw, gold is for the elite asswipes who will rule the post apocalyptic fiefdoms, I am into copper cause I am going to become a mid class merchant who bakes bread, gets fed and maybe sells goods to the elite. The elite are goign to be involved in wars and stuff and probably be dangerous, I am going to be a merchant.
This is why we need flying cars, if we all had flying cars we could save trillions on not having to pave roads and not having to maintain gravel roads. We could let roads go back to nature.
So hereâ(TM)s the idea youâ(TM)ve been patiently waiting for: letâ(TM)s simply say that dog breeds are different species. Take two that Coyne highlights for their differencesâ"the 180-pound English Mastiff and the two-pound Chihuahua. Theyâ(TM)re both considered members of Canis lupus familiaris, and in principle artificial insemination could produce some sort of mix or possibly an exploding Chihuahua. But face it, the only shot a male Chihuahua has with a female Mastiff involves rock climbing or spelunking equipment.
There are a lot of humans that have to reproduce with one another using Artificial Insemination and some have to use special equipment, does this mean that certain people should be a different species that Homo Sapiens Sapiens?
Should we have Homo Sapiens RedNeckicus, or Homo Sapiens LittlePersonus, or Homo Sapiens Giganticus?
He is spending money like he just figured out the cheat keys to give him near infinite money supplies, he just doesn't realize the cheat makes disasters come round every year.
Screw batteries, Nuclear Power plants are the solution, Have a bunch built near the ocean coasts, when renewable sources aren't working you get electricity from them, when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining then use the excess nuclear power to desalinate drinking water, WIN-WIN!~
Store the drinking water in Giant tanks, During sunny windy days you use nuke power to replenish drinking water supplies!
I would hate to cross the two non-stop tracks to take the train on the far track, ==== Regular - North ==== Express - North ==== Express - South ==== Regular - South
Having to cross a track to get tot he regular train at a station in between would be hell!
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There is a big difference between dumping cyanide (gold refining) into streams, heavy metals into the ocean, overuse of industrial fertilizer, or dumping CO2 (which we all exhale) into the atmosphere.
How many animals do you know of that piss cyanide, crap ammonium sulfide and exhale Sulfur Dioxide?
Big difference between CO2 and the stuff that was rightly regulated in the 1970's via the clean air act and the EPA.
By the time affordable vat meat can be grown they will be able to grow people new replacement bodies and then just do a brain transplant, hello immortality and screw you to all the health nuts.
Eat vat meat, get cancer, get a body swap, eat more vat meat, get cancer, get a body swap, get brain cancer, get screwed.
Hopefully along with growing replacement bodies they will be able to cure brain cancer too!
How many moles of Hydrogen must a shuttle burn to make it into orbit?
I say we find a way to steal energy from another universe, this free energy would be awesome! What could possibly go wrong with increasing the amount of energy in our universe, other than turning an open or flat universe into a closed universe.....
Enjoy the big crunch, all our fault, at least we could enjoy the Omega point while it lasts....
If I invented a free energy machine, here is what I would do.
1. Create a "Solar Panel Farm" on my Property. The panels would be cheap panels of glass spray painted silver on one side. In an obscure shed would be the "AC/DC converter for the cells" which in actuality would be chock full of my amazing magnetic free energy engine thingies. I would produce about 2x as much energy as I would if the solar cells were actually real. :) Have another shed with "batteries" to supply the grid at night, in reality, they are filled with more of my machines and used batteries that don;t work with GNDN (goes nowhere, does nothing) wiring.
2. Sell the energy to the electric company and take the money to buy more land and build more "fake solar farms or fake windmills" more nondescript sheds built housing my free energy devices.
3. Keep repeating my process of making "fake" solar energy farms and maybe some real ones that produce more electricity that they should, (wink wink), selling electricity till I have built up a war chest enough to buy a region power company. Take several coal powered plants and fill them with my machines and only burn enough coal to make a diffuse small amount of smoke so no suspicions are raised. Lower my electricity rates as well for the consumers cause I don't have to buy so much coal to make power. Start selling power to other companies and take them over in the same way.
4. Once I have over 52% of total electricity in the country being produced by my free energy devices I would then open a chain of plants that would extract CO2 from the air, break sea water down and make hydrocarbons the hard way, sure it would be energy intensive, but what do i care, I gots free energy! Disguise them as refineries and buy a token amount of crude from domestic producers, make about 20x the amount of hydrocarbons for the amount of crude processed. Sell the produced oil to China and Russia first and then to the US, take over the oil companies the same way I did for the electric companies. Build enough infrastructure to crush the middle east and OPEC financially.
5. When the whole world is dependent on my free energy, then come clean about how I did it and how I made free energy and laugh my ass off from my personal moon base which is powered by my free energy machine.
You know I can actually believe that and would like to subscribe to your poorly photocopied newsletter.
They are all about free love and freedom of information when they pass out those silly ass pamphlets to everyone in the street. But you give them some money and power and they go bat shit insane and against their own ethics to try to keep as much as they possibly can.
I would rather deal with someone who is a staunch capitalist from the get go because you at least know what you are getting. Rather than dealing with some back stabbing hippie.
Do we know if Steve's liver was a partial or a whole liver transplant, because if it was a partial then it would be better cause he wouldn't have needed to steal someone's dead liver from them.
Maybe he used his iPhone to find an apple fan who wanted to give him 1/2 of their liver. You know the liver can regenerate the other half if it is removed.
I say we put a bunch of highly acidic sea water into an old dormant volcano and then fly over it with a thousand helicopters filled to the brim with Baking Soda and then we dump it all into the dormant volcano that was filled with carbonic acid!!!
It would make Krakatoa look like a firecracker and maybe we would win 1st prize in the Intergalactic Middle School science fair!
Would a strong neodymium magnet work in the mechanism instead of an electromagnet? You know with electricity being a rare and scarce resource in the bleak future. I would love to build something like that out of LEGO or wood or clay.
Copper currency is good because the copper has an intrinsic value.
So I am hoarding Pennies, pre 1982 pennies, made a machine to sort them out of the regular pennies and go to bank to buy all of the pennies that they have then sort out the pre 1982 pennies and cash back in to new pennies for older unsorted pennies. i figure a couple thousand dollars of copper in pennies (which I won't melt, but will hoard) are less of a rip off than buying gold. Copper is always useful.
I am also hoarding quarters, nickels and dimes as well just not in as high quantities as pennies. My goal is to get a few barrels of pure copper pennies. Them be really good barter tokens in an apocalyptic world.
Gold, pfaw, gold is for the elite asswipes who will rule the post apocalyptic fiefdoms, I am into copper cause I am going to become a mid class merchant who bakes bread, gets fed and maybe sells goods to the elite. The elite are goign to be involved in wars and stuff and probably be dangerous, I am going to be a merchant.
God lied, Adam didn't die.
Satan was the one who wanted man to be smart and think for himself, god wanted to just be a control freak "the SIMS" player with his little garden.
You forgot the Nintendo Gamecube, but to be honest a lot of people forget it too.
This is why we need flying cars, if we all had flying cars we could save trillions on not having to pave roads and not having to maintain gravel roads. We could let roads go back to nature.
Such a crappy element.
Or maybe how about Moronium
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So hereâ(TM)s the idea youâ(TM)ve been patiently waiting for: letâ(TM)s simply say that dog breeds are different species. Take two that Coyne highlights for their differencesâ"the 180-pound English Mastiff and the two-pound Chihuahua. Theyâ(TM)re both considered members of Canis lupus familiaris, and in principle artificial insemination could produce some sort of mix or possibly an exploding Chihuahua. But face it, the only shot a male Chihuahua has with a female Mastiff involves rock climbing or spelunking equipment.
There are a lot of humans that have to reproduce with one another using Artificial Insemination and some have to use special equipment, does this mean that certain people should be a different species that Homo Sapiens Sapiens?
Should we have Homo Sapiens RedNeckicus, or Homo Sapiens LittlePersonus, or Homo Sapiens Giganticus?
They should combine this approach with the one that uses mushrooms to infect and kill insects, that way it is a double whammy!
They should totally call it IASA, then launch some guy named John Crichton up in a module to test atmospheric slighshotting effect.
I expect the test to go totally well!
Bah, even if we kill off all insects, as long as we don't kill off the roundworms they evolved from they will eventually return anyways.
Little buggers are really hard to kill, has there ever been a insect that has gone extinct due to humans?
He is spending money like he just figured out the cheat keys to give him near infinite money supplies, he just doesn't realize the cheat makes disasters come round every year.
Screw batteries, Nuclear Power plants are the solution, Have a bunch built near the ocean coasts, when renewable sources aren't working you get electricity from them, when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining then use the excess nuclear power to desalinate drinking water, WIN-WIN!~
Store the drinking water in Giant tanks, During sunny windy days you use nuke power to replenish drinking water supplies!
I would hate to cross the two non-stop tracks to take the train on the far track,
==== Regular - North
==== Express - North
==== Express - South
==== Regular - South
Having to cross a track to get tot he regular train at a station in between would be hell!
SPLAT!
Free software is essentially an Experiment in the post scarcity economy.
If you slipstream your SP1 CD to SP-whatever the old key will still work with it.
Sweet Jesus, I had better not install it on my Virtual PC who knows what it might do to me!