But I'm a human being. My advantage in the wilderness is my intelligence. If a moose is chasing me I have the ability to figure out which tree to climb based on strength and height. I can attempt to trick the moose into being interested in something else (my buddy). I can try to utilize anything nearby as a weapon... But I can't outrun the thing. I can't beat it up with my fists. It's unfair! The moose aren't giving the poor humans a fighting chance!
Our ability to build a gun (or participate in an economy that produces them) IS our advantage. Until the moose start limping to give me an advantage I'm not going to pretend I'm dumber than I am for their sake.
You are running off 2 assumptions: 1. That colonizing the bottom of the ocean/antartica is easier.
2. That it's more desirable.
Show of hands from comfortable people living in their posh suburbs, how many people would like to live, pretty much indoors in Antartica for a long enough time to actually justify calling it a colony (let's say 3 years)? **blink**
Now, show of hands from comfortable people living in their posh suburbs, how many people would like to live pretty much indoors in space or on another planet for 3 years? **At least a few hands**
The desire to colonize space or planets is there because it's exciting and it provides our surivival in the event of a planet-wide disaster. It's not that we're running out of space on earth. If that were the problem we'd still be here for another 2,000 years waiting to turn the entire American west, Australian outback, Mongolian desert, the poles and the seafloors into one giant NYC.
It's an engineering problem, albeit a problem that is currently riddled with political connections (national security) that have been the cause of it being a public debate, but ultimately it's a problem with a solution. This won't be solved by a clever arguement.
Eventually some ambitious mind is going to do something, someone will make a choice to produce their own power, or someone will start a new company with a business model that works. Point is, this won't be changed by a bunch of hotheads talking back and forth about their pet issues, it will be solved by the one who actually does something.
I just went through a phone activation and I read the long (50-75 digit) install id out loud even faster than if I were talking to a person and the machine understood every digit perfectly.
I was quite impressed. Perhaps someone needs to work on his diction.... **nudge nudge**
Producing corn, or as the Brazilians use, sugar to make ethanol only requires fossil fuels if the farmer stupidly doesn't bother to use his own product, tax-free, to fuel his own machinery. An easy conversion for gasoline engines(they just need collector tractors), usually just a carborater adjustment.
For me, the features would be nice but the hassle isn't worth it if for some reason it doesn't work out in my home.
Sign up, try it for a month, keep your land based phone meanwhile. If it doesn't work, cancel it. Return the $25 router for a refund. For 2 months service you're out $30 with vonage's minimum plan but could potentially save hundreds if not thousands over the next few years. Hassle?
I also doubt that Bush and his merry band of criminals actually ever believed in WMDs...
I agree. It was only a ploy to get citizen support.
Now, me? I like $2/gallon gasoline, as opposed to $5 or $10. But you can't tell 250 million idiots that that's the reason we have to go kill a great many innocent bystanders. He had to lie.
The era a leader who can't lie is voted into office is the era the country falls.
Who wants to string a wire across the dorm room to the computer in your lap so you can access the network while laying on your bed?
Then go through the hassle of unplugging it and storing it every time you turn your cpu off and on.
It may not seem like that much of an inconvenience, but why put up with it when there's another solution that's possibley, in the long run, less of a hassle.
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But I'm a human being. My advantage in the wilderness is my intelligence. If a moose is chasing me I have the ability to figure out which tree to climb based on strength and height. I can attempt to trick the moose into being interested in something else (my buddy). I can try to utilize anything nearby as a weapon... But I can't outrun the thing. I can't beat it up with my fists. It's unfair! The moose aren't giving the poor humans a fighting chance!
Our ability to build a gun (or participate in an economy that produces them) IS our advantage. Until the moose start limping to give me an advantage I'm not going to pretend I'm dumber than I am for their sake.
ummm, why an ID number? Just ask for their name...
You are running off 2 assumptions: 1. That colonizing the bottom of the ocean/antartica is easier.
2. That it's more desirable.
Show of hands from comfortable people living in their posh suburbs, how many people would like to live, pretty much indoors in Antartica for a long enough time to actually justify calling it a colony (let's say 3 years)? **blink**
Now, show of hands from comfortable people living in their posh suburbs, how many people would like to live pretty much indoors in space or on another planet for 3 years? **At least a few hands**
The desire to colonize space or planets is there because it's exciting and it provides our surivival in the event of a planet-wide disaster. It's not that we're running out of space on earth. If that were the problem we'd still be here for another 2,000 years waiting to turn the entire American west, Australian outback, Mongolian desert, the poles and the seafloors into one giant NYC.
How about, "compel" it?
The energy debate doesn't matter.
It's an engineering problem, albeit a problem that is currently riddled with political connections (national security) that have been the cause of it being a public debate, but ultimately it's a problem with a solution. This won't be solved by a clever arguement.
Eventually some ambitious mind is going to do something, someone will make a choice to produce their own power, or someone will start a new company with a business model that works. Point is, this won't be changed by a bunch of hotheads talking back and forth about their pet issues, it will be solved by the one who actually does something.
Why go through all that trouble? Just take the cross down and when you're not singing project one onto the wall. Problem solved.
Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week.
Seriously, solar power is ridiculously overrated. The energy density of sunlight at the earth's surface is simply too low to be practical.
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I'm sure this 25,000 acres has to be relatively flat as well, making the SW US impossible to use as it is spotted with all sorts of mountains
***WAVES FRANTICLY***
ummm, yeah, all sorts of mountains and, ummm, ME!
I just went through a phone activation and I read the long (50-75 digit) install id out loud even faster than if I were talking to a person and the machine understood every digit perfectly.
I was quite impressed. Perhaps someone needs to work on his diction.... **nudge nudge**
The study referenced in the article I referenced
You should read better articles.
Producing corn, or as the Brazilians use, sugar to make ethanol only requires fossil fuels if the farmer stupidly doesn't bother to use his own product, tax-free, to fuel his own machinery. An easy conversion for gasoline engines(they just need collector tractors), usually just a carborater adjustment.
There are no laws of physics being broken. The gain in energy is coming from the, err, what do plants use again? Oh yeah, THE SUN!
For me, the features would be nice but the hassle isn't worth it if for some reason it doesn't work out in my home.
Sign up, try it for a month, keep your land based phone meanwhile. If it doesn't work, cancel it. Return the $25 router for a refund. For 2 months service you're out $30 with vonage's minimum plan but could potentially save hundreds if not thousands over the next few years. Hassle?
With great risks come great rewards.
I also doubt that Bush and his merry band of criminals actually ever believed in WMDs...
I agree. It was only a ploy to get citizen support.
Now, me? I like $2/gallon gasoline, as opposed to $5 or $10. But you can't tell 250 million idiots that that's the reason we have to go kill a great many innocent bystanders. He had to lie.
The era a leader who can't lie is voted into office is the era the country falls.
The math in the post is wrong. Several people live in one house, so the population affected is probably much smaller than the cited number.
Canada will be the next energy superpower of the world, and it will be the US that will be the one begging for it the most.
You mean like how we beg the Iraqis?
intercept what?
. . .even many liberal arts journals are far from cheap.
thanks...
Bill Daley M.A. Liberal Arts
You celebrate festives too?
that's only for the rest-uv-us.
Take the amount of times you hear someone spit in NYC, multiply it by about 70, and that's how often you'll hear it in China.
Vile people, believe me.
for the rest of the world your democrat party is right wing
No no, you mean, the rest of the world's right-wingers are actually leftists.
A stoned leftist... how odd.
I'd hate to clog your airwaves with my porn preventing you from having phone sex with your online girlfriend on your cordless.
Who wants to string a wire across the dorm room to the computer in your lap so you can access the network while laying on your bed?
Then go through the hassle of unplugging it and storing it every time you turn your cpu off and on.
It may not seem like that much of an inconvenience, but why put up with it when there's another solution that's possibley, in the long run, less of a hassle.
In the future it would be nice if you had a a disclaimer that you're trying to make money.
Who cares?
Heaven forbid someone take a moment to try to save us some money by providing a link to a cheaper store and then, **GASP** expect compensation.
Compensation which, by the way, does not at all effect the price of the book for us.