Most Christian celebrations exist solely to coincide with (and hence usurp) pre-existing traditions or "pagan" celebrations. Christmas, placed at the time of the traditional winter solstice, is no exception.
Actually, many Christian fables are adaptations of older stories. Consider Mithras, for example, a Persian God sent by Zoroathrus to be man's saviour. He was born of a virgin mother and in some traditions would sometimes shut himself in a cave and emerge a year later, born anew.
It is hard to compete economically with oil or coal - where the cost of dealing with the waste is spread over the entire planet. ding! more taxes to pay for health care and disaster costs from climate change.
"Green" groups will freak out no matter where you want to build a nuclear plant. In fact, these days, they freak out whenever you want to build virtually anything.
SBC certainly provides direct connectivity to spammers. I don't think Microsoft is quite that blatant - they stick to the DMA path of making sure real anti-spam legislation doesn't appear.
Technically, every single one of our ancestors lived long enough to breed... by definition. We are the product of 3 billion years of survival. It was all those other poor genes that didn't make it:p
Hell yeah. I want the land those damned Saxons stole from my Briton ancestors. Although, I'm torn, because I also want the land my Viking ancestors stole from everyone else and then lost again. It's so confusing.
Wordperfect died because Wordperfect for Windows sucked. I hate MS as much as the next guy, but seriously, Wordperfect for Windows was slow and buggy as shit.
It is amazing that in a country as rich as the USA, 12% of the people there live in poverty. Guess what, that is the same as in China
Yeah... except being poor in China means you farm rice for 12 hours a day. Being poor in the US means you can't afford a paint-job for your car and you sometimes have to decide between booze and smokes, or protein for your kids.
Well, that's wonderful, but the world only has room for a few million hunters and gatherers. Any higher density requires agriculture, which gets really labour intensive without non-human energy sources.
Well it's only renewable if you don't use a ton of oil to grow to grow the biomatter in the first place. Right now biodiesel and ethanol are just big subsidy schemes for farmers who burn more oil making the stuff than they produce. Modern farming just uses too much energy.
I don't count spending all day working in the fields for just enough to feed one's self as being especially productive. It's a lot of hard work, to be sure, but it's not something you really want to be doing if you can help it.
There is a lot of empty land because current food production doesn't require a lot of land. It does, however, require a lot of oil. Some say 10 calories of oil for every calorie of food produced (grains), up to 68 calories of oil for every calorie of beef.
Also, the US has a lot of land per person, much more than most of the world. The US is probably one of the few countries that might be able to feed its population without oil.
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Most Christian celebrations exist solely to coincide with (and hence usurp) pre-existing traditions or "pagan" celebrations. Christmas, placed at the time of the traditional winter solstice, is no exception.
Actually, many Christian fables are adaptations of older stories. Consider Mithras, for example, a Persian God sent by Zoroathrus to be man's saviour. He was born of a virgin mother and in some traditions would sometimes shut himself in a cave and emerge a year later, born anew.
It's pretty hard to take any of it seriously.
Yeah but the actual ending of Titanic wasn't exactly a surprise, I hope.
It is hard to compete economically with oil or coal - where the cost of dealing with the waste is spread over the entire planet. ding! more taxes to pay for health care and disaster costs from climate change.
"Green" groups will freak out no matter where you want to build a nuclear plant. In fact, these days, they freak out whenever you want to build virtually anything.
SBC certainly provides direct connectivity to spammers. I don't think Microsoft is quite that blatant - they stick to the DMA path of making sure real anti-spam legislation doesn't appear.
Technically, every single one of our ancestors lived long enough to breed ... by definition. We are the product of 3 billion years of survival. It was all those other poor genes that didn't make it :p
And if you have that at your disposal, WTF are you wasting it on ineffiecent explosives?
For the same reason we do now - they're a nice convenient package for delivering that energy to a particular place and time for destructive purposes.
Or people will finally realize how crazy IP law has become and demand reasonable changes.
There are sites with multi-terrabyte PostgreSQL databases. 62GB is nothing compared to them, but certainly the largest I've worked with.
62GB currently. It does like to use disk space. We have a lot of heavily indexed data though.
I have single tables with over 100 million records in PostgreSQL. It rocks.
"the biggest looser"?
Yeah nothing like watching fat guys cry on each other.
Don't forget the big bag of cash. 'cause they already got one from the MPAA, and yours will have to be bigger to compete.
I guess that depends on if you or your kids are in the path of an incoming missile. Not that I think the odds of that are particularly likely.
Hell yeah. I want the land those damned Saxons stole from my Briton ancestors. Although, I'm torn, because I also want the land my Viking ancestors stole from everyone else and then lost again. It's so confusing.
If only Bush could also cut his spending. Borrowing the money instead of taxing it only delays your having to pay for it.
Thinking or working for yourself, of course. Which is why many prefer bigger government. Sigh.
Sure it is. Just be some refugee's grandmother or sick aunt.
Oh, wait, you're white? And you want to work? Sorry, you're right, we apparently don't want any of that.
Wordperfect died because Wordperfect for Windows sucked. I hate MS as much as the next guy, but seriously, Wordperfect for Windows was slow and buggy as shit.
It is amazing that in a country as rich as the USA, 12% of the people there live in poverty. Guess what, that is the same as in China
... except being poor in China means you farm rice for 12 hours a day. Being poor in the US means you can't afford a paint-job for your car and you sometimes have to decide between booze and smokes, or protein for your kids.
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Well, that's wonderful, but the world only has room for a few million hunters and gatherers. Any higher density requires agriculture, which gets really labour intensive without non-human energy sources.
Of course they will. Hell, they complain about irradiated food, and that doesn't hold onto any radiation.
Well it's only renewable if you don't use a ton of oil to grow to grow the biomatter in the first place. Right now biodiesel and ethanol are just big subsidy schemes for farmers who burn more oil making the stuff than they produce. Modern farming just uses too much energy.
I don't count spending all day working in the fields for just enough to feed one's self as being especially productive. It's a lot of hard work, to be sure, but it's not something you really want to be doing if you can help it.
There is a lot of empty land because current food production doesn't require a lot of land. It does, however, require a lot of oil. Some say 10 calories of oil for every calorie of food produced (grains), up to 68 calories of oil for every calorie of beef.
Also, the US has a lot of land per person, much more than most of the world. The US is probably one of the few countries that might be able to feed its population without oil.