How do you know what happened to the Anasazi? Last I head, no one really knew. It's highly unlikely they just died in place. They had choices, unlike the Easter Islanders who probably burned the last trees instead of making canoes to get away. The Anasazi probably just gradually moved away, those that were less tolerant of the bad conditions, less stubborn. The Easter Islanders were such a small population in such an unusual situation that they are not an example of anything relevant. They are an outlier.
Stealing oil from the Arabs and Persians is just how empires work. It has nothing to do with how gradually things happen. Besides, one of those gradual changes of which I harp is that the Arabs and Persians took charge of their own oil and continued to sell it, at a higher price. What good would it do to just it on it?
It's all the same. Your moralistic moanings don't change the fact that it has happened and continues to happen gradually.
Any decent history of England says that. Of course, the King's forests were preserved, so were the Royal Navy forests, and as firewood got more expensive, less and less was cut down. It never reached total destruction, just as when oil finally becomes really expensive, there will be a lot left when people switch to alternatives. But one of the reasons for the use of coal was because the price of wood rose so high that mining coal became worthwhile.
It's EXACTLY the same situation as those fools who worry about running out of oil. It won't happen overnight, it will simply gradually get more expensive and alternatives will become worthwhile.
There will be NO sudden drop-off in the production of oil. It will happen gradually, the price will rise gradually, alternatives will gradually become feasible, and it WILL NOT disrupt lives. This is how all of history has worked, other than asteroids killing dinosaurs.
Everyone makes that same sorry mistake, extrapolating an unfavorable curve to infinity as if problems don't have gradual solutions. Lost of Bruce Sterling et all sf postulated worlds full of junkies, so many that society fell apart. Marxists had their nightmare fantasies, and when the world moved beyond tose conditions, they refused to recognize it, failed to adapt, and killed hundreds of millions to prove it.
The world just doesn't work like that, Hydrocarbons won't vanish overnight. They just get more and more expensive, and as the expense climbs, people come up with solutions.
The English burned up all their wood, then found coal, then found oil, and that is how things work.
It doesn't work by flying spaghetti monsters suddenly turning 90% of people into junkies, or sucking all the oil out of the ground in 5 seconds flat.
The biggest problem the world has is the damned fools that think they, and only they, can see the future, and if the world doesn't start working on their pet solution RIGHT NOW, everything is going to hell in a handbasket.
They refuse to believe that anyone else is smart, let alone smarter, that people have always found solutions, and that emergencies on a global scale just don't pop up out of thin air (except killer asteroids and rogue solar waves).
Give it a rest, smarty pants. Get on with your life. Stop living a daily nightmare, you will just scare yourself to death.
That's all true, but when they went to direct dialing, they could have changed the exchange letters to digits, but they didn't, which I attribute to words being easier to memorize than just more digits, besides not wanting to upset the old customers. But new exchanges continued the policy.
That's why so many old phone numbers are of the form word-numbers, like PEnnsylvania-65000. It just made them easier to remember, a word and five digits as opposed to 7 digits. They were just names, backfit to match the digits, so PEnnsylvania and ODeriferous were the same exchange. They were called exchanges, but I don't know if the public used that word in the same way that telephone engineers used it.
There's something perverse about such an anti-Christian kingdom doing any research involving mass, especially mass construction. If it were the other way around, unrolling the nanotubes into graphene and destroying mass, it would make more sense.
Anyone who protects priest buggery and says communion is a real transformation into body and blood, among other bizarre mythology, has pretty much disqualified himself from any meaningful contribution to any discussion, let alone whether or not new tech blurs the line between fact and fiction.
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You can have my potatoe when you pry it from my colde deade handes.
He said Lisp, not C.
I heard Eve knows them both, but they don't know she even exists.
Amen. It changes the way you think of computers. All other languages flail before the almighty Lisp.
You have lawn?
In my day ....
How do you know what happened to the Anasazi? Last I head, no one really knew. It's highly unlikely they just died in place. They had choices, unlike the Easter Islanders who probably burned the last trees instead of making canoes to get away. The Anasazi probably just gradually moved away, those that were less tolerant of the bad conditions, less stubborn. The Easter Islanders were such a small population in such an unusual situation that they are not an example of anything relevant. They are an outlier.
Stealing oil from the Arabs and Persians is just how empires work. It has nothing to do with how gradually things happen. Besides, one of those gradual changes of which I harp is that the Arabs and Persians took charge of their own oil and continued to sell it, at a higher price. What good would it do to just it on it?
It's all the same. Your moralistic moanings don't change the fact that it has happened and continues to happen gradually.
Any decent history of England says that. Of course, the King's forests were preserved, so were the Royal Navy forests, and as firewood got more expensive, less and less was cut down. It never reached total destruction, just as when oil finally becomes really expensive, there will be a lot left when people switch to alternatives. But one of the reasons for the use of coal was because the price of wood rose so high that mining coal became worthwhile.
It's EXACTLY the same situation as those fools who worry about running out of oil. It won't happen overnight, it will simply gradually get more expensive and alternatives will become worthwhile.
Reading comprehension skills lacking?
There will be NO sudden drop-off in the production of oil. It will happen gradually, the price will rise gradually, alternatives will gradually become feasible, and it WILL NOT disrupt lives. This is how all of history has worked, other than asteroids killing dinosaurs.
Everyone makes that same sorry mistake, extrapolating an unfavorable curve to infinity as if problems don't have gradual solutions. Lost of Bruce Sterling et all sf postulated worlds full of junkies, so many that society fell apart. Marxists had their nightmare fantasies, and when the world moved beyond tose conditions, they refused to recognize it, failed to adapt, and killed hundreds of millions to prove it.
The world just doesn't work like that, Hydrocarbons won't vanish overnight. They just get more and more expensive, and as the expense climbs, people come up with solutions.
The English burned up all their wood, then found coal, then found oil, and that is how things work.
It doesn't work by flying spaghetti monsters suddenly turning 90% of people into junkies, or sucking all the oil out of the ground in 5 seconds flat.
The biggest problem the world has is the damned fools that think they, and only they, can see the future, and if the world doesn't start working on their pet solution RIGHT NOW, everything is going to hell in a handbasket.
They refuse to believe that anyone else is smart, let alone smarter, that people have always found solutions, and that emergencies on a global scale just don't pop up out of thin air (except killer asteroids and rogue solar waves).
Give it a rest, smarty pants. Get on with your life. Stop living a daily nightmare, you will just scare yourself to death.
That's all true, but when they went to direct dialing, they could have changed the exchange letters to digits, but they didn't, which I attribute to words being easier to memorize than just more digits, besides not wanting to upset the old customers. But new exchanges continued the policy.
That's why so many old phone numbers are of the form word-numbers, like PEnnsylvania-65000. It just made them easier to remember, a word and five digits as opposed to 7 digits. They were just names, backfit to match the digits, so PEnnsylvania and ODeriferous were the same exchange. They were called exchanges, but I don't know if the public used that word in the same way that telephone engineers used it.
Ha! You're not a human, you're a psychoanalyst!
He said feeling *like*, not feeling.
There's something perverse about such an anti-Christian kingdom doing any research involving mass, especially mass construction. If it were the other way around, unrolling the nanotubes into graphene and destroying mass, it would make more sense.
Itth not a math trick, itth a *mathth* trick.
Your "or" is ambiguous. Did you mean one or the other or even both, or did you mean either one or the other but not both?
The grammar nazi profession has fallen on low times when a retired one has to correct an active one.
Anyone who protects priest buggery and says communion is a real transformation into body and blood, among other bizarre mythology, has pretty much disqualified himself from any meaningful contribution to any discussion, let alone whether or not new tech blurs the line between fact and fiction.
I'm waiting for the Downfall video.
Whoosh .... like a camel thru a needle you have comprehension.
What do I say? I say it looks like you dropped a close italics tag.
The law in its majesty forbids the rich and poor alike from sleeping under a bridge.
-- Voltaire, I think, and I'm only paraphrasing.
EVEYRTHING is a laughing matter. Ask the Jews who survived the Holocaust if they cracked jokes while interned.
Laughter is good medicine too. You should try some of it.
It's a lifetime guarantee.