Voluntary population control never was a factor for the natives because with their level of technology and organization, their numbers were basically self-regulating. Being mostly hunter/gatherer societies, they had relatively few permanent settlements and little in the way of agricultural surpluses, making North America (north of Mexico) a very sparsely-populated place by European standards.
Maybe if people would stop bitching about nuclear power and accept the fact it's 19233274928734 times better than burning shit loads of carbon compounds, the world would be a better place.
I agree with you in principle, but not on the details.
The truth is that nuclear power is actually 184652034737231293 times better than burning carbon compounds.
I'd settle for a complete EPs IV through VI campaign. Imperial or Alliance--it doesn't matter. X-Wing rocked and TIE Fighter is still the bomb. What they need to do in the new game is give the player command of the capital ships.
American beer is *gaasp* improving to the point that some of it is even drinkable, certainly the local stuff in New England.
Actually, American beer has improved to the point where the stuff brewed right in town is so good that only a select few foreign beers (Chimay, Franziskaner, Budvar) even warrant my attention anymore. The emerging truth is that as long as you have a good beer distributer nearby, you can get domestic beer that is the envy of the world.
Of course, living in New England or the West Coast greatly ameliorates the microbrew procurement process. I live in Oregon. Thanks in no small part to the beer selection, I cannot imagine living anywhere else. Now if only the locals would get cracking on a good Budvar equivalent...
The stock Ubuntu Bittorrent client is ugly. Automatix rectifies this by installing Azureus, which has an attractive interface (looks good to Linux newcomers) and a bunch of useful features. And let us not forget that it also installs the current version of Firefox, which is not present in the Ubuntu package repositories.
I didn't know about the SuperRadio [radioshack.com] before but I'll go check one at at Radio Shack (hopefully they still have radios on display behind the cell phones and batteries).
The GE Superradio III has kickass AM reception for a $50 radio. I use one at work and am delighted with it. Construction is cheap--for example, the battery cover is held on with duct tape, but key components are high-quality. Sound quality is admirable, particularly for AM signals.
'Games with soul' means a game where you are in awe of the experience the game provides you.
Perhaps I will be mocked for saying this, but I felt that way while recently playing the PC version of Halo. Yeah, it's just a linear-story, console-style shooter, but I love that frickin' game. I may yet reinstall Windows just so I can play it again. Pacing seemed to be the key ingredient that made it so enjoyable.
Honorable mentions: TIE Fighter,Sentinel Worlds: Future Magic, Baldur's Gate II. All of them had above-average gameplay and top-quality storytelling.
Actually, I was speaking with a foreign investor who told me that some investors have been inquiring about buying old garbage dump sites. Would it be funny if the next property bubble came out of people buying garbage dumps so they could look for scarce materials we've thrown out for generations?
What you're speculating upon is an inevitability. Those investors are smart. They see valuble mineral deposits in the trash. Check out this company's website. Although the company's current projects focus upon waste from meat factories and sewage plants, the splash screen implies that they are interested in landfill reclamation. They obviously have plans to deal with the heavier stuff in the waste stream, like refrigerators and so forth. I have been excited by this potential ever since I read about the dump-mining entrepreneuer in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, in which the author described huge machines devouring the formerly abject contents of landfills and profitably spitting out the sorted and purified constituents. Reclaimed landfills...purified soils...now that's the kind of world I want.
The super-labor-intensive Chinese practice of manually breaking appliance cases and PCB's to get at the little bits of metal is, as the parent said, inefficient and environmentally destructive. This is ruining entire towns over there with high concentrations of heavy metals and the solvents required to isolate them from nonmetal components, and what such exposure does to the workers over the course of a few years... It's a dead end job in more ways than one.
Now, with a depolymerization process on a correct scale, you could feed old wiring into a hopper and just let the heat and pressure strip away the polymer insulation, break down the hydrocarbon molecules into constituate elements and get your copper back. The other remains are mostly saleable: light petroleum, water (of what purity I don't know,) carbon black, and whatever trace elements. Maybe that's why Changing World Technology has been so tight-lipped of late; they know that with their process, they're sitting on a potential fortune and they don't want to give any clues to industrial pirates (Chinese upstarts.) We'll see.
Uh...yeah. There's the rub. The Skyramp people are their own worst enemy when it comes to marketing. They shoot themselves in the foot with their horrible website.
A nice idea, but they ought to use a ramp. Sooner or later, the economics will compel some party to do just that.
Here. Check out this link. Imagine the possibilities: long inclined launch ramp = low launch costs = pervasive human presence in space. Nuclear propulsion would be nice, too.
And I seriously wonder if the Indian aerospace industry is up to the task of building this thing. But if they are, then bully for them.
From an honest humanitarian point of view, the last thing most poor people need is television. Television discourages literacy. Television espouses bad ideas and bad behavior. It has the effect of further hardening of class boundaries by training a passive audience through the power of suggestion.
This is why, in everyday life, there is nothing more pernicious than television. It undermines critical thinking, makes vulgarians out of civilized people, and though the power of bad example ("JER-REE! JER-REE!"), encourages the poor to remain a malleable rabble of child-like peasants. The elite knows this, which is why subsidizing televisions makes perfect sense. TV is their best friend. Social control requires a program of systematic human mutilation.
The recent news that groups like Greenpeace and PETA are being investigated leads me to believe that the authorities consider anyone with an opinion about anything as being involved in a fringe element.
This is merely the pragmatism of sociopaths. Greenpeace and PETA are political rivals, therefore the power-wielding individuals and institutions attack them with every means at their disposal, that is, every means they can get away with at the moment. If circumstances allowed, they would happily toss them all in jail or worse. Our current social paradigm is still dialectical materialism, which bestows the richest rewards upon those with the fewest scruples and the willingness to act. The ruling caste and their cyborg lackeys are comprised of the foremost practicioners of this nonsense, but they'd be all but powerless if the people they feed upon would just open their eyes and see them for what they were.
As far as the seals and the bears up north go, it wouldn't take too much to apply the same concept, minus the million dollar boats, and build some platforms (artificial bergs) up the coast for them to use. For the distances they're swiming placing one every 10 miles or so should be plenty, and would give a boost to the fishing in the area as well.
That sounds like a worthwhile project, as long as they're constructed in such a way as not to endager shipping. There's going to be a lot of ship traffic up that way if the ice continues to recede.
The CD is not dead. It's still a convenient and relatively durable medium, much like a book. E-books have been around for years and you don't see them supplanting the real thing. In my inexpert opinion, this sharp decline in CD sales is attributable to a general stagnation in popular music styles, the aforementioned competition from other kinds of entertainment, and perhaps also widespread disgust with the music cartel.
Oh? And who do most of them work for? Who finances their political campaigns? Who rewards them with "advisory board" gigs in Fairfax when they retire? Oh yeah, you and me, that's right...
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You mind proving that?
Voluntary population control never was a factor for the natives because with their level of technology and organization, their numbers were basically self-regulating. Being mostly hunter/gatherer societies, they had relatively few permanent settlements and little in the way of agricultural surpluses, making North America (north of Mexico) a very sparsely-populated place by European standards.
I agree with you in principle, but not on the details.
The truth is that nuclear power is actually 184652034737231293 times better than burning carbon compounds.
Don't confuse extroverts with sociopaths.
I'd settle for a complete EPs IV through VI campaign. Imperial or Alliance--it doesn't matter. X-Wing rocked and TIE Fighter is still the bomb. What they need to do in the new game is give the player command of the capital ships.
Actually, American beer has improved to the point where the stuff brewed right in town is so good that only a select few foreign beers (Chimay, Franziskaner, Budvar) even warrant my attention anymore. The emerging truth is that as long as you have a good beer distributer nearby, you can get domestic beer that is the envy of the world.
Of course, living in New England or the West Coast greatly ameliorates the microbrew procurement process. I live in Oregon. Thanks in no small part to the beer selection, I cannot imagine living anywhere else. Now if only the locals would get cracking on a good Budvar equivalent...
The stock Ubuntu Bittorrent client is ugly. Automatix rectifies this by installing Azureus, which has an attractive interface (looks good to Linux newcomers) and a bunch of useful features. And let us not forget that it also installs the current version of Firefox, which is not present in the Ubuntu package repositories.
Maybe Canonical (Ubuntu) can hire him.
The GE Superradio III has kickass AM reception for a $50 radio. I use one at work and am delighted with it. Construction is cheap--for example, the battery cover is held on with duct tape, but key components are high-quality. Sound quality is admirable, particularly for AM signals.
Perhaps I will be mocked for saying this, but I felt that way while recently playing the PC version of Halo. Yeah, it's just a linear-story, console-style shooter, but I love that frickin' game. I may yet reinstall Windows just so I can play it again. Pacing seemed to be the key ingredient that made it so enjoyable.
Honorable mentions: TIE Fighter, Sentinel Worlds: Future Magic, Baldur's Gate II. All of them had above-average gameplay and top-quality storytelling.
People are dumb. California has more ballot measures than any other state, and consequently, more asinine laws.
What you're speculating upon is an inevitability. Those investors are smart. They see valuble mineral deposits in the trash. Check out this company's website. Although the company's current projects focus upon waste from meat factories and sewage plants, the splash screen implies that they are interested in landfill reclamation. They obviously have plans to deal with the heavier stuff in the waste stream, like refrigerators and so forth. I have been excited by this potential ever since I read about the dump-mining entrepreneuer in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, in which the author described huge machines devouring the formerly abject contents of landfills and profitably spitting out the sorted and purified constituents. Reclaimed landfills...purified soils...now that's the kind of world I want.
The super-labor-intensive Chinese practice of manually breaking appliance cases and PCB's to get at the little bits of metal is, as the parent said, inefficient and environmentally destructive. This is ruining entire towns over there with high concentrations of heavy metals and the solvents required to isolate them from nonmetal components, and what such exposure does to the workers over the course of a few years... It's a dead end job in more ways than one.
Now, with a depolymerization process on a correct scale, you could feed old wiring into a hopper and just let the heat and pressure strip away the polymer insulation, break down the hydrocarbon molecules into constituate elements and get your copper back. The other remains are mostly saleable: light petroleum, water (of what purity I don't know,) carbon black, and whatever trace elements. Maybe that's why Changing World Technology has been so tight-lipped of late; they know that with their process, they're sitting on a potential fortune and they don't want to give any clues to industrial pirates (Chinese upstarts.) We'll see.
Uh...yeah. There's the rub. The Skyramp people are their own worst enemy when it comes to marketing. They shoot themselves in the foot with their horrible website.
Here. Check out this link. Imagine the possibilities: long inclined launch ramp = low launch costs = pervasive human presence in space. Nuclear propulsion would be nice, too.
And I seriously wonder if the Indian aerospace industry is up to the task of building this thing. But if they are, then bully for them.
I probably get Heisenburg's Uncertainly Principle!
How about Mercury?
Try doing some light exercise before lights-out--stretching, chi gung, even some isometrics. I wake up fresher because of this routine.
From an honest humanitarian point of view, the last thing most poor people need is television. Television discourages literacy. Television espouses bad ideas and bad behavior. It has the effect of further hardening of class boundaries by training a passive audience through the power of suggestion.
This is why, in everyday life, there is nothing more pernicious than television. It undermines critical thinking, makes vulgarians out of civilized people, and though the power of bad example ("JER-REE! JER-REE!"), encourages the poor to remain a malleable rabble of child-like peasants. The elite knows this, which is why subsidizing televisions makes perfect sense. TV is their best friend. Social control requires a program of systematic human mutilation.
Wow, I think you just broke the record for most profanity in a single Slashdot post.
(turns up volume)
I WANT TO RIDE MY BICYCLE...
I just finished my test and have concluded that Queen is much more intelligent than Top 40 crap. Totally different ballgame.
This is merely the pragmatism of sociopaths. Greenpeace and PETA are political rivals, therefore the power-wielding individuals and institutions attack them with every means at their disposal, that is, every means they can get away with at the moment. If circumstances allowed, they would happily toss them all in jail or worse. Our current social paradigm is still dialectical materialism, which bestows the richest rewards upon those with the fewest scruples and the willingness to act. The ruling caste and their cyborg lackeys are comprised of the foremost practicioners of this nonsense, but they'd be all but powerless if the people they feed upon would just open their eyes and see them for what they were.
That sounds like a worthwhile project, as long as they're constructed in such a way as not to endager shipping. There's going to be a lot of ship traffic up that way if the ice continues to recede.
Exhibit A:
"Crunk."
The CD is not dead. It's still a convenient and relatively durable medium, much like a book. E-books have been around for years and you don't see them supplanting the real thing. In my inexpert opinion, this sharp decline in CD sales is attributable to a general stagnation in popular music styles, the aforementioned competition from other kinds of entertainment, and perhaps also widespread disgust with the music cartel.
Oh? And who do most of them work for? Who finances their political campaigns? Who rewards them with "advisory board" gigs in Fairfax when they retire? Oh yeah, you and me, that's right...