And exactly what is going to get all this extra food production going? Good wishes?
If the food is going to be produced in the western economy it's going to have to be sold for enough money to cover the cost of increasingly expensive fertilizer, seed, land, labor, and fuel that mechanized agriculture uses. If it's going to be produced in the under-developed parts of the world, the productivity of the local farmers is going to have to be increased dramatically. There's no plausible mechanism for that sort of productivity increase.
If you look at the agricultural commodity markets (in particular the price spikes), a lot of the price elasticity seems to be gone, which may be a sign that the mechanized agricultural industry is at maximum capacity. We may be only a couple of crop failures away from food rationing.
Another indication may be the "Arab Spring" upheavals. A number of the press reports credited food riots with starting the unrest.
The server system doesn't have to be running an X-Server to present X-client applications on remote desktops. With X and network transparency, you have a choice.
The electric car that's sitting in my garage right not has enough smarts built into it now to only charge when the utility rates are the cheapest, as published by the electric company that is providing my electrons. They even have a special rate schedule and meter to work with the car charger. Find another piece of FUD.. (The car is a Ford Focus EV.)
I work every day on 2 or 3 X based systems with all the individual windows coming to a triple-headed X desktop driven by an Nvidia GTX 660.
Even the netbook that's driving my FDM printer runs X clients remotely, very nicely and Cura displays its 3D renders from the netbook to the X desktop system just fine using OpenGL remote. By the way, the netbook has NO OpenGL hardware.
On that same X desktop machine every Linux Steam game that I've tried works without any problem.
You want to re-invent the wheel, go right ahead, don't let me stop you. Just quit trying to displace something that works amazingly well for everything I want with some spatch-cocked thing that you cooked up to scratch your own itches.
And stop making asinine claims that nobody wants to do what I do every day.
I leased a Focus Electric and drove it through about half of this winter in Minnesota. I initially was only going to drive it through the easy months, but this winter gave me examples of almost every sort of ugly possibility.
The car did well enough through all the ugliness that I'm going to use it year round. The range did drop off dramatically on the days when it was about 0 (F). But my commute is only 7 miles, so there was really no problem with using it for getting to work. The other thing that helped was that the car could be warmed up while it was still plugged in. I was also going to get a stage 2 charger installed, but with my typical daily use, the car is fully charged off 110 after midnight. I don't think I'll get a stage 2 charger until I get a second electric.
And that's just an excuse to be as lazy as you choose.
"OMG, I can't instantly fix every problem in the world, so I'll just do nothing but carp about it. And, then tell everybody how right I was after it all falls down."
There is another consensus working here. The consensus is that You are crazy and ignorant. And to balance things out,You are completely misguided. If I want to read freeper like junk, I'll go looking specifically for it.
You have the cause and the effect reversed (what could possibly be the cause of that???)
The cause is the melting of the Greenland icecap. The effect is that the decrease of mass in the Greenland icecap (caused by the water running into the ocean) caused the center of mass of the Earth to shift, which in turn caused the axis of rotation of the Earth to shift beyond what would be normally expected by precession and nutation.
There is evidence that it is fossil fuel related. The concentrations of different isotopes of carbon are shifting. Fossil fuels don't have much Carbon 14 in them, since they haven't been exposed to the atmosphere for a long time.
I'm in a Ford Focus EV that I'm using as a commuter car. It's the most practical car I've had. It replaced a 1/2 ton truck that we use to haul the horse trailer. I've driven it through the winter (in Minnesota) and it did just fine. I drive it to work and run errands around town. That's most of my driving. If I need to cover a longer distance we use a different car or rent one and let the rental company absorb the mileage.
The molds used for mass produced injection molded plastic parts can run $100K or more and can take months to prepare. Then, they have a limited lifespan and have to be replaced at a still high price.
One of our standard pranks with punched cards was to drop a whole box on the floor in front of the submission bin, then gather them up, stuff them back into the box any old way, rearrange them a few times, shrug and put them in the bin.
The key to the whole thing was the rubber banded few cards at the front of the box that ran IEHSORT(?) on the sequence numbers of the rest of the box.
The last bit about removing money from the economy. I think that's the reason we haven't seen the many times foretold hyperinflation monster. The current economy is working with "disposable"money. The FED injects dollars into the economy, it swishes through once or twice and then gets sucked into some offshore bank account. The only way that money will ever cause hyper-inflation is if it is brought back into the economy and spent on wages. (Like that will ever happen.)
We could dispense with the whole income tax system. Just have the FED decide how big the money supply needs to be to support full employment, measure how much of the money supply is in the private economy and give the difference to the government to allocate and spend.
(Well, with that taken care of, I can get back to working on an FTL drive.)
"I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
.. now go away or I shall taunt you a second time."
The last time I checked on a poorly performing GTK application, the reason it ran like crap was because it make thousands of calls to the X-Server to find out how big its window was. That call is synchronous and requires a round trip to the X-Server. It's also completely unnecessary. If the application is done properly, it knows what the window properties are and updates it's local copy of the properties when the XEvents that asynchronously carry information arrive.
I don't know if that's still the case, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was.
It's called a Sabatier reaction. It is the reaction of hydrogen and carbon dioxide, under pressure, at 300-400 C, in the presence of a nickel catalyst to produce methane and water. The methane can be transported in the existing natural gas pipeline system or used by a reforming fuel cell. The methane can also be used in one of the variations of the Fischer-Tropsch reactions to make liquid fuels.
I think one of the reasons the US economy hasn't had a problem with inflation lately is because this set of tax avoidance schemes has turned US currency into a disposable item. The Fed increases the size of the money supply, it goes through the economy one or two times and is disposed of in an off-shore account where it basically disappears from the economy. It can't cause consumer inflation because it's not being spent on any consumer goods.
Oddly, the only way it could cause inflationary pressure would be if somebody figured out how to force it back into the consumer economy.
The primary difference is that you can vote against someone in a government election. (Ok, vote for the opponent).
I don't think I've ever seen a proxy ballot where I could vote against anybody. It's always -- Vote to confirm the directors and the recommendations or withhold. That's a candy-ass rigged system.
Of course the capitalization of the title is a dead give away. It was nice to self label the contribution.
The speed of light in a vacuum is a constant. It never changes.
Time, on the other hand, is different almost everywhere. My hypothesis is that the the speed of light and time have switched places in someones private universe.
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If the food is going to be produced in the western economy it's going to have to be sold for enough money to cover the cost of increasingly expensive fertilizer, seed, land, labor, and fuel that mechanized agriculture uses. If it's going to be produced in the under-developed parts of the world, the productivity of the local farmers is going to have to be increased dramatically. There's no plausible mechanism for that sort of productivity increase.
If you look at the agricultural commodity markets (in particular the price spikes), a lot of the price elasticity seems to be gone, which may be a sign that the mechanized agricultural industry is at maximum capacity. We may be only a couple of crop failures away from food rationing.
Another indication may be the "Arab Spring" upheavals. A number of the press reports credited food riots with starting the unrest.
The server system doesn't have to be running an X-Server to present X-client applications on remote desktops. With X and network transparency, you have a choice.
The electric car that's sitting in my garage right not has enough smarts built into it now to only charge when the utility rates are the cheapest, as published by the electric company that is providing my electrons. They even have a special rate schedule and meter to work with the car charger. Find another piece of FUD.. (The car is a Ford Focus EV.)
Even the netbook that's driving my FDM printer runs X clients remotely, very nicely and Cura displays its 3D renders from the netbook to the X desktop system just fine using OpenGL remote. By the way, the netbook has NO OpenGL hardware.
On that same X desktop machine every Linux Steam game that I've tried works without any problem.
You want to re-invent the wheel, go right ahead, don't let me stop you. Just quit trying to displace something that works amazingly well for everything I want with some spatch-cocked thing that you cooked up to scratch your own itches.
And stop making asinine claims that nobody wants to do what I do every day.
The car did well enough through all the ugliness that I'm going to use it year round. The range did drop off dramatically on the days when it was about 0 (F). But my commute is only 7 miles, so there was really no problem with using it for getting to work. The other thing that helped was that the car could be warmed up while it was still plugged in. I was also going to get a stage 2 charger installed, but with my typical daily use, the car is fully charged off 110 after midnight. I don't think I'll get a stage 2 charger until I get a second electric.
"OMG, I can't instantly fix every problem in the world, so I'll just do nothing but carp about it. And, then tell everybody how right I was after it all falls down."
The burden of proof is yours mr. AC Find any list of refused papers and prove that they are good science and that they disprove AGW.
What's going on? Did that talking point come back to the top of the rotation on the script engine in the deniers boiler room?
There is another consensus working here. The consensus is that You are crazy and ignorant. And to balance things out,You are completely misguided. If I want to read freeper like junk, I'll go looking specifically for it.
Anecdotes that you read someplace on the interwebs do not qualify as evidence.
The cause is the melting of the Greenland icecap. The effect is that the decrease of mass in the Greenland icecap (caused by the water running into the ocean) caused the center of mass of the Earth to shift, which in turn caused the axis of rotation of the Earth to shift beyond what would be normally expected by precession and nutation.
Why does the stupid have to be so loud. Is there a volume knob for it someplace?
It must interfere with your invincible ignorance field. But do try to keep up Ok?
There is evidence that it is fossil fuel related. The concentrations of different isotopes of carbon are shifting. Fossil fuels don't have much Carbon 14 in them, since they haven't been exposed to the atmosphere for a long time.
I'm in a Ford Focus EV that I'm using as a commuter car. It's the most practical car I've had. It replaced a 1/2 ton truck that we use to haul the horse trailer. I've driven it through the winter (in Minnesota) and it did just fine. I drive it to work and run errands around town. That's most of my driving. If I need to cover a longer distance we use a different car or rent one and let the rental company absorb the mileage.
The molds used for mass produced injection molded plastic parts can run $100K or more and can take months to prepare. Then, they have a limited lifespan and have to be replaced at a still high price.
The key to the whole thing was the rubber banded few cards at the front of the box that ran IEHSORT(?) on the sequence numbers of the rest of the box.
We could dispense with the whole income tax system. Just have the FED decide how big the money supply needs to be to support full employment, measure how much of the money supply is in the private economy and give the difference to the government to allocate and spend.
(Well, with that taken care of, I can get back to working on an FTL drive.)
.. now go away or I shall taunt you a second time."
I don't know if that's still the case, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was.
It's called a Sabatier reaction. It is the reaction of hydrogen and carbon dioxide, under pressure, at 300-400 C, in the presence of a nickel catalyst to produce methane and water. The methane can be transported in the existing natural gas pipeline system or used by a reforming fuel cell. The methane can also be used in one of the variations of the Fischer-Tropsch reactions to make liquid fuels.
Oddly, the only way it could cause inflationary pressure would be if somebody figured out how to force it back into the consumer economy.
I don't think I've ever seen a proxy ballot where I could vote against anybody. It's always -- Vote to confirm the directors and the recommendations or withhold. That's a candy-ass rigged system.
I think you missed a decimal point there somewhere. How about 5.38 electoral votes?
The speed of light in a vacuum is a constant. It never changes.
Time, on the other hand, is different almost everywhere. My hypothesis is that the the speed of light and time have switched places in someones private universe.