...and not "me". Look inside yourself, you will find irrational hatreds buried there too. It's human nature. After the flood, no raindrop will admit any responsibility.
Depends on which 8 billion people
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Most of the world's population consumes petro resources at less than 10% of the rate that the USA does.
Stanford's conclusion is based on some unproven but widely held assumptions. One of those is that the petrochemical-saturated fossils we find are so saturated because they (or their relatives) were the source of the oil rather than simply being crushed under the same debris which traps rising petroleum.
If that assumption fails under challenge, the (hah! black irony!) deadline will be pushed back somewhat, but I agree that we do need to stop the "Apres moi, le deluge" attitude held by so many people - and not just Westerners.
You'd promptly be shot for hoarding.
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Either way. Heads, you lose, tails you're fscked. Pray that the coin of your life lands on its edge.
[OT] Since there's all this space in this here <TEXTAREA> tag, I'd like to take the time to whine about SlashDot's m0d3r4t10on system.
I've been jammed against the karma cap since before they capped it (I lost a couple of thousand karma points in an instant, what a blow!:-). I have never before been meta-modded as anything but fair. I really am such an all-around genius and generally nice guy that I constantly wonder how I remain so humble. (-:
Today, I was meta-modded unfair twice and each cost my meta-moderation average five percent and my karma a hit, despite having spent over two hundred mod points this month. Not that I'm offended (I can still post - and even if I did care, I see that moderation by others has already bashed my karma back against the stops), but I can't see how this is going to intimidate nuisance moderations or inspire worthwhile moderation.
On top of this, the lack of heights to soar into WRT karma disinclines me to take any particular care with it. I'd rather see a fractional karma system where every 50 points of existing score multiplied the difficulty of obtaining the next full point, but a point lost is always a full point lost. Not that I'd make any guarantee that having pointspace to expand into would inspire me to anything other than my current recklessness anyway. (-:
Have we had the weekly "it's time to reconstruct SlashDot's mods" post yet? If not, deem this to be it.
Do your groceries walk to the city by themselves?
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If not, how are they going to be planted, fertilised, harvested, maybe processed, maybe frozen, and shipped to you (probably via at least two warehouses) in the absence of fuel? On a fleet of Cannondales?
What does your city's power grid use for fuel? Odds are good that it ain't hydro or wind - and even if it is, it ain't all hydro or wind. How are you going to run your computers, telephone, lights, water pressure in the absence of fuel?
<thwack> goes the cluestick! <thwack> <thwack> <thwack>
If we as a race had ANY brains...
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...these would be providing around half of our power already.
You could smelt Al at ten times today's rate with approximately zero pollution related to power production, or better yet smelt it at source and drop shaped Jumbo-sized billets of pure Al (or alloyed to taste) into a big artificial lake somewhere at regular intervals.
If you're worried about transmission leakage, why not just build a conductive pair of these to carry the electricity directly?
Dad's Peugeot 406 gets ~70MPG regularly
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The obvious solution is to make and use "Freedom Peugeots" which are US-based clones of the French cars. (-:
Yes, many Frenchmen are stuck-up prigs, yes the Italians can make fancier cars, but between Citroen, Peugeot and Renault the Frogs are a hard act to follow in the quotidian automotive game.
no forms of paganism were so rapacious that they tried to conquer the world in a religious sense.
Shinto, Bhuddism, Romanism have all tried religion-by-force, and are all Pagan derivatives. The druids may have been generally gentle, but there are proper pagan groups aplenty who weren't. Open your eyes and try a different tack.
A pair of Besser blocks [the fish is for scale], suitably employed, can also provide comfort to the dying. Which doesn't mean that it's a good idea in either case. Christianity, as opposed to the mindlessly violant political "us'r'better'n'them" zealotry which often calls itself Christianity, provides not merely comfort, but also purpose and a real future.
This is business, and business is tough. Let your guard down at the wrong time and it's game over.
Agree. As long as Bill has an unfair advantage, he'll be out there pumping it for all it's worth. You'll probably have to drive a stake through his heart to stop him from being greedy and obsessively competitive. He's one bloke I would like to see the JW's get through to.
Several of their consultants (Kevin McIsaac comes to mind) have been damning Linux with faint praise for a very long time. I don't know if that converts the leadin from "prejudicial" to "going in with your eyes open" or not, but it certainly raises its point average in my eyes. (-:
Why not just get a stanbdard opto mouse, take the teflon feet off to give it a bit more clearance, and mount it adjacent the rear of the wheel? No software... oops, hang on, this is NT, not X, time to write a special "this is not the mouse you are looking for" VXD.
...and stop the fscking middies from installing Gator on it all the time. If it opens the scuttling valves it'll be the Blue Sea of Death for all of us!
Robert Anson Heinlen. "Yes, but we have many rocks!"
I've liked Manny from the first read. RAH really buggered it up after he went a bit senile and sex-mad; he integrated TMiaHM with his later series and ruined Manny.
...'coz Inherit The Wind was pretty close to 100% bullshit. The Scopes trial was quite different In Real Life; Scopes was a deliberate plant put up to making his claims of having taught evolution (of which there was zero actual evidence) and the opposing lawyers got on quite well together.
If you want to actually support your point instead of undermining it, do a bit more research before firing from the hip. The major untested assumptions in your worldview really detract from your post, because other than that ("...Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"), your style was really readable and enjoyable.
Atheists claim that there is no God. Theists claim that there is a God. Both are definite claims. Christianity is a (small) subset of Theism.
An Agnostic also makes a claim: that he doesn't know whether there is a God. This claim is definite only in the sense of the Agnostic's belief, it is not definite in terms of the existence or otherwise of God. Thus it is the defaultg position: an Agnostic has nothing to prove.
A devout Agnostic will make a definite claim: that the existence or nonexistence of God is definitely not open to proof. This is also not the default position, since the default position is a kind of double Agnosticism: one starts without deciding whether one can actually prove or disprove God.
So... either you are not an Atheist, or you don't know what an Atheist is.
However, your reading in the "Troll" mod is 100% on the money. Hope the metamods get the perpetrator.
Behemoth and Leviathan, and the context describes features which are only attributable to dinosaurs. Various schools of "higher criticism" have tried to "rationalise" (the wimpy losers) the descriptions back to hippos or alligators, but she's a no go.
Next question: why do you expect the Bible to be a comprehensive historical biology text? Are you still looking for that ultimate contradiction in terms: a supernatural being who behaves as you expect? A pet God? Turn to Paganism, most denominations of that have those by the bushel.
At least learn to spell. No wonder you couldn't find the text! (-:
Um, "There is no spoon?"
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...and not "me". Look inside yourself, you will find irrational hatreds buried there too. It's human nature. After the flood, no raindrop will admit any responsibility.
Most of the world's population consumes petro resources at less than 10% of the rate that the USA does.
Stanford's conclusion is based on some unproven but widely held assumptions. One of those is that the petrochemical-saturated fossils we find are so saturated because they (or their relatives) were the source of the oil rather than simply being crushed under the same debris which traps rising petroleum.
If that assumption fails under challenge, the (hah! black irony!) deadline will be pushed back somewhat, but I agree that we do need to stop the "Apres moi, le deluge" attitude held by so many people - and not just Westerners.
Either way. Heads, you lose, tails you're fscked. Pray that the coin of your life lands on its edge.
:-). I have never before been meta-modded as anything but fair. I really am such an all-around genius and generally nice guy that I constantly wonder how I remain so humble. (-:
[OT] Since there's all this space in this here <TEXTAREA> tag, I'd like to take the time to whine about SlashDot's m0d3r4t10on system.
I've been jammed against the karma cap since before they capped it (I lost a couple of thousand karma points in an instant, what a blow!
Today, I was meta-modded unfair twice and each cost my meta-moderation average five percent and my karma a hit, despite having spent over two hundred mod points this month. Not that I'm offended (I can still post - and even if I did care, I see that moderation by others has already bashed my karma back against the stops), but I can't see how this is going to intimidate nuisance moderations or inspire worthwhile moderation.
On top of this, the lack of heights to soar into WRT karma disinclines me to take any particular care with it. I'd rather see a fractional karma system where every 50 points of existing score multiplied the difficulty of obtaining the next full point, but a point lost is always a full point lost. Not that I'd make any guarantee that having pointspace to expand into would inspire me to anything other than my current recklessness anyway. (-:
Have we had the weekly "it's time to reconstruct SlashDot's mods" post yet? If not, deem this to be it.
If not, how are they going to be planted, fertilised, harvested, maybe processed, maybe frozen, and shipped to you (probably via at least two warehouses) in the absence of fuel? On a fleet of Cannondales?
What does your city's power grid use for fuel? Odds are good that it ain't hydro or wind - and even if it is, it ain't all hydro or wind. How are you going to run your computers, telephone, lights, water pressure in the absence of fuel?
<thwack> goes the cluestick! <thwack> <thwack> <thwack>
...these would be providing around half of our power already.
You could smelt Al at ten times today's rate with approximately zero pollution related to power production, or better yet smelt it at source and drop shaped Jumbo-sized billets of pure Al (or alloyed to taste) into a big artificial lake somewhere at regular intervals.
If you're worried about transmission leakage, why not just build a conductive pair of these to carry the electricity directly?
Apparently, the diesels are around 20% better - note that the figures quoted on that page are for rally driving, not a quiet cruise in the country. Certainly, some people are pleased by their mileage.
The obvious solution is to make and use "Freedom Peugeots" which are US-based clones of the French cars. (-:
Yes, many Frenchmen are stuck-up prigs, yes the Italians can make fancier cars, but between Citroen, Peugeot and Renault the Frogs are a hard act to follow in the quotidian automotive game.
Give them time. They've certainly amassed an impressive stack of prior art already. )-:
Shinto, Bhuddism, Romanism have all tried religion-by-force, and are all Pagan derivatives. The druids may have been generally gentle, but there are proper pagan groups aplenty who weren't. Open your eyes and try a different tack.
A pair of Besser blocks [the fish is for scale], suitably employed, can also provide comfort to the dying. Which doesn't mean that it's a good idea in either case. Christianity, as opposed to the mindlessly violant political "us'r'better'n'them" zealotry which often calls itself Christianity, provides not merely comfort, but also purpose and a real future.
...supposed to be even meaningful, let alone rigorous?
Agree. As long as Bill has an unfair advantage, he'll be out there pumping it for all it's worth. You'll probably have to drive a stake through his heart to stop him from being greedy and obsessively competitive. He's one bloke I would like to see the JW's get through to.
Several of their consultants (Kevin McIsaac comes to mind) have been damning Linux with faint praise for a very long time. I don't know if that converts the leadin from "prejudicial" to "going in with your eyes open" or not, but it certainly raises its point average in my eyes. (-:
"OMG! What if this happened to Mandrake or SuSE?"
Why not just get a stanbdard opto mouse, take the teflon feet off to give it a bit more clearance, and mount it adjacent the rear of the wheel? No software... oops, hang on, this is NT, not X, time to write a special "this is not the mouse you are looking for" VXD.
...and stop the fscking middies from installing Gator on it all the time. If it opens the scuttling valves it'll be the Blue Sea of Death for all of us!
Robert Anson Heinlen. "Yes, but we have many rocks!"
I've liked Manny from the first read. RAH really buggered it up after he went a bit senile and sex-mad; he integrated TMiaHM with his later series and ruined Manny.
TANSTAAFL, I expect. (-:
Our paper's a light-nanosecond long. Makes chip design a lot easier, too. (-:
...'coz Inherit The Wind was pretty close to 100% bullshit. The Scopes trial was quite different In Real Life; Scopes was a deliberate plant put up to making his claims of having taught evolution (of which there was zero actual evidence) and the opposing lawyers got on quite well together.
If you want to actually support your point instead of undermining it, do a bit more research before firing from the hip. The major untested assumptions in your worldview really detract from your post, because other than that ("...Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"), your style was really readable and enjoyable.
I've tried that. I only get consistently modded down if the religion in question is Atheism.
Atheists claim that there is no God. Theists claim that there is a God. Both are definite claims. Christianity is a (small) subset of Theism.
An Agnostic also makes a claim: that he doesn't know whether there is a God. This claim is definite only in the sense of the Agnostic's belief, it is not definite in terms of the existence or otherwise of God. Thus it is the defaultg position: an Agnostic has nothing to prove.
A devout Agnostic will make a definite claim: that the existence or nonexistence of God is definitely not open to proof. This is also not the default position, since the default position is a kind of double Agnosticism: one starts without deciding whether one can actually prove or disprove God.
So... either you are not an Atheist, or you don't know what an Atheist is.
However, your reading in the "Troll" mod is 100% on the money. Hope the metamods get the perpetrator.
Maybe not. Note that many of Mr Körtvélyessy ideas are better supported by the available evidence than meteor impacts are.
Behemoth and Leviathan, and the context describes features which are only attributable to dinosaurs. Various schools of "higher criticism" have tried to "rationalise" (the wimpy losers) the descriptions back to hippos or alligators, but she's a no go.
Next question: why do you expect the Bible to be a comprehensive historical biology text? Are you still looking for that ultimate contradiction in terms: a supernatural being who behaves as you expect? A pet God? Turn to Paganism, most denominations of that have those by the bushel.
At least learn to spell. No wonder you couldn't find the text! (-:
"There is only fork!"
Camel hair shirt time!
Better to use a technology never patented: PNG.
Well, I hope to see a lot more of you in years to come.