There is nothing that prevents jet fuel from being made from substances besides oil except economics and politics. Hemp can be very effective but we are not using for political reasons. Oil is simply cheaper right now.
The absolute cost of taking a jet flight might go up tho (be interesting because it would bring High speed Trains back as cost effective way of travel.
In my experience, there was a significant increase in happiness when I got above 110k and a drop when I dropped back below 100k.
I suspect there is a poverty line and then there is a "past middle class" line.
At the second line you gain a certain amount of freedom to just do things , go places, or obtain possessions at a whim which you must carefully plan for while middle class.
On the other hand, what if the only way to pass through the sweet spot is to quickly eradicate the 95% of 6 billion humans who would destroy you if they joined you on that new plateau.
Imagine if we have a new technology that allows us to personally kill hundreds at a time with a thought. Are there not tens of thousands around the world who would not hesitate to use that technology to kill everyone including themselves?
If true, then you would either need to immediately kill them without hesitation or you would be dooming the entire species to extinction.
Males and females are capable of reproducing as young as 12 years old. They are not completely mature physically at that age. Changes go on into the twenties.
As for females it may be partially religious or cultural. It may also be partially driven by biological imperatives. Those biological imperatives may be fooled by the increasing abundance of estrogen-like chemicals in the environment that is causing females to mature earlier and males to be emasculated.
An area the size of Kansas would support our current gasoline needs if it were planted in Hemp.
A variety of Bio energy schemes become viable at around $3 to $6 per gallon.
A variety of Solar technologies are currently effective at about $10 per gallon (and that's considering PV shortages). Oil is important because it is cheapest. Not because it is the only resource.
California has such a nice climate that the cost of living has been bid up. in 90% of the country you can buy a huge house for $250,000 (over 3,000 square feet on a half an acre of land).
Essentially, you are competing with all the rich people in the world for the right to live in a nice climate.
His house... a 55 million dollar mansion with a frikkin privately stocked trout stream flowing through the house with LCD panels to display custom artwork throughout the house. His DVD player is a 22k model with custom parts and 12 bit sampling without region encoding. His electronics don't listen to macrovision and he can record the premium channels on cable tv.
Don't know about his car but Jay Leno owns a motorcycle that retails for over 140 thousand dollars and will go from 0 to over 200 miles per hour pulling multiple G's.
His vacation is on a private island with another 18-20 people (all rich) and there are no vendors interrupting his view of the waves every 10 minutes.
The computer? they still sell computers for about 6500 bucks- you should check out their capabilities- but if you really want one, you can definately afford one of these (unlike the rest of the stuff).
And then there are parties- he gets invited to parties you don't even know exists.
And political power- he gets direct input on new laws that screw you over while helping line his pockets.
It -is- good to be rich. It -does- suck to be poor. But as long as it's fair (and they dont' pull the ladder up after them) and anyone can become rich- then it's probably way better than socialism.
OTH, I think it is becoming increasingly unfair.
--- With regard to the fine article. 1) Robots are coming. 2) The key will be cheap workable vision modules. 3) At that point, 99% of minimum wage jobs are going to vanish almost overnight (if it is like the model "T", you are going to see explosive growth of the first robots that can stock shelves or change tires on cars). 4) At that point, we either get a utopia or a distopia. * In a utopia- the "rich" who exited capitalist society with wealth will have all the best property (aspen, beach front, etc) but everyone else will have a lot of free time, free food, and maybe they can invent a new product that gains them entry into the rich classes. * In a distopia- the "rich" and "middle class" warehouse anyone without a job away from the population. If you lose your middle class job- you go off to the warehouse. It's similar to the utopia but you have no freedom to leave your warehouse are unless you can find a job.
I'm thinking distopia is more likely but I guess we'll see.
I want to live 20 years growing up and maturing. I want to live 50 years as a 20 year old. I want to live 230 years as a 30 year old. Then I want to die painlessly in my sleep.
I'd prefer to pass on the "body breaking down, heart failing, constant pain, brain failing, personality disintegrating, joints failing, sex drive going away" part of life.
And it also brings up the point that people have thought society was declining for thousands of years.
The people who wrote the dead sea scrolls retreated because they felt society was in moral decline.
It is apparently human nature to think the youth are being unusually rebellious (and to want to control them) and to think that morals are in decline (and want to control morality to conform to your own view of what it should be).
...on prime time NBC last night (Sunday October 2nd) I saw a bag of severed body parts including a clearly visable severed arm fall out of the back of a van and roll across the ground.
And why is that okay yet showing a pink dot on a female chest is prohibited when showing the same pink dot on a male chest is okay?
The last time I read it, Job's family was innocent. God said that he could kill them just like a farmer could kill a plant because he made them and they were his property to do with as he wanted.
I changed my default formatting to plain text. It helped a lot with the formatting issue since what you type is what you get. No need to insert a bunch of br's.
Will you stop and LISTEN for just 2 seconds- you are not hearing what I'm saying.
1) IF the autopilot is engaged. 2) AND the cabin pressure drops. 3) AND the pilot does not turn off the autopilot. 4) AND the pilot does not respond to a prompt that the autopilot thinks it needs to descend.
4) THEN the autopilot will descend to an altitude that humans can breath.
I understand your point. Not sure you got mine. If the pilot fails to respond to a trivial request from the autopilot then it begins to descend to a level where they can breath since it is likely they are unconcious. Even if it is wrong, they can disable it.
So the point wasn't the presence of mind to answer the question- but that failure to respond indicates there is no pilot to respond currently.
People can be incredibly smart and still groupthink like crazy.
Couldn't the system request pilot input for a period of time before it acted? (Like 20 seconds of "pressure has dropped- do you want me to take the plane down to 10,000 feet? ([y]/n)" at the engineer's station. That puts a human in the loop.
I think you are mistaking any intention on my part to customize my personal copy with an intention to customize the public copy. There isn't a case of "really much you can do about it" because I didn't care to do anything about it in the first place. You are taking an off the cuff comment by me way more seriously than it warrants.
I'm only connected to one leecher uploading at about 1.8b/s with no limit on the torrent- so I'm guessing they don't need my upload much-- but every bit helps.
I recognize that it is supposed to be like that because it is a joke- but it is really weak as a joke- it seemed more silly than funny. Changing the weapons to standard names would strengthen the piece for me and make the other humor stand out more.
You know... if you used the srt files to change some "twinklers", etc. the result could kick ass. --- There were a couple rough spots in the subtitles that need correcting.
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There is nothing that prevents jet fuel from being made from substances besides oil except economics and politics. Hemp can be very effective but we are not using for political reasons. Oil is simply cheaper right now.
The absolute cost of taking a jet flight might go up tho (be interesting because it would bring High speed Trains back as cost effective way of travel.
In my experience, there was a significant increase in happiness when I got above 110k and a drop when I dropped back below 100k.
I suspect there is a poverty line and then there is a "past middle class" line.
At the second line you gain a certain amount of freedom to just do things , go places, or obtain possessions at a whim which you must carefully plan for while middle class.
On the other hand, what if the only way to pass through the sweet spot is to quickly eradicate the 95% of 6 billion humans who would destroy you if they joined you on that new plateau.
Imagine if we have a new technology that allows us to personally kill hundreds at a time with a thought. Are there not tens of thousands around the world who would not hesitate to use that technology to kill everyone including themselves?
If true, then you would either need to immediately kill them without hesitation or you would be dooming the entire species to extinction.
Males and females are capable of reproducing as young as 12 years old. They are not completely mature physically at that age.
Changes go on into the twenties.
As for females it may be partially religious or cultural. It may also be partially driven by biological imperatives. Those biological imperatives may be fooled by the increasing abundance of estrogen-like chemicals in the environment that is causing females to mature earlier and males to be emasculated.
An area the size of Kansas would support our current gasoline needs if it were planted in Hemp.
A variety of Bio energy schemes become viable at around $3 to $6 per gallon.
A variety of Solar technologies are currently effective at about $10 per gallon (and that's considering PV shortages).
Oil is important because it is cheapest. Not because it is the only resource.
California has such a nice climate that the cost of living has been bid up. in 90% of the country you can buy a huge house for $250,000 (over 3,000 square feet on a half an acre of land).
Essentially, you are competing with all the rich people in the world for the right to live in a nice climate.
His house...
a 55 million dollar mansion with a frikkin privately stocked trout stream flowing through the house with LCD panels to display custom artwork throughout the house. His DVD player is a 22k model with custom parts and 12 bit sampling without region encoding. His electronics don't listen to macrovision and he can record the premium channels on cable tv.
Don't know about his car but Jay Leno owns a motorcycle that retails for over 140 thousand dollars and will go from 0 to over 200 miles per hour pulling multiple G's.
His vacation is on a private island with another 18-20 people (all rich) and there are no vendors interrupting his view of the waves every 10 minutes.
The computer? they still sell computers for about 6500 bucks- you should check out their capabilities- but if you really want one, you can definately afford one of these (unlike the rest of the stuff).
And then there are parties- he gets invited to parties you don't even know exists.
And political power- he gets direct input on new laws that screw you over while helping line his pockets.
It -is- good to be rich. It -does- suck to be poor. But as long as it's fair (and they dont' pull the ladder up after them) and anyone can become rich- then it's probably way better than socialism.
OTH, I think it is becoming increasingly unfair.
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With regard to the fine article.
1) Robots are coming.
2) The key will be cheap workable vision modules.
3) At that point, 99% of minimum wage jobs are going to vanish almost overnight (if it is like the model "T", you are going to see explosive growth of the first robots that can stock shelves or change tires on cars).
4) At that point, we either get a utopia or a distopia.
* In a utopia- the "rich" who exited capitalist society with wealth will have all the best property (aspen, beach front, etc) but everyone else will have a lot of free time, free food, and maybe they can invent a new product that gains them entry into the rich classes.
* In a distopia- the "rich" and "middle class" warehouse anyone without a job away from the population. If you lose your middle class job- you go off to the warehouse. It's similar to the utopia but you have no freedom to leave your warehouse are unless you can find a job.
I'm thinking distopia is more likely but I guess we'll see.
Failure to be active is also a significant risk. The body decays when it is not used.
Women don't really reach sexual maturity until their mid to late 20's.
Men don't reach their full bulk and physical maturity until close to 30 (there is a difference between a man and a boy- even a boy on steroids).
In team sports, a group of older men can often defeat an athletically superior group of younger boys.
Things don't really start to go downhill until you are 43ish.
I want to live 300 years.
I want to live 20 years growing up and maturing.
I want to live 50 years as a 20 year old.
I want to live 230 years as a 30 year old.
Then I want to die painlessly in my sleep.
I'd prefer to pass on the "body breaking down, heart failing, constant pain, brain failing, personality disintegrating, joints failing, sex drive going away" part of life.
The only basis for morality I have ever been able to discover is when it is based on the informed consent of a mature sane being.
Anything else seems to just be asserting an arbitrary position.
And it also brings up the point that people have thought society was declining for thousands of years.
The people who wrote the dead sea scrolls retreated because they felt society was in moral decline.
It is apparently human nature to think the youth are being unusually rebellious (and to want to control them) and to think that morals are in decline (and want to control morality to conform to your own view of what it should be).
...on prime time NBC last night (Sunday October 2nd) I saw a bag of severed body parts including a clearly visable severed arm fall out of the back of a van and roll across the ground.
And why is that okay yet showing a pink dot on a female chest is prohibited when showing the same pink dot on a male chest is okay?
The last time I read it, Job's family was innocent. God said that he could kill them just like a farmer could kill a plant because he made them and they were his property to do with as he wanted.
I changed my default formatting to plain text. It helped a lot with the formatting issue since what you type is what you get. No need to insert a bunch of br's.
Will you stop and LISTEN for just 2 seconds- you are not hearing what I'm saying.
1) IF the autopilot is engaged.
2) AND the cabin pressure drops.
3) AND the pilot does not turn off the autopilot.
4) AND the pilot does not respond to a prompt that the autopilot thinks it needs to descend.
4) THEN the autopilot will descend to an altitude that humans can breath.
I understand your point. Not sure you got mine. If the pilot fails to respond to a trivial request from the autopilot then it begins to descend to a level where they can breath since it is likely they are unconcious. Even if it is wrong, they can disable it.
So the point wasn't the presence of mind to answer the question- but that failure to respond indicates there is no pilot to respond currently.
People can be incredibly smart and still groupthink like crazy.
Couldn't the system request pilot input for a period of time before it acted? (Like 20 seconds of "pressure has dropped- do you want me to take the plane down to 10,000 feet? ([y]/n)" at the engineer's station. That puts a human in the loop.
I think you are mistaking any intention on my part to customize my personal copy with an intention to customize the public copy. There isn't a case of "really much you can do about it" because I didn't care to do anything about it in the first place. You are taking an off the cuff comment by me way more seriously than it warrants.
976 seeds, 3068 leechers.
I'm only connected to one leecher uploading at about 1.8b/s with no limit on the torrent- so I'm guessing they don't need my upload much-- but every bit helps.
I recognize that it is supposed to be like that because it is a joke- but it is really weak as a joke- it seemed more silly than funny. Changing the weapons to standard names would strengthen the piece for me and make the other humor stand out more.
WHO designed this weapon!?!?
hehehe about fell out of my chair.
Totally agree here. The "6" applies to business majors and soccer mobs who never watch sci-fi to begin with.
You know... if you used the srt files to change some "twinklers", etc. the result could kick ass.
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There were a couple rough spots in the subtitles that need correcting.
hehee. They should have named it "Star Wreck 2" as an injoke.