Or you could stop being an asshat and let people pass you.
The problem, at least in the US, is that there are enough people who will still tailgate you in the right lane if the left lane is empty. And when you slow down, they'll get mad. What are you going to do then, pull over into the emergency lane ?
Your only other choice is to slow down - not to force them to stop tailgating, but to improve your reaction time and lessen the chance you'll have to break suddenly and kill them.
Read GGP again. He accelerates when the tailgater is trying to pass him. Where I live, such behavior (accelerating while another car is trying to pass you) is prohibited.
OMG! Isn't anyone thinking about the ramifications? I'm talking about Global Cooling!
Well, the neat thing is that if this works, we can actually control just _how_ carbon negative the whole process is (by just burning off any carbon in solid form).
"wood chips" and "grass cuttings," and plant waste in general go back into the soil's cycle, are processed by billions of organisms, and turned into nutrients for the plants. If we take this "waste" to make oil, what's going to feed the plants? Chemical fertilizers, made from... Oil ?
Erm... holy false dichotomy, once again.
There's no law that says if we start this process, we need to feed 100% of our agricultural waste into it, thereby depriving out soil of nutrients. We can figure out how much we need to feed back into the soil, and how much we can turn into fuel.
I think it's a little more like, you invaded Iraq, you pay the price.
The rulers of Saudi Arabia don't care about the invasion of Iraq. The population might, but the nice thing about an absolute monarchy is that the rules don't have to care about that, either.
When a commodities trader buys oil contracts, he's part of the demand, even though he has no intention of consuming the oil.
Solution to the current bubble: When the contract becomes due, pull up to the trader's office with a tanker truck and flood the building with the crude. That'll teach'em not to speculate.
Solar energy is not a renewable energy source. How can you replace the Sun when it burns out?
We have about a billion years (that's when the increasing luminosity of the sun will boil the oceans off Earths surface) to come up with an answer to that one. Or find ourselves another star to mooch energy off. Frankly, if we haven't at least colonized the outer edges of the solar system by then, we really deserve to die out.
And the increased viability of alternative fuels seems to be a playing a role in scaring the Saudis into ramping up production.
They're not scared. They just want to keep the oil price at a level where it doesn't negatively impact their investments (which, by now, probably exceed the income they have from selling oil by an order of magnitude). They've probably invested quite a bit of their money into alternative energy, too. It's not like they're lacking spending money.
And, heck... they have (sea-) water, they have space... they're probably going to stay an oil supplier even after the stuff gets made by algae instead of being pumped out of the ground.
A good chunk of cell phones now can hold at least 2GB on a memory stick.
Yes, they do check cell phones. What could be more interesting than the people you're in contact with ? They also check cameras, camcorders, Mp3 players, etc.
Disk failure tale is not gonna hold water and missing substantial disk space is highly suspicious.
If you do it right (hidden volume), neither of the two is going to happen. There will be one partition that has some files on it, but is otherwise mostly empty. Unless they look at it with a disk monitor, nothing will look out of place. Of course, you need to keep your encryption software off your hard drive and on a separate medium.
If they write on the partition, your data will be gone, but I think writing anything to your disk goes way, way beyond searching it. And you'll have backups anyway.
just simply drawing hydrogen out of the sun for fuel.
Ouch. I'd do that only after we've strip-mined the two gas giants and the two ice giants in our solar systems for hydrogen... because we're much less likely to burn our fingers while doing so.
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Depends on how much poison you've laced it with, or how small you can make an effective explosive device.
I especially like those "My kid is a *random title* at *random school*". WTF cares ?
The problem, at least in the US, is that there are enough people who will still tailgate you in the right lane if the left lane is empty. And when you slow down, they'll get mad. What are you going to do then, pull over into the emergency lane ?
Read GGP again. He accelerates when the tailgater is trying to pass him. Where I live, such behavior (accelerating while another car is trying to pass you) is prohibited.
Well, the neat thing is that if this works, we can actually control just _how_ carbon negative the whole process is (by just burning off any carbon in solid form).
We don't have that option right now.
So where's all the extra stuff going, and when will those containers be full ?
Erm ... holy false dichotomy, once again.
There's no law that says if we start this process, we need to feed 100% of our agricultural waste into it, thereby depriving out soil of nutrients. We can figure out how much we need to feed back into the soil, and how much we can turn into fuel.
Humans, for the most part, don't run on fossil fuels.
(829,000,000 ft^2) / (5280 ft/mi)^2 = 29,74 mi^2
You forgot another factor of 1/5280 in your calculations.
No, it was the French chemist Paul Sabatier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_process
And yes, you can build any hydrocarbon of your choice that way, but it takes energy to do so.
The rulers of Saudi Arabia don't care about the invasion of Iraq. The population might, but the nice thing about an absolute monarchy is that the rules don't have to care about that, either.
Solution to the current bubble: When the contract becomes due, pull up to the trader's office with a tanker truck and flood the building with the crude. That'll teach'em not to speculate.
Compare it to the number of bags (paper or plastic) used for shopping each day/week/month, and the number doesn't seem all that unimaginable.
We have about a billion years (that's when the increasing luminosity of the sun will boil the oceans off Earths surface) to come up with an answer to that one. Or find ourselves another star to mooch energy off. Frankly, if we haven't at least colonized the outer edges of the solar system by then, we really deserve to die out.
They're not scared. They just want to keep the oil price at a level where it doesn't negatively impact their investments (which, by now, probably exceed the income they have from selling oil by an order of magnitude). They've probably invested quite a bit of their money into alternative energy, too. It's not like they're lacking spending money.
And, heck
Buy it, of course. (Pick the right small company and buy some of their stock, now. :) )
Not likely. But it'd probably give you flatulence of unprecedented proportions.
Now, if they can manage to beat second- and third generation biofuels to the market, that'd be something.
Some people have had some rather disappointing experiences with that one.
Yes, they do check cell phones. What could be more interesting than the people you're in contact with ? They also check cameras, camcorders, Mp3 players, etc.
If you do it right (hidden volume), neither of the two is going to happen. There will be one partition that has some files on it, but is otherwise mostly empty. Unless they look at it with a disk monitor, nothing will look out of place. Of course, you need to keep your encryption software off your hard drive and on a separate medium.
If they write on the partition, your data will be gone, but I think writing anything to your disk goes way, way beyond searching it. And you'll have backups anyway.
Oh really ?
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/90325
And they're not checking every single passenger, of course. But for the ones that do get checked, the procedure may take hours.
Your bags don't get sent through x-ray machines after you've landed.
Ouch. I'd do that only after we've strip-mined the two gas giants and the two ice giants in our solar systems for hydrogen ... because we're much less likely to burn our fingers while doing so.
They're already doing that, too. Oops.