"No, I'm not intelligent. No, I'm not intelligent. No, I'm not intelligen..." (and hopefully those morons will not figure out that I am lying before I completed my plans for world domination muhahaha)
What do you think funded the dotcom bubble, those companies weren't making money.
1. Get dumbasses to believe dotcoms are the next best thing.
2. Sell all of your shares before everyone else starts to realize what's going on.
3. ???? (there is no 3.)
4. PROFIT !
The investors don't _care_ if a company makes money or not. They care if _they_ make money, which does not necessarily have anything to do with how the company is doing. Whether the money comes from actual value (soundly running company) or from screwing over the others investors doesn't matter.
Maybe. You've got the weather to contend with, and the day/night cycle.
Actually, those two are only minor parts problem. The large part is the variations in demand over the course of a day (for example, the spike in the morning when everyone's running water heaters, coffee makers, hairdryers and the like).
Ok, so lets say we get fusion working perfectly. Say a 50% NET return on the energy in hydrogen. What answers are in the wings for vehicals?
If you already have a basically limitless source of cheap energy, producing liquid fuels from easily obtainable raw materials (say, H2O and CO2) isn't the problem. The process for this is already known, it's the limitless source of cheap energy we're lacking.
1) the direct loss-of-income to the patent-holder due to the public knowledge of your successful replication of their patented product (i.e. encouraging others to violate the patent)
That's um... BS.
There is nothing secret about a patent. Patents _are_ public knowledge, because that is what patents are about. That is why a patent holder can sue someone who violates the patent - because the violator could have known by performing some patent research. The patent holder is granted a temporal monopoly on how the knowledge may be used, and after it expires, anyone is free to use the patent to their hearts content.
If you want secrecy, then don't patent. Period.
As to the "Money makes money faster than hard work" comment; Please try to back that up. Because self-earned money is a nice tool, and letting others lend it by putting it into a bank is a good act, even when it's done just for profit and safekeeping.
Oh, how cute. Anyone who is serious about making money with money certainly isn't going to lend his money to others as soon as his assets reach a certain threshold. But even before that having more money helps to accumulate money faster.
Want proof ? Go to your bank. Ask them about investment strategies for $500, $5000, $50000 and $500000, and compare the interest rates you'd be getting in each case.
In the last two cases, you'd probably be better off with investing some in the stock market, which certainly isn't about lending money, but buying part of the company.
And once you reach the point where you have enough leverage to influence share prices themselves with your transactions, the real fun (and profit) starts.
The term "being" is extremely hard to pin down in this case.
How about "entity" ?
As far as I understand it, at the scale of the Universe, there is only one place for a God-like being to exist.
Looking for God in the universe is a bit like looking for the programmer in the memory of the computer.
God deciding the outcomes of all particle interactions in the Universe or God as a processor churning through the infromation that makes up the Universe and outputting a path which all of us in the Universe follow.
... or maybe God just decided that determining all of these outcomes was fairly boring and tedious, and therefore installed randomness to take care of most of them. Or maybe he just like to roll lots and lots of dice. Some RPG players are really into that sort of thing, why shouldn't God give it a try ?
3.) Only after this proof period is complete, a method to reduce emissions must then be developed, privately and not at any expense at all to the American public, which will remove carbon from the atmosphere for free and simultaneously generate vast sums of revenue for the US by converting it back into gasoline.
I think you forgot something here: The method must, of course, be powered by fossil fuel, not nuclear (fission/fusion), regenerative or other such nonsense.
Within days we had money, planes, etc going to these countries, and have yet to hear from anyone about providing assistance from even our biggest and best allies.
Mr. Bush has waved his hand collectively at all offers and said "Bah !". According to him, aid is not expected, needed or wanted.
So how does the big CFC molecule get to the ozone layer, 50km up?
Convection (as in "air currents") and diffusion. Being heavier than air does not mean all of it will pool up in the lower atmosphere, but _most_ of it while _some_ makes it to the ozone layer.
I wish someone would explain to me how the CFC's we are producing on the surface of the earth actually get up to where the Ozone layer is, in the stratosphere.
Diffusion & convection (air currents).
Why then do CFC's ignore all the yummy Ozone on the surface and then defy gravity by flying up into the stratosphere and then travel like Arctic Terns to the poles to have their Ozone Buffet?
Very simple. CFCs themselves don't do much to ozone. However, when they are broken up into radicals (for example by, um, UV radiation, of which there's plenty up there in the ozone layer but not so much down here (yet)), the radicals start eating up the ozone.
Sure, you see some people driving all by themselves in a great big SUV, or people that own one just for the status, but for the most part, the people that own them have a use for them.
It would be a start not to pick the biggest available engine, and to prefer diesel engines over gasoline engines.
We all move to cities where there is public transportation (and crime, drugs and other unsavory things that come with the big city).
You can have big cities that aren't complete cesspools of crime and drugs. It works in other parts of the civilized world.
If the format is properly documented and the documentation is available, it is only a matter of getting someone to write an appropriate viewer or conversion tool.
If the formats documentation is not available, you are pretty much at mercy of whoever invented it, and their willingness and ability to provide viewers and conversion tools.
I'm just trying to point out that we really don't have any really effective means of energy production other than the ones we already have which are mostly based on fossil fuels.
We do have, however, plenty of ways to use the energy we produce more efficiently and waste less of it which will, at most, cause only minor inconvenience.
I looked at my air conditioner, and couldn't figure out where to pour in the heating oil. How does that work? It would be useful during a power outage.
This might be news to you, but air conditioners run on electricity. Now, contrary to popular belief, eletricity is not magically generated in the power outlet, but needs to be generated using something called a generator and an energy source. Heating oil makes an excellent energy source (if you slap on enough taxes, the stuff is also called Diesel fuel), so go find yourself a generator that runs on Diesel fuel, and you're set for the next power outage.
The most relevant difference is that Pat Robertson isn't in charge of any country, and therefore is no serious threat to anyone.
So that's why Osama bin Laden hasn't been caught yet ! Brilliant ! He's not in charge of any country either, and therefore he's no serious threat to anyone, too.
Oh, now I get it ! You're from Mars. That explains a lot.
You see, 2/3s of the planet Earth are covered by water in the first place. Then there's lots and lots of desert, land above the arctic/below the antarctic circles, coasts, islands, and the like.
Name the place, and I'll tell you what kind of natural disaster is likely to strike there.
Aside from obvious 'outsiders' (jewish people, non-germans
homosexuals, gypsies, communists, social democrats, mentally handicapped people, anyone who did not join at least one Nazi organization (couldn't get a job if you didn't), authors, priests, anyone being critical about the regime, (the list goes on)...
) people weren't oppressed in any way.
Maybe you should read the friken right good dammend books yourself.
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"No, I'm not intelligent. No, I'm not intelligent. No, I'm not intelligen ..." (and hopefully those morons will not figure out that I am lying before I completed my plans for world domination muhahaha)
1. Get dumbasses to believe dotcoms are the next best thing. 2. Sell all of your shares before everyone else starts to realize what's going on. 3. ???? (there is no 3.) 4. PROFIT ! The investors don't _care_ if a company makes money or not. They care if _they_ make money, which does not necessarily have anything to do with how the company is doing. Whether the money comes from actual value (soundly running company) or from screwing over the others investors doesn't matter.
Wow, geez. They're still better off than more than two thirds of the population of the US ?
Actually, those two are only minor parts problem. The large part is the variations in demand over the course of a day (for example, the spike in the morning when everyone's running water heaters, coffee makers, hairdryers and the like).
If you already have a basically limitless source of cheap energy, producing liquid fuels from easily obtainable raw materials (say, H2O and CO2) isn't the problem. The process for this is already known, it's the limitless source of cheap energy we're lacking.
That's um ... BS.
There is nothing secret about a patent. Patents _are_ public knowledge, because that is what patents are about. That is why a patent holder can sue someone who violates the patent - because the violator could have known by performing some patent research. The patent holder is granted a temporal monopoly on how the knowledge may be used, and after it expires, anyone is free to use the patent to their hearts content.
If you want secrecy, then don't patent. Period.
Oh, how cute. Anyone who is serious about making money with money certainly isn't going to lend his money to others as soon as his assets reach a certain threshold. But even before that having more money helps to accumulate money faster.
Want proof ? Go to your bank. Ask them about investment strategies for $500, $5000, $50000 and $500000, and compare the interest rates you'd be getting in each case.
In the last two cases, you'd probably be better off with investing some in the stock market, which certainly isn't about lending money, but buying part of the company.
And once you reach the point where you have enough leverage to influence share prices themselves with your transactions, the real fun (and profit) starts.
How about "entity" ?
As far as I understand it, at the scale of the Universe, there is only one place for a God-like being to exist.
Looking for God in the universe is a bit like looking for the programmer in the memory of the computer.
God deciding the outcomes of all particle interactions in the Universe or God as a processor churning through the infromation that makes up the Universe and outputting a path which all of us in the Universe follow.
I think you forgot something here: The method must, of course, be powered by fossil fuel, not nuclear (fission/fusion), regenerative or other such nonsense.
Mr. Bush has waved his hand collectively at all offers and said "Bah !". According to him, aid is not expected, needed or wanted.
Several countries have already offered aid.
If you are so worried about power outages, you should already have a back-up generator. Regardless of whether you get the fuel for free or not.
Convection (as in "air currents") and diffusion. Being heavier than air does not mean all of it will pool up in the lower atmosphere, but _most_ of it while _some_ makes it to the ozone layer.
Diffusion & convection (air currents). Why then do CFC's ignore all the yummy Ozone on the surface and then defy gravity by flying up into the stratosphere and then travel like Arctic Terns to the poles to have their Ozone Buffet?
Very simple. CFCs themselves don't do much to ozone. However, when they are broken up into radicals (for example by, um, UV radiation, of which there's plenty up there in the ozone layer but not so much down here (yet)), the radicals start eating up the ozone.
Because you want the ozone in the upper atmosphere (where it blocks UV radiation), not in the lower atmosphere (where it is pretty toxic).
It would be a start not to pick the biggest available engine, and to prefer diesel engines over gasoline engines.
We all move to cities where there is public transportation (and crime, drugs and other unsavory things that come with the big city).
You can have big cities that aren't complete cesspools of crime and drugs. It works in other parts of the civilized world.
BS. What Adobe really offers is the documentation on how the format works. Microsoft doesn't do that for their formats.
How about not owning a legal copy of the OSes MS provides these readers for ?
No thanks.
These viewers are neither free (beer, since you need a MS OS to actually run them), nor free (speech).
If the format is properly documented and the documentation is available, it is only a matter of getting someone to write an appropriate viewer or conversion tool.
If the formats documentation is not available, you are pretty much at mercy of whoever invented it, and their willingness and ability to provide viewers and conversion tools.
We do have, however, plenty of ways to use the energy we produce more efficiently and waste less of it which will, at most, cause only minor inconvenience.
You better get out that mouse trap of rodent slaying +5, and fast.
This might be news to you, but air conditioners run on electricity. Now, contrary to popular belief, eletricity is not magically generated in the power outlet, but needs to be generated using something called a generator and an energy source. Heating oil makes an excellent energy source (if you slap on enough taxes, the stuff is also called Diesel fuel), so go find yourself a generator that runs on Diesel fuel, and you're set for the next power outage.
So that's why Osama bin Laden hasn't been caught yet ! Brilliant ! He's not in charge of any country either, and therefore he's no serious threat to anyone, too.
Oh, now I get it ! You're from Mars. That explains a lot.
You see, 2/3s of the planet Earth are covered by water in the first place. Then there's lots and lots of desert, land above the arctic/below the antarctic circles, coasts, islands, and the like.
Name the place, and I'll tell you what kind of natural disaster is likely to strike there.
homosexuals, gypsies, communists, social democrats, mentally handicapped people, anyone who did not join at least one Nazi organization (couldn't get a job if you didn't), authors, priests, anyone being critical about the regime, (the list goes on) ...
) people weren't oppressed in any way.
Maybe you should read the friken right good dammend books yourself.