Hey now, I'm from Kansas... how bout we just cover everything but Lawrence and Kansas City? That would still be like 3/4ths of the state... and Wichita and Topeka are the centers of all things uber-religious...
According to the UNH study and Wikipedia, the yield of algae farms is about 5000 to 20,000 gallons per acre of pond per year. This number varies mostly due to the pond conditions, strain of algae used, and oil collection method employed.
However, it is worthwhile to note that even the low end (5000 gallons per acre per year) is over 100 times better than soybeans (50 gallons per acre per year) or rapeseed (about 120 gallons per acre per year)... which are the two dominant crops providing biodiesel in America and Europe today.
To supply the entire US fuel needs would require as little as 0.3% of US land area to be covered by algae ponds. This translates to about 28,000 square kilometers, or about 11,000 square miles. To put this in perspective, that is about 1/8th the size of Kansas... and well less than the area devoted to Soybeans currently.
Googledot... an online community that allows technology users to comment on recent technology and political news. Also, a place to announce new Google beta tools.
I like Google and all... but can they please focus on creating something useful like a payment system rather than sites that offer fancy copy-and-paste functionality?
What you don't realize is that I work for the NSA and put that out there to get people to watch Fox News in the hopes they won't be monitored, when in reality we know that if you watch enough Fox News, you'll buy into the idea that this keeps us safe from boogey men and won't complain about being monitored in the first place!
With regards, The NSA Mind-fucking the American people since 1952
The irony of you calling me Senator McCarthy because I called someone homophobic is pretty amusing...
I'm glad you can use wikipedia... I guess my lack of TV and a daily dose of Queer Eye has left me unaware of current anti-hetero slang... I totally read 'Breeder' and thought of a nice nauseating suburban family... you know, the kind that seems to excel at having children and then brainwashing them in the ways of God and Walmart... not that I am against Walmart... I like Walmart quite a bit... I just hate dealing with the other people there. Come to think of it, I don't hate God either... I like God, or the idea of any higher purpose. But I definitely despise the people supposedly carrying his torch... what a bunch of hypocrits. So anyway, I still think the guy sounded homophobic... and I'll add you to the list... although I am impressed that you knew the meaning of such an insult... get called 'Breeder' a lot or something?
And no... I'm not some crazy homosexual hippy left wing nutjob... I'm just 22 and find children to be annoying little spoiled brats and suburbia to be the most depressing idea ever. I'm also sick of right wing holier-than-thou crazies fighting the left wing more-egalitarian-than-thou crazies... In fact, unlike good old McCarthy, I don't care what others choose to think... as long as they don't push it on me... you commie bastard!
"a database of every call ever made inside the USA"... "has been secretly collecting phone call records of tens of millions of Americans"
Man, there are waaaay more than 10 million Americans... but I guess they probably have no reason to record the calls of the Religious Right or people watching Fox News... since they are good little toadies... so that probably cuts it down to size...
Seriously man, it was a complement... it means you are having sex... unless of course it's against your religion... but I figure there is only a 3 in 7 chance of THAT here in America...
(You don't buy into that Super-Jesus thing do you? Because, really, sex kicks ass!)
I propose that we levy a 20% tax on all consumer credit card debt, effectively raising interest rates sky high. Also, lets tax children. I think one child is worth about 10% of your AGI in tax revenue. So for every child, you pay another 10%. This would do several things.
Suburban families playing keep-up-with-the-joneses would enter a death spiral of debt (and probably alcohol abuse) and commit mass suicide.
Rabid consumers would tear down the offices of major credit card issuers and their banks and commit mass murder.
Population control!
Shopping channels everywhere would go bankrupt for lack of frivolous charging.
????
Profit!
We could use the money generated by the tax to provide a state pension to poor people, preferably one that doesn't motivate them to work or ever improve their station in life. Then, once they are completely dependent, the revenue will run out (all the suburbanites are dead) and the whole country will be screwed! Except for rich people... but who doesn't like rich people?
</sarcasm>
Seriously though... I am all about gas prices being high in order to spur innovation, but a gas tax is not the way to do it. If you want to increase gas prices via tax policy, just stop creating so many tax breaks for new refineries and exploration. The industry currently gets billions. Everyone whines that ethanol or biodiesel aren't economically viable without tax breaks... well, oil has a nice big set of tax breaks of it's own. In the end, what is 'economically viable' is whatever has the lowest unit cost in our society... and by keeping oil priced artificially low, we ensure it's continued viability over other technologies.
Wii loves Resident Evil! Wii wants to play it! Wii thinks the name 'Wii' is a wii bit catchy.
Whoever thought the name 'Revolution' was passe and decided to name their next generation console after the sound kids make falling out of airplanes should be cornholed wiikly...
Sweet, now that I understand the sneaky Roman Numeral system that ATI has going... I can predict even further into the future...
I could upgrade from my vanilla GeForce3, but I'm holding out for the GSpot XXX6900... which will be released right after ATI and Nvidia merge in an orgy of Wall Street investment banking...
Your analogy fails because cars can be distinguished by their model year... and each model year only has a few (usually easily predictable) models.
Besides, I was mostly just amused by the need to put GTX on the end of some big number in order to make it seem brand new... When was the last time you bought the Ford Mustang X1900GT? Doesn't that sound more like a space plane than a car?
I thought the problem with gaming on Linux (and hence the lack of a need for fancy vid cards) was that most games are written to leverage DirectX and M$ doesn't publish DirectX for linux (for obvious reasons).
A brilliant business move by Microsoft... keep your audience chained to your OS via DirectX.
Next month... "ATI's Radeon X1900XT has reached end of it's life and the company announced its replacement on June 5th: Radeon 9700486772GTX47RZA21 Rev. A!"
Seriously, can we stop using big numbers to compensate for our tiny penises?
Both Nvidia (GeForce) and ATI (Radeon) are guilty of having hundreds of products with the same name that can only be differentiated by their absurdly esoteric combination of numbers, X's, T's, and words like Pro and Extreme (or Xtreme if they are feeling particularly retarded that day). I hate marketing as much as the next nerd, but get everyone drunk some night after work and come up with a new product name.
Then I won't have to spend a week researching video cards before I buy one. I could spend that week doing better things, like waiting for UPS to deliver my video card.
You mistakenly assume that obesity, diabetes, fuel prices, and pollution are more important than golf, free meals, yachts, and cushy-for-life-salaries... Congress knows what it wants, and knows how to get it.
I hate it when I have to buy a new Internet because mine is full. Hopefully I can get one of the new perpendicular Internets that holds more... wonder if I will need to turn my monitor sideways to use it...
This just goes to show that Microsoft, like Congress, is exceptionally good at throwing money at a problem and hoping that things work out. I would be more interested as an investor, to see some evidence that they get a bang for their buck.
More money != money better spent
I wish I had mod points today... I'm not sure your comment could be modded too high... seriously, the irony is juicy enough to merit airing on the Daily Show...
"one wonders how Sony will defend against these charges"
Easy... Sony will do what all major labels and the RIAA do... They will allot some people-crushing money to their lawyers, file countersuits, and keep the legal battle going on long enough that the artists run out of money and are forced to accept a settlement out-of-court for a paltry amount that probably doesn't even cover their legal fees.
Meanwhile, Sony keeps collecting 94.5 cents of every 99 cent Cheap Trick song and puts it into a special account labeled 'Cheap Trick Settlement Fund'...
That, my friends, is the glory of controlling the distribution channel!
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Hey now, I'm from Kansas... how bout we just cover everything but Lawrence and Kansas City? That would still be like 3/4ths of the state... and Wichita and Topeka are the centers of all things uber-religious...
According to the UNH study and Wikipedia, the yield of algae farms is about 5000 to 20,000 gallons per acre of pond per year. This number varies mostly due to the pond conditions, strain of algae used, and oil collection method employed.
However, it is worthwhile to note that even the low end (5000 gallons per acre per year) is over 100 times better than soybeans (50 gallons per acre per year) or rapeseed (about 120 gallons per acre per year)... which are the two dominant crops providing biodiesel in America and Europe today.
To supply the entire US fuel needs would require as little as 0.3% of US land area to be covered by algae ponds. This translates to about 28,000 square kilometers, or about 11,000 square miles. To put this in perspective, that is about 1/8th the size of Kansas... and well less than the area devoted to Soybeans currently.
... now what was that I seem to remember about the right hand and the left hand doing something?
s/Communist/Terrorist/i
And this is different from the current state of things... how?
Interesting how much less publicity the NSA gets compared to the FBI and CIA.
Googledot... an online community that allows technology users to comment on recent technology and political news. Also, a place to announce new Google beta tools.
I like Google and all... but can they please focus on creating something useful like a payment system rather than sites that offer fancy copy-and-paste functionality?
What you don't realize is that I work for the NSA and put that out there to get people to watch Fox News in the hopes they won't be monitored, when in reality we know that if you watch enough Fox News, you'll buy into the idea that this keeps us safe from boogey men and won't complain about being monitored in the first place!
With regards,
The NSA
Mind-fucking the American people since 1952
The thought of playing this game gives me a solid snake... heh
The irony of you calling me Senator McCarthy because I called someone homophobic is pretty amusing...
I'm glad you can use wikipedia... I guess my lack of TV and a daily dose of Queer Eye has left me unaware of current anti-hetero slang... I totally read 'Breeder' and thought of a nice nauseating suburban family... you know, the kind that seems to excel at having children and then brainwashing them in the ways of God and Walmart... not that I am against Walmart... I like Walmart quite a bit... I just hate dealing with the other people there. Come to think of it, I don't hate God either... I like God, or the idea of any higher purpose. But I definitely despise the people supposedly carrying his torch... what a bunch of hypocrits. So anyway, I still think the guy sounded homophobic... and I'll add you to the list... although I am impressed that you knew the meaning of such an insult... get called 'Breeder' a lot or something?
And no... I'm not some crazy homosexual hippy left wing nutjob... I'm just 22 and find children to be annoying little spoiled brats and suburbia to be the most depressing idea ever. I'm also sick of right wing holier-than-thou crazies fighting the left wing more-egalitarian-than-thou crazies... In fact, unlike good old McCarthy, I don't care what others choose to think... as long as they don't push it on me... you commie bastard!
"a database of every call ever made inside the USA" ... "has been secretly collecting phone call records of tens of millions of Americans"
Man, there are waaaay more than 10 million Americans... but I guess they probably have no reason to record the calls of the Religious Right or people watching Fox News... since they are good little toadies... so that probably cuts it down to size...
Sounds like *someone* is a little homophobic...
Seriously man, it was a complement... it means you are having sex... unless of course it's against your religion... but I figure there is only a 3 in 7 chance of THAT here in America...
(You don't buy into that Super-Jesus thing do you? Because, really, sex kicks ass!)
I propose that we levy a 20% tax on all consumer credit card debt, effectively raising interest rates sky high. Also, lets tax children. I think one child is worth about 10% of your AGI in tax revenue. So for every child, you pay another 10%. This would do several things.
We could use the money generated by the tax to provide a state pension to poor people, preferably one that doesn't motivate them to work or ever improve their station in life. Then, once they are completely dependent, the revenue will run out (all the suburbanites are dead) and the whole country will be screwed! Except for rich people... but who doesn't like rich people?
</sarcasm>
Seriously though... I am all about gas prices being high in order to spur innovation, but a gas tax is not the way to do it. If you want to increase gas prices via tax policy, just stop creating so many tax breaks for new refineries and exploration. The industry currently gets billions. Everyone whines that ethanol or biodiesel aren't economically viable without tax breaks... well, oil has a nice big set of tax breaks of it's own. In the end, what is 'economically viable' is whatever has the lowest unit cost in our society... and by keeping oil priced artificially low, we ensure it's continued viability over other technologies.
Someone mod up the parent... that shit was funny...
Wii loves Resident Evil! Wii wants to play it! Wii thinks the name 'Wii' is a wii bit catchy.
Whoever thought the name 'Revolution' was passe and decided to name their next generation console after the sound kids make falling out of airplanes should be cornholed wiikly...
Sweet, now that I understand the sneaky Roman Numeral system that ATI has going... I can predict even further into the future...
I could upgrade from my vanilla GeForce3, but I'm holding out for the GSpot XXX6900... which will be released right after ATI and Nvidia merge in an orgy of Wall Street investment banking...
By that logic... the Radeon 9700 is way better than this new X1900GT...
Yep, so easy... requires no reading at all.
Your analogy fails because cars can be distinguished by their model year... and each model year only has a few (usually easily predictable) models.
Besides, I was mostly just amused by the need to put GTX on the end of some big number in order to make it seem brand new... When was the last time you bought the Ford Mustang X1900GT? Doesn't that sound more like a space plane than a car?
I thought the problem with gaming on Linux (and hence the lack of a need for fancy vid cards) was that most games are written to leverage DirectX and M$ doesn't publish DirectX for linux (for obvious reasons).
A brilliant business move by Microsoft... keep your audience chained to your OS via DirectX.
Am I wrong?
If they just name it the 'Radeon Infinity GTX' then they would have the lead over Nvidia for... well... infinity...
But then Nvidia would just come out with the 'GeForce Black Hole' and either take back the speed crown or destroy the universe...
Next month... "ATI's Radeon X1900XT has reached end of it's life and the company announced its replacement on June 5th: Radeon 9700486772GTX47RZA21 Rev. A!"
Seriously, can we stop using big numbers to compensate for our tiny penises?
Both Nvidia (GeForce) and ATI (Radeon) are guilty of having hundreds of products with the same name that can only be differentiated by their absurdly esoteric combination of numbers, X's, T's, and words like Pro and Extreme (or Xtreme if they are feeling particularly retarded that day). I hate marketing as much as the next nerd, but get everyone drunk some night after work and come up with a new product name.
Then I won't have to spend a week researching video cards before I buy one. I could spend that week doing better things, like waiting for UPS to deliver my video card.
You mistakenly assume that obesity, diabetes, fuel prices, and pollution are more important than golf, free meals, yachts, and cushy-for-life-salaries... Congress knows what it wants, and knows how to get it.
I hate it when I have to buy a new Internet because mine is full. Hopefully I can get one of the new perpendicular Internets that holds more... wonder if I will need to turn my monitor sideways to use it...
This just goes to show that Microsoft, like Congress, is exceptionally good at throwing money at a problem and hoping that things work out. I would be more interested as an investor, to see some evidence that they get a bang for their buck. More money != money better spent
I wish I had mod points today... I'm not sure your comment could be modded too high... seriously, the irony is juicy enough to merit airing on the Daily Show...
"one wonders how Sony will defend against these charges"
Easy... Sony will do what all major labels and the RIAA do... They will allot some people-crushing money to their lawyers, file countersuits, and keep the legal battle going on long enough that the artists run out of money and are forced to accept a settlement out-of-court for a paltry amount that probably doesn't even cover their legal fees.
Meanwhile, Sony keeps collecting 94.5 cents of every 99 cent Cheap Trick song and puts it into a special account labeled 'Cheap Trick Settlement Fund'...
That, my friends, is the glory of controlling the distribution channel!