I'm not saying wait, just correcting the notion that the day oil becomes too expensive to put into your car will also mean that oil won't be available for anything else.
>You can remove man from nature, but you can't remove nature from man.
War is not in the nature of man. At least most people in the western world don't experience war directly during their lifetimes, which suggests that violence and war are things that aren't a consequence of being human.
Nukes won't do much in space... there's nothing to propagate the shock wave, and heat transfer is all down to radiation. You'd have to hit the enemy ship directly with the nuke basically, which might be hard with all those lasers and anti missile guns going off...
Hopefully by the time we're advanced enough to have the weapons needed to fight a real space war we'll be advanced enough to not do stupid things like fight wars
Oil isn't going away any time soon. The fact is that for a very long time after it no longer makes sense to burn oil for fuel that oil will be available and will still make economic sense to use as a precursor product for all of those complex compounds that currently can only be made from oil. Perhaps in the far, far future it will become necessary to reinvent processes to build these things out of other precursors, but not for a long time. There's still going to be plenty of that black gunk in the ground long after people stop being able to burn it to get from A to B.
>We also don't have nukes in low earth orbit ready to finish off the human race in a few minutes
Why keep them in low earth orbit when you can put them there in a matter of minutes, on their way to doomsday somewhere?
We'll never be able to afford it if Americans make it, after we've made all of America poor by sending all the jobs off shore". Now that we can provide America with a cheap product Americans don't earn enough to buy it.
Thank you for the inspirational message. I hope a few more consumers turn into creators after having read it. Still I think distribution networks need to be designed and set up for the independent model.
Interesting theory - but you don't take into account the changing scales of software production. 30 years ago a couple of people in a basement could turn out a hot game, make a bunch of money and start a company. The resources required to make a top tier product have been growing to the point where in many cases small companies just can't enter the same marketplace as bigger ones.
Peruvian wine is terrible, they don't really drink it unless it's terribly sweet or after it's been amazingly fortified into their version of Grappa, called Pisco. Pisco is actually worth drinking though.
Back in the days where computer games had "artists renderings" and looked much better on the covers of magazines than on the computer screen you'd spend 3 hours typing in something (ages for a kid) and then load it up, realise that it was a crap game, play it twice and then run outside to have sword fights with ski poles you found somewhere...
If you don't think so, then I could suggest some reading for you that would show you that Microsoft pretty much does everything it can to force people to use IE.
Microsoft certainly doesn't respect your choice of default browser... if you have set it to Firefox or another non ie option, Windows still opens pages from things like messenger and windows update in an ie instance.
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Well, yeah. I think the 'lots of corpses' option is the one which will eventuate if we don't find a cheap, alternative source of energy.
I'm not saying wait, just correcting the notion that the day oil becomes too expensive to put into your car will also mean that oil won't be available for anything else.
I am assuming that at some point in time that we will replace a substantial part of our energy needs with alternative sources.
>You can remove man from nature, but you can't remove nature from man. War is not in the nature of man. At least most people in the western world don't experience war directly during their lifetimes, which suggests that violence and war are things that aren't a consequence of being human.
From a sample space of one, I'd have to declare that you are correct. For what that's actually worth...
Nukes won't do much in space... there's nothing to propagate the shock wave, and heat transfer is all down to radiation. You'd have to hit the enemy ship directly with the nuke basically, which might be hard with all those lasers and anti missile guns going off...
Hopefully by the time we're advanced enough to have the weapons needed to fight a real space war we'll be advanced enough to not do stupid things like fight wars
Oil isn't going away any time soon. The fact is that for a very long time after it no longer makes sense to burn oil for fuel that oil will be available and will still make economic sense to use as a precursor product for all of those complex compounds that currently can only be made from oil. Perhaps in the far, far future it will become necessary to reinvent processes to build these things out of other precursors, but not for a long time. There's still going to be plenty of that black gunk in the ground long after people stop being able to burn it to get from A to B.
>We also don't have nukes in low earth orbit ready to finish off the human race in a few minutes Why keep them in low earth orbit when you can put them there in a matter of minutes, on their way to doomsday somewhere?
Native Elephants of course.
Shit I am going to be fucked at boring meetings.
Holy shit I don't want to read an article, led alone a scientific, peer reviewed article. Isn't there a pretty picture of a graph somewhere?
The paper manufacturing industry is one of the most toxic and destructive to the natural environment as an end to end process that exists.
We'll never be able to afford it if Americans make it, after we've made all of America poor by sending all the jobs off shore". Now that we can provide America with a cheap product Americans don't earn enough to buy it.
Thank you for the inspirational message. I hope a few more consumers turn into creators after having read it. Still I think distribution networks need to be designed and set up for the independent model.
Interesting theory - but you don't take into account the changing scales of software production. 30 years ago a couple of people in a basement could turn out a hot game, make a bunch of money and start a company. The resources required to make a top tier product have been growing to the point where in many cases small companies just can't enter the same marketplace as bigger ones.
Peruvian wine is terrible, they don't really drink it unless it's terribly sweet or after it's been amazingly fortified into their version of Grappa, called Pisco. Pisco is actually worth drinking though.
There is a special hell for people that use MS, it's called Windows ;-)
Back in the days where computer games had "artists renderings" and looked much better on the covers of magazines than on the computer screen you'd spend 3 hours typing in something (ages for a kid) and then load it up, realise that it was a crap game, play it twice and then run outside to have sword fights with ski poles you found somewhere...
I wouldn't be alive if it weren't for Hitler.
If you don't think so, then I could suggest some reading for you that would show you that Microsoft pretty much does everything it can to force people to use IE.
Microsoft certainly doesn't respect your choice of default browser... if you have set it to Firefox or another non ie option, Windows still opens pages from things like messenger and windows update in an ie instance.
65 BILLION. Imagine...
Half of one billion should be enough really...
Wait wait wait...You mean I could not pay taxes and then burn Madoff at the stake? How the hell is this a losing proposition?
Because you might get burned at the stake for something.
better or faster ;-)
You can get lattes with cream????? Why the hell would you want to put cream on a latte?