"Some buisness leaders are so greedy they won't be happy until we're all working down in the coal mine for nothing - therefore we should be communist."
If any of you (corporate shills) are reading, let me know if there's a job opening sometime... since all I do is read slashdot all day I might as well get paid.
Forget about having an automatic transmission on a vehicle like that, and you'd better be easy on the clutch or you're going to be in stall city.
But why do you need an automatic transmission? NOBODY in Europe uses that, in fact it's considered a little bit gay. And "stall city"?! Yeah, either that or you could learn how to drive properly...
But seriously, I wonder where this notion that the French are somehow cowards in war came from? Was it around also before they decided not to support Bush's little adventure in Iraq? I don't know any other place than the US where this view is prevalent.
Except for maybe in England but then the English will take any chance at knocking the French, and vice versa.
It also runs stuff such as Flightgear (http://flightgear.org) which kicks Microsoft Flight Sim in the ASS. Not because of nicer graphics, but because you can do such cool stuff with it because it's open. Like use a webcam to get headtracking (instead of buying a $200 IR device) and just about every other cool thing you can think about.
I think we need more linux game developers, and for them to develop games that truly surpass anything available under Windows.. as soon as we have really cool stuff that's not available under windows we can get the hardcore people to at least double boot.
The US is the reason for most of the instability of the world. I promise we would be better off without them. Not the parts of our economy that deal with the US, granted, but I believe they would be easily assimilated into the rest of the economy.
... your precious economy? Easy, stop eating cows. Kill all the ones you have now and eat them, but don't make new ones. The farmland you can reclaim will yield ten times as much food and whatever you have left over that doesn't need to be used for growing food can be used for growing for instance industrial hemp, which can then be used as fuel for heating houses. Oil can be extracted from the plants which mixed with gasoline (20/80 in normal cars without any modifications) can run cars, reducing your addiction to foreign oil (or domestic, if you live in a country whose oil production still surpasses demand).
The world economy will not be wrecked with reductions in CO2 levels and fossile fuel use. The economy of the US, is another question altogether. Frankly, from where I'm sitting, a US stuck in subsistence farming isn't such a bad looker. It would probably benefit the rest of the planet a lot more than any futile attempts to salvage the US economy at the cost of more environmental damage.
Speaking as a materialist, I propose that ESP (or telepathy) does not make evolutionary sense. If any person had truly been born with anything like such a gift in the distant past, even in quite a modest and partial form, the selective advantage would have ensured that the necessary genes would have spread throughout the population.
Unless of course the mutation that enables ESP is a fairly recent one, and just now making its way throughout the population. If fact, a lot of these abilities are claimed to be inherited by the people who have them. I mean I'd like to see some hard proof of this too, but let's not dismiss stuff like this just because we are "materialists" or some such. So far the evidence is not there (well actually there is some) but that doesn't mean that it is impossible -- just that we don't know if (and in that case how) this works.
Which is why us in countries where government DOES build this kind of stuff has had 100 Mbit/sec lines for years and years now, in any city larger than 100K inhabitants, and quite a few below 100K. And all this with a population density BELOW that of the US. At a cost of about $30 a month, too.
Except it's not for once. I have several pieces of hardware which didn't work out of the box in Windows, but did so in Linux. Off the top of my head, my wireless card (RA2500) worked without any installation of any kind in Ubuntu 6.* whereas I had to scour the net for several minutes to find a version that worked in Windows.
My graphics card -- same story, it "worked" in Windows but had no 3D, and scrolling was a mess. Worked solidly in Ubuntu, had to go look for drivers for windows.
The list goes on, and I believe one of the reasons is that computers that come preloaded with Windows also come preloaded with the drivers needed. As soon as you need a reinstall of any sort stuff gets complicated. Linux (well some distros anyway) doesn't come preloaded, and as such needs to work with a greater number of peripherals out of the box, or people would deem it too much trouble to install and just use Windows.
Traditional flight training starts out with aircraft equipped with minimal instruments, and the new pilot is taught to get an intutive, "seat of the pants" sense of flight control. That's changing; today, many of the small trainers have full glass cockpits. Some people think this is bad. Others think it inevitable.
I've flown both with the "minimal instruments" you mention and glass cockpits, and at least in my opinion the glass cockpits are a lot more minimal. Everything is in one place, all the information you need is presented as and when you need it. Traditional flight instrumentation is scattered all over the place, and is much harder to incorporate into one coherent picture.
Oil companies and industrialists would love for global warming NOT to exist just as much as many anti-corporate liberals and environmental extremists would love for it TO exist.
I'm very anti-corporate, a socialist, and I really care about the environment. However, I would LOVE for Global Warming not to exist. It's just that what I want doesn't matter. The currently accepted theory is that is does exist, regardless of what I or you want. That's the problem.
The note at the end of TFA about using Flood myths to date and place a major impact is particularly intriguing. Some of the 'researchers' that have taken the route of aggregate myth analysis have come up with some pretty questionable results, but in other cases, surprising correlations stand out. Consider that virtually every culture, living or dead, has a flood myth in some form or another. I think it's good for us all to be reminded that myths and legends are based on real people and events, however obsured by the ravages of time and creative retelling.
That's all I've got...
Flood myths are interesting indeed, and once you start looking, you can actually find traces of possible disasters in many other myths too. Where I come from (well ok, lots north of it actually, but the same country) people tell the tale of "when the earth turned upside down" and the "golden age" was lost. Which, for someone like me who likes to read stuff into these myths, sounds like a technologically advanced golden age.
What you really want to look at though, is Mayan (and older) myths, which go into a lot of detail about these kinds of things, even so far as to try and predict the next event etc. Also precent in most south american myths is a group of whiteskinned bearded people who come after the catastrophe to give information and technology to the people. Varicocha, Teotl, etc, same guy, different name.
The US already uses the WTO to blugeon other nations. They tend to ignore any incovenient rulings against them though. But they freely use it to threaaten others. See the soft wood lumber deal with canada.
And the shutting down of the pirate bay. And countless others.
Like how about if they just say that they solemnly swear to send it back to today a year from now, when they have it working.. then we'd already know if it works today!
The question is, would we then spend as much time on trying to figure out how to do it? How about if we then didn't make it, how would that affect... I mean how would that.. What would...
Good for you, unfortunately even the article in the report states that peak oil is at best a few decades away. Also OPEC have been overstating their reserves since the 70s, to be allowed to extract more oil (to make more profit). Do you really think a "plateau" is that different from a peak?
I couldn't agree more. I couldn't be bothered to write it myself, but this is EXACTLY how I feel about the situation. Hope you get modded Insightful, because that's what this is.
A lot of my friends are engineers, and pretty much all of them got jobs right after finishing school. Some took two -three months, some already had jobs lined up before leaving school. Depends I guess on what field in engineering. But I don't think not knowing the language would be a huge disadvantage, people in engineering generallt know English (at least here in Scandinavia) and the language is actually similar enough that you will pick it up fairly quickly if you put your mind to it. It's not like learning Japanese.
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I wish there was a way to mod beyond 5.
But seriously, I wonder where this notion that the French are somehow cowards in war came from? Was it around also before they decided not to support Bush's little adventure in Iraq?
I don't know any other place than the US where this view is prevalent.
Except for maybe in England but then the English will take any chance at knocking the French, and vice versa.
Any ideas?
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0305 .0/0855.html
Not that I've actually done it.
It also runs stuff such as Flightgear (http://flightgear.org) which kicks Microsoft Flight Sim in the ASS. Not because of nicer graphics, but because you can do such cool stuff with it because it's open. Like use a webcam to get headtracking (instead of buying a $200 IR device) and just about every other cool thing you can think about.
I think we need more linux game developers, and for them to develop games that truly surpass anything available under Windows.. as soon as we have really cool stuff that's not available under windows we can get the hardcore people to at least double boot.
johan@ubuntu:~$ uptime
17:11:48 up 423 days, 8:58, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
The US is the reason for most of the instability of the world. I promise we would be better off without them. Not the parts of our economy that deal with the US, granted, but I believe they would be easily assimilated into the rest of the economy.
... your precious economy? Easy, stop eating cows. Kill all the ones you have now and eat them, but don't make new ones. The farmland you can reclaim will yield ten times as much food and whatever you have left over that doesn't need to be used for growing food can be used for growing for instance industrial hemp, which can then be used as fuel for heating houses. Oil can be extracted from the plants which mixed with gasoline (20/80 in normal cars without any modifications) can run cars, reducing your addiction to foreign oil (or domestic, if you live in a country whose oil production still surpasses demand).
The world economy will not be wrecked with reductions in CO2 levels and fossile fuel use. The economy of the US, is another question altogether. Frankly, from where I'm sitting, a US stuck in subsistence farming isn't such a bad looker. It would probably benefit the rest of the planet a lot more than any futile attempts to salvage the US economy at the cost of more environmental damage.
Which is why us in countries where government DOES build this kind of stuff has had 100 Mbit/sec lines for years and years now, in any city larger than 100K inhabitants, and quite a few below 100K. And all this with a population density BELOW that of the US. At a cost of about $30 a month, too.
Except it's not for once. I have several pieces of hardware which didn't work out of the box in Windows, but did so in Linux. Off the top of my head, my wireless card (RA2500) worked without any installation of any kind in Ubuntu 6.* whereas I had to scour the net for several minutes to find a version that worked in Windows.
My graphics card -- same story, it "worked" in Windows but had no 3D, and scrolling was a mess. Worked solidly in Ubuntu, had to go look for drivers for windows.
The list goes on, and I believe one of the reasons is that computers that come preloaded with Windows also come preloaded with the drivers needed. As soon as you need a reinstall of any sort stuff gets complicated. Linux (well some distros anyway) doesn't come preloaded, and as such needs to work with a greater number of peripherals out of the box, or people would deem it too much trouble to install and just use Windows.
I've flown both with the "minimal instruments" you mention and glass cockpits, and at least in my opinion the glass cockpits are a lot more minimal. Everything is in one place, all the information you need is presented as and when you need it. Traditional flight instrumentation is scattered all over the place, and is much harder to incorporate into one coherent picture.
What you really want to look at though, is Mayan (and older) myths, which go into a lot of detail about these kinds of things, even so far as to try and predict the next event etc. Also precent in most south american myths is a group of whiteskinned bearded people who come after the catastrophe to give information and technology to the people. Varicocha, Teotl, etc, same guy, different name.
Like how about if they just say that they solemnly swear to send it back to today a year from now, when they have it working.. then we'd already know if it works today!
The question is, would we then spend as much time on trying to figure out how to do it? How about if we then didn't make it, how would that affect... I mean how would that.. What would...
ANOTHER TIMEQUAKE!!! RUUUUNNNNN!!!
Before modding something funny, read the link. They're serious.
Good for you, unfortunately even the article in the report states that peak oil is at best a few decades away. Also OPEC have been overstating their reserves since the 70s, to be allowed to extract more oil (to make more profit). Do you really think a "plateau" is that different from a peak?
I couldn't agree more. I couldn't be bothered to write it myself, but this is EXACTLY how I feel about the situation. Hope you get modded Insightful, because that's what this is.
A lot of my friends are engineers, and pretty much all of them got jobs right after finishing school. Some took two -three months, some already had jobs lined up before leaving school. Depends I guess on what field in engineering. But I don't think not knowing the language would be a huge disadvantage, people in engineering generallt know English (at least here in Scandinavia) and the language is actually similar enough that you will pick it up fairly quickly if you put your mind to it. It's not like learning Japanese.