Originally developed by James Clark an expatriot Brit living in (of all places) Thailand!
http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html.
A prime example of great open source code.
To be explicit: In the Broken Window fallacy wealth is destroyed because the window is broken. In the "Vista fallacy" wealth is destroyed because peoples' (users', sys admins') knowledge of their OS is broken.
While I have a certain sympathy for the hackers if you really want to help in Lebanon donate money to the Lebanese Red Cross/Red Crescent.
Bank details can be found via the list of national sites http://www.ifrc.org/address/rclinks.asp - Lebanese Red Cross Want To Help
AUDI BANK
BAB IDRISS
Account Nb: 841500
SWIFT: AUDBLBBX
I've provided the complete HTML trail so people can check that this is not fraudulent.
Regards
Brian
Surely you remember the line in the film "Notting Hill" where Anna (reading from a script) says:
'No, turn over 4 TRS's and tell them we need radar feedback before the KFT's return at 19 hundred -- then inform the Pentagon that we'll be needing Blackstar cover from ten hundred through 12.15' -- and don't you dare say one word about how many mistakes I made in that speech or I'll pelt you with olives.
Saying " keep in mind the imminent end of oil has been predicted routinely for the last 125 years" is worthless. 125 years ago the state of scientific & technical knowledge was hardly on a par with today. There are very good reasons for thinking peak oil is here.
And to all the people who start saying "tar sands" - it not even sure that tar-shale has an economic EROEI (i.e. it takes a helluva lot of energy to get the oil out). Various sources quote about 1.5 for this as compared to 30 for middle east oil.
Aditionally simply relying on the magic of the free market to sort this one for us ain't going to work. Free markets (and the civilizations on which they were based) have collapsed in the past due to lack of raw materials - we need tech solutions to exploit alternatices and government incentives to develop those quickly.
Instead of worrying about the fact that oil has reached it's peak shouldn't we be figuring out ways of leaving the carbon in the ground? (Remember that greenhouse thingy?)
The focus in these debates always seems to be on how to produce more energy not use less. And that while we could easily save almost 50% of consumption using currently available technologies.
If youu're interested in more details see this link from the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4633160. stm "Energy's 'low hanging fruit'" by Dr Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
Slashdot Mirror
"and I survived the great Wii shortage of 2007"
Hem hem - Slashdot - "Stuff that matters"?
How appropriate.
Originally developed by James Clark an expatriot Brit living in (of all places) Thailand! http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html.
A prime example of great open source code.
To be explicit: In the Broken Window fallacy wealth is destroyed because the window is broken. In the "Vista fallacy" wealth is destroyed because peoples' (users', sys admins') knowledge of their OS is broken.
You've gotta admire the spin though.
Now that's breaking news!
While I have a certain sympathy for the hackers if you really want to help in Lebanon donate money to the Lebanese Red Cross/Red Crescent.
Bank details can be found via the list of national sites http://www.ifrc.org/address/rclinks.asp - Lebanese Red Cross Want To Help
AUDI BANK
BAB IDRISS
Account Nb: 841500
SWIFT: AUDBLBBX
I've provided the complete HTML trail so people can check that this is not fraudulent.
Regards Brian
"The American way of life is non-negotiable" said Dick Cheney. He should know he's already had four heart attacks.
Saying " keep in mind the imminent end of oil has been predicted routinely for the last 125 years" is worthless. 125 years ago the state of scientific & technical knowledge was hardly on a par with today. There are very good reasons for thinking peak oil is here. And to all the people who start saying "tar sands" - it not even sure that tar-shale has an economic EROEI (i.e. it takes a helluva lot of energy to get the oil out). Various sources quote about 1.5 for this as compared to 30 for middle east oil. Aditionally simply relying on the magic of the free market to sort this one for us ain't going to work. Free markets (and the civilizations on which they were based) have collapsed in the past due to lack of raw materials - we need tech solutions to exploit alternatices and government incentives to develop those quickly.
Instead of worrying about the fact that oil has reached it's peak shouldn't we be figuring out ways of leaving the carbon in the ground? (Remember that greenhouse thingy?) The focus in these debates always seems to be on how to produce more energy not use less. And that while we could easily save almost 50% of consumption using currently available technologies. If youu're interested in more details see this link from the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4633160. stm "Energy's 'low hanging fruit'" by Dr Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.