No, your gasoline has been driven UP artificially by the taxes on it. How much tax are you paying on a litre of gas? On a three dollar gallon here in Illinois (it's about $3.20 right now but was $2.85 just two weeks ago), there's $.184 per gallon (roughly four litres), and a state tax of $.201. However, if I didn't have to pay for medical insurance and health care, I wouldn't mind paying what you guys pay.
I blame Bush and Cheney, the oil men who now inhabit the White House (two more reasons for the world to be angry at us). Gasoline here costs three times what it did when they took office; it was a buck a gallon then. I firmly believe that the true reason for the Iraq war was to destabilise the middle east to drive up oil prices so Bush and Cheney could reap the benefits.
"Nano" can be redundant, but it is descriptive. A nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter. For us nonscientific Americans, a millimeter is about an eighth of an inch (or a sixteenth, somewhere between the two). Nanotech is technology that is a millionth of a millimeter or smaller. Nanotubes are tubes that are a millionth of a millimeter or smaller.
How about my particular layman's fantasy that a normal slashdotter would call a "theory" (it isn't and you all know it)
Spacetime is curved. So if you go far enough you'll come full circle where you started. All the matter in the universe is expandig outward, around the curve, until it comes back around itself in the "big crunch". The "big bang" is just all the matter in the universe bouncing.
Ok, so you got this car, see, and it's flying around the moon... what? You people don't have flying cars yet?
Well sorry guys, you're just too primitive to understand REAL physics. Come back when you figure out where you're going to keep all the necessary penguins.
What? You don't even know about the penguins? Shocking! You'll never reach lightspeed the way you're going.
You already have a very combustable gas in your home, natural gas. If you don't then even worse, you have a tank of propane in your yard.
I saw a thing on one of the educational channels a bunch of years ago where some guy shot first a tank of hydrogen with a thirty ought six, then a tank of gasoline with supposedly the same energy density.
The hydrogen looked a lot safer to me. Once when I was in 7th grade I manufactured some hydrogen, took it to school, and almost got expelled. These days I'd probably have gone to jail, or gitmo.
The hydrogen was far less dangerous than another of my childish experiments, which involved melting concrete blocks with a mixture of saltpeter and sugar.
Classic slashdot, the GP post is guessing, not even having RTFA (I actually did for once) that it's bullshit, your post actually imparts information, both are scored a 1 but yours is invisible. Mods, please mod parent up (and mod me down, this is offtopic)
Oops, sorry. Most of my journals involve drinking, hookers, reefer, and drunken stoned hookers. One of them was titled NSFW, but I would have thought that a journal about getting laid wouldn't need an NSFW tag.
Jesus H. Christ, people, do you link to McDonald's site showing proof that cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease? From the same stupid far right wing neocon trash you link:
Hillary has a point Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is collapsing, a victim of this one unsolveable problem: Hillary's opponents hate her -- but her supporters do not much like her.
Yeah, that's a real good source for news. You'ld be better off reading my slashdot journal for news. At least it links to a "real" newspaper that actually has papers made from dead trees.
Even if I do live in a cartoon city.
BTW, I'm not a Democrat. I voted in the Republican primary this year. My candidate lost.
Excuse me sir, but are you trolling? Please stop, as I'm a recovering troll biter. You should do your trolling offline like we do here in Springfield.
On the off chance that you're not trolling but genuinly ignorant and brainwashed, you might want to read what Wikipedia has to say. I never heard of the link you (and several others) have redundantly submitted. It appears to be a site some college kid (yay U of I! I'll give him credit for that) just opened up. He appears to have no credentials on the subject AT ALL as he's a computer science major.
The graph shown is for a few years. It's an anomoly. Compare it to the graph Wikipedia shows; there are ups and downs throughout the entire 150 year period it covers, but on the whole it's UP UP UP.
The Earth's climate changes in response to external forcing, including variations in its orbit around the Sun (orbital forcing),[13][14][15] volcanic eruptions,[16] and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. The detailed causes of the recent warming remain an active field of research, but the scientific consensus[17][18] is that the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases due to human activity caused most of the warming observed since the start of the industrial era. This attribution is clearest for the most recent 50 years, for which the most detailed data are available. Some other hypotheses departing from the consensus view have been suggested to explain the temperature increase. One such hypothesis proposes that warming may be the result of variations in solar activity.[19][20][21]
None of the effects of forcing are instantaneous. The thermal inertia of the Earth's oceans and slow responses of other indirect effects mean that the Earth's current climate is not in equilibrium with the forcing imposed. Climate commitment studies indicate that even if greenhouse gases were stabilized at 2000 levels, a further warming of about 0.5 C (0.9 F) would still occur.[22]
The blog posting is by a fellow named Michael Asher. No citations besides news sources are cited, and it doesn't even say what Asher's field of expertise is. For all I know he's president of Exxon, or maybe a thirteen year old middle school student.
You might as well get your science views from Uncyclopedia. At least you know they're not only talking out their asses, but TRYING to be funny (as oppesed to the blog you link which is unintentionally funny).
Dude, you've posted to slashdot. No way in hell you're going to collect from McDonalds for not getting laid! BTW, I wrote a journal last year that can help you.
Tetragrammaton is rarely said aloud or even written down
"You're only making it worse for yourself, you know." "Making it worse? How can it be any worse?? Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah! OW!! We haven't even started yet!" "All right, who threw that?"
I always say the optimist is almost always disappointed, while the pessimist is often happily surprised. My Grandma said "hope for the best but plan for the worst".
I make my share of typos, but when a misspelling changes the meaning of a sentence to exactly the opposite of what the writer intended to say he has a problem.
"What do you mean, there's a fly in your soup?" "Oh sorry, I misspelled 'spoon'"
Freedom of choice for one. I can't legally grow a certain species of plant, or posess it, or smoke its dried buds. I don't have the right to bear arms; I must get permission to even own a firearm. If I walk down the street of any city carrying a shotgun, I will be jailed. The police can search my property without a warrant, and in fact did twice last year.
"Hate crime" laws mean you don't have freedom of speech.
Are there abuses? Absolutely. Gitmo, the No Fly List, and many other things are not as they should be
Well, you'll get no argument from me there.
Sure, I have to pay taxes
"Freedom" is freedom OF, not freedom FROM. And just because you don't want to engage in a particular activity you have no freedom to do doesn't mean you're free. That K5 article is about three years old, things have gotten worse in the meantime.
Nothing you do that doesn't harm me should be illegal.
Ozzy Osbourne, the bat biting headbanger, is a geek. Although I heard that his geekiness was accidental, and unfortunately the misinformed wikipedia article doen't have the word "geek" in it even once.
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Wings? Boy you guys ARE primitive!
Hernandez. He's a Mexical illegal immigrant living in Arizona.
No, your gasoline has been driven UP artificially by the taxes on it. How much tax are you paying on a litre of gas? On a three dollar gallon here in Illinois (it's about $3.20 right now but was $2.85 just two weeks ago), there's $.184 per gallon (roughly four litres), and a state tax of $.201. However, if I didn't have to pay for medical insurance and health care, I wouldn't mind paying what you guys pay.
I blame Bush and Cheney, the oil men who now inhabit the White House (two more reasons for the world to be angry at us). Gasoline here costs three times what it did when they took office; it was a buck a gallon then. I firmly believe that the true reason for the Iraq war was to destabilise the middle east to drive up oil prices so Bush and Cheney could reap the benefits.
"Nano" can be redundant, but it is descriptive. A nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter. For us nonscientific Americans, a millimeter is about an eighth of an inch (or a sixteenth, somewhere between the two). Nanotech is technology that is a millionth of a millimeter or smaller. Nanotubes are tubes that are a millionth of a millimeter or smaller.
Your nanosentense is meganonsensical.
How about my particular layman's fantasy that a normal slashdotter would call a "theory" (it isn't and you all know it)
Spacetime is curved. So if you go far enough you'll come full circle where you started. All the matter in the universe is expandig outward, around the curve, until it comes back around itself in the "big crunch". The "big bang" is just all the matter in the universe bouncing.
So do I get my award?
Ok, so you got this car, see, and it's flying around the moon... what? You people don't have flying cars yet?
Well sorry guys, you're just too primitive to understand REAL physics. Come back when you figure out where you're going to keep all the necessary penguins.
What? You don't even know about the penguins? Shocking! You'll never reach lightspeed the way you're going.
-Al Facentuari
You already have a very combustable gas in your home, natural gas. If you don't then even worse, you have a tank of propane in your yard.
I saw a thing on one of the educational channels a bunch of years ago where some guy shot first a tank of hydrogen with a thirty ought six, then a tank of gasoline with supposedly the same energy density.
The hydrogen looked a lot safer to me. Once when I was in 7th grade I manufactured some hydrogen, took it to school, and almost got expelled. These days I'd probably have gone to jail, or gitmo.
The hydrogen was far less dangerous than another of my childish experiments, which involved melting concrete blocks with a mixture of saltpeter and sugar.
Related post: Nano particles could make hydrogen cheaper than [some other very expensive commodity whose price has been driven up artificially]
I want a wind powered car! A flying wind powered car. A flying wind powered car that drives itself.
And a pony.
Classic slashdot, the GP post is guessing, not even having RTFA (I actually did for once) that it's bullshit, your post actually imparts information, both are scored a 1 but yours is invisible. Mods, please mod parent up (and mod me down, this is offtopic)
The late great Walt Kelly said it best (through Pogo of course)- "Common sense ain't so common."
You don't know what you've got until it's gone.
True that! Good riddance to my ex-wife!
There's a graph, not much to read on that page. I just went back to recheck and OOPS, I think I slashdotted the poor feckers... OK here it is.
2003-2008 PAC Contribution Breakdown
Business $665,903 (54.3%)
Labor $286,400 (23.3%)
Ideological/Single Issue $274,394 (22.4%)
Oops, sorry. Most of my journals involve drinking, hookers, reefer, and drunken stoned hookers. One of them was titled NSFW, but I would have thought that a journal about getting laid wouldn't need an NSFW tag.
Even if I do live in a cartoon city.
BTW, I'm not a Democrat. I voted in the Republican primary this year. My candidate lost.
On the off chance that you're not trolling but genuinly ignorant and brainwashed, you might want to read what Wikipedia has to say. I never heard of the link you (and several others) have redundantly submitted. It appears to be a site some college kid (yay U of I! I'll give him credit for that) just opened up. He appears to have no credentials on the subject AT ALL as he's a computer science major.
The graph shown is for a few years. It's an anomoly. Compare it to the graph Wikipedia shows; there are ups and downs throughout the entire 150 year period it covers, but on the whole it's UP UP UP.The blog posting is by a fellow named Michael Asher. No citations besides news sources are cited, and it doesn't even say what Asher's field of expertise is. For all I know he's president of Exxon, or maybe a thirteen year old middle school student.
You might as well get your science views from Uncyclopedia. At least you know they're not only talking out their asses, but TRYING to be funny (as oppesed to the blog you link which is unintentionally funny).
Well, I see where you got your information!
Dude, you've posted to slashdot. No way in hell you're going to collect from McDonalds for not getting laid! BTW, I wrote a journal last year that can help you.
Tetragrammaton is rarely said aloud or even written down
"You're only making it worse for yourself, you know."
"Making it worse? How can it be any worse?? Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah! OW!! We haven't even started yet!"
"All right, who threw that?"
I always say the optimist is almost always disappointed, while the pessimist is often happily surprised. My Grandma said "hope for the best but plan for the worst".
I make my share of typos, but when a misspelling changes the meaning of a sentence to exactly the opposite of what the writer intended to say he has a problem.
"What do you mean, there's a fly in your soup?"
"Oh sorry, I misspelled 'spoon'"
What freedom is it you are lacking?
Freedom of choice for one. I can't legally grow a certain species of plant, or posess it, or smoke its dried buds. I don't have the right to bear arms; I must get permission to even own a firearm. If I walk down the street of any city carrying a shotgun, I will be jailed. The police can search my property without a warrant, and in fact did twice last year.
"Hate crime" laws mean you don't have freedom of speech.
I think I already linked this old K5 article Liberty? What liberty?
Our political dissidents are not assassinated, or disappeared
Three words: Martin Luther King.
We can speak out, clearly and loudly against the government
If you speak out loudly and clearly against one of the corporations that own the government you'll be hit with a SLAPP suit.
You can apply for any job you want, and not be worried the government will blackball you and prevent it.
You might want to read some history. The history I refer to happened within my lifetime.
Are there abuses? Absolutely. Gitmo, the No Fly List, and many other things are not as they should be
Well, you'll get no argument from me there.
Sure, I have to pay taxes
"Freedom" is freedom OF, not freedom FROM. And just because you don't want to engage in a particular activity you have no freedom to do doesn't mean you're free. That K5 article is about three years old, things have gotten worse in the meantime.
Nothing you do that doesn't harm me should be illegal.
-mcgrew
I found a picture of the dark matter! Or... well hell it might be a black hole. Oh wait...
Ozzy Osbourne, the bat biting headbanger, is a geek. Although I heard that his geekiness was accidental, and unfortunately the misinformed wikipedia article doen't have the word "geek" in it even once.
I'm sorry you're just too jaded to appreciate that those were the intentions and those intentions have been perverted.
Actually I can't argue with that at all. In fact I wrote a K5 article a few years ago that expoused exactly that sentiment.
Moral duties including, it is to be supposed, contributing to the spread of knowledge and the enlightment of your fellow citizens.
Seems to me that any scientist who wasn't like that would be a very poor scientist.