Germany gets 6% from wind. And the us uses 10x as much electricity. And thats with 20,000 mills. Sooo the US would need around 40times as many mills to meet the level tboone specified. Thats 800,000mills. At current prices this will take 28trillion dollars to install i'm sure scale would drop this to around 10trillion but that doesnt really matter prices are arguable. The real problem is that a 200MW farm takes 20 square kilometers. So to fill that 20% need it would cover around a quarter of texas.
Uh lol to the bible but the first half of your post has a point. Maximum lifespans have only gone up 15~20 years in the last 150years. That trend is slightly exponential however its likely a linear trend once you account for the number of people in the world (more ppl = more chances = more super-old people). Also, noone has lived to 130, 122 is the record. One thing i would like to note however is that these people are freaks (outliers if you prefer) and they might not be affected the same way. As well it does not make the increase in average age any less important... since well most of us are average.
Oh noes, the tax system will need an overhaul if we get to live forever. It already needs an overhaul. And to be fair the few billion we'll need to spend fixing the tax system is probably worth the immortality of mankind.
Very informative and i liked the analogy too. But there are alot of tricks to increasing longevity aside from the ones you mentioned, i suggest people thoroughly look into mr greys work.
It wouldn't be about the money. It would be to condemn it. Saying it is ok is the wrong thing to do even if it might not go anywhere in court. That as they say is for the courts to decide.
nahhh look at the money trail. When you look at exactly HOW MUCH money goes into lobbying. Then how much goes into donations, how much goes into favours its worrisome. A few years back I used to hang out in some shady corners of the internet so I got a lot more of this sort of information. Even if not all of congress is corrupt I can assure you at least 80 have been bribed whether they returned the favour or not.
"a one-third reduction, equal to $230 billion, in the U.S.' yearly payments to foreign countries."
Note that he says it reduces foreign spending, but not cost. Weird, it might go either way but he doesnt say...
Everything I have read on wind power shows it to be incredibly infeasible. You'd have to cover the entire corridor with mills to be able to get the % he wants. He also listed biofuel as generator option which is frankly frightening. And he is underestimating greatly the effort to change to natural gas.
Then he says all we need is proper leadership. HAH, if we had the perfect leader we could land a person on mars in 10years. But thats not happening. Hell if we had even semi-decent leadership, we could pass a law enforcing fuel efficiency and mpg for cars and usage would drop dramatically.
But maybe I just have it in for a guy that sounds like a hick while talking about science. And he has a name like T.Boone (reminds me of steak, country music stars, rappers and b/w westerns all at the same time). And was in SBVT a false smear campaign against kerry....
Ah I totally missed that. But then again the american 'war on terror' is a joke so it can't be trolled. Less than a third of the US is for it. over 90% of the world globally is against it. I remember reading that before the war started even Israel was against it (havent seen new polls since).
parent is not a troll.... the us gets all kinds of political power for killing the bad guys. If they could 'kill the bad guys' and do science they could possibly be talked into it. Also a post more or less the same right above it is marked insightful wth.
lol i gave google the benefit of the doubt. But man it isn't SL which i didnt like anyways. Its 3d chat rooms. And it doesnt load properly atm (/.ed? lol) AND as many of you will soon notice it doesn't have an uninstall program, you have to use windows add/remove. I'm totally disappointed yay.
People wont invest in something they thing is impossible. Tech illiterate believe that it is more reasonable to replace something (a leg) than control something different like a car. Legs people understand we mostl all have some so they assume hey thats doable. Truth that driving a car would be WAY easier doesn't really matter.
The world average is 52% but you are absolutely right about english speaking countries. Canada is only at 35% and England is at a mere 30% ( http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_237.en.pdf )...... then again, America is hovering at 8% bilingualism less than 1/4 Canada's... Anyways it is just a saying or a joke i've heard it wasn't meant to be particularly offensive.
There are two types of people. Bilingual people and Americans. Please learn another language, it is good for the brain. It will increase your marketability even if its not that useful a language employers respect it. More useful languages would probably be asian (mandarin, japanese). But it depends what field you are going into and if you intend to leave the country.
Harassment is already illegal. And if some guy wants to commit suicide by goring himself on a horse cock he can go right ahead. Why would you make that illegal? Hes not harming others aside from it being gross. But its about the same as punching yourself in the face, which to my knowledge is not illegal.
japanese is 100% phonetic..... if you use kana... if you use kanji then you are pretty fucked. I believe korean is near phonetic too. I suppose you ycan drop sounds if you are lazy in japanese but you are fine pronouncing everything.
That wasn't a war on Iraq it was a few small military strikes. Thats like saying a surgeon cutting someone is the exact same as a buffoon taking an uzi and firing randomly into a crowd. I'm not arguing what clinton did was right or wrong but the two military actions are WORLDS apart.
By the way this was written WAY too many people are going to think this. Especially the tech illiterate. Records are needed NEEDED for security. If you have ever run a server or even a chatroom you'd know this. What happens when people spam youtube? Oh i know they do but thats WITH tracking bad IPs, without it would be much worse. How about people that post porn. Or people DDOSing them. IPs are a useful tool.
Try not to give Google so much shit about this. The REAL problem isn't Google, its Viacom and the court system. I think its more reasonable for Google to have identifiable info on people for 18months then it is for the government to order google to hand it over to a private company no less! Please, if you want to mail Google tell them to not let this happen. Don't take away a necessary tool since you don't understand it.
Can someone tag this flamebait. Along with the last article on the issue. I mean COME ON you are quoting a msft lackey on Google. No shit he is going to say bad things. Google doesn't have problems getting the people they need. This is stupid, and I thank God that Google isn't just like microsoft. I'm somewhat amazed that the losing company can point and go oh hey, they suck because they arent just like us, and that has nothing to do with why we are getting crushed in every market they enter.
yeah sorry i had a way more detailed post before but power went out so i got lazy. I definitely did not say all old people are evil. Mccain said "I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live." even if he was referring to only war 'gooks' the statement is troubling. We know he is religious and we know his stance on gays. Also we have a quote of him calling his wife a trollop and a cunt. And we know he left his first wife pretty ungentlemanly. Anyways when I said 'alot of old people' i meant comparatively, i didnt mean most. I just think its safe to say given mccains situation while being raised white man born on a military base in the 30s. combined with what we know of his policies, it wouldnt be a wild leap to say some of these things of him.
I had trouble finding any demographics on prejudices. But i feel it is safe to say people in the 40s and 50s were more racist than people today. And more sexist and waaaay more homophobic. And he was in vietnam, was born in a military base during WWII. It would not be shocking if he was raised with some prejudices on a military base. Having lived in those times i'm comfortable to say statistically it is more likely for him to be prejudiced than someone younger. I'm not saying all old people are evil or anything that would be stupid. But many people in McCains situation would hold a few prejudices. Also he is against gay marriage so... thats pretty straight-up.
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Germany gets 6% from wind. And the us uses 10x as much electricity. And thats with 20,000 mills. Sooo the US would need around 40times as many mills to meet the level tboone specified. Thats 800,000mills. At current prices this will take 28trillion dollars to install i'm sure scale would drop this to around 10trillion but that doesnt really matter prices are arguable. The real problem is that a 200MW farm takes 20 square kilometers. So to fill that 20% need it would cover around a quarter of texas.
Canada was going to make marijuana legal before the conservatives got in.... so no, no we don't. Lol don't look to canada for more right wing laws.
Uh lol to the bible but the first half of your post has a point. Maximum lifespans have only gone up 15~20 years in the last 150years. That trend is slightly exponential however its likely a linear trend once you account for the number of people in the world (more ppl = more chances = more super-old people). Also, noone has lived to 130, 122 is the record. One thing i would like to note however is that these people are freaks (outliers if you prefer) and they might not be affected the same way. As well it does not make the increase in average age any less important... since well most of us are average.
Oh noes, the tax system will need an overhaul if we get to live forever. It already needs an overhaul. And to be fair the few billion we'll need to spend fixing the tax system is probably worth the immortality of mankind.
Very informative and i liked the analogy too. But there are alot of tricks to increasing longevity aside from the ones you mentioned, i suggest people thoroughly look into mr greys work.
It wouldn't be about the money. It would be to condemn it. Saying it is ok is the wrong thing to do even if it might not go anywhere in court. That as they say is for the courts to decide.
nahhh look at the money trail. When you look at exactly HOW MUCH money goes into lobbying. Then how much goes into donations, how much goes into favours its worrisome. A few years back I used to hang out in some shady corners of the internet so I got a lot more of this sort of information. Even if not all of congress is corrupt I can assure you at least 80 have been bribed whether they returned the favour or not.
I congratulate you for making a nerdy joke even more nerdy. More importantly, one that's technically correct ... the best kind of correct.
"a one-third reduction, equal to $230 billion, in the U.S.' yearly payments to foreign countries."
Note that he says it reduces foreign spending, but not cost. Weird, it might go either way but he doesnt say ...
Everything I have read on wind power shows it to be incredibly infeasible. You'd have to cover the entire corridor with mills to be able to get the % he wants. He also listed biofuel as generator option which is frankly frightening. And he is underestimating greatly the effort to change to natural gas.
Then he says all we need is proper leadership. HAH, if we had the perfect leader we could land a person on mars in 10years. But thats not happening. Hell if we had even semi-decent leadership, we could pass a law enforcing fuel efficiency and mpg for cars and usage would drop dramatically.
But maybe I just have it in for a guy that sounds like a hick while talking about science. And he has a name like T.Boone (reminds me of steak, country music stars, rappers and b/w westerns all at the same time). And was in SBVT a false smear campaign against kerry....
Ah I totally missed that. But then again the american 'war on terror' is a joke so it can't be trolled. Less than a third of the US is for it. over 90% of the world globally is against it. I remember reading that before the war started even Israel was against it (havent seen new polls since).
RADAR LASER...? Get over it. Be proud that its common enough that you don't need all caps.
parent is not a troll.... the us gets all kinds of political power for killing the bad guys. If they could 'kill the bad guys' and do science they could possibly be talked into it. Also a post more or less the same right above it is marked insightful wth.
you mean 4th? .... pilots?
lol i gave google the benefit of the doubt. But man it isn't SL which i didnt like anyways. Its 3d chat rooms. And it doesnt load properly atm (/.ed? lol) AND as many of you will soon notice it doesn't have an uninstall program, you have to use windows add/remove. I'm totally disappointed yay.
People wont invest in something they thing is impossible. Tech illiterate believe that it is more reasonable to replace something (a leg) than control something different like a car. Legs people understand we mostl all have some so they assume hey thats doable. Truth that driving a car would be WAY easier doesn't really matter.
The world average is 52% but you are absolutely right about english speaking countries. Canada is only at 35% and England is at a mere 30% ( http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_237.en.pdf )...... then again, America is hovering at 8% bilingualism less than 1/4 Canada's... Anyways it is just a saying or a joke i've heard it wasn't meant to be particularly offensive.
She's human so that is pretty standard.
There are two types of people. Bilingual people and Americans. Please learn another language, it is good for the brain. It will increase your marketability even if its not that useful a language employers respect it. More useful languages would probably be asian (mandarin, japanese). But it depends what field you are going into and if you intend to leave the country.
Harassment is already illegal. And if some guy wants to commit suicide by goring himself on a horse cock he can go right ahead. Why would you make that illegal? Hes not harming others aside from it being gross. But its about the same as punching yourself in the face, which to my knowledge is not illegal.
japanese is 100% phonetic..... if you use kana... if you use kanji then you are pretty fucked. I believe korean is near phonetic too. I suppose you ycan drop sounds if you are lazy in japanese but you are fine pronouncing everything.
That wasn't a war on Iraq it was a few small military strikes. Thats like saying a surgeon cutting someone is the exact same as a buffoon taking an uzi and firing randomly into a crowd. I'm not arguing what clinton did was right or wrong but the two military actions are WORLDS apart.
By the way this was written WAY too many people are going to think this. Especially the tech illiterate. Records are needed NEEDED for security. If you have ever run a server or even a chatroom you'd know this. What happens when people spam youtube? Oh i know they do but thats WITH tracking bad IPs, without it would be much worse. How about people that post porn. Or people DDOSing them. IPs are a useful tool.
Try not to give Google so much shit about this. The REAL problem isn't Google, its Viacom and the court system. I think its more reasonable for Google to have identifiable info on people for 18months then it is for the government to order google to hand it over to a private company no less! Please, if you want to mail Google tell them to not let this happen. Don't take away a necessary tool since you don't understand it.
Can someone tag this flamebait. Along with the last article on the issue. I mean COME ON you are quoting a msft lackey on Google. No shit he is going to say bad things. Google doesn't have problems getting the people they need. This is stupid, and I thank God that Google isn't just like microsoft. I'm somewhat amazed that the losing company can point and go oh hey, they suck because they arent just like us, and that has nothing to do with why we are getting crushed in every market they enter.
yeah sorry i had a way more detailed post before but power went out so i got lazy. I definitely did not say all old people are evil. Mccain said "I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live." even if he was referring to only war 'gooks' the statement is troubling. We know he is religious and we know his stance on gays. Also we have a quote of him calling his wife a trollop and a cunt. And we know he left his first wife pretty ungentlemanly. Anyways when I said 'alot of old people' i meant comparatively, i didnt mean most. I just think its safe to say given mccains situation while being raised white man born on a military base in the 30s. combined with what we know of his policies, it wouldnt be a wild leap to say some of these things of him.
I had trouble finding any demographics on prejudices. But i feel it is safe to say people in the 40s and 50s were more racist than people today. And more sexist and waaaay more homophobic. And he was in vietnam, was born in a military base during WWII. It would not be shocking if he was raised with some prejudices on a military base. Having lived in those times i'm comfortable to say statistically it is more likely for him to be prejudiced than someone younger. I'm not saying all old people are evil or anything that would be stupid. But many people in McCains situation would hold a few prejudices. Also he is against gay marriage so ... thats pretty straight-up.