To each his own. It might come later.
It took me a while to enjoy wines and olives.
Anyway, weed, guitar, anal sex and skateboarding are my great pleasures in life right now, and I don't feel like I'm missing anything :D

The primitive coal to liquids technology they used was very inefficient tech consuming way more energy of coal than it produced jet fuel (highly negative EROEI).

You're right. But then you're back to problem 1 on the list : extreme climate change.
We have too much oil/coal/gas (see climate change) but not enough oil/gas (see oil peak).

+5 Insightful?
No :
-5 for bullshit, willful ignorance and not reading the article you link to :

However, economists later showed that Ehrlich would have won in the majority of 10-year periods over the last century,[2][3] and if the wager was extended by 30 years to 2011, he would have won on four out of the five metals.[3]

You might want to take a look at this article about the energy trap : http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the...
You're talking about extraction price, you should talk about the energy return on investment : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
Once it costs more energy to retrieve oil than to leave it in the ground, we'll have a big problem, and that hasn't been mentioned one bit by TFA.

+1
WTF Oxford University?
Our society is so dependent on oil that I cannot believe either they didn't include it.

It's just not my taste.
My father in law is a cigar nerd : I tried Cohiba and Montecristo from his humedor, it just tasted awful.
Maybe it's just me, I cannot drink a single drop of good whisky either.

And then puke because it absolutely smells disgusting.
Even with quality cigars and even when smoking properly (i.e. not like cigarettes or joints).

Everything tends to look smaller when you cube root it :
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/eart...

You want to be an airplane pilot?
Well, show me how you can kickflip on this skateboard!

It reminds me of a joke. It was something like :
* What do you do for a living?
* I protect the population : I'm a velociraptor hunter
* But, there's no velociraptor!
* You're welcome.

That.
I'm a Ruby programmer, but had to begin working on a Java project last year.
As a Vim user, I was just horrified at the amount of "Bar bar = foo.getBar();" I had to write by hand.
I began to use Eclipse (with Vrapper) and suddenly everything was less painful.
When I code Ruby with Vim now, I'm surprised when I change a method and don't see red markers appear in my code.

why aren't apes having human babies now

That's actually a funny/insightful question :D

I thought about this.
Between :
* dying a quick (but horrible) death
* rotting away for eternity without trial, regular torture, sleep deprevation and occasional 30-hour binge of Christina Aguilera.
What would you choose?
I'm really not sure, but I think I'd choose the death by fire.

Slashdot has a well-hidden edit button.
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It can be :
www.dxomark.com/Reviews/Looking-for-new-photo-gear-DxOMark-s-Perceptual-Megapixel-can-help-you

The current crop of phone cameras are certainly still inferior to dedicated cameras, but they're good enough for most people most of the time and thats what matters.
Most people won't carry a camera with them at all times, but they do carry a phone and its good enough for occasional shots. A lot of those images are going to end up posted online at significantly lower resolution than even a phone camera can manage anyway, and they will be viewed on tiny screens.
Aside from the convenience of being always in your pocket, phones have the added convenience of connectivity so you can upload your pictures immediately.

Proper cameras will always be a niche for those who enjoy photography or do it for a living, but for the vast majority of people a phone camera is all they will ever need.