Comment Re:Something will have to give (Score 1) 416
should read energy *requirements*
should read energy *requirements*
What if as population and energy increase so does our ability and willingness (due to cost effectiveness) to attain resources (including shelter) from more and more expensive sources? You know, like it has throughout history. The Malthusian Scissors don't exist.
This. Apart from the totalitarian world government you mention (and there's honestly no guarantee even that would work), there is no way to significantly alter the rate of consumption of fossil fuels, let alone stop it.
If you truly believe that catastrophic warming is going to happen then the only rational response is preparation, not prevention.
No, that's not how value works. In this hypothetical you would end up with 60 trillion dollars that are worth less than they were before. There's no such thing as a closed economy in the sense of a fixed amount of value. Total value always fluctuates.
The answer is: pretty often.
Numbers are argued over constantly, so I won't bother quoting any, but this subreddit is relevant: http://www.reddit.com/r/dgu
You should watch The Phantom Edit, it fixes a lot, including the problem you mention. (Battledroids that are all controlled remotely from a single place using audible frequencies to communicate with themselves.)
Sounds like he's having trouble differentiating between government censorship and non government moderation.
Free speech has nothing at all to do with moderating a privately owned forum in such a way that the conversations are productive.
You sound like you are too willing to use logical reasoning and allow personal freedoms and responsibility to fit what I would consider "liberal." (I'm assuming you mean liberal in the sense of liberal politics in the United States, not liberal in the sense of "in favor of liberty."
Wish I had mod points.
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Anonymous went mainstream circa 2007. Anyone thinking anything different has no understanding of what is actually going on.
The difference in salt is relatively unimportant.
The difference in salt is of primary importance since the purpose of Gatorade is to provide those salts that are lost during the natural process of perspiration.
You're also ignoring the caffeine present in the Mountain Dew and not in the Gatorade.
Gatorade is far from the healthiest choice of beverages to be swilling down in large amounts, however it is substantially different nutritionally than Mountain Dew, and your comparison is lacking in my opinion.
when people say "printing money" usually they mean "creating money."
What dialogs are you using to shut down? I go to the start menu and click "shut down."
third, who are you to decide what is fair? you didn't write the app, and have no idea how much time, effort, and resources went into the development. if it took me 3 man years of development, and i had to pay to license some technology, and i decide it needs to cost $30 for me to recoup my losses and make a small profit, who are you to tell me different?
I am the only one with access to the necessary data to decide what value I attain from the use of the software.
It doesn't matter how much it cost you to provide, if you can't provide it at a price that matches the value it gives to me then it costs too much.
In your example, if you need to charge $30 to make money and I don't get $30 of value from the use of your software, then you're the one that fucked up, not me.
Stellar rays prove fibbing never pays. Embezzlement is another matter.
