Second that. It's my homepage for years. Somebody's making a very bad decision.

If we are still talking about the US gasoline, the peak was in 1998. http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=A103600001&f=M It dived more than twice since then.

It seems to me that it is much more likely that all of them choose B and died on their home rocks before they got a chance to leave.
Besides, an argument that we are not a typical place in the universe is not generally accepted. Using it any modern problem, such as dark matter issue, could be explained easily.

That's why there are billions of habitable planets around and no aliens anywhere.

We need iLight (c)

Well... I do; for the US that is.

It was Henry Bliss. He was a real estate agent in NY (no surprise here), killed by a taxicab (still no surprise).

What is interesting, it was an electric car. We got to stay with gas just for the sake of children. http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2011/09/0913first-us-pedestrian-killed-by-car/

Unfortunately, it is impossible to train airbus crew to fly the plane. Airbus autopilot has at least four different levels of automation called "laws" http://www.airbusdriver.net/airbus_fltlaws.htm. Each one is disengaged by autopilot itself, if necessary. Now, there is no way to manually switch between laws hence pilots can not learn them. On top of it, airbus flies differently so all their past experience is somewhat useless or even counterproductive. In a way, I know how to fly with my 150 hours better, than your typical airbus pilot. It is scary.

The real question is how much oil it would take. So called gold bugs do not necessarily like gold per se. They simply believe the classic definition: "money is a commodity used for exchange".

There is a catch though. If the US people really switch to 10% savings rate, we'll get Great Depression 2.0 and 6 month savings will be way too low. It's called Paradox of thrift http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift
That's why the only sound strategy is to save yourself, but push others to spend. Unfortunately it does not work long term either because saved money is a form of credit to said others and sooner or later they will default.

Perhaps, I did not make myself clear. Sure, you can be here on B1 and look for a job based on your *foreign* experience/education. But if asked about current job, you'd have so say unemployed, which would be a lie. You can't say you are working in the US on B1 as it will potentially make adjustment of status much more difficult. It's a catch 22 situation.

There is much bigger reason why companies don't want to obtain H1-B. While on work visa, it's relatively easy to find some other employer willing to take you on H1-B or even on adjustment of status to Green Card. On the other hand, somebody working on B1 can't look for another job at all - he can't claim experience because it is illegal. Makes nice slaves. It used to be popular in 90s, but in little shops.

And here is a video of this evil KGB weapon in action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tBNb_k4fEE

I need a pad to watch movies while running in a gym. Is this new marvel going to have a bluetooth that does not delay? Friends, anybody knows of any bluetooth pad/headset pair that is friendly to each other and solve that horrible buffering issue?

If they publish more, the quota will go up. Come to think about it, they need to make sure publication per dollar is higher than outsourced.

To make any significant amount of bio*, we need fertilizers in general and nitro in particular, which is produced directly from natural gas. Yes, we could use electrolysis, but it'd take much more energy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process

BTW, we are, in a sense, made from gas. The process eventually generates half of our protein and feeds at least 1/3 of humanity. But without it there probably would be no WWI, Revolution, WWII... It was developed by the same guy who created Cyclon-B. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclon_B