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Comment Re:So (Score 1) 1105

<quote><blockquote><div><p> <i>And that's exactly the problem.
</i></p></div></blockquote><p> people will naturally and inexpensively adjust (move, change crops, rebuild waterfront installations) to whatever comes without really noticing why.</p></quote>

<p>People will adjust, but claiming it will be 'inexpensive' is a little nuts.</p>

<p>The infrastructure that supports our civilisation has been built over century's, having to rebuild it will not be cheap. Ask your self, are the new New Orleans flood defences 'inexpensive'? are the Mississippi flood control schemes sized to cope with future floods, or will they need to be expanded? and if so will that be 'inexpensive'? Will the irrigation systems used by farmers continue to supply water if there is a drought? If it dosn't will the higher food prices be 'inexpensive' to adjust to?</p>

Comment Re:I like the idea (Score 1) 36

Dunno where you are in the UK., but the London hack space is activly seeking members so they can get more subscription fees, so they can buy a laser cutter and lathes etc. Also in london is the metropolitan works, http://www.metropolitanworks.org/ , expensive, but London hack space is a member, and the blueprint model shop which has a laser cutter.

Comment There still out there (Score 1) 257

This site (full of spam comments) has a y2k bug: http://www.amtor.com/cgi-bin/links/cougalinks.cgi?action=view-links note that the dates are "19109" (or 19110 now), this is beacause perl stores the year as the number of years after 1900, so 1999 is 99, and 2000 is 100, you were supposed to print years by adding the perl year to 1900 and then converting the result to a string and printing that, but many people didn't bother and instead printed "19" and then the perl year, which is why that site is showing "19109" as the year...

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