Actually that reading is pretty far from mainstream orthodox Christian teaching, even within protestantism. Pre-millennial dispensationalism is a minority view among theologians and almost unheard of outside the USA.

Actually the problem is not when production peaks, but when production cannot keep up with demand. At that point prices will rise rapidly, even if production continues to grow. A fall off in production will only exacerbate the price rises, and the rapid decline in production that peak oil predicts will make oil too expensive for many parts of the world, severely limiting their growth and ability to produce food and goods.

The problem is not the lack of oil per se, but the lack of cheap oil.

I believe their profits are in the regions of $14B last year. It ought to be enough to cover the damage.

Both, and more. The new tech should give at least 4x better sensitivity with higher resolutions, but the other major benefit over CMOS is something else called "Fill Factor". Basically this is the amount of the sensor surface which collects useful light. With typical CMOS chips this is something like 40%, but with these quantum dot devices it is 100% as the light sensitive region lies on the surface of the chip with the electronics below. This is not such a huge deal for mobile phone cameras, but it is a big deal in astronomy and scientific imaging applications which use very low light levels, and currently have to use CCDs with all their disadvantages.

This could be revolutionary in the field of Raman spectroscopy and other similar fields, and I for one am waiting with baited breath for this to become a reality.

Is it wrong that I find his stick figure girls a huge turn-on? I mean, almost all of them are naked.

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Nevertheless, they did exist. I have a Russian friend who did "Atheism class", who now has a PhD in Mathematics. The irony was that it was the atheism class which made her believe there was a God. I too was stunned when she told be about the class, as it made no sense, but she insisted that it was a class dedicated to teaching children that there was no god, and used evolution to try and prove it. It sounded like precisely the sort of thing that Richard Dawkins was trying to promote with his atheist summer camps for children.
You can shift the goal posts and do as much mental gymnastics as you like; the fact remains that the worst atrocities in history were perpetrated by regimes who asserted the God did not exist.

That's not to say that all religions have clean hands, they don't, but humans seem to have an inbuilt need to worship something, and what we worship will heavily influence who we live and act, and how we understand the importance of the lives of those around us. If we don't worship a God for whom all people everywhere are equally loved and important, then we will see others as less than human and do evil things to them (and that can, and does occur with some forms of christian theology). If we worship the state then people who threaten the state must be corrected or killed. If you worship science then people who are "anti-scientific" in your view must be corrected, or if they threaten science, killed. In soviet russia, christians and others threatened the state and its religion of the "science" of Marxism–Leninism, and were controlled, imprisoned and killed in vast numbers.

As has been said before, the only thing worse than what happens when man worships god, is what happens when man worships man.

Well you start by confiscating children of believers, in the name of preventing "brainwashing", move on to imprisoning believers for "anti-revolutionary activities", and then start killing millions. You might also set up state approved alternatives that gradually remove spiritual elements. You also mandate "atheism lessons" for all school children.

It's what the USSR, PRC, and DPRK did.

Boss "Hey, get back to work!"
Me "Compiling!"
Boss "OK. No wait! You're writing VB script!"
Me "... bugger"

I'm getting paid for my time, and I'm reading /. I think that means "yes", even if I'm supposed to be doing something else.

Not quite. It was established in the west by Christians (nominally), but slavery pre-dates Christianity and even Judaism by millennia.

Also it still exists today, even though it is largely illegal.

Stop the traffik

        * TRAFFICKING IS
            to be deceived or taken against your will, bought, sold and transported into slavery for sexual exploitation, sweat shops, child brides, circuses, sacrificial worship, forced begging, sale of human organs, farm labour, domestic servitude.
        * TRAFFICKING IS
            where family members and friends deceive parents to release their children or sell them for as little as $20 each, selling them on to local gangmasters or serious organised international trafficking rings.
        * TRAFFICKING IS
            growing. 2–4 MILLION men, women and children are trafficked across borders and within their own country every year. More than one person is trafficked across borders EVERY MINUTE, which is equivalent to five jumbo jets every day. a trade that earns twice as much worldwide revenue as Coca Cola.
        * TRAFFICKING IS
            where victims usually suffer repeated physical abuse, fear, torture and threats to families to break their spirits and turn them into saleable commodities. a person can be sold and trafficked many times.

nicely done

a risk based approach is required, so that users know that occasionally a message box will appear that will have serious negative consequences if they fail to take the correct action.

For example "If you don't turn around right now I'm going to smack you over the head with a baseball bat" [OK]

No evidence that this is the case. It is often stated but the reality is that today both hardline disbelief and orthodox faith are growing rapidly world wide. The truth is that apathy is withering and faith (both in it positive and negative forms) is growing.

Hey, an atheist utopia! Except that it's closer to hell IMHO. East germany is dead and lifeless, grey and miserable. I do not want to go back there any time soon.