All of those resources will last for an infinite amount of time because at some point they'll be too dilute, hence costly, to extract. That metric is meaningless.

What matters is what flow rate you can get out at a cost that's acceptable to the economy, and by that measure we're running out of oil and have so for a couple of years, since we're now scraping the bottle of the barrel with tight oil and tar sand. Now that tight oil is peaking it's probably a matter of a few years until we reach peak total liquids. But by then the statistics will probably lump other fossil fuels in with liquid hydrocarbons so the graph doesn't look lousy, just as they did when they lumped various type of nonconventional oil, NGL and biofuels in with crude and called it all "oil." With the old style of EIA/IEA reporting the peak would be too obvious.

> Make sure that everyone knows what they're supposed to do

Easy. Just fix those 5 P1 bugs by tomorrow.

Dude, have you never heard of synergy? All that noise around you is nothing but synergy and it'll improve your productivity !!1!

Amen. Unfortunately cubicles are state of the art in corporate America. That's why I avoid the office like the plague.

You eat lunch? That's bad for you and your peformance. You should snack all day.

You can do that with any computer unless you assume BIOS or hard disk fuckery.

It's called an install disk. Separate the storage media for your data and your OS and you can reinstall your OS (or restore from a backup) when needed.

Mod parent up!

I'm sure it saved a lot on salaries and packages.

This isn't about the addiction potential, only about the purity. And I wasn't exactly serious.

I don't think so. In university some pharmacy or chemistry guys could scrounge pure ethanol. (98 or 99%.) Screwdrives with that were nasty.

There are several examples of formerly brilliant people who lost their marbles in old age.

Lots of climate change deniers, cornucopians and similar delusional folks in software development.

I wish I had mod points to upvote you. This whole discussion is so US centric with Puritan morals :(

...now that Apple and Pearson's got the money.

Looks like they need a new project somewhere else.

Dark matter might be amassed slower than ordinary matter though because it's not slowed down by the accretion disk and similar processes that get rid of momentum. IOW, a particle has to be headed directly into the event horizon, otherwise it'll miss and continue to orbit.