Apple confirms what I have thought for years. All kids look alike.

I noticed they collected "Research" on Donald Trump and not intelligence.

Its because it takes like 300 lines of cobal to write a decent bug.

Joomla does have a plugin for versioning. It is called ERM Version Control. Marketed in the US by anything-digital.com. It works really nice, though I wish it had better merge capability, where I could easier choose what updates I want to keep and what I would like to backout. All in all I am happy. I have a Joomla site with about 2000 pages with maybe two dozen people who have edit rights.

No, I don't really think you are correct. Look at the situation. We are already fighting a war over oil. Was that mentioned in econ101?

I think that really the best scenario we have is one where we gracefully run out of oil in 20 years. I don't personally think it is going to be that pretty though. 70% of the remaining oil in the world is located in places where the people don't reallly like americans all that much. At the same time america is totally, and single mindedly, fixated on changing nothing about how they live.

Yes, I agree with one point that you make. Americans have been hearing for years that oil is going to run out. Another old sage of a /. poster talked about first hearing it when he was six, and now in the wisdom of his thirties knew that it was all bullshit. I can't help but ask, after hearing about it for all these years, is he still going to have the audacity to be surprised if he can't get any food at his local big box food store?

America is totally based on not just on petroleum products, but, ...and this is key, CHEAP petroleum products. Look how we have organized the urban sprawl we call our suburbs. Those places that don't even have sidewalks if you wanted to walk. And where to walk? The concept and infrastructure of the corner grocery store has been killed by the Walmart mentality. Everything is miles from a house in a suburb. ...everything except a gas station of course. Those are everywhere. Why did we never build a public transportation system?

Sure, you can get lettuce in Wisconsin in February, but will you still be able to if gas spikes to $10 a gallon? I don't think so. It just doesn't work anymore. But with gas here at $2.75 I am still seeing plenty of Hummers on the road. Do these people care about gas prices? Not really. They have money to burn. The trouble is they are burning it at a rate that is going to really piss off a lot of poor people, who are becoming more poor when they can't get to work in their cars anymore. No, they can't afford gas, but bullets might not cost much more than they do now. How is that for a thought?

America should have been planning ahead. Should have been spending it's billions of military dollars on planning it's long term future. Instead, we have postured to steal when we have been too stupid to think our way out of dependancy. We have no public transportation system, our rail system has fallen to disrepair, our agricultural system in most of the country depends on petroleum based fertilizer, and petroleum based irrigation systems.

I think the next few years will be ones of great change. Like I said toward the begining, I do hope you are correct, I do hope we spiral down. I just happen to doubt it.

--rainbird

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