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7881. iiibbb - 3/9/2012 5:25:43 AM no.. agree with kindle ad... I can get a kindle and an android for the price of a ipad. 7882. thoughtful - 3/9/2012 2:00:29 PM I have an ipad2 and it's fabulous as it is...I think I'll skip a gen or 2 before I reinvest. So often the upgrades do not provide quantum improvements....or at least quantum enough for me to notice.... 7883. wabbit - 3/9/2012 9:03:19 PM My 1979 Subaru Brat was by far the best snow car I've ever owned. Never got stuck, never slid, never went out of control. And that was before Subaru started using the viscous linkage set-up, I had to manually put the car into 4WD.
When I lived in the Catskills and had a Subaru Legacy SW, I got studded tires for the winter months, which make a huge difference on ice. Ice trumps all, 4-wheel drive won't help much. 7884. Jenerator - 3/10/2012 12:01:01 AM Arky, I might get an iPad3 - we'll see. :-) 7885. arkymalarky - 3/10/2012 12:42:23 AM Cool! It looks like the screen is amazing. 7886. iiibbb - 3/18/2012 5:03:56 AM 
7887. vonKreedon - 4/12/2012 7:02:57 PM Check out this terrifying infographic. It's a complicated infographic, so it takes a bit of time to grok, but then...
P.S.: I really like the Smithsonian Magazine, so many fascinating articles about all sorts of things.
7888. vonKreedon - 4/12/2012 9:15:53 PM I sort of hate the idea of adding further complexity to the above infographic, but I would like to see a couple more lines:
- Global renewable energy production
- Global metal recycling 7889. arkymalarky - 4/14/2012 11:09:09 PM This new satellite internet is fantastic. First good internet we've ever had here. It's as fast as broadband at work. Hope it stays that way. 7890. concerned - 4/16/2012 9:18:04 PM Re. 7887 -
Interesting graphic, but I suspect its premise is outdated. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the economic collapse it predicts is predicated on mankind's using up all of one or more critical available resources by 2030 or something like that, resulting in mass starvation and war.
Well, now we're 40% of the way to 2030 past the farthest extrapolation shown on the graph, and there now is no imminent fear that an economic collapse will be caused in the forseeable future due to an insuperable lack of natural resources.
What looks like more probable causes of economic collapse now, IMO although more localized in scope today (such as with the EC PIIGS) are widespread demographic shifts coupled with increasingly irresponsible governmental spending and social policies. So eventual war is still a possibility; not so much starvation. 7891. vonKreedon - 4/16/2012 9:37:14 PM Yeah, the non-renewable resources curve was supposed to be the driver for the collapse and that curve is the furthest off the predicted track, and if the graphic showed the years from 2001-2010 it would probably be further off track, thus pushing the collapse back by some decades. OTOH, my wife looked at the graphic and what leaped out at her was the Global Pollution track. Her take is that if observed levels are close to predicted levels then we won't have a chance to run out of non-renewables before choking ourselves to a Malthusian collapse. 7892. concerned - 4/17/2012 12:04:36 AM How about a nice exhilirating bike ride in China to clear out your lungs?
According to the article that included this picture, there are 750,000 deaths a year from pollution related illnesses in China. And it's interesting that a primary source for air pollution along much of the US Pacific Coast is the effluvia from Chinese coal fired power plants. I once saw a satellite photo showing that.
Did you know that China has the world's most colorful rivers? Proof:
And they call this the Yellow River....
It's not easy being green....
Here's the Yellow River actually being yellow with cute bubbles on it. 7893. Wombat - 4/18/2012 3:29:46 PM Hey, it's a nonregulatory paradise! If your guy gets elected, our rivers can be just like that! Consarned environmental regulations are holoding the recovery... 7894. Wombat - 4/18/2012 3:30:24 PM "hindering" the recovery... 7895. thoughtful - 4/18/2012 3:34:12 PM Ah yes, reminds me of the good old days along the banks of the Cayahoga River.
7896. Wombat - 4/18/2012 3:53:21 PM At least it's not on fire in the above picture... 7897. concerned - 4/18/2012 5:52:22 PM Your response in 7893 makes me think of the Family Guy episode where Stewie and Brian travel back in time to prevent 9/11 and, as a result of that and no resulting Afghan War, George Bush lets his 'natural' 'conservative' propensities create a situation where a world war occurs that results in the virtual destruction of the earth.
Who started the EPA? The greatly hated Conservative, Richard Milhous Nixon. It defies reason to seriously believe that conservatives are less concerned with environmental quality than anybody else except for fringe types.
Facile, trite, marginally entertaining...and almost entirely untrue - that's about as far as all those 'conservatives are bad guys only held in check by world events and/or heroic progressives' scenarios can be taken in reality. 7898. vonKreedon - 4/18/2012 6:58:58 PM Ummm...Con, have you been paying attention to what Repub candidates and legislators have been saying about environmental regulations? Did you notice that Nixon, if he were active today and pushing the same policies, would not be considered a conservative, I'm not sure he'd even be considered a RINO.
Some of today's Repub positions on environmental regulations:
Not to mention the whole global warming denial vitriol that passes for policy on the right.7899. iiibbb - 4/18/2012 7:44:01 PM This is why I got into environmental research...
... it has not be a lucrative career path... but I'm still mostly glad I did it. I just get more depressed than if I'd been an engineer I think. 7900. concerned - 4/18/2012 8:13:27 PM Sorry. If CO2 is a pollutant because it retains atmospheric heat, so is water vapor, a much greater contributor to global warming.
The EPA should either classify both or neither as pollutants based on that criterion.
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