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Commented on Does the Baby Bust = a Sustainability Boom?
"the Malthusian argument" has already played out as true. By any measure we have outstripped the carrying capacity of the Earth to sustain our standard of living, let alone support 2 billion more humans, and populations consuming more resources per-capita....
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Commented on Caption this. No, seriously.
It took ya'll 4 posts to get the reference, aw, sweet innocent boingboing posters....
Commented on Photo gallery of female body builders
It's supposed to be 'better living through chemistry', for the amount they've spent on steroids, they could have had 100 puppies (and enough left over to pay pooper scoopers), which would make you happier?...
Commented on Intentional action and Asperger Syndrome
@40 " inboulder: Considering that many people with Asperger's Syndrome are the people who left your SAT scores in the dust, " I know you're trying to make a point, but you've picked a catastrophically ineffective insult; the best they...
Commented on Intentional action and Asperger Syndrome
For any reasonable meaning of intentional, both cases were. And I hate to sound harsh, but if you look at the totality of the research, aspergers, autism and any other 'spectrum' disorders are probably just forms of brain damage....
Commented on Boy Proof, a compassionate young adult novel about a weird, smart, angry girl
@#14 You're a poorly thought out character with nonsensical traits designed to illicit emotional impact without delivering any real substance? Yeah, I'd buy that (but not the book in question)....
Commented on Boy Proof, a compassionate young adult novel about a weird, smart, angry girl
#7,8,9 I'm a little worried that I have to explain this obvious disconnect. This is so blatant an error I hope what Cory meant was 'underachiever,' at least I hope so. wikipedia: "Overachievement is an educational label applied to students,...
Commented on Boy Proof, a compassionate young adult novel about a weird, smart, angry girl
"She is a perpetual half-rage, but never really sure why, and she can't help but see the world as a hostile and foul place. " "She's an overachieving loner" I don't think the author thought their cunning character development plan...
Commented on Elevated goat pen
Safe from Toby Keith....
Commented on Blind painter Esref Armagan
Oh come on people, this is supposed to be a geek blog and nobody has framed the issue in using an obvious facsimile. Since the 1970s, computer software has been able to draw objects from memory exponentially better than this...
Commented on 6th man on moon says space aliens are real (and have visited us)
Everyone in has seen a UFO. I don't think UFO means what you think it does....
Commented on Band features two keyboard-playing chickens
yes but can they play tic-tac-toe...
Commented on HOWTO deal with an anaconda bite
How about biting it's head off?...
Commented on Stephenson's Anathem was inspired by Clock of the Long Now
Um, there's already a pretty famous book titled Anthem (not that it's any good), maybe he could have gotten a bit more creative....
Commented on Artist taking commissions to pay for spider bite treatment
"VERY VERY costly particularly if you are trying to self insure AFAIK. " Single payer high deductible heath insurance (the kind that would be great to have for mr 'spider bite' artist) runs about $70-80 / mo for someone in...
Commented on Night of the Gun, a new book by David Carr.
Relevance aside, this series of comments got me wondering if there are _any_ working journalists with the smarts and disposition to investigate complex corruption, which would requires finding accounting errors, stat analysis, hacking email etc, which in turn requires engineer/scientist...
Commented on Night of the Gun, a new book by David Carr.
Addicts are so i-n-t-e-r-e-s-t-i-n-g!...
Commented on Karl Schroeder: Climate change will outrun the Singularity
@Silver Screen Kid Why don't you 'check out' the wikipedia entry: "The technological singularity is a hypothesised point in the future variously characterized by the technological creation of self-improving intelligence, unprecedentedly rapid technological progress, or some combination of the two.[1]...
Commented on Monochrom's Greatest Hits CD
Well, without the plushy vagina it's just 'art collective' wankery, but at least they've got that going for them....
Commented on Karl Schroeder: Climate change will outrun the Singularity
"Karl Schroeder: Climate change will outrun the Singularity" Probably, because the 'singularity' won't be anything special for a long time. You know what's smarter than one scientist, a million scientists. Have a million scientists led us to the 'promised land'...
Commented on Dear Lazyweb: convert a PDF to high-rez CBR file?
well done ppl...
Commented on Lovely aluminum furniture that will last hundreds of years
"Cole sez, "I make highly sustainable furniture out of aluminum that involves no fasteners or moving parts. My furniture will last functionally for hundreds of years and it's aesthetically pleasing as well. Watch out, I am currently designing a table...
Commented on Couple attached by a 15-feet string for 24 hours
Wow! Those crazy Atlantic Monthly Journalists! Next thing you know she'll try eating eggs with hot sauce or riding her bike to work!...
Commented on A blog written by a stripper who is also a fine writer.
"Seriously Noen, WTF? It seems to happen a lot that I am not able to make myself understood. I don't know why that is." I have a suspicion you're understood perfectly....
Commented on A blog written by a stripper who is also a fine writer.
"Boys talking about feminism, heh, that's always amusing." and then 'Their maturity is on a par with guys who refer to women old enough to be working in strip bars as "girls"' Better go tuck that in, your hypocrisy is...
Commented on A blog written by a stripper who is also a fine writer.
"my pale skin and substantial hips." From the picture I'd say quite substantial indeed....
Commented on BB reader: "Two FBI agents just showed up at my door for taking photos in the Port of Los Angeles"
Ok, so what, it sounds like they're doing their jobs?...
Commented on Flowchart: How D&D is a gateway drug to every flavor of nerdiness
This would have been great had it been actually clever rather than merely trying to be. Anyone who liked this flow chart is not actually 'in' the geek crowd and just knows the memes but not the connection, like the...

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Kibble commented on Does the Baby Bust = a Sustainability Boom?
How many millions of tons of ceramic plates are floating in the Pacific right now?...
werve commented on Does the Baby Bust = a Sustainability Boom?
I don’t need Malthus to see what’s happening right before my eyes. When I was a kid Tysons Corner Va. was rolling farmland, woods and creeks with teeming wildlife. Now it is paved over with strip malls and townhouses, the ecosystem eradicated. The human species will not stop growing until every square inch of the planet is covered with asphalt and assholes. Given 21st century technology and a little forethought we could be living in utopia, a goddam garden of eden, it could be like a freakin Disney movie with bluebirds on our shoulders and fresh air and babbling brooks....
ADavies commented on Does the Baby Bust = a Sustainability Boom?
Agree with querent (#13). A stabilizing global population is a good thing, but not the end of the story. It's pretty cool how reliable macro-demographic trends are. Greater prosperity, more education, more rights for women, more access to birth control, lower infant mortality rate - all tend to lead to fewer babies. But the same ecconomic improvements that help cause the above (good things), also tend to mean increased environmental impact per person. We'll need a paradigm shift to tackle that. I just found this one described on the 10xE site... When a relative scarcity of labor limited our progress...
werve commented on Does the Baby Bust = a Sustainability Boom?
To help celebrate Saganseve here is Dr. Sagan on the topic of population growth and the environment.. In November 2000, the late Dr. Carl Sagan spearheaded a joint appeal to the religious and scientific communities for environmental action on behalf of mankind. The letter signed by thirty-two Nobel laureate and other scientists as well as two hundred and seventy-one well-known spiritual leaders from eighty-three countries called for, among other things: "a voluntary halt to world population growth without which many other approaches to preserve the environment will be nullified." It is very cool that the Vatican signed a letter basically...
Brainspore commented on Does the Baby Bust = a Sustainability Boom?
There seems to be an assumption that the birth rate isn't going to drop to zero. What's the mechanism behind the drop? Last I heard it was dropping sperm concentrations in human males due to pollution. Anyone started to deal with pollution yet? Where exactly did you hear this factoid, the Crazytown Gazette?...

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