tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32850048.post1607183871190821229..comments2024-03-18T02:14:50.959-07:00Comments on ADORED BY HORDES: MarcLordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17036432624426967890noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32850048.post-81401268621965278222008-11-22T14:34:00.000-08:002008-11-22T14:34:00.000-08:00Vincent,There is one country that is already there...Vincent,<BR/><BR/>There is one country that is already there. Cuba. They have proven it can be done, we need to figure out how to do it more humanely. May I suggest a smorgass-board religious approach to truth. "And you shall no the truth and the truth shall set you free." We have to run with this because it is the best we got. (You got something better.) We have to accept all truth, no matter how relative it is. We just have to be honest about it. And the big one, we need to do what is best for our children. Truth for the sake of the next generation. <BR/><BR/>Isebellita, <BR/><BR/>Sustainable sex is a cluster bomb of truth. Use the term, practice it, and ask others what it means to them? Make them decide for themselves what it means.Still Life Livinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01292107281438895770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32850048.post-70204151428971237652008-11-22T10:41:00.000-08:002008-11-22T10:41:00.000-08:00My interpretation of "susatainable sex" is not hav...My interpretation of "susatainable sex" is not having more than a child or two, or none at all. Yes, I know many groups of humans have large families for various reasons, but it can't go on.isabelitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04175928587455507236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32850048.post-8103412262972052792008-11-22T07:49:00.000-08:002008-11-22T07:49:00.000-08:00hi vincent--Probably not as a whole, certainly not...hi vincent--<BR/><BR/>Probably not as a whole, certainly not easily, but I can make a case for it. <BR/><BR/>The concept of wasting power is embedded pretty deeply in America's psyche. And god knows we do that--a new big-screen TV consumes 350-400 Watts, enough to generously power an entire dwelling in E Germany, or Rio. All modern industries were founded on cheap power sources. All ancient societies used slaves as cheap power.<BR/><BR/>But oil or electricity aren't salient production factors to the future America. Plus it's widely recognized they're getting more expensive, whereas computational cycles--they're dirt cheap, getting cheaper, and are what our industry is based on. <BR/><BR/>Teraflops are the new power source, and our real industry is data. That's what the United States has shifted to making, and we're doing that better than anyplace else.<BR/><BR/>Making data is our strategic industry, and I know many tremendously productive (and rich) people in it who don't commute, don't even want to drive cars. If there were no power grid, they would charge computer batteries with bicycles.MarcLordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17036432624426967890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32850048.post-71684442489387607412008-11-22T02:51:00.000-08:002008-11-22T02:51:00.000-08:00Not knowing the context of Quaker Ben's expressed ...Not knowing the context of Quaker Ben's expressed thought to you, may I turn it around?<BR/><BR/>Setting aside choice for the moment, I don't suppose the average resource footprint level in America will decrease voluntarily, or by submitting global agreements inspired by ecological concern. But we can imagine it happening by some catastrophe, whereby the US consumption level would be limited to that of E Germany in the 80s or Rio today; without loss of its beloved Constitution.<BR/><BR/>Would the American people still feel it was America then?Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.com