GENIUS FORUMS

On reddit's front page today: Awkward "Did You Mean" (Google Search)

Some collapsitilism portfolio ideas

I'm looking at BullionVault myself.

How much in goods do you think you'd get for your new money?I think you'd be lucky if that million dollars was worth 10 dollars. Why does the value of goods have to go up? The goods' value doesn't change, the currency's value drops. Currencies are commodities and supply and demand determine their v...

sagerage wrote:Also, how can a country like America have such a huge financial problem - I read somewhere that they owe trillions of dollars...

A wakeup call from the US Comptroller

The government both taxes and creates fiat currency to extract maximal wealth without enough people catching onto the scam to end it. If the government only creates money everyone quickly sees through its ruse. If the government taxes too much the citizens revolt. Instead the government levies taxes...

DFBatosee wrote:i havnt looked it up or anything

Start here: Arctic Refuse drilling controversy

Then this: Peak oil production

From 2004, more evidence that AI won't come from wisdom:

Scientists have grown a brain in a petri dish and taught it to pilot an F-22 jet simulator

Hands up all those who think it would be a great idea for Tomas and Daybrown to have their own blog somewhere? Anyone know of a good blog site? Let "them" have one thread, is real estate on this forum really that scarce? What is the big deal? Make Spam forum maybe where all posts deemed u...

When do you all believe we will have the world's first truly intelligent AI? And when do you believe we will have an AI that matches a human's ability? Please give a reason for your choice. Unpredictable. I think all it will take is for a genius-type person to sit down and do it - possibly when som...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has called on Opec members to stop pricing oil in "worthless" US dollars. ... Ahmadinejad is to meet Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, later on Monday to discuss the issue. Chavez echoed Ahmadinejad's sentiment, saying "the empire of th...

In either case I doubt anyone would give you a straight answer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_(unit) Wikipedia says: "The mole [is a] unit that measures an amount of substance." That's why I ask: What's the point in using a mole when we already have have grams? In other words, grams measures an amount of a substance just fine, so what's the point ...

Did you look at Wikipedia?

I wonder how long it will be before fusion power becomes viable. Fusion, the nuclear process that lights up the sun, is the energy source of the future and always will be. Victor, where did you see that ITER has a positive EROEI? edit: I see on wikipedia that ITER's expected to produce excess heat.

vicdan wrote:Emitting extra CO2, if anything, will actually benefit plant life, by both providing plants with extra carbon extractable from the atmosphere, and by shifting the plant growth regions northward.

What about ocean acidification?

zarathustra:

What does this mean? Euler's Identity

Ray Kurzweil

Incredibly busy person, though.

Now that I think about it, if the Christian bible with all its allegories, morals and philosophy was rewritten, and overhauled by removing a lot of the crap, and doing a superimposed analysis through the filter of masculine/feminine psychology, it could be a much more effective spiritual text… Ma...

Trevor Salyzyn wrote:Infant Protection and Wander Prevention?

the "asset tracking" and "tool and equipment management" are more telling.

@elizabeth: Any change to the way in which America chooses its president will require a constitutional amendment. Come on critics, can you really say that in 213 years of operation, the Elector College system has produced bad results? Have your fears ever come true? Only twice in its history have th...

Alexander wrote:We all know politicians can promise stuff. We should have votes on issues rather then people.

mike gravel promotes something like that, the national initiative for democracy.