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People have been trying to get oil from oil shale since the 1920's, if not earlier. They still haven't found a way to do it with a net energy gain. A trillion barrels worth of oil in the form of oil shale, and it still hasn't been figured out after nearly 90 years.

No, it doesn't. The term the USGS study uses is "technically recoverable", as in have the technology to recover the oil, regardless of cost. Unless new drilling technologies are developed the oil will remain unrecoverable no matter how high the demand goes. I have friends working in the industry, there's nothing in the R&D pipeline which will allow us pull more oil from Bakken, the technology does not exist and will not exist for the foreseeable future.

Official USGS study of Bakken. 3 to 4.3 billion barrels, mean estimate of 3.65 billion. Or around half a year's worth of oil for the US.

Learn to read you illiterate dumbass, we're talking about offshore drilling, ANWR is not offshore, shit for brains.

The US uses 7.5 billion barrels of oil every single year, while there's an estimated 18 billion barrels & change in the areas currently closed to drilling. That's only around 2.5 years worth of oil at current consumption rates. The long-term solution to running out of oil isn't to drill more, what needs to be done is developing and building a new infrastructure and transportation system. In short, lots of electrified rail transport, electric cars where needed and nuke plants with full fuel reprocessing and breeder reactors.

Sounds great on paper. Too bad it does jack & shit for oil & gasoline prices, it just makes the oil companies even richer than they already are. The EIA has done a case study on lifting offshore drilling restrictions, and concluded it won't do jack to help the consumer. Excerpt:

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FDIC starting salary is around $45k a year, going all the way up to ~$160k for the senior case examiners. My cousin used to work there and was pulling in $80k a year easy in a mid level position, plus the benefits are pretty much the best that you can get in the US.

Stay the fuck away from computers unless you eat, sleep, live, and breathe computers, otherwise, you'll grow to hate it by the time you're a year into your classes. My degree is in Comp Sci, I thought I liked computers, by the time 4th year came around I couldn't wait to graduate and get the fuck away from anything related to the damn things. Job prospects aren't on an upswing either since we're headed into a long & bad recession. In terms of accounting, I have a feeling the IRS and FDIC will be in need of a lot of forensics & investigative accountants once the current wave of investment banking & lending fraud starts getting prosecuted. The FDIC's already hiring and once the subpeonas start flying the IRS and FBI will be looking to hire as well.

A lot more selling than buying actually since I'm one of those damn dirty shorters.

Woke up, had breakfast, made sure my trading accounts had lots of dry powder, then started an epic day of daytrading.

Saw this one one another forum

Astroglide. Ok, serious answer, try some silicone lube on the moving parts, that should stop the creaks and squeeks.

We have a winner. In the long term the suburbs are fucked, period. People won't be able to afford living there unless they're fucking rich, they can move closer to their workplaces or end up in seriously massive debt. People won't be able to afford blowing through several gallons of gas for grocery runs & other errands in addition to their commutes, and futhermore, stores in the suburbs will be out of stock on items since truckers won't be able to afford the diesel to drive the goods out into the boonies. Anything that's not near an urban centre, rail line, or river barge or ship accessible is boned.

It's a capacitor for a car subwoofer system, no idea what the digital readouts are for. Probably so it can blink and look bling or something.

Went grocery shopping. Walked into an automatic door which refused to open. Realized that I'd tried to walk out the in door. Slept and listened to music for the rest of the day since I was clearly a hazard to myself.

I'd say yes, or at least close enough to mint that it wouldn't matter. If the turntable's setup right and the records are kept nice & clean, they're good for hundreds of plays.

You know what's fun? You can test out your Harbeths with a test recording made by the Harbeth designer himself. Linky to the post. You'll need the MP3Pro codec for winamp to play it at full quality. The interview & discussion is also quite informative.

I would tell you to eat my shit, but frankly you're not worthy of that. But feel free to suck down my dog's diarrhea.

Yup, that's about right. If you're worried about an overly high reflected impedance on the primary side, you can always stick a resistor in parallel with the headphones on the secondary. For instance, on my amp the impedance ratio is roughly 1000:1, so with a 400 ohm K340 on the secondary the tubes see 400k ohms. So I stick a 33 ohm resistor on the secondary to bring it down to a more reasonable value.

1) It's "you're" as in "you are" not "your". Unless by "your right" you refer to my right to exercise free speech and call you a fucking idiot. 2) I don't see this ending well for you for some reason. 3) There isn't an amp you can buy which'll make us happy, if you think there is one, you are truly a clueless twat.

I'm pretty marginal in terms of fit as well, the headphones sit a bit too loose on my head and I have to be pretty careful in moving my head around or else the damn things fall off. Bending in the metal rail thingys and installing a shorter headband helped, but it's still not the greatest fit.

That explains that little issue...

My avatar refuses to show up for me. It loads up fine on the User CP panel, but not on any of my actual posts on the forum. Reload, clearing cache, and the other usual browser reset tricks don't work.