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[DimPrawn]

i've now seen twitter; logged in, created an account and it is not the future - it is a load of bollocks.

WHS

[DS23]

i've now seen twitter; logged in, created an account and it is not the future - it is a load of bollocks.

[MPwannadecentincome]

Back on topic...

some people take this seriously....

http://blog.mrtweet.net/the-5-stages...ere-are-you-at

(by the way the page load time for this is awful and it knackered my browser)

"Dell’s report that they have made more than $1 million dollars through their DellOutlet Twitter account."

OK $1 million is not a lot for Dell, but its nothing to be sniffed at!

[TheFaQQer]

yes your lordship.

Woo hoo!!

[DS23]

yes your lordship.

[TheFaQQer]

off topic meanderings...

it's twitter

it's the future!

Get back to TPD, where you belong!!

[DS23]

off topic meanderings...

it's twitter

it's the future!

[MPwannadecentincome]

what is the record for the most number of mutations in a topic?

[DS23]

it seems he performed like a rolling stone live on at least 24 occasions but never desolation row or tombstone blues. all along the watchtower was indeed the last dylan song he performed live (at the love and peace festival in germany) - 12 days before his death.

[expat]

yeah cos "like a rolling stone" would be a much more popular choice though i'd go for "tombstone blues" myself. i'd certainly like to see hendrix and bloomfield trading licks.

He has done "Like a Rolling Stone", he did it at Monterey and it is on an album I have, of Hendrix at Monterey on one side, and Otis Redding at Monterey on the other.

I think Hendrix liked Dylan songs but after he recorded All Along the Watchtower I'd guess that he looked at it and thought "I'll never do anything like that again" so he never did any more Dylan songs.

Damn right. Quit when you're ahead.

[DS23]

actually, it seems it is more than a tad more than a tad.

[DS23]

here's something i didn't predict. it seems i am due a tax refund from the inland revenue of a tad over 10k. which is nice.

[DS23]

oil to perpetual motion

History of predictions about future energy development (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_energy_development)

Ever since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the question of the future of energy supplies has occupied economists.
1865 — William Stanley Jevons published The Coal Question in which he claimed that reserves of coal would soon be exhausted and that there was no prospect of oil being an effective replacement.

1885 — U.S. Geological Survey: Little or no chance of oil in California.

1891 — U.S. Geological Survey: Little or no chance of oil in Kansas or Texas.

1914 — U.S. Bureau of Mines: Total future production of 5.7 billion barrels (910,000,000 m3).

1939 — U.S. Department of the Interior: Reserves to last only 13 years.

1951 — U.S. Department of the Interior, Oil and Gas Division: Reserves to last 13 years. (Data from Kahn et al. (1976) pp.94–5 infra)

1956 — Geophysicist M. King Hubbert predicts U.S. oil production will peak between 1965 and 1970 (peaked in 1971). Also predicts world oil production will peak "within half a century" based on 1956 data. This is Hubbert peak theory.

1989 — Predicted peak by Colin Campbell ("Oil Price Leap in the Early Nineties," Noroil, December 1989, pages 35-38.)

2004 — OPEC estimates it will nearly double oil output by 2025 (Opec Oil Outlook to 2025 Table 4, Page 12)

The history of perpetual motion machines is a long list of failed and sometimes fraudulent inventions of machines which produce useful energy "from nowhere" — that is, without requiring additional energy input.

The history of perpetual motion machines dates back to the Middle Ages. For millennia, it was not clear whether perpetual motion devices were possible or not, but the development of modern thermodynamics has indicated that they are impossible. Despite this, many attempts have been made to construct a perpetual motion machine. Modern designers and proponents often use other terms, such as over unity, to describe their inventions.

In 2002, the GWE (Genesis World Energy) group claimed to have 400 people who developed some device that appears to separate water into H2 and O2 using less energy than conventionally thought possible. No independent confirmation was ever made of their claims, and in 2006, company founder Patrick Kelly was sentenced to five years in prison for stealing funds from investors.

[DS23]

Prediction #26: Strawberries as large as apples will be eaten by our great great grandchildren for their Christmas dinners a hundred years hence. Raspberries and blackberries will be as large. One will suffice for the fruit course of each person. Strawberries and cranberries will be grown upon tall bushes. Cranberries, gooseberries and currants will be as large as oranges. One cantaloupe will supply an entire family. Melons, cherries, grapes, plums, apples, pears, peaches and all berries will be seedless. Figs will be cultivated over the entire United States.

Prediction #27: Few drugs will be swallowed or taken into the stomach unless needed for the direct treatment of that organ itself. Drugs needed by the lungs, for instance, will be applied directly to those organs through the skin and flesh. They will be carried with the electric current applied without pain to the outside skin of the body. Microscopes will lay bare the vital organs, through the living flesh, of men and animals. The living body will to all medical purposes be transparent. Not only will it be possible for a physician to actually see a living, throbbing heart inside the chest, but he will be able to magnify and photograph any part of it. This work will be done with rays of invisible light.

Prediction #28: There will be no wild animals except in menageries. Rats and mice will have been exterminated. The horse will have become practically extinct. A few of high breed will be kept by the rich for racing, hunting and exercise. The automobile will have driven out the horse. Cattle and sheep will have no horns. They will be unable to run faster than the fattened hog of today. A century ago the wild hog could outrun a horse. Food animals will be bred to expend practically all of their life energy in producing meat, milk, wool and other by-products. Horns, bones, muscles and lungs will have been neglected.

Prediction #29: To England in Two Days. Fast electric ships, crossing the ocean at more than a mile a minute, will go from New York to Liverpool in two days. The bodies of these ships will be built above the waves. They will be supported upon runners, somewhat like those of the sleigh. These runners will be very buoyant. Upon their under sides will be apertures expelling jets of air. In this way a film of air will be kept between them and the water’s surface. This film, together with the small surface of the runners, will reduce friction against the waves to the smallest possible degree. Propellers turned by electricity will screw themselves through both the water beneath and the air above. Ships with cabins artificially cooled will be entirely fireproof. In storm they will dive below the water and there await fair weather.

[DS23]

Prediction #21: Hot and Cold Air from Spigots. Hot or cold air will be turned on from spigots to regulate the temperature of a house as we now turn on hot or cold water from spigots to regulate the temperature of the bath. Central plants will supply this cool air and heat to city houses in the same way as now our gas or electricity is furnished. Rising early to build the furnace fire will be a task of the olden times. Homes will have no chimneys, because no smoke will be created within their walls.

Prediction #22: Store Purchases by Tube. Pneumatic tubes, instead of store wagons, will deliver packages and bundles. These tubes will collect, deliver and transport mail over certain distances, perhaps for hundreds of miles. They will at first connect with the private houses of the wealthy; then with all homes. Great business establishments will extend them to stations, similar to our branch post-offices of today, whence fast automobile vehicles will distribute purchases from house to house.

Prediction #23: Ready-cooked meals will be bought from establishments similar to our bakeries of today. They will purchase materials in tremendous wholesale quantities and sell the cooked foods at a price much lower than the cost of individual cooking. Food will be served hot or cold to private houses in pneumatic tubes or automobile wagons. The meal being over, the dishes used will be packed and returned to the cooking establishments where they will be washed. Such wholesale cookery will be done in electric laboratories rather than in kitchens. These laboratories will be equipped with electric stoves, and all sorts of electric devices, such as coffee-grinders, egg-beaters, stirrers, shakers, parers, meat-choppers, meat-saws, potato-mashers, lemon-squeezers, dish-washers, dish-dryers and the like. All such utensils will be washed in chemicals fatal to disease microbes. Having one’s own cook and purchasing one’s own food will be an extravagance.

Prediction #24: Vegetables Grown by Electricity. Winter will be turned into summer and night into day by the farmer. In cold weather he will place heat-conducting electric wires under the soil of his garden and thus warm his growing plants. He will also grow large gardens under glass. At night his vegetables will be bathed in powerful electric light, serving, like sunlight, to hasten their growth. Electric currents applied to the soil will make valuable plants grow larger and faster, and will kill troublesome weeds. Rays of colored light will hasten the growth of many plants. Electricity applied to garden seeds will make them sprout and develop unusually early.

Prediction #25: Oranges will grow in Philadelphia. Fast-flying refrigerators on land and sea will bring delicious fruits from the tropics and southern temperate zone within a few days. The farmers of South America, South Africa, Australia and the South Sea Islands, whose seasons are directly opposite to ours, will thus supply us in winter with fresh summer foods, which cannot be grown here. Scientist will have discovered how to raise here many fruits now confined to much hotter or colder climates. Delicious oranges will be grown in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Cantaloupes and other summer fruits will be of such a hardy nature that they can be stored through the winter as potatoes are now.