Taken from a post on SocietySucks.com
When oil prices reached $147 per barrel, people were saying that oil would reach $200 per barrel, there was talks of hybrid cars, using alternative methods for fuel, etc. etc. But then prices crashed below $40 per barrel and the $4 gallon (in the US at least) was gone. So is this crisis over? unfortunately not, but it seems that people have already forgotten the high price of a gallon of fuel and US oil consumption is on the rise again. Demand for gasoline in the US is already up 6% since last September and many of the projects that were viable when oil prices were high have been scrapped or put on the back burner. One alternative fuel, Ethanol, uses more energy to produce it than it can actually provide and also has other non-desirable side effects of using a food to make a fuel.
Americas account for 4.3% of the world population, yet they consume 26% of the world oil consumption, in contrast Europe makes up 6.8% of the world’s population and consumes 11%. High tax on oil in Europe has made people use more economic cars, with fuel economy being double that of the average American car.
If you now add China, India and Asia to the equation, with the introduction of $2500 cars. Car ownership in these areas is soaring. Just a 3% increase in demand for oil will mean demand will once again outstrip supply.
So how long before part 2 of the energy crisis? 12 months, 6 months, 3 months??? Everyone is so wrapped up in the financial crisis that once again they won’t see this coming, even if they do, it is pretty much too late to do anything about. The US may hold off the $10/gallon for a little while, but $5/gallon will soon be a reality.
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We all need sleep but many of us internet addicts fuel our night times with Caffeine just to allow us to cope for that few extra hours online while we update our blogs, kill a few more enemies or just to chat with friends we have never actually met. What if there was a way to stay awake longer without feeling tired??. The military is always developing ways to make soldiers stay awake for days at a time without the need for sleep, but at what cost?
There have been many attempts to surpress the need for sleep. 70 years ago a chemical called dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) was introduced by the pharmaceutical company Smith, Kline, and French. It was used in the the 2nd World War and appeared to have few side effects. But by the 60’s it was discovered that higher and higher doses were needed and giving up the drug was another problem causing disturbed sleep to violent outbursts. Not to be detered by this, the latest solution is Modafinil, researchers found that troops could perform effectively 40 hours at a time and then get a normal nights sleep without needed sleeping pills. The US Airforce has approved its use and the French Foreign Legion gave it to soldiers in the first Gulf war. So is this the solution, developed further could we live in a sleep free society? being able to operate productively days at a time without getting fatigued or imparing our judgement?
Looking further into this shows more worrying facts. Firstly no one really knows the true purpose of sleep. Is it true we sleep to stop feeling tired? is it also true that we eat to stop feeling hungry? Scientists are now starting to discover links between life-threatening illnesses and sleep deprivation, including Breast cancer (especially women involved in shift work) and heart disease. Even reducing your sleep by one hour a day could have a significant impact. A major study showed that reducing your sleep by 2 hours from 7 hours a night to 5 hours a night increases our chance of premature death by up to 70%. So by gaining a few extra hours a night by not sleeping are we in fact risking losing this time later on.
Perhaps instead of finding ways to get more hours in the day and get more out of our lives, we should be looking at ways of having better nights sleep. If you don’t get some sleep now, the saying ‘We can sleep when we are dead’ might happen sooner than you realise.
Thats all from me, now get some sleep 
While surfing the internet for some interesting ideas for your next blog post or your myspace page (And I’m specifically looking at you in this instance), you see a cool image and think, I could use that. Without further thought you copy the image location and link to it from your site (so the image looks like its on your site). This is called Hotlinking (or bandwidth theft).
2 Reasons why you shouldn’t hotlink :
- The old switcheroo - Which is when the image you hotlink to is changed, sometimes for humorous results, sometimes not. Yes it can be amusing for the webmaster to change an image, but if the image violates your hosts policies it can offend your readers and get your site shut down.
- Violation of copyright - Possibly the more serious of the two. If you don’t own the rights or have the right to publish an image on your site, you can have legal proceedings against you which can be costly and again have your site shut down. By hotlinking you are also leading the site straight to you as it slaps a nice referal link in their stats.
So why am I so interested in hotlinking? Well some kind person from MySpace, with a popular profile, has decided to hotlink some of my images, this morning alone the image had over 2000 views, eating up my bandwidth and resources. I try to only use images I am allowed to use, for example stock images and images covered by the ‘fair use’ rules in the US.
If you are hotlinking my images, do me a favour and right click, save as, and upload the image to your site (This isn’t me giving permission to use the image, but if you are going to steal it, do it properly). I may in due course change all my images to get some nice free advertising on your site if you don’t >:)
I have a little surprize instore for me today when I came to visit my sites. I was greeted by the following message - Defaced by ka0x - D.O.M TEAM 2008.
After recoving from my initially shock I went to check what damage they had done. It wasn’t so bad, they had just replaced the index file, so was easily fixed, then I checked another of my sites and that was also the same, in fact almost every site I had was defaced. So I checked further and found that every site on my hosts server was in fact defaced.
Although that is bad, I felt better as the attack wasn’t specifically aimed at me and to give the hackers credit, they renamed my files instead of deleting them, which made it much easier to repair my sites.
Of course, its sunday, I had loads to get completed on my sites and got next to nothing done. For those who missed the hacked site, I have attached a screenshot below (You can click on it to get a readable version) 
I started up my computer this morning, waited for the usual updates, virus checks, etc.. Then opened thunderbird (my email client), and of course I got some new mail to read.
After searching through all the Penis enlargement emails, viagra emails, refinancing emails, free prizes and a nigerian minister who needs me to put $60million into my account for him. Oh not forgetting I won $1.5billion in a lottery I didn’t enter (not sure how to spend a billion dollars yet, I will wait till it arrives before spending it as im still waiting on the $11million I won last month).
Anyway, after I waded through those, I spotted an email with the subject ‘You Suck’ at first I thought maybe some russian woman who wants to find love was annoyed because I didnt reply to her last email, but no… It wasn’t. In fact it is my first piece of hate mail, its a special day for me as I haven’t received any before for Getburied.com. Basically, I suck because I don’t like Kate Nash and supposedly she is the best artist to grace this planet and I am just jealous (I posted about Kate Nash a while back, and her lack of talent).
I imagine you are all astounded at just how big GetBuried is getting, but that isn’t all, not only did I get that hate mail, I got another. Yes, thats right, two hate mails
I imagine lots of you are now planning to flood my mailbox with hate mails because your jealous that I received hate mail. If you do hate me that much, please please just post a comment instead, then everyone can read it.
Thanks for your support, see you next time 
… or is it Kate Hindley and Ian Doherty?
Kate Moss and Pete Doherty have been turned into the notorious moors murderers (Myra Hindley and Ian Brady) 
by Yorkshire-born artist, Russell Young. Images of the couple have be superimposed on the original image, or photo-shopped, if you want to use the correct term for messing around with other images.
The pictures were on display at the Art Fair in Islington, North London and now all four images have been sold allegedly for £28,000. The work is supposed to be an observation on the self-destructive hedonism of some of Britain’s biggest celebrities, personally I can’t decide who is worse, the artist who created this, or the idiot who bought it.
Even controversy should have its limits and If there are lines that probably should not be crossed, then this one has definately overstepped the mark.
