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While I agree that native parental controls would be great, and as a parent I was also surprised they weren't there, there are apps that you can use to lock down devices quite easily to limit what your kids can access.

Kids Place is a good one:
https://play.google.com/store/...

The bigger problem is no end of "free" games stuffed full of ads that kids accidentally click all the time. IMO Google needs a policy that says if you are marketing to kids under a certain age you may not have certain types of ads (or any ads) in your app. As a parent, I'll gladly give you a couple of bucks to have a "safe" app for my child to use.

Can no one see that not messing with the climate any more than we have to is the conservative position, at least as "conservative" is properly defined?

There are two fairly rational rebuttals to that, at least that I know of, and I'm on your side. The first is that we're already messing with the environment, so we might as well try to mess with it in a way that improves it. The second is that we're not going to stop messing with the environment, it's kind of what we do, so again, let's try to do it right. So both inertia and our nature work against the idea of not doing something.

Now, with that said, there are a couple of patents on making chemtrails- uh, excuse me, "persistent contrails" which have been tested by the DoD. One of them is special fuel additives. The other is spraying powder. Of course, reducing albedo by spraying aerosols is itself patented. And yeah, the things the patents describe using are not things you want to be using.

Can no one see that not messing with the climate any more than we have to is the conservative position, at least as "conservative" is properly defined?

There are two fairly rational rebuttals to that, at least that I know of, and I'm on your side. The first is that we're already messing with the environment, so we might as well try to mess with it in a way that improves it. The second is that we're not going to stop messing with the environment, it's kind of what we do, so again, let's try to do it right. So both inertia and our nature work against the idea of not doing something.

Now, with that said, there are a couple of patents on making chemtrails- uh, excuse me, "persistent contrails" which have been tested by the DoD. One of them is special fuel additives. The other is spraying powder. Of course, reducing albedo by spraying aerosols is itself patented. And yeah, the things the patents describe using are not things you want to be using.

Can no one see that not messing with the climate any more than we have to is the conservative position, at least as "conservative" is properly defined?

There are two fairly rational rebuttals to that, at least that I know of, and I'm on your side. The first is that we're already messing with the environment, so we might as well try to mess with it in a way that improves it. The second is that we're not going to stop messing with the environment, it's kind of what we do, so again, let's try to do it right. So both inertia and our nature work against the idea of not doing something.

Now, with that said, there are a couple of patents on making chemtrails- uh, excuse me, "persistent contrails" which have been tested by the DoD. One of them is special fuel additives. The other is spraying powder. Of course, reducing albedo by spraying aerosols is itself patented. And yeah, the things the patents describe using are not things you want to be using.

That's funny - I removed your Google Search's wsj.com requirement and the next several results were all rebuttals from much more trustworthy sources.

Let's summarize:

• WSJ is a not a secience journal, but a financial paper with a pro-big-business focus. Also, it's owned by Rupert "Fox News" Murdoch.
• The linked article is written by two of the largest climate-deniers out there, Joseph Bast (effectively owned by the Koch bros., and known as a bastion of anti-science FUD, such as his claiming that there's no proof smoking is bad for you) and by an employee of his, Roy Spencer.
• Their rebuttals of the 97% figure as a "myth" are based on using figures from all science fields. The 97% figure is based on asking only those in climatology fields. (This is akin to deciding that a poll asking football players who the best football coach is can't be trusted because they didn't ask hockey players as well. I mean, they're all sports people, so their opinions on other sports should carry the same weight as those actually involved in that sport, right?)

He's using climate change as an example to demonstrate his point. (A near-unanimous consensus among scientists maintain that climate change is happening and is a serious problem; over 50% of the US population disagrees. This demonstrates that the US population is largely science-illiterate or science-hostile.)

O RLY? (The Google link should bypass their paywall.) In addition to "consensus" being inherently unscientific (was Copernicus "science-illiterate" when he proposed his heliocentric theory of the solar system when the consensus view was in favor of a geocentric theory?), there is much to suggest that the "97%" number is as overcooked as most of the recent temperature records have been.

That your rebuttal is purely ad hominem in the truest sense of the word just shows how big of a useful idiot you are.

That you seem to think it's ad-hominem is telling.

Mother Jones is about as far from an unbiased source as you could have found anywhere. That's not ad-homimem; it bears directly on the quality of your argument.

That many official published charts of "warming" temperature started in 1979 is an objective fact.

The "official" argument was that 1979 was about when the satellite record started. But now they're largely just leaving the satellite data out, because it doesn't support their models... which means their excuse for starting in 1979 is also out the window.

None of that had ANYTHING to do with ad-hominem.

I repeat: the pot calling the kettle black.

Try Mobiwol, the no root firewall, which works as a local VPN so it routes all your traffic through the VPN running on the phone itself, thus giving you ability to allow/deny individual apps from network access (including background vs foreground).

Try this on for size, fuckwit https://drive.google.com/folde...

I would like to see this science of which you speak. Not the Fox News edit either, I want to see the SCIENCE.

Let me google that for you

You should have done that yourself. That's what part being responsible is: informing yourself. And not from the lips of Jenny McCarthy, either.

Since you asked, here you go. :)

https://play.google.com/store/...

It's a well-established fact at this point.

The study cited includes data from the UK, which is seeing a massive increase in crime over the last two decades. From that study:

bytheyear2000violentcrimehadsoincreasedthatEnglandandWaleshadEurope’shighestviolent
crimerate,farsurpassingeventheUnitedStates.

This should, at the very least, satisfy everyone's demand for a study, which includes England and the UK.

Also, US states with relatively easy access to guns *do* see a lower crime rate. Compare New Hampshire and Texas with, for example, Illinois and Louisiana.

"Imminent threat"

That sounds soooooo familiar... I just can't place it...

First, who said they won't be citizens? If you make anyone that crosses the border a citizen then they can vote.

What evidence do you have that is happening? It takes far more than crossing the border to become a citizen of the US (unless you are born here of course).

If the democrats really didn't want illegals to vote then they'd allow for some investigation of the voter roles.

The voter registration lists are a matter of public record. It's not that hard to get them. Don't you think that by now if illegals were being allowed to vote someone would have got a list and audited it and blown the lid off that scam?

I think it is you are fooling yourself on this subject.

Here you go!

Yes, I have it from various micro-benchmarks sites. I myself didn't wrote or did any of those benchmarks, because it's useless anyway. Java is fast for my needs, and there are various high performance libraries in Java, like http://code.google.com/p/effic...

Here's where he posted it... personally I think it's hysterical and am not at all offended. :)

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/fa.linux.kernel/Dd6OHskaUPI/dsGFoZCO_woJ

Sea level rise.
Antarctic ice sheet mass balance.
Greenland ice sheet mass balance. (PDF)
World wide glacier facts and figures.

Unless you're willing to specifically name something they got wrong how can I evaluate your claim that the predictions haven't materialized?

There are fewer parties - a few servers and a few clients, both which are updated fairly frequently (the servers because admins, the clients because auto-update) are the only ones that matter. Google already supports HTTP/2 (nee SPDY) so a huge percentage of internet traffic is already set up to use it as soon as browsers update (Chrome has had it as SPDY for years, Firefox has it or will soon).

The v6 slowness was always the ISP (both on the client and server) and the CPE. Now that most of the big US ISPs have their heads on straight, things are looking better for v6 - but Joe Blow bought a WRT54G in 2005 and damned if he'll replace it - it works fine, after all, and who can blame him?

Despite all this, v6 is actually happening. About 5.8% of all Google's global traffic is v6, and that's more than double from last year. In the US, it's more like 13.9% - which puts us 3rd globally (a rare thing in which the US is internet-competitive). Interestingly, if you zoom in the global graph it's clear that workplaces are far behind residential connections (weekends are a big jump).

The beginnings of capitalism: after 90 thousand years of everybody who got hungry taking an apple off a tree in the apple grove, Ogg and his family realized that if they clubbed to death everybody who took an apple from the tree without giving them a dead animal, then they could just sit in the apple grove all day and wouldn't have to go wander through the forest looking for animals to club to death. This became known as private property, entrepreneurship, and the best system ever developed.

It is important to realize that objectively, this whole modern era is so far just a flash in the pan; for 90% of our species' history we lived as hunter-gatherers. There was no chance of travel to other planets, but on the other hand there was no chance of seriously damaging the climate, either. The well-studied Khoisan (aka !Kung) work only a few hours a day to fulfill all their needs; this seems to be true of hunter-gatherer societies in general. http://books.google.com/books?...

This along with other ethnographic and anthropological studies suggest that the long standing view of such societies as "inferior" is a biased artifact of our current society. It's quite clear that the switch from hunter-gatherer to agriculture resulted in a lower standard of living, i.e. a less varied and nutritious diet, an decrease in average lifespan (from agricultural accidents and a jump in epidemic diseases from constant exposure to animals and "species-jumping" of their endemic diseases). http://books.google.com/books/...

"The most important challenges to economic orthodoxy that come from the descriptions of life in hunter-gatherer societies are that (1) the economic notion of scarcity is a social construct, not an inherent property of human existence, (2) the separation of work from social life is not a necessary characteristic of economic production, (3) the linking of individual well-being to individual production is not a necessary characteristic of economic organization, (4) selfishness and acquisitiveness are aspects of human nature, but not necessarily the dominant ones, and (5) inequality based on class and gender is not a necessary characteristic of human society." http://libcom.org/history/hunt...

Similarly, and more familiarly, the industrial revolution resulted in a wave of hunger, poverty, disease, accidents, etc. as we adapted from agriculture.

In general the modern studies of hunter-gatherer societies resemble the suggestions of futurists regarding an "era of abundance" more than those long standing pictures of primitive savagery: egalitarianism, sexual equality, mutual sharing, a social safety net, etc. etc. etc. along with a decent standard of living regarding physical needs. As usual with anthropologists, the remaining time and effort of these societies is arbitrarily assigned to spiritual, social and religious activities. Of course, all this idyllic behavior was largely within the tribe, with its complex net of kinship. However, although there were and are many warlike societies, it appears that the majority of interactions between tribes over history was more a system of trade and mutual recognition of territories.

All this shouldn't be surprising; again, this describes a system which was stable for almost ten times as long as recorded human history, so it's axiomatic that destabilizing influences would be relatively few and weak.

It appears that the destabilizing influence that has led to the current system is mainly a desire for more than subsistence affluence, whether you view that as a legitimate desire for a better standard of living or an illegitimate tendency towards avarice and greed. Either way, it does not seem to be the inescapable part o

The beginnings of capitalism: after 90 thousand years of everybody who got hungry taking an apple off a tree in the apple grove, Ogg and his family realized that if they clubbed to death everybody who took an apple from the tree without giving them a dead animal, then they could just sit in the apple grove all day and wouldn't have to go wander through the forest looking for animals to club to death. This became known as private property, entrepreneurship, and the best system ever developed.

It is important to realize that objectively, this whole modern era is so far just a flash in the pan; for 90% of our species' history we lived as hunter-gatherers. There was no chance of travel to other planets, but on the other hand there was no chance of seriously damaging the climate, either. The well-studied Khoisan (aka !Kung) work only a few hours a day to fulfill all their needs; this seems to be true of hunter-gatherer societies in general. http://books.google.com/books?...

This along with other ethnographic and anthropological studies suggest that the long standing view of such societies as "inferior" is a biased artifact of our current society. It's quite clear that the switch from hunter-gatherer to agriculture resulted in a lower standard of living, i.e. a less varied and nutritious diet, an decrease in average lifespan (from agricultural accidents and a jump in epidemic diseases from constant exposure to animals and "species-jumping" of their endemic diseases). http://books.google.com/books/...

"The most important challenges to economic orthodoxy that come from the descriptions of life in hunter-gatherer societies are that (1) the economic notion of scarcity is a social construct, not an inherent property of human existence, (2) the separation of work from social life is not a necessary characteristic of economic production, (3) the linking of individual well-being to individual production is not a necessary characteristic of economic organization, (4) selfishness and acquisitiveness are aspects of human nature, but not necessarily the dominant ones, and (5) inequality based on class and gender is not a necessary characteristic of human society." http://libcom.org/history/hunt...

Similarly, and more familiarly, the industrial revolution resulted in a wave of hunger, poverty, disease, accidents, etc. as we adapted from agriculture.

In general the modern studies of hunter-gatherer societies resemble the suggestions of futurists regarding an "era of abundance" more than those long standing pictures of primitive savagery: egalitarianism, sexual equality, mutual sharing, a social safety net, etc. etc. etc. along with a decent standard of living regarding physical needs. As usual with anthropologists, the remaining time and effort of these societies is arbitrarily assigned to spiritual, social and religious activities. Of course, all this idyllic behavior was largely within the tribe, with its complex net of kinship. However, although there were and are many warlike societies, it appears that the majority of interactions between tribes over history was more a system of trade and mutual recognition of territories.

All this shouldn't be surprising; again, this describes a system which was stable for almost ten times as long as recorded human history, so it's axiomatic that destabilizing influences would be relatively few and weak.

It appears that the destabilizing influence that has led to the current system is mainly a desire for more than subsistence affluence, whether you view that as a legitimate desire for a better standard of living or an illegitimate tendency towards avarice and greed. Either way, it does not seem to be the inescapable part o

You might want to listen to music in 720p as well; according to Google audio from videos at less than 720p plays at a lower bitrate.

Perhaps you could ask the browser extension sites themselves....

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

https://chrome.google.com/webs...

Most have highlighted the most common for slashdot users are:

• obnoxious advertisement mitigation (aka "ad blocking")
• privacy & security e.g. Do-Not-Track Plus, various (super-)cookie deleters,, cross-site scripting managements/restriction (NoScript, Request-Policy), HTTPS-Everywhere,
• some advanced users / web developers e.g. Firebug, vimperator, TableTools2
• content access / VPN tools (Hola)

Theft by Google seems to be a growing concern; many users have been suspecting this for some time now. You might want to contact data@openstreetmap.org or post to talk@openstreetmap.org if you can prove it, since Google clearly isn't falling within OSM's license right now if that's the case.

Not really sure that any extensions that I install are particularly "useful". However, here's a list of tools that I find especially useful that have to do with web browsing.

• Fiddler (now Fiddler4). Still a solid debugging proxy.
• PrivateInternetAccess or any other system-level VPN. Running it as a browser extension seems risky, even given the WebRTC issue with VPNs.
• On Chrome, the browser extension "Cookies", which enables reasonable cookie management when debugging.
• WGET and cURL

OK, I snuck an actual browser extension in there. But it really only enables what should be core functionality.

One of the most useful extensions I have installed is Poochera which is designed to help you identify the awful opinions from a certain gaming 'journalist' (and has a bonus feature for visiting a certain pretentious game "news" site)

I looked up the patent. Here is the meat of claim 1:

a transceiver, in the role of the master according to the master/slave relationship, for sending at least transmissions modulated using at least two types of modulation methods, wherein the at least two types of modulation methods comprise a first modulation method and a second modulation method, wherein the second modulation method is of a different type than the first modulation method, wherein each transmission comprises a group of transmission sequences, wherein each group of transmission sequences is structured with at least a first portion and a payload portion wherein first information in the first portion indicates at least which of the first modulation method and the second modulation method is used for modulating second information in the payload portion, wherein at least one group of transmission sequences is addressed for an intended destination of the payload portion, and wherein for the at least one group of transmission sequences: the first information for said at least one group of transmission sequences comprises a first sequence, in the first portion and modulated according to the first modulation method, wherein the first sequence indicates an impending change from the first modulation method to the second modulation method, and the second information for said at least one group of transmission sequences comprises a second sequence that is modulated according to the second modulation method, wherein the second sequence is transmitted after the first sequence.

This is absolute garbage. The most powerful claim is so generalized that it can be interpreted to cover anything the owner wishes. It's like patenting a mouse trap that consists of "a device with a mechanism such that mice are trapped".

In what way? That claim can't be interpreted to cover, for example, mouse traps. So it's not quite as generalized as you say.

The BlueTooth 2.0 specification was released in 2004.

The patent trolls' patents were filed in 2009 and 2011. Both patents have a "priority date" of December 5th, 1997 which apparently means that even though they were filed AFTER BlueTooth 2.0 was released, only prior art from before 12/5/1997 can be considered. How is it that prior art can only be considered if it takes place 12 - 14 years before the patent in question was filed?

The BlueTooth 2.0 specification was released in 2004.

The patent trolls' patents were filed in 2009 and 2011. Both patents have a "priority date" of December 5th, 1997 which apparently means that even though they were filed AFTER BlueTooth 2.0 was released, only prior art from before 12/5/1997 can be considered. How is it that prior art can only be considered if it takes place 12 - 14 years before the patent in question was filed?

I looked up the patent. Here is the meat of claim 1:

a transceiver, in the role of the master according to the master/slave relationship, for sending at least transmissions modulated using at least two types of modulation methods, wherein the at least two types of modulation methods comprise a first modulation method and a second modulation method, wherein the second modulation method is of a different type than the first modulation method, wherein each transmission comprises a group of transmission sequences, wherein each group of transmission sequences is structured with at least a first portion and a payload portion wherein first information in the first portion indicates at least which of the first modulation method and the second modulation method is used for modulating second information in the payload portion, wherein at least one group of transmission sequences is addressed for an intended destination of the payload portion, and wherein for the at least one group of transmission sequences:
the first information for said at least one group of transmission sequences comprises a first sequence, in the first portion and modulated according to the first modulation method, wherein the first sequence indicates an impending change from the first modulation method to the second modulation method, and
the second information for said at least one group of transmission sequences comprises a second sequence that is modulated according to the second modulation method, wherein the second sequence is transmitted after the first sequence.

This is absolute garbage. The most powerful claim is so generalized that it can be interpreted to cover anything the owner wishes. It's like patenting a mouse trap that consists of "a device with a mechanism such that mice are trapped".

I have run into this same closed mindedness in academics. I suggest reading Rupert Sheldrake's "The Science Delusion" -- YouTubeable -- also called "The Dogma Of Science". Then consider that universities had religious origins. After that, give up on academics and just post your theory on your own web site (where it will be largely ignored).

There is only so much you can do when a small group control everything. Better theories are the very last thing they want.

Good luck.

Google was there first. Pretty much the exact same thing too: https://www.google.com/get/car...

"By that yardstick, we're post-scarcity now, since the problems with supplying essentials to everybody are basically political, not technical or economic."

Yes, exactly. And it has been that way for some time. And if all that energy spent propping up a social order based on artificial scarcity (e.g the Iraq war) was instead, say, creating fusion energy (US$3 trillion incurred on Iraq would have brought us pretty close...) we'd be able to go way beyond the basics for everyone.

That's the paradigm shift that could happen. It's what James P. Hogan explores in his novel "Voyage from Yesteryear", maybe with some overly rosy glasses about decentralization but still a good read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...
"The Mayflower II has brought with it thousands of settlers, all the trappings of the authoritarian regime along with bureaucracy, religion, capitalism and a military presence to keep the population in line. However, the planners behind the generation ship did not anticipate the direction that Chironian society took: in the absence of conditioning and with limitless robotic labor and fusion power, Chiron has become a post-scarcity economy. Money and material possessions are meaningless to the Chironians and social standing is determined by individual talent, which has resulted in a wealth of art and technology without any hierarchies, central authority or armed conflict."

As I wrote in this essay, abundance for all essentially comes from multiply technological progress times social progress. So, with social progress, what technology you have can do a lot more, and vice versa.
"Getting to 100 social-technical points (was Re: a Change)"
https://groups.google.com/foru...

Realizing how fragile our civilization is on this planet (given solar flares, supervolcanos, asteroid strikes, climate change, plagues, and so on including all the things in the original story) is one motivator for people to put more effort into cooperation and less effort into conflict.

BTW, an "endless pool" is (I hear) really great for convenient swimming, and a lot cheaper than most beach front property. :-)
http://www.endlesspools.com/

The thing is, as soon as you state what specific you are trying to accomplish (exercise, sunshine, storage space, time in nature), rather than what specific thing you want (mansion on a beach), there are probably lots of creative paths to obtain that in ways that everyone could also do. As another example, yes, there may be only one original "Mona Lisa" painting (or maybe a few similar ones by the same artist), but if you want a pleasant painting on the wall to look at, or are willing to accept a copy of a well known painting, that is relatively easy to achieve in material terms.

So, even if actual Earthly current beachfront property is scarce relative to the demand at a price of "free" (I have to concede that), opportunities for exercise, being in nature, or having beautiful experiences are readily available to most people (or could be).

The penultimate paper of "Bit-string Physics: A Finite and Discrete Approach to Natural Philosophy" discusses an attempted revival of "Relation Arithmetic" with which Russell and Whitehead had planned to cap off their Principia Mathematica in its final volume.

Of Relation Arithmetic, Russel said:

"I think relation-arithmetic important, not only as an interesting generalization, but because it supplies a symbolic technique required for dealing with structure. It has seemed to me that those who are not familiar with mathematical logic find great difficulty in understanding what is meant by 'structure', and, owing to this difficulty, are apt to go astray in attempting to understand the empirical world. For this reason, if for no other, I am sorry that the theory of relation-arithmetic has been largely unnoticed."

-- " My Philosophical Development" by Bertrand Russell

An example of going astray in attempting to understand the empirical world is when people attempt to combine incommensurable quantities in their calculations, not understanding the structure of the relations between the quantities.

Ordinarily, programming languages treat units, as I/O formats for dimensions, as an afterthought -- independent of type checking. However, what if we saw numbers themselves as embodying relational structure, as intended by Russell, thereby unifying the notion of "type checking" with the notion of "number"? Might then the power of dimensional analysis be brought to bear, in a mathematically rigorous way, on the relatively ad hoc notions of "type", hence problematic areas such as the object relational impedance mismatch?

SuperPuTTY is a very nice tabbed window extension for PuTTY. I use it extensively.

let me know the next time Google wires up a violence plagued ghetto somewhere.

https://fiber.google.com/citie...
Oh trust me... there are plenty...

Also, I believe the city had some say in where they started, and in what order zoning/permitting was/is being approved.

Now if you want to go and say they are cherry picking markets as in those where it will do well (big cities), let me show you every commercially available communications advance (POTS with > 28.8, DSLAMs, ISDN, Cell Service, 4G, Cable, Broadband)

Will they be blocking Tor for the cheaper service? It's cheaper to opt out with a VPN service than pay AT&T. And how will they capture my search terms on the cheap plan if I use https://www.google.com/ ? Do they have some agreement with Google to pass off search terms from an encrypted session?

It seems like something that would be easy to block, for those that know and care, and those that neither know, nor care, won't care.

so, do you think google isn't doing the same with their fiber installs? https://fiber.google.com/legal...

Minds "immeasurably superior" to humans', and they prefer bloody Woking to Mars?!

Thanks, that just made my day.

Note that the term Schizophrenic is often wrongly applied to people who merely investigate corruption and have distrust in the powers that be.

Take, for example, this declassified document which lists details of "non-lethal" directed energy weaponry, including the ability to transmit a voice into the head of another individual (V2K, voice to skull).
It uses the microwave auditory effect:

This Heat wave crowd control is maturation of tech listed in document above.

Here we see the weapon fitted for use in LA County Jail.

MEDUSA would apply microwave auditory effect instead of the heat wave.
wiki link

It's difficult to tell the difference between a schizophrenic and someone who is being targeted by government agents for uncovering misappropriation of funds, or evidence of a conspiracy. To dismiss individuals concerns and medicate them for such claims without hearing them out is heinous, yet that is what psychiatrists do. I mean, here's a patent for mind influencing device. Is it really that far fetched? Even when the citizenry has trans-cranial tech that can keep people from speaking? It's safe to assume the government has more advanced tech than this... right?

Sure, there are probably more schizophrenic people than those targeted by their own governments, but I put it to you that it is no longer correct to assume by default that a person hearing voices, having strange sensations, and emotions, etc. is insane. At least LOOK for evidence of manipulation. Often these individuals attempt to present a video of a sweeping AM radio tuned to static which can detect EM interference signals along the nonlethal energy weapon beams (just as you get when you put the radio near a microwave). However, such evidence it is summarily dismissed out of hand and not sought in the least by our medical "professionals" despite the growing complaints and demonstrations of such technology's use. A massive disinformation campaign has been ongoing since the mid 70's to keep the use of such tech against the citizens under wraps, and it is now a widely used tool in anti-extremist / anti-protester response forces.

Just like they were right about the government spying on everyone and even seeing through walls the conspiracy theorists were right about tinfoil hats. Yet, the average person still dismisses even the possibility that some people wearing them aren't crazy.

Who's the one that's brainwashed by media? It just might be the psychiatrists.

When you punch an electric motor, it stay 98% efficient. When you punch an internal combustion engine, its already miserable efficiency drops into the single digits.

I'm not sure where you're getting your data for this, but I don't think this is typically true. If you look at specific fuel consumption curves (which are inversely proportional to efficiency), most internal combustion engines seem to lose maybe 20% of their efficiency (e.g., from 28% efficient* to 22% efficient) from their peak to "punching" - certainly not dropping into the single digits.

Also, if you're going to make a fair comparison to an electric motor in this context, you need to account for the battery efficiency, which is maybe 85% - gasoline doesn't lose any significant energy on its way from the gas station pump to the car's gas tank to the engine, but an electric car will experience some energy loss from the plug to the battery to the motor (e.g., the batteries heat up under charge and discharge, which is an energy loss, and more energy may be required to cool them back down to keep them comfortable).

*I'm estimating the efficiency of the uninstalled engine, not including drivetrain losses, accessory losses, etc.

I was thinking a pair of 128 GB microSDXC, one for each leg...

Then I hope you have a pretty big cote, because in your scenario each pigeon would provide less than 45 seconds worth of DisplayPort physical link frame data of 24 bit color depth 8k@60 Hz (neglecting protocol overhead).

How do you hide and freeze this? (App on Google Play). More info: http://www.zdnet.com/article/samsung-security-or-arrogance/.

Is that because it was named after a great hunter, or because it was named after the leader of the people that built the Tower of Babel - leading to the multitude of languages? Or are you going the Bugs Bunny route?

Because it has been a well known slur for a long time. Bugs' use of it only reflects society.

According to Wikipedia, citing the Dictionary of Jewish Usage, the use of nimrod as slang for dimwitted was first recorded in 1932, but was indeed actually popularized by Bugs Bunny in the 1940s. And apparently nobody knows *why* it became popular as an insult, because there's no real connection between the original meaning and the slang meaning.

Nimrod: The Story of a Name

At AIG they either forced out or fired almost all the White guys from the IT department and replaced them with Blacks so the help desk would have "commonality". LOL Gotta love "diversity"! https://drive.google.com/file/...

https://drive.google.com/file/...

https://drive.google.com/file/...

I don't see how searching for steroids is going to reveal the deep web...

They can't find obvious things, things any driver in their home city should know.

A dude in a car would be better in most cases.

Metropolitan Seoul has a population of 25 million. Furthermore, unlike New York City which is laid out in a nice grid, the streets in Seoul are a byzantine mess of turns, angles, and alleyways. Also, as per Asian custom, most of the streets don't have names - the destinations do. (Kinda like Squares in Boston - instead of the street being called Boylston St, it'd simply be called "To Copley Square".) I'm frankly amazed at how many streets the taxicab drivers there know. GPS is a convenience in the U.S., but it's practically required in cities like Seoul which originally grew organically without central planning.

You also have to understand the historical pretext. South Korea, and Seoul in particular, has one of the highest population densities on earth. Of countries with more than 5 million people and excluding city-states, only Bangladesh and Taiwan have higher population density. Space, and especially road space is a premium.

Back in the 1970s and early 1980s, they had a pretty good system. The government taxed cars so that the cost about $40,000 (about $90,000 in 2014 dollars) as a way to discourage car ownership. Instead, people were encouraged to take public transportation and taxis. Even traveling between cities was simple with an extensive express bus system with departures every 5 minutes between major cities. It worked pretty well - I hardly recall seeing any traffic jams during that time, and you could flag down a taxi literally within 30 seconds.

All that fell apart n the late 1980s, one of the U.S. Presidential candidates made an issue of this tax. He complained that Hyundai was allowed to sell its cars in the U.S. for $5,000, while an equivalent U.S. car cost $40,000 in Korea. He conveniently omitted that the same Hyundai cost $40,000 in Korea as well. The huge uproar in the U.S. eventually led to the South Korean government repealing the tax in order to protect its fledgling overseas car sales industry.

What happened next was predictable. Car prices dropped like a rock in Korea, and Koreans bought cars. Tens of millions of them. Way more than the road infrastructure could handle. The streets became parking lots. During the lunar new year, it wasn't uncommon for a 400km road trip to take more than 24 hours - as slow as a fast marathon runner. And not only did it negatively impact car travel, it also slowed down public bus transportation since they were stuck on the streets with the cars.

During the 1990s and 2000s, Korea worked its ass off to expand and improve its roads to handle all these cars. It's still nowhere near as good as it was in the 1970s, but at least traffic moves now, with just the regular traffic jams like you'd expect in any modern urbanized country. There is no way in hell they're going to allow millions more drivers roaming the streets trying to make some extra pocket change with Uber.

Robert Cialdini.

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