Batteries are better. You can recharge off a solar panel. Using fuel hooks you into the carbon problem in a big way.
Also: what happens if your fuel tank springs a leak? Is that covered under your warranty? For how long? 12 months and one day later the tank leaks and bingo: dead computer.
ELC
Officers 9641 and 2242 discontinue
operation. Report to Thermal
station 62. Present operation
computed to be economically
unfeasible. It is predicted that
1138 THX will self-destroy. Repeat:
Abandon present operation. Dispatch
to Level 56 CON-R thermal station
62, investigate toxic chemical
leak.
As in the movie, THX exceeded his expense to society, so he was "allowed" to drop out. He was predicted to self-destruct. When he arrived at the surface of a hot desert world, he was considered "dead" to the system.
I would predict that as western civilisation hits the energy downcurve and the temperature upcurve, much the same will happen, regardless of age. People will simply be left to their own devices to die in a ruined planet.
HH
I was just a broken head I stole the world that others plundered now I stumble through the garbage slide and tumble slide and stumble.
At gofish.com they have an online reality TV show called "america's dream date" where people are competing to be "america's dream date" and go to PAris for a week.
Most of the videos entered are lame as hell, but some are VERY inspired.
One girl, "Deanna", is some kind of a weepy nightmare - one of those "really pretty, but a TOTAL PSYCHO" types. so, you think "these are videos of a very disturbed woman". But then, some digging around on the names submitted reveals that actually it's an act - excerpts from some bizarro indie film about video dating. And her name isn't Deanna, but a talented young actress named Morgan Mead.
Now, you might think: OK - so what? But she's not the only one - another fellow named "Denton Rose" is a skinny elvis impersonator and quite daft. He is also in the running for the top prize. What is real? What isn't? DOES IT FUCKING MATTER? Ummmm. No.
I believe it was David Bowie who said something to the effect of: "Everything in performance is a pose. Even sincerity." This is an important point that the sheeple of the world fail to understand. Example: people who play "bad guys" in soap operas are regularly assaulted in public. "HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO NANCY???" "Why don't you just settle down with Monica - she's such a nice girl!" etc.
The problem is, PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS. Places like YouTube are repositories - they have no business model. Places like gofish.com DO have a business model, but it is one based in a culture and humour of irony: sincerity comes at the price of a wink and a nudge nudge... That's why I find gofish more interesting as a phenomenon, even though they have fewer videos than youTube.
and it's really not bad. What they do is insert a 15 second advert into the flash player. you view it every 4 or 5 movies or so. I'm not sure on the frequency, but it doesn't seem to be that bad.
They're also developing an entertainment channel. Right now it's a reality TV show type thing called "America's Dream Date". The grand prize isa trip to Paris. People are sending in some bizarre videos to win. If they keep this up, they will have an actual and viable business model...
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Also: what happens if your fuel tank springs a leak? Is that covered under your warranty? For how long? 12 months and one day later the tank leaks and bingo: dead computer.
If they do build this idiotic device, for true masturbatory pleasure, get pr0n running in one window, and a collapsing ecology in the other.
It's all sex and death in mother nature's plans...
HH
CONTROL CENTER
ELC reads a computer readout.
ELC
Officers 9641 and 2242 discontinue
operation. Report to Thermal
station 62. Present operation
computed to be economically
unfeasible. It is predicted that
1138 THX will self-destroy. Repeat:
Abandon present operation. Dispatch
to Level 56 CON-R thermal station
62, investigate toxic chemical
leak.
As in the movie, THX exceeded his expense to society, so he was "allowed" to drop out. He was predicted to self-destruct. When he arrived at the surface of a hot desert world, he was considered "dead" to the system.
I would predict that as western civilisation hits the energy downcurve and the temperature upcurve, much the same will happen, regardless of age. People will simply be left to their own devices to die in a ruined planet.
HH
I was just a broken head I stole the world that others plundered now I stumble through the garbage slide and tumble slide and stumble.
What does Google got that Akamai ain't got, other than courage?
HH
What makes the hottentot hot?
Most of the videos entered are lame as hell, but some are VERY inspired.
One girl, "Deanna", is some kind of a weepy nightmare - one of those "really pretty, but a TOTAL PSYCHO" types. so, you think "these are videos of a very disturbed woman". But then, some digging around on the names submitted reveals that actually it's an act - excerpts from some bizarro indie film about video dating. And her name isn't Deanna, but a talented young actress named Morgan Mead.
Now, you might think: OK - so what? But she's not the only one - another fellow named "Denton Rose" is a skinny elvis impersonator and quite daft. He is also in the running for the top prize. What is real? What isn't? DOES IT FUCKING MATTER? Ummmm. No.
I believe it was David Bowie who said something to the effect of: "Everything in performance is a pose. Even sincerity." This is an important point that the sheeple of the world fail to understand. Example: people who play "bad guys" in soap operas are regularly assaulted in public. "HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO NANCY???" "Why don't you just settle down with Monica - she's such a nice girl!" etc.
The problem is, PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS. Places like YouTube are repositories - they have no business model. Places like gofish.com DO have a business model, but it is one based in a culture and humour of irony: sincerity comes at the price of a wink and a nudge nudge... That's why I find gofish more interesting as a phenomenon, even though they have fewer videos than youTube.
HH
Hey! Put that down! You'll poke your eye out!
They're also developing an entertainment channel. Right now it's a reality TV show type thing called "America's Dream Date". The grand prize isa trip to Paris. People are sending in some bizarre videos to win. If they keep this up, they will have an actual and viable business model...
HH
Sig FREUD!