John McCain is reported to have said "As your president I promise to wear a dress and talk like a little girl if that is what my campaign supporters want. When you buy the presidency the man you anoint should dance for your amusement. So keep those contributions a coming!", he said in a lilting high pitched voice while sporting a bright blue sundress.
I switched my house to CFLs and started saving $15-20 per month. If everyone did this then the big power companies would see a dent in their bottom line and so they start spreading lies like this.
As a citizen concerned about the erosion of civil rights and in view of this administrations war on the Constitution I urge anyone who is thinking about voting republican to vote for Ron Paul, regardless of your district or state of residence.
I am as proud to live in the state represented by Russ Feingold, as I am ashamed to live in the state represented by James Fuckhead Sensenbrenner. For the record -
congressional votes by party:
So you would rather that poor people have "good light" and get bent by the electric company?
Btw most incandescent bulbs put out a yellowish light with a temp of 2700K, GE calls this "soft white", but it looks bad and causes you to perceive colors incorrectly. You might be used to this and think you are living the highlife, but a
cool white 4100k or Daylight 6500k bulb can make things look much better.
Poor people will have more income to scrape by on if they use CFLs, because less will be going to the man. If more people buy CFLs and use them the costs of manufacturing will come down and good quality bulbs will be available to most people.
Is there something wrong with using socialist policies to ensure some semblance of fairness and equity in our society?
Ok, check this out, I grew up in a very humble household - lower middle class, but I went to Head Start(socialism!) and I did good enough in public school(socialism!) to be able to attend a state college(govt subsidized-socialism!)
I didn't get any college money from my parents(they actually owed me money-cause I worked for minimum wage(socialism!) in hs), but I didn't qualify for any govt grants(!socialism) because George Bush Sr. thought that I should qualify as a Dependant and my parents should provide for my education. So I got me some govt loans(socialism!) with a lower interest rate and worked my way through college. Now Ive been working at decent job for 10 years, paid off the college loans, and have a nice modest house(property taxes!) and make enough to be in the upper-middle-class(income taxes!).
In my case all that socialism, tax & spend, has really paid off well, I have already paid the government back for my education several times over. And I don't mind paying high taxes as long as the money is used wisely, I wish more young people could get a decent college education. The problem is that over the last 15-20 years government spending on education & especially higher education hasn't kept pace with inflation and tuition rates have skyrocketed. Those that go to school end up with huge amount of debt, loans have been outsourced for higher interest rates, and most of our tax money is being wasted on bombs and poured into the sand.
The path to relative success(my and conversion from cost center to profit center) is not as easy for young people today as it was for me and it has a lot to do with the withering and neglect of good socialist programs in our government.
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Yes, yes it seems that for the very wealthy one million is not much money these days, what with inflation and all. But 53mil is still a chunk of change, even to most rich people. The GP was talking about 1% of 53 mil which is 530,000 even after 40% taxes it would be 318,000 which would be a pretty swanky college fund for most students.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that the asshat companies running these ads will say that these ads are political speech and that under the first amendment they can lie all they want, just like miserable failure george bush, since truth in advertising laws don't apply because they are trying to influence politics and not sell a product.
The problem is that the US is a Coporatocracy(the people may elect the politicians, but the corps own them) and companies can get away with shit like this. Corporate propaganda should not be given freedom of speech protection, yes there are some corps who pay some taxes, but only the richest citizens have the resources to match a corporate advertising campaign which makes their speech inherently unequal and makes any public debate biased in their favor.
GM and several other manufactures actually began producing electric cars for the california market in the mid nineties.
After the bush administration came to power, and proceeded to use federal resources to sue California, in April 2003 the California Air Resources Board dropped their zero emissions standard and GM proceeded to reaquire the cars and crushed them in the Nevada desert.
See also: Who Killed the Electric Car?
Athletes as a whole are horrible roles models for most of society because they got to where they are by spending more time in the weight room than the classroom. Modern professional athletes are more entertainers than anything, taking religious advice from them is like being a disciple of the circus strongman. But modern professional sporting events and modern churches like roman circuses have much in common so I'm not surprised people tend to mix sports and religion together. See also: Fanatical
I am informed, but I don't vote for all races. When I vote, I make my mark for contested races and for referendums and I vote for uncontested candidates that I know do a good job of representing me.
Other candidates that are running unopposed for minor offices that I dislike or have no opinion of I skip entirely so that if there is someone out there who has gone to the trouble to organize a last minute write in campaign they will not have my vote against them.
I already wasted karma on this discussion, but I need to reply since the marketroids and clones are dominating this discussion.
In game advertising is fucking evil. Why the fuck would anyone want to see ads in a game. Urban setting - need billboards to give it that gritty hopeless edge? Racing game player needs something to look at while turning left? You dont need fucking bullshit advertising to make a game. Games are played for entertainment, for relaxation, to get away from all of the bullshit in real life. Advertising is all about generating and cultivating desire, turning simple gimmicks into wants and wants into needs. You dont need some ad to suddenly popup and tell you that your life is shit because you dont have some shiny new fucking product, you are too fat and smelly, you have too much hair or not enough, maybe you need a date or a mail order bride. Graphics card too slow to move at all when this 500MB texture is loaded - time for an upgrade.
Anything portrayed as advertising in games should be value added content. Show me something original, something enjoyable, a satirical billboard ala the onion or like the 50's style government propaganda in fallout or doom3's Super Turbo Turkey Puncher.
Anyone who says that real advertisements make a game more enjoyable are probably the same people who pay for fucking cable tv and watch the home shopping network.
I wont play any fucking games with ads. I wont play if you give the game away for free. My spare time is worth way too much.
Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life.
If you burn natural gas at the home then you can use the excess heat generated to heat the house. When the power plant burns natural gas(or coal) the waste heat usually ends up getting dumped in a lake which is great for the ducks but not so efficient.
My local university and power company recently teamed up to build a cogen plant that burns natural gas and uses the excess heat to heat campus buildings. They figure that this new plant is 70% efficient vs 30-35% for most existing natural gas power.
Cache helps improve perforance when your entire dataset can be loaded to cache, but I expect most realworld benchmarks would use a database much bigger than 6MB. Thats when the Dual Core nature of the dual opteron(twice the cpus) and built in memory controler would clean house.
This wont happen because AMD has a clear lead in server cpus. Xeons dont scale worth a darn and the Itanium has been doa. Intel is treading water and pumping up the marketing machine just to stay afloat. No real benchmarks or numbers displayed at IDF and AMD has more processing per watt right now.
What I want to see is Bush(might makes right) vs Cindy(you killed my baby) in a boxing ring. If bush beats up on a woman or gets pummeled he would lose either way.
The interconnect for intells xeon servers is really poor and at high loads all the processors compete for access to the shared bus and memory. This means it doesnt scale worth a darn. You have diminishing returns for each processor something along the lines of: 1 xeon = 100% 2 xeon = 140% 3 xeon = 160% 4 xeon = 170% Wheres with the amd opteron with hyperTransport interconnect the processors dont have to fight for resources. And performance scales much better along the lines of: 1 opteron = 100% 2 opteron = 180% 3 opteron = 250% 4 opteron = 310%
I went digital for my wedding, but the agreement with the photographer stipulated that I was the copyright holder and that the digital copies would be turned over to me. He was allowed to keep & make copies to promote his business, but he was not allowed to sell them.
I agree absolutely there is no reason to give up control of copyright to the pictures of your own wedding. We were able to turn around and make good quality prints for friends and relatives for pennies. Our total printing costs came to just over a hunderd dollars and we were able to send out prints along with every thank-you card.
Photographers deserve to be paid as a professional at a fair wage for their time and effort, but they dont deserve to 0wnZ3r your wedding.
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Just middle click with the scroll wheel to close a tab by clicking on it. That way the tab doesnt need to be active in order to close it.
"I will speculate that today's single-threaded applications as actually used in the field could actually see a performance boost for most users by going to a dual-core chip, not because the extra core is actually doing anything useful, but because it is running the adware and spyware that infest many users' systems and are otherwise slowing down the single CPU that user has today. I leave it up to you to decide whether adding a CPU to run your spyware is the best solution to that problem."
Sounds like users dont really need faster processors, just adequete spyware protection & removal. But I cant wait for a dual core AMD-64 system.
While I was a high school senior many moons ago I must have scored pretty high on the mandatory military test administered by my school(asvab). BTW, Can you believe that the
military offers tips and strategy pointers for taking the test?
Anyway I received at least one glossy Freedom Informer every week and a friendly call from a recruiter monthly even though I told them I wasn't interested. After I went to college(without switching my address) either they forgot about me or lost track of me. For awhile my phone number and address changed every year so there was no way for them to correlate asvab scores with names & addresses.
Anyway I think that this new program will solve most of those problems, sure the ss is handy, but its only one side of a three legged stool and not very useful unless they directly institute a draft. The military needs educated men to serve as officers and they need to be able to follow up with those who drop out of college and are running out of job options.
A new database to lure a new generation of
freedom spreaders for bush.
Part of the current act is that public schools are
mandated to turn over personal information about students to armed forces recruiting so that no child will miss out on the oportunity to die in bushes fucked up war for oil. Parents who dont want their childern contacted must opt-out in order to keep their childerns from being inundated with calls and glossy pamflets.
The effort to create this database may be in response to the recent judgement that universities can
deny access to military recruiters because of discriminatory practices against gays. This overturned a 1994 a defense authorization bill that allowed the goverment to withhold funding from public institutions that denied access to recruiters.
The hopeless war in iraq is making it
more difficult to
recruit a new generation of jarheads. Retention is down so they were forced to make do with a back door draft in order to retain enough personel to maintain our insufficient forces in iraq & afganastan. If bush starts a third war against Iran(with large oil and natural gas reserves), launched from our spiffy new bases in Iraq, we will need to dramatically increase the number of military personel beyond what can be build using volenteers. This new database will come in handy when the National Freedom Expanders Act is passed to compel military service unless you happen to be in a rich an powerful family in which case reporting for Patriot Duty is optional.
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John McCain is reported to have said "As your president I promise to wear a dress and talk like a little girl if that is what my campaign supporters want. When you buy the presidency the man you anoint should dance for your amusement. So keep those contributions a coming!", he said in a lilting high pitched voice while sporting a bright blue sundress.
This is an urban legend propagated by conservative propaganda sites. Good thing we have editors to filter this stuff out for us...
c hange_light/downloads/Fact_Sheet_Mercury.pdf
There is very little mercury in CFLs, you are in more danger of getting cut by the glass than you are of getting mercury poisoning.
http://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/promotions/
I switched my house to CFLs and started saving $15-20 per month. If everyone did this then the big power companies would see a dent in their bottom line and so they start spreading lies like this.
I am as proud to live in the state represented by Russ Feingold, as I am ashamed to live in the state represented by James Fuckhead Sensenbrenner. For the record - congressional votes by party:
So you would rather that poor people have "good light" and get bent by the electric company?
Btw most incandescent bulbs put out a yellowish light with a temp of 2700K, GE calls this "soft white", but it looks bad and causes you to perceive colors incorrectly. You might be used to this and think you are living the highlife, but a cool white 4100k or Daylight 6500k bulb can make things look much better.
Poor people will have more income to scrape by on if they use CFLs, because less will be going to the man. If more people buy CFLs and use them the costs of manufacturing will come down and good quality bulbs will be available to most people.
Cheaper, older CFLs have this problem, newer models hit full brightness very quickly. Look for models that say "instant on"
Is there something wrong with using socialist policies to ensure some semblance of fairness and equity in our society? Ok, check this out, I grew up in a very humble household - lower middle class, but I went to Head Start(socialism!) and I did good enough in public school(socialism!) to be able to attend a state college(govt subsidized-socialism!)
I didn't get any college money from my parents(they actually owed me money-cause I worked for minimum wage(socialism!) in hs), but I didn't qualify for any govt grants(!socialism) because George Bush Sr. thought that I should qualify as a Dependant and my parents should provide for my education. So I got me some govt loans(socialism!) with a lower interest rate and worked my way through college. Now Ive been working at decent job for 10 years, paid off the college loans, and have a nice modest house(property taxes!) and make enough to be in the upper-middle-class(income taxes!).
In my case all that socialism, tax & spend, has really paid off well, I have already paid the government back for my education several times over. And I don't mind paying high taxes as long as the money is used wisely, I wish more young people could get a decent college education. The problem is that over the last 15-20 years government spending on education & especially higher education hasn't kept pace with inflation and tuition rates have skyrocketed. Those that go to school end up with huge amount of debt, loans have been outsourced for higher interest rates, and most of our tax money is being wasted on bombs and poured into the sand.
The path to relative success(my and conversion from cost center to profit center) is not as easy for young people today as it was for me and it has a lot to do with the withering and neglect of good socialist programs in our government.
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Yes, yes it seems that for the very wealthy one million is not much money these days, what with inflation and all. But 53mil is still a chunk of change, even to most rich people. The GP was talking about 1% of 53 mil which is 530,000 even after 40% taxes it would be 318,000 which would be a pretty swanky college fund for most students.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that the asshat companies running these ads will say that these ads are political speech and that under the first amendment they can lie all they want, just like miserable failure george bush, since truth in advertising laws don't apply because they are trying to influence politics and not sell a product.
The problem is that the US is a Coporatocracy(the people may elect the politicians, but the corps own them) and companies can get away with shit like this. Corporate propaganda should not be given freedom of speech protection, yes there are some corps who pay some taxes, but only the richest citizens have the resources to match a corporate advertising campaign which makes their speech inherently unequal and makes any public debate biased in their favor.
GM and several other manufactures actually began producing electric cars for the california market in the mid nineties. After the bush administration came to power, and proceeded to use federal resources to sue California, in April 2003 the California Air Resources Board dropped their zero emissions standard and GM proceeded to reaquire the cars and crushed them in the Nevada desert.
See also: Who Killed the Electric Car?
Athletes as a whole are horrible roles models for most of society because they got to where they are by spending more time in the weight room than the classroom. Modern professional athletes are more entertainers than anything, taking religious advice from them is like being a disciple of the circus strongman. But modern professional sporting events and modern churches like roman circuses have much in common so I'm not surprised people tend to mix sports and religion together. See also: Fanatical
I am informed, but I don't vote for all races.
When I vote, I make my mark for contested races and for referendums and I vote for uncontested candidates that I know do a good job of representing me.
Other candidates that are running unopposed for minor offices that I dislike or have no opinion of I skip entirely so that if there is someone out there who has gone to the trouble to organize a last minute write in campaign they will not have my vote against them.
Actually according to wikipedia:
Arlington, Texas (pop. 360,000) is the largest city in the United States without public transportation
In our consumerist society most people already wear the sign of the beast.
No, I get about 83 seconds on an intel dual core 3ghz.
winxppro - with lots of apps running.
I already wasted karma on this discussion, but I need to reply since the marketroids and clones are dominating this discussion.
In game advertising is fucking evil. Why the fuck would anyone want to see ads in a game. Urban setting - need billboards to give it that gritty hopeless edge? Racing game player needs something to look at while turning left? You dont need fucking bullshit advertising to make a game. Games are played for entertainment, for relaxation, to get away from all of the bullshit in real life. Advertising is all about generating and cultivating desire, turning simple gimmicks into wants and wants into needs. You dont need some ad to suddenly popup and tell you that your life is shit because you dont have some shiny new fucking product, you are too fat and smelly, you have too much hair or not enough, maybe you need a date or a mail order bride. Graphics card too slow to move at all when this 500MB texture is loaded - time for an upgrade.
Anything portrayed as advertising in games should be value added content. Show me something original, something enjoyable, a satirical billboard ala the onion or like the 50's style government propaganda in fallout or doom3's Super Turbo Turkey Puncher.
Anyone who says that real advertisements make a game more enjoyable are probably the same people who pay for fucking cable tv and watch the home shopping network.
I wont play any fucking games with ads. I wont play if you give the game away for free. My spare time is worth way too much.
Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life.
If you burn natural gas at the home then you can use the excess heat generated to heat the house. When the power plant burns natural gas(or coal) the waste heat usually ends up getting dumped in a lake which is great for the ducks but not so efficient.
My local university and power company recently teamed up to build a cogen plant that burns natural gas and uses the excess heat to heat campus buildings. They figure that this new plant is 70% efficient vs 30-35% for most existing natural gas power.
Good luck selling your house, it sounds like a total pain in the ass.
Cache helps improve perforance when your entire dataset can be loaded to cache, but I expect most realworld benchmarks would use a database much bigger than 6MB. Thats when the Dual Core nature of the dual opteron(twice the cpus) and built in memory controler would clean house.
dual code dual opteron is often faster than a qaud xeon server
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2397
This wont happen because AMD has a clear lead in server cpus. Xeons dont scale worth a darn and the Itanium has been doa. Intel is treading water and pumping up the marketing machine just to stay afloat. No real benchmarks or numbers displayed at IDF and AMD has more processing per watt right now.
What I want to see is Bush(might makes right) vs Cindy(you killed my baby) in a boxing ring. If bush beats up on a woman or gets pummeled he would lose either way.
The interconnect for intells xeon servers is really poor and at high loads all the processors compete for access to the shared bus and memory. This means it doesnt scale worth a darn. You have diminishing returns for each processor something along the lines of:
1 xeon = 100%
2 xeon = 140%
3 xeon = 160%
4 xeon = 170%
Wheres with the amd opteron with hyperTransport interconnect the processors dont have to fight for resources. And performance scales much better along the lines of:
1 opteron = 100%
2 opteron = 180%
3 opteron = 250%
4 opteron = 310%
I went digital for my wedding, but the agreement with the photographer stipulated that I was the copyright holder and that the digital copies would be turned over to me. He was allowed to keep & make copies to promote his business, but he was not allowed to sell them.
I agree absolutely there is no reason to give up control of copyright to the pictures of your own wedding. We were able to turn around and make good quality prints for friends and relatives for pennies. Our total printing costs came to just over a hunderd dollars and we were able to send out prints along with every thank-you card.
Photographers deserve to be paid as a professional at a fair wage for their time and effort, but they dont deserve to 0wnZ3r your wedding.
Just middle click with the scroll wheel to close a tab by clicking on it.
That way the tab doesnt need to be active in order to close it.
"I will speculate that today's single-threaded applications as actually used in the field could actually see a performance boost for most users by going to a dual-core chip, not because the extra core is actually doing anything useful, but because it is running the adware and spyware that infest many users' systems and are otherwise slowing down the single CPU that user has today. I leave it up to you to decide whether adding a CPU to run your spyware is the best solution to that problem."
Sounds like users dont really need faster processors, just adequete spyware protection & removal. But I cant wait for a dual core AMD-64 system.
While I was a high school senior many moons ago I must have scored pretty high on the mandatory military test administered by my school(asvab). BTW, Can you believe that the military offers tips and strategy pointers for taking the test? Anyway I received at least one glossy Freedom Informer every week and a friendly call from a recruiter monthly even though I told them I wasn't interested. After I went to college(without switching my address) either they forgot about me or lost track of me. For awhile my phone number and address changed every year so there was no way for them to correlate asvab scores with names & addresses.
Anyway I think that this new program will solve most of those problems, sure the ss is handy, but its only one side of a three legged stool and not very useful unless they directly institute a draft. The military needs educated men to serve as officers and they need to be able to follow up with those who drop out of college and are running out of job options. A new database to lure a new generation of freedom spreaders for bush.
Part of the current act is that public schools are mandated to turn over personal information about students to armed forces recruiting so that no child will miss out on the oportunity to die in bushes fucked up war for oil. Parents who dont want their childern contacted must opt-out in order to keep their childerns from being inundated with calls and glossy pamflets.
The effort to create this database may be in response to the recent judgement that universities can deny access to military recruiters because of discriminatory practices against gays. This overturned a 1994 a defense authorization bill that allowed the goverment to withhold funding from public institutions that denied access to recruiters.
The hopeless war in iraq is making it more difficult to recruit a new generation of jarheads. Retention is down so they were forced to make do with a back door draft in order to retain enough personel to maintain our insufficient forces in iraq & afganastan. If bush starts a third war against Iran(with large oil and natural gas reserves), launched from our spiffy new bases in Iraq, we will need to dramatically increase the number of military personel beyond what can be build using volenteers. This new database will come in handy when the National Freedom Expanders Act is passed to compel military service unless you happen to be in a rich an powerful family in which case reporting for Patriot Duty is optional.