He's complaining about the speed-bump-mounted pistons that some areas are using, which make your car do more work to generate power.
Of course, speed bumps in and of themselves end up causing more than an order of magnitude more deaths than they prevent thanks to their effect upon ambulances, so the power leeching is really only a drop in the bucket.
Unless you plan to make illegal immigration a capital crime, you will not stop it no matter how well you enforce the laws. The economic incentives greatly outweigh the consequences. If the choice is between starvation and breaking immigration laws, the choice is easy.
Set the minimum wage for illegal immigrants to $20/hour. Make employers liable even if they don't know their employees are illegal. Set damages appropriately high for going below this wage, and force them to pay the wages retroactively if an employee is discovered to be illegal.
BAM! I just offloaded most of the cost of enforcing the laws onto the employers, and the manpower onto the lawyers.
So you're saying that a cyborg is a path-based, rather than a state-based, definition?
So, no matter how many human parts you added to Data, he'd still be an android, but if you replaced Bareil Antos' whole brain with positronics he'd be a cyborg?
Back in the 1950s Johns Hopkins offered a penny a piece for each live firefly you gave them. Lots of kids got pocket money, but the population noticeably dropped for the next couple of years.
Of course, getting money up-front is more valuable than money distributed over a period of time. A recurring payment of 295 a year for 20 years is worth roughly 2 or 3k up front. Which is still a price hike, but not nearly as steep
3: T-Rex: Dromiceiomimus, where does Star Wars take place?
Dromiceiomimus: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away, of course.
T-Rex: EXACTLY!
4: Utahraptor: So you're saying that since Star Trek takes place in our distant future, and Star Wars takes place in our distant past, the physics have to be compatible?
T-Rex: Sure!
5: Utahraptor: Isn't that based upon the unfounded assumption that the laws of physics are constant over time? Surely there could be changes to the fundamental laws of the universe between the two series that could result in the differences
T-Rex: Wait. You're saying gravity could turn off at any moment?
6: In the alternate universe where that just happened
T-Rex: WOOOOOOOOOO!
ALT TEXT: Actually, the comic is contemporaneous with Star Wars because they're in the past! The characters are all dinosaurs! Ha Ha!
Email: Hey Ryan, I have some arguments about the Federation's archaeological abilities vis a vis, whether or not they'd be able to identify the long-lost ruins of the Empire!
But caring extends on an infinite continuum in both directions, and it takes effort to increase the absolute value of your caring. You have to expend effort to not care to an extreme degree.
So if you're apathetic about something, you could still care less about it.
Yeah, but that black mana isn't going to do them much good even after they've got spray-on batteries on the field. I'll just use my Greater Sony Instant and completely disrupt the combo.
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Well, the 243,000,500,000,000,000,002th digit of pi is "4".
Go on, prove me wrong.
He's not complaining about waste sound energy.
He's complaining about the speed-bump-mounted pistons that some areas are using, which make your car do more work to generate power.
Of course, speed bumps in and of themselves end up causing more than an order of magnitude more deaths than they prevent thanks to their effect upon ambulances, so the power leeching is really only a drop in the bucket.
If someone is offering you free money, there has to be a catch somewhere. Otherwise, economically speaking, they're being irrational.
Well, duh. Look at the title.
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He's saying that the sound capturing devices are cool beans, but that other automotive energy capture devices aren't.
Unless you plan to make illegal immigration a capital crime, you will not stop it no matter how well you enforce the laws. The economic incentives greatly outweigh the consequences. If the choice is between starvation and breaking immigration laws, the choice is easy.
Set the minimum wage for illegal immigrants to $20/hour. Make employers liable even if they don't know their employees are illegal. Set damages appropriately high for going below this wage, and force them to pay the wages retroactively if an employee is discovered to be illegal.
BAM! I just offloaded most of the cost of enforcing the laws onto the employers, and the manpower onto the lawyers.
Bam, they're a favorite microwave meal!
So you're saying that a cyborg is a path-based, rather than a state-based, definition?
So, no matter how many human parts you added to Data, he'd still be an android, but if you replaced Bareil Antos' whole brain with positronics he'd be a cyborg?
Oh, come on. Mastodons are huge!
Err... were huge.
At least, the Earth is the center of the *observable* universe. Which is all the universe, I, personally, care about.
Back in the 1950s Johns Hopkins offered a penny a piece for each live firefly you gave them. Lots of kids got pocket money, but the population noticeably dropped for the next couple of years.
Wouldn't a dumb phone be pretty useless?
Almost as bad as a deaf phone.
Yeah, you're complaining now, but when CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN comes around, you'll be singing an entirely different tune.
Why don't you hunter2s shut the hunter2 up!
Of course, getting money up-front is more valuable than money distributed over a period of time. A recurring payment of 295 a year for 20 years is worth roughly 2 or 3k up front. Which is still a price hike, but not nearly as steep
Seriously, I'm totally confused by this. Did the burning man attendees actually set the /article/ on fire as well?
If I have learned anything from television, it's that Drew Carey will be the first victim of sitting-around-doing-nothing related death.
You can read it, but it's irritating as hell.
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Yeah.
I misread the title as "Robot Swarm Control On Moon's Surface", and was sorely disappointed.
1: T-rex:Oh, come on.
2: That doesn't make any sense at all.
3: T-Rex: Dromiceiomimus, where does Star Wars take place?
Dromiceiomimus: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away, of course.
T-Rex: EXACTLY!
4: Utahraptor: So you're saying that since Star Trek takes place in our distant future, and Star Wars takes place in our distant past, the physics have to be compatible?
T-Rex: Sure!
5: Utahraptor: Isn't that based upon the unfounded assumption that the laws of physics are constant over time? Surely there could be changes to the fundamental laws of the universe between the two series that could result in the differences
T-Rex: Wait. You're saying gravity could turn off at any moment?
6: In the alternate universe where that just happened
T-Rex: WOOOOOOOOOO!
ALT TEXT: Actually, the comic is contemporaneous with Star Wars because they're in the past! The characters are all dinosaurs! Ha Ha!
Email: Hey Ryan, I have some arguments about the Federation's archaeological abilities vis a vis, whether or not they'd be able to identify the long-lost ruins of the Empire!
Wasn't the whole prequel trilogy a battle of left hand evil versus right hand evil?
But caring extends on an infinite continuum in both directions, and it takes effort to increase the absolute value of your caring. You have to expend effort to not care to an extreme degree.
So if you're apathetic about something, you could still care less about it.
How annoying would it be if someone tried to answer a quest
Not that annoying. I have like fifty dire rats in my cellar, and I'm willing to give thirty gp to anyone who's willing to clear them out.
Yeah, but that black mana isn't going to do them much good even after they've got spray-on batteries on the field. I'll just use my Greater Sony Instant and completely disrupt the combo.