Which are probably just front groups for oil and car companies etc. Realistically, this car has better safety features, fuel economy and weather resistance than a motorbike, which is its major peer for that sort of fuel economy. It should not be subject to those sort of safety regulations given its fuel economy.
Perhaps the next technology they will adopt will be underground pneumatic tubes like they have at banks, hospitals etc. e.g. a massive underground length of PVC pipe, using compressed air to shoot drug packages to the other side.
I take it that a "good" metabolism is a fast metabolism, according to this study? A fast metabolism is not good to have in a famine. It's only "good" to have in our current environment of plentiful food. It would make sense that if you don't have enough self control to stockpile some food reserves (or something that can be traded for food) in preparation for such a time, your body had better do it for you by making you a lazy fatass.
This sounds like an ad for (and makes about as much sense as) the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement [vhemt.org].
Yes. All that VHEMT is going to achieve by their current modus operandi is to leave more non-environmentalists on the earth, by removing themselves from the gene pool. For their plans to be effective in the long term they need to reduce human numbers across the board (which would need lots of money or at least widespread buy-in by lots of people), or if they want to continue to use grassroots methods, eliminating or sterilizing those who would pollute the most.
Where is your {flying car, mach 1+ commercial airliner, 12GHz processor...} now, bitches?! This is why understanding physics is important. While a few thousand minds on the far right of the bell curve have potential to find ways to do things that haven't been done yet, never, ever underestimate the ability of physics to constrain the solution.
... and it wants it's Ask Slashdot question back. 250GB of data? But seriously:
1. Buy USB or SATA HDD dock (3.5"). Probably USB3 is what you want, and get some sort of card so that your laptop can connect at USB3 speeds. 2. Buy several internal 3.5" HDDs. Browse newegg and pick the best $/GB that is as reliable as you need it to be (judge by % of low star reviews). They make them in TB these days. 3. Find a good priced local store and buy it there if you want to minimize risk of it being damaged in shipping, or buy on newegg if you want. 4. Back your 250+GB of photos to at least 2 of these internal HDDs, one of which should be somewhere else that is safe. It will cost you a couple hundred bucks, or 5% of a somewhat decent digital SLR with lenses, flash, tripod, bag etc. 5. Profit.
Be a cop. If you do your job perfectly and nothing happens, no one cares. But if you do your job even averagely and something interesting happens, you'll likely get a commendation for doing your job. And if you screw up and manage to shoot an innocent person (or beat someone because they mouthed off), everyone else in your organization, including management, won't point the finger at you and sell you out like IT. They start throwing around words like "justified" and "resisting arrest" and "danger to himself and others" even if you tase some kid just for asking questions and saying "don't tase me bro."
One small difference. Something "interesting" happens when you are a cop, there is potential to die, certainly much moreso than working in IT. And if you think dealing with users is bad, try dealing with not just the average but the very shittiest segment of society, day in, day out. As Cartman says, "poor people tend to live in clusters". You will be dealing with the poorest, most dishonest people on a day to day basis.
Lots of aspects of being a cop would get old real fast. Especially when you get older and have a family - if you get killed in the line of duty who looks after your kids?
Back when I went to school, all the best computer geek friends I had ran Linux. This made me want to check it out too. It's not as if ease of use is even really a barrier these days either, like it was when I was starting out. At the very least, surely the CS majors would want to have a Linux box at home to allow them to write and test code at home rather than having to come to the CS labs to do it.
If none of those reasons sell someone on Linux, then they most likely will be happier doing something else.
This is little different than engineers imagining themselves as physicists.
I'm imagining myself so in love with physics that I could never imagine the possibility that I might want some money some day, or even provide well for a family. I'm imagining myself being suckered into a decade of grad school and postgrads by a professor who is on a decent salary. I imagine him telling tales of professors and the occasional 6 figure making physicist in order to excite the grad students, while glossing over the realities of the number of professorships and 6 figure salaries available compared to the number of grad students/PhDs. I imagine myself perfecting the raised eyebrow along with the expression and voice to make disparaging remarks about working for industry, and especially - (holds nose, dramatic pause;) engineers. I imagine myself buying into the hype for the first few years, and then spending the rest of my life wondering what I was thinking while either continuing to drink the koolaid or making the eventual break for freedom. Am I close?
Seriously, a 5 year old pendium D with 2gb of ram running XP will tear the fuck out of office 2003 or 2007. This is work. Do work.
You have my complete agreement, but I bet you have many managers/employees of influence sharpening their knives behind your back when you won't give them their latest $TOY_OF_THE_MONTH.
Not really. The elephant in the living room is the difference in ethnic makeup between the countries you are comparing. The murder rate in Malmö compared to that of the rest of Sweden might give you a clue, but I'm sure enough epicycles can be added to explain that away.
I think you need to be a little switched on to know and try this sort of stuff in the first place. Which means you can probably either get an acceptable paying job (at least, better paid than burger flipping) with zero risk of going to jail, or perhaps a higher paying and ethically dubious occupation but with less risk there too. Like an "opportunistically pricing" mechanic, for example. He may charge a woman $500 for changing a spark plug but he's not going to go to jail for it.
The reason I came to this conclusion is reading the famous Chula Vista Residential Burglary Reduction Project report. Only 4% of burglars pick locks. Now why is that? Is it too hard for the average burglar to learn, or was it too hard to learn how to pick locks when that was written? I'm guessing the former was the deciding factor.
North Korea stands to lose literally 100% - it doesn't get any worse than that.
It actually could get worse than that. If you were to cast resurrection on the village that they happened to destroy, not only would they lose 100% but if your gain is their loss (and vice versa) then they would lose the 100% plus some extra percentage.
The Gobi desert HAS a breathable atmosphere and I don't see people living there.
According to wikipedia: "The Gobi had a long history of human habitation, mostly by nomadic peoples. By the early 20th century the region was under the nominal control of Manchu-China, and inhabited mostly by Mongols, Uyghurs, and Kazakhs."
Anyone mad enough at something to go to all that trouble is itself an honestly negative review.
It's just as easy for me to believe that a negative review has been faked than a positive review. Imagine a company with a worse product than a competitor. A 1-3 star reviews on the competitor's product will drag it down more than a 5 star review will bring it up (assuming the average is near 5 stars). And often the negative reviews come straight out of bizarro-land, attracting comments from the positive reviews.
FWIW I find the amazon reviews mostly reliable, especially when it comes to different offerings from one company. If they were gamed, surely the gaming would not differentiate between different products of approximately the same price. The key is to read every review, especially the most helpful, with your BS detector activated.
I'd hate to be working on similar problems with a whitelist stopping me from viewing the thousands of tech support forums out there
It can be done. You really need to have google's old preview working though. You used to get to it by doing a standard search, and then opening up "more search tools". You could see a paragraph or so of the relevant information, and often that was enough to figure out how to solve the problem. It's not there any more. I really wish google would turn that feature back on. Hint, hint.
I only shower once every 4 days. I also only eat one large meal per day... Some days I even skip eating! However, I have a perfectly healthy weight for my height (~140-150lbs, 5'8"), and for some reason I hardly ever smell bad.
You might want to seek some independent verification for that, if you can find someone who will get close enough.
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Which are probably just front groups for oil and car companies etc. Realistically, this car has better safety features, fuel economy and weather resistance than a motorbike, which is its major peer for that sort of fuel economy. It should not be subject to those sort of safety regulations given its fuel economy.
Perhaps the next technology they will adopt will be underground pneumatic tubes like they have at banks, hospitals etc. e.g. a massive underground length of PVC pipe, using compressed air to shoot drug packages to the other side.
The next Japan prize should go to Bill Joy for his invention of the world's best text editor.
I take it that a "good" metabolism is a fast metabolism, according to this study? A fast metabolism is not good to have in a famine. It's only "good" to have in our current environment of plentiful food. It would make sense that if you don't have enough self control to stockpile some food reserves (or something that can be traded for food) in preparation for such a time, your body had better do it for you by making you a lazy fatass.
It sounds just like the first two syllables of Joe Lieberman's surname, right?
Yes. All that VHEMT is going to achieve by their current modus operandi is to leave more non-environmentalists on the earth, by removing themselves from the gene pool. For their plans to be effective in the long term they need to reduce human numbers across the board (which would need lots of money or at least widespread buy-in by lots of people), or if they want to continue to use grassroots methods, eliminating or sterilizing those who would pollute the most.
Where is your {flying car, mach 1+ commercial airliner, 12GHz processor...} now, bitches?! This is why understanding physics is important. While a few thousand minds on the far right of the bell curve have potential to find ways to do things that haven't been done yet, never, ever underestimate the ability of physics to constrain the solution.
and it wants its grammar back. Doh.
... and it wants it's Ask Slashdot question back. 250GB of data? But seriously:
1. Buy USB or SATA HDD dock (3.5"). Probably USB3 is what you want, and get some sort of card so that your laptop can connect at USB3 speeds.
2. Buy several internal 3.5" HDDs. Browse newegg and pick the best $/GB that is as reliable as you need it to be (judge by % of low star reviews). They make them in TB these days.
3. Find a good priced local store and buy it there if you want to minimize risk of it being damaged in shipping, or buy on newegg if you want.
4. Back your 250+GB of photos to at least 2 of these internal HDDs, one of which should be somewhere else that is safe. It will cost you a couple hundred bucks, or 5% of a somewhat decent digital SLR with lenses, flash, tripod, bag etc.
5. Profit.
One small difference. Something "interesting" happens when you are a cop, there is potential to die, certainly much moreso than working in IT. And if you think dealing with users is bad, try dealing with not just the average but the very shittiest segment of society, day in, day out. As Cartman says, "poor people tend to live in clusters". You will be dealing with the poorest, most dishonest people on a day to day basis.
Lots of aspects of being a cop would get old real fast. Especially when you get older and have a family - if you get killed in the line of duty who looks after your kids?
If none of those reasons sell someone on Linux, then they most likely will be happier doing something else.
I'm imagining myself so in love with physics that I could never imagine the possibility that I might want some money some day, or even provide well for a family. I'm imagining myself being suckered into a decade of grad school and postgrads by a professor who is on a decent salary. I imagine him telling tales of professors and the occasional 6 figure making physicist in order to excite the grad students, while glossing over the realities of the number of professorships and 6 figure salaries available compared to the number of grad students/PhDs. I imagine myself perfecting the raised eyebrow along with the expression and voice to make disparaging remarks about working for industry, and especially - (holds nose, dramatic pause;) engineers. I imagine myself buying into the hype for the first few years, and then spending the rest of my life wondering what I was thinking while either continuing to drink the koolaid or making the eventual break for freedom. Am I close?
You have my complete agreement, but I bet you have many managers/employees of influence sharpening their knives behind your back when you won't give them their latest $TOY_OF_THE_MONTH.
It sounds like a better solution for the plot of a plausible space horror movie.
Not really. The elephant in the living room is the difference in ethnic makeup between the countries you are comparing. The murder rate in Malmö compared to that of the rest of Sweden might give you a clue, but I'm sure enough epicycles can be added to explain that away.
The reason I came to this conclusion is reading the famous Chula Vista Residential Burglary Reduction Project report. Only 4% of burglars pick locks. Now why is that? Is it too hard for the average burglar to learn, or was it too hard to learn how to pick locks when that was written? I'm guessing the former was the deciding factor.
You should have just ordered the EXTRA BIGASS FRIES.
It actually could get worse than that. If you were to cast resurrection on the village that they happened to destroy, not only would they lose 100% but if your gain is their loss (and vice versa) then they would lose the 100% plus some extra percentage.
According to wikipedia: "The Gobi had a long history of human habitation, mostly by nomadic peoples. By the early 20th century the region was under the nominal control of Manchu-China, and inhabited mostly by Mongols, Uyghurs, and Kazakhs."
For the ultimate irony, Zuckerberg should donate the money to privacy advocacy.
It's just as easy for me to believe that a negative review has been faked than a positive review. Imagine a company with a worse product than a competitor. A 1-3 star reviews on the competitor's product will drag it down more than a 5 star review will bring it up (assuming the average is near 5 stars). And often the negative reviews come straight out of bizarro-land, attracting comments from the positive reviews.
FWIW I find the amazon reviews mostly reliable, especially when it comes to different offerings from one company. If they were gamed, surely the gaming would not differentiate between different products of approximately the same price. The key is to read every review, especially the most helpful, with your BS detector activated.
It can be done. You really need to have google's old preview working though. You used to get to it by doing a standard search, and then opening up "more search tools". You could see a paragraph or so of the relevant information, and often that was enough to figure out how to solve the problem. It's not there any more. I really wish google would turn that feature back on. Hint, hint.
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Every time a new blockbuster comes out, I ask myself "Is this movie better than The Godfather?" And the answer is also, inevitably "no".
You might want to seek some independent verification for that, if you can find someone who will get close enough.