You are missing the point. The system of having each person drive this huge hunk of metal around is unsustainable. I am no fan of the privacy issues of this either--but I won't have to worry and neither will you about the privacy issues--ride a bike. Nobody will be tracking your feet or your bike.
I don't not think that businesses should be concerned about the issue privacy. If you use your personal car for business then what are you worried about. I'm sure your business knows where you're going--you expect to conduct your business in privacy? You selling crack? Meth?
Sir, I am no conservative. Not in the slightest. If you can't find a job then of course you have to move. If you tied yourself down to a certain location by buying a house--face it: you fucked up. Yes you might have to move and yes that sucks but there are no guarantees in life. Again I am no conservative.
To begin with, while I myself owned a car that I drove rarely, I rode my bike year round in a part of the US that had harsh winters. What you may not realize is that riding a bike will keep and it will take care of your fat ass. I rode 5 miles.
Part of the problem we face as a society is the notion that you can drive 40 miles to the suburbs on cheap gas, spewing greenhouse gases into the air in a way that treats the atmosphere as a CO2 toilet.
As with anything in this world, there will be winners and losers. Those who have been stupid enough to buy huge houses they can't sell in the suburbs will of course have to be responsible for their actions and poor decisions, just as those of us who have planned wisely will benefit from our wise decisions. Are you suggesting that your stupid decisions be subsidized?
People like you who do nothing but complain about taxes are fools. You want all of us to pay for roads so you can drive your car out to the suburbs. You want all of us to pay for oil wars to keep oil cheap enough to subsidize your stupid decisions.
Finally, again, why should we subsidize the stupid decisions of business? If your business is predicated on dumping toxins in the creek behind your factory, on spewing pollution into the air from your delivery trucks, then you deserve to suffer. Welcome to America. There is no free lunch. So many businesses want to offload the expense of dealing with the toxic waste of their businesses on to the public and then when my children and yours get cancer from drinking the poison in water, get cancer from breathing polluted air, the polluting businesses are off complaining about their taxes.
All of the opinions you have expressed merely assert your belief that you should get something for nothing. Sorry. Those days are over. It is now time to pay the piper.
I could not have said it better, and you have described my practice precisely. I lived in NYC for 5 years and expressed my silent gratitude for not having a car on a daily basis.
Now that I live in a flyover state, I do own an old Accord that I drive as little as possible. I bike the 5 minutes to work and to the grocery store.
I believe we express our intelligence more in what we choose not to do, more than what we blindly do without thinking.
What a smart idea that is. Smart because it automatically gives cheapskates a way to lower their expenses. If you don't want to pay a lot, let your car sit and ride your bike. Use your car only when you really need to haul around a huge hunk of metal. Most cars are empty but for the single, fat driver, hauling their can to work and back. A law like this would have multiple benefits:
Discourage unnecessary driving
Encourage fat-ass drivers to walk, carpool or ride a bicycle
Encourage people to move out of suburbs, closer to their actual jobs
Wish we could do that in other places such as fat-ass-central: the USA. But that would smack of some environmental/social welfare idea and the fat-ass Conservatives would have none of it.
I have worked for a long time in the software industry. Stuff does not just work, generally, as easily as you plan. Everything requires tweaking and a lot of babying. This is in 2011.
Back in 1962, when none of these things were invented, when they didn't even really know how to do it, doesn't it seem like an awfully amazing thing that NASA invented, designed, built and flew to the Moon and back safely with the cruddy technology available in the 1960s?
Seems all the more incredible that they were able to fly six separate Apollo flights to and from the Moon, with all of the microscopic tweaking that had to occur, and not lose a single life. Then, when the dead President Kennedy had set up going to the damned Moon as his pledge, NASA was trapped when they really could not pull it off.
So, now, after a lifetime believing that we landed men on the moon and returned those same men safely back to earth, I now think the Apollo Moon landings were faked.
How delightful that Microsoft goes and does something like this, thereby ensuring that the effort fails. Steve Ballmer should just close up the company and get a job that he's qualified for, flipping burgers.
As a more than decade-long Java programmer, I must say that I am shocked! Shocked! that Sun would do something like that.
Why, I'd go so far as to predict that a company that behaved that way would find itself out of business.
Yes, and people who fake their way through school are a joy to work with in the workplace. They don't know what they are doing.
Why don't people get this simple fact: you go to college to learn, not to get grades. Your grades are irrelevant after you leave school. What remains is your knowledge and your studehttp://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1527251/619-of-Undergraduates-Cybercheat#nt loan debt. What utter fools people are who leave with the debt and no knowledge.
What we need is to increase the throughput of the internet as a whole by two orders of magnitude. Then, nobody will care what bandwidth you are using. Increasing friction is not the answer. We need to grease the wheels of the internet. Internet2 anyone?
I have tried OCR and it's not worth it. Also, when copying a 105,000 word novel such as mine The Butcher of Leningrad", speed is not the issue: quality is. When I am forced to type from my paper manuscript into a Word document, I silently omit the less-than-stellar parts. So, this is a quality step and doing an OCR would skip that step and lower the quality. So, no thanks.
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/leningrad
Well, I work with the most cutting edge technology in my day job but in the evenings when I go to write fiction, I use a 1917 manual typewriter. It works today as well as it did in 1917, which is perfectly. Granted, I eventually have to type it into my computer for further rewriting but nothing beats the manual typewriter for writing fiction. A computer just does not serve the task as well.
After the way Amazon.com rolled over on Wikileaks, kicking them off their servers, I don't know why anyone would bother with Amazon. They just rolled over instantly and did not even put up a fight.
Julian Assange is the best friend Democracy has. All these so-called news organizations, with their bloated budgets, failed to unearth any of this stuff. To keep their precious "access" the modern TV newsreader does no investigation at all. Instead, we get celebrity news...
Anyone who has held the title of Chief Software Architect at Microsoft must also carry shame for the deplorable, innovation-free time at Microsoft over the past 10 years. For all their "brightest of the brightest" employees, the bean counters and the sainted Redmond campus, Microsoft has originated exactly zero new ideas in the past decade. Every single "idea" they came up with was narrowly derivative of some existing project. Microsoft is devoid of innovation.
So, how long you been working in the Petroleum industry?
Do you recall the damage inflicted by the Exxon Valdez? By the Santa Barbara spill in 1969?
Surely the oil comes from a natural source but so does mercury. Do you want to sprinkle some mercury on your cornflakes?
Yes, this stuff is polluting. There is no question of that. Unless you can drink a gallon of oil, this question is done.
That would work! They just need to repurpose something--say the Top Hat--into a "plume" of oil and drink it all up into a ship. Remember, doing a "Junk shot" is still considered a serious solution to this spill...
New York Times:
"Scientists Find Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Under the Gulf"
* gushing 80,000 barrels a day
* The well is 5,000-feet down.
* The shallowest oil plume is 2,300 feet down.
* The deepest bubble of oil is 4,200 feet down.
* Will bubble up for decades.
* At most 5% of the spilled oil will ever be recovered.
"one big oil bubble is 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick."
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You are missing the point. The system of having each person drive this huge hunk of metal around is unsustainable. I am no fan of the privacy issues of this either--but I won't have to worry and neither will you about the privacy issues--ride a bike. Nobody will be tracking your feet or your bike.
I don't not think that businesses should be concerned about the issue privacy. If you use your personal car for business then what are you worried about. I'm sure your business knows where you're going--you expect to conduct your business in privacy? You selling crack? Meth?
Sir, I am no conservative. Not in the slightest. If you can't find a job then of course you have to move. If you tied yourself down to a certain location by buying a house--face it: you fucked up. Yes you might have to move and yes that sucks but there are no guarantees in life. Again I am no conservative.
That tin hat suits you.
To begin with, while I myself owned a car that I drove rarely, I rode my bike year round in a part of the US that had harsh winters. What you may not realize is that riding a bike will keep and it will take care of your fat ass. I rode 5 miles. Part of the problem we face as a society is the notion that you can drive 40 miles to the suburbs on cheap gas, spewing greenhouse gases into the air in a way that treats the atmosphere as a CO2 toilet. As with anything in this world, there will be winners and losers. Those who have been stupid enough to buy huge houses they can't sell in the suburbs will of course have to be responsible for their actions and poor decisions, just as those of us who have planned wisely will benefit from our wise decisions. Are you suggesting that your stupid decisions be subsidized? People like you who do nothing but complain about taxes are fools. You want all of us to pay for roads so you can drive your car out to the suburbs. You want all of us to pay for oil wars to keep oil cheap enough to subsidize your stupid decisions. Finally, again, why should we subsidize the stupid decisions of business? If your business is predicated on dumping toxins in the creek behind your factory, on spewing pollution into the air from your delivery trucks, then you deserve to suffer. Welcome to America. There is no free lunch. So many businesses want to offload the expense of dealing with the toxic waste of their businesses on to the public and then when my children and yours get cancer from drinking the poison in water, get cancer from breathing polluted air, the polluting businesses are off complaining about their taxes. All of the opinions you have expressed merely assert your belief that you should get something for nothing. Sorry. Those days are over. It is now time to pay the piper.
I could not have said it better, and you have described my practice precisely. I lived in NYC for 5 years and expressed my silent gratitude for not having a car on a daily basis.
Now that I live in a flyover state, I do own an old Accord that I drive as little as possible. I bike the 5 minutes to work and to the grocery store.
I believe we express our intelligence more in what we choose not to do, more than what we blindly do without thinking.
Well, there is no sense arguing with someone unwilling to stand by their convictions, Anonymous Coward.
You wearing a tinfoil hat, too?
Okay, fine. I will say that I would prefer any system that encouraged the points I mentioned.
Wish we could do that in other places such as fat-ass-central: the USA. But that would smack of some environmental/social welfare idea and the fat-ass Conservatives would have none of it.
Wow! I could not have said it better. A good sound byte by the lobbyists with lots of cash.
I have worked for a long time in the software industry. Stuff does not just work, generally, as easily as you plan. Everything requires tweaking and a lot of babying. This is in 2011.
Back in 1962, when none of these things were invented, when they didn't even really know how to do it, doesn't it seem like an awfully amazing thing that NASA invented, designed, built and flew to the Moon and back safely with the cruddy technology available in the 1960s?
Seems all the more incredible that they were able to fly six separate Apollo flights to and from the Moon, with all of the microscopic tweaking that had to occur, and not lose a single life. Then, when the dead President Kennedy had set up going to the damned Moon as his pledge, NASA was trapped when they really could not pull it off.
So, now, after a lifetime believing that we landed men on the moon and returned those same men safely back to earth, I now think the Apollo Moon landings were faked.
How delightful that Microsoft goes and does something like this, thereby ensuring that the effort fails. Steve Ballmer should just close up the company and get a job that he's qualified for, flipping burgers.
As a more than decade-long Java programmer, I must say that I am shocked! Shocked! that Sun would do something like that.
Why, I'd go so far as to predict that a company that behaved that way would find itself out of business.
Hey, wait a second...
Yes, and people who fake their way through school are a joy to work with in the workplace. They don't know what they are doing.
Why don't people get this simple fact: you go to college to learn, not to get grades. Your grades are irrelevant after you leave school. What remains is your knowledge and your studehttp://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1527251/619-of-Undergraduates-Cybercheat#nt loan debt. What utter fools people are who leave with the debt and no knowledge.
What we need is to increase the throughput of the internet as a whole by two orders of magnitude. Then, nobody will care what bandwidth you are using. Increasing friction is not the answer. We need to grease the wheels of the internet. Internet2 anyone?
I have tried OCR and it's not worth it. Also, when copying a 105,000 word novel such as mine The Butcher of Leningrad", speed is not the issue: quality is. When I am forced to type from my paper manuscript into a Word document, I silently omit the less-than-stellar parts. So, this is a quality step and doing an OCR would skip that step and lower the quality. So, no thanks. http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/leningrad
It is an editing step so I want to choose.
Well, I work with the most cutting edge technology in my day job but in the evenings when I go to write fiction, I use a 1917 manual typewriter. It works today as well as it did in 1917, which is perfectly. Granted, I eventually have to type it into my computer for further rewriting but nothing beats the manual typewriter for writing fiction. A computer just does not serve the task as well.
After the way Amazon.com rolled over on Wikileaks, kicking them off their servers, I don't know why anyone would bother with Amazon. They just rolled over instantly and did not even put up a fight.
Julian Assange is the best friend Democracy has. All these so-called news organizations, with their bloated budgets, failed to unearth any of this stuff. To keep their precious "access" the modern TV newsreader does no investigation at all. Instead, we get celebrity news...
Forgive me! Correction: he was a total failure for only 5 years! Happy now?
Anyone who has held the title of Chief Software Architect at Microsoft must also carry shame for the deplorable, innovation-free time at Microsoft over the past 10 years. For all their "brightest of the brightest" employees, the bean counters and the sainted Redmond campus, Microsoft has originated exactly zero new ideas in the past decade. Every single "idea" they came up with was narrowly derivative of some existing project. Microsoft is devoid of innovation.
How ironic that we can add even NASA to the crowd saying that 2012 or thereabouts will lead to huge destruction...
So, how long you been working in the Petroleum industry? Do you recall the damage inflicted by the Exxon Valdez? By the Santa Barbara spill in 1969? Surely the oil comes from a natural source but so does mercury. Do you want to sprinkle some mercury on your cornflakes? Yes, this stuff is polluting. There is no question of that. Unless you can drink a gallon of oil, this question is done.
Should be a question of aim. Aim for the center and use one of those centrifuges to separate oil from water.
That would work! They just need to repurpose something--say the Top Hat--into a "plume" of oil and drink it all up into a ship. Remember, doing a "Junk shot" is still considered a serious solution to this spill...
New York Times: "Scientists Find Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Under the Gulf" * gushing 80,000 barrels a day * The well is 5,000-feet down. * The shallowest oil plume is 2,300 feet down. * The deepest bubble of oil is 4,200 feet down. * Will bubble up for decades. * At most 5% of the spilled oil will ever be recovered. "one big oil bubble is 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick."