Where do you think your great grandparents' organic waste is now? Rotted away on a compost heap, that's where. You need to realise that sometimes the low-tech solution is the best one.
That's right. In New Orleans, people chucked their waste on the other side of the levee, and it was know to be foul and disease inducing. In time, sewers were covered, swamps drained, dumps made sanitary and people stopped dying of the diseases these bad practices all caused. Avoid things that stink you will live longer.
2. One thousand Steve Barkto set their bots to obliterate the sites linked.
3. Steve Barktos then submit bogus and self moderated crap, including "slashdot effect complaints".
In this case, the link was quicly mirrored by someone with VA System like networking bandwith and ability to kill bots. It must be tough reading Slashdot from a Microsoft owned IP address .
I'd love to see Slashdot prove my assertions, just as much as I'd love to see all of these threads modded to -1 off topic. It gets in the way.
To deploy such a system, known as Total Information Awareness, new legislation would be needed, some of which has been proposed by the Bush administration in the Homeland Security Act now before Congress. That legislation would amend the Privacy Act of 1974, which was intended to limit what government agencies could do with private information.
Privacy act, my ass. The new legislation required is a repeal or negation of the fouth amendment. There are many good reasons the government must obtain a warrent by presenting reasonable evidence of wrongdoing in a public court to be able to search your personal effects and property. The FBI just had two agents busted for manipulating stock prices with information they obtained "terrorist hunting." Am I now going to believe that Uncle Sam will keep all my data confidential when any old clerk can get at it thanks to these broken "stove pipes"? There's not supposed to be ANY connection between my information or my company's information and the governement. Yet here's this bozo saying "All your base are belong to Uncle Sam". Chalk one more up for the errosion of the bill of rights. People without rights, who are stripped of the fruits of their labor (think income taxes) are also known as slaves.
Folks like Poindexter make me worry that my own government might actually set off a few small nukes to get their way. George Orwell predicted nuclear and civil wars would bring on the hyseria to build his nightmare society. Where is the conclusive proof indicating exactly who was responsible for September 11th? Why have we not seen it all presented and well documented? I'm getting sick of "security reasons" being used as an excuse for people to do whatever they want with out accountability. I don't care if that idiot, Ossoma Bin Laden, was happy to claim guilt. There must have been 1,000 others happy to do the same. I want public proof and the guilty punnished, not scape goats, censorship and loss of rights.
The Telecomunications act of 1996 made DSL possible and services started from there, but entrenched intersts have been working to undo that. Since then the local Bells and ATT have worked to choke the upstarts as they represented serious competition to their planned long distance voice services and "internet" offerings. The local bells not allowing these upstarts information and equipment access, as required by law, has gone unpunished and indeed has been forgiven. ATT bought a large portion of @home cable and insured it's demise. Entertainment companies and other large publishers have joined the chorus that helped destroy "internet" service as we know it. What you are left with are expensive "services" that will only get worse as the survivors purchase backbones for pennies on the dollar and keep them shut down until they can figure a way to make money off them for themselves. It's not going to work and they will all lose money when they are circumvented AGAIN, but you won't be a part of it their plans.
Why does PenTeleData prohibit ProLog Express Internet customers from uploading through file-sharing applications? -Serving files from a residential account - whether FTP or file-sharing -- is a violation of the Acceptable Use Policy.
"Internet" service without servers is not an internet. Good luck to them blocking ftp. AOL uses port 21 for it's instant messenger program. Unless AOL changes that, or they can distinguish traffic, their block will do little good.
I already hate my cable company as they have violated my Acceptable Service Policy. The day they block FTP is the day they lose my static IP charges. The day I have a choice in providers is the day they lose me.
I have a feeling the rats would have eaten your green cone, neat as it may be where you live. Here in the fettid swamps of Louisianna, garbage stinks, especially when confined in a box. Everything is too moist unless you hang it from a line, and even then it moulders.
I'm going to stick to eating the majority of food I bring home.
IIRC, a while back Consumer Reports (who tend to be "environmentally conscious") said it was a Good Thing to grind up food scraps in the garbage disposal. This way, it ends up back in the biosphere instead of entombed in a hermetically sealed landfill...
I grind mine up in my mouth. It goes to the same place in a pipe that was designed for it. Ba-woosh!
What a riddle. Try a red/green color blind man who needs glasses. There are many things the man cannot percive regardless of where they are, but all things too far off are also difficult for this poor devil to see.
Our author is uable to see the good things rural electification has done in the past, though it sits under his nose. He may also be unable imagine what good the internet can do, beyond games, intertainment, telecommuting and other things he is familiar with.
There once was a man who owned a bait shop in North Lousiana. He made about $5,000/year on it selling worms, crickets and minnows. One day he decided to build a lake so he did not have to buy minnows anymore. He did it well and others came to him when ADM and others decided to promote catfish farming so they could sell catfish feed. He helped those other farmers dig lakes and packaged their catfish for them, but realized the money was in selling feed. He then bought up an abandoned mill and started making feed from locally grown grains, cutting ADM and all the middle chain including commodities dealers in Chicago out of the loop entirelly. And the money was better than he imagined. As ADM imagined, too many people entered the catfish business and prices collapsed. Our industrious bait shop owner then bought up the lakes and now owns a verticle empire which benifits grain growers, most of the catfish farmers, and the people who eat catfish.
Would he have benifited from better internet? It's hard to say because he did not have it to begin with. I can say for sure that he will benifit from better bandwith in the future as will all of us.
Oh well at least we got shrimp and crawfish down here so there! Take that Utah!
They don't have to take them from us anymore, they can get them from China, sigh.
We, however, have been giving the rest of the world a pain in the ass lately. Billy Tauzin, owned by Hollywood, is not your friend. Just click on that link and see his hand on many foul and stupid things.
The New York Times says in triumphant and pretended confusion:
But if superimposed over a map of population decline, it would show that many of these areas are not holding onto people, no matter how wired they become. Well, duh, Bill Gates gave them a bunch of M$ grazing machines and MSN. Only Bill Gates can make money like that. "Hurrah!" cry the publishers, "It takes much more than a 2400 baud modem to compete with us now that we've forbiden servers and turned the internet into the World Wide Billboard for our services." You seem to have the same perception problem when you ask:
Would a National Internet Access Initiative be a good thing? Or is internet access is some way frivolous, other than for people who work directly in the field? (In other words, its easy to picture why Ma and Pa Kettle need mail, electricity, maybe even cable TV -- but internet?)
You should follow your analogy to it's conclusion. Industry has developed in new places thanks in large part to rurual electricity and telephone services. Sawmills and factories exist closer to timber rather than around tradtional ports and water and coal sources. New ports have been built inland which previously were unviable. Yet the management of those services stayed focused on several older "Empire States" due to, "Location, location, location." Phone services were useful but not enough to really get all the required information out.
Higher bandwith communications services will doubtlessly decentralize that command structure. There is much less advantage of being some place central when needed information can travel freely. The advantage of being where the resources are will never go away. Getting information to the resources is more important for the health of big companies than getting information from remote locations, but both are good. Better bandwith means being able to move that information to where it's needed when it's needed and it will help put production and management where it's needed.
In this recession, some companies are going backward in a failed attempt to retreat to the familiar, but this is temporary. Witness Intel who's CEO actually answered his own question about moving "back towards a neanderthal, top down, management style" affirmatively. Blah, the big dogs are not close enough to the real work to figure things out and micromanagement will blow them up. Hint, big dude, you fired the wrong people to save money. Local management can get all the information centralized management can but better extract the things that are relavant. Central management will simply be overwhelmed by details and choke on human limitations. These companies will realize the error of their ways as their competitors eat their lunch. The command economy of the Soviet Union was the ultimate example of this top down foolishness. You would think the world knew better by now.
It's impossible to predict what people will do with their bandwith. Saying all we really need is a phone line and electric power is kind of like saying that all we will ever need is 640K of RAM. Some people think like that. They build an OS designed for slaves to be pushed on at will. It comes with an EULA that forces updates, grants permision for file system examination and suffers from massive security and performance flaws from that and sloppy workmanship. Yet even those clumsy machines can be used to learn about and download real software.
There are good reasons to throw food wastes away. Vermin, large and small, can turn your little pile into a real biohazard. A better soloution is to eat what you buy and don't buy things you will throw away.
A neighbor I once had composted all their kitchen scraps in our shared back yard and there I learned that not all things rot well. It stank, but that was the least of it's problems. The pile fed rats and scattered the mess all over. I was not happy to think of the backyard as a magnet for flea bearing pests and kept the cats inside. Cats that got out got fleas and had to be treated. Fleas are a serious health hazard. The raccoons I feed don't seem to give me the same problems.
Other nasties can flourish in your obstensibly friendly compost heap. Crop pests have been known to winter in compost heaps outside processing plants. Pests like potato weavils can decimate crops and require extensive use of pesticides if they are not all eliminated from a given region. While the chances of such pests wintering in your pile may be remote, you might not want to make that pile if you don't know how to recognize the pests. Molds and blights that might have slipped past customs can also take up residence in your given area if you simply throw your wastes out on the ground to rot. Whole regions of Florida have been ruined by citrus blight.
The landfill is a good place for food wastes. Sanitary landfills are called that because they get sealed up. Clay lined and capped, stuff goes in and does not come out. It's one place I don't mind food wastes becoming black gold.
According to the cited article, food wastes make up 10% of the waste stream on average but they can represent much less than that. I hate putting food wastes into the trash, so I try to eat everything. Carcases become stocks, leftovers are frozen in meal size portions, Jambalya, pasta and tacos eat all the spare meat. It's not that hard to do. Modern food processing assures that most food mass is used.
Want great soil? By all means, composte your lawn clippings, the leaves you rake and other stuff that naturally hits the ground. Oak leaves are some of the best and you can find wonderful soil in gutters where people are sloppy about raking their yards. If you must tread into the wild world of rotten food, please watch your pile and try not to obnox your neighbors.
Sure we matter. We're the folks the Astro-turfers are trying to reach with their BS "over the shoulder" in the bar actors. It's the buzz that trendy wares demand that we posses, and WE are part of the reason big publisher record sales are down 10 to 25% from a year ago. Not because we are making coppies of their crap, but because we are not listening at all. When's the last time you got excited over some "signed" band?
I've been getting my music fix from the source, right down at the local live music bars. The musicians bring their small run CDs and you buy if you like what you hear. No copy protection or other BS. Someone asks me what I've been listening to, I'll point them at Mactra or Chef Menteur, or some good old stand by like Dash Rip Rock (ok, they are kind-o signed, but that was the way things were 15 years ago.) I'm sure everyone here has some kind of good music like that at their fingertips, but it's NOT in a store.
Sales are down 10% to 24% depending on how you measure (or who you believe). Any way you slice it, CD sales are significantly down by double digit percentages when in the past they have almost always increased in low single digit percentages. That's what I'd call a boycott.
Yep, that's a boycott. The WSJ article paroted the music company's claim of "piracy" though it should be clear that most people are not being exposed to good new music. None of them was able to clearly link music downloading to lost sales, or demonstrate that the music downloaded was even available at the local record store. The article then quoted the same publisher's plans to market stale old crap for Christmass, Elvis, Rolling Stones, and other 40 year old junk in boxed sets to try to make up for it. There they go, putting their eggs in one basket as their marketing model with mass pressing/printing in Asia, import by boat and distribution by truck demands. Pthththft! How many times can you sell the same crap?
Actual music sales point towards poor advertising rather than economy. Music sales increased remarkably and in conjunction with Napster, despite economic conditions. When Napster died music sales flopped before the economy started to look bad. A bad economy, combined with "CDs" that don't work, and other poor marketing methods really will cost the greedy jerks some money soon.
But since both artists and listeners can access the Internet, there literally is no middle man.
If I were lucky there would only be my ISP and the artist's ISP between me and my music, but it would still be a middle man. If there are only two choices of middle man, MSN/ATT or Time/AOL/Disney, I'd be just as screwed as neither is likely to provide "internet" service as we know it.
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Any device that attempts to do two completely different things will do neither of them well.
How about flying boats? They seem to do very well at getting from one place to another, then docking when they get there. At 200 MPH, this Landshark might have done better with a prop and wings.
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Thanks for the link to the very funny article with an LBJ memoir and this about the German manufacturer:
But after 1967, no more Amphicars were directly imported to the United States because they failed to meet environmental and Transportation Department regulations on safety and emissions. Because of that, the manufacturer went out of business.
I suppose those are the same regulations that keep Mexican built VWs out of the US? The same ones that protect the US market from a $2,000 new car sticker price, hmmph.
This new ultra expensive toy will not be a threat and will more than likely find it's way into the US and sell even fewer than the 3,000 or so Amphibicars. But you never know, the big three automakers might change a law. Some people can't stand competition of any kind, can they?
My 1970 VW van works just fine, thank you. It would be nice for the Mexicans to make a few new ones and export them for $5,000 or so. Beep beep.
you want the vehicle to press down onto the ground, the opposite direction as in the water.
The animation should give you a clue that the designers thought of this. Take a wing section that has no camber to it and point the front up in a breeze. The net force will be up and back. Point it down and the net force will be down and back. On land, the crafts nose points down due to the high rear suspension. In the water the craft hudroplanes out of the water, nose up, on the front nose flaps.
Your general physics knowledge should have you understand that the great difference between the working fluids would work to take care of things even if the landshark folks had not been as clever as you. The upward force created by displacing and accelerating water is orders of magnitude greater than those created by air.
It's funny that you worry about flipping right over as well. Boats that become airborn due to excessive lift and speed often do flip right over, as anyone who's ever watched a jet boat wipe out would know. I don't design high speed boats, but I'll question your overall premise. Oh yeah, 50 mph is not that high a speed on the water.
Like the space shuttle, this "landshark" sounds like it was engineered for coolness and not from genuine requirements.
Now that is a troll. The space suttle has performed very well as a reusable launch vehicle with very good turn around time. Figure out the cost of disposable rockets for each of the shuttle's missions and you might see the practicality.
Back to topic. The performance of the Landshark might be improved by not using the pump for land traction. I would suggest front wheel drive, retractable rear wheels and a seperate water pump. Ride quality is adversely effected by the non sprung pump weight, and three wheel suspensions are less stable than four wheel suspensions. 200 MPH is a little faster than I want to go on the ground, especially with a pump for a rear wheel.
Physics Genious should go do a practical thing or two.
Maybe this thing will flop and fall into the bunghole of history.
Most bungholes have things fall out not in.
Nor is it an adequate argument that the Windows interface (even as embodied by GNOME and KDE alternatives) is "good enough" just like the steering wheels and clutch/brake/gas pedals of a car.
OK, now this is starting to smell like something that fell out of a bunghole. You did read the article, right? Did you miss the silly part about how the author thinks Windows is a good enough platform to run his program? I didn't.
The whole article looked like hype for M$. From the opening line celebrating Microsoft getting away with it's predatory practices to last line where he claims that Longhorn and his program will make all current software look like 5,000 year old mould. Yeah, right.
If he really does have a useful idea, it's a shame he is devoting his energies toward a closed OS owned by a company that has screwed every other software maker in the world. You would think that people would know better by now. Must be something about cutting through the fog of the bunghole of history. Yeah, that's it, that's the vapor, Bunghole fog.
We would not want to judge the man for whoring for M$ and money now would we? We must embrace the moldy basement that M$ may provide from the revolutionary Xerox Park days!? Yes he really said that while describing something that sounds like a TV set to replace your roladex. Give the man a dollar and let's look at some other stuff he's done!
This article is a disturbing manifesto of hate and distrust. He has a paraniod conviction that people are evil and stupid. He talks about "round ups" and demonstrates a thorough lack of understanding of mob psychology, stoping just short of recomending punishment and death to an entire class of people. He questions the ability of human intleligence to prevent the evil things stupid people wish to do and seeks protection by machines. It's hard to imagine a computer science professor not understanding that computers only do as they are told, but he seems to trust Microsoft. I have not read a more disturbing statement of hatred since reading Hitler. Hitler was coherent by comparison.
Back on topic is good for the man. He's obviously offbase elswhere. And again we have the first two links broken. Hupfer, the third link, at least uses device independent file formats. Cool, then you read it. Snore, "we are just beginning.."
OK, I've had enough. This fellow might develop some interesting replacement for Clippy, but it looks like hype hype hype from 1992 thus far. Dave's paranoia would do him some good when dealing with M$.
The computers need to be migrated and it won't be easy. Microsoft has stated in their EULA that they will help themselves to the information on all computers running their OS. Microsoft has also admitted to never caring much if others did the same. Neither of these are acceptable for any computer, but govenments have laws against such things. Microsoft has worked to make it difficult to move information in a lossless way. Data goes in, is obscured and does not come back out. People who have delved into the M$ swamp of data formats and made it available are heros. It's gotten so bad that you can hardly get your work from old M$ junk to new M$ junk.
Users are much easier to move. My wife has had no problems using either Red Hat or Debian systems running Gnome, KDE and Window Maker. The only desktop that really makes itself difficult to master is Microsoft. The less they actually do the easier they are to migrate. Those that do more might complain at first as they will require the most support getting their work out and much will be lost but that should not last long. They will quickly realize the power Linux has to offer them and wonder how they ever tollerated the confines of comercial software.
I could be wrong, I don't really know anything about such Ship control applications, do you, really?
You don't have to know about ship control to know about software.
I'm thinking that such a system might include logic capturing refueling intervals, speed and manueverability data for the ship.
That's not a program, that's data! It should never be hard coded and therefore would not be seen by anyone looking at the code any more than people reading this post.
In any case, the Yorktown could use GPL software for the basis for such a system, but I think the paranoia of the military would preclude them from making releases.
Ahhh, you lost the point of the silly senator's letters, to make it impossible for contractors to use GPL in any government work. Don't confuse that with distribution issues. The military should be free to use GPL'd software as they please. As you say, they don't have to release it nor do they have to tell anyone they used it if the concerns you raise are not adequatly answered bye the superior perforamance of free software in hostile environments.
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That's right. In New Orleans, people chucked their waste on the other side of the levee, and it was know to be foul and disease inducing. In time, sewers were covered, swamps drained, dumps made sanitary and people stopped dying of the diseases these bad practices all caused. Avoid things that stink you will live longer.
1. Story with links is posted.
2. One thousand Steve Barkto set their bots to obliterate the sites linked.
3. Steve Barktos then submit bogus and self moderated crap, including "slashdot effect complaints".
In this case, the link was quicly mirrored by someone with VA System like networking bandwith and ability to kill bots. It must be tough reading Slashdot from a Microsoft owned IP address .
I'd love to see Slashdot prove my assertions, just as much as I'd love to see all of these threads modded to -1 off topic. It gets in the way.
Privacy act, my ass. The new legislation required is a repeal or negation of the fouth amendment. There are many good reasons the government must obtain a warrent by presenting reasonable evidence of wrongdoing in a public court to be able to search your personal effects and property. The FBI just had two agents busted for manipulating stock prices with information they obtained "terrorist hunting." Am I now going to believe that Uncle Sam will keep all my data confidential when any old clerk can get at it thanks to these broken "stove pipes"? There's not supposed to be ANY connection between my information or my company's information and the governement. Yet here's this bozo saying "All your base are belong to Uncle Sam". Chalk one more up for the errosion of the bill of rights. People without rights, who are stripped of the fruits of their labor (think income taxes) are also known as slaves.
Folks like Poindexter make me worry that my own government might actually set off a few small nukes to get their way. George Orwell predicted nuclear and civil wars would bring on the hyseria to build his nightmare society. Where is the conclusive proof indicating exactly who was responsible for September 11th? Why have we not seen it all presented and well documented? I'm getting sick of "security reasons" being used as an excuse for people to do whatever they want with out accountability. I don't care if that idiot, Ossoma Bin Laden, was happy to claim guilt. There must have been 1,000 others happy to do the same. I want public proof and the guilty punnished, not scape goats, censorship and loss of rights.
Why does PenTeleData prohibit ProLog Express Internet customers from uploading through file-sharing applications? -Serving files from a residential account - whether FTP or file-sharing -- is a violation of the Acceptable Use Policy.
"Internet" service without servers is not an internet. Good luck to them blocking ftp. AOL uses port 21 for it's instant messenger program. Unless AOL changes that, or they can distinguish traffic, their block will do little good.
I already hate my cable company as they have violated my Acceptable Service Policy. The day they block FTP is the day they lose my static IP charges. The day I have a choice in providers is the day they lose me.
I'm going to stick to eating the majority of food I bring home.
I grind mine up in my mouth. It goes to the same place in a pipe that was designed for it. Ba-woosh!
What a riddle. Try a red/green color blind man who needs glasses. There are many things the man cannot percive regardless of where they are, but all things too far off are also difficult for this poor devil to see.
Our author is uable to see the good things rural electification has done in the past, though it sits under his nose. He may also be unable imagine what good the internet can do, beyond games, intertainment, telecommuting and other things he is familiar with.
Would he have benifited from better internet? It's hard to say because he did not have it to begin with. I can say for sure that he will benifit from better bandwith in the future as will all of us.
They don't have to take them from us anymore, they can get them from China, sigh.
We, however, have been giving the rest of the world a pain in the ass lately. Billy Tauzin, owned by Hollywood, is not your friend. Just click on that link and see his hand on many foul and stupid things.
But if superimposed over a map of population decline, it would show that many of these areas are not holding onto people, no matter how wired they become.
Well, duh, Bill Gates gave them a bunch of M$ grazing machines and MSN. Only Bill Gates can make money like that. "Hurrah!" cry the publishers, "It takes much more than a 2400 baud modem to compete with us now that we've forbiden servers and turned the internet into the World Wide Billboard for our services." You seem to have the same perception problem when you ask:
Would a National Internet Access Initiative be a good thing? Or is internet access is some way frivolous, other than for people who work directly in the field? (In other words, its easy to picture why Ma and Pa Kettle need mail, electricity, maybe even cable TV -- but internet?)
You should follow your analogy to it's conclusion. Industry has developed in new places thanks in large part to rurual electricity and telephone services. Sawmills and factories exist closer to timber rather than around tradtional ports and water and coal sources. New ports have been built inland which previously were unviable. Yet the management of those services stayed focused on several older "Empire States" due to, "Location, location, location." Phone services were useful but not enough to really get all the required information out.
Higher bandwith communications services will doubtlessly decentralize that command structure. There is much less advantage of being some place central when needed information can travel freely. The advantage of being where the resources are will never go away. Getting information to the resources is more important for the health of big companies than getting information from remote locations, but both are good. Better bandwith means being able to move that information to where it's needed when it's needed and it will help put production and management where it's needed.
In this recession, some companies are going backward in a failed attempt to retreat to the familiar, but this is temporary. Witness Intel who's CEO actually answered his own question about moving "back towards a neanderthal, top down, management style" affirmatively. Blah, the big dogs are not close enough to the real work to figure things out and micromanagement will blow them up. Hint, big dude, you fired the wrong people to save money. Local management can get all the information centralized management can but better extract the things that are relavant. Central management will simply be overwhelmed by details and choke on human limitations. These companies will realize the error of their ways as their competitors eat their lunch. The command economy of the Soviet Union was the ultimate example of this top down foolishness. You would think the world knew better by now.
It's impossible to predict what people will do with their bandwith. Saying all we really need is a phone line and electric power is kind of like saying that all we will ever need is 640K of RAM. Some people think like that. They build an OS designed for slaves to be pushed on at will. It comes with an EULA that forces updates, grants permision for file system examination and suffers from massive security and performance flaws from that and sloppy workmanship. Yet even those clumsy machines can be used to learn about and download real software.
The revolution is still happening.
A neighbor I once had composted all their kitchen scraps in our shared back yard and there I learned that not all things rot well. It stank, but that was the least of it's problems. The pile fed rats and scattered the mess all over. I was not happy to think of the backyard as a magnet for flea bearing pests and kept the cats inside. Cats that got out got fleas and had to be treated. Fleas are a serious health hazard. The raccoons I feed don't seem to give me the same problems.
Other nasties can flourish in your obstensibly friendly compost heap. Crop pests have been known to winter in compost heaps outside processing plants. Pests like potato weavils can decimate crops and require extensive use of pesticides if they are not all eliminated from a given region. While the chances of such pests wintering in your pile may be remote, you might not want to make that pile if you don't know how to recognize the pests. Molds and blights that might have slipped past customs can also take up residence in your given area if you simply throw your wastes out on the ground to rot. Whole regions of Florida have been ruined by citrus blight.
The landfill is a good place for food wastes. Sanitary landfills are called that because they get sealed up. Clay lined and capped, stuff goes in and does not come out. It's one place I don't mind food wastes becoming black gold.
According to the cited article, food wastes make up 10% of the waste stream on average but they can represent much less than that. I hate putting food wastes into the trash, so I try to eat everything. Carcases become stocks, leftovers are frozen in meal size portions, Jambalya, pasta and tacos eat all the spare meat. It's not that hard to do. Modern food processing assures that most food mass is used.
Want great soil? By all means, composte your lawn clippings, the leaves you rake and other stuff that naturally hits the ground. Oak leaves are some of the best and you can find wonderful soil in gutters where people are sloppy about raking their yards. If you must tread into the wild world of rotten food, please watch your pile and try not to obnox your neighbors.
I don't have much garbage either.
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I've been getting my music fix from the source, right down at the local live music bars. The musicians bring their small run CDs and you buy if you like what you hear. No copy protection or other BS. Someone asks me what I've been listening to, I'll point them at Mactra or Chef Menteur, or some good old stand by like Dash Rip Rock (ok, they are kind-o signed, but that was the way things were 15 years ago.) I'm sure everyone here has some kind of good music like that at their fingertips, but it's NOT in a store.
Yep, that's a boycott. The WSJ article paroted the music company's claim of "piracy" though it should be clear that most people are not being exposed to good new music. None of them was able to clearly link music downloading to lost sales, or demonstrate that the music downloaded was even available at the local record store. The article then quoted the same publisher's plans to market stale old crap for Christmass, Elvis, Rolling Stones, and other 40 year old junk in boxed sets to try to make up for it. There they go, putting their eggs in one basket as their marketing model with mass pressing/printing in Asia, import by boat and distribution by truck demands. Pthththft! How many times can you sell the same crap?
Actual music sales point towards poor advertising rather than economy. Music sales increased remarkably and in conjunction with Napster, despite economic conditions. When Napster died music sales flopped before the economy started to look bad. A bad economy, combined with "CDs" that don't work, and other poor marketing methods really will cost the greedy jerks some money soon.
If I were lucky there would only be my ISP and the artist's ISP between me and my music, but it would still be a middle man. If there are only two choices of middle man, MSN/ATT or Time/AOL/Disney, I'd be just as screwed as neither is likely to provide "internet" service as we know it.
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I'd rtfa but the bugger's slashdotted.
Mat, do you know what a bugger is? Not every child who's seen Disney films where the term is thrown around does.
but be prepared to spend cubic dollars renting a wind tunnel, or hardware/software to perform a lot of number crunching.
Number crunching can be done on a PC and does not cost all that much money anymore. Just read some of this fine man's work.
Corvette lines and wind tunnel tests are done more for marketing than anything else.
How about flying boats? They seem to do very well at getting from one place to another, then docking when they get there. At 200 MPH, this Landshark might have done better with a prop and wings.
But after 1967, no more Amphicars were directly imported to the United States because they failed to meet environmental and Transportation Department regulations on safety and emissions. Because of that, the manufacturer went out of business.
I suppose those are the same regulations that keep Mexican built VWs out of the US? The same ones that protect the US market from a $2,000 new car sticker price, hmmph.
This new ultra expensive toy will not be a threat and will more than likely find it's way into the US and sell even fewer than the 3,000 or so Amphibicars. But you never know, the big three automakers might change a law. Some people can't stand competition of any kind, can they?
My 1970 VW van works just fine, thank you. It would be nice for the Mexicans to make a few new ones and export them for $5,000 or so. Beep beep.
The animation should give you a clue that the designers thought of this. Take a wing section that has no camber to it and point the front up in a breeze. The net force will be up and back. Point it down and the net force will be down and back. On land, the crafts nose points down due to the high rear suspension. In the water the craft hudroplanes out of the water, nose up, on the front nose flaps.
Your general physics knowledge should have you understand that the great difference between the working fluids would work to take care of things even if the landshark folks had not been as clever as you. The upward force created by displacing and accelerating water is orders of magnitude greater than those created by air.
It's funny that you worry about flipping right over as well. Boats that become airborn due to excessive lift and speed often do flip right over, as anyone who's ever watched a jet boat wipe out would know. I don't design high speed boats, but I'll question your overall premise. Oh yeah, 50 mph is not that high a speed on the water.
Like the space shuttle, this "landshark" sounds like it was engineered for coolness and not from genuine requirements.
Now that is a troll. The space suttle has performed very well as a reusable launch vehicle with very good turn around time. Figure out the cost of disposable rockets for each of the shuttle's missions and you might see the practicality.
Back to topic. The performance of the Landshark might be improved by not using the pump for land traction. I would suggest front wheel drive, retractable rear wheels and a seperate water pump. Ride quality is adversely effected by the non sprung pump weight, and three wheel suspensions are less stable than four wheel suspensions. 200 MPH is a little faster than I want to go on the ground, especially with a pump for a rear wheel.
Physics Genious should go do a practical thing or two.
Most bungholes have things fall out not in.
Nor is it an adequate argument that the Windows interface (even as embodied by GNOME and KDE alternatives) is "good enough" just like the steering wheels and clutch/brake/gas pedals of a car.
OK, now this is starting to smell like something that fell out of a bunghole. You did read the article, right? Did you miss the silly part about how the author thinks Windows is a good enough platform to run his program? I didn't.
The whole article looked like hype for M$. From the opening line celebrating Microsoft getting away with it's predatory practices to last line where he claims that Longhorn and his program will make all current software look like 5,000 year old mould. Yeah, right.
If he really does have a useful idea, it's a shame he is devoting his energies toward a closed OS owned by a company that has screwed every other software maker in the world. You would think that people would know better by now. Must be something about cutting through the fog of the bunghole of history. Yeah, that's it, that's the vapor, Bunghole fog.
Where does it take me? To URL not found.
OK, I've had enough. This fellow might develop some interesting replacement for Clippy, but it looks like hype hype hype from 1992 thus far. Dave's paranoia would do him some good when dealing with M$.
Imagine, the universe is filled with spam. Ahhhhh!
Users are much easier to move. My wife has had no problems using either Red Hat or Debian systems running Gnome, KDE and Window Maker. The only desktop that really makes itself difficult to master is Microsoft. The less they actually do the easier they are to migrate. Those that do more might complain at first as they will require the most support getting their work out and much will be lost but that should not last long. They will quickly realize the power Linux has to offer them and wonder how they ever tollerated the confines of comercial software.
You don't have to know about ship control to know about software.
I'm thinking that such a system might include logic capturing refueling intervals, speed and manueverability data for the ship.
That's not a program, that's data! It should never be hard coded and therefore would not be seen by anyone looking at the code any more than people reading this post.
In any case, the Yorktown could use GPL software for the basis for such a system, but I think the paranoia of the military would preclude them from making releases.
Ahhh, you lost the point of the silly senator's letters, to make it impossible for contractors to use GPL in any government work. Don't confuse that with distribution issues. The military should be free to use GPL'd software as they please. As you say, they don't have to release it nor do they have to tell anyone they used it if the concerns you raise are not adequatly answered bye the superior perforamance of free software in hostile environments.