And your username is 'neorush', which seems appropriate for someone commenting on a story about (a) powering electrical gadgets with mammals, and (b) doing so using a 'sugar rush'.:)
Or just spend 48 hours every weekend, up to your eyeballs in a cocktail of speed and MDMA, dancing your ass off. I know a guy that dropped like 60kg like that in a few months, then quit when he was at a healthy weight. Risky and illegal but damned if it ain't effective.
i have to wonder what the effects on the host would be. sounds like a really complex way to generate power rath then just burning the fuel to produce steam etc.
Or getting them to turn a crank or walk on a treadmill... Just doing some exercise is the simplest, healthiest AND it helps your muscles turn into something that prospective partners would *want* to look at.
I think you misread my post. I wasn't saying the appeals process should be scrapped. I was saying that the full judicial process should be applied in either case, not just for death row inmates. We've had a couple of cases recently in Australia where new evidence has exonerated people who've been in jail on a murder conviction for decades. If a life sentence received as much attention as a death sentence then such things would be less likely to happen.
Are either of you seriously suggesting that correct decision in this matter should be based on which is the cheapest solution?
The correct decision in ANY matter is the cheapest solution in terms of total cost to society as a whole. That, roughly, is the evolutionary definition of morality, is it not?
Can you provide some citations for that? It's always been my experience that it costs far, FAR more to execute someone than to imprison them for life when you take into account that the appeals process is expensive.
What? A lifetime of three meals a day and a roof over their head, compared with the cost of six feet of rope. The cost you describe is for the judicial process, not for the resulting outcome.
Exactly, although I disagree with the use of the war on drugs as an analogy, because the actual production of drugs can be done without causing harm to any person.
If there is enough demand for a particular type of media, then a supply will rise to meet that demand. When creating said media necessarily involves committing a crime (especially something as serious as rape or murder) then possession of the media is tantamount to complicity in the crime. Prosecuting anyone owning such material makes it easier to catch the actual perpetrators of the crime.
I can agree with this, as far as it goes. Where it gets very sketchy in my mind is where, as with the drugs example, the production does no harm to any actual person. There was a bill introduced a while back which was going to (or maybe does?) criminalise cartoon and fictional depictions of underage sex. This crosses the line into thoughtcrime, as far as I see it - a guy sitting alone in a room drawing loli-pron isn't doing any harm to anyone.
The idea that "it's standard" like some demented variation on Lotus123 is the only thing that keeps it going.
Actually, vim is a video game for people with hacker-brains. We use it because it's fun, not because it's necessarily more efficient. It's like a cross between Notepad and a cryptic crossword puzzle.
I could see that, maybe, if you didn't have to become acquianted with the manual to do something as basic as, say, entering text.
You're making a common mistake and conflating ease-of-use at beginner level ('novice-friendliness') with ease-of-use once the program is mastered. An average user with no special training will be far more productive in nano than in either vi or emacs. I've only met two or three master-level vi users, but what they can do with a few cryptic keystrokes is boggling.
Another good example of this is Blender - the interface is unlike anything else, and requires a fair bit of familiarity before you can do *anything*. This is exacerbated by the fact that 99% of tutorials are written assuming you know the basics, and so for a true beginner you can pretty much replace every step of every tutorial you find with a picture of rageguy screaming "how the FUCK do I do that?!" Once you find the hotkey cheat sheet and learn the basics, though, the interface is surprisingly intuitive.
Throttle stuck ? - stamp on the clutch (and the brake) no problem.
Given the wide range of fly-by-wire systems and the rapid disappearance of the manual transmission, I think this is something that the industry is going to have to address properly, and soon. With older vehicles, as you say, there are several physical disconnects that the driver can use to stop a runaway vehicle. Newer cars with everything-by-wire don't have such safety features. When the first custom electric vehicle conversions started coming out, there was a lot of concern about runaway vehicles and such, and as a result, electric car conversions tend to have a prominent emergency stop button that forcibly disconnects the battery pack. All cars should have the same - a standard way to instantly shut down power.
The real icing on the cake is (as mentioned near the end) the secondary drive doesn't require a whole lot of power so it can be run by a flywheel. Infinite torque? Frictionless? This is almost too good to be true, there has to be some catch. Like the primary input drive requires more energy than they expected but I can't see it--although I'm not a mechanical engineer.
That's the only bit of the story that I find hard to believe. Sure, if they have a Prius-type system where you basically have an internal combustion engine on one side of a differential and an electric motor on the other side, and the contribute equally, that makes sense. I just don't see how the secondary drive can get away with being less than a large fraction of the overall power.
If it's your car, then it's easy enough to install the required hardware. I like the idea of installing a remote GPRS throttle switch. "Steal my car, will ya? Well FUCK YOU! EAT CONCRETE WALL!" *hits 'accelerate forever' button*
If all he's lacking is the lion then he's Doing It Right. Now, if you're sitting next to a lion, surfing/., and wishing you had a 14 year old to make babies with, possibly you need to de-neanderthalize your value system.;)
Cancer itself is a fucking symptom people, look it up.
Cancer is a symptom of being too fucking old. You're meant to get married at 14, spend the next eight years having children, then get eaten by a lion in your mid 20s.
The problem I have with Wikipedia is that it refuses to create strict rules and follow them. It has stupid 'Notability' nonsense instead where it's just totally arbitrary.
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And your username is 'neorush', which seems appropriate for someone commenting on a story about (a) powering electrical gadgets with mammals, and (b) doing so using a 'sugar rush'. :)
get a bariatric surgery and some crystal meth...
Or just spend 48 hours every weekend, up to your eyeballs in a cocktail of speed and MDMA, dancing your ass off. I know a guy that dropped like 60kg like that in a few months, then quit when he was at a healthy weight. Risky and illegal but damned if it ain't effective.
I'd hope that these power sources are hooked up to pacemakers or other bio-med devices... Current batteries are OK, but require surgery to replace.
Whereas these new batteries are OK, but require sugary to replace?
i have to wonder what the effects on the host would be. sounds like a really complex way to generate power rath then just burning the fuel to produce steam etc.
Or getting them to turn a crank or walk on a treadmill... Just doing some exercise is the simplest, healthiest AND it helps your muscles turn into something that prospective partners would *want* to look at.
I think you misread my post. I wasn't saying the appeals process should be scrapped. I was saying that the full judicial process should be applied in either case, not just for death row inmates. We've had a couple of cases recently in Australia where new evidence has exonerated people who've been in jail on a murder conviction for decades. If a life sentence received as much attention as a death sentence then such things would be less likely to happen.
Are either of you seriously suggesting that correct decision in this matter should be based on which is the cheapest solution?
The correct decision in ANY matter is the cheapest solution in terms of total cost to society as a whole. That, roughly, is the evolutionary definition of morality, is it not?
Can you provide some citations for that? It's always been my experience that it costs far, FAR more to execute someone than to imprison them for life when you take into account that the appeals process is expensive.
What? A lifetime of three meals a day and a roof over their head, compared with the cost of six feet of rope. The cost you describe is for the judicial process, not for the resulting outcome.
Soap, ballot, jury, then ammo?
And in this case likewise. :)
I hear voices all the time! Usually when people are talking to me, or I'm watching TV. Sometimes they come out of my telephone...
A +1, Funny combined with about a million -1, Overrateds.
Exactly, although I disagree with the use of the war on drugs as an analogy, because the actual production of drugs can be done without causing harm to any person.
If there is enough demand for a particular type of media, then a supply will rise to meet that demand. When creating said media necessarily involves committing a crime (especially something as serious as rape or murder) then possession of the media is tantamount to complicity in the crime. Prosecuting anyone owning such material makes it easier to catch the actual perpetrators of the crime.
I can agree with this, as far as it goes. Where it gets very sketchy in my mind is where, as with the drugs example, the production does no harm to any actual person. There was a bill introduced a while back which was going to (or maybe does?) criminalise cartoon and fictional depictions of underage sex. This crosses the line into thoughtcrime, as far as I see it - a guy sitting alone in a room drawing loli-pron isn't doing any harm to anyone.
I want videos of ALL of it.
The idea that "it's standard" like some demented variation on Lotus123 is the only thing that keeps it going.
Actually, vim is a video game for people with hacker-brains. We use it because it's fun, not because it's necessarily more efficient. It's like a cross between Notepad and a cryptic crossword puzzle.
I could see that, maybe, if you didn't have to become acquianted with the manual to do something as basic as, say, entering text.
You're making a common mistake and conflating ease-of-use at beginner level ('novice-friendliness') with ease-of-use once the program is mastered. An average user with no special training will be far more productive in nano than in either vi or emacs. I've only met two or three master-level vi users, but what they can do with a few cryptic keystrokes is boggling.
Another good example of this is Blender - the interface is unlike anything else, and requires a fair bit of familiarity before you can do *anything*. This is exacerbated by the fact that 99% of tutorials are written assuming you know the basics, and so for a true beginner you can pretty much replace every step of every tutorial you find with a picture of rageguy screaming "how the FUCK do I do that?!" Once you find the hotkey cheat sheet and learn the basics, though, the interface is surprisingly intuitive.
You're saying, the goggles do something?
What I don't get is why they bothered with VR glasses at all! Surely a few tabs of acid would have the same effect...
It also removes a redundant control method.
Throttle stuck ? - stamp on the clutch (and the brake) no problem.
Given the wide range of fly-by-wire systems and the rapid disappearance of the manual transmission, I think this is something that the industry is going to have to address properly, and soon. With older vehicles, as you say, there are several physical disconnects that the driver can use to stop a runaway vehicle. Newer cars with everything-by-wire don't have such safety features. When the first custom electric vehicle conversions started coming out, there was a lot of concern about runaway vehicles and such, and as a result, electric car conversions tend to have a prominent emergency stop button that forcibly disconnects the battery pack. All cars should have the same - a standard way to instantly shut down power.
The real icing on the cake is (as mentioned near the end) the secondary drive doesn't require a whole lot of power so it can be run by a flywheel. Infinite torque? Frictionless? This is almost too good to be true, there has to be some catch. Like the primary input drive requires more energy than they expected but I can't see it--although I'm not a mechanical engineer.
That's the only bit of the story that I find hard to believe. Sure, if they have a Prius-type system where you basically have an internal combustion engine on one side of a differential and an electric motor on the other side, and the contribute equally, that makes sense. I just don't see how the secondary drive can get away with being less than a large fraction of the overall power.
What you did there, I see it.
- fractoid, May 13, 2010
If it's your car, then it's easy enough to install the required hardware. I like the idea of installing a remote GPRS throttle switch. "Steal my car, will ya? Well FUCK YOU! EAT CONCRETE WALL!" *hits 'accelerate forever' button*
If all he's lacking is the lion then he's Doing It Right. Now, if you're sitting next to a lion, surfing /., and wishing you had a 14 year old to make babies with, possibly you need to de-neanderthalize your value system. ;)
All this goes to show is
that this guy has written something fucking sexy. Well done, sir. That looked as good as any print music I've ever seen.
Cancer itself is a fucking symptom people, look it up.
Cancer is a symptom of being too fucking old. You're meant to get married at 14, spend the next eight years having children, then get eaten by a lion in your mid 20s.
The problem I have with Wikipedia is that it refuses to create strict rules and follow them. It has stupid 'Notability' nonsense instead where it's just totally arbitrary.
Even if (as others argue) the 'notability' rules are quite well defined, they're vulnerable to race conditions leading to recursive self-referencing.