Actually I've smoked it twice (once in Amsterdam, once on a ferry in Thailand) and it's never really done anything for me. I'm lucky enough to get most of my kicks out of alcohol and caffeine.:) 'l2p' or 'ifl2p' were recurring memes on the WoW forums a year or two back, I assumed I was only the
Thankyou. Your response to the second quote is exactly what I meant - if you lose control and crash (and it could reasonably considered to be your fault, things like "some guy running a red through a blind intersection and t-boning you" come under the category "shit happens and nothing will ever stop that") then by definition you were exceeding the appropriate speed for the conditions at the time. This speed seldom has much relation to the posted speed limits, and varies wildly with driver concentration, weather, traffic etc.
(The first bit, I sort of agree with. The solution IMO is to make getting a driver's license a lot harder on actual driving skills, emergency reactions, car handling etc. What Australia has done in the past few years is implement a system where you have to do a series of tests in which you have to raise your pinky to the exact angle when you indicate, and you need exactly the right number of flashes of your indicator before you turn, or other inane details, but you can still pass it while not knowing what the hell to do in a "the sprinkler sprayed on the roundabout and now I'm sideways" situation. I never heard of anyone who's been injured in a parallel parking accident, but I've heard of plenty who've died due to not knowing what the f**k they were doing at speed.)
The parent poster's attitude is in line with the bozos that run Australia's road safety department. They removed the section on "how to control your car if it slides" from the driver's handbook, with the justification that "if people know how to control a slide then they may drive more recklessly". Yeah, apparently it's more dangerous to know what you're doing. A quick drive on on Perth roads will quickly fix that misconception - being surrounded by incompetent morons at 80km/h (in a 100km/h zone, all weaving and none paying much attention) is *scary*.
The comparison I use is that ~2000 people die each year on Australian roads. ~20,000 people die each year of smoking-related illness. If that policeman who's spending his whole life filing speeding tickets really wanted to save lives he should f**k off and become an anti-smoking campaigner. But road trauma is messy and dramatic while smokers hack up a lung and die, quietly and neatly, in homes and hospital beds. So they parade the 'mothers against motor vehicles' around and make an election issue of it.
To pull this back on track - how cool would it be to have a car which streamed all its instrumentation directly your OC tattoos on the backs of your hands?:D Left could be your speedo, right is your rev gauge, or you can select what gauge to display by clenching a finger tighter for an instant. That'd be way cool. Sorry about the rant, as you can guess from its position in my sig this is one of my pet topics.:P
Finally a way to change my tattoo every time i feel like it, and get rid of my gf's complaints that she doesn't want me to have more tattoos.
You have a tattoo of a buxom blonde overlaid on a heart with a scroll saying "Lucy"... wait, now it says "Cherry"... huh? She's now black haired and thinner and she's called Liza... dude I think you need to check your firmware.
So he needs a 4-core 8GB server with over 3TB of storage (meaning a RAID), but he can't get mains power? If the power supply is that intermittent that a bank of deep cycle sealed lead-acid batteries couldn't smooth it out (and at this point I'd suggest one of those Honda petrol gensets, they're pretty cheap for a 1kW unit these days), I bet the local internet connection isn't any better. If it is then just home the server in a city somewhere, otherwise how is the machine going to connect to the rest of the world?
Car analogy time: he's basically saying he wants a Ferrari with the off-road capability of a Jeep, and it has to run for 500 miles on a tank of cane sugar... but it also has to be as cheap as a scooter.
Bernoulli's explanation of lift is incomplete. An aerofoil generates lift by forcing air downwards, it's just that the air does most of its downward travel a long distance behind the aerofoil... unless it's travelling around in circles, like, say, a helicopter blade.
Trust me, the air being forced downwards is the only thing keeping a helicopter (or any aircraft) in the air. Or rather, don't just trust me, trust NASA (you can even check their working).
I was going to say that usually, when there's a highschool shooting or something it's invariably linked to someone involved playing Counterstrike for hours on end. And then someone makes a map of the school in question and all hell breaks loose.
If a Harrier can hover at 40,000 feet, I'd be astounded. Your distinction between "lift" and "thrust" is meaningless, both vehicles make a large volume of air go downwards very fast to balance their weight. The jet uses a smaller volume at a higher speed and thus is less efficient (when hovering, obviously the jet will be more efficient when it's flying at speed).
Solar hot water heaters are pretty much standard in Australia too, at least near where I live. Most houses will have one, and while you have an electric booster for when its needed, even in winter they do a pretty good job of keeping the water hot. In summer it comes out practically boiling.
Keeping a 12v battery topped up to intermittently power your radio and navigation system is not comparable to powering a house including aircon, heating, cooking, hot water etc. It'd be like me saying that my car uses a single 12v lead acid battery and it powers the dome light fine for hours, so a bigger lead acid battery should be able to replace the petrol engine.
(Not that I think lead acid BEVs are useless, on the contrary I'm a fan, but it'd be stupid not to admit they have weaknesses in range and recharge time compared to petrol cars.)
We knew that larger windmills generated more power (duh), and that they had some advantages in efficiency etc. over small ones due to economy of scale. What wasn't completely obvious is that below a certain size, a windmill won't ever pay for its own manufacture, much less be at any sort of realistic advantage.
Yeh, the summary seems to reek of anti-green, or at least anti-wind technology. The assertion that 141 are required assumes that you are using the worst windmills in the US. A clear sign the submitter is not only anti-alternative energy, but also an obnoxious American.
Actually, it reeks of anti-"I'm a trendpoppet with a micro windmill on my roof so I can preach to you about how holy I am by using recycled toilet paper". They seem to me to be just saying "yeah, these small windmills really really suck compared to just having one big windmill powering a bunch of homes".
The only way taxis would ever make sense in America is if we imported a bunch of English-speaking immigrants from somewhere (or else set up a computer system in each cab so we could use Google Maps to point out on a touchscreen where exactly we want to go, and the nav system tells the driver how to get there)
You sure this didn't happen already? When I was in Oregon a few years back we had a taxi driver that may or may not have been a U.S. native but most certainly relied entirely on his GPS map widget and not at all on knowing where he was going.
As for minimum wage, removing it won't make the job automatically viable. Even immigrants need to eat and sleep somewhere, even if they're willing to accept far lower standards than pampered Americans.
What do you think all of those weigh stations on the side of every interstate freeway in the US are for?
Dunno about American roads but in Australia (as I understand it), it's to make sure that trucks don't go overweight, not to bill them per tonne. It's a safety thing; overloaded trucks don't tend to stop or corner too well. The stations are there as a public service, not as a toll booth for wide loads.
What happened? Well, the US government started subsidizing roadways.
Um, with all due respect to the history of the system (which you tell well), these rail links aren't aiming to replace roads. They're replacing passenger airways.
If you visit Europe, you'll find that most of the mainland (at least in the West, once you start getting closer to Russia it starts getting a bit dodge) is covered by high speed rail lines. Airfares over there are dirt cheap but it's still cheaper (and quicker!) to do any journey of less than say 500kms by rail. The trains travel at up to 250km/h, there's no messing around with "arrive 3 hours early, check your baggage in, have your balls sniffed by a police dog, submit to your regulation cavity probe"... you just buy your 20 euro ticket, hop on the train, and you're off and running.
Once either population or expected length of settlement exceed a certain value (easily exceeded in the EU, not so sure about the US but it has to be getting close) rail becomes a clear winner for passenger transport. There's just no call for hauling people 10km up into the air just to travel a few hundred kms horizontally when you can do it far faster, cheaper, and more efficiently on the ground.
Um, what? A cooperative multitasking OS can be taken down by a crash or infinite loop in ANY running program. This problem has nothing to do with protected memory. And the "LOL WINBLOWS IS STILL KATCHIN UP TO MAC OS IN 89" claptrap is every bit as witty and original as paying out OSX for flaws in OS9 and previous.
Oh, wait, still not flamebaity enough. Um... MACS SUCK CHILI DICK. Am I doing it right?:P I would say "os/2 was crap" but I don't want some hairy guy to show up on my doorstep with a pipe wrench.;)
At least the complaints about Macs are generally somewhat based on fact and not entirely "but... but feature X is just BETTER and anyone who says different is an idiot".
Not necessary. I spent an hour downloading XUbuntu from my ISP's free mirror, then 20 minutes installing it. My home computer has never had a non-Linux OS and I've never paid a cent for 'not using windows'.
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Actually I've smoked it twice (once in Amsterdam, once on a ferry in Thailand) and it's never really done anything for me. I'm lucky enough to get most of my kicks out of alcohol and caffeine. :) 'l2p' or 'ifl2p' were recurring memes on the WoW forums a year or two back, I assumed I was only the
Thankyou. Your response to the second quote is exactly what I meant - if you lose control and crash (and it could reasonably considered to be your fault, things like "some guy running a red through a blind intersection and t-boning you" come under the category "shit happens and nothing will ever stop that") then by definition you were exceeding the appropriate speed for the conditions at the time. This speed seldom has much relation to the posted speed limits, and varies wildly with driver concentration, weather, traffic etc.
:D Left could be your speedo, right is your rev gauge, or you can select what gauge to display by clenching a finger tighter for an instant. That'd be way cool. Sorry about the rant, as you can guess from its position in my sig this is one of my pet topics. :P
(The first bit, I sort of agree with. The solution IMO is to make getting a driver's license a lot harder on actual driving skills, emergency reactions, car handling etc. What Australia has done in the past few years is implement a system where you have to do a series of tests in which you have to raise your pinky to the exact angle when you indicate, and you need exactly the right number of flashes of your indicator before you turn, or other inane details, but you can still pass it while not knowing what the hell to do in a "the sprinkler sprayed on the roundabout and now I'm sideways" situation. I never heard of anyone who's been injured in a parallel parking accident, but I've heard of plenty who've died due to not knowing what the f**k they were doing at speed.)
The parent poster's attitude is in line with the bozos that run Australia's road safety department. They removed the section on "how to control your car if it slides" from the driver's handbook, with the justification that "if people know how to control a slide then they may drive more recklessly". Yeah, apparently it's more dangerous to know what you're doing. A quick drive on on Perth roads will quickly fix that misconception - being surrounded by incompetent morons at 80km/h (in a 100km/h zone, all weaving and none paying much attention) is *scary*.
The comparison I use is that ~2000 people die each year on Australian roads. ~20,000 people die each year of smoking-related illness. If that policeman who's spending his whole life filing speeding tickets really wanted to save lives he should f**k off and become an anti-smoking campaigner. But road trauma is messy and dramatic while smokers hack up a lung and die, quietly and neatly, in homes and hospital beds. So they parade the 'mothers against motor vehicles' around and make an election issue of it.
To pull this back on track - how cool would it be to have a car which streamed all its instrumentation directly your OC tattoos on the backs of your hands?
Just wrap your 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th fingers in a tag and hold your hand up. Hilarity ensues. ;)
So true about cats. Some of them just don't get the concept of "kneading your lap is hurties".
Finally a way to change my tattoo every time i feel like it, and get rid of my gf's complaints that she doesn't want me to have more tattoos.
You have a tattoo of a buxom blonde overlaid on a heart with a scroll saying "Lucy"... wait, now it says "Cherry"... huh? She's now black haired and thinner and she's called Liza... dude I think you need to check your firmware.
So he needs a 4-core 8GB server with over 3TB of storage (meaning a RAID), but he can't get mains power? If the power supply is that intermittent that a bank of deep cycle sealed lead-acid batteries couldn't smooth it out (and at this point I'd suggest one of those Honda petrol gensets, they're pretty cheap for a 1kW unit these days), I bet the local internet connection isn't any better. If it is then just home the server in a city somewhere, otherwise how is the machine going to connect to the rest of the world?
Car analogy time: he's basically saying he wants a Ferrari with the off-road capability of a Jeep, and it has to run for 500 miles on a tank of cane sugar... but it also has to be as cheap as a scooter.
Nah, the typo is later. The full title should be "Nexr-Gen Nucrear Power Prant".
Bernoulli's explanation of lift is incomplete. An aerofoil generates lift by forcing air downwards, it's just that the air does most of its downward travel a long distance behind the aerofoil... unless it's travelling around in circles, like, say, a helicopter blade.
Trust me, the air being forced downwards is the only thing keeping a helicopter (or any aircraft) in the air. Or rather, don't just trust me, trust NASA (you can even check their working).
(God, I hate Asmiov. Lame trope after lame trope.)
Yeah, he's like the Tolkein of Sci-Fi. All those stupid clichéd elves and trolls and dwarves and stuff. Why couldn't he make up something original?
I was going to say that usually, when there's a highschool shooting or something it's invariably linked to someone involved playing Counterstrike for hours on end. And then someone makes a map of the school in question and all hell breaks loose.
But I guess it's funny if it's about lawyers.
Pro stock tip: Now is a good time to buy into the lucrative market for sea cucumbers.
If a Harrier can hover at 40,000 feet, I'd be astounded. Your distinction between "lift" and "thrust" is meaningless, both vehicles make a large volume of air go downwards very fast to balance their weight. The jet uses a smaller volume at a higher speed and thus is less efficient (when hovering, obviously the jet will be more efficient when it's flying at speed).
Solar hot water heaters are pretty much standard in Australia too, at least near where I live. Most houses will have one, and while you have an electric booster for when its needed, even in winter they do a pretty good job of keeping the water hot. In summer it comes out practically boiling.
You're modded funny, but a friend of mine has a family business making saddlery gear (horse saddles, riding gear, etc.)
Guess where most of the riding crops they manufacture go? Not to riding schools, I can tell you.
Keeping a 12v battery topped up to intermittently power your radio and navigation system is not comparable to powering a house including aircon, heating, cooking, hot water etc. It'd be like me saying that my car uses a single 12v lead acid battery and it powers the dome light fine for hours, so a bigger lead acid battery should be able to replace the petrol engine.
(Not that I think lead acid BEVs are useless, on the contrary I'm a fan, but it'd be stupid not to admit they have weaknesses in range and recharge time compared to petrol cars.)
We knew that larger windmills generated more power (duh), and that they had some advantages in efficiency etc. over small ones due to economy of scale. What wasn't completely obvious is that below a certain size, a windmill won't ever pay for its own manufacture, much less be at any sort of realistic advantage.
Yeah, well *I* googled and I found the post of the guy who's about to reply to me!
Yeh, the summary seems to reek of anti-green, or at least anti-wind technology. The assertion that 141 are required assumes that you are using the worst windmills in the US. A clear sign the submitter is not only anti-alternative energy, but also an obnoxious American.
Actually, it reeks of anti-"I'm a trendpoppet with a micro windmill on my roof so I can preach to you about how holy I am by using recycled toilet paper". They seem to me to be just saying "yeah, these small windmills really really suck compared to just having one big windmill powering a bunch of homes".
I2P looks a lot like l2p to me. As in 'ifl2p', or "It's fine, learn to play".
Sometimes rain is cold and hard and hurts when it hits you, at least until you go numb.
The only way taxis would ever make sense in America is if we imported a bunch of English-speaking immigrants from somewhere (or else set up a computer system in each cab so we could use Google Maps to point out on a touchscreen where exactly we want to go, and the nav system tells the driver how to get there)
You sure this didn't happen already? When I was in Oregon a few years back we had a taxi driver that may or may not have been a U.S. native but most certainly relied entirely on his GPS map widget and not at all on knowing where he was going.
As for minimum wage, removing it won't make the job automatically viable. Even immigrants need to eat and sleep somewhere, even if they're willing to accept far lower standards than pampered Americans.
What do you think all of those weigh stations on the side of every interstate freeway in the US are for?
Dunno about American roads but in Australia (as I understand it), it's to make sure that trucks don't go overweight, not to bill them per tonne. It's a safety thing; overloaded trucks don't tend to stop or corner too well. The stations are there as a public service, not as a toll booth for wide loads.
What happened? Well, the US government started subsidizing roadways.
Um, with all due respect to the history of the system (which you tell well), these rail links aren't aiming to replace roads. They're replacing passenger airways.
If you visit Europe, you'll find that most of the mainland (at least in the West, once you start getting closer to Russia it starts getting a bit dodge) is covered by high speed rail lines. Airfares over there are dirt cheap but it's still cheaper (and quicker!) to do any journey of less than say 500kms by rail. The trains travel at up to 250km/h, there's no messing around with "arrive 3 hours early, check your baggage in, have your balls sniffed by a police dog, submit to your regulation cavity probe"... you just buy your 20 euro ticket, hop on the train, and you're off and running.
Once either population or expected length of settlement exceed a certain value (easily exceeded in the EU, not so sure about the US but it has to be getting close) rail becomes a clear winner for passenger transport. There's just no call for hauling people 10km up into the air just to travel a few hundred kms horizontally when you can do it far faster, cheaper, and more efficiently on the ground.
Um, what? A cooperative multitasking OS can be taken down by a crash or infinite loop in ANY running program. This problem has nothing to do with protected memory. And the "LOL WINBLOWS IS STILL KATCHIN UP TO MAC OS IN 89" claptrap is every bit as witty and original as paying out OSX for flaws in OS9 and previous.
:P I would say "os/2 was crap" but I don't want some hairy guy to show up on my doorstep with a pipe wrench. ;)
Oh, wait, still not flamebaity enough. Um... MACS SUCK CHILI DICK. Am I doing it right?
At least the complaints about Macs are generally somewhat based on fact and not entirely "but... but feature X is just BETTER and anyone who says different is an idiot".
Not necessary. I spent an hour downloading XUbuntu from my ISP's free mirror, then 20 minutes installing it. My home computer has never had a non-Linux OS and I've never paid a cent for 'not using windows'.