Yeah, but as the Good Book says, those who are righteous can walk in the light. Or do you really think that the phrase "not someone you want to meet in a dark alley" should be changed to "not someone you want to meet in a well-lit alley"?
Here in Quebec, one of our parks is actually also protecting the sky...
I wasn't even aware the sky was in danger! I thought is was just our (and astronomers') view of it that was at risk...
Quick, rally the troops! We only have one sky and if its in danger, we better channel all available resources to make sure it goes on the endangered species list!! Also, we should find a preserve where it can stay until it recovers from the ghastly wounds we've been tearing in it every night.
All joking aside, though, my dad is an avid amateur astronomer living in the middle of one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country, but you don't see him complaining. The main reason? The far greatest concern for amateur astronomers isn't light pollution (there are tons of fantastic filters/optics you can get to easily decrease its effect), but rather atmospheric turbulence. This is why the Mt. Wilson observatory (just outside Pasadena) is still one of the best viewing areas on the West Coast. Oh - did I interrupt the championing of a new quasi-environmental cause that helps people feel they have purpose in life? My bad, please continue...
Towns will question why they are spending so much on lighting and cut back...Similarly, I think people will curb their habits of trying to light entire cities at night.
And this curbing of their habits will come to an abrupt halt once someone is mugged/assaulted/raped on a normally safe - but slightly darker - street, and the think-of-the-children rallying cry is raised.
The bottom line is that lighting in heavily populated areas does increase safety, by discouraging those who would use the cover of darkness for their crimes. The couple dollars a night it takes to light a mile of street is well worth the cost to those living on, or walking at night on, those streets.
"It's better to light a candle, than curse the darkness."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm not sure that many teenagers are going to have "badass" scars. Less "badass" ones are more like it.
Also, I think you need to spend a little more effort imagining yourself in the position of someone who is permanently disfigured. Even if their scar looks "badass" to a teenage boy, living with it is not quite like the movies.
Obama is being surrounded by the same assholes that have been driving this country into the ground for decades. No matter how good his intentions may be, he'll believe his trusted advisers and they will believe the lobbyists, cause they just don't know any better.
Racial comments about the military aside (I left that part of your post out), I am so confused. Is Obama so oblivious that he can't recognize if someone whom he hand-picked to be knowledgeable on a given subject "doesn't know any better"?! Or maybe he picks advisors who he wants to deceive him on the issues they were picked to advise him on?!!? Maybe his advisors don't know what lobbyists are, or how they work? If so, and if Obama does know how lobbyists work, why would he choose people so ignorant of the very forces they are supposed to buffer him from?!?!!
3x the charges and lifespan of the industry standard
This is a completely unfalsifiable statement. A Mac user wouldn't be caught dead with this model once the new 17.1" Macbook Pro comes out in six months. No one really knows how long any Apple product "could" last.
I'll try to use smaller words and type this reply really slowly, to make sure you can understand. Those links weren't for magazines. They were for electronic (aka "magic") devices that would allow you to view the same content (that's a fancy word that means "words and pictures") that are in certain magazines and books. One of those "devices" even allows you to view full web pages, and do other stuff, like play "Hello Kitty: Island Adventure"!
Some people claim that the appeal of these devices over a magazines and books is that you have the ability to carry the content of dozens of your favorite magazines and books, without a very large bag. You've convinced me, though, I hate things with batteries. I'll just get my shopping cart when I want to go to the park for a couple hours to read but I can't decide which of my many books and magazines I will want to read.
Well, you could shell between $300 and $400 for one of the hit-and-miss eReaders currently available. Or you could shell out between around $600 for a slightly less elegant eBook reading solution that with can also act as your car stereo, navigation (with some work/extra parts), and more-useful-than-most general purpose netbook. I know which route I'm taking (although I'll probably wait to see what netbook-tablet offerings there are at CES).
I'll be sure to tell all parents of the preemies in ICU how ridiculous it is for them to consider their child's life as "sacred", due to the circumstances of the child's environment in combination with the viability (or lack thereof) of that child outside its current environment.
I'm still stuck with a 32x16 display on an old tv, with lowercase letters being uppercase letters, but green on black, instead of black on green, you insensitive clod!
You have two colors on your display?! That I should be so lucky! I have to do all my coding on a monochrome display with a tube that has been burnt out for almost 12 years, but you don't hear me complaining! I consider myself lucky to still have a job (and lead developer, no less) with 3D Realms.
Mount your iPhone in a shoe, and you can play Maxwell Smart. Now that would really freak people out, when your shoe rings, and you take it off to answer it.
I had no idea that iPhones had such a monopoly on the "being able to be mounted in a shoe" form factor...
I do apologize. You see, for me the differences between those terms are as important to me (while discussing the value of the individual life) as infant and toddler, or child and preteen, or adolescent and young adult.
When I'm trying to convince someone that saving a life is important, I forget about how much some people care about keeping perfect distinctions between adjacent stages of human development. I will try to avoid this from now.
I've got news for you. Most of us do know and are trying to save as many lives as possible. No one I've met - who believes that life should be protected after conception - believes that it's "OK" to destroy the unused IVF fetuses. Of course, I seriously doubt this information will have any effect upon your fantastically ingrained bias against "us people". You can make up whatever other "reasons" suit you...
Back in my day when we lost our teeth we had to pay the tooth fairy $100 for each tooth we lost. She said the $100 was for "protection" - from tooth decay we assumed...of course we learned the awful truth when little Johnny refused to pay, and that crazy bitch knocked out the rest of his teeth with a baseball bat.
The "supposedly" is only in TFS. In the article they mention these things called "reasons" and "science" (although sparingly due to the nature of the periodical) to "explain" how it is self-regulating. TFS (and the TFA's "at least that's what the company claims") is akin to a lay person's first reaction to the internal combustion engine being "And supposedly all these powerful explosions will be contained..."
Bottom line: there's probably a lot more science to support the claim to being self-limiting/regulating than a lay person could easily assess. I'll accept my doubts/misgivings from scientists in the field, thank-you-very-much.
It's true that - given a long enough time frame, and a large enough multitude, and a vague enough definition of disaster - this proposal can be terrifying. But perhaps it might be wiser to analyze the probabilities of different potential failures, in combination with the likely effects of those failures, and weigh these, let's call them "risks", against the probabilities and impacts of all the good things (let's call them "benefits") that would be brought by this proposal. Hey, totally off the top of my head here, but I bet we could even compare this "risk/benefit analysis" against some kind of similar analysis for the current method/system!
I should totally patent that "method for rationally assessing a new idea"--what? Shampoo beat me to it!? Damn.
Anyone else get the hilariously ironic "Report Software Piracy" ad banner? Apparently the potential earnings are up to $1,000,000. And I thought it capped out at $100,000 only a year ago...
Our company can also use more Java developers, the ones we have are relatively unexperienced, have issues with our management structure, and like blaming everybody for everything. Also, they seem to spend too much of their time on tech sites, and we suspect them of looking elsewhere for work.
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...Wait a second!!...Jim is that YOU!?
Then you will continue to be a douche. Sorry, like the intrinsic unity of time and space, there is nothing in the known universe that can separate H2 drivers from douche-ness. Most philosophers believe that "what it is to be" an H2 driver is to be a douche...although apparently thousands of douches loudly, and rudely, take issue with this manifestly self-evident proposition...thus confirming it with empirical evidence.
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...could have come out of the deep fry along with the burger I was giving them...
You guys deep-fried your burgers!?! Tell me the name and location of your former restaurant immediately!!
And shadowed areas are still there
Yeah, but as the Good Book says, those who are righteous can walk in the light. Or do you really think that the phrase "not someone you want to meet in a dark alley" should be changed to "not someone you want to meet in a well-lit alley"?
Here in Quebec, one of our parks is actually also protecting the sky...
I wasn't even aware the sky was in danger! I thought is was just our (and astronomers') view of it that was at risk...
Quick, rally the troops! We only have one sky and if its in danger, we better channel all available resources to make sure it goes on the endangered species list!! Also, we should find a preserve where it can stay until it recovers from the ghastly wounds we've been tearing in it every night.
All joking aside, though, my dad is an avid amateur astronomer living in the middle of one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country, but you don't see him complaining. The main reason? The far greatest concern for amateur astronomers isn't light pollution (there are tons of fantastic filters/optics you can get to easily decrease its effect), but rather atmospheric turbulence. This is why the Mt. Wilson observatory (just outside Pasadena) is still one of the best viewing areas on the West Coast. Oh - did I interrupt the championing of a new quasi-environmental cause that helps people feel they have purpose in life? My bad, please continue...
Towns will question why they are spending so much on lighting and cut back...Similarly, I think people will curb their habits of trying to light entire cities at night.
And this curbing of their habits will come to an abrupt halt once someone is mugged/assaulted/raped on a normally safe - but slightly darker - street, and the think-of-the-children rallying cry is raised.
The bottom line is that lighting in heavily populated areas does increase safety, by discouraging those who would use the cover of darkness for their crimes. The couple dollars a night it takes to light a mile of street is well worth the cost to those living on, or walking at night on, those streets.
"It's better to light a candle, than curse the darkness."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
In Soviet Russia, we don't need to be inspired by a color to make bad jokes that end in...YOU!!
I'm not sure that many teenagers are going to have "badass" scars. Less "badass" ones are more like it.
Also, I think you need to spend a little more effort imagining yourself in the position of someone who is permanently disfigured. Even if their scar looks "badass" to a teenage boy, living with it is not quite like the movies.
Obama is being surrounded by the same assholes that have been driving this country into the ground for decades. No matter how good his intentions may be, he'll believe his trusted advisers and they will believe the lobbyists, cause they just don't know any better.
Racial comments about the military aside (I left that part of your post out), I am so confused. Is Obama so oblivious that he can't recognize if someone whom he hand-picked to be knowledgeable on a given subject "doesn't know any better"?! Or maybe he picks advisors who he wants to deceive him on the issues they were picked to advise him on?!!? Maybe his advisors don't know what lobbyists are, or how they work? If so, and if Obama does know how lobbyists work, why would he choose people so ignorant of the very forces they are supposed to buffer him from?!?!!
3x the charges and lifespan of the industry standard
This is a completely unfalsifiable statement. A Mac user wouldn't be caught dead with this model once the new 17.1" Macbook Pro comes out in six months. No one really knows how long any Apple product "could" last.
I'll try to use smaller words and type this reply really slowly, to make sure you can understand. Those links weren't for magazines. They were for electronic (aka "magic") devices that would allow you to view the same content (that's a fancy word that means "words and pictures") that are in certain magazines and books. One of those "devices" even allows you to view full web pages, and do other stuff, like play "Hello Kitty: Island Adventure"!
Some people claim that the appeal of these devices over a magazines and books is that you have the ability to carry the content of dozens of your favorite magazines and books, without a very large bag. You've convinced me, though, I hate things with batteries. I'll just get my shopping cart when I want to go to the park for a couple hours to read but I can't decide which of my many books and magazines I will want to read.
Well, you could shell between $300 and $400 for one of the hit-and-miss eReaders currently available. Or you could shell out between around $600 for a slightly less elegant eBook reading solution that with can also act as your car stereo, navigation (with some work/extra parts), and more-useful-than-most general purpose netbook. I know which route I'm taking (although I'll probably wait to see what netbook-tablet offerings there are at CES).
I'll be sure to tell all parents of the preemies in ICU how ridiculous it is for them to consider their child's life as "sacred", due to the circumstances of the child's environment in combination with the viability (or lack thereof) of that child outside its current environment.
I'm still stuck with a 32x16 display on an old tv, with lowercase letters being uppercase letters, but green on black, instead of black on green, you insensitive clod!
You have two colors on your display?! That I should be so lucky! I have to do all my coding on a monochrome display with a tube that has been burnt out for almost 12 years, but you don't hear me complaining! I consider myself lucky to still have a job (and lead developer, no less) with 3D Realms.
Mount your iPhone in a shoe, and you can play Maxwell Smart. Now that would really freak people out, when your shoe rings, and you take it off to answer it.
I had no idea that iPhones had such a monopoly on the "being able to be mounted in a shoe" form factor...
But, dude, they're approaching us at a terrifying speed, but they're totally silent! What else besides ninjas can do that?!
Well, that'll show those Andromedans not to attack "smaller" galaxies. Now who's laughing! We will plunder their mass...
So your saying that in the final climactic battle between forces beyond human comprehension - I'm stuck on the pirate side? Dammit!!
Ninjdromeda's gonna kick our ass...physics be damned!
I do apologize. You see, for me the differences between those terms are as important to me (while discussing the value of the individual life) as infant and toddler, or child and preteen, or adolescent and young adult.
When I'm trying to convince someone that saving a life is important, I forget about how much some people care about keeping perfect distinctions between adjacent stages of human development. I will try to avoid this from now.
I've got news for you. Most of us do know and are trying to save as many lives as possible. No one I've met - who believes that life should be protected after conception - believes that it's "OK" to destroy the unused IVF fetuses. Of course, I seriously doubt this information will have any effect upon your fantastically ingrained bias against "us people". You can make up whatever other "reasons" suit you...
Back in my day when we lost our teeth we had to pay the tooth fairy $100 for each tooth we lost. She said the $100 was for "protection" - from tooth decay we assumed...of course we learned the awful truth when little Johnny refused to pay, and that crazy bitch knocked out the rest of his teeth with a baseball bat.
A dime?! That we could have been so lucky!
It shouldn't be too hard to add a braking system.
And if it is too hard, a couple more quick jerks and it should soften pretty quickly.
The "supposedly" is only in TFS. In the article they mention these things called "reasons" and "science" (although sparingly due to the nature of the periodical) to "explain" how it is self-regulating. TFS (and the TFA's "at least that's what the company claims") is akin to a lay person's first reaction to the internal combustion engine being "And supposedly all these powerful explosions will be contained..."
Bottom line: there's probably a lot more science to support the claim to being self-limiting/regulating than a lay person could easily assess. I'll accept my doubts/misgivings from scientists in the field, thank-you-very-much.
...something is eventually going to go wrong...
It's true that - given a long enough time frame, and a large enough multitude, and a vague enough definition of disaster - this proposal can be terrifying. But perhaps it might be wiser to analyze the probabilities of different potential failures, in combination with the likely effects of those failures, and weigh these, let's call them "risks", against the probabilities and impacts of all the good things (let's call them "benefits") that would be brought by this proposal. Hey, totally off the top of my head here, but I bet we could even compare this "risk/benefit analysis" against some kind of similar analysis for the current method/system!
I should totally patent that "method for rationally assessing a new idea"--what? Shampoo beat me to it!? Damn.
Anyone else get the hilariously ironic "Report Software Piracy" ad banner? Apparently the potential earnings are up to $1,000,000. And I thought it capped out at $100,000 only a year ago...
Our company can also use more Java developers, the ones we have are relatively unexperienced, have issues with our management structure, and like blaming everybody for everything. Also, they seem to spend too much of their time on tech sites, and we suspect them of looking elsewhere for work.
...
...Wait a second!!...Jim is that YOU!?
Then you will continue to be a douche. Sorry, like the intrinsic unity of time and space, there is nothing in the known universe that can separate H2 drivers from douche-ness. Most philosophers believe that "what it is to be" an H2 driver is to be a douche...although apparently thousands of douches loudly, and rudely, take issue with this manifestly self-evident proposition...thus confirming it with empirical evidence.
What?!? We only need enough to fill the empty spaces below ground, then MBP will drown...don't you know anything!?!