I read the same story and loved it. He took weeks to distill enough fuel for a quick flight, nobody saw anything he did and assumed that his sonic boom was the noise of big guns over the horizon, and he had to elearn how to fly with nothing but a stick, the wind in his face, and a tennis ball on a string as his turn/bank indicator.
I'm sure you are grief-stricken, but that topic is one article that way. (down)
No no - it's appropriate. Somewhere in a village, a midget is looking at a military UAV and going "da plane! Boss, da plane!"
And beside him, someone else is looking at that same UAV and saying "From Hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."
And miles away, some pasty-faced joystick jock is sitting in his fine corinthian-leather chair humming "Volare" and saying "Can we change the channel on this thing. All I'm getting is really bad remakes!"
Most people who want to rate something as funny actually rate it as either informative or under-rated, because of defective slashmath.
Funny mods, no points. Get 5+1 funnies, and you go up... zero points. But NOW you're in danger of 6 down-mods, each with a -1 karma hit, So your karma takes a hit unfairly
Do this a dozen times, and an account at the karma cap (+50) can go to zero, even though it received as many up- as down-mods, and should still be at the cap when all is said and done.
... but well before then, you can log into a terminal on one of the tty consoles. THAT is what you should count. X, etc., are NOT "part of the boot process".
My dryer works fine on 240v. So does my electric stove. It's not a connection to "neutral", but the potential between any two leads, that delivers "power".
It is unlawful for a person in a public forum or place of public accommodation wilfully and knowingly to publish orally or in writing, exhibit, or otherwise make available material containing words, language, or actions of a profane, vulgar, lewd, lascivious, or indecent nature.
I guess these assholes are going to have to burn down their own fucking libraries.
Better... they'll have to arrest their preachers, sunday school teachers, etc., as well as any court clerk who orders you "to place your hand on the bible and swear to yadda yadda yadda", because the bible includes the words "piss", "whore", "bastard", etc.
I could live with that:-) Or at least get a good laugh watching...
Sons of bitches just want to oppress self-expression. What impact will this have on music and literature. Do have any idea how many fucking books have swear words?
Check out the bible. "Piss" and "Bastard" and "Whore" - it'd be worth it just to see all the state-mandated bible-burnings, etc.
For those running on equipment that is currently running on 110-120v, it's a 50% amperage reduction, especially since anything designed to run on 208V will also handle 220v-240v just fine.
Just because we decide today that we should abort all fetus's or embryo's if they have the genetic signs of schizophrenia doesn't mean we will eventually come to a stage where we decide to do the same for a much less harmful trait such as depression.
What's the problem if its' a harmful trait? More harmful, less harmful, who gives a shit, really. If it's harmful, get rid of it.
This might sound SO terrible now, but get used to it - we'll be doing this within 100 years by choice. No need to make it mandatory - people's egos will see to that. It just won't be "fashionable" to have kids who are prone to depression, or schizophrenia, or bipolar, or downs, or adhd, or whatever. Heck, I'll go further - it will be seen as the height of ignorance, an attempt to foist your selfish beliefs that somehow your DEFECTIVE genes are more worth preserving, and damn the cost to everyone in society.
Never underestimate the power of cheap tech, money, and fashion.
That would be like arguing that, because you took out all the red M&Ms, there are now more purple M&Ms. So what?
If we have a problem with both the red and purple ones, remove them both. We don't have to stop at just one gene or one issue.
Besides, your argument is based on a false premise - that a certain percentage of schizophrenics somehow means fewer other mental diseases. Seems to me that it would increase, not decrease, the numbers - after all, living with a crazy can drive you nuts. Ask anyone who's ever dated, married, or raised a bipolar. It's *not* healthy.
The idea is to eliminate genetic defects in utero. Not "genetic defects... and also this trait and that trait and this other trait."
Or are you going to argue that schizophrenia bipolar syndrome and downs' syndrome don't have a genetic component? Downs, for example, is caused by an extra chromosome. If we can identify fetuses that are going to turn into schizophrenics, manic-depressives, multiple-personality-disorders, or downs, why not flush them and try again? It's not like we're dealing with a person, just a fetus that, at 12 weeks, has less brains than an adult aardvark, or at 20 weeks, less than a pig or cow. "Nobody home", since the "home" isn't large enough to "house" anyone at that stage.
Note that I haven't suggested we develop a test for susceptibility to a particular thought, such as religion, for example - because such susceptibility, while it may have a genetic component, is mostly environmental/societal, and is definitely curable. So, no "slippery slope" to see here...
Or, to summarize - if you take a high-efficiency AC system and convert it to 480 volts, downstep to only 240 volts (and all todays' boxes can run either 110 or 220-240), you can get to within 1% of the DC system.
Add to that the savings in materials (1.5" copper wiring? Booster cables for diesels aren't anywhere near that thickness) and there's no real reason to change.
In fact, the biggest saving would probably be if we went from 120v to 240v for everything. One less down-conversion, etc.
From nature's POV, better N per 100 schizophrenics,
Fortunately, we don't have to settle for nature's fucked-up math. We CAN sterilize schizophrenics, and maybe eventually eliminate them from the gene pool. Or better yet, identify fetuses in utero and abort them.
Better 0% schizophrenics. We CAN eliminate it. While we're at it, let's throw in bi-polar syndrome/manic-depressive/whatever they call it this week.
It should be possible to identify the genes associated with the disease, and test fetuses for it. Ditto Down's Syndrome.
... and who do you think pays for that? Ultimately, we all do.
1. If you're an employee, every dollar of payroll tax your employer pays is a dollar less that they can pay you in direct compensation.
2. The employer earns income from their employees work (otherwise, why hire the employee). So ultimately, a portion of the employee's labour output is paying those payroll taxes.
Make no mistake about it - you're paying for it one way or another. It's not magic. It's not rocket science. A payroll tax is a tax on employees, not employers - the fewer employees a company has, the less it pays, and if you're an employee, you're the one earning the $$$ to pay for that tax.
Since a 4/36 would be the exact opposite of "working overtime all the time", you'll admit that your tax load will be fractionally less, since more of your income, both proportionally, will be taxed at lower rates.
In other words, you might only "lose" 3 hours pay for working 4 hours less. What's the problem with that?
Cutting down the number of hours per week increases per-hour productivity as well as lowering the level of defects. Quality, in the long run, is cheaper than quantity.
Park the car once in a while and take a bike/public/transit/walk/carpool.
A lot of times, those "emergency costs" are something like "the car needs new tires", etc. Also, a lot of the unnecessary expenses are "I'm too tired to cook - lets get in the car and go pick up some burgers and fries." Why do you think McDonalds is such a money machine? So parking the car will save you money directly and indirectly.
Once your car is paid off DO NOT BUY ANOTHER ONE UNLESS YOU CAN PAY CASH FOR IT.
In other words, when the facts are pointed out by someone who was actually there at the time, the little MicroShill goes crying...
BTW - What I posted weren't "the same recorded fallacy-ridden ideas" as you claim, you lying piss-ant - I was there at the time, and they were personal observations that were obvious to many in the biz. Microsoft always copied other people's stuff - badly. And watching people struggle with Vista today, it's like nothing has changed. People runnign 4-core cpus and getting NO work done because Vista gets in the way.
Your hypocrisy in calling me a zealous fanatic would boggle the mind, but it's expected from a shill. Even Microsoft has admitted that Vista is the ugly baby.
Microsoft makes shit (copies of other peoples') products. Always have. Always will.
The good news: Vista is crap and Windows 7 is more of the same. That works for me - it means I won't have to put up with friends and family wanting to switch to it.
Microsofts' biggest competition is its' own XP and Apples' OSX. The only thing XP has going for it is "XP - we suck less than Windows 9x". It's still a crap ecosystem of products from a company that doesn't know how to write software.
They're paying back less than 25 cents on the dollar - a nice legal scam^Wsettlement. Why aren't they being forced into bankruptcy and everything sold off?
we'd also immediately eliminate 10% of our economy.... but yeah otherwise great idea
No it wouldn't. If 9 people work 36 hours instead of 40 hours, assuming the demand is there, that creates one more job. Howwever, if the demand WASN'T there for that extra job, one of those 40-hour jobs would have been eliminated.
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I read the same story and loved it. He took weeks to distill enough fuel for a quick flight, nobody saw anything he did and assumed that his sonic boom was the noise of big guns over the horizon, and he had to elearn how to fly with nothing but a stick, the wind in his face, and a tennis ball on a string as his turn/bank indicator.
According to Fred, there's nothing like a little tail-end recursion, as long as you keep it in the family.
No no - it's appropriate. Somewhere in a village, a midget is looking at a military UAV and going "da plane! Boss, da plane!"
And beside him, someone else is looking at that same UAV and saying "From Hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."
And miles away, some pasty-faced joystick jock is sitting in his fine corinthian-leather chair humming "Volare" and saying "Can we change the channel on this thing. All I'm getting is really bad remakes!"
Most people who want to rate something as funny actually rate it as either informative or under-rated, because of defective slashmath.
Funny mods, no points. Get 5+1 funnies, and you go up ... zero points. But NOW you're in danger of 6 down-mods, each with a -1 karma hit, So your karma takes a hit unfairly
Do this a dozen times, and an account at the karma cap (+50) can go to zero, even though it received as many up- as down-mods, and should still be at the cap when all is said and done.
... but well before then, you can log into a terminal on one of the tty consoles. THAT is what you should count. X, etc., are NOT "part of the boot process".
... or just fly by them really fast and let the sonic boom and backwash destroy the UAV.
Then gather the debris, re-assemble it, and reprogram it to return home and blow up.
Wasn't something like this the plot in most of the Terminator movies?
My dryer works fine on 240v. So does my electric stove. It's not a connection to "neutral", but the potential between any two leads, that delivers "power".
Better ... they'll have to arrest their preachers, sunday school teachers, etc., as well as any court clerk who orders you "to place your hand on the bible and swear to yadda yadda yadda", because the bible includes the words "piss", "whore", "bastard", etc.
I could live with that :-) Or at least get a good laugh watching ...
Check out the bible. "Piss" and "Bastard" and "Whore" - it'd be worth it just to see all the state-mandated bible-burnings, etc.
To continue on the "only words in the bible" theme: Piss on that, bastards!
I think you're wrong.
I think everyone can agree that this word is definitely bad.
For those running on equipment that is currently running on 110-120v, it's a 50% amperage reduction, especially since anything designed to run on 208V will also handle 220v-240v just fine.
What's the problem if its' a harmful trait? More harmful, less harmful, who gives a shit, really. If it's harmful, get rid of it.
This might sound SO terrible now, but get used to it - we'll be doing this within 100 years by choice. No need to make it mandatory - people's egos will see to that. It just won't be "fashionable" to have kids who are prone to depression, or schizophrenia, or bipolar, or downs, or adhd, or whatever. Heck, I'll go further - it will be seen as the height of ignorance, an attempt to foist your selfish beliefs that somehow your DEFECTIVE genes are more worth preserving, and damn the cost to everyone in society.
Never underestimate the power of cheap tech, money, and fashion.
That would be like arguing that, because you took out all the red M&Ms, there are now more purple M&Ms. So what?
If we have a problem with both the red and purple ones, remove them both. We don't have to stop at just one gene or one issue.
Besides, your argument is based on a false premise - that a certain percentage of schizophrenics somehow means fewer other mental diseases. Seems to me that it would increase, not decrease, the numbers - after all, living with a crazy can drive you nuts. Ask anyone who's ever dated, married, or raised a bipolar. It's *not* healthy.
How is it a slippery slope?
The idea is to eliminate genetic defects in utero. Not "genetic defects ... and also this trait and that trait and this other trait."
Or are you going to argue that schizophrenia bipolar syndrome and downs' syndrome don't have a genetic component? Downs, for example, is caused by an extra chromosome. If we can identify fetuses that are going to turn into schizophrenics, manic-depressives, multiple-personality-disorders, or downs, why not flush them and try again? It's not like we're dealing with a person, just a fetus that, at 12 weeks, has less brains than an adult aardvark, or at 20 weeks, less than a pig or cow. "Nobody home", since the "home" isn't large enough to "house" anyone at that stage.
Note that I haven't suggested we develop a test for susceptibility to a particular thought, such as religion, for example - because such susceptibility, while it may have a genetic component, is mostly environmental/societal, and is definitely curable. So, no "slippery slope" to see here ...
Alternate view: http://cim.pennnet.com/display_article/347089/27/ARTCL/none/none/1/A-powerful-debate:-AC-vs-DC-distribution/
Or, to summarize - if you take a high-efficiency AC system and convert it to 480 volts, downstep to only 240 volts (and all todays' boxes can run either 110 or 220-240), you can get to within 1% of the DC system.
Add to that the savings in materials (1.5" copper wiring? Booster cables for diesels aren't anywhere near that thickness) and there's no real reason to change.
In fact, the biggest saving would probably be if we went from 120v to 240v for everything. One less down-conversion, etc.
Fortunately, we don't have to settle for nature's fucked-up math. We CAN sterilize schizophrenics, and maybe eventually eliminate them from the gene pool. Or better yet, identify fetuses in utero and abort them.
Better 0% schizophrenics. We CAN eliminate it. While we're at it, let's throw in bi-polar syndrome/manic-depressive/whatever they call it this week.
It should be possible to identify the genes associated with the disease, and test fetuses for it. Ditto Down's Syndrome.
No - this assumes that they do as much traveling on weekends as they did before - shopping, going to church, visiting their aunt Ethel, whatever ...
1. If you're an employee, every dollar of payroll tax your employer pays is a dollar less that they can pay you in direct compensation.
2. The employer earns income from their employees work (otherwise, why hire the employee). So ultimately, a portion of the employee's labour output is paying those payroll taxes.
Make no mistake about it - you're paying for it one way or another. It's not magic. It's not rocket science. A payroll tax is a tax on employees, not employers - the fewer employees a company has, the less it pays, and if you're an employee, you're the one earning the $$$ to pay for that tax.
Since a 4/36 would be the exact opposite of "working overtime all the time", you'll admit that your tax load will be fractionally less, since more of your income, both proportionally, will be taxed at lower rates.
In other words, you might only "lose" 3 hours pay for working 4 hours less. What's the problem with that?
Cutting down the number of hours per week increases per-hour productivity as well as lowering the level of defects. Quality, in the long run, is cheaper than quantity.
Park the car once in a while and take a bike/public/transit/walk/carpool.
A lot of times, those "emergency costs" are something like "the car needs new tires", etc. Also, a lot of the unnecessary expenses are "I'm too tired to cook - lets get in the car and go pick up some burgers and fries." Why do you think McDonalds is such a money machine? So parking the car will save you money directly and indirectly.
Once your car is paid off DO NOT BUY ANOTHER ONE UNLESS YOU CAN PAY CASH FOR IT.
That should give you some margin to maneuver.
In other words, when the facts are pointed out by someone who was actually there at the time, the little MicroShill goes crying ...
BTW - What I posted weren't "the same recorded fallacy-ridden ideas" as you claim, you lying piss-ant - I was there at the time, and they were personal observations that were obvious to many in the biz. Microsoft always copied other people's stuff - badly. And watching people struggle with Vista today, it's like nothing has changed. People runnign 4-core cpus and getting NO work done because Vista gets in the way.
Your hypocrisy in calling me a zealous fanatic would boggle the mind, but it's expected from a shill. Even Microsoft has admitted that Vista is the ugly baby.
Microsoft makes shit (copies of other peoples') products. Always have. Always will.
The good news: Vista is crap and Windows 7 is more of the same. That works for me - it means I won't have to put up with friends and family wanting to switch to it.
Microsofts' biggest competition is its' own XP and Apples' OSX. The only thing XP has going for it is "XP - we suck less than Windows 9x". It's still a crap ecosystem of products from a company that doesn't know how to write software.
Stupid shill. Get a real computer.
They're paying back less than 25 cents on the dollar - a nice legal scam^Wsettlement. Why aren't they being forced into bankruptcy and everything sold off?
How much you want to be they now ask for bailout money?
No it wouldn't. If 9 people work 36 hours instead of 40 hours, assuming the demand is there, that creates one more job. Howwever, if the demand WASN'T there for that extra job, one of those 40-hour jobs would have been eliminated.