At Jack in the Box. 2 tacos and a jumbo jack are ~$2.20 and that is a sizable meal. It also takes about 2 minutes of my time vs 45 to make something at home.
I agree with you, and prefer to cook at home. Just saying that it is easier and cheaper (if you consider your time as money, I do) to eat fast food vs anything else.
I grew up in the 80's going to public school in CA and I NEVER heard anything "good" about the bombing of Hiroshima. I do remember making origami swans and sending them to Japan to say we were sorry though...
I also remember learning that the fire bombing of Tokyo killed 3x as many people in one night as the Hiroshima nuke and wondering why we focus so much on the horror of that single event. At 12, I concluded that it was because most Americans are blind apologists who don't have the mental fortitude to go beyond lumping together a couple of stand out historical events to formulate their world view.
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Old computer monitors, florescent light bulbs, and batteries mostly. All they needed to do was put a bin in the receiving dock for hazardous materials and have the maintenance guy take it to the dump a couple times a year. The reason I pointed it out was because I read an article on the new laws and a new state enforcement agency that was checking dumpsters outside office buildings and levying big fines (like $1500 per computer monitor or something)...
Anyway that was several years ago and that company went down the toilet in 2009, mostly due to inept upper management.
Yep. I was nearly fired when I pointed out (at my manager's suggestion) to the execs that the smallish (~250 employees) company was throwing hazardous materials in the dumpster, and could be fined for it under CA law. The big wigs saw it as a threat and my manager had to convince them I was only looking out for their best interests, not trying to be a whistle blower or make money off them. And of course, they did nothing once they figured out I was just trying to help and not get a lawsuit going.
Pretty sad, isn't it. At least it isn't the government making these decisions for us.
It is sad, but the government's retarded tax structure is definitely a contributing factor to Amazon's and Walmart's competitive advantage over smaller retailers. If the federal government instituted a flat tax (or something similar) and got rid of the insanely complex tax code we have today, it definitely help eliminate loopholes and level the playing field for the little guys. Instead we continue to increase the complexity, raise taxes for the little guy, and give huge breaks to large companies that guarantee lots of jobs to various cities/states. The stage has been set so that only those companies who have the money/power to move things offshore and evade the silliness that is the IRS are going to succeed.
My buddy and I went to a motorcycle dealership last weekend and the sales people kept trying to pull our bikes into the shop to see what the trade in value was. After saying no to that repeatedly, sitting on the bikes I wanted to check out (and thoroughly ignoring the annoying sales guys), we left a couple streaks of rubber in their parking lot on our way out.:)
I was just saying that, based on the founding principles of the USA, at least some Americans (like me) still value the option to hop in their car and drive across the country on a decent interstate highway system without having to stop and wait for the battery to charge every 130 miles.
If you want to use that statement to lump me, and the rest of my fellow citizens, into some sort of global anti-liberty, anti-freedom conspiracy, I suggest you do so at your discretion. Nobody likes to be stereotyped, especially because of some governmental foreign policy decision that has nothing to do with them or their beliefs... In some places making statements like that will get you punched in the mouth.
My bike has about 350 lbs of steel in it vs 1200+ lbs in a typical car. That is a big environmental impact in itself. Not to mention that you can ship about 4 bikes in the same container space as one car when importing. The emissions regulations are looser on bikes, but I live in CA where emissions are stricter on all vehicles, and have been since the early 90s. My bike for example has CA specific smog related parts.
I get 45MPG all the time on my 20 year old bike that also happens to go 0-60 in less than 4 seconds. She's is going to continue being my commuter for quite a while...
I hear ya. I'm lucky in that I live in Southern California so it's almost never below 50 for my morning commute.
I'm loving my new commuter bike though, an old Honda Nighthawk 750 I got for $1500. After a little carb work I did, it gets at least 45MPG (vs 15MPG in my SUV), and at $4.00 a gallon it payed for itself after the first 10k miles...:)
Think about the American mentality, freedom and liberty first. I mean, it's kind of a founding principle, despite the direction our government has been heading the last couple decades.
As an American, I REALLY like the thought that I can get in my car and drive across the country tomorrow. Why would I spend more money for a vehicle that is less capable in this respect? That is the real issue for me, not commuting. Personally I think everyone should ride motorcycles to work... Modern bikes are better for the environment than any car (gas, diesel, hybrid, or electric), and motorcycle riders tend to pay a LOT more attention to the road.
I'm just saying man, the Irish youth I've met here and abroad were a racist, drunken (and I'm a drunk!), mess. If they weren't stealing things (first time they crashed the bar we invited a couple of them over for a drink and they stole my sunglasses and my roommates change bin, we never invited any exchange students over after that); they were breaking them. You can believe whatever you want but I know what I saw and heard: For the record, this all happened in the summers of 2009 and 2010 at a dumpy sports bar called "Sky Box" in San Diego.
Maybe you can make a trip out this summer and see it for yourself. I kinda doubt you are in Ireland, probably just another white dude that took some Irish history classes, now trolling the internet touting Irish superiority...
That's from a quick google search. I also have some personal experience...
A couple years ago, I lived in a neighborhood that had an apartment building that a large university (UCSD) would rent out for hundreds of Irish students to stay at during a summer exchange program. They (Irish students) would sometimes crash our local pub in large numbers (20+ people) completely wasted out of their minds. Usually they'd start speaking about us in gaelic (I guess they teach it in the schools over there nowadays, and the Irish students delighted in using it to talk crap about us), start smashing things, and on multiple occasions young Irish guys called my black friend a n**ger within ear shot. Every time they crashed the bar in numbers, the bartender(s) would eventually have to call the cops. The Irish kids would smash glasses and anything else they could get their hands on, then run off like a bunch of hooligans before the police showed up. And it wasn't like this only happened once with one group of students, it was a running joke at the bar because every summer the same thing would happen 4 or 5 times from a different group of Irish punks, I mean students.
My favorite part is that supposedly, this was the cream of the crop of Irish youth, students at prestigious universities that were well on their way to being productive members of Irish society... After my experience, I don't have a lot of respect for Irish "culture" anymore, nor do I have any interest in visiting the town in Ireland my family is supposed to be from originally.
Hasn't the government demonstrated time and again that it is incapable of regulating the financial markets? Providing a free money printing machine when the banks screw up (in the name of the public good... Puh-leese) is enabling, not regulating.
Isn't there a fundamental difference, i.e. occupy sees more government as the answer where the tea party sees government as a contributing factor to the Wall Street/economy debacles?
Personally I lean more towards blaming government for enabling Wall Street to get where it is today with bailouts and the Fed (I'm probably more inline with the standard tea party ideals than what some of the occupy people were saying).
To me, occupy was more of a media stunt to grab ratings rather than a history changing movement. Much like the current Trayvon Martin race card the media has been pandering for the last month or so. Those whores will play it up as much as possible until something more exciting comes along to jam into our idiot boxes. Race relations, justice, and the future be damned.
But this time the original article was flawed too, and it ahs subsequently been updated (although I'm sure 95% of/. readers will never know that). Supposedly the teacher read stuff off the internet to the class that was "pornographic" and Card himself has said he heard what was read and it WAS inappropriate for kids (and he maintained that his book is perfectly OK for 14 years olds).
I worked there for 7 years. I'm not going to get into specifics but I will say:
Verari tried to take advantage of the efficiency gains in DC with exotic power supplies etc... And that company went the way of the dodo bird after trying to force 800V, 48V, and 12V DC power distribution systems in customer data centers. The fact is, everything already out there (switches, routers, servers, etc) uses AC-DC power supplies in each unit and it works in 99% of power outlets with pretty good uptime. The added complexity of running DC infrastructure isn't worth the efficiency gains (which on paper sound like a lot but theory rarely translates to reality the way we think it will), and when one DC rectifier burns up and takes down a hundred servers (vs 1 server with an AC-DC supply), customers aren't happy. Between the uptime issues and employee safety concerns (high amperage DC power is more dangerous than AC for a variety of reasons) it's also a liability nightmare
Again, I don't feel like getting into specifics but modern datacenters != underground telco installations and DC power distribution has a LOT of challenges that are often overlooked when marketing types start squawking about efficiency gains.
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At Jack in the Box. 2 tacos and a jumbo jack are ~$2.20 and that is a sizable meal. It also takes about 2 minutes of my time vs 45 to make something at home.
I agree with you, and prefer to cook at home. Just saying that it is easier and cheaper (if you consider your time as money, I do) to eat fast food vs anything else.
Unfortunately it doesn't solve the problem of healthy food being far more expensive than McDonalds.
I grew up in the 80's going to public school in CA and I NEVER heard anything "good" about the bombing of Hiroshima. I do remember making origami swans and sending them to Japan to say we were sorry though...
I also remember learning that the fire bombing of Tokyo killed 3x as many people in one night as the Hiroshima nuke and wondering why we focus so much on the horror of that single event. At 12, I concluded that it was because most Americans are blind apologists who don't have the mental fortitude to go beyond lumping together a couple of stand out historical events to formulate their world view.
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Old computer monitors, florescent light bulbs, and batteries mostly. All they needed to do was put a bin in the receiving dock for hazardous materials and have the maintenance guy take it to the dump a couple times a year. The reason I pointed it out was because I read an article on the new laws and a new state enforcement agency that was checking dumpsters outside office buildings and levying big fines (like $1500 per computer monitor or something)...
Anyway that was several years ago and that company went down the toilet in 2009, mostly due to inept upper management.
Yep. I was nearly fired when I pointed out (at my manager's suggestion) to the execs that the smallish (~250 employees) company was throwing hazardous materials in the dumpster, and could be fined for it under CA law. The big wigs saw it as a threat and my manager had to convince them I was only looking out for their best interests, not trying to be a whistle blower or make money off them. And of course, they did nothing once they figured out I was just trying to help and not get a lawsuit going.
Pretty sad, isn't it. At least it isn't the government making these decisions for us.
It is sad, but the government's retarded tax structure is definitely a contributing factor to Amazon's and Walmart's competitive advantage over smaller retailers. If the federal government instituted a flat tax (or something similar) and got rid of the insanely complex tax code we have today, it definitely help eliminate loopholes and level the playing field for the little guys. Instead we continue to increase the complexity, raise taxes for the little guy, and give huge breaks to large companies that guarantee lots of jobs to various cities/states. The stage has been set so that only those companies who have the money/power to move things offshore and evade the silliness that is the IRS are going to succeed.
Nice!
:)
My buddy and I went to a motorcycle dealership last weekend and the sales people kept trying to pull our bikes into the shop to see what the trade in value was. After saying no to that repeatedly, sitting on the bikes I wanted to check out (and thoroughly ignoring the annoying sales guys), we left a couple streaks of rubber in their parking lot on our way out.
monoprice.com dude.
And 80% of fatal accidents involving motorcycles in California are the fault of a person driving a car...
I hope I don't die on my bike, and I appreciate you pointing out how dangerous it is.
I was just saying that, based on the founding principles of the USA, at least some Americans (like me) still value the option to hop in their car and drive across the country on a decent interstate highway system without having to stop and wait for the battery to charge every 130 miles .
If you want to use that statement to lump me, and the rest of my fellow citizens, into some sort of global anti-liberty, anti-freedom conspiracy, I suggest you do so at your discretion. Nobody likes to be stereotyped, especially because of some governmental foreign policy decision that has nothing to do with them or their beliefs... In some places making statements like that will get you punched in the mouth.
Interesting. I found this LA Times piece about that episode, lower CO^2 and better fuel economy but lots more of the nasty stuff...
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/09/mythbusters-motorcycle-emissions.html
My bike has about 350 lbs of steel in it vs 1200+ lbs in a typical car. That is a big environmental impact in itself. Not to mention that you can ship about 4 bikes in the same container space as one car when importing. The emissions regulations are looser on bikes, but I live in CA where emissions are stricter on all vehicles, and have been since the early 90s. My bike for example has CA specific smog related parts.
I get 45MPG all the time on my 20 year old bike that also happens to go 0-60 in less than 4 seconds. She's is going to continue being my commuter for quite a while...
I hear ya. I'm lucky in that I live in Southern California so it's almost never below 50 for my morning commute.
:)
I'm loving my new commuter bike though, an old Honda Nighthawk 750 I got for $1500. After a little carb work I did, it gets at least 45MPG (vs 15MPG in my SUV), and at $4.00 a gallon it payed for itself after the first 10k miles...
Think about the American mentality, freedom and liberty first. I mean, it's kind of a founding principle, despite the direction our government has been heading the last couple decades.
As an American, I REALLY like the thought that I can get in my car and drive across the country tomorrow. Why would I spend more money for a vehicle that is less capable in this respect? That is the real issue for me, not commuting. Personally I think everyone should ride motorcycles to work... Modern bikes are better for the environment than any car (gas, diesel, hybrid, or electric), and motorcycle riders tend to pay a LOT more attention to the road.
I'm just saying man, the Irish youth I've met here and abroad were a racist, drunken (and I'm a drunk!), mess. If they weren't stealing things (first time they crashed the bar we invited a couple of them over for a drink and they stole my sunglasses and my roommates change bin, we never invited any exchange students over after that); they were breaking them. You can believe whatever you want but I know what I saw and heard: For the record, this all happened in the summers of 2009 and 2010 at a dumpy sports bar called "Sky Box" in San Diego.
Maybe you can make a trip out this summer and see it for yourself. I kinda doubt you are in Ireland, probably just another white dude that took some Irish history classes, now trolling the internet touting Irish superiority...
None. Really???
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/scotland-yard-suspends-8-officers-20-being-investigated-over-new-allegations-of-racism/2012/04/06/gIQAB3HGzS_story.html
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/president-pleads-for-a-tolerant-society-189495.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0404/breaking34.html
That's from a quick google search. I also have some personal experience...
A couple years ago, I lived in a neighborhood that had an apartment building that a large university (UCSD) would rent out for hundreds of Irish students to stay at during a summer exchange program. They (Irish students) would sometimes crash our local pub in large numbers (20+ people) completely wasted out of their minds. Usually they'd start speaking about us in gaelic (I guess they teach it in the schools over there nowadays, and the Irish students delighted in using it to talk crap about us), start smashing things, and on multiple occasions young Irish guys called my black friend a n**ger within ear shot. Every time they crashed the bar in numbers, the bartender(s) would eventually have to call the cops. The Irish kids would smash glasses and anything else they could get their hands on, then run off like a bunch of hooligans before the police showed up. And it wasn't like this only happened once with one group of students, it was a running joke at the bar because every summer the same thing would happen 4 or 5 times from a different group of Irish punks, I mean students.
My favorite part is that supposedly, this was the cream of the crop of Irish youth, students at prestigious universities that were well on their way to being productive members of Irish society... After my experience, I don't have a lot of respect for Irish "culture" anymore, nor do I have any interest in visiting the town in Ireland my family is supposed to be from originally.
Except it was one line:
"Just keep in mind that while most whites think people are racist, blacks know people are racist."
He (white guy) grew up in a black neighborhood in Detroit during the 1960s.
Hasn't the government demonstrated time and again that it is incapable of regulating the financial markets? Providing a free money printing machine when the banks screw up (in the name of the public good... Puh-leese) is enabling, not regulating.
Isn't there a fundamental difference, i.e. occupy sees more government as the answer where the tea party sees government as a contributing factor to the Wall Street/economy debacles?
Personally I lean more towards blaming government for enabling Wall Street to get where it is today with bailouts and the Fed (I'm probably more inline with the standard tea party ideals than what some of the occupy people were saying).
To me, occupy was more of a media stunt to grab ratings rather than a history changing movement. Much like the current Trayvon Martin race card the media has been pandering for the last month or so. Those whores will play it up as much as possible until something more exciting comes along to jam into our idiot boxes. Race relations, justice, and the future be damned.
But this time the original article was flawed too, and it ahs subsequently been updated (although I'm sure 95% of /. readers will never know that). Supposedly the teacher read stuff off the internet to the class that was "pornographic" and Card himself has said he heard what was read and it WAS inappropriate for kids (and he maintained that his book is perfectly OK for 14 years olds).
The point is that America is big, like our penises.
I worked there for 7 years. I'm not going to get into specifics but I will say:
Verari tried to take advantage of the efficiency gains in DC with exotic power supplies etc... And that company went the way of the dodo bird after trying to force 800V, 48V, and 12V DC power distribution systems in customer data centers. The fact is, everything already out there (switches, routers, servers, etc) uses AC-DC power supplies in each unit and it works in 99% of power outlets with pretty good uptime. The added complexity of running DC infrastructure isn't worth the efficiency gains (which on paper sound like a lot but theory rarely translates to reality the way we think it will), and when one DC rectifier burns up and takes down a hundred servers (vs 1 server with an AC-DC supply), customers aren't happy. Between the uptime issues and employee safety concerns (high amperage DC power is more dangerous than AC for a variety of reasons) it's also a liability nightmare
Again, I don't feel like getting into specifics but modern datacenters != underground telco installations and DC power distribution has a LOT of challenges that are often overlooked when marketing types start squawking about efficiency gains.
Do you support the occupy protesters?
Apathy and corruption. The new American dream?
Talk about a city upon a hill...
Seems like that would be more helpful.