Amen to this. The internet was reborn for me when I installed Flashblock and AdBlock (though, admittedly, it's hard to reasonably expect a company that gets its revenue from ads to help you block them).
Not including smooth scrolling is just another gross oversight.
3.5-inch hard drives Want to upgrade the hard drive in your MacBook at the time of purchase? You'll have to turn your wallet upside down. Going from a 120GB 5,400rpm drive to a 250GB 5,400rpm drive will set you back £90.01 from the Apple configurator. Doing the same upgrade with a Dell XPS M1330 costs just £30.01 on the Dell site. Here, Apple is a whopping 200 per cent more expensive than Dell.
RAM Upgrading memory isn't cheap if you're an Apple customer. Buying a MacBook and switching from 2GB of 667MHz DDR2 to 4GB -- across two 2,048MB DIMMS -- using the Apple Web site will cost an extra £120. Doing that same swap with the Dell XPS M1330 costs just £40.01. Again, Apple is charging around 200 per cent more than Dell.
Well, maybe not everyone, there's 500 comments, and I can't be bothered to read them all.
We're talking in vitro fertilization. While there is certainly some justifiable Gattaca talk here, most of it seems to be focusing around whether it's okay to discard an embryo because of potential defects. But we're talking about a bunch of embryos that are going to be discarded, anyway, due to the nature of the process!
Ultimately, it's the Gattaca themes that are of more concern, and realistically, it's only a matter of time until we hit that point. What responsible parent wouldn't want the best for their child?
- the US dollar is worth ~40% less than it was in 1999
- there are over 2 billion people whose economy, and therefore demand for energy, is surging.
- there is an oil supply graph that, rather than increasing every year, has been roughly flat for the past three years (not coincidentally, the time when the price has skyrocketed)
Oil, in our lifetimes, is a finite commodity. It has an energy return on investment higher than anything else out there right now. There is still a lot in the ground, which is to say, we're not going to run out any time soon. But we have skyrocketing demand and a constrained supply. In the past, high prices have led to exploration and increased production. Well guess what. The large deposits of easy to retrieve oil have been found. We've reached a point of diminishing returns. Oh, there's still a lot of oil. The Saudis continue to pump almost 10 million barrels of it a day, more or less the same amount they've been pumping for the past 5 years. But in that time, they've been bringing new drilling projects online, in order to make up for declining production out of their old fields. And their oil exports have dropped by over 10% in just the past 2 years, due to increased domestic demand from a booming economy.
You can tell yourself it's all speculation, if it makes you happy. But the supply of oil to global markets is no longer increasing, while demand remains high, globally. And there are a whole lot of people in Asia who will gladly buy any oil that we don't.
McCain DOES want a continued US presence in Iraq. He HAS reversed his position on nearly every issue that differentiated him from Bush, which he probably had to in order to win the Republican nomination, but didn't have to keep doing once he sealed it up.
Yeah, in 2000 I though there was little difference between the two parties, and as a registered libertarian I didn't bother. But 8 years later I don't know how anyone can spout off about there being no difference. Does a pointless $500 billion expenditure really mean nothing to you? And with McCain wanting to go after Iran, as well? I'm not asking you to like the system, but good god man, the differences are stark. And the idiocy remarkable.
oodaloop, you still haven't addressed why the amount of oil being pumped hasn't increased over the past 2-3 years. As it stands, for several years, global oil production has plateaued. Demand destruction as a result of higher prices accounts for the decline in oil demand growth. If there's so much oil, why isn't anyone increasing their production?
That's simply the current extrapolation based on most recent polling. He wrote a column for the Guardian explaining some reasons why Obama may in fact have a better shot. All are valid arguments, I think the last one is particularly poignant:
5. It's the campaign, stupid Finally, Obama's camp could point to things like his fundraising prowess and his stable campaign team and make the claim that it has run the superior campaign. Put more crudely, the argument might take the following form: if Clinton had relinquished a 20-point lead against Obama, who's to say she'd hold a two-point advantage against McCain?
I know this is already modded to the max, but it's absolutely true. I buy every Civ game. I love them, and I'll buy Spore. But you can be sure that I'll hit up gamecopyworld for a no cd executable of it, because I'll be damned if I'm going to dig around for the CD or make sure my router is behaving today or whatever EA tries to do to make it inconvenient to play.
That said, I don't blame them for trying. But it's a waste of resources. It won't get anyone who wasn't going to buy the game in the first place to buy it.
That was definitely the timeframe, but a different group. I wish I could come up with the exact route. I think it was from Grandview to South Kaibab? I can't be sure. The first day, 10 miles of hiking through the desert to the river nearly killed me.
Went on a ten day backpack through a portion of the canyon just after they did this in 1996. I've traveled extensively since then all over the world, and that trip stands out as one of the most amazing I've ever been on. The sandbars that the floods left behind were the size of football fields in places, and as our group was the first to come through after the flooding, they were untouched. (Though the muddied river was hell on our water filters). Anyone who has the opportunity really should take a trip through the canyon at some point (how I envied the rafters who would float effortlessly by!); it's truly an awe inspiring trip.
Well, for one, the according to this, the average wave height between Hawaii and Japan is closer to 10 feet, with a period of ~7.5 seconds. I doubt there's 10 feet of motion available in the fin of the boat, but it starts to account for the larger amount of energy available, and the higher speeds claimed. I'm far from a an expert in anything, really, so I'll leave it to someone else to make a better guess at the math.
The law that established FISA isn't going to expire; only the Protect America Act. What's the difference? It's the Protect America Act that allows the wiretapping without warrants of people "reasonably believed to be outside the United States." What happens if it expires? Theoretically, they'll again need to get warrants for when they want to wiretap people, which they can do up to 72 hours after they've done initiated the wiretap. But it's not like the whole system is going to shut down. FISA has been on the books since 1978 and isn't going anywhere.
Yes. I read the article. First Need's site claims it filters to.4 microns absolute. So no, it doesn't compare to this bottle's claimed 15 nm. And while I'm sure this new filter is great and all, the First Need one has passed tests showing its ability to filter out viruses (forgive my sarcastic use of virii above). If I may, allow me to quote from the manufacturer's site:
Three series of tests were conducted by the independent laboratory at the University of Arizona to document removal of microbiological contaminants according to current EPA Guide Standard and Protocol for Testing Microbiological Water Purifiers.
The purifiers were operated for 100% of their rated capacity and challenged periodically with high concentrations of bacteria, cysts and virus. At the 60% and 75% test points the units were challenged with "worst case" water according to protocol. Additionally, the systems were allowed to stagnate for 48 hours after the 50%, 75% and 100% test points to demonstrate that no microbiological growth through the cartridge occurred.
(chart)
Conclusion: General Ecology Inc.'s Seagull IV, Nature Pure and First Need water purifiers met the EPA Guide Standard as Microbiological Purifiers by removing bacteria, cysts and virus without the use of chemical additives or multiple processing.
I'm by no means an expert on such matters, just trying to be helpful. I've happily used my First Need all over Asia for drinking water in an effort to cut down on the waste from buying plastic bottles, and have yet to get sick.
I've been using the First Need Deluxe water purifier for 10 years. It costs ~$100 for the whole thing, ~$40 for a replacement cartridge. It deals with virii and has been around forever. Sure, each cartridge is only good for about ~100 gallons, but I'm skeptical of the claims that this bottle can do 10 times that without changing the filter.
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God I hate April 1.
Google?
Amen to this. The internet was reborn for me when I installed Flashblock and AdBlock (though, admittedly, it's hard to reasonably expect a company that gets its revenue from ads to help you block them).
Not including smooth scrolling is just another gross oversight.
No typo, my friend, it's the name of the game. I believe that would be a pun.
RTFA much? (I know, I know, I must be new here.)
3.5-inch hard drives
Want to upgrade the hard drive in your MacBook at the time of purchase? You'll have to turn your wallet upside down. Going from a 120GB 5,400rpm drive to a 250GB 5,400rpm drive will set you back £90.01 from the Apple configurator. Doing the same upgrade with a Dell XPS M1330 costs just £30.01 on the Dell site. Here, Apple is a whopping 200 per cent more expensive than Dell.
RAM
Upgrading memory isn't cheap if you're an Apple customer. Buying a MacBook and switching from 2GB of 667MHz DDR2 to 4GB -- across two 2,048MB DIMMS -- using the Apple Web site will cost an extra £120. Doing that same swap with the Dell XPS M1330 costs just £40.01. Again, Apple is charging around 200 per cent more than Dell.
Well, maybe not everyone, there's 500 comments, and I can't be bothered to read them all.
We're talking in vitro fertilization. While there is certainly some justifiable Gattaca talk here, most of it seems to be focusing around whether it's okay to discard an embryo because of potential defects. But we're talking about a bunch of embryos that are going to be discarded, anyway, due to the nature of the process!
Ultimately, it's the Gattaca themes that are of more concern, and realistically, it's only a matter of time until we hit that point. What responsible parent wouldn't want the best for their child?
You mean like lasers were (a solution to a problem that didn't exist)?
I thought about modding you funny. Then I thought about modding you troll. Instead I'll just comment that you made me laugh and shake my head.
Guess what's different from 1999...
- the US dollar is worth ~40% less than it was in 1999
- there are over 2 billion people whose economy, and therefore demand for energy, is surging.
- there is an oil supply graph that, rather than increasing every year, has been roughly flat for the past three years (not coincidentally, the time when the price has skyrocketed)
Oil, in our lifetimes, is a finite commodity. It has an energy return on investment higher than anything else out there right now. There is still a lot in the ground, which is to say, we're not going to run out any time soon. But we have skyrocketing demand and a constrained supply. In the past, high prices have led to exploration and increased production. Well guess what. The large deposits of easy to retrieve oil have been found. We've reached a point of diminishing returns. Oh, there's still a lot of oil. The Saudis continue to pump almost 10 million barrels of it a day, more or less the same amount they've been pumping for the past 5 years. But in that time, they've been bringing new drilling projects online, in order to make up for declining production out of their old fields. And their oil exports have dropped by over 10% in just the past 2 years, due to increased domestic demand from a booming economy.
You can tell yourself it's all speculation, if it makes you happy. But the supply of oil to global markets is no longer increasing, while demand remains high, globally. And there are a whole lot of people in Asia who will gladly buy any oil that we don't.
Good lord I wish this meme would die.
McCain DOES want a continued US presence in Iraq. He HAS reversed his position on nearly every issue that differentiated him from Bush, which he probably had to in order to win the Republican nomination, but didn't have to keep doing once he sealed it up.
Yeah, in 2000 I though there was little difference between the two parties, and as a registered libertarian I didn't bother. But 8 years later I don't know how anyone can spout off about there being no difference. Does a pointless $500 billion expenditure really mean nothing to you? And with McCain wanting to go after Iran, as well? I'm not asking you to like the system, but good god man, the differences are stark. And the idiocy remarkable.
oodaloop, you still haven't addressed why the amount of oil being pumped hasn't increased over the past 2-3 years. As it stands, for several years, global oil production has plateaued. Demand destruction as a result of higher prices accounts for the decline in oil demand growth. If there's so much oil, why isn't anyone increasing their production?
That's simply the current extrapolation based on most recent polling. He wrote a column for the Guardian explaining some reasons why Obama may in fact have a better shot. All are valid arguments, I think the last one is particularly poignant:
5. It's the campaign, stupid
Finally, Obama's camp could point to things like his fundraising prowess and his stable campaign team and make the claim that it has run the superior campaign. Put more crudely, the argument might take the following form: if Clinton had relinquished a 20-point lead against Obama, who's to say she'd hold a two-point advantage against McCain?
The rest: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/nate_silver/2008/06/strength_in_numbers.html
I know this is already modded to the max, but it's absolutely true. I buy every Civ game. I love them, and I'll buy Spore. But you can be sure that I'll hit up gamecopyworld for a no cd executable of it, because I'll be damned if I'm going to dig around for the CD or make sure my router is behaving today or whatever EA tries to do to make it inconvenient to play. That said, I don't blame them for trying. But it's a waste of resources. It won't get anyone who wasn't going to buy the game in the first place to buy it.
That was definitely the timeframe, but a different group. I wish I could come up with the exact route. I think it was from Grandview to South Kaibab? I can't be sure. The first day, 10 miles of hiking through the desert to the river nearly killed me.
Went on a ten day backpack through a portion of the canyon just after they did this in 1996. I've traveled extensively since then all over the world, and that trip stands out as one of the most amazing I've ever been on. The sandbars that the floods left behind were the size of football fields in places, and as our group was the first to come through after the flooding, they were untouched. (Though the muddied river was hell on our water filters). Anyone who has the opportunity really should take a trip through the canyon at some point (how I envied the rafters who would float effortlessly by!); it's truly an awe inspiring trip.
Well, for one, the according to this, the average wave height between Hawaii and Japan is closer to 10 feet, with a period of ~7.5 seconds. I doubt there's 10 feet of motion available in the fin of the boat, but it starts to account for the larger amount of energy available, and the higher speeds claimed. I'm far from a an expert in anything, really, so I'll leave it to someone else to make a better guess at the math.
The law that established FISA isn't going to expire; only the Protect America Act. What's the difference? It's the Protect America Act that allows the wiretapping without warrants of people "reasonably believed to be outside the United States." What happens if it expires? Theoretically, they'll again need to get warrants for when they want to wiretap people, which they can do up to 72 hours after they've done initiated the wiretap. But it's not like the whole system is going to shut down. FISA has been on the books since 1978 and isn't going anywhere.
Ah... I recall now why I lurk and don't post.
.4 microns absolute. So no, it doesn't compare to this bottle's claimed 15 nm. And while I'm sure this new filter is great and all, the First Need one has passed tests showing its ability to filter out viruses (forgive my sarcastic use of virii above). If I may, allow me to quote from the manufacturer's site:
Yes. I read the article. First Need's site claims it filters to
Three series of tests were conducted by the independent laboratory at the University of Arizona to document removal of microbiological contaminants according to current EPA Guide Standard and Protocol for Testing Microbiological Water Purifiers.
The purifiers were operated for 100% of their rated capacity and challenged periodically with high concentrations of bacteria, cysts and virus. At the 60% and 75% test points the units were challenged with "worst case" water according to protocol. Additionally, the systems were allowed to stagnate for 48 hours after the 50%, 75% and 100% test points to demonstrate that no microbiological growth through the cartridge occurred.
(chart)
Conclusion: General Ecology Inc.'s Seagull IV, Nature Pure and First Need water purifiers met the EPA Guide Standard as Microbiological Purifiers by removing bacteria, cysts and virus without the use of chemical additives or multiple processing.
http://www.generalecology.com/techmemocert.htm
I'm by no means an expert on such matters, just trying to be helpful. I've happily used my First Need all over Asia for drinking water in an effort to cut down on the waste from buying plastic bottles, and have yet to get sick.
I've been using the First Need Deluxe water purifier for 10 years. It costs ~$100 for the whole thing, ~$40 for a replacement cartridge. It deals with virii and has been around forever. Sure, each cartridge is only good for about ~100 gallons, but I'm skeptical of the claims that this bottle can do 10 times that without changing the filter.