When I worked at a gas station I spent the time one overnight shift to figure out how much things cost in the fountain drinks using the venerable 44oz as my best example. Typically the margin on something like that is around 95% but if you really want to stick it to the vendor grab an extra straw and lid as those were the most expensive things in the whole setup, then the wax paper cup, ice, syrup, and finally water+CO2 (couldn't figure out how to separate these costs since I didn't know how much CO2 is in the soda). Ice kind may stand out as odd but it is something that requires constant making even if it isn't used so that is why it ended up costing more than the water and syrup, but the bulk of the cost is in the cup, straw, and lid. Also the marginal difference in cost between a 44oz and the small 16oz one was about 3 cents for the producer.
Either you drive more than I do or you have vehicles with weaker cats than mine have. The cats on the daily drivers I have had usually last 140,000 miles but then for some reason OEM BMW cats don't like the abuse of actually driving in a spirited manner and getting close to the red at wide open throttle. My Jeep on the other hand as the factory original cat on it, is 18 years old, and has 375,??? miles on it and the cat is good. If I were you I would look into getting things checked out like seeing if you have some bad O2 sensors, a weak spark plug, bad head gasket leak(great way to poison a cat), or excessive oil consumption (good a fouling/plugging a cat). Most cat problems are from overheating so there is excess hydrocarbons in the exhaust stream so figure that out
I believe that the court can compel you to unlock a safe. The question I wonder is one I saw mentioned a long time ago here on/. is can the court compel you to interpret something you have written for the prosecution? What if I wrote some cryptic message in a made up language on some paper do I have to tell the court what it means or could I tell them to go pound sand?
I hate people like that, but is is fun to push their face in it when they become so judgmental about such things. My sister had a boyfriend like that but his thing was money. In his mind the worth of a person was determined by how much the things they wore cost. One day he was showing off his new Rolex watch his parents got him for his birthday and spouting that it cost $5000 (this kid was in high school mind you) to me. My response was "What your parents couldn't afford a nice Rolex so they bought you a crappy cheap bottom of the line one instead?". It was actually fun watching him being put in his place and making him feel as little as he tried to make others feel.
They will do more than that by providing more information that a beginner needs and would probably be overly helpful in helping you acquire what is needed to get started. That was how it was when I checked out the local MG club when I was thinking about getting a project car.
If you want to make this sort of argument the US Supreme Court has already provided an excuse that has lead to the most egregious abuses of of the commerce clause. See Wickard v. Filburn where the feds get to regulate it if it might have an effect on interstate commerce.
I never said it was legal to prevent access to public property, only responding to the comment about blocking ones driveway. I would fully expect that the city of San Francisco would be within their rights to tow or otherwise dispose of vehicles participating in this practice. I actually think impounding the vehicles would be a good move since that is usually a major inconvenience and a fairly substantial expense since they have to pay for the tow and pay to get the vehicle out of the impound lot as well (at least they do where I live).
If you park your car in front of my drive way blocking it I'll call a wrecker and have it hauled off, or just wrap my tow chain around an axle and drag it out of the way with my Jeep in 4 low since preventing access to one's own property is illegal in my state.
It is the government, that is why! Now shut up and provide the agents the necessary resources to violate your rights.
The biggest problem I see in perusing such charges is finding out who put it there. After that you would need to find a court that will rule in your favor and not be swayed by we need to stop those communist fascist terrorist kiddy diddlers arguments.
I could see how preferential treatment between the 2 services (search and domain name reregistration) could be abused, but in the past Google hasn't seemed to give preferential treatment so I am not too worried. Also by being a domain registrar they may actually be looking to improve their ranking system to provide better results which may or may not be allowable (I admit it I am not versed in monopoly law any beyond the average slashdotter).
My thought as to why the EFF thinks this has implications for the NSA's actions is that this ruling strengthens the 4th amendment protections of people in the US. If a court is willing to state that you can't through some trickery turn a specific warrant into a general one then maybe having the NSA suck up all private correspondence between American residents might actually constitute an illegal search and seizure.
I actually find it somewhat sad that this sort of ruling is even needed but at least it set the precedent with a much more acceptable crime than some terrorism or kiddy porn charges. It become much less acceptable to do the ends justify the means argument for tax evasion. Now lets just hope this stands upon final appeal or is denied a hearing by the supreme court since the government will file an appeal.
I figured that there were but I have no idea how much hence the question. Even with the number you provided it only makes things worse since the ratio of non to oil inputs for plastic would now be above 14:1 instead of my guessed 6:1 which seems even more doubtful. Also a billion tons of fairly dense rock makes a really fucking big hole in the ground and plastic is much less dense than iron ore plus in land fills there would be lots of other stuff as well.
The statement that there is 2 trillion tons of plastic in land fills got me wondering how much oil actually goes into producing something. From what I can gather a barrel of oil weighs about 300 pounds so if there aren't any other external inputs into making plastics that would mean that about 13 trillion barrels of oil have been turned into plastic. This doesn't seem the least bit right given that under 2 trillion barrels of oil have been extracted and not all of that went into making plastic. So how much oil actually goes into making plastic and how much is other stuff is use?
This leads me to my next question which is how much of the weight of the plastic is turned into oil? If it is over 1/6 of it then we have the equivalent of more than all presently extracted oil in our land fills already.
Well considering that there are substantial differences between the holy books of the 3 largest religions it would appear that they should be discounted. Or are you trying to imply that the Bible , Koran, and the Vedas are all basically the same because that seems rather far fetched. Even amongst Abrahamic religions there are significant differences in the stories that are related.
It has always seemed to me that Catholics weren't fed the BS to the degree that I was growing up in a fundamentalist Baptist church. For example I was taught (more like drilled into me) that:
The earth is ~6000 years old
Everything was created in 6 24 hour days
The bible has all the answers (science is false you don't need that learning stuff)
Black people are inherently evil as they carry the mark of Cain
Women should be subservient to their husband who is the master
Sex is only for reproduction and is otherwise sinful
Homosexuality is something that needs to be removed from society
You are going to hell
Other flavors of Christianity are false and they are all going to hell
They were only slightly less crazy than Westburow Baptist church as in they kept their crazy within the walls of the church. By comparison I always like going to church with my grandparents on my father's side since they were Presbyterian and there Jesus seemed like a pretty cool guy. I figure now that if there really is the christian god I should be automatically let into heaven having to endure that awful upbringing and yet didn't turn into one of those raging assholes, basically leniency for time served.
Sounds like my wife's VW was when they were still figuring out how to make a VW in Mexico that didn't suck then. She got hers in 1999 new (2000 model year) and it has always been a bit of a basket case. Some of this I blame on my wife who doesn't take car of her stuff (she owned the car for 4 years before we were married) but some of it is just the car being a basket case. Random electrical failures, water pump ~60,000, alternator replacement at ~80,000, interior illumination, radio drops out, ac pump replacement at ~90,000, excessive oil consumption (about 3 quarts between changes but this seems to be cause by my wife)
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That would probably cut into their margin.
When I worked at a gas station I spent the time one overnight shift to figure out how much things cost in the fountain drinks using the venerable 44oz as my best example. Typically the margin on something like that is around 95% but if you really want to stick it to the vendor grab an extra straw and lid as those were the most expensive things in the whole setup, then the wax paper cup, ice, syrup, and finally water+CO2 (couldn't figure out how to separate these costs since I didn't know how much CO2 is in the soda). Ice kind may stand out as odd but it is something that requires constant making even if it isn't used so that is why it ended up costing more than the water and syrup, but the bulk of the cost is in the cup, straw, and lid. Also the marginal difference in cost between a 44oz and the small 16oz one was about 3 cents for the producer.
I wouldn't worry too much about skydivers from a health insurance perspective, but life insurance might care.
We can't have personal responsibility. /sarcasm
Either you drive more than I do or you have vehicles with weaker cats than mine have. The cats on the daily drivers I have had usually last 140,000 miles but then for some reason OEM BMW cats don't like the abuse of actually driving in a spirited manner and getting close to the red at wide open throttle. My Jeep on the other hand as the factory original cat on it, is 18 years old, and has 375,??? miles on it and the cat is good. If I were you I would look into getting things checked out like seeing if you have some bad O2 sensors, a weak spark plug, bad head gasket leak(great way to poison a cat), or excessive oil consumption (good a fouling/plugging a cat). Most cat problems are from overheating so there is excess hydrocarbons in the exhaust stream so figure that out
But do I have to help the government interpret the data?
You have never seen my handwriting, let alone my cursive.
This a thousand times. This is the type of question that should be asked when discussing the legalities around an encrypted file.
I believe that the court can compel you to unlock a safe. The question I wonder is one I saw mentioned a long time ago here on /. is can the court compel you to interpret something you have written for the prosecution? What if I wrote some cryptic message in a made up language on some paper do I have to tell the court what it means or could I tell them to go pound sand?
I hate people like that, but is is fun to push their face in it when they become so judgmental about such things. My sister had a boyfriend like that but his thing was money. In his mind the worth of a person was determined by how much the things they wore cost. One day he was showing off his new Rolex watch his parents got him for his birthday and spouting that it cost $5000 (this kid was in high school mind you) to me. My response was "What your parents couldn't afford a nice Rolex so they bought you a crappy cheap bottom of the line one instead?". It was actually fun watching him being put in his place and making him feel as little as he tried to make others feel.
They will do more than that by providing more information that a beginner needs and would probably be overly helpful in helping you acquire what is needed to get started. That was how it was when I checked out the local MG club when I was thinking about getting a project car.
I'm thinking more along the lines of a way to balance the federal budget instead.
If you want to make this sort of argument the US Supreme Court has already provided an excuse that has lead to the most egregious abuses of of the commerce clause. See Wickard v. Filburn where the feds get to regulate it if it might have an effect on interstate commerce.
It would go up but would be re normalized in several years.
I never said it was legal to prevent access to public property, only responding to the comment about blocking ones driveway. I would fully expect that the city of San Francisco would be within their rights to tow or otherwise dispose of vehicles participating in this practice. I actually think impounding the vehicles would be a good move since that is usually a major inconvenience and a fairly substantial expense since they have to pay for the tow and pay to get the vehicle out of the impound lot as well (at least they do where I live).
If you park your car in front of my drive way blocking it I'll call a wrecker and have it hauled off, or just wrap my tow chain around an axle and drag it out of the way with my Jeep in 4 low since preventing access to one's own property is illegal in my state.
It is the government, that is why! Now shut up and provide the agents the necessary resources to violate your rights.
The biggest problem I see in perusing such charges is finding out who put it there. After that you would need to find a court that will rule in your favor and not be swayed by we need to stop those communist fascist terrorist kiddy diddlers arguments.
I could see how preferential treatment between the 2 services (search and domain name reregistration) could be abused, but in the past Google hasn't seemed to give preferential treatment so I am not too worried. Also by being a domain registrar they may actually be looking to improve their ranking system to provide better results which may or may not be allowable (I admit it I am not versed in monopoly law any beyond the average slashdotter).
My thought as to why the EFF thinks this has implications for the NSA's actions is that this ruling strengthens the 4th amendment protections of people in the US. If a court is willing to state that you can't through some trickery turn a specific warrant into a general one then maybe having the NSA suck up all private correspondence between American residents might actually constitute an illegal search and seizure.
I actually find it somewhat sad that this sort of ruling is even needed but at least it set the precedent with a much more acceptable crime than some terrorism or kiddy porn charges. It become much less acceptable to do the ends justify the means argument for tax evasion. Now lets just hope this stands upon final appeal or is denied a hearing by the supreme court since the government will file an appeal.
I figured that there were but I have no idea how much hence the question. Even with the number you provided it only makes things worse since the ratio of non to oil inputs for plastic would now be above 14:1 instead of my guessed 6:1 which seems even more doubtful. Also a billion tons of fairly dense rock makes a really fucking big hole in the ground and plastic is much less dense than iron ore plus in land fills there would be lots of other stuff as well.
The statement that there is 2 trillion tons of plastic in land fills got me wondering how much oil actually goes into producing something. From what I can gather a barrel of oil weighs about 300 pounds so if there aren't any other external inputs into making plastics that would mean that about 13 trillion barrels of oil have been turned into plastic. This doesn't seem the least bit right given that under 2 trillion barrels of oil have been extracted and not all of that went into making plastic. So how much oil actually goes into making plastic and how much is other stuff is use?
This leads me to my next question which is how much of the weight of the plastic is turned into oil? If it is over 1/6 of it then we have the equivalent of more than all presently extracted oil in our land fills already.
Damn-it of all the time to not have mod points. Parent needs some +1 insightfuls.
Well considering that there are substantial differences between the holy books of the 3 largest religions it would appear that they should be discounted. Or are you trying to imply that the Bible , Koran, and the Vedas are all basically the same because that seems rather far fetched. Even amongst Abrahamic religions there are significant differences in the stories that are related.
Burn you heathen!
Everyone know that the true Atheists are all Roman Atheists
It has always seemed to me that Catholics weren't fed the BS to the degree that I was growing up in a fundamentalist Baptist church. For example I was taught (more like drilled into me) that:
The earth is ~6000 years old
Everything was created in 6 24 hour days
The bible has all the answers (science is false you don't need that learning stuff)
Black people are inherently evil as they carry the mark of Cain
Women should be subservient to their husband who is the master
Sex is only for reproduction and is otherwise sinful
Homosexuality is something that needs to be removed from society
You are going to hell
Other flavors of Christianity are false and they are all going to hell
They were only slightly less crazy than Westburow Baptist church as in they kept their crazy within the walls of the church. By comparison I always like going to church with my grandparents on my father's side since they were Presbyterian and there Jesus seemed like a pretty cool guy. I figure now that if there really is the christian god I should be automatically let into heaven having to endure that awful upbringing and yet didn't turn into one of those raging assholes, basically leniency for time served.
Sounds like my wife's VW was when they were still figuring out how to make a VW in Mexico that didn't suck then. She got hers in 1999 new (2000 model year) and it has always been a bit of a basket case. Some of this I blame on my wife who doesn't take car of her stuff (she owned the car for 4 years before we were married) but some of it is just the car being a basket case. Random electrical failures, water pump ~60,000, alternator replacement at ~80,000, interior illumination, radio drops out, ac pump replacement at ~90,000, excessive oil consumption (about 3 quarts between changes but this seems to be cause by my wife)