How incredibly snobby to give a shit about what's going on in the world and how your country's being run rather than hur hur look at da crazy cat. The human race is filed.
Snobbery isn't about what you're interested in. Snobbery is about refusing to accept others may have different interests.
I don't find cat videos interesting. I prefer the news. --- Not Snobby If you like cat videos you're clearly a moron! --- Snobby
IMHO, I think the whole obesity and diabetes epidemic stems from a sedentary lifestyle. Kids these days are not as outdoor active as they used to be. Blame consoles, PCs, phones...whatever. No actually, blame the parents. Anyways, this coupled with the fact working families are having to put in longer hours just to make ends meet. I suspect this is pushing people to eat on the fly rather than to take the time properly prepare and cook healthy foods. And if parents are no longer eating healthy or preparing for their kids, how can the next generation expect to learn healthy eating habits?
No... Beans and rice are ok. It's a Low carb diet... not a No carb diet. If you take the most famous of them, the Adkins diet... you get basically no carbs the first week or two then you slowly add them back in. This is the weight-loss part. Once you're down to the weight you want, you can eat them again.
What's bad is processed sugar. Plain and simple. It's in nearly every processed food now. If you could your own meals you can eat pretty much anything you want short of cake and cookies. But these days, the industry is nuts. Even sugar free candy is sweetened with "Sugar Alcohols" which are still carbs! I wanted to get my sick wife some Chicken noodle soup but the can had corn syrup on the label. Why in soup?!!?
In my experience, I just avoid sugar... Cookies, cakes, icecream, etc... Don't eat anything factory made. Cook my own meals. I eat high fat dairy like whole milk, whole yogurt, etc... because it fills me up so I dont eat more. And that keeps me around 200lbs which I think is a pretty good weight for me (my doctor would like me down another 10lb) It also took care of my cholesterol. It wasn't gradual either. I basically wasn't eating fat and it just kept going up up up... that's why I tried lower carbs... withing about 6 weeks it was back down to less scary numbers.
Everyone's different though, but I'd say it's worth a shot if you haven't tried it.
The real story here is that this guy just figured this out now. Why own a vehicle you don't control anyway? I think this was clear to most people the second self driving cars became a "thing"
Also assume the car will be filled with TV's blaring ads at you while you're on your way. You'll be able to pay $5 for your seat to heat up and vibrate. If it's a long trip there will be a $20 per passenger in-cabin movie from 1982. Pickup and delivery schedules will vary by over an hour unless you pay a "premium trip fee" etc...
You're just using the breadboard to connect a bunch of ICs. Bust out the designs for those IC's, wire the components up discretely, then I'll be impressed. Granted, you'll likely have no room left in your house for your bed or furniture... but that's not my problem:-p
In the real world, people care about as much about their browser as they do about tires. Put the tires on and shut up... Radial? Winter tires? Siping? Shut your stupid mouth and make my car go! I'm missing The real housewives!
Clever crooks. Always finding the loopholes. This is why we can't have nice things.
Presumably walmart will immediately be limiting this to items only sold and shipped directly by amazon... or they'll drop amazon matching entirely if that's too complicated for their staff.
Walmart promises to price match any competitor, then uses their clout to get the manufacture to package the item differently, specifically for walmart, under a different SKU so the item, is in effect, unique to walmart, and they'll have no one to compete with them.
The US Government routinely seizes the assets of its adversaries, even US Citizens
What you're talking about is the US Government seizing the assets its adversaries have parked in the USA. I'm not sure why the US Government thinks it can seize foreign assets. That's not how jurisdiction works.
Of course it does. Any court in Europe could rule that a US citizen owes them money, then apply to have assets from the US seized and sent back. It's covered under treaty and happens all the time.
I guarantee you, by the time the day is through, 2/3s of the posts here will say something along the lines of "What's the problem with the book? It's just like real life!"
That's the problem with Generalizations... they are generally true. The problem with the human brain is, we take what is generally true and assume that it is always true.
The problem is this almost religious fanatical devotion to the idea of "Mother earth" and the idea of "Renewable technology"
Why does it have to be renewable? The actual problem is converting CO2 from a solid to a gas. Stopping that is far more important than being renewable. Fusion isn't renewable... we'd run out of Deuterium in a couple of billion years... so we should abandon that as well?
"a hold over money from bank accounts around the world, luxury cars, big televisions, watches, artwork"
These assets are not even held in the USA, how can they possibly have jurisdiction on these assets? (such as a watch presumably taken from his home address).
Lets assume you're right and they can't... he has to show up in court to challenge it... see the what they are doing now?
The US Government routinely seizes the assets of its adversaries, even US Citizens in order to force them to appear in court. Just like this... They take your money, knowing full well they have no right to... but, to dispute it, you have to show up in court or testify about yourself in such a way that could lead to further prosecution.
Remember how they busted Al Capone? Tax evasion? They knew for a fact how he got his money, but they also knew that to prove he was innocent he'd have to admit to how he got his money. So, despite violating his rights, the spirit of the law, and perverting the justice system. they got him anyway. Win at all costs...
Dude, a guy with a knife and a limp ran several hundred yards, unhindered, into the most secure building on earth. They were Lucky he was mentally deranged and not really actually out to hurt anyone. Had he been, he could have easily taken out half the building with an ied.
The secret service isn't being criticized for failing to do the impossible. They are being criticized for failing to stop just about the easiest to stop assailant you could imagine. They guy should have had a bullet in his chest before his feet even touched the ground on the other side of the fence.
Solar IS cost competitive. And with in a very short period, if current manufacturing price drops continue, it will be the cheapest source of power. But sure, ignore the real numbers the real reality of the situation if you wish. These numbers have been the talk of wall street for more than 2 years. Solar companies are turning down investment right now because there is too much being offered. But feel free to continue to display your ignorance. Even a fool could verify the real numbers with Google.
Ok, first, you're a moron. Yes, if you read some nonsense put out by a "Green energy" group... it's easy to get confused... if you're a moron.
If you exclude taxes, regulation and infrastructure.
Now you're going to say "Solar's free!" No it's not. You need a solar panel. Just like coal needs a mine and equipment. The average price of a solar panel system for your home is $10,000... I'm even including federal subsidies. The real price is almost double. http://www.wholesalesolar.com/... and it lasts about 20yrs.
The average us household uses 11,000 kilowatts per year http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/... So in 1yr, that's $313 worth of coal. Over 20yrs, they'll use $6000 worth of coal.
That's production of the energy source, compared. Solar is almost twice the cost. The rest of the money you pay for coal power is going to the government, who will still want their money after coal is gone. We're still need the electrical grid. I doubt the panels will be on your home, they will likely be somewhere else, and there will be batteries.
Let's also bring up the fact that everyone's paying for the cost of pollution caused by burning fossil fuels, and if not today, then definitely in the future. If we factor that one in, they're anything but free. Sure, you can hide who has to pay for it in the end (or even when), but there is a huge price associated with burning them. Again - let's not lie.
Which I brought up, in my post. Read it. Solar is not cheaper. But price is not our only concern.
It's idiot talk like that that leads us down the wrong path in the first place. If environmental concerns should be considered, solar should be out. Look up what the environmental impact of building solar cells. Specifically the silver used for the mirrors... It's terrible. Coal is worse, to be sure... but there are other, better alternatives than solar.
If you gave fossil fuels the same advantage of not charging [...] government regulations on production etc... like you do with solar,
There's no government regulations on production of solar? You can't even install solar panels without a licensed electrician to certify that your house isn't going to burn down.
I'm very interested in hearing your thoughts about the lack of regulation for solar.
You're talking about local ordinances, which are kind of a joke. Where I live I can literally buy a solar panel at home depot and install it. Any local ordinance that requires you to have an electrician on site during construction is going to cover changes to coal based electrical changes as well. They, in fact, don't care where the power came from.
The price of coal itself is, in effect, dictated by the federal government. They limit coal production to keep the price steady in the same way they regulate other commodities. There are coal taxes, gas taxes, etc... All of which are designed to pay for the infrastructure used to deliver those services as well as hold the price steady. If the government lifted restrictions on Oil and Coal production, and removed taxes, the price of coal and oil would be like it was at the turn of the century... pennies. You drill a hole in the ground and the stuff comes out. You can't beat that. I'm not suggesting that's a good idea, but to say Solar is cheaper? That's laughable. If we were to replace fossil fuels with solar entirely, we would still need to pay for all of the power lines, distrobution, the batteries that'd keep the system working at night... the environmental impact of over 300 million new solar cells and batteries intruduced...
Even if you consider the impact of each source on the environment, solar is a big loser. Nuclear is far better for the environment provided your reactors aren't 40yrs old (like most of ours are) But hey, lets not let logic get in the way of our 1980s TV mini-series induced fear of things we don't understand.
The price of electricity is not just the price of generation. The price of transportation is not just the price of fuel.
If you gave fossil fuels the same advantage of not charging infrastructure costs, taxes, government regulations on production etc... like you do with solar, you'd find that they are virtually free. There is no conceivable way solar is even remotely comparable until the government steps in and starts manipulating the numbers for the public good. You can argue that the CO2 issue is important enough to justify that interference, but lets not lie to ourselves about the numbers.
It looks cool... but so did the last 20 kickstarter games I thought looked cool and either never got finished, or the developers totally changed what the game was about or removed the feature I thought would be cool just weeks before it was released.
I'm sorry, but I don't think a single game I've doled out money for on kickstarter has turned out in a such a way that I was later glad I'd spent it. I really hope this game lives up to what they're promising but I have a feeling that what we'll really end up with is another neverwinter clone.
It's nothing to do with wealth. It's to do with what cows evolved to eat. They eat grass in countries of all wealth levels. It's only places with bizarre corn subsidies that their primary food is corn.
Farmers feed cows corn because it's the cheapest feed. You can argue corn subsidies all you want, I don't care.
There are about 49 million people in this country however, that do not get regular meals due to poverty and would like beef to be as cheap as possible: http://www.feedingamerica.org/... I bet they would dispute your opinion of corn subsidies...
I've been doing this since I was about 10yrs old. Clearly this woman is far far superior at it than I've ever been. At best, I can hold the fundamental and move the overtone around in a slide sort of way. The way she's doing stepping is amazing. When I started doing this, it was more of a magic trick to me. I'd say "Listen! I can have 2 voices at once!" I had no idea what I was really doing.
For those wondering how to do it. Imagine humming with your mouth open. You have to close off your mouth in the same way you do when you drink through a straw and then hum like that. The fundamental feels very nasally to the singer. It makes your sinuses vibrate.
To get the overtone, I put the tip of my tong, right behind my front teeth on the roof of my mouth like when I make an "L" sound. Then change the shape of your tong like when you say "La" or "Lu" or "Lo" but never remove your tong from the roof of your mouth. The shape of your tong for each of those phonics gives you different tones. That's of course, how I do it. And I'm totally untrained so take it with a grain of salt.
The project has goals, if the team doesn't meet those goals the users get refunds. If a single player version was in those goals, then the backers should get a refund. If it's not, then the backers were stupid to assume that it would be.
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How incredibly snobby to give a shit about what's going on in the world and how your country's being run rather than hur hur look at da crazy cat. The human race is filed.
Snobbery isn't about what you're interested in. Snobbery is about refusing to accept others may have different interests.
I don't find cat videos interesting. I prefer the news. --- Not Snobby
If you like cat videos you're clearly a moron! --- Snobby
So beans and rice is bad?
IMHO, I think the whole obesity and diabetes epidemic stems from a sedentary lifestyle. Kids these days are not as outdoor active as they used to be. Blame consoles, PCs, phones...whatever. No actually, blame the parents. Anyways, this coupled with the fact working families are having to put in longer hours just to make ends meet. I suspect this is pushing people to eat on the fly rather than to take the time properly prepare and cook healthy foods. And if parents are no longer eating healthy or preparing for their kids, how can the next generation expect to learn healthy eating habits?
No... Beans and rice are ok. It's a Low carb diet... not a No carb diet. If you take the most famous of them, the Adkins diet... you get basically no carbs the first week or two then you slowly add them back in. This is the weight-loss part. Once you're down to the weight you want, you can eat them again.
What's bad is processed sugar. Plain and simple. It's in nearly every processed food now. If you could your own meals you can eat pretty much anything you want short of cake and cookies. But these days, the industry is nuts. Even sugar free candy is sweetened with "Sugar Alcohols" which are still carbs! I wanted to get my sick wife some Chicken noodle soup but the can had corn syrup on the label. Why in soup?!!?
In my experience, I just avoid sugar... Cookies, cakes, icecream, etc... Don't eat anything factory made. Cook my own meals. I eat high fat dairy like whole milk, whole yogurt, etc... because it fills me up so I dont eat more. And that keeps me around 200lbs which I think is a pretty good weight for me (my doctor would like me down another 10lb) It also took care of my cholesterol. It wasn't gradual either. I basically wasn't eating fat and it just kept going up up up... that's why I tried lower carbs... withing about 6 weeks it was back down to less scary numbers.
Everyone's different though, but I'd say it's worth a shot if you haven't tried it.
The real story here is that this guy just figured this out now.
Why own a vehicle you don't control anyway?
I think this was clear to most people the second self driving cars became a "thing"
Also assume the car will be filled with TV's blaring ads at you while you're on your way. You'll be able to pay $5 for your seat to heat up and vibrate. If it's a long trip there will be a $20 per passenger in-cabin movie from 1982. Pickup and delivery schedules will vary by over an hour unless you pay a "premium trip fee" etc...
Why does the monitor have to be square to do that?
You're just using the breadboard to connect a bunch of ICs. :-p
Bust out the designs for those IC's, wire the components up discretely, then I'll be impressed.
Granted, you'll likely have no room left in your house for your bed or furniture... but that's not my problem
(I'm just being snarky, well done man)
In the real world, people care about as much about their browser as they do about tires.
Put the tires on and shut up... Radial? Winter tires? Siping?
Shut your stupid mouth and make my car go! I'm missing The real housewives!
Clever crooks. Always finding the loopholes. This is why we can't have nice things.
Presumably walmart will immediately be limiting this to items only sold and shipped directly by amazon... or they'll drop amazon matching entirely if that's too complicated for their staff.
Walmart promises to price match any competitor, then uses their clout to get the manufacture to package the item differently, specifically for walmart, under a different SKU so the item, is in effect, unique to walmart, and they'll have no one to compete with them.
Fair game I'd say.
His lawyer has to show up.
And whos going to testify?
The US Government routinely seizes the assets of its adversaries, even US Citizens
What you're talking about is the US Government seizing the assets its adversaries have parked in the USA.
I'm not sure why the US Government thinks it can seize foreign assets.
That's not how jurisdiction works.
Of course it does. Any court in Europe could rule that a US citizen owes them money, then apply to have assets from the US seized and sent back. It's covered under treaty and happens all the time.
I guarantee you, by the time the day is through, 2/3s of the posts here will say something along the lines of "What's the problem with the book? It's just like real life!"
That's the problem with Generalizations... they are generally true. The problem with the human brain is, we take what is generally true and assume that it is always true.
The problem is this almost religious fanatical devotion to the idea of "Mother earth" and the idea of "Renewable technology"
Why does it have to be renewable? The actual problem is converting CO2 from a solid to a gas. Stopping that is far more important than being renewable. Fusion isn't renewable... we'd run out of Deuterium in a couple of billion years... so we should abandon that as well?
"a hold over money from bank accounts around the world, luxury cars, big televisions, watches, artwork"
These assets are not even held in the USA, how can they possibly have jurisdiction on these assets? (such as a watch presumably taken from his home address).
Lets assume you're right and they can't... he has to show up in court to challenge it... see the what they are doing now?
The US Government routinely seizes the assets of its adversaries, even US Citizens in order to force them to appear in court. Just like this... They take your money, knowing full well they have no right to... but, to dispute it, you have to show up in court or testify about yourself in such a way that could lead to further prosecution.
Remember how they busted Al Capone? Tax evasion? They knew for a fact how he got his money, but they also knew that to prove he was innocent he'd have to admit to how he got his money. So, despite violating his rights, the spirit of the law, and perverting the justice system. they got him anyway. Win at all costs...
Dude, a guy with a knife and a limp ran several hundred yards, unhindered, into the most secure building on earth. They were Lucky he was mentally deranged and not really actually out to hurt anyone. Had he been, he could have easily taken out half the building with an ied.
The secret service isn't being criticized for failing to do the impossible.
They are being criticized for failing to stop just about the easiest to stop assailant you could imagine.
They guy should have had a bullet in his chest before his feet even touched the ground on the other side of the fence.
You are so very wrong.
Solar IS cost competitive. And with in a very short period, if current manufacturing price drops continue, it will be the cheapest source of power. But sure, ignore the real numbers the real reality of the situation if you wish. These numbers have been the talk of wall street for more than 2 years. Solar companies are turning down investment right now because there is too much being offered. But feel free to continue to display your ignorance. Even a fool could verify the real numbers with Google.
Ok, first, you're a moron.
Yes, if you read some nonsense put out by a "Green energy" group... it's easy to get confused... if you're a moron.
Coal has an average btu of 20,000,000
http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/...
It takes 10,107 BTU of coal for a power plant to produce 1 kilowatt of power.
http://www.eia.gov/electricity...
Basic math is 20 million / 10,107 = 1979 killwats per short ton of coal
The price of coal per short ton: $56.30
http://www.eia.gov/coal/news_m...
$56.30 / 1979 = Coal costs 3 cents per kilowatt
If you exclude taxes, regulation and infrastructure.
Now you're going to say "Solar's free!"
No it's not. You need a solar panel. Just like coal needs a mine and equipment.
The average price of a solar panel system for your home is $10,000... I'm even including federal subsidies. The real price is almost double.
http://www.wholesalesolar.com/...
and it lasts about 20yrs.
The average us household uses 11,000 kilowatts per year
http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/...
So in 1yr, that's $313 worth of coal.
Over 20yrs, they'll use $6000 worth of coal.
That's production of the energy source, compared.
Solar is almost twice the cost.
The rest of the money you pay for coal power is going to the government, who will still want their money after coal is gone.
We're still need the electrical grid. I doubt the panels will be on your home, they will likely be somewhere else, and there will be batteries.
Let's also bring up the fact that everyone's paying for the cost of pollution caused by burning fossil fuels, and if not today, then definitely in the future. If we factor that one in, they're anything but free. Sure, you can hide who has to pay for it in the end (or even when), but there is a huge price associated with burning them. Again - let's not lie.
Which I brought up, in my post. Read it. Solar is not cheaper. But price is not our only concern.
It's idiot talk like that that leads us down the wrong path in the first place. If environmental concerns should be considered, solar should be out. Look up what the environmental impact of building solar cells. Specifically the silver used for the mirrors... It's terrible. Coal is worse, to be sure... but there are other, better alternatives than solar.
If you gave fossil fuels the same advantage of not charging [...] government regulations on production etc... like you do with solar,
There's no government regulations on production of solar?
You can't even install solar panels without a licensed electrician to certify that your house isn't going to burn down.
I'm very interested in hearing your thoughts about the lack of regulation for solar.
You're talking about local ordinances, which are kind of a joke. Where I live I can literally buy a solar panel at home depot and install it. Any local ordinance that requires you to have an electrician on site during construction is going to cover changes to coal based electrical changes as well. They, in fact, don't care where the power came from.
The price of coal itself is, in effect, dictated by the federal government. They limit coal production to keep the price steady in the same way they regulate other commodities. There are coal taxes, gas taxes, etc... All of which are designed to pay for the infrastructure used to deliver those services as well as hold the price steady. If the government lifted restrictions on Oil and Coal production, and removed taxes, the price of coal and oil would be like it was at the turn of the century... pennies. You drill a hole in the ground and the stuff comes out. You can't beat that. I'm not suggesting that's a good idea, but to say Solar is cheaper? That's laughable. If we were to replace fossil fuels with solar entirely, we would still need to pay for all of the power lines, distrobution, the batteries that'd keep the system working at night... the environmental impact of over 300 million new solar cells and batteries intruduced...
Even if you consider the impact of each source on the environment, solar is a big loser. Nuclear is far better for the environment provided your reactors aren't 40yrs old (like most of ours are) But hey, lets not let logic get in the way of our 1980s TV mini-series induced fear of things we don't understand.
Behold how the blind lead each other
The philosopher
You know so much about nothing at all
Not even $10, imagine if Facebook gave people a new wanted feature (I have no examples because I don't use FB) for their votes.
How many users would accept? What portion of the population would sell their vote for an iphone?
I would. I currently get nothing out of it anyways, and have no real choice in the election. So why not get free stuff at least?
The price of electricity is not just the price of generation.
The price of transportation is not just the price of fuel.
If you gave fossil fuels the same advantage of not charging infrastructure costs, taxes, government regulations on production etc... like you do with solar, you'd find that they are virtually free. There is no conceivable way solar is even remotely comparable until the government steps in and starts manipulating the numbers for the public good. You can argue that the CO2 issue is important enough to justify that interference, but lets not lie to ourselves about the numbers.
It looks cool... but so did the last 20 kickstarter games I thought looked cool and either never got finished, or the developers totally changed what the game was about or removed the feature I thought would be cool just weeks before it was released.
I'm sorry, but I don't think a single game I've doled out money for on kickstarter has turned out in a such a way that I was later glad I'd spent it. I really hope this game lives up to what they're promising but I have a feeling that what we'll really end up with is another neverwinter clone.
It's nothing to do with wealth. It's to do with what cows evolved to eat.
They eat grass in countries of all wealth levels. It's only places with bizarre corn subsidies that their primary food is corn.
Farmers feed cows corn because it's the cheapest feed. You can argue corn subsidies all you want, I don't care.
There are about 49 million people in this country however, that do not get regular meals due to poverty and would like beef to be as cheap as possible:
http://www.feedingamerica.org/...
I bet they would dispute your opinion of corn subsidies...
Why did people paint after the advent of cameras? The camera produces a far superior image!
I've been doing this since I was about 10yrs old. Clearly this woman is far far superior at it than I've ever been. At best, I can hold the fundamental and move the overtone around in a slide sort of way. The way she's doing stepping is amazing. When I started doing this, it was more of a magic trick to me. I'd say "Listen! I can have 2 voices at once!" I had no idea what I was really doing.
For those wondering how to do it. Imagine humming with your mouth open. You have to close off your mouth in the same way you do when you drink through a straw and then hum like that. The fundamental feels very nasally to the singer. It makes your sinuses vibrate.
To get the overtone, I put the tip of my tong, right behind my front teeth on the roof of my mouth like when I make an "L" sound. Then change the shape of your tong like when you say "La" or "Lu" or "Lo" but never remove your tong from the roof of your mouth. The shape of your tong for each of those phonics gives you different tones. That's of course, how I do it. And I'm totally untrained so take it with a grain of salt.
The project has goals, if the team doesn't meet those goals the users get refunds.
If a single player version was in those goals, then the backers should get a refund.
If it's not, then the backers were stupid to assume that it would be.
It's as simple as that.