Sounds like no one is suggesting you do that. I'm assuming you're not a large, medium, or small business. The summary and the very slightly longer article make it sound like this isn't for single, personal users.
The shills like you were saying that Microsoft wasn't going to go to a subscription service.
Now it's a most wonderful thing. Jesus how much did you sell your soul to Redmond for.
Then again, they might reward you with getting it back with a subscription service.
4: At $7/month this software (over a 2 or 3 year time period) is significantly cheaper than buying the license outright and paying for software assurance.
Is the wortld going to end 2 or 3 years from now? Or after 2 or 3 years MIcrosoft is going to give the software away so tht the total cost to a business is only $168 dollars for the two year only package or $252 for 3 years?
And of course, this means that Microsoft has installed a kill switch in their software. With them doing everything to keep people from installing Linux, this means that by entering this fine program, you are agreeing with Microsoft that they can brick your computer.
They should be able to block cell phones because prisoners aren't allowed to have unfettered and unmonitored communications with anyone but their lawyers.
Are you willing to have everyone in the vicinity of the prison to have their cell phone service blocked as well?
I would certainly think it should be standard procedure at prisons to block cell phones
Unless you build a Faraday cage around the prison, those ideologically blessed jamming waves have a tendency to get out and jam law abiding citizens cell phones. Fortunately at these frequencies the signals aren't going to go far. But if you cover the entire prison ground, interior, offices, and courtyard, and at least in our local one, maybe fifty square miles of fields where prisoners might be working - which an interstate runs through, you are blanketing a pretty large area with jamming RF.
Then again if we build a fine mesh Faraday cage over everything, the drone can't get in.
I don't understand how that's supposed to address the drone problem. So you can't fly under manual control? Fine, fly to GPS coordinates and do everything automatically. A prison yard isn't exactly a small target, you don't need precision. Are they planning to jam GPS too?
Careful - you are giving them ideas.
Maybe this isn't a good time to note that the drone was probably controlled by wi-fi if not GPS coordinates, so we need to allow wi-fi jamming as well
FTFS - "The state's Law Enforcement Division Chief also complains that the federal government still prohibits state corrections officials from blocking cellphones"
Well yeah. We have a tendency not to allow that becaise thase darn radio waves don't just stay in and around the prison.
It's fun to be reactionary, to figure out how to never ever allow prisoners to use drones and to block their cellphones, any more in perpetuity.
But it is hard to imagine that the same people demanding prisons use jamming techniques would not act like whiny little bitches when they find out that their phones are jammed as well.
Damn physics anyway, getting in the way of ideology!
Let's have a vote on Ohm's law while we are at it.
Is it possible it would been cheaper to have cleaned the tank very well and filled it with gravel or something and left it in place?
In some cases. The deal we had was something like the contractor pumped the oil out, used it as fuel, and charged us a little extra to dig it out. So it wasn't too bad a deal.
We exchanged oil heat for a super-efficient gas furnace (extracts so much of the energy that the chimney is made of PVC)
I believe it's possible to get condensing oil fired burners too, though you do get a bigger benefit from gas since you get more water in of the fumes.
The water extraction is amazing, our setup goes to a nearby bathtub, which is nice because we don't use that one much, and the condensate keeps the trap full. I have to pull the chimney and air intake off when I change the filters every month or so, and there is a lot of water in the exhaust PVC. It apparently runs down the vertical portion of the chimney and settles out along with the internal condenser.
And yup, they have really efficient oil furnaces too. I'm not certain how the condensers operate on those, as the oil flame is relatively sooty. We also lucked out because the gas company was laying new and bigger service lines along our street, (thanks fracking!) and did the lines and meter for free. Then they repaired a section of sidewalk that was sinking since the pipeline involved it. As you might imagine, I'm darn happy with the gas people.
You are so full of shit. Your link doesn't even support your claim. You said:
I appear to have angered you. Where does impairment start? The legal limit of.08, or the new metric MADD and NSC uses of "impairment starts with the first drink." http://www.nsc.org/learn/NSC-I...
On the contrary, one drink does not vitiate consent, unless it's been spiked with roofies. Grow the fuck up, moron. You can start by not putting words in my mouth and then arguing against them.
Are you going through some difficulties in your life that has caused a once reasonable person to write like the Anonymous Cowards that pollute Slashdot with that sort of stuff?
You see, your definition or even mine is not required. Roofies are not required. What is required is a person that claims they have been violated because they have had any amount of alcohol. And the definition is so broad that it extends to married couples.
And I'm a little curious about your statement of me putting words in your mouth - and rest assured if I did, I wouldn't use your foul language as insults. My reply that you are quoting was most certainly not to you.. If you look back at the threads, you will see that I was replying to Texmaize. So unless Texmaize is another pseudonym of yours, why are you trying to hijack the conversation and make up things to be insulted about?
All of which is to say, chillaxe, friend. I'm happy to converse with people who disagree with me, but much prefer that they eschew taking it over the edge into name calling, especially when they are being insulted by a post not even directed toward them. Otherwise I won't give you the gift of my witty wisdom and brilliant ripostes.
That's actually the advice (honest) installers here will give you: insulate walls, roof, floor, and get that triple glazing filled with unicorn farts first, before spending money on a geothermal system. It's more cost-effective. But depending on your climate, you're still likely to need heating and/or cooling.
Like you said - it depends on the location. But you are spot on about the insulation. The previous owners had insulated the house well, and I added some more insulation to the attic. The trick is not getting it sealed too well. I also have oddball windows that are very deep and seem to offer really good insulation value.
My mothers previous cottage, same size but cost about £1100 per year in combined gas/electricity unlike her present place which has cost between 350-400 per year for combined gas/electricity.
That's a big fucking saving people and now it means she can save a bit more and have an extra holiday per year... these systems are well worth it and when i am looking to a new place i am going to make sure it's got a similar set up to my mothers!
Exactly. I spend per year what most of the neighbors spend per month on heating during the heating season. And I keep the house at a higher temperature. Even with a efficient hot tub, I spend only 10 percent more on electric than my neighbor who is only home about 4 days a month and has no amenities - our electric company tells us what our bill is compared to our neighbors percentage wise.
Every energy saving device has saved us money over and above installation costs. And life has been more comfortable.
1. Figure out how much one spends on energy now.
2. Figure out how much one would spend after the system is installed.
3. Divide savings into the cost of the system to determine how many years it will take to recover the investment.
Those are the basic numbers. But I've found that there is a humongous wild card in there.
We exchanged oil heat for a super-efficient gas furnace (extracts so much of the energy that the chimney is made of PVC)
Then oil prices went nuts. Ended up recovering the gas furnace expenses in a couple years.
This was a real eye-opener for me, because my calculations were simply blown out of the water. But I hadn't accounted for the volatility of the fuel source.
So depending on how you heat/cool, and it's pretty much a given that oil prices aren't going anywhere but up beyond inflation over the long term, the recovery period is difficult to calculate. As well, what is the "payback" time on a standard efficiency oil furnace or a standard compressor AC unit.
I think it is a better approach to look towards efficiency, and likewise look into devices/methods that require as little replacement as possible, because that is another variable that adds cost that messes badly with the calculations.
Then there is incidental expenses. As another example, we dug up the old buried oil tank, and it was perilously close to leaking. If it had leaked into the surrounding soil and water table, the mitigation costs to me would have been around the entire value of the house. There's a reason new Oil tanks have to be double walled and above ground in my area. I could have opted to leave the tank in the ground to save money. Yikes! In a rare moment of intelligence I decided to pull it out, and thank goodness I did.
To Microsoft fanboys all bugs are either due to a misbehaving third party driver or user error. That's why MS doesn't need QA.
Microsoft can never fail - only we can fail Microsoft. Meanwhile, I can hardly wait for all the software and hardware that quits working after the New Cremator's Upchuck.
lol. That sounds interesting. I would like to know what kind of trees and if there is any health effects from it.
I looked it up, and the ree name is the Southern Catalpa, commonly know as the Indian Cigar tree. I even found a Youtube link for a guy who tried smoking them. My father said they were very harsh, and the Youtube guy agreed. Apparently there isn't any physical effect other than the harshness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Anonymous coward posts really tired old never very funny memes. But hey - thanks for playing. You'll receive a copy of the Slashdot coward's home game for those times when you've blown your data cap.
But if I were to rebel and start today as a teen, I'd grow my own tobacco, and roll stogies.
So you're saying if you were a teen today, you would be a hipster?!? That's WAY worse than smoking.. you really went to the extreme there!
lol but all joking aside you have a very good point, I replied to somebody above with a comment along the same lines as yours. not quite as funny as you made yours though.
My father used to smoke these weird seed pods that grew on trees when he was a kid. Apparently a lot of kids did at the time. Maybe the war on drugs can go after those trees. Maybe that has something to do with my present mental state.
This really clearly supports my incorrect notions.
I have noticed the my cites are often not read so I'll quote a little from the article.
"For instance, if someone is drunk or high on drugs, then that person cannot give consent. This means that even if someone seems eager to engage in sexual behavior, doing so can legally be considered sexual assault or rape if he or she is intoxicated.
"Another area of confusion on the date rape topic is intoxication. Bottom line, if a girl is intoxicated she cannot consent to sex and you could be charged with rape. It does not matter whether you knew she was intoxicated, it doesn’t matter if you were intoxicated too, all that matters is that she was not in a state of mind to consent and therefore it is rape. If you get a girl drunk or high and then “get together” with her you have committed a sexual assault.
Again, it doesn’t matter if you are drunk or high as well. Your diminished abilities do not negate your responsibilities. A good rule to follow; if you are under the influence do not have sex. Now say you really had no idea a girl was intoxicated and that she truly appeared to be a willing partner, what then?
A drunk woman cannot give consent, and if she appears to but she is drunk, it is rape. If the male is drunk as well, he miraculously is still raping her. Damn white male privilege straike again.
I know, I know, you do not have the time to read it.
So yes, it's moronic, Yes I am pathetically stupid.
Your name calling is indicitive of bubblethink. I thought better of you, and sad to see that once again I am wrong.
One thing to note is that Australia got to their sad state by using some of the alternatives.
Ol Olsoc's fiction not mine.
Coal is an alternative is it not? If you want coal powered plants, then build the damn things. They will power Australia for the future. And you won't be relying on the sure to fail hippie power sources. Is that fiction?
Funny how people are disproving what I wrote by saying that the problem was alternative power sources, and that Australia is overwhelmingly coal, or the more exact quote - the "vast majority"
Or are the brownouts more fake news? Or the alternative power sources the problem? Or the overwhelming coal power? Take your pick. I'll let y'all tear my fiction to shreds.
One thing to note is that Australia got to their sad state by using some of the alternatives.
The vast majority of the electricity generation by in Australia is provided by burning coal. Perhaps it's best to consider reality instead of assuming that most Aussies live in Bartertown getting their electricity from pig shit.
Well then if they are burning coal, why the brownouts? Seems pretty simple - burn more coal, no brownouts, no problems at all. All the electricity they will ever need. Build more coal plants.
Good thing I've never seen anyone below the legal age to buy cigarettes smoking one!
Your post should be at +5 insightful.
The amazing thing is that most people seem to have forgotten what it is like to be a teenager. When they hit that rebellious stage, they...rebel.
I started smoking at 14 years old, and why? because it was an act of rebellion. It was something grownups did. I wasn't allowed to buy or smoke. And musta been something pretty cool if adults kept it to themselves. So what did I do? Started smoking. Howbow dah?
Even without the laws, it wasn't hard then, and it isn't hard now.
I was up to three packs a day before I quit at 20. Smoking is a damn stupid thing.
But if I were to rebel and start today as a teen, I'd grow my own tobacco, and roll stogies.
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..or did that scenario not occur to you? How would it make you feel, if your computer refused to boot one day
There is a kill switch in there.
I wonder if you lose your files when Microsoft brick your computer?
Next up, Microsoft will demand payments in bitcoin to complete their transition to ransomware.
How many of those machines do you think were run by companies who didn't want to spend any money upgrading
The cost of upgrading was not Windows licenses. It was everything else that would break if they upgraded Windows.
Now explain how that is not a difference without any distinction.
Sounds like no one is suggesting you do that. I'm assuming you're not a large, medium, or small business. The summary and the very slightly longer article make it sound like this isn't for single, personal users.
The shills like you were saying that Microsoft wasn't going to go to a subscription service.
Now it's a most wonderful thing. Jesus how much did you sell your soul to Redmond for.
Then again, they might reward you with getting it back with a subscription service.
1
4: At $7/month this software (over a 2 or 3 year time period) is significantly cheaper than buying the license outright and paying for software assurance.
Is the wortld going to end 2 or 3 years from now? Or after 2 or 3 years MIcrosoft is going to give the software away so tht the total cost to a business is only $168 dollars for the two year only package or $252 for 3 years?
And of course, this means that Microsoft has installed a kill switch in their software. With them doing everything to keep people from installing Linux, this means that by entering this fine program, you are agreeing with Microsoft that they can brick your computer.
Sign Me Right the Hell Up!!!
They should be able to block cell phones because prisoners aren't allowed to have unfettered and unmonitored communications with anyone but their lawyers.
Are you willing to have everyone in the vicinity of the prison to have their cell phone service blocked as well?
Because that is what you are proposing.
If the prison pays for all outgoing and incoming calls, then they may block cellphone calls.
In America, jamming radio is illegal. People can and do get some hefty fines when they try it. Doesn't matter who is paying.
Unfortunately, too few people understand that you can't jam teh evilz prizzoner's cell phone without jamming everyone else's phones in the vicinity.
I would certainly think it should be standard procedure at prisons to block cell phones
Unless you build a Faraday cage around the prison, those ideologically blessed jamming waves have a tendency to get out and jam law abiding citizens cell phones. Fortunately at these frequencies the signals aren't going to go far. But if you cover the entire prison ground, interior, offices, and courtyard, and at least in our local one, maybe fifty square miles of fields where prisoners might be working - which an interstate runs through, you are blanketing a pretty large area with jamming RF.
Then again if we build a fine mesh Faraday cage over everything, the drone can't get in.
I don't understand how that's supposed to address the drone problem. So you can't fly under manual control? Fine, fly to GPS coordinates and do everything automatically. A prison yard isn't exactly a small target, you don't need precision. Are they planning to jam GPS too?
Careful - you are giving them ideas.
Maybe this isn't a good time to note that the drone was probably controlled by wi-fi if not GPS coordinates, so we need to allow wi-fi jamming as well
FTFS - "The state's Law Enforcement Division Chief also complains that the federal government still prohibits state corrections officials from blocking cellphones"
https://www.fcc.gov/general/jamming-cell-phones-and-gps-equipment-against-law
Well yeah. We have a tendency not to allow that becaise thase darn radio waves don't just stay in and around the prison.
It's fun to be reactionary, to figure out how to never ever allow prisoners to use drones and to block their cellphones, any more in perpetuity.
But it is hard to imagine that the same people demanding prisons use jamming techniques would not act like whiny little bitches when they find out that their phones are jammed as well.
Damn physics anyway, getting in the way of ideology!
Let's have a vote on Ohm's law while we are at it.
Is it possible it would been cheaper to have cleaned the tank very well and filled it with gravel or something and left it in place?
In some cases. The deal we had was something like the contractor pumped the oil out, used it as fuel, and charged us a little extra to dig it out. So it wasn't too bad a deal.
We exchanged oil heat for a super-efficient gas furnace (extracts so much of the energy that the chimney is made of PVC)
I believe it's possible to get condensing oil fired burners too, though you do get a bigger benefit from gas since you get more water in of the fumes.
The water extraction is amazing, our setup goes to a nearby bathtub, which is nice because we don't use that one much, and the condensate keeps the trap full. I have to pull the chimney and air intake off when I change the filters every month or so, and there is a lot of water in the exhaust PVC. It apparently runs down the vertical portion of the chimney and settles out along with the internal condenser.
And yup, they have really efficient oil furnaces too. I'm not certain how the condensers operate on those, as the oil flame is relatively sooty. We also lucked out because the gas company was laying new and bigger service lines along our street, (thanks fracking!) and did the lines and meter for free. Then they repaired a section of sidewalk that was sinking since the pipeline involved it. As you might imagine, I'm darn happy with the gas people.
You are so full of shit. Your link doesn't even support your claim. You said:
I appear to have angered you. Where does impairment start? The legal limit of .08, or the new metric MADD and NSC uses of "impairment starts with the first drink." http://www.nsc.org/learn/NSC-I...
On the contrary, one drink does not vitiate consent, unless it's been spiked with roofies. Grow the fuck up, moron. You can start by not putting words in my mouth and then arguing against them.
Are you going through some difficulties in your life that has caused a once reasonable person to write like the Anonymous Cowards that pollute Slashdot with that sort of stuff?
You see, your definition or even mine is not required. Roofies are not required. What is required is a person that claims they have been violated because they have had any amount of alcohol. And the definition is so broad that it extends to married couples.
And I'm a little curious about your statement of me putting words in your mouth - and rest assured if I did, I wouldn't use your foul language as insults. My reply that you are quoting was most certainly not to you.. If you look back at the threads, you will see that I was replying to Texmaize. So unless Texmaize is another pseudonym of yours, why are you trying to hijack the conversation and make up things to be insulted about?
All of which is to say, chillaxe, friend. I'm happy to converse with people who disagree with me, but much prefer that they eschew taking it over the edge into name calling, especially when they are being insulted by a post not even directed toward them. Otherwise I won't give you the gift of my witty wisdom and brilliant ripostes.
Don't inhale Rockwool
When I was a kid, me and me friends used to eat rock wool like cotton candy. And those of us who survived are doing just fine.
That's actually the advice (honest) installers here will give you: insulate walls, roof, floor, and get that triple glazing filled with unicorn farts first, before spending money on a geothermal system. It's more cost-effective. But depending on your climate, you're still likely to need heating and/or cooling. Like you said - it depends on the location. But you are spot on about the insulation. The previous owners had insulated the house well, and I added some more insulation to the attic. The trick is not getting it sealed too well. I also have oddball windows that are very deep and seem to offer really good insulation value.
My mothers previous cottage, same size but cost about £1100 per year in combined gas/electricity unlike her present place which has cost between 350-400 per year for combined gas/electricity. That's a big fucking saving people and now it means she can save a bit more and have an extra holiday per year... these systems are well worth it and when i am looking to a new place i am going to make sure it's got a similar set up to my mothers!
Exactly. I spend per year what most of the neighbors spend per month on heating during the heating season. And I keep the house at a higher temperature. Even with a efficient hot tub, I spend only 10 percent more on electric than my neighbor who is only home about 4 days a month and has no amenities - our electric company tells us what our bill is compared to our neighbors percentage wise.
Every energy saving device has saved us money over and above installation costs. And life has been more comfortable.
1. Figure out how much one spends on energy now. 2. Figure out how much one would spend after the system is installed. 3. Divide savings into the cost of the system to determine how many years it will take to recover the investment.
Those are the basic numbers. But I've found that there is a humongous wild card in there.
We exchanged oil heat for a super-efficient gas furnace (extracts so much of the energy that the chimney is made of PVC)
Then oil prices went nuts. Ended up recovering the gas furnace expenses in a couple years.
This was a real eye-opener for me, because my calculations were simply blown out of the water. But I hadn't accounted for the volatility of the fuel source.
So depending on how you heat/cool, and it's pretty much a given that oil prices aren't going anywhere but up beyond inflation over the long term, the recovery period is difficult to calculate. As well, what is the "payback" time on a standard efficiency oil furnace or a standard compressor AC unit.
I think it is a better approach to look towards efficiency, and likewise look into devices/methods that require as little replacement as possible, because that is another variable that adds cost that messes badly with the calculations.
Then there is incidental expenses. As another example, we dug up the old buried oil tank, and it was perilously close to leaking. If it had leaked into the surrounding soil and water table, the mitigation costs to me would have been around the entire value of the house. There's a reason new Oil tanks have to be double walled and above ground in my area. I could have opted to leave the tank in the ground to save money. Yikes! In a rare moment of intelligence I decided to pull it out, and thank goodness I did.
Bet the fact that there was no change in feeling made him think back on his life decisions O.o
Well played!
To Microsoft fanboys all bugs are either due to a misbehaving third party driver or user error. That's why MS doesn't need QA.
Microsoft can never fail - only we can fail Microsoft. Meanwhile, I can hardly wait for all the software and hardware that quits working after the New Cremator's Upchuck.
Same as it ever was.
lol. That sounds interesting. I would like to know what kind of trees and if there is any health effects from it.
I looked it up, and the ree name is the Southern Catalpa, commonly know as the Indian Cigar tree. I even found a Youtube link for a guy who tried smoking them. My father said they were very harsh, and the Youtube guy agreed. Apparently there isn't any physical effect other than the harshness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Old man yells at clouds
Anonymous coward posts really tired old never very funny memes. But hey - thanks for playing. You'll receive a copy of the Slashdot coward's home game for those times when you've blown your data cap.
But if I were to rebel and start today as a teen, I'd grow my own tobacco, and roll stogies.
So you're saying if you were a teen today, you would be a hipster?!? That's WAY worse than smoking.. you really went to the extreme there!
lol but all joking aside you have a very good point, I replied to somebody above with a comment along the same lines as yours. not quite as funny as you made yours though.
My father used to smoke these weird seed pods that grew on trees when he was a kid. Apparently a lot of kids did at the time. Maybe the war on drugs can go after those trees. Maybe that has something to do with my present mental state.
You just proved there's no moron like an old moron.
Barbara, I am withoug doubt the bigest moron on the planet. It's no insult when I accept the charge.
Then again......
http://www.pamf.org/teen/abc/s...
This really clearly supports my incorrect notions.
I have noticed the my cites are often not read so I'll quote a little from the article.
"For instance, if someone is drunk or high on drugs, then that person cannot give consent. This means that even if someone seems eager to engage in sexual behavior, doing so can legally be considered sexual assault or rape if he or she is intoxicated.
http://everydayfeminism.com/20... Here one from: http://teenadvice.about.com/od...
"Another area of confusion on the date rape topic is intoxication. Bottom line, if a girl is intoxicated she cannot consent to sex and you could be charged with rape. It does not matter whether you knew she was intoxicated, it doesn’t matter if you were intoxicated too, all that matters is that she was not in a state of mind to consent and therefore it is rape. If you get a girl drunk or high and then “get together” with her you have committed a sexual assault.
Again, it doesn’t matter if you are drunk or high as well. Your diminished abilities do not negate your responsibilities. A good rule to follow; if you are under the influence do not have sex. Now say you really had no idea a girl was intoxicated and that she truly appeared to be a willing partner, what then?
A drunk woman cannot give consent, and if she appears to but she is drunk, it is rape. If the male is drunk as well, he miraculously is still raping her. Damn white male privilege straike again.
I know, I know, you do not have the time to read it.
So yes, it's moronic, Yes I am pathetically stupid.
Your name calling is indicitive of bubblethink. I thought better of you, and sad to see that once again I am wrong.
Ol Olsoc's fiction not mine.
Coal is an alternative is it not? If you want coal powered plants, then build the damn things. They will power Australia for the future. And you won't be relying on the sure to fail hippie power sources. Is that fiction?
Funny how people are disproving what I wrote by saying that the problem was alternative power sources, and that Australia is overwhelmingly coal, or the more exact quote - the "vast majority"
Or are the brownouts more fake news? Or the alternative power sources the problem? Or the overwhelming coal power? Take your pick. I'll let y'all tear my fiction to shreds.
One thing to note is that Australia got to their sad state by using some of the alternatives.
The vast majority of the electricity generation by in Australia is provided by burning coal. Perhaps it's best to consider reality instead of assuming that most Aussies live in Bartertown getting their electricity from pig shit.
Well then if they are burning coal, why the brownouts? Seems pretty simple - burn more coal, no brownouts, no problems at all. All the electricity they will ever need. Build more coal plants.
Good thing I've never seen anyone below the legal age to buy cigarettes smoking one!
Your post should be at +5 insightful. The amazing thing is that most people seem to have forgotten what it is like to be a teenager. When they hit that rebellious stage, they...rebel.
I started smoking at 14 years old, and why? because it was an act of rebellion. It was something grownups did. I wasn't allowed to buy or smoke. And musta been something pretty cool if adults kept it to themselves. So what did I do? Started smoking. Howbow dah?
Even without the laws, it wasn't hard then, and it isn't hard now.
I was up to three packs a day before I quit at 20. Smoking is a damn stupid thing.
But if I were to rebel and start today as a teen, I'd grow my own tobacco, and roll stogies.