Tech support and theology, as far as I know, have absolutely nothing in common.
You mean aside from the evangelism of tech support reps? They certainly spew brand loyalty much the same way theology evangelists spew religious loyalty.
Personally, I prefer my spirituality AND my PC to be compliant with logic and rationale.
This sounds like a strange scenario possibly due to some type of weird configuration. I remember back in the ole mobo jumper days when I blew a couple components because I had overlooked a jumper cpu voltage setting. Nobody's fault but mine.
...and you are one of them, with your FUD about schools being hotbeds of sickness and filthy lucre.
Wow, you're serious. I worked in a school for four years. Never have I contracted more passing illnesses in my life. I have a strong immune system and am in relatively good shape for my age. Maybe the FUD you infer is that of your perception. I'm simply stating facts. Schools are places where germs get spread. Just like airports, hospitals, and other places where a lot of people congregate. Get off the conspiracy wagon and look at a post objectively for once.
For the record, I follow George Carlin's advice. The only reason I wash my hands after going to the bathroom (unless I'm cooking or something, mind you) is when I shit on them.
Could there be any other explanation? Uh, well of course. Schools are hotbeds of spreading sickness, this is nothing new. For this to really mean something, how about they look at places that have a lot of wifi going on without all the germ spreading. Maybe they could look at dense urban areas that have a lot of wifi yet everyone lives in their own apartment and aren't picking their nose and then getting a drink from the water fountain.
Interesting viewpoint. It appears as though you may not be happy with most things, and I would suggest you disconnect your computer from the rest of the world immediately. At the very least, hire a psychiatrist.
You bring up secondary effects, yet only the ones that are in favor of your argument.
What about the additional electricity you will use while at home for heating/cooling/lighting etc? What about the secondary effect of all the garbage trucks that will have to go to all the different houses to pick up the trash they could have picked up at one central office building? What about all the kids choosing to stay home and play video games all day instead of going to the park? How about all the additional networking equipment that will have to be built, installed, maintained, and replaced?
If we're going to appeal to principle to justify our actions, we have to be consistent about it.
Who is the "we" you refer to?
If you mean the USA, well, it's not our job, we have the UN for this.
The UN adopted policy targeted toward Iraq subsequent to the Gulf War. Iraq did not comply. If we can get the UN to pass resolutions on North Korea that mandate the elimination of weapons production and all that, well then we can go through the same lip-service we did with Saddam.
"Hey, K.Dog, we want to inspect your country for stuff you shouldn't have, let us in..."
"No, American pigs, you can't come in, unless you bring me whiskey and cigars."
It's not about consistency. Consistency is not fair. It's about making rules that countries will refuse to follow because they know the rules are empty and mean nothing if there will be nobody there to enforce them.
I'm still confused why people are so gung-ho that the war in Iraq was not justified.
For YEARS the UN had been attempting to perform weapons inspections that were sanctioned by the rest of the world. And for YEARS they would show up at suspected facilities, attempt to inspect them, and were forced to leave by men with guns.
Iraq was, with little doubt, producing weapons in violation of UN Resolution 687, yet there was nobody willing to back up that resolution other than members of UNSCOM.
And we said--'OK. Security Council, they're not letting us in.' Nothing. Day goes by--'Excuse me, gentlemen, we're parked out in front of the agriculture ministry. They're not letting us in. We want to do an inspection.' Silence. Nothing.
Oh, now this argument. You are partly comparing apples to nail clippers. Fuel use and electricity use are not the same thing.
If people are home more often, okay, sure, you have less fuel being used to drive around conducting your normal life. But what about all the things people do on the internet that have real-world counterparts that use very little power? Internet gaming uses a lot more electricity than kids meeting up in the park to play a game.
Also, consider that in many cases a work environment consolidates the energy use to one location. I don't know any hard numbers, but if a business employs 100 people that all work in an office, the power used to heat/cool the building seems to me like it would be quite a bit less than the power used to heat/cool 100 homes. Though, I'm sure this depends greatly on how you heal/cool your business/home.
Would I say that I use more electricity today than I did back in 1995 dicking around on CompuServe? Of course I do.
Ok, listen, I know your intentions are good and all, but you have to understand something. If you roll out broadband across an entire country (though small) there will be a lot of people acquiring fast internet that they did not have previously.
Doesn't it make sense that they will be using their computers more often? Do you think that somehow the electricity the Internet uses is static? More computers, more switches, more routers, more repeaters, all amount to higher electricity use.
Do you think that gasoline consumption doesn't change if more people have cars? Or better roads?
You are actually trying to say that providing broadband access across all the country AND IN OPTICAL FIBRE, it's not even coper, and putting up 3.5G internet instead of GPRS, is actually making any appreciable difference to our energy consumption?
You do realize that computers use electricity, right? Did I miss a/. story somewhere? Is everyone using hand cranks and hamsters?
Imagine a nice quiet town in the mountains with a standard two-lane highway as the only transportation in and out. This little town is adorable and attracts tourists for all over who come and spend their money as well as deteriorate the very environment they find dear.
The town sees this problem because lately there have been complaints that traffic is getting very bad on the weekends during peak travel times. The town decides the best course of action is to expand the road so that it can handle 300% of the current traffic resulting in fewer complaints by visitors.
However, the problem is now that with increased road capacity, they are seeing even more people show up to walk around and look at crafts. The problem hasn't been solved, simply postponed and arguably exacerbated.
If Portugal wants to increase power capacity while at the same time increase power consumption, something isn't going to end as anticipated. Of course I agree that developing clean energy is a noble goal. But it seems a bit hypocritical to say you're doing so while on the other hand doing exactly the opposite.
Portugal is investing in the future. They are doing so by building out infrastructure that will supply green energy while simultaneously building out infrastructure that will increase the energy use of the population. Averting Global Warming so that you can download movies faster?
...which creates an even more ample and cheaper supply of oil for others. I think there has been talk of building a high speed rail line between SF and LA for at least 20 years.
THIS is exactly why I don't like to go to shows like this. I live in Denver, and believe me, there is absolutely no shortage of great music venues here, a good handful of them are either a few blocks from my apartment, or are a $5 cab ride away.
If you're in Denver for this joke festival (lol, wait until you see the location, HAHAHAHA) and prefer a better scene (though AEG still has their dirty hands on some of them) just check out Jambase and look for other shows. The Gothic Theater and The Bluebird are two of my favorites. The Ogden often has good bands, but if you want to try and get outside during setbreak, good luck, those yellow jackets will shove several hundred people in a tiny section barricaded off just outside the door. Hope you're not claustrophobic. The Fillmore is a good place also, but only because it's the biggest in the neighborhood and has the best bar in Denver across the street (omg, a Sancho's reference on/.) There's also plenty of great local music at the bars around town, and Pete's Monkey Bar (next door to Sancho's) is often the afterparty bar of choice for local bands. Don't plan on staying if you're a douche, you will be kicked out quickly. There's also Cervantes, Owsley's, and a few others that typically have great music. I'm looking forward to the Earth Wind and Fire Halloween show (performed by The Motet) myself. Motet's Talking Heads Halloween show a couple years ago was absolutely fantastic.
And despite its nature, Boulder has a decent music scene also, just gotta watch out for the Alex Jones cultists.
For the rest of you, have fun in Commerce Shitty!!!
Why not just have students pay a scaling subscription fee? You pay your $50/mo (or $25, or $200, whatever) and if you get an A they pay for a percentage of your tuition based on your subscription rate.
Anyhow, this just means I'd have put into a ton of cake classes for extra money and to fulfill core requirements. Sup Phil 100, Math 100, Eng 100, etc. Little too late for me though.
If it is worth it to you to pay money for the class that will teach you nothing, just so you can get a good grade and win your bet, well, you will probably lose in the end. I've just enrolled at Regis University, and at $350-$450/credit hour I most certainly would prefer to avoid the remedial classes. $1050 for a class just to win a bet, well I still had to pay for the class and didn't even learn anything.
With that said, if I were a soldier, and could have one multi-tool digital device, it would include:
All the standard stuff you find on "phones" now. GPS, compass, maps, web (or some military grade version of the web)
Whoop ass battery. Make it easy to change and put a carabiner on it along with a built-in solar panel so I can clip it to my pack and charge a spare during the day.
Rugged, of course.
Avalanche beacon type functionality. Not necessarily for an avalanche, but integrate that with an app to track nearby allies.
Secure, secure, secure. No off the shelf software, custom stuff that others will have more difficulty getting their hands on. Especially if it falls into enemy hands. Remote kill switch possibly?
The software will end up being the key. The hardware is already there (maybe except for the whoop ass battery). Useful apps that make life easier. It's not supposed to replace current military communication channels, it just augments them. I am sure the military would love soldiers to have a digital leatherman.
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Why not Nerd Herd? Too close to Nerd Turd?
Tech support and theology, as far as I know, have absolutely nothing in common.
You mean aside from the evangelism of tech support reps? They certainly spew brand loyalty much the same way theology evangelists spew religious loyalty.
Personally, I prefer my spirituality AND my PC to be compliant with logic and rationale.
This sounds like a strange scenario possibly due to some type of weird configuration. I remember back in the ole mobo jumper days when I blew a couple components because I had overlooked a jumper cpu voltage setting. Nobody's fault but mine.
...and you are one of them, with your FUD about schools being hotbeds of sickness and filthy lucre.
Wow, you're serious. I worked in a school for four years. Never have I contracted more passing illnesses in my life. I have a strong immune system and am in relatively good shape for my age. Maybe the FUD you infer is that of your perception. I'm simply stating facts. Schools are places where germs get spread. Just like airports, hospitals, and other places where a lot of people congregate. Get off the conspiracy wagon and look at a post objectively for once.
For the record, I follow George Carlin's advice. The only reason I wash my hands after going to the bathroom (unless I'm cooking or something, mind you) is when I shit on them.
Could there be any other explanation? Uh, well of course. Schools are hotbeds of spreading sickness, this is nothing new. For this to really mean something, how about they look at places that have a lot of wifi going on without all the germ spreading. Maybe they could look at dense urban areas that have a lot of wifi yet everyone lives in their own apartment and aren't picking their nose and then getting a drink from the water fountain.
School boards are so.... Yea.
Interesting viewpoint. It appears as though you may not be happy with most things, and I would suggest you disconnect your computer from the rest of the world immediately. At the very least, hire a psychiatrist.
You bring up secondary effects, yet only the ones that are in favor of your argument.
What about the additional electricity you will use while at home for heating/cooling/lighting etc? What about the secondary effect of all the garbage trucks that will have to go to all the different houses to pick up the trash they could have picked up at one central office building? What about all the kids choosing to stay home and play video games all day instead of going to the park? How about all the additional networking equipment that will have to be built, installed, maintained, and replaced?
Climate.
If we're going to appeal to principle to justify our actions, we have to be consistent about it.
Who is the "we" you refer to?
If you mean the USA, well, it's not our job, we have the UN for this.
The UN adopted policy targeted toward Iraq subsequent to the Gulf War. Iraq did not comply. If we can get the UN to pass resolutions on North Korea that mandate the elimination of weapons production and all that, well then we can go through the same lip-service we did with Saddam.
"Hey, K.Dog, we want to inspect your country for stuff you shouldn't have, let us in..."
"No, American pigs, you can't come in, unless you bring me whiskey and cigars."
It's not about consistency. Consistency is not fair. It's about making rules that countries will refuse to follow because they know the rules are empty and mean nothing if there will be nobody there to enforce them.
We had no business whatever invading Iraq.
I'm still confused why people are so gung-ho that the war in Iraq was not justified.
For YEARS the UN had been attempting to perform weapons inspections that were sanctioned by the rest of the world. And for YEARS they would show up at suspected facilities, attempt to inspect them, and were forced to leave by men with guns.
Iraq was, with little doubt, producing weapons in violation of UN Resolution 687, yet there was nobody willing to back up that resolution other than members of UNSCOM.
And we said--'OK. Security Council, they're not letting us in.' Nothing. Day goes by--'Excuse me, gentlemen, we're parked out in front of the agriculture ministry. They're not letting us in. We want to do an inspection.' Silence. Nothing.
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Better roads just means that more people will elect to drive.
Doesn't anyone remember Ray Kinsella?
Oh, now this argument. You are partly comparing apples to nail clippers. Fuel use and electricity use are not the same thing.
If people are home more often, okay, sure, you have less fuel being used to drive around conducting your normal life. But what about all the things people do on the internet that have real-world counterparts that use very little power? Internet gaming uses a lot more electricity than kids meeting up in the park to play a game.
Also, consider that in many cases a work environment consolidates the energy use to one location. I don't know any hard numbers, but if a business employs 100 people that all work in an office, the power used to heat/cool the building seems to me like it would be quite a bit less than the power used to heat/cool 100 homes. Though, I'm sure this depends greatly on how you heal/cool your business/home.
Would I say that I use more electricity today than I did back in 1995 dicking around on CompuServe? Of course I do.
Ok, listen, I know your intentions are good and all, but you have to understand something. If you roll out broadband across an entire country (though small) there will be a lot of people acquiring fast internet that they did not have previously.
Doesn't it make sense that they will be using their computers more often? Do you think that somehow the electricity the Internet uses is static? More computers, more switches, more routers, more repeaters, all amount to higher electricity use.
Do you think that gasoline consumption doesn't change if more people have cars? Or better roads?
You are actually trying to say that providing broadband access across all the country AND IN OPTICAL FIBRE, it's not even coper, and putting up 3.5G internet instead of GPRS, is actually making any appreciable difference to our energy consumption?
You do realize that computers use electricity, right? Did I miss a /. story somewhere? Is everyone using hand cranks and hamsters?
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If you really think so.
Imagine a nice quiet town in the mountains with a standard two-lane highway as the only transportation in and out. This little town is adorable and attracts tourists for all over who come and spend their money as well as deteriorate the very environment they find dear.
The town sees this problem because lately there have been complaints that traffic is getting very bad on the weekends during peak travel times. The town decides the best course of action is to expand the road so that it can handle 300% of the current traffic resulting in fewer complaints by visitors.
However, the problem is now that with increased road capacity, they are seeing even more people show up to walk around and look at crafts. The problem hasn't been solved, simply postponed and arguably exacerbated.
If Portugal wants to increase power capacity while at the same time increase power consumption, something isn't going to end as anticipated. Of course I agree that developing clean energy is a noble goal. But it seems a bit hypocritical to say you're doing so while on the other hand doing exactly the opposite.
Let me get this straight...
Portugal is investing in the future. They are doing so by building out infrastructure that will supply green energy while simultaneously building out infrastructure that will increase the energy use of the population. Averting Global Warming so that you can download movies faster?
This is weird.
...which creates an even more ample and cheaper supply of oil for others. I think there has been talk of building a high speed rail line between SF and LA for at least 20 years.
People must be asking for your autograph, and a soda, all the time!
Only to dragons named Joe. It's a light snack, typically cured, and spiced with powdered eagle talons.
I tend to go for the cane sugar stuff myself, or stevia based sweeteners.
It wasn't Bond, it was that bloody man of a man Sean Connery that did it.
THIS is exactly why I don't like to go to shows like this. I live in Denver, and believe me, there is absolutely no shortage of great music venues here, a good handful of them are either a few blocks from my apartment, or are a $5 cab ride away.
If you're in Denver for this joke festival (lol, wait until you see the location, HAHAHAHA) and prefer a better scene (though AEG still has their dirty hands on some of them) just check out Jambase and look for other shows. The Gothic Theater and The Bluebird are two of my favorites. The Ogden often has good bands, but if you want to try and get outside during setbreak, good luck, those yellow jackets will shove several hundred people in a tiny section barricaded off just outside the door. Hope you're not claustrophobic. The Fillmore is a good place also, but only because it's the biggest in the neighborhood and has the best bar in Denver across the street (omg, a Sancho's reference on /.) There's also plenty of great local music at the bars around town, and Pete's Monkey Bar (next door to Sancho's) is often the afterparty bar of choice for local bands. Don't plan on staying if you're a douche, you will be kicked out quickly. There's also Cervantes, Owsley's, and a few others that typically have great music. I'm looking forward to the Earth Wind and Fire Halloween show (performed by The Motet) myself. Motet's Talking Heads Halloween show a couple years ago was absolutely fantastic.
And despite its nature, Boulder has a decent music scene also, just gotta watch out for the Alex Jones cultists.
For the rest of you, have fun in Commerce Shitty!!!
Why not just have students pay a scaling subscription fee? You pay your $50/mo (or $25, or $200, whatever) and if you get an A they pay for a percentage of your tuition based on your subscription rate.
Anyhow, this just means I'd have put into a ton of cake classes for extra money and to fulfill core requirements. Sup Phil 100, Math 100, Eng 100, etc. Little too late for me though.
If it is worth it to you to pay money for the class that will teach you nothing, just so you can get a good grade and win your bet, well, you will probably lose in the end. I've just enrolled at Regis University, and at $350-$450/credit hour I most certainly would prefer to avoid the remedial classes. $1050 for a class just to win a bet, well I still had to pay for the class and didn't even learn anything.
I am not a soldier. Not now, not never.
With that said, if I were a soldier, and could have one multi-tool digital device, it would include:
The software will end up being the key. The hardware is already there (maybe except for the whoop ass battery). Useful apps that make life easier. It's not supposed to replace current military communication channels, it just augments them. I am sure the military would love soldiers to have a digital leatherman.