No, it might not be the only thing, but it's the most visible and what people can understand as taking action. There are probably other things that will save us more energy, but nothing as simple as redoing something that everyone is familiar with anyway.
It's blowing smoke up joe public's ass so they don't have to bore him with meaningful ideas.
The obvious answer is that congress needed an easy way to put something down on paper that they care about energy policy. Was there any in depth hearings on it, any experts called in to testify on the change, any representatives from industries affected by this change, actual debate on the subject? As far as i can remember, it was no on all accounts.
Congress passes a law without knowing the full consequences, simply so they would have something to show in the 06 elections.
And when McDonalds decides to sell my information to the local health clubs, i can get call/emails/letters asking if I enjoyed my Big Mac last Tuesday and did I know I can work off those calories at Bob's gym.
I think if I found out a place was using it, I would drive right by.
I thought bittorrent was the technology of filesharing where everyone sends parts of the whole file. Sure there is the tracking file that enables it, but isn't this essentially using everyone elses bandwidth for thier profit?
It just doesn't make sense to me why anyone would pay for this. "Pay us a fee, you can get movies, but you have to share the bandwidth you've already paid for?"
There is a huge difference between active military personel care and veterans care.
Veteran care almost seems like an afterthought. You need to drive 50+ miles to be seen at a clinic, you have to book routine visits months in advance, etc. Declining budgets, closing offices etc.
Exactly!!!!! It's the kids that ruin sequels. Look at The Mummy. I really liked the first one. So i decided to take the family to the 2nd. That god damn kid ruined the entire thing. Hollywood thinks that if a movie does well, making a sequel and putting an obnoxious 9 year old to bring in the kid audience must make everything even better.
Lucas was one of the first to try this, with those god-damn Ewoks. He just perfected it with Ep.1
I am waiting for a Fight Club 2 with kids beating up each other and a pg-13 rating to finally bring about the apocalypse .
The mysterious 4 day arrival thing comes from the different distribution centers. Most of mine are from the minneapolis, but if minneapolis doesn't have the movie I want, it comes from san jose or someplace like that. And they tend to ship back from where they came. So i print up address labels to the minneapolis center, so all my movies get back in 1 day.
The fact that companies even think this is ok to try is why I have no faith in our legal system. These companies should have something severe as a punishment, like serious jailtime for the offenders and big fines for the corporation.
Although the current justice dept will probably just put them in the proverbial "time-out" then give them a cookie. Make an example out of a couple of them. The government should have the will to reject a corporation's charter for shit like this.
I got my anti-windmill dvd in the mail last week.
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In western WI, a private company is looking at building a wind farm in my county. I thought people would be happy about it, usually anything renewable is looked well upon, hell 5 miles away there is a manure digester that was praised for being "forward-looking".
But this project is facing major opposition from the local residents because of supposedly lower property value. Funny thing about it, they don't want a windfarm ruining thier view, but they have no problem building a $500,000 house on a previously wooded hillside, and running the nice road up the side of the hill to drive there.
They can kiss my ass, as least i am getting something from the windmill.
I remember hearing about this when portable cassette players and cd players first came out. Much more hearing loss that ever before recorded because of headphones.
Last time I checked, the only thing that is different since the 70's is the size of the headphone. Kids still wear them too much, and listen to them too loud and unfortunately some still will have hearing loss.
It's not a "new" technology that is causing the problem, iPods didn't invent loud music. It's kids not knowing about the volume control until it's too late.
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I think a more telling story is that the PS2 is still selling more than all the "next-gen" consoles.
280,000 vs 259,000
Although, I think the wii could trounce it if they could keep it on the shelves.
No, it might not be the only thing, but it's the most visible and what people can understand as taking action.
There are probably other things that will save us more energy, but nothing as simple as redoing something that everyone is familiar with anyway.
It's blowing smoke up joe public's ass so they don't have to bore him with meaningful ideas.
The obvious answer is that congress needed an easy way to put something down on paper that they care about energy policy.
Was there any in depth hearings on it, any experts called in to testify on the change, any representatives from industries affected by this change, actual debate on the subject? As far as i can remember, it was no on all accounts.
Congress passes a law without knowing the full consequences, simply so they would have something to show in the 06 elections.
Anyone who voted on this is/was a god damn moron.
Because even Jack knows that Sony will eventually implode without any outside help.
"Enough to power about 1 million homes."
How about a MW output. That's a specific number that can be compared to other forms of electric generation.
Is that one million homes in the late spring (mildest time of year), when no one is running a/c or heat?
Or is that one million homes in the middle of summer when whole power grids collapse from the strain?
Specifics please.
I have to agree, i was hoping to get a "roll your own NES" package for like $30. Get your 15-20 favorite games for one price.
Yes I use Windows.
For most of the IE vulnerabilities, I have to reboot my computer to install it.
Firefox is nice enough to download it and install it the next time I start the browser.
And it does it more than the 2nd Tuesday of each month.
What's the motivation behind Philip Morris trying to debunk global warming?
MS:
"We want our sales to continue and not drop off while people wait for the next release."
Sony:
"Why would we want something that is in place and works? It's a PS3, 3!!!!!, with a 3 on the end. Pretty cool huh?"
Because... why sell a game one time for $20, when you can take a person for $5 a month instead.
"we have listened to our customers, and are eliminating the charge."
I want to live in Verison world, where unless people tell you otherwise, they want to be ripped off.
I just can't comprehend how fucked up corporations are.
And when McDonalds decides to sell my information to the local health clubs, i can get call/emails/letters asking if I enjoyed my Big Mac last Tuesday and did I know I can work off those calories at Bob's gym.
I think if I found out a place was using it, I would drive right by.
I thought bittorrent was the technology of filesharing where everyone sends parts of the whole file. Sure there is the tracking file that enables it, but isn't this essentially using everyone elses bandwidth for thier profit?
It just doesn't make sense to me why anyone would pay for this.
"Pay us a fee, you can get movies, but you have to share the bandwidth you've already paid for?"
There is a huge difference between active military personel care and veterans care.
Veteran care almost seems like an afterthought.
You need to drive 50+ miles to be seen at a clinic, you have to book routine visits months in advance, etc.
Declining budgets, closing offices etc.
It's too bad they aren't releasing it for a console system.
I prefer my gaming on screens larger than 4".
Unless you are an oil or traditional broadcast company, then you don't have to pay royalties on the public items you are using to make profit.
Exactly!!!!!
It's the kids that ruin sequels.
Look at The Mummy. I really liked the first one.
So i decided to take the family to the 2nd. That god damn kid ruined the entire thing.
Hollywood thinks that if a movie does well, making a sequel and putting an obnoxious 9 year old to bring in the kid audience must make everything even better.
Lucas was one of the first to try this, with those god-damn Ewoks.
He just perfected it with Ep.1
I am waiting for a Fight Club 2 with kids beating up each other and a pg-13 rating to finally bring about the apocalypse .
The mysterious 4 day arrival thing comes from the different distribution centers.
Most of mine are from the minneapolis, but if minneapolis doesn't have the movie I want, it comes from san jose or someplace like that.
And they tend to ship back from where they came.
So i print up address labels to the minneapolis center, so all my movies get back in 1 day.
The fact that companies even think this is ok to try is why I have no faith in our legal system.
These companies should have something severe as a punishment, like serious jailtime for the offenders and big fines for the corporation.
Although the current justice dept will probably just put them in the proverbial "time-out" then give them a cookie.
Make an example out of a couple of them.
The government should have the will to reject a corporation's charter for shit like this.
In western WI, a private company is looking at building a wind farm in my county.
I thought people would be happy about it, usually anything renewable is looked well upon, hell 5 miles away there is a manure digester that was praised for being "forward-looking".
But this project is facing major opposition from the local residents because of supposedly lower property value.
Funny thing about it, they don't want a windfarm ruining thier view, but they have no problem building a $500,000 house on a previously wooded hillside, and running the nice road up the side of the hill to drive there.
They can kiss my ass, as least i am getting something from the windmill.
Judging by the first screen shot, Jake Gyllenhaal is a Revolution tester.
So if this system screws up, mis-calculates the available space and dents a ferrari, is toyota going to pony up?
Like a side story, just bringing him into the story.
That type of character is what was missing from #1-3.
People aren't just good or bad, some people walk the line between the two.
Then i think the biggest problem would be your music choice not your volume level.
I remember hearing about this when portable cassette players and cd players first came out.
Much more hearing loss that ever before recorded because of headphones.
Last time I checked, the only thing that is different since the 70's is the size of the headphone.
Kids still wear them too much, and listen to them too loud and unfortunately some still will have hearing loss.
It's not a "new" technology that is causing the problem, iPods didn't invent loud music.
It's kids not knowing about the volume control until it's too late.