The last few years alone have shown great strides in truly clean energy production (not to be confused with the often mistaken for clean clean-now-hide-the-dirt-til-later energy production, like nuclear).
You mean like solar? No I guess that's more of a hide-the-mercury-chromium-PVC-silicon tetrachloride-waste-post-production-"now-it's-clean"-hide-the-disposal-of-EOL-panels-til-later kind of clean energy. Or are you talking about those practically-useless-residential-wind turbines? OR maybe the hugely-devastating-to-the-aquatic-ecosystem-hydroelectric-plants?
There are dozens, if not hundreds, of new ways to get to this clean energy... smart people keep mixing it up and it really is quite amazing.
Really? Name one form of "clean" energy. The problem is more like stupid people keep believing marketing BS about what "clean" energy is. There was a time when nuclear actually had a similar vibe as solar does now. Then over time the truth came out about the storage life of the waste and the possible dangers. Now it's become the pariah of clean energy. There are some seriously underplayed issues with solar panel production and disposal. If you think there are no issues with the byproducts from the composites that are used for wind-turbines then you are fooling yourself.
Its only a matter of time, and time calculated in decades (not the nuclear standard of calculating time in millennia), before one, or my guess, many new clean energy alternatives become not only viable but very profitable. Nuclear energy is just too expensive (when you add up the cost of the R&D, the educations required, and especially 4000-40000 years of waste storage, and last, not least, the whatif disasters like a chernobyl-scale (not chernobyl-like) disaster).
So you predict that magic pixie dust power generation is only decades away? Cool!
Seriously though, I'm not against solar, nuclear, wind, or even fossil fuel energy production. As far as I can tell, all forms of energy production cause some sort of harmful waste or environmental issue in one way or another. Perhaps geothermal being the one with the least problems, however it's not terribly practical other than in Iceland and a few other areas. I think a better approach is to try to maximize the efficiency and lower the toxic byproducts of what is possible while we work on something better and start to get away from the non-renewables. But that's just what I think.
I was gonna say that my cable TV company already has a lock on the A/V Aggravation market but you beat me to it.
I actually misread the title, at first, as "Roku Set-Top Box Gets A/V Aggravation Service" and my first thought was that Comcast (my ISP) will surely be suing for IP theft or patent infringement.
I buy the majority of my computer equipment from either Newegg or Tigerdirect. When it comes to monitors I would suggest purchasing from Tiger. Newegg's policy is that they will not accept an exchange for a monitor unless there are at least 8 dead pixels where Tiger will do so for one dead pixel.
What if you have it set to silent or "meeting" mode?
It's still going to be in contact w/ the towers and it's location will be known. As far as I know, those modes simply turn off the ringer. If you put it in flight mode or remove the battery so that it is no longer transmitting there will be no location data sent.
Given the inherant dangers of the egg harvesting procedures, it is unlikely that any ethical doctor would purposefully subject a woman to that, just for the purpose of additional stem cell lines.
I'm not taking either side here, but I think that you chose to point out that an ethical doctor would not do this may be worth noting.
When I was young, the back of my social security card has a notice: "Not to be used for identification purposes" (or something similar). When I lost my original card and had to get a replacement, the notice was missing.
I still have my original, and it does state it. I always assumed that it was still the case, I guess spammers have a better lobby than we thought.;-)
Our government is solely to blame for allowing the private sector to use social security numbers as identifiers. Congress has had an overabundance of time to pass laws criminalizing the use of social security numbers by the private sector. In my opinion, Congress has been criminally negligent in allowing this to continue for this long.
I agree, but I'd like to know how you plan to punish them. Obviously voting them out of office hasn't worked out so well. Besides, there are probably many more injustices that are far worse that they should be held accountable for.
Social security numbers should be used for one, and only one, purpose: to link an individual to social security benefits. Any other use should be a criminal offense.
I've always refused to give out my social security number other than after I've been hired by an employer. I've lived in several states over the years and many used to use your social security number as your drivers license number. I never understood why people would choose to use it when the option to not do so was offered. Usually the reason was an excuse of pure laziness, "I don't want to have to remember another number". I also remember when businesses would try to claim that you were required to write you social on a check for them to accept it as payment.
What if they start demanding you report to the attitude modification center for your antidepressants because you're not smiling all day long? This especially bugs me because I'm not a smilier and I like being bitter, damnit!
I hear that John Preston is good at making sure people take their meds...
...And he can take care of all those smiley people as well. It's a twofer.
I was wondering the same thing. The way the summery read I was expecting TFA to be slamming this car. But the summary includes just about the only negative statement about the car. The very next sentences are about as opposite as can be from the summary and TFA pretty much continues on with that line of thought:
But don't. Buy a Grand Sport. Even if there were another 253-mph drop-top with more luxury appointments than a Bond villain's boudoir, you wouldn't want it. You'd want this exact car, because more than being a blast to drive, it is the greatest gasoline-powered vehicle that has ever been, or will ever be, built. Seriously.
Set you location in the configuration section and it will give you the time, date, altitude, and azimuth for Iridium flares. The ISS coordinates are a little more vague, but it tends to be visible a little longer.
Especially since the US-backed coup to put the Shah in place meant the democratically Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq was removed. This was basically because he wanted to nationalize the British owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company which has since become BP.
USA is a democracy. It makes sense, to some degree, to blame the American people for letting someone like Bush come to power, and to make them, to some degree, responsible for the foreign policies of same.
I understand that it's really cool to bash G.W. Bush, but at least do so for something that makes at least a little sense. If there is any president to point the finger at for why Iran hates the US so much it's Eisenhower. He's the one that allowed the CIA to go ahead with the 1953 coup d'etat and overthrow the elected PM of Iran at the time. If the current government falls in Iran, then perhaps you can blame Bush for actually being right about spreading democracy in the Middle East.
Of course, you'd get a massive shock when you picked up the phone because of the electrostatic action of your polyester leisure suit, so I'd have to conclude that on the whole things aren't any better or worse than they used to be.
While I can't definitively say that fashion has improved much, I'm pretty sure it's not gotten worse that the "polyester leisure suit". The only shock you would receive now would be if you actually got to speak to a real person on the other end of the phone, because customer service was much better man [sic] moons ago than it is now.
I remember finding a lot of hidden and unintended things in the Atari 2600 games. The only one I specifically remember was in the game Adventure. There was an invisible dot (you could see it in a wall if you were close enough) that you needed the bridge to get to in the black castle. If you took it to a room on the way to the white castle along with the gold key you could go though the wall and into a room with some text that changed colors. I think it was the names of the game designers or something.
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Sure, you can massage the numbers all you like, but money taken from the tax payers and given to NASA is how we should be looking at it.
That's strange. I always looked at it as money given by the tax payers to invest in the future of mankind.
The last few years alone have shown great strides in truly clean energy production (not to be confused with the often mistaken for clean clean-now-hide-the-dirt-til-later energy production, like nuclear).
You mean like solar? No I guess that's more of a hide-the-mercury-chromium-PVC-silicon tetrachloride-waste-post-production-"now-it's-clean"-hide-the-disposal-of-EOL-panels-til-later kind of clean energy. Or are you talking about those practically-useless-residential-wind turbines? OR maybe the hugely-devastating-to-the-aquatic-ecosystem-hydroelectric-plants?
There are dozens, if not hundreds, of new ways to get to this clean energy... smart people keep mixing it up and it really is quite amazing.
Really? Name one form of "clean" energy. The problem is more like stupid people keep believing marketing BS about what "clean" energy is. There was a time when nuclear actually had a similar vibe as solar does now. Then over time the truth came out about the storage life of the waste and the possible dangers. Now it's become the pariah of clean energy. There are some seriously underplayed issues with solar panel production and disposal. If you think there are no issues with the byproducts from the composites that are used for wind-turbines then you are fooling yourself.
Its only a matter of time, and time calculated in decades (not the nuclear standard of calculating time in millennia), before one, or my guess, many new clean energy alternatives become not only viable but very profitable. Nuclear energy is just too expensive (when you add up the cost of the R&D, the educations required, and especially 4000-40000 years of waste storage, and last, not least, the whatif disasters like a chernobyl-scale (not chernobyl-like) disaster).
So you predict that magic pixie dust power generation is only decades away? Cool!
Seriously though, I'm not against solar, nuclear, wind, or even fossil fuel energy production. As far as I can tell, all forms of energy production cause some sort of harmful waste or environmental issue in one way or another. Perhaps geothermal being the one with the least problems, however it's not terribly practical other than in Iceland and a few other areas. I think a better approach is to try to maximize the efficiency and lower the toxic byproducts of what is possible while we work on something better and start to get away from the non-renewables. But that's just what I think.
I miss Windows ME.
I missed Windows ME...
I went from 98se to 2K. Personally my favorite was Windows RG(Really good Edition)
I was gonna say that my cable TV company already has a lock on the A/V Aggravation market but you beat me to it.
I actually misread the title, at first, as "Roku Set-Top Box Gets A/V Aggravation Service" and my first thought was that Comcast (my ISP) will surely be suing for IP theft or patent infringement.
This assumes the appointed pro-bono counsel is competent and interested in the welfare of his/her client, which may or may not be the case.
Assuming they are competent, all I can say is that It's about time.
Let's say Santa Claus is real...
Are you saying he's not?
Then no one gets any money at all, but are you really against Santa Claus?
Just what kind of twisted person are you?
I have no affiliation with either company.
I buy the majority of my computer equipment from either Newegg or Tigerdirect. When it comes to monitors I would suggest purchasing from Tiger. Newegg's policy is that they will not accept an exchange for a monitor unless there are at least 8 dead pixels where Tiger will do so for one dead pixel.
What if you have it set to silent or "meeting" mode?
It's still going to be in contact w/ the towers and it's location will be known. As far as I know, those modes simply turn off the ringer. If you put it in flight mode or remove the battery so that it is no longer transmitting there will be no location data sent.
Given the inherant dangers of the egg harvesting procedures, it is unlikely that any ethical doctor would purposefully subject a woman to that, just for the purpose of additional stem cell lines.
I'm not taking either side here, but I think that you chose to point out that an ethical doctor would not do this may be worth noting.
I always thought that was the name of the guy who built Data. Wasn't it? Dr. Noone Young Sung?
Doctor Noonien Soong
Doctor who?
That was Janet, you disrespectful dumbfucks.
You mean they actually were two different people???
When I was young, the back of my social security card has a notice: "Not to be used for identification purposes" (or something similar). When I lost my original card and had to get a replacement, the notice was missing.
I still have my original, and it does state it. I always assumed that it was still the case, I guess spammers have a better lobby than we thought. ;-)
Our government is solely to blame for allowing the private sector to use social security numbers as identifiers. Congress has had an overabundance of time to pass laws criminalizing the use of social security numbers by the private sector. In my opinion, Congress has been criminally negligent in allowing this to continue for this long.
I agree, but I'd like to know how you plan to punish them. Obviously voting them out of office hasn't worked out so well. Besides, there are probably many more injustices that are far worse that they should be held accountable for.
Social security numbers should be used for one, and only one, purpose: to link an individual to social security benefits. Any other use should be a criminal offense.
I've always refused to give out my social security number other than after I've been hired by an employer. I've lived in several states over the years and many used to use your social security number as your drivers license number. I never understood why people would choose to use it when the option to not do so was offered. Usually the reason was an excuse of pure laziness, "I don't want to have to remember another number". I also remember when businesses would try to claim that you were required to write you social on a check for them to accept it as payment.
What if they start demanding you report to the attitude modification center for your antidepressants because you're not smiling all day long? This especially bugs me because I'm not a smilier and I like being bitter, damnit!
I hear that John Preston is good at making sure people take their meds...
I was wondering the same thing. The way the summery read I was expecting TFA to be slamming this car. But the summary includes just about the only negative statement about the car. The very next sentences are about as opposite as can be from the summary and TFA pretty much continues on with that line of thought:
But don't. Buy a Grand Sport. Even if there were another 253-mph drop-top with more luxury appointments than a Bond villain's boudoir, you wouldn't want it. You'd want this exact car, because more than being a blast to drive, it is the greatest gasoline-powered vehicle that has ever been, or will ever be, built. Seriously.
Here's a good resource for ISS, Iridium flares, etc predictions: http://www.heavens-above.com/
Set you location in the configuration section and it will give you the time, date, altitude, and azimuth for Iridium flares. The ISS coordinates are a little more vague, but it tends to be visible a little longer.
We wouldn't know -- it would be something utterly intelligible to us, but we'd recognize the word "fossil" in it somewhere...
That's because it will most likely be a mix of vally, redneck, and inner city slang... ...And our reply will sound pompous and faggy to them.
We'll figure that out the same day as we find the 44th presidents 8 missing states; 7 of which he visited and had one left to go during the campaign.
Especially since the US-backed coup to put the Shah in place meant the democratically Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq was removed. This was basically because he wanted to nationalize the British owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company which has since become BP.
USA is a democracy. It makes sense, to some degree, to blame the American people for letting someone like Bush come to power, and to make them, to some degree, responsible for the foreign policies of same.
I understand that it's really cool to bash G.W. Bush, but at least do so for something that makes at least a little sense. If there is any president to point the finger at for why Iran hates the US so much it's Eisenhower. He's the one that allowed the CIA to go ahead with the 1953 coup d'etat and overthrow the elected PM of Iran at the time. If the current government falls in Iran, then perhaps you can blame Bush for actually being right about spreading democracy in the Middle East.
Of course, you'd get a massive shock when you picked up the phone because of the electrostatic action of your polyester leisure suit, so I'd have to conclude that on the whole things aren't any better or worse than they used to be.
While I can't definitively say that fashion has improved much, I'm pretty sure it's not gotten worse that the "polyester leisure suit". The only shock you would receive now would be if you actually got to speak to a real person on the other end of the phone, because customer service was much better man [sic] moons ago than it is now.
Popular irony is like getting a fly in your white wine.
Actually that would be, "It's a black fly in your Chardonnay...
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
And isn't it ironic... don't you think"
Opposite magnetic charge... Hmmmm. The only way this would work implies singularity doesn't it?
Perhaps he's talking about the GP's alternative universe.
no one
...Except for Chuck Norris.
I remember finding a lot of hidden and unintended things in the Atari 2600 games. The only one I specifically remember was in the game Adventure. There was an invisible dot (you could see it in a wall if you were close enough) that you needed the bridge to get to in the black castle. If you took it to a room on the way to the white castle along with the gold key you could go though the wall and into a room with some text that changed colors. I think it was the names of the game designers or something.