Why is it always about corporate greed on slashidiot? This site is the most narrow minded site I have ever read, it sucks now.
Good question. I'm really not opposed to corporations, greed, or a combination of the two. However when it endangers people or kills them, it pisses me off. In all honesty, between my current account and the previous ones that I forgot passwords for, I'd guess this is the first time I've brought up "corporate greed". But you are correct, the group-think on Slashdot has become considerably more narrow-minded.
Yea, now people will finally stop arguing for it and give solar, wind, etc. more attention. Awesome. I'm sorry, but I'll never be a proponent for something that has a good chance of causing horrible diseases and mutations and birth defects, regardless of how good the technology protecting it is (you could blame Chernobyl on outdated and weak Soviet tech if you want, but a modern plant by the gods of technology, Japanese, is faring no better). And there is the matter of having to bury the leftovers for thousands of years.
It's a GE designed plant that is nearly 40 years old. At least one of the reactors were scheduled to be decommission within the next couple of months. It's neither a modern plant nor "by the gods of technology, Japanese".
But this is not going to be a Chernobyl-level catastrophe..
I really hate that the above statement is becoming the bright side at Fukushima. No matter what corporate greed or human error is uncovered in the coming years/months, the masses are going to remember the hysterics of this tragedy and remain opposed to nuclear energy for some time.
Amazingly the damage and deaths caused by Deep Water Horizons and the rigs burning in Japan don't get near the hype. And the number of deaths caused by coal are virtually ignored.
Ever try to buy a 3rd party phone back in the day without paying an extra monthly fee for the privilege of hooking it up to the Bell system? Or buy a phone at all, for that matter, instead of leasing it for an exorbitant monthly fee?
That kind of shenanigans paid for all that innovation.
Yeah, I remember that. While I agree that generally monopolies are a bad thing (or have great potential to become so). Bell didn't seem as bad as it was made out to be. Once the divestiture was finished and we had choices and could hook up phones we ourselves purchased; somehow everybody I knew had noticeably higher phone bills. I also remember some of the phones that were available for purchase back then were of extremely poor quality.
So let me summarize: [sarcasm] we were free to choose a different phone carrier, at a higher cost. Purchase our own phone, which may have been of the same quality at best. Or ended up purchasing several that were half a step up from two cans with a string until finding one that was acceptable. And Bell Labs became a shadow of its former self. Thank you Uncle Sam for looking out for me. [/sarcasm]
And it's been 30 years since they've done anything useful. Those base inventions don't make up for the amount of consumer abuse that they have caused, or will cause if this deal goes through.
It's been 37 years since the antitrust case was filed, and just over 29 years since it's conclusion. I'll assume you are smart enough to put together why funding for R&D disappeared around that time period.
Sorry, I think you're confusing the purpose of the ad with its form. Being entertaining is the form, but entertainment is not the purpose: The purpose is to convince people to buy VW cars, and that's propaganda.
I don't think it's as simple as that. What about Star Wars? Is that entertainment or propaganda? The franchise has certainly grossed more money from the merchandise than the movies. Which is probably the case for many movies that are geared toward kids.
From a marketer's perspective a television show itself is just one big vehicle for advertising. You even have product placement in the show and movies themselves. Really if you boil it down, it's all about making money in the end anyhow.
Granted, I do believe that i3, i5 and i7 laptops are hard to find outside of apple at the moment, but wait a month.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but I don't think any of those CPUs are hard to find in a laptop. My Dell for work is almost a year old and has an i7. At the time they had several choices for laptops with all three of the processors you mentioned. We also have several Sony laptops that are a couple months older that have i7's.
Anything that monitors my car will not sit well with me. Oh wait, or anyone at all.
Unless you have a car that was built pre-OBD2 (older than 1996) your car already has this in place. PID 31 records how many miles your car has traveled since it was last reset.
This just seems not only overly complicated, but fucking stupid. Just raise the gas tax if this needs to be done. It would be easier to implement, cheaper, and make more sense.
Regardless about how you feel about AGW, using less gas is a good thing on many levels. So simply raising the gas tax would be a two-fer in that regard. If everyone somehow miraculously switches to electric vehicles, then worry about how to deal with it then. Not that it would happen that fast anyhow.
How much fun will it be to deal with the "devices" that must be installed on all vehicles? Adding them to new cars would be trivial, but I think that would seriously hurt new car sales. What's to keep someone from hacking or disconnecting the devise? How long until there will be kits to modify these devices? What happens if it breaks? Or is stolen? How much will it cost to retrofit an older car? Who pays to install it? What about classic cars? Farm use vehicles?
Increasing the gas tax just makes so much more sense if we must do this.
But Dr. Who has 770 episodes. 770. That's one a day for 2 years.
Not to mention that some of the older shows cold be insanely long. War Games was over 4 hours in its entirety. One of the lost Hartnell/Dalek episodes was 5 hours.
Agreed. You probably should start with the 2005 series and watch them through until the most current.
From there, probably the Tom Baker years. If the low budget look of these don't turn you off then it's a toss up as to where to go. If you like the last of the Baker episodes, then just keep going through them in order. The producer that is credited for "running the show into the ground" took over in the later Baker years and remained until the end of McCoys tenure. Personally I liked the Jon Pertwee episodes better when I was younger. Patrick Troughton reminded me too much of Moe from the three stooges when I was a kid. But since I've gone back and watched some of the "restored" episodes, I found it truly a shame that most of them no longer exist.
I saw how this turned out in a Dr. Who episode. Murderous mutated humans, parallel universes with the British military in Nazi-esque uniforms. Finishing up with the destruction of the planet. It's not good.
The real thing harming music companies (and radio) is the internet and the fact you can access almost anything at anytime you desire. Maybe they should try suing that. (LOL)
Obviously they have no grip on reality, so please stop giving them additional stupid ideas. If they think suing Limewire for $75 trillion is rational, obviously the internet, as a whole, must be worth exponentially more money. When this happens and they shut down the internet, I'm blaming YOU.
tv show makers are getting lazier by the year. we got a whole 13 episode last season.... ooooohhhhhh, glad they did not strain themselves. and I'l bet they pull the BSG bullshit of airing 6 episode now, wait 5 months then air the next 4 episdodes and then hold onto the xmas one for the end of the year.
To be fair, that was SciFi channel bullshit. They found a way to (in their mind, or excuse for one) get two seasons out of one. That's how they managed to kill Caprica. Just before the show started to get interesting they split the first season and then never bothered to mention when it would be on again. As others have said, I'm not bothering to watch any more shows while they are on. I don't watch enough TV anyhow, so I prefer being able to watch them on DVD at my convenience.
I was pretty happy with the pictures I got of the moon. It was the 4 second exposure of a landing plane that showed me how bad light pollution was. The sky looked black to me but the image was light streaks on an orange background.
I'm just curious, what set up did you use? The best shots I got were at 1/640 of a second at f/5.6 with the ISO setting at 100. I haven't had a chance to get a better lens, so I used the 28-135 that came with the camera at full zoom.
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Why is it always about corporate greed on slashidiot? This site is the most narrow minded site I have ever read, it sucks now.
Good question. I'm really not opposed to corporations, greed, or a combination of the two. However when it endangers people or kills them, it pisses me off. In all honesty, between my current account and the previous ones that I forgot passwords for, I'd guess this is the first time I've brought up "corporate greed". But you are correct, the group-think on Slashdot has become considerably more narrow-minded.
Yea, now people will finally stop arguing for it and give solar, wind, etc. more attention. Awesome.
I'm sorry, but I'll never be a proponent for something that has a good chance of causing horrible diseases and mutations and birth defects, regardless of how good the technology protecting it is (you could blame Chernobyl on outdated and weak Soviet tech if you want, but a modern plant by the gods of technology, Japanese, is faring no better). And there is the matter of having to bury the leftovers for thousands of years.
It's a GE designed plant that is nearly 40 years old. At least one of the reactors were scheduled to be decommission within the next couple of months. It's neither a modern plant nor "by the gods of technology, Japanese".
But this is not going to be a Chernobyl-level catastrophe..
I really hate that the above statement is becoming the bright side at Fukushima. No matter what corporate greed or human error is uncovered in the coming years/months, the masses are going to remember the hysterics of this tragedy and remain opposed to nuclear energy for some time.
Amazingly the damage and deaths caused by Deep Water Horizons and the rigs burning in Japan don't get near the hype. And the number of deaths caused by coal are virtually ignored.
Ever try to buy a 3rd party phone back in the day without paying an extra monthly fee for the privilege of hooking it up to the Bell system? Or buy a phone at all, for that matter, instead of leasing it for an exorbitant monthly fee?
That kind of shenanigans paid for all that innovation.
Yeah, I remember that. While I agree that generally monopolies are a bad thing (or have great potential to become so). Bell didn't seem as bad as it was made out to be. Once the divestiture was finished and we had choices and could hook up phones we ourselves purchased; somehow everybody I knew had noticeably higher phone bills. I also remember some of the phones that were available for purchase back then were of extremely poor quality.
So let me summarize: [sarcasm] we were free to choose a different phone carrier, at a higher cost. Purchase our own phone, which may have been of the same quality at best. Or ended up purchasing several that were half a step up from two cans with a string until finding one that was acceptable. And Bell Labs became a shadow of its former self. Thank you Uncle Sam for looking out for me. [/sarcasm]
And it's been 30 years since they've done anything useful. Those base inventions don't make up for the amount of consumer abuse that they have caused, or will cause if this deal goes through.
The Bell System divestiture, or the breakup of AT&T, was initiated by the filing in 1974 by the U.S. Department of Justice of an antitrust lawsuit against AT&T.[1] The case, United States v. AT&T, led to a settlement finalized on January 8, 1982
It's been 37 years since the antitrust case was filed, and just over 29 years since it's conclusion. I'll assume you are smart enough to put together why funding for R&D disappeared around that time period.
If there is any truth to this story then they are headed down the same hill as the US, just a few years behind.
Sorry, I think you're confusing the purpose of the ad with its form.
Being entertaining is the form, but entertainment is not the purpose: The
purpose is to convince people to buy VW cars, and that's propaganda.
I don't think it's as simple as that. What about Star Wars? Is that entertainment or propaganda? The franchise has certainly grossed more money from the merchandise than the movies. Which is probably the case for many movies that are geared toward kids.
From a marketer's perspective a television show itself is just one big vehicle for advertising. You even have product placement in the show and movies themselves. Really if you boil it down, it's all about making money in the end anyhow.
Granted, I do believe that i3, i5 and i7 laptops are hard to find outside of apple at the moment, but wait a month.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but I don't think any of those CPUs are hard to find in a laptop. My Dell for work is almost a year old and has an i7. At the time they had several choices for laptops with all three of the processors you mentioned. We also have several Sony laptops that are a couple months older that have i7's.
Because ads are not intended as entertainment,
What utopian world did you just come from? This ad campaign by VW was more entertaining than 99% of the shows on TV, then and now.
FYI I have never worked for or owned a VW product.
I'm just waiting for my patent on blinking and metabolizing oxygen to go through. Muh ha ha ha.
Hate to break it to you, but the "Retardicans" are not in control any more. Who are you going to blame for this?
Do you really have to ask? Obviously its gotta be George Bush. ;-)
And of course everything will be Barrack Obama's fault as soon as the next guy gets in office. It's a vicious cycle we seem to be caught in .
Anything that monitors my car will not sit well with me.
Oh wait, or anyone at all.
Unless you have a car that was built pre-OBD2 (older than 1996) your car already has this in place. PID 31 records how many miles your car has traveled since it was last reset.
This just seems not only overly complicated, but fucking stupid. Just raise the gas tax if this needs to be done. It would be easier to implement, cheaper, and make more sense.
Regardless about how you feel about AGW, using less gas is a good thing on many levels. So simply raising the gas tax would be a two-fer in that regard. If everyone somehow miraculously switches to electric vehicles, then worry about how to deal with it then. Not that it would happen that fast anyhow.
How much fun will it be to deal with the "devices" that must be installed on all vehicles? Adding them to new cars would be trivial, but I think that would seriously hurt new car sales. What's to keep someone from hacking or disconnecting the devise? How long until there will be kits to modify these devices? What happens if it breaks? Or is stolen? How much will it cost to retrofit an older car? Who pays to install it? What about classic cars? Farm use vehicles?
Increasing the gas tax just makes so much more sense if we must do this.
But Dr. Who has 770 episodes. 770. That's one a day for 2 years.
Not to mention that some of the older shows cold be insanely long. War Games was over 4 hours in its entirety. One of the lost Hartnell/Dalek episodes was 5 hours.
Agreed. You probably should start with the 2005 series and watch them through until the most current.
From there, probably the Tom Baker years. If the low budget look of these don't turn you off then it's a toss up as to where to go. If you like the last of the Baker episodes, then just keep going through them in order. The producer that is credited for "running the show into the ground" took over in the later Baker years and remained until the end of McCoys tenure. Personally I liked the Jon Pertwee episodes better when I was younger. Patrick Troughton reminded me too much of Moe from the three stooges when I was a kid. But since I've gone back and watched some of the "restored" episodes, I found it truly a shame that most of them no longer exist.
I saw how this turned out in a Dr. Who episode. Murderous mutated humans, parallel universes with the British military in Nazi-esque uniforms. Finishing up with the destruction of the planet. It's not good.
My old iPhone 4 shattered in a 3-foot fall from my pocket to the concrete...
The new one hasn't had a scratch on it since, though.
Obviously 3 feet didn't give it enough time to prep itself.
You need to become a /. editor. The beauty of your words, just grouped together in nonsensical ways. It's just awesome.
Member, editor. It's all such a thin fuzzy line.
For average users a NAS, a PS3/Apple_TV/XBox360 and a tablet are everything that they need at home.
So much for convergence. ;-)
I'm more concerned about what your Light Sport Aircraft at 30,000 feet.
No kidding. By definition they are not pressurized. Which makes breathing a bit of an issue for starters.
The real thing harming music companies (and radio) is the internet and the fact you can access almost anything at anytime you desire. Maybe they should try suing that. (LOL)
Obviously they have no grip on reality, so please stop giving them additional stupid ideas. If they think suing Limewire for $75 trillion is rational, obviously the internet, as a whole, must be worth exponentially more money. When this happens and they shut down the internet, I'm blaming YOU.
Like 6.
tv show makers are getting lazier by the year. we got a whole 13 episode last season.... ooooohhhhhh, glad they did not strain themselves.
and I'l bet they pull the BSG bullshit of airing 6 episode now, wait 5 months then air the next 4 episdodes and then hold onto the xmas one for the end of the year.
To be fair, that was SciFi channel bullshit. They found a way to (in their mind, or excuse for one) get two seasons out of one. That's how they managed to kill Caprica. Just before the show started to get interesting they split the first season and then never bothered to mention when it would be on again. As others have said, I'm not bothering to watch any more shows while they are on. I don't watch enough TV anyhow, so I prefer being able to watch them on DVD at my convenience.
I was pretty happy with the pictures I got of the moon. It was the 4 second exposure of a landing plane that showed me how bad light pollution was. The sky looked black to me but the image was light streaks on an orange background.
I'm just curious, what set up did you use? The best shots I got were at 1/640 of a second at f/5.6 with the ISO setting at 100. I haven't had a chance to get a better lens, so I used the 28-135 that came with the camera at full zoom.
This is the first sign of the upcoming invasion in 2012. Our satellites are being "tested". ;-)
Here's an interesting link about many of the nuclear propulsion systems over the years: http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040112/nuclear.shtml