Nope, I don't own an electric car. I can't afford a car, period.
I'm also one of those people who regularly does make really long trips several times a year (sometimes several times a month). I've yet to run the numbers, but getting an electric car and having to rent/borrow for all the long-distance traveling I do now won't really work out.
Yeah, but like 90% of Americans travel less than 25 miles a day for their commute. For the minority who do need to be able to travel hundreds of miles, then an electric car isn't for you. But for the rest of the crowd it's perfectly fine.
The "limited" range is a just another tactic by the oil and car industry to keep these things from ever getting popular. If your job is a 5 minute drive away and you make a weekly grocery trip 15 minutes away, why the Hell would you need a car with a range of 300 miles? Vacation/family trip, rent a car, take a train, bus, etc.
The range isn't going to improve if people don't buy the damn cars to help fund R&D - with real-world data as well - for future generations.
Isn't there that international atomic agency that does things like inspections of reactors? If we had them doing inspections and certifying that weapons-grade material wasn't being made, what would the huge problem be?
If inventory tracking is tightly controlled, it would be difficult for the CIA or something to sneak away with a few dozen barrels of unrefined nuclear waste for nefarious purposes. We are way more careful with accounting things way less dangerous than nuclear waste; I don't see why we couldn't have something like this set up.
Regardless if you have natural potential storage, couldn't Germany just build a storage facility?
Find somewhere far away from aquifers and the water table and start digging straight down. 1-2 meter thick walls of concrete and lead-lined walls could conceivably store nuclear waste (safely) for thousands of years.
Of course, it's very likely that within the next 100 years we'll find something useful for the waste and it would just be pulled out again.
I may be wrong, but from what I've read about pebble bed reactors they tend to be quite small. I recall reading in (I think) Popular Science that pebble beds were idea for places like Africa where one pebble bed reactor could be placed at a central point to power a few dozen villages.
For us, though, the economy of scale and whatnot... it just makes more sense to build larger size reactors. We wouldn't have as much problem stowing away all the nuclear waste and whatnot.
It took 4 hours of scrubbing and a chemical bath to clean off 2 years worth of nicotine stains, spilled soda, and various other gunk in my 10-year-old keyboard. After it was all done it felt a kilo lighter. d:
A major problem, though, is that 5 years from now the book will likely be around $15 retail, and the ebook will probably still be $15.
Also the "save a tree" argument is facetious. The paper industry is not stupid. Just as farmers use crop rotation (to prevent too much of the good stuff in soil being burned up and thus hurting their yields), they plant crops on different land every season. Many logging companies plant 2 trees for every one they cut down so when they come back in however many years it takes for trees to grow there will be something for them to make into lumber.
Well with all the fanatical Muslims you've been bringing into your countries lately (granted, a minority out of the larger overall group of moderate, saner Muslims), you'll have plenty of religious nuts to export for years to come.
Try living on a $100/month salary and we'll see how tempted you are to steal that Ferrari (which you could sell, at the minimum, for $500 to a chop shop).
Perhaps evidence should rather be stored with some sort of trusted neutral party, like a bank.
It would certainly be more difficult for an officer to sell some of the evidence on the street if its locked up in a vault and only someone high up on the chain has the key.
Who cares if this becomes the "standard"? For a computer tech like me, the iPhone's lockdown has been a godsend. All of those customers who want real control over their phones and want to learn how to jailbreak (or similar situations) is just more money in my pocket. The people with the knowledge will always find a way around the DRM; it's just going to keep the average person from running what they want.
There will also eventually be a point where the feature set of a new patch is no longer worth the upgrade. For instance, with Windows XP Service Pack 2, well, a lot of people still use that (even with SP3 out). Once the software reaches its apex and doesn't offer any significantly worthwhile features, the phones/devices will gradually become more and more jailbroken. The carriers might fight it at first, but eventually they'll have to concede to their use or lose customers to the companies that don't care if you use a jailbroken device on their network (i.e. using a Jailbroken iPhone with a T-Mobile SIM card).
On the one hand, Bittorrent is used to pirate their games. On the other hand, they probably save tens - if not hundreds - of thousands of dollars on bandwidth alone.
Even if we can't count on Blizzard, Turbine, et. al. to lobby against this directly, it presents another angle of attack for us. We can say "Hey, we don't want our WoW patches throttled or entirely blocked, how about you flex a little muscle for us or we won't be too keen on keeping our WoW accounts".
Go work for all those private space agencies that have sprung up due to NASA being lazy/underfunded, and sling satellites into space for billion-dollar corporations all year.
Seriously... We're willing to spend practically infinite amounts of money propping up banks that ought to have failed, and giving hilarious bonuses to idiots on wall st. but we're unwilling to think strategically about the survival of the human race?
There's no short-term profit in it. Everything nowadays is about the short-term profit.
I'd be perfectly fine with legalized dueling so long as there were set rules and the major players were above the age of 18 and mentally fit.
If things get bad enough that you would want to kill someone, as it stands now the attacker might miss a few times with his handgun and hit innocent bystanders. At least it would remove that risk to a degree.
Makes me wonder if any of the states with their silly old archaic laws still have a dueling law on the books.
On the plus side, at least students at the college level will be able to work with this program. It's going to be hosted at the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology.
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So do you own one? Why not?
Nope, I don't own an electric car. I can't afford a car, period.
I'm also one of those people who regularly does make really long trips several times a year (sometimes several times a month). I've yet to run the numbers, but getting an electric car and having to rent/borrow for all the long-distance traveling I do now won't really work out.
Never, because Google can fight back and win - thereby establishing a precedent unfavorable to the **AAs.
Yeah, but like 90% of Americans travel less than 25 miles a day for their commute. For the minority who do need to be able to travel hundreds of miles, then an electric car isn't for you. But for the rest of the crowd it's perfectly fine.
The "limited" range is a just another tactic by the oil and car industry to keep these things from ever getting popular. If your job is a 5 minute drive away and you make a weekly grocery trip 15 minutes away, why the Hell would you need a car with a range of 300 miles? Vacation/family trip, rent a car, take a train, bus, etc.
The range isn't going to improve if people don't buy the damn cars to help fund R&D - with real-world data as well - for future generations.
Isn't there that international atomic agency that does things like inspections of reactors? If we had them doing inspections and certifying that weapons-grade material wasn't being made, what would the huge problem be?
If inventory tracking is tightly controlled, it would be difficult for the CIA or something to sneak away with a few dozen barrels of unrefined nuclear waste for nefarious purposes. We are way more careful with accounting things way less dangerous than nuclear waste; I don't see why we couldn't have something like this set up.
Regardless if you have natural potential storage, couldn't Germany just build a storage facility?
Find somewhere far away from aquifers and the water table and start digging straight down. 1-2 meter thick walls of concrete and lead-lined walls could conceivably store nuclear waste (safely) for thousands of years.
Of course, it's very likely that within the next 100 years we'll find something useful for the waste and it would just be pulled out again.
I may be wrong, but from what I've read about pebble bed reactors they tend to be quite small. I recall reading in (I think) Popular Science that pebble beds were idea for places like Africa where one pebble bed reactor could be placed at a central point to power a few dozen villages.
For us, though, the economy of scale and whatnot... it just makes more sense to build larger size reactors. We wouldn't have as much problem stowing away all the nuclear waste and whatnot.
It took 4 hours of scrubbing and a chemical bath to clean off 2 years worth of nicotine stains, spilled soda, and various other gunk in my 10-year-old keyboard. After it was all done it felt a kilo lighter. d:
A major problem, though, is that 5 years from now the book will likely be around $15 retail, and the ebook will probably still be $15.
Also the "save a tree" argument is facetious. The paper industry is not stupid. Just as farmers use crop rotation (to prevent too much of the good stuff in soil being burned up and thus hurting their yields), they plant crops on different land every season. Many logging companies plant 2 trees for every one they cut down so when they come back in however many years it takes for trees to grow there will be something for them to make into lumber.
Well with all the fanatical Muslims you've been bringing into your countries lately (granted, a minority out of the larger overall group of moderate, saner Muslims), you'll have plenty of religious nuts to export for years to come.
Yeah, we really gotta get around to taking that sign down or adding the fine print on a plaque below it. It's misleading.
Try living on a $100/month salary and we'll see how tempted you are to steal that Ferrari (which you could sell, at the minimum, for $500 to a chop shop).
Perhaps evidence should rather be stored with some sort of trusted neutral party, like a bank.
It would certainly be more difficult for an officer to sell some of the evidence on the street if its locked up in a vault and only someone high up on the chain has the key.
Who cares if this becomes the "standard"? For a computer tech like me, the iPhone's lockdown has been a godsend. All of those customers who want real control over their phones and want to learn how to jailbreak (or similar situations) is just more money in my pocket. The people with the knowledge will always find a way around the DRM; it's just going to keep the average person from running what they want.
There will also eventually be a point where the feature set of a new patch is no longer worth the upgrade. For instance, with Windows XP Service Pack 2, well, a lot of people still use that (even with SP3 out). Once the software reaches its apex and doesn't offer any significantly worthwhile features, the phones/devices will gradually become more and more jailbroken. The carriers might fight it at first, but eventually they'll have to concede to their use or lose customers to the companies that don't care if you use a jailbroken device on their network (i.e. using a Jailbroken iPhone with a T-Mobile SIM card).
On the one hand, Bittorrent is used to pirate their games. On the other hand, they probably save tens - if not hundreds - of thousands of dollars on bandwidth alone.
Even if we can't count on Blizzard, Turbine, et. al. to lobby against this directly, it presents another angle of attack for us. We can say "Hey, we don't want our WoW patches throttled or entirely blocked, how about you flex a little muscle for us or we won't be too keen on keeping our WoW accounts".
Go work for all those private space agencies that have sprung up due to NASA being lazy/underfunded, and sling satellites into space for billion-dollar corporations all year.
Seriously... We're willing to spend practically infinite amounts of money propping up banks that ought to have failed, and giving hilarious bonuses to idiots on wall st. but we're unwilling to think strategically about the survival of the human race?
There's no short-term profit in it. Everything nowadays is about the short-term profit.
(Modern) firearms would just make things too risky and messy. Just hand 'em a couple of sabers and have 'em slice it up in an arena.
I'd wager a HERF would make some sort of whooshing sound. d:
whooooosh.
We can kill this fucker in it's crib.
Just like we killed the DMCA and Patriot Act...
I'd be perfectly fine with legalized dueling so long as there were set rules and the major players were above the age of 18 and mentally fit.
If things get bad enough that you would want to kill someone, as it stands now the attacker might miss a few times with his handgun and hit innocent bystanders. At least it would remove that risk to a degree.
Makes me wonder if any of the states with their silly old archaic laws still have a dueling law on the books.
What's the kinda of evolution where you wave around a crystal to turn one Pokémon into another? I'm more in favor of that one. Crystalian evolution.
I doubt many Level 1s I've talked with have a high school diploma, much less a CompTIA cert.
Safely? I can't imagine someone getting hurt by HERF. It's friggin' foam!
On the plus side, at least students at the college level will be able to work with this program. It's going to be hosted at the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology.
Feh. Quitter.