Researchers have been trying to find a plant where the equation works out the other way, and sugar cane in equatorial latitudes might even work out okay (only okay though, not incredible).
Sorghum in the US and energy cane in the tropics, using the MixAlco process by Terrabon, could deliver energy at a gasoline pump price equivalent of $1-2/gal.
Maybe, but Monsanto will make a Roundup Ready Sorghum and the price will shoot to $4-5 in the states and anywhere else where the insanity of modern patent law prevails so virulently.
Aye, the way to defeat this would simply be to "launder" copper. It would mean selling it to a fence who'd melt it down into bars, slag, etc. Really ingenious ones could get equipment and make them into pipes or something plausible as a good cover. All it would do is add to the cost.
The best way to deter crime is to have a better social safety net in place and pull the economy out of the shitter.
Frankly, I'm starting to think it won't pass at all, given the momentum the opposition has been building lately.
Don't think that until the vote actually fails.
Don't think that until several months or years after the vote actually fails.
Look what they did with the bank bailouts. The people said no, Congress listened... and then voted it in anyway quickly and quietly not too much later.
Really we need to recognize that nation building does not work. We can't just go into a place with a completely different culture and liberate them. We need to choose our missions better. 'Take out Saddam and his government who we think are building weapons of mass destruction that could be used against us or our allies' is (if supported by real evidence) an example of a legitmate mission for America's army. 'Turn IRAQ and Afghanistan into democratic republics' is not.
Do you honestly believe we're out to do "nation building"?
We're doing "nation building" just like the Romans were "liberating the heathens" when they conquered so much of the world.
I've said it here before and I've noticed it too... Iran seems to be in the news a lot. It appears to be a thinly disguised rationale for an invasion. Keep in mind in the last year or so we've had "Iranian" agents attempt to assassinate someone on American soil and the continual talk of Iran's "nuclear buildup". I'm sure we'll see more and more stories in the coming months to build up the hatred and fear of Iran to appropriate enough levels to justify an invasion.
9/11 conspiracy theorists aside, replace "WMDs" with "nuclear weapons and assassins" and you have something that's practically the exact same template for the justification for the Iraq War. I expect that we'll be in Iran oh, say, just a couple months after Obama is re-elected.
(This is going to be a painfully brutal and truthful reply, so me getting downmodded for it a foregone conclusion. But please be aware that I'm not trying to flame or troll here; I'm merely speaking what I observe to be the truth no matter how unpleasant the reality of it may be.)
So is the right of US to not only invade the country, put their own government, kill a lot of people, send their childrens to guantanamo, but also to shit over the dead bodies of the ones that tried to resist and even joke over it?
Ultimately? Yes.
We've done bad stuff, but not nearly as bad as some of the worst countries in the world. (That is, of course, in no way a justification.) Unless we do something on the level of mass genocide, carpet bombing civilians, etc. - basically blatant and repeated violations of the "rules of war" - we'll largely be left alone.
Why? Because we have the best equipped and funded military in the world. In this world, might makes right. No one can argue with you when you can project the kind of military power that we can. We've already shown ourselves willing to ally with unsavory folks when it suits us (see the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and how we handled that one), violate international law, etc. And we can flagrantly disregard what is (in the grand scheme of things) "little problems". Anyone stupid enough to try to coerce us with military force would be sorely regretting it in no time.
Conversely, countries like, say, Afghanistan have basically no power against a modern military. Oh sure, they can do the whole "hide in caves and be insurgents" thing, but very few of these third world militias with AKs, RPGs, and technicals can stand up to our military in open combat.
Ultimately, the only way to prevent bad stuff from happening to your country is to have a strong enough military that won't only deter invaders but actually be able to repel them if need be. While your country is invaded and your other third-world allies try to help out, the EU and/or UN will debate the situation for 5 years and ultimately write a very stern letter to us. And we won't do a damn thing about it, because it all comes back around to the ultimate model of enforcing law - the use of violence - and the supreme lack of anyone else in the world to out-violence the good ol' U S of A.
Wozniak was the creative guy who enjoyed engineering stuff.
Jobs was the business mind, the one who handled all of the numbers, contracts, etc.
This kind of relationship isn't all that insane. It *can* work very well - let the creative guy make stuff, let the business guy sell it. Now if only they would filter this method down to entire companies. R&D is pretty much in the shitter at most major companies nowadays.
Regarding this topic, I'd love to know why so many game companies get it into their heads to code their own engines.
However much they want to do it, there's an engine out there that they can license and it will do almost anything. The Unreal engine is, what, like $200,000 K? That's 3-5 programmers for a year right there (and there's no way they can make something halfway decent in that time unless they're really skilled and command a high enough salary which defeats the purpose.)
With all of the prefabricated software we have nowadays (the only term I could think of that fits), it should be a matter of assembling all of the pieces and then doing the artwork, UI, unique AI elements, etc.
Yeah, now it counts as seized assets and it becomes part of the operating budget of the police department.
If there's even a *hint* of drugs in your vehicle, it's seized. Home? Seized. Oh, you have more than $10,000 cash on hand? Why? You're a drug dealed - seized.
You wanna talk opportunity for corruption...
I really do try my best to be an honest person, but more and more I'm seeing stuff that makes me think I'm a sucker for playing fair when so many people (especially our government) are stacking the deck in their favor as much as possible. I would have had a very difficult time turning that in to be honest.
So you complained about getting 2, Insightful instead of 5, Funny, and got 5, Funny for that... Will your heart burst, when I tell you that Funny doesn't count against your karma?:D
Not in the slightest. d:
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(I was referring to mykos' post which was (at the time) scored 2, Insightful and L4t3r4lu5' reply which is 5, Funny.)
This is why I believe we need limitations on how fast a bill can be voted for.
Something like 1 day/page should be a good way to either (a) slow the legislature down and give them time to actually read the bills, or (b) make the laws much, much shorter.
Oh, and no overlapping. No "March 15th is the day for these three bills". One day per page (with predetermined font and page sizes so there's no loophole here) of a bill.
"Emergency bills" should have a higher threshold of voting such as 4/5 or 5/6 majority. If there's greater than 1/6 opposition then it probably isn't an emergency.
Oh look, I just stopped a whole buttload of bad laws coming out every year! Now all we have to do is actually get them to follow these rules. Ha.
It's not as if you can't be fair to them. I think unless there's criminal negligence or something involved you should either give them two week's severance pay or two weeks of work in an unrelated department with restricted access to their old division. But this costs money, so it probably will never happen at a big corp.
Anime cons, comic cons, etc. are pretty much the same way.
A third of the fun is the event itself.
A third of the fun is being with your friends.
And the last third of the fun is being far, far, far away from family and responsibility and being ever so close to wonderfully priced bars with fantastic beers and ales on tap.
I've been using Avast for nearly a year now and I've yet to see one of these "alerts" you speak of. The only things I see are "Avast! Virus Database has been updated!" and "Threat detected." The sounds and voice of the announcements were a bit jarring at first but I find them quite charming now.
I guess if they ever did have them, they realized that people didn't like it and they stopped doing it. That says a lot about Avast.
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Researchers have been trying to find a plant where the equation works out the other way, and sugar cane in equatorial latitudes might even work out okay (only okay though, not incredible).
Sorghum in the US and energy cane in the tropics, using the MixAlco process by Terrabon, could deliver energy at a gasoline pump price equivalent of $1-2/gal.
Maybe, but Monsanto will make a Roundup Ready Sorghum and the price will shoot to $4-5 in the states and anywhere else where the insanity of modern patent law prevails so virulently.
Perfect! We coat the wires in plutonium, and any copper thieves will spontaneously explode! BRILLIANT!
Aye, the way to defeat this would simply be to "launder" copper. It would mean selling it to a fence who'd melt it down into bars, slag, etc. Really ingenious ones could get equipment and make them into pipes or something plausible as a good cover. All it would do is add to the cost.
The best way to deter crime is to have a better social safety net in place and pull the economy out of the shitter.
Frankly, I'm starting to think it won't pass at all, given the momentum the opposition has been building lately.
Don't think that until the vote actually fails.
Don't think that until several months or years after the vote actually fails.
Look what they did with the bank bailouts. The people said no, Congress listened... and then voted it in anyway quickly and quietly not too much later.
Really we need to recognize that nation building does not work. We can't just go into a place with a completely different culture and liberate them. We need to choose our missions better. 'Take out Saddam and his government who we think are building weapons of mass destruction that could be used against us or our allies' is (if supported by real evidence) an example of a legitmate mission for America's army. 'Turn IRAQ and Afghanistan into democratic republics' is not.
Do you honestly believe we're out to do "nation building"?
We're doing "nation building" just like the Romans were "liberating the heathens" when they conquered so much of the world.
Transparency has overthrown a few dozen tyrants, but I'm not so sure it can overthrow 535 of them.
I've said it here before and I've noticed it too... Iran seems to be in the news a lot. It appears to be a thinly disguised rationale for an invasion. Keep in mind in the last year or so we've had "Iranian" agents attempt to assassinate someone on American soil and the continual talk of Iran's "nuclear buildup". I'm sure we'll see more and more stories in the coming months to build up the hatred and fear of Iran to appropriate enough levels to justify an invasion.
9/11 conspiracy theorists aside, replace "WMDs" with "nuclear weapons and assassins" and you have something that's practically the exact same template for the justification for the Iraq War. I expect that we'll be in Iran oh, say, just a couple months after Obama is re-elected.
(This is going to be a painfully brutal and truthful reply, so me getting downmodded for it a foregone conclusion. But please be aware that I'm not trying to flame or troll here; I'm merely speaking what I observe to be the truth no matter how unpleasant the reality of it may be.)
So is the right of US to not only invade the country, put their own government, kill a lot of people, send their childrens to guantanamo, but also to shit over the dead bodies of the ones that tried to resist and even joke over it?
Ultimately? Yes.
We've done bad stuff, but not nearly as bad as some of the worst countries in the world. (That is, of course, in no way a justification.) Unless we do something on the level of mass genocide, carpet bombing civilians, etc. - basically blatant and repeated violations of the "rules of war" - we'll largely be left alone.
Why? Because we have the best equipped and funded military in the world. In this world, might makes right. No one can argue with you when you can project the kind of military power that we can. We've already shown ourselves willing to ally with unsavory folks when it suits us (see the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and how we handled that one), violate international law, etc. And we can flagrantly disregard what is (in the grand scheme of things) "little problems". Anyone stupid enough to try to coerce us with military force would be sorely regretting it in no time.
Conversely, countries like, say, Afghanistan have basically no power against a modern military. Oh sure, they can do the whole "hide in caves and be insurgents" thing, but very few of these third world militias with AKs, RPGs, and technicals can stand up to our military in open combat.
Ultimately, the only way to prevent bad stuff from happening to your country is to have a strong enough military that won't only deter invaders but actually be able to repel them if need be. While your country is invaded and your other third-world allies try to help out, the EU and/or UN will debate the situation for 5 years and ultimately write a very stern letter to us. And we won't do a damn thing about it, because it all comes back around to the ultimate model of enforcing law - the use of violence - and the supreme lack of anyone else in the world to out-violence the good ol' U S of A.
Wozniak was the creative guy who enjoyed engineering stuff.
Jobs was the business mind, the one who handled all of the numbers, contracts, etc.
This kind of relationship isn't all that insane. It *can* work very well - let the creative guy make stuff, let the business guy sell it. Now if only they would filter this method down to entire companies. R&D is pretty much in the shitter at most major companies nowadays.
Regarding this topic, I'd love to know why so many game companies get it into their heads to code their own engines.
However much they want to do it, there's an engine out there that they can license and it will do almost anything. The Unreal engine is, what, like $200,000 K? That's 3-5 programmers for a year right there (and there's no way they can make something halfway decent in that time unless they're really skilled and command a high enough salary which defeats the purpose.)
With all of the prefabricated software we have nowadays (the only term I could think of that fits), it should be a matter of assembling all of the pieces and then doing the artwork, UI, unique AI elements, etc.
Who says the words have to be English? Who says the words have to be in the popular/modern lexicon?
Onegaishimasu / Schadenfreude / Mnemonic / Abiogenesis
Oh noes, look how vulnerable to dictionary attacks I am!
That doesn't even count mnemonic devices, intentional misspeling, etc.
Yeah, now it counts as seized assets and it becomes part of the operating budget of the police department.
If there's even a *hint* of drugs in your vehicle, it's seized. Home? Seized. Oh, you have more than $10,000 cash on hand? Why? You're a drug dealed - seized.
You wanna talk opportunity for corruption...
I really do try my best to be an honest person, but more and more I'm seeing stuff that makes me think I'm a sucker for playing fair when so many people (especially our government) are stacking the deck in their favor as much as possible. I would have had a very difficult time turning that in to be honest.
So you complained about getting 2, Insightful instead of 5, Funny, and got 5, Funny for that... :D
Will your heart burst, when I tell you that Funny doesn't count against your karma?
Not in the slightest. d:
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(I was referring to mykos' post which was (at the time) scored 2, Insightful and L4t3r4lu5' reply which is 5, Funny.)
I personally look forward to the trolling.
First we had black faxes. Then we had spam mail. Now we'll have three-dimensional, biodegradable genitalia.
This is why I believe we need limitations on how fast a bill can be voted for.
Something like 1 day/page should be a good way to either (a) slow the legislature down and give them time to actually read the bills, or (b) make the laws much, much shorter.
Oh, and no overlapping. No "March 15th is the day for these three bills". One day per page (with predetermined font and page sizes so there's no loophole here) of a bill.
"Emergency bills" should have a higher threshold of voting such as 4/5 or 5/6 majority. If there's greater than 1/6 opposition then it probably isn't an emergency.
Oh look, I just stopped a whole buttload of bad laws coming out every year! Now all we have to do is actually get them to follow these rules. Ha.
Hurm. Today I learned the difference between Score2, Insightful and Score 5, Funny all comes down to punctuation.
That's pretty cool.
That's pretty cool?
That's pretty cool!
iEsta muy frio!
Kakko ii desu!
(And now, let's see how the shotgun approach works.)
I grew up taking important tests on a scantron sheet. If it's good enough for the SATs, it should be good enough for voting.
I seriously do not get these alerts you speak of and I haven't since I've installed Avast. I'm on XP SP3 - perhaps it's only on Vista or 7?
It's not as if you can't be fair to them. I think unless there's criminal negligence or something involved you should either give them two week's severance pay or two weeks of work in an unrelated department with restricted access to their old division. But this costs money, so it probably will never happen at a big corp.
Now? He travels 5 months of the year, owns a few businesses that he has other people to run,.
That would count as a job. He's the owner. Those "other people" are managers who work for him. Yes, it's an easy job but it's a job nonetheless.
Anime cons, comic cons, etc. are pretty much the same way.
A third of the fun is the event itself.
A third of the fun is being with your friends.
And the last third of the fun is being far, far, far away from family and responsibility and being ever so close to wonderfully priced bars with fantastic beers and ales on tap.
So did I, and now I can't get it to change away from PBS.
I've been using Avast for nearly a year now and I've yet to see one of these "alerts" you speak of. The only things I see are "Avast! Virus Database has been updated!" and "Threat detected." The sounds and voice of the announcements were a bit jarring at first but I find them quite charming now.
I guess if they ever did have them, they realized that people didn't like it and they stopped doing it. That says a lot about Avast.
Do you want to live in that world?
I once considered moving to London, but I changed my mind. Too rainy for me there.
why spend the money now and not have the game...just wait til you plan on downloading it
So you can get the sale prices.