Well yes, I get that... but regardless, I don't think a whole lot of people go beyond the "turn the knob more to one side for MORE water/heat/cold/etc." sort of logic.
Perhaps they equate the gas lines as being exactly the same as the water lines?
If the water in the shower is too cold, you dial the heat way up and then dial it back when it gets to where you like it. They probably assume the same thing for thermostats.
Solution:a bathroom scale with a built in thermometer. For every 3 degrees F of favorable temperature difference (that is, 3 degrees colder when it's winter, or 3 degrees warmer when it's summer), it adjusts the output of the scale by -1 pound. For every 3 degrees in the wrong direction, it adjusts the output of the scale by +1 pound. Therefore, it subconsciously has women associate bad things with turning the thermometer in the wrong direction.
Yes it is. Now I don't have to find out the name of the company that will take all of the assets and practices, change nothing, and keep doing the exact same crap because it's profitable as hell and the average end user is ignorant.
And then there's situations where an organization or person really doesn't want you to read their paperwork and they have a furnace that can flash burn paper in a handful of seconds. What's Darpa gonna do, offer $50,000 for the guy who figures out how to reconstitute ash?
I buy stuff on quality and not on brand name. A $20-60 pair of slacks will hold together just as well as $800 Armani slacks. I don't need pretentiousness clinging to my balls all day.
I had a friend in the neighborhood where I used to work that used to be a truck driver. From what he told me, the job pays well because it's hell. If you go one second above the 12 hour limit, if you make one mistake in your logbook, etc. you're looking at a huge potential shitstorm. There's very little room for error.
I really don't like that sort of logic with stuff like that. You know, "big enough to handle most disasters". That same thinking is why the levees failed during Hurricane Katrina (they were rated for Category 3, and not a Category 4 which hit).
I'm sure there's a point where a storm is so intense that you're fucked no matter how good your defenses are, but I think we set the bar too low.
Maybe if it was live? I don't think this sort of stuff can be done in real-time.
Star Trek DS9 had something interesting with Cardassian data technology. Data was stored on crystal "rods", like their version of a flash drive. But there was a "write once" rod that can't be altered after data is finished being written to it. Perhaps we need something like this for verified reporting/journalism.
"We... settled out of court. The way the system appeared to work to me was... Lady Justice had the scales, and you piled cash on the scales. And the one that piled the most cash on the scales and hired the most experts and the ones most willing to tell the biggest lies... that was the winner. That's... that seems to be how our justice system functions now. It's terrible. It's terrible. How can a farmer defend himself against a multinational corporation like Monsanto?" -Troy Roush, Vice President of the American Corn Growers Association, commenting on how Monsanto uses legal action to bully farmers into settling when they are accused of "stealing" Monsanto's IP (genetically modified seeds). From "Food Inc."
I've used Hammer for Source engine stuff before, and as far as map editors go it's pretty easy to use. The main things lacking for stuff like Portal are proper entities. You can make a map that would run in Portal, but it would be missing the game-specific code elements like whether a portal surface could work on a certain wall and whatnot.
The only major issue with Hammer and the Source engine is that it's really, really bad at running big, open areas. The Unreal engines are better at this, but the Unreal map editor is a friggin' nightmare to use.
You know that whole controversial "hierarchy of social needs" pyramid? I think we need something similar, but finanacially.
i.e. at the top would be making rent, then making sure all the bills are paid, then making sure everyone is fed, then making sure you have disposable income to buy clothes and the other necessities, then saving for retirement, etc.
That's generally how politics and negotiations work.
If, say, a union wants $100/year more for all of its employees, it asks for $1,000 and then negotiates down to the real amount. You have to start retarded and then work your way down to reasonable.
I think it would come down to a cost-benefit sort of thing.
I'm just working my way through my coffee and I haven't had my breakfast yet, so excuse any insanity in the following.
The best way I could figure one could do this would be to have a robotic "scrap yard" in space - a space station of sorts with storage bays and robotic arms and/or drones that would pull in satellites and have them be disassembled through fly-by-wire. The parts would then be stored in bays and re-assembled.
I can see a few problems with this, of course. One way or another you're going to have to get the drones/station to the satellites. You're going to have to have *something* pull up next to the satellite and either drag it into a reclamation bay or have the whole reprocessing unit go up right next to it. Moreover you'd have to fuel the reclamation station somehow, meaning the satellite that scraps other satellites would eventually need to be scrapped or refueled itself.
It might be pretty difficult to actually re-build the stuff in space, too... so another option would be to just collect the junk and return it to earth. But I'd say it takes way more effort to get something back down from orbit than it does to get it back up there. You don't need to give satellites heat shielding because they're not really supposed to return. So if you were to go the "collect parts and bring them back down" route, you'd have to heat-shield everything, not to mention things like parachutes or retro-rockets that would permit to land without smashing into the ground at terminal velocity.
So... I don't know, this idea seems pretty nuts. I don't think we could do it until we have electrically-powered engines that can be recharged with solar power and a rather large, permanently-manned space station.
I'd think Katrina would have taught people by now - you can't depend on the government to protect you. It took the federal government five days to get boots on the ground. How well do you think "The police are on their way!" will protect you in that situation?
Get a gun, learn how to use it safely and legally, and protect yourself. Remember, when seconds count the police are only minutes away.
That's how the game is played. If a layman wanted to cut stuff, they'd likely cut huge things that they view as money sinks like defense. Give Budget Hero a playthrough or three and you'll get some major insight into this.
They never threaten to cut the things that could easily be cut without hurting anyone but the private contractors who have their hands around a politician's dick. It's always stuff like medicare or social security or something that's actually somewhat useful. Then, the people throw a fit and the cuts don't get made. Repeat as necessary.
Ron Paul is following the Constitution and nothing more.
Long story short, the federal government is fuck-all huge and it isn't supposed to be.
I'm torn on him a bit. I like his ideas in principle, and I like his track record when it comes to voting. On the other hand I don't know how well we'd do without a lot of the more useful things the federal government provides. I don't think cutting everything very quickly is a realistic situation, but he is right that a lot of things do need to be cut and consolidated. We have a lot of unnecessary redundancy everywhere and are wasting billions (if not a few trillion) on it.
A lot of things (like politics, for instance) would be better if we called people on their bullshit - constantly - rather than let them get away with it.
Thankfully we finally have people leveraging the power of the Internet and aggregating data with things like Politifact and the Obameter, so the populous can be more informed if they want to be more informed. Sadly, a lot of them still don't seem to care.
I do feel a fair bit of hope that there are a lot of younger people who try to be more connected to the world, though. They read the news (and not just Fox's "UHMERICUH FUCK YEAH" shows), they protest, they petition... maybe idealism is something that only the young are good at.
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Air-conditioning is completely different.
Well yes, I get that... but regardless, I don't think a whole lot of people go beyond the "turn the knob more to one side for MORE water/heat/cold/etc." sort of logic.
Oh no, there's no documentation on how to modify a locked-down piece of hardware! Now it will NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN IN THE HISTORY OF MAN!
Perhaps they equate the gas lines as being exactly the same as the water lines?
If the water in the shower is too cold, you dial the heat way up and then dial it back when it gets to where you like it. They probably assume the same thing for thermostats.
Solution:a bathroom scale with a built in thermometer. For every 3 degrees F of favorable temperature difference (that is, 3 degrees colder when it's winter, or 3 degrees warmer when it's summer), it adjusts the output of the scale by -1 pound. For every 3 degrees in the wrong direction, it adjusts the output of the scale by +1 pound. Therefore, it subconsciously has women associate bad things with turning the thermometer in the wrong direction.
...but it's not worth celebrating.
Yes it is. Now I don't have to find out the name of the company that will take all of the assets and practices, change nothing, and keep doing the exact same crap because it's profitable as hell and the average end user is ignorant.
And then there's situations where an organization or person really doesn't want you to read their paperwork and they have a furnace that can flash burn paper in a handful of seconds. What's Darpa gonna do, offer $50,000 for the guy who figures out how to reconstitute ash?
I wish I had whatever that guy is smoking, because it must be fucking awesome.
I buy stuff on quality and not on brand name. A $20-60 pair of slacks will hold together just as well as $800 Armani slacks. I don't need pretentiousness clinging to my balls all day.
I had a friend in the neighborhood where I used to work that used to be a truck driver. From what he told me, the job pays well because it's hell. If you go one second above the 12 hour limit, if you make one mistake in your logbook, etc. you're looking at a huge potential shitstorm. There's very little room for error.
I really don't like that sort of logic with stuff like that. You know, "big enough to handle most disasters". That same thinking is why the levees failed during Hurricane Katrina (they were rated for Category 3, and not a Category 4 which hit).
I'm sure there's a point where a storm is so intense that you're fucked no matter how good your defenses are, but I think we set the bar too low.
No, the way to fix this is to seize all profits made as a result of the violation, and then add a fine on top of that.
In this case, it would be every HTC Thunderbolt Verizon sold (or rather, the profit made therein).
Fines will just be considered a business cost until they actually hurt. $100,000 isn't shit when you've sold $10,000,000* worth of phones in a month.
* Info from the Department of Pulling Numbers from my Ass for the Purpose of an Analogy.
I would come up with a clever acronym, but schizophrenia has way too many letters.
Society Can Help Inhibit Zoophiles Only Partially. Help Remove Excessive Ninnies In America.
...I tried.
Maybe if it was live? I don't think this sort of stuff can be done in real-time.
Star Trek DS9 had something interesting with Cardassian data technology. Data was stored on crystal "rods", like their version of a flash drive. But there was a "write once" rod that can't be altered after data is finished being written to it. Perhaps we need something like this for verified reporting/journalism.
No need to hold back; tell us how you really feel.
Is... is this the start of the Bigfoot Defense? Right up there with the Chewbacca Defense...
"We... settled out of court. The way the system appeared to work to me was... Lady Justice had the scales, and you piled cash on the scales. And the one that piled the most cash on the scales and hired the most experts and the ones most willing to tell the biggest lies... that was the winner. That's... that seems to be how our justice system functions now. It's terrible. It's terrible. How can a farmer defend himself against a multinational corporation like Monsanto?" -Troy Roush, Vice President of the American Corn Growers Association, commenting on how Monsanto uses legal action to bully farmers into settling when they are accused of "stealing" Monsanto's IP (genetically modified seeds). From "Food Inc."
I've used Hammer for Source engine stuff before, and as far as map editors go it's pretty easy to use. The main things lacking for stuff like Portal are proper entities. You can make a map that would run in Portal, but it would be missing the game-specific code elements like whether a portal surface could work on a certain wall and whatnot.
The only major issue with Hammer and the Source engine is that it's really, really bad at running big, open areas. The Unreal engines are better at this, but the Unreal map editor is a friggin' nightmare to use.
You know that whole controversial "hierarchy of social needs" pyramid? I think we need something similar, but finanacially.
i.e. at the top would be making rent, then making sure all the bills are paid, then making sure everyone is fed, then making sure you have disposable income to buy clothes and the other necessities, then saving for retirement, etc.
That's generally how politics and negotiations work.
If, say, a union wants $100/year more for all of its employees, it asks for $1,000 and then negotiates down to the real amount. You have to start retarded and then work your way down to reasonable.
I think it would come down to a cost-benefit sort of thing.
I'm just working my way through my coffee and I haven't had my breakfast yet, so excuse any insanity in the following.
The best way I could figure one could do this would be to have a robotic "scrap yard" in space - a space station of sorts with storage bays and robotic arms and/or drones that would pull in satellites and have them be disassembled through fly-by-wire. The parts would then be stored in bays and re-assembled.
I can see a few problems with this, of course. One way or another you're going to have to get the drones/station to the satellites. You're going to have to have *something* pull up next to the satellite and either drag it into a reclamation bay or have the whole reprocessing unit go up right next to it. Moreover you'd have to fuel the reclamation station somehow, meaning the satellite that scraps other satellites would eventually need to be scrapped or refueled itself.
It might be pretty difficult to actually re-build the stuff in space, too... so another option would be to just collect the junk and return it to earth. But I'd say it takes way more effort to get something back down from orbit than it does to get it back up there. You don't need to give satellites heat shielding because they're not really supposed to return. So if you were to go the "collect parts and bring them back down" route, you'd have to heat-shield everything, not to mention things like parachutes or retro-rockets that would permit to land without smashing into the ground at terminal velocity.
So... I don't know, this idea seems pretty nuts. I don't think we could do it until we have electrically-powered engines that can be recharged with solar power and a rather large, permanently-manned space station.
Jesus Christ, what isn't in the patriot act? I was gonna have a Klondike bar for breakfast but now I'm worried the DEA is gonna break my door down.
Courts have ruled that police don't have any duty to protect you for the most part.
I'd think Katrina would have taught people by now - you can't depend on the government to protect you. It took the federal government five days to get boots on the ground. How well do you think "The police are on their way!" will protect you in that situation?
Get a gun, learn how to use it safely and legally, and protect yourself. Remember, when seconds count the police are only minutes away.
That's how the game is played. If a layman wanted to cut stuff, they'd likely cut huge things that they view as money sinks like defense. Give Budget Hero a playthrough or three and you'll get some major insight into this.
They never threaten to cut the things that could easily be cut without hurting anyone but the private contractors who have their hands around a politician's dick. It's always stuff like medicare or social security or something that's actually somewhat useful. Then, the people throw a fit and the cuts don't get made. Repeat as necessary.
Ron Paul is following the Constitution and nothing more.
Long story short, the federal government is fuck-all huge and it isn't supposed to be.
I'm torn on him a bit. I like his ideas in principle, and I like his track record when it comes to voting. On the other hand I don't know how well we'd do without a lot of the more useful things the federal government provides. I don't think cutting everything very quickly is a realistic situation, but he is right that a lot of things do need to be cut and consolidated. We have a lot of unnecessary redundancy everywhere and are wasting billions (if not a few trillion) on it.
A lot of things (like politics, for instance) would be better if we called people on their bullshit - constantly - rather than let them get away with it.
Thankfully we finally have people leveraging the power of the Internet and aggregating data with things like Politifact and the Obameter, so the populous can be more informed if they want to be more informed. Sadly, a lot of them still don't seem to care.
I do feel a fair bit of hope that there are a lot of younger people who try to be more connected to the world, though. They read the news (and not just Fox's "UHMERICUH FUCK YEAH" shows), they protest, they petition... maybe idealism is something that only the young are good at.