I wish that would be enough. The city and surrounding areas pull a billion gallons a day. Maybe the little submarine will find a secret cache of a trillion gallons?;p
Okay, chuckles. Lets go over this so even you can understand. In the Catskill Mountains, there's a big lake. Huge. Very hard to miss. It's got a sign above it. (In several places, actually.) This supplies the water of NYC. It's no secret.
Now, lets say you can go through a few dozen feet of rock. Okay? After you've gone through that, you can go through another dozen feet of cement. THEN you'll have made a teensy hole. What, you think this is a 3" pipe, like in your wall?
So. You're going through nearly 100' of solid rocky stuff. With what, dear eliza? A focused nuclear blast? A big drill? Lots of o's in the word stupid? Go ahead, you're the evil mastermind. Why not turn on your tap, and try to drink the cities water supply? Think how many people you could kill if you drank it all!
Also, on the DEP site is the plan for what to do if both tunnels ever catastrophically failed. It includes desalinazation, as well as a large lake in the middle of central park, and the water table for Long Island being sucked dry.;p
But thanks for trying to feel superior. You're not. You're actually pretty dull. Have a nice day! You've been flamed!
The xbox is a loss leader, as several other people pointed out.
How about *FREE* cellphones? Are they somehow making a profit on free? Or $9.99 like I've seen them, if you want to say that it can't be a loss leader if it's free. I find it hard to believe that they're making a profit on a $10 phone.
Okay? Thanks for yelling in all caps. You're a doofus. Please drive through.
I'm pretty sure those are the highest end laptops they'd be offering. I do know the last time I was there, they had some real cheapies. Maybe they're going high class like walmart.;p
I kid you not. T&A (Don't mock the name!) travel centers sell low end laptops to truckers, and they also sell these internet access cards that allow them to check their e-mail and to basic web stuff at any of the other T&A truck stops. The card includes minutes, both for the internet access, and the cost of making the phone call from the truck stop, but the laptops they sell on the side, and I've seen them being sold from $100-$250.
They're really the greatest places - you can also buy TV's that'll fit in your truck, portable fridges, and tv dinners in cardboard boxes that'll heat themselves up! (Sterno included.) Every time I'm driving cross country it's the only place I stop, and you know when you're getting close, because they advertise on CB channel 19. (Which isn't exactly legal, but hell, nobody cares, and truckers love 'em.)
Oh yeah. They also have mechanics on duty, showers, 24 hour decent resturants, and all the jolt you could want.
Despite being illegal, payola is rife, keeping interesting artists off the air in favor of the manufactured hitmaker of the week.
Okay, assume that statement is fully true, and major labels pay radio stations big bucks to play their manufactured hitmaker of the week. This is keeping the interesting artists off the air?
Wrong.
Somebody listens to it. Someone buys the albums. N'Sync didn't get big because of major label payola, they got big because some clown looked at a shelf in a record store, and said, 'I want THIS one!'
The same with Hanson, Britney, 98, blah-de-freakin'-blah. Someone's listening to this crap. And you know what? It's trendy to call it crap. But when a radio station, that makes money off ad revenue, has to choose what to play, it's either going to choose the mainstream 'crap', or the indie 'interesting' stuff. The rest of what will happen is left as an exercise for the reader.
Other things pointed out in the article are just plain criminal, however:
Record companies regularly deduct 15 percent off the top of sales as an allowance for "breakage" -- a survival from the days of shellac records that now simply serves to reduce artist royalties by that amount
and
And now, record companies -- who have allied themselves with the just-as-bad motion picture industry - want to make it a felony for you to own a computer that is capable of copying music from a CD to your portable player without paying them money, even though courts have held that such copying is entirely legal.
Blame the MPAA for a lot - the DMCA, copy protected CD's, starving artists that sell more than 50,000 records, but not for the bad taste of the little girl down the block.
If it breaks the redbook standard, it's not a music CD. IMHO, it has no right being at my local Tower Records, since the number of cd players that can't recognize it is... well... it's a big number.
But shouldn't it bother you when one senator, who actually wants to uphold 'fair use' gets a wired article? That since the introduction of copy protected CD's, this is the first time this has come up in Congress?
From the article:
Boucher's complaints are twofold: Americans may not know they're buying crippled discs, and that the new discs don't work on all players.
Don't the discs as they are currently have a sticker that says they won't play in your PC? But thank god he got the second part right. The only problem is that the RIAA can tell him to stuff it. They can call it a new generation of audio technology - after all, my LP doesn't play in my CD player. Neither does the copy protected disc.
Not only that, but we're not thinking long term - even if copy protection gets taken off standard CD's, what about the next generation? DVD audio discs? Or something we haven't seen yet? (Hopefully resembling those little data blocks a la star trek...;p)
The point of this whole disjointed thought train is that the DMCA must be repealed, since it shuts down other laws, that previously exist, and even those that may yet be written. Fair use is out the window, since it states that you have the priviledge of using certain recordings in certain ways, but the RIAA isn't required to make it technically possible for you to do so. Therein lies the problem. And when HDTV finally rolls around, even though it'll be possible to build a TiVo with enough storage space to support it, it'll still be illegal, thanks to the DMCA, fair use won't apply.
So, this Congressman Rick is going about things all wrong - he needs to start by repealing the DMCA. Feel free to write him. =)
(Yes, I know the article states that he would like to rewrite the DMCA. But it's badly flawed in its current incarnation, and should be repealed, and a new, non-insane law should be drafted.
I get the feeling that there is still work to be done, though. If you have windows xp, it's worth turning on the ClearType setting in Display -> Appearance -> Effects. XP starts as anti-aliased, but ClearType brings an even greater level. Of course, if you haven't seen ClearType in action, it's hard to expect improvement from plain old win2k. But the font improvements shown above in XFree are amazing, like night and day, no more blocky p's and q's at the wrong font size, which will make a lot of happy people at non MSFT boxes. =)
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You're off by uh... 10^4? Or so. 2000m/s isn't much faster than a high powered rifle bullet (way less than 10x faster, at least) and well, I've never seen a molten bullet. Did you do 2,000 km/sec?
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Yeah, I hope for your sake, you're a troll. Otherwise, you're just a big, smug, total moron.;p
A ball being pulled towards or being pushed by a magnet will never deform, because the magnet is pulling on each bit of the ball, rather than being pushed from behind like a bullet.
And several people above have addressed your problems with high speed air resistance, and I'd I'm sure a trained chimp will happen by and mock you without mercy for trying to tell this guy the voltage of a wall socket.;)
Yeah, but I think we can safely assume that if you can configure NAT on your network, you can manage to *not* go to a webpage, and point out that you use NAT.;p
You must be right. After all, if anyone implies that Israel did anything wrong, they're anti-semetic. Oh wait. You're confusing criticism with racism. Whoops.
I'll let you in on a little secret. No country is perfect. Not yours, not mine, none. Zero perfect countries. Get it yet? In addition, the same goes for people. Yes, we could get into a huge, nitpicking debate, and I'm sure you think one person lead a perfect life, but they didn't, dig? Not Jesus, not Ghandi, not Mark McGuire.
Now, if I criticize you, or better yet, call you a moron, and you're say, Chinese, I'm not a racist, you're just a moron. Forward think that for a little bit.
I can safely say that Yahoo isn't the first company to do this. Better yet, morning news shows are the worst. Weight loss, hot movies, fashion 'tips'... just thinly disguised product placement.
Dear sirs, it is my sad duty to inform you that journalistic integrity is dead.
Well, check out www.whatreallyhappened.com... there's still *some* left, I think. They're just alarmist, as opposed to corrupt.
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Hey, great. Another bullshit AC with mod points to spend. You know what? It's a good thing I don't give a damn about karma. If you can mismod, then post as AC to gloat about it, it shows two things:
1) You don't give a damn or care how the mod system is supposed to work, nor care about the fact that you're showing your general opinion to be worthless. After all, who in their right mind would care what an obvious asshole thinks?
2) You have an ego driven personality, where exerting even the slightest, most imaginary power over someone, no matter how far removed from reality, really gets your dick pumping. Being ego driven is self defeatist. I highly recommend reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It could change your life for the better.
Oh yeah. AC's who think griping about me being modded down, please don't defend me. It usually flushes my karma as far as possible.;p
Okay, my last comment, "Now you know why Episode II is called Attack of the Clones" was beaten to the punch by fifteen seconds. Durn. But it took me less time to change my mind about the whole thing.
I hate boy bands as much as the next guy. But 'NSYNC was darn funny in their Simpsons episode. They spent the whole 18 minutes making fun of themselves after all. They can't be ALL bad.
*beep* *beep*
Oh no! Our clothing is out of style by 15 minutes! Quickly, to bananna republic!
Wow, you're wrong and bitter. I even logged in to answer you.
I worked 60 hours a week, and started and finished college while doing it. If you get your courseload down right, and study only as much as you need to study to get the grade you want, you can finish college in only 20 hours a week, including classes, in five years. If you work FOR the college, it's nearly free. If you don't, then go to a less expensive school.
So, 60+20 = 80. Yeah, a degree lets me do things like that.
80/7 = ~12. So if you can work 12 hours a day for several years straight with no days off, you too can earn your degree.
I cried when I graduated. Then didn't attend graduation, since I was in Florida with my new car that I could afford since I still had a job, and no loans to pay.
If you think most people with a four year degree got it because daddy paid for it, you're right. If you think you have to have daddy pay for it, you're wrong.
Who thinks that expecting people to wear anything 'head mounted' to entertain themselves for more than 5 minutes at a time is a little unrealistic?
I remember a completely failed 3d system from Nintendo, and even those super-cool digital goggles you can still find at Best Buy don't seem to have sold more than two pairs nationwide.
Now, what we really need is a nice immersive 3d ROOM that doesn't involve filling the space with fog. Piece of cake.;p
MS isn't attacking open source... they are arguing that the GPL is virus like.
Well, golly-shucks. Thanks for clearing THAT up. For a second, I thought they were attacking. Honestly, the GPL is the only thing preventing open-source from being built into your next stolen.dll. Wait a minute? What is Windows often compared to?
So what you saw with TCP/IP or Sendmail or the BROWSER could never happen...
Excuse me? You mean, something like taking a browser which was free to begin with, making it unstable, forcing it down the throats of millions of PC users by "integrating" it, and wiping a company with a really nice fish cam could never happen?
Boo-freakin'-hoo.
Honestly, how terrible ARE we supposed to feel for a multi-billionaire who complains that a free ride is impossible now?
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I wish that would be enough. The city and surrounding areas pull a billion gallons a day. Maybe the little submarine will find a secret cache of a trillion gallons? ;p
Okay, chuckles. Lets go over this so even you can understand. In the Catskill Mountains, there's a big lake. Huge. Very hard to miss. It's got a sign above it. (In several places, actually.) This supplies the water of NYC. It's no secret.
;p
Now, lets say you can go through a few dozen feet of rock. Okay? After you've gone through that, you can go through another dozen feet of cement. THEN you'll have made a teensy hole. What, you think this is a 3" pipe, like in your wall?
So. You're going through nearly 100' of solid rocky stuff. With what, dear eliza? A focused nuclear blast? A big drill? Lots of o's in the word stupid? Go ahead, you're the evil mastermind. Why not turn on your tap, and try to drink the cities water supply? Think how many people you could kill if you drank it all!
Also, on the DEP site is the plan for what to do if both tunnels ever catastrophically failed. It includes desalinazation, as well as a large lake in the middle of central park, and the water table for Long Island being sucked dry.
But thanks for trying to feel superior. You're not. You're actually pretty dull. Have a nice day! You've been flamed!
Clearly you've never been to NYC. ;p
Oh, what the heck, I'll respond to you.
The xbox is a loss leader, as several other people pointed out.
How about *FREE* cellphones? Are they somehow making a profit on free? Or $9.99 like I've seen them, if you want to say that it can't be a loss leader if it's free. I find it hard to believe that they're making a profit on a $10 phone.
Okay? Thanks for yelling in all caps. You're a doofus. Please drive through.
I'm pretty sure those are the highest end laptops they'd be offering. I do know the last time I was there, they had some real cheapies. Maybe they're going high class like walmart. ;p
I kid you not. T&A (Don't mock the name!) travel centers sell low end laptops to truckers, and they also sell these internet access cards that allow them to check their e-mail and to basic web stuff at any of the other T&A truck stops. The card includes minutes, both for the internet access, and the cost of making the phone call from the truck stop, but the laptops they sell on the side, and I've seen them being sold from $100-$250.
They're really the greatest places - you can also buy TV's that'll fit in your truck, portable fridges, and tv dinners in cardboard boxes that'll heat themselves up! (Sterno included.) Every time I'm driving cross country it's the only place I stop, and you know when you're getting close, because they advertise on CB channel 19. (Which isn't exactly legal, but hell, nobody cares, and truckers love 'em.)
Oh yeah. They also have mechanics on duty, showers, 24 hour decent resturants, and all the jolt you could want.
Take from the article, for instance:
Despite being illegal, payola is rife, keeping interesting artists off the air in favor of the manufactured hitmaker of the week.
Okay, assume that statement is fully true, and major labels pay radio stations big bucks to play their manufactured hitmaker of the week. This is keeping the interesting artists off the air?
Wrong.
Somebody listens to it. Someone buys the albums. N'Sync didn't get big because of major label payola, they got big because some clown looked at a shelf in a record store, and said, 'I want THIS one!'
The same with Hanson, Britney, 98, blah-de-freakin'-blah. Someone's listening to this crap. And you know what? It's trendy to call it crap. But when a radio station, that makes money off ad revenue, has to choose what to play, it's either going to choose the mainstream 'crap', or the indie 'interesting' stuff. The rest of what will happen is left as an exercise for the reader.
Other things pointed out in the article are just plain criminal, however:
Record companies regularly deduct 15 percent off the top of sales as an allowance for "breakage" -- a survival from the days of shellac records that now simply serves to reduce artist royalties by that amount
and
And now, record companies -- who have allied themselves with the just-as-bad motion picture industry - want to make it a felony for you to own a computer that is capable of copying music from a CD to your portable player without paying them money, even though courts have held that such copying is entirely legal.
Blame the MPAA for a lot - the DMCA, copy protected CD's, starving artists that sell more than 50,000 records, but not for the bad taste of the little girl down the block.
I'm sure you've heard all the arguements before.
;p)
If it breaks the redbook standard, it's not a music CD. IMHO, it has no right being at my local Tower Records, since the number of cd players that can't recognize it is... well... it's a big number.
But shouldn't it bother you when one senator, who actually wants to uphold 'fair use' gets a wired article? That since the introduction of copy protected CD's, this is the first time this has come up in Congress?
From the article:
Boucher's complaints are twofold: Americans may not know they're buying crippled discs, and that the new discs don't work on all players.
Don't the discs as they are currently have a sticker that says they won't play in your PC? But thank god he got the second part right. The only problem is that the RIAA can tell him to stuff it. They can call it a new generation of audio technology - after all, my LP doesn't play in my CD player. Neither does the copy protected disc.
Not only that, but we're not thinking long term - even if copy protection gets taken off standard CD's, what about the next generation? DVD audio discs? Or something we haven't seen yet? (Hopefully resembling those little data blocks a la star trek...
The point of this whole disjointed thought train is that the DMCA must be repealed, since it shuts down other laws, that previously exist, and even those that may yet be written. Fair use is out the window, since it states that you have the priviledge of using certain recordings in certain ways, but the RIAA isn't required to make it technically possible for you to do so. Therein lies the problem. And when HDTV finally rolls around, even though it'll be possible to build a TiVo with enough storage space to support it, it'll still be illegal, thanks to the DMCA, fair use won't apply.
So, this Congressman Rick is going about things all wrong - he needs to start by repealing the DMCA. Feel free to write him. =)
(Yes, I know the article states that he would like to rewrite the DMCA. But it's badly flawed in its current incarnation, and should be repealed, and a new, non-insane law should be drafted.
I get the feeling that there is still work to be done, though. If you have windows xp, it's worth turning on the ClearType setting in Display -> Appearance -> Effects. XP starts as anti-aliased, but ClearType brings an even greater level. Of course, if you haven't seen ClearType in action, it's hard to expect improvement from plain old win2k. But the font improvements shown above in XFree are amazing, like night and day, no more blocky p's and q's at the wrong font size, which will make a lot of happy people at non MSFT boxes. =)
You pay $4 for a pen?
(Slow down cowboy!)
You're off by uh... 10^4? Or so. 2000m/s isn't much faster than a high powered rifle bullet (way less than 10x faster, at least) and well, I've never seen a molten bullet. Did you do 2,000 km/sec?
Yeah, I hope for your sake, you're a troll. Otherwise, you're just a big, smug, total moron. ;p
;)
A ball being pulled towards or being pushed by a magnet will never deform, because the magnet is pulling on each bit of the ball, rather than being pushed from behind like a bullet.
And several people above have addressed your problems with high speed air resistance, and I'd I'm sure a trained chimp will happen by and mock you without mercy for trying to tell this guy the voltage of a wall socket.
Heehee... I'm trying to picture an MBA-type calling himself a playa. ;p
"You would be well advised to use analysis over name calling in professional and academic settings."
;)
Phew! Good thing this is neither.
Yeah, but I think we can safely assume that if you can configure NAT on your network, you can manage to *not* go to a webpage, and point out that you use NAT. ;p
You must be right. After all, if anyone implies that Israel did anything wrong, they're anti-semetic. Oh wait. You're confusing criticism with racism. Whoops.
I'll let you in on a little secret. No country is perfect. Not yours, not mine, none. Zero perfect countries. Get it yet? In addition, the same goes for people. Yes, we could get into a huge, nitpicking debate, and I'm sure you think one person lead a perfect life, but they didn't, dig? Not Jesus, not Ghandi, not Mark McGuire.
Now, if I criticize you, or better yet, call you a moron, and you're say, Chinese, I'm not a racist, you're just a moron. Forward think that for a little bit.
Right, but you totally missed the point, probably on purpose. There's the advertisments in the show, but now the show is advertisements.
;)
In other words, there's no show. If Yahoo had banner ads, and like that were ads, oh, I wouldn't be able to wait to be able to pony up my $19.95.
Or not. Now hush.
I can safely say that Yahoo isn't the first company to do this. Better yet, morning news shows are the worst. Weight loss, hot movies, fashion 'tips'... just thinly disguised product placement.
Dear sirs, it is my sad duty to inform you that journalistic integrity is dead.
Well, check out www.whatreallyhappened.com... there's still *some* left, I think. They're just alarmist, as opposed to corrupt.
Hey, great. Another bullshit AC with mod points to spend. You know what? It's a good thing I don't give a damn about karma. If you can mismod, then post as AC to gloat about it, it shows two things:
;p
1) You don't give a damn or care how the mod system is supposed to work, nor care about the fact that you're showing your general opinion to be worthless. After all, who in their right mind would care what an obvious asshole thinks?
2) You have an ego driven personality, where exerting even the slightest, most imaginary power over someone, no matter how far removed from reality, really gets your dick pumping. Being ego driven is self defeatist. I highly recommend reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It could change your life for the better.
Oh yeah. AC's who think griping about me being modded down, please don't defend me. It usually flushes my karma as far as possible.
Okay, my last comment, "Now you know why Episode II is called Attack of the Clones" was beaten to the punch by fifteen seconds. Durn. But it took me less time to change my mind about the whole thing.
I hate boy bands as much as the next guy. But 'NSYNC was darn funny in their Simpsons episode. They spent the whole 18 minutes making fun of themselves after all. They can't be ALL bad.
*beep* *beep*
Oh no! Our clothing is out of style by 15 minutes! Quickly, to bananna republic!
Ynav eht Nioj!
Now you know why Episode II is called Attack of the Clones. ;p
Wow, you're wrong and bitter. I even logged in to answer you.
I worked 60 hours a week, and started and finished college while doing it. If you get your courseload down right, and study only as much as you need to study to get the grade you want, you can finish college in only 20 hours a week, including classes, in five years. If you work FOR the college, it's nearly free. If you don't, then go to a less expensive school.
So, 60+20 = 80. Yeah, a degree lets me do things like that.
80/7 = ~12. So if you can work 12 hours a day for several years straight with no days off, you too can earn your degree.
I cried when I graduated. Then didn't attend graduation, since I was in Florida with my new car that I could afford since I still had a job, and no loans to pay.
If you think most people with a four year degree got it because daddy paid for it, you're right. If you think you have to have daddy pay for it, you're wrong.
Who thinks that expecting people to wear anything 'head mounted' to entertain themselves for more than 5 minutes at a time is a little unrealistic?
;p
I remember a completely failed 3d system from Nintendo, and even those super-cool digital goggles you can still find at Best Buy don't seem to have sold more than two pairs nationwide.
Now, what we really need is a nice immersive 3d ROOM that doesn't involve filling the space with fog. Piece of cake.
MS isn't attacking open source... they are arguing that the GPL is virus like.
.dll. Wait a minute? What is Windows often compared to?
;p
Well, golly-shucks. Thanks for clearing THAT up. For a second, I thought they were attacking. Honestly, the GPL is the only thing preventing open-source from being built into your next stolen
Well now, clearly, the GPL.
So what you saw with TCP/IP or Sendmail or the BROWSER could never happen...
Excuse me? You mean, something like taking a browser which was free to begin with, making it unstable, forcing it down the throats of millions of PC users by "integrating" it, and wiping a company with a really nice fish cam could never happen?
Boo-freakin'-hoo.
Honestly, how terrible ARE we supposed to feel for a multi-billionaire who complains that a free ride is impossible now?