Just to expound on what you said, current US consumption of oil is about 21 million barrels per day (bpd). About half of that is used in transportation, as in cars, trains, planes, big rigs, etc. Half of that again is used in SUVs, so roughly 5 or 6 million bpd. The second biggest consumer of oil is China, with about 6 million bpd, and that's for all of its transportation, lubricants, plastics, power plants, etc. Our SUVs and huge pointless trucks are our problem, and a small incentive is not going to get someone who's driving a Ford four-door big-bed F350 dually to trade it in for a Prius.
Well, if it's aluminum, I have a hard time imagining it would help prevent Alzheimer's if you ate it. Alzheimer's patients have higher levels of aluminum in the brain, so lowering aluminum in the diet is probably wise. Perhaps if it was a steel can, eating it would do something. Most people could do with a little more iron in the blood. What's that you say? Whoooooosh? Dammit!
In terms of competition for arable land, I guess that would be cocaine. Next we'll hear from the Cocaine Importation Agency (CIA) how bad coffee is for you.
Subsequent to the studies that say wine is good for you are some more studies that say the same benefits can be found with moderate use of any type of alcohol.
Makes sense to me. I'm definitely a newbie to Linux by slashdot standards (1 year on Ubuntu, read 2 books on it). The reason I picked Ubuntu was that it had a complete desktop with at least one application for every task I needed. Maybe one day I'll move on to Debian or Fedora or Gentoo (OK, probably not Gentoo). But for now, I like the "just works" attitude of Ubunutu. I think it's a big step forward for getting Linux on the desktop.
No, check your constitution. When the president gets sick, the vice-president runs the country. Yes, there are plenty of other people going about their jobs who actually do the work of the country, but who the president is is very important. Likewise, who the CEO is of Apple is very important, even though thousands of other people actually do the work there. And while it takes more than a captain to run a ship, you can't run a ship without one.
Hi Anonymous Coward, please do not abbreviate our country as USA. It is The United States of America. As a matter of fact, do not abbreviate anything. Ever.
Had those persons taken the laid-back do-nothing approach "oodaloop" favors
What the fuck are you talking about? I disapproved of how Padilla was treated and said so. Don't lump me in with everyone you hate just because I said one thing you disagree with.
I didn't RTFA (I know, surprise surprise), but TFS only mentioned it was cutting development of Sugar not Linux itself. Maybe they're going to something already better developed, like XUbuntu or Xandros or something.
So because you disagree with the administration, it's OK to accuse them of things they haven't done. Yeah, that makes sense./sarcasm
I've seen several people here in slashdot refer to the government hauling American Citizens off to GITMO, without a shred of evidence this has ever happened. Shorthand or not, it's not accurate. If it were false accusations against someone you supported, would you be so non-challant about it? And see my other post about illegal enemy combatants and the Geneva Conventions. It's probably not as vague as you think it is.
Legal enemy combatants wear uniforms under the Geneva Conventions. Non-soldiers, meaning everyday citizens like you and me, are forbidden to engage in combat. So people who fight without uniforms are combatants, but not legal combatants covered under the Geneva Conventions. If Al Qaeda wanted legal protection under the Geneva Conventions, all they would have to do is wear a patch. Touchy subject, and I'm not saying we reacted properly, but the Geneva Convention is pretty clear.
The Padilla case saddened me yes, though I wouldn't go so far as to say creep. On the one hand, he was guilty as fuck. But he should have gone to trial instead of sitting in prison. In any case, he was not someone who merely publicly disagreed with the government but a member of Al Qaeda returning from a training camp in Pakistan, which could be construed as part of affiliates of enemy combatants and supporting my first statement. And as far as I know, he was not in GITMO.
And given how much media attention Padilla received, I find it hard to believe that someone who publicly disagreed with the government and then shortly there afterward suspiciously disappeared into thin air wouldn't get at least a little attention.
I expect that kind of half-assed reasoning from Christians, but not from slashdotters. "Well, we don't know that God exists, but he might, so we might as well assume he exists." There's not a single incident of a US citizen political dissident being sent to GITMO or even threatened to be sent to GITMO, yet every other fucking day I see people here accuse the US of doing this. For some reason, when the Bush administration is discussed hearsay and conjecture is all anyone needs.
Unless he's willing to put the attorneys in jail for failure to comply (and end up gitmo'd)
I'm really tired of seeing this crap. Has even one political dissident been sent to GITMO? Last I checked, and I've been to GITMO mind you, only enemy combatants detained overseas and their affiliates are in GITMO. Please stop all this nonsense about being "gitmo'd" for disagreeing with the government already.
Except that in this case, if we do nothing, we're dead. If they did nothing in Australia in regards to the bunny population, maybe things would have turned out OK on their own. Not so this time. We have nothing to lose, so why not try to fix it, even if it means taking daring risks and doing things we've never done before?
Yeah, I was surprised to learn that too. But the effect was quite noticable as soon as it was cut, on NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS. I saw the briefing on what happened and some more detailed explanation of how much was lost on each network. Ironically, the MWR internet cafe was far faster than work because it ran solely on satellite.
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how it leaves tracks of fire on asphalt? Or in the air? Never quite understood that part. The rest of the movie, OTOH, makes perfect sense.
Just to expound on what you said, current US consumption of oil is about 21 million barrels per day (bpd). About half of that is used in transportation, as in cars, trains, planes, big rigs, etc. Half of that again is used in SUVs, so roughly 5 or 6 million bpd. The second biggest consumer of oil is China, with about 6 million bpd, and that's for all of its transportation, lubricants, plastics, power plants, etc. Our SUVs and huge pointless trucks are our problem, and a small incentive is not going to get someone who's driving a Ford four-door big-bed F350 dually to trade it in for a Prius.
You can not verbify grammar-Nazi (notice the capitalization). It is grammar-Nazicate.
Well, if it's aluminum, I have a hard time imagining it would help prevent Alzheimer's if you ate it. Alzheimer's patients have higher levels of aluminum in the brain, so lowering aluminum in the diet is probably wise. Perhaps if it was a steel can, eating it would do something. Most people could do with a little more iron in the blood. What's that you say? Whoooooosh? Dammit!
(what's the opposite of coffee?)
In terms of competition for arable land, I guess that would be cocaine. Next we'll hear from the Cocaine Importation Agency (CIA) how bad coffee is for you.
Subsequent to the studies that say wine is good for you are some more studies that say the same benefits can be found with moderate use of any type of alcohol.
Makes sense to me. I'm definitely a newbie to Linux by slashdot standards (1 year on Ubuntu, read 2 books on it). The reason I picked Ubuntu was that it had a complete desktop with at least one application for every task I needed. Maybe one day I'll move on to Debian or Fedora or Gentoo (OK, probably not Gentoo). But for now, I like the "just works" attitude of Ubunutu. I think it's a big step forward for getting Linux on the desktop.
Adding value to a MMOG makes it a game?
No, check your constitution. When the president gets sick, the vice-president runs the country. Yes, there are plenty of other people going about their jobs who actually do the work of the country, but who the president is is very important. Likewise, who the CEO is of Apple is very important, even though thousands of other people actually do the work there. And while it takes more than a captain to run a ship, you can't run a ship without one.
Every last one of these sons of bitches should be in jail.
What, without a speedy trial by a jury of their peers? Isn't that unconstitutional?
Hi Anonymous Coward, please do not abbreviate our country as USA. It is The United States of America. As a matter of fact, do not abbreviate anything. Ever.
I thought they were talking about the developers...
But that's not important right now.
Had those persons taken the laid-back do-nothing approach "oodaloop" favors
What the fuck are you talking about? I disapproved of how Padilla was treated and said so. Don't lump me in with everyone you hate just because I said one thing you disagree with.
And 5-gallon buckets of water kill more children under 8 every year than guns. So do swimming pools.
I didn't RTFA (I know, surprise surprise), but TFS only mentioned it was cutting development of Sugar not Linux itself. Maybe they're going to something already better developed, like XUbuntu or Xandros or something.
We simply tax each person...uh...one million...uh, how about we build a giant wooden badger.
So because you disagree with the administration, it's OK to accuse them of things they haven't done. Yeah, that makes sense. /sarcasm
I've seen several people here in slashdot refer to the government hauling American Citizens off to GITMO, without a shred of evidence this has ever happened. Shorthand or not, it's not accurate. If it were false accusations against someone you supported, would you be so non-challant about it? And see my other post about illegal enemy combatants and the Geneva Conventions. It's probably not as vague as you think it is.
Legal enemy combatants wear uniforms under the Geneva Conventions. Non-soldiers, meaning everyday citizens like you and me, are forbidden to engage in combat. So people who fight without uniforms are combatants, but not legal combatants covered under the Geneva Conventions. If Al Qaeda wanted legal protection under the Geneva Conventions, all they would have to do is wear a patch. Touchy subject, and I'm not saying we reacted properly, but the Geneva Convention is pretty clear.
The Padilla case saddened me yes, though I wouldn't go so far as to say creep. On the one hand, he was guilty as fuck. But he should have gone to trial instead of sitting in prison. In any case, he was not someone who merely publicly disagreed with the government but a member of Al Qaeda returning from a training camp in Pakistan, which could be construed as part of affiliates of enemy combatants and supporting my first statement. And as far as I know, he was not in GITMO.
And given how much media attention Padilla received, I find it hard to believe that someone who publicly disagreed with the government and then shortly there afterward suspiciously disappeared into thin air wouldn't get at least a little attention.
I expect that kind of half-assed reasoning from Christians, but not from slashdotters. "Well, we don't know that God exists, but he might, so we might as well assume he exists." There's not a single incident of a US citizen political dissident being sent to GITMO or even threatened to be sent to GITMO, yet every other fucking day I see people here accuse the US of doing this. For some reason, when the Bush administration is discussed hearsay and conjecture is all anyone needs.
Here's a good run-down on detainees at GITMO:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/guantanamo-bay_detainees.htm
Unless he's willing to put the attorneys in jail for failure to comply (and end up gitmo'd)
I'm really tired of seeing this crap. Has even one political dissident been sent to GITMO? Last I checked, and I've been to GITMO mind you, only enemy combatants detained overseas and their affiliates are in GITMO. Please stop all this nonsense about being "gitmo'd" for disagreeing with the government already.
Except that in this case, if we do nothing, we're dead. If they did nothing in Australia in regards to the bunny population, maybe things would have turned out OK on their own. Not so this time. We have nothing to lose, so why not try to fix it, even if it means taking daring risks and doing things we've never done before?
welcome my beer. Thanks, robot underling.
Yeah, I was surprised to learn that too. But the effect was quite noticable as soon as it was cut, on NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS. I saw the briefing on what happened and some more detailed explanation of how much was lost on each network. Ironically, the MWR internet cafe was far faster than work because it ran solely on satellite.