I beg to differ. Almost no hourly technician in a big box store gets $30. Hell, most of the time you're lucky to be in the teens. They profit from $30 for an hour of work, by a rather large margin actually.
-Disclosure: I have worked as a technician for 2 major big box chains.
That's because singing and any other free expression is prohibited in women.
I don't actually know that for a fact, just seemed like a funny thing to say.
All of the moderation ideas I've seen in this discussion are valid, but they tend to gloss over the fact that it's simple to create a new account or go somewhere with a different IP address. The nice thing about SA is that you HAVE to pay to be able to post there. People are (slightly) less likely to do dumb shit and get banned, wasting 10 bucks. It's not a perfect system, but the 10 dollar entry fee filters out a fair amount of riff-raff.
Try and set up a chain of repeating 12' satellite dish broadcasters retrofitted for 802.11G like the one they set the distance record with. It got like 125 miles, so 10 or 15 of them ought to get out to the middle of nowhere. Latency would probably blow, but it's still better than satellite.
There's also the considerable expense and environmental damage associated with the manufacture of all the parts that go into the Prius. Nickle for the batteries is mined (itself a filthy process), then shipped to China for manufacture, then shipped to Japan for assembly, then shipped to US or EU for use. i read somewhere (will cite if can find) that some components essentially go completely around the world before the assembled product winds up in (insert environmentally-conscious civilized nation here).
Not trolling, but there is more to consider when you call a vehicle "green" than the emissions or mpg.
I tend to pick a religion or set of mythos and just go with the varied names therein. I have a domain with Hades, Ares, Zeus, Athena, etc. I also did a Hindu one with Shiva, Kali, Lakshmi, Ganesh, Vishnu, etc. Hard to get them mixed up that way, and you can generally tell which are related by their names.
Well, I pay USD$70 a month for "8Mbps" cable from comcast. I use the quotation marks because it'll be a cold day in hell before I actually get 8. I typically top out at 6 on a nice day, 4 most of the time. I hate comcast so much.
As hilarious as this is, there's a good point here. Why not set up laptops or portables with a low level charge that wouldn't necessarily blow anybody up, but could fry platters/flash memory? Couldn't a significant electrical charge do the trick? I think a remote "kill self" code would be pretty secure. For super high security stuff (that would ideally be stored remotely anyway), just make it a daily check-in type thing. Didn't check in at 10:00AM EST? Oh, now your drive is slag. Call IT and explain why you couldn't check in.
I wonder what the dollar value of the repairs will run? I'm sure insurance covers this kind of thing, but I'd love to see hard figures like in one of those mastercard commercials:
Structural damage: $15000
Melted hardware: $70000
Halon refill: $however much halon costs
Real-Life Slashdot effect: Priceless
I really wanted to see the giant Pringles can. Also, was it an open-top funeral or was that freshness seal on? I'd go freshness seal in case he reanimates as a zombie since those things are hard as shit to get off.
Ninja edit - wait, he was cremated
I've discovered quite a few artists from games that I've played. Seconding Gone Jackals for one (who didn't love Full Throttle?), I also had never heard of Mastodon before NFS Most wanted. I first really heard Trent Reznor's music in the original Quake, leading me to purchase much of his other work. Bella Morte in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, etc etc. There's a lot of great bands (depending on your tastes in music) that get MAINSTREAM exposure from games that they weren't getting otherwise.
I'm surprised I haven't seen this one yet (am I that creative or is it too low-tech for the/. crowd?). When I was is HS, we ran on the lobotomized Win98 systems they'd set up so you couldn't (in theory) mess with them. When my "computer applications" teacher stepped out, I jumped on his comp, screenshotted the desktop, moved all the icons off to the side and dropped the start bar out of sight. After about 20 minutes of clicking on everything and nothing happening, he restarted to the same effect. He started to lose it after a while, pretty much killing my desire to crow triumphantly that I had duped him. Finally they re-imaged his comp, and no-one was the wiser.
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I beg to differ. Almost no hourly technician in a big box store gets $30. Hell, most of the time you're lucky to be in the teens. They profit from $30 for an hour of work, by a rather large margin actually. -Disclosure: I have worked as a technician for 2 major big box chains.
That's because singing and any other free expression is prohibited in women. I don't actually know that for a fact, just seemed like a funny thing to say.
All of the moderation ideas I've seen in this discussion are valid, but they tend to gloss over the fact that it's simple to create a new account or go somewhere with a different IP address. The nice thing about SA is that you HAVE to pay to be able to post there. People are (slightly) less likely to do dumb shit and get banned, wasting 10 bucks. It's not a perfect system, but the 10 dollar entry fee filters out a fair amount of riff-raff.
Solar? In the summer those things would be glowing.
Try and set up a chain of repeating 12' satellite dish broadcasters retrofitted for 802.11G like the one they set the distance record with. It got like 125 miles, so 10 or 15 of them ought to get out to the middle of nowhere. Latency would probably blow, but it's still better than satellite.
do you think other countries will buy your goods like idiots, whilst you are barring them from selling their stuff and services in your country ?
Hey, it seems to be working pretty well for China
There's also the considerable expense and environmental damage associated with the manufacture of all the parts that go into the Prius. Nickle for the batteries is mined (itself a filthy process), then shipped to China for manufacture, then shipped to Japan for assembly, then shipped to US or EU for use. i read somewhere (will cite if can find) that some components essentially go completely around the world before the assembled product winds up in (insert environmentally-conscious civilized nation here). Not trolling, but there is more to consider when you call a vehicle "green" than the emissions or mpg.
Hey, then you fix the fuel problem and the overpopulation problem. It's win-win!!
I tend to pick a religion or set of mythos and just go with the varied names therein. I have a domain with Hades, Ares, Zeus, Athena, etc. I also did a Hindu one with Shiva, Kali, Lakshmi, Ganesh, Vishnu, etc. Hard to get them mixed up that way, and you can generally tell which are related by their names.
Whooooooosh! Watch Office Space sometime
Why can't the customers just talk directly to the engineers?
Hey, I castigate people for the whole ATM machine thing you insensitive clod!
While I agree with your point about cheap guns and zinc (see Highpoint), I think you completely missed the Simpsons reference.
What about when they gain sentience? It's going to be the end for humanity when they organize in the briny deeps.
Well, I pay USD$70 a month for "8Mbps" cable from comcast. I use the quotation marks because it'll be a cold day in hell before I actually get 8. I typically top out at 6 on a nice day, 4 most of the time. I hate comcast so much.
As hilarious as this is, there's a good point here. Why not set up laptops or portables with a low level charge that wouldn't necessarily blow anybody up, but could fry platters/flash memory? Couldn't a significant electrical charge do the trick? I think a remote "kill self" code would be pretty secure. For super high security stuff (that would ideally be stored remotely anyway), just make it a daily check-in type thing. Didn't check in at 10:00AM EST? Oh, now your drive is slag. Call IT and explain why you couldn't check in.
I wonder what the dollar value of the repairs will run? I'm sure insurance covers this kind of thing, but I'd love to see hard figures like in one of those mastercard commercials: Structural damage: $15000 Melted hardware: $70000 Halon refill: $however much halon costs Real-Life Slashdot effect: Priceless
How many Leagues away from work do you live?
I really wanted to see the giant Pringles can. Also, was it an open-top funeral or was that freshness seal on? I'd go freshness seal in case he reanimates as a zombie since those things are hard as shit to get off. Ninja edit - wait, he was cremated
The M stands for machines. It's not Automated Teller Machine Machine. I realize this has no bearing on the subject at hand, it just needed to be said.
I've discovered quite a few artists from games that I've played. Seconding Gone Jackals for one (who didn't love Full Throttle?), I also had never heard of Mastodon before NFS Most wanted. I first really heard Trent Reznor's music in the original Quake, leading me to purchase much of his other work. Bella Morte in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, etc etc. There's a lot of great bands (depending on your tastes in music) that get MAINSTREAM exposure from games that they weren't getting otherwise.
I'm surprised I haven't seen this one yet (am I that creative or is it too low-tech for the /. crowd?). When I was is HS, we ran on the lobotomized Win98 systems they'd set up so you couldn't (in theory) mess with them. When my "computer applications" teacher stepped out, I jumped on his comp, screenshotted the desktop, moved all the icons off to the side and dropped the start bar out of sight. After about 20 minutes of clicking on everything and nothing happening, he restarted to the same effect. He started to lose it after a while, pretty much killing my desire to crow triumphantly that I had duped him. Finally they re-imaged his comp, and no-one was the wiser.