'Right now the thing that differentiates us is that we're exploring rapid recharge,'
Are they inventing new technology GM & Tesla don't have or are they using a capacitor instead of a battery? If the latter, why aren't GM & Tesla doing that?
If a celebrity is so concerned that their wikipedia page has a frumpy picture why can't they just donate a picture under wikipedia appropriate license? Professional photographers looking for exposure/free advertisement via wikipage can also do the same thing, possibly even taking new pictures just for that purpose to avoid copyright issues. Do these people have to own every single picture they take or have taken of them?
This isn't just about Kindle or a single issue about law. It is going to get to the point where paper books are phased out except on a token basis and people with all sorts of motivations are going to pull shit like this but on a much more serious basis.
I just gave up on digg.com and I read Slashdot at a level 5 threshold so it doesn't seem that bad to me......*now*. I read Slashdot years ago with no filtering so I have enough memories to understand the joke:).
It is good to hear some of the "find another job" responses.
I have seen so many friends go down that road and for what? To get outsourced when someone will work for 5 cents an your less? The OP has a twelve hour shift because his company doesn't want for another person/shift. Is that company really going to care about or respect him?
The OP may not have another opportunity at this point and time, but I agree, get another job as soon as you get the chance.
Even if this company turns out to be wonderful you can only do a shift like that on a temporary basis.
Overeating is taking in more calories than you burn. The guy who created the company AutoDesk made this great free e-book ( he sells nothing ) for geeks to control their weight that way. It is called the Hacker's Diet:
I have a fuel efficient system too. I used the Hacker's Diet to take off 48 lbs and I have kept most of it off for several years.
Maybe you can combine managing your calories with a brisk walk or a run for 30 minutes everyday on meal break?
Off the bat, learn to drink water, diet soda, plain tea or plain coffee while you are at work. Regular soda, tea & coffee condiments, juice, milk and sweet drinks can easily pack on weight. It only takes an extra 250 calories a day ( typical of most drinks ) to put on 52 pounds a year. Most of those other drinks easily have that many calories.
Which raises a question: Should a video camera be the price of admission for participating in an open government discussion, especially when issues may hit those with lower incomes the hardest?
A video camera for a computer is a lot cheaper than having to have a computer in the first place.
BTW, the response-to-date has been underwhelming -- 101 video responses and counting -- and is certainly a mixed-bag, including a one-finger salute, a talking butt, a woman "Showing my Apples", and other off-topic rants and unrelated videos."
No surprises there. I have seen some beleaguered web board admins replace their web boards with a blogroll community. Instead of accepting comments, they would accept trackback URLS where people would respond on their own blogs. Upping the cost in effort to respond greatly reduced the amount noise, but it also greatly reduced the overall number of responses. The web is a medium of short attention spans.
There are better ways to poll people. Youtube comments will only give you a cross section of youtube users.......not a group representative of most of America. No reason to spend tax payer money in this economy to pay people to read peanut gallery quality comments.
Basically the "terrorist" label is used in the U.S. for anyone power holders do not like and who may compromise profits. Animal rights activists who sabotage fur farms but who have hurt no person nor have threatened to are on the FBI lists as "terrorists".
BTW, the Neo-Nazis are organized at least as well/bad and there are violent extremist Christian/anti-abortion groups. So by your definition they are "terrorists" too.
A National ID would not have stopped the American terrorist who recently murdered the Holocaust Museum guard nor the American terrorist who murdered that doctor who performed abortions.
I think Regan was the one who started giving government officials the the nickname of the "The _______ Czar". In every case the problem assigned to the Czar never went away and often got worse. You would think that term would fall out of use. You want to guarantee a problem will not go away? Appoint a Czar to oversee it.
I use tabbed browsing HEAVILY and I have fast connections. It is about the reasons this guy had. I like having multiple web pages open, but only having ONE browser window. Its an ingrained habit for me. I have a feeling I am not alone. I hope this doesn't come to pass, it would really fuck up my browsing experience with Firefox. There are so many other cool things they could do. I hope they pick something else to futz with.
I live in a near a Hispanic neighborhood and I feel the same way you do. Legal or not most of these people are extremely decent people. All they want to do is work their asses off and make a decent living. They don't seem to want much else and as a group seem to be extremely nice.
I'm against the idea of English not being the national language of the US and I think Hispanics are being out of line by demanding that it not be.
However, when I look at the problems Europe is having with its wave of Islamic immigrants I am thankful for our Hispanic immigrants, legal and not.
Yes, I do agree we need to control the flow across our borders.
The Great Wall Of China was ( and is ) quite a fancy technical feat in its day. It didn't keep people out. I think a better approach is to work with those governments to improve their economies so people don't feel compelled to emigrate just to make a basic living.
I work with some Indians and I have had a few conversations like this. I point out something *horrible*, an Indian gets defensive, an Indian states that my disturbance is because I have a Western standard of viewing things, I'm reminded of how poor India is and that point makes sense to me.
The first time was when I learned that children get paid to pull apart toxic e-waste. The second was when I read a few weeks ago that the father of the actress who played the little street girl in Slumdog tried to *sell* her and today was the third.
All three times all three Indians had a point.
India is a land with significant natural resources. My guess, as someone who has never been to India and who is not an expert is that the size of the population is part of the problem. My guess is that the other part of the poverty problem is the "screw everyone who is not part of your immediate family" attitude.
As an American watching American CEOs and the wealthy class sell out the country, I have no place to criticize.
I don't want Americans to come to understand Indian standards. I want Indians to come to afford Western standards and I want America to begin improving its own again.
The Wall Street Journal can get away with charging for access because it offers something that can't be easily gotten for free elsewhere on the web. A certain type of information and quality of information.
Murdoch will not be able to pull off charging people for access to the news unless he can demonstrate that his service is of better quality or offers something different than the free sites.
That model could actually work a few years from now when most of the newspapers have died off. With anybody being able to put up a web site and call it "news", there will be a market for easily identifiable quality information and writing.
On a serious note a testosterone based contraceptive could be appealing to highschool boys and college men from the sports/weight lifting/macho angle. Instead of going for illegal steroids they could get something legal and sexually responsible to give their masculinity/egos a boost. The benefit for the rest of is that it takes those people out of the gene pool for a while:0
I don't see this development as being a good thing for women.
People lie to each other where sex is concerned. It will always be true that the woman will be the one getting pregnant in an unwanted pregnancy. The only way for a woman to be assured of having control of her life is for her to take the issue of contraception into her own hands. Unfair? Yes, but that is just the way it is.
That is, unless you call someone names until you make them cry.
In the case that inspired the bill an adult targeted content at the teenage girl with the intent of upsetting her and the girl ended up killing herself. She is dead and her parents will have to live without the loss of their daughter for the rest of their lives.
When are people going to get that using "green" products is still producing consumer waste, and that if you want to truly make an impact, you need to ride your bike sometimes, or something!
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Are they inventing new technology GM & Tesla don't have or are they using a capacitor instead of a battery? If the latter, why aren't GM & Tesla doing that?
If a celebrity is so concerned that their wikipedia page has a frumpy picture why can't they just donate a picture under wikipedia appropriate license? Professional photographers looking for exposure/free advertisement via wikipage can also do the same thing, possibly even taking new pictures just for that purpose to avoid copyright issues. Do these people have to own every single picture they take or have taken of them?
Saying that is not enough.
This isn't just about Kindle or a single issue about law. It is going to get to the point where paper books are phased out except on a token basis and people with all sorts of motivations are going to pull shit like this but on a much more serious basis.
LOL!!
I just gave up on digg.com and I read Slashdot at a level 5 threshold so it doesn't seem that bad to me......*now*. I read Slashdot years ago with no filtering so I have enough memories to understand the joke :).
It is good to hear some of the "find another job" responses.
I have seen so many friends go down that road and for what? To get outsourced when someone will work for 5 cents an your less? The OP has a twelve hour shift because his company doesn't want for another person/shift. Is that company really going to care about or respect him?
The OP may not have another opportunity at this point and time, but I agree, get another job as soon as you get the chance.
Even if this company turns out to be wonderful you can only do a shift like that on a temporary basis.
An informed, interesting and useful comment.
It doesn't take any time to simply not overeat.
Overeating is taking in more calories than you burn. The guy who created the company AutoDesk made this great free e-book ( he sells nothing ) for geeks to control their weight that way. It is called the Hacker's Diet:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
I have a fuel efficient system too. I used the Hacker's Diet to take off 48 lbs and I have kept most of it off for several years.
Maybe you can combine managing your calories with a brisk walk or a run for 30 minutes everyday on meal break?
Off the bat, learn to drink water, diet soda, plain tea or plain coffee while you are at work. Regular soda, tea & coffee condiments, juice, milk and sweet drinks can easily pack on weight. It only takes an extra 250 calories a day ( typical of most drinks ) to put on 52 pounds a year. Most of those other drinks easily have that many calories.
Good Luck
A video camera for a computer is a lot cheaper than having to have a computer in the first place.
No surprises there. I have seen some beleaguered web board admins replace their web boards with a blogroll community. Instead of accepting comments, they would accept trackback URLS where people would respond on their own blogs. Upping the cost in effort to respond greatly reduced the amount noise, but it also greatly reduced the overall number of responses. The web is a medium of short attention spans.
There are better ways to poll people. Youtube comments will only give you a cross section of youtube users.......not a group representative of most of America. No reason to spend tax payer money in this economy to pay people to read peanut gallery quality comments.
I'm amazed that this article is about the United States and not some third world country. President Bush left a legacy alright.
I live in D.C.. If I thought about visiting the Holocaust Museum I would think twice until a few months passed.
Basically the "terrorist" label is used in the U.S. for anyone power holders do not like and who may compromise profits. Animal rights activists who sabotage fur farms but who have hurt no person nor have threatened to are on the FBI lists as "terrorists".
BTW, the Neo-Nazis are organized at least as well/bad and there are violent extremist Christian/anti-abortion groups. So by your definition they are "terrorists" too.
A National ID would not have stopped the American terrorist who recently murdered the Holocaust Museum guard nor the American terrorist who murdered that doctor who performed abortions.
I think Regan was the one who started giving government officials the the nickname of the "The _______ Czar". In every case the problem assigned to the Czar never went away and often got worse. You would think that term would fall out of use. You want to guarantee a problem will not go away? Appoint a Czar to oversee it.
I use tabbed browsing HEAVILY and I have fast connections. It is about the reasons this guy had. I like having multiple web pages open, but only having ONE browser window. Its an ingrained habit for me. I have a feeling I am not alone. I hope this doesn't come to pass, it would really fuck up my browsing experience with Firefox. There are so many other cool things they could do. I hope they pick something else to futz with.
The murder of the human being that started this situation was a massage therapist.
willoughby;
I live in a near a Hispanic neighborhood and I feel the same way you do. Legal or not most of these people are extremely decent people. All they want to do is work their asses off and make a decent living. They don't seem to want much else and as a group seem to be extremely nice.
I'm against the idea of English not being the national language of the US and I think Hispanics are being out of line by demanding that it not be.
However, when I look at the problems Europe is having with its wave of Islamic immigrants I am thankful for our Hispanic immigrants, legal and not.
Yes, I do agree we need to control the flow across our borders.
The Great Wall Of China was ( and is ) quite a fancy technical feat in its day. It didn't keep people out. I think a better approach is to work with those governments to improve their economies so people don't feel compelled to emigrate just to make a basic living.
Panthroman,
I work with some Indians and I have had a few conversations like this. I point out something *horrible*, an Indian gets defensive, an Indian states that my disturbance is because I have a Western standard of viewing things, I'm reminded of how poor India is and that point makes sense to me.
The first time was when I learned that children get paid to pull apart toxic e-waste. The second was when I read a few weeks ago that the father of the actress who played the little street girl in Slumdog tried to *sell* her and today was the third.
All three times all three Indians had a point.
India is a land with significant natural resources. My guess, as someone who has never been to India and who is not an expert is that the size of the population is part of the problem. My guess is that the other part of the poverty problem is the "screw everyone who is not part of your immediate family" attitude.
As an American watching American CEOs and the wealthy class sell out the country, I have no place to criticize.
I don't want Americans to come to understand Indian standards. I want Indians to come to afford Western standards and I want America to begin improving its own again.
The Wall Street Journal can get away with charging for access because it offers something that can't be easily gotten for free elsewhere on the web. A certain type of information and quality of information.
Murdoch will not be able to pull off charging people for access to the news unless he can demonstrate that his service is of better quality or offers something different than the free sites.
That model could actually work a few years from now when most of the newspapers have died off. With anybody being able to put up a web site and call it "news", there will be a market for easily identifiable quality information and writing.
On a serious note a testosterone based contraceptive could be appealing to highschool boys and college men from the sports/weight lifting/macho angle. Instead of going for illegal steroids they could get something legal and sexually responsible to give their masculinity/egos a boost. The benefit for the rest of is that it takes those people out of the gene pool for a while :0
Women who estrogen risk increased cancer, so wouldn't a testosterone based male contraceptive put men at risk?
If a small dose of testosterone makes men temporarily sterile, then what happens to athletes who use steroids?
I don't see this development as being a good thing for women.
People lie to each other where sex is concerned. It will always be true that the woman will be the one getting pregnant in an unwanted pregnancy. The only way for a woman to be assured of having control of her life is for her to take the issue of contraception into her own hands.
Unfair? Yes, but that is just the way it is.
That is, unless you call someone names until you make them cry.
In the case that inspired the bill an adult targeted content at the teenage girl with the intent of upsetting her and the girl ended up killing herself. She is dead and her parents will have to live without the loss of their daughter for the rest of their lives.
Do you want to mock that too?
When are people going to get that using "green" products is still producing consumer waste, and that if you want to truly make an impact, you need to ride your bike sometimes, or something!
Like eating less meat.
http://beforewisdom.com/blog/?p=155
http://tinyurl.com/2g47ac