"I work for a government agency that is having a one-day conference for 1,000 people. I looked into having the conference catered, but then I figured out that if I just buy 100 loaves of bread, sliced meat and cheese, and condiments to make 1,000 sandwiches myself, it'll be much much cheaper. I just need to buy a case of paper plans, some chips and cookies, and we're set. It's at least 10% cheaper! Has anyone tried this?"
A totally irrelevant point. Oil is part of a world market and is completely fungible, so the actual source of the specific molecules of oil that we use doesn't matter.
It's partly but not completely fungible. There are shipping costs, and variations in refining capacities, and to suddenly shift trade patterns would require significant time and expense (building supertankers and refineries). So you're right in principle, but it's a market that does have significant friction.
This is like calling gun movies where actors fire off blanks "Five times hollywood firms almost massacred their staff."
As a demonstration that gun movies should not be allowed to be made.
Try telling that to Brandon Lee, you insensitive clod.
Given the nature of modern surveillance techniques, I would have thought a thicket of missile launchers "popping up" in a new location, without any movement provenance would raise suspicions, even given US military ham-handedness.
Sure, but if you know that there are 1,000 new missile-y looking things of which 10% are real missiles you have to worry about all of them, for certain purposes.
You mean just like a union rally where the sloganeering is handled not by the people attending but the people rallying them up....
Yes. Also the way Tea Party rallies provide signs to attendees, and the way political party conferences provide signs.... pretty much the way all political rallies work in the US nowadays. What did you expect? if you're going to mock something this way, you'd better provide a reasonable facsimile.
Since the article was about the CO2 balance of solids, I felt it was correct to disregard water balance, as it is basically WIWO (water in, water out).
What part of "C6H12O6 + 6O2 = 6CO2 + 6H2O + Energy" don't you understand?
Config (bookmark, settings, stored password, etc.) syncing, what Mozilla used to call Mesh, is now in the 4.0 beta. That's a feature I don't need or want.
How exactly would you write that law? What about people who go to work on research stations in Antarctica, who go to sea on merchant ships, who are loggers in the backwoods? There are lots (or at least a certain number) of jobs in places where you might not want or be able to raise a family. That's just how the world works; you can create policies favorable to families, but you can't change these realities.
Your logic escapes me. For many cities, that would lead to higher costs because of the expense of sending waste to landfill vs selling recyclables, so residents would still end up paying more in taxes or fees.
If the city earns money for recyclables and spends money to put garbage in landfills, it might be perfectly rational, and revenue neutral, to hire people who raise the recycling rate and lower the amount sent to landfill. I'm not saying it is or isn't--that's an empirical question--but it's not necessarily a zero-sum game.
Hey, it's your choice. You could vote in favor of higher taxes (or disposal fees) to cover the cost of hiring trash sorters. I prefer to pay lower taxes/fees and do it myself.
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Back then, all hearing aids that I'm aware of (I'm certainly no expert) were of a trumpet design; which were typically larger than your hand.
Looks like a trumpet to me.
It's not obvious, for example, if there are trees blocking a straight line path, if there are elevation differences, etc.
You misspelled Luxury-Yacht.
"I work for a government agency that is having a one-day conference for 1,000 people. I looked into having the conference catered, but then I figured out that if I just buy 100 loaves of bread, sliced meat and cheese, and condiments to make 1,000 sandwiches myself, it'll be much much cheaper. I just need to buy a case of paper plans, some chips and cookies, and we're set. It's at least 10% cheaper! Has anyone tried this?"
A totally irrelevant point. Oil is part of a world market and is completely fungible, so the actual source of the specific molecules of oil that we use doesn't matter.
It's partly but not completely fungible. There are shipping costs, and variations in refining capacities, and to suddenly shift trade patterns would require significant time and expense (building supertankers and refineries). So you're right in principle, but it's a market that does have significant friction.
This is like calling gun movies where actors fire off blanks "Five times hollywood firms almost massacred their staff." As a demonstration that gun movies should not be allowed to be made.
Try telling that to Brandon Lee, you insensitive clod.
Huh? How could you crawl thousands of laptops and desktops that are not exposed as servers? That's the main thing they're worried about.
Given the nature of modern surveillance techniques, I would have thought a thicket of missile launchers "popping up" in a new location, without any movement provenance would raise suspicions, even given US military ham-handedness.
Sure, but if you know that there are 1,000 new missile-y looking things of which 10% are real missiles you have to worry about all of them, for certain purposes.
After the Cold War, the CIA's estimates of Soviet balloon superiority turned out to be inflated.
You mean just like a union rally where the sloganeering is handled not by the people attending but the people rallying them up....
Yes. Also the way Tea Party rallies provide signs to attendees, and the way political party conferences provide signs .... pretty much the way all political rallies work in the US nowadays. What did you expect? if you're going to mock something this way, you'd better provide a reasonable facsimile.
Dr. Pepper did the same thing in the 19th century.
Wouldn't those ecologically boring areas become exciting because there's suddenly a new food source for microorganisms there?
Since the article was about the CO2 balance of solids, I felt it was correct to disregard water balance, as it is basically WIWO (water in, water out).
What part of "C6H12O6 + 6O2 = 6CO2 + 6H2O + Energy" don't you understand?
Config (bookmark, settings, stored password, etc.) syncing, what Mozilla used to call Mesh, is now in the 4.0 beta. That's a feature I don't need or want.
Thanks! I always wanted to know how to otimize Google.
It's all been downhill since they left stanford.edu
How exactly would you write that law? What about people who go to work on research stations in Antarctica, who go to sea on merchant ships, who are loggers in the backwoods? There are lots (or at least a certain number) of jobs in places where you might not want or be able to raise a family. That's just how the world works; you can create policies favorable to families, but you can't change these realities.
Then you move the kitchen table into the living room.
Conversely, if people, through their elected officials, support the opposite view, we should respect that.
Your logic escapes me. For many cities, that would lead to higher costs because of the expense of sending waste to landfill vs selling recyclables, so residents would still end up paying more in taxes or fees.
Yes, lay off the cops, hire trash inspectors.
If the city earns money for recyclables and spends money to put garbage in landfills, it might be perfectly rational, and revenue neutral, to hire people who raise the recycling rate and lower the amount sent to landfill. I'm not saying it is or isn't--that's an empirical question--but it's not necessarily a zero-sum game.
Hey, it's your choice. You could vote in favor of higher taxes (or disposal fees) to cover the cost of hiring trash sorters. I prefer to pay lower taxes/fees and do it myself.
Technically, military personnel in combat zones get additional pay (imminent danger pay). But I agree with the larger point.
This phenomenon has also been observed in the stink ant of the Cameroon.
Inevitable on /. for a complex ethical issues.
Oh wait.