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I suppose Macbeth would fare even worse:
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The top speed is slower, as is the average speed outside of rush hour.
But - during morning rush hour it is faster to get from Lyngby Station to Nørreport Station (in Copenhagen) by public transportation and bicycle than it is by car. For the uninitiated that's 11.5 kilometers most of which is highway from one of the larger suburbs of Copenhagen to the busiests place in Denmark as measured by the number of people passsing through it.
Top Gear has done two similar tests that I can recall. One was driving vs running the London marathon route at 10 AM on a tuesday and the runner won by about eight minutes. One of the somewhat silly things in that one in my oppinion was Clarkson stopping to buy a congestion charge thingie in the middle of the race instead of buying one before as most people who live in London would do. But it took him no more than five minutes to do, so he'd still have lost the race.
And the other was (again) during rush hour - bicycle vs boat vs public transport vs car from somewhere in London (can't remember where) to the London City Airport. In that one not only did the bicycle win the race, it was the first time public transport beat the car in any of their challenges. The bike won followed by the boat, then public transport.
Rush hour is a bitch for cars. It's fairly crowded on a bike as well, but with decent bikelanes it's easily managable.
So... you want them to break traffic laws, just so you don't have to worry about them?
Interesting. Why don't you just use the sidewalk yourself? It's easier to do in a car (people WILL move out of your way, and if not you're driving a ton of steel - just run them over) AND you'll get to your destination much quicker. You don't even have to worry about rush hour.
You might want to get an old banger for the trip though. You might end up with quite a few dents in the car, and it will probably need to be washed daily. But think of the time you'll save.
I'm not kidding. Has been even worse. I didn't start recording it for my own purposes until a bit into my starting exercising.
Last time I went to the doctor, he had a very puzzled look on his face when he checked my heart and blood pressure, so he asked me to just lie down for about five minutes. My blood pressure was in a very good zone, but my resting heart rate while lying down and after five minutes of resting was ninety something.
In the last 65 million years, I bet the earth has several times been warmer than it is now.
Do you mean in Celsius, Fahrenheit or Kelvin?
Currently it's about 15 C/59 F/288 K Double that in C is 30 C/86 F/303 K Double in F is 118 F/47 C/320 K Double in K is 576 K/302 C/577 F
Even if you meant Celsius I rather doubt the Earth has had that kind of average temperature going back that short a period. But I can't seem to find any lists of estimated global temperatures that far back. Hell, couldn't even find one for the ice ages.
Am I the only one curious as to how the Blind Biker manages to ride a bike for 22 km a day without crashing, hitting someone/something or even getting killed by driving into a busy intersection?
I like cooking, I hate cleaning afterwards. And while I like cooking, I feel that spending all that time in the kitchen daily is a waste of time.
So just make more of everything. I usually cook in batches of about 4 kg. Since I have to microwave it anyway, freezing a proper serving size is just as easy.
For work it's easy to bring. If you forget to put it in the fridge - no big deal. And most places have a microwave these days.
As for drinking, I've somehow managed to almost entirely drop cola. I'm rather surprised, because I used to think I'm addicted to the stuff. But - now I've started buying various types of squash (not the ballgame). It's cheap too. Most companies offer free coffee/tea, and the ones I've worked for have had no issues getting squash on the free list as well.
I've lost about 2.5 kg in three weeks, and so far my biggest day to day increase was jumping 2.2 kg. The interesting big isn't what the scale says right now - it's whether or not it keeps below the moving average. This mostly isn't possible for the first few days of your diet (no data to average out), but after that it is a simple goal. Just get a decent scale and weigh yourself naked (clothes vary in weight) at the same time of day. Personally I do it after getting out of bed, before using the toilet - just keep to the same routines or your data will suffer.
The resting heart rate should plummet fairly quickly, just by doing moderate exercise. I've been keeping track of mine for about 20 days (when I started using my bicycle for moderately short trips, about 10 km a day), and it's dropped from 86 to 64. Granted, I doubt that kind of improvement will keep up as I'll be dead inside of two months, but it's a good start.
Depending on where you live and work, riding a bike to/from work is an easy way to get more exercise. Walking or jogging as well.
And you're quite right about the sleeping as well. I used to suffer from chronically bad sleep and sleeplessness. That's gone too. Of course some of that may be a placebo effect, but I'm not complaining.
No, no, no. Haven't you been paying attention to Fox news? If their side is in the majority, bitching is akin to treason. But if their side is in the minority, then bitching is needed to bring attention to the unfair tyranny they're suffering under.
Well, for most of the items I mentioned I do not pay a dime up front or through bills.
See, I live in a society where we believe that "society" means "everyone helping everyone". You'll have noticed that you brought up an example of a "society" - you just call it a "homeowners association".
Around here it means that instead of paying a "homeowners association bill" I pay taxes. Sure, that means that I'm paying for my neighbours million dollars hospital bills, but on the plus side it does mean that he gets healthy sooner. This means he can go back to work sooner. And pay more taxes than otherwise. And his taxes helped pay for my college education, so it all works out.
Oh, and if you're wondering, me getting a college education (for taxpayers' money no less) means I can make more money and thus pay more taxes. Funny how that works out. Brings us right back to "society" doesn't it?
Also amazing that the highly taxed societies of Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden and probably Finland, but I don't know for sure) even manage to stay out of poverty. Not like they have any multinational corporations at all, like Nokia, Ericsson Mobile, Novo Nordisk, Mærsk (Maersk). Hell, they don't even have any car companies - mostly because Volvo and Saab were run into the ground while owned by other companies. Not sure what kind of societies thosecompanies were from though...
Roads - should be privatized ($x/mile driven) Water supply - should be privatized ($x/gallon taken into the house) Sewage treatment - should be privatized ($x/gallon taken out of the house) Police - should be privatized ($x/call to 911 etc) Fire department - should be privatized ($x upfront to have your fire put out, but the neighbors can chip in so their houses won't be next) Army - should be privatized (don't want that North Korean missile landing in your backyard? I hope you have the money to pay for it) Schools - should be privatized ($x/day of school, and of course for missing school, turning in homework, missing homework etc) Power (including lease of the lines that feed your house) - should be privatized Street lighting - should be privatized (why not charge neighborhoods for the privilege of light?) Garbage collection - should be privatized ($x/lbs of garbage, extra charges if you don't sort everything perfectly) Ambulance - should be privatized (got mugged, wallet and ID stolen, head smashed in? Too bad - if you don't have the cash or picture ID to show that you're covered, the EMTs won't help you)
I wonder what other publicly provided services I left out.
Then get off your sorry ass and go out there and do something about these social issues. You're spending valuable time posting on Slashdot - time that could be well spent working on these issues. In fact, the resources you're using on your computer could be better spent towards fixing those social issues.
Start small - make yourself a model for others to follow. It's what Mother Theresa did, and she didn't waste her time on a technology site complaining that all the stuff they wrote about were frivolous. She was too busy, and you should be too.
Well, you can't buy any kind of modem and get internet from any provider. First you need the right kind of modem (i.e. ADSL, fiber, cable or regular old dial-up). And as far as I know, I can't go out and buy just any kind of cable or ADSL modem either. Granted, I don't rent or buy those (apart from the dial-up), but still.
Granted, it's still in the alpha stage, but if your router supports UPnP Unite will ask you if you want to have your public ip-address pointing at its webserver. And there is nothing that prevents you from using something like dyndns.org to accomplish your goals:
But the paranoid "think of the children crowd" doesn't let things like that get in their way. It's a lot more fun to pretend that it's random thugs that does it. Safer too.
One thing I really liked about "Titus" was the last episode. It's a comedy show and it brings up molestation in a serious way - and doesn't pretend that the bad guys are random strangers.
1) Does your wife read Slashdot? 2) If so, does she also see the Alter Relationship link next to your username or is that only on your marriage certificate?;)
It's not medicine. If it was medicine it would be labeled as such AND it would have a provable effect.
It's water! How often does that need to be said? The only effect it has is as a placebo. And for those who believe that you can't overdose on homeopathy I have two terms for you: Water poisoning and drowning.
Nukes have a couple of problems. They cause fallout, massive civilian deaths, mutations to future births, etc.
Drop a fake on into the middle of the capital. Use everything else you would in a real nuclear bomb and put the usual nuclear decals on it. Maybe add a parachute deployment system or something so it'll land relatively intact.
Should scare the shit out of the civilian population without any direct casualties. And I really really doubt anyone will be walking up close to it right away.
As an added bonus it'll tell the target's government that we can put this thing anywhere we want. Especially if have the armament team print the target address on it. Imagine how people in New York would react if something like that landed in the middle of Times Square with a text that said
Please Deliver to: The New York Times Company 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 USA
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Oh, how my heart yearns to see this happen.
I suppose Macbeth would fare even worse:
I have to leave the stage to Bill Hicks and his thoughts on marketing
Ah - found the videos for the big London race: Top Gear London Race - car vs bike vs boat vs public transport
Couldn't find the one from the marathon run though
The top speed is slower, as is the average speed outside of rush hour.
But - during morning rush hour it is faster to get from Lyngby Station to Nørreport Station (in Copenhagen) by public transportation and bicycle than it is by car. For the uninitiated that's 11.5 kilometers most of which is highway from one of the larger suburbs of Copenhagen to the busiests place in Denmark as measured by the number of people passsing through it.
Top Gear has done two similar tests that I can recall. One was driving vs running the London marathon route at 10 AM on a tuesday and the runner won by about eight minutes. One of the somewhat silly things in that one in my oppinion was Clarkson stopping to buy a congestion charge thingie in the middle of the race instead of buying one before as most people who live in London would do. But it took him no more than five minutes to do, so he'd still have lost the race.
And the other was (again) during rush hour - bicycle vs boat vs public transport vs car from somewhere in London (can't remember where) to the London City Airport. In that one not only did the bicycle win the race, it was the first time public transport beat the car in any of their challenges. The bike won followed by the boat, then public transport.
Rush hour is a bitch for cars. It's fairly crowded on a bike as well, but with decent bikelanes it's easily managable.
So ... you want them to break traffic laws, just so you don't have to worry about them?
Interesting. Why don't you just use the sidewalk yourself? It's easier to do in a car (people WILL move out of your way, and if not you're driving a ton of steel - just run them over) AND you'll get to your destination much quicker. You don't even have to worry about rush hour.
You might want to get an old banger for the trip though. You might end up with quite a few dents in the car, and it will probably need to be washed daily. But think of the time you'll save.
I'm not kidding. Has been even worse. I didn't start recording it for my own purposes until a bit into my starting exercising.
Last time I went to the doctor, he had a very puzzled look on his face when he checked my heart and blood pressure, so he asked me to just lie down for about five minutes. My blood pressure was in a very good zone, but my resting heart rate while lying down and after five minutes of resting was ninety something.
Do you mean in Celsius, Fahrenheit or Kelvin?
Currently it's about 15 C/59 F/288 K
Double that in C is 30 C/86 F/303 K
Double in F is 118 F/47 C/320 K
Double in K is 576 K/302 C/577 F
Even if you meant Celsius I rather doubt the Earth has had that kind of average temperature going back that short a period. But I can't seem to find any lists of estimated global temperatures that far back. Hell, couldn't even find one for the ice ages.
Am I the only one curious as to how the Blind Biker manages to ride a bike for 22 km a day without crashing, hitting someone/something or even getting killed by driving into a busy intersection?
I have to second that.
I like cooking, I hate cleaning afterwards. And while I like cooking, I feel that spending all that time in the kitchen daily is a waste of time.
So just make more of everything. I usually cook in batches of about 4 kg. Since I have to microwave it anyway, freezing a proper serving size is just as easy.
For work it's easy to bring. If you forget to put it in the fridge - no big deal. And most places have a microwave these days.
As for drinking, I've somehow managed to almost entirely drop cola. I'm rather surprised, because I used to think I'm addicted to the stuff. But - now I've started buying various types of squash (not the ballgame). It's cheap too. Most companies offer free coffee/tea, and the ones I've worked for have had no issues getting squash on the free list as well.
As someone above me said, The Hacker's Diet is well worth a read. Especially if you plan on losing weight, as the section on moving averages helps you keep calm.
I've lost about 2.5 kg in three weeks, and so far my biggest day to day increase was jumping 2.2 kg. The interesting big isn't what the scale says right now - it's whether or not it keeps below the moving average. This mostly isn't possible for the first few days of your diet (no data to average out), but after that it is a simple goal. Just get a decent scale and weigh yourself naked (clothes vary in weight) at the same time of day. Personally I do it after getting out of bed, before using the toilet - just keep to the same routines or your data will suffer.
The resting heart rate should plummet fairly quickly, just by doing moderate exercise. I've been keeping track of mine for about 20 days (when I started using my bicycle for moderately short trips, about 10 km a day), and it's dropped from 86 to 64. Granted, I doubt that kind of improvement will keep up as I'll be dead inside of two months, but it's a good start.
Depending on where you live and work, riding a bike to/from work is an easy way to get more exercise. Walking or jogging as well.
And you're quite right about the sleeping as well. I used to suffer from chronically bad sleep and sleeplessness. That's gone too. Of course some of that may be a placebo effect, but I'm not complaining.
And a liter of water weight exactly a kg. There are exactly 1,000 meters in a kilometer. And there's exactly a year in a light year.
Wait ... one of those is wrong.
Yes, but you don't hook a tuna to the electrical wiring in the childrens' bedrooms!
Think of the children!
It's not gut feelings. It's truthiness
No, no, no. Haven't you been paying attention to Fox news? If their side is in the majority, bitching is akin to treason. But if their side is in the minority, then bitching is needed to bring attention to the unfair tyranny they're suffering under.
See this video from The Daily Show for a better insight.
He did - he looked it up in his gut.
Well, for most of the items I mentioned I do not pay a dime up front or through bills.
See, I live in a society where we believe that "society" means "everyone helping everyone". You'll have noticed that you brought up an example of a "society" - you just call it a "homeowners association".
Around here it means that instead of paying a "homeowners association bill" I pay taxes. Sure, that means that I'm paying for my neighbours million dollars hospital bills, but on the plus side it does mean that he gets healthy sooner. This means he can go back to work sooner. And pay more taxes than otherwise. And his taxes helped pay for my college education, so it all works out.
Oh, and if you're wondering, me getting a college education (for taxpayers' money no less) means I can make more money and thus pay more taxes. Funny how that works out. Brings us right back to "society" doesn't it?
Also amazing that the highly taxed societies of Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden and probably Finland, but I don't know for sure) even manage to stay out of poverty. Not like they have any multinational corporations at all, like Nokia, Ericsson Mobile, Novo Nordisk, Mærsk (Maersk). Hell, they don't even have any car companies - mostly because Volvo and Saab were run into the ground while owned by other companies. Not sure what kind of societies those companies were from though ...
The secret police? What happens when the US Army catches you walking around with a cellphone known for those capabilities?
Well, it might be better now, but do you really want to be an Iraqi national walking around in Baghdad with one of these when a bomb goes off?
Roads - should be privatized ($x/mile driven)
Water supply - should be privatized ($x/gallon taken into the house)
Sewage treatment - should be privatized ($x/gallon taken out of the house)
Police - should be privatized ($x/call to 911 etc)
Fire department - should be privatized ($x upfront to have your fire put out, but the neighbors can chip in so their houses won't be next)
Army - should be privatized (don't want that North Korean missile landing in your backyard? I hope you have the money to pay for it)
Schools - should be privatized ($x/day of school, and of course for missing school, turning in homework, missing homework etc)
Power (including lease of the lines that feed your house) - should be privatized
Street lighting - should be privatized (why not charge neighborhoods for the privilege of light?)
Garbage collection - should be privatized ($x/lbs of garbage, extra charges if you don't sort everything perfectly)
Ambulance - should be privatized (got mugged, wallet and ID stolen, head smashed in? Too bad - if you don't have the cash or picture ID to show that you're covered, the EMTs won't help you)
I wonder what other publicly provided services I left out.
Then get off your sorry ass and go out there and do something about these social issues. You're spending valuable time posting on Slashdot - time that could be well spent working on these issues. In fact, the resources you're using on your computer could be better spent towards fixing those social issues.
Start small - make yourself a model for others to follow. It's what Mother Theresa did, and she didn't waste her time on a technology site complaining that all the stuff they wrote about were frivolous. She was too busy, and you should be too.
Well, you can't buy any kind of modem and get internet from any provider. First you need the right kind of modem (i.e. ADSL, fiber, cable or regular old dial-up). And as far as I know, I can't go out and buy just any kind of cable or ADSL modem either. Granted, I don't rent or buy those (apart from the dial-up), but still.
Opera Unite.
Granted, it's still in the alpha stage, but if your router supports UPnP Unite will ask you if you want to have your public ip-address pointing at its webserver. And there is nothing that prevents you from using something like dyndns.org to accomplish your goals:
Like this guy from Opera software did
Of course they do. They're called "family and friends".
But the paranoid "think of the children crowd" doesn't let things like that get in their way. It's a lot more fun to pretend that it's random thugs that does it. Safer too.
One thing I really liked about "Titus" was the last episode. It's a comedy show and it brings up molestation in a serious way - and doesn't pretend that the bad guys are random strangers.
I can't help but wonder two things:
1) Does your wife read Slashdot? ;)
2) If so, does she also see the Alter Relationship link next to your username or is that only on your marriage certificate?
I don't get it?
It's not medicine. If it was medicine it would be labeled as such AND it would have a provable effect.
It's water! How often does that need to be said? The only effect it has is as a placebo. And for those who believe that you can't overdose on homeopathy I have two terms for you: Water poisoning and drowning.
Drop a fake on into the middle of the capital. Use everything else you would in a real nuclear bomb and put the usual nuclear decals on it. Maybe add a parachute deployment system or something so it'll land relatively intact.
Should scare the shit out of the civilian population without any direct casualties. And I really really doubt anyone will be walking up close to it right away.
As an added bonus it'll tell the target's government that we can put this thing anywhere we want. Especially if have the armament team print the target address on it. Imagine how people in New York would react if something like that landed in the middle of Times Square with a text that said
Please Deliver to:
The New York Times Company
620 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
USA