I think it's safe to assume that GP meant that in regards to human survivability. Or if GP is some other species, then to the survivability of GP's species. The point is, that from a purely evolutionary perspective, environmental change (because that's the kind of change we're talking about) isn't ok. The only way to qualify change as being good or bad is by reference to something that currently exists. In this case, the organisms currently inhabiting this mudball. Otherwise the change merely occurs, being neither good nor bad. And for those organisms, change is generally not a good thing.
And to the GP, THANK YOU!!! It always seems to me that such an important point is always missed whenever climate change gets discussed. It doesn't matter whether we're causing the change, or we're simply significantly speeding up a natural periodic cycle, or are having little to no impact, because we're still just as fucked if we don't learn how to adapt before it's too late. Good to see that there are others out there who realize this.
You seem to be missing something though. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding tethering. But I was under the impression that all tethering does is allow you to do on your laptop what you can already do on your phone. You're already paying for cellular access to the internet, the only thing the tethering does is shift which device you access it from.
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That's what I thought at first (well, not that GP's time isn't worth much, but that GP must spend a lot of time commuting), but presuming that GP is an average cyclist, that's less than an hour commute (one way). I know people who commute by car with longer commute times.
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if it takes so little time to completely distort the meaning of such simple words even in the face of so much supporting information on the meaning of those words (Federalist Papers, etc), then what can any of us do to preserve liberty over any length of time?
By following the words of I believe it was Thomas Jefferson.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
One area where the US "leads" the way also is the belief in 'little green men', I've read that 50% of the US population believe in those..
When you say that people believe in 'little green men', do you mean a belief in Martians specifically, or a belief that we are frequently visited by aliens, or simply a belief that somewhere out there, there exists intelligent life?
Also, I'm a little confused on if your comment is meant as a contrast to the backwards thinking or merely further proof of it.
It baffles me to see how people can possibly think in terms of "humans are the most intelligent animal on the planet, and thus must be the only animal that matters".
Something tells me that such thinking is not unique to humans. Take beavers for example. Do you really think they give a damn what their dams end up doing to any other species. Of course not, all they see is what's in it for them.
Just because, once you die, you can't care that you just spent hours in horrible agony (because you no longer exist), that doesn't mean you wouldn't prefer to die in a less painful way.
Unfortunately, apparently neither girl had the "get out of jail free" card to justify carrying them.
And for a very good reason too.
From TFS...
Incidentally, the girl was found not to be in possession of any drugs, illegal or otherwise.
(emphasis mine)
one of the lawyers said that the school had no reason to believe that the girl was carrying the pills in her underwear or next to her body. I disagree. Another student accused her of supplying the pills. If they did not find the source in her locker or in her purse, then they had to be somewhere else.
Or, the student who said that was lying. Which given that they found no drugs of any kind, leads me to suspect that to be the case.
When I've gotten a ticket, it was clear that I deserved it.
Except the ticket wasn't given to you, it was given to your vehicle. As a human being being tried in a court of law in the United States, you have the right to face your accuser. No accuser, no case, you're automatically not guilty. That's where the "unfairly ticketed" part comes from.
Maryland gets around this (as previously stated) by ticketing your vehicle, not you.
I'm sure he's just refering to the added wear and tear that using your PS2 to play DVD will cause
Which brings us back to the question I was trying to ask, why would playing a DVD wear it out faster? Is it because of what I said above? Or, another possibility I just thought of, is it simply because, in theory, you'll end up using the PS2 more often than if you used it just to play games? IE, Operating the device for four hours per day to play games vs four hours a day on games plus four hours a day on DVDs, effectively wearing it out in half as many days.
Or is it some third option that I hadn't thought of?
PS2 could also read DVD so that you could kill your drive even faster.
Please explain. The only thing I can think of where playing DVDs can kill a drive comes from hacking a Wii.
I'd heard that if you hack a Wii to be able to play DVDs, it wears out faster because, for DVDs the speed at which the disc is spun is variable dependent on how far out from the center of the disc you are reading, but for Wii games the disc is spun at a constant speed. I'd not heard that PS2 games were also like that.
At a hearing on the bill then, Microsoft national technology officer Stuart McKee described it as anti-competitive and warned that it could be the equivalent of the state "picking Betamax when everyone else goes with VHS."
That's seriously from TFA? While the analogy of choosing one video cassette format over another may be apt, I think they have that reversed. Betamax would more closely resemble Microsoft's formats than it would ODF. If memory serves me correctly, you could only get Betamax from Sony, and they didn't license it out for 3rd parties to produce equipment for. VHS was licensed far and wide to anyone with sufficient funds, and if you had to pick one or the other as an ODF analog, VHS would be it.
I recall seeing an article on/. about some group showing how to spoof it so it looks like a printer on the network is a file sharer, but I hadn't heard anything about the RIAA actually trying to sue the machine.
All right, all right, I'm thinking I'm starting to get this.
Nintendo comes up with the name "Wii" for their new console. They do this to make something unique and not-bandwagon-jumpy so as to make themselves distinct. It is met with no end of bitching and moaning from the get-off-my-lawn gaming elite, who want their D-pads D-paddy, their control sticks sticky, and their console names a reaffirmation of their egos. And when I say "no end of bitching and moaning", I mean it; to this day, every time the name is mentioned in a Slashdot comment, at least two or three oh-so-clevar l33t gamerzzzz start making genitalia references, "lol".
So Nintendo names their upgraded DS the "DSi". And what shows up in a few scant Slashdot posts, right near the top? Someone bitching and moaning that Nintendo has jumped on a bandwagon. Waah, waah, waah.
We do? Maybe it's the fact that I don't get out much, but every year that there's an election, in the months leading up to said election, nearly every house I see has a sign indicating support for a particular candidate.
Sure, you and I may wish for anonymous voting, but given the above, I cannot believe that the majority of Americans do.
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Pure, unadulterated h2o isn't, but add a little salt...
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General Specific, is that you?
Warp drives that wear dresses and makeup?
Considering Scotty referred to the Enterprise as "she", wouldn't wearing dresses and makeup be normal? ;)
I think it's safe to assume that GP meant that in regards to human survivability. Or if GP is some other species, then to the survivability of GP's species. The point is, that from a purely evolutionary perspective, environmental change (because that's the kind of change we're talking about) isn't ok. The only way to qualify change as being good or bad is by reference to something that currently exists. In this case, the organisms currently inhabiting this mudball. Otherwise the change merely occurs, being neither good nor bad. And for those organisms, change is generally not a good thing.
And to the GP, THANK YOU!!! It always seems to me that such an important point is always missed whenever climate change gets discussed. It doesn't matter whether we're causing the change, or we're simply significantly speeding up a natural periodic cycle, or are having little to no impact, because we're still just as fucked if we don't learn how to adapt before it's too late. Good to see that there are others out there who realize this.
Sure, at one point in history that may have been true, but I was under the impression that the queen was just a figurehead now?
You seem to be missing something though. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding tethering. But I was under the impression that all tethering does is allow you to do on your laptop what you can already do on your phone. You're already paying for cellular access to the internet, the only thing the tethering does is shift which device you access it from.
That's what I thought at first (well, not that GP's time isn't worth much, but that GP must spend a lot of time commuting), but presuming that GP is an average cyclist, that's less than an hour commute (one way). I know people who commute by car with longer commute times.
Even in 100 degree weather with high humidity?
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That's... interesting.
if it takes so little time to completely distort the meaning of such simple words even in the face of so much supporting information on the meaning of those words (Federalist Papers, etc), then what can any of us do to preserve liberty over any length of time?
By following the words of I believe it was Thomas Jefferson.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
One area where the US "leads" the way also is the belief in 'little green men', I've read that 50% of the US population believe in those..
When you say that people believe in 'little green men', do you mean a belief in Martians specifically, or a belief that we are frequently visited by aliens, or simply a belief that somewhere out there, there exists intelligent life?
Also, I'm a little confused on if your comment is meant as a contrast to the backwards thinking or merely further proof of it.
It baffles me to see how people can possibly think in terms of "humans are the most intelligent animal on the planet, and thus must be the only animal that matters".
Something tells me that such thinking is not unique to humans. Take beavers for example. Do you really think they give a damn what their dams end up doing to any other species. Of course not, all they see is what's in it for them.
Are we tastier than Lobster?
I think that depends if you prefer bacon over lobster.
Just because, once you die, you can't care that you just spent hours in horrible agony (because you no longer exist), that doesn't mean you wouldn't prefer to die in a less painful way.
Or at least I wouldn't.
65, so they can go straight into retirement.
Unfortunately, apparently neither girl had the "get out of jail free" card to justify carrying them.
And for a very good reason too.
From TFS...
Incidentally, the girl was found not to be in possession of any drugs, illegal or otherwise.
(emphasis mine)
one of the lawyers said that the school had no reason to believe that the girl was carrying the pills in her underwear or next to her body. I disagree. Another student accused her of supplying the pills. If they did not find the source in her locker or in her purse, then they had to be somewhere else.
Or, the student who said that was lying. Which given that they found no drugs of any kind, leads me to suspect that to be the case.
When I've gotten a ticket, it was clear that I deserved it.
Except the ticket wasn't given to you, it was given to your vehicle. As a human being being tried in a court of law in the United States, you have the right to face your accuser. No accuser, no case, you're automatically not guilty. That's where the "unfairly ticketed" part comes from.
Maryland gets around this (as previously stated) by ticketing your vehicle, not you.
I'm sure he's just refering to the added wear and tear that using your PS2 to play DVD will cause
Which brings us back to the question I was trying to ask, why would playing a DVD wear it out faster? Is it because of what I said above? Or, another possibility I just thought of, is it simply because, in theory, you'll end up using the PS2 more often than if you used it just to play games? IE, Operating the device for four hours per day to play games vs four hours a day on games plus four hours a day on DVDs, effectively wearing it out in half as many days.
Or is it some third option that I hadn't thought of?
PS2 could also read DVD so that you could kill your drive even faster.
Please explain. The only thing I can think of where playing DVDs can kill a drive comes from hacking a Wii.
I'd heard that if you hack a Wii to be able to play DVDs, it wears out faster because, for DVDs the speed at which the disc is spun is variable dependent on how far out from the center of the disc you are reading, but for Wii games the disc is spun at a constant speed. I'd not heard that PS2 games were also like that.
Ah, that's what it was. It wasn't that they wouldn't license it, just that they would only license it to certain parties.
Quote from the article:
At a hearing on the bill then, Microsoft national technology officer Stuart McKee described it as anti-competitive and warned that it could be the equivalent of the state "picking Betamax when everyone else goes with VHS."
That's seriously from TFA? While the analogy of choosing one video cassette format over another may be apt, I think they have that reversed. Betamax would more closely resemble Microsoft's formats than it would ODF. If memory serves me correctly, you could only get Betamax from Sony, and they didn't license it out for 3rd parties to produce equipment for. VHS was licensed far and wide to anyone with sufficient funds, and if you had to pick one or the other as an ODF analog, VHS would be it.
I recall seeing an article on /. about some group showing how to spoof it so it looks like a printer on the network is a file sharer, but I hadn't heard anything about the RIAA actually trying to sue the machine.
All right, all right, I'm thinking I'm starting to get this.
Nintendo comes up with the name "Wii" for their new console. They do this to make something unique and not-bandwagon-jumpy so as to make themselves distinct. It is met with no end of bitching and moaning from the get-off-my-lawn gaming elite, who want their D-pads D-paddy, their control sticks sticky, and their console names a reaffirmation of their egos. And when I say "no end of bitching and moaning", I mean it; to this day, every time the name is mentioned in a Slashdot comment, at least two or three oh-so-clevar l33t gamerzzzz start making genitalia references, "lol".
So Nintendo names their upgraded DS the "DSi". And what shows up in a few scant Slashdot posts, right near the top? Someone bitching and moaning that Nintendo has jumped on a bandwagon. Waah, waah, waah.
(Emphasis mine)
Please forgive me.
We like to have anonymous elections in the US.
We do? Maybe it's the fact that I don't get out much, but every year that there's an election, in the months leading up to said election, nearly every house I see has a sign indicating support for a particular candidate.
Sure, you and I may wish for anonymous voting, but given the above, I cannot believe that the majority of Americans do.
And if the tech had a USB CD/DVD-ROM on hand? :P