it's simple - just start using the metric system. Most programs and applications can be changed to use metric units, and convertors are everywhere. Metric is in common usage by anyone that's doing anything important, or anyone that has to deal with other countries in science and trade. So.. just do it. Screw your government and the luddites. It is you that run your country.
Or.. you could move to canada.. nothing like 355ml of good beer (i'm not even going to tell you what that is in ounces... because i don't know).
Our intelligence and ability to adapt doesn't make us any better - if anything it makes us worse. Eating, Sleeping and fornicating is a pretty damn good life. Humans are the only species that haven't realized that's all we really need to be doing;) Relax everyone, be stupid!
I tend to think of depression as an evolutionary adaptation, or a symptom of our adaptation in the crazy modern world. I think one of the largest factors affecting selection and reproduction in humans now on an evolutionary scale is the ability to cope with and deal with the stresses that seem ongoing and constant in our world now.
Some argue that human evolution has come to stand still, but I think just the opposite is happening. If you look at what affects mate selection and generation continuity today, stress, or more importantly how we deal with it, plays a big role.
If one constantly ignores the need to reflect, think, and gain persepective on life - one tends to become autonomous and forgetful of what's important. Depression forces a person to stop and think and is likely the result of the built-up need to take time out. At least, that's my theory. I don't want to sound like I'm trivializing the pain and suffering experienced by those that suffer from depression, just offering perspective here.
Imagine if we were all just happy and walking through life with a shit-eating grin -we'd all become robots in short order. The article is slightly misleading when it says about 10% of peopel suffer from depression, it's more like 100% of people suffer from depression from time to time and in varying degrees. I'm sure it has purpose and reason in our human existance.
Spending ridiculous amounts of money is kind of the point of this post I think - imagine if we all got together and made a free open source scheduling system for the small airports and allowed charter operaters to take passengers in two directions (rather than in one direction as is usual with charter flight) to effectively cut the costs in half?
I just flew in a cessna on sunday from Auburn washington to Puyallup - $99.00 if it was $50 because we had a scheduling system in place that would see someone in puyallup coming back to auburn with him.. why wouldn't we do it?
Yeah it's all pie in the sky.. but we could easily do it.. charge fees to private airports and pilots to be registered with the system.. cut tickets for passengers, and let the pilots screen the one or two people they'll be taking on board themselves.. al qaida doesn't want to take a cessna down!!
mysql - php.. some administrative folks and a web server.. you got yourself a business model.
it's not coincidental that when any power generation or power savings breakthrough is announced it comes with the promise of allowing us to cool our homes cheaper or provide some sort of advanced way to cool our homes. Air conditioning is expensive, and a huge drain on our resources. Not suprisingly, the most simple and elegant solution - utilizing the heat of the day to cool a home - was developed centuries ago by the romans (or at the very least, they stole the idea from someone).
The solution involves the use of two towers - one at the "hot side" of a home and the other at the "cool side" of the home. The hot tower (and this can be made hot in any number of ways.. normal sunlight, green house-style warming, fire.. whatever you like. The air in the heated tower moves upwards drawing air through the sealed home who's only intake is the cool tower. This in itself would be enough to cool the house significantly, but the technology is improved by a sort of bell tower at the top of the cool tower; The tower has a water resevoir and the air openings have draped in front of them a cloth or reed mesh. Water is then cascaded over the cloth/mesh/reeds (or whatever) at a controlled rate, and the subsequent evaporation cools the material. The air then being pulled through the mesh intake is even further reduced in temperature.
The only work required here is to fill the cool tower with water (easily accomplished if one lives below a water source) - or you can rig up a pump system that's electrically powered (just think of all that money you save on air conditioning, might as well use some electricity to fill the water tank:).
Of course.. one could manually fill the tank and kill both the electricity/resource *and* obesity problems at the same time;).
I've actually made a dog house version of this - it works great.
...to serve the needs of these folks. Anyone want to partner with me on a new screenshots only server site?...the name screenjism.com immediately comes to mind mmhmm. gigigiddey
but.. it seems like this would be something that vehicle manufacturer would supply, and you would still need to add hydrogen in some manner to refill the balls. So if theyt existed in the fuel tank on a permanent basis and they are recharged with hydrogen periodically this could work... does the palladium run out?
Yeahhh... I think we've clearly missed the humour here. Did you notice how Boeing's "Phantom Works" lab appears to be a basement suite kitchen, complete with low-budget wine rack and dingy cabinetry?
Unless Boeing is really low in the budget dept these days.. I think this is clearly BS!!
Neither of this options will do anything for you - adding a vaccum or filters is not going to help. If you truly want to clean-room a small box at home your best bet is to make said small plastic cube, firmly sealed, with an exhaust port on the top that is sealable (small flap over a hole you can tape) and an intake on the bottom.
Put your hard drive in the box first, seal the box up. Through the small hole in the bottom, insert the straw of a computer/electronics type "compressed air" product and spray it in. The "air" inside these products is a heavier-than-air combination of nitrogen, aerosol and some other goodies. This will effectively 'push-out' the air and it's suspended dust and particles. Once you feel you've sprayed enough to fill the box seal up both holes and proceed with the work.
Hellz yeah.. I remember feeling like I was actually doing something when I played that game. Geeky as it is... When I needed to gear up and head into space - even just to ID some freighters that happened to wonder too close to my space port - disembarking from the launch bay felt like I was entering a huge unknown world where anything could happen. It was open space.. and there was no limit on where I could fly to. I had all the functions of my trusty fighter mapped on the keyboard and I was in my cockpit. Everything was bliss.. changing the firing rate/pattern of the guns, gearing up for hyperspace with the wings changing shape and such - it was totally immersive.
If there was a rehash of this game, made new with all the bells and whistles out there today. Where I could fly through space in a free and unbounded fashion, and interact at my own will with whatever I came across... and maybe say land on some moons or planets. I wouldn't ever need another game.
Heh, really just to see if it made a difference for you as it does me - I'm blessed/cursed with a similar trait. During a hearing test a doctor found it necessary to keep repeating "tell me when you hear the sound stop" only, I hadn't yet heard the sound stop. As the test continued way beyond normal human range and through volumes one normally can't hear (I guess) he was very suprised that I hadn't halted the test. My sensitivity and upper range is way above normal for a human. As a result mp3s 256k are absolutely dreadful. Now, this will sound odd, but I happened to house a large amount of rodents when I was young (about 13-15). I had 15 (and always multiplying) pet rats and mice housed chicken-coop fashion out in the yard (my mom wouldn't let them in the house). They were chatter boxes, and up until I read this article I assumed everyone heard it. it's interesting to think that they might have been silent to everyone else.
I actually *can* tell the difference between a $2 and a $180 cable - it's about $178:)
I guess all those dollar store ultrasonic rodent prevention gadgets might actually have some merit.. unless there output translates to "come infest my house" in mice speak... who knew!
I think your confusing "rain forest trees" with "brazilian rain forest trees" - the west coast including oregan, washington, bc & alaska is all rain forest - and yes, a large portion of what's harvested from it is used for pulp/paper. The remainder is largely construction/timber.
yes well.. the root issue here is velocity/gravity. My original post was mostly tongue-in-cheek because he glossed over a rather importance piece of the puzzle - that being gravity.
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it's simple - just start using the metric system. Most programs and applications can be changed to use metric units, and convertors are everywhere. Metric is in common usage by anyone that's doing anything important, or anyone that has to deal with other countries in science and trade. So.. just do it. Screw your government and the luddites. It is you that run your country.
Or.. you could move to canada.. nothing like 355ml of good beer (i'm not even going to tell you what that is in ounces... because i don't know).
Sounds like someone is trying to hype Arasor stock. Look at http://www.hometheaterfocus.com/blog/archive/2006/ 04/04/3037.aspxthis website for info on Mitsubishi's Laser TV
Our intelligence and ability to adapt doesn't make us any better - if anything it makes us worse. Eating, Sleeping and fornicating is a pretty damn good life. Humans are the only species that haven't realized that's all we really need to be doing ;) Relax everyone, be stupid!
I tend to think of depression as an evolutionary adaptation, or a symptom of our adaptation in the crazy modern world. I think one of the largest factors affecting selection and reproduction in humans now on an evolutionary scale is the ability to cope with and deal with the stresses that seem ongoing and constant in our world now.
Some argue that human evolution has come to stand still, but I think just the opposite is happening. If you look at what affects mate selection and generation continuity today, stress, or more importantly how we deal with it, plays a big role.
If one constantly ignores the need to reflect, think, and gain persepective on life - one tends to become autonomous and forgetful of what's important. Depression forces a person to stop and think and is likely the result of the built-up need to take time out. At least, that's my theory. I don't want to sound like I'm trivializing the pain and suffering experienced by those that suffer from depression, just offering perspective here.
Imagine if we were all just happy and walking through life with a shit-eating grin -we'd all become robots in short order. The article is slightly misleading when it says about 10% of peopel suffer from depression, it's more like 100% of people suffer from depression from time to time and in varying degrees. I'm sure it has purpose and reason in our human existance.
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Spending ridiculous amounts of money is kind of the point of this post I think - imagine if we all got together and made a free open source scheduling system for the small airports and allowed charter operaters to take passengers in two directions (rather than in one direction as is usual with charter flight) to effectively cut the costs in half?
I just flew in a cessna on sunday from Auburn washington to Puyallup - $99.00 if it was $50 because we had a scheduling system in place that would see someone in puyallup coming back to auburn with him.. why wouldn't we do it?
Yeah it's all pie in the sky.. but we could easily do it.. charge fees to private airports and pilots to be registered with the system.. cut tickets for passengers, and let the pilots screen the one or two people they'll be taking on board themselves.. al qaida doesn't want to take a cessna down!!
mysql - php.. some administrative folks and a web server.. you got yourself a business model.
it's not coincidental that when any power generation or power savings breakthrough is announced it comes with the promise of allowing us to cool our homes cheaper or provide some sort of advanced way to cool our homes. Air conditioning is expensive, and a huge drain on our resources. Not suprisingly, the most simple and elegant solution - utilizing the heat of the day to cool a home - was developed centuries ago by the romans (or at the very least, they stole the idea from someone).
:).
;).
The solution involves the use of two towers - one at the "hot side" of a home and the other at the "cool side" of the home. The hot tower (and this can be made hot in any number of ways.. normal sunlight, green house-style warming, fire.. whatever you like. The air in the heated tower moves upwards drawing air through the sealed home who's only intake is the cool tower. This in itself would be enough to cool the house significantly, but the technology is improved by a sort of bell tower at the top of the cool tower; The tower has a water resevoir and the air openings have draped in front of them a cloth or reed mesh. Water is then cascaded over the cloth/mesh/reeds (or whatever) at a controlled rate, and the subsequent evaporation cools the material. The air then being pulled through the mesh intake is even further reduced in temperature.
The only work required here is to fill the cool tower with water (easily accomplished if one lives below a water source) - or you can rig up a pump system that's electrically powered (just think of all that money you save on air conditioning, might as well use some electricity to fill the water tank
Of course.. one could manually fill the tank and kill both the electricity/resource *and* obesity problems at the same time
I've actually made a dog house version of this - it works great.
...to serve the needs of these folks. Anyone want to partner with me on a new screenshots only server site? ...the name screenjism.com immediately comes to mind mmhmm. gigigiddey
but.. it seems like this would be something that vehicle manufacturer would supply, and you would still need to add hydrogen in some manner to refill the balls. So if theyt existed in the fuel tank on a permanent basis and they are recharged with hydrogen periodically this could work... does the palladium run out?
Your saying that things can be managed remotely.. on a network. WE NEED TO ALL FEAR FOR OUR JOBS! FIRST ROBOTS NOW THIS!
oh wait.... wasn't this story first posted on CHIPS & DIPS like a thousand years ago?
Yeahhh... I think we've clearly missed the humour here. Did you notice how Boeing's "Phantom Works" lab appears to be a basement suite kitchen, complete with low-budget wine rack and dingy cabinetry?
Unless Boeing is really low in the budget dept these days.. I think this is clearly BS!!
Neither of this options will do anything for you - adding a vaccum or filters is not going to help. If you truly want to clean-room a small box at home your best bet is to make said small plastic cube, firmly sealed, with an exhaust port on the top that is sealable (small flap over a hole you can tape) and an intake on the bottom.
Put your hard drive in the box first, seal the box up. Through the small hole in the bottom, insert the straw of a computer/electronics type "compressed air" product and spray it in. The "air" inside these products is a heavier-than-air combination of nitrogen, aerosol and some other goodies. This will effectively 'push-out' the air and it's suspended dust and particles. Once you feel you've sprayed enough to fill the box seal up both holes and proceed with the work.
They must have also released a device to duplicate slashdot articles - it's working well!
Not on my shopping list anymore... POS. What the hell is Bill thinking??
Hellz yeah.. I remember feeling like I was actually doing something when I played that game. Geeky as it is... When I needed to gear up and head into space - even just to ID some freighters that happened to wonder too close to my space port - disembarking from the launch bay felt like I was entering a huge unknown world where anything could happen. It was open space.. and there was no limit on where I could fly to. I had all the functions of my trusty fighter mapped on the keyboard and I was in my cockpit. Everything was bliss.. changing the firing rate/pattern of the guns, gearing up for hyperspace with the wings changing shape and such - it was totally immersive.
If there was a rehash of this game, made new with all the bells and whistles out there today. Where I could fly through space in a free and unbounded fashion, and interact at my own will with whatever I came across... and maybe say land on some moons or planets. I wouldn't ever need another game.
except it's version 2 of course.
welcome our new book-selling overlords
Heh, really just to see if it made a difference for you as it does me - I'm blessed/cursed with a similar trait. During a hearing test a doctor found it necessary to keep repeating "tell me when you hear the sound stop" only, I hadn't yet heard the sound stop. As the test continued way beyond normal human range and through volumes one normally can't hear (I guess) he was very suprised that I hadn't halted the test. My sensitivity and upper range is way above normal for a human. As a result mp3s 256k are absolutely dreadful. Now, this will sound odd, but I happened to house a large amount of rodents when I was young (about 13-15). I had 15 (and always multiplying) pet rats and mice housed chicken-coop fashion out in the yard (my mom wouldn't let them in the house). They were chatter boxes, and up until I read this article I assumed everyone heard it. it's interesting to think that they might have been silent to everyone else.
:)
I actually *can* tell the difference between a $2 and a $180 cable - it's about $178
What bitrate do you listen to your mp3s at?
I guess all those dollar store ultrasonic rodent prevention gadgets might actually have some merit.. unless there output translates to "come infest my house" in mice speak... who knew!
I think your confusing "rain forest trees" with "brazilian rain forest trees" - the west coast including oregan, washington, bc & alaska is all rain forest - and yes, a large portion of what's harvested from it is used for pulp/paper. The remainder is largely construction/timber.
yes well.. the root issue here is velocity/gravity. My original post was mostly tongue-in-cheek because he glossed over a rather importance piece of the puzzle - that being gravity.
Actually it's due to gravity...
CAD is the only acceptable short form I've seen... but that may just be financially.
I wonder if this would finally allow my girlfriend to respond to my touch...
soon they will take over ourplanet and harvest us like we harvest cows...... making us eat beans all day
oh the humanity!!
Seems more passive-aggressive than it does apologetic!