I like this one:
"but so are the critics of it who point out that if we don't have a problem now, why fix it"
Now, I understand this to an extent.
But, at the same time people are seeing the limitations of IPv4 and how we are starting to exhaust the space.
Now, just to equate the statment to something else. Y2K.
Nothin was broken and didn't pertain to many people earlier and so they didn't try to fix it earlier and it caused that hoopla of "what will happen".
Yeah - not exactly the same thing. Ok, here is another one then.
High Schools (in the US)
Have you noticed how most counties get all the reports and build a school and they haven't been allowed to forecast. Forbid we forecast and build a slightly larger school because we foresee the need for a larger school in the near future.
So, it works great for a little while with plenty of room and then one day it is overcrowded and so we hinge things like trailers onto them or try to rework schedules and create a nightmare until we can build a new highschool, but that will take a few years. It's cyclical.
So, I wonder how this could potentially play with Docker's new pants. You know the ones that I'm talking about. They have the extra hidden pockets.
Instead of keeping your Palm in a proper case, you carry it around in fabric where it can move around and possibly create some static and then you go to unzip and grab it and you don't even feel the zap, but then the Palm won't turn on.
And those x-ray glasses in the ad really fool ya too.
Let's see. Industrial Revolution.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't we see a whole bunch of things like steel plants and railroads and fun stuff like that take place and a whole bunch of people got REALLY loaded?
Now, the net. So far, we just had some people get really loaded from overpriced IPOs.
I think that more of the businesses had better business plans.
I agree that the net has had a huge economic impact and that it will continue to do so, but if these net companies don't get some things in order - we'll see.
Yes - the net changed the way most of us live. Yes, it did make some wealthy people (they weren't as wealthy as some from the industrial revolution though - even Bill pails to some of them)
my.02
Comrades, welcome to the CCCUSA.
Big Brother is watching.
We must continue to stand up for ourselves or the government is really gonna run us over with all this BS
1.) Yes, the US is a very large country and so there are plenty of people driving long distances - but also remember that some of these people are just driving back and forth to work as well. Our public transportation isn't near where it should be. Most of Western Europe's Public Transportation is many times over better than ours. As for our gas prices - they aren't all that much cheaper than yours. Compare it on a cost of living basis and it comes out to be just about the same. The average american income is about 1/5 that of the average western european's. So, according to that, if you take $1.3 a gallon (the avg us cost is much higher) and roughly cut it in half to get pounds and then multiply by 5 to get roughly the same average cost of living and then divide by 3.785 (to convert from gallons to litre), you get.8585. So, if you are paying that much or right around there, your cost of gas is prolly a little cheaper than the average american's gas is. Also, your government does impose a few more taxes that go to pay for things like your nationalized health care. We don't have this. All in all - the gas costs about the same.
2.) The government has been offering more incentives to save energy in some areas such as california where they have done some solar power programs. Also, we have car regulations which all manufacturers have to meet. The problem with this is that to meet these, they skimp on other things - you get plastic transmissions etc that don't last nearly as long and can't really be rebuilt, so they get destroyed and then you have the plastic burning which doesn't help the atmosphere and all (according to enviornmentalists) - and then you still have to pay to have another produced and shipped to a location to be put back into the car) - no real savings.
3.) I'll grant you that plenty of people are lazy in the states. But, I'm not going to get into all of that except to say that purchasing your car (or large SUV) has plenty of taxes associated with it. Each time you buy gas you are paying to pollute. That's part of the real cost of gas and the "luxury" of the vehicle.
4.) It's funny because you don't really see many of these people who complain about the atmosphere and all that driving much less - a few do, but most of them don't - as a matter of fact, you'll see them hop into their big old ford expedition (or whichever the largest is that ford makes) and drive cross country. The media in the US is so biased and agenda based that you can't really believe a thing that they say and you have to find out for yourself.
As children we hear plenty of the BS regarding Global Warming. Consider it small minded if you will. We are NOT the main cause. Some people have their priorities screwed up. Now, I'm not all for trashing the planet and all, but these people who want to save all these little animals at our expense are wacked.
The planet has been through many worse disasters and humans have still survived just fine. A single volcano erupting has many times over worse effects than we have done in the last decade multiplied by 10.
Global Warming and the hole in the ozone layer. Amazing how the media interprets these things. There have been plenty of studies that have shown that the hole in the ozone layer is somthing that is very cyclical. It grows, it shrinks, it grows, it shrinks. But, the media wouldn't want to report anything like that - saying that it is all a natural thing because then they wouldn't be able to try to push through their agenda.
which is actually quite funny - w/ the whole mp3 thing and all also cause in the Atlanta paper today it was stated that last year the 5 major record co.'s had a record 15 billion or something like that.
Slashdot Mirror
just a money grab probably hoping that apple will settle out of court for a few bucks
Similar situation with me and RR and I did the same thing. It solves the problem of, "I couldn't reply to your email..."
People sure have been jumping on this identity theft band wagon for about the last year. This isn't identity theft, it is Credit Card Fraud.
Identity theft would be if I opened up a credit card using your social or if I obtained a loan using your social.
Credit Card Fraud is stealing your credit card information and using it.
Too bad the media just keeps misleading people to believe the two are one and the same.
I don't remember the quote exactly, but it went something like this:
For the first time in history, a nation has full and complete gun control
Adolph Hitler - 1937
didn't say we didn't need to fix it.
Was sayin that we DO need to fix it.
I like this one:
"but so are the critics of it who point out that if we don't have a problem now, why fix it"
Now, I understand this to an extent.
But, at the same time people are seeing the limitations of IPv4 and how we are starting to exhaust the space.
Now, just to equate the statment to something else. Y2K.
Nothin was broken and didn't pertain to many people earlier and so they didn't try to fix it earlier and it caused that hoopla of "what will happen".
Yeah - not exactly the same thing. Ok, here is another one then.
High Schools (in the US)
Have you noticed how most counties get all the reports and build a school and they haven't been allowed to forecast. Forbid we forecast and build a slightly larger school because we foresee the need for a larger school in the near future.
So, it works great for a little while with plenty of room and then one day it is overcrowded and so we hinge things like trailers onto them or try to rework schedules and create a nightmare until we can build a new highschool, but that will take a few years. It's cyclical.
So, I wonder how this could potentially play with Docker's new pants. You know the ones that I'm talking about. They have the extra hidden pockets.
Instead of keeping your Palm in a proper case, you carry it around in fabric where it can move around and possibly create some static and then you go to unzip and grab it and you don't even feel the zap, but then the Palm won't turn on.
And those x-ray glasses in the ad really fool ya too.
Let's see. Industrial Revolution. .02
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't we see a whole bunch of things like steel plants and railroads and fun stuff like that take place and a whole bunch of people got REALLY loaded?
Now, the net. So far, we just had some people get really loaded from overpriced IPOs.
I think that more of the businesses had better business plans.
I agree that the net has had a huge economic impact and that it will continue to do so, but if these net companies don't get some things in order - we'll see.
Yes - the net changed the way most of us live. Yes, it did make some wealthy people (they weren't as wealthy as some from the industrial revolution though - even Bill pails to some of them)
my
Comrades, welcome to the CCCUSA.
Big Brother is watching.
We must continue to stand up for ourselves or the government is really gonna run us over with all this BS
1.) Yes, the US is a very large country and so there are plenty of people driving long distances - but also remember that some of these people are just driving back and forth to work as well. Our public transportation isn't near where it should be. Most of Western Europe's Public Transportation is many times over better than ours. As for our gas prices - they aren't all that much cheaper than yours. Compare it on a cost of living basis and it comes out to be just about the same. The average american income is about 1/5 that of the average western european's. So, according to that, if you take $1.3 a gallon (the avg us cost is much higher) and roughly cut it in half to get pounds and then multiply by 5 to get roughly the same average cost of living and then divide by 3.785 (to convert from gallons to litre), you get .8585. So, if you are paying that much or right around there, your cost of gas is prolly a little cheaper than the average american's gas is. Also, your government does impose a few more taxes that go to pay for things like your nationalized health care. We don't have this. All in all - the gas costs about the same.
2.) The government has been offering more incentives to save energy in some areas such as california where they have done some solar power programs. Also, we have car regulations which all manufacturers have to meet. The problem with this is that to meet these, they skimp on other things - you get plastic transmissions etc that don't last nearly as long and can't really be rebuilt, so they get destroyed and then you have the plastic burning which doesn't help the atmosphere and all (according to enviornmentalists) - and then you still have to pay to have another produced and shipped to a location to be put back into the car) - no real savings.
3.) I'll grant you that plenty of people are lazy in the states. But, I'm not going to get into all of that except to say that purchasing your car (or large SUV) has plenty of taxes associated with it. Each time you buy gas you are paying to pollute. That's part of the real cost of gas and the "luxury" of the vehicle.
4.) It's funny because you don't really see many of these people who complain about the atmosphere and all that driving much less - a few do, but most of them don't - as a matter of fact, you'll see them hop into their big old ford expedition (or whichever the largest is that ford makes) and drive cross country. The media in the US is so biased and agenda based that you can't really believe a thing that they say and you have to find out for yourself.
As children we hear plenty of the BS regarding Global Warming. Consider it small minded if you will. We are NOT the main cause. Some people have their priorities screwed up. Now, I'm not all for trashing the planet and all, but these people who want to save all these little animals at our expense are wacked.
The planet has been through many worse disasters and humans have still survived just fine. A single volcano erupting has many times over worse effects than we have done in the last decade multiplied by 10.
Global Warming and the hole in the ozone layer. Amazing how the media interprets these things. There have been plenty of studies that have shown that the hole in the ozone layer is somthing that is very cyclical. It grows, it shrinks, it grows, it shrinks. But, the media wouldn't want to report anything like that - saying that it is all a natural thing because then they wouldn't be able to try to push through their agenda.
which is actually quite funny - w/ the whole mp3 thing and all also cause in the Atlanta paper today it was stated that last year the 5 major record co.'s had a record 15 billion or something like that.