Which means the corporations (and not the environment) have already won.
I wasn't aware the two were in contention with one another. You think the board of directors sits in their darkened, smoke-filled room tapping their fingers together and cackling while plotting how to maximize environmental damage?
Which saves more gasoline, going from 10 to 20 mpg, or going from 33 to 50 mpg?
people answer incorrectly because the question is academic. what matters is that people know a higher MPG is better, which i think almost everyone does.
I don't think it is academic, and I don't think most Americans find it academic either, because we have finite money. The question is not "is higher better?" but, rather, "how much higher is worth the extra price?" If you're choosing between replacing the family pickup truck or replacing the family sedan, and each of these replacements has a different cost, and each will also save a different amount of gasoline, how do you resolve that choice without knowing how much one option will save relative to the other? If you replace both, which do you pay a higher premium for? If you're willing to pay more for that 17mpg increase for the car than for the 10mpg increase for the truck, you're probably losing money. That's important in the real world.
So I could save 10mpg, or I could save 17mpg, gee, what a hard choice!
Um...dude...you don't save miles. You save gallons.
Would you be proud that for every gallon of gas you burned, you "saved" 17 miles (that you could have traveled on that gallon, but chose not to, for instance)?
Yes, changing the units will most definitely help. The units we should change to are the ones we already use here above the border: liters per 100 km. Going from 20 L/100k to 15 L/100k saves just as much as going from 10 L/100k to 5 L/100k. In most people's lives, the distance you need to travel is constant, not the amount of money you have to spend on fuel, so fuel per distance is much more logical anyway.
Yes, because switching from gallons and miles to liters and kilometers will totally make more sense to people who never use the metric system for anything else in life...
On the positive side, this 31-page document might be offered as an operating guide for businesses, like Google, looking to understand exactly what the law is surrounding the Internet in China. The document is a rare glimpse of transparency in China's regulations. (emphasis added)
Actually, China issues documents like this all the time. They don't normally represent glimpses of transparency because they're in no way binding on the government. That is, you could follow all the substantive recommendations (if there even are any) and still be deemed to have "undermined national unity" or "infringed upon national honor" based on nothing but the PRC's desire to get you.
Thus the first sentence above is apt but the second is questionable. Might this be a glimpse of transparency? Only time will tell. If companies carefully following the guidelines available manage not to run afoul of the PRC government, then the answer will be yes. Otherwise, it's no glimpse of transparency at all, and even muddies the waters a bit more than was already the case.
Don't think about this topic at all! You may be exposing yourself to risk. As your counsel I advise you to not question me on these matters because that may expose you to even greater risk!
Too late. You already violated the patent on counsel advising clients not to think.
...I had to wade through first level tech support, convince them to let me talk to a network engineer (because he had no clue what I was talking about), and then tell that guy how to fix my internet service.
That's amazing. Customer knowing better than tech company how to fix company's own tech = WIN.
Wouldn't do to have the Mayor's wife accused of lesbian incestuous thoughts for searching "telling your daughter about checking her breasts for lumps" now would it?
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Nah, man, he'll go straight to busting out the lightsaber moves in the courtroom.
Why should I waste my time with submissions that never go though when making snarky comments is infinitely more entertaining and rewarding?
As measured in karma, of course.
Actually the British still hang on to miles for distance measurements.
I guess that means they're hanging on to their imperial ambitions as well. Should the US beware of a UK resurgence? Probably.
Which means the corporations (and not the environment) have already won.
I wasn't aware the two were in contention with one another. You think the board of directors sits in their darkened, smoke-filled room tapping their fingers together and cackling while plotting how to maximize environmental damage?
Average Schmo's suck at math
I keep looking around for a suck belonging to one Mr. Average Schmo, but I can't find it! Where is the suck? Perhaps I should check math again...
Which saves more gasoline, going from 10 to 20 mpg, or going from 33 to 50 mpg?
people answer incorrectly because the question is academic. what matters is that people know a higher MPG is better, which i think almost everyone does.
I don't think it is academic, and I don't think most Americans find it academic either, because we have finite money. The question is not "is higher better?" but, rather, "how much higher is worth the extra price?" If you're choosing between replacing the family pickup truck or replacing the family sedan, and each of these replacements has a different cost, and each will also save a different amount of gasoline, how do you resolve that choice without knowing how much one option will save relative to the other? If you replace both, which do you pay a higher premium for? If you're willing to pay more for that 17mpg increase for the car than for the 10mpg increase for the truck, you're probably losing money. That's important in the real world.
The article says "here's the math" and then proceeds to offer an example involving not math but arithmetic.
"Arithmetic or arithmetics (from the Greek word = number) is the oldest and most elementary branch of mathematics..."
They're also kinda bad at pluralization.
Not to mention statistical reasoning. "most Americans would fail 6th grade math..." yet somehow, most Americans have passed the 6th grade.
So I could save 10mpg, or I could save 17mpg, gee, what a hard choice!
Um...dude...you don't save miles. You save gallons.
Would you be proud that for every gallon of gas you burned, you "saved" 17 miles (that you could have traveled on that gallon, but chose not to, for instance)?
A mile is an imperial unit used nearly ubiquitously in the USA.
The British no longer use it because their empire collapsed. Since the US is the last major imperial power, we still use the imperial unit.
Yes. But since USians cannot grok liters (except, funnily, in engine displacements)...
And soda bottles, for some reason. Every one of us knows what a 2-liter of Pepsi and a 1-liter of Coke look like.
Insightful ? This poster didn't read the question.
After decades of slashdotters failing to RTFA, what leads you to expect us to RTFQ??
Yes, changing the units will most definitely help. The units we should change to are the ones we already use here above the border: liters per 100 km. Going from 20 L/100k to 15 L/100k saves just as much as going from 10 L/100k to 5 L/100k. In most people's lives, the distance you need to travel is constant, not the amount of money you have to spend on fuel, so fuel per distance is much more logical anyway.
Yes, because switching from gallons and miles to liters and kilometers will totally make more sense to people who never use the metric system for anything else in life...
But only seven fifths of people have trouble with fractions...
On the positive side, this 31-page document might be offered as an operating guide for businesses, like Google, looking to understand exactly what the law is surrounding the Internet in China. The document is a rare glimpse of transparency in China's regulations. (emphasis added)
Actually, China issues documents like this all the time. They don't normally represent glimpses of transparency because they're in no way binding on the government. That is, you could follow all the substantive recommendations (if there even are any) and still be deemed to have "undermined national unity" or "infringed upon national honor" based on nothing but the PRC's desire to get you.
Thus the first sentence above is apt but the second is questionable. Might this be a glimpse of transparency? Only time will tell. If companies carefully following the guidelines available manage not to run afoul of the PRC government, then the answer will be yes. Otherwise, it's no glimpse of transparency at all, and even muddies the waters a bit more than was already the case.
Don't think about this topic at all! You may be exposing yourself to risk. As your counsel I advise you to not question me on these matters because that may expose you to even greater risk!
Too late. You already violated the patent on counsel advising clients not to think.
I claim this idea as my own. I had it while taking a shower about eight years ago. Please make use of it.
Yeah, right. And let you retro-patent your method and sue our asses off? No thanks.
Yes!
But the plaintiff class should be all the computer users in the world who are prevented from having useful software.
Or if you live in an area like me, it's Comcast cable, or nothing else. There is no choice.
Not true. There's always suicide.
"Thank you for choosing Comcast over death! Please hold while we find someone to torment you into regretting your choice..."
Is Comcast that bad?
...I had to wade through first level tech support, convince them to let me talk to a network engineer (because he had no clue what I was talking about), and then tell that guy how to fix my internet service.
That's amazing. Customer knowing better than tech company how to fix company's own tech = WIN.
Kill catholics (a good idea in general)....
And here I thought Western civilization had advanced since in the last 400 years. Clearly I was wrong.
Wouldn't do to have the Mayor's wife accused of lesbian incestuous thoughts for searching "telling your daughter about checking her breasts for lumps" now would it?
Actually, that would be awesome.
Anyone who will object to this monitoring of the internet is obviously either a Terrorist, a Child Molester or a Communist.
But if someone's all three, will they cancel out?
That would be "homolibrium"
Yeah, but that's only an actual non-hyphenated word in German.
Hey BRAINS, if you're so smart, why don't you come up with a supercharger to ram more oxygen into those idle neurons that need firing up?
I believe the brain has cooked up this method.