Bicycle commuting is not nearly so difficult in practice as it sounds. I have gradually replaced my wardrobe with "wrinkle-resistant" clothing, which I keep in a pannier.
Sometimes, I drive part way, park at the mall and ride the rest of the way.
When I'm feeling adventurous I ride the 12 miles to a gym, shower and change there, then ride the rest of the way (3 miles) in business attire.
On those days, my total bike commute is 30 miles. I'm a standard-issue beer-belly geek. You don't have to be Lance Armstrong to cycle to work.
If you don't have a gym or convenient parking nearby, there are alternatives.
Where in that excerpt does it give them the right to tax us TO PAY FOR SOMEONE'S PIPE DREAM as in this case?
It says that the congress has the right to tax us. It is not theft, as the grandparent poster claimed, it is taxation. Whether subsidizing residential solar installations is a wise use of tax dollars is debatable. Whether it is a legal use of those dollars is a different question.
I know of no law stating that congress shall not subsidize pipe dreams. Indeed, it seems that much of the federal budget is spent on pipe dreams. A "free and democratic Iraq," a "drug-free America," etc.
Government has no right to steal from me, or you, to pay for this guy's pipe dream.
Uh. yeah it does.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
-- US Constitution, Article I, Section 8.
The Hubble is very meaningful. It's still returning good science and inspirational pictures.
This is not a small point, either. We're coming up on 10 years since the loss of Professor Sagan, and in all that time, nobody (to my knowledge) has really stepped forward to fill his shoes wrt popularizing science.
The Hubble pictures are pretty much the only good advertising science gets. The Mars rovers are cool and everything, but nothing makes you stand back, slack-jawed, and drooling on the floor like the Eagle Nebula, when you learn that those 'fingers' are light-years in length.
The Hubble is a marketing / recruiting tool as much as a scientific instrument.
80% of desktops in Novell now use Linux (I presume the remainder use Windows).
Last time I spoke with our Novell tech, he said the only people still running windows are the people who are supporting Novell's windows products (Groupwise client, Zenworks Desktop management, etc.)
Microsoft attempted to address this in recent incarnations of the MCSE program. There are now manadatory "design" tests for the MCSE. They created a seperate track for technicians called the MCSA, which does not require design tests.
Whether the ability to design a big Active Directory structure qualifies someone to call himself an engineer is probably debatable. Afterall, there are housewives who call themselves "domestic engineers", garbage men to call themselves "sanitation engineers", etc.
This exact same thing happens on Route 15 North in Selinsgrove, PA. There is a fence that forces traffic off an exit ramp, only to parade you past 10 miles of strip malls, red lights and car dealerships.
Sarbanes-Oxley blows several goats. It is the reason I need 4 screen shots, 15 pages of paperwork, 25 signatures, and a papal edict to change a fucking login script.
Since SOX went into effect, my productivity has been reduced by a factor of about four. It honestly takes four hours to do the paperwork for every one hour of actual work.
SOX is an abomination, and I very much doubt it does anything to prevent Enron-type shenanigans.
Rain gear doesn't keep all the water out, your shoes will be soaked through for one. With your system you need to carry a second, bulky bag, your clothes will all be creased up, and getting changed in the bathroom is the most disgusting thing I've ever heard. Never mind having to set off another 15-20 minutes earlier so you have time for all this constant changing.
You'll also need a towel, so you're going to need a pretty big bag. Can you carry a suitcase whilst riding a bike?
For my clothes, I use a Carradice Saddlebag. It's fairly waterproof, and it holds a ton of crap.
If I need to bring my laptop, I have a Carradice bike bureau, which attatches to my rear rack.
It sounds like you've had some bad experiences with bike commuting, and that's unfortunate. It works for me. It does take a little bit of extra planning, and I admit that I don't do it every day. When it snows, I don't always ride in. Sometimes I do (I have a set of studded snow tires). It sounds like the bathrooms at your job are disgusting. Mine aren't. I have a locker to keep shoes and towels in. I have also found that kevlar tires seriously decreases the chances of a puncture. Come to think if it, I haven't had any punctures since I switched to kevlar about 6 months ago.
I frequently ride my bike to work (5 miles each way). Fortunately, they pave the roads here, and my bike has fenders, so mud in the face is not an issue. It takes all of 5 minutes to change a flat tire. My boss is not so much of a jackass that I would lose my job for being 5 or 10 minutes late on occasion.
If there is heavy rain, I wear rain gear, carry my office clothes in a plastic bag and change in the bathroom. It's really not nearly as bad as you make it sound.
Some days it sucks more than others, but overall I find that it saves me time. I don't have to drive to work, then to the gym, and then home. I get my exercise in the hour I'm commuting. It would take 20 minutes to drive, so I get an hour of exercise for the cost of a 40 minute longer commute. A 20 minute profit!
Sure there is. It's "How much one person can afford."
I agree with you in theory, but the problem is that not all the costs associated with burning a gallon of gasoline are included in the price that person has to pay at the pump. If I had to pay for the reclaimation of the 20 pounds of CO2 produced by each gallon of gas I burn, the free-market method would work quite well. At the moment, those costs are being punted into the future.
>> Sure, why can't it be won? The conflict against Fascism/Nazism was won
Because we didn't make war on these ideas. The congress of the United States declared war on Germany, Japan, etc.
Think of it like this: declareWar() is a method of class congress. It takes a single argument of type country.
congress.declareWar(germany) // this is ok
president.declareWar(terrorism)// president has no such method // type mismatch
The destructor of the war object generally involves a peace treaty and/or the total collapse of the enemy country. I really don't forsee Osama sitting down and signing a treaty, and there is no nation-state of AlQuadia to collapse. The end_of_war conditions can never be met.
I doubt that he uses CAD software to design the next T-shirt.
I sysadmin for a company that does some fashion design. We do indeed use a specialized CAD type program for this. It's output is bascally a blueprint of the garment to give to the manufacturers.
Active Directory (released with Windows 2000 in 2001
More on topic, I admin a server farm of about 40 Netware 6.5 servers. Unless Novell stops supporting Netware, I really don't expect to migrate to Suse. What I would like to be able to do is migrate some of the Windows app servers to Suse (or Netware, whatever). Unfortunately, the apps are only supported on Windows, so that's what we have to run.
Novell isn't making things any easier on themselves. I want to install Novell's patch management and asset management products, and they BOTH RREQUIRE Windows servers!
neither theory is even close to establishing scientific proof of their ideas, yet the intellectually "elite" have no problem ridiculing those who don't believe in evolution wholesale.
That's because "theory" is as good as it gets. There is never "proof." Evolution happens to be the very best explaination science has come up with. It fits the available data. If you don't believe in evolution, you don't believe in science.
Since the scientific method is basically the application of rational thought to the observable world, if you don't believe in science, you don't believe in rational thought.
People who don't believe in rational thought are often - quite justifiably - ridiculed...or institutionalized.
Resist ALL attempts to cause you to spend your OWN time and money on things that benefit your bosses and/or the owners of the company instead of yourself.
Along these same lines, I only do self-funded training that will benefit my next employer. Invest in yourself, not in your boss.
I started using gnome back in Redhat 6.0 (I think). It always did everything I wanted it to, so I still use it. My brother uses KDE, and every year, we have a flameware about it around the dinner table for the holidays. (Much to the joy of the relatives)
I will cary on with Gnome because otherwise, it would spoil Christmas!
When Thatcher closed down all the factories, the butterflies turned white again. {There are better explanations out there so do not be afraid to Google for them.}
I think you're talking about the Peppered Moth. This is one of the standard textbook examples of observable evolution.
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No, we build lunar colonies out of wood!
How do you do it?
Bicycle commuting is not nearly so difficult in practice as it sounds. I have gradually replaced my wardrobe with "wrinkle-resistant" clothing, which I keep in a pannier.
Sometimes, I drive part way, park at the mall and ride the rest of the way. When I'm feeling adventurous I ride the 12 miles to a gym, shower and change there, then ride the rest of the way (3 miles) in business attire. On those days, my total bike commute is 30 miles. I'm a standard-issue beer-belly geek. You don't have to be Lance Armstrong to cycle to work.
If you don't have a gym or convenient parking nearby, there are alternatives.
Where in that excerpt does it give them the right to tax us TO PAY FOR SOMEONE'S PIPE DREAM as in this case?
It says that the congress has the right to tax us. It is not theft, as the grandparent poster claimed, it is taxation. Whether subsidizing residential solar installations is a wise use of tax dollars is debatable. Whether it is a legal use of those dollars is a different question.
I know of no law stating that congress shall not subsidize pipe dreams. Indeed, it seems that much of the federal budget is spent on pipe dreams. A "free and democratic Iraq," a "drug-free America," etc.
Government has no right to steal from me, or you, to pay for this guy's pipe dream.
Uh. yeah it does.
Centralia is seriously cool. I grew up near there. I bought a used PC from one of the die-hard residents who refused to move away.
I've always wondered why they don't capture the heat from the mine fire as they would for geothermal generation.
The Hubble is very meaningful. It's still returning good science and inspirational pictures.
This is not a small point, either. We're coming up on 10 years since the loss of Professor Sagan, and in all that time, nobody (to my knowledge) has really stepped forward to fill his shoes wrt popularizing science.
The Hubble pictures are pretty much the only good advertising science gets. The Mars rovers are cool and everything, but nothing makes you stand back, slack-jawed, and drooling on the floor like the Eagle Nebula, when you learn that those 'fingers' are light-years in length.
The Hubble is a marketing / recruiting tool as much as a scientific instrument.
Because HR departments don't care about learning, they care about degrees. Colleges are where you go to get degrees.
80% of desktops in Novell now use Linux (I presume the remainder use Windows).
Last time I spoke with our Novell tech, he said the only people still running windows are the people who are supporting Novell's windows products (Groupwise client, Zenworks Desktop management, etc.)
Whether the ability to design a big Active Directory structure qualifies someone to call himself an engineer is probably debatable. Afterall, there are housewives who call themselves "domestic engineers", garbage men to call themselves "sanitation engineers", etc.
This exact same thing happens on Route 15 North in Selinsgrove, PA. There is a fence that forces traffic off an exit ramp, only to parade you past 10 miles of strip malls, red lights and car dealerships.
PennDOT sucks balls.
On the contrary...
Sarbanes-Oxley blows several goats. It is the reason I need 4 screen shots, 15 pages of paperwork, 25 signatures, and a papal edict to change a fucking login script.
Since SOX went into effect, my productivity has been reduced by a factor of about four. It honestly takes four hours to do the paperwork for every one hour of actual work.
SOX is an abomination, and I very much doubt it does anything to prevent Enron-type shenanigans.
For my clothes, I use a Carradice Saddlebag. It's fairly waterproof, and it holds a ton of crap. If I need to bring my laptop, I have a Carradice bike bureau, which attatches to my rear rack.
It sounds like you've had some bad experiences with bike commuting, and that's unfortunate. It works for me. It does take a little bit of extra planning, and I admit that I don't do it every day. When it snows, I don't always ride in. Sometimes I do (I have a set of studded snow tires). It sounds like the bathrooms at your job are disgusting. Mine aren't. I have a locker to keep shoes and towels in. I have also found that kevlar tires seriously decreases the chances of a puncture. Come to think if it, I haven't had any punctures since I switched to kevlar about 6 months ago.
I frequently ride my bike to work (5 miles each way). Fortunately, they pave the roads here, and my bike has fenders, so mud in the face is not an issue. It takes all of 5 minutes to change a flat tire. My boss is not so much of a jackass that I would lose my job for being 5 or 10 minutes late on occasion.
If there is heavy rain, I wear rain gear, carry my office clothes in a plastic bag and change in the bathroom. It's really not nearly as bad as you make it sound.
Some days it sucks more than others, but overall I find that it saves me time. I don't have to drive to work, then to the gym, and then home. I get my exercise in the hour I'm commuting. It would take 20 minutes to drive, so I get an hour of exercise for the cost of a 40 minute longer commute. A 20 minute profit!
I agree with you in theory, but the problem is that not all the costs associated with burning a gallon of gasoline are included in the price that person has to pay at the pump. If I had to pay for the reclaimation of the 20 pounds of CO2 produced by each gallon of gas I burn, the free-market method would work quite well. At the moment, those costs are being punted into the future.
>> Sure, why can't it be won? The conflict against Fascism/Nazism was won
// this is ok
// president has no such method
// type mismatch
Because we didn't make war on these ideas. The congress of the United States declared war on Germany, Japan, etc.
Think of it like this: declareWar() is a method of class congress. It takes a single argument of type country.
congress.declareWar(germany)
president.declareWar(terrorism)
The destructor of the war object generally involves a peace treaty and/or the total collapse of the enemy country. I really don't forsee Osama sitting down and signing a treaty, and there is no nation-state of AlQuadia to collapse. The end_of_war conditions can never be met.
No, it's not. I was just making the point that there is expensive software involved in design, contrary to the comment I was replying to.
I sysadmin for a company that does some fashion design. We do indeed use a specialized CAD type program for this. It's output is bascally a blueprint of the garment to give to the manufacturers.
This software is hella expensive.
More on topic, I admin a server farm of about 40 Netware 6.5 servers. Unless Novell stops supporting Netware, I really don't expect to migrate to Suse. What I would like to be able to do is migrate some of the Windows app servers to Suse (or Netware, whatever). Unfortunately, the apps are only supported on Windows, so that's what we have to run.
Novell isn't making things any easier on themselves. I want to install Novell's patch management and asset management products, and they BOTH RREQUIRE Windows servers!
Argh!
That's because "theory" is as good as it gets. There is never "proof." Evolution happens to be the very best explaination science has come up with. It fits the available data. If you don't believe in evolution, you don't believe in science.
Since the scientific method is basically the application of rational thought to the observable world, if you don't believe in science, you don't believe in rational thought.
People who don't believe in rational thought are often - quite justifiably - ridiculed...or institutionalized.
Along these same lines, I only do self-funded training that will benefit my next employer. Invest in yourself, not in your boss.
I started using gnome back in Redhat 6.0 (I think). It always did everything I wanted it to, so I still use it.
My brother uses KDE, and every year, we have a flameware about it around the dinner table for the holidays. (Much to the joy of the relatives)
I will cary on with Gnome because otherwise, it would spoil Christmas!
You might want to google senator Rick "man on dog" Santorum. He made that exact comparison recently.
Why not try the geekiest option available? A human-electric hybrid sporty-utility bicycle! I don't think I'd want to go 300-350 miles on one though.
I think you're talking about the Peppered Moth. This is one of the standard textbook examples of observable evolution.
IIRC, RedCarpet isn't quite dead. It's now a component of Zenworks Linux Management