So what about a small portable photo printer, something capable of printing 4"x6" photos max. It's powered with a standard battery, I'm picturing something from a netbook. Connectivity includes a USB port, bluetooth, and card slots for the most common phone memory cards and perhaps some of the more common cards from digital cameras (microSD, SD, etc.). It's not necessary to support all of the types of memory cards b/c it's targeted at a specific audience. No need for drivers, printer detects the phone/card as a mass storage device. With a small screen on the top (use that new flexible screen type stuff) for selecting what to print. The print media and ink come as a package with the media in cartridges and enough ink to print that many photos, say 25 at a time or so.
Smoked beer is awesome. Some of the best I've had was in Montreal. It tastes a little strange at first and most of them tend to be darker brews (porters and stouts mostly) but smoked beer is absolutely worth trying.
Number of different possibilities for why it's crumbling it is really dependent on the location of the building.
You can check out Wikipedia for a quick review of some of the mechanisms.
You probably won't see a chloride reaction unless you work at the beach and the building is exposed to salt in high concentrations. But if you are in the midwestern US there is a very good possibility that you are likely experiencing an Alkali-Silica reaction essentially to put it in simple terms your building is turning to jelly from the inside out. Concrete from the 70's is particularly prone to that problem because of the level of knowledge about it and the lack of a treatment for it at the time combined with the materials that were common in that era. The symptoms can look similar to the freeze thaw cycle cracking seen in northern climates.
Concrete has come a long way since the pozzolanic mixtures the Romans used and it is significantly different than concrete from even as much as 35-40 years ago.
Announcer:Specifically designed to root out the most stubborn dirt bags from even the most remote cave depths. Customer: Can I set it and forget it? Announcer: Absolutely and when you come to pick up the bits cleanup is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Just wipe with a damp rag. Customer: Amazing! I have to have one. Announcer: Well it's only available on this special TV offer for 3 easy payments of $33,333.33. Call today while supplies last 1-800-555-5555!
I learned about the Greek religions in History class years ago and never had the urge to bow to Zeus.
The main difference there is that you learned about a basically defunct religion that is no longer practiced in the mainstream. This is a huge differentiation since the peer pressure is drastically different. Imagine if little Suzy Q next to you says "why don't you come over to my house and we can sacrifice some virgins to appease Zeus"? Add to that most of your friends going to the temple to worship him too. I think it would be a very different situation.
People will be less likely to come across Murdoch tripe on the web. This is a Good Thing, as it should reduce the number of victims of his misinformation.
Now if only we could get him to turn his infotainment services on TV into pay per view too...
The Nitrogen is more detrimental to the environment than helpful. It is one of the main contributors to the dead zones in the Gulf. The other being oil but that's another topic...
Sounds a lot like the lead in for the movie Idiocracy.
Totally correct on all counts too. We are headed down a slippery slope that once we slide down we will never recover from. This is the dawn of a new era one where the United States is no longer a super power in the world. Yes the US will probably have an incredibly strong military for quite some time but as the country advances militarily we will decline socially and intellectually. Rather than engaging in an intellectual debate or even (shudder at the thought) compromise we will resort to name calling and aggressive behavior to protect our own fragile little imaginary world.
It's a reaction to a trend that's been going on since the 1960s, which has been more or less looking at history through a politically correct lens.
I do think that it is interesting that you bring up a politically correct bias. This would seem to me to be a bias that has been instituted to prevent failures of the system by both the evil commie liberals and the evil fascist conservatives. If they cannot decide which way to present something that is inherently difficult to present completely out of the context of the times it gets white washed and becomes "politically correct" so as not to offend anybody.
IMHO what the Texas school board is doing is a disservice to all of the students throughout the country that will be subjected to the bias that these texts instill (either directly though use or indirectly through interactions with those that have). They are removing the "PC bias" (I agree, that may not be a bad thing in some cases) but rather than trying to better explain context of the times and what actually happened from the view of both sides (even in brief) they are choosing to favor the conservative opinions and philosophies. They are not empowering the children to develop an unbiased educated understanding of the subject. Instead they are spoon feeding them a set of "facts" that only lead to one conclusion and one limited understanding.
The lack of a serious look at the secular nature of the founding of the country and the fight to keep it secular as a way of empowering the freedom of religion makes these books a joke.
So,... you have no credit cards, don't own a house or a car either, as far as I can tell, because all these things have insanely complicated contracts that the banks can change willy-nilly if they please.
I'd also have to say that you don't own a cell-phone either, as most phone contracts are bigger than the phone book. And I'll bet you don't have cable-TV either. Or Health Insurance.
- Credit Cards -- No need Parents do all the shopping and allowance covers the rest
- House or car -- No need to own when living in Parents basement (can use their car)
- Cell Phone -- Parents phone
- Cable -- Parents again
- Health Insurance -- Independently employed in IT, so no.
You really think it would make it easier to park in large cities for short errands if they didn't exist? Thank God someone actually thought enough to address the problem.
Please, meters make no difference in ease of parking, currently if you get a ticket and you have the spot for the day that is unless you are parked somewhere where they will tow you (hydrant etc.) or you have more than 3 tickets unpaid and get towed or booted.
The meters make no difference in the time people spend in the spots, they just add to the price of shopping in those areas.
If they really wanted to do something to address the problem with parking in urban areas they would discourage the use of automobiles there period. The Stockholm SolutionOther cities do the same thing with similar results.
Should they *force* you to upgrade your transit link? No, but they should force you to share the service area with other providers and when the P2P traffic slows your network to a crawl and you refuse to upgrade, the users can switch to somebody else.
I did realize that after I typed out all that. Nothing against your post, it's just that I am sure somebody lurking in the dark or AC will advocate just that and I wanted to make a point.
problems of overconsumption, which comes down to overpopulation.
Well that is really quite the understatement. The largest consumer of energy, the United States, is not even remotely over populated. If you look at the most "over populated" countries in the world only one of them is a large and soon to be over consumer of fossil fuels and that is China.
So what you are advocating (albeit as unappealing) is genocide in China and the mass murder of billions of poor folks who aren't consuming nearly as much energy as the typical American just so they can pay lower prices for energy and not have to give up their SUV and plastic bottle of water?
ignore for a moment the fact that water vapor is a greenhouse gas responsible for up to 76% of the greenhouse effect
Let's also ignore the magical energy source required to pump all this water into the air.
No problem ignoring the greenhouse effects of this. I'd imagine that the effects of water vapor while accounting for a greater percentage currently (due mainly to the vast area covered with water) would be short lived. The vapor condenses and falls to the ground eventually, not so with some of the other greenhouse gasses. When was the last time you saw liquid CO2 or CH4 fall from the sky?
As far as a mythical energy source, it really isn't all that hard in fact there are several methods for culling energy from the waves as they pass by.
One of the methods is to use an articulating "snake" structure that bends as it goes over the waves and generates power (see current uses in the North Sea).
Another is to use the action of the waves to bob the structure up and down, this can cause a pumping action to occur and transport water from below to the surface (you could ostensibly build a low flow turbine that would work off that).
Third option involves the use of any available currents in the area to cause an oscillating motion through induced vortexes (this phenomenon is a problem for oil rigs and is usually damped, but you can use a generator for the damping and get some power from it).
Finally there is my personal favorite from another post, unicorns on treadmills that poop rainbows and pixie dust.
Unfortunately the problem is not limited to the Dead Sea and the Aral Sea. It is very common all over the world. For examples one can look at the problems being experienced in New Orleans, The Grand Canyon, The Netherlands, and China to name a few. People build dams to provide water to the population for agriculture and consumption and as flood control but the sediments get trapped too. No sediments in the water down stream (or in some cases extremely reduced flow volumes) leads to erosion of the land in with no possible means of repair and a depletion of nutrients for agricultural land.
So to sum it up damn the damn dams by removing them and letting the waters free. Afraid of flooding or a lack of water? DON'T LIVE THERE!
I don't know if you know this, but big corporations don't get to be big corporations by spending more money in repairs than they receive in receipts.
So you are saying I should start to expect a new $50 volcano fee to be added to my ticket price in addition to the baggage fees? What's next pay toilets?
You put your best works out there and you take your chances.
That's how it should be. Nobody - and especially not the middlemen - should be guaranteed a living by law.
That argument falls down if, when you put your works out there, everybody listens to them, but nobody pays you for doing so.
If everybody listens but doesn't buy, you really are not offering your best product. Add some value that can only be obtained by purchasing the real deal for example some cool extras in the enclosed literature.
1. Distribute for free to build a following 2. Offer bonus *ooh sparkly* 3. Profit...
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So iTunes becomes pretty much the OS (or at least DE)? Isn't that pretty much an iPad at that point?
So what about a small portable photo printer, something capable of printing 4"x6" photos max. It's powered with a standard battery, I'm picturing something from a netbook. Connectivity includes a USB port, bluetooth, and card slots for the most common phone memory cards and perhaps some of the more common cards from digital cameras (microSD, SD, etc.). It's not necessary to support all of the types of memory cards b/c it's targeted at a specific audience. No need for drivers, printer detects the phone/card as a mass storage device. With a small screen on the top (use that new flexible screen type stuff) for selecting what to print. The print media and ink come as a package with the media in cartridges and enough ink to print that many photos, say 25 at a time or so.
Smoked beer is awesome. Some of the best I've had was in Montreal. It tastes a little strange at first and most of them tend to be darker brews (porters and stouts mostly) but smoked beer is absolutely worth trying.
I count 1... 2... 3... 4...
4 Bats Ah Ah Ah.
Number of different possibilities for why it's crumbling it is really dependent on the location of the building.
You can check out Wikipedia for a quick review of some of the mechanisms.
You probably won't see a chloride reaction unless you work at the beach and the building is exposed to salt in high concentrations. But if you are in the midwestern US there is a very good possibility that you are likely experiencing an Alkali-Silica reaction essentially to put it in simple terms your building is turning to jelly from the inside out. Concrete from the 70's is particularly prone to that problem because of the level of knowledge about it and the lack of a treatment for it at the time combined with the materials that were common in that era. The symptoms can look similar to the freeze thaw cycle cracking seen in northern climates.
Concrete has come a long way since the pozzolanic mixtures the Romans used and it is significantly different than concrete from even as much as 35-40 years ago.
Should we be worrying about peak porn?
Not as long as there is still peak wood...
Announcer:Specifically designed to root out the most stubborn dirt bags from even the most remote cave depths.
Customer: Can I set it and forget it?
Announcer: Absolutely and when you come to pick up the bits cleanup is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Just wipe with a damp rag.
Customer: Amazing! I have to have one.
Announcer: Well it's only available on this special TV offer for 3 easy payments of $33,333.33. Call today while supplies last 1-800-555-5555!
I learned about the Greek religions in History class years ago and never had the urge to bow to Zeus.
The main difference there is that you learned about a basically defunct religion that is no longer practiced in the mainstream. This is a huge differentiation since the peer pressure is drastically different. Imagine if little Suzy Q next to you says "why don't you come over to my house and we can sacrifice some virgins to appease Zeus"? Add to that most of your friends going to the temple to worship him too. I think it would be a very different situation.
People will be less likely to come across Murdoch tripe on the web. This is a Good Thing, as it should reduce the number of victims of his misinformation.
Now if only we could get him to turn his infotainment services on TV into pay per view too...
The Nitrogen is more detrimental to the environment than helpful. It is one of the main contributors to the dead zones in the Gulf. The other being oil but that's another topic...
Sounds a lot like the lead in for the movie Idiocracy.
Totally correct on all counts too. We are headed down a slippery slope that once we slide down we will never recover from. This is the dawn of a new era one where the United States is no longer a super power in the world. Yes the US will probably have an incredibly strong military for quite some time but as the country advances militarily we will decline socially and intellectually. Rather than engaging in an intellectual debate or even (shudder at the thought) compromise we will resort to name calling and aggressive behavior to protect our own fragile little imaginary world.
It's a reaction to a trend that's been going on since the 1960s, which has been more or less looking at history through a politically correct lens.
I do think that it is interesting that you bring up a politically correct bias. This would seem to me to be a bias that has been instituted to prevent failures of the system by both the evil commie liberals and the evil fascist conservatives. If they cannot decide which way to present something that is inherently difficult to present completely out of the context of the times it gets white washed and becomes "politically correct" so as not to offend anybody.
IMHO what the Texas school board is doing is a disservice to all of the students throughout the country that will be subjected to the bias that these texts instill (either directly though use or indirectly through interactions with those that have). They are removing the "PC bias" (I agree, that may not be a bad thing in some cases) but rather than trying to better explain context of the times and what actually happened from the view of both sides (even in brief) they are choosing to favor the conservative opinions and philosophies. They are not empowering the children to develop an unbiased educated understanding of the subject. Instead they are spoon feeding them a set of "facts" that only lead to one conclusion and one limited understanding.
The lack of a serious look at the secular nature of the founding of the country and the fight to keep it secular as a way of empowering the freedom of religion makes these books a joke.
So,... you have no credit cards, don't own a house or a car either, as far as I can tell, because all these things have insanely complicated contracts that the banks can change willy-nilly if they please.
I'd also have to say that you don't own a cell-phone either, as most phone contracts are bigger than the phone book. And I'll bet you don't have cable-TV either. Or Health Insurance.
- Credit Cards -- No need Parents do all the shopping and allowance covers the rest
- House or car -- No need to own when living in Parents basement (can use their car)
- Cell Phone -- Parents phone
- Cable -- Parents again
- Health Insurance -- Independently employed in IT, so no.
You really think it would make it easier to park in large cities for short errands if they didn't exist? Thank God someone actually thought enough to address the problem.
Please, meters make no difference in ease of parking, currently if you get a ticket and you have the spot for the day that is unless you are parked somewhere where they will tow you (hydrant etc.) or you have more than 3 tickets unpaid and get towed or booted.
The meters make no difference in the time people spend in the spots, they just add to the price of shopping in those areas.
If they really wanted to do something to address the problem with parking in urban areas they would discourage the use of automobiles there period. The Stockholm Solution Other cities do the same thing with similar results.
Should they *force* you to upgrade your transit link? No, but they should force you to share the service area with other providers and when the P2P traffic slows your network to a crawl and you refuse to upgrade, the users can switch to somebody else.
" "this might tingle a little..."
"..but for an extra 100, it will tingle a lot."
Hey did we meet last Friday night?
Read my post again
I did realize that after I typed out all that.
Nothing against your post, it's just that I am sure somebody lurking in the dark or AC will advocate just that and I wanted to make a point.
problems of overconsumption, which comes down to overpopulation.
Well that is really quite the understatement. The largest consumer of energy, the United States, is not even remotely over populated. If you look at the most "over populated" countries in the world only one of them is a large and soon to be over consumer of fossil fuels and that is China.
So what you are advocating (albeit as unappealing) is genocide in China and the mass murder of billions of poor folks who aren't consuming nearly as much energy as the typical American just so they can pay lower prices for energy and not have to give up their SUV and plastic bottle of water?
ignore for a moment the fact that water vapor is a greenhouse gas responsible for up to 76% of the greenhouse effect
Let's also ignore the magical energy source required to pump all this water into the air.
No problem ignoring the greenhouse effects of this. I'd imagine that the effects of water vapor while accounting for a greater percentage currently (due mainly to the vast area covered with water) would be short lived. The vapor condenses and falls to the ground eventually, not so with some of the other greenhouse gasses. When was the last time you saw liquid CO2 or CH4 fall from the sky?
As far as a mythical energy source, it really isn't all that hard in fact there are several methods for culling energy from the waves as they pass by.
One of the methods is to use an articulating "snake" structure that bends as it goes over the waves and generates power (see current uses in the North Sea).
Another is to use the action of the waves to bob the structure up and down, this can cause a pumping action to occur and transport water from below to the surface (you could ostensibly build a low flow turbine that would work off that).
Third option involves the use of any available currents in the area to cause an oscillating motion through induced vortexes (this phenomenon is a problem for oil rigs and is usually damped, but you can use a generator for the damping and get some power from it).
Finally there is my personal favorite from another post, unicorns on treadmills that poop rainbows and pixie dust.
Next iteration: Bruce Schneier is AN EVIL MUSLIM NAZI!
Wow I didn't know you could read the editors minds at Fox News. Incredible, try me next...
The research is actually being done at Drexel University in Philadelphia PA. If anybody was wondering...
With concealed carry laws in Texas, violent crime has dropped significantly, even as it rises in other populous nations.
Since when did Texas stop being a state and become it's own nation?
Unfortunately the problem is not limited to the Dead Sea and the Aral Sea. It is very common all over the world. For examples one can look at the problems being experienced in New Orleans, The Grand Canyon, The Netherlands, and China to name a few. People build dams to provide water to the population for agriculture and consumption and as flood control but the sediments get trapped too. No sediments in the water down stream (or in some cases extremely reduced flow volumes) leads to erosion of the land in with no possible means of repair and a depletion of nutrients for agricultural land.
So to sum it up damn the damn dams by removing them and letting the waters free. Afraid of flooding or a lack of water? DON'T LIVE THERE!
I don't know if you know this, but big corporations don't get to be big corporations by spending more money in repairs than they receive in receipts.
So you are saying I should start to expect a new $50 volcano fee to be added to my ticket price in addition to the baggage fees? What's next pay toilets?
That argument falls down if, when you put your works out there, everybody listens to them, but nobody pays you for doing so.
If everybody listens but doesn't buy, you really are not offering your best product. Add some value that can only be obtained by purchasing the real deal for example some cool extras in the enclosed literature.
1. Distribute for free to build a following
2. Offer bonus *ooh sparkly*
3. Profit...