Blame the person who engineered your cubicles lighting and electrical system. Local in-cubicle lights, instead of "one switch fits all" would probably save your company millions over the years.
Still, that falls within my description of "the inner depths of the cubicle farms and underground facilities" - as far as the use of electrical lighting is considered. Not my fault your cubicle farm's engineering and management decided to pretend that the building is under ground, in a mine somewhere.
On a side note... 1. Read the lines above. 2. Do some calculating. 3. Pack the results into a nice, convincing, energy/money saving and carbon footprint reducing presentation for the management. 4. Profit.
Also unfortunately, most offices and businesses use lighting in a manner which is independent of ambient light,
Only in the inner depths of the cubicle farms and underground facilities.
No one in the right mind who has a window will turn the light on at the same time, with all that free sunlight poring in. Also, transportation vehicles will not use inner lightning during the "sunlight hours" - unless they drive underground. And most of the world doesn't. For most of the world - that is pure imported power, at the current oil/gas prices.
if ((time=>17)||(time<=6)) {lights=1;} else {lights=0;}
I remember when I was a kid, someone figured out where the sensors were and plugged the sensor holes with mud to turn the lights on during the day. I'm not sure it the power company switched to manual or did they implement something similar to the code above.
Just because you had government sponsored dickery training and license at one time does not make it right. It just makes your dickery portfolio thicker with dickery experience unavailable to the average "civilian" dick.
God creates Michael Crichton. God destroys Michael Crichton. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates Michael Crichton... No... wait lets try that again.
Obama will fix the universe and end the wars with "change" - check. Spewing nonsense about "them there jungle country that lives in peace with everyone" while comparing it to a global superpower - check. No idea about the real world - check. Not one but TWO Star Trek references - check and check. "The world is a peaceful place except for some freedom fighters who feel oppressed " - this line is just pure gold. "Plus the world will no longer see us as a threat so they'll leave us alone and there will be peace in our time. " - another pure goldie. Presenting all of the above as a viable plan for "bringing real change to America and hope to the world " - fucking beautiful. "That is what Obama must do for the good of the world and the freedom fighters will stop fighting once there is no military to fight against and th oppression stops. " - you just can't fake this level of crazy. Haven't seen these kind of lines since the Star Wars prequels dialogs. Not only is Obama Jesus-elect, but "the freedom fighters will stop fighting once there is no military to fight against and th oppression stops".
STOP th oppression! FREE them freedem fighters from fighting fer freedem! Screw the paragraphs and the ENTER key! Anonymous Cowards FTW!
From what I understand its like a holodeck. (self-aware virtual photorealistic soldiers that can be deployed in the battlefield) Only without holo-emitters present. (through 'quantum ghost imaging.')
The CO2 produced by making those things is more than you'll ever get back from using them.
And all that CO2 will go to waste unless someone buys and uses the thing. Plus the CO2 created transporting it to the store, then from the store to the recycling center or garbage dump. Where it will at best create even more CO2 being recycled or just plain sit there for the next 10.000 years slowly leaking chemicals into the ground.
On the other hand, if you DO buy it and use it you WILL reduce some minuscule amount of CO2 created and you will feel better about yourself while at the same time you will be investing in the clean energy industry.
Stop with the "And how much CO2 was created in making of the gadget?" already. Its not as if when you pay for it someone presses a button on the ThingyMaker3000TM and on the one side it pops out a new gadget and on the other side it blows a giant cloud of CO2. Those things are already created. Use them.
And what about returns and replacements? Or warranties? Even if they shrink-wrap the products the "original packaging" rule goes out the window with this new packing/shipping way.
And yeah... aren't we geeks and nerds supposed to be good with tools? Heck... forget geeks and nerds. How about just plain guys? . Or even primates. Those opposable thumbs and all that...
Or are we turning so soft that the slightest problem we face brings us to tears and cry mommy? What is next? Service that offers opening of cans and jars?
Oh, unless they're planning on cutting the price of shipping and merchandise? Nah, I didn't think so.
If these "first 19" products are any indication - no. Same price for "naked" as for the originally packaged products.
BTW... does anyone else think that there is a great potential for disappointment for kids when they get their SuperCoolTM toy packed in a plain brown cardboard box? Boxes those come in are often more than just packaging. And they sure are shiny and eye-catching.
Something tells me this new packaging method will not be such a great success when toys and gifts are concerned.
You ever ordered a box set or one of those DVDs packed in cardboard boxes? Pack that in envelope only and you can look forward to scratches, dents and tears on the boxes.
Special edition (read - more expensive) tin boxes are even more sensitive. Bumping those around even in a cardboard box can lead to dents on the boxes.
DVDs are bought for collections or as gifts. Or for resale. For watching there are cinemas, TV, downloads and torrents. In all cases - even the slightest damage or sticker mark on the box is a BIG no-no.
Extra packaging and shrink-wrap for my books and DVDs? YES! Please.
Let me try and put this in the way so a kindergarten kid could understand it.
There is this big cake. And every species gets a part of the cake and eats it. And while the cake can go bad in places it can never go bad entirely cause it is magical.
Now... along comes one species that is particularly good at eating cake and grabs a HUUUGE part of the cake for itself. And keeps grabbing more and more for itself or just plain ruining the cake just for fun. Just because they can. So all the other species end up with less and less cake to share among themselves. And cake can still go bad from time to time. Only now - even a small part of the cake going bad can mean that entire species can end up with no cake to eat at all.
So, because on species took almost all the cake for itself, all other species are running out of cake. And when they lose even the tiniest piece of their cake - they could all just die out.
They have about as much to do with science or even logic in their pointless rants as does the spring of 1734. have to do with popularity of colored condoms.
I am not a violent person, but from seeing those couple of episodes of that shitty show they put on - I got the urge to club the big loud shithead on the head until he becomes the little quiet shithead, and hang the little quiet shithead by the ankles and stretch him till he turns into a big loud shithead.
What? It would be done only in self defense. They were hurting me first. Both physically and emotionally.
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Blame the person who engineered your cubicles lighting and electrical system.
Local in-cubicle lights, instead of "one switch fits all" would probably save your company millions over the years.
Still, that falls within my description of "the inner depths of the cubicle farms and underground facilities" - as far as the use of electrical lighting is considered.
Not my fault your cubicle farm's engineering and management decided to pretend that the building is under ground, in a mine somewhere.
On a side note...
1. Read the lines above.
2. Do some calculating.
3. Pack the results into a nice, convincing, energy/money saving and carbon footprint reducing presentation for the management.
4. Profit.
Also unfortunately, most offices and businesses use lighting in a manner which is independent of ambient light,
Only in the inner depths of the cubicle farms and underground facilities.
No one in the right mind who has a window will turn the light on at the same time, with all that free sunlight poring in.
Also, transportation vehicles will not use inner lightning during the "sunlight hours" - unless they drive underground. And most of the world doesn't.
For most of the world - that is pure imported power, at the current oil/gas prices.
It is automated - up to a point.
I remember when I was a kid, someone figured out where the sensors were and plugged the sensor holes with mud to turn the lights on during the day.
I'm not sure it the power company switched to manual or did they implement something similar to the code above.
That's what she said.
...how much more effective your bullets would be - if you used a gun. You could take out up to 5 people with a single bullet.
On the other hand you might be able to take out the entire line with only a couple of explosive thingies.
Slamming into the line with a combine harvester would also prove rather effective I presume.
Just because you had government sponsored dickery training and license at one time does not make it right.
It just makes your dickery portfolio thicker with dickery experience unavailable to the average "civilian" dick.
It worked on Moe...
God creates Michael Crichton. God destroys Michael Crichton. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates Michael Crichton...
No... wait lets try that again.
God creates Michael Crichton...
Next Archbishop of Westminster?
Bono 500 - 1
Who will be next Pope?
Bono (Ireland) 1000 - 1
So like... If it turns out that Bono is God that should be about at least 2000 - 1.
I'd bet a couple of quid on that.
...printed on a T-shirt.
No... really... look at it...
Obama will fix the universe and end the wars with "change" - check.
Spewing nonsense about "them there jungle country that lives in peace with everyone" while comparing it to a global superpower - check.
No idea about the real world - check.
Not one but TWO Star Trek references - check and check.
" The world is a peaceful place except for some freedom fighters who feel oppressed " - this line is just pure gold.
" Plus the world will no longer see us as a threat so they'll leave us alone and there will be peace in our time. " - another pure goldie.
Presenting all of the above as a viable plan for " bringing real change to America and hope to the world " - fucking beautiful.
" That is what Obama must do for the good of the world and the freedom fighters will stop fighting once there is no military to fight against and th oppression stops. " - you just can't fake this level of crazy.
Haven't seen these kind of lines since the Star Wars prequels dialogs.
Not only is Obama Jesus-elect, but " the freedom fighters will stop fighting once there is no military to fight against and th oppression stops ".
STOP th oppression!
FREE them freedem fighters from fighting fer freedem!
Screw the paragraphs and the ENTER key!
Anonymous Cowards FTW!
From what I understand its like a holodeck. (self-aware virtual photorealistic soldiers that can be deployed in the battlefield)
Only without holo-emitters present. (through 'quantum ghost imaging.')
Umm... Invasion?
No... wait... that's communications disruption.
Mmmm... mousicle.
Ask Russian cosmonauts how they feel landing with just one parachute - on the hard Kazakhstan ground, not water.
Its a rocket.
They are inherently phallic.
Its not like we had Borg technology or something similar so that we could make our space-vehicles squared.
... then yes. That is almost exactly what the GP is referring to.
With some Amazon's mTurk added over the Google layer.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/09/geeks-spot-foss.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/373893/internet_users_aid_in_search_for_steve.html
http://innonate.com/2007/09/09/is-this-steve-fossett-the-community-searches/
The CO2 produced by making those things is more than you'll ever get back from using them.
And all that CO2 will go to waste unless someone buys and uses the thing.
Plus the CO2 created transporting it to the store, then from the store to the recycling center or garbage dump.
Where it will at best create even more CO2 being recycled or just plain sit there for the next 10.000 years slowly leaking chemicals into the ground.
On the other hand, if you DO buy it and use it you WILL reduce some minuscule amount of CO2 created and you will feel better about yourself while at the same time you will be investing in the clean energy industry.
Stop with the "And how much CO2 was created in making of the gadget?" already.
Its not as if when you pay for it someone presses a button on the ThingyMaker3000TM and on the one side it pops out a new gadget and on the other side it blows a giant cloud of CO2.
Those things are already created. Use them.
And what about returns and replacements?
Or warranties?
Even if they shrink-wrap the products the "original packaging" rule goes out the window with this new packing/shipping way.
And yeah... aren't we geeks and nerds supposed to be good with tools?
Heck... forget geeks and nerds. How about just plain guys? .
Or even primates. Those opposable thumbs and all that...
Or are we turning so soft that the slightest problem we face brings us to tears and cry mommy?
What is next? Service that offers opening of cans and jars?
If these "first 19" products are any indication - no. Same price for "naked" as for the originally packaged products.
BTW... does anyone else think that there is a great potential for disappointment for kids when they get their SuperCoolTM toy packed in a plain brown cardboard box?
Boxes those come in are often more than just packaging.
And they sure are shiny and eye-catching.
Something tells me this new packaging method will not be such a great success when toys and gifts are concerned.
You ever ordered a box set or one of those DVDs packed in cardboard boxes?
Pack that in envelope only and you can look forward to scratches, dents and tears on the boxes.
Special edition (read - more expensive) tin boxes are even more sensitive.
Bumping those around even in a cardboard box can lead to dents on the boxes.
DVDs are bought for collections or as gifts. Or for resale. For watching there are cinemas, TV, downloads and torrents.
In all cases - even the slightest damage or sticker mark on the box is a BIG no-no.
Extra packaging and shrink-wrap for my books and DVDs?
YES! Please.
Let me try and put this in the way so a kindergarten kid could understand it.
There is this big cake.
And every species gets a part of the cake and eats it. And while the cake can go bad in places it can never go bad entirely cause it is magical.
Now... along comes one species that is particularly good at eating cake and grabs a HUUUGE part of the cake for itself.
And keeps grabbing more and more for itself or just plain ruining the cake just for fun. Just because they can.
So all the other species end up with less and less cake to share among themselves. And cake can still go bad from time to time.
Only now - even a small part of the cake going bad can mean that entire species can end up with no cake to eat at all.
So, because on species took almost all the cake for itself, all other species are running out of cake.
And when they lose even the tiniest piece of their cake - they could all just die out.
Like all those species that could adapt to bullets.
They have about as much to do with science or even logic in their pointless rants as does the spring of 1734. have to do with popularity of colored condoms.
I am not a violent person, but from seeing those couple of episodes of that shitty show they put on - I got the urge to club the big loud shithead on the head until he becomes the little quiet shithead, and hang the little quiet shithead by the ankles and stretch him till he turns into a big loud shithead.
What? It would be done only in self defense.
They were hurting me first. Both physically and emotionally.
Both PP and GP are making jokes about secret ballot as if it is a bad thing.
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