I've managed to convince my family to replace all but 3 light bulbs with CF ones. Main problem was the initial cost - something like $9-10 per CF light bulb. With incandescent ones costing around $0.40 - its obvious why everyone was against wasting money on fancy light bulbs. It took a lot of talking and I only got to replace them one at a time.
Ahh... but since we are using these CF light bulbs (Philips 100W and 75W ones) none of them has burned out. They are going through their second year now. Those other 3 incandescent light bulbs have been burning out at a steady rate of about 6 months of use. Philips or "brand X" - the same thing.
Now, with these CF bulbs in place, our electric bill is so low that my father thought that something was wrong with the meter. The number of kWh was just too low. Thing is... for every kWh of electricity used on lights we spend now - we used to spend five before.
On the other hand... cheap Chinese CF bulbs... I am not really keen on trying those out. They cost about 2-3 times less then the brand names, but when I see that they have misspelled the land of origin (PRC was spelled LRC)... ummm.. something makes me doubt their quality control.
Read the summary like this: "Two people who are famous for running and jumping very fast and very high, have done some thinking despite that not being what they are famous and have made a conclusion based on their limited knowledge of all facts involved."
Pro-athletes are nothing more then overpaid manual labor that is very good in their one particular field. Only there are no sponsors out there for guys digging ditches.
Should someone whose life statistics so far can be compared to those of a racing horse, and who is going to retire at 30 - should someone like that really be considered as a valid opinion maker on something like "branding all humans that compete"? Or 24 hours a day surveillance of humans through implants.
Oh.. and do take a look at TFA and the photo attached while thinking about that. Doesn't really say "look at my big and smart brain", does it?
About our sins tossed from God as far as East is from West (hint - eternally distant from God). Here is a fun experiment.
Stand facing north or south magnetic pole. If you lack a compass use stars, moss on the trees or satellite antennae (they are facing the Equator) to align yourself.
Now, standing like that, one of your hands is your east hand and the other is your west hand. Shake hands with yourself to congratulate yourself on a job well done in bringing the east and west together.
About our sins tossed from God as far as East is from West (hint - eternally distant from God). Here is a fun experiment.
Stand facing north or south magnetic pole. If you lack a compass use stars, moss on the trees or satellite antennae (they are facing the Equator) to align yourself.
Now, standing like that, one of your hands is your east hand and the other is your west hand. Shake hands with yourself to congratulate yourself on a job well done in bringing the east and west together.
Now that you know how to do that, you can do amazing things like twiddling your thumbs.
Conveniently placed around the game. Or do you not remember all those strippers and the porn-booth?
Now... If they only manage to hack-in beer - no amount of portal goodness will save Half-Life or any other shooter out there. Unless it becomes the incentive to finally release Half Life XXX: Alyx on Chell and its sequel Half Life XXXL: Gordon and the Girls.
9000$ for a video game? The fact that I share the same planet, not to mention species, with the person that paid 9000$ for a game worries and insults me at the same time.
Evoks ate Santa back in 1983, and just like with storm troopers at the end of the "Return of the Jedi" - used his head for a drum.
In 1985 they tried (unsuccessfully) to trade the gifts to various races.
Not until 1994 did they manage to dump those gifts on anyone (apparently it is bad karma to eat Santa's) - until they bumped on a group of Jawas. Those Jawas will take anything from anyone.
It would be impossible for Iran to have anything resembling a chance of doing so without effective nuclear weapons and the means of delivering them, and impossible to get a nuke working reliably without testing it. (Imagine if you're Ahmadine-Jihad and your nuke misfires, showering undetonated uranium over downtown Tel Aviv; not only has your glorious jihad failed before it ever began, but you are, to all intents and purposes, screwed.) Gee now... how was it the USA bombed Japan in WWII without supercomputers and balisitic missiles? I heard this one where the pilot gave "D Bom" to his mother, who was such a colosal bitch when on PMS that she just picked it up and chucked it at the Japs.
Were Iran to test a nuclear weapon in real life, they would get noticed pretty quickly (the seismic readings would see to that), and a preemptive strike would soon follow. Yeah... Just like that invasion of North Korea couple of years ago after they did that nuke test. I always knew that there was something wrong with that Kim Jong guy, but who would expect him to be an alien bug, ha?
What do you mean it was a movie with puppets? Yeah, right... Next thing you'll tell me there was no invasion of North Korea too. Yeah, right.
So teaming up into a state/nation-wide organisation that would have financial and political pull is a NOT a good way to stop your jobs getting outsourced?
Got it!
As for strike... Can you please list your name, adress, date of birth and any other form of ID here so that when YOU end up as the above mentioned "poor bastard" everyone can say "Fuck you! Suck it up.". We could also add a kick in the balls, if that is "to your satisfaction"?
A doesn't have something (because it was made without it) - but it is supposed to have it? And B doesn't have something (again - because it was made without it) - but in this case its just "ah well - its not there"?
Seems to me that according to that logic B's "added functionality" is just useless fluff. I mean... It wasn't "SUPPOSED" to be there.
And somehow... you manage to make it sound that when A got what it was "supposed to have" is a much worse case then when B got what "wasn't there before".
Kinda like saying "Yeah, those homeless people now DO have a roof over their head, but they are still ugly. Buy my new tits are so sexy, aren't they?"
There are perfectly fine PDAs from a year or two before on eBay for well under $100.
I carry around an i710 Tungsten, with a 64 MB card loaded with.txt files easily found online. No... I don't really give a damn about legal/not legal part of it. And he who is about to throw the first kindle at my head should check his mp3 collection first.
I tend to buy hardcovers when I find a copy worth putting on the shelve, and money to buy it. And most of the writers I read are dead anyway, so its not like they will miss the money.
Well... except Stephen King. He is just dead to me since the Dark Tower.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but in the light of recent developments - it appears to be prone to cracks and breaches.
Apparently, Google has "interesting" sense of humor regarding titanium products.
Not the Cheapo brand.
I've managed to convince my family to replace all but 3 light bulbs with CF ones.
Main problem was the initial cost - something like $9-10 per CF light bulb.
With incandescent ones costing around $0.40 - its obvious why everyone was against wasting money on fancy light bulbs. It took a lot of talking and I only got to replace them one at a time.
Ahh... but since we are using these CF light bulbs (Philips 100W and 75W ones) none of them has burned out. They are going through their second year now.
Those other 3 incandescent light bulbs have been burning out at a steady rate of about 6 months of use. Philips or "brand X" - the same thing.
Now, with these CF bulbs in place, our electric bill is so low that my father thought that something was wrong with the meter. The number of kWh was just too low.
Thing is... for every kWh of electricity used on lights we spend now - we used to spend five before.
On the other hand... cheap Chinese CF bulbs... I am not really keen on trying those out.
They cost about 2-3 times less then the brand names, but when I see that they have misspelled the land of origin (PRC was spelled LRC)... ummm.. something makes me doubt their quality control.
Read the summary like this: "Two people who are famous for running and jumping very fast and very high, have done some thinking despite that not being what they are famous and have made a conclusion based on their limited knowledge of all facts involved."
Pro-athletes are nothing more then overpaid manual labor that is very good in their one particular field. Only there are no sponsors out there for guys digging ditches.
Should someone whose life statistics so far can be compared to those of a racing horse, and who is going to retire at 30 - should someone like that really be considered as a valid opinion maker on something like "branding all humans that compete"? Or 24 hours a day surveillance of humans through implants.
Oh.. and do take a look at TFA and the photo attached while thinking about that.
Doesn't really say "look at my big and smart brain", does it?
Stand facing north or south magnetic pole. If you lack a compass use stars, moss on the trees or satellite antennae (they are facing the Equator) to align yourself.
Now, standing like that, one of your hands is your east hand and the other is your west hand. Shake hands with yourself to congratulate yourself on a job well done in bringing the east and west together. About our sins tossed from God as far as East is from West (hint - eternally distant from God). Here is a fun experiment.
Stand facing north or south magnetic pole. If you lack a compass use stars, moss on the trees or satellite antennae (they are facing the Equator) to align yourself.
Now, standing like that, one of your hands is your east hand and the other is your west hand. Shake hands with yourself to congratulate yourself on a job well done in bringing the east and west together.
Now that you know how to do that, you can do amazing things like twiddling your thumbs.
One word: Tits!
And one more: Ass!
Conveniently placed around the game. Or do you not remember all those strippers and the porn-booth?
Now... If they only manage to hack-in beer - no amount of portal goodness will save Half-Life or any other shooter out there.
Unless it becomes the incentive to finally release Half Life XXX: Alyx on Chell and its sequel Half Life XXXL: Gordon and the Girls.
Liv Tyler?
Dad sells son's 90-dollar video game online for more than 9000
9000$ for a video game?
The fact that I share the same planet, not to mention species, with the person that paid 9000$ for a game worries and insults me at the same time.
Ubi-bot would mean something like Kil-o-Bot in English.
In other slavic languages as well.
Its all there in plain sight.
Evoks ate Santa back in 1983, and just like with storm troopers at the end of the "Return of the Jedi" - used his head for a drum.
In 1985 they tried (unsuccessfully) to trade the gifts to various races.
Not until 1994 did they manage to dump those gifts on anyone (apparently it is bad karma to eat Santa's) - until they bumped on a group of Jawas.
Those Jawas will take anything from anyone.
How many of THEM?
And who ARE they?
And how come they never invites us over to their place for some games and fried carbohydrates?
I heard this one where the pilot gave "D Bom" to his mother, who was such a colosal bitch when on PMS that she just picked it up and chucked it at the Japs. Were Iran to test a nuclear weapon in real life, they would get noticed pretty quickly (the seismic readings would see to that), and a preemptive strike would soon follow. Yeah... Just like that invasion of North Korea couple of years ago after they did that nuke test.
I always knew that there was something wrong with that Kim Jong guy, but who would expect him to be an alien bug, ha?
What do you mean it was a movie with puppets? Yeah, right... Next thing you'll tell me there was no invasion of North Korea too. Yeah, right.
Well... you WERE in a crowd that paid to watch a Hulk Hogan movie...
Not really MENSA material.
ED was made by a giant corporation primarily so that they could make money on government contracts and replacement parts.
Can't walk down stairs?
Heck... Microsoft made both Win Me AAAAND Vista.
I can see business booming in that street if renamed.
Restaurants, holistic detective agencies, sandwich stands, towel and fish shops...
Don't they realize that they have just given up our one advantage that we had on robots?
Ability to not fall down the stairs.
the Sword of a Thousand Truths?
Aha..
So teaming up into a state/nation-wide organisation that would have financial and political pull is a NOT a good way to stop your jobs getting outsourced?
Got it!
As for strike...
Can you please list your name, adress, date of birth and any other form of ID here so that when YOU end up as the above mentioned "poor bastard" everyone can say "Fuck you! Suck it up.".
We could also add a kick in the balls, if that is "to your satisfaction"?
Hold on... let me get this straight...
A doesn't have something (because it was made without it) - but it is supposed to have it?
And B doesn't have something (again - because it was made without it) - but in this case its just "ah well - its not there"?
Seems to me that according to that logic B's "added functionality" is just useless fluff. I mean... It wasn't "SUPPOSED" to be there.
And somehow... you manage to make it sound that when A got what it was "supposed to have" is a much worse case then when B got what "wasn't there before".
Kinda like saying "Yeah, those homeless people now DO have a roof over their head, but they are still ugly. Buy my new tits are so sexy, aren't they?"
Ted Kaczynski would fix these internet terrorists.
He'd fix them good.
I didn't mean that communism has an inherent flaw for understanding economics - I meant that SOMEone might argue that - wrongly.
As for the reason for "strangeness" - nah... it was just propaganda.
It wasn't a really "smart" SF. Pulp space opera...
Didn't you see the part of the Roswell UFO in the upper left corner of that photo?
I say... Kids these days. Brains fried by MTV, don't see the important bits any more.
Is not spent on pr0n young grasshopper.
It is spent on prostitutes.
And mistresses. And gifts for your wife and girlfriend so they will look away.
There are perfectly fine PDAs from a year or two before on eBay for well under $100.
.txt files easily found online.
I carry around an i710 Tungsten, with a 64 MB card loaded with
No... I don't really give a damn about legal/not legal part of it. And he who is about to throw the first kindle at my head should check his mp3 collection first.
I tend to buy hardcovers when I find a copy worth putting on the shelve, and money to buy it.
And most of the writers I read are dead anyway, so its not like they will miss the money.
Well... except Stephen King. He is just dead to me since the Dark Tower.