Id say electric cars ARE viable. Exccept that presnetly entrenched capital (oil/gas, Autos) will not commit and abring it to market.
EV1 Gen2 w/ LithiumIon batteries wasnt even TRIED to be sold - GM brought it to market in order that they can show that it was unviable. 70% of people dont need a gas auto. 90% of people with 2 cars dont need a 2nd gas auto, an electric would do them just fine...
The trouble with electric cars has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with momentum of the marketplace, lack of will on the part of regulators (or corruption if you prefer...) and plutocratic auto-industry and oil barrons.
AOL/Nullsoft's dispute is with Justin Frankel if they contend the release was unauthorized. But released it was, and it is under the GPL.
IANAL.
If *we*, the persons dealing with the company 'reasonably believe' that the Agent (Frankel) has the authority to enter into the agreement (GPL license) with us, then it is so. The company is responsible to uphold its agreement (where Frankel was the agent).
Posting this nonsense on the web doesnt undo Agent Frankel's agreement with us.
I just got an image of Frankel as Agent Smith in Matrix... hm, nevermind.
Huh? The FCC, which was formerly charged with maintaining the rights and interest of the citizens, but is now occupied by a corporate whore who intends on allowing MegaMergers/Consolidation ala Clear Channel to grow and accelerate.
These mega-mergers stiffle debate, frame and restrict public discourse and facilitate the Corporatization of Ideas...
I'd say Fuck Clear Channel, and anyone at the FCC who thinks that CC shouldnt be broken up. The FCC should return to its purpose -- not just another body of pro-corporate policy.
On the other hand, if you're suggesting that use of blue versus green or red or whatever color LEDs is an issue meriting such action then I think you're insane
Ha, no, I agree with your former statement... not this one:)
Individuals deciding what they do and don't like then buying what they like and not what they don't is exactly how markets do normally work.
Oh yes, the voting with your dollars argument. BS. Markets need control *other* than that provided by citizen spending. If the capital owners had as few votes as we all do than that might be a better system. But, alas, they do not -- they hold all the votes, and we can get stuffed.
If people want to see the market change, they cant do it by their personal spending. Thats the dismissive answer from someone who disagrees... or wants to maintain the status-quo, to resort to the religion-of-free-markets as its own justification.
exactly what i was going to say. Ive seen plenty of devices with BlueLEDs. Funny, I just havnt bought anything since that 'fashion' changed (and they dropped in price as he mentioned). If this guy wasnt such a rampant, hyper-consumer. He's probably not, he's a tech-writer, he probably needs them for review but he is emulating a lifestyle. That lifestyle also finds their good fortuen stifflying... this guy with his fancy-blue-LEDs, Victorian house-wives with keeping up with coutoure or the Drama House.
I'll feel sympathy for this guy when everyone's problems are so difficult.
Here is a collection of screen caps showing more of KDE's little features. Very nice. These two articles are the kind of things that MS users are going to look at and say, "wow, cool" before they decide to take the plunge. Good show.
do we really need this? [aquapulse.net] computer cases are little more than shells. Why are we chopping down trees for what is essentially a few-years-use object? And, cases made of ALUMINIUM? Christ, do you know what kind of embodied energy is contained in Aluminium? [csiro.au]
This case is our worst nightmare.. hell it might look pretty, but so do my nice pink lungs. Please, its nice to look at but really, is this something we should be buying? I certainly think not.
This case is our worst nightmare.. hell it might look pretty, but so do my nice pink lungs. Please, its nice to look at but really, is this something we should be buying? I certainly think not.
Kyoto hid under the cloak of global warming which is really just a political thing. Sure, people can affect the environment to some extent but thinking we are destroying the environment is not only scientifically invalid, it's almost unspeakably arrogant and naive.
You dont know what you are talking about. Human pollution is causing havoc planet wide, from habitat destruction for shopping-mall chochkies, ddt, asbestos, teflon, nuclear waste etc etc etc etc etc.
Global warming is just one problem, and honestly not even the tip of the iceburg.
The Kyoto accord was NOT ratified by the non-U.S. countries who tried to get the U.S. to commit to follow it....How, exactly, would moving production from the U.S. to areas which were to be exempt from environmental limitations contribute to a cleaner environment?
You dont understand the accord.
Oh, btw, China understands global warming. And is acting....in 2005 its car-fleet efficiency standards will be greater than the USA.
Without busting your bubble, you really need to get some perspective and understand that Kyoto is in the best interest of the Planet -- that is why reasonable (read: not plutocratic) governments signed it... the dellusions of seathing masses intending to destroy the Good Ol' USA(TM) is really jingoist nonsense.
Untrue. Building capital assets that go BOOM!, while financing it on debt is *very* good for your US economy. At least in the short term, and near history.
Our politicians still don't think we have a terrorist problem. Our politicians think the Americans are the cause of all their terrorist problems. Our politicians think that if the Americans would just be nice to everyone all the time, everything would be just fine.
We actually dont have a terrorist problem. There is *no* "Terrorist Problem". The Forces of Emmanual Goldstein are *NOT* out to get you.
Turn off your TV pal. Canadaians (and USofAians really) shouldnt be afraid of fascist criminals. Here in reality, people have more to fear from their daily commutes or dying from a fall in the bathtub. While flaming airplanes make good propaganda, I am more concerned by the menace that is my toilet.
While the Terrorists make a very good Enemy in order to stir up fear, they arent actually a concern for every-day Westerners. You, I and the rest of the/. crowd would do well to get some perspective about this "threat" and what a correct response is -- and is not.
What is NOT the correct response is invading foreign nations in reaction for what is really a criminal matter. What is NOT the correct response is for chicken-shit paranoids like yourself to buy the Fox News Rhetoric hook, line and sinker. What is NOT a correct response is to give these simple criminals credibility and prestige amoungst would-be suicide-bombers by making them Enemy #1 and declaring War on Terror(!) Spare me. Exacly the tactic you do NOT want if you are really trying to protect yourself from them... unless, of course, you are interested in the APPEARANCE of threat... hmmmm..?)
The Americans should be reasonablly concerned that 100years of exporting misery and death has a few advocates of said fitlh coming home to roost. Does CANADA (remember, we are NOT the USA -- even the barbarian hordes read a little you know...) have anything to be concerned about? Id say no, there is little chance of anything of real concern happening here. Could it? Sure. Am i going to seek out the first Federal Government who promises me a little temporary Security in Exchange for a little liberty? I fucking think not.
Keep your paranoia worry about Emmanual Goldstein to yourself -- your only encouraging the Real Fascists.
BS. The software PRODCUT does not need to be controlled. The WORK you do needs to be paid for...the license the work is sold afterwords is not relevant.
Plumbers dont ask for a fee everytime you flush do they? Why should programmers be permitted to control the work once its 'delivered'?
further, the SoftwareProduct in a box is a very very small part of the IT work-land. There are 10 Analysts, 10 Technicians and 10 operators for every programmer, and even amounghst those programmers, 1 in 10 might be working on a prodcut that is sold outside as The Product...
THIS is why i think Religion is actually a problem. All of it.
Alot of Athiests will say "let them be, eventually they will dispatch this childish nonsense and join us in reality" but I believe that theists are actually an OBSTICLE to peace, sustainability and justice. They REALLY believe that as long as they keep their 'nose clean' they get a pass to never-never land - what happens after they are dead is not relevant, theyve been given their reward. Just a few simple rules and all is well. Never mind that those church-written-rules served a purpuse to the Church(Government) at that point in time... not exactly completely relevant today.
I watch things like Scientology and other 'new age' religions and snicker, in a few hundred years, they will have enough history and adherents that old-school-religions will be passe.... and everyone will wonder what could POSSIBLY have been the matter with us and our backwards religion. Sheesh, everyone will know that we came from aliens of course... and anyone who disagrees will be disintegrated. This seems apropos
That said, I just hope that Reason can survive the longest to see the rest of this nonsense disappear... but, I'd bet that the fantasy-land's radicals will burn up the planet with nary a care for the Real Consequences.
And yet at the same time, Janet Jackson's boobie pops out and we all have a fucking heart attack. It's all fake, it's a fucking fake reaction that we are all mutually emulating. Other people seem offended, so by God, I should be offended too!
The thing is, nobody (or at least, hardly anybody) is really offended by it.
This is a very keen point. Further, witness recent "mass mourning" events all i could find about it at the moment). People are being seduced by the mass media into connecting in a purley INDUCED emotional manner to the deaths of celebritis (and others). The masses have absolutely lost touch with what is relevant and real to them as individuals, they have instead accepted these induced emotional events as real -- replacing their own. Life has become too complicated, the media provides more information in a day than most can digest in a month and people have given up on trying to rationalize it all, instead, they have surrendered themselves to it.
The next time some kid is kidnapped watch the reaction in people, the media and in these 'public mourning events'. It is terrible i know, but is it REALLY a concern we should all be concerned with? Violence and tragedy is as old as time, its not going anywhere, why are we seeming to loose the ability to rationalize?
Personally, i have choose to ignore *all* the 'personal tragedy' bs that is blasted out network news (and on internet, watercooler-chat, newspapers, etc etc).
As you said, this mass hysteria is truly dangerous. Personally, i think the next kook-with-a-back-pack bomb-in-a-subway is going to send the USA into a spiral of hysteria that ends up in WWIII (after you trash your civil liberties, crown bush king, and deport/intern/imprison anyone who looks like The Enemy(TM))
The other is the weight and capital in the oil industry. The same oil industry that is loath to see its power in the marketplace removed and installed in the Electric Companies (yes, i know gas/oil is used to gen. elec, but it dosnt HAVE to be, nor is it always)
The Shells of the world cant have all that Capital (stations, processing plants, transport) made obsolete through a purposefull transition to electric vehicles.
Short and Sweet: The obstacle to Electric Personal Transport is vested Capital -- NOT technology.
The first thing that they teach students in a graphic arts class is to never use primary colors together.
I hope they dont teach this in ART class. Who says you need to bind creativity? I dont need my Art spoon fed to me, let them design as they see fit... I dont need some group-think confining my options, in ANY regard.
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Id say electric cars ARE viable. Exccept that presnetly entrenched capital (oil/gas, Autos) will not commit and abring it to market.
EV1 Gen2 w/ LithiumIon batteries wasnt even TRIED to be sold - GM brought it to market in order that they can show that it was unviable. 70% of people dont need a gas auto. 90% of people with 2 cars dont need a 2nd gas auto, an electric would do them just fine...
The trouble with electric cars has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with momentum of the marketplace, lack of will on the part of regulators (or corruption if you prefer...) and plutocratic auto-industry and oil barrons.
which PDAs are those exactly?
AOL/Nullsoft's dispute is with Justin Frankel if they contend the release was unauthorized. But released it was, and it is under the GPL.
IANAL.
If *we*, the persons dealing with the company 'reasonably believe' that the Agent (Frankel) has the authority to enter into the agreement (GPL license) with us, then it is so. The company is responsible to uphold its agreement (where Frankel was the agent).
Posting this nonsense on the web doesnt undo Agent Frankel's agreement with us.
I just got an image of Frankel as Agent Smith in Matrix... hm, nevermind.
Fuck FCC
Huh? The FCC, which was formerly charged with maintaining the rights and interest of the citizens, but is now occupied by a corporate whore who intends on allowing MegaMergers/Consolidation ala Clear Channel to grow and accelerate.
These mega-mergers stiffle debate, frame and restrict public discourse and facilitate the Corporatization of Ideas...
I'd say Fuck Clear Channel, and anyone at the FCC who thinks that CC shouldnt be broken up. The FCC should return to its purpose -- not just another body of pro-corporate policy.
On the other hand, if you're suggesting that use of blue versus green or red or whatever color LEDs is an issue meriting such action then I think you're insane
:)
Ha, no, I agree with your former statement... not this one
Individuals deciding what they do and don't like then buying what they like and not what they don't is exactly how markets do normally work.
Oh yes, the voting with your dollars argument. BS. Markets need control *other* than that provided by citizen spending. If the capital owners had as few votes as we all do than that might be a better system. But, alas, they do not -- they hold all the votes, and we can get stuffed.
If people want to see the market change, they cant do it by their personal spending. Thats the dismissive answer from someone who disagrees... or wants to maintain the status-quo, to resort to the religion-of-free-markets as its own justification.
in short, fuck markets.
exactly what i was going to say. Ive seen plenty of devices with BlueLEDs. Funny, I just havnt bought anything since that 'fashion' changed (and they dropped in price as he mentioned). If this guy wasnt such a rampant, hyper-consumer. He's probably not, he's a tech-writer, he probably needs them for review but he is emulating a lifestyle. That lifestyle also finds their good fortuen stifflying... this guy with his fancy-blue-LEDs, Victorian house-wives with keeping up with coutoure or the Drama House.
I'll feel sympathy for this guy when everyone's problems are so difficult.
Here is a collection of screen caps showing more of KDE's little features. Very nice. These two articles are the kind of things that MS users are going to look at and say, "wow, cool" before they decide to take the plunge. Good show.
Anti Anti-Missle Missles are the way to go.
That is a tremendous idea -- imagine the Low Tech resistence to these being specially trained raptors, who will seek out and capture these micros.
Sounds like a terrific idea for a book.
do we really need this? [aquapulse.net] computer cases are little more than shells. Why are we chopping down trees for what is essentially a few-years-use object? And, cases made of ALUMINIUM? Christ, do you know what kind of embodied energy is contained in Aluminium? [csiro.au]
This case is our worst nightmare.. hell it might look pretty, but so do my nice pink lungs. Please, its nice to look at but really, is this something we should be buying? I certainly think not.
See my improperly modded comments for links.
do we really need this? computer cases are little more than shells. Why are we chopping down trees for what is essentially a few-years-use object? And, cases made of ALUMINIUM? Christ, do you know what kind of embodied energy is contained in Aluminium?
This case is our worst nightmare.. hell it might look pretty, but so do my nice pink lungs. Please, its nice to look at but really, is this something we should be buying? I certainly think not.
Kyoto hid under the cloak of global warming which is really just a political thing. Sure, people can affect the environment to some extent but thinking we are destroying the environment is not only scientifically invalid, it's almost unspeakably arrogant and naive.
You dont know what you are talking about. Human pollution is causing havoc planet wide, from habitat destruction for shopping-mall chochkies, ddt, asbestos, teflon, nuclear waste etc etc etc etc etc.
Global warming is just one problem, and honestly not even the tip of the iceburg.
The Kyoto accord was NOT ratified by the non-U.S. countries who tried to get the U.S. to commit to follow it....How, exactly, would moving production from the U.S. to areas which were to be exempt from environmental limitations contribute to a cleaner environment?
You dont understand the accord.
Oh, btw, China understands global warming. And is acting....in 2005 its car-fleet efficiency standards will be greater than the USA.
Without busting your bubble, you really need to get some perspective and understand that Kyoto is in the best interest of the Planet -- that is why reasonable (read: not plutocratic) governments signed it... the dellusions of seathing masses intending to destroy the Good Ol' USA(TM) is really jingoist nonsense.
Untrue. Building capital assets that go BOOM!, while financing it on debt is *very* good for your US economy. At least in the short term, and near history.
Our politicians still don't think we have a terrorist problem. Our politicians think the Americans are the cause of all their terrorist problems. Our politicians think that if the Americans would just be nice to everyone all the time, everything would be just fine.
/. crowd would do well to get some perspective about this "threat" and what a correct response is -- and is not.
.
We actually dont have a terrorist problem. There is *no* "Terrorist Problem". The Forces of Emmanual Goldstein are *NOT* out to get you.
Turn off your TV pal. Canadaians (and USofAians really) shouldnt be afraid of fascist criminals. Here in reality, people have more to fear from their daily commutes or dying from a fall in the bathtub. While flaming airplanes make good propaganda, I am more concerned by the menace that is my toilet.
While the Terrorists make a very good Enemy in order to stir up fear, they arent actually a concern for every-day Westerners. You, I and the rest of the
What is NOT the correct response is invading foreign nations in reaction for what is really a criminal matter. What is NOT the correct response is for chicken-shit paranoids like yourself to buy the Fox News Rhetoric hook, line and sinker. What is NOT a correct response is to give these simple criminals credibility and prestige amoungst would-be suicide-bombers by making them Enemy #1 and declaring War on Terror(!) Spare me. Exacly the tactic you do NOT want if you are really trying to protect yourself from them... unless, of course, you are interested in the APPEARANCE of threat... hmmmm..?)
The Americans should be reasonablly concerned that 100years of exporting misery and death has a few advocates of said fitlh coming home to roost. Does CANADA (remember, we are NOT the USA -- even the barbarian hordes read a little you know...) have anything to be concerned about? Id say no, there is little chance of anything of real concern happening here. Could it? Sure. Am i going to seek out the first Federal Government who promises me a little temporary Security in Exchange for a little liberty? I fucking think not.
Keep your paranoia worry about Emmanual Goldstein to yourself -- your only encouraging the Real Fascists
BS. The software PRODCUT does not need to be controlled. The WORK you do needs to be paid for...the license the work is sold afterwords is not relevant.
Plumbers dont ask for a fee everytime you flush do they? Why should programmers be permitted to control the work once its 'delivered'?
further, the SoftwareProduct in a box is a very very small part of the IT work-land. There are 10 Analysts, 10 Technicians and 10 operators for every programmer, and even amounghst those programmers, 1 in 10 might be working on a prodcut that is sold outside as The Product...
Technology Workers need to take a serious look at Unionizing.
As much as a perons's ego wants to deny it, only standing together can we stop our jobs from being lost to slave labour.
I even use 100 percent recycled 2 ply Facial Tissues (The brand is seventh generation, btw)
What is 7th generation recycled facial tissue?
THIS is why i think Religion is actually a problem. All of it.
Alot of Athiests will say "let them be, eventually they will dispatch this childish nonsense and join us in reality" but I believe that theists are actually an OBSTICLE to peace, sustainability and justice. They REALLY believe that as long as they keep their 'nose clean' they get a pass to never-never land - what happens after they are dead is not relevant, theyve been given their reward. Just a few simple rules and all is well. Never mind that those church-written-rules served a purpuse to the Church(Government) at that point in time... not exactly completely relevant today.
I watch things like Scientology and other 'new age' religions and snicker, in a few hundred years, they will have enough history and adherents that old-school-religions will be passe.... and everyone will wonder what could POSSIBLY have been the matter with us and our backwards religion. Sheesh, everyone will know that we came from aliens of course... and anyone who disagrees will be disintegrated. This seems apropos
That said, I just hope that Reason can survive the longest to see the rest of this nonsense disappear... but, I'd bet that the fantasy-land's radicals will burn up the planet with nary a care for the Real Consequences.
And yet at the same time, Janet Jackson's boobie pops out and we all have a fucking heart attack. It's all fake, it's a fucking fake reaction that we are all mutually emulating. Other people seem offended, so by God, I should be offended too!
The thing is, nobody (or at least, hardly anybody) is really offended by it.
This is a very keen point. Further, witness recent "mass mourning" events all i could find about it at the moment). People are being seduced by the mass media into connecting in a purley INDUCED emotional manner to the deaths of celebritis (and others). The masses have absolutely lost touch with what is relevant and real to them as individuals, they have instead accepted these induced emotional events as real -- replacing their own. Life has become too complicated, the media provides more information in a day than most can digest in a month and people have given up on trying to rationalize it all, instead, they have surrendered themselves to it.
The next time some kid is kidnapped watch the reaction in people, the media and in these 'public mourning events'. It is terrible i know, but is it REALLY a concern we should all be concerned with? Violence and tragedy is as old as time, its not going anywhere, why are we seeming to loose the ability to rationalize?
Personally, i have choose to ignore *all* the 'personal tragedy' bs that is blasted out network news (and on internet, watercooler-chat, newspapers, etc etc).
As you said, this mass hysteria is truly dangerous. Personally, i think the next kook-with-a-back-pack bomb-in-a-subway is going to send the USA into a spiral of hysteria that ends up in WWIII (after you trash your civil liberties, crown bush king, and deport/intern/imprison anyone who looks like The Enemy(TM))
Ashcroft, a religious man who does not drink alcohol or caffeine, smoke, gamble or dance,
In other words, Mr.Ashcroft is a farking nutjob. Do people consider this kind of character virtuous?
Personally, I consider such a person TERRIBLY poorly adjusted.
according to this barry callebaut is swiss -- is this what you meant?
The other is the weight and capital in the oil industry. The same oil industry that is loath to see its power in the marketplace removed and installed in the Electric Companies (yes, i know gas/oil is used to gen. elec, but it dosnt HAVE to be, nor is it always)
The Shells of the world cant have all that Capital (stations, processing plants, transport) made obsolete through a purposefull transition to electric vehicles.
Short and Sweet: The obstacle to Electric Personal Transport is vested Capital -- NOT technology.
Viva La Revolucion! Buy a Mac!
HA! HA! yes, a revolution in consumerist loyality! HORRAY for BRAND MARKETING! YEAH! My brand is more revolutionary than yours!
The first thing that they teach students in a graphic arts class is to never use primary colors together.
I hope they dont teach this in ART class. Who says you need to bind creativity? I dont need my Art spoon fed to me, let them design as they see fit... I dont need some group-think confining my options, in ANY regard.
Absolute rules are to be broken absolutely.