You're spot on with that, I used to work for a company that sold hydraulic and metal band saws to the US military for the decommissioning of ICBM's, and cutting the components into scrap. Each saw sold for $8k-148k, and were only used at one site before they were coffined as hazardous waste.
Hmm, the Trabant was made of plastic composite and used a two stroke engine. It was far ahead of its time...
The two stroke engine would have been it's death knell, they're hellishly bad on wear and tear as you might expect, especially with people fudging up mixture ratios. For myself though, I owned a '96 saturn and that thing would easily get 40-45mpg, just as much as some companies are trying to push now on their cars.
Of course if people missed what I said about 20 years later and the car still looking good, that had more to do with the automakers, and the fact that they really didn't rust out like everything else. Sadly what killed my car was the subframe going, all that bloody salt they use up on the roads here in Canada really eats cars.
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That's pretty funny, hey did you know that there was an entire line of cars and vans made using poly-composite plastic body panels? Funny enough, switching from steel to plastic or even fiberglass can cut the weight of a vehicle by 30% and give you massive savings on fuel. The downside is, 20 years later as long as you take care of the car it still looks new.
Reality time: Reduction of specific pesticides, and resistances cause pests to spread further and farther. Study does an okay job of correlation=causation. I expect next week to hear that global warming is causing malaria carrying mosquito's to show up in Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Georgia. Never minding that pesticide spraying to keep their numbers in check has decreased significantly along with the kill rates.
I'm 34, I just got back into IT admin for a small city out in Alberta, and I post whatever I feel like to make my work space relevant, relaxing and rewarding to me. Strange that people come up and ask me what *insert anime/magna* is, and what it's like. Or *insert non-popculture reference* is, or *insert game poster*. I'm not a social person by any means, but these broke the ice very well with not only the people I work with every day, but the city councilors, CFO and CAO. The CFO who's 48 and was a hardcore gamer as well, but felt awkward in approaching anyone younger to see if they wanted to game with him.
I once had Canada Customs stop me on reentry and ask about the kids (which all have Canadian passports) as if i was kidnapping them (in reverse)? I thougth that was REALLY weird.
Happens a lot more than you would think. The CBSA gets flashes from all police services across the country on people who they think they're running with either their, or someone elses kids. Especially with the increase where the courts have sided against the father, even when he was the better parent. As for importing booze/smokes and all that? It's actually a serious problem, though most of that smuggling goes on with the mohawk societies, and them running directly across the lakes.
Quite true. We have by law in Ontario, limiters on transport trucks so they can't travel over 105km/h(~63mph). And things to bypass or remove the limiter are illegal, that of course doesn't stop the rampant bypass of said modules anyway, and most truck drivers as soon as they're out of Ontario either remove it, or bypass it.
Although in the 1970s, they started doing small controlled burns, they're still burning less per decade than used to be burned per year naturally. This is all from tree ring and other data.
Well if you want to see what type of disaster that's going to cause us, you don't even need to look at Yosemite. Just look at all the dead forest area caused by pine beetles. I drove through part of the NW and Alberta and BC 2 years ago, and it was mile after mile, after mile of dead trees in ripe tinder dry conditions.
Not everyone is lucky enough to have responsible parents, and the government has a responsibility to protect them..... The whole "nanny state" thing is getting pretty tired. You can be individually responsible while still have help from the state.
If it's necessary, however let us take a look at some examples. Such as the kid who drew a picture of a gun, that was a toy, that his father used to scare monsters away at night. Where the school called child services and took the kids. Or where child services has tried and in some cases successfully to force parents to quit their jobs, and go on welfare to take care of their kids. Or even cases where the kids are handed away from a responsible father, and to an irresponsible mother. Or where hearsay is taken as factual evidence.
Perhaps, just perhaps the state has run amok. And I haven't even started on things in the US such as seizing kids from parents who are responsible gun owners...because there were guns in the house.
So, can you explain why all those "oil" and "other assets" aren't controlled by US companies? And why the price of fuel has gone up a few hundred percent.
I know the/. crowd may or may not disagree, but it would simplify the domain system. Why can't we have a washington.dc.city or toronto.on.ca.city among others, or linux.os, or hell how about ford.car, or photoshop.app. Or Washingtonpost.news, or CBS.news. To me it makes sense as an extension of the domain system to a level that people will understand.
Bah...give it another 10 years when the net is at saturation point and we'll probably have this breakdown happen.
Yeah, except nimby's don't want it, and environmentalists throw a hissy fit over it. Chances of "cleaner energy" being built? Next to nil, as long as politicians listen to the crazy people. See: Ontario, California, and Maine as examples.
In case you hadn't noticed, the glaciers are retreating at an ever-accelerating rate. When they will be gone is a matter of conjecture - that they will disappear is not.
You mean, except when they aren't right? I can go back to the last IPCC report where the "proof" of that was 3rd hand information handed over by environmental groups, who got it from someone else. And it was proven by actual sampling to be full on bunk.
Those had hard results, though. SO2 caused acid rain, and effluent dumping (solvents, oils, PCBs, and mercury, for example) made fish inedible and rivers start on fire... all hard results people could see, right now.
That's exactly my point. If people have facts, they don't have a problem with the belief on an issue. Some will but that's moot, I mean you have anti-vaxers who still believe that it's the end-be-all cause of autism and all that. The reality is, in the case of climate science it's not proven in the eyes of people especially after in our current generation 30 years of the same falsehoods. And if you look even further back, the damn near same wording--on the same issues go back as far as the 1880's.
I can think of several, including the regulations regarding to SO2, and effluent dumping. It wasn't "trust of scientists" it was "trust of provable theory." When people hear the same thing over again for the last 30 years, including that there would be no ice in the arctic, and all the glaciers would be gone in 1995, I mean 1998, I mean 2003, sorry that's 2010 now, oh wait 2016. People have no faith in that, and rightfully believe that it's junk science.
Nobody is suggesting that M$ is in any financial Difficulty. The "in trouble" is 5 quarters of PC sales down.
Well, look at the state of the industry? If you game on a PC, do you need to upgrade it? Most of the time people are going 2-3 years now. That heavily attributed to consoles stagnating the market. If you do basic things on it, like email and word processing, do you really need more than a dual core for that? There isn't any drive in the market, in turn it's hit it's peak.
What's funny is my brain skipped the double words without a problem. I had to read your sentence backwards in order to catch the error, the same way I had to catch my errors when writing my papers. These days, I don't really give a shit one way or the other.
So when the US does it, it's fine, but when it's the Arabs.. oh god, forget the UN!
Now when did I say that? Right, I didn't. Though only the woefully ignorant haven't been paying attention to the UN and exactly "who does what" for the last 50 years. There's a very good reason why Canada, who've been staunch supporters of the UN have been pulling out of things left, right, and centre.
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You're spot on with that, I used to work for a company that sold hydraulic and metal band saws to the US military for the decommissioning of ICBM's, and cutting the components into scrap. Each saw sold for $8k-148k, and were only used at one site before they were coffined as hazardous waste.
Hmm, the Trabant was made of plastic composite and used a two stroke engine. It was far ahead of its time...
The two stroke engine would have been it's death knell, they're hellishly bad on wear and tear as you might expect, especially with people fudging up mixture ratios. For myself though, I owned a '96 saturn and that thing would easily get 40-45mpg, just as much as some companies are trying to push now on their cars.
Of course if people missed what I said about 20 years later and the car still looking good, that had more to do with the automakers, and the fact that they really didn't rust out like everything else. Sadly what killed my car was the subframe going, all that bloody salt they use up on the roads here in Canada really eats cars.
That's pretty funny, hey did you know that there was an entire line of cars and vans made using poly-composite plastic body panels? Funny enough, switching from steel to plastic or even fiberglass can cut the weight of a vehicle by 30% and give you massive savings on fuel. The downside is, 20 years later as long as you take care of the car it still looks new.
Reality time:
Reduction of specific pesticides, and resistances cause pests to spread further and farther. Study does an okay job of correlation=causation. I expect next week to hear that global warming is causing malaria carrying mosquito's to show up in Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Georgia. Never minding that pesticide spraying to keep their numbers in check has decreased significantly along with the kill rates.
I'm 34, I just got back into IT admin for a small city out in Alberta, and I post whatever I feel like to make my work space relevant, relaxing and rewarding to me. Strange that people come up and ask me what *insert anime/magna* is, and what it's like. Or *insert non-popculture reference* is, or *insert game poster*. I'm not a social person by any means, but these broke the ice very well with not only the people I work with every day, but the city councilors, CFO and CAO. The CFO who's 48 and was a hardcore gamer as well, but felt awkward in approaching anyone younger to see if they wanted to game with him.
Bathbot's are for hipsters. Geeks require something more...unique.
I once had Canada Customs stop me on reentry and ask about the kids (which all have Canadian passports) as if i was kidnapping them (in reverse)? I thougth that was REALLY weird.
Happens a lot more than you would think. The CBSA gets flashes from all police services across the country on people who they think they're running with either their, or someone elses kids. Especially with the increase where the courts have sided against the father, even when he was the better parent. As for importing booze/smokes and all that? It's actually a serious problem, though most of that smuggling goes on with the mohawk societies, and them running directly across the lakes.
Quite true. We have by law in Ontario, limiters on transport trucks so they can't travel over 105km/h(~63mph). And things to bypass or remove the limiter are illegal, that of course doesn't stop the rampant bypass of said modules anyway, and most truck drivers as soon as they're out of Ontario either remove it, or bypass it.
Although in the 1970s, they started doing small controlled burns, they're still burning less per decade than used to be burned per year naturally. This is all from tree ring and other data.
Well if you want to see what type of disaster that's going to cause us, you don't even need to look at Yosemite. Just look at all the dead forest area caused by pine beetles. I drove through part of the NW and Alberta and BC 2 years ago, and it was mile after mile, after mile of dead trees in ripe tinder dry conditions.
Not everyone is lucky enough to have responsible parents, and the government has a responsibility to protect them. ....
The whole "nanny state" thing is getting pretty tired. You can be individually responsible while still have help from the state.
If it's necessary, however let us take a look at some examples. Such as the kid who drew a picture of a gun, that was a toy, that his father used to scare monsters away at night. Where the school called child services and took the kids. Or where child services has tried and in some cases successfully to force parents to quit their jobs, and go on welfare to take care of their kids. Or even cases where the kids are handed away from a responsible father, and to an irresponsible mother. Or where hearsay is taken as factual evidence.
Perhaps, just perhaps the state has run amok. And I haven't even started on things in the US such as seizing kids from parents who are responsible gun owners...because there were guns in the house.
Fucking parents, how do they work?
They don't. Government has spent the better part of 50 years trying to be "co-parents" along with the education system.
So, can you explain why all those "oil" and "other assets" aren't controlled by US companies? And why the price of fuel has gone up a few hundred percent.
I know the /. crowd may or may not disagree, but it would simplify the domain system. Why can't we have a washington.dc.city or toronto.on.ca.city among others, or linux.os, or hell how about ford.car, or photoshop.app. Or Washingtonpost.news, or CBS.news. To me it makes sense as an extension of the domain system to a level that people will understand.
Bah...give it another 10 years when the net is at saturation point and we'll probably have this breakdown happen.
Yeah, except nimby's don't want it, and environmentalists throw a hissy fit over it. Chances of "cleaner energy" being built? Next to nil, as long as politicians listen to the crazy people. See: Ontario, California, and Maine as examples.
In case you hadn't noticed, the glaciers are retreating at an ever-accelerating rate. When they will be gone is a matter of conjecture - that they will disappear is not.
You mean, except when they aren't right? I can go back to the last IPCC report where the "proof" of that was 3rd hand information handed over by environmental groups, who got it from someone else. And it was proven by actual sampling to be full on bunk.
Those had hard results, though. SO2 caused acid rain, and effluent dumping (solvents, oils, PCBs, and mercury, for example) made fish inedible and rivers start on fire... all hard results people could see, right now.
That's exactly my point. If people have facts, they don't have a problem with the belief on an issue. Some will but that's moot, I mean you have anti-vaxers who still believe that it's the end-be-all cause of autism and all that. The reality is, in the case of climate science it's not proven in the eyes of people especially after in our current generation 30 years of the same falsehoods. And if you look even further back, the damn near same wording--on the same issues go back as far as the 1880's.
I can think of several, including the regulations regarding to SO2, and effluent dumping. It wasn't "trust of scientists" it was "trust of provable theory." When people hear the same thing over again for the last 30 years, including that there would be no ice in the arctic, and all the glaciers would be gone in 1995, I mean 1998, I mean 2003, sorry that's 2010 now, oh wait 2016. People have no faith in that, and rightfully believe that it's junk science.
Nobody is suggesting that M$ is in any financial Difficulty. The "in trouble" is 5 quarters of PC sales down.
Well, look at the state of the industry? If you game on a PC, do you need to upgrade it? Most of the time people are going 2-3 years now. That heavily attributed to consoles stagnating the market. If you do basic things on it, like email and word processing, do you really need more than a dual core for that? There isn't any drive in the market, in turn it's hit it's peak.
What's funny is my brain skipped the double words without a problem. I had to read your sentence backwards in order to catch the error, the same way I had to catch my errors when writing my papers. These days, I don't really give a shit one way or the other.
Shh...don't tell anyone but there's this snappy little button on the front that let's you power down a PC without even trying!
If all you're doing is watching the screen, you're doing it wrong.
This is /., where the majority aren't even sure girls exist.
You look after 4 servers. Amazon looks after 100,000 times that.
I thought there were no servers in the cloud, just people willing to take your money and piss on you.
There's already one, it's called Start8 and it's done by Stardock and has corporate deployment support.
So when the US does it, it's fine, but when it's the Arabs.. oh god, forget the UN!
Now when did I say that? Right, I didn't. Though only the woefully ignorant haven't been paying attention to the UN and exactly "who does what" for the last 50 years. There's a very good reason why Canada, who've been staunch supporters of the UN have been pulling out of things left, right, and centre.
umm, you do know it was corrupted by the US right?
Haven't been paying attention to groups like the Arab League have you.