In that case the person needs to sit down and think hard about his choice to live where he does./quote Exactly. If I lived in the middle of the nearest city I'd have 100Mbps cable broadband. I'd also be paying twice as much to live there, have no garden, nowhere to park and lots of noise.
I live out in the sticks where I get 5Mbps broadband, have a big garden, plenty parking, dark skies and it's quiet. There's also not a lot of RF floating about too, with all the noise and clatter from cheap plasma TVs and crappy wifi routers.
The problem is that USians say "England" and "English" when they mean Britain and British.
It's great fun calling New Yorkers "Mexicans" - they're all Americans, right? Same thing, right? And it's not like they can do anything like it - unlike people in the UK, New Yorkers aren't allowed to own guns...
Exactly - old drives actually did use 0-to-1 and 1-to-0 transitions to mark bits. Modern drives use a technique more like QAM to pack many bits into a transition. Once it's gone, there's no picking apart a residual signal from what's there.
Taking a hammer to them is too much effort. A single pass of "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd" will utterly destroy all the data beyond any hope of recovery.
It depends where you live. We tend not to need irrigation where I live, and in fact getting rid of water can be a bigger problem.
Arable farming uses a shitload of water, though - way more than livestock farming, even if you don't need to pump it in. The trick is - as I've said before - try and keep growing stuff suitable for where you live. Potatoes won't work so well in a desert.
I just installed Steam under wine, and it worked. I bought HL2, and it worked. Then a terrible thing happened, and I accidentally the whole.wine directory.
Guess what happened when I reinstalled Steam again? The first time I fired it up, it popped up a little message saying that it couldn't see the installs of all the games I'd bought, and would I like it to go and download them again? Well yes, of course I would, so I clicked "OK", had a cup of tea, and boom, HL2 just plain worked, again.
This isn't like anything else I've seen of DRM. This is just plain handy.
I let my cat hunt; she gets tinned food when the weather is too bad for her to go out and eat squeaky things or if she's feeling a bit stiff (she's 13, and starting to get a bit of arthritis). I'm slightly annoyed that she prefers the cheap stuff, because it's probably the feline equivalent of eating crappy franchise burgers. Oh well.
Regarding ecology, there's nothing inherently great about a vegan or vegetarian diet. We don't have enough arable land across the planet for everyone to eat that way. The US is a bit of an aberration, because cheap subsidised grain is fed to cattle in feedlots producing inferior quality cheap meat. You tend not to find that anywhere else because it's not cost-effective. TL;DR - you get crappy meat and all that grain costs a fortune, and it turns out that cows can't actually eat grain.
It's not possible to use most of the farmland that is used for raising livestock for arable farming. It's either too hilly, or too rocky, or just plain the wrong kind of soil. This isn't Farmville and you can't just click a wee square and decide what you want to put on it. Round where I live, it's mostly hill farms where sheep and cattle graze on rough moorland. You can't grow crops there, because it's too wet to cultivate and the soil is too acidic. We humans can't eat the tough grasses and heather that live there, but sheep manage just fine on it.
One of the greater concerns with food production is soya. The amount of oil required to produce soya is incredible, between soil preparation, fertiliser, harvesting and transporting it. The main source of soya beans throughout the world is South America, where immense swathes of rain forest are cleared every year to grow more soya. This comes back to the problem of preparing unsuitable ground - cultivating it requires massive amounts of diesel and petrochemical-derived fertilisers. This just isn't good for the environment.
So, this all sounds a bit negative. What can we do that is positive? Well, you can try eating foods that come from near where you live. I try to avoid eating anything that wasn't grown or raised further than about a day's cycling from my house. You could cycle it if you want; I do sometimes but I figure that the gallon or two of diesel my truck uses for an 80-mile round trip is an acceptable dent in my carbon footprint. By buying only locally-produced food, you'll be helping the local economy by putting money in the pockets of local shopkeepers and farmers, and you'll be helping yourself by eating better, fresher food. Sure, it costs a little more, but it's worth at least trying to make a difference.
The materials and electronic guts are way beyond the understanding of pretty much every American, too. They're sure to be way beyond *your* understanding.
It's not ecologically terribly sound, though, is it? You could either keep your cat shut in the house (where it won't be happy, because they like to roam about) and feed it industrial mush derived from waste food products and chemical additives. This isn't a very good way to look after a cat, though, because it's not a particularly natural environment for them.
Alternatively, you could let your cat go outside and eat squeaky things, bugs and grass (the latter helps them pass bits of undigested squeaky thing and furballs). Your cat will be much happier, and you won't have mice in your house.
Well, dogs are kind of naturally predisposed to eat meat. That's why they have forward-facing eyes (better depth perception for hunting), big sharp pointy teeth (good for biting big holes in prey) and strong jaw muscles. It just so happens that they can prtty much survive on vegetables alone, but it's pretty miserable for them. It's worth pointing out that you *cannot* feed cats a vegan diet at all; all felidae are unable to synthesize taurine and can only get it from meat. Without taurine, cats gradually go blind. Many spiders have quite a lot of taurine, which is presumably why cats eat them so readily. Feeding any animal a diet that is unsuitable for it is nothing short of abuse. It is hypocrisy in the extreme to criticise feedlot livestock production for feeding cows an un-natural diet and at the same time force domestic pets to eat a diet they simply cannot make use of.
To cover your and tmosely's point above, I was thinking more of salty wet gunk getting on the high-voltage battery terminals and frying the poor bugger who has to haul it on and off the car.
These things have to be safe to work with even in wet conditions, with unskilled staff. Otherwise, it's going to be just plain murderous.
And all water is risky, and all vegetables are risky, and all air is risky...
You can find a study that will make any point you want. There are undeniable ecological benefits in only eating things produced near where you live. For much of the world, that includes "unhealthy" carbohydratey potatoes, and "unhealthy" proteiny red meat. It's a bit of a bummer, but it still makes more sense than shipping soya beans half-way round the world only to throw most of them out processing them into something humans can just about digest.
That's got to work safely even when the car is covered in wet salty mud and slush. If they can crack that problem, *and* the petrol-like energy density - or better yet, diesel-like energy density - then electric cars might start to become more viable. Lithium Peroxide sounds like nasty stuff, and I do wonder how it stacks up against a split petrol tank in the "fiery death" stakes.
Of course, what would make a huge contribution to improving electric car range would be abandoning boring concept cars like the Tesla Roadster and making something practical. Who cares about doing 0-60 in four seconds, in real world driving?
Or to put it another way, "Boooooooop Beep"... I wonder how many people heard the exact noise in their head just reading that? Everyone who went to school in the UK in the 80s, I suppose.
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In that case the person needs to sit down and think hard about his choice to live where he does./quote
Exactly. If I lived in the middle of the nearest city I'd have 100Mbps cable broadband. I'd also be paying twice as much to live there, have no garden, nowhere to park and lots of noise.
I live out in the sticks where I get 5Mbps broadband, have a big garden, plenty parking, dark skies and it's quiet. There's also not a lot of RF floating about too, with all the noise and clatter from cheap plasma TVs and crappy wifi routers.
It's awesome.
The problem is that USians say "England" and "English" when they mean Britain and British.
It's great fun calling New Yorkers "Mexicans" - they're all Americans, right? Same thing, right? And it's not like they can do anything like it - unlike people in the UK, New Yorkers aren't allowed to own guns...
You know, like "grok". Have the slashdot janitors been bitten by autocorrect?
Yes, I do. I never go near the filthy stuff.
If it's not on hand-pump, it's not beer.
Point 3 is where you're going wrong. If it uses CO2 delivery, it's not beer, it's some pishy fizzy drink.
Exactly - old drives actually did use 0-to-1 and 1-to-0 transitions to mark bits. Modern drives use a technique more like QAM to pack many bits into a transition. Once it's gone, there's no picking apart a residual signal from what's there.
No, there is no "leakage" to speak of, and no way to separate out the old data that may have left residue. Once a bit is overwritten, it's *gone*.
No, the NSA do not have a big magic machine that can do it.
Yeah, but you actually have to *do* it, as opposed to typing a single command and then going and doing something more fun for 15 minutes.
And at the end of it, you've got a working totally blank hard disk, or it shows up incipient failing sectors.
Taking a hammer to them is too much effort. A single pass of "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd" will utterly destroy all the data beyond any hope of recovery.
It depends where you live. We tend not to need irrigation where I live, and in fact getting rid of water can be a bigger problem.
Arable farming uses a shitload of water, though - way more than livestock farming, even if you don't need to pump it in. The trick is - as I've said before - try and keep growing stuff suitable for where you live. Potatoes won't work so well in a desert.
Water, OTOH may be an issue
Yeah, it's not like it just falls from the sky...
I've never had to do that. It's always pretty much just worked without any faffing.
No, you don't have to be online. If you have to be online, why does it work when I'm not connected to the Internet?
I just installed Steam under wine, and it worked. I bought HL2, and it worked. Then a terrible thing happened, and I accidentally the whole .wine directory.
Guess what happened when I reinstalled Steam again? The first time I fired it up, it popped up a little message saying that it couldn't see the installs of all the games I'd bought, and would I like it to go and download them again? Well yes, of course I would, so I clicked "OK", had a cup of tea, and boom, HL2 just plain worked, again.
This isn't like anything else I've seen of DRM. This is just plain handy.
I let my cat hunt; she gets tinned food when the weather is too bad for her to go out and eat squeaky things or if she's feeling a bit stiff (she's 13, and starting to get a bit of arthritis). I'm slightly annoyed that she prefers the cheap stuff, because it's probably the feline equivalent of eating crappy franchise burgers. Oh well.
Regarding ecology, there's nothing inherently great about a vegan or vegetarian diet. We don't have enough arable land across the planet for everyone to eat that way. The US is a bit of an aberration, because cheap subsidised grain is fed to cattle in feedlots producing inferior quality cheap meat. You tend not to find that anywhere else because it's not cost-effective. TL;DR - you get crappy meat and all that grain costs a fortune, and it turns out that cows can't actually eat grain.
It's not possible to use most of the farmland that is used for raising livestock for arable farming. It's either too hilly, or too rocky, or just plain the wrong kind of soil. This isn't Farmville and you can't just click a wee square and decide what you want to put on it. Round where I live, it's mostly hill farms where sheep and cattle graze on rough moorland. You can't grow crops there, because it's too wet to cultivate and the soil is too acidic. We humans can't eat the tough grasses and heather that live there, but sheep manage just fine on it.
One of the greater concerns with food production is soya. The amount of oil required to produce soya is incredible, between soil preparation, fertiliser, harvesting and transporting it. The main source of soya beans throughout the world is South America, where immense swathes of rain forest are cleared every year to grow more soya. This comes back to the problem of preparing unsuitable ground - cultivating it requires massive amounts of diesel and petrochemical-derived fertilisers. This just isn't good for the environment.
So, this all sounds a bit negative. What can we do that is positive? Well, you can try eating foods that come from near where you live. I try to avoid eating anything that wasn't grown or raised further than about a day's cycling from my house. You could cycle it if you want; I do sometimes but I figure that the gallon or two of diesel my truck uses for an 80-mile round trip is an acceptable dent in my carbon footprint. By buying only locally-produced food, you'll be helping the local economy by putting money in the pockets of local shopkeepers and farmers, and you'll be helping yourself by eating better, fresher food. Sure, it costs a little more, but it's worth at least trying to make a difference.
2) don't live somewhere where they can let their cats roam freely
If you don't live somewhere you can let your cat go out, you shouldn't keep a cat.
Also, if I'm denigrating anyone, it's people who intentionally maltreat animals with inadequate food and living arrangements.
except that there isn't enough naturally-occurring taurine in any processed cat food
[citation needed]
Furthermore, you shouldn't have a cat if you're not going to let it hunt.
The materials and electronic guts are way beyond the understanding of pretty much every American, too. They're sure to be way beyond *your* understanding.
It's not ecologically terribly sound, though, is it? You could either keep your cat shut in the house (where it won't be happy, because they like to roam about) and feed it industrial mush derived from waste food products and chemical additives. This isn't a very good way to look after a cat, though, because it's not a particularly natural environment for them.
Alternatively, you could let your cat go outside and eat squeaky things, bugs and grass (the latter helps them pass bits of undigested squeaky thing and furballs). Your cat will be much happier, and you won't have mice in your house.
Right, but why would you abuse an animal by giving it un-natural chemical crap like that?
If you don't want to look after your animals properly, don't have animals.
Well, dogs are kind of naturally predisposed to eat meat. That's why they have forward-facing eyes (better depth perception for hunting), big sharp pointy teeth (good for biting big holes in prey) and strong jaw muscles. It just so happens that they can prtty much survive on vegetables alone, but it's pretty miserable for them.
It's worth pointing out that you *cannot* feed cats a vegan diet at all; all felidae are unable to synthesize taurine and can only get it from meat. Without taurine, cats gradually go blind. Many spiders have quite a lot of taurine, which is presumably why cats eat them so readily.
Feeding any animal a diet that is unsuitable for it is nothing short of abuse. It is hypocrisy in the extreme to criticise feedlot livestock production for feeding cows an un-natural diet and at the same time force domestic pets to eat a diet they simply cannot make use of.
To cover your and tmosely's point above, I was thinking more of salty wet gunk getting on the high-voltage battery terminals and frying the poor bugger who has to haul it on and off the car.
These things have to be safe to work with even in wet conditions, with unskilled staff. Otherwise, it's going to be just plain murderous.
And all water is risky, and all vegetables are risky, and all air is risky...
You can find a study that will make any point you want. There are undeniable ecological benefits in only eating things produced near where you live. For much of the world, that includes "unhealthy" carbohydratey potatoes, and "unhealthy" proteiny red meat. It's a bit of a bummer, but it still makes more sense than shipping soya beans half-way round the world only to throw most of them out processing them into something humans can just about digest.
That's got to work safely even when the car is covered in wet salty mud and slush. If they can crack that problem, *and* the petrol-like energy density - or better yet, diesel-like energy density - then electric cars might start to become more viable. Lithium Peroxide sounds like nasty stuff, and I do wonder how it stacks up against a split petrol tank in the "fiery death" stakes.
Of course, what would make a huge contribution to improving electric car range would be abandoning boring concept cars like the Tesla Roadster and making something practical. Who cares about doing 0-60 in four seconds, in real world driving?
Or to put it another way, "Boooooooop Beep"...
I wonder how many people heard the exact noise in their head just reading that? Everyone who went to school in the UK in the 80s, I suppose.