I'm merely pointing out that it's not emissions-free. Why claim so when it's not so? I was actually going to comment on the humans involved also using significant amounts of fuel, but I didn't want to go too far. I guess I still went too far in pointing out the truth of this emissions-free plane. Sorry for offending you. Next time I'll go along with the bandwagon, and claim that non-plug-in hybrid cars run on more than just gasoline.
As much as I hate to admit it, it does look way too similar to a lightsaber.
Yeah, but it's not an actual lightsaber, which is what George Lucas patented and sells. Once you enable the blade, the difference is very clear; this laser can cause blidness, but a George Lucas's lightsaber can cut a man in half. He doesn't want buyers feeling cheated when they find out it's just a dinky laser, thinking the real lightsaber was just a hoax.
Or over the phone. If you get a call supposedly from your bank, say "thanks, I'll contact my bank and find out more." Or if you get mail supposedly from your bank, giving you a website to visit, go to your bank's website, not the URL listed, and see if they mention anything.
Although the goal is to show that emissions-free air travel is possible
This plane is not emissions-free, since there were some in its manufacture, which must be divided over its lifetime, and then whatever emissions are involved in the disposal/recycling of the craft as well. Lower-emissions, sure, but not emissions-free.
[not having labels state that they contain GM organisms is] kind of like saying that consumers are underinformed because there are no autism warning labels on vaccines. Anti-vaccine people aren't demonstrating that they're more informed than the rest of us - they're just demonstrating that they don't know WTF they're talking about.
No, it's not. Stating that something contains GMs isn't claiming anything about the health implications, just what the hell is IN the product. Your example of an autism warning on vaccines is stating a claimed effect of what's in it. A better comparison would be to a vaccine simply stating what is in it, with no mention of autism or whatever.
It really gets under my skin when people like you argue that foods shouldn't state whether they contain GM ingredients, simply because you believe that GM ingredients are identical in all respects, and that no buyer could ever have a legitimate reason for wanting to know. Clearly, he is a nutcase who believes it will ruin his health. No way he might simply not want to support GM manufacturers, have some weird allergy to particular GM ingredients, or hell, want to only get foods made with GM ingredients.
Did you completely miss the globe-spanning hoax email with the cell phone egg-cooker? Look it up. Where radiation is concerned, there is NOTHING that people won't believe.
I know what you mean. Argh, getting bad Internet on my cellphone, let me put on a couple more of these antenna booster stickers. They really work, if you put enough of them on.
Scalpers exist because ticket sellers set their price too low. If the tickets were prices at what people were willing to pay, then there would be no room for a scalper to raise them. One service scalpers provide is the ability to get a ticket at the last minute.
You're joking, but it's true: "pirated" software competes with free software, which is why companies like Microsoft would rather you pirate their software than use someone else's software.
Oh, so this scheme will also limit discussion to people who have credit cards and feel safe giving the card number to the board operator. What was the problem we were trying to solve again?
you'll see a lot less flaming, trolling, and defacing. People I believe will be less quick to turn a discussion into an argument and more interested in understanding one another.
Yes, because trolls would never stoop to using fake "real" names.
Agreed fully. What gives you or me the right to increase the entropy of the Universe? All those before me who increased it didn't give me any say in whether and how much to increase it, but I have to live with the result.
Maybe you weren't aware that by law, every citizen must buy 10 pounds of the state rock a year, and rub them together while breathing in the dust that falls. Now you see why it's important that they change the state rock; lots of people have gotten sick due to the poor choice they made.
Even if all your cash is secured somewhere safe, it still gets stolen from when the Federal Reserve inflates the money supply, thereby lowering the value of each dollar.
BTW, Slashdot has an automatic signature feature, which gives you two benefits: you don't have to add it manually after each post, and those readers who aren't interested in the clutter of signtures can turn them off. When you add it manually, you annoy the latter group.
Here's to encoding version numbers into a form that looks like a decimal value, but is really just a series of distinct values separated by periods. Next up, how to encode the version in octal.
The fact that they lost interest after 30 minutes is interesting; it implies that something that takes as long as 30 minutes to get into their little fishy skulls told them that this wasn't the leader they sought.
This is not the leader you're looking for (waves fin)
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I'm merely pointing out that it's not emissions-free. Why claim so when it's not so? I was actually going to comment on the humans involved also using significant amounts of fuel, but I didn't want to go too far. I guess I still went too far in pointing out the truth of this emissions-free plane. Sorry for offending you. Next time I'll go along with the bandwagon, and claim that non-plug-in hybrid cars run on more than just gasoline.
Yeah, but it's not an actual lightsaber, which is what George Lucas patented and sells. Once you enable the blade, the difference is very clear; this laser can cause blidness, but a George Lucas's lightsaber can cut a man in half. He doesn't want buyers feeling cheated when they find out it's just a dinky laser, thinking the real lightsaber was just a hoax.
Or over the phone. If you get a call supposedly from your bank, say "thanks, I'll contact my bank and find out more." Or if you get mail supposedly from your bank, giving you a website to visit, go to your bank's website, not the URL listed, and see if they mention anything.
This plane is not emissions-free, since there were some in its manufacture, which must be divided over its lifetime, and then whatever emissions are involved in the disposal/recycling of the craft as well. Lower-emissions, sure, but not emissions-free.
I tried many things, but couldn't get Google calculator to recognize "hella" or spit it out. I give up, how do you do it?
No, it's not. Stating that something contains GMs isn't claiming anything about the health implications, just what the hell is IN the product. Your example of an autism warning on vaccines is stating a claimed effect of what's in it. A better comparison would be to a vaccine simply stating what is in it, with no mention of autism or whatever.
It really gets under my skin when people like you argue that foods shouldn't state whether they contain GM ingredients, simply because you believe that GM ingredients are identical in all respects, and that no buyer could ever have a legitimate reason for wanting to know. Clearly, he is a nutcase who believes it will ruin his health. No way he might simply not want to support GM manufacturers, have some weird allergy to particular GM ingredients, or hell, want to only get foods made with GM ingredients.
I think your evidence that anecdotal evidence is anecdotal is itself anecdotal.
I know what you mean. Argh, getting bad Internet on my cellphone, let me put on a couple more of these antenna booster stickers. They really work, if you put enough of them on.
Scalpers exist because ticket sellers set their price too low. If the tickets were prices at what people were willing to pay, then there would be no room for a scalper to raise them. One service scalpers provide is the ability to get a ticket at the last minute.
Seriously, a text file with one line per component. To find one, use your editor's find command.
Whoosh!
You're joking, but it's true: "pirated" software competes with free software, which is why companies like Microsoft would rather you pirate their software than use someone else's software.
Oh, so this scheme will also limit discussion to people who have credit cards and feel safe giving the card number to the board operator. What was the problem we were trying to solve again?
Yes, because trolls would never stoop to using fake "real" names.
Make an all-glass house and it'll be completely open-source. Your neighbors might find that they don't like fully open-source, though.
Agreed fully. What gives you or me the right to increase the entropy of the Universe? All those before me who increased it didn't give me any say in whether and how much to increase it, but I have to live with the result.
Amazing, I figured you just did it to get more eyeballs seeing your ad. I commend you.
Maybe you weren't aware that by law, every citizen must buy 10 pounds of the state rock a year, and rub them together while breathing in the dust that falls. Now you see why it's important that they change the state rock; lots of people have gotten sick due to the poor choice they made.
Even if all your cash is secured somewhere safe, it still gets stolen from when the Federal Reserve inflates the money supply, thereby lowering the value of each dollar.
BTW, Slashdot has an automatic signature feature, which gives you two benefits: you don't have to add it manually after each post, and those readers who aren't interested in the clutter of signtures can turn them off. When you add it manually, you annoy the latter group.
Here's to encoding version numbers into a form that looks like a decimal value, but is really just a series of distinct values separated by periods. Next up, how to encode the version in octal.
Just wait until a bunch of twits tweet about it, then it will be full of fowl.
Refined that for you.
This is not the leader you're looking for (waves fin)
Nice try, but Steve Jobs doesn't need any remote controls for his presentations. He has a special receiver that he communicates with via his RDF.