As for driving in the city, car ownership in the city is a hassle, so typically people won't own a car. We're not talking people who own one and don't use it in favor of taking the cab.
"The narcissism extends to the animal kingdom, too. Her farm is colour-coded: buildings are grey; animals are black. But her black Friesian draft horses have an annoying habit of becoming more colourful in the sun.
"Last summer, they got really red, and I didn't like that. So they go out and run around in the fields at night and stay out of the sun in the day."
New York might also reduce car pollution by loosening the rules for running a taxi, in order to reduce the need for private cars.
How the hell does that make any sense? NYC is not hurting for cabs whatsoever... go stand on any street and you can see hundreds of them. Why would allowing for MORE taxis reduce the number of cars, OR the amount of pollution? If any Tom, Dick, or Harry could drive his SUV around as a Taxi, we'd all be WORSE off as far as pollution is concerned.
I'm not sure why either of you are bashing the parent. Everything they've said is correct, despite the pointless bold lettering. I'm sick and tired of people saying that "well, if you can't ban it everywhere, why ban it anywhere?" It is obvious that switching thousands of cars to hybrid is a good idea for those in the city.
Again, the cargo space in a Prius is just fine (my dad owns one), and the legroom is reasonable. For me, the reason I'm taking a cab is to get somewhere reasonably quickly (ie. avoid train transfers, etc.), travel with something heavy, or travel after there is no acceptable mass transit. Who is it that is hemming and hawing about legroom, exactly?
I think it would be really sad to see the city held up by such a bullshit reason as legroom when the air quality and efficiency are much more important. I'm also disappointed in the Ford Escape idea. The mileage on many of the hybrid redesigns (especially the SUV's) is shitty. The Escape is rated 36/31, while the regular 4 cyl is 22/25. The Prius is rated at 60/65.
Actually, even sadder is the Accord to the Accord Hybrid. 24/34 and 29/37, respectively. Give me a break. It'd be nice to see this technology and initiatives like this used the way they were intended to be, not to provide "more power" with the same shitty gas mileage, or to give people feel-good "I'm saving the environment" hardons when they're really just paying more for the same old.
There is plenty of room in a Prius, for luggage and for one's legs. Most of the Crown Victoria cabs have a partition that eats into legroom anyway. I don't see a problem here.
...but it seems like everyone's spending time ripping on the stupidity of the story. Hey, that's all well and good, but what about how FUCKING STUPID the protection and embargoes and all of that are? The book is going to make a lot of money, just like all of the others, and frankly, fuck if I know that the book got to one store 15 mins earlier than the other -- what difference does this really make to the publisher? Are they that greedy that losing a couple hundred bucks worries them?
Secondly, this is Slashdot -- I know someone here stood in one of those Star Wars movie lines at one point or another. Why? I had the opportunity to see it at midnight the day before it came out, as a friend of an employee at the theatre, but I had work the next day. Why does everyone have to be first at everything?
I'd expect it to taste roughly similar to most of these sweet coffee drinks. Don't forget, these things really aren't about coffee anyway... too much sugar, etc., in them.
Japan has solved this problem a different way -- keeping the cans warm. When I was over there a month or two ago, I found that you could get a can of hot coffee almost anywhere -- even ancient temple grounds -- out of a nearby vending machine.
I subscribe to Consumer Reports, which has reviewed them in the 08/05 issue. They apparently go for $9 per four pack. Not TOO much more than current cold coffee drinks, but I think those are more than 10oz, right? I know I usually drink a 16 in the morning.
A catch, they said, is that you have to store them at room temperature. On a cold day, apparently, they won't get as hot (108 was all that they could get after putting it in the fridge).
I dunno where you are from, but at least in the NY area I've seen a number of Wolfgang Puck cold coffee drinks, akin to the Starbucks variety. They've become pretty common over here, and I think I've seen them in NY Penn Station among other places.
Anyone noticed that since we keep crying dupe, he's been very careful to point out when things are not dupes (eg. "as covered on Slashdot"). Not that he's been any more careful not to ACTUALLY post dupes.;)
It's honestly no wonder you don't have any mod points.
You are dehumanizing PEOPLE and saying that "you have to take them out." You don't seem to care at all what might be the rationale, or what could be done to prevent this OTHER than continuing to kill people. You could at LEAST look at alternatives before saying "it's the only way."
The "mindset of the left" phrasing is rhetoric that is designed to make people angry -- I see through it and it's not going to work. You cannot separate people into two groups.
That aside, I'm sorry, but you can't just say "well, he was a bad guy, we had to do it regardless of the reason" after all of the lying and deception that this administration is guilty with. THAT is what everyone is really pissed off at. Everyone who is looking at this clusterfuck with their eyes open knows damn well that Bush didn't give a shit about the people of Iraq, but used that as his second or third reason that this "had to be done." THAT is what is evil.
PS: Kuwait was slant-drilling into Iraqi oilfields. Iraq told the US, warned that they were going to invade. We said "meh, whatever."
On July 16, a meeting of OPEC ("Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries") in Geneva ended with Iraq once more threatening military force against Kuwait for exceeding production quotas and for violating the agreement on drilling rights in the Rumaila oil field, a banana shaped area spanning both sides of the common border. Iraq charged Kuwait with cheating: taking more than its fair share of the oil in the field by using slant drilling techniques. Iraq further complained that Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates had refused to cancel Iraq's debts from its war with Iran.
The next day, July 17, Saddam threatened to use force against any Arab oil exporters who refused to abide by their production quotas. The day after this threat, July 18, Saddam massed 30,000 Iraqi troops on his border with Kuwait. The U.S. Senate voted sanctions against Iraq.
On July 25, Egypt reported that Saddam was willing to settle his differences with Kuwait peacefully. The same day, Saddam was told by U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, in a meeting in Baghdad that the United States had "no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait."
Slashdot Mirror
I told my roommate "click on this instead of Internet Explorer or what I just finished cleaning up will happen again. NEVER open ie for anything."
That did the trick for me.
How many people who read regularly actually read Harry Potter books? I'm guessing not many.
For everyone's information (not sure why I didn't do this earlier):
...we're NOT talking about much here either.
o ria/compare/ m pare/
Crown Victoria Rear Legroom: 39.6
Toyota Prius Rear Legroom: 38.6
http://www.automotive.com/2005/12/ford/crown-vict
http://www.automotive.com/2005/12/toyota/prius/co
As for driving in the city, car ownership in the city is a hassle, so typically people won't own a car. We're not talking people who own one and don't use it in favor of taking the cab.
My figures were both for the 2WD.
4WD are a little worse.
Insightful? WTF?
Reminds me of Martha Stewart:
r ts/2005/07/07/ftmartha07.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/07/ 07/ixartright.html
"The narcissism extends to the animal kingdom, too. Her farm is colour-coded: buildings are grey; animals are black. But her black Friesian draft horses have an annoying habit of becoming more colourful in the sun.
"Last summer, they got really red, and I didn't like that. So they go out and run around in the fields at night and stay out of the sun in the day."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/a
New York might also reduce car pollution by loosening the rules for running a taxi, in order to reduce the need for private cars.
How the hell does that make any sense? NYC is not hurting for cabs whatsoever... go stand on any street and you can see hundreds of them. Why would allowing for MORE taxis reduce the number of cars, OR the amount of pollution? If any Tom, Dick, or Harry could drive his SUV around as a Taxi, we'd all be WORSE off as far as pollution is concerned.
And its mileage is not much better than a 4 cyl.
I'm not sure why either of you are bashing the parent. Everything they've said is correct, despite the pointless bold lettering. I'm sick and tired of people saying that "well, if you can't ban it everywhere, why ban it anywhere?" It is obvious that switching thousands of cars to hybrid is a good idea for those in the city.
Again, the cargo space in a Prius is just fine (my dad owns one), and the legroom is reasonable. For me, the reason I'm taking a cab is to get somewhere reasonably quickly (ie. avoid train transfers, etc.), travel with something heavy, or travel after there is no acceptable mass transit. Who is it that is hemming and hawing about legroom, exactly?
I think it would be really sad to see the city held up by such a bullshit reason as legroom when the air quality and efficiency are much more important. I'm also disappointed in the Ford Escape idea. The mileage on many of the hybrid redesigns (especially the SUV's) is shitty. The Escape is rated 36/31, while the regular 4 cyl is 22/25. The Prius is rated at 60/65.
Actually, even sadder is the Accord to the Accord Hybrid. 24/34 and 29/37, respectively. Give me a break. It'd be nice to see this technology and initiatives like this used the way they were intended to be, not to provide "more power" with the same shitty gas mileage, or to give people feel-good "I'm saving the environment" hardons when they're really just paying more for the same old.
There is plenty of room in a Prius, for luggage and for one's legs. Most of the Crown Victoria cabs have a partition that eats into legroom anyway. I don't see a problem here.
Nice work. Fell for the flamebait and insulted a bunch of people who weren't involved in the discussion to begin with.
...but it seems like everyone's spending time ripping on the stupidity of the story. Hey, that's all well and good, but what about how FUCKING STUPID the protection and embargoes and all of that are? The book is going to make a lot of money, just like all of the others, and frankly, fuck if I know that the book got to one store 15 mins earlier than the other -- what difference does this really make to the publisher? Are they that greedy that losing a couple hundred bucks worries them?
Secondly, this is Slashdot -- I know someone here stood in one of those Star Wars movie lines at one point or another. Why? I had the opportunity to see it at midnight the day before it came out, as a friend of an employee at the theatre, but I had work the next day. Why does everyone have to be first at everything?
I'd expect it to taste roughly similar to most of these sweet coffee drinks. Don't forget, these things really aren't about coffee anyway... too much sugar, etc., in them.
Japan has solved this problem a different way -- keeping the cans warm. When I was over there a month or two ago, I found that you could get a can of hot coffee almost anywhere -- even ancient temple grounds -- out of a nearby vending machine.
"Santori BOSS is boss of them all since 1992."
I subscribe to Consumer Reports, which has reviewed them in the 08/05 issue. They apparently go for $9 per four pack. Not TOO much more than current cold coffee drinks, but I think those are more than 10oz, right? I know I usually drink a 16 in the morning.
A catch, they said, is that you have to store them at room temperature. On a cold day, apparently, they won't get as hot (108 was all that they could get after putting it in the fridge).
I dunno where you are from, but at least in the NY area I've seen a number of Wolfgang Puck cold coffee drinks, akin to the Starbucks variety. They've become pretty common over here, and I think I've seen them in NY Penn Station among other places.
You screwed up there -- the trailing slash breaks the link. The proper link is:
http://einsteinsbreakfast.com/officegames.html
Anyone noticed that since we keep crying dupe, he's been very careful to point out when things are not dupes (eg. "as covered on Slashdot"). Not that he's been any more careful not to ACTUALLY post dupes. ;)
We actually get some hot girls in our IT department occasionally. And apparently, you can find them online. Look at this promotion I got in my e-mail:
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 06:39:35 -0700
From: Chlorinated B. Due
To: Ryanov
Subject: Do IT with woman 8-)
www.urfnyvu0g5u2yvc.defeasemc.com
This is actually NOT a dupe. It was due to be released, and now has been. Is that why the sympathy?
Yeah? How do you know?
You don't know what you are talking about, and just wish to react to the symptoms of the problem, not to solve it.
It's honestly no wonder you don't have any mod points.
You are dehumanizing PEOPLE and saying that "you have to take them out." You don't seem to care at all what might be the rationale, or what could be done to prevent this OTHER than continuing to kill people. You could at LEAST look at alternatives before saying "it's the only way."
That aside, I'm sorry, but you can't just say "well, he was a bad guy, we had to do it regardless of the reason" after all of the lying and deception that this administration is guilty with. THAT is what everyone is really pissed off at. Everyone who is looking at this clusterfuck with their eyes open knows damn well that Bush didn't give a shit about the people of Iraq, but used that as his second or third reason that this "had to be done." THAT is what is evil.
PS: Kuwait was slant-drilling into Iraqi oilfields. Iraq told the US, warned that they were going to invade. We said "meh, whatever." On July 16, a meeting of OPEC ("Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries") in Geneva ended with Iraq once more threatening military force against Kuwait for exceeding production quotas and for violating the agreement on drilling rights in the Rumaila oil field, a banana shaped area spanning both sides of the common border. Iraq charged Kuwait with cheating: taking more than its fair share of the oil in the field by using slant drilling techniques. Iraq further complained that Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates had refused to cancel Iraq's debts from its war with Iran.
The next day, July 17, Saddam threatened to use force against any Arab oil exporters who refused to abide by their production quotas. The day after this threat, July 18, Saddam massed 30,000 Iraqi troops on his border with Kuwait. The U.S. Senate voted sanctions against Iraq.
On July 25, Egypt reported that Saddam was willing to settle his differences with Kuwait peacefully. The same day, Saddam was told by U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, in a meeting in Baghdad that the United States had "no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait."
http://www.nmhschool.org/tthornton/mehistorydataba se/gulf_war.htm . d _States_(1988-present)
Some more of that in here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Unite