It's not that this is such a bad idea but I hear the tea party types and libertarians go on about this a lot. It would probably work out well in the end but there is going to be a multi-year period of chaos. States will secede, the union will break down, the legal system will break down, the wars will be forefit, troops may abandoned over there or mobilized against citizens, tens of thousands will die.
The tea party types I've heard aren't calling for an armed revolution, but more things like calling for a constitutional convention to reign in the power of the federal government. That's allowed under the current constitution without armed revolution, but it requires that We The People to get involved and make it happen.
Thank you Democrat Congress of 2007-2010. Thank you Republicans for cooperating.
Not to defend one party of the other, but from 08-10, Republicans might as well have stayed home. At least now we'll have some gridlock which is best for all of us.
14. Unchangeable desktop background with a big Windows logo.
15. All other customizable options locked and no control panel.
Windows Starter Edition on an Acer Aspire netbook.
Yes, you can hack the.bmp and change the desktop background, but Windows Genuine Advantage will detect the change and brick the computer. I wish I was making this up.
Fortunately Unbuntu 10.10 works just dandy and fixed all those problems.
At least your used motor oil is finding another last use as heat... Recycling is inefficient and costly last resort, marginally better than throwing it away, but not by a whole heckuva lot.
I certainly agree with plastic - reuse is much better than recycle. Engine oil is by far the easiest substance to recycle. Just run it back through the refinery and it comes out as clean motor oil again.
The oil is dirty because it's absorbed the nasties left over from gasoline combustion. I have to wonder if releasing all that into the atmosphere by burning is a bad thing. Of course, if they re-refine it, those impurities will come out somewhere else and have to be disposed of somehow. No free lunch.
But for now, the only other choice is to pour it out on the ground so I'll continue giving it to the landfill and they get free heat.
I like what Germany does (perhaps other European countries too) with drinks, slap a deposit on it and any place that sells it must take it back and refund said deposit.
Some U.S. states do this.
In Iowa, they have machines to reclaim aluminum cans which read the bar code to make sure the can originally sold with a deposit. If it can't read the bar code, it rejects the can and gives it back to you. At that point, you have to throw it in the trash bin next to the machine. There is no other way to recycle it.
Try Greece. I frequently get into arguments with shopkeepers who insist on putting my purchase in a plastic bag, no matter how hard I try to talk them out of it. Ugh.
12 rolls of toilet paper.
4 each plastic wrapped together.
3 sets of 4 in a larger plastic wrap.
Grocery store insists on stuffing the whole thing into another bag.
The ideal would be to reach a point where we don't need to dig-up any oil, and can just run our society on the accumulated plastics of the last ~100 years, plus solar power.
I think that recycling is bad for future generations.
After we've exhausted all the earth's natural resources, future generations will be able to mine the landfill for all the empty beer cans I've thrown out and forge them into new products. I am helping future generations by concentrating these materials in easily reclaimed locations.
Ah, but have you talked to the people who are actually doing your "recycling"?
I carefully collect my used engine oil and deposit it in the recycle tank at the county landfill. Only thing is, it's not recycled. They burn it for heat. Oh well, at least it doesn't end up in the ground water.
You know what's really cool. Being stuck in jail for weeks on end because they can't put a jury together because our society is full if irresponsible, narcissistic bastards who think jury duty is something someone else should do because of the minor inconvenience it represents.
Whether it's supposed to work this way or not, serving on a jury would be my one vacation for the year. I would consider this more than a minor inconvenience.
Weird thing is I am in my mid 30's and I've never been called for jury duty, ever.
Are you registered to vote? Courts frequently use voter rolls for potential jurors.
My county sends out a questionnaire to see if you're eligible. Returning it guarantees you'll be called. I round file it and they've never called me.
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My new LCD TV and cable box only output SPDIF and my amplifier and speakers are analog. I had to open the TV case, clip the internal speaker wires, and connect them to audio plugs. It works quite well.
So I could just plug a tape recorder into the speaker output. I have to wonder if the DRM would refuse to play HD content if it doesn't detect exactly the right impedance on the speaker out. Wouldn't be a surprise.
It's good to have a few sick days on the books but not too many.
This.
After almost a decade with the same company, I'd accrued 200 hours of saved vacation. Just in case. They switched to a PTO policy (no sick leave) and just wrote off all of my accrued sick leave.
Other employees laughed at me because they'd "managed their sick leave" and only lost a couple of hours. Silly me, being honest.
Deuteronomy was more a set of laws for the Israelites than anything else, when you get down to the parts about stoning the promiscuous and not eating pork. And yeah, the devout strict interpretation people seem to forget that God didn't write the bible, or the fact that it's been retranslated and revised countless times throughout history.
Check out The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs. He tries for a year to follow absolutely everything in the bible, no matter how small or obscure the detail. It's a good read, and really humorous if you've ever been preached to those people.
Okay, maybe I lost someone, since that has nothing to do with my quote.
John 14:2 Is Jesus talking about his father, God (assuming you believe that kind of thing). It could be interpreted that God's universe (house) has many inhabitable worlds (rooms).
I think that's cool because of all the closed minded bible thumpers who believe in a 6000 year old planet that is the center of a tiny universe. Nothing in the Bible says God didn't create a bunch of other planets too! (And it certainly doesn't say anything about HOW either.)
Stop arguing that life on earth is a special, special snowflake, created by a God who looks just like us? If a deity exists, clearly they are just as likely to be made of arsenic.
John 14:2 - In my father's house are many mansions
For running a BBS on an 8MHz PC/XT, DoubleDos was great.
No windows or GUI, but you'd get two functioning DOS environments. Even better, you could run a CGA adapter and a Monochrome adapter at the same time. Each would be like its own functioning computer. It was extremely simple and lightweight.
Desqview was cool, but with 640K ram, more than 2 programs at once was unrealistic so DoubleDos was still better.
Windows was a pig. I tried it once and threw it out. A windowed GUI was pointless at 640x200 black and white.
I have one of the affected models. I bought it used and it failed within months. Is there any remedy or am I SOL? It's probably not worth paying retail for a new MB that will likely fail as well.
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It's not that this is such a bad idea but I hear the tea party types and libertarians go on about this a lot. It would probably work out well in the end but there is going to be a multi-year period of chaos. States will secede, the union will break down, the legal system will break down, the wars will be forefit, troops may abandoned over there or mobilized against citizens, tens of thousands will die.
The tea party types I've heard aren't calling for an armed revolution, but more things like calling for a constitutional convention to reign in the power of the federal government. That's allowed under the current constitution without armed revolution, but it requires that We The People to get involved and make it happen.
Thank you Democrat Congress of 2007-2010. Thank you Republicans for cooperating.
Not to defend one party of the other, but from 08-10, Republicans might as well have stayed home. At least now we'll have some gridlock which is best for all of us.
14. Unchangeable desktop background with a big Windows logo.
.bmp and change the desktop background, but Windows Genuine Advantage will detect the change and brick the computer. I wish I was making this up.
15. All other customizable options locked and no control panel.
Windows Starter Edition on an Acer Aspire netbook.
Yes, you can hack the
Fortunately Unbuntu 10.10 works just dandy and fixed all those problems.
At least your used motor oil is finding another last use as heat ... Recycling is inefficient and costly last resort, marginally better than throwing it away, but not by a whole heckuva lot.
I certainly agree with plastic - reuse is much better than recycle. Engine oil is by far the easiest substance to recycle. Just run it back through the refinery and it comes out as clean motor oil again.
The oil is dirty because it's absorbed the nasties left over from gasoline combustion. I have to wonder if releasing all that into the atmosphere by burning is a bad thing. Of course, if they re-refine it, those impurities will come out somewhere else and have to be disposed of somehow. No free lunch.
But for now, the only other choice is to pour it out on the ground so I'll continue giving it to the landfill and they get free heat.
I like what Germany does (perhaps other European countries too) with drinks, slap a deposit on it and any place that sells it must take it back and refund said deposit.
Some U.S. states do this.
In Iowa, they have machines to reclaim aluminum cans which read the bar code to make sure the can originally sold with a deposit. If it can't read the bar code, it rejects the can and gives it back to you. At that point, you have to throw it in the trash bin next to the machine. There is no other way to recycle it.
Try Greece. I frequently get into arguments with shopkeepers who insist on putting my purchase in a plastic bag, no matter how hard I try to talk them out of it. Ugh.
12 rolls of toilet paper.
4 each plastic wrapped together.
3 sets of 4 in a larger plastic wrap.
Grocery store insists on stuffing the whole thing into another bag.
That's three layers of plastic. For toilet paper.
The ideal would be to reach a point where we don't need to dig-up any oil, and can just run our society on the accumulated plastics of the last ~100 years, plus solar power.
I think that recycling is bad for future generations.
After we've exhausted all the earth's natural resources, future generations will be able to mine the landfill for all the empty beer cans I've thrown out and forge them into new products. I am helping future generations by concentrating these materials in easily reclaimed locations.
Ah, but have you talked to the people who are actually doing your "recycling"?
I carefully collect my used engine oil and deposit it in the recycle tank at the county landfill. Only thing is, it's not recycled. They burn it for heat. Oh well, at least it doesn't end up in the ground water.
I don't want millions of different angles and machine gun edits (lots of edits per second).
After 5 minutes of Transformers 2, I had to turn it off. I've never had a seizure before, but a few more minutes of that would have given me one.
I think that's the whole point. In 2016, President Pelosi can step in and privatize the entire health care industry.
Err..
I meant "socialize" the industry. My tinfoil hat was on crooked.
Otherwise, people would just stay uninsured until they got sick, and the whole health insurance industry would collapse.
I think that's the whole point. In 2016, President Pelosi can step in and privatize the entire health care industry.
...lobbyists could grease the right skids and get virtually ANY product to be mandatory to purchase...
Like Brawndo, The Thirst Mutilator
It's got Electrolytes.
You know what's really cool. Being stuck in jail for weeks on end because they can't put a jury together because our society is full if irresponsible, narcissistic bastards who think jury duty is something someone else should do because of the minor inconvenience it represents.
Whether it's supposed to work this way or not, serving on a jury would be my one vacation for the year. I would consider this more than a minor inconvenience.
Trials are expensive and the schedules are always packed. The trial may have to be delayed because you can't be troubled to show up.
What goes on in my office is expensive and the schedule is always packed. The work may have to be delayed because I'd have to show up somewhere else.
Weird thing is I am in my mid 30's and I've never been called for jury duty, ever.
Are you registered to vote? Courts frequently use voter rolls for potential jurors.
My county sends out a questionnaire to see if you're eligible. Returning it guarantees you'll be called. I round file it and they've never called me.
My new LCD TV and cable box only output SPDIF and my amplifier and speakers are analog. I had to open the TV case, clip the internal speaker wires, and connect them to audio plugs. It works quite well.
So I could just plug a tape recorder into the speaker output. I have to wonder if the DRM would refuse to play HD content if it doesn't detect exactly the right impedance on the speaker out. Wouldn't be a surprise.
It's good to have a few sick days on the books but not too many.
This.
After almost a decade with the same company, I'd accrued 200 hours of saved vacation. Just in case. They switched to a PTO policy (no sick leave) and just wrote off all of my accrued sick leave.
Other employees laughed at me because they'd "managed their sick leave" and only lost a couple of hours. Silly me, being honest.
I did mention that when I finally quit.
Ignoring whether or not you are in favor of this (I kind of like it myself)...
The U.S. Congress does not have the right to regulate the audio volume of your television.
Deuteronomy was more a set of laws for the Israelites than anything else, when you get down to the parts about stoning the promiscuous and not eating pork. And yeah, the devout strict interpretation people seem to forget that God didn't write the bible, or the fact that it's been retranslated and revised countless times throughout history.
Check out The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs. He tries for a year to follow absolutely everything in the bible, no matter how small or obscure the detail. It's a good read, and really humorous if you've ever been preached to those people.
Okay, maybe I lost someone, since that has nothing to do with my quote.
John 14:2 Is Jesus talking about his father, God (assuming you believe that kind of thing). It could be interpreted that God's universe (house) has many inhabitable worlds (rooms).
I think that's cool because of all the closed minded bible thumpers who believe in a 6000 year old planet that is the center of a tiny universe. Nothing in the Bible says God didn't create a bunch of other planets too! (And it certainly doesn't say anything about HOW either.)
Stop arguing that life on earth is a special, special snowflake, created by a God who looks just like us? If a deity exists, clearly they are just as likely to be made of arsenic.
John 14:2 - In my father's house are many mansions
I always write "DO NOT FOLD" on the side of large boxes. Hasn't happened yet!
For running a BBS on an 8MHz PC/XT, DoubleDos was great.
No windows or GUI, but you'd get two functioning DOS environments. Even better, you could run a CGA adapter and a Monochrome adapter at the same time. Each would be like its own functioning computer. It was extremely simple and lightweight.
Desqview was cool, but with 640K ram, more than 2 programs at once was unrealistic so DoubleDos was still better.
Windows was a pig. I tried it once and threw it out. A windowed GUI was pointless at 640x200 black and white.
I have one of the affected models. I bought it used and it failed within months. Is there any remedy or am I SOL? It's probably not worth paying retail for a new MB that will likely fail as well.