Ditto. Apple lost my loyalty when they stopped using the superior Motorola 68000/powerpc and switched to Intel. That's almost as bad as if they decided to switch to Windows OS, or install MS-IE as their default browser.
When the cop pulls you over, and decides to take your phone for further examination, and discovers you've been attending (the horror) Libertarian and Ron Paul "Campaign For Liberty" meetings. Followed by a radio call that he's obtained a "suspected terrorist" and is bringing the suspect back to the station for questioning.
* *Background: The U.S. and a few State governments distribute leaflets that Libertarian and Paul supporters are potential domestic terrorists and/or militia members.
I've got one of those (rebranded as a sears model). Used it off-and-on for 25 years until I upgraded to a cheap laser printer in 2010. Very reliable and easy to setup.
I "visited" Cherynobyl via scifi.com's video site. The show was called Destination Truth, and they were filming the area around the nuclear plant and nearby town.
That's as close as I plan to get to a meltdown site, although I did recently receive a job offer to go to Tokyo for a few months (is $65/hour enough money to move within 60 miles of Fukushima? Hmmm).
>>>Can you still read those files you saved to casette tape?
1541 disk actually. And yes I can still read them since anything of importance (i.e. my resume) was long-ago transferred to 3.5" floppy, then CD-R, and now yahoo and google mail caches.
I stopped using mine once I installed GEOSwrite on my Commodore. Sometime around 1986? Being able to use dozens of different fonts (or sizes) is a major advantage over my old typewriter with its fixed PICA size. It just took a little while for the rest of the world to catch up.
I recently heard that studies show exposure to LOW level radiation makes the body's immune system more resistant. i.e. Someone downwind of Chernobyl would be less likely to develop cancer. I wonder if there's any truth to this idea? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17867496
There was a time when people refused smallpox vaccinations, believing it to be stupid to inject a disease into the bloodstream, but it later proved to be beneficial.
Part of the Lubuntu distribution, which works great on netbooks or laptops with minimum RAM (128 meg) or processor speed (1000 MHz). In June 2010 Jim Lynch reviewed Lubuntu 10.04, saying, "One thing youâ(TM)ll notice about using the Lubuntu desktop is that itâ(TM)s fast. Very, very fast. Even on an underpowered machine, Lubuntu should perform very well. Itâ(TM)s one of the best things about this distro; it leaves behind the bloated eye candy that can sometimes bog down GNOME and KDE..
>>>Bury the whole damn thing in concrete, and be done with it. This crisis would have been resolved two weeks ago if TEPCO wasn't more interested in repairing
This is a dumbass comment. Just as dumb as when you posted it two weeks ago. - The melted nuclear fuel will react with the concrete and emit noxious gases that could kill thousands. And even if it hasn't melted yet, it will continue to grow hotter inside the concrete until it does. Then there's potential for leakage out the bottom, and into the underground water.
>>>the manufacture and end-of-life recycling and disposal will tend to be released into the atmosphere in comparatively sparsely populated areas
This statement is flat wrong. Car factories and recycling factories are typically located near where workers live - i.e. cities. - Also it's not as if pollution just stays in one spot. In my area most of the pollution is not from local drivers, but from the non-regulated Midwest as it drifts northeastward.
Even if everybody stopped driving in my state, we'd still have an air quality problem because of that. California has a similar problem with air pollution drifting in from non-regulated Asia (mostly India and China).
>>>Ever try to buy a 3rd party phone back in the day without paying an extra monthly fee for the privilege of hooking it up
And modems: Bell/AT&T kept modems at a slow 1200 baud from the 1950s to the 1980s. Innovation was "stifled". You were not allowed to use any other kind of other manufacturers, but as soon as the Government ordered them to standardize & allow third-party phones/modems, the speed skyrocketed from 1200 to 33,000 in ten years time.
Per inflation, if the AT&T monopoly still existed, the cost of long distance calling would have risen from 50 cents to 120 cents/minute. Or maybe held steady. Instead the government forced competition (Sprint, MCI, etc), and the price rapidly dropped to 5 cents per minute.
>>>major religions are soooo fucking endangered with the current ruling classes of the world.
When several courts order parents, on several occassions across multiple states, to pull their children out of homeschool or religious school & send them to a non-religious government school, then YES I'd say religions/religious practice is being endangered. Freedom of choice means freedom of choice for ALL, even those we consider "bible thumpers".
But the Liberals-Democrats-Progressive Republidicks would have you believe freedom of choice only applies for homosexuals and abortionists, but not the Christians or Jews or Muslims or Buddhists. Clearly they are wrong-headed.
>>Do you have a good public transportation system in your city? I commute in 30 minutes using my city's metro
No Fredericksburg-to-DC service sucks. It takes 90 minutes by train (from leaving my house to clocking-in at work), versus 40 minutes by car. I wouldn't save any time.
>>>[Emissions inspections] are irrelevant if even a new - and therefore 'clean' - car pollutes too much.
The cleanest cars on the road, SULEVs, are actually cleaner than the ambient air. That's because the catalytic converter neutralizes CO and NOx as the exhaust passes through it, emitting air that is cleaner to breath than the actual atmosphere.
Of course one thing CCs don't clean is soot. Ford and others have developed another chamber to capture-and-destroy that as well.
"Oh yes, I was doing something at that time which would explain that spike in emails/usage."
- "What were you doing sir?"
- "None of your business."
- "Sorry sir but I cannot reactivate your account until you tell me what you were doing, because we're concerned about your safety, and protecting the net from virus attacks."
- "It's personal."
- "Then I cannot..."
- "Okay fine I was bittorrenting some TV shows."
- "That is illegal under our TOS, which forbids running an uploading server or program. I'm sorry but we must keep you suspended indefinitely until management reviews your case."
>>>Since it's only accessible to the person who bought the music
Go back and read the quote from Sony. They say you are LICENSED to hear the music, and if that license doesn't give you permission to store it online, then you can't do it. QED online storage will be sued, and shutdown as an infringing format that violates that copy monopoly/license.
That's 14.99 too expensive. I store my music on my hard drives (times two) for free. And I can access it anywhere, even at work, which blocks streaming music from Zune.
>>>suspicious behavior (...sudden, prolonged increase in amount of traffic)
Like downloading youtube videos? Running Utorrent to grab missed episodes of Supernatural? And you think the ISP should suspend the user if there's no answer???
I'd sooner boycott the city and find a job in the suburbs, than have to waste several hours each day trying to transition from my "regular" car to a train or bike. Time is finite (~80 years for each of us) but alternative options are not. I'd choose a suburb job just to avoid the hassle.
Of course in China they won't have any of these "only green cars in the city" restrictions, so I bet a lot of companies will just pack-up shop and move over there. To avoid the hassle.
The way the US is handling this actually makes more sense. The emissions requirements apply to an AREA (i.e. a state), not a small bit like a city, and everyone within that area must have an emissions inspection every 1-5 years. If you're "clean" then you can drive your car anywhere you wish, but if you are dirty, the car gets yanked off the road until it's repaired or junked.
>>>they just set efficiency standards high enough that no incandescent can achieve them.
And the unfortunate side effect is that the Production, Transportation (across 10,000 miles from china), and Disposal (you have to drive to the recycle center) of compact fluorescents is now *more* damaging to the environment than the old incandescent bulb.
As for meeting efficiency standards, GE has developed incandescent bulbs that use 1/2 as much energy, but they discontinued them since the EU and US governments refused to give them a waver.
As for Petrol/Diesel cars: Multiple studies such as GREET have shown that a petrol-electric or diesel-electric hybrid produces less CO2 from oil well to landfill, than an EV. In fact the #1 cleanest cars ranked by ACEEE.org were not the EV1 or RAV4-EV (no cleaner than a prius). The #1 cleanest cars* were the 80MPG Honda Insight and the CNG Civic. As someone up above said, we should be thinking *rationally* rather than jumping to false conclusions that EVs are magically "perfect". They have their own problems: Like disposal of the poisonous batteries, limited range of only ~300 miles, and so on.
* *The 90MPG Lupo 3L would probably be there too, if it had been sold in the U.S.
>>>it's past the digital-to-analog converter and so is - wait for it - analog. So anything that made a difference in "the world of analog" should still make a difference in digital. >>>
Not really. In the analog world, people were mostly worried about loss between components (i.e. record to tape player) (or player to amplifier). In the digital world, interconnection loss becomes a non issue.
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>>>about 8Kb in size
8 kilobit? Hardly. 64 kilobytes * 8 == 512 Kb available memory for GEOS files. ~4000 kilobit if you had the ram expansion unit.
>>>I've a special place in my heart for 'em.
Ditto. Apple lost my loyalty when they stopped using the superior Motorola 68000/powerpc and switched to Intel. That's almost as bad as if they decided to switch to Windows OS, or install MS-IE as their default browser.
>>>its your phone so where is the problem.
When the cop pulls you over, and decides to take your phone for further examination, and discovers you've been attending (the horror) Libertarian and Ron Paul "Campaign For Liberty" meetings. Followed by a radio call that he's obtained a "suspected terrorist" and is bringing the suspect back to the station for questioning.
*
*Background: The U.S. and a few State governments distribute leaflets that Libertarian and Paul supporters are potential domestic terrorists and/or militia members.
>>>Okidata Dot Matrix (9 pin) printer
I've got one of those (rebranded as a sears model). Used it off-and-on for 25 years until I upgraded to a cheap laser printer in 2010. Very reliable and easy to setup.
I "visited" Cherynobyl via scifi.com's video site. The show was called Destination Truth, and they were filming the area around the nuclear plant and nearby town.
That's as close as I plan to get to a meltdown site, although I did recently receive a job offer to go to Tokyo for a few months (is $65/hour enough money to move within 60 miles of Fukushima? Hmmm).
>>>Can you still read those files you saved to casette tape?
1541 disk actually.
And yes I can still read them since anything of importance (i.e. my resume) was long-ago transferred to 3.5" floppy, then CD-R, and now yahoo and google mail caches.
I stopped using mine once I installed GEOSwrite on my Commodore. Sometime around 1986? Being able to use dozens of different fonts (or sizes) is a major advantage over my old typewriter with its fixed PICA size. It just took a little while for the rest of the world to catch up.
I recently heard that studies show exposure to LOW level radiation makes the body's immune system more resistant. i.e. Someone downwind of Chernobyl would be less likely to develop cancer. I wonder if there's any truth to this idea? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17867496
There was a time when people refused smallpox vaccinations, believing it to be stupid to inject a disease into the bloodstream, but it later proved to be beneficial.
Part of the Lubuntu distribution, which works great on netbooks or laptops with minimum RAM (128 meg) or processor speed (1000 MHz). In June 2010 Jim Lynch reviewed Lubuntu 10.04, saying, "One thing youâ(TM)ll notice about using the Lubuntu desktop is that itâ(TM)s fast. Very, very fast. Even on an underpowered machine, Lubuntu should perform very well. Itâ(TM)s one of the best things about this distro; it leaves behind the bloated eye candy that can sometimes bog down GNOME and KDE..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXDE
The censorship in Egypt proved him wrong. They shutdown the internet to local citizens completely, just by telling the ISPs to go offline.
>>>Bury the whole damn thing in concrete, and be done with it. This crisis would have been resolved two weeks ago if TEPCO wasn't more interested in repairing
This is a dumbass comment.
Just as dumb as when you posted it two weeks ago.
- The melted nuclear fuel will react with the concrete and emit noxious gases that could kill thousands. And even if it hasn't melted yet, it will continue to grow hotter inside the concrete until it does. Then there's potential for leakage out the bottom, and into the underground water.
>>>the manufacture and end-of-life recycling and disposal will tend to be released into the atmosphere in comparatively sparsely populated areas
This statement is flat wrong. Car factories and recycling factories are typically located near where workers live - i.e. cities. - Also it's not as if pollution just stays in one spot. In my area most of the pollution is not from local drivers, but from the non-regulated Midwest as it drifts northeastward.
Even if everybody stopped driving in my state, we'd still have an air quality problem because of that. California has a similar problem with air pollution drifting in from non-regulated Asia (mostly India and China).
>>>Ever try to buy a 3rd party phone back in the day without paying an extra monthly fee for the privilege of hooking it up
And modems:
Bell/AT&T kept modems at a slow 1200 baud from the 1950s to the 1980s. Innovation was "stifled". You were not allowed to use any other kind of other manufacturers, but as soon as the Government ordered them to standardize & allow third-party phones/modems, the speed skyrocketed from 1200 to 33,000 in ten years time.
Per inflation, if the AT&T monopoly still existed, the cost of long distance calling would have risen from 50 cents to 120 cents/minute. Or maybe held steady. Instead the government forced competition (Sprint, MCI, etc), and the price rapidly dropped to 5 cents per minute.
>>>major religions are soooo fucking endangered with the current ruling classes of the world.
When several courts order parents, on several occassions across multiple states, to pull their children out of homeschool or religious school & send them to a non-religious government school, then YES I'd say religions/religious practice is being endangered. Freedom of choice means freedom of choice for ALL, even those we consider "bible thumpers".
But the Liberals-Democrats-Progressive Republidicks would have you believe freedom of choice only applies for homosexuals and abortionists, but not the Christians or Jews or Muslims or Buddhists. Clearly they are wrong-headed.
>>>It was not possible to get drunk on normal Jewish wine
Abraham got drunk.
He slept with his daughters.
So I guess it IS possible to be inebriated on Biblical jewish wine.
>>Do you have a good public transportation system in your city? I commute in 30 minutes using my city's metro
No Fredericksburg-to-DC service sucks. It takes 90 minutes by train (from leaving my house to clocking-in at work), versus 40 minutes by car. I wouldn't save any time.
>>>[Emissions inspections] are irrelevant if even a new - and therefore 'clean' - car pollutes too much.
The cleanest cars on the road, SULEVs, are actually cleaner than the ambient air. That's because the catalytic converter neutralizes CO and NOx as the exhaust passes through it, emitting air that is cleaner to breath than the actual atmosphere.
Of course one thing CCs don't clean is soot. Ford and others have developed another chamber to capture-and-destroy that as well.
"Oh yes, I was doing something at that time which would explain that spike in emails/usage."
- "What were you doing sir?"
- "None of your business."
- "Sorry sir but I cannot reactivate your account until you tell me what you were doing, because we're concerned about your safety, and protecting the net from virus attacks."
- "It's personal."
- "Then I cannot..."
- "Okay fine I was bittorrenting some TV shows."
- "That is illegal under our TOS, which forbids running an uploading server or program. I'm sorry but we must keep you suspended indefinitely until management reviews your case."
It's already happened to some Comcast users.
>>>Since it's only accessible to the person who bought the music
Go back and read the quote from Sony. They say you are LICENSED to hear the music, and if that license doesn't give you permission to store it online, then you can't do it. QED online storage will be sued, and shutdown as an infringing format that violates that copy monopoly/license.
>>>Zune Pass...14.99 a month. A nice deal, huh?
That's 14.99 too expensive. I store my music on my hard drives (times two) for free. And I can access it anywhere, even at work, which blocks streaming music from Zune.
>>>suspicious behavior (...sudden, prolonged increase in amount of traffic)
Like downloading youtube videos?
Running Utorrent to grab missed episodes of Supernatural?
And you think the ISP should suspend the user if there's no answer???
Judas Priest - stop giving them ideas!
I'd sooner boycott the city and find a job in the suburbs, than have to waste several hours each day trying to transition from my "regular" car to a train or bike. Time is finite (~80 years for each of us) but alternative options are not. I'd choose a suburb job just to avoid the hassle.
Of course in China they won't have any of these "only green cars in the city" restrictions, so I bet a lot of companies will just pack-up shop and move over there. To avoid the hassle.
The way the US is handling this actually makes more sense. The emissions requirements apply to an AREA (i.e. a state), not a small bit like a city, and everyone within that area must have an emissions inspection every 1-5 years. If you're "clean" then you can drive your car anywhere you wish, but if you are dirty, the car gets yanked off the road until it's repaired or junked.
>>>they just set efficiency standards high enough that no incandescent can achieve them.
And the unfortunate side effect is that the Production, Transportation (across 10,000 miles from china), and Disposal (you have to drive to the recycle center) of compact fluorescents is now *more* damaging to the environment than the old incandescent bulb.
As for meeting efficiency standards, GE has developed incandescent bulbs that use 1/2 as much energy, but they discontinued them since the EU and US governments refused to give them a waver.
As for Petrol/Diesel cars:
Multiple studies such as GREET have shown that a petrol-electric or diesel-electric hybrid produces less CO2 from oil well to landfill, than an EV. In fact the #1 cleanest cars ranked by ACEEE.org were not the EV1 or RAV4-EV (no cleaner than a prius). The #1 cleanest cars* were the 80MPG Honda Insight and the CNG Civic. As someone up above said, we should be thinking *rationally* rather than jumping to false conclusions that EVs are magically "perfect". They have their own problems: Like disposal of the poisonous batteries, limited range of only ~300 miles, and so on.
*
*The 90MPG Lupo 3L would probably be there too, if it had been sold in the U.S.
"After you secure your network Mr. ISP, remember to filter out these websites." (hands over blacklist including playboy.com, domai.com, etc)
>>>Nintendo is much less evil than either Sony or Microsoft
NOW Nintendo is less evil. They used to be as bad as Sony back in the NES and Super Nintendo days (late 80s and early 90s).
>>>it's past the digital-to-analog converter and so is - wait for it - analog. So anything that made a difference in "the world of analog" should still make a difference in digital.
>>>
Not really. In the analog world, people were mostly worried about loss between components (i.e. record to tape player) (or player to amplifier). In the digital world, interconnection loss becomes a non issue.