Norway also has 0.02%. Around here, drinking a beer and then driving carries a fair amount of social stigma, and I think that's reasonable.
To go in hand with that, we have some good services for getting people safely to/from places where they consume alcohol. For instance, if you are a young person (below 22 I think) living outside public transport coverage, a cab ride home only costs you $10. Which is the same as one beer at the pub.
Or how about, you know, get together with your buddies, drive together, one of you drink non-alcoholic and drive the rest home. Take turns being the designated driver. It's called using your common sense, and it ain't rocket science.
0.05 is unreasonable. It is de facto prohibition, and unconstitutional.
Ignoring the complete non sequitur that is your argument: do you feel the same about the alcohol limits for airline pilots? If not, please explain the difference.
I guess GP said "netbook" when he meant "laptop", since there were no netbooks 12 years ago. And I'd also hazard a guess it has a graphics card which does the heavy video lifting. My netbook (AMD E-350) can play 1080p with CPU at ~10% (provided hardware acceleration is possible).
The problem is that application developers then have to care about security updates. Which they don't. To wit: Maple's Linux version contains it's own copy of Java, which is 1.6.0 v. 18 on my computer, from a three-month-old Maple install. That's a mind-boggling 30 updates (or 4 years) ago!
Two points you fail at:
1. Your point is a non sequitur. Just because other companies place larger orders does not make a 100K unit order "small fry". And if a business thinks 100K is too small an order, they should say so at the initial round of inquiries, and save themselves the embarrasement of looking incompetent.
2. Intel is fairly grateful towards basement dwellers, as they drive almost all sales of their upper-range chip sales (e.g. K series overclock-able CPUs).
But I believe you already made an arse of yourself with your previous comment about China having "an emmense (sic) population of genius level citizens". If the best minds of China are leaving to study in the US and Europe, how can the ones that remain be "genius level", especially when we know the Chinese population is subjected to far higher levels than people in the west of pollution and toxins that are known to reduce intelligence?
Not only that: his comment is untrue even if you want to use the oil for energy. Say I'm drilling a large reservoir, but it's very expensive to get the oil up. If I only sell 1 out of 3 gallons I produce, and use the remaining 2 for extracting the next 3 gallons of oil, that could very well be financially viable (depending on the price of oil at that moment, etc.)
Don't worry, it will only happen in the US, the rest of the world has government privacy watchdogs that usually earn their paycheck and protect the consumer.
The problem he is trying to point out is this one:
Let's say that we solve problem no. 1 for the environment: people stop buying new stuff when their old stuff still works. So you'll keep your car until repairing it would cost more than 30% of a new car. Now, say I have 3-year-old efficient car, like a VW Polo BlueMotion, and assume my options are as follows:
1. Switch to an electric car
2. Keep the VW
How long does it take from today for Option 1 to have produced less total emissions (including manufacturing the electric car)? It comes out at around 7 years. As gasoline cars get more efficient, this quickly becomes >10 years. Now, what is the estimated life time of a battery pack for an electric car? That's right, about 10 years. What happens when the battery pack is dead? Buying a new battery pack costs more than the car is worth at that point, so you're going to buy a brand new electric car, that's what.
Extrapolating further: if gasoline car emissions are reduced by another 40% over the current VW Polo, and the Polo lasts for 20 years, you never pollute less by going for the electric car.
On many cars there is a fuse which controls ABS, traction control, and other driver assists. I know on Volvo it's usually fuse 21. Just remove it when you want to slide around a corner, or better yet, wire a switch in front of it that you put on the dashboard. Preferably one that looks like the missile trigger on a fighter jet. And yes, it's perfectly safe to have a car without ABS provided you know how to pump brake.
Disclaimer: this probably voids your warranty and whatever, and if you do it, you must tell your insurance company that you do not have ABS and traction control, otherwise your insurance is pretty much worthless as well.
The problem then is that all banks use Java. My bank is one of few that has
a Java-free option, but that requires me to switch
cellphone operator.
(I'm Norwegian, but I gather Denmark is the same.)
This. It would be interesting hearing what someone obviously very clever thinks about consciousness. My own mind mostly gets nowhere when trying to understand it. Related: xkcd.com/1163
If that vspace fixed it, I guess you could change line no. 14 from \titlespacing*{\section} {-29pt}
to \titlespacing*{\section} {-11pt}
to achieve the same thing.
Ah, sorry, there is quite a bit removed here from the
actual document. The "subfigure" thing comes from
line 4, if you remove the [subfigure] there it is no longer
needed. As for the overlap, there are a few parameters
that need tweaking in order to fit your combination of
margins, page size, font and font size. Perhaps you
could post a question on Stackexchange if you
can't get it to work, and reply here with the link to it?
Starting around ten years ago, we stopped using SSNs
for such purposes here in Norway. Not in small part because
a certain phone operator leaked a few hundred thousand
of them through a poorly-written webpage.
I saw a good quote on this topic yesterday here on/.:
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
H. L. Mencken
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\secstart{Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?}
{Stephen Hawking}
\lettrine{T}{he theory of the level-set method} is a large subject which cannot possibly be completely reviewed in detail here.
Off the top of my head, I used at least six different packages to accomplish this. A lot of the work boils down to making them cooperate the way you want them to.
And to the AC who replied: I'll post a link to the code some time this evening if I have time.
Modern LaTeX is quite a bit better at giving good error messages, unless you try to do very complex things. Combining lots of packages for heavy customization is the prime example; I once spent half a day setting up custom chapter titles with a side-by-side miniature table-of-contents and epigraph below a title where the chapter number extruded into the margin, and drop caps at the start of the first paragraph. But the end result was beautiful.
Whoever dropped the ball on the title should be sacked. I mean, you seriously missed the opportunity for "Anonymous \"OpIsrael\" Is Not Very Effective"??
AFAIK, the reason for ArchLinux atleast adapting systemd is that it will eventually be the standard init for most Linux distros, such that each distro will have to spend less time maintaining and updating something which the end user cares little about.
And there aren't really that many gripes with systemd. I have found that it overrides some power management settings on my laptop, but that's somewhat expected, and I quickly updated the settings to my liking. systemd also makes a more noisy initialization of the sound card than sysvinit did, which I haven't been able to debug/understand.
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Norway also has 0.02%. Around here, drinking a beer and then driving carries a fair amount of social stigma, and I think that's reasonable.
To go in hand with that, we have some good services for getting people safely to/from places where they consume alcohol. For instance, if you are a young person (below 22 I think) living outside public transport coverage, a cab ride home only costs you $10. Which is the same as one beer at the pub.
Or how about, you know, get together with your buddies, drive together, one of you drink non-alcoholic and drive the rest home. Take turns being the designated driver. It's called using your common sense, and it ain't rocket science.
0.05 is unreasonable. It is de facto prohibition, and unconstitutional.
Ignoring the complete non sequitur that is your argument: do you feel the same about the alcohol limits for airline pilots? If not, please explain the difference.
I guess GP said "netbook" when he meant "laptop", since there were no netbooks 12 years ago. And I'd also hazard a guess it has a graphics card which does the heavy video lifting. My netbook (AMD E-350) can play 1080p with CPU at ~10% (provided hardware acceleration is possible).
The problem is that application developers then have to care about security updates. Which they don't. To wit: Maple's Linux version contains it's own copy of Java, which is 1.6.0 v. 18 on my computer, from a three-month-old Maple install. That's a mind-boggling 30 updates (or 4 years) ago!
Two points you fail at:
1. Your point is a non sequitur. Just because other companies place larger orders does not make a 100K unit order "small fry". And if a business thinks 100K is too small an order, they should say so at the initial round of inquiries, and save themselves the embarrasement of looking incompetent.
2. Intel is fairly grateful towards basement dwellers, as they drive almost all sales of their upper-range chip sales (e.g. K series overclock-able CPUs).
But I believe you already made an arse of yourself with your previous comment about China having "an emmense (sic) population of genius level citizens". If the best minds of China are leaving to study in the US and Europe, how can the ones that remain be "genius level", especially when we know the Chinese population is subjected to far higher levels than people in the west of pollution and toxins that are known to reduce intelligence?
Not only that: his comment is untrue even if you want to use the oil for energy. Say I'm drilling a large reservoir, but it's very expensive to get the oil up. If I only sell 1 out of 3 gallons I produce, and use the remaining 2 for extracting the next 3 gallons of oil, that could very well be financially viable (depending on the price of oil at that moment, etc.)
Don't worry, it will only happen in the US, the rest of the world has government privacy watchdogs that usually earn their paycheck and protect the consumer.
The problem he is trying to point out is this one:
Let's say that we solve problem no. 1 for the environment: people stop buying new stuff when their old stuff still works. So you'll keep your car until repairing it would cost more than 30% of a new car.
Now, say I have 3-year-old efficient car, like a VW Polo BlueMotion, and assume my options are as follows:
1. Switch to an electric car
2. Keep the VW
How long does it take from today for Option 1 to have produced less total emissions (including manufacturing the electric car)? It comes out at around 7 years. As gasoline cars get more efficient, this quickly becomes >10 years. Now, what is the estimated life time of a battery pack for an electric car? That's right, about 10 years. What happens when the battery pack is dead? Buying a new battery pack costs more than the car is worth at that point, so you're going to buy a brand new electric car, that's what.
Extrapolating further: if gasoline car emissions are reduced by another 40% over the current VW Polo, and the Polo lasts for 20 years, you never pollute less by going for the electric car.
On many cars there is a fuse which controls ABS, traction control, and other driver assists. I know on Volvo it's usually fuse 21. Just remove it when you want to slide around a corner, or better yet, wire a switch in front of it that you put on the dashboard. Preferably one that looks like the missile trigger on a fighter jet. And yes, it's perfectly safe to have a car without ABS provided you know how to pump brake.
Disclaimer: this probably voids your warranty and whatever, and if you do it, you must tell your insurance company that you do not have ABS and traction control, otherwise your insurance is pretty much worthless as well.
The problem then is that all banks use Java. My bank is one of few that has a Java-free option, but that requires me to switch cellphone operator. (I'm Norwegian, but I gather Denmark is the same.)
You win today's Most Informative Post Award, and will receive the grand prize of five internets.
And perhaps more interestingly: why has this not been used as a plot device in scifi yet?
This. It would be interesting hearing what someone obviously very clever thinks about consciousness. My own mind mostly gets nowhere when trying to understand it. Related: xkcd.com/1163
If that vspace fixed it, I guess you could change line no. 14 from
\titlespacing*{\section} {-29pt}
to
\titlespacing*{\section} {-11pt}
to achieve the same thing.
Ah, sorry, there is quite a bit removed here from the actual document. The "subfigure" thing comes from line 4, if you remove the [subfigure] there it is no longer needed. As for the overlap, there are a few parameters that need tweaking in order to fit your combination of margins, page size, font and font size. Perhaps you could post a question on Stackexchange if you can't get it to work, and reply here with the link to it?
Starting around ten years ago, we stopped using SSNs for such purposes here in Norway. Not in small part because a certain phone operator leaked a few hundred thousand of them through a poorly-written webpage.
I've also received ssh brute force attempts from Comcast users that I have checked the IP of, and probably several other US ISPs.
I saw a good quote on this topic yesterday here on /. :
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
H. L. Mencken
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\secstart{Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?}
{Stephen Hawking}
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Off the top of my head, I used at least six different packages to accomplish this. A lot of the work boils down to making them cooperate the way you want them to.
And to the AC who replied: I'll post a link to the code some time this evening if I have time.
Modern LaTeX is quite a bit better at giving good error messages, unless you try to do very complex things. Combining lots of packages for heavy customization is the prime example; I once spent half a day setting up custom chapter titles with a side-by-side miniature table-of-contents and epigraph below a title where the chapter number extruded into the margin, and drop caps at the start of the first paragraph. But the end result was beautiful.
Whoever dropped the ball on the title should be sacked. I mean, you seriously missed the opportunity for "Anonymous \"OpIsrael\" Is Not Very Effective"??
I've also had problems with photo upload via the browser. My suspicion is that they did this on purpose, to push people back onto the app.
AFAIK, the reason for ArchLinux atleast adapting systemd is that it will eventually be the standard init for most Linux distros, such that each distro will have to spend less time maintaining and updating something which the end user cares little about.
And there aren't really that many gripes with systemd. I have found that it overrides some power management settings on my laptop, but that's somewhat expected, and I quickly updated the settings to my liking. systemd also makes a more noisy initialization of the sound card than sysvinit did, which I haven't been able to debug/understand.