And those cars are frequently a better solution to the MPG problem, when compared to new hybrid and electric cars. Buying a new car has a huge impact on the environment, as does discarding old cars.
In order: 1. Change your driving habits to achieve better mileage out of the car you already own. ($0) 2. Fix and maintain your existing car to get the best mileage out of it. ($0-500) 2. Buy a reasonable used car that is more efficient than your current car if your actual fuel savings will pay for the car in a reasonable amount of time. ($500+) 3. Buy a new car, following the same rules as the above. Unless your current vehicle is a semi that gets 7 MPG on diesel, this probably isn't a realistic cost-effective solution. ($10,000+)
Now, if you want to buy a car anyway, that's fine, but the fallacy of buying a different car to save tons of money on gas is ridiculous. Unless you're buying a $500 beater, chances are low that you'll really save any money.
I think most people are pretty short-sighted when it comes to finances and they think that paying less at each fill-up means they're saving money, even though they may have spent $4,000 on another car and are paying more in auto insurance.
Now, I'll admit that I don't really care about the environmental impact of buying new cars. If you want one, buy one. That just means more cheap used cars for me to play with.
What amuses me is that people who claim to care about the environment would trade in their old reliable Volvos (blatant stereotype ftw) for a new Prius. The environmental effect of that used car happened a good 5-25+ years ago most likely, and the ongoing effects of driving it (if maintained properly) are negligible compared to the production of a single Prius.
Buying used cars is environmentally-friendly and an excellent and effective form of recycling that requires no additional energy. YMPGMV.
Troll? Not at all. Actually, your parody is an excellent way of demonstrating just how stupid the GP's argument was.
So you live where most drivers are a-holes, and they happen to choose SUVs (assuming you're not just saying that because of your own burning hatred of the things)... so? Move somewhere where people agree with you and see how much better it can be.
While we're banning things that cause the majority of crime (because what the hell is freedom? idk my bff jill), how about black people? Clearly [warning: shitty biased site] they go to jail far more often so therefore they must commit most of the crime so F BLACK PEOPLE. THEY DESERVE TO DIE SO I CAN BE A TINY BIT SAFER.
Who is the GP to say? And aside from that, why accept the violent rantings of somebody filled with hate? People who hate something to the degree demonstrated by the GP aren't capable of thinking logically or rationally about the object of their hate, therefore their opinions are worthless. Are we going to start listening to the KKK for intelligent insight about blacks, jews, asians and hispanics?
I know it's all taste, but I have to disagree. Yes, it's mostly crap, but so is the output of hollywood.
The ones I've seen and consider non-crap: Zodiac Sweeny Todd Shooter Black Snake Moan Pan's Labyrinth The Number 23
And Shoot 'em Up if your don't need a plot.
Granted, they don't have any classics, but if it's a classic movie then why would you want a $5 limited rental when you could easily find it at wal-mart or a used DVD store for $5-12 and keep it forever?
I think the point is to make newish, relatively successful movies available to people to watch at home when they wouldn't really want to buy it. A new copy of any of those movies is probably at least $7.50 or as much as $20 at [store].
The cheapest movie theater in my area is $5 a ticket for a matinee. The regular theater chains are $7.50 or so for a matinee and $9-10 for a regular showing. So if two people watch a flexplay DVD at home with some microwaved popcorn at 7 PM they've potentially saved as much as $15 (maybe more) to see a movie that otherwise might not have been worth it.
Then again, as some people noted, redbox is $1/night, so there are even cheaper ways. YMMV.
You bring up an interesting point. To what extent do language and culture differences affect the ability to adapt to certain user interfaces?
I would think there's been some research done, but I wouldn't know where to look.
I could reform my original statement and say that I think most native speakers of "romance" languages would handle the Win95 interface easily; they've most likely already been exposed to it (in developed nations at least), and the languages share the same general conventions as english, are written left to right, etc.
Then again, has language hindered windows from becoming hugely pirated in China? Or is there a more widely used alternative in the middle east?
And how many of them are going to ever be presented with the problem of choosing an X window manager? If anything, they would have one picked for them by somebody who (hopefully) has a grasp of their capabilities.
However, I do think the Win95 interface is pretty easy to get used to.
(My apologies if you were going for funny, but it didn't seem like you were.)
I did, once. But then my girlfriend said that it really didn't matter to her; the gameplay was too repetitive, the graphics were horrible, the controls gave her almost no feedback, the packaging was unattractive, and while it kept getting harder, there was no victorious climax.
<whine class="offtopic">What's sad is that despite all the funny mods, my karma went down.</whine>
That's a valid point, but unfortunately I think it applies just as much to any modern operating system. If I screw up my install of Mac OS X, I don't think it would be an easy thing to fix it without reinstalling. In fact, I've had to reinstall once or twice. Now, other operating systems *may* be more resilient, but in the end I would say that basically every modern desktop OS has grown far too complicated to restore easily.
Nah, but seriously. A gold-digging woman doesn't care about the size of your penis. Neither does a woman who loves you. A cock-digging woman, however...
Anyway, I'm sure you realize my post was fiction, but if not, well, you probably never will.
I agree. In fact, it's a lot like the movie Alien. Alien is a movie that just doesn't matter.
The whole effing thing was really dark, and you couldn't even see the stupid alien, except when you did you didn't want to because it was ugly, and it scared the shit out of my girlfriend. Then, on top of the $60 I spent on tickets and concessions to see the retarded movie, I had to buy $400 in roses and chocolate to get my girlfriend to go see another movie with me.
I guarantee that because of my negative experience, nobody else will ever care about or like the movie Alien. I just don't see the point of using all those special effects for the alien when it's so ugly and grotesque. Why they made FOUR sequels and a cross-over series is just beyond me, because nobody could have possibly cared about those either.
(Protip: Alien came out before I was born, and I enjoyed the series. I like Doom too. YMMV, YHBT.)
It wasn't Bush Jr. It wasn't Clinton. It wasn't Bush Sr. [etc]
It's the steady decline of the United States of America over a very long period of time. Both political parties are to blame. "Conservatives" tend to fear-monger and use their power to extend the power of the law in the moral sector, giving increased power to "law enforcement" agencies, and yes, sometimes (often, even) under false or stupid pretenses. "Liberals" tend to increase government programs to further a socialist agenda, which also leads to further increasing the power held by the government, although they tend to loosen "moral" law to give people a heightened sense of "freedom", while regulating things that true freedom requires, like business, property ownership, etc.
My intention is not to come across as an attack on either side. I admit I have a more "conservative" bias personally, but over the last few years my eyes have opened and I now disagree with most moral-law regulation, at least on the federal side. Personally, I believe that the lower you get on the scale (state - county - city), the more room there can and should be for moral-enforcement laws. (I'm just making it clear what my personal POV is in the hopes of making clear any bias with which I wrote the previous paragraph.)
I agree, I think this is terrible. I'm kind of disappointed in Apple lately. My boss and I both got new (refurbished) MacBooks and they both wound up needing their top cases (keyboard and stuff) replaced (keyboards didn't work right). Also, they hurt to type on because the edges ARE SHARP. WTF to that. I still enjoy OS X, but I hope Apple changes direction soon. Between the nazi-ish rules for the iPhone SDK and the ridiculous lack of quality control with software updates, I'm beginning to lose faith. (Breaking video editing for the sake of DRMing stupid movies? COME ON!)
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Definitely not from the NSA.
And those cars are frequently a better solution to the MPG problem, when compared to new hybrid and electric cars. Buying a new car has a huge impact on the environment, as does discarding old cars.
In order:
1. Change your driving habits to achieve better mileage out of the car you already own. ($0)
2. Fix and maintain your existing car to get the best mileage out of it. ($0-500)
2. Buy a reasonable used car that is more efficient than your current car if your actual fuel savings will pay for the car in a reasonable amount of time. ($500+)
3. Buy a new car, following the same rules as the above. Unless your current vehicle is a semi that gets 7 MPG on diesel, this probably isn't a realistic cost-effective solution. ($10,000+)
Now, if you want to buy a car anyway, that's fine, but the fallacy of buying a different car to save tons of money on gas is ridiculous. Unless you're buying a $500 beater, chances are low that you'll really save any money.
I think most people are pretty short-sighted when it comes to finances and they think that paying less at each fill-up means they're saving money, even though they may have spent $4,000 on another car and are paying more in auto insurance.
Now, I'll admit that I don't really care about the environmental impact of buying new cars. If you want one, buy one. That just means more cheap used cars for me to play with.
What amuses me is that people who claim to care about the environment would trade in their old reliable Volvos (blatant stereotype ftw) for a new Prius. The environmental effect of that used car happened a good 5-25+ years ago most likely, and the ongoing effects of driving it (if maintained properly) are negligible compared to the production of a single Prius.
Buying used cars is environmentally-friendly and an excellent and effective form of recycling that requires no additional energy. YMPGMV.
No, but I thought he'd be taller.
How about the only one... well, I can think of two, maybe.
Troll? Not at all. Actually, your parody is an excellent way of demonstrating just how stupid the GP's argument was.
So you live where most drivers are a-holes, and they happen to choose SUVs (assuming you're not just saying that because of your own burning hatred of the things)... so? Move somewhere where people agree with you and see how much better it can be.
While we're banning things that cause the majority of crime (because what the hell is freedom? idk my bff jill), how about black people? Clearly [warning: shitty biased site] they go to jail far more often so therefore they must commit most of the crime so F BLACK PEOPLE. THEY DESERVE TO DIE SO I CAN BE A TINY BIT SAFER.
Who is the GP to say? And aside from that, why accept the violent rantings of somebody filled with hate? People who hate something to the degree demonstrated by the GP aren't capable of thinking logically or rationally about the object of their hate, therefore their opinions are worthless. Are we going to start listening to the KKK for intelligent insight about blacks, jews, asians and hispanics?
I would mod parent insightful.
WTF. Is this really true?
I know it's all taste, but I have to disagree. Yes, it's mostly crap, but so is the output of hollywood.
The ones I've seen and consider non-crap:
Zodiac
Sweeny Todd
Shooter
Black Snake Moan
Pan's Labyrinth
The Number 23
And Shoot 'em Up if your don't need a plot.
Granted, they don't have any classics, but if it's a classic movie then why would you want a $5 limited rental when you could easily find it at wal-mart or a used DVD store for $5-12 and keep it forever?
I think the point is to make newish, relatively successful movies available to people to watch at home when they wouldn't really want to buy it. A new copy of any of those movies is probably at least $7.50 or as much as $20 at [store].
The cheapest movie theater in my area is $5 a ticket for a matinee. The regular theater chains are $7.50 or so for a matinee and $9-10 for a regular showing. So if two people watch a flexplay DVD at home with some microwaved popcorn at 7 PM they've potentially saved as much as $15 (maybe more) to see a movie that otherwise might not have been worth it.
Then again, as some people noted, redbox is $1/night, so there are even cheaper ways. YMMV.
You bring up an interesting point. To what extent do language and culture differences affect the ability to adapt to certain user interfaces?
I would think there's been some research done, but I wouldn't know where to look.
I could reform my original statement and say that I think most native speakers of "romance" languages would handle the Win95 interface easily; they've most likely already been exposed to it (in developed nations at least), and the languages share the same general conventions as english, are written left to right, etc.
Then again, has language hindered windows from becoming hugely pirated in China? Or is there a more widely used alternative in the middle east?
But it doesn't work in gmail!
Granted.
And how many of them are going to ever be presented with the problem of choosing an X window manager? If anything, they would have one picked for them by somebody who (hopefully) has a grasp of their capabilities.
However, I do think the Win95 interface is pretty easy to get used to.
(My apologies if you were going for funny, but it didn't seem like you were.)
Actually, IMO copying the Win95 interface may be EDE's strongest selling point. Who on earth doesn't know how to use it?
He was responding to the GGP's sig:
"Conservatism is a failed ideology which has joined communism in the trash heap of history."
There are like 3 in downtown Xenia. Care to provide some backup for your claim?
I bought my CDs and DVDs too, but somehow the RI/MPAA still doesn't want me to share their content with all my friends. :(
I did, once. But then my girlfriend said that it really didn't matter to her; the gameplay was too repetitive, the graphics were horrible, the controls gave her almost no feedback, the packaging was unattractive, and while it kept getting harder, there was no victorious climax.
<whine class="offtopic">What's sad is that despite all the funny mods, my karma went down.</whine>
That's a valid point, but unfortunately I think it applies just as much to any modern operating system. If I screw up my install of Mac OS X, I don't think it would be an easy thing to fix it without reinstalling. In fact, I've had to reinstall once or twice. Now, other operating systems *may* be more resilient, but in the end I would say that basically every modern desktop OS has grown far too complicated to restore easily.
Are you the guy who writes spam?
Nah, but seriously. A gold-digging woman doesn't care about the size of your penis. Neither does a woman who loves you. A cock-digging woman, however...
Anyway, I'm sure you realize my post was fiction, but if not, well, you probably never will.
Haha, well I figured as much, but you came across pretty seriously... you never can tell on slashdot.
I agree. In fact, it's a lot like the movie Alien. Alien is a movie that just doesn't matter.
The whole effing thing was really dark, and you couldn't even see the stupid alien, except when you did you didn't want to because it was ugly, and it scared the shit out of my girlfriend. Then, on top of the $60 I spent on tickets and concessions to see the retarded movie, I had to buy $400 in roses and chocolate to get my girlfriend to go see another movie with me.
I guarantee that because of my negative experience, nobody else will ever care about or like the movie Alien. I just don't see the point of using all those special effects for the alien when it's so ugly and grotesque. Why they made FOUR sequels and a cross-over series is just beyond me, because nobody could have possibly cared about those either.
(Protip: Alien came out before I was born, and I enjoyed the series. I like Doom too. YMMV, YHBT.)
Normally, that would just be funny... but considering this comes from germany... it's scary.
Scented german mobile phone sheisse videos?
What's this from? I'm probably supposed to know, I feel like a n00b.
Believing a lie doesn't vindicate the liar. But yes, the people are just as much to blame.
It wasn't Bush Jr. It wasn't Clinton. It wasn't Bush Sr. [etc]
It's the steady decline of the United States of America over a very long period of time. Both political parties are to blame. "Conservatives" tend to fear-monger and use their power to extend the power of the law in the moral sector, giving increased power to "law enforcement" agencies, and yes, sometimes (often, even) under false or stupid pretenses. "Liberals" tend to increase government programs to further a socialist agenda, which also leads to further increasing the power held by the government, although they tend to loosen "moral" law to give people a heightened sense of "freedom", while regulating things that true freedom requires, like business, property ownership, etc.
My intention is not to come across as an attack on either side. I admit I have a more "conservative" bias personally, but over the last few years my eyes have opened and I now disagree with most moral-law regulation, at least on the federal side. Personally, I believe that the lower you get on the scale (state - county - city), the more room there can and should be for moral-enforcement laws. (I'm just making it clear what my personal POV is in the hopes of making clear any bias with which I wrote the previous paragraph.)
One possible fix.
I agree, I think this is terrible. I'm kind of disappointed in Apple lately. My boss and I both got new (refurbished) MacBooks and they both wound up needing their top cases (keyboard and stuff) replaced (keyboards didn't work right). Also, they hurt to type on because the edges ARE SHARP. WTF to that. I still enjoy OS X, but I hope Apple changes direction soon. Between the nazi-ish rules for the iPhone SDK and the ridiculous lack of quality control with software updates, I'm beginning to lose faith. (Breaking video editing for the sake of DRMing stupid movies? COME ON!)
I'd love to see that response, do you have it to post?