Is that any more ironic than the fact that the Nobel Peace Prize is named for the man who invented dynamite, an explosive that promptly went into combat use?
Hypothetically speaking, every smoker puts out at least 2-3 times the amount of CO2 than a nonsmoker. Now multiply that times a conservatively estimated one billion smokers around the world. The combined CO2 output would be approximately that of 10+ billion people. I have only some basic numbers and data to base this on, but I'm sure there's studies that could prove this (or at least show numbers significantly higher)
In urban areas alone, this would be like having an uncontrolled burn day for said smokers. All for a ton of inefficiently burning catalysts delivering a toxic drug to addicts. If people were burning tons of fall leaves and rubbish on their front lawns, they'd be fined out the wazoo. And of course there's the irony of smoking in urban areas to begin with.
A rough calculation for the US alone shows that 27% of Americans are smokers, out of a population of over 299 million. Now when you have 80,939,880 people smoking in the US alone, you have the CO2 output of 242,819,641 people!
(disclaimer: And mind you, I'm a smoker, and even the thought of this makes me want to quit even more)
At last report, the barb hit him square in the heart. Real X-Files kinda odds. Regardless of the poison, he would have died from the injury. Oh, wait, he did. Call Mulder and Scully.
I welcome our Ubuntu overlords. But seriously. As far as something that can allow the average Windows user to get a taste, or even build experience in using the Linux OS, this is the best way to go.
For one, you can use the live CD to figure out how to get Linux to do everything you want, without making major changes in your existing setup.
With luck (and perhaps a determined developer base), by the time Vista shows up to ream all of us Windows users in the ass, Ubuntu (and subsequent imitators) will be "general public" ready, so we at least have some options.
So I stocked up on enough bulbs for my entire apartment (17 total), and at least a few for later replacements. Cost me a whopping $5 total to retrofit every incandescent socket. The lights are good, take little time to warm up, with no noise or flicker. Not bad, $5 spent on the bulbs, with roughly $5 a month saved on lighting bills.
I don't know if they still have the special on the CFLs, Puget Sound Energy issued the stores instant rebate coupons in order to reduce the price to 19 cents. Needless to say, the bulbs literally flew out the door.
Other info (IANAL, but since they use a P.O. box in their address, doesn't that technically put them in violation of some form of federal law, besides the obvious violations outside of their activities?):
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Maybe because it involves computer systems still in everyday use today?
I mean, where's OS/2, where's the SGI Irix? Where's the-
Just drop it. Those OSes live on today, from the three groups who lifted ideas and details from failed OSes which had great ideas, but were doomed to failure by obsolescence and mismanagement (sure, there's some who still use OS/2, but that's besides the point).
For example, back in late 1998, I had a relatively good PC, a P-200MMX, a 8 MB ATI card, and wanted to try one of the latest games, Final Fantasy VII.
So here I was, holding a genuine copy of the game, having paid about $40 or so at the store for it. After installation, I fired it up, only to discover that it wouldn't run, due to incompatibilities with DirectX 7 (even though they had released it at about the same time that DirectX 7 came out). So I had to downgrade, which was a pain in the butt in itself.
Then came an annoying bug with the ATI Rage II card, causing a grid pattern due to texture misalignments that would only happen with that card. Their solution? Throw another $80+ at a compatible Nvidia card.
But that was just the tip of the iceberg, almost every game released after that would require anything from simple but costly, or insane and even costlier, upgrades. And since so many stores have a restriction on opened software returns, you're paying $50 on average to play the "Will it run?" game. So in essense, you're better off by pirating a game, just to see if it works.
The irony seems more to be that they "strip" down the high end features for the same games to run on modern consoles. Even though it runs on a slower CPU, with less RAM, and a graphics chipset that's 3 years older than my budget FX5200, Doom 2, Halo, and pretty much every other XBOX game, run at a speed and quality that one cannot achieve on a PC. Not without spending twice the amount of money on building up a new gaming rig to get the same FPS.
Anybody with eyes that can see would have noticed the Photoshoppery in question! The guy didn't even bother to randomize the clone tool, or do any smear effects to create any continuity in the smoke!
Seriously, all it takes for even the most inexperienced eye is to look at the thumbnail. It has a very obvious pattern.
The big question for me is, will this be faithful to the original comic, as opposed to the "kid friendly, cartoonish gun free" version? While the weirdness factor was faithful enough to keep the show from sucking too much, the mindless mayhem factor was indeed lacking.
I guess I need to do a lagomorphic mindmeld on them to find out.
Yes, but Lithium Ion batteries are the Big New Tech (TM) being promoted for potential electric cars across the board. As Li-Ion batteries become more prevalent, they'll also begin to infiltrate hybrid autos. You can guess the rest.
If you think G4's one of Comcast's worst decisions, then it should be even more evident when you see their Local Spotlight segments. Annoying as Hell, these 30 minute spots are dropped into Headline News broadcasts (seemingly) at random, even in the middle of reports. So if you don't care about CNN's non-news weekends or weekdays, and watch Headline News, you're pretty much screwed (since HN covers most of the news in other time slots). They also killed off most of the more entertaining public access channels, opting for "government broadcasting". I tell you, it's almost as bad as Cox used to be.
To paraphrase Jack Valenti, Comcast is to entertainment what the Boston Strangler is to women.
Hell, I'd be happy if they went for more obscure geek shows like "How did they do that?" from Nickelodeon, or "Starcade". It's like buzzards picking a corpse clean, all they have is the best stuff TechTV had to offer, stuff they managed to get in syndication that's already been around for years, and basically crap that the kids today (basically 18 and under) think they need to see in order to be "edgy".
I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of computer users (including myself) who could really use the exercise. Hell, just hook up a treadle to an alternator, and run that to trickle charge a UPS, so if you stop pedaling, your computer switches to hibernate mode.
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http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%2B%2 2by+a+grue%22
// You are surrounded by conditional-compilation code, all alike. // You are likely to be eaten by a Grue...
My favorite is:
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Is that any more ironic than the fact that the Nobel Peace Prize is named for the man who invented dynamite, an explosive that promptly went into combat use?
And he was Swedish to boot.
Virgin's Richard Branson has pledged $3 billion towards this initiative:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5368194.stm
The more you eat, methane you'll poot,
The more you poot, the larger the route.
With global warming always in doubt.
More like the Manson Family.
Hypothetically speaking, every smoker puts out at least 2-3 times the amount of CO2 than a nonsmoker. Now multiply that times a conservatively estimated one billion smokers around the world. The combined CO2 output would be approximately that of 10+ billion people. I have only some basic numbers and data to base this on, but I'm sure there's studies that could prove this (or at least show numbers significantly higher)
In urban areas alone, this would be like having an uncontrolled burn day for said smokers. All for a ton of inefficiently burning catalysts delivering a toxic drug to addicts. If people were burning tons of fall leaves and rubbish on their front lawns, they'd be fined out the wazoo. And of course there's the irony of smoking in urban areas to begin with.
A rough calculation for the US alone shows that 27% of Americans are smokers, out of a population of over 299 million. Now when you have 80,939,880 people smoking in the US alone, you have the CO2 output of 242,819,641 people!
(disclaimer: And mind you, I'm a smoker, and even the thought of this makes me want to quit even more)
No it wasn't, it was "DO NOT WANT".
The problem wasn't technological, the problem was due to some nimrod leaving the cards needed for casting votes on the machines on the loading dock.
Never chalk up to technology that which can be accomplished with good old human stupidity.
At last report, the barb hit him square in the heart. Real X-Files kinda odds. Regardless of the poison, he would have died from the injury. Oh, wait, he did. Call Mulder and Scully.
I welcome our Ubuntu overlords. But seriously. As far as something that can allow the average Windows user to get a taste, or even build experience in using the Linux OS, this is the best way to go.
For one, you can use the live CD to figure out how to get Linux to do everything you want, without making major changes in your existing setup.
With luck (and perhaps a determined developer base), by the time Vista shows up to ream all of us Windows users in the ass, Ubuntu (and subsequent imitators) will be "general public" ready, so we at least have some options.
So I stocked up on enough bulbs for my entire apartment (17 total), and at least a few for later replacements. Cost me a whopping $5 total to retrofit every incandescent socket. The lights are good, take little time to warm up, with no noise or flicker. Not bad, $5 spent on the bulbs, with roughly $5 a month saved on lighting bills.
I don't know if they still have the special on the CFLs, Puget Sound Energy issued the stores instant rebate coupons in order to reduce the price to 19 cents. Needless to say, the bulbs literally flew out the door.
So you're going to stand out in front of their dorms/apartments/communes with a boombox blaring Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey" on infinite loop?
Other info (IANAL, but since they use a P.O. box in their address, doesn't that technically put them in violation of some form of federal law, besides the obvious violations outside of their activities?):
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may only be used to assist in obtaining information about a domain name's
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directNIC makes this information available "as is" and does not guarantee
its accuracy.
Registrant:
Primate Freedom Project
P.O. Box 1623
Fayetteville GA 30214
US
7707195348
Domain Name: UCLAPRIMATEFREEDOM.COM
Administrative Contact:
Barnes Jean quiver@bellsouth.net
P.O. Box 1623
Fayetteville GA 30214
US
7707195348
Technical Contact:
Barnes Jean quiver@bellsouth.net
P.O. Box 1623
Fayetteville GA 30214
US
7707195348
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Record created on 03-11-2004
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We'd have planet Brando!
*crickets chirp*
What, too soon?
Would be if AOL managed to dig up a massive cache of AOL floppies and CDs instead.
Maybe because it involves computer systems still in everyday use today?
I mean, where's OS/2, where's the SGI Irix? Where's the-
Just drop it. Those OSes live on today, from the three groups who lifted ideas and details from failed OSes which had great ideas, but were doomed to failure by obsolescence and mismanagement (sure, there's some who still use OS/2, but that's besides the point).
Well, one of his alter egos, Phil Ken Sebben, DID have Harvey Birdman defend the Unabooboo a while back, so he can't be THAT hard on bears.
For example, back in late 1998, I had a relatively good PC, a P-200MMX, a 8 MB ATI card, and wanted to try one of the latest games, Final Fantasy VII.
So here I was, holding a genuine copy of the game, having paid about $40 or so at the store for it. After installation, I fired it up, only to discover that it wouldn't run, due to incompatibilities with DirectX 7 (even though they had released it at about the same time that DirectX 7 came out). So I had to downgrade, which was a pain in the butt in itself.
Then came an annoying bug with the ATI Rage II card, causing a grid pattern due to texture misalignments that would only happen with that card. Their solution? Throw another $80+ at a compatible Nvidia card.
But that was just the tip of the iceberg, almost every game released after that would require anything from simple but costly, or insane and even costlier, upgrades. And since so many stores have a restriction on opened software returns, you're paying $50 on average to play the "Will it run?" game. So in essense, you're better off by pirating a game, just to see if it works.
The irony seems more to be that they "strip" down the high end features for the same games to run on modern consoles. Even though it runs on a slower CPU, with less RAM, and a graphics chipset that's 3 years older than my budget FX5200, Doom 2, Halo, and pretty much every other XBOX game, run at a speed and quality that one cannot achieve on a PC. Not without spending twice the amount of money on building up a new gaming rig to get the same FPS.
Anybody with eyes that can see would have noticed the Photoshoppery in question! The guy didn't even bother to randomize the clone tool, or do any smear effects to create any continuity in the smoke!
Seriously, all it takes for even the most inexperienced eye is to look at the thumbnail. It has a very obvious pattern.
If these cops have dashboard cameras on their patrol cars, aren't they basically guilty of the same thing?
I don't recall ever seeing a cop informing a suspect of the existance of their cameras or requesting permission to film them.
The big question for me is, will this be faithful to the original comic, as opposed to the "kid friendly, cartoonish gun free" version? While the weirdness factor was faithful enough to keep the show from sucking too much, the mindless mayhem factor was indeed lacking.
I guess I need to do a lagomorphic mindmeld on them to find out.
And 90% of sturgeons are fish.
Yes, but Lithium Ion batteries are the Big New Tech (TM) being promoted for potential electric cars across the board. As Li-Ion batteries become more prevalent, they'll also begin to infiltrate hybrid autos. You can guess the rest.
If you think G4's one of Comcast's worst decisions, then it should be even more evident when you see their Local Spotlight segments. Annoying as Hell, these 30 minute spots are dropped into Headline News broadcasts (seemingly) at random, even in the middle of reports. So if you don't care about CNN's non-news weekends or weekdays, and watch Headline News, you're pretty much screwed (since HN covers most of the news in other time slots). They also killed off most of the more entertaining public access channels, opting for "government broadcasting". I tell you, it's almost as bad as Cox used to be.
To paraphrase Jack Valenti, Comcast is to entertainment what the Boston Strangler is to women.
Hell, I'd be happy if they went for more obscure geek shows like "How did they do that?" from Nickelodeon, or "Starcade". It's like buzzards picking a corpse clean, all they have is the best stuff TechTV had to offer, stuff they managed to get in syndication that's already been around for years, and basically crap that the kids today (basically 18 and under) think they need to see in order to be "edgy".
I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of computer users (including myself) who could really use the exercise. Hell, just hook up a treadle to an alternator, and run that to trickle charge a UPS, so if you stop pedaling, your computer switches to hibernate mode.