I haven't been in the Bay Area since about 1992, but as far as I can recall, the BART was incredibly quiet, I suppose, in comparison to the NY subway system. It took a little research, but back when the system was new, the interior noise level was 60 db. Later, changes were made to reduce the noise levels to 40-45 db (better sound insulation, rubberized wheels on the cars, etc). It doesn't seem any more noisy than talking on a phone on a busy city street.
I guess it depends on the model of phone, and whether you're using a hands free microphone.
I'm waiting for someone to say smoking is safe...
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Which may or may not be a possibility. Between low level radioactive particles being passed into the air from coal fired power plants, through automotive exhausts (which contain roughly the same amount of toxins as cigarette smoke), and even pollutants blown over the Pacific from China.
For all we know, smoking could either be a scapegoat or at the very least, be improving some people's tolerance for said dangerous materials in the air.
Oddly enough, every hybrid I've checked out shows only a 10-25% improvement in fuel efficiency over contemporary autos, usually 30-40 MPG highway.
This strikes me as just a little odd, since a Honda Civic from just barely a decade ago had over 50 MPG on average, and was about the size of a Prius.
Emissions wise, I don't think it makes much of a difference, since fuel economy also accounts for reduced emissions.
On a side note: Has anyone considered that the preferred transmission of choice in the US is automatic? Those things carve off close at least 25% of fuel economy on every car, that's a lot of gas (and a lot of additional emissions to boot). As far as I know, that's also a limiting factor in most hybrids.
Simply put, if Apple sells the OS for generic x86 systems, then they wouldn't be able to charge upwards of 175% on their own systems, using the same hardware.
Kinda sucks that they would make people pay extra for a system with a lockout chip, especially when you consider they charge as much for OSX as Microsoft charges for WinXP. Hardly what one would consider as "competition".
Well, there is the salmon shark of the northern Pacific Ocean, it has an internal body temperature of almost 70F (and they live in water temperatures from 41F to 64F) . They're not only one of the fastest sharks alive, but have been measured to as long as 11.5 feet. The warmblooded tendacies was only recently documented, however. http://www.conservationinstitute.org/salmonsharks. htm
If my age addled memory serves, there isn't *that* many occupied worlds in the Star Wars galaxy. Considering even less act as navigational "byways" to other worlds (after all, they needed to use it in an emergency between Naboo and Coruscant), and that Tatooine is one of said byways, it isn't that unlikely that it would be a likely dropspot for craft passing through.
Hell, that would explain the Jawas' propensity to an economic system, whereas would not exist if not for lots of gullible alien species dropping in with various droids, and hardware, that they could scavenge.
I believe I found a page with photos of the shelter in question. Not as glamorous as the article makes it out to be, but meh, it would make a good film location for a remake of Day of the Dead, perhaps.
The virus that causes the dead to revive actually puts the brain into a quasi comatose state, which is why the recently dead rise to crave human flesh, by stimulating the primative sections of the brain. As time goes on, the brain begins to slowly recover it's reasoning faculties, eventually awakening from it's comatose state.
Thusly, the people who haven't been killed by the virus are in essense, committing mass euthenasia by killing those who were infected, because of a lack of proper treatment or control systems.
D'oh! I didn't mean for it to be funny, but bolloxed up the wording. Anyhoo, what I meant is, which prepaid wireless customers are effected by this? I use Virgin Mobile, and there's a good 6 or so prepaid mobile vendors besides them that aren't mentioned in the article (and none of the companies seem interested in disclosing such info to their subscribers).
I just did a quick Google image search, Scott is definately Indian, if not central Asian in origin. So essentially Jack just mocked someone's name because it wasn't Anglo in nature.
The first high profile cases he had was going after prominent black rap groups, and recently he said to Scott Ramsoomair (Ransoomair, whether a pseudonym or not in the case of Scott, is an Indian name):
"Get a name and a life"
Or maybe it had too many vowels in it for Thompson's comfort.
I say whoever invented or discovered it gets the name. We'll pronounce it "Aluminium", as long as you stop calling flashlights "torches". It's bloody confusing. Who ever heard of chasing Frankenstein into a windmill with flashlights?
The question wasn't to you specifically, the line is a spoof of the classic Joseph McCarthy line that he would give to anyone who was fingered as a communist, specifically "Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist party?".
Jack Thompson is exactly the same sort of individual as Joseph McCarthy, and anyone else with a remote amount of political clout, who would trample each and every right of the American people. By grabbing onto the nearest concern of the moment, blowing it out of proportion, and using the fear it generates to garner more political clout, without any semblence of truth or facts.
Actually, it was the late 50s, early 60s, when Dr. Frederick Wertham published "The Seduction of the Innocent", about the evils of comic books. That led to the comics code.
But in either case, it's just more fricking McCarthyism in action. Are you now or have you ever been top ranked in Quake Arena?
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Oh surrrrrre, like Jack Thompson ever let facts stop him before.
I haven't been in the Bay Area since about 1992, but as far as I can recall, the BART was incredibly quiet, I suppose, in comparison to the NY subway system. It took a little research, but back when the system was new, the interior noise level was 60 db. Later, changes were made to reduce the noise levels to 40-45 db (better sound insulation, rubberized wheels on the cars, etc). It doesn't seem any more noisy than talking on a phone on a busy city street.
I guess it depends on the model of phone, and whether you're using a hands free microphone.
Which may or may not be a possibility. Between low level radioactive particles being passed into the air from coal fired power plants, through automotive exhausts (which contain roughly the same amount of toxins as cigarette smoke), and even pollutants blown over the Pacific from China.
For all we know, smoking could either be a scapegoat or at the very least, be improving some people's tolerance for said dangerous materials in the air.
In Soviet Russia, DRM infects you!
Oddly enough, every hybrid I've checked out shows only a 10-25% improvement in fuel efficiency over contemporary autos, usually 30-40 MPG highway.
This strikes me as just a little odd, since a Honda Civic from just barely a decade ago had over 50 MPG on average, and was about the size of a Prius.
Emissions wise, I don't think it makes much of a difference, since fuel economy also accounts for reduced emissions.
On a side note: Has anyone considered that the preferred transmission of choice in the US is automatic? Those things carve off close at least 25% of fuel economy on every car, that's a lot of gas (and a lot of additional emissions to boot). As far as I know, that's also a limiting factor in most hybrids.
And does anyone remember the days when people were bitching about Windows install space (forget about it being 75% drivers in 2000/XP)?
Simply put, if Apple sells the OS for generic x86 systems, then they wouldn't be able to charge upwards of 175% on their own systems, using the same hardware.
Kinda sucks that they would make people pay extra for a system with a lockout chip, especially when you consider they charge as much for OSX as Microsoft charges for WinXP. Hardly what one would consider as "competition".
Which ironically proves there's no such thing.
Well, there is the salmon shark of the northern Pacific Ocean, it has an internal body temperature of almost 70F (and they live in water temperatures from 41F to 64F) . They're not only one of the fastest sharks alive, but have been measured to as long as 11.5 feet. The warmblooded tendacies was only recently documented, however. http://www.conservationinstitute.org/salmonsharks. htm
If my age addled memory serves, there isn't *that* many occupied worlds in the Star Wars galaxy. Considering even less act as navigational "byways" to other worlds (after all, they needed to use it in an emergency between Naboo and Coruscant), and that Tatooine is one of said byways, it isn't that unlikely that it would be a likely dropspot for craft passing through.
Hell, that would explain the Jawas' propensity to an economic system, whereas would not exist if not for lots of gullible alien species dropping in with various droids, and hardware, that they could scavenge.
Whoopsie, would help if I included the URL, sorry.o .uk/BURLINGTON.htm
http://bathstonequarries.mysite.wanadoo-members.c
I believe I found a page with photos of the shelter in question. Not as glamorous as the article makes it out to be, but meh, it would make a good film location for a remake of Day of the Dead, perhaps.
Based on the "* of the Dead" series:
The virus that causes the dead to revive actually puts the brain into a quasi comatose state, which is why the recently dead rise to crave human flesh, by stimulating the primative sections of the brain. As time goes on, the brain begins to slowly recover it's reasoning faculties, eventually awakening from it's comatose state.
Thusly, the people who haven't been killed by the virus are in essense, committing mass euthenasia by killing those who were infected, because of a lack of proper treatment or control systems.
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D'oh! I didn't mean for it to be funny, but bolloxed up the wording. Anyhoo, what I meant is, which prepaid wireless customers are effected by this? I use Virgin Mobile, and there's a good 6 or so prepaid mobile vendors besides them that aren't mentioned in the article (and none of the companies seem interested in disclosing such info to their subscribers).
Does this mean I'm screwed as well?
I'm surprised nobody's done a "Killed my father and raped my mother!" routine with technology yet.
I just did a quick Google image search, Scott is definately Indian, if not central Asian in origin. So essentially Jack just mocked someone's name because it wasn't Anglo in nature.
The first high profile cases he had was going after prominent black rap groups, and recently he said to Scott Ramsoomair (Ransoomair, whether a pseudonym or not in the case of Scott, is an Indian name):
"Get a name and a life"
Or maybe it had too many vowels in it for Thompson's comfort.
Actually, I'd liken him more to a pod person... Oh, wait, you were speaking figuratively? Never mind then.
I say whoever invented or discovered it gets the name. We'll pronounce it "Aluminium", as long as you stop calling flashlights "torches". It's bloody confusing. Who ever heard of chasing Frankenstein into a windmill with flashlights?
The question wasn't to you specifically, the line is a spoof of the classic Joseph McCarthy line that he would give to anyone who was fingered as a communist, specifically "Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist party?".
Jack Thompson is exactly the same sort of individual as Joseph McCarthy, and anyone else with a remote amount of political clout, who would trample each and every right of the American people. By grabbing onto the nearest concern of the moment, blowing it out of proportion, and using the fear it generates to garner more political clout, without any semblence of truth or facts.
Roofers on reefers? Who'dathunkit. Next it'll be crackers on crack, crankers on crank, and weeders on weed.
Actually, it was the late 50s, early 60s, when Dr. Frederick Wertham published "The Seduction of the Innocent", about the evils of comic books. That led to the comics code.
But in either case, it's just more fricking McCarthyism in action. Are you now or have you ever been top ranked in Quake Arena?
The reason I don't smoke pot, is because I didn't want to get into carpentry.