Well some of those resources at least can be recycled, even if that's more difficult than mining. But yeah, they're not going to have all the convenient fossil fuels we do. Oh well, I guess we'll have to tack on an addition 10k or 20k years.
Well if you're going to use that argument, by the same logic, *every* diode passes current in both directions, and there's no such thing as a diode that blocks current in any direction, which renders the original statement nonsensical.
A correctly-operating diode only blocks current when reverse voltage is lower than the breakdown voltage. There are diodes which block current in both directions in this state.
so that we can focus on bigger problems, like keeping planet Earth habitable in the latter half of the 21st century and the 22nd century. Unless this is done, humanity is very unlikely to experience a 23rd century.
Oh, don't be ridiculous. Humanity will surely live to experience the 23rd century. It's really hard to completely wipe out a whole species with this many members, and which has intelligence and technological capability.
Now, of course, the 23rd century will probably look a lot like "Max Max II: The Road Warrior" or "28 Days Later" or "The Walking Dead", but I'm sure there'll be at least a few humans still running around.
Don't worry; humanity has had setbacks before, and recovered from them. The Roman Empire fell, for instance, causing Europeans to live in darkness and squalor for 1000 years before the Renaissance. So we'll probably have to wait until the 33rd century before we build a base on the Moon or Mars, but we'll get there eventually, after conquering the zombies and rediscovering antibiotics.
Germans tend to over-engineer things and jump on all the latest tech, and Japanese tend to be very conservative and wait a while. So the Japanese cars usually aren't as cutting-edge as the German or even American cars.
The main problem with Japanese cars is that their infotainment tech is usually behind the others. Mazda and Toyota don't even have CarPlay or Android Auto available on their systems. The Germans have probably been doing infotainment longer than anyone else, so their systems are usually touted as the best.
But, they shouldn't be charging for the software upfront like that.
Why not? If you don't like their fees and policies, then don't buy a BMW. There's absolutely no shortage of other automakers out there to buy from, and they don't do this.
I say, more power to them. BMW buyers are likely to not care much about a $80/year fee, so BMW might as well soak them for whatever they can get out of them.
I can talk on my phone while driving just fine, with both hands on the wheel. They invented this thing called a "speakerphone" ages ago, along with something called "Bluetooth".
So what? They can pony up the fee if they want CarPlay and a BMW. If they object to the fee that much, they can opt against buying the car. Their choice. If this is really that much of a problem, then BMWs will take a hit in the used market, and not hold their prices as well. There's plenty of other cars on the market, and they don't charge this fee.
I think this move by BMW is just fine. If it works out, they'll make more profit. If it doesn't, they'll learn the hard way. Considering the people who buy BMWs, I suspect it'll work out well for them.
Policy for who? The GOP-controlled government? It's not government's job to engage in risky business endeavors. Companies run by GOP sympathizers? If they want to buy up toys and resell them for more, they're free to do that.
The main problem with doing this is risk: you might profit a lot if the toy is really hot at the moment, but on the other hand if it's all bought up and resold at too-high prices, it might just lose its attraction (or for other reasons), and now you're stuck with a giant pile of toys that no one wants.
Personally, I think this stuff is silly. If people want to buy up stuff and resell it, it's their right: it's called First Sale Doctrine. If mfgrs want to avoid the problems that could cause, they're free to institute sales policies, to try to prevent any one customer from buying too many. I'm personally not going to be saddened by some parents "forced" to spend $1000 on some stupid little toy; no one's forcing them to buy this crap instead of something else that isn't so popular.
You're allowed to discriminate based on age when you're discriminating against younger (under-55) people. There's tons of communities in the US where you either can't rent or can't buy a house if you're too young, and it's completely legal.
Most European cities don't have any smog problems and those that have them aren't caused by diesel engines.
Wrong. Diesel engines produce high NOx emissions, which lead to smog.
Diesel engines may produce a little more smog than petrol engines, but they produces far less volatile organic compounds and fewer particulates, both of which are much more important to smog formation than NOx.
You're a liar. Gas engines don't produce significant particulates. Any idiot who's been around a diesel bus as it pulls away from a stop knows that diesel engines produce high particulates. Fuck you and your lying. Why are you lying?
Ah, yes, European companies like Ford, General Motors, Hyundai, Nissan, Suzuki and Mazda....
You don't know about VW's dieselgate scandal?? Again, fuck you and your lying.
Since most American truck makers are owned by European companies, there are probably quite a few in trucks near you, too.
Why are you lying so much? Cummins is not a European company, and Ford makes their Powerstroke diesels here in the US.
Even "scone" differs. The scones we have here are typically triangular-shaped items of dense and very sweet bread, and are really quite recent; I don't remember them at all prior to 15 years ago, but now they're common in coffee shops. My understanding is that English scones are very different from this, according to Wikipedia at least, and are really a lot like our biscuits.
Here's an article that discusses the differences between British and American scones.
I don't know what part of America you visited, but I am American so I'm quite sure I'm familiar with the term. A biscuit isn't tough at all, and no, it's not always a breakfast item. KFC even commonly includes "biscuits" with its fried chicken (though it's the flaky kind, as I referred to before, not so fluffy as a dinner roll).
As for old cookbooks, food has changed a lot in America since before WWI, so the terminology has changed too, and most people aren't going to be familiar with older usage.
Gas means LPG. A gaseous product often used to power cars.
It's also short for "gasoline", a fraction of petroleum used to power cars. (And a different fraction of petroleum than diesel, also used to power cars and trucks, and again different from kerosene and the closely-related jet fuel.)
Americans appear to be incapable of making diesel engines that are any good, so its not surprising they don't use them much.
Bzzzt, wrong. Rednecks love diesel pickup trucks, and those American-made engines are quite reliable (a lot more so than the rest of the truck).
And it's a good thing that Americans don't use diesel nearly as much as Europeans in passenger cars, or else we'd have all the nasty smog problems that European cities have. Our air these days is much cleaner despite us driving many more miles per person. Diesel engines have a huge problem with NOx emissions that gas engines don't have.
Also, you seem to forget, it was the Europeans who fraudulently and criminally made diesel emissions that cheated on the emissions tests. Where are those "good" diesel engines you speak of? All I see is shitty ones from Europe that were made by liars and swindlers.
I hear "that was real hard" instead of "that was really hard"
That sounds like something you'd hear a stupid Southerner say.
and the word "irregardless" when "regardless" is what is meant.
This one is definitely something that only uneducated Southerners say.
Don't take Southern English to be representative of America overall.
the most common are not knowing how to use apostrophes (or should I say apostrophe's)
That one is really annoying. I'm not sure who to blame there, but it does seem to be pervasive.
and a liberal use of capital letters to begin words that are not at the beginning of a sentence and not a proper noun but are just plain old common-or-garden nouns.
That's not an Americanism, that's a few particular idiots.
People even talk about dressing-up for Halloween (trick-or-treating).
Good, it's a great tradition and holiday. It's the only time of the year when adult women can dress up in sexy, slutty outfits and not be ridiculed for it, and men don't get in trouble for ogling them. We need more holidays like that, and it's about time other countries adopted this tradition.
there is a sinister side: The right-wing party has been anti-welfare for a long time and it resulted in a not-so-young politician demanding Reagan-esque policies of welfare-bashing and gifts to the rich.... I dread the thought of my country becoming a corporate-driven plutocracy.
I'm no expert on British politics, but I don't think this is anything new. Wasn't Margaret Thatcher basically a female version of Reagan?
The -ize spelling is the correct British spelling. It's actually called the Oxford spelling as it is used by the Oxford Dictionary.
One really funny word in American English is the word "fuse". In British English, the spelling is "fuse". In America, the word is spelled "fuse" (the same), if you're a civilian, but if you're in the military and it's something used in munitions, it's spelled "fuze". Outside the military, no one spells it with a 'z'. (I'm not sure how the military spells it for electrical fuses.)
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Well some of those resources at least can be recycled, even if that's more difficult than mining. But yeah, they're not going to have all the convenient fossil fuels we do. Oh well, I guess we'll have to tack on an addition 10k or 20k years.
Well if you're going to use that argument, by the same logic, *every* diode passes current in both directions, and there's no such thing as a diode that blocks current in any direction, which renders the original statement nonsensical.
A correctly-operating diode only blocks current when reverse voltage is lower than the breakdown voltage. There are diodes which block current in both directions in this state.
A diode that blocks current in both directions is defective.
Absolutely wrong.
There's TVS protection diodes that use the avalanche effect which do exactly this.
so that we can focus on bigger problems, like keeping planet Earth habitable in the latter half of the 21st century and the 22nd century. Unless this is done, humanity is very unlikely to experience a 23rd century.
Oh, don't be ridiculous. Humanity will surely live to experience the 23rd century. It's really hard to completely wipe out a whole species with this many members, and which has intelligence and technological capability.
Now, of course, the 23rd century will probably look a lot like "Max Max II: The Road Warrior" or "28 Days Later" or "The Walking Dead", but I'm sure there'll be at least a few humans still running around.
Don't worry; humanity has had setbacks before, and recovered from them. The Roman Empire fell, for instance, causing Europeans to live in darkness and squalor for 1000 years before the Renaissance. So we'll probably have to wait until the 33rd century before we build a base on the Moon or Mars, but we'll get there eventually, after conquering the zombies and rediscovering antibiotics.
PostgreSQL, and the companies that contribute heavily to it, are doing just fine.
The BMWs that are sold in Europe probably have their turn signals used quite faithfully. It's the stupid American BMW buyers who don't.
So you listen to shitty 00s/10s Top-40 pop music, or worse, redneck rock (aka "country")?
There isn't anything else on the radio in most places.
Germans tend to over-engineer things and jump on all the latest tech, and Japanese tend to be very conservative and wait a while. So the Japanese cars usually aren't as cutting-edge as the German or even American cars.
The main problem with Japanese cars is that their infotainment tech is usually behind the others. Mazda and Toyota don't even have CarPlay or Android Auto available on their systems. The Germans have probably been doing infotainment longer than anyone else, so their systems are usually touted as the best.
But, they shouldn't be charging for the software upfront like that.
Why not? If you don't like their fees and policies, then don't buy a BMW. There's absolutely no shortage of other automakers out there to buy from, and they don't do this.
I say, more power to them. BMW buyers are likely to not care much about a $80/year fee, so BMW might as well soak them for whatever they can get out of them.
I can talk on my phone while driving just fine, with both hands on the wheel. They invented this thing called a "speakerphone" ages ago, along with something called "Bluetooth".
So what? They can pony up the fee if they want CarPlay and a BMW. If they object to the fee that much, they can opt against buying the car. Their choice. If this is really that much of a problem, then BMWs will take a hit in the used market, and not hold their prices as well. There's plenty of other cars on the market, and they don't charge this fee.
I think this move by BMW is just fine. If it works out, they'll make more profit. If it doesn't, they'll learn the hard way. Considering the people who buy BMWs, I suspect it'll work out well for them.
Policy for who? The GOP-controlled government? It's not government's job to engage in risky business endeavors. Companies run by GOP sympathizers? If they want to buy up toys and resell them for more, they're free to do that.
The main problem with doing this is risk: you might profit a lot if the toy is really hot at the moment, but on the other hand if it's all bought up and resold at too-high prices, it might just lose its attraction (or for other reasons), and now you're stuck with a giant pile of toys that no one wants.
Personally, I think this stuff is silly. If people want to buy up stuff and resell it, it's their right: it's called First Sale Doctrine. If mfgrs want to avoid the problems that could cause, they're free to institute sales policies, to try to prevent any one customer from buying too many. I'm personally not going to be saddened by some parents "forced" to spend $1000 on some stupid little toy; no one's forcing them to buy this crap instead of something else that isn't so popular.
Want pizza? I can raise you many local places that sell the real stuff.
Only if you live in a pretty decent city. In a lot of places, Domino's is the best available.
Maybe he was testing the Domino's App's accuracy.
Doesn't sound like any did, so I guess Apple got exactly what they paid for: nothing. They should have grabbed some loot while they were at it.
In exchange for what government services?
Police who will come to your store and arrest trespassers and thieves comes to mind.
If Apple doesn't want to pay taxes, then there shouldn't be any penalties for people who steal from Apple's stores.
You're allowed to discriminate based on age when you're discriminating against younger (under-55) people. There's tons of communities in the US where you either can't rent or can't buy a house if you're too young, and it's completely legal.
>> The only part of crime that matters is the dollar amount, silly!
> Says someone that's never ever had to worry about violent crime or been a victim of same.
Says someone with a completely broken sarcasm meter.
You're a moron or a liar, or both.
Most European cities don't have any smog problems and those that have them aren't caused by diesel engines.
Wrong. Diesel engines produce high NOx emissions, which lead to smog.
Diesel engines may produce a little more smog than petrol engines, but they produces far less volatile organic compounds and fewer particulates, both of which are much more important to smog formation than NOx.
You're a liar. Gas engines don't produce significant particulates. Any idiot who's been around a diesel bus as it pulls away from a stop knows that diesel engines produce high particulates. Fuck you and your lying. Why are you lying?
Ah, yes, European companies like Ford, General Motors, Hyundai, Nissan, Suzuki and Mazda....
You don't know about VW's dieselgate scandal?? Again, fuck you and your lying.
Since most American truck makers are owned by European companies, there are probably quite a few in trucks near you, too.
Why are you lying so much? Cummins is not a European company, and Ford makes their Powerstroke diesels here in the US.
Even "scone" differs. The scones we have here are typically triangular-shaped items of dense and very sweet bread, and are really quite recent; I don't remember them at all prior to 15 years ago, but now they're common in coffee shops. My understanding is that English scones are very different from this, according to Wikipedia at least, and are really a lot like our biscuits.
Here's an article that discusses the differences between British and American scones.
I don't know what part of America you visited, but I am American so I'm quite sure I'm familiar with the term. A biscuit isn't tough at all, and no, it's not always a breakfast item. KFC even commonly includes "biscuits" with its fried chicken (though it's the flaky kind, as I referred to before, not so fluffy as a dinner roll).
As for old cookbooks, food has changed a lot in America since before WWI, so the terminology has changed too, and most people aren't going to be familiar with older usage.
Gas means LPG. A gaseous product often used to power cars.
It's also short for "gasoline", a fraction of petroleum used to power cars. (And a different fraction of petroleum than diesel, also used to power cars and trucks, and again different from kerosene and the closely-related jet fuel.)
Americans appear to be incapable of making diesel engines that are any good, so its not surprising they don't use them much.
Bzzzt, wrong. Rednecks love diesel pickup trucks, and those American-made engines are quite reliable (a lot more so than the rest of the truck).
And it's a good thing that Americans don't use diesel nearly as much as Europeans in passenger cars, or else we'd have all the nasty smog problems that European cities have. Our air these days is much cleaner despite us driving many more miles per person. Diesel engines have a huge problem with NOx emissions that gas engines don't have.
Also, you seem to forget, it was the Europeans who fraudulently and criminally made diesel emissions that cheated on the emissions tests. Where are those "good" diesel engines you speak of? All I see is shitty ones from Europe that were made by liars and swindlers.
I hear "that was real hard" instead of "that was really hard"
That sounds like something you'd hear a stupid Southerner say.
and the word "irregardless" when "regardless" is what is meant.
This one is definitely something that only uneducated Southerners say.
Don't take Southern English to be representative of America overall.
the most common are not knowing how to use apostrophes (or should I say apostrophe's)
That one is really annoying. I'm not sure who to blame there, but it does seem to be pervasive.
and a liberal use of capital letters to begin words that are not at the beginning of a sentence and not a proper noun but are just plain old common-or-garden nouns.
That's not an Americanism, that's a few particular idiots.
People even talk about dressing-up for Halloween (trick-or-treating).
Good, it's a great tradition and holiday. It's the only time of the year when adult women can dress up in sexy, slutty outfits and not be ridiculed for it, and men don't get in trouble for ogling them. We need more holidays like that, and it's about time other countries adopted this tradition.
there is a sinister side: The right-wing party has been anti-welfare for a long time and it resulted in a not-so-young politician demanding Reagan-esque policies of welfare-bashing and gifts to the rich. ... I dread the thought of my country becoming a corporate-driven plutocracy.
I'm no expert on British politics, but I don't think this is anything new. Wasn't Margaret Thatcher basically a female version of Reagan?
The -ize spelling is the correct British spelling. It's actually called the Oxford spelling as it is used by the Oxford Dictionary.
One really funny word in American English is the word "fuse". In British English, the spelling is "fuse". In America, the word is spelled "fuse" (the same), if you're a civilian, but if you're in the military and it's something used in munitions, it's spelled "fuze". Outside the military, no one spells it with a 'z'. (I'm not sure how the military spells it for electrical fuses.)