A person who spend 10,000$ a month on a game has a problem and someone who's trying to exploit someone's problem in order to become rich is nothing but a thief. The man behind that company should be put behind bars.
The problem they have is they have too much money and have yet to find e very, very good friend like me, to like, help them find fun and exciting ways to spend it.
Seriously. Some people make it big, and just have no idea what to do with the money. I simply can't imagine this.
If you have the funds to drop $10k per month on in-app purchases of a game, then maybe you should drop $3-5k on a life coach and figure out how to express yourself a bit better so you can maybe find a spouse and have a family. Families are expensive so having money for it is useful, but they're far more rewarding and for far longer than digital items in a game.
I figure I need to write a Justin Bieber Egg Tosser game - sell special Ostrich eggs and a spiff trebuchet.
Them who have needs, need to have a good provisioner.
This is serious. Not throwing away my e-waste unless I can be sure someone is not going to die from it. We are acting like savages!
You aren't acting like a savage - the people who dispose of it for a living or enrichment, without a care to what they've stuck in some bog, river or former farmland, those are savages. Rather like the cretins who roam our backroads, looking for a clear chance to unload their trash, rather than take it to a proper disposal site.
Much of what's in Ghana has been exported from the first world, to the third world, where people live (even if briefly) on scavenging. This isn't much different from the very depressing and massive ewaste dumps in China.
I was told and old IBM 360 system was being trucked to Savannah, Georgia, where it would go aboard a ship and taken to China, where families would bid upon bits of the system, which they'd take home and extract copper, gold and anything else of value - you can do the math yourself to figure what they did with the remains.
What I do know of marine research comes from a friend who worked a couple years at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) They'd go out to see for weeks at a time, visiting various sensors to gather data. Some of this data comes from deep in the water column. Aggregating from stations, over several years can paint a pretty clear picture. 700+ stations is pretty significant. A lot more telling than a statement like "Gee, I don't think that's very much" - based upon feck all knowledge of the science, equipment, procedures and knowledge.
Uh, the article said "lead," not "tetraethyllead" [sic].
Guess what? That lead came from the earth - humans dug it up. It's not like alchemy is real.
Are sub-sea geothermal vents spewing lead in some form? Are there exposed veins of lead on the ocean floor? Is it from fishing weights or ballasts of sunken ships?
If you can't answer all those questions and other similar, your comment is less than worthless.
Well it's obvious you didn't read it, particularly the bit about a concentration diluting along known currents. Guess those were some big words and you might have had trouble with them.
Tetraethyllead was added to gasoline as a catalyst. Once the fuel was burned the catalyst exited into the atmosphere (are you keeping up?) where it could land anywhere or go into solution where rain fell, taking it through drains, watersheds, down rivers and into the ocean. Spotting it in the water column is pretty easy. Spotting it in your water and food, well, that's a less heterogeneous environment. But with all the fuel burned with that additive, it's somewhere, it doesn't go POOF and magically disapper (out of sight, out of mind.) Got that?
Without some sort of baseline of ocean lead levels before the industrial age, it's difficult to assert that the levels observed are caused by humanity in any specific percentage.
Where's the proxy for historic ocean lead levels pre-1850?
Who else was adding tetraethyllead to their fuel supply, alien invaders?
Seeing concentrations which dilute along known currents isn't very iffy stuff, even a kid dripping oil in a stream of water can witness this effect.
I wonder how much of that lead comes back in fish - the 'brain' food.
Next week news - Zombies in peril, main food source contaminated by lead. Zombie health institute issues warnings, zombies lurch in protest.
'3000 open positions'.. 'cognitive computing' -- "So do you know how to be replaced by an outsourced position? If so, you're temporarily hired! Welcome to our new 'cognitive computing team'."
Not exactly a fair comparison. I only trust banks because they are insured and if they "lose" my money then I will have recourse to recover it. With the online bitcoin exchanges, there is no such thing.
2008 should teach you one thing - when the banks screw up, the execs make sure they never have to pay for their poor decision making - they pull the strings and make the representatives they own dance to their tune. It's not that nothing was learned from 1929, something was, it's to make sure the people at the top continue to line their nests and their lackeys in government make sure they can continue to do whatever. The belief that the banks are now all square is an illusion, they've borrowed from the Federal Reserve to pay back the government loans. With the government borrowing like a gambling addict to prop the economy up, one thing was lost - value of the dollar, it's nowhere as strong as it once was, nor buys as much as it did in early 2008.
People who make death threats aren't rational people. Expecting them to suddenly behave rationally is without merit. They'll just move on making death threats to the next person in line they have some perceived (real or imagined) gripe against.
"choose an electric car that costs nearly $100,000"
$89,500 is nearly $100,000.
Hmm... $9,000 is nearly $10,000.. $10,000 is nearly $11,000.. etc etc etc.. $89,500 is nearly $100,000.. etc etc etc.. $2,700,000,000,000 is nearly $3,000,000,000,000..
I think I'm beginning to see how government thinks.
By the reverse logic you could rationalize there's almost no impact to your budget to buy one. I'm seeing dozens of these things zipping around, and they really do sneak up on you on the road, with no air compressor, exhaust or squealy belts to give them away. People actually seem to like them.
I don't see the Tesla as competing with the Leaf. The Leaf basically competes with the Volt. It's biggest problem is range. The Leaf suits only a narrow market who either has a very short commute or a relatively short commute with charging at their destination.
There's nothing wrong with that, but it does mean there's necessarily a small audience for it.
The one experience I've had with a Leaf is riding in a friend's. Very nice car, but for the money I'd expect more range. Further, the limited range was a near problem as the car could well have left us stuck along the road, because going over even a few hills cuts into the mileage significantly. Very short commute or very short distance errand car is about what it is - a niche market.
There are a few dozen Tesla S model cars around where I live and I've even spotted one on I-5, southbound. That goes through some rather hinterland experience, when driving from the Bay Area south. There must be a charging station of two placed between I-580 and Los Angeles.
Nissan would do well to examine the charging network and figuring how they can invest and leverage what's out there.
Egon the scientist left an impression on me as an 11 year old kid.
While his character was supposed to be a little dorky I suppose, he was just pure awesome to me. He was the only Ghostbuster to be totally on top of things, and knew what he was doing. He inspired me to be the techie I am today.
RIP Harold Ramis.
He left an impression on me, too. Nerds could be cool.
Considering how many people text while driving, it might PREVENT one!
I don't think I'd like an update to happen while I'm away from home, let alone moving. If I'm at home and the car fails on the installation update or to work afterwards I have my bike and public transportation options. When I was 400 miles from home and needed car repair I was stuck in a hotel for 3 days, the novelty, even of having a loner car, wore off pretty fast.
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As soon as warranty is up on my 6D I'll try it out.
It's probably worth my while to pick up a good used T2i body and try it out.
A person who spend 10,000$ a month on a game has a problem and someone who's trying to exploit someone's problem in order to become rich is nothing but a thief. The man behind that company should be put behind bars.
The problem they have is they have too much money and have yet to find e very, very good friend like me, to like, help them find fun and exciting ways to spend it.
Seriously. Some people make it big, and just have no idea what to do with the money. I simply can't imagine this.
If you have the funds to drop $10k per month on in-app purchases of a game, then maybe you should drop $3-5k on a life coach and figure out how to express yourself a bit better so you can maybe find a spouse and have a family. Families are expensive so having money for it is useful, but they're far more rewarding and for far longer than digital items in a game.
I figure I need to write a Justin Bieber Egg Tosser game - sell special Ostrich eggs and a spiff trebuchet.
Them who have needs, need to have a good provisioner.
Here I am, trying to sell the Golden Gate Bridge on the street and I could be selling it in a game.
I've got to get caught up on synergies of new technology, to coordinate my vision of business core-competencies with the emerging paradigm.
This is serious. Not throwing away my e-waste unless I can be sure someone is not going to die from it. We are acting like savages!
You aren't acting like a savage - the people who dispose of it for a living or enrichment, without a care to what they've stuck in some bog, river or former farmland, those are savages. Rather like the cretins who roam our backroads, looking for a clear chance to unload their trash, rather than take it to a proper disposal site.
Much of what's in Ghana has been exported from the first world, to the third world, where people live (even if briefly) on scavenging. This isn't much different from the very depressing and massive ewaste dumps in China.
I was told and old IBM 360 system was being trucked to Savannah, Georgia, where it would go aboard a ship and taken to China, where families would bid upon bits of the system, which they'd take home and extract copper, gold and anything else of value - you can do the math yourself to figure what they did with the remains.
What I do know of marine research comes from a friend who worked a couple years at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) They'd go out to see for weeks at a time, visiting various sensors to gather data. Some of this data comes from deep in the water column. Aggregating from stations, over several years can paint a pretty clear picture. 700+ stations is pretty significant. A lot more telling than a statement like "Gee, I don't think that's very much" - based upon feck all knowledge of the science, equipment, procedures and knowledge.
*ring ring*
Hello? Mr D? Are you there?
Ohh.. that's right.. it became a problem.
And you died. Oops.
Lead in food leads to neurological disorders, retarding intelligence, impairing motor functions, etc.
Now, I'm not saying there's evidence of that in any responses here ...
Uh, the article said "lead," not "tetraethyllead" [sic].
Guess what? That lead came from the earth - humans dug it up. It's not like alchemy is real.
Are sub-sea geothermal vents spewing lead in some form? Are there exposed veins of lead on the ocean floor? Is it from fishing weights or ballasts of sunken ships?
If you can't answer all those questions and other similar, your comment is less than worthless.
Well it's obvious you didn't read it, particularly the bit about a concentration diluting along known currents. Guess those were some big words and you might have had trouble with them.
Tetraethyllead was added to gasoline as a catalyst. Once the fuel was burned the catalyst exited into the atmosphere (are you keeping up?) where it could land anywhere or go into solution where rain fell, taking it through drains, watersheds, down rivers and into the ocean. Spotting it in the water column is pretty easy. Spotting it in your water and food, well, that's a less heterogeneous environment. But with all the fuel burned with that additive, it's somewhere, it doesn't go POOF and magically disapper (out of sight, out of mind.) Got that?
...is because of human activity.
Without some sort of baseline of ocean lead levels before the industrial age, it's difficult to assert that the levels observed are caused by humanity in any specific percentage.
Where's the proxy for historic ocean lead levels pre-1850?
Who else was adding tetraethyllead to their fuel supply, alien invaders?
Seeing concentrations which dilute along known currents isn't very iffy stuff, even a kid dripping oil in a stream of water can witness this effect.
I wonder how much of that lead comes back in fish - the 'brain' food.
Next week news - Zombies in peril, main food source contaminated by lead. Zombie health institute issues warnings, zombies lurch in protest.
Slusho - You Can't Drink Just Six!
What's the worst that could happen?
<_<
'3000 open positions' .. 'cognitive computing' -- "So do you know how to be replaced by an outsourced position? If so, you're temporarily hired! Welcome to our new 'cognitive computing team'."
Not exactly a fair comparison. I only trust banks because they are insured and if they "lose" my money then I will have recourse to recover it. With the online bitcoin exchanges, there is no such thing.
2008 should teach you one thing - when the banks screw up, the execs make sure they never have to pay for their poor decision making - they pull the strings and make the representatives they own dance to their tune. It's not that nothing was learned from 1929, something was, it's to make sure the people at the top continue to line their nests and their lackeys in government make sure they can continue to do whatever. The belief that the banks are now all square is an illusion, they've borrowed from the Federal Reserve to pay back the government loans. With the government borrowing like a gambling addict to prop the economy up, one thing was lost - value of the dollar, it's nowhere as strong as it once was, nor buys as much as it did in early 2008.
I trust bitcoin itself just fine... it's the third party exchanges I don't trust.
Foo.
That's preposterous. It's like saying you trust Dollars just fine, but don't trust the banks...
...
'k, I'll shut up now.
Poor choice for analogy since Windows 1.0 was only ever a weak beta. Try 8.0, it's a weak full release with malarkey marketing monkey behind it.
I've never trusted it. If I mine a coin I'll sell it, tout suite!
Nothing like a wrong decision to give Murphy's Law a leg up.
I wonder how those who made the decisions slept that night. Probably like babies, because sociopaths never believe anything is their own fault.
People who make death threats aren't rational people. Expecting them to suddenly behave rationally is without merit. They'll just move on making death threats to the next person in line they have some perceived (real or imagined) gripe against.
And the submitter isn't
"choose an electric car that costs nearly $100,000"
$89,500 is nearly $100,000.
Hmm ... $9,000 is nearly $10,000 .. $10,000 is nearly $11,000 .. etc etc etc .. $89,500 is nearly $100,000 .. etc etc etc .. $2,700,000,000,000 is nearly $3,000,000,000,000 ..
I think I'm beginning to see how government thinks.
By the reverse logic you could rationalize there's almost no impact to your budget to buy one. I'm seeing dozens of these things zipping around, and they really do sneak up on you on the road, with no air compressor, exhaust or squealy belts to give them away. People actually seem to like them.
I don't see the Tesla as competing with the Leaf. The Leaf basically competes with the Volt. It's biggest problem is range. The Leaf suits only a narrow market who either has a very short commute or a relatively short commute with charging at their destination.
There's nothing wrong with that, but it does mean there's necessarily a small audience for it.
The one experience I've had with a Leaf is riding in a friend's. Very nice car, but for the money I'd expect more range. Further, the limited range was a near problem as the car could well have left us stuck along the road, because going over even a few hills cuts into the mileage significantly. Very short commute or very short distance errand car is about what it is - a niche market.
There are a few dozen Tesla S model cars around where I live and I've even spotted one on I-5, southbound. That goes through some rather hinterland experience, when driving from the Bay Area south. There must be a charging station of two placed between I-580 and Los Angeles.
Nissan would do well to examine the charging network and figuring how they can invest and leverage what's out there.
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Egon the scientist left an impression on me as an 11 year old kid.
While his character was supposed to be a little dorky I suppose, he was just pure awesome to me. He was the only Ghostbuster to be totally on top of things, and knew what he was doing. He inspired me to be the techie I am today.
RIP Harold Ramis.
He left an impression on me, too. Nerds could be cool.
Thanks for the memories, Harold/Egon.
Something which doesn't get all bent out of shape every time some update is crammed down their throat, which breaks or changes behavior of everything.
call 'em Gluddites
Considering how many people text while driving, it might PREVENT one!
I don't think I'd like an update to happen while I'm away from home, let alone moving. If I'm at home and the car fails on the installation update or to work afterwards I have my bike and public transportation options. When I was 400 miles from home and needed car repair I was stuck in a hotel for 3 days, the novelty, even of having a loner car, wore off pretty fast.
Since when do we use 2d for second? Are we that short of space in the new Beta?
This is a 2 Dimensional acquisition, not a 3 or 4 dimensional one (either of which would be far more exciting.)
Did they mean "2nd biggest"?
Why not just write "Second biggest"?
There's a patent on that.
...Slightly larger than a particle of commons sense, which is in such short supply these days.