Hopefully the same options will be available for us when our government gets around to implementing our own kill switch.
Have you not learned yet? "Human Rights" is just another weapon to use against your enemies if and when it suits you. "Freedom of speech" is only granted if you say whatever he who has the power to grant or withhold the freedom, wants to hear.
The rights and freedoms you have are the ones you can enforce for yourself. All others are at the whim of somebody else.
Volume/distance is a convenient figure to do calculations with when planning a trip: so much fuel needed given the total distance. (And I don't have much of a quarrel with the German mentality of planning ahead in detail.)
Distance/volume is arguably a more convenient figure to calculate how far you can go on a given amount of fuel. Which is nice in theory, but how often do you use it in practice? I mean, I know where I need to be, it is a given, it won't change. Filling up with some fuel does present the problem that I'm still not sure how much I had in the tank beforehand. The only way to be sure is to fill up completely, and distance on a full tank is a calculation one has to do once and remember, or at least only occasionally as mileage begins to deteriorate with age (or improve, if you have one of those diesels).
It seems it all boils down to which calculation are you going to use more? Admittedly, this was decided on before mobile phones with calculators became commonplace, so it seems the decision has been skewed in the direction of easy, in your head calculations.
I was put on Warfarin (blood anti-coagulant, also used in some rat poisons, for the non-chem/pharm nerds) for half of last year after a bilateral pulmonary embolism (blood clots in both lungs, for the non-med nerds), following surgery.
Warfarin is a cheap drug and does not seem to affect one's health, even long-term (comparing notes with a friend who is on a lifelong prescription due to heart valve replacement). It however IS quite a b*tch for someone who loves to tinker in the workshop or garden. The slightest cut or scrape tends to bleed and bleed and bleed and.... When dressing in the morning, apart from the phone, keys, wallet, and handkerchief, I also made sure I packed a box of bandages.
I'm not sure I would go to the lengths of inventing my own medical device just to get around that nuisance.
What worries me most is not that somebody in the future would invent a way to travel to the past, but that of all the places they could choose to travel too, they would choose the film set of a bad jewish parody of Adolf Hitler.
Oh wait, he became well known only a few years later.... Well, maybe they are so bored in the future that they play something like russian time traveller roulette.
Good thing for me that I live within 2 hours' drive of the Drakensberg range. No need for all that fancy stuff, only a good shotgun to keep freebooters at bay, and replenish my own stocks from those idiots that bought ten years' cans.
Traditional burial apparently takes place too deep for aerobic decomposition to take place. Embalming fluids, some medication and food additives, various metals in prostheses (e.g. dental fillings) further complicate the matter. Of course, cremation has its own problems with some of these, apart from the huge amounts of (fossil) fuel required.
Man with laptop at counter: "Where do I find the hotspot?"
(OK, so these days hotels in Vegas might probably be immersed in Wifi. Wouldn't know, haven't stayed in a hotel for years and will do my best to continue on that path, have never been in a hotel on either of the American continents.)
All fine and well, but a person can't really change his (or her) endocrine makeup (except with probably expensive and repeated medical intervention, which may have some nasty side-effects on your health). So learn to live with your and others' bad choices.
We've got memory that's made out of dirt-cheap material and it works
I guess the materials alone don't determine the price, but the expertise/work to put them together. I'm also typing on a computer that's made out of cheap materials (lots of plastic, some alumin(i)um, small quantities of other stuff) - but it didn't come that cheap.
.... as if we don't have enough noise pollution as it is. Oh well, if you're the type of guy who installs custom tailpipes, or can't fix your broken ones, maybe a Prius isn't for you in any case.
Slashdot Mirror
Have you not learned yet? "Human Rights" is just another weapon to use against your enemies if and when it suits you. "Freedom of speech" is only granted if you say whatever he who has the power to grant or withhold the freedom, wants to hear.
The rights and freedoms you have are the ones you can enforce for yourself. All others are at the whim of somebody else.
I thought so - this should have been under Idle....
Is this a header that nicely asks advertisers not to track you? And if they choose to ignore it??
Volume/distance is a convenient figure to do calculations with when planning a trip: so much fuel needed given the total distance. (And I don't have much of a quarrel with the German mentality of planning ahead in detail.)
Distance/volume is arguably a more convenient figure to calculate how far you can go on a given amount of fuel. Which is nice in theory, but how often do you use it in practice? I mean, I know where I need to be, it is a given, it won't change. Filling up with some fuel does present the problem that I'm still not sure how much I had in the tank beforehand. The only way to be sure is to fill up completely, and distance on a full tank is a calculation one has to do once and remember, or at least only occasionally as mileage begins to deteriorate with age (or improve, if you have one of those diesels).
It seems it all boils down to which calculation are you going to use more? Admittedly, this was decided on before mobile phones with calculators became commonplace, so it seems the decision has been skewed in the direction of easy, in your head calculations.
Warfarin is a cheap drug and does not seem to affect one's health, even long-term (comparing notes with a friend who is on a lifelong prescription due to heart valve replacement). It however IS quite a b*tch for someone who loves to tinker in the workshop or garden. The slightest cut or scrape tends to bleed and bleed and bleed and .... When dressing in the morning, apart from the phone, keys, wallet, and handkerchief, I also made sure I packed a box of bandages.
I'm not sure I would go to the lengths of inventing my own medical device just to get around that nuisance.
Sounds like an adventure boat to me.
nearly a quarter of a century ago
I suppose the more succinct and arguably more precise "24 years ago" or "in 1986" sounds so ordinary (to a journalist's ears, at least.
the shickwave tares em apart.
Do kids actually die when losing their fluff?
There were more clones, but the scientist could never finish counting them - they kept falling asleep.
Rather clone asses (not: arses) next time.
Could that be because new developments are incremental, rather than original or profound?
Good thing that they didn't get awarded the term "Farce".
My killer social website, FarceTwatSpace, is still safe.
If computers are reasonably good at being humans, the Turing test declares them intelligent, too.
What if everybody that was about to make a comment that could in any conceivable way be taken to be against the law, just prefaced it with "Joke:" ?
Of course, if this would ever take hold, it would be the best ironic comment on the way that the legal system has gone.
... my first search will be "kennedy assassination /truth". Followed by "mp3 music /goodtaste"
Oh wait, he became well known only a few years later.... Well, maybe they are so bored in the future that they play something like russian time traveller roulette.
Good thing for me that I live within 2 hours' drive of the Drakensberg range. No need for all that fancy stuff, only a good shotgun to keep freebooters at bay, and replenish my own stocks from those idiots that bought ten years' cans.
Traditional burial apparently takes place too deep for aerobic decomposition to take place. Embalming fluids, some medication and food additives, various metals in prostheses (e.g. dental fillings) further complicate the matter. Of course, cremation has its own problems with some of these, apart from the huge amounts of (fossil) fuel required.
Natural burials and ecological burials provide some (partial) alternatives.
Well, good! If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
(OK, so these days hotels in Vegas might probably be immersed in Wifi. Wouldn't know, haven't stayed in a hotel for years and will do my best to continue on that path, have never been in a hotel on either of the American continents.)
Yes. But they all sit on the other car...
Yeah I know, life's a b*ch. What else is new?
I guess the materials alone don't determine the price, but the expertise/work to put them together. I'm also typing on a computer that's made out of cheap materials (lots of plastic, some alumin(i)um, small quantities of other stuff) - but it didn't come that cheap.
.... as if we don't have enough noise pollution as it is. Oh well, if you're the type of guy who installs custom tailpipes, or can't fix your broken ones, maybe a Prius isn't for you in any case.
... or am I mistaken???