I don't mind buying used, so the $25,000 difference between something like a used Camry or Civic (I realize those are different classes of vehicle, but they represent reasonable choices that get 30 mpg or better) and the Volt will buy me a god-awful lot of gasoline.
(According to Kelley Blue Book, it is not particularly ridiculous to expect to pay $12,000-17,000 for a late model Camry with 40,000 miles on it, I just checked)
I would call the Volt a true hybrid. It has a ICE that acts as a generator and an electric powertrain.
All the other things that are called hybrids are 'electrically assisted' or something, when the battery is at 0% charge (or whatever it should be called when it would damage it to further discharge it), the vehicle is powered purely mechanically.
Unless you are a jackass and throw it in the trash for no reason, virtually everything in a lithium battery can be reused.
(I don't know why anyone would try to swap something so huge out themselves; who knows if packs will even be available from anyone but dealers, so entering the trash stream is pretty unlikely).
The best reason not to purchase something like the Volt is that it is ridiculously expensive, even if gas costs $5 a gallon (at which point $5,000 still buys enough gasoline to run a 'crappy' 30 mpg car for 30,000 miles).
The pda Val Kilmer has in Red Planet is a nice presentation of the concept, just having such a tool means you would find all sorts of reasons to use it.
Also, by analogy, technically speaking, early farmers had no practical need for steel.
There are resolution issues with anything that is a display (hold your finger up to your eye about where the lens of a pair of glasses would be and try to focus on it; the apparent resolution of the display will be limited by this, combined with the size of the display). I guess drawing on the retina with some lasers wouldn't have that problem, but that seems scarier.
Even treating either of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party as a single monolithic block is a hilarious joke.
Much of the consensus building that is explicit in parliamentary systems with many parties is implicit in the platforms and eventual actions of the parties in the U.S.
I tried not to come across as quibbling with your point, I was just examining one of your examples, where the current solution (a widespread deeming of slavery as unacceptable) has not necessarily kept up with the growth of society (and other changes; we live more anonymously today, and are divorced from many of the mechanisms that make our lives possible).
I barely see the attitude in the post you replied to as relevant, most progress has been made in the face of active resistance, so trying to shout down such resistance strikes me as futile (shouting it down is probably somewhat different than engaging and countering it, but the initial post is so bleakly pessimistic that successful engagement doesn't seem very likely).
Um, belief? It is largely synonymous with your definition but lacks the strong connotation regarding (lack of) evidence that comes up when using faith.
Instead of "I have faith the plane will fly", you can just say "I believe the plane will fly." Get's your meaning across without implying that you might be hoping the plane into the air.
Slavery is an interesting one, as it depends very much on how you decide to measure it. Clearly, as a percentage of the population, slavery is marginalized, especially in the developed world, but if you measure the population of slaves, you can find people claiming that there are currently tens of millions of slaves (as opposed to the 4 or 5 million people that were slaves in the American south, which is the most likely immediate conception of slavery for most Americans). Note that is without drawing any euphemisms about 'wage slavery' and the like, it is the estimate of people laboring under force.
Wikipedia has several links substantiating the tens of millions above:
The Aztecs, or some other group in Mexico, I'm lazy and don't care for the details, made toys with wheels (and axles) in them. They never employed the wheel as a labor saving device, but they had wheels and axles. I'm currently reading "Guns, Germs and Steel"; in the book, the author, Jarrod Diamond, posits that they did not use the wheel as a tool because they did not have access to any draft animals (the largest domesticated mammal available in the Americas at that point in time was the Llama, but the Aztecs (or whoever) didn't have any).
Technology probably does not advance as a law of nature, but we aren't done yet, and technology clearly transfers extremely rapidly (especially when modern technology is employed when making that transfer). An example would be cellular telephone networks in places like India, or much of Africa; no one ever bothered setting up a bunch of wires, and when the cost of the technology became low enough, someone built the networks.
I could strap a couple of hundred flight deniers in the back of a 747 without impacting the capabilities of the plane, so I think that analogy breaks down pretty quickly.
Faith is something stronger than the belief that a plane can fly, it is belief in the face of zero evidence.
Companies like Disney may not understand what music buyers in general are interested in, but they have their hands so far up their customers asses I don't even want to think about it. They just manufacture a new pop star every 3 or 4 years. It is quite impressive.
Microsoft is already working as hard as they can to expand into any software related business they think they can make money at, Chrome OS isn't even a blip on that strategic radar, and won't be for years.
People pay a lot of attention to Google because it is a hot new company; since their IPO, Google has exploded up to annual revenues of a bit more than $20 billion dollars. In the same period of time, Microsoft has added a roughly similar amount of revenues, but since they are already a giant corporation, no one notices that they are growing.
That sounds like a terrible idea, caffeine is pretty addictive, but it is mostly a mild stimulant. There is research that suggests that nicotine completely rewires the pleasure centers of the brain (to make them dependent on nicotine):
How much does it cost to buy one from a corrupt government employee?
I usually identify myself by saying 'I'm me!'. That isn't enough to buy alcohol (even though I have plenty of gray hair (before 30 dammit!)), but for the most part, I don't have to identify myself very often. I use credit cards and checks to initiate transactions against my accounts, but I don't remember someone worried about my id before accepting one of them (well, lots of stores want to see my drivers license because my credit card isn't signed, but all the cashiers do is glance at the signature, they don't verify shit). As I get older and become more of a crank, the idea of using cash for more purchases has started to sink in, but I haven't really embraced it yet.
Sure. I am usually pretty calm about investigating things, I was mostly explaining the line of thought.
Your point about any suspicious traffic that does show up is a good one (I guess the question then becomes whether doing full on sniffing on the box is worth more than just running netstat, or some similar utility, I use TCPView).
If you are going to fart around that much, you might as well build a new install CD with SP3 slipstreamed in and the most recent hotfixes set to run on install:
I have built such a CD from the I386 folder on my harddrive (my laptop came with a recovery partition, not a CD) and successfully installed it into a virtual machine.
I've ruined far more popcorn sticking it into microwaves of higher power than the packaging anticipated than I have cooking it on the stove.
Apparently, when it comes to the microwave, I am the better fool. When it comes to the stove, I have a sense of how hot the pan can be before it will burn the popcorn.
You can't trust any software running on the box in question.
It's paranoid, but it is the only way to be sure. Using a live cd seems more practical than keeping a specially configured box just for network sniffing though.
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I don't mind buying used, so the $25,000 difference between something like a used Camry or Civic (I realize those are different classes of vehicle, but they represent reasonable choices that get 30 mpg or better) and the Volt will buy me a god-awful lot of gasoline.
(According to Kelley Blue Book, it is not particularly ridiculous to expect to pay $12,000-17,000 for a late model Camry with 40,000 miles on it, I just checked)
I would call the Volt a true hybrid. It has a ICE that acts as a generator and an electric powertrain.
All the other things that are called hybrids are 'electrically assisted' or something, when the battery is at 0% charge (or whatever it should be called when it would damage it to further discharge it), the vehicle is powered purely mechanically.
Unless you are a jackass and throw it in the trash for no reason, virtually everything in a lithium battery can be reused.
(I don't know why anyone would try to swap something so huge out themselves; who knows if packs will even be available from anyone but dealers, so entering the trash stream is pretty unlikely).
The best reason not to purchase something like the Volt is that it is ridiculously expensive, even if gas costs $5 a gallon (at which point $5,000 still buys enough gasoline to run a 'crappy' 30 mpg car for 30,000 miles).
The pda Val Kilmer has in Red Planet is a nice presentation of the concept, just having such a tool means you would find all sorts of reasons to use it.
Also, by analogy, technically speaking, early farmers had no practical need for steel.
There are resolution issues with anything that is a display (hold your finger up to your eye about where the lens of a pair of glasses would be and try to focus on it; the apparent resolution of the display will be limited by this, combined with the size of the display). I guess drawing on the retina with some lasers wouldn't have that problem, but that seems scarier.
Even treating either of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party as a single monolithic block is a hilarious joke.
Much of the consensus building that is explicit in parliamentary systems with many parties is implicit in the platforms and eventual actions of the parties in the U.S.
I tried not to come across as quibbling with your point, I was just examining one of your examples, where the current solution (a widespread deeming of slavery as unacceptable) has not necessarily kept up with the growth of society (and other changes; we live more anonymously today, and are divorced from many of the mechanisms that make our lives possible).
I barely see the attitude in the post you replied to as relevant, most progress has been made in the face of active resistance, so trying to shout down such resistance strikes me as futile (shouting it down is probably somewhat different than engaging and countering it, but the initial post is so bleakly pessimistic that successful engagement doesn't seem very likely).
Um, belief? It is largely synonymous with your definition but lacks the strong connotation regarding (lack of) evidence that comes up when using faith.
Instead of "I have faith the plane will fly", you can just say "I believe the plane will fly." Get's your meaning across without implying that you might be hoping the plane into the air.
Well, what other description would you prefer to use for the several billion people who actively practice the various mystical religions?
They seem to want a claim on the word faith, why not give it to them?
Slavery is an interesting one, as it depends very much on how you decide to measure it. Clearly, as a percentage of the population, slavery is marginalized, especially in the developed world, but if you measure the population of slaves, you can find people claiming that there are currently tens of millions of slaves (as opposed to the 4 or 5 million people that were slaves in the American south, which is the most likely immediate conception of slavery for most Americans). Note that is without drawing any euphemisms about 'wage slavery' and the like, it is the estimate of people laboring under force.
Wikipedia has several links substantiating the tens of millions above:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery#Twentieth_century_worldwide
This one at least quotes the figure:
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2005/issue3/0305p28.html
The Aztecs, or some other group in Mexico, I'm lazy and don't care for the details, made toys with wheels (and axles) in them. They never employed the wheel as a labor saving device, but they had wheels and axles. I'm currently reading "Guns, Germs and Steel"; in the book, the author, Jarrod Diamond, posits that they did not use the wheel as a tool because they did not have access to any draft animals (the largest domesticated mammal available in the Americas at that point in time was the Llama, but the Aztecs (or whoever) didn't have any).
Technology probably does not advance as a law of nature, but we aren't done yet, and technology clearly transfers extremely rapidly (especially when modern technology is employed when making that transfer). An example would be cellular telephone networks in places like India, or much of Africa; no one ever bothered setting up a bunch of wires, and when the cost of the technology became low enough, someone built the networks.
I could strap a couple of hundred flight deniers in the back of a 747 without impacting the capabilities of the plane, so I think that analogy breaks down pretty quickly.
Faith is something stronger than the belief that a plane can fly, it is belief in the face of zero evidence.
Companies like Disney may not understand what music buyers in general are interested in, but they have their hands so far up their customers asses I don't even want to think about it. They just manufacture a new pop star every 3 or 4 years. It is quite impressive.
The wet wood chips are there for flavor, not for fire.
Windows ("Client") and Office ("Microsoft Business Division") are more profitable, but Microsoft reports significant income from "Server and Tools":
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/reports/ar08/10k_fr_dis.html
From the viewpoint of an investor, Microsoft is a fairly transparent company, most of the numbers are out there:
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/default.mspx
Microsoft is already working as hard as they can to expand into any software related business they think they can make money at, Chrome OS isn't even a blip on that strategic radar, and won't be for years.
People pay a lot of attention to Google because it is a hot new company; since their IPO, Google has exploded up to annual revenues of a bit more than $20 billion dollars. In the same period of time, Microsoft has added a roughly similar amount of revenues, but since they are already a giant corporation, no one notices that they are growing.
That sounds like a terrible idea, caffeine is pretty addictive, but it is mostly a mild stimulant. There is research that suggests that nicotine completely rewires the pleasure centers of the brain (to make them dependent on nicotine):
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hooked-from-the-first-cigarette
My understanding is the the system Dish Network is using right now is unbroken (I got a new card sometime last year).
I haven't really looked into it or spent the time trying to get into more closely held forums though.
Is the recommended procedure for turning in a geed card to gin one up out of steel and hammer it through your forehead?
Announcement: Geek card jokes old and tired, no longer funny, let them die.
How much does it cost to buy one from a corrupt government employee?
I usually identify myself by saying 'I'm me!'. That isn't enough to buy alcohol (even though I have plenty of gray hair (before 30 dammit!)), but for the most part, I don't have to identify myself very often. I use credit cards and checks to initiate transactions against my accounts, but I don't remember someone worried about my id before accepting one of them (well, lots of stores want to see my drivers license because my credit card isn't signed, but all the cashiers do is glance at the signature, they don't verify shit). As I get older and become more of a crank, the idea of using cash for more purchases has started to sink in, but I haven't really embraced it yet.
Yeah, most stores are always on the lookout for ways not to sell alcohol to people with reasonable identification.
Sure. I am usually pretty calm about investigating things, I was mostly explaining the line of thought.
Your point about any suspicious traffic that does show up is a good one (I guess the question then becomes whether doing full on sniffing on the box is worth more than just running netstat, or some similar utility, I use TCPView).
If you are going to fart around that much, you might as well build a new install CD with SP3 slipstreamed in and the most recent hotfixes set to run on install:
http://www.nliteos.com/guide/part1.html
I have built such a CD from the I386 folder on my harddrive (my laptop came with a recovery partition, not a CD) and successfully installed it into a virtual machine.
I've ruined far more popcorn sticking it into microwaves of higher power than the packaging anticipated than I have cooking it on the stove.
Apparently, when it comes to the microwave, I am the better fool. When it comes to the stove, I have a sense of how hot the pan can be before it will burn the popcorn.
You can't trust any software running on the box in question.
It's paranoid, but it is the only way to be sure. Using a live cd seems more practical than keeping a specially configured box just for network sniffing though.