Unfortunately many in the world do not hold your view. They flat out don't care. They do love the deluded hippy mentality that still exists in parts of the world. It helps them further their goals as they know and rely on these types to drag down efforts to curtail their horrendous activities.
In case you haven't noticed most violence in this world doesn't involve the United States. Also most cases of violence in this world involve a very militaristic and deranged sect of Islam. They don't care that you want peace, they want to rule, they want power, and they want your death. They freely kill civilians because they know they can do so with near impunity as most countries would rather not ask for help in containing them.
How long should we ignore Sudan? There may peace their one day but that won't occur until how many Africans are killed by Islamic murderers who operate with impunity because the world doesn't give a shit?
A peaceful world will only come about when those who prey on civilians because of religious, ethnic, or other differences are eradicated. You cannot do that through words. Words only serve to extend the suffering that their victims endure. Words allowed nearly a million Africans die in the 90s and are killing millions now. Words allowed the Taliban to nearly destroy Afghanistan. Words are allowing the regime in Iran to develop nuclear weapons. Words will get you killed, me killed, and whole lot of other people striving for peace killed.
Just as corporal punishment discouraged kids from acting out in school so does the threat and implemenation of destruction curtail the activities of the lunatic groups that seek to impose their views on others.
Other than what is granted by the host country. What is wrong with a country wanting to track foreign nationals inside their border? When does your personal rights exceed that of a country you do not even hold citizenship in?
In other words, does your selfishness override the rights of the country in question to do what it can to protect its citizens and police its borders?
As someone else mentioned, your not forced to come here.
Along your line of reasoning why should I have to declare anything to foreign customs agents when I arrive or leave their countries? Why should I have to tell German authorities I am in their country. Hell with that, why should I put up with "THEIR" idea of airport security, after all it annoys me.
The problem is that the courts always overlook the word CONGRESS.
That is the key. Congress can make no law, nothing in the Constitution prevents states or their legislatures from doing it. What does it the over extension of the Federal Courts into the business of the States.
Allowing children to read a prayer at their graduation is not a violation of the First Amendment. In fact it probably is more of a violation of the intent of the First to prevent the students from doing just that.
First take away their ability to practice religion. Second make them rely more on their govenment and state appointed officials. Third thing is to ban certain types of speech by law or itimidation (hate speech).
Do not read into the First what is clearly not there. The Congress already recognizes major religious holidays which would clearly be against the First but I don't see anyone crying over that.
The First was meant to protect religions from dominance by one over another, not to put them all out of the public eye.
When they decided that they would not compete in the "game market" and instead released a card with features an insignificant minority wanted.
Their failure is that the game oriented graphics business lands the name on storeshelves. Right now most game geeks can only name two suppliers of video card chips, Nvidia and ATI.
Matrox was great up until the G400 era where they slipped of the path and disappeared into obscurity.
After all Apple provides a great choice over using Windows. Or you might want to ask Apple to let Linux have the alternative desktop market.
Let the market figure it out. The competition of different ideas is what has gotten us to this point. If people got the idea that they shouldn't even try there would never have been a Firefox or Mozilla.
I think you over estimate the size of your hammer.
I would much prefer them to wait until there is a better understanding of what the problem really is. We don't know all the parts to the problem either, some claim one thing while others claim another.
Right now Global Warming is a catch all phrase used to explain the unexplainable. Got a very cold winter, its Global Warming, got a warm winter, its Global Warming. No rain? Too much rain? Hell some pundits tried to blame the Tsunami on it!
See the issue here? How is the public to know what is and what isn't when anything and everything is blamed on "Global Warming". It would be unfair to claim people have their heads in the sand.
The problem facing the Global Warming crowd is that they don't agree amongst themselves except for the fact the weather changes. Everyone is quick to chime in with their example even if it contradicts another.
As such my view is,
Do not attempt to correct something when you don't even know how it really works.
Common replies I expect will state "We know how it works" which obviously isn't true or that "We know what is causing it" which ignores the whole issue I provided.
Some servers had problems last weekend not all. I know as I play this game and any time I wanted to play it this weekend it was available to me.
Perhaps a I was lucky in my server choice. Still all I see here is the typical exaggeration that is common to/.
Two issues that do plague all servers in WOW is poor response during primetime of their in game mail system and Auction House. People actually make jokes about it online because they expect it to be problemsome.
It has been and always was Turbine's fault. They were the reason that playing on patch day was a mess. They were the reason why bugs took months to fix. They were the reason why exploits didn't get fixed pronto but took months.
Sure MS was in charge way back when but even today as Turbine has been in charge nearly a year the very same problems occured. Exploits lasted multiple patches. Lag reared its ugly head. Bugs which were the result of an obvious lack of QA process appeared each patch.
It probably is one reason they needed a real publisher to take over distribution for AC. They had it for nearly a year and got NO WHERE. In fact their game populations TANKED.
Turbine still hasn't said diddly about MEO's upcoming release other than to deny rumors it was cancelled. After getting Jessica (biting the hand fame) and such many of us thought that they would experience a big turn around. Instead we got a perfect real life example of Animal Farm.
what does all of this have to do with Blizzard? Simple, Blizzard is at least reacting PROPERLY to their problems and working to fix them quickly. Unlike Turbine Blizzard also acts fast to stomp out any exploiters and bot users. Too bad Turbine actually CATERS to the bot users!
Blizzard earned their success and is taking the proper steps to insure it continues.
compared to the number of people paying into the system. When you double the number of people drawing from the system but do not do the same for the number paying in something will break.
the solution isn't higher taxes, the solution is to fix the system. Look at Chile, a country most of us would consider beneath the US. They had a system modeled on ours but switched because they knew it was doomed.
The only reason it isn't fixed is because most of the current congressman know they won't be in office when it HAS to be fixed. They don't care. Right now it buys them votes to NOT fix it and to scare the bejeezus out of the "we are entitled seniors" group.
Social Security like the current tax system has been transformed from the ideal goals set out by 40 plus years of meddling to be over complex scheme to buy votes.
There is a problem. Too many people put it off as minor because they read some half-wit website that cannot even do basic math.
Other dynamics might explain some of the growth but price was the big one. It wasn't too long ago laptops were twice the price of desktops and now you can snag some new ones for around $600.00
Dell, Fujitsu, and others make lightweight laptops as well. Many offerings exist in the sub-6lb category, just remove this bias that only Apple or IBM know anything about laptops. Today the Dell and Apple are manufactured by the same company and probably in the same plant. It all comes down to what each one determines that the market wants.
Myself, I don't want to take my PC with me. I am fine leaving it in its own room. There is a lot to be said for being free of technological leashes.
The current doctrine that is present in most schools and society will not allow a view to exist even if it could be backed with fact.
We are too concerned with feelings compared to facts. We are willing to ingore an obvious issue simply because it might offend someone.
Fortunately this issue is relatively harmless but other issues which offend people based on the conclusions of studies are being hushed all in the name of sensitivity and political correctness.
both fed/ex and UPS will have these planes. The big issue that many airlines face is that are given a limited number of gate slots. Usually these slots are regardless of plane size so an A380 will be a big benefit for those who need efficiency.
As for Boeing, I do not see a real problem for them as this A380 is behind schedule and over budget just as predicted and still needs to sell 140+ planes to reach break even. The market may be big but there is a bigger market for medium size planes.
Worse they seem to take the same approach to code quality as well. Most online games I have played have suffered from some horridly simple bugs that would be caught with a real Q&A process to an equally if not worse customer service response.
Game companies, especially mmorpg style, lose all their credibility when they claim they can track someone duping or exploiting but say they cannot refund you items lost to bugs because they cannot believe you.
It is a "we don't give a shit - we're gods in our ivory tower" attitude that dominates the industry.
I will say one thing about my county government. They are one of the best when it comes to managing a county government. We have had expansion of services while at the same time taxes either rolled back or were not raised. They operate very efficiently and openly.
Now, as for this matter. While a Christian myself I see no reason for any government agency to act in a way that either promotes or denies any religious belief. Simply put, God can take of his own and himself and doesn't need meddling politicians to do so.
This is probably the only real waste of money that I have seen the board make. By waste I mean senseless waste as this is a totally no-win situation. No matter how it is worded it will be seen as promotion of religion. The environment of the courts and media is too highly charged to do anything that even remotely be seen as "Christian" related.
Regardless I will still live in this county for many years to come as it has some of the most friendly people, better living, and very good county and local city governments.
This is about purposely abusing the trust the American public has in certain news organizations to promote an agenda.
I suspect that if another news organization offered up such a ludicrous story about Kerry that the Blogs and rest of the media would jump on it as well.
What you see here is an end of an era. The scariest part of this ordeal is that before the advent of the net CBS's ploy would have worked, they were shouting down their naysayers. It makes you wonder just how many other stories about ANYTHING were false but buried by these groups. I wouldn't doubt that if one agency lied that others would ignore it, why? Simple, they have skeletons too.
Rather gate isn't proof of a liberal media, its proof that some very liberal leaning people at CBS used the trust their organization had as a tool to effect their own beliefs. That alone is one reason none of these people, including Rather, should be allowed to be journalist.
Taking money or falsifying stories should be the end of career move for any journalist.
It is the Government using its powers to take money from its citzenry and redistribute it as it sees fit.
I don't care how you package it, it is a TAX.
Why in the hell do the creators of written content need a levy? If their stuff isn't good enough they should damn well not get paid.
The government has been the strong arm of the artistically weak for too long. Its how many no-talent artist survive. Government grants and such because the "little people" are too "ignorant" to understand good art when they see it. It shows in that some of the worst examples of art are in government buildings or funded exhibitions.
I am all for the arts, but I am also all for them supporting themselves. If the public ain't buying its isn't the public's fault. It also isn't right to tax the public to support it just because they wouldn't buy it in the first place.
Quit being so damn lazy about protecting your money and your rights.
First it takes less energy and material to produce a gallon of diesel. I belive the cost to make gasoline is 55 gallons of diesel.
Second the restrictions in the US are mostly because of California. The idea of what is pollution in California is nearly the opposite of what is considered in Europe. So Europe gets more diesels and there is much more money spent to make them efficient and clean.
There is more real air pollution in the NorthEast during winter months than in California regardless of time of year there. Why? More engines are running enriched mixtures to get up to operating temperatures.
Diesels do weigh more but only in the engine area. They make up for this "weight" issue by being more efficient in fuel usuage.
So I have to ask, why not diesel? It really is a magnitude cheaper to produce, the cars perform better as for mileage, and the engines are built strong enough to survive many more miles than any gasoline engine.
Also a nice side effect is that they DO NOT EXPLODE.
The Prius will never return on its investment cost to regular drivers. The surcharge for the tricks needed to make a gasoline engine viable versus diesel are too high still. Better yet, a diesel electric combo would be more efficient.
The pharmaceuticals, fastfood, and cell phone companies have money. They are nice big cows waiting for the right amount of scaremongering to generate up public concern. The big lie works well here, keep repeating it, getting it into newspapers, internet chain letters, and voila!
So what if there are any possible beneifts, if there is a negative its a horror! Think of the children, the elderly, the dienfranchiesed. These huge evil corporations slowing killing us for a profit.
A Turbine developer actually posted an idea in development on their own website for comment. What it boiled down to was this.
On a the PvP server only (though it would most likely migrate to other servers after the uproar) a NPC would be available in a dungeon at a random location so that if you found him and clicked on him you would get random amounts of experience. The amount was to be considerable.
Why are they doing this? Simple, for too long Turbine allowed the exploiters to run combat macros that it tipped the balance of the game. Turbine also refused to cap levels and experience leading a never ending race. Their upcoming expansion takes this race and makes it worse by setting a new higher level cap (the had a level cap - just no exp cap) so high that only the macro characters can attain it.
Amazing, create a game which cannot be balanced. The reason it cannot be balanced is because there is no cap. Allow people to exploit it as ATTENEDED combat macroing is ALLOWED. Then resort to ludicrous attempts to give new players the ability to catch up that will simply be exploited by the current crop of exploiters.
No, what SOE is doing is actually fine, provided they put limits on the amount of experience per characters. WOW operates like this every day. While logged out in capital cities or an inn you gain a bonus to the exp you can earn the next login. In other words, you can can X amount of experience twice as fast. It never encompasses a whole level but it does help those who only can play an hour a day
Already have gone the upgrade route on my parents PC compatible. They had issues before with a scanner and that doubled as they not only were making new photos but scanning in all the old ones.
My friends have one. They got it last Christmas and you can already tell that it is not as bright as it used to be. Their problem is they got the TV without discussing with the sales people what their viewing habits were. They have a tendancy to leave their TV on all the time.
Plasmas are good money makers because the bigger ones are not really that more expensive to make. Getting under 42" actually costs more. LCDs are the opposite.
I have the old fashioned project 5-CRT based HDTV widescreen and have looked at LCD based solution. My opinion, unless you just have to have it NOW wait till later in the year as the prices have been dropping a lot lately and can only get better.
So you think it best to just pay the exploitative tax so you can sleep better? I think it is insane to punish ALL consumers for the trespasses of a few.
Whats next? Why stop at the recording industry.
The government should not be confiscating money from the people to pay to corporations or similar bodies. The government should be protecting the consumer from them, not abetting them.
I'd rather have the RIAA or similar breathing down the necks of people who break the law than having to pay so some schmuch can download stuff without paying for it.
It is NOT the same as paying taxes for medical care or such. That is exactly the line of thinking the RICA/RIAA would love people to believe.
it was clear that the oceans would die by the turn of the century, the ozone hole would be so large it would cover parts of Africa, people would be dieing of radiation poisoning from the sun... etc etc etc.
Weren't the ice caps supposed to be all gone soon?
Why should even the public take notice anymore? The boy who cried wolf syndrome has worn done the public's acceptance.
Proof has been constantly cited since the 70s and yet all the dire predictions have come to naught. I am not saying they are all wrong, I am saying that their proof leaves a lot to be desired and the only cause they are hurting is their own. I still laugh at all the predictions of doom from Kuwati and Iraqi oil fields being set ablaze if America acted (back in GulfWar1 and now 2)
Face it, a cosmic mishap (solar/meteor), will do more to us than we can do short of a nuclear war. A few good volcanoes provide visible effect that the public can see and in some cases experience. The same effects are blamed on Global Warming by one group and El Nino by the next.
Global Scientist are sure of one thing, that the weather is constantly changing. What they haven't proven beyond reasonable doubt is that mankind is the primary mover behind it, nor that America is the primary mover either.
You want to see real pollution, travel to former Soviet states. You will see stuff that will make you cry. You want to see new and greater abuses of the environment just jog over to China - but don't expect anyone to care.
In 20 years some then current environmentalist when confronted by dire predictions 20 years ago will dismiss those people as not having had the full picture whereas they do now. The same this is being said when opponents to the current pc point of view point out the fallacies of 20 years ago.
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Unfortunately many in the world do not hold your view. They flat out don't care. They do love the deluded hippy mentality that still exists in parts of the world. It helps them further their goals as they know and rely on these types to drag down efforts to curtail their horrendous activities.
In case you haven't noticed most violence in this world doesn't involve the United States. Also most cases of violence in this world involve a very militaristic and deranged sect of Islam. They don't care that you want peace, they want to rule, they want power, and they want your death. They freely kill civilians because they know they can do so with near impunity as most countries would rather not ask for help in containing them.
How long should we ignore Sudan? There may peace their one day but that won't occur until how many Africans are killed by Islamic murderers who operate with impunity because the world doesn't give a shit?
A peaceful world will only come about when those who prey on civilians because of religious, ethnic, or other differences are eradicated. You cannot do that through words. Words only serve to extend the suffering that their victims endure. Words allowed nearly a million Africans die in the 90s and are killing millions now. Words allowed the Taliban to nearly destroy Afghanistan. Words are allowing the regime in Iran to develop nuclear weapons. Words will get you killed, me killed, and whole lot of other people striving for peace killed.
Just as corporal punishment discouraged kids from acting out in school so does the threat and implemenation of destruction curtail the activities of the lunatic groups that seek to impose their views on others.
Other than what is granted by the host country. What is wrong with a country wanting to track foreign nationals inside their border? When does your personal rights exceed that of a country you do not even hold citizenship in?
In other words, does your selfishness override the rights of the country in question to do what it can to protect its citizens and police its borders?
As someone else mentioned, your not forced to come here.
Along your line of reasoning why should I have to declare anything to foreign customs agents when I arrive or leave their countries? Why should I have to tell German authorities I am in their country. Hell with that, why should I put up with "THEIR" idea of airport security, after all it annoys me.
The problem is that the courts always overlook the word CONGRESS.
That is the key. Congress can make no law, nothing in the Constitution prevents states or their legislatures from doing it. What does it the over extension of the Federal Courts into the business of the States.
Allowing children to read a prayer at their graduation is not a violation of the First Amendment. In fact it probably is more of a violation of the intent of the First to prevent the students from doing just that.
First take away their ability to practice religion. Second make them rely more on their govenment and state appointed officials. Third thing is to ban certain types of speech by law or itimidation (hate speech).
Do not read into the First what is clearly not there. The Congress already recognizes major religious holidays which would clearly be against the First but I don't see anyone crying over that.
The First was meant to protect religions from dominance by one over another, not to put them all out of the public eye.
When they decided that they would not compete in the "game market" and instead released a card with features an insignificant minority wanted.
Their failure is that the game oriented graphics business lands the name on storeshelves. Right now most game geeks can only name two suppliers of video card chips, Nvidia and ATI.
Matrox was great up until the G400 era where they slipped of the path and disappeared into obscurity.
I was under the impression that you could not use a windows iPod with a MAC.
Is that true?
After all Apple provides a great choice over using Windows. Or you might want to ask Apple to let Linux have the alternative desktop market.
Let the market figure it out. The competition of different ideas is what has gotten us to this point. If people got the idea that they shouldn't even try there would never have been a Firefox or Mozilla.
I think you over estimate the size of your hammer.
I would much prefer them to wait until there is a better understanding of what the problem really is. We don't know all the parts to the problem either, some claim one thing while others claim another.
Right now Global Warming is a catch all phrase used to explain the unexplainable. Got a very cold winter, its Global Warming, got a warm winter, its Global Warming. No rain? Too much rain? Hell some pundits tried to blame the Tsunami on it!
See the issue here? How is the public to know what is and what isn't when anything and everything is blamed on "Global Warming". It would be unfair to claim people have their heads in the sand.
The problem facing the Global Warming crowd is that they don't agree amongst themselves except for the fact the weather changes. Everyone is quick to chime in with their example even if it contradicts another.
As such my view is,
Do not attempt to correct something when you don't even know how it really works.
Common replies I expect will state "We know how it works" which obviously isn't true or that "We know what is causing it" which ignores the whole issue I provided.
Get it right. Many of us do care.
Some servers had problems last weekend not all. I know as I play this game and any time I wanted to play it this weekend it was available to me.
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Perhaps a I was lucky in my server choice. Still all I see here is the typical exaggeration that is common to
Two issues that do plague all servers in WOW is poor response during primetime of their in game mail system and Auction House. People actually make jokes about it online because they expect it to be problemsome.
It has been and always was Turbine's fault. They were the reason that playing on patch day was a mess. They were the reason why bugs took months to fix. They were the reason why exploits didn't get fixed pronto but took months.
Sure MS was in charge way back when but even today as Turbine has been in charge nearly a year the very same problems occured. Exploits lasted multiple patches. Lag reared its ugly head. Bugs which were the result of an obvious lack of QA process appeared each patch.
It probably is one reason they needed a real publisher to take over distribution for AC. They had it for nearly a year and got NO WHERE. In fact their game populations TANKED.
Turbine still hasn't said diddly about MEO's upcoming release other than to deny rumors it was cancelled. After getting Jessica (biting the hand fame) and such many of us thought that they would experience a big turn around. Instead we got a perfect real life example of Animal Farm.
what does all of this have to do with Blizzard? Simple, Blizzard is at least reacting PROPERLY to their problems and working to fix them quickly. Unlike Turbine Blizzard also acts fast to stomp out any exploiters and bot users. Too bad Turbine actually CATERS to the bot users!
Blizzard earned their success and is taking the proper steps to insure it continues.
compared to the number of people paying into the system. When you double the number of people drawing from the system but do not do the same for the number paying in something will break.
the solution isn't higher taxes, the solution is to fix the system. Look at Chile, a country most of us would consider beneath the US. They had a system modeled on ours but switched because they knew it was doomed.
The only reason it isn't fixed is because most of the current congressman know they won't be in office when it HAS to be fixed. They don't care. Right now it buys them votes to NOT fix it and to scare the bejeezus out of the "we are entitled seniors" group.
Social Security like the current tax system has been transformed from the ideal goals set out by 40 plus years of meddling to be over complex scheme to buy votes.
There is a problem. Too many people put it off as minor because they read some half-wit website that cannot even do basic math.
Other dynamics might explain some of the growth but price was the big one. It wasn't too long ago laptops were twice the price of desktops and now you can snag some new ones for around $600.00
Dell, Fujitsu, and others make lightweight laptops as well. Many offerings exist in the sub-6lb category, just remove this bias that only Apple or IBM know anything about laptops. Today the Dell and Apple are manufactured by the same company and probably in the same plant. It all comes down to what each one determines that the market wants.
Myself, I don't want to take my PC with me. I am fine leaving it in its own room. There is a lot to be said for being free of technological leashes.
The current doctrine that is present in most schools and society will not allow a view to exist even if it could be backed with fact.
We are too concerned with feelings compared to facts. We are willing to ingore an obvious issue simply because it might offend someone.
Fortunately this issue is relatively harmless but other issues which offend people based on the conclusions of studies are being hushed all in the name of sensitivity and political correctness.
both fed/ex and UPS will have these planes. The big issue that many airlines face is that are given a limited number of gate slots. Usually these slots are regardless of plane size so an A380 will be a big benefit for those who need efficiency.
As for Boeing, I do not see a real problem for them as this A380 is behind schedule and over budget just as predicted and still needs to sell 140+ planes to reach break even. The market may be big but there is a bigger market for medium size planes.
Worse they seem to take the same approach to code quality as well. Most online games I have played have suffered from some horridly simple bugs that would be caught with a real Q&A process to an equally if not worse customer service response.
Game companies, especially mmorpg style, lose all their credibility when they claim they can track someone duping or exploiting but say they cannot refund you items lost to bugs because they cannot believe you.
It is a "we don't give a shit - we're gods in our ivory tower" attitude that dominates the industry.
I will say one thing about my county government. They are one of the best when it comes to managing a county government. We have had expansion of services while at the same time taxes either rolled back or were not raised. They operate very efficiently and openly.
Now, as for this matter. While a Christian myself I see no reason for any government agency to act in a way that either promotes or denies any religious belief. Simply put, God can take of his own and himself and doesn't need meddling politicians to do so.
This is probably the only real waste of money that I have seen the board make. By waste I mean senseless waste as this is a totally no-win situation. No matter how it is worded it will be seen as promotion of religion. The environment of the courts and media is too highly charged to do anything that even remotely be seen as "Christian" related.
Regardless I will still live in this county for many years to come as it has some of the most friendly people, better living, and very good county and local city governments.
Price it at 349 and many more would bite.
As it stands it still is outside the range most people will just toss out for a second computer or "an experiment"
Nice attempt but the price is still wrong.
This is about purposely abusing the trust the American public has in certain news organizations to promote an agenda.
I suspect that if another news organization offered up such a ludicrous story about Kerry that the Blogs and rest of the media would jump on it as well.
What you see here is an end of an era. The scariest part of this ordeal is that before the advent of the net CBS's ploy would have worked, they were shouting down their naysayers. It makes you wonder just how many other stories about ANYTHING were false but buried by these groups. I wouldn't doubt that if one agency lied that others would ignore it, why? Simple, they have skeletons too.
Rather gate isn't proof of a liberal media, its proof that some very liberal leaning people at CBS used the trust their organization had as a tool to effect their own beliefs. That alone is one reason none of these people, including Rather, should be allowed to be journalist.
Taking money or falsifying stories should be the end of career move for any journalist.
It is the Government using its powers to take money from its citzenry and redistribute it as it sees fit.
I don't care how you package it, it is a TAX.
Why in the hell do the creators of written content need a levy? If their stuff isn't good enough they should damn well not get paid.
The government has been the strong arm of the artistically weak for too long. Its how many no-talent artist survive. Government grants and such because the "little people" are too "ignorant" to understand good art when they see it. It shows in that some of the worst examples of art are in government buildings or funded exhibitions.
I am all for the arts, but I am also all for them supporting themselves. If the public ain't buying its isn't the public's fault. It also isn't right to tax the public to support it just because they wouldn't buy it in the first place.
Quit being so damn lazy about protecting your money and your rights.
First it takes less energy and material to produce a gallon of diesel. I belive the cost to make gasoline is 55 gallons of diesel.
Second the restrictions in the US are mostly because of California. The idea of what is pollution in California is nearly the opposite of what is considered in Europe. So Europe gets more diesels and there is much more money spent to make them efficient and clean.
There is more real air pollution in the NorthEast during winter months than in California regardless of time of year there. Why? More engines are running enriched mixtures to get up to operating temperatures.
Diesels do weigh more but only in the engine area. They make up for this "weight" issue by being more efficient in fuel usuage.
So I have to ask, why not diesel? It really is a magnitude cheaper to produce, the cars perform better as for mileage, and the engines are built strong enough to survive many more miles than any gasoline engine.
Also a nice side effect is that they DO NOT EXPLODE.
The Prius will never return on its investment cost to regular drivers. The surcharge for the tricks needed to make a gasoline engine viable versus diesel are too high still. Better yet, a diesel electric combo would be more efficient.
They // lawyers // need a new cow.
The pharmaceuticals, fastfood, and cell phone companies have money. They are nice big cows waiting for the right amount of scaremongering to generate up public concern. The big lie works well here, keep repeating it, getting it into newspapers, internet chain letters, and voila!
So what if there are any possible beneifts, if there is a negative its a horror! Think of the children, the elderly, the dienfranchiesed. These huge evil corporations slowing killing us for a profit.
So, who files the class-action suit first?
* NO I did not RTFA - it died already.
A Turbine developer actually posted an idea in development on their own website for comment. What it boiled down to was this.
On a the PvP server only (though it would most likely migrate to other servers after the uproar) a NPC would be available in a dungeon at a random location so that if you found him and clicked on him you would get random amounts of experience. The amount was to be considerable.
Why are they doing this? Simple, for too long Turbine allowed the exploiters to run combat macros that it tipped the balance of the game. Turbine also refused to cap levels and experience leading a never ending race. Their upcoming expansion takes this race and makes it worse by setting a new higher level cap (the had a level cap - just no exp cap) so high that only the macro characters can attain it.
Amazing, create a game which cannot be balanced. The reason it cannot be balanced is because there is no cap. Allow people to exploit it as ATTENEDED combat macroing is ALLOWED. Then resort to ludicrous attempts to give new players the ability to catch up that will simply be exploited by the current crop of exploiters.
No, what SOE is doing is actually fine, provided they put limits on the amount of experience per characters. WOW operates like this every day. While logged out in capital cities or an inn you gain a bonus to the exp you can earn the next login. In other words, you can can X amount of experience twice as fast. It never encompasses a whole level but it does help those who only can play an hour a day
that 40gb will vanish fast.
Already have gone the upgrade route on my parents PC compatible. They had issues before with a scanner and that doubled as they not only were making new photos but scanning in all the old ones.
My friends have one. They got it last Christmas and you can already tell that it is not as bright as it used to be. Their problem is they got the TV without discussing with the sales people what their viewing habits were. They have a tendancy to leave their TV on all the time.
Plasmas are good money makers because the bigger ones are not really that more expensive to make. Getting under 42" actually costs more. LCDs are the opposite.
I have the old fashioned project 5-CRT based HDTV widescreen and have looked at LCD based solution. My opinion, unless you just have to have it NOW wait till later in the year as the prices have been dropping a lot lately and can only get better.
So you think it best to just pay the exploitative tax so you can sleep better? I think it is insane to punish ALL consumers for the trespasses of a few.
Whats next? Why stop at the recording industry.
The government should not be confiscating money from the people to pay to corporations or similar bodies. The government should be protecting the consumer from them, not abetting them.
I'd rather have the RIAA or similar breathing down the necks of people who break the law than having to pay so some schmuch can download stuff without paying for it.
It is NOT the same as paying taxes for medical care or such. That is exactly the line of thinking the RICA/RIAA would love people to believe.
it was clear that the oceans would die by the turn of the century, the ozone hole would be so large it would cover parts of Africa, people would be dieing of radiation poisoning from the sun... etc etc etc.
Weren't the ice caps supposed to be all gone soon?
Why should even the public take notice anymore? The boy who cried wolf syndrome has worn done the public's acceptance.
Proof has been constantly cited since the 70s and yet all the dire predictions have come to naught. I am not saying they are all wrong, I am saying that their proof leaves a lot to be desired and the only cause they are hurting is their own. I still laugh at all the predictions of doom from Kuwati and Iraqi oil fields being set ablaze if America acted (back in GulfWar1 and now 2)
Face it, a cosmic mishap (solar/meteor), will do more to us than we can do short of a nuclear war. A few good volcanoes provide visible effect that the public can see and in some cases experience. The same effects are blamed on Global Warming by one group and El Nino by the next.
Global Scientist are sure of one thing, that the weather is constantly changing. What they haven't proven beyond reasonable doubt is that mankind is the primary mover behind it, nor that America is the primary mover either.
You want to see real pollution, travel to former Soviet states. You will see stuff that will make you cry. You want to see new and greater abuses of the environment just jog over to China - but don't expect anyone to care.
In 20 years some then current environmentalist when confronted by dire predictions 20 years ago will dismiss those people as not having had the full picture whereas they do now. The same this is being said when opponents to the current pc point of view point out the fallacies of 20 years ago.