Like me, he buys a full green power mix from Seattle City Light, which costs about twice as much as standard city light power...
Man, it seems like every day I'm in awe of some new technology.
Yesterday it was two-atom chemical reactions, Today it's filtering the dirty electrons out of the current flowing to your house.
If only there was some way to... you know... somehow rehabilitate spent nuclear fuel and reuse it so that there'd be enough fuel for tens of thousands of years...
I think it's pathetic that it's the 21st century, and we've harnessed the power of the atom to boil water to make steam to make electricity.
Dunno.. Sounds to me like that's more impressive than burning old plant and animal carcasses dug up from underground to boil water to make steam to make electricity.
I never understood why it takes 1000s of years to clean up a steam leak from a nuclear power plant, when thriving cities have had atom bombs dropped on them without stopping them from being thriving cities today (with albeit, an interruption from normal business and a whale of a mess to clean up).
Or recall when Microsoft added code to Windows to check and see if it was running on top of Dr-DOS instead of MS-DOS.
Windows artificially reported and error and terminated if it wasn't running on-top of MS-DOS.
Unless you are German, in which case you should first emigrate from Germany to the UK or USA for the birth, name your child and then return to Germany. Warning, you will find that in both the UK and the US the health system is vastly inferior to the one you are used to at home.
Having lived and experienced both the German and the US health care systems, I have to disagree with you here.
While I generally prefer the German health care system, I ran into a lot of shabby, run-down, doctor's offices that were generally in a state of disrepair. Speaking of the 1950s, I experienced some major hospitals in Germany that very much reminded me of the 1950s in many aspects, such as seas of ugly white tile, patient wards with 4-8 beds per room, and grumpy nurses who aren't allowed to do much more than change a bedpan. On the other hand, I also experienced excellent doctors, with well-equipped facilities and, of course, a non-socialist comprehensive and universal health coverage system, in which I didn't have to worry how to pay the bills, having already paid them through payroll deductions to the health insurance co-op of my choice.
In the USA, health care is absolutely top notch for people with massive bank accounts or gold-plated insurance policies. The rest of us get to deal with well-meaning and good doctors, with excellent facilities at their disposal, whose medical decisions, however, are heavily influenced by insurance company demands. We get to pay large co-pays and lab fees for all of the questionably-necessary testing that is done to avoid negligence lawsuits. Our hospitals look like palaces, with marble floors everywhere, gold-plated faucets, and 500 luxurious single rooms for patients. In the end the standard of care for the average American is high, but we go broke trying to pay for it.
I disagree with CDs and DVDs not being readable. Compact discs are a mature technology. As long as they're kept someplace cool, dark and dry they should be fine and readable when the container is opened in twenty five years. No idea if memory sticks or hard drives would survive.
Are you sick of seeing the family down the street sit home all day, eating McDonalds and waiting for the mailman to come with the precious government check containing your money?
Hey, it's not that bad. They're go to Captain D's more than McDonalds.
Do you believe health care should be earned and payed for and not given away to the dregs of society who abuse their bodies daily and expect us to foot the bill for them?
Absolutely! And If you don't have a cool $1 million in the bank to cover expenses after a car wreck or heart attack, well that's just cause you're a lazy bum and you deserve to die, or better yet, live in constant excruciating pain for another miserable 20 years.
This country has turned into a Goodwill store, and needs to return to the ideals of the founders and reward those who have ambition, and punish or drive out those who do not.
Let's not just drive them out. Let's just toss them into the sea! That way no one has to deal with the scum.
Just load all of your photos, videos, data, etc onto a retina macbook pro and toss it in the case.
Maybe by 2037 someone will have figured out how to change the battery.
If so, you've got your data and you're good to go.
Doing everything electronically and "on the net" is of such overwhelmingly critical importance that the loss of a few million voter records is of little interest to any civilized human being.
Just imagine if we had to go back to pencil and paper! The barbarism! *SHUDDER*
From what I understand it was only one single experiment that showed us something that we think is where/what the Higgs Boson would look like.
Has it been reproduced or confirmed?
Not yet, but soon!
I'm building my very own Large Hadron Collider in my backyard in order to try to reproduce the results.
Of course I don't have superconducting magnets, but I'm hoping that by using ALL the the letters of the alphabet I can get close enough to the required field strength.
Damming rivers don't hurt the environment at all.
What it does is change the local ecosystem from one state to another. That is harmful in the short term for species adapted to the previous state of the ecosystem, but beneficial for species adapted to the new state. Neither state is better. They are just different.
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Who modded up this pointless, racist screed?
What's racist about it? Is islam is a racially exclusive religion?
No I didn't hear that.
I suspect you didn't either, but merely thought you did.
Like me, he buys a full green power mix from Seattle City Light, which costs about twice as much as standard city light power...
Man, it seems like every day I'm in awe of some new technology.
Yesterday it was two-atom chemical reactions, Today it's filtering the dirty electrons out of the current flowing to your house.
And less impressive than zero point energy too.
That's too harsh. Just make the CEO and the board of directors have to be the on-site first responders and clean-up crew.
If only there was some way to... you know... somehow rehabilitate spent nuclear fuel and reuse it so that there'd be enough fuel for tens of thousands of years...
I think it's pathetic that it's the 21st century, and we've harnessed the power of the atom to boil water to make steam to make electricity.
Dunno.. Sounds to me like that's more impressive than burning old plant and animal carcasses dug up from underground to boil water to make steam to make electricity.
I never understood why it takes 1000s of years to clean up a steam leak from a nuclear power plant, when thriving cities have had atom bombs dropped on them without stopping them from being thriving cities today (with albeit, an interruption from normal business and a whale of a mess to clean up).
If only new reactor designs were safer than the old ones...
Or recall when Microsoft added code to Windows to check and see if it was running on top of Dr-DOS instead of MS-DOS.
Windows artificially reported and error and terminated if it wasn't running on-top of MS-DOS.
Yes is it.
And... what's your point? Google doesn't care. Free to play is Google's model.
Ok, so a guy who says he wishes he could kill every human being is "interesting", but the guy who calls him an idiot is a "troll".
Thanks!
Let's just move Mars closer to the sun so it would be a more hospitable place.
You're an idiot.
Unless you are German, in which case you should first emigrate from Germany to the UK or USA for the birth, name your child and then return to Germany. Warning, you will find that in both the UK and the US the health system is vastly inferior to the one you are used to at home.
Having lived and experienced both the German and the US health care systems, I have to disagree with you here.
While I generally prefer the German health care system, I ran into a lot of shabby, run-down, doctor's offices that were generally in a state of disrepair. Speaking of the 1950s, I experienced some major hospitals in Germany that very much reminded me of the 1950s in many aspects, such as seas of ugly white tile, patient wards with 4-8 beds per room, and grumpy nurses who aren't allowed to do much more than change a bedpan. On the other hand, I also experienced excellent doctors, with well-equipped facilities and, of course, a non-socialist comprehensive and universal health coverage system, in which I didn't have to worry how to pay the bills, having already paid them through payroll deductions to the health insurance co-op of my choice.
In the USA, health care is absolutely top notch for people with massive bank accounts or gold-plated insurance policies. The rest of us get to deal with well-meaning and good doctors, with excellent facilities at their disposal, whose medical decisions, however, are heavily influenced by insurance company demands. We get to pay large co-pays and lab fees for all of the questionably-necessary testing that is done to avoid negligence lawsuits. Our hospitals look like palaces, with marble floors everywhere, gold-plated faucets, and 500 luxurious single rooms for patients. In the end the standard of care for the average American is high, but we go broke trying to pay for it.
>>>I've got an original Macintosh II here. Works great.
For what? Certainly not games."
I turn it on, verify that everything works, then stroke it gently while softly chanting "$10,000 was totally worth it baby."
good luck with an 800K Mac floppy
I've got an original Macintosh II here. Works great.
I disagree with CDs and DVDs not being readable. Compact discs are a mature technology. As long as they're kept someplace cool, dark and dry they should be fine and readable when the container is opened in twenty five years. No idea if memory sticks or hard drives would survive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
Are you sick of seeing the family down the street sit home all day, eating McDonalds and waiting for the mailman to come with the precious government check containing your money?
Hey, it's not that bad. They're go to Captain D's more than McDonalds.
Do you believe health care should be earned and payed for and not given away to the dregs of society who abuse their bodies daily and expect us to foot the bill for them?
Absolutely! And If you don't have a cool $1 million in the bank to cover expenses after a car wreck or heart attack, well that's just cause you're a lazy bum and you deserve to die, or better yet, live in constant excruciating pain for another miserable 20 years.
This country has turned into a Goodwill store, and needs to return to the ideals of the founders and reward those who have ambition, and punish or drive out those who do not.
Let's not just drive them out. Let's just toss them into the sea! That way no one has to deal with the scum.
Just load all of your photos, videos, data, etc onto a retina macbook pro and toss it in the case.
Maybe by 2037 someone will have figured out how to change the battery.
If so, you've got your data and you're good to go.
You mean loss of records that anyone could already obtain since they are part of public record?
Yes I mean those. Exactly those. And no others.
Doing everything electronically and "on the net" is of such overwhelmingly critical importance that the loss of a few million voter records is of little interest to any civilized human being.
Just imagine if we had to go back to pencil and paper! The barbarism! *SHUDDER*
>> poking at the mathematical chinks
Not all Maths graduate students are Chinese, you know.
That's true. It's only the good ones.
(They're especially good in wector calculus.)
From what I understand it was only one single experiment that showed us something that we think is where/what the Higgs Boson would look like.
Has it been reproduced or confirmed?
Not yet, but soon!
I'm building my very own Large Hadron Collider in my backyard in order to try to reproduce the results.
Of course I don't have superconducting magnets, but I'm hoping that by using ALL the the letters of the alphabet I can get close enough to the required field strength.
Damming rivers don't hurt the environment at all.
What it does is change the local ecosystem from one state to another. That is harmful in the short term for species adapted to the previous state of the ecosystem, but beneficial for species adapted to the new state. Neither state is better. They are just different.