That's BS. My girlfriend's diesel VW runs on renewable biodiesel (from used restaurant grease) right now, and it's a ten-year-old car!
I'm as much in favor of finding alternative sources as anyone, but using restaurant grease to fuel cars is fine so long as it's just a few people doing it. There's only so many restaurants out there, and in many places the grease is already recycled.
That's right, I'll say it. We don't give a flying rats ass about you because we didn't put you in your situation, you did. I think the whole notion that the rest of us have to pay more taxes or change the way we do business so that nobody ever has to be in dire straights is bullshit. Socialism doesn't, hasn't, and will never work in a free country. Sure, Sweden is great, go live there. I want freedom, and dire straights is inherent to having freedom.
Wow, just wow. I'd make some sort of snarky comment, but I think our universes are so far apart it would miss anyway.
For the record, I used to be in dire straits myself. Seriously dire straits. And yes, I fucked up myself, I'll happily admit it. Under your system, I would likely have spent the rest of my life either on the streets or in prison, being a drain on society. However, thanks to my fellow countrymen paying a bit more taxes, I got enough time to sort my shit out, grow the fuck up, and since then I've paid a lot more taxes than society had to invest to get me back on my feet.
In any case, keep waving your flag and celebrating your liberty while your country sinks into a cesspool of ignorance. Meanwhile the rest of us will keep believing that there's no bloody reason our neighbours should starve while we have the money to feed and educate them.
Oh, and am I the only one that finds it ironic that any European would consider an Amarican an "unwashed barbarian"? Ever try standing next to a French woman? She'll have hairy legs and armpits and often reek due to lack of deodarant/showers.
Quite regularly in fact. Also used to sleep next to her. Not sure where your information comes from, the 70's?
And while we're bashing the appearance of women, how do american women even *reach* their armpits and legs to shave or apply deodorant, anyway?
1. Respects human rights...check. Unless you're a muslim ofcourse, in which case half the country looks at you like you're about to whip a bomb from beneath the burkha(sp) 2. Sensible drug legislation...check. 3. fast, cheapish internet....yeah, guess so.
Still, in some respects even the Netherlands is going down the drain. We got Wilders, shiny new laws to tap phones and read e-mails and, like pretty much anywhere, it appears a decent part of the electorate shouldn't be allowed to tie their own shoelaces without someone checking they do it properly, let alone vote...
This article hits home to a lot of people and shows the slanted opinion of the slashdot staff. Lets actually get some solid evidence before we go out telling everybody creation is a hoax because we cannot explain a mutation in a strain of E Coli. If we are going to be scientific... lets actually be scientific. -The Voice of Wisdom and Prudence
I think the crux of the 600 comments is actually the fact that folks like yourselves seem to think there's even "an opinion" to have for the slashdot staff.
I figure once we are unable to keep pace with pathogenic mutations in our antibiotic research, it will force an evolutionary arms race between humans and bacteria where the more disease-resistant population survives and becomes the forbears of future humanity. Then, assuming a total collapse of civilization, those with the ingenuity to figure out how to harness dormant technologies will gain significant advantages over the rest of the population, and thereby dominate. The nerds win!!!
Oh, this one's too easy.
I, for one, welcome our disease-resistant McGyvering nerd overlords.
I'd say Eve is worse than Ultima actually, in regard to the "death penalty".
PVP in EVE is brutal, absolutely brutal. I've seen everything I own in the game lost in less than 5 minutes, and I'll see it happen again.
Just how brutal it is depends on your own choices. A ship can't get blown up unless you actually take it outside a station. If you choose to spend your entire wallet on a ship and then get it into a fight...that's your choice(not saying it's a bad one, just that's it yours to make).
To put things in perspective, I could set up a small ship with effective weaponry and still be an asset to a small group of pilots. Yet at the same time that ship would cost me, oh, maybe 0.1% of my total wallet, so losing it in the process wouldn't make a scrap of difference.
For instance, I love the X series, and I had to scour the local games shops to find a copy of X2 and X3. Games with plots just don't sell as well here as games with explosions.
Hold on a sec, did you just mention the X-series of games and "Games with plots" in 2 consecutive sentences?;-)
I was just thinking, but couldn't something like this be stretched out to include games and virtual worlds... and not just verbal/text communication and static imagery.
One can only hope so. I for one can't wait to watch some jackass run to the police after his shiny pixels get blown up in Eve Online.
Does this mean Walmart is praying on those who are bad at math?
Somehow the picture that formed in my head when i read this was as disturbing as it was funny. You yanks really take your religion seriously, don't you?
Another example: Petrol is £1.16 per litre. London is 200km away. A car uses 7l/100km. A return train ticket to London is £20, should I take the car or the train?
Ehmm, I don't know about you, but I don't have a driver's license, you insensitive clod!
A small town in the Netherlands, actually. Ok, maybe we're talking a few years later, memory's a bit hazy concerning that period, but still well before 95 anyway:) Heck, lots of employers offered cheap pc's to their employees so they could increase their computing skills at home, and I'm pretty sure i remember the government investing quite a lot in it as well.
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Why did they bother with a $65k fine? I would have been more impressed if they had made it a $65,535 fine or something.
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Us Dutchies don't have airconditioning in our homes ;-)
until the Judiciary committee that tabled the articles puts them on the floor.
Won't they end up on the floor anyway once the table can't carry the weight of the assembled paperwork anyway?
That's BS. My girlfriend's diesel VW runs on renewable biodiesel (from used restaurant grease) right now, and it's a ten-year-old car!
I'm as much in favor of finding alternative sources as anyone, but using restaurant grease to fuel cars is fine so long as it's just a few people doing it. There's only so many restaurants out there, and in many places the grease is already recycled.
That's right, I'll say it. We don't give a flying rats ass about you because we didn't put you in your situation, you did. I think the whole notion that the rest of us have to pay more taxes or change the way we do business so that nobody ever has to be in dire straights is bullshit. Socialism doesn't, hasn't, and will never work in a free country. Sure, Sweden is great, go live there. I want freedom, and dire straights is inherent to having freedom.
Wow, just wow. I'd make some sort of snarky comment, but I think our universes are so far apart it would miss anyway.
For the record, I used to be in dire straits myself. Seriously dire straits. And yes, I fucked up myself, I'll happily admit it. Under your system, I would likely have spent the rest of my life either on the streets or in prison, being a drain on society. However, thanks to my fellow countrymen paying a bit more taxes, I got enough time to sort my shit out, grow the fuck up, and since then I've paid a lot more taxes than society had to invest to get me back on my feet.
In any case, keep waving your flag and celebrating your liberty while your country sinks into a cesspool of ignorance. Meanwhile the rest of us will keep believing that there's no bloody reason our neighbours should starve while we have the money to feed and educate them.
Oh, and am I the only one that finds it ironic that any European would consider an Amarican an "unwashed barbarian"? Ever try standing next to a French woman? She'll have hairy legs and armpits and often reek due to lack of deodarant/showers.
Quite regularly in fact. Also used to sleep next to her. Not sure where your information comes from, the 70's?
And while we're bashing the appearance of women, how do american women even *reach* their armpits and legs to shave or apply deodorant, anyway?
Ehmm, what exactly do you expect the Russians are going to do to our probes? Just curious ;-)
As an aside, for some reason only beer, blood and milk are measured in pints.
These 3 liquids pretty much mark everything important in life. Milk just after birth, blood just before dying, and beer inbetween :)
Sounds like an argument for a pint of coffee though :/
So, ehmm, would you tell us a little more about your business so we all know who to avoid?
If it means we get Fallout 3...bring on the nucular weapons!
Not Octopus! Fer chissakes, they're slimy and cold and have a sharp beak!
But think of the way you could terrorize the Japanese waters!
Considering there was talk of outright banning burkha's....maybe not yet.
And yes, broad laws do make for such interesting opportunities to abuse one's powers.
1. Respects human rights...check. Unless you're a muslim ofcourse, in which case half the country looks at you like you're about to whip a bomb from beneath the burkha(sp)
2. Sensible drug legislation...check.
3. fast, cheapish internet....yeah, guess so.
Still, in some respects even the Netherlands is going down the drain. We got Wilders, shiny new laws to tap phones and read e-mails and, like pretty much anywhere, it appears a decent part of the electorate shouldn't be allowed to tie their own shoelaces without someone checking they do it properly, let alone vote...
going to live "free" in a tropical Island with sunny weather...
sunny weather...spiders, giant mutant rabbits, spiders, snakes, did i mention spiders and snakes? oh, and bushfires.
This article hits home to a lot of people and shows the slanted opinion of the slashdot staff. Lets actually get some solid evidence before we go out telling everybody creation is a hoax because we cannot explain a mutation in a strain of E Coli. If we are going to be scientific... lets actually be scientific. -The Voice of Wisdom and Prudence
I think the crux of the 600 comments is actually the fact that folks like yourselves seem to think there's even "an opinion" to have for the slashdot staff.
i do realize how significant and cool for science this is, but it's still just bacteria. it just got a new genetic ability.
Level up! You have gained the ability to metabolize citrate!
I figure once we are unable to keep pace with pathogenic mutations in our antibiotic research, it will force an evolutionary arms race between humans and bacteria where the more disease-resistant population survives and becomes the forbears of future humanity. Then, assuming a total collapse of civilization, those with the ingenuity to figure out how to harness dormant technologies will gain significant advantages over the rest of the population, and thereby dominate. The nerds win!!!
Oh, this one's too easy.
I, for one, welcome our disease-resistant McGyvering nerd overlords.
I'd say Eve is worse than Ultima actually, in regard to the "death penalty".
PVP in EVE is brutal, absolutely brutal. I've seen everything I own in the game lost in less than 5 minutes, and I'll see it happen again.
Just how brutal it is depends on your own choices. A ship can't get blown up unless you actually take it outside a station. If you choose to spend your entire wallet on a ship and then get it into a fight...that's your choice(not saying it's a bad one, just that's it yours to make).
To put things in perspective, I could set up a small ship with effective weaponry and still be an asset to a small group of pilots. Yet at the same time that ship would cost me, oh, maybe 0.1% of my total wallet, so losing it in the process wouldn't make a scrap of difference.
For instance, I love the X series, and I had to scour the local games shops to find a copy of X2 and X3. Games with plots just don't sell as well here as games with explosions.
;-)
Hold on a sec, did you just mention the X-series of games and "Games with plots" in 2 consecutive sentences?
I was just thinking, but couldn't something like this be stretched out to include games and virtual worlds... and not just verbal/text communication and static imagery.
One can only hope so. I for one can't wait to watch some jackass run to the police after his shiny pixels get blown up in Eve Online.
This law just proves that our political leaders are complete idiots, at least the people deciding writing the wording on the laws.
And therefore, by extension, so are the people that put them in office.
Next!
Brand A, since I live alone and things go to waste if I try to keep them for too long?
Does this mean Walmart is praying on those who are bad at math?
Somehow the picture that formed in my head when i read this was as disturbing as it was funny. You yanks really take your religion seriously, don't you?
Another example:
Petrol is £1.16 per litre. London is 200km away. A car uses 7l/100km. A return train ticket to London is £20, should I take the car or the train?
Ehmm, I don't know about you, but I don't have a driver's license, you insensitive clod!
A small town in the Netherlands, actually. Ok, maybe we're talking a few years later, memory's a bit hazy concerning that period, but still well before 95 anyway :) Heck, lots of employers offered cheap pc's to their employees so they could increase their computing skills at home, and I'm pretty sure i remember the government investing quite a lot in it as well.