Then there is the land area needed to sit the windmills on. Windmills are not really that efficient. It takes many of them (running consistantly as well, see my first point) to replace a decent size power plant. You are talking about enormous tracts of land that could be used for many, many things.
Maybe someone could come up with a brilliant plan to not use land for windmills. Maybe they could be placed out to sea. Someone could probably even figure out how to place entire windmill parks out to sea. Maybe they'll place them tens of kilometers from the shore, so as to avoid the "eye sore" freaks. Who knows what people will come up with? Maybe they'll even figure, that you can use much BIGGER mills out to sea. Maybe someone should patent those ideas.
No, wait - it's been done for quite a while now. Who'd have thought it...
George Carlin said it best in his Parental Advisory show:
Ohhh, some people don't like you to talk like that. Ohh, some people like to shut you up for saying those things. You know that. Lots of people. Lots of groups in this country want to tell you how to talk. Tell you what you can't talk about. Well, sometimes they'll say, well you can talk about something but you can't joke about it. Say you can't joke about something because it's not funny. Comedians run into that shit all the time. Like rape. They'll say, "you can't joke about rape. Rape's not funny." I say, "fuck you, I think it's hilarious. How do you like that?" I can prove to you that rape is funny. Picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd. See, hey why do you think they call him "Porky," eh? I know what you're going to say. "Elmer was asking for it. Elmer was coming on to Porky. Porky couldn't help himself, he got a hard- on, he got horney, he lost control, he went out of his mind." A lot of men talk like that. A lot of men think that way. They think it's the woman's fault. They like to blame the rape on the woman. Say, "she had it coming, she was wearing a short skirt." These guys think women ought to go to prison for being cock teasers. Don't seem fair to me. Don't seem right, but you can joke about it. I believe you can joke about anything. It all depends on how you construct the joke. What the exaggeration is. What the exaggeration is. Because every joke needs one exaggeration. Every joke needs one thing to be way out of proportion. Give you an example. Did you ever see a news story like this in the paper? Every now and then you run into a story, says, "some guy broke into a house, stole a lot of things, and while he was in there, he raped an 81 year old woman." And I'm thinking to myself, "WHY??? What the fuck kind of a social life does this guy have?" I want to say, "why did you do that?" "Well she was coming on to me. We were dancing and I got horney. Hey, she was asking for it, she had on a tight bathrobe." I'll say, "Jesus Christ, be a little fucking selective next time will you?"
What do you want? Freedom of Speech or Accetable Speech? You can't have both. Once you start to outlaw one kind of speech, then you got the ball rolling.
No offence to Windows Update (okay I lied) but I get a critical update for my Video Driver. It wants me to install Microsoft's latest driver for nVidia cards, which is from May the 2nd 2003.
I'm using the latest one from nVidia which is
Version: 44.03 Release Date: May 14, 2003 WHQL Certified
I wonder why it is critical to downgrade my driver, when nVidia still supplies the certified drivers...
No, wait - I don't. Here's why: 1) That driver should be under the Drivers section. 2) I also have "Q810243 Update: Watch television shows recorded by Media Center PCs on other Microsoft Windows XP PCs" under critical updates.
It's a usefull system, I'll give'em that, but puhleaze....
Just because a computing model is old doesn't mean that it's outdated.
Sure it does! Just like everything else. Just look at that stupid idea called "the wheel"... it's horribly outdated and we have better options now! Lots of better options! Like... triangles!
And the difference between tabbed browsing and child windows is? As far as I can tell Opera has always had child-windows (multiple document interface), and the difference between tabbed browsing and MDI is miniscule if not non-existing.
Oh I don't know. I haven't had the heating turned on in my appartment for more than a year. I've been able to run a 1.3 GHz Tbird overclocked to the max with without active cooling in the winter time.
with token help from the Aussies and a few other countries
Token help? How dare you! Denmark has contributed with a submarine and a corvette! That's not token help! They'll come in mighty handy in a desert war!
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People who blow up a bus full of civilians are terrorists. It's really not very complicated...
Well, if you're being suppressed, occupied and have no army, blowing up civilians just might make the occupying country give up their occupation.
It's not very complicated. Just look at it from more than one angle.
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Uhm... when did it defeat Communism?
And the only way you will defeat terrorism is to kill every single person on the face of the earth.
After all, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter...
Well, just suppose they had a webpage with a wording like
"Can we have a word on how you access your office? Did you know, that we excel in making protective measures that works - including vulnarable windows? With our equipment your outlook on security need not be so bleak! Download our catalog today."
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No, wait - it's been done for quite a while now. Who'd have thought it
No offence to Windows Update (okay I lied) but I get a critical update for my Video Driver. It wants me to install Microsoft's latest driver for nVidia cards, which is from May the 2nd 2003.
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I'm using the latest one from nVidia which is
Version: 44.03
Release Date: May 14, 2003
WHQL Certified
I wonder why it is critical to downgrade my driver, when nVidia still supplies the certified drivers
No, wait - I don't. Here's why:
1) That driver should be under the Drivers section.
2) I also have "Q810243 Update: Watch television shows recorded by Media Center PCs on other Microsoft Windows XP PCs" under critical updates.
It's a usefull system, I'll give'em that, but puhleaze
Yet, when people call telnetting port 80 hacking, you people cry foul.
The parent knows what he's talking about. He's trying to educate you. Educate. As in "teaching you new stuff". As in "using your brai..."
Sorry - my bad.
Uhm
Microsoft Mozilla.
The Mozilla team should just forfeit the name.
Microsoft SourceForge
SourceForge should just forfeit the name.
Afterall - Microsoft has a bigger user group
The dual Xeon has 512 MB RAM.
The dual Opteron has 2 GB RAM.
Pretty sloppy, if you ask me.
Uhm
Well, it could be worth watching.
;-)
Use an all female crew. Use only crewmembers who could participate in, say, Miss Universe.
Populate it with enough cameras to make Big Brother look like a peephole show.
And finally - only way to get food: Orgasms
Well, I started on 3.62 (I think) and it had a toolbar like the taskbar in Windows, where each window had its own "button" or what have you.
Personally I plan on living forever. So far so good.
And the difference between tabbed browsing and child windows is? As far as I can tell Opera has always had child-windows (multiple document interface), and the difference between tabbed browsing and MDI is miniscule if not non-existing.
Oh I don't know. I haven't had the heating turned on in my appartment for more than a year. I've been able to run a 1.3 GHz Tbird overclocked to the max with without active cooling in the winter time.
Actually ...
I heard one of the pilots in the USAF with the most air time comment something like
"Landing is easy. Landing without dying is a bit more tricky. Landing without damage is tricker still."
Token help? How dare you! Denmark has contributed with a submarine and a corvette! That's not token help! They'll come in mighty handy in a desert war!
It's not very complicated. Just look at it from more than one angle.
Uhm ... when did it defeat Communism?
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And the only way you will defeat terrorism is to kill every single person on the face of the earth.
After all, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter
Aqua Man drowning in his tub?
Well, just suppose they had a webpage with a wording like
"Can we have a word on how you access your office? Did you know, that we excel in making protective measures that works - including vulnarable windows? With our equipment your outlook on security need not be so bleak! Download our catalog today."
And never underestimate the power of typing errors on the meaning of sentences.