10 - Plant two or more trees around your home.
Trees add value to your home and are attractive. Your kids can carve their sweetheart's initials in the trunks later.
9 - Put energy-saving lightbulbs in the three most used lights in your house.
Fluorescents last longer and save money in the long run. You can get fluorescents with pleasing hues nowadays (no more freaky bluish light with constant buzzing).
8 - When you replace your refrigerator, buy a high-efficiency model.
No sense in driving your power bill up for no reason. The fridge is always on and always using electricity. You might as well get an efficient one (you're replacing it anyway).
7 - Buy food and other products with reusable or recyclable packaging.
I reuse my Safeway plastic bags as trashbags. It saves having to buy separate trashbags.
6 - When you replace your washing machine, buy a low-energy, low-water use model.
Actually, front-loaded machines are pretty nice. They don't have an agitator, so there isn't anything inside the machine itself that can stretch and damage clothes. It also uses less water but manages to get clothes just as clean. Save money on clothes, save money on the water bill.
5 - Install a solar thermal system to help provide your hot water.
Disclaimer: Only if you live somewhere this could actually work.
4 - Recycle all of your homeís newsprint, cardboard, glass, and metal.
Newspaper can be used to soak up oil used for deep frying. Cardboard boxes can be used for various things. Glass jars make great pencil holders. Metal... Well, if you can't figure out what to do with metal, it may just be best to take it to the curb.
3 - Leave your car at home two days a week.
Hell, work from home! The reduced stress will be great for your health.
2 - Insulate your home, tune up your furnace, and install efficient shower heads.
Except for the shower head point, you save money on heating and cooling costs by keeping your home properly insulated and your heaters/coolers working in good condition.
1 - When you buy your next car, purchase a fuel-efficient model that gets up to 32 mpg or more.
Or just buy a big SUV and reap the windfall of everyone else lowering the demand for oil.:-)
it's paper and other organic materials that are decaying and causing inks and other chemicals to move into the water systems, not the plastics.
This is what I meant, if I wasn't clear in the original post. Plastics to not break down at any measurable rate fast enough to contaminate the table water. It is the contents of the plastics, along with other organic materials that may seep into the ground water. The large plastic seal underneath the trash may prevent most of the chemicals from draining, but then you come up with the problem:
What is really interesting is that in a good landfill, there is very little decay
In a way, this is the essence of the problem when it comes to landfills. This lack of decay is the main reason new landfills must be opened. If the trash would biodegrade, landfills could be sustained for a much longer lifespan.
looks like "High-performance TCP/IP stack" is a planned feature
That's pretty cool. I was thinking of implementing a "packet-losing, barely functional TCP/IP stack" with the upcoming SantaOS, but I may have to change my strategy now that someone's come along and promised better...
throwing plastic into landfills puts carbon into the ground.
But it does not return it in any way that the ground can reclaim it within the next 100 million years. That's the problem.
Other than that, plastic is a great material that's immensely versatile and can actually lower the total amount of waste produced just as a byproduct of its usefulness.
Environmentally, mother nature will treat a pile of plastic covered with dirt as just another hill.
Gots to disagree with you on this one. Many landfills do not have adequate seepage protection at the ground level. As a result, many chemicals find their way down to the water table and end up contaminating the local water supply. Largely, this doesn't happen, but when it does the damage is fairly significant.
The best long term solution for handling garbage is incineration, but that too is objectionable for the amount of pollutants released into the air. Improvements are being made, though.
aluminum. Use it, recycle it.
Stack it in a big pyramid in your office.
Build the Great Wall of Coke.
Make ninja stars that really work.
I didn't recycle aluminum cans before, but I do now. I pour the contents into a paper cup and toss the can in the Recycle bin right there in the kitchen.
I also leave my computer on 24/7 because I know that boot time is perhaps the most power intensive part of running the computer.
I leave the lights on for the same reason, they are fluorescent so turning them off and then back on would just waste power.
I also post inanities to/. because it saves power here. My posts take up space on some other company's server, so I really don't sweat it.
You can complain and protest all you like, eventually you will be tagged and released and tracked like a mountain goat. Whether it be through something overt like a chip in your ear or something more insidious like your always-attached cellphone or your credit card activity, you can and will be tracked. What are you going to do? Remove yourself from society?
Because Linux is Free, it can never really 'die', neither on the desktop nor embedded device nor server. What kind of power does this guy think he has to be able to call the end of Linux?
The only entity that could possibly bring an end to Linux anywhere is the U.S. Government by declaring the GPL null and void (GPL = (void)NULL);
Are there any developers out there really developing cross platform products that target Macs? In a similar vein, Mac enthusiasts like to focu on aesthetics, but cross-platform development needs to forego this aspect of useability in favor of LCD functionality.
It's certainly nice to see a common GUI API set available for another platform, but how useful is it really going to be?
When will the Community Chalkboard be built? If the project is approved by City Council, it is estimated that it will take two years to raise the funds for the monument's construction
In the meantime, feel free to draw little penguins on the sidewalk in indelible ink. Barring that, note that large concrete structures passable as a venue for artistic expression is currently available at every office building in the downtown area. Do not think yourself limited to only concrete, metropolitan glass and flora are right at your fingertips.
When I'm not being a computer enthusiastic, I find that practicing my gymnastiastics really helps keep myself in shape. I know I'm not an iconoclastiastic of the typical geek.
Is what lies beyond that link fantastiastic or what?
Unfortunately, the guy now has a hole in his stomach.
Of course, transplanting toes to replace fingers is a great alternative to this time consuming technique. But, then again, some people really appreciate the lack of hand odor involved in using the coral transplantation method.
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to absorb all the CO2 being produced, 90% of the earth's surface would have to be covered in plant life.
Pure bullshit. Pontificate all you like, but without documentation, it's all just hand waving.
Dancin Santa
10 - Plant two or more trees around your home.
:-)
Trees add value to your home and are attractive. Your kids can carve their sweetheart's initials in the trunks later.
9 - Put energy-saving lightbulbs in the three most used lights in your house.
Fluorescents last longer and save money in the long run. You can get fluorescents with pleasing hues nowadays (no more freaky bluish light with constant buzzing).
8 - When you replace your refrigerator, buy a high-efficiency model.
No sense in driving your power bill up for no reason. The fridge is always on and always using electricity. You might as well get an efficient one (you're replacing it anyway).
7 - Buy food and other products with reusable or recyclable packaging.
I reuse my Safeway plastic bags as trashbags. It saves having to buy separate trashbags.
6 - When you replace your washing machine, buy a low-energy, low-water use model.
Actually, front-loaded machines are pretty nice. They don't have an agitator, so there isn't anything inside the machine itself that can stretch and damage clothes. It also uses less water but manages to get clothes just as clean. Save money on clothes, save money on the water bill.
5 - Install a solar thermal system to help provide your hot water.
Disclaimer: Only if you live somewhere this could actually work.
4 - Recycle all of your homeís newsprint, cardboard, glass, and metal.
Newspaper can be used to soak up oil used for deep frying. Cardboard boxes can be used for various things. Glass jars make great pencil holders. Metal... Well, if you can't figure out what to do with metal, it may just be best to take it to the curb.
3 - Leave your car at home two days a week.
Hell, work from home! The reduced stress will be great for your health.
2 - Insulate your home, tune up your furnace, and install efficient shower heads.
Except for the shower head point, you save money on heating and cooling costs by keeping your home properly insulated and your heaters/coolers working in good condition.
1 - When you buy your next car, purchase a fuel-efficient model that gets up to 32 mpg or more.
Or just buy a big SUV and reap the windfall of everyone else lowering the demand for oil.
Dancin Santa
And they say you're a troll! :-)
I'm wondering when someone will think so of me too...
Dancin Santa
Joanie could sell me a car any day.
Dancin Chachi
it's paper and other organic materials that are decaying and causing inks and other chemicals to move into the water systems, not the plastics.
This is what I meant, if I wasn't clear in the original post. Plastics to not break down at any measurable rate fast enough to contaminate the table water. It is the contents of the plastics, along with other organic materials that may seep into the ground water. The large plastic seal underneath the trash may prevent most of the chemicals from draining, but then you come up with the problem:
What is really interesting is that in a good landfill, there is very little decay
In a way, this is the essence of the problem when it comes to landfills. This lack of decay is the main reason new landfills must be opened. If the trash would biodegrade, landfills could be sustained for a much longer lifespan.
Dancin Santa
Still in favor of incineration
looks like "High-performance TCP/IP stack" is a planned feature
That's pretty cool. I was thinking of implementing a "packet-losing, barely functional TCP/IP stack" with the upcoming SantaOS, but I may have to change my strategy now that someone's come along and promised better...
Dancin Santa
If you like physics, you'll love Zen Buddhism!
Dancin Santa
throwing plastic into landfills puts carbon into the ground.
But it does not return it in any way that the ground can reclaim it within the next 100 million years. That's the problem.
Other than that, plastic is a great material that's immensely versatile and can actually lower the total amount of waste produced just as a byproduct of its usefulness.
Environmentally, mother nature will treat a pile of plastic covered with dirt as just another hill.
Gots to disagree with you on this one. Many landfills do not have adequate seepage protection at the ground level. As a result, many chemicals find their way down to the water table and end up contaminating the local water supply. Largely, this doesn't happen, but when it does the damage is fairly significant.
The best long term solution for handling garbage is incineration, but that too is objectionable for the amount of pollutants released into the air. Improvements are being made, though.
aluminum. Use it, recycle it.
Stack it in a big pyramid in your office.
Build the Great Wall of Coke.
Make ninja stars that really work.
Dancin Santa
I didn't recycle aluminum cans before, but I do now. I pour the contents into a paper cup and toss the can in the Recycle bin right there in the kitchen.
/. because it saves power here. My posts take up space on some other company's server, so I really don't sweat it.
I also leave my computer on 24/7 because I know that boot time is perhaps the most power intensive part of running the computer.
I leave the lights on for the same reason, they are fluorescent so turning them off and then back on would just waste power.
I also post inanities to
Dancin Santa
Actually, I do believe that you have the right to complain all you like. It's that your complaining is going to have no effect one way or the other.
Dancin Santa
The difference is in the accuracy of the reporting.
Dancin Santa
However if I was still in school it be a hole deffrent story.
Dropped out early, huh?
Dancin Santa
You can complain and protest all you like, eventually you will be tagged and released and tracked like a mountain goat. Whether it be through something overt like a chip in your ear or something more insidious like your always-attached cellphone or your credit card activity, you can and will be tracked. What are you going to do? Remove yourself from society?
Dancin Santa
You know what they say! A ittle necrophilia never hurt no one.
Because Linux is Free, it can never really 'die', neither on the desktop nor embedded device nor server. What kind of power does this guy think he has to be able to call the end of Linux?
The only entity that could possibly bring an end to Linux anywhere is the U.S. Government by declaring the GPL null and void (GPL = (void)NULL);
Dancin Santa
Are there any developers out there really developing cross platform products that target Macs? In a similar vein, Mac enthusiasts like to focu on aesthetics, but cross-platform development needs to forego this aspect of useability in favor of LCD functionality.
It's certainly nice to see a common GUI API set available for another platform, but how useful is it really going to be?
Dancin Santa
Open File Explorer: Windows+'E'
Minimize all windows: Windows+'M'
etc.
Using the mouse to do any of these takes many more movements than is necessary. Even typing the commands into cmd takes more time than the shortcuts.
Dancin Santa
Where's the Windows key?
Using Windows without the Windows key is a massive hit to usage speed.
Dancin Santa
When will the Community Chalkboard be built? If the project is approved by City Council, it is estimated that it will take two years to raise the funds for the monument's construction
In the meantime, feel free to draw little penguins on the sidewalk in indelible ink. Barring that, note that large concrete structures passable as a venue for artistic expression is currently available at every office building in the downtown area. Do not think yourself limited to only concrete, metropolitan glass and flora are right at your fingertips.
Dancin Santa
When I'm not being a computer enthusiastic, I find that practicing my gymnastiastics really helps keep myself in shape. I know I'm not an iconoclastiastic of the typical geek.
Is what lies beyond that link fantastiastic or what?
Dancin Santastiastic
Unfortunately, the guy now has a hole in his stomach.
Of course, transplanting toes to replace fingers is a great alternative to this time consuming technique. But, then again, some people really appreciate the lack of hand odor involved in using the coral transplantation method.
Dancin Santa
Nah, it's the moodiness that kills me...
I completely don't understand you? What? What are you talking about? Oh, I see... I'll be back.
*returns an hour later*
I got you some flowers. Let's watch tv together.
Dancin Santa
Could it be possible for organic material to exist long enough in one of these 'jets' to form rudimentary lifeforms?
Where are the pics?
Dancin Santa
Please note that your name is not the one mentioned in the writeup.
Poser.
Dancin Santa
Something like Euclid's equation for Perl. Something that elegantly uses all of Perl's special variables in a single statement.
It would likely solve for world peace.
Dancin Santa