Actually, they do give a reason (to pay for the roads).
Jim Whitty, the task force administrator, says Oregon relies on the gas tax to pay for its road system and gas tax revenues are expected to flatten as gas mileage improves and more hybrid cars come on line.
As to the "What's to prevent someone from removing their box and driving for free?" argument: If they collect it at the fuel station, it would be hard to get fuel with an illegally modded car.
Not sure what I think about the idea, but it's interesting. Would people drive less, because they're charged per mile? Or would people not look so much at the mileage on their cars, since a low mileage car gets taxed as much as the high mileage ones?
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OK. I work at FREE GEEK and we reuse and recycle a lot of these gizmos.
Monitors are the worst
Here's what currently has to happen to a monitor to dispose of it safely and responsibly (without shipping it to Asia). Note: We're on the west coast, USA:
Drop monitor off at FREE GEEK
We gather and test the monitors. It's far more efficient to re-use when possible. But some are broken or so obsolete that no one will touch them.
Those that can't be re-used get palletized and shipped to somewhere in Washington State where they are disassembled. This costs us $8.00 / CRT, plus shipping.
From Washington State, the leaded glass gets shipped off to a smelter in Pennsylvania. That's the closest place to domestically handle this kind of glass. This requires a trainload of glass to make it worth the while.
Now, we could try to cut costs by doing some of the work ourselves. (We already do the testing.) But:
Wanna disassemble a monitor? Their innards are coated with a fire retardant that you can absorb into your blood stream through the skin. Their capacitors can electrocute you. This is not a minimum wage type job here.
Wanna have a lead smeltering operation in your neighborhood? (I didn't think so.)
Same story goes for TVs, BTW.
There's a lot of stuff in the computer that's worth pulling out (gold, paladium, tantalum). There's some stuff that's break even (most of the other metals). But a lot of it is just expensive to deal with.
These proposed deposits are not hidden costs. The real hidden cost (from the consumer's point of view) is the tax that he'll have to pay a decade down the line to clean up the water supply, etc.
no more telephone or e-mail tag.
...and...
What is it? A way to find people on the Net.
One of the great advantages of email is that you can send it when you want, but the person who gets it, also gets it when (s)he wants. It doesn't interrupt you like the telephone.
I see an advantage of this technology slipping away from us...
The installer is incidental. Debian users run it once, and never again.
Well, my job is to teach newbies how to build computers out of old parts and install linux on them. From my point of view, the installer could get used *a lot*.
At home, however, I agree with you. You get it installed and then forget about the installer. But my point is, the installer will be quite important in some situations.
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I was over at FREE GEEK for their open house a couple weeks ago, and they were selling wind chimes made of old hard drive platters and other computer innards. Looked kinda cool for a low budget gift. Maybe they'll mail order. (And it's for a good cause.)
From some jargon file somewhere, this appropriate quote about windows:
A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.
This is way off topic, but the title is rendered as:
Will Linux be Wall Street?s next killer app?
And the comment as:
Isn't it the other way around?
How come sometimes apostophes are rendered as question marks? How can I fix it? Can I? (Running Netscape if it matters).
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Some balloons DID make it to the states, but most failed to detonate. I think one DID detonate, but it landed in the middle of a ploughed field and caused no major damage. At the time, the farmer and authorities had NO IDEA wtf was going on.:)
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1. the whole page is a table (minus the ad of course) this is very very noticeable slow, and unpleasant.
Hmmm... View Source shows me that it's a series of small tables, compared to the old design, which had one long table in it. The long tables do load more slowly. But this one comes up quite snappily on my system. (Netscape 4.73)
Agreed. If you're a Java programmer, join the local Java users group and participate. Ask on the mailing list how folks got started, and you'll probably get some leads towards working with other contracters.
(Of course, if you're a perl programmer, join the local PerlMongers group, etc.)
In general the whole plot of the LotR just seems very "cheap". Gandalf always appears at the right moment to help the others: when he finds the two lesser hobbits (I forget their names), when goes to Gondor, when he rescues Faramir from the fire, and of course when he starts the battle at exactly the right moment. Too many coincidences for my liking. It seems to me that when Tolkien was writing this, whenever he got stuck he thought "Oh, time to bring Gandalf to save the day". Not very convincing is it?
Hmmm... where to begin?
Where was Gandalf when the four hobbits were being chased by the Black Riders throughout Book One? (Answer: Imprisoned in a tower far away.) The hobbits had to help themselves out of that one, and needed to trust Strider.
The two "lesser" hobbits (Merry and Pippin) escape from the Uruk-Hai (orcs) on their own when the Riders of Rohan attack. And then they come across Treebeard, becoming a catalyst for the Ents attack on Orthanc. This is all before Gandalf shows up. (Book Three in The Two Towers)
Gandalf doesn't just resuce Faramir from the fire. Pippin has to abandon his post, convince a fellow guard to mutiny, and find Gandalf in order to make the resuce happen.
And let's see... To criticize the book because Gandalf decides to go to Gondor or starting a diversionary battle is like, well, criticizing Moby Dick because Ahab decided to go to sea. What'd you expect him to do?
When Gandalf does always "show up just in time" is in the Hobbit, but that's another story.
I'm a volunteer at FreeGeek. We actually exchange volunteer hours for the refurbished computers, as opposed to giving them away outright.
The project is new. Our "grand opening" isn't even until this Saturday. (Originally timed for *after the election*, so we could get political officials interested enought to come, ironically.)
We're pulling in a variety of systems, from 8086's on up to dual Pentium Pros. The entire internal network for the organization has been pulled from the trash heap (with a few donations and maybe a couple hundred dollars spent on a DSL router and a few necessary cables.)
We're getting interest from a number of local high tech companies, and we've gotten 501(c)(3) status (that is, the IRS allows donations to us to be tax deductable).
If we can make a go of this, it may be reproduceable in other communities.
mail in ballots mean a very hight turnout (~80%) which means a lot of votes to count
24 ballot measures to deal with (we have an initiative process that's gone wild lately).
a lot of people used pens to mark their ballots, not pencils, meaning humans have to graphite stamp them, before they can be fed into the voiting machines.
Mid 1980's I had a box of 5.25" floppies strapped to the back of my bicycle and was riding across Minneapolis (in the winter). The box fell off and I didn't notice it until I got where I was going. Circled back to find the floppies spread across the road and run over by cars. I stuffed them all back in the box with the sand and snow an went back to the computer, where I pulled them out, shoo off the grit and popped them into the computer. They all worked.
Now I have a couple hundred 3.5" floppies in a big box in my home office. Whenever I need one, I grab two, because sure enough one is going to be bad.
They are worse now than they used to be, believe me. Maybe it's because people don't need them as much as they used to, and the manufacturers can slack off on standards. Maybe the higher densisity leads to problems. I don't know.
I heard someone say that they're all pretty much made by the same company these days. Anyone know if that's true?
I heard enough bad stuff about the movie that I decided not to sneak in and watch it for free when I had a chance. Thus, I was spared having to walk the gauntlet of scientologists that would have greeted me when I entered.
Any movie that keeps me away from scientologists cannot be all bad.
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I think you mean to say all graphics could be described as vectors, even though not all graphic formats use vectors in their implimentation
Actually, they do give a reason (to pay for the roads).
As to the "What's to prevent someone from removing their box and driving for free?" argument: If they collect it at the fuel station, it would be hard to get fuel with an illegally modded car.
Not sure what I think about the idea, but it's interesting. Would people drive less, because they're charged per mile? Or would people not look so much at the mileage on their cars, since a low mileage car gets taxed as much as the high mileage ones?
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The trailer tacked onto the end of FOTR shows Merry or Pippen hugging a tree. Look closely and you'll see the tree blink.
OK. I work at FREE GEEK and we reuse and recycle a lot of these gizmos.
Monitors are the worst
Here's what currently has to happen to a monitor to dispose of it safely and responsibly (without shipping it to Asia). Note: We're on the west coast, USA:
Now, we could try to cut costs by doing some of the work ourselves. (We already do the testing.) But:
Same story goes for TVs, BTW.
There's a lot of stuff in the computer that's worth pulling out (gold, paladium, tantalum). There's some stuff that's break even (most of the other metals). But a lot of it is just expensive to deal with.
These proposed deposits are not hidden costs. The real hidden cost (from the consumer's point of view) is the tax that he'll have to pay a decade down the line to clean up the water supply, etc.
...
no more telephone or e-mail tag.
...and...
What is it? A way to find people on the Net.
One of the great advantages of email is that you can send it when you want, but the person who gets it, also gets it when (s)he wants. It doesn't interrupt you like the telephone.
I see an advantage of this technology slipping away from us...
The installer is incidental. Debian users run it once, and never again.
Well, my job is to teach newbies how to build computers out of old parts and install linux on them. From my point of view, the installer could get used *a lot*.
At home, however, I agree with you. You get it installed and then forget about the installer. But my point is, the installer will be quite important in some situations.
I was over at FREE GEEK for their open house a couple weeks ago, and they were selling wind chimes made of old hard drive platters and other computer innards. Looked kinda cool for a low budget gift. Maybe they'll mail order. (And it's for a good cause.)
From some jargon file somewhere, this appropriate quote about windows:
A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.
This is way off topic, but the title is rendered as:
Will Linux be Wall Street?s next killer app?
And the comment as:
Isn't it the other way around?
How come sometimes apostophes are rendered as question marks? How can I fix it? Can I? (Running Netscape if it matters).
Some balloons DID make it to the states, but most failed to detonate. I think one DID detonate, but it landed in the middle of a ploughed field and caused no major damage. At the time, the farmer and authorities had NO IDEA wtf was going on. :)
It came down in Oregon. Killed six people. The only deaths as a result of an attack on the mainland during WWII. http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/wwii/jbb.ht m
Hmmm... View Source shows me that it's a series of small tables, compared to the old design, which had one long table in it. The long tables do load more slowly. But this one comes up quite snappily on my system. (Netscape 4.73)
Agreed. If you're a Java programmer, join the local Java users group and participate. Ask on the mailing list how folks got started, and you'll probably get some leads towards working with other contracters.
(Of course, if you're a perl programmer, join the local PerlMongers group, etc.)
Hmmm... where to begin?
Where was Gandalf when the four hobbits were being chased by the Black Riders throughout Book One? (Answer: Imprisoned in a tower far away.) The hobbits had to help themselves out of that one, and needed to trust Strider.
The two "lesser" hobbits (Merry and Pippin) escape from the Uruk-Hai (orcs) on their own when the Riders of Rohan attack. And then they come across Treebeard, becoming a catalyst for the Ents attack on Orthanc. This is all before Gandalf shows up. (Book Three in The Two Towers)
Gandalf doesn't just resuce Faramir from the fire. Pippin has to abandon his post, convince a fellow guard to mutiny, and find Gandalf in order to make the resuce happen.
And let's see... To criticize the book because Gandalf decides to go to Gondor or starting a diversionary battle is like, well, criticizing Moby Dick because Ahab decided to go to sea. What'd you expect him to do?
When Gandalf does always "show up just in time" is in the Hobbit, but that's another story.
Coupla things about the form generation site.
However, I can vouch for using the DMA to reduce your junk mail. It worked for me a coupla years ago.
I'm a volunteer at FreeGeek. We actually exchange volunteer hours for the refurbished computers, as opposed to giving them away outright.
The project is new. Our "grand opening" isn't even until this Saturday. (Originally timed for *after the election*, so we could get political officials interested enought to come, ironically.)
We're pulling in a variety of systems, from 8086's on up to dual Pentium Pros. The entire internal network for the organization has been pulled from the trash heap (with a few donations and maybe a couple hundred dollars spent on a DSL router and a few necessary cables.)
We're getting interest from a number of local high tech companies, and we've gotten 501(c)(3) status (that is, the IRS allows donations to us to be tax deductable).
If we can make a go of this, it may be reproduceable in other communities.
Doesn't Oregon also allow for Internet voting, or am I on drugs?
Must be drugs. We allow mail in voting. In fact, it's about the only way to vote. Maybe good, maybe bad. Turnout is high (~80%).
Does anyone know why Oregon still isn't decided?
Several reasons...
I'd prefer a duel presidency (ala Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton). Fifty paces, small sidearms, you know, the gentlemanly kind of thing.
Now I have a couple hundred 3.5" floppies in a big box in my home office. Whenever I need one, I grab two, because sure enough one is going to be bad.
They are worse now than they used to be, believe me. Maybe it's because people don't need them as much as they used to, and the manufacturers can slack off on standards. Maybe the higher densisity leads to problems. I don't know.
I heard someone say that they're all pretty much made by the same company these days. Anyone know if that's true?
You conspiracy theorists!
I'll eat my website if this turns out to be true.
Reminds me of a book I read in first grade:
C#
C# run.
Run # run!
I heard enough bad stuff about the movie that I decided not to sneak in and watch it for free when I had a chance. Thus, I was spared having to walk the gauntlet of scientologists that would have greeted me when I entered.
Any movie that keeps me away from scientologists cannot be all bad.
Older versions of MySQL are open under the GPL: http://web.mysql .com/Downloads/MySQL-GPL/MySQL_GPL-3.20.32a.tar.gz . The latest version has a source RPM available at http://web.mysql. com/Downloads/MySQL-3.23/MySQL-3.23.16-1.src.rpm. One way or another they are open enough to be qualitatively better than MS SQL Server, even though they may not be a free as we'd like.
I like the concpt, but see two problems:
On the other hand, canned spam sounds just delicious. :-)