Yes. Even if we all use public transit to pick up our milk, bread and dry cleaning, the trucks that deliver the milk and bread from the farms to the store still use fossil fuels.
However, that isn't an argument for ignoring it all and driving to the corner store anyway.
We should be using less fossil fuels personally. That will lower the cost / increase the supply of fuel for commercial use. We should also (eventually) look at using non-fossil fuel based methods for commercial transport: big-ass electric semis, electric trains, etc..
Anything we do will only delay the inevitable depletion of oil. But everything we can do to delay that day, and reduce our dependencies on it, will help.
Rather than messing with hosts, use a custom style sheet. I know Safari on OS X supports this. I'm guess most modern browsers do as well (maybe not MSIE).
Here's mine.
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Really, there's no economic benefit to a rail line that connects two points that are closer by sea.
I don't know if you can make a blanket statement like that. I'm trying to think of examples, and the St. Lawrence Seaway is one example. Lot's of shipping happens their, sure, but I suspect a lot of freight travels that route as well (from Detroit, say, to cities like Toronto, Montreal, etc.).
On the flip side, nobody takes a train from Spain to Morocco, for example.
Just imagine the pitch some scriptwriter must have delivered for the new series Century City (CBS, 9 p.m.): "Sexy lawyers in the future! And they're practising law!" It must have seemed a good idea at the time.
Certainly, the network would like the show to become a breakaway ratings hit (not likely), but more likely, it's airing it because it's already spent the money.
The show is set in a high-end L.A. law firm, circa 2030. The company is managed by a few salty old-schoolers, Hector Elizondo among them, and a few young upstarts, including the necessary young idealist (Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd), best known from several turns as the lead in C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower on A&Eand wildly miscast here.
The first episode veers between two cases customized and contrived to fit the futuristic format: A scientist (David Paymer) is arrested for cloning, although he was doing it only to save his son's life. A septuagenarian rock star (Anthony Zerbe) is sued by his band mates for refusing to undergo procedures to look young.
Sad to report, the future looks pretty much the same as the present does, except with cleaner air and fancier laptops. There are a few advances: Pre-trial hearings are accomplished via holograms. Characters marvel about cherries without pits. But where are the moving sidewalks, the sassy robot maids and other conveniences promised to us by Alvin Toffler and The Jetsons?
Nothing is exceptional about Century City, neither its concept nor its cast, made up largely of vaguely familiar TV faces, which includes a bit player from Suddenly Susan and a woman from Judging Amy. They are actors at a way station -- on the rebound from one show and on their way to the next.
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Yes. Even if we all use public transit to pick up our milk, bread and dry cleaning, the trucks that deliver the milk and bread from the farms to the store still use fossil fuels.
However, that isn't an argument for ignoring it all and driving to the corner store anyway.
We should be using less fossil fuels personally. That will lower the cost / increase the supply of fuel for commercial use. We should also (eventually) look at using non-fossil fuel based methods for commercial transport: big-ass electric semis, electric trains, etc..
Anything we do will only delay the inevitable depletion of oil. But everything we can do to delay that day, and reduce our dependencies on it, will help.
Those things are kinda cool (802.11b on one of them, even!), but a bit big at 1.9" H x 12.4 " W x 9.3" D and 2.0 lbs.
Why not go get a Blackberry.
So, for instance, if you want to break a 1' object into thirds, you can do it exactly. Try doing it with meters - it's 33 and a third centimeters.
The converse of your argument applies also though. Try splitting a meter into fifths. Easy: 20cm. Now try that with a foot. Or a yard.
the cow is the better alternative. I can eat its meat ...
... once.
"Clippy" and "Trusted Computing" just don't sound like they should go together in the same sentence.
Exactly. I can't wait for Mac OS X 10.7, code named "Weasel".
Then ...
Goodbye internet.
Hello Dark ages.
Besides, once you've copied the concert off your USB drive onto your computer/iPod/whatever ... you've got a USB drive.
... free USB drive. What's wrong with that?
'Cause, hey
I suppose if they are read-only or locked somehow preventing other uses, they would still make nice mementos.
Or Christmas tree ornaments.
Rather than messing with hosts, use a custom style sheet. I know Safari on OS X supports this. I'm guess most modern browsers do as well (maybe not MSIE).
Here's mine.
Please ... I bet most spammers are sending out their filth through trojaned Windows boxes.
The bandwidth costs are borne by the end-users twice: once when their hacked machines send the spam, and again when they receive it.
if you don't need all the features of MacStumbler, you can try the very nice AP Grapher to track signal strength.
Yup, except he's called "Gully", the deranged, fish-toting seagull.
Nope, but it plays SPS games excellently!
iPod/iTunes smart playlists can do those two things quite easily.
Yikes! Less than once a month? You need to see a doctor, pronto!
I think you should wait a wait for a few months for the miniCPOD.
It's smaller than the CPOD, and comes in 5 fashionable colours. It doesn't store as much information as the larger model though.
Oh, but of course, neither have Ogg support.
Don't wear them if you live in Sicily, though!
Consider the number of Arabic people who have the first name Mohammed and who aren't conncted to a terrorist organization.
Really, there's no economic benefit to a rail line that connects two points that are closer by sea.
I don't know if you can make a blanket statement like that. I'm trying to think of examples, and the St. Lawrence Seaway is one example. Lot's of shipping happens their, sure, but I suspect a lot of freight travels that route as well (from Detroit, say, to cities like Toronto, Montreal, etc.).
On the flip side, nobody takes a train from Spain to Morocco, for example.
Not yet, they don't. But soon.
That said, many Wal-Mart employees require that overtime to survive.
That is probably more a function of the shitty wages that they pay.
366 days from now, you ignorant clod!
... or rent a car and take a quick trip to New Hampshire which enjoys a 0% sales tax.
There's an Apple Store in Salem, NH, BTW.
all of its 4 fans are here posting on slashdot
Right, so get his company to buy him a work cell/pager.
From The Globe and Mail:
Just imagine the pitch some scriptwriter must have delivered for the new series Century City (CBS, 9 p.m.): "Sexy lawyers in the future! And they're practising law!" It must have seemed a good idea at the time.
Certainly, the network would like the show to become a breakaway ratings hit (not likely), but more likely, it's airing it because it's already spent the money.
The show is set in a high-end L.A. law firm, circa 2030. The company is managed by a few salty old-schoolers, Hector Elizondo among them, and a few young upstarts, including the necessary young idealist (Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd), best known from several turns as the lead in C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower on A&Eand wildly miscast here.
The first episode veers between two cases customized and contrived to fit the futuristic format: A scientist (David Paymer) is arrested for cloning, although he was doing it only to save his son's life. A septuagenarian rock star (Anthony Zerbe) is sued by his band mates for refusing to undergo procedures to look young.
Sad to report, the future looks pretty much the same as the present does, except with cleaner air and fancier laptops. There are a few advances: Pre-trial hearings are accomplished via holograms. Characters marvel about cherries without pits. But where are the moving sidewalks, the sassy robot maids and other conveniences promised to us by Alvin Toffler and The Jetsons?
Nothing is exceptional about Century City, neither its concept nor its cast, made up largely of vaguely familiar TV faces, which includes a bit player from Suddenly Susan and a woman from Judging Amy. They are actors at a way station -- on the rebound from one show and on their way to the next.