Lots of the search results are nothing but sales sites these days... with all that brain power they brag about, you'd think they could have done something about that by now.
I always thought this would be easily solved by removing all pages that are returned in Froogle from the main 'Web' search results. Perhaps this could be something you could toggle in the preferences, but this would pretty much solve the problem completely.
If you're looking for reviews of some product you have to wade through pages of stores. Sometimes even the manufacturer's site is buried. I know that this can be partially solved with "-" search terms, but with the presence of Froogle, stores should automatically be filtered out (IMHO, anyway).
I'd say that once you have monopolies in the market, who exercise as much, if not more, control over a market as a government, you cease to have an effective free market. I would say that capitalism is dependent on the existance of a more-or-less free market, so a market in the presence of monopolies is not a capitalistic system.
To think that the same exact people are the best ones for the job doesn't make sense.
I'm sure that others feel this way as well, but I'd have to say that this reflects my feelings about politics in general. I find it deeply disturbing that the same people are in charge of government on almost all of its levels. I find it disturbing that of all of the people in the country, the son of a past president is the best choice for president. In my local and state elections the political families win time and time again. Perhaps it has something to do with name brand recognition, but it's disgusting.
I agree. Encouraging uninformed people to go and vote only increases the effectiveness of the superficial campaigning techniques. The candidate that is better looking / has better hair / has a shorter-more-American-sounding name / has run more commercials or blanketed the area with flyers gets rewarded.
This is especially noticable in smaller local elections. Unless there is a specific, well known reason to (not) vote for a particular candidate, the one with the best advertising wins. Count the number of flyers you've received for state treasurer or Harbor Master or something. If one person has blanketed the state with ads, they will invariably win. This is not a sound basis for the election of public officials.
Nope. There is a state inspection that covers emissions and safty (by which I mean: the vehicle is checked to be sure the suspension and steering are intact and that the lights work). Beyond that, not much else is checked. I've seen many un-roadworthy cars legally pass inspection.
From what I know, that switch is legal as long as the lights work when it is switched on, and you never actually switch them off. If you got caught driving without brake lights you'd get pulled over, but if you're evading law enforcement chances are you're not too concerned about a traffic violation.
Well, as the GP was talking about carburated engines, I'd say a fair number of carburated cars that are still on the road also have mechanical fuel pumps. Chill out, man.
This will only continue to run fuel through the engine if the fuel pump is driven by the wheels, and that doesn't exist. All cars have either engine driven or electric fuel pumps, both of which stop when the key is switched off.
If the car is in gear, the transmission will continue to turn the engine, which will drive all of the belt driven components. A mechanically driven fuel pump will continue to operate, an electric one will not.
Eventually, I rewired the brake pedal switch through a toggle switch on the dash so I could use the main brakes without turning the lights on. Great for killing all the lights at night and getting away from cops. That old pile was a mess with rewired everything!
OK, even though I should be heading off to class now...
I still recommend my concoction to any beer loving coffee affectionado. Two shots of good espresso in a pint of stout. After a night of those, you get that perfect wide awake drunk going. If, of course, you can't handle a whole night of these, just one or two is enough to keep you strong until the sun comes up.
I thought the name was fitting because the night I decided to try it I was having a hard time deciding whether to make a cup of coffee or have a beer. It still sounds kind of stupid, though. Oh well.
Not to detract from your point, but this is an erroneous statement.
To further support this: The old adage "Don't ever buy a first year GM" is an old adage for a reason. Every Caddilac is a first year GM.
Back on topic, though. I feel that spacecraft are actually of better quality than most assembly line produced machines. Consider the constant high load under extreme conditions. They benefit from the pros of both custom jobs and assembly line jobs. Many of the parts used to build the craft are assembly line products made to exact specs. Part of the problem with pre-assembly line products was that everything had to be custom made. This includes all fasteners and everything. Using computers as an example, you can custom make a good box using mass produced parts. The end product will, depending on your skill in putting legos together, be as good as a mass produced final product.
There are not a whole lot of parts to a spacecraft that are one-shot custom built. And even those are built to very tight specs.
Actually the center of the range would be a 3.0. If the average student in attendance (counting those who wont graduate) scores a 2.0, then the average of the graduating students will be shifted toward 2.0, assuming a normal distribution.
Just because you make an arbitrary cutoff at 2.0, that doesn't suddenly shift the distribution to be recentered around the center of the new range.
For example, if you don't allow people with below 100 IQ to enter a room, the average IQ of the room will be higher than the average IQ of the human population. But the average IQ of the room will still be closer to 100 than, say, 125 because there are many more people With an IQ of 100 than people with an IQ of 150.
Zealotry in action. If an open source program lacks a feature that many people agree is important, it's a "stupid, useless feature that no one uses." Once said open source program implements the feature, it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Awww. C'mon. I know you're just trolling, but...
His point was that people should not depend on grammar or spelling checkers for the sake of the language and the strength of society. He seems to accept that it is a feature that people use and deplores their use of it.
A more apt example of zealotry in action is a person who reads their own twisted meaning into everything said by others. When a post describing how computer assisted sentence forming is bad becomes a jab at a particular brand of product or praise for another, you know you're a zealot.
It is so easy to convince the politicians that the commonfolk are a threat because the politicians are, by and large, in the same group (if not the exact same people) that is trying to do the convincing. The vast majority of our representatives are not in any way representative of the majority of the population.
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"I judge it lawful, praiseworthy, and expedient for every man, continually to watch over the rights and liberties of his country, and to see that they are violated upon none... or if they be, speedily to endeavour redress; otherwise such violations, breaches and incroachments will eat like a Gangrene upon the common Liberty, and become past remedy."
Something I've noticed in trying to install on others' computers is that you can import mail, prefs, etc from many other clients... except Mozilla Mail. What's up with that?
The fuel cost of a solar panel may be zero, but you still have to pay for the production and upkeep of it. If it does not have an indefinite lifespan, there is also the problems of disposal, management of toxic wastes caused by production and disposal.
I'm not bashing solar power, but you can't sell it as a zero cost solution. There are both monetary and environmental costs for it as well. Likewise for fuel cells.
I think that he was saying that the occupants of the car were more likely to die. In typical US fashion, the solution seems to be make everybody drive SUVs.
It is interesting to note that almost every tractor-trailer had one occupant. Very bad milage, but can a hybrid pull the trailer, let alone the cargo that one of these can?
You know, I think that's a problem in and of itself. Those trucks aren't nearly as fuel efficient as, say, trains. The fact that the taxpayers pay for the construction and upkeep of the highways the trucks operate on, and that the trucking companies don't have to pay compensation to anyone (who?) for the pollution emitted by their vehicles keeps their business afloat.
Perhaps instead of a credit for fuel efficient, low-emissions vehicles, people should be charged for having inefficient, polluting vechicles.
My little 4 banger sports car (Honda del Sol) gets in excess of 40 mpg. Even my rotary (notoriously inefficient) powered RX-7 got over 24 mpg. They are both very sporty cars.
You forget thay most newer sports cars are pretty small and light. The only exception to this are the typical American muscle cars like Mustangs and Corvettes that weigh as much as an SUV and have an engine to match it.
Yeah, cop cars are made for performance, period. The piddly ICE that usually accompanies the electric motor in a hybrid wouldn't do too well in a chase situation (or just getting ot highway speed to pull over a speeder), and those cars are HEAVY. An electric motor in addition to the large ICE for tooling around the city might be a good idea, but with such a large, heavy vehicle the battery charge may not last too long.
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My next choice is Seagate (Barracuda V). They are just a bit louder than the Samsungs...
I always thought this would be easily solved by removing all pages that are returned in Froogle from the main 'Web' search results. Perhaps this could be something you could toggle in the preferences, but this would pretty much solve the problem completely.
If you're looking for reviews of some product you have to wade through pages of stores. Sometimes even the manufacturer's site is buried. I know that this can be partially solved with "-" search terms, but with the presence of Froogle, stores should automatically be filtered out (IMHO, anyway).
I'd say that once you have monopolies in the market, who exercise as much, if not more, control over a market as a government, you cease to have an effective free market. I would say that capitalism is dependent on the existance of a more-or-less free market, so a market in the presence of monopolies is not a capitalistic system.
I'm sure that others feel this way as well, but I'd have to say that this reflects my feelings about politics in general. I find it deeply disturbing that the same people are in charge of government on almost all of its levels. I find it disturbing that of all of the people in the country, the son of a past president is the best choice for president. In my local and state elections the political families win time and time again. Perhaps it has something to do with name brand recognition, but it's disgusting.
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As long as we fight among ourselves, we are powerless against those who hold us down.
This is especially noticable in smaller local elections. Unless there is a specific, well known reason to (not) vote for a particular candidate, the one with the best advertising wins. Count the number of flyers you've received for state treasurer or Harbor Master or something. If one person has blanketed the state with ads, they will invariably win. This is not a sound basis for the election of public officials.
Voting for people who in no way even pretend to represent your interests is for people who aren't very good at making rational decisions.
(A lot of people aren't very good at making rational decisions, which is why we have the system we have now. But I digress.)
From what I know, that switch is legal as long as the lights work when it is switched on, and you never actually switch them off. If you got caught driving without brake lights you'd get pulled over, but if you're evading law enforcement chances are you're not too concerned about a traffic violation.
Well, as the GP was talking about carburated engines, I'd say a fair number of carburated cars that are still on the road also have mechanical fuel pumps. Chill out, man.
If the car is in gear, the transmission will continue to turn the engine, which will drive all of the belt driven components. A mechanically driven fuel pump will continue to operate, an electric one will not.
Eventually, I rewired the brake pedal switch through a toggle switch on the dash so I could use the main brakes without turning the lights on. Great for killing all the lights at night and getting away from cops. That old pile was a mess with rewired everything!
Except that in this case the engine is stuck at WOT. Downshifting will just make you go forward a little slower than before.
I still recommend my concoction to any beer loving coffee affectionado. Two shots of good espresso in a pint of stout. After a night of those, you get that perfect wide awake drunk going. If, of course, you can't handle a whole night of these, just one or two is enough to keep you strong until the sun comes up.
I thought the name was fitting because the night I decided to try it I was having a hard time deciding whether to make a cup of coffee or have a beer. It still sounds kind of stupid, though. Oh well.
Not to detract from your point, but this is an erroneous statement. To further support this: The old adage "Don't ever buy a first year GM" is an old adage for a reason. Every Caddilac is a first year GM.
Back on topic, though. I feel that spacecraft are actually of better quality than most assembly line produced machines. Consider the constant high load under extreme conditions. They benefit from the pros of both custom jobs and assembly line jobs. Many of the parts used to build the craft are assembly line products made to exact specs. Part of the problem with pre-assembly line products was that everything had to be custom made. This includes all fasteners and everything. Using computers as an example, you can custom make a good box using mass produced parts. The end product will, depending on your skill in putting legos together, be as good as a mass produced final product.
There are not a whole lot of parts to a spacecraft that are one-shot custom built. And even those are built to very tight specs.
Just because you make an arbitrary cutoff at 2.0, that doesn't suddenly shift the distribution to be recentered around the center of the new range.
For example, if you don't allow people with below 100 IQ to enter a room, the average IQ of the room will be higher than the average IQ of the human population. But the average IQ of the room will still be closer to 100 than, say, 125 because there are many more people With an IQ of 100 than people with an IQ of 150.
66.35.250.150 (resolved to slashdot.org) scanned me for open proxies after I posted. It then poked around on my webserver for a bit.
Awww. C'mon. I know you're just trolling, but...
His point was that people should not depend on grammar or spelling checkers for the sake of the language and the strength of society. He seems to accept that it is a feature that people use and deplores their use of it.
A more apt example of zealotry in action is a person who reads their own twisted meaning into everything said by others. When a post describing how computer assisted sentence forming is bad becomes a jab at a particular brand of product or praise for another, you know you're a zealot.
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"I judge it lawful, praiseworthy, and expedient for every man, continually to watch over the rights and liberties of his country, and to see that they are violated upon none ... or if they be, speedily to endeavour redress; otherwise such violations, breaches and incroachments will eat like a Gangrene upon the common Liberty, and become past remedy."
-- John Lilburne, Just Defence, 1653
Something I've noticed in trying to install on others' computers is that you can import mail, prefs, etc from many other clients... except Mozilla Mail. What's up with that?
I'm not bashing solar power, but you can't sell it as a zero cost solution. There are both monetary and environmental costs for it as well. Likewise for fuel cells.
I think that he was saying that the occupants of the car were more likely to die. In typical US fashion, the solution seems to be make everybody drive SUVs.
You know, I think that's a problem in and of itself. Those trucks aren't nearly as fuel efficient as, say, trains. The fact that the taxpayers pay for the construction and upkeep of the highways the trucks operate on, and that the trucking companies don't have to pay compensation to anyone (who?) for the pollution emitted by their vehicles keeps their business afloat.
Perhaps instead of a credit for fuel efficient, low-emissions vehicles, people should be charged for having inefficient, polluting vechicles.
You forget thay most newer sports cars are pretty small and light. The only exception to this are the typical American muscle cars like Mustangs and Corvettes that weigh as much as an SUV and have an engine to match it.
Yeah, cop cars are made for performance, period. The piddly ICE that usually accompanies the electric motor in a hybrid wouldn't do too well in a chase situation (or just getting ot highway speed to pull over a speeder), and those cars are HEAVY. An electric motor in addition to the large ICE for tooling around the city might be a good idea, but with such a large, heavy vehicle the battery charge may not last too long.