I'll second that. Ever get on a conference call with some imbecile clacking away on their keyboard, drowning out anyone trying to talk and pissing off a whole crowd of people? That's when it really gets to you. And I have to politely ask them to stop, instead of grabbing them by the throat and shrieking "MAKE IT STOP!".
As for mice, why should any mouse need to click so loudly? It's especially irritating that Apple mice are so often loud. I don't need to be told that I clicked the mouse; I'm well aware of what I did. I want something that just does its job.
I would be much more accepting of ads if they weren't so horrible. Screaming strobe images do not encourage me to buy anything. What they do is encourage me to note what's being advertised, so I can make damned sure I NEVER buy it. Some ads are so bad, they're effective in that they don't chase me away from the product; I'm out o' there before I can tell what's being advertised.
As for commercials on DVDs, I buy very few, but not being able to skip past the FBI warning on rented DVDs encourages me to make my own copies - so I can eliminate such obnoxious stuff. Or look for the tiny number still on video-cassettes.
Commercials at movie theaters? They're not just annoying, they arouse rage in me. I will not go into a movie until the commercials are over. How do I know? The pulsing audio assault, heard clearly through two or more walls, drops off to just annoyingly loud. (Want to guess how often I go to movies these days? Not much).
Polite ads are fine. I have even gone out of my way to watch some ads; the VW New Orleans commercial, a Gallo champagne commercial with glorious classical music, a few others. But thug ads are not, and that's what almost all ads are today; bullies assaulting millions of people.
"Financial cost is a decent approximation of environmental cost in this case."
Really? When did anyone start paying at the pump for global warming, oil spills, MTBE contaminated water supplies, polluted waterways, and toxic air? Until that happens, I see no correlation between financial cost and environmental cost.
Which is why I want a $2/gallon tax on gasoline - but not just lumped in with the usual bottomless pit of taxes. Instead, I want it distributed equally to every adult American citizen. All citizens are being hurt - and pretty much everyone is contributing to the pollution. But if the indemnity is equal for everybody, then the gashogs at least pay a relative "fine" to the public at large. It's our country - why should the worst polluters get a free ride?
"feeding animals to animals remains standard practice in the U.S"
Really stupid. If politicians weren't in the pocket of industry, this would be outlawed. Make that OUTLAWED! Then, maybe the slaughterhouses would be _paying_ to have the offal disposed of - and not by dumping it anywhere they own a piece of land, either.
Voila! Suddenly the product becomes directly competitive with petroleum.
Yeah, I run into the same thing here in Jacksonville. It typically happens when I try to go to a blog site where the blogger is blunt and vulgar expressing opinions about el Presidente and his Mongoloid horde.
First, who are these "officials"? Second, find out which elected officials support this idea, and finance their opponents (gotta find some first, though).
This idiocy wouldn't move forward if the boneheads promoting it were recalled and sent off to retirement somewhere.
Here's a different idea: make the tax high enough to double the price. Then, distribute the proceeds _equally_ to every _adult citizen_. Why? To compensate the citizenry for all the crap tied to the use of gasoline. And if they need more money for roads, then just add on more taxes. More gas taxes, that is.
Serve those Sport Utility Car drivers right.
Hey, wait! Don't we need to charge bicycle riders really big time? And what about pedestrians? How dare they use those sidewalks without paying for them.
But it IS the People vs the Government. And the People lose almost every time. Democrat/Republican is just a two-headed beast controlled by the plutocracy, and it has successfully fooled the people into thinking that's how things have to be.
Republican - a boot grinding a human face into the dirt, forever. Democrat - put a pillow between the boot and the face.
Ya shouldn't have responded to the pinhead. It'll just encourage more of the same.
I thought you stated things in a concise and accurate manner. But then, I'm convinced you're right. As opposed to that COWARD, who's carrying a psychotic illness he tries to infect others with.
Good grief. This is not the place to spout your crap about Social Security. Go to some right-wing nutball blog. I see enough garbage already trying to justify this galactic theft for the rich, engineered by the Bushublicans.
I did the same kind of checking. I do like the geographical location feature; anything that can reduce the mileage I drive to do stuff, I'm in favor of. Now if A9 can work with companies (and get paid for the service!) to provide detailed inventory lists, I'll be able to type in "paint scraper" or "left-handed fraglewhoozits", and see which store is closest.
I use a Mac anyway, and Safari works fine for me. As for intruders on my PC, I've found that a firewall + little ol' ZoneAlarm eliminates any and all crap like spyware and virii, even on an old Pentium II laptop using a never-updated W-oes Me. Oh, and NOT using Outlook or IE. Ever.
Halleluyah! If my money's gonna get poured out to private companies, I want some stock, so we can get some kind of return on it. Of course, your point that there shouldn't be a monopoly is even better.
Interesting figures at the Deccan Traps site. It says the flows are > 6,500 ft thick, and cover about 200,000 sq miles. Yet it says the basalt consists of a little over 12,000 cubic miles.
If the flow are more than a mile thick, wouldn't that mean there's more than 200,000 cubic miles? Or is the basalt only a small portion of the flows?
Sure, it'll be financed privately. Just like sports stadiums.
Get real. This is a huge project that will inevitably involve governments - and it'll suck up so much more in tax dollars and giveaways of land to private industry than previous boondoggles, that the robber barons who dream it up will be in heaven. It's the highway industry's version of the Superconducting Supercollider.
This is a stupendously insane idea - but great if you're the one who's doing it.
I've done a lot of flying this year, and some people not only don't care about their neighbors, they actively try to push you out of your damned seat. I finally got agressive myself, shoving back twice as hard, and not giving an inch. While I hate pressing the flesh (literally), there is sometimes simply no other alternative. So when some obnoxious thug tries to steal my seat, I just say HELL NO.
Americans are Fat Alberts. Airline seats are for armless anorexics. But for these scumbags, I don't think it would matter if they were in first class, they would still be hogs.
"Ghetto pimp" - definitely LOL on that one. I suppose it's like those DOS days, when "real men" used the clunky CLI (but not Unix). For PCs, Apparently, ugliness is the new/old beauty.
I certainly agree on the usability of Macs. I think I've turned on my PC maybe 4 times this year - and one of those had to do with getting Virtual PC working on the Mac. So I certainly don't see any need to be getting another PC.
Don't forget that you need _USB_ speakers on a Cube.
I've never been impressed with the sound on my Cube, but I still haven't found anything to match its silence. Yeah, it's really good-looking, but the silence is the single most important thing that encourages me to keep it. I see somewhat interesting attempts out there at PCs, but they all seem to be pretty noisy.
As for the monitor, I still like the original (acrylic?) LCD monitor.
I have had very little in the way of spyware, viruses, etc. But then, I don't use XP. I have simple ways I avoid these problems.
1. On a PC: - firewall in the DSL router (amazing how much crap that stops) - Zone Alarm - don't use Outlook. The only time I used the laptop for mail was out of town, and for that I was getting my mail via Webmail through my ISP. - use Mozilla - run Windows Me! Believe it or not, XP has had far more security problems. Yeah, I know it's supposed to be the worst ever, but it works for me. - don't be stupid. Remember, always, that an executable can do ANYTHING. Be suspicious. No, be paranoid. 2. On a Mac (my main machine): - um, what was the problem again? Yeah, the DSL firewall is there, but it doesn't seem to be needed, as I've done email and browsing at hotspots. I use Safari and Mail, along with OpenOffice. Oh yeah, and never apply Apple updates as soon as they come out. It's gotten ugly.
Interesting thing with the PC. I went on a consulting job with an old laptop running Windows Me. I was told I'd need to use my laptop on their network, but when I got there, they wanted to check it for viruses. So some guy loaded up a virus checker, which ran for 3 hours. It found NOTHING. Of course, then they didn't like the old Windows version I was running.
The only virus that laptop ever had was the virus checker. It took me an hour to clean that crap off my machine.
The gold standard? I tried running it from DVD, and it was unbearably slow. I've downloaded it to disk, and while it's faster, it's STILL slow. Add to that it's clunky interface, which looks like Windows 0.1. And did I mention it's slow?
It's faster to pull down one of the volumes from my 60-era Brittanica. I'm just sorry I still need to dedicate a bookcase to it.
Fuck off, yourself, meathead. I can't speak for the original poster, but for myself, I'll gladly kick the ass of any dipshit like you that thinks I can be pushed around simply because I don't eat meat. (How much "eating meat" have you done lately?).
I see the jerks are responding pretty much as expected. I didn't quite eating meat because of some limp-wristed foofrah ideal - I did it because of cruelty to animals, and because of the environment. Chickens are tortured from birth to death, hog farms dump shit into our waterways, cows destroy prairie, it seems that they all get fed antibiotics, or get fed Frankencorn. For too long, cows were fed cows, chickens chickens. That's an example of economics trumping sanity. The meat industry is just ugly. And the people who deride vegetarians are just assholes.
I don't have a problem with hunting per se, although it does seem that too many are duck-heads. When a hunter kills for food - and makes sure of the kill - that's fine.
Maybe I should move to Hawaii, and for meat, eat only feral pigs that I kill myself. Help the environment, don't subsidize the meat industry (except through taxes and policy on public lands, of which there's too much), and eat all the pork chops I can catch.
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I'll second that. Ever get on a conference call with some imbecile clacking away on their keyboard, drowning out anyone trying to talk and pissing off a whole crowd of people? That's when it really gets to you. And I have to politely ask them to stop, instead of grabbing them by the throat and shrieking "MAKE IT STOP!".
As for mice, why should any mouse need to click so loudly? It's especially irritating that Apple mice are so often loud. I don't need to be told that I clicked the mouse; I'm well aware of what I did. I want something that just does its job.
YES! Say it again, all in CAPS.
I would be much more accepting of ads if they weren't so horrible. Screaming strobe images do not encourage me to buy anything. What they do is encourage me to note what's being advertised, so I can make damned sure I NEVER buy it. Some ads are so bad, they're effective in that they don't chase me away from the product; I'm out o' there before I can tell what's being advertised.
As for commercials on DVDs, I buy very few, but not being able to skip past the FBI warning on rented DVDs encourages me to make my own copies - so I can eliminate such obnoxious stuff. Or look for the tiny number still on video-cassettes.
Commercials at movie theaters? They're not just annoying, they arouse rage in me. I will not go into a movie until the commercials are over. How do I know? The pulsing audio assault, heard clearly through two or more walls, drops off to just annoyingly loud. (Want to guess how often I go to movies these days? Not much).
Polite ads are fine. I have even gone out of my way to watch some ads; the VW New Orleans commercial, a Gallo champagne commercial with glorious classical music, a few others. But thug ads are not, and that's what almost all ads are today; bullies assaulting millions of people.
Social contract, my ass.
"Financial cost is a decent approximation of
environmental cost in this case."
Really? When did anyone start paying at the pump for global warming, oil spills, MTBE contaminated water supplies, polluted waterways, and toxic air? Until that happens, I see no correlation between financial cost and environmental cost.
Which is why I want a $2/gallon tax on gasoline - but not just lumped in with the usual bottomless pit of taxes. Instead, I want it distributed equally to every adult American citizen. All citizens are being hurt - and pretty much everyone is contributing to the pollution. But if the indemnity is equal for everybody, then the gashogs at least pay a relative "fine" to the public at large. It's our country - why should the worst polluters get a free ride?
er - that's "eliminates".
"feeding animals to animals remains standard practice in the U.S"
Really stupid. If politicians weren't in the pocket of industry, this would be outlawed. Make that OUTLAWED! Then, maybe the slaughterhouses would be _paying_ to have the offal disposed of - and not by dumping it anywhere they own a piece of land, either.
Voila! Suddenly the product becomes directly competitive with petroleum.
Yeah, I run into the same thing here in Jacksonville. It typically happens when I try to go to a blog site where the blogger is blunt and vulgar expressing opinions about el Presidente and his Mongoloid horde.
First, who are these "officials"? Second, find out which elected officials support this idea, and finance their opponents (gotta find some first, though).
This idiocy wouldn't move forward if the boneheads promoting it were recalled and sent off to retirement somewhere.
Here's a different idea: make the tax high enough to double the price. Then, distribute the proceeds _equally_ to every _adult citizen_. Why? To compensate the citizenry for all the crap tied to the use of gasoline. And if they need more money for roads, then just add on more taxes. More gas taxes, that is.
Serve those Sport Utility Car drivers right.
Hey, wait! Don't we need to charge bicycle riders really big time? And what about pedestrians? How dare they use those sidewalks without paying for them.
But it IS the People vs the Government. And the People lose almost every time. Democrat/Republican is just a two-headed beast controlled by the plutocracy, and it has successfully fooled the people into thinking that's how things have to be.
Republican - a boot grinding a human face into the dirt, forever.
Democrat - put a pillow between the boot and the face.
Ya shouldn't have responded to the pinhead. It'll just encourage more of the same.
I thought you stated things in a concise and accurate manner. But then, I'm convinced you're right. As opposed to that COWARD, who's carrying a psychotic illness he tries to infect others with.
Bravo, bravo! First thing I did when I saw this article was to look for "America Syndrome". Who's gonna star in the movie?
Good grief. This is not the place to spout your crap about Social Security. Go to some right-wing nutball blog. I see enough garbage already trying to justify this galactic theft for the rich, engineered by the Bushublicans.
I did the same kind of checking. I do like the geographical location feature; anything that can reduce the mileage I drive to do stuff, I'm in favor of. Now if A9 can work with companies (and get paid for the service!) to provide detailed inventory lists, I'll be able to type in "paint scraper" or "left-handed fraglewhoozits", and see which store is closest.
Exactly. Links that they recommend? Yeah, right.
I use a Mac anyway, and Safari works fine for me. As for intruders on my PC, I've found that a firewall + little ol' ZoneAlarm eliminates any and all crap like spyware and virii, even on an old Pentium II laptop using a never-updated W-oes Me. Oh, and NOT using Outlook or IE. Ever.
Halleluyah! If my money's gonna get poured out to private companies, I want some stock, so we can get some kind of return on it. Of course, your point that there shouldn't be a monopoly is even better.
"hey!" sounds like a Megacorp PR man.
Interesting figures at the Deccan Traps site. It says the flows are > 6,500 ft thick, and cover about 200,000 sq miles. Yet it says the basalt consists of a little over 12,000 cubic miles.
If the flow are more than a mile thick, wouldn't that mean there's more than 200,000 cubic miles? Or is the basalt only a small portion of the flows?
"analize a human face"? No problem. Stick a cigarette in the mouth, and you have an instant butthead.
Sure, it'll be financed privately. Just like sports stadiums.
Get real. This is a huge project that will inevitably involve governments - and it'll suck up so much more in tax dollars and giveaways of land to private industry than previous boondoggles, that the robber barons who dream it up will be in heaven. It's the highway industry's version of the Superconducting Supercollider.
This is a stupendously insane idea - but great if you're the one who's doing it.
I've done a lot of flying this year, and some people not only don't care about their neighbors, they actively try to push you out of your damned seat. I finally got agressive myself, shoving back twice as hard, and not giving an inch. While I hate pressing the flesh (literally), there is sometimes simply no other alternative. So when some obnoxious thug tries to steal my seat, I just say HELL NO.
Americans are Fat Alberts. Airline seats are for armless anorexics. But for these scumbags, I don't think it would matter if they were in first class, they would still be hogs.
"Ghetto pimp" - definitely LOL on that one. I suppose it's like those DOS days, when "real men" used the clunky CLI (but not Unix). For PCs, Apparently, ugliness is the new/old beauty.
I certainly agree on the usability of Macs. I think I've turned on my PC maybe 4 times this year - and one of those had to do with getting Virtual PC working on the Mac. So I certainly don't see any need to be getting another PC.
Don't forget that you need _USB_ speakers on a Cube.
I've never been impressed with the sound on my Cube, but I still haven't found anything to match its silence. Yeah, it's really good-looking, but the silence is the single most important thing that encourages me to keep it. I see somewhat interesting attempts out there at PCs, but they all seem to be pretty noisy.
As for the monitor, I still like the original (acrylic?) LCD monitor.
I have had very little in the way of spyware, viruses, etc. But then, I don't use XP. I have simple ways I avoid these problems.
1. On a PC:
- firewall in the DSL router (amazing how much crap that stops)
- Zone Alarm
- don't use Outlook. The only time I used the laptop for mail was out of town, and for that I was getting my mail via Webmail through my ISP.
- use Mozilla
- run Windows Me! Believe it or not, XP has had far more security problems. Yeah, I know it's supposed to be the worst ever, but it works for me.
- don't be stupid. Remember, always, that an executable can do ANYTHING. Be suspicious. No, be paranoid.
2. On a Mac (my main machine):
- um, what was the problem again? Yeah, the DSL firewall is there, but it doesn't seem to be needed, as I've done email and browsing at hotspots. I use Safari and Mail, along with OpenOffice. Oh yeah, and never apply Apple updates as soon as they come out. It's gotten ugly.
Interesting thing with the PC. I went on a consulting job with an old laptop running Windows Me. I was told I'd need to use my laptop on their network, but when I got there, they wanted to check it for viruses. So some guy loaded up a virus checker, which ran for 3 hours. It found NOTHING. Of course, then they didn't like the old Windows version I was running.
The only virus that laptop ever had was the virus checker. It took me an hour to clean that crap off my machine.
Uh, make that "60s-era". Somehow, I don't think I'll find an encyclopedia that covers 60 eras.
The gold standard? I tried running it from DVD, and it was unbearably slow. I've downloaded it to disk, and while it's faster, it's STILL slow. Add to that it's clunky interface, which looks like Windows 0.1. And did I mention it's slow?
It's faster to pull down one of the volumes from my 60-era Brittanica. I'm just sorry I still need to dedicate a bookcase to it.
Fuck off, yourself, meathead. I can't speak for the original poster, but for myself, I'll gladly kick the ass of any dipshit like you that thinks I can be pushed around simply because I don't eat meat. (How much "eating meat" have you done lately?).
Think vegetarians are pansies? Go kiss a bull.
I see the jerks are responding pretty much as expected. I didn't quite eating meat because of some limp-wristed foofrah ideal - I did it because of cruelty to animals, and because of the environment. Chickens are tortured from birth to death, hog farms dump shit into our waterways, cows destroy prairie, it seems that they all get fed antibiotics, or get fed Frankencorn. For too long, cows were fed cows, chickens chickens. That's an example of economics trumping sanity. The meat industry is just ugly. And the people who deride vegetarians are just assholes.
I don't have a problem with hunting per se, although it does seem that too many are duck-heads. When a hunter kills for food - and makes sure of the kill - that's fine.
Maybe I should move to Hawaii, and for meat, eat only feral pigs that I kill myself. Help the environment, don't subsidize the meat industry (except through taxes and policy on public lands, of which there's too much), and eat all the pork chops I can catch.