I hate to be a stickler here, but nuclear is pronounced just as it's spelled.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=nuclear
Read the excerpt in the entry:
Usage Note: The pronunciation (nky-lr), which is generally considered incorrect, is an example of how a familiar phonological pattern can influence an unfamiliar one. The usual pronunciation of the final two syllables of this word is (-kl-r), but this sequence of sounds is rare in English. Much more common is the similar sequence (-ky-lr), which occurs in words like particular, circular, spectacular, and in many scientific words like molecular, ocular, and vascular.
I agree with everything you said though... and I think if it wasn't for the whole chernobyl mishap, we probably could have gotten over the 3-mile island fiasco.
According to the EPA the average miles per gallon is now just over 20, down from a high of 22.1 in the late 1980s.
Considering the vehicles that were actually available back in the 80's, I'm not surprised. The auto industry was on this "create a little box of plastic" kick.
The only thing tying me to Windows at the moment is the fact that all our clients use it, and I need to make sure that everything is flawless in that browser too.
I've had Internet Explorer working on my work computer under Linux for going on 4 months now... without crossover office.
It works... and sadly it works faster than Mozilla under wine. (no flame intended.. my observation)
I use Firefox as my primary browser, but as you said it's nice to see that it's flawless under IE also.
Tax on cigarettes is ok, they're bad for you and the people around you. If too many people still buy cigarettes, the tax is too low. Oh, and by the way I smoke;)
Now I see why we left England. LOL
As for gas, the more gas your car consumes (and the "dirtier" it runs), the more tax you should pay - And I don't mean 50 cents per whatever measure you use, as it is now, but a full dollar or a dollar and half. The more pollution, the more you pay. That'll teach the ignorant people out there to buy less polluting cars. If that doesn't do it, raise it further.
Since there are no comparable alternatives to automobiles (bikes are not alternatives, they are on par with a slow moped), and considering there are already laws about pollution control on vehicles, *and* annual checks to keep cars off of the road that are polluters, it sounds as if your trying to be a tyrant.
As a civic leader, part of the duty is to keep the economy from falling flat on it's face... not to help it along into a downward spiral that'd kill any chance of pulling out of a recession. Fuel is already $2.30/Gallon (~$0.61/liter) in my part of America, and only going up. It now takes me, in a very fuel efficient car, $20+ a week to go back and forth to work. Before, it was close to $10. That's over a 100-percent increase in price. This has happened without additional taxes, unlike overseas. That's all America needs is yet another price increase in fuel... that'd really put a burden on goods & services being transferred across the country. Also, the taxes collected in America are used for the streets and other Department of Transportation uses. (recycled back into the very thing a car uses) The taxes are balanced, not too high, not too low. What your proposing is, to be blunt, self-serving ego-masturbation. Somehow you forget that even if you don't drive at all in your life, you are directly effected by the price of fuel through purchases you make in order to survive such as food. Even if you're willing to go through the higher taxation for "the greater good", I sure am not. I have a family to feed, and no alternative to avoid the "ignorance" tax.
Electric or Alternative fuel vehicles are what we need, with readily accessible access to said alternative fuel. Not people with whacky ideas about somehow "punishing" everyone else for their "ignorance". Enough of these hybrid cars, also.
By the same note, the "average" porsche/bmw/lamborghini owner doesn't take their car up to 160+ MPH, nor stress the suspension like they are designed for.
Your point?
I'd venture to say more people use an SUV or towing/family hauling/etc than what I was talking about.
Considering an SUV can carry an entire family, camping gear, and possibly a baby stroller or two in the back, along with food for the week, I'd say that's a pretty good tradeoff. I don't see this flying vehicle doing this:)
Nah, the Americans just realize that you don't say "Leetra", you say "leeter". So, they spell it accordingly. It's evolution in action to correct a language long skewed.
It's alot like towne, or colour, and all those other words.
Taxes are not meant to be extremely high. When they are, that means the respective government is having issues.
Considering no government that I know of does anything about the environment in regards to fuel emissions (I don't see planes flying with giant soot-scoopers or anything) then the taxes are unfounded. Additives to gasoline to make it better burning? Paid for at the pump. Research into better emissions-control in vehicles? Paid for when you buy the car. Remember, taxes are not meant to keep someone from using a certain commodity, even though oddly some governments think that works. Taxes are meant to fund projects for the people. That one point alot of people have forgotten.
It's alot like these silly cigarette taxes going around. Originally they were founded as "sin tax" by the Clinton administration. Now, they just keep being tacked onto, time after time. 10 years ago a pack of cigarettes cost approximately $1.20. The same pack now costs $3.75-$3.90. That brings the average price of a carton from ~$15 to ~$40. The projects funded by these taxes? They it's funding for the state medical bills associated with smoking. However, anyone who uses the state medical could not afford the cost of smoking due to the high prices. (~$40 * 2 cartons = $80, average income for a person in that shape is approximately $500/month on disability) Factor in the other expenses of course.
Taxation is not a fix-all, and should never be used to rip money from individuals through a moral-dilemma method. If that's the case, in some peoples eyes the christian denomination should start paying out the nose. It's all in how you look at it.
I guess it parallel never quite lived up to it's potential then.
I know the specs very well, I also know how well things perform in real life. I also know I've only seen like 3 things designed for a parallel port.. printers, backpack drives, and tape drives. I've yet to find a parallel camera, or a PDA cradle....
None the less, USB2 is out, and firewire. Now we just need to wait for motherboards to support those protocols as natively as they support parallel/serial.
For $40 you can get USB drivers that will work with keyboard/mouse/hub/printer. That covers most everything.
That just covers the very basic I/O devices.. hardly "most everything". What about USB cameras, USB mass storage devices other than the memory sticks, USB modems, USB soundcards, USB cable modems, USB PDA cradles, etc. Not that USB was heavily used when NT4 was out, though. But now, it's just silly as anything more than an infrastructure system... and only if the system can't handle W2K or you don't hae W2K license.
Personally, I really don't care. I personally HATE USB with a passion, since the older intefaces are faster, simpler, more compatible, etc. All my USB mice come with a PS/2 adapter. All my USB printers still have (2X faster) Parallel-port connectors, etc. My camera is an exception, but parallel-port card readers are faster than using the camera to transfer the files.
While I'll agree that parallel is more uniform and supported, it's not faster. USB is worlds faster than parallel, and they are hot swappable, which is very nice. Faster than USB? I take it you haven't transferred information to a PDA through a serial connection, or transferred pictures through anything other than a USB or firewire connection....
But as a personal choice, I can definately accept you don't like USB. I only use it for the things that are significantly faster with it.
USB support on NT4 was sickening.... That alone is reason enough not to use NT4. Well, that, and there are no longer security updates for the OS being released. If you plan on tightening the machine down to 127.0.0.1, it'll be fine.
defense: My client was almost killed due to firestone tires prosecution: Your client stole the car.
Who do you think would win?
Obviously the client. The theft in no way altered the functionality of the tire.
The court would rule that the theft is a superfluous detail in the case.
But yeah, I get your drift. If the guy was already caught for the theft due to the accident and he has some time in the slammer due to grand theft auto he would probably pursue the case... and win.
The only question up for discussion is whether not providing security updates for pirates will hurt people besides the pirates themselves.
There's not even a question there. It's a given in the whole thing. You think it's bad when people forget to patch and you have a Blaster epidemic, just imagine people that have to pirate a SECURITY patch. I don't kno about most people, but if I was on an ftp server (or whatever is used nowadays) and I saw something like Bryce 3D next to another package that said "WinXP-SP2-security-patch-by-DOD.zip.rar.tar.gz.bz 2" I think I'd go with the Bryce 3D.
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I hate to be a stickler here, but nuclear is pronounced just as it's spelled.
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http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=nuclea
Read the excerpt in the entry:
Usage Note: The pronunciation (nky-lr), which is generally considered incorrect, is an example of how a familiar phonological pattern can influence an unfamiliar one. The usual pronunciation of the final two syllables of this word is (-kl-r), but this sequence of sounds is rare in English. Much more common is the similar sequence (-ky-lr), which occurs in words like particular, circular, spectacular, and in many scientific words like molecular, ocular, and vascular.
I agree with everything you said though... and I think if it wasn't for the whole chernobyl mishap, we probably could have gotten over the 3-mile island fiasco.
According to the EPA the average miles per gallon is now just over 20, down from a high of 22.1 in the late 1980s.
Considering the vehicles that were actually available back in the 80's, I'm not surprised. The auto industry was on this "create a little box of plastic" kick.
Pretty much it boils down to getting ready for the inevitable destruction of this planets environment and ecosystem.
Exploration and expansion is an integral part of humanities nature.
The only thing tying me to Windows at the moment is the fact that all our clients use it, and I need to make sure that everything is flawless in that browser too.
I've had Internet Explorer working on my work computer under Linux for going on 4 months now...
without crossover office.
It works... and sadly it works faster than Mozilla under wine. (no flame intended.. my observation)
I use Firefox as my primary browser, but as you said it's nice to see that it's flawless under IE also.
Tax on cigarettes is ok, they're bad for you and the people around you. If too many people still buy cigarettes, the tax is too low. Oh, and by the way I smoke ;)
Now I see why we left England. LOL
As for gas, the more gas your car consumes (and the "dirtier" it runs), the more tax you should pay - And I don't mean 50 cents per whatever measure you use, as it is now, but a full dollar or a dollar and half. The more pollution, the more you pay. That'll teach the ignorant people out there to buy less polluting cars. If that doesn't do it, raise it further.
Since there are no comparable alternatives to automobiles (bikes are not alternatives, they are on par with a slow moped), and considering there are already laws about pollution control on vehicles, *and* annual checks to keep cars off of the road that are polluters, it sounds as if your trying to be a tyrant.
As a civic leader, part of the duty is to keep the economy from falling flat on it's face... not to help it along into a downward spiral that'd kill any chance of pulling out of a recession. Fuel is already $2.30/Gallon (~$0.61/liter) in my part of America, and only going up. It now takes me, in a very fuel efficient car, $20+ a week to go back and forth to work. Before, it was close to $10. That's over a 100-percent increase in price.
This has happened without additional taxes, unlike overseas. That's all America needs is yet another price increase in fuel... that'd really put a burden on goods & services being transferred across the country. Also, the taxes collected in America are used for the streets and other Department of Transportation uses. (recycled back into the very thing a car uses) The taxes are balanced, not too high, not too low. What your proposing is, to be blunt, self-serving ego-masturbation. Somehow you forget that even if you don't drive at all in your life, you are directly effected by the price of fuel through purchases you make in order to survive such as food. Even if you're willing to go through the higher taxation for "the greater good", I sure am not. I have a family to feed, and no alternative to avoid the "ignorance" tax.
Electric or Alternative fuel vehicles are what we need, with readily accessible access to said alternative fuel. Not people with whacky ideas about somehow "punishing" everyone else for their "ignorance". Enough of these hybrid cars, also.
I would be surprised to hear that even NASCAR engines put out more than 100 horsepower at idle (+/- 750rpm.)
:)
Yes, but how many NASCAR engines do you know that run around a track at idle?
At idle, it's just high enough to keep the engine from lopping and falling on it's face
By the same note, the "average" porsche/bmw/lamborghini owner doesn't take their car up to 160+ MPH, nor stress the suspension like they are designed for.
Your point?
I'd venture to say more people use an SUV or towing/family hauling/etc than what I was talking about.
Considering an SUV can carry an entire family, camping gear, and possibly a baby stroller or two in the back, along with food for the week, I'd say that's a pretty good tradeoff. :)
I don't see this flying vehicle doing this
Nah, the Americans just realize that you don't say "Leetra", you say "leeter". So, they spell it accordingly. It's evolution in action to correct a language long skewed.
It's alot like towne, or colour, and all those other words.
Oh, you're just jealous :)
Taxes are not meant to be extremely high. When they are, that means the respective government is having issues.
Considering no government that I know of does anything about the environment in regards to fuel emissions (I don't see planes flying with giant soot-scoopers or anything) then the taxes are unfounded. Additives to gasoline to make it better burning? Paid for at the pump. Research into better emissions-control in vehicles? Paid for when you buy the car. Remember, taxes are not meant to keep someone from using a certain commodity, even though oddly some governments think that works. Taxes are meant to fund projects for the people. That one point alot of people have forgotten.
It's alot like these silly cigarette taxes going around. Originally they were founded as "sin tax" by the Clinton administration. Now, they just keep being tacked onto, time after time. 10 years ago a pack of cigarettes cost approximately $1.20. The same pack now costs $3.75-$3.90. That brings the average price of a carton from ~$15 to ~$40.
The projects funded by these taxes? They it's funding for the state medical bills associated with smoking. However, anyone who uses the state medical could not afford the cost of smoking due to the high prices. (~$40 * 2 cartons = $80, average income for a person in that shape is approximately $500/month on disability) Factor in the other expenses of course.
Taxation is not a fix-all, and should never be used to rip money from individuals through a moral-dilemma method. If that's the case, in some peoples eyes the christian denomination should start paying out the nose. It's all in how you look at it.
Man that's really insane, the cars I'm considering goes 20-25 kilometers per liter. That's 47-58 miles per gallon!
;)
Have fun when you need to carry a weeks worth of stuff with you somewhere
That'd be a great as a podmobile to get back and forth to work, though.
I guess it parallel never quite lived up to it's potential then.
I know the specs very well, I also know how well things perform in real life. I also know I've only seen like 3 things designed for a parallel port.. printers, backpack drives, and tape drives. I've yet to find a parallel camera, or a PDA cradle....
None the less, USB2 is out, and firewire. Now we just need to wait for motherboards to support those protocols as natively as they support parallel/serial.
Then again, maybe not....
But I'd be happy to do somthing about this travesty if it's that important to you. Where does your wife live?
:-)
I'd hope the same place he does
The crusades were political wars dressed in the robes of religion.
I'm glad that can't happen today.
Nah, today is more like soviet russia.
In soviet russia, religious wars are dressed in robes of politics.
Except in a personal pronoun. I stand corrected.
Learn something new everyday it seems.
Ownership denotes an apostrophe.
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"Sharon's book was good."
Check out a good tutorial on apostrophe usage:
http://www.mccc.edu/students/tutoring/apostroph
For $40 you can get USB drivers that will work with keyboard/mouse/hub/printer. That covers most everything.
That just covers the very basic I/O devices.. hardly "most everything". What about USB cameras, USB mass storage devices other than the memory sticks, USB modems, USB soundcards, USB cable modems, USB PDA cradles, etc. Not that USB was heavily used when NT4 was out, though. But now, it's just silly as anything more than an infrastructure system... and only if the system can't handle W2K or you don't hae W2K license.
Personally, I really don't care. I personally HATE USB with a passion, since the older intefaces are faster, simpler, more compatible, etc. All my USB mice come with a PS/2 adapter. All my USB printers still have (2X faster) Parallel-port connectors, etc. My camera is an exception, but parallel-port card readers are faster than using the camera to transfer the files.
While I'll agree that parallel is more uniform and supported, it's not faster. USB is worlds faster than parallel, and they are hot swappable, which is very nice. Faster than USB? I take it you haven't transferred information to a PDA through a serial connection, or transferred pictures through anything other than a USB or firewire connection....
But as a personal choice, I can definately accept you don't like USB. I only use it for the things that are significantly faster with it.
So let me get this straight.. in this case simply stating actual facts can taint a potential jury trial?
Yes, you can't have those nasty facts floating around, corrupting potential jury members....
USB support on NT4 was sickening....
That alone is reason enough not to use NT4. Well, that, and there are no longer security updates for the OS being released. If you plan on tightening the machine down to 127.0.0.1, it'll be fine.
Maybe that article was aimed directly at Asia?
Yeah... something about thor floating over the face of the earth and thinking it's good or something like that.
defense: My client was almost killed due to firestone tires
prosecution: Your client stole the car.
Who do you think would win?
Obviously the client. The theft in no way altered the functionality of the tire.
The court would rule that the theft is a superfluous detail in the case.
But yeah, I get your drift. If the guy was already caught for the theft due to the accident and he has some time in the slammer due to grand theft auto he would probably pursue the case... and win.
Of course, anyone who downloads WinXP from an unofficial source deserves what they get.
Please tell me where the nearest official ISO distributor to download from is for WinXP?
Heck, it's stored in the registry, so any application can theoretically snag it and send it anywhere.
The only question up for discussion is whether not providing security updates for pirates will hurt people besides the pirates themselves.
z 2" I think I'd go with the Bryce 3D.
There's not even a question there. It's a given in the whole thing. You think it's bad when people forget to patch and you have a Blaster epidemic, just imagine people that have to pirate a SECURITY patch. I don't kno about most people, but if I was on an ftp server (or whatever is used nowadays) and I saw something like Bryce 3D next to another package that said "WinXP-SP2-security-patch-by-DOD.zip.rar.tar.gz.b