Have you actually owned REAL furniture? While writing this from the comfort of my great-grandfather's riveted leather couch, I can't help but think that my hardwood cupboard used to belong to my great-great-grandfather. 6 years? It must be at least 20 times older than that. I don't expect to have to buy new furniture, at all, ever.
I have no idea where you're from, but in America, ALL of our parties would be to the left of theirs. Even the Christian right is... SANE and defends the standard doctrine of european social safeguards:) They can pass all the laws they want. We don't have the means or the will to enforce them. We're a narrow strip of shore, back when we actually had borders, before joining the EU, contraband was the norm. Half of Portugal can get to Spain in less than an hour.
You don't get it. Imagine setting up a factory in a place without a stable power or water supply, decent roads, large enough ports, with a corrupt dictatorship, tribal warlords, gigantic wildlife and weird tropical diseases. It's slowly getting better in some places, but Africa is not ours to fix. We could build them roads, but how do we get our money back, tolls? They don't have enough cars for that. We could lend them money to build roads but it would be squandered by corrupt politicians who would default on the debt. It really has to be solved by them (think Arab Spring), unless you want to colonize the place again and develop it for your own people to use. Like I said, it's getting better in Angola, for instance, and all they had to do was to stop fighting their silly guerrillas and get a stable government. They're attracting lots of international investment nowadays.
I don't know about your computer but laptops sometimes don't support resolutions other than their native one very well. If you scale a laptop's resolution down to a 4:3 mode it will have black edges. Happens with mine on 1024x768 at least.
Erm. Not sure what kind of interwebs you have on your tubes, but 5 GB for a 45 minute series is about 1.9 MB/s Is this an unusual transfer speed for you? That's only 15 mbit. Sounds like something I could even just stream. My 100 mbit fiber link is 59.99 euros/month, as part of a package that includes free phone calls, 125 TV channels, and a 3G dongle, among other things. Heck, I could go all the way up to 400 mbit but that would cost 179.99.
Unless they have a default-deny that only authorizes certain websites, you can set up an HTTP tunnel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_tunnel There's software available for it, you don't need to be a fancy hacker to use this.
In extreme cases, you might be able to work around default-deny HTTP filters by using DNS tunneling. It's horribly, horribly slow, but it works on some of those hotel connections where you would normally be able to access only one webpage, where you have to pay a fee to get X hours of connectivity. Here's an illustrated tutorial: http://analogbit.com/tcp-over-dns_howto
If nobody ever bought anything, there would be no economy. The people in charge of producing this would build enough of your infinitely-lasting deviced to last a few generations and be sacked. I suppose there would be some work for repairment or something, but with such durability The only way this would work is if you paid 50 times more money to have something last 50 years. Besides, what exactly do you own that is so crappy?
My laptop is 6 years old. Its only problem is that it's only got 512 megs of RAM, and I can still get RAM to upgrade it. It was never high-end - Intel graphics and all of that - and yet it can run the OpenSim server and Second Life viewer simultaneously with acceptable performance (I am doing an MSc. on virtual worlds). Come on, an MMO server and client with realistic Physics simulation, a scripting engine, a MySQL database and 3D graphics?
My cell phone is turning 11 one of these days. I have a working 20 year old TV set, though I lost the remote somewhere in this freaking huge messy house xD I have 20 year old clothes that don't look worn. Sturdy Doc Martens boots as well. I have no idea how old my dishwasher is but the standard size detergent bricks, or what you might call them, don't fit anymore and the paint on the dials is coming off. My fucking coffee maker is from the 60s. It used to be my grandmother's. Ditto for my room heater. I have beautiful chandeliers on my ceiling that must date back to the 1930s. They were my great grandparents'. Ditto for my house and most of my furniture. These days people like all sorts of "modern" IKEA crap with "design", well, my antique hardwoord dresser with a marble top and brass insets is worth more than all of their IKEA crap put together. I have a painting that was my great-great-grandfather's, and his 19th century townhouse is still in the family. And a nice stone house back in the original village we came from, that was at the very least my great-great-great-grandfather's, though my family tree in that village has been traced back to the 1600s, and only stops there because that's when they started keeping records. (Welcome to olde Europe) My 100% solid stainless steel cutlery similarly dates back from 1959, around the time when my grandparents got married, and I still have some tin cutlery from my great-grandparents as a keepsake. I have no idea what you're talking about.
I don't know what you're talking about - I've never worked at a company that spent anything on... parties, and at the few companies that do throw up the one single Christmas party, those types of parties are considered a boring chore. I'd rather work at some place that spends less on stupid crap, pays better, and allows me the freedom to spend my time and money however I want, thank you very much. My coworkers are not my friends. I'm not exactly running out of friends, and I don't want to be judged as a professional for what I do with my personal life.
You seem to think 18 year olds or 21 year olds or even 30 year olds are necessarily mature. I think there's something wrong with your argument;) Idiots are everywhere and they exist in all ages.
Blue is the "true" color of the eye. Anything else implies there is some pigment - such as melanin - being produced. He could have simply gotten a mutation that prevents the eye from secreting melanin, and indeed blue-eyed people are supposedly more sensitive to light. They do, after all, come from those cloudy northern european countries full of pale white people.
Well I'm a European, and we're not terribly litigious because there isn't much to gain by suing people. We don't have a concept of punitive damages, you can only sue for the precise amount that you can demonstrate to have lost. And of course we could always come up with Socialized Law. People complain that laws are made for the rich, that only the rich can have lawyers. Well, the richest people pay 40% tax in my country. Tax lawsuits according to the prosecutor's income. Spend a million on legal fees, pay another 400k in taxes. You have this 3-strikes "habitual criminal" law in America? Have penalties for excessive (ab)use of the legal system. Make it less appealing for the RIAA to sue 200 people. Distribute the burden of legal fees - if the RIAA spends a million suing you, then you will have the right to spend up to a certain percentage of that, at their expense, based on the income differential.
Well, would you rather live in a prosperous country where people are well-paid and jobs are plentiful? Not sure about the RIAA, but Google makes more money than half the MPAA put together. (I did the math a while ago). To be quite honest I don't know why Google doesn't simply buy them out and dump the "long tail" on Youtube.
Obviously I can't know if you're gay or simply poking fun at them, but for the benefit of the general population:
1) Not all gay men enjoy anal sex. 2) All my gay friends would resent being stereotyped as mere sodomites!:) 3) A gay man is a man who FALLS IN LOVE with men, not some pervert with a fetish for having anal sex with other men.
That sentence alone was the tipping point that made me truly accept gay men as being a normal part of the population.
You mean sperm? Seriously now, what do you expect, magical healing? Ressurection? It's usually easier to destroy something than it is to create it. All you need to do is give entropy a little helping hand.
How much, in total, can ocean levels rise if all ice melts, including Antarctica and Greenland? I've read more than one estimate, but no real authoritative source.
How much warmer does the atmosphere need to be? Any idea on how longer it would take, worst-case-scenario? 100 years?
I'm not a physicist, and I can't be sure what the poster meant by that, but there are plenty of "devices running cold fusion", they simply do not generate more power than they consume. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion
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Have you actually owned REAL furniture?
While writing this from the comfort of my great-grandfather's riveted leather couch, I can't help but think that my hardwood cupboard used to belong to my great-great-grandfather. 6 years? It must be at least 20 times older than that.
I don't expect to have to buy new furniture, at all, ever.
I have no idea where you're from, but in America, ALL of our parties would be to the left of theirs. Even the Christian right is... SANE and defends the standard doctrine of european social safeguards :)
They can pass all the laws they want. We don't have the means or the will to enforce them. We're a narrow strip of shore, back when we actually had borders, before joining the EU, contraband was the norm.
Half of Portugal can get to Spain in less than an hour.
That makes about as much sense as saying that a cannon ball can stay in flight longer than a hang glider.
You don't get it. Imagine setting up a factory in a place without a stable power or water supply, decent roads, large enough ports, with a corrupt dictatorship, tribal warlords, gigantic wildlife and weird tropical diseases.
It's slowly getting better in some places, but Africa is not ours to fix. We could build them roads, but how do we get our money back, tolls? They don't have enough cars for that. We could lend them money to build roads but it would be squandered by corrupt politicians who would default on the debt.
It really has to be solved by them (think Arab Spring), unless you want to colonize the place again and develop it for your own people to use.
Like I said, it's getting better in Angola, for instance, and all they had to do was to stop fighting their silly guerrillas and get a stable government. They're attracting lots of international investment nowadays.
I don't know about your computer but laptops sometimes don't support resolutions other than their native one very well.
If you scale a laptop's resolution down to a 4:3 mode it will have black edges. Happens with mine on 1024x768 at least.
Amen brother. Let's get on the A ship and use the Earth as the B.
Erm. Not sure what kind of interwebs you have on your tubes, but 5 GB for a 45 minute series is about 1.9 MB/s
Is this an unusual transfer speed for you? That's only 15 mbit. Sounds like something I could even just stream.
My 100 mbit fiber link is 59.99 euros/month, as part of a package that includes free phone calls, 125 TV channels, and a 3G dongle, among other things.
Heck, I could go all the way up to 400 mbit but that would cost 179.99.
Unless they have a default-deny that only authorizes certain websites, you can set up an HTTP tunnel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_tunnel
There's software available for it, you don't need to be a fancy hacker to use this.
In extreme cases, you might be able to work around default-deny HTTP filters by using DNS tunneling. It's horribly, horribly slow, but it works on some of those hotel connections where you would normally be able to access only one webpage, where you have to pay a fee to get X hours of connectivity.
Here's an illustrated tutorial: http://analogbit.com/tcp-over-dns_howto
Have fun!
If nobody ever bought anything, there would be no economy.
The people in charge of producing this would build enough of your infinitely-lasting deviced to last a few generations and be sacked. I suppose there would be some work for repairment or something, but with such durability
The only way this would work is if you paid 50 times more money to have something last 50 years.
Besides, what exactly do you own that is so crappy?
My laptop is 6 years old. Its only problem is that it's only got 512 megs of RAM, and I can still get RAM to upgrade it.
It was never high-end - Intel graphics and all of that - and yet it can run the OpenSim server and Second Life viewer simultaneously with acceptable performance (I am doing an MSc. on virtual worlds). Come on, an MMO server and client with realistic Physics simulation, a scripting engine, a MySQL database and 3D graphics?
My cell phone is turning 11 one of these days. I have a working 20 year old TV set, though I lost the remote somewhere in this freaking huge messy house xD
I have 20 year old clothes that don't look worn. Sturdy Doc Martens boots as well.
I have no idea how old my dishwasher is but the standard size detergent bricks, or what you might call them, don't fit anymore and the paint on the dials is coming off.
My fucking coffee maker is from the 60s. It used to be my grandmother's. Ditto for my room heater.
I have beautiful chandeliers on my ceiling that must date back to the 1930s. They were my great grandparents'.
Ditto for my house and most of my furniture. These days people like all sorts of "modern" IKEA crap with "design", well, my antique hardwoord dresser with a marble top and brass insets is worth more than all of their IKEA crap put together.
I have a painting that was my great-great-grandfather's, and his 19th century townhouse is still in the family. And a nice stone house back in the original village we came from, that was at the very least my great-great-great-grandfather's, though my family tree in that village has been traced back to the 1600s, and only stops there because that's when they started keeping records. (Welcome to olde Europe)
My 100% solid stainless steel cutlery similarly dates back from 1959, around the time when my grandparents got married, and I still have some tin cutlery from my great-grandparents as a keepsake.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
I don't know what you're talking about - I've never worked at a company that spent anything on... parties, and at the few companies that do throw up the one single Christmas party, those types of parties are considered a boring chore.
I'd rather work at some place that spends less on stupid crap, pays better, and allows me the freedom to spend my time and money however I want, thank you very much.
My coworkers are not my friends. I'm not exactly running out of friends, and I don't want to be judged as a professional for what I do with my personal life.
You seem to think 18 year olds or 21 year olds or even 30 year olds are necessarily mature. ;)
I think there's something wrong with your argument
Idiots are everywhere and they exist in all ages.
Jobs is dead, and as some would have it, God created him.
Blue is the "true" color of the eye. Anything else implies there is some pigment - such as melanin - being produced.
He could have simply gotten a mutation that prevents the eye from secreting melanin, and indeed blue-eyed people are supposedly more sensitive to light. They do, after all, come from those cloudy northern european countries full of pale white people.
Honey badger don't give a fsck.
Well I'm a European, and we're not terribly litigious because there isn't much to gain by suing people.
We don't have a concept of punitive damages, you can only sue for the precise amount that you can demonstrate to have lost.
And of course we could always come up with Socialized Law. People complain that laws are made for the rich, that only the rich can have lawyers.
Well, the richest people pay 40% tax in my country.
Tax lawsuits according to the prosecutor's income. Spend a million on legal fees, pay another 400k in taxes.
You have this 3-strikes "habitual criminal" law in America? Have penalties for excessive (ab)use of the legal system.
Make it less appealing for the RIAA to sue 200 people. Distribute the burden of legal fees - if the RIAA spends a million suing you, then you will have the right to spend up to a certain percentage of that, at their expense, based on the income differential.
Well, would you rather live in a prosperous country where people are well-paid and jobs are plentiful?
Not sure about the RIAA, but Google makes more money than half the MPAA put together. (I did the math a while ago).
To be quite honest I don't know why Google doesn't simply buy them out and dump the "long tail" on Youtube.
My parents are dead, you insensitive clod. My mother died last year and my father died in 2003. But thanks for the sound advice.
Obviously I can't know if you're gay or simply poking fun at them, but for the benefit of the general population:
1) Not all gay men enjoy anal sex. :)
2) All my gay friends would resent being stereotyped as mere sodomites!
3) A gay man is a man who FALLS IN LOVE with men, not some pervert with a fetish for having anal sex with other men.
That sentence alone was the tipping point that made me truly accept gay men as being a normal part of the population.
Thanks for listening :)
You mean sperm?
Seriously now, what do you expect, magical healing? Ressurection?
It's usually easier to destroy something than it is to create it.
All you need to do is give entropy a little helping hand.
How much, in total, can ocean levels rise if all ice melts, including Antarctica and Greenland?
I've read more than one estimate, but no real authoritative source.
How much warmer does the atmosphere need to be?
Any idea on how longer it would take, worst-case-scenario? 100 years?
Thanks.
Apple - US$ 33.790 billion
Disney - US$ 8.043 billion
20th Century Fox - $324 million
Universal - $3.1 billion
We'll turn the entire ocean into BOOZE! :)
Good luck finding enough prisons to arrest 50 million "pirates" :)
Here's some "accounting" for you:
MPAA has 6 members: Disney, 20th Century Fox, Universal, and these three, with a yearly operating income of...
Sony Pictures - $300 million ... Google - $10.381 billion
Paramount - $300 million
Warner Bros. - $845 million
Now THAT is what I call voting with your dollars :)
I'm not a physicist, and I can't be sure what the poster meant by that, but there are plenty of "devices running cold fusion", they simply do not generate more power than they consume. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion