"our greatest scientists" (and the rest of us!) tend to have even less of a productive half life, so I think death dying, and birth appears to be a good plan.
If you are that worried about 'throwing away' your vote find a friend a friend on the opposite side of politics, who is equally disturbed by goings on, and convince her to vote 3rd party too.
So this stratagem of yours works by insuring that the guy following it is serving the mandatory 5 years for possessing a firearm in the UK?
I'm not so sure that is helpful!
I am amazed that you managed to get mugged more than once in Wien! I've never had any problems there (except being to drunk to ask for directions). You are some sort of statical anomaly! I live in Graz and I haven't seen a hint of crime in years.
Whatever you do don't move to NY, NY you will probably wind up being mugged several times a day.
The last time I was in the US, I went to see a movie. They had 5 Credit/Debit card kiosks and 3 cashiers available for customer use. There were about 100 people in line for the cashiers and less the 5 in line for kiosks. What makes anyone thing people will actually use the this technology?
they picked the Sonoran Desert because of the effects of algae pools could possibly reverse the rather severe environmental damage a section of it is currently experiencing.
While this probably is the case in most of corporate America it isn't everywhere. In fact I seemed to have accidentally landed the new summer intern who apparently goes for the mostly confused scientist look. And I Know the CEO could care less what anyone in my department wears so long as it meets lab safety requirements. The only variation is when I give presentations or when I go to conferences (And I must admit I find the person in the whole company to ask for fashion advise is his administrative assistant). So I guess I wear foolish clothes when I'm around foolish people (particularly the foolish ones that don't know me) and comfortable clothes when I'm around the people that either, work for me, pay me or sleep with me (the ones that matter). As a footnote my doctor does not wear a tie and I'm glad she doesn't!
I've been thinking about this, and I think we actually would be adding to warming the planet, although not by a factor 10,000,000.
Think about it this way: AC units do not actually create cold, instead they move heat. They also do not operate at 100 percent efficiency so really why they are moving the heat they are creating it as well. So with virtually free energy: think of all the various things we would be using power for that were not all that efficient, we'd be producing heat wholesale!
Well, my postion/field is somewhat esoteric. Honestly I don't have much to do with getting the work permit as my company has hired out a firm to handle it. From my perspective there is no red tape! I just sign papers and once a year they stick something in my passport.
I live in Graz, Austria. I find it to be a wonderful city, just the right size- large enough for me to have a good job (I'm do R&D stuff) small enough for me to walk across for dinner and a movie. Violent crime is non-existent, other sort of crime is (by US standards) incredibly low. The city infrastructure is, unlike a typical US city, designed for pedestrians and bicycles. I don't see the racial tension that I did in the US (that's not to say it doesn't exist though). Yes the taxes are higher, but I really do see more evidence of my taxes being put to use than I did in America. Graz is also a very green city lots of parks (which my kids really like). Speaking of my kids Graz is a very safe place they walk to school and to play all the time with no fear. On the one occasion they came across drunks still out for their party well into morning, a little old lady noticed my kids were afraid of the drunks and escorted them across the street while giving a stern lecture to the offending party. I bike quite a lot and find Graz traffic to be very manageable. Now as far as the moving process, I have no idea my company hired a relocation specialist to move me.
The downsides 1:NO MEXICAN FOOD 2: Medicines Americans expect to find in a grocery are not there, they are at the pharmacy (I'm not sure why this annoys me so much as it is a 150 meter walk from my front door to the pharmacy) 3: Closing times; regular stores close at 6:00pm (but to make up for it many bars are open late 3:00 to 7:00 am).
But seriously as another poster said try Norway or many, many other places! The world is a very cool place (with the exception of those people with weapons) and for the most part a great life can be had all over! So far I have lived in Sydney, Bangkok, Prague, Atlanta, and Graz and I found all of them to be great fun and interesting in their own way.
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I think you to lightly gloss over the downsides and costs of the automobile so I looked some facts up:
The cars in the US consume around 150 billion gallons of gasoline a year
In America alone 50,000 people die and 3,500,000 are injured each year in automobile related accidents
9 million metric tons of hydrocarbon pollutants (= 49% of U.S. total); 9 million metric tons of nitrogen oxides (= 48% of U.S. total); 56 million metric tons of carbon monoxide (= 67% of U.S. total) are released by cars and light trucks in the US each year
85% of benzene, 30% of formaldehyde (both of which are known human carcinogens) and 50% of carbon dioxide pollutions are released by cars and light trucks.
11 million cars leave service yearly, 240 million tires are junked each year which adds to the existing 3 or so billion tires allready in landfills
60% of land in, near and around urban centers is given up for transportation.
In the US 95% of nickel, 20% of steel, 12% of aluminum and 10% of copper all go to the production of cars.
The US spends about 80 billion dollars a year on maintaining transportation infrastructure and 68 billion is spent annually on services such as highway patrols, traffic management, and traffic accident police work.
I tried to find some statistics of how much of their income the average family spends on cars, fuel, insurance and up keep but couldn't.
Oh and I wasn't really picking on just the US with those stats, they were just the most readily googled!
In my experience with bikes is that they are far more useful that most Americans realize. Most people where I work bicycle to work. In the winter it does snow a fair amount where I live, and while I don't bike during winter, many of my younger co-workers bike all year. Rain, sleet, snow all are no big deal because if you are prepared for it you exposure is not that great. Most of those who do bike during winter do so as a matter of choice, they own cars & motorcycles. Sometimes it is snowing or raining hard enough that many people choose to drive to work, but this is only a few days a year! I carry luggage and groceries all the time on my bike, I can carry most of what I need. Sure cars are useful at times but most of the time they are just not needed! If, for example, I go out and buy a new sofa; I rent a small truck for an hour or two or have it delivered, I don't need to own the truck. This same thinking applies to cars. If I want to go to a nearby city I can take the train (which I know is not easy in the US) or I can drive, if I didn't own I car I could rent one for the day or weekend. Or to apply the thinking the other way around: Just because I own car does obligate me to drive everywhere I go.
Alternates to cars are also easy to maintain (bikes, for example, are very easy to maintain). I do all the work on my bicycle, most of the work on my motorcycle and almost no work on my car. Modern cars are very, very complicated, and I found that for even simple things like oil changes (due to oil disposal) and seasonal tire changes (due to tire storage) I find it just makes more sense to have a qualified mechanic to worry about the upkeep.
So in summary I find all the arguments that people make about why the have to have their car very week. I'm not really anti-car, I own one. But I don't use it every day because I don't have to, also by biking often I'm in better shape and healthier!
There are Many very nice places to live in the world. Sure the US is perhaps the wealthiest place on earth, but using other metrics the US is not so great. I guess it is a matter of priorties. What's most important having a super high standard of living in a crazy place or having a great (and healthy) life style and getting by with a bit less.
I made the move a little over two years ago, Now I'd be hard pressed to go back.
Are the schools in the US really getting that bad?
Also, I would think that with the (assumed) hype surrounding the new movie Troy (which wasn't that bad) that all slashdotters would recognize Achilles and a least know that a foppish prince could really harm him, if only in his heel!
I don't think SCO's case has much merit! I know I shouldn't say this here, I'm a big fan of *BSD. I just finished a project using NetBSD & AMD Elan that worked out very well. I also like Busybox!
Mini-ITX and Nano-ITX products might also be a good choice. (coupled with CF cards)
In some cases it makes sense to go with an externally maintained OS and in some cases it does not. But liability isn't really a deciding factor because *no* OS vendor is going to provide liability indemnity of any sort.
Really the factors that have the most weight are: Bootstrapping time, support and unit cost. The testing doesn't usually get factored in.
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longer life automatically making a better world? Ridiculous, no more than ridiculous: naive and ridiculous.
Come to think of it 250cc is not tiny; it must be less than 50cc to be tiny.
Have fun!
Although I still don't see why the James Web scope is so far away...
"our greatest scientists" (and the rest of us!) tend to have even less of a productive half life, so I think death dying, and birth appears to be a good plan.
If you are that worried about 'throwing away' your vote find a friend a friend on the opposite side of politics, who is equally disturbed by goings on, and convince her to vote 3rd party too.
So this stratagem of yours works by insuring that the guy following it is serving the mandatory 5 years for possessing a firearm in the UK? I'm not so sure that is helpful!
The guy said he was in London. England, being a civilized sort of place, does not allow guns.
Whatever you do don't move to NY, NY you will probably wind up being mugged several times a day.
And despite my general dislike for USians, it does not apply to the US exclusivly either.
PITY
The last time I was in the US, I went to see a movie. They had 5 Credit/Debit card kiosks and 3 cashiers available for customer use. There were about 100 people in line for the cashiers and less the 5 in line for kiosks. What makes anyone thing people will actually use the this technology?
they picked the Sonoran Desert because of the effects of algae pools could possibly reverse the rather severe environmental damage a section of it is currently experiencing.
RTFA! it would take up a *very* small part of the Sonora! And a damaged part of it as well.
While this probably is the case in most of corporate America it isn't everywhere. In fact I seemed to have accidentally landed the new summer intern who apparently goes for the mostly confused scientist look. And I Know the CEO could care less what anyone in my department wears so long as it meets lab safety requirements. The only variation is when I give presentations or when I go to conferences (And I must admit I find the person in the whole company to ask for fashion advise is his administrative assistant). So I guess I wear foolish clothes when I'm around foolish people (particularly the foolish ones that don't know me) and comfortable clothes when I'm around the people that either, work for me, pay me or sleep with me (the ones that matter). As a footnote my doctor does not wear a tie and I'm glad she doesn't!
Think about it this way: AC units do not actually create cold, instead they move heat. They also do not operate at 100 percent efficiency so really why they are moving the heat they are creating it as well. So with virtually free energy: think of all the various things we would be using power for that were not all that efficient, we'd be producing heat wholesale!
Actually given the amount of energy that is spent just to transport energy, I think distributed generation is the thing to look in to...
This is the whole point of Ebay!!
Really pick a place who's culture intrests you or who's school does.
Then you are wanting a sterling engine hooked up to an alternator.
Well, my postion/field is somewhat esoteric. Honestly I don't have much to do with getting the work permit as my company has hired out a firm to handle it. From my perspective there is no red tape! I just sign papers and once a year they stick something in my passport.
The downsides 1:NO MEXICAN FOOD 2: Medicines Americans expect to find in a grocery are not there, they are at the pharmacy (I'm not sure why this annoys me so much as it is a 150 meter walk from my front door to the pharmacy) 3: Closing times; regular stores close at 6:00pm (but to make up for it many bars are open late 3:00 to 7:00 am).
But seriously as another poster said try Norway or many, many other places! The world is a very cool place (with the exception of those people with weapons) and for the most part a great life can be had all over! So far I have lived in Sydney, Bangkok, Prague, Atlanta, and Graz and I found all of them to be great fun and interesting in their own way.
The cars in the US consume around 150 billion gallons of gasoline a year
In America alone 50,000 people die and 3,500,000 are injured each year in automobile related accidents
9 million metric tons of hydrocarbon pollutants (= 49% of U.S. total); 9 million metric tons of nitrogen oxides (= 48% of U.S. total); 56 million metric tons of carbon monoxide (= 67% of U.S. total) are released by cars and light trucks in the US each year
85% of benzene, 30% of formaldehyde (both of which are known human carcinogens) and 50% of carbon dioxide pollutions are released by cars and light trucks.
11 million cars leave service yearly, 240 million tires are junked each year which adds to the existing 3 or so billion tires allready in landfills
60% of land in, near and around urban centers is given up for transportation.
In the US 95% of nickel, 20% of steel, 12% of aluminum and 10% of copper all go to the production of cars.
The US spends about 80 billion dollars a year on maintaining transportation infrastructure and 68 billion is spent annually on services such as highway patrols, traffic management, and traffic accident police work.
I tried to find some statistics of how much of their income the average family spends on cars, fuel, insurance and up keep but couldn't.
Oh and I wasn't really picking on just the US with those stats, they were just the most readily googled!
In my experience with bikes is that they are far more useful that most Americans realize. Most people where I work bicycle to work. In the winter it does snow a fair amount where I live, and while I don't bike during winter, many of my younger co-workers bike all year. Rain, sleet, snow all are no big deal because if you are prepared for it you exposure is not that great. Most of those who do bike during winter do so as a matter of choice, they own cars & motorcycles. Sometimes it is snowing or raining hard enough that many people choose to drive to work, but this is only a few days a year! I carry luggage and groceries all the time on my bike, I can carry most of what I need. Sure cars are useful at times but most of the time they are just not needed! If, for example, I go out and buy a new sofa; I rent a small truck for an hour or two or have it delivered, I don't need to own the truck. This same thinking applies to cars. If I want to go to a nearby city I can take the train (which I know is not easy in the US) or I can drive, if I didn't own I car I could rent one for the day or weekend. Or to apply the thinking the other way around: Just because I own car does obligate me to drive everywhere I go.
Alternates to cars are also easy to maintain (bikes, for example, are very easy to maintain). I do all the work on my bicycle, most of the work on my motorcycle and almost no work on my car. Modern cars are very, very complicated, and I found that for even simple things like oil changes (due to oil disposal) and seasonal tire changes (due to tire storage) I find it just makes more sense to have a qualified mechanic to worry about the upkeep.
So in summary I find all the arguments that people make about why the have to have their car very week. I'm not really anti-car, I own one. But I don't use it every day because I don't have to, also by biking often I'm in better shape and healthier!
I made the move a little over two years ago, Now I'd be hard pressed to go back.
Also, I would think that with the (assumed) hype surrounding the new movie Troy (which wasn't that bad) that all slashdotters would recognize Achilles and a least know that a foppish prince could really harm him, if only in his heel!
Mini-ITX and Nano-ITX products might also be a good choice. (coupled with CF cards)
In some cases it makes sense to go with an externally maintained OS and in some cases it does not. But liability isn't really a deciding factor because *no* OS vendor is going to provide liability indemnity of any sort.
Really the factors that have the most weight are: Bootstrapping time, support and unit cost. The testing doesn't usually get factored in.