.name never seemed to take off so about 3 years ago I registered my name as a.info. The other month, a local college's firewall wouldn't even let my DSL server's URL pass in the _body_ of an email to a friend at the college.
I'm happily using linux for many reasons but I'm not sure most people will be convinced stressing the cost factor.
Let's look at "what you get" from a severe outsider viewpoint.
1. If effective 99%, or whatever, compatibility with Office isn't perceived as good enough for them, they won't care about the office suites.
2. A whole class of programs are Windows replacements: email, browser, "explorer", etc.
3. A whole class of programs are replacements for stuff most people will acquire free like Adobe elements, cd/dvd burners, audio mixers, TV card players, Palm interfaces or actual linux versions of proprietary programs like RealPlayer, Skype and Adobe Reader or their OSS replacements.
4. A whole class of high profile programs are available on Windows, either on the OpenCD (Abiword, GIMP, _and_ OpenOffice.org and more) or standalone like FlightGear, TORCS, FreePascal/Lazarus and, if I remember, mplayer.
So, when I browse my KDE, what would be immediately perceived as _extra_ cost value to a typical Windows user who doesn't trust the office suites or isn't into some non-home use like PostgreSQL programming? I think I'm pretty much left talking about Scribus, Bluefish, Quanta Plus, and Inkscape on my machine. And I suppose the games are worth at least a DVD collection of old Windows games.
I think the angle about "time is money" and saving time with linux is more valid. But people are _used_ to wasting time with Windows. I knew a guy who seemed to be reinstalling Win9X every six months. As someone who has demanded bare metal backups for over a decade, the guy is insane to me. And people should be outraged over their BSODs. But they are used to it. Learning a little linux maintenance would be _extra_ work for them and I think it takes some effort to get them out of that rut and start seeing the move as an investment in _fewer_ hassles later when they realize they don't have to restore their computer regularly to clear out the spyware/adware muck.
Isn't that what I'm already doing when I use MythTV to watch a few minutes of local Hi Def "news" and weather broadcast, menu to the South African Broadcasting Corporation for a few minutes of their half hour stream of taped video news M-F and then menu to BFM's live stream for a little video news from Paris? Once it's set up, it's all just menuing with the remote whether it's hi def broadcast, music file server, DVD, web surfing or internet stream.
Would you consider a candidate's stand on privacy important enough to sway your vote?
No. Not when she's down with torturing the people who deserve it. That's my line in the sand against barbarians.
Besides this was just one conference. Being Hillary, she'll sit down for chicken with a law enforcement organization and promise streamlined data consolidation. She's Hillary. What are the odds? The only political animal who flip-flops for an audience more than her is McCain.
He "can only speculate" but he doesn't even get around to explaining that, of course, it isn't enough to put your old disk in for validation anymore because XP now requires registration and validation of the _installation_. Was that so hard to say succinctly?
As an in-corporate web designer, my wife never gets to use her BFA anymore. That's the graphic designer's job. And she doesn't work server site code. They've got a person for that and she certainly isn't a server admin. Her job is to script client side code. Period.
I don't think it is the economy or India. She was laid off this fall in a corporate consolidation but only spent a month on unemployment because she was unprepared and spent two of her three months of severence twiddling together her online demo portfolio I put on the home web server. She's moved up another 5K/year and is still getting calls for interviews weeks into the new job. Some wonk in our state government reported that web design is still a growing field here and it may be true. I guess the corporate store front is recognized as so crucial many people really don't want to trust it to some contractor in India.
In the U.S. the concern is that you will never get a job or health care again if your records show a serious chronic condition. Tell the dumb American what the problem is on the continent of socialized medicine? (Seriously. Compare and contrast.)
If you want to talk privacy vs. security, this is one area where I sway toward distribution. If I am carried into a hospital away from home bleeding out of every orifice and hallucinating, I think it would be "nice" if staff had access to my records. When I got my first flash drive, my reaction was, "Cool, a company could be built putting people's medical records on these for when they travel". To which the first person I bounced it off said, "Hell, no!" so I understand opinions vary. And, true, although it would put control of distribution into the hands of the individual, I would like something more standardized than a potentially crushed chunk of plastic around my neck that some med aide will look at and say, "What's this?" Therefore, I'm not so against a standardized distribution network.
One way or the other it's a lot like credit reports. We should all have copies of our master records and take responsibility for them. I was precise to a fault at my dentist's office and wrote in an incident of non-hospitalized "acute liver failure". Although it was never traced to an origin, I causally suspect the 2nd world trick of antifreeze poisoning in the cheap bottle of red consumed the day before symptoms appeared. Anyway, back at the dentist's six months later, I see that the clerk had taken it upon herself to dutifully diagnose "hepatitus, yes" on the form. To which I had to explain, "hepatitus, hell no" and discuss what distribution might have been made of their records to other parties. You never know unless you keep on top of it. Sometimes openness is a good thing.
If you're really paranoid, a great solution in the U.S. might be to just quit going to your HMO for an extended period. I didn't realize there is the seven year rule. I didn't visit my HMO for something like 7-1/2 years during a running, tai chi and macrobiotics period in my life. I wasn't an active patient and they didn't get a request for records transfer from another HMO so they just tossed my history. Apparently, I simply have no medical paper trail before the age of 40 something.
The porn sites have a right to exist, who are we to force them over to.xxx domains?
A little too libertarian for my tastes. If you believe that, I'll point you to the c. 1900 ad for Bayer heroin ("Cures the aches that ail you!") in my abnormal psych book.
But a disappointing article. I was looking for why.xxx would be a bad idea. They discussed the problems that would occur because it wasn't done _in_the_first_place_.
I've been anti-death penalty for all the "Old Europe" reasons where history has demonstrated it is unwise to let government settle comfortably into the business of killing people. And most first and second world countries have eliminated the death penalty for most crimes. But if you look at the laws, probably more than half of those countries retain the option for treason. I had always thought, "Sure, that's how even liberal countries eliminate the ultimate dissent of revolution."
But this administration has made me rethink that position. What is the penalty for an administration that establishes policies that ignore articles of the Constitution? Impeachment? Reprimand? A footnote in history saying, "Naughty! Naughty!" These are _crimes_ against our society. High crimes against the very foundation of our society. If there are no tangible penalties for the perpetrators of policies against the very articles of our nation, what precedent does that set for the next adminstration? And the next and the next?
I really think the word "treason" is appropriate and should be used often and spoken widely. The problem is that Congress shares the culpability of rubber-stamping the Executive branch actions of the last six years and the current Executive branch has much of the Supreme Court in its pocket. Who is left to defend the Constitution?
YES, not having to walk around very much will make it more likely you won't get the exercise necessary not to be fat.
NO, it does not "cause" it (in the sense they want you to take it); you can still make the choice to exercise on your own, irrespective of how much you need to walk in a day for other purposes.
From personal experience, and from the excuses I hear from others, I don't buy it.
You are saying I could walk to work 30 minutes/day, a purposeful activity, or I could decide to purposelessly sit on an exercise bike like a hamster on a wheel for 30 minutes. I suggest to you that a great percentage of people will regularly "forget" or "just can't find the time" to get on the exercise bike.
And why shouldn't they think that "purposeless" exercise is inefficient compared to walking to work? You've got to get to work anyway and if it takes 8 minutes to drive and 15 minutes to walk, walking only takes an extra 14 minutes out of your day while stationary biking takes half an hour. It may be very "Karate Kid" of me but I'm all for promoting _purposeful_ exercise.
Yes, I noticed the article didn't even mention that the typical suburb probably doesn't _have_ sidewalks. If you're walking, you're the weird guy out walking in the street. And that has to cause social pressure not to be that person doing it in your neighborhood.
It's even dangerous in snow country where you might not have an unplowed shoulder to walk on and you really would be out with the cars. Probably the closest I've come to dying outside a crosswalk was walking across an overpass where the snowplow had thrown so much packed snow onto the narrow walkway that there was about a foot of exposed railing. A full body slip to the right and it would have been a choice between the fall killing me or the fact that I'd have landed on the freeway killing me. So walking in the street almost killed me.
Rounded 1/3 cup whole oats 1 cup water dozen+ raisins cooked in banana cinnamon unsweetened almond-flavored soy milk
and diet Dr. Pepper liberally iced.
If anyone knows where you can get reasonably priced whole wheat ramen, bulk or packages, in the U.S. I might switch to morning soup. I once knew a place that had WW packages but they were about $1.70 each 20 years ago.
Well, I suppose there was a standard competition release if legalese is your concern. But it's still like "snake-handling for prizes". I don't think it absolves the station from civil liability even if stupidity often serves as a de facto defense against criminal intent.
And if it is uncommon, where does that eliminate liability? Isn't it the responsibility of the organization staging the stunt to research it?
There's a reason it's called an electrolyte "balance". I know Ultrarunning magazine some years ago told the story of one runner who suffered a heart attack after consuming mass qualities of water in hot conditions over several hours and similarly upsetting his balance on the dilution side. If I remember, he credited his survival to his son dogging the doctors about this unusual possibility.
Guess it depends on how long you expect to live. With rechargeables priced at about 1-1/2 to 2 times a name-brand alkaline, it isn't exactly like you are selling the kids into slavery to afford the initial investment. Or need to do a lot of recharges over _your_ lifetime to recoup the cost.
But, yes, instead of changing the time zone this fall for daylight saving time, I decided to actually properly adjust the time on a world map 2-1/4"x3" screen LCD desk clock I have and discovered that it was running on a Rayovac Renewal alkaline. I couldn't tell you how many years that rechargeable has been in there or where the heck I put its charger.
The root parent post seems to basically be an essay complaining that you have to get used to doing things differently. I bought slightly over twice the NiMH rehargeables we need. My wife knows when she needs some to dump the "empties" in one box and take fresh ones from the recharged box. When there are at least eight empties, I run a charge. By not buying _too_ many batteries, I can be assured that the fresh pile will get used reasonably promptly. It isn't rocket science. We're never without batteries and batteries don't make our shopping list.
However, the six month discharge is interesting in our one exception because we don't take a lot of pictures and it can bite us in the camera bag. _What_ I find interesting is that I can seem to get between one and two years on a motorized wall clock and, like I say, who knows how long on something like this LCD desk clock. Granted, they aren't examples that drain a lot of current but nonetheless it still seems like the batteries will function a lot longer when they are actually being used than when they are sitting in our camera bag.
Yup, need a fill just drop by your corner hydrogen station. Road trip? One every ten miles on the freeway anywhere in the U.S. right? Yup, yup, yup. This'll fly.
I guess they call them concept cars because the term "vaporware" hadn't been invented in the day. And I would have to guess it is how Ford is boldly signaling: 1) they really don't give a damn, or 2) they still have their heads so far up their corporate ass that to this day they are thinking "fleet market trade" (as if consumer Priuses aren't already a day-to-day sight on the streets).
And why the 300 million dollar gift Ford is getting from the State of Michigan taxpayers to keep plants open is just pissing into the wind. I think what I find most disgusting is that a company claiming it is on the verge of economic collapse expends this much effort on something designed to give their PR department a direction to wax nostalgic about the family aluminum trailer of the 1930s. They have demonstrated that one thing Americans can still do is B.S.
Seems to me they had an interesting program going where it was clearly stated that your price in the first world was jacked up to help subsidize a unit in Africa. And where were Freeplays popular? The first world. To paraphrase one reviewer, they had a decent-sized speaker and with the solar panels they made great deck accessories on your yacht. On the other hand where you would think a crank and solar unit would be welcomed, a lot of crap-hole African countries weren't particularly interested in promoting Freeplays around their countries because the governments weren't particularly interested in seeing their people educated in current events.
Obviously, I haven't run their spreadsheets, but one second-guesses. Maybe it is just because this was set up as a non-profit and that may turn out to be unfortunate in the long run?
I think that is really the foundation. You can set your indoor/outdoor thermometer or weather applet to metric and use the metric side of a ruler by yourself. If you have an older car it can be easy to get used to looking at the metric conversions of various speed limits. Probably nobody who can get sued is going to recommend setting your LCD to km but rough conversions in your head aren't exactly hard (and, let's be honest, you're blending in with traffic anyway, right?). And, as an aside, it wouldn't be a bad idea to get used to a 24 hour clock.
As Americans in a global economy, we just get used to thinking of our own country as the odd man out. Hasn't been hard for me the last few years. And if enough people start doing it, some politician will be glad to take credit for his leadership in proposing national metric standards.
Except the ones whose lobbyist money comes from Hollywood. Even Saint Wellstone voted for the DMCA and his response to me was that "it was the right thing to do". Period.
I'm willing to be proven wrong but I'm not sure the Democrats aren't worse on these issues. Oil money: Republicans. Hollywood money: Democrats.
If manufacturers had just held a porn producers brainstorming conference these specs could have been hashed out logically in the first place. But, instead, the manufacturers wanted to believe _they_ were in control.
Considering it is only on version.2 I figure someone will put smart home features into it before v.5 and by version one it should open the pod bay door if you reason with it.
And lest we cast stones at the dumb desk jockeys, that probably explains why we found our admin password posted on our department server in the server room when I visited a few years ago. That IT guy got promoted. Of course.
OK, no snow. But how much overall precipitation have you gotten?
Very possibly not enough I would speculate if Michigan is like our part of the midwest. True, we have had two record rain days this December in Minneapolis/St. Paul -- because rain in December isn't the norm. But it doesn't make up for the greater climate change. To the west in the "grain belt" I have read that it is approaching dust bowl drought.
But we are microanalyzing. Whether we set the match to the gasoline or not, the majority of warming will not be man-made now that the permafrost is melting and we see lakes disappearing in Siberia and towns sinking in Alaska and Canada. And those gasses being released.
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.name never seemed to take off so about 3 years ago I registered my name as a .info. The other month, a local college's firewall wouldn't even let my DSL server's URL pass in the _body_ of an email to a friend at the college.
I'm happily using linux for many reasons but I'm not sure most people will be convinced stressing the cost factor.
Let's look at "what you get" from a severe outsider viewpoint.
1. If effective 99%, or whatever, compatibility with Office isn't perceived as good enough for them, they won't care about the office suites.
2. A whole class of programs are Windows replacements: email, browser, "explorer", etc.
3. A whole class of programs are replacements for stuff most people will acquire free like Adobe elements, cd/dvd burners, audio mixers, TV card players, Palm interfaces or actual linux versions of proprietary programs like RealPlayer, Skype and Adobe Reader or their OSS replacements.
4. A whole class of high profile programs are available on Windows, either on the OpenCD (Abiword, GIMP, _and_ OpenOffice.org and more) or standalone like FlightGear, TORCS, FreePascal/Lazarus and, if I remember, mplayer.
So, when I browse my KDE, what would be immediately perceived as _extra_ cost value to a typical Windows user who doesn't trust the office suites or isn't into some non-home use like PostgreSQL programming? I think I'm pretty much left talking about Scribus, Bluefish, Quanta Plus, and Inkscape on my machine. And I suppose the games are worth at least a DVD collection of old Windows games.
I think the angle about "time is money" and saving time with linux is more valid. But people are _used_ to wasting time with Windows. I knew a guy who seemed to be reinstalling Win9X every six months. As someone who has demanded bare metal backups for over a decade, the guy is insane to me. And people should be outraged over their BSODs. But they are used to it. Learning a little linux maintenance would be _extra_ work for them and I think it takes some effort to get them out of that rut and start seeing the move as an investment in _fewer_ hassles later when they realize they don't have to restore their computer regularly to clear out the spyware/adware muck.
Isn't that what I'm already doing when I use MythTV to watch a few minutes of local Hi Def "news" and weather broadcast, menu to the South African Broadcasting Corporation for a few minutes of their half hour stream of taped video news M-F and then menu to BFM's live stream for a little video news from Paris? Once it's set up, it's all just menuing with the remote whether it's hi def broadcast, music file server, DVD, web surfing or internet stream.
Would you consider a candidate's stand on privacy important enough to sway your vote?
No. Not when she's down with torturing the people who deserve it. That's my line in the sand against barbarians.
Besides this was just one conference. Being Hillary, she'll sit down for chicken with a law enforcement organization and promise streamlined data consolidation. She's Hillary. What are the odds? The only political animal who flip-flops for an audience more than her is McCain.
He "can only speculate" but he doesn't even get around to explaining that, of course, it isn't enough to put your old disk in for validation anymore because XP now requires registration and validation of the _installation_. Was that so hard to say succinctly?
As an in-corporate web designer, my wife never gets to use her BFA anymore. That's the graphic designer's job. And she doesn't work server site code. They've got a person for that and she certainly isn't a server admin. Her job is to script client side code. Period.
I don't think it is the economy or India. She was laid off this fall in a corporate consolidation but only spent a month on unemployment because she was unprepared and spent two of her three months of severence twiddling together her online demo portfolio I put on the home web server. She's moved up another 5K/year and is still getting calls for interviews weeks into the new job. Some wonk in our state government reported that web design is still a growing field here and it may be true. I guess the corporate store front is recognized as so crucial many people really don't want to trust it to some contractor in India.
In the U.S. the concern is that you will never get a job or health care again if your records show a serious chronic condition. Tell the dumb American what the problem is on the continent of socialized medicine? (Seriously. Compare and contrast.)
If you want to talk privacy vs. security, this is one area where I sway toward distribution. If I am carried into a hospital away from home bleeding out of every orifice and hallucinating, I think it would be "nice" if staff had access to my records. When I got my first flash drive, my reaction was, "Cool, a company could be built putting people's medical records on these for when they travel". To which the first person I bounced it off said, "Hell, no!" so I understand opinions vary. And, true, although it would put control of distribution into the hands of the individual, I would like something more standardized than a potentially crushed chunk of plastic around my neck that some med aide will look at and say, "What's this?" Therefore, I'm not so against a standardized distribution network.
One way or the other it's a lot like credit reports. We should all have copies of our master records and take responsibility for them. I was precise to a fault at my dentist's office and wrote in an incident of non-hospitalized "acute liver failure". Although it was never traced to an origin, I causally suspect the 2nd world trick of antifreeze poisoning in the cheap bottle of red consumed the day before symptoms appeared. Anyway, back at the dentist's six months later, I see that the clerk had taken it upon herself to dutifully diagnose "hepatitus, yes" on the form. To which I had to explain, "hepatitus, hell no" and discuss what distribution might have been made of their records to other parties. You never know unless you keep on top of it. Sometimes openness is a good thing.
If you're really paranoid, a great solution in the U.S. might be to just quit going to your HMO for an extended period. I didn't realize there is the seven year rule. I didn't visit my HMO for something like 7-1/2 years during a running, tai chi and macrobiotics period in my life. I wasn't an active patient and they didn't get a request for records transfer from another HMO so they just tossed my history. Apparently, I simply have no medical paper trail before the age of 40 something.
The porn sites have a right to exist, who are we to force them over to .xxx domains?
.xxx would be a bad idea. They discussed the problems that would occur because it wasn't done _in_the_first_place_.
A little too libertarian for my tastes. If you believe that, I'll point you to the c. 1900 ad for Bayer heroin ("Cures the aches that ail you!") in my abnormal psych book.
But a disappointing article. I was looking for why
I've been anti-death penalty for all the "Old Europe" reasons where history has demonstrated it is unwise to let government settle comfortably into the business of killing people. And most first and second world countries have eliminated the death penalty for most crimes. But if you look at the laws, probably more than half of those countries retain the option for treason. I had always thought, "Sure, that's how even liberal countries eliminate the ultimate dissent of revolution."
But this administration has made me rethink that position. What is the penalty for an administration that establishes policies that ignore articles of the Constitution? Impeachment? Reprimand? A footnote in history saying, "Naughty! Naughty!" These are _crimes_ against our society. High crimes against the very foundation of our society. If there are no tangible penalties for the perpetrators of policies against the very articles of our nation, what precedent does that set for the next adminstration? And the next and the next?
I really think the word "treason" is appropriate and should be used often and spoken widely. The problem is that Congress shares the culpability of rubber-stamping the Executive branch actions of the last six years and the current Executive branch has much of the Supreme Court in its pocket. Who is left to defend the Constitution?
YES, not having to walk around very much will make it more likely you won't get the exercise necessary not to be fat.
NO, it does not "cause" it (in the sense they want you to take it); you can still make the choice to exercise on your own, irrespective of how much you need to walk in a day for other purposes.
From personal experience, and from the excuses I hear from others, I don't buy it.
You are saying I could walk to work 30 minutes/day, a purposeful activity, or I could decide to purposelessly sit on an exercise bike like a hamster on a wheel for 30 minutes. I suggest to you that a great percentage of people will regularly "forget" or "just can't find the time" to get on the exercise bike.
And why shouldn't they think that "purposeless" exercise is inefficient compared to walking to work? You've got to get to work anyway and if it takes 8 minutes to drive and 15 minutes to walk, walking only takes an extra 14 minutes out of your day while stationary biking takes half an hour. It may be very "Karate Kid" of me but I'm all for promoting _purposeful_ exercise.
Yes, I noticed the article didn't even mention that the typical suburb probably doesn't _have_ sidewalks. If you're walking, you're the weird guy out walking in the street. And that has to cause social pressure not to be that person doing it in your neighborhood.
It's even dangerous in snow country where you might not have an unplowed shoulder to walk on and you really would be out with the cars. Probably the closest I've come to dying outside a crosswalk was walking across an overpass where the snowplow had thrown so much packed snow onto the narrow walkway that there was about a foot of exposed railing. A full body slip to the right and it would have been a choice between the fall killing me or the fact that I'd have landed on the freeway killing me. So walking in the street almost killed me.
Rounded 1/3 cup whole oats
1 cup water
dozen+ raisins cooked in
banana
cinnamon
unsweetened almond-flavored soy milk
and diet Dr. Pepper liberally iced.
If anyone knows where you can get reasonably priced whole wheat ramen, bulk or packages, in the U.S. I might switch to morning soup. I once knew a place that had WW packages but they were about $1.70 each 20 years ago.
Dunno. _Would_ retaining a WHOLE LOT of Sodium and Potassium have been safe just because they were balanced?
Well, I suppose there was a standard competition release if legalese is your concern. But it's still like "snake-handling for prizes". I don't think it absolves the station from civil liability even if stupidity often serves as a de facto defense against criminal intent.
And if it is uncommon, where does that eliminate liability? Isn't it the responsibility of the organization staging the stunt to research it?
There's a reason it's called an electrolyte "balance". I know Ultrarunning magazine some years ago told the story of one runner who suffered a heart attack after consuming mass qualities of water in hot conditions over several hours and similarly upsetting his balance on the dilution side. If I remember, he credited his survival to his son dogging the doctors about this unusual possibility.
A prime example would be remote controls
Guess it depends on how long you expect to live. With rechargeables priced at about 1-1/2 to 2 times a name-brand alkaline, it isn't exactly like you are selling the kids into slavery to afford the initial investment. Or need to do a lot of recharges over _your_ lifetime to recoup the cost.
But, yes, instead of changing the time zone this fall for daylight saving time, I decided to actually properly adjust the time on a world map 2-1/4"x3" screen LCD desk clock I have and discovered that it was running on a Rayovac Renewal alkaline. I couldn't tell you how many years that rechargeable has been in there or where the heck I put its charger.
The root parent post seems to basically be an essay complaining that you have to get used to doing things differently. I bought slightly over twice the NiMH rehargeables we need. My wife knows when she needs some to dump the "empties" in one box and take fresh ones from the recharged box. When there are at least eight empties, I run a charge. By not buying _too_ many batteries, I can be assured that the fresh pile will get used reasonably promptly. It isn't rocket science. We're never without batteries and batteries don't make our shopping list.
However, the six month discharge is interesting in our one exception because we don't take a lot of pictures and it can bite us in the camera bag. _What_ I find interesting is that I can seem to get between one and two years on a motorized wall clock and, like I say, who knows how long on something like this LCD desk clock. Granted, they aren't examples that drain a lot of current but nonetheless it still seems like the batteries will function a lot longer when they are actually being used than when they are sitting in our camera bag.
Yup, need a fill just drop by your corner hydrogen station. Road trip? One every ten miles on the freeway anywhere in the U.S. right? Yup, yup, yup. This'll fly.
I guess they call them concept cars because the term "vaporware" hadn't been invented in the day. And I would have to guess it is how Ford is boldly signaling: 1) they really don't give a damn, or 2) they still have their heads so far up their corporate ass that to this day they are thinking "fleet market trade" (as if consumer Priuses aren't already a day-to-day sight on the streets).
And why the 300 million dollar gift Ford is getting from the State of Michigan taxpayers to keep plants open is just pissing into the wind. I think what I find most disgusting is that a company claiming it is on the verge of economic collapse expends this much effort on something designed to give their PR department a direction to wax nostalgic about the family aluminum trailer of the 1930s. They have demonstrated that one thing Americans can still do is B.S.
With the surviving members anyway, may the fallen RIP
It's Hollywood. You gotta think big babe.
Morphing is morphing. The survivors could get paid for the rights to morph stand-ins into the deceased cast.
Dunno. Is that why Freeplay failed?
Seems to me they had an interesting program going where it was clearly stated that your price in the first world was jacked up to help subsidize a unit in Africa. And where were Freeplays popular? The first world. To paraphrase one reviewer, they had a decent-sized speaker and with the solar panels they made great deck accessories on your yacht. On the other hand where you would think a crank and solar unit would be welcomed, a lot of crap-hole African countries weren't particularly interested in promoting Freeplays around their countries because the governments weren't particularly interested in seeing their people educated in current events.
Obviously, I haven't run their spreadsheets, but one second-guesses. Maybe it is just because this was set up as a non-profit and that may turn out to be unfortunate in the long run?
I think that is really the foundation. You can set your indoor/outdoor thermometer or weather applet to metric and use the metric side of a ruler by yourself. If you have an older car it can be easy to get used to looking at the metric conversions of various speed limits. Probably nobody who can get sued is going to recommend setting your LCD to km but rough conversions in your head aren't exactly hard (and, let's be honest, you're blending in with traffic anyway, right?). And, as an aside, it wouldn't be a bad idea to get used to a 24 hour clock.
As Americans in a global economy, we just get used to thinking of our own country as the odd man out. Hasn't been hard for me the last few years. And if enough people start doing it, some politician will be glad to take credit for his leadership in proposing national metric standards.
My car gets forty rods to the hogshead
Typical American. Sir, ye need a Nipponese Prius! Ye should be able to journey a great many furlongs on but a small part of a hogshead.
Except the ones whose lobbyist money comes from Hollywood. Even Saint Wellstone voted for the DMCA and his response to me was that "it was the right thing to do". Period.
I'm willing to be proven wrong but I'm not sure the Democrats aren't worse on these issues. Oil money: Republicans. Hollywood money: Democrats.
If manufacturers had just held a porn producers brainstorming conference these specs could have been hashed out logically in the first place. But, instead, the manufacturers wanted to believe _they_ were in control.
Considering it is only on version .2 I figure someone will put smart home features into it before v .5 and by version one it should open the pod bay door if you reason with it.
And lest we cast stones at the dumb desk jockeys, that probably explains why we found our admin password posted on our department server in the server room when I visited a few years ago. That IT guy got promoted. Of course.
OK, no snow. But how much overall precipitation have you gotten?
Very possibly not enough I would speculate if Michigan is like our part of the midwest. True, we have had two record rain days this December in Minneapolis/St. Paul -- because rain in December isn't the norm. But it doesn't make up for the greater climate change. To the west in the "grain belt" I have read that it is approaching dust bowl drought.
But we are microanalyzing. Whether we set the match to the gasoline or not, the majority of warming will not be man-made now that the permafrost is melting and we see lakes disappearing in Siberia and towns sinking in Alaska and Canada. And those gasses being released.