However, you shouldn't say "I think the community forgets that for the majority of internet users, they started out by getting a CD in the mail".
Maybe the Ameriacan ISPs are that ignorant, but there are other ISPs in other contries which actually include in the manual "how to install in linux!", and have done so for many, many years already.
To the ISPs: Put it in TFM! And to users if it's in TFM; RTFM!
There's one of those reality shows that's been running for 10 seasons about where the DoDs money for space goes. One of the guys in it even looks like McGyver!
Selling them toothpicks would be more effective than the trade embargo! Refusing to sell them anything, and actively forcing other countries to do the same, only helps the fanatics running the country.
If the outcome they want is a war, then yes, the trade embargo is effective. If the outcome they want is a "revolution" and a pro-western government, then keeping the people away from western goods and services is not exactly how you should do it...
Is it just me, or is George W Bush the smartest man in US government? (I still laugh when I'm thinking of the Senator telling Bill Maher on Religolus that you don't need to pass an IQ test to become a US Senator!
True, but as I said here in Norway, we actually turn off the hydropower during night, because we can import it cheaper from those plants you cannot turn off (nuclear, coal, etc.) which haven't got the same demand during night as they do during the day. I guess the same would go for charging your car during the night in US as well. Your plants produce the same amount of electricity during night as during the day, but it's all a waste, since the need is not the same.
Just something to think about. If they would make electricity cheaper during the night, people would wait until then before charging their cars, etc. if possible.
Yeah, we'll probably be needing more and more power plants, but things can be done, the question is: Are people/government willing to do it?
Well.... Think is a Norwegian car, and Norway produces the most hydroelectric power in Europe. Sure, we close down the plants during the night to get cheap coal electricty from mainland Europe, but during the day, it's mostly hydroelectric.
Another way to get clean fuel is to use atomic energy. Yeah, wast is an issue, but it's still clean in the climate discussion.
A thrid thing to consider is that oil and coal plants are cleaner than the cars, and it's also easier to caputre CO2 from a plant than the cars driving around all over the place.
Actually, most of the alternatives of producing power is cleaner than using a combustion engine in a car 100% of the time already, and the potential is even greater.
And, considering the first failure of the 1c engine really didn't have anything to do with the hardware, but software, I'd say 100% success for the 1c engine but a 50% failure on separation!
Religious fundamentalists? The ones that believe in what the book says? That Jesus is about to return, and that the earth is 12,000 years old?
That's more than 50% of amaricans! More than 150 million people are fundamentalists in the US. Compared to muslim countries like Turkey and Egypt, that's a huge percentage. And US is supposed to have better schools!
The founding fathers must be spinning in their graves, as most of them where atheists, and the country was supposed to be "non-religious".
Still waiting for the first atheist president of the US, and as an atheist myself, it's probably more likely that I will see Jesus before him. (Or her)
The idea for the movie Idiocracy must have come from US.
Mike Judge captures the future outlook on USA as a country briliantly. Just take the energy drink-thing in the movie, and change it to Christianity, and you'll probably see where US is in 500 years.
Wow, you found one example. How many of the SUV owners tow their 3 ton (metric) boat to the lake every weekend?
For a normal family, a small mini-van with a diesel is a lot more friendly to the mpg than a SUV, even fully loaded. I don't have a mini-van, but I have a car which uses the same engine that the most popular people-carrier in Europe 2 years ago used, and I don't even notice the 1.5 ton (again, metric) trailer at the rear.
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This must be one of the more sensible posts I've seen on /. the last 5 years!
Thank you!
I kind of agree with you, to a certain extent...
However, you shouldn't say "I think the community forgets that for the majority of internet users, they started out by getting a CD in the mail".
Maybe the Ameriacan ISPs are that ignorant, but there are other ISPs in other contries which actually include in the manual "how to install in linux!", and have done so for many, many years already.
To the ISPs: Put it in TFM!
And to users if it's in TFM; RTFM!
So the war against terror should've taken place in Bush's own backyard?
Erh, you're not watching TV, are you?
There's one of those reality shows that's been running for 10 seasons about where the DoDs money for space goes. One of the guys in it even looks like McGyver!
I know you where trying to be funny, however:
Selling them toothpicks would be more effective than the trade embargo! Refusing to sell them anything, and actively forcing other countries to do the same, only helps the fanatics running the country.
If the outcome they want is a war, then yes, the trade embargo is effective. If the outcome they want is a "revolution" and a pro-western government, then keeping the people away from western goods and services is not exactly how you should do it...
Is it just me, or is George W Bush the smartest man in US government?
(I still laugh when I'm thinking of the Senator telling Bill Maher on Religolus that you don't need to pass an IQ test to become a US Senator!
Easy!
First of all - because they can!
Second, because they see a market with good potential for making even more money...
Dragon and Soyuz may look the same, but the difference in technology is over 30 years old.
It's like asking why Corvette C7 is being build, when a Corvette '67 did the job as well...
Who cares? It's not we that have to prove it, it's the ones making the claim that needs to do that!
Disproving a claim set forth to be unprovable, is actually just plain stupid, and not worth the effort.
Yep - a good one would be Richard Dawkins' "out campaign"! http://outcampaign.org/
True, but as I said here in Norway, we actually turn off the hydropower during night, because we can import it cheaper from those plants you cannot turn off (nuclear, coal, etc.) which haven't got the same demand during night as they do during the day. I guess the same would go for charging your car during the night in US as well. Your plants produce the same amount of electricity during night as during the day, but it's all a waste, since the need is not the same.
Just something to think about. If they would make electricity cheaper during the night, people would wait until then before charging their cars, etc. if possible.
Yeah, we'll probably be needing more and more power plants, but things can be done, the question is: Are people/government willing to do it?
Yeah! I hate what Age of Conan did to Penny too!
Well.... Think is a Norwegian car, and Norway produces the most hydroelectric power in Europe. Sure, we close down the plants during the night to get cheap coal electricty from mainland Europe, but during the day, it's mostly hydroelectric.
Another way to get clean fuel is to use atomic energy. Yeah, wast is an issue, but it's still clean in the climate discussion.
A thrid thing to consider is that oil and coal plants are cleaner than the cars, and it's also easier to caputre CO2 from a plant than the cars driving around all over the place.
Actually, most of the alternatives of producing power is cleaner than using a combustion engine in a car 100% of the time already, and the potential is even greater.
It's possible to do both - trying to change society for the better and make money is not something that excludeds one another!
And here Musk is a good example!
And, considering the first failure of the 1c engine really didn't have anything to do with the hardware, but software, I'd say 100% success for the 1c engine but a 50% failure on separation!
I'd choose China over US anyday! At least with China I'd know what I was getting into.
$20 an hour or more, plus benefits? That's awesome for a job that doesn't seem to require much in the way of education or experience.
Pays better to be on the dole in Norway!
That comment was redundant i 2007, imagine what it is now!
Why is science without religion lame?
Religious fundamentalists? The ones that believe in what the book says? That Jesus is about to return, and that the earth is 12,000 years old?
That's more than 50% of amaricans! More than 150 million people are fundamentalists in the US. Compared to muslim countries like Turkey and Egypt, that's a huge percentage. And US is supposed to have better schools!
The founding fathers must be spinning in their graves, as most of them where atheists, and the country was supposed to be "non-religious".
Still waiting for the first atheist president of the US, and as an atheist myself, it's probably more likely that I will see Jesus before him. (Or her)
The idea for the movie Idiocracy must have come from US.
Mike Judge captures the future outlook on USA as a country briliantly. Just take the energy drink-thing in the movie, and change it to Christianity, and you'll probably see where US is in 500 years.
Science has found no evidence of a supreme being, there's even no evidence to suggest that such a being exist, neither physical nor mathematical.
I.e. No supreme being, until further evidence appear
So did I!
Read your history books to find out which one of us were the most civilized when we came to America!
Psj... Europe was present more than 500 years before Jamestown!
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The Norsemen!
What was the failure rate for NASA their first 5 years?
Actually, the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire had more to do with it.
The Church, if anything, managed to save some of the knowledge that would otherwise would have been lost.
Oh? So you mean all the book-burnings by the Catholic Church saved the knowledge?
Wow, you found one example. How many of the SUV owners tow their 3 ton (metric) boat to the lake every weekend?
For a normal family, a small mini-van with a diesel is a lot more friendly to the mpg than a SUV, even fully loaded. I don't have a mini-van, but I have a car which uses the same engine that the most popular people-carrier in Europe 2 years ago used, and I don't even notice the 1.5 ton (again, metric) trailer at the rear.