If everyone only used 1 tank of gas per day, then the energy use problems of the world would be much simpler to solve.
There's going to be people who cross the country and use ultracap tanks like water, and there's going to be people in cold climates who are going to be going through these things like candy, and there's going to be a bunch of people who are all going to have reasons to use more than 1 battery every day, and the average charge rate for a battery passed from station to station could be much higher than 1/day.
Hey, if you guys had an equivalent to the NDP or Bloc Quebecois, then the answer to your question wouldn't be 'yes'. Unfortunately, You guys only want to vote for two parties, so the answer is 'yes'.
Oh, you mean like when gasoline powered cars have the engine throw a rod, or the water pump goes out and the radiator overheats, or distributor cap cracks? Once I got stranded at a rest stop outside of Malad, Idaho when my timing belt failed. Are the ultracaps going to be any worse?
No, those would be problems with the engine, and an electric vehicle would have plenty of components that could fail in that regard. This is more like taking a risk every time you fill up your car, that your gas tank is going to randomly fail. Even worse, if quality control was a bit lax at a certain station, you could end up getting massively variable energy in each ultracap, leading to a situation where you don't know for certain whether your car with the newly filled ultracap is going to send you as far as you need to go.
Exactly. Let's talk about the environmental impact of gasoline powered cars and see if it's any better. Is disposing of supercaps going to be worse than disposing of used motor oil and radiator coolant and lead-acid batteries? Is the generation and transportation of electricity going to be any worse than pumping, refining, and transportation of gasoline? Just getting all the tanker trucks off the highways could make a difference. How much damage can one wrecked tanker truck do to the environment? The one last year up Spanish Fork canyon made a huge crater in the road and burned surrounding vegetation and soaked gasoline into the ground on both sides of the road. I have a hard time seeing how disposing of supercaps could be any worse. What about tailpipe emissions? Noise pollution?
We've come up with lots of ways that supercap cars are better for the environment than gasoline powered cars, and these are just the obvious ones. Can you come up with one where they're worse?
Asking a different question, what is the process for refining the chemicals used in these batteries? How common are the substances in use? How much energy is used, and what byproducts are created? Are said byproducts recovered, or is the waste from the process simply waste, and thus is the creation of the substances needed for tonnes and tonnes of ultracaps going to require the processing of tonnes and tonnes of a second chemical, and result in tonnes and tonnes of toxic waste? The process for making gasoline is relatively benign, and most of the products of creating gasoline from crude oil are recovered and used.
Until the questions are answered, it's irresponsible to declare any technology clean or safe. It would be nice to find a silver bullet to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels, but until the entire picture is seen, you can't just go "Oh, we don't have to see any pollution here, so it must be better than gasoline!"
I'm intentionally keeping the focus on the war, and on civilian casualties only, and using the most conservative estimates from the most obviously biased sources, because that way I can't be accused of lying to present my case, and because my question only deals with the war in Iraq which was started and justified using 9/11 after the other stuff took place.
I have a friend who had to deal with some very not nice people to escape Iraq during the sanctions so he'd have enough money to feed his family. I know the numbers regarding the other aspects of Iraq's history, as well as the facts regarding Saddam's rule before the war against Iran (The facts make the war more unjustifiable when it's grouped in with the war on terror).
The people of Iraq got a raw deal. You could even say that Saddam got a raw deal. Despite that, I was posing my question only with regards to the war.
When you're dealing with Americans, particularly Americans who would summarily dismiss any statement that the war is immoral, you have to form your sentences very carefully, to eliminate the potential wiggle room, because as this article shows, that sort of person will take any wiggle room they have and turn it into a full-scale justification of tyranny.
That would put a dangerous financial burden on someone. Even ultracaps have limitations on the number of charge/discharge cycles, so at some point, someone is going to have to deal with testing these things and taking them out of circulation, or you're going to have situations where a person ends up trapped in the middle of nowhere because his ultracap died prematurely.
From there, you've got to ask yourself what the environmental impact of building these things is, what the impact of disposing of them is, and whether the change is going to make a means of transportation that is better than or worse than what already exists.
This instrument is not accurate. That being the case, their claims are not accurate. They should either increase the accuracy of their instrument, or drop their claims.
But....But...A few women getting hit on when they don't want to by an exceedingly rich, powerful, and well-educated man is definitely worse than 30,000 innocent lives!
Yeah right, just like he supports the use of faith-based initiatives.
If the actions of this guy are any indication, he'd love to ban guns, and set up a sniper on every corner -- you know, just in case any terrorists show up.
Depending on the source, the Iraqi war has resulted in between 30,000 and 100,000 deaths of non-combatant civilians. The low number was presented by George W. Bush himself a few months ago at one of his staged 'town hall meetings'.
Given this, and given that Saddam Hussein's regime has been admitted by George W. Bush himself to be unrelated to the actions of 11/9/01, how can the United States claim moral or ethical right to claim justice?
I mean, in pursuit of reckless vengeance, between 11 and 30 times the number of innocent civilians have been killed. Where is the line where the actions of the Muslim terrorists become infinitesimal compared to the blood on our own hands?
Oh sure, it didn't have the ability to deprive THE AMERICAN PEOPLE of their freedoms, but what about the freedom of THE CIGAR TUBES?
Those few, proud, elite who go forth and maintain the environmental conditions of our cigars, so that we can be sure that they are neither dried out, or all moist and covered with mold, when the time comes?
These proud, patriotic objects are being held, AGAINST THEIR WILL, in Monica Lewinski's vagina, and we MUST NOT ALLOW it.
Please remember, it's not just vague scare quotes and alarm phrases that make him a bad president and his administration incompetent. Everyone has ignored domestic and fiscal policies which have greatly harmed North American unity, which in turn turns into an attack on the economic prosperity of the whole geographical area. Also, cutting taxes while increasing spending is something that will increase federal debt, which will decrease the amount of available money in the budget in the next fiscal year due to increased debt maintenance costs.
Why attack the man and the administration for simply being corrupt, when you can attack them for being incompetent and corrupt?
That's exactly what happened: The 32x and the SegaCD ended up coming to market so late that they ended up being a 32-bit system (The 32x contained a 32-bit processor, that was the point of it) that competed with their own Sega Saturn. Thing is, the 32x platform whas shit, and anyone who developed for the 32x/SegaCD platform was taking a huge gamble because their entire market would have to have both.
If Nintendo even started hyping a Wii++ at any point in the near future, they'd probably end up killing both the Wii, the Wii++, and possibly even a future generation of Nintendo console.
It's not a troll, though I did choose the wrong platform. The one that would have been relevant would be the Sega Saturn.
Sega of America first turned the Genesis into a de-facto 32-bit system with a tonne of add-ons, then the Saturn came out. The Sega market split in awkward ways, and the result was both consoles being absolutely and utterly destroyed by the playstation. The fact that the playstation was so cheap for the capabilities didn't hurt either.
For Nintendo to release a new system right now would be like taking a gun to the side of their heads and pulling the trigger. It would be the end. We'd be looking at a two horse race.
I own plenty of Windows licenses. Ethically, I'd say I'm well in the clear, since a lot of those licenses proved unusable anyway (My Windows ME licenses, in particular, went unused from Day 1)
>>Nintendo should make a second generation Wii that's packed with all the multiple core processors and powerful graphics cards, as well as the cool features of the original Wii. They could call it an even more spectacular market failure than the Dreamcast
Sun Tzu says that one must first fight the victory, then fight the battle, and that doing the opposite is wrong. Sun Tzu also says that you should choose the battlefield.
If you want to change anything in the world, the easiest thing to change is yourself. If you can change yourself to achieve your goals, then you are virtually fighting a battle already won. When you decide to change others, you are fighting a battle against others, and thus won't likely win so easily.
Thus, in the metaphorical war of life, a victorious general must first seek a solution within themselves, before seeking solutions from others.
It's being in control vs. being a victim. When someone is walking around with 1000 dollars in their pocket and they're robbed, people will say "He shouldn't have been walking around with that kind of money if he wasn't prepared to lose it". By finding the blame within himself, however unjust, the same person will find the solution within himself, and use his VISA, or debit, or cheque in the future, rather than do the same thing again and lose another 1000 dollars and hate the person who keeps robbing him, justly but in vain.
The first person you should judge, before anyone else, the first person you should criticize, before anyone else, the first person you should hate for being wicked, before anyone else, is yourself.
Islam, and a thousand other religions may have a billion sins behind them, but they aren't us. We are us, and we ought to be the first and largest concern in our own minds regarding morality and ethics.
Guess what? We're the west. Thus, ought to criticize ourselves before we do so to others, thus you hear a lot more griping about the things we're doing. That's the way it should be. A world where people criticize themselves first is a just world.
What's that? The package you wanted isn't part of the repository?
Installing mplayer in debian requires you to add some dodgy repositories at best, and to give up at worst. A lot of software isn't included in the standard repositories, so you're stuck looking at a website with half a dozen binary downloads for half a dozen flavours of linux, none of which are yours.
When I download a game in Windows, I double-click the icon and click through a few prompts. When I download a game in Mac, I extract the application folder to the application directory. When I download a game in linux...Well, if it's not part of debian, I'm in for a challenge.
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What does it matter who wins or loses a single election if you hold the keys to the gate?
It's troubling that so many people are such linear thinkers. It makes it really easy to pull off Machiavellian subterfuge.
If everyone only used 1 tank of gas per day, then the energy use problems of the world would be much simpler to solve.
There's going to be people who cross the country and use ultracap tanks like water, and there's going to be people in cold climates who are going to be going through these things like candy, and there's going to be a bunch of people who are all going to have reasons to use more than 1 battery every day, and the average charge rate for a battery passed from station to station could be much higher than 1/day.
Hey, if you guys had an equivalent to the NDP or Bloc Quebecois, then the answer to your question wouldn't be 'yes'. Unfortunately, You guys only want to vote for two parties, so the answer is 'yes'.
How often do you run out of gas because the energy stored in your gas tank varies dramatically from tank to tank?
Oh, you mean like when gasoline powered cars have the engine throw a rod, or the water pump goes out and the radiator overheats, or distributor cap cracks? Once I got stranded at a rest stop outside of Malad, Idaho when my timing belt failed. Are the ultracaps going to be any worse?
No, those would be problems with the engine, and an electric vehicle would have plenty of components that could fail in that regard. This is more like taking a risk every time you fill up your car, that your gas tank is going to randomly fail. Even worse, if quality control was a bit lax at a certain station, you could end up getting massively variable energy in each ultracap, leading to a situation where you don't know for certain whether your car with the newly filled ultracap is going to send you as far as you need to go.
Exactly. Let's talk about the environmental impact of gasoline powered cars and see if it's any better. Is disposing of supercaps going to be worse than disposing of used motor oil and radiator coolant and lead-acid batteries? Is the generation and transportation of electricity going to be any worse than pumping, refining, and transportation of gasoline? Just getting all the tanker trucks off the highways could make a difference. How much damage can one wrecked tanker truck do to the environment? The one last year up Spanish Fork canyon made a huge crater in the road and burned surrounding vegetation and soaked gasoline into the ground on both sides of the road. I have a hard time seeing how disposing of supercaps could be any worse. What about tailpipe emissions? Noise pollution?
We've come up with lots of ways that supercap cars are better for the environment than gasoline powered cars, and these are just the obvious ones. Can you come up with one where they're worse?
Asking a different question, what is the process for refining the chemicals used in these batteries? How common are the substances in use? How much energy is used, and what byproducts are created? Are said byproducts recovered, or is the waste from the process simply waste, and thus is the creation of the substances needed for tonnes and tonnes of ultracaps going to require the processing of tonnes and tonnes of a second chemical, and result in tonnes and tonnes of toxic waste? The process for making gasoline is relatively benign, and most of the products of creating gasoline from crude oil are recovered and used.
Until the questions are answered, it's irresponsible to declare any technology clean or safe. It would be nice to find a silver bullet to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels, but until the entire picture is seen, you can't just go "Oh, we don't have to see any pollution here, so it must be better than gasoline!"
It's hard to argue with his tactics, since we've spent three years killing the exact same people for the exact same reasons.
I'm intentionally keeping the focus on the war, and on civilian casualties only, and using the most conservative estimates from the most obviously biased sources, because that way I can't be accused of lying to present my case, and because my question only deals with the war in Iraq which was started and justified using 9/11 after the other stuff took place.
I have a friend who had to deal with some very not nice people to escape Iraq during the sanctions so he'd have enough money to feed his family. I know the numbers regarding the other aspects of Iraq's history, as well as the facts regarding Saddam's rule before the war against Iran (The facts make the war more unjustifiable when it's grouped in with the war on terror).
The people of Iraq got a raw deal. You could even say that Saddam got a raw deal. Despite that, I was posing my question only with regards to the war.
When you're dealing with Americans, particularly Americans who would summarily dismiss any statement that the war is immoral, you have to form your sentences very carefully, to eliminate the potential wiggle room, because as this article shows, that sort of person will take any wiggle room they have and turn it into a full-scale justification of tyranny.
That would put a dangerous financial burden on someone. Even ultracaps have limitations on the number of charge/discharge cycles, so at some point, someone is going to have to deal with testing these things and taking them out of circulation, or you're going to have situations where a person ends up trapped in the middle of nowhere because his ultracap died prematurely.
From there, you've got to ask yourself what the environmental impact of building these things is, what the impact of disposing of them is, and whether the change is going to make a means of transportation that is better than or worse than what already exists.
This instrument is not accurate. That being the case, their claims are not accurate. They should either increase the accuracy of their instrument, or drop their claims.
But....But...A few women getting hit on when they don't want to by an exceedingly rich, powerful, and well-educated man is definitely worse than 30,000 innocent lives!
I mean....Won't someone think of....The women?
It's true! For the price of a bullet, I can get three flapjacks!
Yeah right, just like he supports the use of faith-based initiatives.
If the actions of this guy are any indication, he'd love to ban guns, and set up a sniper on every corner -- you know, just in case any terrorists show up.
Depending on the source, the Iraqi war has resulted in between 30,000 and 100,000 deaths of non-combatant civilians. The low number was presented by George W. Bush himself a few months ago at one of his staged 'town hall meetings'.
Given this, and given that Saddam Hussein's regime has been admitted by George W. Bush himself to be unrelated to the actions of 11/9/01, how can the United States claim moral or ethical right to claim justice?
I mean, in pursuit of reckless vengeance, between 11 and 30 times the number of innocent civilians have been killed. Where is the line where the actions of the Muslim terrorists become infinitesimal compared to the blood on our own hands?
Q: Who do you take to secret prisons in Europe?
A: Secret prisoners.
Oh sure, it didn't have the ability to deprive THE AMERICAN PEOPLE of their freedoms, but what about the freedom of THE CIGAR TUBES?
Those few, proud, elite who go forth and maintain the environmental conditions of our cigars, so that we can be sure that they are neither dried out, or all moist and covered with mold, when the time comes?
These proud, patriotic objects are being held, AGAINST THEIR WILL, in Monica Lewinski's vagina, and we MUST NOT ALLOW it.
Please remember, it's not just vague scare quotes and alarm phrases that make him a bad president and his administration incompetent. Everyone has ignored domestic and fiscal policies which have greatly harmed North American unity, which in turn turns into an attack on the economic prosperity of the whole geographical area. Also, cutting taxes while increasing spending is something that will increase federal debt, which will decrease the amount of available money in the budget in the next fiscal year due to increased debt maintenance costs.
Why attack the man and the administration for simply being corrupt, when you can attack them for being incompetent and corrupt?
That's exactly what happened: The 32x and the SegaCD ended up coming to market so late that they ended up being a 32-bit system (The 32x contained a 32-bit processor, that was the point of it) that competed with their own Sega Saturn. Thing is, the 32x platform whas shit, and anyone who developed for the 32x/SegaCD platform was taking a huge gamble because their entire market would have to have both.
If Nintendo even started hyping a Wii++ at any point in the near future, they'd probably end up killing both the Wii, the Wii++, and possibly even a future generation of Nintendo console.
It's not a troll, though I did choose the wrong platform. The one that would have been relevant would be the Sega Saturn.
Sega of America first turned the Genesis into a de-facto 32-bit system with a tonne of add-ons, then the Saturn came out. The Sega market split in awkward ways, and the result was both consoles being absolutely and utterly destroyed by the playstation. The fact that the playstation was so cheap for the capabilities didn't hurt either.
For Nintendo to release a new system right now would be like taking a gun to the side of their heads and pulling the trigger. It would be the end. We'd be looking at a two horse race.
SDL and it's various extensions do a reasonable job of providing network, sound, and input services to programs, imho.
I own plenty of Windows licenses. Ethically, I'd say I'm well in the clear, since a lot of those licenses proved unusable anyway (My Windows ME licenses, in particular, went unused from Day 1)
Erm...
DX10 can be irrelevant on technical merits, which would be why Carmack said what he said.
the XBox didn't have any relevant advances in hardware, but it was relevant as a console. Remember what JC does for a living.
>>Nintendo should make a second generation Wii that's packed with all the multiple core processors and powerful graphics cards, as well as the cool features of the original Wii. They could call it an even more spectacular market failure than the Dreamcast
Fix'd.
Sun Tzu says that one must first fight the victory, then fight the battle, and that doing the opposite is wrong. Sun Tzu also says that you should choose the battlefield.
If you want to change anything in the world, the easiest thing to change is yourself. If you can change yourself to achieve your goals, then you are virtually fighting a battle already won. When you decide to change others, you are fighting a battle against others, and thus won't likely win so easily.
Thus, in the metaphorical war of life, a victorious general must first seek a solution within themselves, before seeking solutions from others.
It's being in control vs. being a victim. When someone is walking around with 1000 dollars in their pocket and they're robbed, people will say "He shouldn't have been walking around with that kind of money if he wasn't prepared to lose it". By finding the blame within himself, however unjust, the same person will find the solution within himself, and use his VISA, or debit, or cheque in the future, rather than do the same thing again and lose another 1000 dollars and hate the person who keeps robbing him, justly but in vain.
The first person you should judge, before anyone else, the first person you should criticize, before anyone else, the first person you should hate for being wicked, before anyone else, is yourself.
Islam, and a thousand other religions may have a billion sins behind them, but they aren't us. We are us, and we ought to be the first and largest concern in our own minds regarding morality and ethics.
Guess what? We're the west. Thus, ought to criticize ourselves before we do so to others, thus you hear a lot more griping about the things we're doing. That's the way it should be. A world where people criticize themselves first is a just world.
What's that? The package you wanted isn't part of the repository?
Installing mplayer in debian requires you to add some dodgy repositories at best, and to give up at worst. A lot of software isn't included in the standard repositories, so you're stuck looking at a website with half a dozen binary downloads for half a dozen flavours of linux, none of which are yours.
When I download a game in Windows, I double-click the icon and click through a few prompts. When I download a game in Mac, I extract the application folder to the application directory. When I download a game in linux...Well, if it's not part of debian, I'm in for a challenge.