Superconducting transport wires ftw.. Burying insulated superconducting high-voltage lines cooled with liquid nitrogen could do the trick, at least in areas that are not in areas of high earthquake risk..
Do Renaults still have the goofy paddle turn signal or do they use a stalk like the rest of the civilized world?
(My friend had an Eagle Premier, which was a rebadged Renault, and that drove me NUTS)
(His family also had a diesel Oldsmobile, and if that is what Americans think of when they think of diesel, I understand why they're afraid, that car SUUCCCKKKKKED...)
Of course, the US as a whole needs to divorce itself from its auto fetish. Increased public transportation seems a no-brainer. Who out there really likes the Great Wall of Traffic?
I'll take sitting in traffic in my furniture-quality MB-Tex seat with my fresh-ground Contra Cafe and custom burn CD over smelling the lumpenproletariat gabbing at the top of their lungs on their bloody cellphones anyday.
Besides, my commute by car is 3x faster than any bus in my neighborhood, given the walk to the bus station, the mandatory transfer, and the fact that both buses are local.
No, there's no way that mass transit will work on a large scale in general with the sort of population densities there are in the US. Unless people are forced into it, which doesn't work too well in a democracy.
Raising the price, or perhaps forcing the entire cost of driving (roads, pollution, etc) onto drivers through taxation will get them off the roads.
I still think the cost of mandatory minimum liability insurance should be priced into every gallon of gas. Not only does it make gas more expensive, it guarantees that every car is insured, and you pay for insurance only when you drive. Of course, that would only apply to fossil-based gas, ethanol/butanol from renewable sources wouldn't be taxed, at least until a majority of the fuel delivered was renewable.
And the retail market for comprehensive and other forms of insurance would still be around for financed vehicles, antique/restored, etc.
Whoda thunkit, make gas more expensive and people use less of it. I'm shocked, shocked!
Here's hoping gas prices stay high so the poor stay off the road. Underinsured vehicles, poorly maintained jalopies and more traffic are not my idea of things I want to be around during my commute, so if gas were $4/gal and that reduced congestion I'd be a happy panda.
... No exemptions for China or Russia or any other nation, some form of emissions trading that can be setup as a global framework ala Bretton Woods, is politically and economically tenable. Each nation would be allocated a certain tonnage of carbon-based gases, and they'd choose how those allocations are parceled out.
Oh, and a commitment to converting 50% of the world's coal-fired power plants to nuclear by 2020 is a must.
BTW, I play this on my old 32" analog TV and everything looks OK and the ingame text is readable (if smaller than I'm used to).
Why buy a 360 without a digital TV? For this game and to be able to play XBL with my fam. I can still take 'em in Halo 2 but I get pwned in Call of Duty 2, go fig.
Meh, iSync does the job with a minimum of fuss, and it worked with my old SonyEricsson P800, and it works now (after a little XML encouragment) with my Nokia E70. It does calendars, alarms, contacts, even contact pictures. Verynice.
Don't forget Alien vs. Predator for Atari Jaguar.. Halo 2 "stole" the idea of letting you play either the "good guy" or the "bad guy" (or the other "bad guy", and storywise it was pretty evenhanded actually).. Also, AvP was the first game that had me looking over my shoulder, flipbook-framerate and all..
And IMHO Halo 2 should have also stolen more of the gameplay mechanic, such as the species-specific bonuses and penalties.
Solaris may have sucky package management and be backwards in other ways, but they've had snoop -a for years and years and years.. Very cute to listen to packets on a SPARC20 external speaker...
Rant summary: There will be no carbon credit scheme unless and until it binds _all_ nations, including China, Russia, Kazakhstan, etc. The USA won't stand for anything less, thank goodness. Also, hypocrites complaining about US not joining Kyoto while almost all other signatories blow by its limits with impunity. And forget the science, it's all caused by Mutant Fish Frogs under the influence of the Bavarian Illuminati, using transferable power from the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Orbital Mind Control Lasers.
And before you get all pissy about me not giving a crap about future generations, say hello to my little friend, I've even got a fresh slice of fairy cake.
It seems to me that both shuttle disasters were in part caused by cold weather. With the Challenger it was brittle O-Rings and with the Columbia it was iced-up chunks of insulation. Perhaps there should be a mandate that the shuttle can launch only if the area's temperature has been above, say, 55 degrees F for 48 hours?
There may be a shortage of "qualified people who can do the work at the wage we want to pay", but there is no such thing as a shortage of qualified people.
If you can't find enough qualified applicants, simply raise your offered compensation until you do. That's how markets work.
Polar bears are our competitors. The fewer of them there are, the less likely one will eat your dog, or your kid. The only reason we should regret their extinction is that it may cause a shortage of rugs.
Let me also add that bears are also _godless killing machines_. It is up to Heroes like President Bush and all the SUV owners in this great land of ours to drive our way to a bear-free world. Then pave it, and chrome the moon.
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Superconducting transport wires ftw.. Burying insulated superconducting high-voltage lines cooled with liquid nitrogen could do the trick, at least in areas that are not in areas of high earthquake risk..
well how else are you going to use all those cores?
No offense, but everything about that invitation screams "It's a trap!!"
Oh Admiral Ackbar, must _everything_ be a trap? So paranoid, yet so chitinous...
Now GET BACK TO WORK!
Do Renaults still have the goofy paddle turn signal or do they use a stalk like the rest of the civilized world?
(My friend had an Eagle Premier, which was a rebadged Renault, and that drove me NUTS)
(His family also had a diesel Oldsmobile, and if that is what Americans think of when they think of diesel, I understand why they're afraid, that car SUUCCCKKKKKED...)
I am Jack's sense of environmental responsibility.
Of course, the US as a whole needs to divorce itself from its auto fetish. Increased public transportation seems a no-brainer. Who out there really likes the Great Wall of Traffic?
I'll take sitting in traffic in my furniture-quality MB-Tex seat with my fresh-ground Contra Cafe and custom burn CD over smelling the lumpenproletariat gabbing at the top of their lungs on their bloody cellphones anyday.
Besides, my commute by car is 3x faster than any bus in my neighborhood, given the walk to the bus station, the mandatory transfer, and the fact that both buses are local.
No, there's no way that mass transit will work on a large scale in general with the sort of population densities there are in the US. Unless people are forced into it, which doesn't work too well in a democracy.
Raising the price, or perhaps forcing the entire cost of driving (roads, pollution, etc) onto drivers through taxation will get them off the roads.
I still think the cost of mandatory minimum liability insurance should be priced into every gallon of gas. Not only does it make gas more expensive, it guarantees that every car is insured, and you pay for insurance only when you drive. Of course, that would only apply to fossil-based gas, ethanol/butanol from renewable sources wouldn't be taxed, at least until a majority of the fuel delivered was renewable.
And the retail market for comprehensive and other forms of insurance would still be around for financed vehicles, antique/restored, etc.
Whoda thunkit, make gas more expensive and people use less of it. I'm shocked, shocked!
Here's hoping gas prices stay high so the poor stay off the road. Underinsured vehicles, poorly maintained jalopies and more traffic are not my idea of things I want to be around during my commute, so if gas were $4/gal and that reduced congestion I'd be a happy panda.
Let 'em take the bus!
Can someone please link to a stable opensource groupware server that emulates MAPI so that Outlook or Entourage users can use it without plugins?
Also, each one comes with a free pony.
OMG PONIEZ!!!!!!!
... No exemptions for China or Russia or any other nation, some form of emissions trading that can be setup as a global framework ala Bretton Woods, is politically and economically tenable. Each nation would be allocated a certain tonnage of carbon-based gases, and they'd choose how those allocations are parceled out.
Oh, and a commitment to converting 50% of the world's coal-fired power plants to nuclear by 2020 is a must.
BTW, I play this on my old 32" analog TV and everything looks OK and the ingame text is readable (if smaller than I'm used to).
Why buy a 360 without a digital TV? For this game and to be able to play XBL with my fam. I can still take 'em in Halo 2 but I get pwned in Call of Duty 2, go fig.
Has anyone got anything useful running on one of these yet? The screen is quite nice.
Meh, iSync does the job with a minimum of fuss, and it worked with my old SonyEricsson P800, and it works now (after a little XML encouragment) with my Nokia E70. It does calendars, alarms, contacts, even contact pictures. Verynice.
Don't forget Alien vs. Predator for Atari Jaguar.. Halo 2 "stole" the idea of letting you play either the "good guy" or the "bad guy" (or the other "bad guy", and storywise it was pretty evenhanded actually).. Also, AvP was the first game that had me looking over my shoulder, flipbook-framerate and all..
And IMHO Halo 2 should have also stolen more of the gameplay mechanic, such as the species-specific bonuses and penalties.
But that's just being a pedantic geek I suppose..
Don't forget Poland either!
It's a moral imperative!
Solaris may have sucky package management and be backwards in other ways, but they've had snoop -a for years and years and years.. Very cute to listen to packets on a SPARC20 external speaker...
Rant summary: There will be no carbon credit scheme unless and until it binds _all_ nations, including China, Russia, Kazakhstan, etc. The USA won't stand for anything less, thank goodness. Also, hypocrites complaining about US not joining Kyoto while almost all other signatories blow by its limits with impunity. And forget the science, it's all caused by Mutant Fish Frogs under the influence of the Bavarian Illuminati, using transferable power from the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Orbital Mind Control Lasers.
And before you get all pissy about me not giving a crap about future generations, say hello to my little friend, I've even got a fresh slice of fairy cake.
I think you're thinking of Byron. Now _THAT_ was an unwatchable season...
It seems to me that both shuttle disasters were in part caused by cold weather. With the Challenger it was brittle O-Rings and with the Columbia it was iced-up chunks of insulation. Perhaps there should be a mandate that the shuttle can launch only if the area's temperature has been above, say, 55 degrees F for 48 hours?
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There may be a shortage of "qualified people who can do the work at the wage we want to pay", but there is no such thing as a shortage of qualified people.
If you can't find enough qualified applicants, simply raise your offered compensation until you do. That's how markets work.
Polar bears are our competitors. The fewer of them there are, the less likely one will eat your dog, or your kid. The only reason we should regret their extinction is that it may cause a shortage of rugs.
Let me also add that bears are also _godless killing machines_. It is up to Heroes like President Bush and all the SUV owners in this great land of ours to drive our way to a bear-free world. Then pave it, and chrome the moon.
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