Weeks to months ? So what's the shelf life of a bottle of Pepsi going to be, given that it's going to be wet all the time?
Saying "plant-based plastic" is like saying that regular plastic is "carbon-based". Technically correct, but like all marketingspeak utterly useless. Tell me about the decay conditions, time and by-products, and the manufacturing requirements and leftovers, then we'll talk.
Hell, for all we know they found a way to turn food leftovers into crude oil, and are making plastic out of that. Where did you think "regular" plastic came from, if not dead dinosaurs?
Bugs you don't run into ("it does what needs to be done") are irrelevant. New features, only if you actually have use for them. Security fixes... I should say "yes", but even then you need to weigh the risk of side-effects of those fixes vs wether you're actually vulnerable.
My mediabox at home has a rather particular disk setup, so even though there's been three or four new versions of my distro I'm not upgrading it, I just apply any standard patches when they appear. Even if no more patches were to come out, I'm not sure I'd upgrade it - it does everything I need. It's on a secure internal network, so I prefer to have older software over the risk of a new install fucking my disk setup. I'll probably only upgrade it when a major new release of XBMC is no longer available for the distro I'm running.
Even here at work, patching happens (officially!) on a need-to basis: we analyze every patch to see if we're actually vulnerable to or impacted by what it fixes, and only install those that are necessary. Saves us a lot of maintenance time and unexpected side effects.
As a Belgian - yeah, we brew it - I have to say that I'm not particularly fond of Leffe, either; although I certainly wouldn't say it tastes like rotten fruit. Leffe, like most of the "premium belgian beers" you get on your side of the water, is an Inbev product, and it shows. These are the people who tried to move production of Hoegaarden from Hoegaarden to Jupille, found that you can't just move beer brewing around and expect to get the same results, got probably around three-quarters of all the batches brewed to be undrinkable to the point of simply pouring it away and in the process of trying to fill their pockets (sorry, I mean "optimising the potential synergies", of course) pretty much put half of belgium out of Hoegaarden for six months.
Yeah, these people certainly know what brewing beer is all about.
I can't think of a single Inbev beer that I'll voluntarily touch with a ten-foot pole. Hell, even Heineken has a handful of reasonable beers - but at least they're smart enough to leave the brewing to the brewers. Op-Ale is still made in Opwijk (as is Affligem, incidentally), and they've even got Mort Subite, a reasonably decent traditional gueuze.
That sounds like you mistake free and free. That's why RMS uses libre versus gratis software: it being free of charge is nice, but not a necessity. It should contain the freedom to be verified for accuracy (and potentially improved or made more suitable to specific purpose) by anyone who feels like it and has obtained a legal copy.
> There's nothing to stop you lending your kindle/computer to someone else to read your eBooks
True, if I don't mind them having access to my Kindle account.
Additionally, lending someone your Kindle is not so much like lending someone a book, as it is like lending someone your entire library - you have no control over what parts they see (got some of the more interesting adult literature on there, or maybe research papers they're not supposed to see?), nor do you have control over what they do with it: lend someone a book and you might never get it back; lend someone your library and he might set fire to it.
That is an interesting question, and at first glance I would say "because Wikipedia isn't equipped to define research as relevant or authoritative". Such tasks tend to be best done by peer reviews and the like, for which most sciences have their own channels and literature. A link to, say, Journal of Quantumphysickery is going to be much more trustworthy than an article last edited by QuantumScientast.
I agree with the solar panels - they're pretty dirty to manufacture, not to mention to dispose of.
Wind, however, not so much. Wind isn't reliable in a single spot, that is true, but there is always wind somewhere; especially at sea. You don't look at a single turbine, you have a network of turbines all over the place, so there's always plenty of running ones.
Personally, I don't really mind the view of the turbines "littered" around the landscape, either - I find their deceptively slow movement pleasing and soothing.
The alternative layout of vertical turbines is less intrusive, and could also be used small-scale for more local generation - look at the picture of the five kilowatt turbine lower in the article. Five kilowatts isn't a heaping amount, but combined with batteries it should provide most, if not all the power a family needs. This kind of stuff only needs to get a bit cheaper and it could become standard issue on the roofs of buildings; or the electrickery companies could provide them. Plenty of them to be had for the price of a single nuclear or fossil station.
Given that FLAC is lossless, the only ways Wavpack could be relevantly superior is by compressing significantly better, or by being able to be played on lower-power devices (that is, requiring significantly less CPU and memory for playback).
Is it better in one of those ways? I'm happy with FLAC, so pretty much too lazy to google:-)
The same Corbin Fisher as this Corbin Fisher? Really?
This should prove to be amusing, at the very least. Yes mister judge sir, this here man has illegally copied and jerked off to thousands of dollars' worth of gay porn that we filmed using straight actors.
Actually, mister judge, sir, you're looking pretty good, yourself. Can I interest you in a financial opportunity ?
There's quite a difference between rubber ridges and bone spikes. To answer the parent's question, though; I would assume that other species' females don't quite think of it as being a pleasureable act more than a strong hormonal urge. Yes, the female (usually) chooses who gets to hump her, but they may not necessarily realise there's a difference.
One thing that may be related is partner choosing and bonding, though. We humans (at the very least in recent history, probably for a long long time already) tend to first sleep around a bit and try different partners, and later on pick one to keep and have sprogs with - that behaviour allows females to learn that non-spikey cock feels better, and thus increases the chance of her settling with the owner of one of those instead of a maybe slightly better-looking painbringer. Strict monogamous creatures tend to only mate after having chosen a fit partner, and so are stuck with their choice, while promiscuous creatures pick a fit specimen for mating once and then move on, so even if they know the difference, spikiness of the penis is not going to be a major criterium in choosing a partner assuming showing off doesn't feature largely in the mating rituals.
Might be interesting to study monogamousness of species vs. penile spikiness.
Funny, but maybe also insightful? Given that the main difference between our species and the rest of the animal kingdom is our ability to think things through, it isn't that far-fetched that women would lean towards males with less spiky dongs, as that would provide them with more enjoyment and less pain.
I think the point was more to see if the "recommended upgrade path" that has drawn itself over the years was actually feasible, barring non-related problems.
Turns out it was, and that's quite the achievement. Won't someone do this for a major and ancient Linux distro ? Debian, Slackware and Redhat/Fedora come to mind.
You're joking - or at least I sincerely hope you are - but you do point out what I consider a major strength vs. Windows: if it won't boot properly, you can actually troubleshoot the boot process instead of staring at a fake progressbar-that-doesn't. There's F5, of course, but the list of modules it spews is just a report, you can't actually do anything.
That being said, though, modern distros have come a long way from the simple sequence of boot scripts, and figuring out why a particular component won't start properly can be a bit of a headache too.
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Out of sheer curiosity, what was wrong with the new bag ?
Mountain Dew is made by Pepsi. Pepsi is available in Belgium. Alas, Mountain Dew is not.
The Netherlands have it, though; but I very much prefer the US high-fructose corn syrup version. Shame my USAF supplier went home :-D
Weeks to months ? So what's the shelf life of a bottle of Pepsi going to be, given that it's going to be wet all the time?
Saying "plant-based plastic" is like saying that regular plastic is "carbon-based". Technically correct, but like all marketingspeak utterly useless. Tell me about the decay conditions, time and by-products, and the manufacturing requirements and leftovers, then we'll talk.
Hell, for all we know they found a way to turn food leftovers into crude oil, and are making plastic out of that. Where did you think "regular" plastic came from, if not dead dinosaurs?
Bugs you don't run into ("it does what needs to be done") are irrelevant. New features, only if you actually have use for them. Security fixes... I should say "yes", but even then you need to weigh the risk of side-effects of those fixes vs wether you're actually vulnerable.
My mediabox at home has a rather particular disk setup, so even though there's been three or four new versions of my distro I'm not upgrading it, I just apply any standard patches when they appear. Even if no more patches were to come out, I'm not sure I'd upgrade it - it does everything I need. It's on a secure internal network, so I prefer to have older software over the risk of a new install fucking my disk setup. I'll probably only upgrade it when a major new release of XBMC is no longer available for the distro I'm running.
Even here at work, patching happens (officially!) on a need-to basis: we analyze every patch to see if we're actually vulnerable to or impacted by what it fixes, and only install those that are necessary. Saves us a lot of maintenance time and unexpected side effects.
I'd like to see how many "members" 4chan has. I'll bet it's quite a bit more than Facebook, especially if you look at the active ones.
> When in Rome as they say.... ... try the pickled kolibri tongues ?
As a Belgian - yeah, we brew it - I have to say that I'm not particularly fond of Leffe, either; although I certainly wouldn't say it tastes like rotten fruit. Leffe, like most of the "premium belgian beers" you get on your side of the water, is an Inbev product, and it shows. These are the people who tried to move production of Hoegaarden from Hoegaarden to Jupille, found that you can't just move beer brewing around and expect to get the same results, got probably around three-quarters of all the batches brewed to be undrinkable to the point of simply pouring it away and in the process of trying to fill their pockets (sorry, I mean "optimising the potential synergies", of course) pretty much put half of belgium out of Hoegaarden for six months.
Yeah, these people certainly know what brewing beer is all about.
I can't think of a single Inbev beer that I'll voluntarily touch with a ten-foot pole. Hell, even Heineken has a handful of reasonable beers - but at least they're smart enough to leave the brewing to the brewers. Op-Ale is still made in Opwijk (as is Affligem, incidentally), and they've even got Mort Subite, a reasonably decent traditional gueuze.
If the stable chain of individual tools does what needs to be done, why would you want to upgrade it? If it ain't broken, don't fix it.
That sounds like you mistake free and free. That's why RMS uses libre versus gratis software: it being free of charge is nice, but not a necessity. It should contain the freedom to be verified for accuracy (and potentially improved or made more suitable to specific purpose) by anyone who feels like it and has obtained a legal copy.
> There's nothing to stop you lending your kindle/computer to someone else to read your eBooks
True, if I don't mind them having access to my Kindle account.
Additionally, lending someone your Kindle is not so much like lending someone a book, as it is like lending someone your entire library - you have no control over what parts they see (got some of the more interesting adult literature on there, or maybe research papers they're not supposed to see?), nor do you have control over what they do with it: lend someone a book and you might never get it back; lend someone your library and he might set fire to it.
That is an interesting question, and at first glance I would say "because Wikipedia isn't equipped to define research as relevant or authoritative". Such tasks tend to be best done by peer reviews and the like, for which most sciences have their own channels and literature. A link to, say, Journal of Quantumphysickery is going to be much more trustworthy than an article last edited by QuantumScientast.
Thank you. That's the best explanation of what this is about that I could hope for, and far better than what I actually expected to find.
I fully agree with you, too - a library's job is to guard information, not judge it's worth.
I agree with the solar panels - they're pretty dirty to manufacture, not to mention to dispose of.
Wind, however, not so much. Wind isn't reliable in a single spot, that is true, but there is always wind somewhere; especially at sea. You don't look at a single turbine, you have a network of turbines all over the place, so there's always plenty of running ones.
Personally, I don't really mind the view of the turbines "littered" around the landscape, either - I find their deceptively slow movement pleasing and soothing.
The alternative layout of vertical turbines is less intrusive, and could also be used small-scale for more local generation - look at the picture of the five kilowatt turbine lower in the article. Five kilowatts isn't a heaping amount, but combined with batteries it should provide most, if not all the power a family needs. This kind of stuff only needs to get a bit cheaper and it could become standard issue on the roofs of buildings; or the electrickery companies could provide them. Plenty of them to be had for the price of a single nuclear or fossil station.
Given that FLAC is lossless, the only ways Wavpack could be relevantly superior is by compressing significantly better, or by being able to be played on lower-power devices (that is, requiring significantly less CPU and memory for playback).
Is it better in one of those ways? I'm happy with FLAC, so pretty much too lazy to google :-)
The same Corbin Fisher as this Corbin Fisher? Really?
This should prove to be amusing, at the very least. Yes mister judge sir, this here man has illegally copied and jerked off to thousands of dollars' worth of gay porn that we filmed using straight actors.
Actually, mister judge, sir, you're looking pretty good, yourself. Can I interest you in a financial opportunity ?
So that's why furries love me.
Yes, I actually do have that. Always had it, and never worried much about it, but it's nice to know what it actually is. Thanks :-)
So is his penis.
There's quite a difference between rubber ridges and bone spikes. To answer the parent's question, though; I would assume that other species' females don't quite think of it as being a pleasureable act more than a strong hormonal urge. Yes, the female (usually) chooses who gets to hump her, but they may not necessarily realise there's a difference.
One thing that may be related is partner choosing and bonding, though. We humans (at the very least in recent history, probably for a long long time already) tend to first sleep around a bit and try different partners, and later on pick one to keep and have sprogs with - that behaviour allows females to learn that non-spikey cock feels better, and thus increases the chance of her settling with the owner of one of those instead of a maybe slightly better-looking painbringer. Strict monogamous creatures tend to only mate after having chosen a fit partner, and so are stuck with their choice, while promiscuous creatures pick a fit specimen for mating once and then move on, so even if they know the difference, spikiness of the penis is not going to be a major criterium in choosing a partner assuming showing off doesn't feature largely in the mating rituals.
Might be interesting to study monogamousness of species vs. penile spikiness.
Funny, but maybe also insightful? Given that the main difference between our species and the rest of the animal kingdom is our ability to think things through, it isn't that far-fetched that women would lean towards males with less spiky dongs, as that would provide them with more enjoyment and less pain.
Alright, this settles it. We need a +1, Disturbing mod.
Incidentally (or, maybe, not ?) GOG is doing a promo this weekend on Kalypso games, including the Creatures series: http://www.gog.com/en/promo/kalypso_games
My word, but Apple has fallen low if Microsoft is now to be seen as an example for longevity in hard- and software.
I think the point was more to see if the "recommended upgrade path" that has drawn itself over the years was actually feasible, barring non-related problems.
Turns out it was, and that's quite the achievement. Won't someone do this for a major and ancient Linux distro ? Debian, Slackware and Redhat/Fedora come to mind.
You're joking - or at least I sincerely hope you are - but you do point out what I consider a major strength vs. Windows: if it won't boot properly, you can actually troubleshoot the boot process instead of staring at a fake progressbar-that-doesn't. There's F5, of course, but the list of modules it spews is just a report, you can't actually do anything.
That being said, though, modern distros have come a long way from the simple sequence of boot scripts, and figuring out why a particular component won't start properly can be a bit of a headache too.
Uhh... For how long have you stuck with 95 ? The torrent protocol was designed only in 2001.