Incidentally, I'm all for recycling if it's voluntary. If there's a market for glass recycling, then it will take care of itself. If glass recycling can't be supported as a business without government mandates, then it's probably not worth doing.
Well no, I'm afraid it doesn't, because you haven't cited the cost of manufacturing new glass versus the cost of recycling and/or the cost savings of using glass for an asphalt aggregate. Recycled glass isn't suitable for most of the applications of new glass, where color and chemical composition need to be known.
Also, your statement above doesn't in any way account for the inconvenience that recycling imposes on the public (which was the point that Penn & Teller were making.)
Indeed it does. The first crisis for life on earth was all the free oxygen that came close to wiping out the anaerobic bacteria.
What I find most annoying about the global warming issue is that it has attracted proponents who are stepping WAY over the line to promote their belief, not stopping at merely being hostile to skeptics, but even proposing censorship as TFA describes. If the planet is indeed heating up, and IF the sea level rises, we'll cope with it, and a market economy is by far the best alternative we have for coping with it. For starters, we could quit using tax money to rebuild flooded or storm-damaged in the same ridiculous locations.
I've heard those rumors about John, too. I do notice however, that none of the people (like you) who repeat them have ever filed a charge. Now, if you know of a crime, you have moral duty to report it to the relevant authorities. Until and unless you do so, I see no reason to believe you.
Try a better grade of stuffing for your straw man, sunshine. DRM is something that you can buy or not, nobody's got a gun to your head. It's not a moral issue, period.
Keep telling yourself whatever you want to believe. I worked there for three and a half years, and I've met seven current Apple VPs. Any one of them could run the place if need be.
If you were as allergic to tobacco as he is, you'd yell too. I remember seeing his hand break out once because an ashtray had been spilled on him. It took a couple of weeks for the blistering and peeling to clear up.
Now, something that you probably don't know, is that when he was in jail, he got beaten severely because he refused to tell the mob how to make blue boxes. He has severe back problems to this day because of it. That's hardly the choice that would be made by someone who thinks none of the rules apply to him.
They play a shell game, where the bank nominally buys the house and sells it to the borrower at a higher price for installments. It's interest, whatever they want to pretend.
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Incidentally, I'm all for recycling if it's voluntary. If there's a market for glass recycling, then it will take care of itself. If glass recycling can't be supported as a business without government mandates, then it's probably not worth doing.
-jcr
Will that do for a start?
Well no, I'm afraid it doesn't, because you haven't cited the cost of manufacturing new glass versus the cost of recycling and/or the cost savings of using glass for an asphalt aggregate. Recycled glass isn't suitable for most of the applications of new glass, where color and chemical composition need to be known.
Also, your statement above doesn't in any way account for the inconvenience that recycling imposes on the public (which was the point that Penn & Teller were making.)
-jcr
They were wrong about glass recycling.
Got anything more than your word on that?
-jcr
The composition of the air changes
Indeed it does. The first crisis for life on earth was all the free oxygen that came close to wiping out the anaerobic bacteria.
What I find most annoying about the global warming issue is that it has attracted proponents who are stepping WAY over the line to promote their belief, not stopping at merely being hostile to skeptics, but even proposing censorship as TFA describes. If the planet is indeed heating up, and IF the sea level rises, we'll cope with it, and a market economy is by far the best alternative we have for coping with it. For starters, we could quit using tax money to rebuild flooded or storm-damaged in the same ridiculous locations.
-jcr
It is alarming how many people object to diversity in thought
It's even more alarming how many people who do so purport to be liberals.
-jcr
I'll take that as a no.
-jcr
Do you know for a fact that I didn't report it, or are you just operating on assumption again?
Did you, or are you just posturing as it appears?
-jcr
I've heard those rumors about John, too. I do notice however, that none of the people (like you) who repeat them have ever filed a charge. Now, if you know of a crime, you have moral duty to report it to the relevant authorities. Until and unless you do so, I see no reason to believe you.
-jcr
Unless you wish to dispute these facts with someone who has actually met Draper several times,
Dude, I worked with him for several months back in 85. Care to jump to any other conclusions?
-jcr
Oh yeah, that'll help. First thing I look for when someone wants an engineering job is whether they've got a fistfull of certs. :-/
-jcr
if people want to run sweatshops
Try a better grade of stuffing for your straw man, sunshine. DRM is something that you can buy or not, nobody's got a gun to your head. It's not a moral issue, period.
-jcr
Keep telling your self that
Keep telling yourself whatever you want to believe. I worked there for three and a half years, and I've met seven current Apple VPs. Any one of them could run the place if need be.
-jcr
Maybe not in-your-face but certainly has a hostile attitude.
I know the guy, and you obviously don't.
-jcr
Oh, for pete's sake..
If you were as allergic to tobacco as he is, you'd yell too. I remember seeing his hand break out once because an ashtray had been spilled on him. It took a couple of weeks for the blistering and peeling to clear up.
Now, something that you probably don't know, is that when he was in jail, he got beaten severely because he refused to tell the mob how to make blue boxes. He has severe back problems to this day because of it. That's hardly the choice that would be made by someone who thinks none of the rules apply to him.
-jcr
people who like to think that they're smart enough that they don't have to pay any mind to "society's rules",
I wouldn't say that Crunch fits that description. He's really not an in-your-face kind of guy.
-jcr
If you don't like it, don't toss out such obvious straight lines.
-jcr
The guy behind Rational, MS needs him too!
Fortunately, I never had occasion to deal that product. Friend who have done so, shudder when the subject comes up.
-jcr
I lost so many IQ points
as if you had any in the first place.
-jcr
I think Mr. Draper's real problems were that he picked the wrong friends when he was starting out & incurred legal fees he couldn't afford.
Well, getting busted didn't help, either. After he called up Tricky Dick, the FBI didn't waste much time tracking him down.
-jcr
Why are you working so hard at giving ACs a bad name?
Grow up, kid.
-jcr
Apple will come apart like a pigeon sucked into a jet engine once Jobs steps down.
..is your fantasy, not the reality at Apple.
Nope. There are some very talented people at the VP level at Apple these days.
Management by cult of personality
-jcr
in recent years that there are a lot of smart people moving to Microsoft
Heh.. and even smarter ones leaving them!
What happens in big companies that holds people back?
See The Peter Principle. ISBN 0-330-02519-8.
What could fix it?
A near-death experience worked wonders for Apple about nine years ago.
-jcr
So, they had the guy responsible for Lotus Notes, and now they get the guy behind websphere. What next? The guy behind Tivoli?
-jcr
They play a shell game, where the bank nominally buys the house and sells it to the borrower at a higher price for installments. It's interest, whatever they want to pretend.
-jcr
Bugger.. Didn't get that link bracketed correctly.
-jcr