And as time goes on, not allowing students, who made a lot of these major financial decisions at 18, to discharge debt in bankruptcy seems downright wrong.
Hey, there's always Chapter.45 (ACP).
This bubble will burst and there will be a lot of pain. It's going to happen and it's going to be ugly.
The bubble bursting will be ugly. The resulting bailout of the undeserving (and I don't mean students) will be worse.
Maybe you'll never be on the receiving end of hard times but if you ever are you will find out quickly the system is and has been against *you*.
Wish I had mod points, because this is absolutely right, and it almost doesn't matter what "system" you're talking about; the systems where the officially-prescribed procedures actually work are the exception.
And of course, CFLs run a lot cooler, so are generally safer to use in such fixtures for each lum of light. The idea that CFLs are more susceptible to heat is somewhat idiotic. Yes, they have more complicated circuitry that is technically more susceptible to heat (Which is why CFLs will never be used inside a stove.), but they also are generating only a third the heat, so there's a lot less damn heat to start with!
Perfectly logical, but unfortunately wrong. CFLs require more ventilation, lumen for lumen, than incandescents.
This is not strange to me. Progressives want government to do more and libertarians want government to do less, but neither wants the corporatism that we have today. At least in the short term, progressives and libertarians should be cooperating. Unfortunately, most people in both groups are too busy hating the other side to think this one through.
Progressives see libertarians as either Republicans or anarchists, and libertarians see Progressives as big-government people who don't realize they've already won.
I've actually been waiting for some anti-GW people to attack the facilities that store the ice cores. If those cores are lost, we lose thousands of years of data that can't be easily replaced.
It's not the anti-GW people who would attack the ice cores. The ice core data shows that CO2 lags warming.
Okay, this summer will be harder, but it isn't going to cripple them. At worst some people are going to get very hot when they are forced not to use air-con.
Actually, at worst, they'll have unscheduled blackouts and some people will die as a result. Slightly better, they'll have scheduled rolling blackouts and some people (probably fewer) will die as a result.
Things are only going to improve as more efficiency savings are made and new sources of power come online.
Except there aren't any, as unicorn farts and moonbeams have so far proven too difficult to harness.
When I was a kid in high school, one of the faculty slept with one of his students behind the back of his terminally ill wife, got away with it, and eventually married her (ok, maybe he didn't quite get away with it).
It's the same fucking bullshit with the DEA. Proceeds from property confiscations make up a huge chunk of their budget. The real question is, when are enough people going to start getting pissed off about this shit to do something about it?
About the fifth of never. The age of freedom is over; liberty has neither constituency nor champion. (and no, also-ran Republican presidential candidates do not count).
Software engineering as a private sector job is fairly new in the grand scheme of things. Programmers that are 40+ years old probably aren't even all that common, certainly nowhere near as common as programmers younger than that. I am not so sure programmers starting today will face quite the same challenges having grown up in the midst of the technology revolution.
Wait, programmers starting today are growing up in the midst of the technology revolution? I thought us old ~40-year-olds grew up in the midst of the technology revolution (specifically, the personal computer revolution). And if you asked my dad, he'd claim he grew up in the midst of the original computer revolution, the mainframe one.
Every legitimate low carb diet I've read about is not calorie restricted. There is no calorie counting, and those following the diet are encouraged to "eat until they are full".
Right, they're not calorie restricted. But eating fat and protein makes you feel full quickly, so you end up eating less.
Well, I see that I'm outvoted by incurable, irrational techno-utopians.
Not really. I think any attempt at mining asteroids now is silly and doomed to economic (if not technical) failure. That does not mean I believe that "Today's challenge [...] is how to use and re-use the existing [resources] without making the planet unliveable." That's the essential part to the stagnation and decline. No matter how much you re-use, you're going to get less out at every step. As time goes on under such a system, everything will become more difficult, more scarce, and more expensive. And there's no solving that problem, because the solution IS the problem.
If we don't want stagnation and decline, finding new resources (whether on earth or elsewhere) has to continue. So does invention, and not just in the fields you deem acceptable. We can have flying cars and space mining before all our problems on Earth are solved -- and because they never will be, if we want flying cars and space mining, we can't wait until we have solved our problems on Earth 5o wtqrt.
A simple example is: Every bathtub that I saw in Africa did not have a shower. It had a sprayer that had a hose that led back to the side of the faucet. There was a hanger on the wall for... in every case that I saw the hanger had been long broken, and the sprayer lay in the bottom of the tub. If you fill the tub while leaving the sprayer laying in the water, you can get a siphon effect fairly easily. This draws dirty water from the tub back into the water supply. It's irrelevant where that water came from, it could have been triple distilled, it's now contaminated. This sort of setup is illegal in the united states for that very reason. There were thousands of other problems like this. Now imagine that your city had this sort of problem... ALL of the plumbing would have to be replaced... from the well to your faucet. The whole thing. How could you fix that? Now imagine it's an entire continent... and now you have a grasp of the size of the problem.
A bathtub with a sprayer hose isn't illegal in the US. It's actually quite common. The solution to the siphoning issue is pretty simple: backflow preventers at the service entrance (or between the well pump and the inside plumbing, for a private well). This would require the water supply company to be actually competent, and for illegal hookups to not happen, however -- I don't believe either is generally true in Africa.
There is a weird episode in the Bible where a guy called Onan was boning his brother's wife, and deliberately pulled out and soiled the carpet to avoid getting her pregnant. Got murders him for wasting his seed, despite being generally against adultery...
Onan's brother Er was dead at the time of the boning, so God wasn't being inconsistent, just arbitrary. Of course, it was God who ordered Er to be killed for some unspecified offense. You'd think God could have saved a lot of trouble by killing Er before he was married.
My suspicious side wonders if these reporters created the fake sites themselves to stir up controversy.
My other suspicious side wonders if it was just spammers copying a bunch of real and popular content to a website in order to do black hat SEO. Even the part about them being "sponsored by the Taliban" could have been stolen from some real comment on their articles.
Your "future" seems to be somewhere around 1970. Today's challenge is not how to find and use ever more resources, it is how to use and re-use the existing ones without making the planet unliveable.
This is an impoverished view which will lead to nothing but stagnation, decline, and ultimately extinction.
The amount of carbon in the paper itself is negligible (even if it is sequestered rather than incinerated) compared to the CO2 produced in the papermaking process. Growing trees to turn into newspapers which you then toss into a landfill is a really lousy way of sequestering carbon.
This is bad advice. If you are being sued, you should consult with an attorney to determine what you should do.
The problem is that the attorney will tell you to fold and settle, immediately, because you have no chance in court (see Blizzard v. bnetd).
Therefore, if you don't find that acceptable, there's no point in going to an attorney. The more you fight, the faster you lose. The best you can do is make them do all the work of crushing you.
Yes, we are. As a white US resident, I've never had to worry about selecting a wardrobe that carefully avoids any chance of being mistaken for a criminal (e.g. avoiding hoodies, no matter how convenient they are);
Hell, I guess the times I've been arrested, I should have just pointed out I was white and the cop would have said "Oh, sorry, sir, never mind".
and as a male, I've never had to make an on-the-spot calculation of whether or not the guy entering the elevator is going to use the confined space to sexually harass me or bully me into accepting a sexual proposition.
I work in Chelsea, NYC. Fortunately I'm not nearly attractive enough to worry about it. Is that "ugly" privilege?
In the context of discrimination, "privilege" is a term of technical jargon
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Hey, there's always Chapter .45 (ACP).
The bubble bursting will be ugly. The resulting bailout of the undeserving (and I don't mean students) will be worse.
Wish I had mod points, because this is absolutely right, and it almost doesn't matter what "system" you're talking about; the systems where the officially-prescribed procedures actually work are the exception.
Halogen bulbs can just barely meet the interim standards. They cannot meet the 42 lumens/watt standard scheduled for phase-in.
Perfectly logical, but unfortunately wrong. CFLs require more ventilation, lumen for lumen, than incandescents.
No, it wasn't Gingrich. And certainly high schools have faculty.
Progressives see libertarians as either Republicans or anarchists, and libertarians see Progressives as big-government people who don't realize they've already won.
It's not the anti-GW people who would attack the ice cores. The ice core data shows that CO2 lags warming.
Actually, at worst, they'll have unscheduled blackouts and some people will die as a result. Slightly better, they'll have scheduled rolling blackouts and some people (probably fewer) will die as a result.
Except there aren't any, as unicorn farts and moonbeams have so far proven too difficult to harness.
When I was a kid in high school, one of the faculty slept with one of his students behind the back of his terminally ill wife, got away with it, and eventually married her (ok, maybe he didn't quite get away with it).
About the fifth of never. The age of freedom is over; liberty has neither constituency nor champion. (and no, also-ran Republican presidential candidates do not count).
I imagine a few of those who sneered at the Motorola/Google deal are eating their words about now.
Who you going thermonuclear on now, Zombie Steve Jobs?
My spam folder (on my Mac) at any given time usually has some windows malware in it. Who cares?
Wait, programmers starting today are growing up in the midst of the technology revolution? I thought us old ~40-year-olds grew up in the midst of the technology revolution (specifically, the personal computer revolution). And if you asked my dad, he'd claim he grew up in the midst of the original computer revolution, the mainframe one.
Right, they're not calorie restricted. But eating fat and protein makes you feel full quickly, so you end up eating less.
Not really. I think any attempt at mining asteroids now is silly and doomed to economic (if not technical) failure. That does not mean I believe that "Today's challenge [...] is how to use and re-use the existing [resources] without making the planet unliveable." That's the essential part to the stagnation and decline. No matter how much you re-use, you're going to get less out at every step. As time goes on under such a system, everything will become more difficult, more scarce, and more expensive. And there's no solving that problem, because the solution IS the problem.
If we don't want stagnation and decline, finding new resources (whether on earth or elsewhere) has to continue. So does invention, and not just in the fields you deem acceptable. We can have flying cars and space mining before all our problems on Earth are solved -- and because they never will be, if we want flying cars and space mining, we can't wait until we have solved our problems on Earth 5o wtqrt.
A bathtub with a sprayer hose isn't illegal in the US. It's actually quite common. The solution to the siphoning issue is pretty simple: backflow preventers at the service entrance (or between the well pump and the inside plumbing, for a private well). This would require the water supply company to be actually competent, and for illegal hookups to not happen, however -- I don't believe either is generally true in Africa.
Onan's brother Er was dead at the time of the boning, so God wasn't being inconsistent, just arbitrary. Of course, it was God who ordered Er to be killed for some unspecified offense. You'd think God could have saved a lot of trouble by killing Er before he was married.
My suspicious side wonders if these reporters created the fake sites themselves to stir up controversy.
My other suspicious side wonders if it was just spammers copying a bunch of real and popular content to a website in order to do black hat SEO. Even the part about them being "sponsored by the Taliban" could have been stolen from some real comment on their articles.
This is an impoverished view which will lead to nothing but stagnation, decline, and ultimately extinction.
Unless we crack the sucker open like an egg and suck out all the goodness from the center.
The amount of carbon in the paper itself is negligible (even if it is sequestered rather than incinerated) compared to the CO2 produced in the papermaking process. Growing trees to turn into newspapers which you then toss into a landfill is a really lousy way of sequestering carbon.
I presume the NASA scientist was reprimanded for giving a straight answer without going through the press office?
The problem is that the attorney will tell you to fold and settle, immediately, because you have no chance in court (see Blizzard v. bnetd).
Therefore, if you don't find that acceptable, there's no point in going to an attorney. The more you fight, the faster you lose. The best you can do is make them do all the work of crushing you.
We've got emulators for the platforms Leisure Suit Larry ran on. Why port the game?
Hell, I guess the times I've been arrested, I should have just pointed out I was white and the cop would have said "Oh, sorry, sir, never mind".
I work in Chelsea, NYC. Fortunately I'm not nearly attractive enough to worry about it. Is that "ugly" privilege?
Thank you, Humpty Dumpty.