You're going to have to extract the liquid from the waste to do that- and unless he's focusing on efficient water purification systems that don't require much or any power, that's not going to be happening.
Like I said. Let gravity filter the waste - liquid goes through, solid catches in a trap of some kind (removable bucket? Flip-to-clear lid?). Put a crank in the right spot, hand-pump enough liquid into a reservoir for a flush, and the system can be more or less closed until it's time to refresh the water cleaning chemicals or empty the solid waste catch.
#1 - You used to have two options: Desktop Redirector or on-server redirector. Desktop Redirector "worked" but was otherwise always Pure Fucking Crap, and required that your home or work desktop be on 24/7 and that you be logged in to it with the program running. On-server redirector worked a hell of a lot better, didn't require a running PC, but ate up a ton of server horsepower, required some pretty arcane setup, and cost an arm and a leg to license.
Now, you can do the same damn thing on a Droid or iOS phone with Outlook, Google, or a hundred other options... at no extra cost beyond the server.
#2 - Attachments. Back in the day, Crackberries had "a few apps" and could occasionally read a text-file or really, really freaking small attachment (again, only on server: desktop redirector didn't "do" attachments). Now, I can load and read virtually any attached document on a Droid or iOS phone.
#4 - Hubris, Hubris, Hubris.The only reason RIM is even still alive is that it's going to take another year and a half for people who are "locked in" to a free-handset contract with their phone provider to get out. Meanwhile, we're recommending to every person that comes in wanting help with their blackberry that when the time comes, they should really strongly consider looking at the iOS or Droid phones, that play well with our environment without requiring dozens of hours of tweaking, constant settings resets, and can do a lot more.
Some people use charity as a means of self-promotion.
No kidding. Down here, we call them "republicans." They do meaningless or less-than-helpful things in the name of "charity" and spend 10x as much money advertising their "charity" as ever gets round to helping anyone.
Case in point: the Joplin tornado. The Red Cross was doing donation drives, very carefully being sure to accept what was actually needed by the people who were trying to live day-to-day in the region, organizing trucks to ship it all, sending trained workers to help families rebuild and help clean up.
Meanwhile, the Pee Tardy crowd started blasting the airwaves with advertising for the "TEA PARTY DONATION DRIVE FOR JOPLIN, SHOW YOUR CONSERVATIVE SPIRIT BY HELPING THESE POOR PEOPLE." Most of the crap that was "donated" is still sitting in a warehouse 10 miles from my house, because nobody in Joplin needed it and even fewer had any place to put it. A number of high-profile donated items "mysteriously vanished" and we've tracked them down to one of the local Pee Tardier leaders' house; after pictures of the items were taken over his fence, he built a bigger fence but has NEVER produced any purchase receipts.
Who is better, the Christian that goes to church every Sunday and makes sure everyone knows he goes to church, or the Christian that doesn't always go to church, but volunteers at the soup kitchen downtown and tells nobody?
Liquid waste goes into a liquid recyc system, to be chemically cleansed and reused in future flushes. Doesn't need to be electric powered; you should be able to pump up a couple gallons into a reserve flush bin by a hand-crank pump fairly easily. Solid waste filters out into a bin to be taken away for treatment later (carried or otherwise). That way, you don't have to worry about wasting good, potable water on your flushes.
Updating the constitution already has a procedure. It's called amending.
It can be done by Congress passing an Amendment by supermajority (2/3) and then sending it to the states for ratification (3/4 of states need to ratify for amendment to truly pass) or by enough of the States calling for a constitutional convention, which will then propose amendments to be sent through the same ratification process.
They made it hard to do because it shouldn't be done often. In fact, most things shouldn't be constitutionally amended at all - for the vast, vast majority of things, Federal or State laws are sufficient, and the better argument is to clean up all the leftover and redundant crap hiding in federal law (mostly caused by legislators who, every time there's a "crisis", have to announce that they will "pass a law" to make it look like they're doing something).
Round where I live, you find a ton of Laserdiscs at Goodwill stores. There are also 4 stores in the city that are single-owner "used media" places (used DVDs, VHS, Laserdisc, Blu-Ray, old video games for pretty much every damn console... they actually have a stock of Atari 5200 cartridges), each of them has bargain bins full of Laserdiscs that seem to get replenished pretty regularly. I've never found out whether they have a huge freaking backstock in a warehouse somewhere, or whether they're just buying them from sellers at $1/pop and selling them at $2.50 a pop, but for the movies my brother finds, $2.50 isn't bad.
There's a national bookstore called Half Price Books that does a brisk trade in old media as well. Tapes, vinyl, laserdiscs as well as DVDs and actual books. The only downside there is, their stockers try to "evaluate" the incoming stuff and price it on a "what we think it's worth" basis (doesn't happen with books, where their policy is "Half the original cover price unless it's a signed copy or some ultra-limited-edition or something"). You can sometimes question the pricing with a manager, but it can be tough.
The larger problem is... even if this works, who's going to set up the robotic station?
I mean, we could launch it from something and have it try to take orbit robotically... but that means it has to be all pre-assembled or self-assembling without error.
Or we could count on the *coughlaughcough* russian rockets to get people up there to service the refueling station. Since, you know, the US has royally fucked up their space program and are now in the mode of "well we think the private sector will do it better" republicanism... nevermind the fact that no private entity has even gotten a monkey or a dog, let alone a human, into orbit.
That's not nostalgia. That's "if it works, why break it." A very commonly espoused philosophy of human existence.
In other news: my brother has a Laserdisc player and a pretty wide-ranging collection. Helps that he can raid the bargain bins at $2.50 per movie, and there are some real gems he's found for an absolute steal - almost every Danny Kaye film, every James Bond up through 1998, the Masterpiece Collection edition of Fantasia...
It failed horribly. A lot of legitimate users' accounts got lost in the shuffle. And since the only way to log in and get your account unblocked was either (a) go to a super secret forum that they didn't even list on the "get my account back" page or (b) give them your phone number to validate via SMS (nevermind that a good number of people still don't do SMS messages or want to give Microsoft their phone number), what they wound up instead was a "throwing out the baby with the bathwater" approach where a large number of users simply said fuck you, we're leaving.
Apple has quite a history of filing frivolous lawsuits. Then again, so do half the companies on the planet.
Remember the great visual aid roadmap to help people make sense out of the last round of cell-phone-related patent lawsuits? I think it needs updating.
Funny. 5 years ago I switched my entire house to CFL's. I have had to replace ONE bulb in that time - and that was not a result of burnout, but a result of a lamp that got knocked over.
Meanwhile, it cut my energy bills by about 20%.
The link you provided has a lot of hemming and hawing, but what they fail to mention is that the one US-based plant making the incandescents? Yeah. That's IT. China was making the vast majority of incandescents ever since the early 1980s. When they talk about the bulbs made in the US needing to cost "50% more" on the shelf, what you're failing to realize is that this has been the problem of letting Republicans run things for a long time: they never do anything about the real problem of US manufacturing not being "out-competed", but out-abused by slave labor countries with crapass environmental laws like China and Malaysia.
The real answer is to get rid of our fucked-up "no tariff" situation with GATT/WTO, and stop giving corrupt shithole nations like China "Most Favored Nation" trading status. But that'll never happen as long as the Chinese are happy to buy up the Republican Party.
Translated from a conversation with one of the "Republican Libertarian" Tee Tardier types recently:
TT: "The government shouldn't tell us what to do. The people in large numbers will always average out to making the right choice."
Me: Oh? Then how about all the studies showing that, in fact, "cheaper", "easier" solutions that are absolutely ruinous to health, environment, and the national welfare were chosen by "the people in large numbers" over and over despite being the completely wrong choice?
TT: "But but... RUSH SAID SO!"
It IS the government's job to "mold behavior" if there is a problem. Such as smog emissions causing an epidemic of asthma. Or the overuse of a finite resource that should be conserved. Or the wasteful use of a resource that overfills landfills and causes hazardous materials to leak into the water table, which is what happen when you put assloads of crappy chinese-made incandescent bulbs (how Ironic that the Republicans are yet again sponsoring a bill whose major net effect would be a boon for China yet again) into landfills when they burn out after two months or less each.
Well, that and the fact that Myspace's unreadable, barely viewable "virtual bling" format consigned it to the renaming of "GhettoSpace" in about 1 day after launch...
"Lockers" take away from the things the studios want you to purchase, simple as that. Alleging "oh they use these as dropboxes for infringement blarrgh rawr think of the children terrorism rawr" is just bullshit.
It's rather like Hollyweird's quiet support for the various "restrict video game sales think of the children" bullshit laws - Hollyweird is being eclipsed by interactive media.
That and the quiet push to make it so that DVR's can't play back to a recording device. They've been trying to kill off VCR-tape type home archiving for ages.
#1 - as an appearance project, it's cool. It may have been done before, but it's still cool.
#2 - You complain about having a joystick rather than two buttons for movement. Yet your "buy one here fore $25" spam link is a crapass, shitty little plastic piece of junk (I've actually seen and played one one) with a barely-functional joystick for movement.
#3 - Using the magnets for a back slipcover is actually pretty ingenious. I've often thought about doing that to some of my own home projects.
#4 - So he didn't make a circuitboard and recode the game. Big Fucking Deal. The upside of using the guts from the Gameboy Advance is that it can play a multitude of games with easily switchable cartridges.
Essentially, he's made the miniaturized equivalent of a Mamebox with this unit. One of these years, perhaps I'll do the same with my old PSP. After all, there's no fucking use for the thing as a modern game console, but a miniaturized PSP-driven arcade cabinet kinda like this would be able to drive a hell of a lot of different games.
Given that every patent Microshit's gotten in the past 20 years has been the result of patent-slamming and abuse of the system?
So why is it sitting back and letting Microsoft shake down OEMs over its claims to own patents that Android infringes?
Probably, Google is sitting back because there is an "undisclosed term" in one of the patent-sharing contracts between Google and MS that nullifies the contract if Google goes to court. As long as Google hangs the developers out to dry, Microsoft won't target Google directly or rescind the agreement.
Sadly, your well-informed and informative points will be lost upon the intended target, as the person you responded to is a brain-dead Pee Tardy member who has been programmed to scream "Itz all Obumas fault, that uppity nigger stole the white hous and wants to take mah gunz!"
Where you are a complete fucktard is the fact that pennicillin, while ineffective against some diseases, is very effective against others. The idea of "getting rid of it" is not a problem: for those cases where it's ineffective, we go to some other medicine.
Driving distracted, on the other hand, is a simple concept: those who are likely to be distracted, are going to find something to be distracted by or simply ignore the Fucking Impossible To Enforce laws.
Therefore, since outlawing various distractions (while leaving others alone) is meaningless, we should instead focus on proper driver education (something no state has any more) such that people are taught to use a little bit of common sense in not trying to do five things at once while they SHOULD be focusing on controlling their 1000+-lb vehicle.
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You're going to have to extract the liquid from the waste to do that- and unless he's focusing on efficient water purification systems that don't require much or any power, that's not going to be happening.
Like I said. Let gravity filter the waste - liquid goes through, solid catches in a trap of some kind (removable bucket? Flip-to-clear lid?). Put a crank in the right spot, hand-pump enough liquid into a reservoir for a flush, and the system can be more or less closed until it's time to refresh the water cleaning chemicals or empty the solid waste catch.
Reasons RIM is circling the drain:
#1 - You used to have two options: Desktop Redirector or on-server redirector. Desktop Redirector "worked" but was otherwise always Pure Fucking Crap, and required that your home or work desktop be on 24/7 and that you be logged in to it with the program running. On-server redirector worked a hell of a lot better, didn't require a running PC, but ate up a ton of server horsepower, required some pretty arcane setup, and cost an arm and a leg to license.
Now, you can do the same damn thing on a Droid or iOS phone with Outlook, Google, or a hundred other options... at no extra cost beyond the server.
#2 - Attachments. Back in the day, Crackberries had "a few apps" and could occasionally read a text-file or really, really freaking small attachment (again, only on server: desktop redirector didn't "do" attachments). Now, I can load and read virtually any attached document on a Droid or iOS phone.
#3 - Apps. Face it, the amount of stuff I can load onto my Droid phone is incredible... more to the point, useful. RIM, meanwhile, has made programming for even their newest phones so arcane that developers who were gung-ho on the platform initially have thrown their hands up in disgust and walked away.
#4 - Hubris, Hubris, Hubris.The only reason RIM is even still alive is that it's going to take another year and a half for people who are "locked in" to a free-handset contract with their phone provider to get out. Meanwhile, we're recommending to every person that comes in wanting help with their blackberry that when the time comes, they should really strongly consider looking at the iOS or Droid phones, that play well with our environment without requiring dozens of hours of tweaking, constant settings resets, and can do a lot more.
Some people use charity as a means of self-promotion.
No kidding. Down here, we call them "republicans." They do meaningless or less-than-helpful things in the name of "charity" and spend 10x as much money advertising their "charity" as ever gets round to helping anyone.
Case in point: the Joplin tornado. The Red Cross was doing donation drives, very carefully being sure to accept what was actually needed by the people who were trying to live day-to-day in the region, organizing trucks to ship it all, sending trained workers to help families rebuild and help clean up.
Meanwhile, the Pee Tardy crowd started blasting the airwaves with advertising for the "TEA PARTY DONATION DRIVE FOR JOPLIN, SHOW YOUR CONSERVATIVE SPIRIT BY HELPING THESE POOR PEOPLE." Most of the crap that was "donated" is still sitting in a warehouse 10 miles from my house, because nobody in Joplin needed it and even fewer had any place to put it. A number of high-profile donated items "mysteriously vanished" and we've tracked them down to one of the local Pee Tardier leaders' house; after pictures of the items were taken over his fence, he built a bigger fence but has NEVER produced any purchase receipts.
Who is better, the Christian that goes to church every Sunday and makes sure everyone knows he goes to church, or the Christian that doesn't always go to church, but volunteers at the soup kitchen downtown and tells nobody?
I'll take either of them over (c): the bigoted, homophobic Pee Tardier who engages in illegal, unethical medical malpractice known to push people towards suicide.
But remember, it's not about the church, it's about taking care of other people because it's the right thing to do.
Indeed. If your "god" insists that I hate something/someone, your god can go fuck himself.
Why not have a dual system?
Liquid waste goes into a liquid recyc system, to be chemically cleansed and reused in future flushes. Doesn't need to be electric powered; you should be able to pump up a couple gallons into a reserve flush bin by a hand-crank pump fairly easily. Solid waste filters out into a bin to be taken away for treatment later (carried or otherwise). That way, you don't have to worry about wasting good, potable water on your flushes.
Updating the constitution already has a procedure. It's called amending.
It can be done by Congress passing an Amendment by supermajority (2/3) and then sending it to the states for ratification (3/4 of states need to ratify for amendment to truly pass) or by enough of the States calling for a constitutional convention, which will then propose amendments to be sent through the same ratification process.
Oddly enough, there are a number of amendments that passed Congress but have never been ratified by enough states.
They made it hard to do because it shouldn't be done often. In fact, most things shouldn't be constitutionally amended at all - for the vast, vast majority of things, Federal or State laws are sufficient, and the better argument is to clean up all the leftover and redundant crap hiding in federal law (mostly caused by legislators who, every time there's a "crisis", have to announce that they will "pass a law" to make it look like they're doing something).
Round where I live, you find a ton of Laserdiscs at Goodwill stores. There are also 4 stores in the city that are single-owner "used media" places (used DVDs, VHS, Laserdisc, Blu-Ray, old video games for pretty much every damn console... they actually have a stock of Atari 5200 cartridges), each of them has bargain bins full of Laserdiscs that seem to get replenished pretty regularly. I've never found out whether they have a huge freaking backstock in a warehouse somewhere, or whether they're just buying them from sellers at $1/pop and selling them at $2.50 a pop, but for the movies my brother finds, $2.50 isn't bad.
There's a national bookstore called Half Price Books that does a brisk trade in old media as well. Tapes, vinyl, laserdiscs as well as DVDs and actual books. The only downside there is, their stockers try to "evaluate" the incoming stuff and price it on a "what we think it's worth" basis (doesn't happen with books, where their policy is "Half the original cover price unless it's a signed copy or some ultra-limited-edition or something"). You can sometimes question the pricing with a manager, but it can be tough.
The larger problem is... even if this works, who's going to set up the robotic station?
I mean, we could launch it from something and have it try to take orbit robotically... but that means it has to be all pre-assembled or self-assembling without error.
Or we could count on the *coughlaughcough* russian rockets to get people up there to service the refueling station. Since, you know, the US has royally fucked up their space program and are now in the mode of "well we think the private sector will do it better" republicanism... nevermind the fact that no private entity has even gotten a monkey or a dog, let alone a human, into orbit.
That's not nostalgia. That's "if it works, why break it." A very commonly espoused philosophy of human existence.
In other news: my brother has a Laserdisc player and a pretty wide-ranging collection. Helps that he can raid the bargain bins at $2.50 per movie, and there are some real gems he's found for an absolute steal - almost every Danny Kaye film, every James Bond up through 1998, the Masterpiece Collection edition of Fantasia...
The better question is... what games really need it? Most of the popular games on the market are still programmed to run well on 7 year old hardware.
Depends. If he's in Afghanistan...
Actually, Hotmail tried this for a while.
It failed horribly. A lot of legitimate users' accounts got lost in the shuffle. And since the only way to log in and get your account unblocked was either (a) go to a super secret forum that they didn't even list on the "get my account back" page or (b) give them your phone number to validate via SMS (nevermind that a good number of people still don't do SMS messages or want to give Microsoft their phone number), what they wound up instead was a "throwing out the baby with the bathwater" approach where a large number of users simply said fuck you, we're leaving.
Apple has quite a history of filing frivolous lawsuits. Then again, so do half the companies on the planet.
Remember the great visual aid roadmap to help people make sense out of the last round of cell-phone-related patent lawsuits? I think it needs updating.
After all, what bird wants to eat something that looks and smells like bird poop?
Funny. 5 years ago I switched my entire house to CFL's. I have had to replace ONE bulb in that time - and that was not a result of burnout, but a result of a lamp that got knocked over.
Meanwhile, it cut my energy bills by about 20%.
The link you provided has a lot of hemming and hawing, but what they fail to mention is that the one US-based plant making the incandescents? Yeah. That's IT. China was making the vast majority of incandescents ever since the early 1980s. When they talk about the bulbs made in the US needing to cost "50% more" on the shelf, what you're failing to realize is that this has been the problem of letting Republicans run things for a long time: they never do anything about the real problem of US manufacturing not being "out-competed", but out-abused by slave labor countries with crapass environmental laws like China and Malaysia.
The real answer is to get rid of our fucked-up "no tariff" situation with GATT/WTO, and stop giving corrupt shithole nations like China "Most Favored Nation" trading status. But that'll never happen as long as the Chinese are happy to buy up the Republican Party.
Translated from a conversation with one of the "Republican Libertarian" Tee Tardier types recently:
TT: "The government shouldn't tell us what to do. The people in large numbers will always average out to making the right choice."
Me: Oh? Then how about all the studies showing that, in fact, "cheaper", "easier" solutions that are absolutely ruinous to health, environment, and the national welfare were chosen by "the people in large numbers" over and over despite being the completely wrong choice?
TT: "But but... RUSH SAID SO!"
It IS the government's job to "mold behavior" if there is a problem.
Such as smog emissions causing an epidemic of asthma.
Or the overuse of a finite resource that should be conserved.
Or the wasteful use of a resource that overfills landfills and causes hazardous materials to leak into the water table, which is what happen when you put assloads of crappy chinese-made incandescent bulbs (how Ironic that the Republicans are yet again sponsoring a bill whose major net effect would be a boon for China yet again) into landfills when they burn out after two months or less each.
Indeed. Even if you make a fake name, you have a "name" name, not a bizarre username.
Of course, you could easily be one of a dozen Drizzt Do'Urdens on Facebook. But that's still a searchable name that looks kinda like a name.
Well, that and the fact that Myspace's unreadable, barely viewable "virtual bling" format consigned it to the renaming of "GhettoSpace" in about 1 day after launch...
is to kill "locker" sites entirely.
"Lockers" take away from the things the studios want you to purchase, simple as that. Alleging "oh they use these as dropboxes for infringement blarrgh rawr think of the children terrorism rawr" is just bullshit.
It's rather like Hollyweird's quiet support for the various "restrict video game sales think of the children" bullshit laws - Hollyweird is being eclipsed by interactive media.
That and the quiet push to make it so that DVR's can't play back to a recording device. They've been trying to kill off VCR-tape type home archiving for ages.
Ok, I'm gonna play devil's advocate here.
#1 - as an appearance project, it's cool. It may have been done before, but it's still cool.
#2 - You complain about having a joystick rather than two buttons for movement. Yet your "buy one here fore $25" spam link is a crapass, shitty little plastic piece of junk (I've actually seen and played one one) with a barely-functional joystick for movement.
#3 - Using the magnets for a back slipcover is actually pretty ingenious. I've often thought about doing that to some of my own home projects.
#4 - So he didn't make a circuitboard and recode the game. Big Fucking Deal. The upside of using the guts from the Gameboy Advance is that it can play a multitude of games with easily switchable cartridges.
Essentially, he's made the miniaturized equivalent of a Mamebox with this unit. One of these years, perhaps I'll do the same with my old PSP. After all, there's no fucking use for the thing as a modern game console, but a miniaturized PSP-driven arcade cabinet kinda like this would be able to drive a hell of a lot of different games.
Bullshit.
If the museum failed to inform NASA that they considered it destroyed, then NASA may have a cause for monetary claim against the museum. Nothing more.
The rock's been "missing", and more to the point neither NASA, nor the federal or state government, even bothered to search for it, since 1973.
That would place it under Adverse Possession laws:
http://touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/Statutes/Title09/Chapter45/Section052.htm
http://touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/Statutes/Title09/Chapter10/Section030.htm
It's long been abandoned. Legally, the State of Alaska can go fuck themselves.
Given that every patent Microshit's gotten in the past 20 years has been the result of patent-slamming and abuse of the system?
So why is it sitting back and letting Microsoft shake down OEMs over its claims to own patents that Android infringes?
Probably, Google is sitting back because there is an "undisclosed term" in one of the patent-sharing contracts between Google and MS that nullifies the contract if Google goes to court. As long as Google hangs the developers out to dry, Microsoft won't target Google directly or rescind the agreement.
Sadly, your well-informed and informative points will be lost upon the intended target, as the person you responded to is a brain-dead Pee Tardy member who has been programmed to scream "Itz all Obumas fault, that uppity nigger stole the white hous and wants to take mah gunz!"
As it is, they're being petty bullies.
Well that's what you get when you let Republicans take office.
The museum went right over all the debris, took what they wanted, declared the rest trash/unsalvageable, and rescinded ownership of it.
If anything they ought to have to pay this guy for doing what they were too fucking lazy to do: restore the piece to condition.
Where you are a complete fucktard is the fact that pennicillin, while ineffective against some diseases, is very effective against others. The idea of "getting rid of it" is not a problem: for those cases where it's ineffective, we go to some other medicine.
Driving distracted, on the other hand, is a simple concept: those who are likely to be distracted, are going to find something to be distracted by or simply ignore the Fucking Impossible To Enforce laws.
Therefore, since outlawing various distractions (while leaving others alone) is meaningless, we should instead focus on proper driver education (something no state has any more) such that people are taught to use a little bit of common sense in not trying to do five things at once while they SHOULD be focusing on controlling their 1000+-lb vehicle.