To make PT practical around here, we would need many new subway lines to link the island with the shores and extend existing ones further east/west.
PT doesn't mean only subways - light rail works, and when you've built subways in the city core, more people will move there for the convenience, thus reducing the problem.
If I had a job with a ~100km round-trip, already owned a car and gasoline prices mysteriously tripled overnight, I would most likely do as you said and still keep driving - I wouldn't want to waste over 2h/day doing nearly nothing on public transportation when I have a [insert your favourite ~50MPG or better ULEV-compliant (sub-)compact car here] parked downstairs.
This begs the question: why are we pumping up the price of gas when what we need to do is make PT more attractive? I'm seriously considering moving back to DC in a year, and the transit system (along with all the stuff it opens to me) is a large part of it.
Yup. I'd like to live in California, except for all the batshit insane people demanding the full output of the Colorado river and acting like it's Connecticut.
One problem if you are talking about the 9 Volt battery I use in the following clock, fire alarm, & Carbon Monoxide Dectector, it doesn't have enough Amps to kill you,
Yes it does - a navy officer, after learning about 'internal resistance', tried to measure his own internal resistance with a voltmeter. When he poked the leads through his thumbs, his heart got about 100mA, which killed him.
No it's not (obvious). The number of cylinders doesn't really matter -- it's the total displacement. Now, if the cylinders are of equal size, then a V8 will have 33% more displacement than the V6, but that's not always the case. But there's no reason why a two cylinder engine can't put out more power than an eight cylinder engine.
(And of course, displacement isn't the only factor either. But it's a lot better thing to look at than just the number of cylinders.)
Well yeah, there's also volumetric efficiency, maximum rpm, internal resistance (affects spin up time), and maximum airflow. using 6 or 8 cylinders does buy you a smoother idle, though.
Ok, I only have some high-school level understanding of this topic, but I think it's pretty safe to say that Voltage and Amperage are DIRECTLY CORRELATED. So this is basically semantics.
No it isn't. 100mA across the heart, more or less, will cause cardiac arrest. Move too much above or below this and it won't. F'rinstance, a 50kV taser (probably) won't kill you, but a 9V battery can.
The purpose of Home of The Underdogs is to preserve out of print and unavailable software.
Noble as their cause is, it still runs afoul of the law. Copyright has no provision for dealing with abandoned works (though it should), so a DMCA notice is appropriate here.
I don't blame eBay - I do blame the people that do these things - but eBay is a really easy vehicle for these guys to ride on.
You blame people for hording game consoles to sell at a profit? What ever for? Game consoles aren't a right, nor are they a necessity by any stretch. Those kids will be able to buy a 360, just not right now.
How many times has code been cleaned up, and ended up broken? It's a PITA to: (1) rename / resave the current version as "new" (2) fetch the old one (3) diff When it is easier to read the "old" and "new" code, intermingled.
Learn how to use your code versioner - cvs diff -r1 -r2 file is really simple.
Sometimes the old code is left in, as a "fallback" -- since the new code is still in a state of flux, and hasn't been thorougly tested.
And this is why god invented branches. If the code isn't stable, don't put it in mainline.
The fact that some red-staters are stereotyped as a bunch of dumb hicks provides juicy fodder for the partisan among us, and the fact that other red-staters join in on the fun is simply icing on the cake to them. Claiming that politics is never a factor is just silly, so my claim is really not that far-fetched at all.
Well they are dumb hicks, at least on election day. Why else would they vote for the guys that are sending their jobs overseas? Seriously, how smart can you be if you can't manage some self preservation?
I would bet that if 99% of those dot.com startups had been setup in a rural state instead of Silicon Valley, they might have had more pragmatic employees, managers and saved millions of investor dollars that could have helped in becoming profitable. Although, some things where just really shitty ideas to start with.
Where have you been? The whole DotCom boom resembles a massive confidence game designed to milk investors dry. Actual products would have gotten in the way.
so how does society being mostly male dominated (save for a few female dominated societies) demonstrate that women are less competitive? Once the balance swings very far one way or another, it is very difficult to bring it back, so that would seem to have little bearing on competitiveness.
people revert back to the myth that everybody is created equal.
It's not a fact, it's legal doctrine. The actual doctrine is that all are equal before the law. I'm not going to argue that people are different, just that they deserve equal treatment.
I have noticed in my behavior and that of many other males, that we are being less like men, and that is simply unnatural.
Based on your limited experience and preconceptions of gender roles, I suppose so, but the fact remains that most of these gender roles are socially imposed. Unnatural doesn't really apply to something like that.
I don't agree. Men and women are basically equally competitive within their sex, because they want the good mate.
Hehehe, you have no idea. Women are competitive about all sorts of things that have little to do with finding a man. Personally, i'd rather fight a guy because they're straightforward. Women are devious and harder to deal with.
We call humans "man". We call God "him".
Because man is also gender neutral. English lacks a separate gender neutral noun, and most christian priests are men. I dare you to call Kali Sir.
Men are in more power positions.
Yep. That's because male dominated society has become dominant through force of arms. What's your point?
Actually a bracelet or necklace with an RFID tag to wear around the house would be nice.
It'd be creepy, actually - Bill Gates did something like this with his house, where you get an ID tag that the house can track and customize music and whatnot. What it did was serve to underscore that you were being tracked.
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Exactly where are you, anyway?
To make PT practical around here, we would need many new subway lines to link the island with the shores and extend existing ones further east/west.
PT doesn't mean only subways - light rail works, and when you've built subways in the city core, more people will move there for the convenience, thus reducing the problem.
If I had a job with a ~100km round-trip, already owned a car and gasoline prices mysteriously tripled overnight, I would most likely do as you said and still keep driving - I wouldn't want to waste over 2h/day doing nearly nothing on public transportation when I have a [insert your favourite ~50MPG or better ULEV-compliant (sub-)compact car here] parked downstairs.
This begs the question: why are we pumping up the price of gas when what we need to do is make PT more attractive? I'm seriously considering moving back to DC in a year, and the transit system (along with all the stuff it opens to me) is a large part of it.
The prospect that we may be forced to send our water to idiots living in a desert is not one that pleases folks up here.
You know, it's a treaty, not a law. I, for one, wouldn't hold it against you guys ;)
That's what you get for living in the desert.
Yup. I'd like to live in California, except for all the batshit insane people demanding the full output of the Colorado river and acting like it's Connecticut.
One problem if you are talking about the 9 Volt battery I use in the following clock, fire alarm, & Carbon Monoxide Dectector, it doesn't have enough Amps to kill you,
Yes it does - a navy officer, after learning about 'internal resistance', tried to measure his own internal resistance with a voltmeter. When he poked the leads through his thumbs, his heart got about 100mA, which killed him.
Dude, there are still people who thing socialism will work, next time
Works ok in Canada. All things in moderation, right?
No it's not (obvious). The number of cylinders doesn't really matter -- it's the total displacement. Now, if the cylinders are of equal size, then a V8 will have 33% more displacement than the V6, but that's not always the case. But there's no reason why a two cylinder engine can't put out more power than an eight cylinder engine.
(And of course, displacement isn't the only factor either. But it's a lot better thing to look at than just the number of cylinders.)
Well yeah, there's also volumetric efficiency, maximum rpm, internal resistance (affects spin up time), and maximum airflow. using 6 or 8 cylinders does buy you a smoother idle, though.
Ok, I only have some high-school level understanding of this topic, but I think it's pretty safe to say that Voltage and Amperage are DIRECTLY CORRELATED. So this is basically semantics.
No it isn't. 100mA across the heart, more or less, will cause cardiac arrest. Move too much above or below this and it won't. F'rinstance, a 50kV taser (probably) won't kill you, but a 9V battery can.
The purpose of Home of The Underdogs is to preserve out of print and unavailable software.
Noble as their cause is, it still runs afoul of the law. Copyright has no provision for dealing with abandoned works (though it should), so a DMCA notice is appropriate here.
I don't blame eBay - I do blame the people that do these things - but eBay is a really easy vehicle for these guys to ride on.
You blame people for hording game consoles to sell at a profit? What ever for? Game consoles aren't a right, nor are they a necessity by any stretch. Those kids will be able to buy a 360, just not right now.
You have obviously never participated in a pub crawl...
You still don't take the liquid home, you take it to the bathroom.
That's a great way to ensure that developers delay checking in their code until they absolutely have to.
I've never had a problem - it takes all of an hour or two while I do other things.
One comment I have - NEVER write code that says [...] 'This should never happen.
Why not? That implies you've got a serious bug.
Learn how to use your code versioner - cvs diff -r1 -r2 file is really simple.
Sometimes the old code is left in, as a "fallback" -- since the new code is still in a state of flux, and hasn't been thorougly tested.
And this is why god invented branches. If the code isn't stable, don't put it in mainline.
There is a higher percentage of English speakers in Alabama than in Mexifornia or New York.
So what? There isn't a national language, you ignorant jackass.
Insert political jab:
The fact that some red-staters are stereotyped as a bunch of dumb hicks provides juicy fodder for the partisan among us, and the fact that other red-staters join in on the fun is simply icing on the cake to them. Claiming that politics is never a factor is just silly, so my claim is really not that far-fetched at all.
Well they are dumb hicks, at least on election day. Why else would they vote for the guys that are sending their jobs overseas? Seriously, how smart can you be if you can't manage some self preservation?
primarily, because the majority of the country (including the Midwest) isn't socialist.
Aren't you? You draw a significantly greater amount of tax revenue from the feds than you pay in. The coastal cities subsidize you guys.
I would bet that if 99% of those dot.com startups had been setup in a rural state instead of Silicon Valley, they might have had more pragmatic employees, managers and saved millions of investor dollars that could have helped in becoming profitable. Although, some things where just really shitty ideas to start with.
Where have you been? The whole DotCom boom resembles a massive confidence game designed to milk investors dry. Actual products would have gotten in the way.
Bigoted hicks in central PA have probably been breathing fumes from the Centralia Mine Fire
Whereas bigotted hicks in Thurmont, MD have no such excuse.
That was/is my point.
so how does society being mostly male dominated (save for a few female dominated societies) demonstrate that women are less competitive? Once the balance swings very far one way or another, it is very difficult to bring it back, so that would seem to have little bearing on competitiveness.
people revert back to the myth that everybody is created equal.
It's not a fact, it's legal doctrine. The actual doctrine is that all are equal before the law. I'm not going to argue that people are different, just that they deserve equal treatment.
I have noticed in my behavior and that of many other males, that we are being less like men, and that is simply unnatural.
Based on your limited experience and preconceptions of gender roles, I suppose so, but the fact remains that most of these gender roles are socially imposed. Unnatural doesn't really apply to something like that.
AFAIK he hasn't done anything serious enough to warrant losing his license permanently.
What the hell does he have to do? Attack the opposing counsel in open court?
You misspelled "misguided opinions" in your post.
No, they are facts. They just happen to be false.
I don't agree. Men and women are basically equally competitive within their sex, because they want the good mate.
Hehehe, you have no idea. Women are competitive about all sorts of things that have little to do with finding a man. Personally, i'd rather fight a guy because they're straightforward. Women are devious and harder to deal with.
We call humans "man". We call God "him".
Because man is also gender neutral. English lacks a separate gender neutral noun, and most christian priests are men. I dare you to call Kali Sir.
Men are in more power positions.
Yep. That's because male dominated society has become dominant through force of arms. What's your point?
Actually a bracelet or necklace with an RFID tag to wear around the house would be nice.
It'd be creepy, actually - Bill Gates did something like this with his house, where you get an ID tag that the house can track and customize music and whatnot. What it did was serve to underscore that you were being tracked.