You think that if the government decides you don't need something its ok to make it illegal. You Nanny State Government knows whats best for us Liberals make me ill. Why do you hate freedom so much. You would have been a good communist. "Nyet, nyet, we don't need our guns, you can take them, Comrade Stalin will protect us."
"Container ships are dirt cheap compared to rail, about 3x more efficient." - Entirely true. The problem is getting the container ships up into the mountains where the coal and iron is. If you have to unload the railcars onto a ship and then reload the cars at the other end of the voyage, I think you will have lost at least some of the efficiency?
I find your ideas fascinating and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. I could add a few names to your list. Politicians who are elected on a promise that they Will Not Do X, and then as soon as they are elected do X anyway. Punch them twice if they blame their predecessor for leaving things in such a mess that they are "forced" to do X. Any politician who tells you - "I'm going to go to $Capital_City and change the way politics is done in $Our_Country" punch them and keep on punching them until they run away crying. And my old boss, who liked to call staff meetings at 4:00 on a Friday afternoon before a long weekend and then show up 20 minutes late, could you maybe find the time to give him a shot to the beak, I'll owe you one.
My favorite quote, from some detective story, "Except for the fact that it lit up when you pushed a button on the side, the officer's flashlight would not have been out of place at the Battle of Agincourt"
We are talking about a particular time and place; that is to say Corporate America 1982. Remember that in 1982 "real computing" got done on mainframes and minicomputers. Except for a few visionaries, up to that time "personal computers" or as they were also called "home computers" were regarded mostly as toys. It wasn't until Big Blue made them boring and no fun that they were acceptable to Corporate America. On the particular case of iStuff, everybody including PHBs likes it because they can impress their other PHB friends. I also note that here at work there is a dividing line somewhere between age 40 and 50, on the young side, almost all iphones and on the old side almost all Blackberry.
"The Mac and Amiga had graphics, mice, icons, multimedia, while the greenscreen IBM's had beeps,...."
You're thinking like a nerd instead of a PHB. The IBM had a fugly green screen and absolutely no style (beige box). This to a PHB screams "no-nonsense and businesslike" while all the color graphics and multimedia and mice and such said "video game". Not saying it was true, but that was the perception.
Reference the Robert Dziekanski case. The 4 cops tasered this poor bastard 5 times, sat on him till he was dead, wouldn't take the cuffs off when the paramedics finally showed up. The cops lied and lied and lied some more, even though there was video clearly showing what happened.Without the video they would have gotten away with it.
Actually if you think about it, IBM did a "reverse kleenex" on the term PC. They took a generic term and made it product specific.
Back in 1980 when IBM first released the IBM PC, PC meant personal computer. The term included Apple-II and Commodore 64s and Coleco Adams and all the other "home computers" of that time. IBM took what was at the time a common name for all sorts of personal computers and appropriated it for their machine. Fairly soon the generic sense of the term PC faded and it began to specifically mean an IBM PC or one of the many PC clones. The Apple, "I'm a Mac/ I'm a PC" commercials which came many years later sort of cemented that usage.
Because encrypting analog radios costs extra money. Ask most police depts what they would rather have - 1000 encrypted portable radios, or 1000 portable radios that work with the portable radios and base stations they already have plus 1000 6 cell maglites.
The authors were known for their biting satire. It goes right back to Swift's "A Modest Proposal" - Solve Ireland's poverty by having the Irish poor raise children for the rich English landowners to eat.
The wedding vows I'm most familiar with have the phrase "forsaking all others", which I interpret to mean a commitment to monogamy. What sort of person makes a promise they don't intend to keep?
Fiber is non conductive. If you are going to fly your little drone in a populated area, you don't have to worry about your tether contacting overhead power lines. A lot of cranes and hoists used to have fiber to the remote controls for that reason. (A lot of them are wireless now).
My impression is that most folks don't type addresses, they get to sites through google. If I want to go to say Ford's website I open google, type ford, and click on the first link. I usually never type urls unless I have no other way to get there. I don't really need to care if their site is ford.com or cars.ford or whatevever.
Not being from your fine country I'm not really up on the minutia of Ms Palin vs the Media, but I remember her comment about "blood libel". It revealed a level of cluelessness of almost Zen-like purity. The media doesn't need to make stuff up if she keeps spouting stuff like that.
Asshat shouting into phone, hurray! I get all stabby and murdery when people sit next to me on the bus and then shout into their phones for 45 minutes. So far I have restrained myself (thanks Kohlinar!) from acting on my impulses. I think if someone did that on a 5 hour cross country flight I would probably snap sooner or later. I'm sure I'm not the only person here who thinks this way.
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Famous unknown usenet quote "I like music by men. Ugly, angry men who write their own songs and play their own instruments".
Choose Motorhead for max. relax.
"The Annihilation of Angkor Apeiron" - Fred Saberhagen
Whoosh Whoosh. Exaggeration for effect!
You think that if the government decides you don't need something its ok to make it illegal. You Nanny State Government knows whats best for us Liberals make me ill. Why do you hate freedom so much. You would have been a good communist. "Nyet, nyet, we don't need our guns, you can take them, Comrade Stalin will protect us."
"emulsified high-fat offal tube" - see, this is why they don't let you write commercials any more.
"Container ships are dirt cheap compared to rail, about 3x more efficient." - Entirely true. The problem is getting the container ships up into the mountains where the coal and iron is. If you have to unload the railcars onto a ship and then reload the cars at the other end of the voyage, I think you will have lost at least some of the efficiency?
I find your ideas fascinating and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. I could add a few names to your list. Politicians who are elected on a promise that they Will Not Do X, and then as soon as they are elected do X anyway. Punch them twice if they blame their predecessor for leaving things in such a mess that they are "forced" to do X. Any politician who tells you - "I'm going to go to $Capital_City and change the way politics is done in $Our_Country" punch them and keep on punching them until they run away crying. And my old boss, who liked to call staff meetings at 4:00 on a Friday afternoon before a long weekend and then show up 20 minutes late, could you maybe find the time to give him a shot to the beak, I'll owe you one.
My favorite quote, from some detective story, "Except for the fact that it lit up when you pushed a button on the side, the officer's flashlight would not have been out of place at the Battle of Agincourt"
We are talking about a particular time and place; that is to say Corporate America 1982. Remember that in 1982 "real computing" got done on mainframes and minicomputers. Except for a few visionaries, up to that time "personal computers" or as they were also called "home computers" were regarded mostly as toys. It wasn't until Big Blue made them boring and no fun that they were acceptable to Corporate America. On the particular case of iStuff, everybody including PHBs likes it because they can impress their other PHB friends. I also note that here at work there is a dividing line somewhere between age 40 and 50, on the young side, almost all iphones and on the old side almost all Blackberry.
"The Mac and Amiga had graphics, mice, icons, multimedia, while the greenscreen IBM's had beeps,...."
You're thinking like a nerd instead of a PHB. The IBM had a fugly green screen and absolutely no style (beige box). This to a PHB screams "no-nonsense and businesslike" while all the color graphics and multimedia and mice and such said "video game". Not saying it was true, but that was the perception.
Reference the Robert Dziekanski case. The 4 cops tasered this poor bastard 5 times, sat on him till he was dead, wouldn't take the cuffs off when the paramedics finally showed up. The cops lied and lied and lied some more, even though there was video clearly showing what happened.Without the video they would have gotten away with it.
Actually if you think about it, IBM did a "reverse kleenex" on the term PC. They took a generic term and made it product specific.
Back in 1980 when IBM first released the IBM PC, PC meant personal computer. The term included Apple-II and Commodore 64s and Coleco Adams and all the other "home computers" of that time. IBM took what was at the time a common name for all sorts of personal computers and appropriated it for their machine. Fairly soon the generic sense of the term PC faded and it began to specifically mean an IBM PC or one of the many PC clones. The Apple, "I'm a Mac/ I'm a PC" commercials which came many years later sort of cemented that usage.
Because encrypting analog radios costs extra money. Ask most police depts what they would rather have - 1000 encrypted portable radios, or 1000 portable radios that work with the portable radios and base stations they already have plus 1000 6 cell maglites.
The Big Yellow Cable Locator. Also know in the communications industry as Backhoe Fade.
Why can't they have rotary engines or turbines?
The authors were known for their biting satire. It goes right back to Swift's "A Modest Proposal" - Solve Ireland's poverty by having the Irish poor raise children for the rich English landowners to eat.
Science fiction has considered the problem and offered solutions before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons
You're doing it wrong. You should be working on your second Rusty Nail about the time the economy class passengers are filing by your seat.
The wedding vows I'm most familiar with have the phrase "forsaking all others", which I interpret to mean a commitment to monogamy. What sort of person makes a promise they don't intend to keep?
Lotus Notes is what you give to the enemy, for free.
Fiber is non conductive. If you are going to fly your little drone in a populated area, you don't have to worry about your tether contacting overhead power lines. A lot of cranes and hoists used to have fiber to the remote controls for that reason. (A lot of them are wireless now).
My impression is that most folks don't type addresses, they get to sites through google. If I want to go to say Ford's website I open google, type ford, and click on the first link. I usually never type urls unless I have no other way to get there. I don't really need to care if their site is ford.com or cars.ford or whatevever.
Because nicotine is cheaper by far and also more addictive.
Not being from your fine country I'm not really up on the minutia of Ms Palin vs the Media, but I remember her comment about "blood libel". It revealed a level of cluelessness of almost Zen-like purity. The media doesn't need to make stuff up if she keeps spouting stuff like that.
Asshat shouting into phone, hurray! I get all stabby and murdery when people sit next to me on the bus and then shout into their phones for 45 minutes. So far I have restrained myself (thanks Kohlinar!) from acting on my impulses. I think if someone did that on a 5 hour cross country flight I would probably snap sooner or later. I'm sure I'm not the only person here who thinks this way.