Gotta be careful with refurbs. They often don't tell you how much ink is in them, and often have less than half of the ink that the original cartridge had.
I bought some cheap ink carts online that only had about 8mL of ink where the original HP cart had 19. Never made that mistake again.. if it doesn't say on the box how much ink is in it, I don't buy it.
Punitive damages are used to punish a company for doing something illegal - usually to the benefit of the trial lawyers who generally end up with 40%-60% of the award, and spend most of the remainder on consulting.
The point is that what they did is so egregiously wrong that the only way to make things right is to punish them fiscally.
Harvey is copying Elliot Spitzer's style, right out of the playbook. He didn't even bother to ask Blockbuster "what gives?" He just sued in a completely unprovoked manner.
It's like Elliot Spitzer, but without the maturity or professionalism.
Ok, so this is a neutron star, but it has got to have other stuff in it, right? I mean, a spinning neutron star can't have a magnetic field, right? There are no charged particles moving around... there's no charge, period, right?
Or is it some quantum physics thing that lets neutrons have a magnetic field if they're dense enough..
Anyone care to weigh in? I'm just curious about this...
"and power factories are responsible for about 98% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions"
The US has an EXTREMELY small population, while at the same time it burns the most fossil fuels, so naturally it is easy to explain this observation.
My statement was with respect to the entire world population, so in presenting a counter-argument, you should use the same criteria. Presenting apples against my oranges is completely invalid.
And no, I was not kidding. Go crunch the numbers yourself.
Of course you doubt my calculation is correct, because you do not agree with me politically. Instead of just reacting to my statement, you should go through the exercise yourself and see what number you come up with. That is how you present a valid counter-argument.
I contend that your argument makes no sense. 6 Billion humans put CO2 into the atmosphere MUCH faster than plant life can take it out. Since humans introduce so much more CO2 into the atmosphere than fossil fuels, it makes no sense to say that the CO2 from fossil fuels is more damaging than CO2 from humans. It's not like 6 Billion humans have always been here. Furthermore, if you look at a graph of atmospheric CO2 content against world population, you'll see that it tracks more or less perfectly. Of course, the population started to explode with the industrial age, which is also when we started burning fossil fuels. So, while not entirely conclusive, it demonstrates convincingly that to state that the problem is solely due to fossil fuels is equally inconclusive.
That $40 you took home was your money anyway, so it is nothing PAID to you for your recycling....
Where I live, they collect all forms of metal products, #1 and #2 plastics, and all forms of paper... it's quite nice, and doesn't cost anything because the revenue from the sale of the material to the recycler is just enough to pay for the collection. The operation employs hundreds of local workers and subsequently generates tax revenue for the township as well... works quite well if you ask me.
if this is one of those corporate transactions where they SAY company A buys company B, but in reality company B is buying company A and assuming their name... kinda like the Sears "buyout" of K-mart that is really a K-Mart takeover of Sears..
Yeah no shit... there were times when google steered me to about.com and I seriously couldn't find ANYTHING on the page even closely related to what I was googling for..
> Have conservatives just completely lost the desire to be good like that?
No, not at all. I am very conservative, and I try to drive as little as possible, plant as many plants as I can every year, try to keep my power and heating bills as low as possible, and recycle everything I can possibly recycle.
One of the things that left wing radicals fail to realize is that it makes a lot of economic sense to conserve. For example, recycled raw materials are FAR cheaper to obtain than new raw materials. Also, by driving less, I save more money. The only time I ever use my car is when it is wet or snowy out. Otherwise, I ride my bike. I also burn as little heating oil as possible in the winter, mostly because it's fscking expensive but also for environmental reasons.
What most conservatives don't agree with is the more prominent left-wing notion that we have to sacrifice quality of life in the name of the environment. This notion is also somewhat hypocritical. After all, ask a liberal to give up his/her iPod and see how far you get. Do you know how much energy, water, and other natural resources are consumed just to make one iPod?
The problem is that the left has latched onto fossil fuels as the cause of global warming when there are a plethora of other theories that are just as plausible. Have you any idea how much CO2 is emitted by 6 Billion breathing humans every year? That amount is far greater than the amount that has been emitted by all the oil that has been burned in the last 100 years.
How about Methane? Methane is another greenhouse gas and literally millions of tons of it are released into the atmosphere every year by cows and chickens - not to mention swamps and other naturally occuring methane generators. When you add it all up, fossil fuels don't seem to be as likely a culprit as the natural ebb and flow of the Earth's ecosystem.
12000 years ago, Washington DC was under 300 feet of ice. There is also evidence that Greenland was once covered in tropical plants.
The simple fact is that we can't possibly know that we are contributing in a significant way to "global warming." There is a nonzero likelihood that this is just another swing of the Earth's pendulum and until we know for sure, we don't want to throw the entire GDP at "fixing" it.
I don't believe that fossil fuels have nearly as significant an impact on "global warming" as do 6 Billion breathing humans.
I've done some back of the napkin calculations and it seems that 6 Billion humans breathing in one year emit more CO2 than has been emitted by the burning of all fossil fuels since 1900... and the number isn't even close, even when using modest assumptions about how much CO2 is emitted by a human in a day.
Seals: An arctic mammal predominantly inhabiting lands covered in show and ice
After Buyout:
Seals: An endangered arctic mammal, frequenly accosted by the ever accelerating expansion of evil humans. Seals inhabit the endangered arctic ecosystems that are becoming more and more rare due to President Bush's oil cronies and their power and influence over corporate America. It should be noted that, while seals have been killed be the millions in the past, Republicans often like to go on Seal clubbing expeditions just to see small, defenseless, helpless animals suffer.
> (doesn't matter, the job will be off-shored soone enough).
I feel your pain... it is only a matter of time for me now. There are now more Indians in my office than there are Americans. They're here for, guess what, Training! Yay...
Because, unfortunately, you cannot demonstrate that you are a lower cancer risk. You may have good BP and lung x-rays... or otherwise no signs of poor health, but statistically speaking, you are demonstrably at higher risk for a number of smoking-related illnesses that may have nothing to do with other tangible health measures such as weight and BP.
I agree with you that obesity should not be granted protected status if it can be shown that it is not the result of a glandular or other medical condition that is not under the control of the person in question. If you're obese because you choose to live an unhealthy lifestyle, you deserve no special treatment from society.
I have no problem with the gas tax because it only taxes people who drive. The only significant emissions from modern cars are Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide. Everything else is trace amounts, and the last emissions inspection my car went through showed undetectable levels of the major toxins they test for.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, and probably a million times more. If you do the calculations (I am not going to go through them again here just for the sake of time), you'll find that 6 billion people breathing emit more CO2 in ONE YEAR than has the combustion of fossil fuels, since 1900, in total.
Gas tax won't solve anything, although I would be completely for a bicycle-centric society..
What we need is a deduction for people who don't drive to work. It's completely unfair that so much of my tax money goes to maintain roads that I do not use; treat people that make themselves sick on their own accord; pay people who choose not to work; and so on...
The obesity tax cannot be levied on food because it unfairly discriminates against those who are not obese. I am a picture of health and I'll be damned if I am going to pay a tax on a food just because other people are fat.
Similarly, since obesity is a federally protected disability, the obesity tax could not be levied solely against fat people because it would violate discrimination laws.
Excise taxes can only be levied against the users of the product which is taxed. This is just a peculiar instance where there is no way to legally apply the tax since the users of the product are a protected class.
1) The taxes here are not sales taxes, they are CIGARETTE taxes, which are excise taxes. Excise taxes are not exempted by interstate commerce
2) Sales taxes are only exempt if the vendor of the purcased item does NOT have a business entity in the state where the purchaser lives.
3) Sales taxes can be levied by your home state, regardless of whether the transaction is interstate, if the state of purchase does not levy its own sales tax. (Example is PA-DE - no sales tax in DE, so PA can tax things you drive to DE to buy to avoid sales tax)
Not to mention the fact that the creators of this project bill it as an educational too, when MS not only does not accurately model real flight, but also does not accurately, by any stretch of the imagination, model the flight controls of ANY plane in its library.
For example, the cockpit in the Learjet45 is abysmally simplistic and doesn't even come close to the full functionality of the Primus avionics system that comes in the real plane.
HAs anyone tried that Sesame Semolina bread they have? Oh man that stuff is good, and is also great for sustained energy on century rides due to its low GI. Yummm... put that stuff in the toaster... throw some garlic butter on it... damn..
Kinda overshadows the free wifi if you ask me. I'm too busy stuffing my face, and I don't want to get crumbs in my laptop:)
I would think that a Windows box set up by a MS Certified Professional and a Linux Box set up by some kind of Linux Certified Professional would be a much better comparison than one between a "Linux Fan" and a "Microsoft Enthusiast."
Which of these ranked sources of greenhouse gasses should be eliminated first? Options are ranked in decreasing order of their contribution of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere:
1) Volcanoes 2) People Breathing 3) Cows 4) Chickens 5) Rice Paddies 6) The USA 7) Cowboyneal's Farts
> Macrovision claims that DVD copying results in $1 billion loss for studios out of $27.5 billion in sales. With piracy resulting in only 4% loss, why are the studios making such a big deal?
Does the author have ANY clue just how much a billion dollars is? I dunno about the casual slashdotter, but that's a shitload of money to me, and certainly worth spending 20 or 30 million on a protection mechanism to try to get it back.
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Gotta be careful with refurbs. They often don't tell you how much ink is in them, and often have less than half of the ink that the original cartridge had.
I bought some cheap ink carts online that only had about 8mL of ink where the original HP cart had 19. Never made that mistake again.. if it doesn't say on the box how much ink is in it, I don't buy it.
Punitive damages are used to punish a company for doing something illegal - usually to the benefit of the trial lawyers who generally end up with 40%-60% of the award, and spend most of the remainder on consulting.
The point is that what they did is so egregiously wrong that the only way to make things right is to punish them fiscally.
Harvey is copying Elliot Spitzer's style, right out of the playbook. He didn't even bother to ask Blockbuster "what gives?" He just sued in a completely unprovoked manner.
It's like Elliot Spitzer, but without the maturity or professionalism.
Ok, so this is a neutron star, but it has got to have other stuff in it, right? I mean, a spinning neutron star can't have a magnetic field, right? There are no charged particles moving around... there's no charge, period, right?
Or is it some quantum physics thing that lets neutrons have a magnetic field if they're dense enough..
Anyone care to weigh in? I'm just curious about this...
"and power factories are responsible for about 98% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions"
The US has an EXTREMELY small population, while at the same time it burns the most fossil fuels, so naturally it is easy to explain this observation.
My statement was with respect to the entire world population, so in presenting a counter-argument, you should use the same criteria. Presenting apples against my oranges is completely invalid.
And no, I was not kidding. Go crunch the numbers yourself.
Of course you doubt my calculation is correct, because you do not agree with me politically. Instead of just reacting to my statement, you should go through the exercise yourself and see what number you come up with. That is how you present a valid counter-argument.
I contend that your argument makes no sense. 6 Billion humans put CO2 into the atmosphere MUCH faster than plant life can take it out. Since humans introduce so much more CO2 into the atmosphere than fossil fuels, it makes no sense to say that the CO2 from fossil fuels is more damaging than CO2 from humans. It's not like 6 Billion humans have always been here. Furthermore, if you look at a graph of atmospheric CO2 content against world population, you'll see that it tracks more or less perfectly. Of course, the population started to explode with the industrial age, which is also when we started burning fossil fuels. So, while not entirely conclusive, it demonstrates convincingly that to state that the problem is solely due to fossil fuels is equally inconclusive.
That $40 you took home was your money anyway, so it is nothing PAID to you for your recycling....
Where I live, they collect all forms of metal products, #1 and #2 plastics, and all forms of paper... it's quite nice, and doesn't cost anything because the revenue from the sale of the material to the recycler is just enough to pay for the collection. The operation employs hundreds of local workers and subsequently generates tax revenue for the township as well... works quite well if you ask me.
if this is one of those corporate transactions where they SAY company A buys company B, but in reality company B is buying company A and assuming their name... kinda like the Sears "buyout" of K-mart that is really a K-Mart takeover of Sears..
Yeah no shit... there were times when google steered me to about.com and I seriously couldn't find ANYTHING on the page even closely related to what I was googling for..
I dunno... I have some SCO stock certificates, but I think they have a better chance of returning my investment than would slashdot.. :)
> Have conservatives just completely lost the desire to be good like that?
No, not at all. I am very conservative, and I try to drive as little as possible, plant as many plants as I can every year, try to keep my power and heating bills as low as possible, and recycle everything I can possibly recycle.
One of the things that left wing radicals fail to realize is that it makes a lot of economic sense to conserve. For example, recycled raw materials are FAR cheaper to obtain than new raw materials. Also, by driving less, I save more money. The only time I ever use my car is when it is wet or snowy out. Otherwise, I ride my bike. I also burn as little heating oil as possible in the winter, mostly because it's fscking expensive but also for environmental reasons.
What most conservatives don't agree with is the more prominent left-wing notion that we have to sacrifice quality of life in the name of the environment. This notion is also somewhat hypocritical. After all, ask a liberal to give up his/her iPod and see how far you get. Do you know how much energy, water, and other natural resources are consumed just to make one iPod?
The problem is that the left has latched onto fossil fuels as the cause of global warming when there are a plethora of other theories that are just as plausible. Have you any idea how much CO2 is emitted by 6 Billion breathing humans every year? That amount is far greater than the amount that has been emitted by all the oil that has been burned in the last 100 years.
How about Methane? Methane is another greenhouse gas and literally millions of tons of it are released into the atmosphere every year by cows and chickens - not to mention swamps and other naturally occuring methane generators. When you add it all up, fossil fuels don't seem to be as likely a culprit as the natural ebb and flow of the Earth's ecosystem.
12000 years ago, Washington DC was under 300 feet of ice. There is also evidence that Greenland was once covered in tropical plants.
The simple fact is that we can't possibly know that we are contributing in a significant way to "global warming." There is a nonzero likelihood that this is just another swing of the Earth's pendulum and until we know for sure, we don't want to throw the entire GDP at "fixing" it.
I don't believe that fossil fuels have nearly as significant an impact on "global warming" as do 6 Billion breathing humans.
I've done some back of the napkin calculations and it seems that 6 Billion humans breathing in one year emit more CO2 than has been emitted by the burning of all fossil fuels since 1900... and the number isn't even close, even when using modest assumptions about how much CO2 is emitted by a human in a day.
That is because it is not scientific research. It is more left-wing political propaganda that is completely unsubstantiated and unverifiable.
Before Buyout:
Seals: An arctic mammal predominantly inhabiting lands covered in show and ice
After Buyout:
Seals: An endangered arctic mammal, frequenly accosted by the ever accelerating expansion of evil humans. Seals inhabit the endangered arctic ecosystems that are becoming more and more rare due to President Bush's oil cronies and their power and influence over corporate America. It should be noted that, while seals have been killed be the millions in the past, Republicans often like to go on Seal clubbing expeditions just to see small, defenseless, helpless animals suffer.
> (doesn't matter, the job will be off-shored soone enough).
I feel your pain... it is only a matter of time for me now. There are now more Indians in my office than there are Americans. They're here for, guess what, Training! Yay...
Because, unfortunately, you cannot demonstrate that you are a lower cancer risk. You may have good BP and lung x-rays... or otherwise no signs of poor health, but statistically speaking, you are demonstrably at higher risk for a number of smoking-related illnesses that may have nothing to do with other tangible health measures such as weight and BP.
I agree with you that obesity should not be granted protected status if it can be shown that it is not the result of a glandular or other medical condition that is not under the control of the person in question. If you're obese because you choose to live an unhealthy lifestyle, you deserve no special treatment from society.
I have no problem with the gas tax because it only taxes people who drive. The only significant emissions from modern cars are Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide. Everything else is trace amounts, and the last emissions inspection my car went through showed undetectable levels of the major toxins they test for.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, and probably a million times more. If you do the calculations (I am not going to go through them again here just for the sake of time), you'll find that 6 billion people breathing emit more CO2 in ONE YEAR than has the combustion of fossil fuels, since 1900, in total.
Gas tax won't solve anything, although I would be completely for a bicycle-centric society..
What we need is a deduction for people who don't drive to work. It's completely unfair that so much of my tax money goes to maintain roads that I do not use; treat people that make themselves sick on their own accord; pay people who choose not to work; and so on...
The obesity tax cannot be levied on food because it unfairly discriminates against those who are not obese. I am a picture of health and I'll be damned if I am going to pay a tax on a food just because other people are fat.
Similarly, since obesity is a federally protected disability, the obesity tax could not be levied solely against fat people because it would violate discrimination laws.
Excise taxes can only be levied against the users of the product which is taxed. This is just a peculiar instance where there is no way to legally apply the tax since the users of the product are a protected class.
1) The taxes here are not sales taxes, they are CIGARETTE taxes, which are excise taxes. Excise taxes are not exempted by interstate commerce
2) Sales taxes are only exempt if the vendor of the purcased item does NOT have a business entity in the state where the purchaser lives.
3) Sales taxes can be levied by your home state, regardless of whether the transaction is interstate, if the state of purchase does not levy its own sales tax. (Example is PA-DE - no sales tax in DE, so PA can tax things you drive to DE to buy to avoid sales tax)
Not to mention the fact that the creators of this project bill it as an educational too, when MS not only does not accurately model real flight, but also does not accurately, by any stretch of the imagination, model the flight controls of ANY plane in its library.
For example, the cockpit in the Learjet45 is abysmally simplistic and doesn't even come close to the full functionality of the Primus avionics system that comes in the real plane.
Bread basket is "Cesta de pan"
Someone who makes bread is a "Panadero(a)"
Panera does smack of being Spanish, but I don't think it is a direct translation for anything.
HAs anyone tried that Sesame Semolina bread they have? Oh man that stuff is good, and is also great for sustained energy on century rides due to its low GI. Yummm... put that stuff in the toaster... throw some garlic butter on it... damn..
:)
Kinda overshadows the free wifi if you ask me. I'm too busy stuffing my face, and I don't want to get crumbs in my laptop
I would think that a Windows box set up by a MS Certified Professional and a Linux Box set up by some kind of Linux Certified Professional would be a much better comparison than one between a "Linux Fan" and a "Microsoft Enthusiast."
No. Clinton never signed the treaty. Even Clinton understood why the Kyoto Protocol is a big piece of anti-American bullshit.
Which of these ranked sources of greenhouse gasses should be eliminated first? Options are ranked in decreasing order of their contribution of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere:
1) Volcanoes
2) People Breathing
3) Cows
4) Chickens
5) Rice Paddies
6) The USA
7) Cowboyneal's Farts
> Macrovision claims that DVD copying results in $1 billion loss for studios out of $27.5 billion in sales. With piracy resulting in only 4% loss, why are the studios making such a big deal?
Does the author have ANY clue just how much a billion dollars is? I dunno about the casual slashdotter, but that's a shitload of money to me, and certainly worth spending 20 or 30 million on a protection mechanism to try to get it back.