Now I need to buy new monitors, tv's, vcrs, dvd players, microwave, oven, unplug my clocks every day, etc.. Lots more aluminum smelted. Lots more resources used up. Lots more pollution, but we all can sleep better knowing the residential power demand may shrink by a fraction of a percent.
I'll get right on that after I scrap my relatively new car and buy a prius, and pull and toss all my perfectly functional lighing in favor of compact flourescent. And if we all pitch in, the rate of increase of power demand of this planet will slow by a probably incalculably small amount.
Why do individuals need to change their lives so radically, for an extremely minor, and likely insignificant payoff - all the while lining the pockets of the worlds leading polluters?
If my PC didn't have standby, it'd simply be on all the time, and so would yours - don't lie. This is all getting a little bit silly. Where are the real problem solvers, why are we waiting for government to solve these problems?
My solution? "Consume" as little as possible. I got a ton of shit already, I don't need anymore. We simply aren't going to buy our way to a cooler planet.
What's ridiculous about the debate is the supposed "corrective actions" are a step backwards if you really analyze them.
Don't buy a Prius, it may get better mileage - though if you convert to gallons per mile - a true meter of energy cost, it doesn't look so good. Never mind the fact it runs on laptop batteries, which makes it a disposable vehicle at the end of the day.
Or go to a "super efficient" diesel engine. Well, there's reasons we restrict the numbers of diesels that can be put on the road, and that's those huge plumes of black smoke that puff out are full of nasty shit. Remember acid rain? You may not be old enough - it was the source of our ecological doom in the 80s, and is the byproduct of sulphur dioxide. Despite the industries claims of super-low-sulphur diesels, the amount in the fuel is not insignificant.
The fact is, modern engines are quite well designed, and with regular maintenance could easily last your entire life. So what does the auto industry do now? Appeal to vanity, sure - you don't want to be seen in the same old rig, do you? They've now found a way to appeal to your innate sense of guilt. Buy a Prius, save this baby seal from clubbing!
I also see the government mandating switches to compact flouros, being absurd. The quality of light is terrible, they dont handle slight power fluctuations all that well, even the ones that are "dimmable", really aren't, and don't work in the cold. We don't want all that mercury in our groundwater when those things start hitting the dumpster en masse. Besides, switching would just mean people leave the lights on longer. If you're used to paying 150 bucks a month, you'll keep paying it, just a weird sociological quirk., in the vein of "some snack has half the calories, so fatty eats 3, and thinks he's dieting".
All this over CO2, a benign non-toxic gas, which has a small contribution to "the greenhouse effect", although it's been shown that the real major cause is water vapor in the atmosphere - but we have no way to track that.
All the while we search for imaginary mystery energy sources - we're almost there, just need a huge breakthrough in physics/chemistry/biology/astrology - we completely ignore the fact that nuclear fission can supply our energy needs, no need to dig up and burn dinosaurs.
But what of the radioactive waste? Well holy fuck, we can stand around masturbating waiting for a magical breakthrough bacteria that turns garbage into gold-plated hydrogen for our fuel-cell car of tomorrow, but this great global scientific community cant figure out how to throw out some gunk? How about this, I'll figure it out for them.. Pulverize it and release it into the atmosphere, it'd be less radioactive material than comes out of a typical coal plant in a year.
My point is, there are sensible, practical, answers - but they aren't all futuristic and neat and don't involve funky lightbulbs and throwaway cars, and would (gasp) preserve the american lifestyle that it's become so vogue for the left to hate, despite living the exact same way.
All I see are ivory tower assholes using this current round of paranoia to line their pockets. I distrust any solution that involves me "buying new things".
I'm not yet one of the climate change true believers.
It just feels too much like an economic scheme based in pseudo-science and half truths. "The world is doomed, here's how you as a consumer can spend your way to salvation! Buy a new car and light bulbs filled with mercury!"
It's poster child, Al Gore, uses the word "if" too much. It's an old debating trick, to say "if X, then Y", and focus on the terrible consequence Y, and completely avoid the debate - which is over the validity/scope/level/definition of X.
At the end of the day, and back on topic, I know cancer is absolutely real, and I also know that real cures and treatments are buried in the mountains upon mountains of data in hospitals, schools and research centers.
So, I'm maybe gonna pick a horse I think has a chance of crossing the finish line.
Oh please. Get off your high horse, and don't be such a pompous douchebag.
Jealousy and hatred are much uglier emotions, this story is proof of that, and when a murderer dies of his own hands he robs his victims and their families of justice and closure.
If those close to this tragedy can lighten their overbearing emotional load a little by realizing his "die a martyr for losers" plan backfired, all the more power to 'em.
I wish nothing on those who seek to harm others, out of their own petty jealousies, but the karma the universe has in store for them. In this case it came in the form of him doubtlessly crying and begging for his life like a worthless bitch, while people with many orders of magnitude more humanity than he could ever hope to have struggled to save it, despite being aware of what he just did.
I once compared Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls to The Fellowship of the Ring for a lit class and got an A+, it was all pure horseshit, I knew it then and know it now.
You can compare anything to anything in an english lit class, and get an A+ so long as it sounds pompous enough when read aloud.
And that's because people are always in restaurants, not on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere, after the bus pulled over when you started choking on a cheese doozit.
You didn't like the little girl talking to her grandma, because you wanted to sleep, and somehow convinced yourself you had the right to do so.
You don't stop obnoxious car drivers by blockading the interstate.
There are always smug fuckers in the passing lane, doing slightly under the limit all the time, with absolutely no consideration to the lines of cars behind them, or the mayhem it causes as they all try to pass in the center or right lanes.
Some are clueless, others actually think they're saving the day by enforcing the limit, and a few honestly believe that 60mph is fast-as-hell because it feels like it in their Prius.
I can't stand the baby-vigilanteism in its many forms.
You'll just lay on the floor breathless, your life slipping away as a crowd stands around you in increased frustration as they're calls to 911 won't get through.
The coroner will find the jammer in your pocket later, when he inventories your possessions before tagging your toe and zipping up the bag.
And all because you didn't have the stones to just ask people to please turn off their phones so you could hear better.
To anyone who uses these, and is so upset about everyone on their phones in public, I have this question.
Besides bitching about it later, have you ever politely asked somebody to keep it down, or turn it off, before resorting to be a "passive aggressive"* asshole?
It's not that big of a deal, and you'll find that most people when treated with a little respect will gladly oblige, and apologize.
No, you can send it out on any port, and you'd have to examine the l7 data to see if it was spam, and thats only if it's not encrypted, or else it looks like any other SSL session.
Why don't you do QOS on your own end, as I do on mine. Comcast should just push packets.
XBox live might be important to you, skype might be important to me, vpn might be important to wilma flintstone.
I don't want the ISP making those decisions at the application layer.
Now, if they want to push ICMP packets to the front of the line, and classify UDP differently, then go ahead and do it there. But don't decide for me which applications are "important" and which arent.
Besides, thanks to Web 2.0, everyone thinks is a hot shit brainiac idea to dump everything into an http request, so as that takes over, there will really be only one type of traffic on layer seven.
i understood that the principle was to solidify dots on the surface of a pool of liquid, and slowly raise the piece out - like sculpting the bubbles in a bubble bath, its not printing on air, its printing on liquid
I remember I used to use Yahoo all the time and I never heard of something called Google.
Just saying.
And in this case, it's the same guy trying to kill his prior wikipedia.
It's basically the same shit, despite all the hype. At the end of the day, I don't think either are good formal sources of information, even if they are decent informal ones.
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"I've actually used various phones with Web capability"
WOW he is truly one of the technorati!
What do they consider standby?
I guess this is more save the planet stuff.
Now I need to buy new monitors, tv's, vcrs, dvd players, microwave, oven, unplug my clocks every day, etc.. Lots more aluminum smelted. Lots more resources used up. Lots more pollution, but we all can sleep better knowing the residential power demand may shrink by a fraction of a percent.
I'll get right on that after I scrap my relatively new car and buy a prius, and pull and toss all my perfectly functional lighing in favor of compact flourescent. And if we all pitch in, the rate of increase of power demand of this planet will slow by a probably incalculably small amount.
Why do individuals need to change their lives so radically, for an extremely minor, and likely insignificant payoff - all the while lining the pockets of the worlds leading polluters?
If my PC didn't have standby, it'd simply be on all the time, and so would yours - don't lie. This is all getting a little bit silly. Where are the real problem solvers, why are we waiting for government to solve these problems?
My solution? "Consume" as little as possible. I got a ton of shit already, I don't need anymore. We simply aren't going to buy our way to a cooler planet.
I bet you wouldn't qualify for one, if such a thing existed.
so there's that, too
What's ridiculous about the debate is the supposed "corrective actions" are a step backwards if you really analyze them.
Don't buy a Prius, it may get better mileage - though if you convert to gallons per mile - a true meter of energy cost, it doesn't look so good. Never mind the fact it runs on laptop batteries, which makes it a disposable vehicle at the end of the day.
Or go to a "super efficient" diesel engine. Well, there's reasons we restrict the numbers of diesels that can be put on the road, and that's those huge plumes of black smoke that puff out are full of nasty shit. Remember acid rain? You may not be old enough - it was the source of our ecological doom in the 80s, and is the byproduct of sulphur dioxide. Despite the industries claims of super-low-sulphur diesels, the amount in the fuel is not insignificant.
The fact is, modern engines are quite well designed, and with regular maintenance could easily last your entire life. So what does the auto industry do now? Appeal to vanity, sure - you don't want to be seen in the same old rig, do you? They've now found a way to appeal to your innate sense of guilt. Buy a Prius, save this baby seal from clubbing!
I also see the government mandating switches to compact flouros, being absurd. The quality of light is terrible, they dont handle slight power fluctuations all that well, even the ones that are "dimmable", really aren't, and don't work in the cold. We don't want all that mercury in our groundwater when those things start hitting the dumpster en masse. Besides, switching would just mean people leave the lights on longer. If you're used to paying 150 bucks a month, you'll keep paying it, just a weird sociological quirk., in the vein of "some snack has half the calories, so fatty eats 3, and thinks he's dieting".
All this over CO2, a benign non-toxic gas, which has a small contribution to "the greenhouse effect", although it's been shown that the real major cause is water vapor in the atmosphere - but we have no way to track that.
All the while we search for imaginary mystery energy sources - we're almost there, just need a huge breakthrough in physics/chemistry/biology/astrology - we completely ignore the fact that nuclear fission can supply our energy needs, no need to dig up and burn dinosaurs.
But what of the radioactive waste? Well holy fuck, we can stand around masturbating waiting for a magical breakthrough bacteria that turns garbage into gold-plated hydrogen for our fuel-cell car of tomorrow, but this great global scientific community cant figure out how to throw out some gunk? How about this, I'll figure it out for them.. Pulverize it and release it into the atmosphere, it'd be less radioactive material than comes out of a typical coal plant in a year.
My point is, there are sensible, practical, answers - but they aren't all futuristic and neat and don't involve funky lightbulbs and throwaway cars, and would (gasp) preserve the american lifestyle that it's become so vogue for the left to hate, despite living the exact same way.
All I see are ivory tower assholes using this current round of paranoia to line their pockets. I distrust any solution that involves me "buying new things".
So, lets cure cancer.
I'm not yet one of the climate change true believers.
It just feels too much like an economic scheme based in pseudo-science and half truths. "The world is doomed, here's how you as a consumer can spend your way to salvation! Buy a new car and light bulbs filled with mercury!"
It's poster child, Al Gore, uses the word "if" too much. It's an old debating trick, to say "if X, then Y", and focus on the terrible consequence Y, and completely avoid the debate - which is over the validity/scope/level/definition of X.
At the end of the day, and back on topic, I know cancer is absolutely real, and I also know that real cures and treatments are buried in the mountains upon mountains of data in hospitals, schools and research centers.
So, I'm maybe gonna pick a horse I think has a chance of crossing the finish line.
Oh please. Get off your high horse, and don't be such a pompous douchebag.
Jealousy and hatred are much uglier emotions, this story is proof of that, and when a murderer dies of his own hands he robs his victims and their families of justice and closure.
If those close to this tragedy can lighten their overbearing emotional load a little by realizing his "die a martyr for losers" plan backfired, all the more power to 'em.
I wish nothing on those who seek to harm others, out of their own petty jealousies, but the karma the universe has in store for them. In this case it came in the form of him doubtlessly crying and begging for his life like a worthless bitch, while people with many orders of magnitude more humanity than he could ever hope to have struggled to save it, despite being aware of what he just did.
Doesn't seem the type to deserve the whole "quick and painless".
He can watch YouTube in hell (they have iPhones there).
Make him any less correct?
Or for that matter, does your opinion of the US Govt make the oppressive Chinese government any better?
Cripes, it's like you're all a bunch of Michael Moore clones or something. US=bad, so everything else = good?
I once compared Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls to The Fellowship of the Ring for a lit class and got an A+, it was all pure horseshit, I knew it then and know it now.
You can compare anything to anything in an english lit class, and get an A+ so long as it sounds pompous enough when read aloud.
Google is an awesome company and google google google!
Red Hat provides nothing but.
Nobody buys Linux. It's free, stupid.
The law prohibits driving in the passing lane for any other reason than passing.
Of course the only traffic law known to the average USA-hole would be speeding. Hell, it's the only one enforced.
And that's because people are always in restaurants, not on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere, after the bus pulled over when you started choking on a cheese doozit.
You didn't like the little girl talking to her grandma, because you wanted to sleep, and somehow convinced yourself you had the right to do so.
If you have no bars, you have no bars.
My phone alerts me it no longer has a signal, and if I'm waiting for an important or emergency call, I find somewhere else to be.
When some asshole has a jammer, my phone has full bars, but I never receive the important/emergency call.
So, there's a huge distinction.
This isn't about some guy who wants his restaurant quiet. It's no big secret that cell phones suck inside, as a general rule.
You don't stop obnoxious car drivers by blockading the interstate.
There are always smug fuckers in the passing lane, doing slightly under the limit all the time, with absolutely no consideration to the lines of cars behind them, or the mayhem it causes as they all try to pass in the center or right lanes.
Some are clueless, others actually think they're saving the day by enforcing the limit, and a few honestly believe that 60mph is fast-as-hell because it feels like it in their Prius.
I can't stand the baby-vigilanteism in its many forms.
The ambulance isn't coming, skippy.
You'll just lay on the floor breathless, your life slipping away as a crowd stands around you in increased frustration as they're calls to 911 won't get through.
The coroner will find the jammer in your pocket later, when he inventories your possessions before tagging your toe and zipping up the bag.
And all because you didn't have the stones to just ask people to please turn off their phones so you could hear better.
To anyone who uses these, and is so upset about everyone on their phones in public, I have this question.
Besides bitching about it later, have you ever politely asked somebody to keep it down, or turn it off, before resorting to be a "passive aggressive"* asshole?
It's not that big of a deal, and you'll find that most people when treated with a little respect will gladly oblige, and apologize.
* - code for pussy
They've been making little LCD toys that looked like console controllers since the Atari 2600.
They make lighters that look like pistols and male masturbators that look like flashlights. If you dont want to be "taken", read the package first.
Slow news day? Is this the best you can do to muster nerd rage?
I think they're overcompensating for being openly homosexual, but I really don't have a problem with it.
No, you can send it out on any port, and you'd have to examine the l7 data to see if it was spam, and thats only if it's not encrypted, or else it looks like any other SSL session.
Why don't you do QOS on your own end, as I do on mine. Comcast should just push packets.
XBox live might be important to you, skype might be important to me, vpn might be important to wilma flintstone.
I don't want the ISP making those decisions at the application layer.
Now, if they want to push ICMP packets to the front of the line, and classify UDP differently, then go ahead and do it there. But don't decide for me which applications are "important" and which arent.
Besides, thanks to Web 2.0, everyone thinks is a hot shit brainiac idea to dump everything into an http request, so as that takes over, there will really be only one type of traffic on layer seven.
i understood that the principle was to solidify dots on the surface of a pool of liquid, and slowly raise the piece out - like sculpting the bubbles in a bubble bath, its not printing on air, its printing on liquid
I remember I used to use Yahoo all the time and I never heard of something called Google.
Just saying.
And in this case, it's the same guy trying to kill his prior wikipedia.
It's basically the same shit, despite all the hype. At the end of the day, I don't think either are good formal sources of information, even if they are decent informal ones.
Or it could mean he hasn't checked his email yet.
I trust "journalists" even less these days.