Yeah. Why worry about global warming and try by any means that will work to stop or slow it down? It's not like other cities are going to be flooded because of it... oh wait.
Naw, they'll probably all be in Bangedesh, so who cares right?
"I dislike George Bush, SUVs, and dirty air too. On the other hand I'm a big fan of honest dealing and freedom. "
I dislike his method too, but hey it worked for what he wanted to do, and efforts at curbing global warming in the USA aren't working so far. If you can't beat them, join them. It's not the best way, but it's just an idea.
It's more important to have privacy, than it is to worry about flushing. But some hotels just don't understand that, as you can see in the link's photo.
gooman is the name of the submitter of a potty article.
Tee Hee!
Seriously though, if you can get by without flushes, and there's no smell, how exactly is disease going to spread? It's not like people are going to go, "hmm, this urinal doesn't smell, oooh look a quarter to pick up!"
I was going to bring up that I was just following the Bush model to shaping society with my theory, but I see someone beat me to the comparison.
The point is though that hype doesn't have to be lies, and it's of course more effective if it's the truth that is hyped. It would be better for everyone if SUVs were not the standard fare of rich yuppies, and we reduced greenhouse gas emissions, so who exactly is hurt by spinning the need for change in a way that Joe can understand? Sally, who paid attention in chemistry class, would still have the complete truth available to her after all.
I guessed YOU were joking, but there are all kind of farktards out there that seriously think and speak like that. It's all part of the "me want it now" culture, and they think it translates into warmer winters and normal summers.
Part of the problem with defending global warming as possibly just a natural cycle that's barely affected by humans is that it removes one of the incentives for positive pollution change. We undeniably would be healthier if we polluted our environment less, yet many of the changes are so gradual over years, that the average joe just doesn't give a crap unless it can be shown without a doubt to be hurting his wallet or health. New Orleans floating away is a tangible sign that something might be different with the weather; it's something that Joe can get his head around. If Joe can be convinced that NO won't float away again if he doesn't buy an SUV, and replaces his light bulbs with CFLs, then what harm is being done by hyping it a little bit? Ideally we'd not have to fib to Joe, but after 10 years of warnings that hundreds of millions of cars and factories spewing out greenhouse gasses, the facts were just not getting through to him.
Too bad warmer Winters isn't what we can expect from climate change. The changes are not bound to mean that every day through the year will be warmer, just that on average they will be. We might still have extreme cold, but instead broken up by periods of thaw, which will hurt trees for one thing, and make roads icy and broken. And we'll have bugs moving north, with more trouble for our crops, since we might get snow in August now and then.
Change in the climate stresses every biological creature, and when creatures get stressed, there's death as a result for some of them. We're adapted to live under certain conditions, and if things either suddenly change, or change over time to something very different, the lives our children live could look nothing like our parent's lives did.
Mr. AC, You forget that part of the problem isn't the speed, but the mass. A Prius packs more punch than possibly a proton. Projectiles from past the Pliedies cluster would have the penultimate power, since they'd have centuries to be accelerated a bit at a time to nearly c.
Trying to defend ourselves with early 21st century technology is certainly pointless. Unless we possess 30th century technology in a time lab, and have phasers, photon torpedos, and force shields in development.
More seriously though, I heard someone describe the threat of an object accelerated to nearly the speed of light, and aimed at the earth. The resulting explosion would tear a hole right through the planet and make life unlivable. In theory any civilization out there would do this to us, before we gained the ability to do the same to them - given lowest violent human common denominators. Humans are only as ethical as our slimiest violent criminals like the kind that flew planes into towers, or plant bombs outside of buildings. It might be a good thing that humans can't travel very fast, and very easily, or we'd have every nutcase trying to destroy the earth and actually succeeding simply by ramming their.9 Lightspeed Buick Century 3000 through the earth.
I think something like this should be in many schools, or at least tour to schools, so that kids can see and understand the theory behind internal combustion engines. I knew until grade 10 that it had something to do with the gas exploding and pushing the piston to make something turn, but the details like the exhaust expulsion, fuel injection, and camshaft, etc, was lost on me until I saw it in pictures. Then for shop class, we tore down a two stroke engine.
It would be great for budding engineers and mechanics who don't have a parent that routinely fixes their car engine at home like they did in the good ol' days, to see something like this.
The Fark.com tradition of yelling out: "Thread is useless without pictures" doesn't work as well on Slashdot since pictures aren't shown in the thread. But good try:-) Although you do realize that you might have ended up with 10,000 geek male butts plastered all over the place from photocopy dares...
I have to troubleshoot a network timeout problem that doesn't happen in wired locations I support, but the wireless one times out when a certain application isn't used for about 10 minutes.
And the wireless printer there suddenly decided forget how to get an IP address from the wireless router.
For Canadians who aren't sure if the new Wiretap legislation or Copyright Act amendment Bill C-60 are good bills, we'll end up with the same push from the CRIA to obtain ISP logs that are supposed to be only available to the police in criminal investigations where they've obtained a warrant.
Fortunately with alternate technology like digital cameras, and cell cameras, office party copiers are safer than ever from unwanted bummage. But look out office printer with a Exif Print port or Compaq Flash card reader!
Ubuntu 5.10 was the first debian distro I was able to get a GUI working for on my finiky AMD with ATI video card at home. I had to type a special boot parameter in, I think it disabled auto detection and installed with a more plain vanila video driver so it wouldn't hang before the install screens came up as it would do with any [Debian] Linux system I tried installing.
I wouldn't consider it ready to plunk down on a desk at my workplace until I know a lot more about it, but it certainly shows promise. One thing I can't figure out though is why there's no utility available to configure GRUB from within Ubuntu, so that someone who wants to boot to Windows by default can set that from within the Linux OS.
Trying to scare your customers off eh? It's really mind blowing to have to watch your tounge as soon as the line is answered, instead of starting into the default blue streak about how you can never speak to a human when you call one of those darned lines.
How I'd love to hear a tape of customer's first words to a help line that no one but the switchboard hears...
Botnets at record low per capita in Antarctica. Early reports seem to indicate a low takeup of Broadband technology, and a high proportion of penguin computer owners.
There's a difference between knowing where your kid is and what they are probably doing, and letting them roam free with markers and spray paint, or their pants around their ankles.
Think of a whole new ring tone: "I'm sorry my cell is ringing, I'm a doctor of quantum physics and if I don't take this call the Universe could implode. Please excuse the intrusion into your day..."
Not only polite, but it puts other people at ease.
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Yeah. Why worry about global warming and try by any means that will work to stop or slow it down? It's not like other cities are going to be flooded because of it... oh wait.
Naw, they'll probably all be in Bangedesh, so who cares right?
"I dislike George Bush, SUVs, and dirty air too. On the other hand I'm a big fan of honest dealing and freedom. "
I dislike his method too, but hey it worked for what he wanted to do, and efforts at curbing global warming in the USA aren't working so far. If you can't beat them, join them. It's not the best way, but it's just an idea.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/sofitel.asp
It's more important to have privacy, than it is to worry about flushing. But some hotels just don't understand that, as you can see in the link's photo.
"Stuff that matters."
;-)
It not only matters, it's #1.
Everyone has to deal with this topic, on a daily basis. Everyone who reads Slashdot that is, we're all male right?
" i don't give a crap about water conservation... "
Mr. Bush, what are you doing posting to Slashdot?
We don't have a good environmental boogey man when it comes to water wasting. Can anyone suggest one that's better than Bush?
gooman is the name of the submitter of a potty article.
Tee Hee!
Seriously though, if you can get by without flushes, and there's no smell, how exactly is disease going to spread? It's not like people are going to go, "hmm, this urinal doesn't smell, oooh look a quarter to pick up!"
I was going to bring up that I was just following the Bush model to shaping society with my theory, but I see someone beat me to the comparison.
The point is though that hype doesn't have to be lies, and it's of course more effective if it's the truth that is hyped. It would be better for everyone if SUVs were not the standard fare of rich yuppies, and we reduced greenhouse gas emissions, so who exactly is hurt by spinning the need for change in a way that Joe can understand? Sally, who paid attention in chemistry class, would still have the complete truth available to her after all.
I guessed YOU were joking, but there are all kind of farktards out there that seriously think and speak like that. It's all part of the "me want it now" culture, and they think it translates into warmer winters and normal summers.
Part of the problem with defending global warming as possibly just a natural cycle that's barely affected by humans is that it removes one of the incentives for positive pollution change. We undeniably would be healthier if we polluted our environment less, yet many of the changes are so gradual over years, that the average joe just doesn't give a crap unless it can be shown without a doubt to be hurting his wallet or health. New Orleans floating away is a tangible sign that something might be different with the weather; it's something that Joe can get his head around. If Joe can be convinced that NO won't float away again if he doesn't buy an SUV, and replaces his light bulbs with CFLs, then what harm is being done by hyping it a little bit? Ideally we'd not have to fib to Joe, but after 10 years of warnings that hundreds of millions of cars and factories spewing out greenhouse gasses, the facts were just not getting through to him.
Too bad warmer Winters isn't what we can expect from climate change. The changes are not bound to mean that every day through the year will be warmer, just that on average they will be. We might still have extreme cold, but instead broken up by periods of thaw, which will hurt trees for one thing, and make roads icy and broken. And we'll have bugs moving north, with more trouble for our crops, since we might get snow in August now and then.
Change in the climate stresses every biological creature, and when creatures get stressed, there's death as a result for some of them. We're adapted to live under certain conditions, and if things either suddenly change, or change over time to something very different, the lives our children live could look nothing like our parent's lives did.
Mr. AC,
You forget that part of the problem isn't the speed, but the mass. A Prius packs more punch than possibly a proton.
Projectiles from past the Pliedies cluster would have the penultimate power, since they'd have centuries to be accelerated a bit at a time to nearly c.
"accelerating a Buick to .9c would cost a tremendous amount of energy."
Precisely why there'd be such a large explosion from a large massive object like a Buick slamming into something at nearly light speed.
Trying to defend ourselves with early 21st century technology is certainly pointless. Unless we possess 30th century technology in a time lab, and have phasers, photon torpedos, and force shields in development.
.9 Lightspeed Buick Century 3000 through the earth.
More seriously though, I heard someone describe the threat of an object accelerated to nearly the speed of light, and aimed at the earth. The resulting explosion would tear a hole right through the planet and make life unlivable. In theory any civilization out there would do this to us, before we gained the ability to do the same to them - given lowest violent human common denominators. Humans are only as ethical as our slimiest violent criminals like the kind that flew planes into towers, or plant bombs outside of buildings. It might be a good thing that humans can't travel very fast, and very easily, or we'd have every nutcase trying to destroy the earth and actually succeeding simply by ramming their
I think something like this should be in many schools, or at least tour to schools, so that kids can see and understand the theory behind internal combustion engines. I knew until grade 10 that it had something to do with the gas exploding and pushing the piston to make something turn, but the details like the exhaust expulsion, fuel injection, and camshaft, etc, was lost on me until I saw it in pictures. Then for shop class, we tore down a two stroke engine.
It would be great for budding engineers and mechanics who don't have a parent that routinely fixes their car engine at home like they did in the good ol' days, to see something like this.
The Fark.com tradition of yelling out: :-) Although you do realize that you might have ended up with 10,000 geek male butts plastered all over the place from photocopy dares...
"Thread is useless without pictures"
doesn't work as well on Slashdot since pictures aren't shown in the thread. But good try
I have to troubleshoot a network timeout problem that doesn't happen in wired locations I support, but the wireless one times out when a certain application isn't used for about 10 minutes.
And the wireless printer there suddenly decided forget how to get an IP address from the wireless router.
It's not a happy time in Wirelessville.
For Canadians who aren't sure if the new Wiretap legislation or Copyright Act amendment Bill C-60 are good bills, we'll end up with the same push from the CRIA to obtain ISP logs that are supposed to be only available to the police in criminal investigations where they've obtained a warrant.
"That was one costly rear end shot."
Fortunately with alternate technology like digital cameras, and cell cameras, office party copiers are safer than ever from unwanted bummage. But look out office printer with a Exif Print port or Compaq Flash card reader!
Ubuntu 5.10 was the first debian distro I was able to get a GUI working for on my finiky AMD with ATI video card at home. I had to type a special boot parameter in, I think it disabled auto detection and installed with a more plain vanila video driver so it wouldn't hang before the install screens came up as it would do with any [Debian] Linux system I tried installing.
I wouldn't consider it ready to plunk down on a desk at my workplace until I know a lot more about it, but it certainly shows promise. One thing I can't figure out though is why there's no utility available to configure GRUB from within Ubuntu, so that someone who wants to boot to Windows by default can set that from within the Linux OS.
"Direct to human!"
Trying to scare your customers off eh? It's really mind blowing to have to watch your tounge as soon as the line is answered, instead of starting into the default blue streak about how you can never speak to a human when you call one of those darned lines.
How I'd love to hear a tape of customer's first words to a help line that no one but the switchboard hears...
Botnets at record low per capita in Antarctica. Early reports seem to indicate a low takeup of Broadband technology, and a high proportion of penguin computer owners.
TCP is Dying! IP is near demise, and Iraq's insurgency is in its last throes.
I'm a little concerned that Al Qaida is known as "The Base" in English.
This isn't some Google search tool to find Bin Laden is it? I've not used Base before, what does it do?
"We demand 100% surveilance!"
There's a difference between knowing where your kid is and what they are probably doing, and letting them roam free with markers and spray paint, or their pants around their ankles.
Think of a whole new ring tone:
"I'm sorry my cell is ringing, I'm a doctor of quantum physics and if I don't take this call the Universe could implode. Please excuse the intrusion into your day..."
Not only polite, but it puts other people at ease.