if your "non-renewable resource" exists in such abundance that it'll last thousands of years
That's if we only convert the existing US reactor fleet to thorium. If we were to build new reactors as population increases and coal plants go offline, it may reduce thorium reserves to only hundreds or even tens of years.
There's a reason why no one does those metered fees any more... because consumers don't want them!
I do. I won't buy an iPhone without metered fees, because I don't want to have to pay a monthly fee for an unlimited data plan that I'll use only occasionally.
My cell phone is on a pay-as-you-go plan. Yes, each minute is expensive, so I try to make as many calls as possible from my landline, and when someone calls and it seems like it will be a long conversation, I'll ask to call them back. That's how I get by paying only about $100 per year for my cell phone.
Personally I'd rather sponsor some heavy users with a few percent of my bill than pay the thousands of times the actual cost that we somehow seem to end up with when having metered access.
So, you prefer to have the ability to economize taken away? Really?
If there were true competition in the ISP market, then maybe so. But that is not the case, and probably will never be the case. That is why we need net neutrality regulations.
One could make a case that you have it backwards. Without net neutrality regulations, we'll see more co-op ISPs sprout up (like this one) out of need.
For example, we continue to teach date formatted in a completely nonsense format (MM/DD/YYYY) instead of either high to low (YYYY/MM/DD) or low to high (DD/MM/YYYY) like the rest of the world.
Let's use big-endian dates, please (YYYY-MM-DD). It's an ISO standard (specifically, ISO 8601). This is one area where the Greenwichers, who prefer small-endian dates, are wrong.
A quick point about security. If terrorists start to targets trains then security theater for rail passengers may be as bad as it is for air passengers.
I doubt it, because you can't steer a train into a building! The overwhelming majority of people killed on 9/11 were in buildings.
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Only if it's easy to hack into your broadband connection.
That's if we only convert the existing US reactor fleet to thorium. If we were to build new reactors as population increases and coal plants go offline, it may reduce thorium reserves to only hundreds or even tens of years.
...an oxymoron. There's only so much Thorium in the world.
The parent made no such claim, only that there exist shitty Indian coders.
Silence! We're trying to get all worked up here!
If the fact that it's difficult to get right makes it evil, then what does that say about the Space Race?
There are some good arguments to make against DRM, but that isn't one of them.
I use them in web forums that like to hyphenate long URLs.
This will tell you: http://preview.tinyurl.com/yew8dpl
Personally, I think the low resolution of VHS dulls the pain a little.
I do. I won't buy an iPhone without metered fees, because I don't want to have to pay a monthly fee for an unlimited data plan that I'll use only occasionally.
My cell phone is on a pay-as-you-go plan. Yes, each minute is expensive, so I try to make as many calls as possible from my landline, and when someone calls and it seems like it will be a long conversation, I'll ask to call them back. That's how I get by paying only about $100 per year for my cell phone.
So, you prefer to have the ability to economize taken away? Really?
Indeed there are, whenever smog is free and clean air costs money.
But the flu virus can only live up to 48 hours outside the body, so it won't survive the trip to Apple inside your computer.
Cite your source, or you're just making stuff up.
Wow, you have it easy! European VAT is 15-25%.
Now you made me forget. What's the problem again?
If you stream the video, you won't be saving anything, so there would be nothing to worry about.
Like oil? That's what we're talking about, isn't it?
Yes, some reserves will take more energy to extract oil than is contained in the oil produced, and that is just like a battery.
Congratulations! You've just disproved the economic viability of charging batteries! What are you going to do next?
Once you add in coal and oil subsidies and the negative externalities of their use, they are no longer quite so cheap.
My Series 2 Tivo can't. You need a dual tuner (DT) TiVo for that.
It's a primitive form of VoIP.
One could make a case that you have it backwards. Without net neutrality regulations, we'll see more co-op ISPs sprout up (like this one) out of need.
Let's use big-endian dates, please (YYYY-MM-DD). It's an ISO standard (specifically, ISO 8601). This is one area where the Greenwichers, who prefer small-endian dates, are wrong.
Is it not "available for use by the general public, as opposed to modes for private use such as automobiles or vehicles for hire"?