There is no speed limit on the Autobahn, due in part to the fact that it's illegal to pass on the right. You can drive at any speed you like, and it's perfectly safe, as long as you're in one of the left lanes. So this is the first law we need to pass.
What's to stop slow moving vehicles from driving in the left lanes and blocking fast moving vehicles? There's already a law against obstructing traffic, but it doesn't get enforced because traffic can pass on the right, and therefore slow moving vehicles in the left lanes aren't obstructing other vehicles. Making it illegal to pass on the right would change that.
If you want to pin the recent increases on Man and CO2, then you need to explain how the past increases came to be and why the current increases are not driven by the same forces.
No, the burden of proof is on the climate skeptics to prove that CO2 is not a greenhouse gas, or that CO2 is not increasing, or that man is not causing the increase.
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As long as you're using a continuous piece of metal to keep it on the road, you could energize that metal and eliminate the need for batteries.
Longer term though, the bandwidth caps are going to do more to curb the problem on the Internet than anything law enforcement could ever do.
Longer term than that, bandwidth caps will be replaced by variable pricing, so people will simply schedule their downloads for the wee hours when it's cheaper or free, similar to unlimited nights and weekends on your cellular plan.
People already schedule their downloads for the early hours, but for another reason (QoS).
At 468 passenger-mpg, people would take trains more often if the market failure were fixed by adding the external cost of carbon to the price of fuel. A demand curve shows how price affects demand.
SG meter data can also be used to uncover hidden sources of power generation within your property, so if you hide your usage to maintain your privacy, that will likely be accessible to any adversarial party that requests it.
If you're concerned about privacy, you won't use net metering. Run your excess power generation into a bank of batteries, and draw from that in order to keep a fairly constant demand from the power grid.
The idea is to charge you more for the electricity that costs them more to generate.
Looking at the other side of the coin, it also lets them charge less for electricity that costs them less to generate, giving people a new opportunity to save money.
So the smart grid will use consumer demand to reduce their need to supply.
And part of that is reducing the need to build additional, costly, unsightly power plants.
The whole pipeline of operations is in one command. I don't have to load program A, do steps 1-2, load program B, do step 3, load program C, do step 4.
Instead, that long command with pipes has to keep loading, unloading, and reloading each tool (newspost, pamscale, pnmquant, ppmtogif) for each and every image file. O(n) is not as efficient as the O(1) of using a GUI which you only have to load once. So on large numbers of image files, the GUI becomes more efficient, despite the additional amount of handholding needed.
Who says a single command line utility need to do that?
You did, when you asked if Irfanview can uuencode and post to usenet.
I can do it in a single command line, though.
Writing a single command like that is only worth the effort if you plan to reuse it. Otherwise, you're just going to do everything in it one step at a time, which is exactly how you would use GUI tools. No CLI necessary.
If the revenue from congestion tolling a road is invested back into the road, it lowers the amount of money that must be collected from the gas tax in order to maintain the road. Therefore, congestion pricing transfers wealth from people who can afford the market rate for travel during peak periods to those who can only afford the off-peak rates.
In other words, you serve your sentence, and then an unappealable, arbitrary decision, by one guy, can have you spend the rest of your life in jail.
It sounds like you believe the sole purpose of prison is revenge against the offender. I don't want to live in a society where that's the purpose of justice.
As producer James Lambie writes, 'Ultimately, the digital native's disenchantment with voting is based less on a lack of suitable technology and more on disillusionment with the craven and anemic political choices they are presented with.'"
Actually, the two are closely linked. As Duverger's Law tells us, the reason there are few choices is because our plurality voting system favors a two-party system. Because preferential systems like Instant Runoff and Condorcet work best with electronic ballots, suitable technology is almost a prerequisite for overcoming Lambie's "anemic political choices" problem.
While that's mostly true (with the possible exception of the Superbowl commercials), some people consider watching ads to be preferable to the alternatives, such as paying for premium channels, or spending money on a DVR, or getting off the couch and walking out of the room when an ad comes on, or simply not watching television at all. If people disliked ads so much that they never watched them, then ad-supported television would quickly cease to exist.
So "people do not want to watch ads" doesn't tell the complete story.
Name a few that can work when others are not working?
If you're trying to prove that demand for electrical usage during peak periods is perfectly inelastic, then the burden of proof is on you, because hardly anything has perfectly inelastic demand.
Considering the demand curve, when would you propose to cook dinner?
If you you'll notice, peak demand is at 6pm, and it drops from there. So if people can cook dinner at 5pm or wait until 7pm, they'll save money. Or if they can do it at 4pm or wait until 8pm, they'll save even more money. And so on and so on until 7am, when demand starts to rise again.
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I hope this computer resurrects the lost art of using the turn signal.
That's exactly my point. It isn't obstructing traffic if traffic can still pass on the right. This is why the law doesn't get enforced.
There is no speed limit on the Autobahn, due in part to the fact that it's illegal to pass on the right. You can drive at any speed you like, and it's perfectly safe, as long as you're in one of the left lanes. So this is the first law we need to pass.
What's to stop slow moving vehicles from driving in the left lanes and blocking fast moving vehicles? There's already a law against obstructing traffic, but it doesn't get enforced because traffic can pass on the right, and therefore slow moving vehicles in the left lanes aren't obstructing other vehicles. Making it illegal to pass on the right would change that.
No, the burden of proof is on the climate skeptics to prove that CO2 is not a greenhouse gas, or that CO2 is not increasing, or that man is not causing the increase.
As long as you're using a continuous piece of metal to keep it on the road, you could energize that metal and eliminate the need for batteries.
...because Best Buy has demonstrated a lack of respect for this particular group of employees by giving them a derogatory title.
Longer term than that, bandwidth caps will be replaced by variable pricing, so people will simply schedule their downloads for the wee hours when it's cheaper or free, similar to unlimited nights and weekends on your cellular plan.
People already schedule their downloads for the early hours, but for another reason (QoS).
At 468 passenger-mpg, people would take trains more often if the market failure were fixed by adding the external cost of carbon to the price of fuel. A demand curve shows how price affects demand.
Republicans don't believe in negative externalities, because it would force them to change their lifestyles.
If you're concerned about privacy, you won't use net metering. Run your excess power generation into a bank of batteries, and draw from that in order to keep a fairly constant demand from the power grid.
Looking at the other side of the coin, it also lets them charge less for electricity that costs them less to generate, giving people a new opportunity to save money.
And part of that is reducing the need to build additional, costly, unsightly power plants.
Instead, that long command with pipes has to keep loading, unloading, and reloading each tool (newspost, pamscale, pnmquant, ppmtogif) for each and every image file. O(n) is not as efficient as the O(1) of using a GUI which you only have to load once. So on large numbers of image files, the GUI becomes more efficient, despite the additional amount of handholding needed.
You did, when you asked if Irfanview can uuencode and post to usenet.
Writing a single command like that is only worth the effort if you plan to reuse it. Otherwise, you're just going to do everything in it one step at a time, which is exactly how you would use GUI tools. No CLI necessary.
Which one single command line utility does those plus adjust the resolution and aspect ratio? I don't think it exists.
Irfanview lets you do that, and it doesn't require a CLI.
If the revenue from congestion tolling a road is invested back into the road, it lowers the amount of money that must be collected from the gas tax in order to maintain the road. Therefore, congestion pricing transfers wealth from people who can afford the market rate for travel during peak periods to those who can only afford the off-peak rates.
And because the gas tax and other user fees only cover 65% of the cost of the roads, then congestion pricing also reduces the road's maintenance burden on people who cannot afford to drive at all.
Given that traffic congestion is a shortage of available road space for the number of motorists who want to use it at a particular time, the solution is obvious to anyone with an ounce of economic sense: stop setting the price below the going rate determined by supply and demand. Get rid of the government-imposed price ceilings on freeway travel, and suddenly the traffic jams will start to clear up.
Ideally, the price should rise and fall throughout the day to keep demand constant and prevent overcharging anyone.
Make it easier for the hospital to garnish the wages of the uninsured patient and to bill the federal government for any shortfall.
It sounds like you believe the sole purpose of prison is revenge against the offender. I don't want to live in a society where that's the purpose of justice.
Except your free market allows monopolies which prevent the market from giving people what they want.
Actually, the two are closely linked. As Duverger's Law tells us, the reason there are few choices is because our plurality voting system favors a two-party system. Because preferential systems like Instant Runoff and Condorcet work best with electronic ballots, suitable technology is almost a prerequisite for overcoming Lambie's "anemic political choices" problem.
While that's mostly true (with the possible exception of the Superbowl commercials), some people consider watching ads to be preferable to the alternatives, such as paying for premium channels, or spending money on a DVR, or getting off the couch and walking out of the room when an ad comes on, or simply not watching television at all. If people disliked ads so much that they never watched them, then ad-supported television would quickly cease to exist.
So "people do not want to watch ads" doesn't tell the complete story.
Paradoxically, this test proves otherwise.
If you're trying to prove that demand for electrical usage during peak periods is perfectly inelastic, then the burden of proof is on you, because hardly anything has perfectly inelastic demand.
If you you'll notice, peak demand is at 6pm, and it drops from there. So if people can cook dinner at 5pm or wait until 7pm, they'll save money. Or if they can do it at 4pm or wait until 8pm, they'll save even more money. And so on and so on until 7am, when demand starts to rise again.
Off-peak supply will be raised in order to accommodate higher off-peak demand as a result of time-of-use pricing.