So your logic is, "we cut a bunch of trees down and got away with it so it must be OK to do more of it. This effect is further mitigated by the fact that elsewhere, things are even worse"?
You call up the nukies and ask for a few extra megaWatts in a few hours and they just flip you the bird. They're good for the steady baseline
Why not just make that baseline high enough to handle peak load? Wastage isn't really a problem with modern nuclear since it is so clean and we have so much nuclear fuel to use.
Depends what you're doing and what how your mind works. Personally if I wer trying to concentrate on developing something, it would usually be a serious distraction to have people talking all around me.
I much prefer working with Swiss or Germans - many of the ones I've worked with won't do much more than a 9 hour day, but they'll work very hard during those 9.
Are you really suggesting that a 9 hour day is some kind of acceptable norm or am I misunderstanding you? You guys should be aiming for a maximum of 40 hours / wk for a decent work/life balance.
Why do places ban plastic bags, anyway? The worst you can say about them is that they are sometimes unightly when they get into the environment, and the odd marine animal is killed by them. They use a bit of oil and energy to produce, but their environmental footprint isn't that bad, and arguably less bad than thick, long-term plastic bags (and certainly than paper bags). They're convenient as hell because you don't need to lug your reusable bags to the supermarket every time. And if you so wish, you can continue to re-use them for storage once you get them home.
Personally I continue to use disposable plastic bags because I don't see a good reason to switch. I rather resent governments imposing this "green" plastic bag ban on people. It may turn out to be as misguided as the "green" bans on nuclear power.
Must admit, although I primarily use Firefox or Chome; I have no problems at all with IE. I don't understand why people would "cheer for its demise". IE9 is a good browser,
My issue with it is developer tools. Firefox has Firebug, Chrome has Firebug-clone built-in, and IE9 has some crappy popup window when you press F12 which confuses me. I generally develop with Firefox and Chrome and tinker with things to get it working in IE.
Curiously, the opposite is true for me - if I have a short nap during the day I'll usually feel really yucky and sluggish when I wake up. Each to their own.
So instead of paying to be legal, you tell us to pay to use a service (newsgroups/vpn/seedbox) that can still allow you to be flagged criminal? I though the main goal of piracy was not to pay at all
Another reason is so that you can have DRM-free content that you won't be expected to keep paying for in perpetuity, or be forced to sit through ads beforehand/during to be allowed to watch.
Regarding these drone strikes (and indefinite detention, for that matter) I've been silent because I don't understand the controversy
You don't see a problem with killing innocents in double-tap operations and dodgy definitions of enemy combatants as "anyone who gets killed by our drones", nor holding people indefinitely without charge? I don't think there's anything more to say, really. Just, fuck you if you really believe that.
The War on Terror is deliberately blurry to the point that any organization suspected of subversion can be considered an enemy. Even if they aren't citizens, does that make it just? You live in a fantasy world where the U.S. government can do no wrong.
That's what you get in a country where all the kids are brought up to be "proud to be American", even if they abhor what their government (supported by a significant number of the general population) is doing.
Amen to nested discussions. I guess having a single flat thread for everything is easier for beginners... you just click on the thread and the posts are all meant to be "to do with the title" rather than perhaps some tangent the thread has gone off on. That said, threads do and will go off on tangents, so nested-threading is a great way to acknowledge that.
I basically agree. Strangely, the "log in" screen is inferior IMHO to Stack Exchanges, which implements a proper full-on OpenID login; this just has the usual suspects (log in with Google, log in with Facebook...)
The historical incompatiblity of the korean and chinese ethnicities (including a lack of common writing or spoken language even though part of the same language family)
Well it would only be temporary wouldn't it? Most would move back to Korea once it was restored.
Surely Seoul could be evacuated quickly, and rebuilt once NK was defeated and there was a united Korea. It sucks, but South Korea has done a great job of developing quickly over the last 50 years and I'm sure they could do it again even more quickly.
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Shame you still have to pay the BBC tax.
So your logic is, "we cut a bunch of trees down and got away with it so it must be OK to do more of it. This effect is further mitigated by the fact that elsewhere, things are even worse"?
You call up the nukies and ask for a few extra megaWatts in a few hours and they just flip you the bird. They're good for the steady baseline
Why not just make that baseline high enough to handle peak load? Wastage isn't really a problem with modern nuclear since it is so clean and we have so much nuclear fuel to use.
Depends what you're doing and what how your mind works. Personally if I wer trying to concentrate on developing something, it would usually be a serious distraction to have people talking all around me.
I much prefer working with Swiss or Germans - many of the ones I've worked with won't do much more than a 9 hour day, but they'll work very hard during those 9.
Are you really suggesting that a 9 hour day is some kind of acceptable norm or am I misunderstanding you? You guys should be aiming for a maximum of 40 hours / wk for a decent work/life balance.
In places like Florida, Stand Your Ground lets them legally shoot you dead for that.
Why do places ban plastic bags, anyway? The worst you can say about them is that they are sometimes unightly when they get into the environment, and the odd marine animal is killed by them. They use a bit of oil and energy to produce, but their environmental footprint isn't that bad, and arguably less bad than thick, long-term plastic bags (and certainly than paper bags). They're convenient as hell because you don't need to lug your reusable bags to the supermarket every time. And if you so wish, you can continue to re-use them for storage once you get them home.
Personally I continue to use disposable plastic bags because I don't see a good reason to switch. I rather resent governments imposing this "green" plastic bag ban on people. It may turn out to be as misguided as the "green" bans on nuclear power.
Define "quite harmful". In the context of global warming, the Deepwater Horizon spill, etc. does it really matter that much?
Weak. I don't even HAVE a server! Try rooting THAT!
Must admit, although I primarily use Firefox or Chome; I have no problems at all with IE. I don't understand why people would "cheer for its demise". IE9 is a good browser,
My issue with it is developer tools. Firefox has Firebug, Chrome has Firebug-clone built-in, and IE9 has some crappy popup window when you press F12 which confuses me. I generally develop with Firefox and Chrome and tinker with things to get it working in IE.
Curiously, the opposite is true for me - if I have a short nap during the day I'll usually feel really yucky and sluggish when I wake up. Each to their own.
Are carpenters allowed to establish guidelines for how surgeons will do heart surgery?
Depends on whether they are carpenters from Bethlehem or not.
Yep. I have a 465.66 gibibyte hard drive.
So instead of paying to be legal, you tell us to pay to use a service (newsgroups/vpn/seedbox) that can still allow you to be flagged criminal? I though the main goal of piracy was not to pay at all
Another reason is so that you can have DRM-free content that you won't be expected to keep paying for in perpetuity, or be forced to sit through ads beforehand/during to be allowed to watch.
Not to mention that they generally agree with Obama's more fascist policies.
Quite right. I propose a new law that only peanut farmers be allowed to run for presidency.
Regarding these drone strikes (and indefinite detention, for that matter) I've been silent because I don't understand the controversy
You don't see a problem with killing innocents in double-tap operations and dodgy definitions of enemy combatants as "anyone who gets killed by our drones", nor holding people indefinitely without charge? I don't think there's anything more to say, really. Just, fuck you if you really believe that.
The War on Terror is deliberately blurry to the point that any organization suspected of subversion can be considered an enemy. Even if they aren't citizens, does that make it just? You live in a fantasy world where the U.S. government can do no wrong.
That's what you get in a country where all the kids are brought up to be "proud to be American", even if they abhor what their government (supported by a significant number of the general population) is doing.
Amen to nested discussions. I guess having a single flat thread for everything is easier for beginners... you just click on the thread and the posts are all meant to be "to do with the title" rather than perhaps some tangent the thread has gone off on. That said, threads do and will go off on tangents, so nested-threading is a great way to acknowledge that.
I basically agree. Strangely, the "log in" screen is inferior IMHO to Stack Exchanges, which implements a proper full-on OpenID login; this just has the usual suspects (log in with Google, log in with Facebook...)
Talk to each other? They virtually are each other!
"from Facebook"? So people can post to here directly from Facebook now? I can see the quality going downhill fast.....
So they edited out the scenes where guys could be seen holding weapons.
Weapons that could take down a helicopter gunship?
The historical incompatiblity of the korean and chinese ethnicities (including a lack of common writing or spoken language even though part of the same language family)
Well it would only be temporary wouldn't it? Most would move back to Korea once it was restored.
Surely Seoul could be evacuated quickly, and rebuilt once NK was defeated and there was a united Korea. It sucks, but South Korea has done a great job of developing quickly over the last 50 years and I'm sure they could do it again even more quickly.