Your health? You would die in 55F/12C conditions? Why would you die? That's not very cold. You just need to sleep under a comforter made from the down of free-range geese who die from natural causes. You need to wear a sweater knit from the fur of cageless bunnies after their natural shedding cycle. Sure, these things are ludicrously expensive, but THIS IS THE ENVIRONMENT, DAMNIT!
Apple also uses Gorilla Glass - they just can't use the trademark.
You have to use a case with your phone?
"Have to"? I don't know about "have to". I have an Android now, and I'm pretty sure it would have died on my tile floor by now without a case. On the other hand, I had two iPhones - one with a plastic back and one with a metal back - and they did OK without a case (Though they are scuffed up pretty badly and the power button popped off in one fall. Oddly, the use of the phone was not seriously affected... who knew the power button was superfluous?).
Glass will shatter, but it is harder than plastic. All materials come with a tradeoff.
I think the material debate is kind of absurd anyway, since hardly anyone goes caseless. At this point, they really should just sell sturdy, ugly, phone "guts" and let any company sell cases for it.
What is wrong with a little heavy clothing? Don't you want to save the environment? Help me out here - I'm trying to demonize a certain type of person who appreciates things that I don't.
The first outage was during an earlier Apollo with a dummy payload - they actually failed to achieve their planned orbit and had it been a moon launch, they would have had to scrub. But since it was just a test, and since they thought they knew the solution - they called it a success and did not delay the program.
There are probably people like that, but I feel like I'm just as likely to get caught behind a shitbox as I am a BMW in the merge lane. And I live on a 25 MPH street... mostly it's kids zooming by too fast. I haven't noticed if more fast cars go by speeding than other cars. Paradoxically, it seems that many of the speeders are trying to make it to the daycare center on my street before it closes. I have dreams of shoving cardboard cutouts of their own children in front of their car as they speed by my house, but that seems like something that might not go as intended:)
LOL, no I have a minivan (which is actually pretty fast...) and a 4-cylinder Camry.:) But to be honest, for the number of mile I drive, those could each get 5 MPG and it wouldn't make much difference. We fill the tanks once every few weeks. We're under 5k miles per year on the Camry.
It has the bible belt to want to save God's gift
Those people also believe the world will end in a supernatural way.
U.S. tanks should be the most Eco death machine ever seen.
Or you could just keep having wars where there is plenty of oil;p
What problem? That was my whole point - I don't see the problem. People like big, fast cars, and the market supplies them - that's a pretty good problem to have. Raising the fuel efficiency standards will just make those cars cost more. Your example is an example of this: the 1.6 in the Fiesta is a nice little mass-produced Sigma thing... actually pretty respectable given it's cost. The EcoBoost is more complicated and more expensive. It isn't rocket science - people with too much money have been turbo charging their cars for years. And it's not that much better from a fuel economy point of view - the Ford Escape is available with the old 2.5L normally aspirated and the new 1.6L Ecoboost for $2500 more (you also get a trim-level upgrade). The EPA estimated mileage is almost identical.
Now I'll agree that use of gasoline has it's problems. Personally, I'd like to see the price of gas reflect it's external cost.
For instance, set up a bipartisan commission (like the CBO) to come up with an estimate of what portion of our national defense budget is spent on protecting our oil supplies - then raise that money through gas taxes on oil that comes from that region.
But whether you raise taxes on gas or inflate the price of cars in general through economy standards, it amounts to a regressive tax.
While it is true that European cars tend to be higher-mileage, some of this comes from running diesel (which is more energy rich and uses more crude per volume) and some of this comes from a different test procedure to arrive at the number on the window sticker. For instance, Volkswagen says the powertrain from US Passat that gets 35 MPG gets 61 MPG on the European test. Now, granted, the European Passat is a bit smaller - but still that is a huge difference. I've read (and take this as pure rumor) that European automakers game the test by over-inflating tires and removing side mirrors. There are also accusations that they reprogram the engine computers just for the test.
That won't quite get us there. 60MPG with diesel is only about 53.9 MPG with gasoline. (Diesel fuel contains more energy per gallon, and requires more crude to produce - MPG is not directly comparable.)
Yeah, and if people stopped eating meat we'd need a lot less grain. And if people started keeping their thermostats at 55F, we'd need a lot less gas/electric/oil. If people would top watching TV, that would also save a lot of energy.
But people like to eat meat, they like to stay warm, they like to watch TV... and wait for it... they like fast cars.
I've never liked the start menu. I never liked the whole concept of a bunch of shortcuts all in a single location that almost all point to a bunch of programs in a single location. Wouldn't it be simpler and more direct to just list the programs and doing the organization at the program level? Making a start screen do the exact same thing does nothing to fix that flaw, and really brings it back to the windows 3 interface. The "cool" thing about Windows 95 was that they managed to stick progman into a single fly-out button.
If we knew how much the servicing cost and the expected lifespan & replacement cost of components, we could compare it to the cost of a normal 20~40 year municipal waste bond.
I can help you out a little there... I pay for a service plan which covers the run from the inside plumbing to the street, and it is under $100/year. Assuming the actuaries did their work, the average servicing cost can be assumed to be under $100.
Toilets out in the middle of nowhere do not fit that criteria. So in a sense, it's not an equal comparison.
That's true. But if you have room for a leech field, you can get away with a septic system and don't need a municipal sewer. I think a single acre is more than enough for septic systems. A very nice septic system should cost far, far less than $40,000.
My main goal was to point out that your water & sewer bill at the end of the month doesn't begin to reflect all the money that goes into the average person's 7 flushes per day.
That's a good point, but we're still at least an order of magnitude away from a $4 flush:)
Of course I understand that, but the difference is means as much as it is magnitude. I cannot fly in a rocket, and so it is impossible for me to know how I would choose if I could. And frankly I probably would if I could.
It seems that a Jokaso is a type of septic system with some additional technology. While I'm sure that water from it can be reused, I'm not finding any indication that this is the typical usage. I'm also not finding any common usage of the sludge being used as a fertilizer (at least not by the homeowner). It looks like there are services that haul the sludge away; if you look at these pictures, you'd clearly have to be very brave to retrieve it yourself!
In other words, it is used the same way that we evil, wasteful Westerners use our water.
Before you come down from your high horse, maybe you could use the view to find a country with potable water that does not use it to flush their toilets? Water - even drinkable water - is very cheap in a lot of places.
At least around here, the developer ends up paying for all of the new infrastructure and then the sewer authority or township sanitation department charges you per hookup or based on your water usage. In other words, it's a usage fee that maintains the infrastructure, not a tax.
On the other hand, it is compulsory, so maybe I'm being pedantic.
In any event, the sewers should last - at the least - 40 years. So that is amortized over a loooooong time. There is no way I pay anything approaching $4 per flush.
I was there last night. All the neutral colors and cheesy music... they even have an expensive Italian restaurant with "cafe" style sidewalk seating... in the mall! Cheesy, cheesy, cheesy.
The biggest mall around here has no bookstore, though there is a B&N across the street. Bookstores are kind of fun, but they've lost a lot of their allure for me since the Internet was invented. Also, we have a nice library less than a mile away and another B&N about half the distance to the mall (no wonder they are doing poorly!). The food court is not particularly compelling, though I have to admit that Auntie Ems and Cinnabon are quite tasty. The arcade is long gone, though I did like that when it was there. My kids like the carousel there. I'm not really a big gamer - or at least I've never bought anything from Gamestop. I've bought a few things on Steam and I currently play Minecraft sometimes. I still have a Nintendo 64 that we sometimes play Mario Cart on, but I don't have a Wii or anything like that.
Occasionally I do have to actually purchase clothes. I prefer the Men's Warehouse method of shopping (though not their selection per se): an enthusiastic commissioned salesman brings you stuff he thinks you'll buy. You try it on, buy it, and leave;p
I thought he just created it for convenience. I didn't get the impression that he meant for it to be used all the time - but I have to admit that you seem to have put more thought into it than I have.:)
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Your health? You would die in 55F/12C conditions? Why would you die? That's not very cold. You just need to sleep under a comforter made from the down of free-range geese who die from natural causes. You need to wear a sweater knit from the fur of cageless bunnies after their natural shedding cycle. Sure, these things are ludicrously expensive, but THIS IS THE ENVIRONMENT, DAMNIT!
Apple also uses Gorilla Glass - they just can't use the trademark.
You have to use a case with your phone?
"Have to"? I don't know about "have to". I have an Android now, and I'm pretty sure it would have died on my tile floor by now without a case. On the other hand, I had two iPhones - one with a plastic back and one with a metal back - and they did OK without a case (Though they are scuffed up pretty badly and the power button popped off in one fall. Oddly, the use of the phone was not seriously affected... who knew the power button was superfluous?).
Glass will shatter, but it is harder than plastic. All materials come with a tradeoff.
I think the material debate is kind of absurd anyway, since hardly anyone goes caseless. At this point, they really should just sell sturdy, ugly, phone "guts" and let any company sell cases for it.
What is wrong with a little heavy clothing? Don't you want to save the environment? Help me out here - I'm trying to demonize a certain type of person who appreciates things that I don't.
Damn, and they just laid off all their engineers!
The first outage was during an earlier Apollo with a dummy payload - they actually failed to achieve their planned orbit and had it been a moon launch, they would have had to scrub. But since it was just a test, and since they thought they knew the solution - they called it a success and did not delay the program.
The second outage was, ominously, on Apollo 13.
why would aliens put flashing lights on an interstellar space craft?
The lights are just a byproduct of their faster-than-light communication system.
There are probably people like that, but I feel like I'm just as likely to get caught behind a shitbox as I am a BMW in the merge lane. And I live on a 25 MPH street... mostly it's kids zooming by too fast. I haven't noticed if more fast cars go by speeding than other cars. Paradoxically, it seems that many of the speeders are trying to make it to the daycare center on my street before it closes. I have dreams of shoving cardboard cutouts of their own children in front of their car as they speed by my house, but that seems like something that might not go as intended :)
This is true. I had a Saturn with a whopping 99 HP and a manual transmission. It was no speed demon, but it was quick enough.
Until one day when I had 4 people in it! Oh, lordy... you'd think I'd doubled the weight of the car.
It also got almost 40MPG on the highway. That thing was a bargain, if you were driving solo most of the time.
LOL, no I have a minivan (which is actually pretty fast...) and a 4-cylinder Camry. :) But to be honest, for the number of mile I drive, those could each get 5 MPG and it wouldn't make much difference. We fill the tanks once every few weeks. We're under 5k miles per year on the Camry.
It has the bible belt to want to save God's gift
Those people also believe the world will end in a supernatural way.
U.S. tanks should be the most Eco death machine ever seen.
Or you could just keep having wars where there is plenty of oil ;p
What problem? That was my whole point - I don't see the problem. People like big, fast cars, and the market supplies them - that's a pretty good problem to have. Raising the fuel efficiency standards will just make those cars cost more. Your example is an example of this: the 1.6 in the Fiesta is a nice little mass-produced Sigma thing... actually pretty respectable given it's cost. The EcoBoost is more complicated and more expensive. It isn't rocket science - people with too much money have been turbo charging their cars for years. And it's not that much better from a fuel economy point of view - the Ford Escape is available with the old 2.5L normally aspirated and the new 1.6L Ecoboost for $2500 more (you also get a trim-level upgrade). The EPA estimated mileage is almost identical.
Now I'll agree that use of gasoline has it's problems. Personally, I'd like to see the price of gas reflect it's external cost.
For instance, set up a bipartisan commission (like the CBO) to come up with an estimate of what portion of our national defense budget is spent on protecting our oil supplies - then raise that money through gas taxes on oil that comes from that region.
But whether you raise taxes on gas or inflate the price of cars in general through economy standards, it amounts to a regressive tax.
While it is true that European cars tend to be higher-mileage, some of this comes from running diesel (which is more energy rich and uses more crude per volume) and some of this comes from a different test procedure to arrive at the number on the window sticker. For instance, Volkswagen says the powertrain from US Passat that gets 35 MPG gets 61 MPG on the European test. Now, granted, the European Passat is a bit smaller - but still that is a huge difference. I've read (and take this as pure rumor) that European automakers game the test by over-inflating tires and removing side mirrors. There are also accusations that they reprogram the engine computers just for the test.
That won't quite get us there. 60MPG with diesel is only about 53.9 MPG with gasoline. (Diesel fuel contains more energy per gallon, and requires more crude to produce - MPG is not directly comparable.)
Yeah, and if people stopped eating meat we'd need a lot less grain. And if people started keeping their thermostats at 55F, we'd need a lot less gas/electric/oil. If people would top watching TV, that would also save a lot of energy.
But people like to eat meat, they like to stay warm, they like to watch TV... and wait for it... they like fast cars.
I've never liked the start menu. I never liked the whole concept of a bunch of shortcuts all in a single location that almost all point to a bunch of programs in a single location. Wouldn't it be simpler and more direct to just list the programs and doing the organization at the program level? Making a start screen do the exact same thing does nothing to fix that flaw, and really brings it back to the windows 3 interface. The "cool" thing about Windows 95 was that they managed to stick progman into a single fly-out button.
If we knew how much the servicing cost and the expected lifespan & replacement cost of components,
we could compare it to the cost of a normal 20~40 year municipal waste bond.
I can help you out a little there... I pay for a service plan which covers the run from the inside plumbing to the street, and it is under $100/year. Assuming the actuaries did their work, the average servicing cost can be assumed to be under $100.
Toilets out in the middle of nowhere do not fit that criteria. So in a sense, it's not an equal comparison.
That's true. But if you have room for a leech field, you can get away with a septic system and don't need a municipal sewer. I think a single acre is more than enough for septic systems. A very nice septic system should cost far, far less than $40,000.
My main goal was to point out that your water & sewer bill at the end of the month doesn't begin to reflect all the money that goes into the average person's 7 flushes per day.
That's a good point, but we're still at least an order of magnitude away from a $4 flush :)
Of course I understand that, but the difference is means as much as it is magnitude. I cannot fly in a rocket, and so it is impossible for me to know how I would choose if I could. And frankly I probably would if I could.
It seems that a Jokaso is a type of septic system with some additional technology. While I'm sure that water from it can be reused, I'm not finding any indication that this is the typical usage. I'm also not finding any common usage of the sludge being used as a fertilizer (at least not by the homeowner). It looks like there are services that haul the sludge away; if you look at these pictures, you'd clearly have to be very brave to retrieve it yourself!
In other words, it is used the same way that we evil, wasteful Westerners use our water.
Before you come down from your high horse, maybe you could use the view to find a country with potable water that does not use it to flush their toilets? Water - even drinkable water - is very cheap in a lot of places.
I'm not trying to be anti-government here, but...
At least around here, the developer ends up paying for all of the new infrastructure and then the sewer authority or township sanitation department charges you per hookup or based on your water usage. In other words, it's a usage fee that maintains the infrastructure, not a tax.
On the other hand, it is compulsory, so maybe I'm being pedantic.
In any event, the sewers should last - at the least - 40 years. So that is amortized over a loooooong time. There is no way I pay anything approaching $4 per flush.
You need to get the new peat flavor.
Well, it looks like a full-sized bust of the Queen to me. I'd say that makes it a giant novelty coin, at least half a meter in diameter.
Scotch Tape! And of course, Scotch! I'm not sure if they or the Irish get blame for bagpipes and man-skirts.
Yeah, I detest the mall :)
I was there last night. All the neutral colors and cheesy music... they even have an expensive Italian restaurant with "cafe" style sidewalk seating... in the mall! Cheesy, cheesy, cheesy.
The biggest mall around here has no bookstore, though there is a B&N across the street. Bookstores are kind of fun, but they've lost a lot of their allure for me since the Internet was invented. Also, we have a nice library less than a mile away and another B&N about half the distance to the mall (no wonder they are doing poorly!). The food court is not particularly compelling, though I have to admit that Auntie Ems and Cinnabon are quite tasty. The arcade is long gone, though I did like that when it was there. My kids like the carousel there. I'm not really a big gamer - or at least I've never bought anything from Gamestop. I've bought a few things on Steam and I currently play Minecraft sometimes. I still have a Nintendo 64 that we sometimes play Mario Cart on, but I don't have a Wii or anything like that.
Occasionally I do have to actually purchase clothes. I prefer the Men's Warehouse method of shopping (though not their selection per se): an enthusiastic commissioned salesman brings you stuff he thinks you'll buy. You try it on, buy it, and leave ;p
I thought he just created it for convenience. I didn't get the impression that he meant for it to be used all the time - but I have to admit that you seem to have put more thought into it than I have. :)