"A power plant will emit 10mg of mercury to produce the electricity to run an incandescent bulb compared to only 2.4mg of mercury to run a CFL for the same time"
So you're still ahead, since the DFL only has 4mg in it.
there's a BIOS on the card. If you include the BIOS with the hardware, then you can boot from anything; examples include SCSI and LAN cards, or Flash-based cards in PXE cisco gear.
Look at smoking. Billions of dollars developing, farming, advertising, researching. Anti-smokers and govt spend billions on needless health care, anti-advertising, anti-research.
Common sense and logic seems to dictate that if all these people and all these dollars just stopped tomorrow and went and did something else, like anti cancer research or making a better mouse trap, then this would be a benefit. However, it'd be financially terrible. It's all screwy.
I had a nice fanless silent 486dx as a freesco firewall somewhere for years. There came a business need to setup SSH; the client would timeout waiting for the server to generate the key.
6.) The United Nations found that there is more Methane produced from livestock, which raises global temperature greater than CO2 by a factor of approx. 20, than any human caused CO2 combined (source: http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/i ndex.html [fao.org])
Er. These would be livestock which we rear and breed and slaughter all over the planet? Beef cattle, wool sheep, pork bellies and so forth?
This is a human contributed factor.
In any case, see 1); the USA is still doing nothing newsworthy to allow for a rise in sea levels, let alone all the more subtle and serious problems arising from 1.
Even without agreeing on a cause and tackling that, there aren't even any attempts to mitigate the damage caused by the symptoms, so we still need some global leadership on this.
Doesn't this logic imply that roadside breath testing is inconveniencing mostly sober people since the real criminals just take the back roads, or use weed or speed instead of booze?
Inconveniencing the innocent is quite accepted in many many circumstances, not least of which is security of property, which equates to protection of financial assets.
MS is protecting their financial assets, and my envelope reckoning brings them out to about 15 to 30 bn US in lost income for windows alone on an annual income of about 70 bn (82% profit!). Starting from 600 bn computers on the net and MS's claim of 150 bn activations.
Now I'm no stocks/financial analyst by any means, but it seems to me that they have a duty to attempt to claim this 'missing' revenue; they owe it to the shareholders.
I don't see how reverting to windows9x style anti-piracy will help them do this.
What about when the OEM won't sell it to you? It's not as though Dell will sell me windows 2000 OEM any more anyway. It doesn't work the way that you think it does, when MS stop feeding the channel with XP at one end, it's only a matter of time before all the supplies dry up.
Just because something is good advice, doesn't mean it comes from God.
Just because some parts of a work are sound, one shouldn't extrapolate that to the untestable parts of the work.
For example:
If you pick flowers, they usually die within two weeks. You will be happy every day of your life if you send me five hundred dollars. It is often unwise to borrow more than you can afford to repay, especially at high interest rates.
See? Test the first part, see if it's true, then send me the $500!
Not following stupid ruiles is called civil disobedience, and it is sometimes a good idea. You extrapolate from civil disobedience to ipod/wallet theft, goodness is subjective. If he was REALLY a theiving type then he'd be keeping a low profile, so as not to be noticed by the cops.
In any case, it's not OK to back up procedural rules like this with violence. Everyone in the USA paid for that library with their tax dollars, so why it's only open to students I have no idea. Leaving that aside though, because the rule is what it is, just because you are happy to live as a brown-nosing suckup to a stupid ill-educated gunman doesn't meant that everyone else should. You are proposing a specific mode of social behaviour for everyone, and you seem to think that failure to adhere to this code of behaviour result should result in arbitrary serious assault, with no subsequent penalities of any kind for the officers involved. I note that you don't think it's acceptable to taser him for actually breaking the rule that was given, but that you do think it's ok for him to be zapped for speaking! If you think that you are a good person for condoning this behaviour; you aren't.
If you really "want the cops out looking for bank robbers, [not] wasting their time teaching a child how act", then you shouldn't send them into university libraries to remove students without ID Cards. They probably agree with you and would rather be busting people for more worthwhile crimes too.
The university is a place of study and learning, and apparently that's what he was doing. Who cares if the dude hasn't got the correct papers (comrade!), it's disgusting that in the USA not having your ID results in this sort of situation at any civilian facility. People aren't cattle and tasers are not appropriate replacements for negotiation and persuasion.
Land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy.
It's also about the context when it can be used. I like the nightmare scenario where if you are found to be disseminating information or data of any kind, at any time, to any one, the copyright cops can fine you $1,320. You may choose to contest this in court if you wish, but if you lose you pay costs; and you'll be the one having to prove authorship or permission.
If this law gets enacted and is actually used in this way, it's a potentially useful aid in keeping a population quiet!
There is plenty of warming here, find some photos of the antarctic over the last fifty years.
More overall heat leads to more overall movement, so high and low pressure areas are larger and more intense. We've had a range of maximums of 16 to 31 in less than a week here; it snowed in Queensland and snowed on some of our summer bushfires in the blue mountains.
That same pressure cell which is pulling up cold antarctic air for us is also dumping plenty of warm air down there as winds on the other side of the cell push north to south, which will of course lead to more melting.
What happens when demand from the wealthy is strong enough for a commodity in short supply? We use around 85 milllion barrels a day, so suppose china and the USA and western europe and India are all willing and capable to buy all that at, say, $150 a barrel (just pretend...)
This means that all the countries that just can't afford that price, perhaps easter europe, Africa, souther asia and so on, don't get any oil.
This means that people starve and die, which in turn means millions of refugees. Does economics propose that people in the west then pay a premium to these people to stay where they are, or do we just shoot them?
I suspect that there is more to this than you think.
Can you name any countries that have never been a police state, even in wartime?
Of those countries you can name, how many have never singled out a particular group for rounding up and incaceration, on the basis that they are a member of that group?
If you think about it seriously in context, then each country is likely to experience all forms of government over time, unless of course the whole game changes and the concept of a country is abandoned altogether.
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So why not sell them Ubuntu, with an original CD, for $50, and offer support?
It's not rocket science, and you can get traction in the market by offering dual-boot for those who DO buy windows.
If you have never bought something from MS, and you won't, then you're not a customer.
This is the guy from junkscience.com, he's not objective.
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Now according to the EPA (allegedly) http://www.nema.org/lamprecycle/epafactsheet-cfl.
"A power plant will emit 10mg of mercury to produce
the electricity to run an incandescent bulb compared to only
2.4mg of mercury to run a CFL for the same time"
So you're still ahead, since the DFL only has 4mg in it.
there's a BIOS on the card. If you include the BIOS with the hardware, then you can boot from anything; examples include SCSI and LAN cards, or Flash-based cards in PXE cisco gear.
unless you run windows, and get an update, or try to, or windows tries to, or thinks that it did, or you have WGA; or something.
Economics is weird.
Look at smoking. Billions of dollars developing, farming, advertising, researching. Anti-smokers and govt spend billions on needless health care, anti-advertising, anti-research.
Common sense and logic seems to dictate that if all these people and all these dollars just stopped tomorrow and went and did something else, like anti cancer research or making a better mouse trap, then this would be a benefit. However, it'd be financially terrible. It's all screwy.
Yes it is. Of course it is. Why the hell would you need to give it rights? If you have to give it rights, why make it?
"Perhaps I'm a bit paranoid, but my caution has kept me from ever having one of my computers compromised."
You shoudn't say things like that here, many regard that as a gauntlet....!
GM Food makes people warlike, aggressive and Christian?
I had a nice fanless silent 486dx as a freesco firewall somewhere for years. There came a business need to setup SSH; the client would timeout waiting for the server to generate the key.
So it got upgraded. It's a shame really.
6.) The United Nations found that there is more Methane produced from livestock, which raises global temperature greater than CO2 by a factor of approx. 20, than any human caused CO2 combined (source: http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/i ndex.html [fao.org])
Er. These would be livestock which we rear and breed and slaughter all over the planet? Beef cattle, wool sheep, pork bellies and so forth?
This is a human contributed factor.
In any case, see 1); the USA is still doing nothing newsworthy to allow for a rise in sea levels, let alone all the more subtle and serious problems arising from 1.
Even without agreeing on a cause and tackling that, there aren't even any attempts to mitigate the damage caused by the symptoms, so we still need some global leadership on this.
Doesn't this logic imply that roadside breath testing is inconveniencing mostly sober people since the real criminals just take the back roads, or use weed or speed instead of booze?
Inconveniencing the innocent is quite accepted in many many circumstances, not least of which is security of property, which equates to protection of financial assets.
MS is protecting their financial assets, and my envelope reckoning brings them out to about 15 to 30 bn US in lost income for windows alone on an annual income of about 70 bn (82% profit!). Starting from 600 bn computers on the net and MS's claim of 150 bn activations.
Now I'm no stocks/financial analyst by any means, but it seems to me that they have a duty to attempt to claim this 'missing' revenue; they owe it to the shareholders.
I don't see how reverting to windows9x style anti-piracy will help them do this.
What about when the OEM won't sell it to you? It's not as though Dell will sell me windows 2000 OEM any more anyway. It doesn't work the way that you think it does, when MS stop feeding the channel with XP at one end, it's only a matter of time before all the supplies dry up.
What about postal mail? What about a conversation between two people on someone else's private property?
.gov get enough of their own spam to allow prosecution?
Besides, doesn't
Just because something is good advice, doesn't mean it comes from God.
Just because some parts of a work are sound, one shouldn't extrapolate that to the untestable parts of the work.
For example:
If you pick flowers, they usually die within two weeks.
You will be happy every day of your life if you send me five hundred dollars.
It is often unwise to borrow more than you can afford to repay, especially at high interest rates.
See? Test the first part, see if it's true, then send me the $500!
Not following stupid ruiles is called civil disobedience, and it is sometimes a good idea. You extrapolate from civil disobedience to ipod/wallet theft, goodness is subjective. If he was REALLY a theiving type then he'd be keeping a low profile, so as not to be noticed by the cops.
In any case, it's not OK to back up procedural rules like this with violence. Everyone in the USA paid for that library with their tax dollars, so why it's only open to students I have no idea. Leaving that aside though, because the rule is what it is, just because you are happy to live as a brown-nosing suckup to a stupid ill-educated gunman doesn't meant that everyone else should. You are proposing a specific mode of social behaviour for everyone, and you seem to think that failure to adhere to this code of behaviour result should result in arbitrary serious assault, with no subsequent penalities of any kind for the officers involved. I note that you don't think it's acceptable to taser him for actually breaking the rule that was given, but that you do think it's ok for him to be zapped for speaking! If you think that you are a good person for condoning this behaviour; you aren't.
If you really "want the cops out looking for bank robbers, [not] wasting their time teaching a child how act", then you shouldn't send them into university libraries to remove students without ID Cards. They probably agree with you and would rather be busting people for more worthwhile crimes too.
The university is a place of study and learning, and apparently that's what he was doing. Who cares if the dude hasn't got the correct papers (comrade!), it's disgusting that in the USA not having your ID results in this sort of situation at any civilian facility. People aren't cattle and tasers are not appropriate replacements for negotiation and persuasion.
Land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy.
They do; that's why they fail early.
If someone was electrocuted, they are dead. If they are alive, then they were not electrocuted. The word carries fatality as part of its meaning.
Not if we swtich to gas and liquids made from Coal.
It's also about the context when it can be used. I like the nightmare scenario where if you are found to be disseminating information or data of any kind, at any time, to any one, the copyright cops can fine you $1,320. You may choose to contest this in court if you wish, but if you lose you pay costs; and you'll be the one having to prove authorship or permission.
If this law gets enacted and is actually used in this way, it's a potentially useful aid in keeping a population quiet!
At least you could try and get the colour glossy photographs barred as inadmissable evidence under the new copyright laws.
buffon.
There is plenty of warming here, find some photos of the antarctic over the last fifty years.
More overall heat leads to more overall movement, so high and low pressure areas are larger and more intense. We've had a range of maximums of 16 to 31 in less than a week here; it snowed in Queensland and snowed on some of our summer bushfires in the blue mountains.
That same pressure cell which is pulling up cold antarctic air for us is also dumping plenty of warm air down there as winds on the other side of the cell push north to south, which will of course lead to more melting.
Suppose you have food in the fridge, and money in the bank.
You look in the fridge and see that the food won't last longer than, say, two days, and mention this to your spouse.
The response comes that "Someone will buy some more".
Well, this is a little bit like peak oil, except that we don't have any money and we don't know where the shops are.
It's not enough to say that someone will "invent newer and better technologies", what's required is the actual machines that do what we want!
Who's building the tech? Who's investing in it? What does it do?
More to the point, it will cost money, which will... raise the price of oil! QED, technology will not prevent the demise of CHEAP oil.
Well,
What happens when demand from the wealthy is strong enough for a commodity in short supply? We use around 85 milllion barrels a day, so suppose china and the USA and western europe and India are all willing and capable to buy all that at, say, $150 a barrel (just pretend...)
This means that all the countries that just can't afford that price, perhaps easter europe, Africa, souther asia and so on, don't get any oil.
This means that people starve and die, which in turn means millions of refugees. Does economics propose that people in the west then pay a premium to these people to stay where they are, or do we just shoot them?
I suspect that there is more to this than you think.
Can you name any countries that have never been a police state, even in wartime?
Of those countries you can name, how many have never singled out a particular group for rounding up and incaceration, on the basis that they are a member of that group?
If you think about it seriously in context, then each country is likely to experience all forms of government over time, unless of course the whole game changes and the concept of a country is abandoned altogether.