The sad point is that by killing the coral reef they are destroying the ocean's ecosystem. Forget about the military implications, this is something that the international community needs to stand up and punish China for.
Even though coral reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor, they support an estimated 25 percent of all marine life, with more than 4,000 species of fish alone. In fact, coral reefs are some of the most diverse ecosystems in the world with thousands of species relying on reefs for survival. They also serve as important sources of food, income, protection, and new medicines for mankind.
Since they came out with ethanol added gasoline I have found it more important to get ethanol free fuel than get a cheaper price.
Have you seen what ethanol does when it sits?
It separates and trashes lawnmowers/chainsaws/weedeaters/generators and anything that goes any length of time between starts.
What ive noticed is high traffic areas tend to have ethanol added (near walmart) and everywhere else that actually needs the fuel to bring the traffic has ethanol free fuel.
I know exactly what you mean. I went on vacation with my RV and had to go through Texas. In Texas you can't get real gasoline, only what I call "Mazola". After I got back from Texas, my generator stopped working. It would only run if I used my finger to manually force the idler to idle higher. I replaced spark plugs, replaced fuel filter, drained the old fuel which was not even pure Mazola, but a mix of mostly real gas, with some leftover Mazola, put all new fuel, used about two cans of Sea foam, which also seemed to help it run better. Took the carb off and let it soak in carb cleaner, Made sure all the jets were clear. After about 20 hours of work, I was able to get it to run pretty consistently, but it will still occasionally just stop running on long trips, though it usually starts right back up. Basically, the gas permanently ruined the generator, and it is in limp mode.
I never run any of my lawn equipment on Mazola. I know people who live in Texas who actually make runs up to Oklahoma with dozens of gas cans to buy real gas and take it back to Texas to run their equipment.
I really can't believe that it is legal to sell E10. At the very least, they need to put a warning not to use it in any sort of small engine and not to use it if the intended motor is going to sit unused for more than a week or two. The stations need to be required to sell real gasoline so that people can purchase it for use in small equipment.
Most of us are looking forward to the advent of autonomous vehicles.
When you say "most of us", I assume you mean most of the people hanging out with you... and you are by yourself. Because I literally don't know anybody that is looking forward to this.
Then of course there's MADD. I assure you that more than one of the neoprohibitionist protofascists behind that organization is crosseyed with rage at the idea of cars that can safely take people home even if they've committed the mortal sin of alcohol consumption. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that some MADD type had gotten so angry that she kicked her little yapping lap dog right through the living room picture window at the mere thought of an autonomous vehicle.
You must be that one guy who doesn't know anybody that has been killed by a drunk driver. Most of us know at least one, if not two or three. I assure you MADD is against drunk driving and not against drinking. I am not a member of their organization, but I think I hate drunk driver's just as much as they do, and drunk drivers deserve every bit of hatred toward them and more.
In my country the schools start sexual education on a very young age and also show pornographic content and how it is made behind the scenes to learn children that it is all fake
Pornography in the studio is all (well 99%) fake, but there is plenty of pornography on the internet that is just people filming themselves having sex.
Because you told them that because they looked at one image in a magazine that they were addicted. You set them up to answer that way, likely by saying 'Are you addicted to porn' while shaking your head yes at them suggestively.
Well, 10% were worried that they were addicted, and the other 90% weren't worried about it all, because they are smart enough to know that puberty is puberty.
do you leave the laptop on overnight? most people turn their laptops off when they're not using them. This leaves the laptop with little opportunity to download the updates and get them ready for installing.
I leave mine on at night, but it doesn't matter. It still doesn't attempt to install them until you are in a hurry to shut down and leave.
Are they going to ship it to me for free within two days? No, it is Amazon Prime's streaming service. I can't figure why those are bundled together. I'm sure it's great for people who subscribe. But I am not going to subscribe just for Top Gear, and I don't buy enough online to justify the monthly fees. I don't like streaming content. I'd rather have a DVD.
People enjoy the fact he acts an arse, him actually being an arse is a bit different. People often love "characters" on television they would despise in real life, sadly Clarkson let his idiot persona take over his real one.
Yes, exactly. People love Woody Allen movies about sexual deviants. If he had made a movie about hooking up with his adopted daughter, people would have loved it. When he did it in real life, people were shocked, although they now have come to accept it.
Once I see the "windows is shutting down" screen, I'm walking away. I don't care how long it takes.
...unless, of course, it says, "Installing updates. Do Not Turn Off Computer..." and you're late for work where you need to take the laptop in question.
I've never understood why it can't do this during the 10 hours a night that I am not using the laptop instead of doing it when I need to quickly shut down and leave the house or quickly shut down and leave work.
Auto ownership has probably hit it's peak, self-driving cars will make the expense of individual ownership less and less appealing in general. And owning an ICE for road trips is ridiculous. Just rent the car.
When did we reach the conclusion that self driving cars is some sort of given fact?
It is interesting to note that the average age of cars on the road in the US now is at an all time high. The "pundits" wring their hands trying to discover the cause of this "anomaly", when anyone with half a brain knows the answer:
People are sick and tired of car payments and insurance payments.
I would say two reasons:
1. Cars today last longer than they used to.
2. New cars today are not affordable by the lower or middle class.
(As if leaving everything broken was a valid option and he was doing us some big favor by fixing what broke.)
As a landlord I can tell you that tenants do expect things to get fixed that if they lived in the home, they would not bother to fix, and there are definitely things in my own home that I cannot afford to fix and so I leave them broken.
Can the electric grid handle charging that many cars every night?
In 2014, the United States produced 4,093 billion kilowatthours of electricity. There are 254 million cars in the United States. It takes about 30 kilowatthoursto charge a completely drained small electric vehicle. Assuming that a car needs to be charged only every other day, this represents 3.75 billion kilowatt hours of electricity every night, or over the year, about 334 times our current electrical usage.
What! Windows 10 isn't sophisticated enough to figure out if it is running on a tablet?
It's less a "tablet mode" and more a "touchscreen mode", and no, Windows 10 isn't sophisticated enough to figure out if you're going to use your mouse or your touchscreen to interact with your computer before you do.
Well, that is something else entirely, then. They should call it touchscreen mode. Tablet mode sounds like you would want to use it on a tablet.
I have yet to figure out this obsession some people have with screen space. Bitching about three friggin' toolbars?
Tablets have insufficient screen space. Wasting any of it is sacrilege. I would complain about three toolbars, too. I have zero toolbars on firefox, That seems to be about the correct number.
The fastest way to launch a program is to click on a shortcut.
That's what the "metro screen" gave us. It can definitely fit more shortcuts on the screen than win7's little "All Programs" scrolly section where you can hunt for the one you want.
I have to assume you are being sarcastic since it is pretty clearly impossible that the screen could fit more of the gigantic icons that constituted metro, than to fit a couple of words in standard font and which also allows nesting of structures.
I know this is completely anecdotal and very short-term data, but for the three developers we upgraded to 10 last night they haven't had a crash yet or even had to reboot because Windows becomes too slow to use. We typically reboot three times a day, so assuming they can make it another couple hours before they reboot tonight, that means they will have cut the number of reboots per day by a third! That is signification since it usually takes us almost an hour to get VisualStudio, SQL server, IIS, etc. back up and running. For our typical ten hour work day, that's three hours per day wasted! If we can cut that to one hour, we've saved ten hours per week. I'm hoping 10 remains working as well as it has so far!
That's pretty bad. If I have to reboot at all during the day I assume something is seriously wrong with the computer. I am on Windows 7, which is fairly stable. At home, I don't ever reboot Windows 7. It runs until the stupid updates makes it reboot. It literally never gets slow or crashes.
So you follow the drone, remaining on public property and filming with your phone. If it lands on private property, like someone's yard, you call the cops to come to that location. If it lands on public property, like a park, you film the person or people that recover it and call the cops to come to that location.
Yeah, that is the annoying thing. The drone operator thinks it is fine to fly over private property and film whatever he wants to film, but when chasing it down, you can't go on private property because it is trespassing when non-drone owners do it.
Exactly. Everybody here is all about how you have no privacy in your back yard, and you should never expect to have any privacy, etc. But the DRONE operator, oh, he still gets to have privacy. We can't know who a drone is registered to or where they live. That is an invasion of privacy . It's okay for a drone owner to invade YOUR privacy, but drone owners need to have their privacy protected.
B.S. My hats off to the hero that shot down the drone. Hope they throw the pilot in prison after he pays the bail for the falsely arrested hero of this story.
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The sad point is that by killing the coral reef they are destroying the ocean's ecosystem. Forget about the military implications, this is something that the international community needs to stand up and punish China for.
Even though coral reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor, they support an estimated 25 percent of all marine life, with more than 4,000 species of fish alone. In fact, coral reefs are some of the most diverse ecosystems in the world with thousands of species relying on reefs for survival. They also serve as important sources of food, income, protection, and new medicines for mankind.
Since they came out with ethanol added gasoline I have found it more important to get ethanol free fuel than get a cheaper price.
Have you seen what ethanol does when it sits?
It separates and trashes lawnmowers/chainsaws/weedeaters/generators and anything that goes any length of time between starts.
What ive noticed is high traffic areas tend to have ethanol added (near walmart) and everywhere else that actually needs the fuel to bring the traffic has ethanol free fuel.
I know exactly what you mean. I went on vacation with my RV and had to go through Texas. In Texas you can't get real gasoline, only what I call "Mazola". After I got back from Texas, my generator stopped working. It would only run if I used my finger to manually force the idler to idle higher. I replaced spark plugs, replaced fuel filter, drained the old fuel which was not even pure Mazola, but a mix of mostly real gas, with some leftover Mazola, put all new fuel, used about two cans of Sea foam, which also seemed to help it run better. Took the carb off and let it soak in carb cleaner, Made sure all the jets were clear. After about 20 hours of work, I was able to get it to run pretty consistently, but it will still occasionally just stop running on long trips, though it usually starts right back up. Basically, the gas permanently ruined the generator, and it is in limp mode.
I never run any of my lawn equipment on Mazola. I know people who live in Texas who actually make runs up to Oklahoma with dozens of gas cans to buy real gas and take it back to Texas to run their equipment.
I really can't believe that it is legal to sell E10. At the very least, they need to put a warning not to use it in any sort of small engine and not to use it if the intended motor is going to sit unused for more than a week or two. The stations need to be required to sell real gasoline so that people can purchase it for use in small equipment.
Most of us are looking forward to the advent of autonomous vehicles.
When you say "most of us", I assume you mean most of the people hanging out with you... and you are by yourself. Because I literally don't know anybody that is looking forward to this.
Then of course there's MADD. I assure you that more than one of the neoprohibitionist protofascists behind that organization is crosseyed with rage at the idea of cars that can safely take people home even if they've committed the mortal sin of alcohol consumption. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that some MADD type had gotten so angry that she kicked her little yapping lap dog right through the living room picture window at the mere thought of an autonomous vehicle.
You must be that one guy who doesn't know anybody that has been killed by a drunk driver. Most of us know at least one, if not two or three. I assure you MADD is against drunk driving and not against drinking. I am not a member of their organization, but I think I hate drunk driver's just as much as they do, and drunk drivers deserve every bit of hatred toward them and more.
Statistically (you know, how insurance actually works) a driver gets in an accident every 6 years. You are due for one.
You win ironic post of the day.
In my country the schools start sexual education on a very young age and also show pornographic content and how it is made behind the scenes to learn children that it is all fake
Pornography in the studio is all (well 99%) fake, but there is plenty of pornography on the internet that is just people filming themselves having sex.
Because you told them that because they looked at one image in a magazine that they were addicted. You set them up to answer that way, likely by saying 'Are you addicted to porn' while shaking your head yes at them suggestively.
Well, 10% were worried that they were addicted, and the other 90% weren't worried about it all, because they are smart enough to know that puberty is puberty.
do you leave the laptop on overnight? most people turn their laptops off when they're not using them. This leaves the laptop with little opportunity to download the updates and get them ready for installing.
I leave mine on at night, but it doesn't matter. It still doesn't attempt to install them until you are in a hurry to shut down and leave.
Are they going to ship it to me for free within two days? No, it is Amazon Prime's streaming service. I can't figure why those are bundled together. I'm sure it's great for people who subscribe. But I am not going to subscribe just for Top Gear, and I don't buy enough online to justify the monthly fees. I don't like streaming content. I'd rather have a DVD.
People enjoy the fact he acts an arse, him actually being an arse is a bit different. People often love "characters" on television they would despise in real life, sadly Clarkson let his idiot persona take over his real one.
Yes, exactly. People love Woody Allen movies about sexual deviants. If he had made a movie about hooking up with his adopted daughter, people would have loved it. When he did it in real life, people were shocked, although they now have come to accept it.
I've never understood why it can't do this during the 10 hours a night that I am not using the laptop instead of doing it when I need to quickly shut down and leave the house or quickly shut down and leave work.
8 seconds? Holy shit that's slow.
My Mac cold boots to a *usable* desktop in about 2 seconds.
My TRS-80 CoCo boots in about half a second. It was less than 1/4 second but it takes longer with a disk controller.
Auto ownership has probably hit it's peak, self-driving cars will make the expense of individual ownership less and less appealing in general. And owning an ICE for road trips is ridiculous. Just rent the car.
When did we reach the conclusion that self driving cars is some sort of given fact?
The concept of car ownership is archaic.
Ah, that would be why literally every person over the age of 16 that I know owns at least one car.
It is interesting to note that the average age of cars on the road in the US now is at an all time high. The "pundits" wring their hands trying to discover the cause of this "anomaly", when anyone with half a brain knows the answer: People are sick and tired of car payments and insurance payments.
I would say two reasons:
1. Cars today last longer than they used to.
2. New cars today are not affordable by the lower or middle class.
(As if leaving everything broken was a valid option and he was doing us some big favor by fixing what broke.)
As a landlord I can tell you that tenants do expect things to get fixed that if they lived in the home, they would not bother to fix, and there are definitely things in my own home that I cannot afford to fix and so I leave them broken.
Can the electric grid handle charging that many cars every night?
In 2014, the United States produced 4,093 billion kilowatthours of electricity. There are 254 million cars in the United States. It takes about 30 kilowatthoursto charge a completely drained small electric vehicle. Assuming that a car needs to be charged only every other day, this represents 3.75 billion kilowatt hours of electricity every night, or over the year, about 334 times our current electrical usage.
What! Windows 10 isn't sophisticated enough to figure out if it is running on a tablet?
It's less a "tablet mode" and more a "touchscreen mode", and no, Windows 10 isn't sophisticated enough to figure out if you're going to use your mouse or your touchscreen to interact with your computer before you do.
Well, that is something else entirely, then. They should call it touchscreen mode. Tablet mode sounds like you would want to use it on a tablet.
I have yet to figure out this obsession some people have with screen space. Bitching about three friggin' toolbars?
Tablets have insufficient screen space. Wasting any of it is sacrilege. I would complain about three toolbars, too. I have zero toolbars on firefox, That seems to be about the correct number.
The fastest way to launch a program is to click on a shortcut.
That's what the "metro screen" gave us. It can definitely fit more shortcuts on the screen than win7's little "All Programs" scrolly section where you can hunt for the one you want.
I have to assume you are being sarcastic since it is pretty clearly impossible that the screen could fit more of the gigantic icons that constituted metro, than to fit a couple of words in standard font and which also allows nesting of structures.
I know this is completely anecdotal and very short-term data, but for the three developers we upgraded to 10 last night they haven't had a crash yet or even had to reboot because Windows becomes too slow to use. We typically reboot three times a day, so assuming they can make it another couple hours before they reboot tonight, that means they will have cut the number of reboots per day by a third! That is signification since it usually takes us almost an hour to get VisualStudio, SQL server, IIS, etc. back up and running. For our typical ten hour work day, that's three hours per day wasted! If we can cut that to one hour, we've saved ten hours per week. I'm hoping 10 remains working as well as it has so far!
That's pretty bad. If I have to reboot at all during the day I assume something is seriously wrong with the computer. I am on Windows 7, which is fairly stable. At home, I don't ever reboot Windows 7. It runs until the stupid updates makes it reboot. It literally never gets slow or crashes.
I did not expect to come here and fine someone complaining about how great Windows 8 is.
Whenever a new version of Windows comes out, the previous version is ALWAYS better, no matter how crappy the previous version was.
Who the hell modded this clown up?
There is a tablet mode, which you failed to figure out!
What! Windows 10 isn't sophisticated enough to figure out if it is running on a tablet?
So you follow the drone, remaining on public property and filming with your phone. If it lands on private property, like someone's yard, you call the cops to come to that location. If it lands on public property, like a park, you film the person or people that recover it and call the cops to come to that location.
Yeah, that is the annoying thing. The drone operator thinks it is fine to fly over private property and film whatever he wants to film, but when chasing it down, you can't go on private property because it is trespassing when non-drone owners do it.
Exactly. Everybody here is all about how you have no privacy in your back yard, and you should never expect to have any privacy, etc. But the DRONE operator, oh, he still gets to have privacy. We can't know who a drone is registered to or where they live. That is an invasion of privacy . It's okay for a drone owner to invade YOUR privacy, but drone owners need to have their privacy protected.
B.S. My hats off to the hero that shot down the drone. Hope they throw the pilot in prison after he pays the bail for the falsely arrested hero of this story.