The problem is, extracting the metals out of old electronics is highly toxic and produces a lot of waste. In most of the first world, simply dumping that waste is frowned upon, with the end result being that it's not economically viable (at this time) to extract things like zinc from old electronics. It's much cheaper, easier, and cleaner to extract it from mined ores.
I don't know about LCDs though. I've seen far too many LCDs die from the backlight going out. My impression is that most LCDs, even the expensive ones, aren't built with replacing the backlight in mind, which means that when it does go out it's likely junk.
That's probably not too surprising, as when Consumer Reports ranked the reliability of laptops earlier this year, Apple had managed to slide all the way to the bottom, with Lenovo now at the top spot.
That doesn't make sense, because if the only thing that matter was hits from Google's search results then the domain name itself isn't that important, just the ranking in Google. Most of these sites are trying to capitalize on people going to generic domain names to see what's there, people making typos while trying to go to real sites, and hits from people going to a site that once existed, in the case of expired domains.
Oh really? So I'm absolutely not able to do both at once, then. If that's the case, then how can you explain that I have been doing it for years with no accidents? Blind luck? What about the many hundreds of thousands of other people who do the same thing, many of which have also had not any accidents?
Blind luck, combined with other people watching out for your stupid ass. As dangerous as cell phone drivers are, I've only ever had one crash with one, because I pay attention to my surroundings, and if I see someone with a phone glued to their ear I take note. As such, I've avoided many accidents where a cell phone driver starts drifting into my lane, or pulls out in front of me, or whatever, because I knew that they were more likely to do just that. Most of these people seem so oblivious to what they are doing that they probably don't even realize what they just did and how dangerous it was. If I was on a cell phone myself, I'm sure I would have been too distracted myself to avoid many of these accidents. The one crash I did end up in I was rearended at a stoplight (I was already stopped) by some lady talking on her cellphone, and didn't notice that cars were stopped ahead of her until too late. I saw her coming, but there wasn't anything I could do about it.
So do about a billion other activities enjoyed by 99.9% of the drivers in America while behind the wheel. Should the cops pull over and ticket EVERYBODY in America? Hell, I find that just having passengers in the car is a lot more distracting to my driving than texting on a cell phone. Should passengers in vehicles be banned? Where do you draw the line?
I'm sick of the "Well other things are also done while behind the wheel so therefore it's OK to talk on my cell phone" argument. It's bullshit. I don't know where to draw the line either, but something that is as distracting and impairing as cell phones should be banned, no question. Like I said, it's the number one cause I see out there for idiotic driving.
If I had to guess, in most of Japan the infrastructure is newer and probably better maintained. In the US, that kind of stuff was laid down a long time ago, and here it seems that no one does any serious maintance on this kind of stuff. Instead we just wait around for something to break (sometimes catastrophically) and patch it up as needed.
Satellite internet should be immune from backhoes (well, at least ones hanging out near your residence). I know satellite sucks, but if you simply can't have your internet go down, it may be worth looking into.
Cell phones impair driving, and that's why cops should be able to pull anyone on the phone and behind the wheel. They take your attention away from the road, reduce your reaction times, and usually tie up one hand. You may think you are some kind of amazing driver who can do both at once, but like everyone else who says the same thing, you're not. That's my point.
Wow, hit a nerve or something? I'm all for doing something about idiot drivers, and banning cell phones is one thing that should be done about it, as cell phones is the number one reason I've seen for idiotic driving around here. Right now, the cops can't do anything about someone just driving with their cell phone glued to their ear, unless they happen to catch them doing something reckless or illegal at that moment. If cell phone use were banned when driving, then the cop could pull the person over and ticket them.
That's old news. Intel's been trying to lose the Mhz thing and just give their processors model numbers like E6600 and T7200. AMD is more or less doing the same thing now with their latest processors like the Sempron LE-1100 and the Athlon 4050e. Generally speaking, higher number means faster, but that doesn't always seem to be the case.
I've found Opera 9.50 to be quite a bit faster than the 9.2x versions, and it also seems to be less of a CPU hog. Memory usage seems to be about the same. Overall, I consider it a worthwhile upgrade, though the new tab button on the right side of the tab toolbar is taking some getting used to.
By putting them high up on a 250 foot pole, the wind turbine itself ought to be well protected from the salt water. Of course, the pylon itself as well as the electrical lines will have to go in the water, but we're already got lots of experience doing that, so I would suspect if they build these right there should be relatively few surprises.
I would think that real conservatives would want to conserve our natural resources, and would probably be for wind power as it would stretch our supply of fossil fuels, a limited resource, further - which allows for us to keep using fossil fuels in areas where they aren't as easily replaced for as long as possible. I would also think that real conservatives would oppose things like drilling into the ANWR, in favor of keeping that resource around for a time when we really need it. Putting a resource like that "to good use now" instead of "saving it for a rainy day", to me, is the more liberal approach.
Actually, the "two second" rule is easier for most people. When the car ahead of you passes some landmark (a pole, sign, pothole, whatever) then count "one-one thousand, two one-thousand". If you pass the landmark before you're done counting, you're too close. That's pretty easy, and works at any speed. On the other hand, most people have a terrible time judging distances at high speeds. For example, most people think that speed limit signs are all about the same size from the driver's seat, but when you're not in the car you'll see that the speed limit signs along the freeway are huge compared to the ones found in residential areas. Combine that with the fact that a lot of drivers (especially SUV drivers) don't have a very firm grasp of the dimensions of their vehicle, thus are also a bit fuzzy about what a "car-length" actually is, I consider the two second rule better.
I guess one other question would be, if you've been given an employment offer containing various terms of the employment, signed and accepted it, how free should they be to add the extra contract. What happens if you accept a job offering, but decide to later back out because the contract isn't so pretty?
In theory, if you had both already signed a contract outlining your responsibilities and duties and their compensation for doing such, you could try to hold them to the terms of the original contract and refuse to sign an updated contract. In practice though, good luck with that.
I think he's refering to the tactics Bush and Rove used against McCain in states like South Carolina back in 2000, where calling him a "liberal" would practically be a compliment in comparison to the lies and fabrications the Bush campaign spread about him.
If Apple ended up dominating, we would probably be even further behind. Apple really didn't show much interest in improving their OS for a good part of a decade back in the 1990's, and the only reason they came out with OSX (and cheaper computers for that matter) was the Microsoft was having their lunch. If it wasn't for Microsoft Windows running on generic hardware, Apple would probably still be trying to sell $3000 computers running an OS that resembles Windows 3.1 more than anything else.
If they have them seperated, if they lose one they may not know about it for a while since the car can still be used. If both are lost at the same time, they know about it immediately and they know who to bill for it.
I can't speak for Sweden, but I think the main problem in the US is that the "checks and balances" system is dead. The three branches, the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial are supposed to keep each other in check. This has not been happening. Instead, the two big political parties have totally subverted this process, and the new checks and balances system puts the Democrats and the Republicans against each other. You never hear anyone talking about what Congress or the Supreme Court is going to do about the president and his administration (or some senator, etc). Instead, it's always framed as what are the Democrats going to do about the Republicans (or vice versa). For some reason, people accept this, and accept the fact that policians are more loyal to their political party than to the Constitition when it comes to things like holding others in government accountable for their actions.
Obviously a system with only two parts isn't going to work, as you need at least three so the others can gang up and form a majority over any one part that grows out of its bounds. At best, you'll have the power split exactly equally between the two parts, but most likely you end up with the system we have now, where one political party holds more power than the other and can do pretty much whatever they want with little opposition. To make matters worse, the minority party doesn't even seem willing to exercise the what power they do have, having surmised (perhaps correctly) that it will only weaken their position, especially if they become the ruling power again.
This is why I think it's important to vote third party. Even a weak third party can be an asset if it means neither of the two big parties hold a majority. A vote for the "lessor of two evils" is just a vote for the status quo. I do realize that really isn't a fix for the true problem, but I don't see any other way to get things back on track at the moment.
I heard the reason is to keep the keys together for when the car is eventually resold. They found the easiest way to do it is to just bolt the keys together, that way the keys stay with the car, and eliminates the possibility of one key getting lost without them noticing/knowing about it.
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The problem is, extracting the metals out of old electronics is highly toxic and produces a lot of waste. In most of the first world, simply dumping that waste is frowned upon, with the end result being that it's not economically viable (at this time) to extract things like zinc from old electronics. It's much cheaper, easier, and cleaner to extract it from mined ores.
How do you test your spam filters then? :)
Well, I'm of the opinion that anyone who actually wants to be president should automatically be disqualified for the job.
I don't know about LCDs though. I've seen far too many LCDs die from the backlight going out. My impression is that most LCDs, even the expensive ones, aren't built with replacing the backlight in mind, which means that when it does go out it's likely junk.
A good CRT will last decades though.
That's probably not too surprising, as when Consumer Reports ranked the reliability of laptops earlier this year, Apple had managed to slide all the way to the bottom, with Lenovo now at the top spot.
That doesn't make sense, because if the only thing that matter was hits from Google's search results then the domain name itself isn't that important, just the ranking in Google. Most of these sites are trying to capitalize on people going to generic domain names to see what's there, people making typos while trying to go to real sites, and hits from people going to a site that once existed, in the case of expired domains.
Oh really? So I'm absolutely not able to do both at once, then. If that's the case, then how can you explain that I have been doing it for years with no accidents? Blind luck? What about the many hundreds of thousands of other people who do the same thing, many of which have also had not any accidents?
Blind luck, combined with other people watching out for your stupid ass. As dangerous as cell phone drivers are, I've only ever had one crash with one, because I pay attention to my surroundings, and if I see someone with a phone glued to their ear I take note. As such, I've avoided many accidents where a cell phone driver starts drifting into my lane, or pulls out in front of me, or whatever, because I knew that they were more likely to do just that. Most of these people seem so oblivious to what they are doing that they probably don't even realize what they just did and how dangerous it was. If I was on a cell phone myself, I'm sure I would have been too distracted myself to avoid many of these accidents. The one crash I did end up in I was rearended at a stoplight (I was already stopped) by some lady talking on her cellphone, and didn't notice that cars were stopped ahead of her until too late. I saw her coming, but there wasn't anything I could do about it.
So do about a billion other activities enjoyed by 99.9% of the drivers in America while behind the wheel. Should the cops pull over and ticket EVERYBODY in America? Hell, I find that just having passengers in the car is a lot more distracting to my driving than texting on a cell phone. Should passengers in vehicles be banned? Where do you draw the line?
I'm sick of the "Well other things are also done while behind the wheel so therefore it's OK to talk on my cell phone" argument. It's bullshit. I don't know where to draw the line either, but something that is as distracting and impairing as cell phones should be banned, no question. Like I said, it's the number one cause I see out there for idiotic driving.
If I had to guess, in most of Japan the infrastructure is newer and probably better maintained. In the US, that kind of stuff was laid down a long time ago, and here it seems that no one does any serious maintance on this kind of stuff. Instead we just wait around for something to break (sometimes catastrophically) and patch it up as needed.
Satellite internet should be immune from backhoes (well, at least ones hanging out near your residence). I know satellite sucks, but if you simply can't have your internet go down, it may be worth looking into.
Cell phones impair driving, and that's why cops should be able to pull anyone on the phone and behind the wheel. They take your attention away from the road, reduce your reaction times, and usually tie up one hand. You may think you are some kind of amazing driver who can do both at once, but like everyone else who says the same thing, you're not. That's my point.
Wow, hit a nerve or something? I'm all for doing something about idiot drivers, and banning cell phones is one thing that should be done about it, as cell phones is the number one reason I've seen for idiotic driving around here. Right now, the cops can't do anything about someone just driving with their cell phone glued to their ear, unless they happen to catch them doing something reckless or illegal at that moment. If cell phone use were banned when driving, then the cop could pull the person over and ticket them.
Try putting too much fertilizer on your yard, and see what happens.
That's old news. Intel's been trying to lose the Mhz thing and just give their processors model numbers like E6600 and T7200. AMD is more or less doing the same thing now with their latest processors like the Sempron LE-1100 and the Athlon 4050e. Generally speaking, higher number means faster, but that doesn't always seem to be the case.
I've found Opera 9.50 to be quite a bit faster than the 9.2x versions, and it also seems to be less of a CPU hog. Memory usage seems to be about the same. Overall, I consider it a worthwhile upgrade, though the new tab button on the right side of the tab toolbar is taking some getting used to.
By putting them high up on a 250 foot pole, the wind turbine itself ought to be well protected from the salt water. Of course, the pylon itself as well as the electrical lines will have to go in the water, but we're already got lots of experience doing that, so I would suspect if they build these right there should be relatively few surprises.
I would think that real conservatives would want to conserve our natural resources, and would probably be for wind power as it would stretch our supply of fossil fuels, a limited resource, further - which allows for us to keep using fossil fuels in areas where they aren't as easily replaced for as long as possible. I would also think that real conservatives would oppose things like drilling into the ANWR, in favor of keeping that resource around for a time when we really need it. Putting a resource like that "to good use now" instead of "saving it for a rainy day", to me, is the more liberal approach.
Actually, the "two second" rule is easier for most people. When the car ahead of you passes some landmark (a pole, sign, pothole, whatever) then count "one-one thousand, two one-thousand". If you pass the landmark before you're done counting, you're too close. That's pretty easy, and works at any speed. On the other hand, most people have a terrible time judging distances at high speeds. For example, most people think that speed limit signs are all about the same size from the driver's seat, but when you're not in the car you'll see that the speed limit signs along the freeway are huge compared to the ones found in residential areas. Combine that with the fact that a lot of drivers (especially SUV drivers) don't have a very firm grasp of the dimensions of their vehicle, thus are also a bit fuzzy about what a "car-length" actually is, I consider the two second rule better.
I guess one other question would be, if you've been given an employment offer containing various terms of the employment, signed and accepted it, how free should they be to add the extra contract. What happens if you accept a job offering, but decide to later back out because the contract isn't so pretty?
In theory, if you had both already signed a contract outlining your responsibilities and duties and their compensation for doing such, you could try to hold them to the terms of the original contract and refuse to sign an updated contract. In practice though, good luck with that.
I think he's refering to the tactics Bush and Rove used against McCain in states like South Carolina back in 2000, where calling him a "liberal" would practically be a compliment in comparison to the lies and fabrications the Bush campaign spread about him.
If Apple ended up dominating, we would probably be even further behind. Apple really didn't show much interest in improving their OS for a good part of a decade back in the 1990's, and the only reason they came out with OSX (and cheaper computers for that matter) was the Microsoft was having their lunch. If it wasn't for Microsoft Windows running on generic hardware, Apple would probably still be trying to sell $3000 computers running an OS that resembles Windows 3.1 more than anything else.
I laughed. Then I looked four posts down to see this: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=591135&cid=23887619. Then I cried.
"Oh you definitely want this new hummer, it gets 262,080 rods per hogshead."
Did you mean 256 kilorods?
If they have them seperated, if they lose one they may not know about it for a while since the car can still be used. If both are lost at the same time, they know about it immediately and they know who to bill for it.
I can't speak for Sweden, but I think the main problem in the US is that the "checks and balances" system is dead. The three branches, the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial are supposed to keep each other in check. This has not been happening. Instead, the two big political parties have totally subverted this process, and the new checks and balances system puts the Democrats and the Republicans against each other. You never hear anyone talking about what Congress or the Supreme Court is going to do about the president and his administration (or some senator, etc). Instead, it's always framed as what are the Democrats going to do about the Republicans (or vice versa). For some reason, people accept this, and accept the fact that policians are more loyal to their political party than to the Constitition when it comes to things like holding others in government accountable for their actions.
Obviously a system with only two parts isn't going to work, as you need at least three so the others can gang up and form a majority over any one part that grows out of its bounds. At best, you'll have the power split exactly equally between the two parts, but most likely you end up with the system we have now, where one political party holds more power than the other and can do pretty much whatever they want with little opposition. To make matters worse, the minority party doesn't even seem willing to exercise the what power they do have, having surmised (perhaps correctly) that it will only weaken their position, especially if they become the ruling power again.
This is why I think it's important to vote third party. Even a weak third party can be an asset if it means neither of the two big parties hold a majority. A vote for the "lessor of two evils" is just a vote for the status quo. I do realize that really isn't a fix for the true problem, but I don't see any other way to get things back on track at the moment.
I heard the reason is to keep the keys together for when the car is eventually resold. They found the easiest way to do it is to just bolt the keys together, that way the keys stay with the car, and eliminates the possibility of one key getting lost without them noticing/knowing about it.