How about this modest proposal: let's grind up the "weak" and turn them into cat food! In fact, let's have sweeps on a yearly basis. This will finally solve our problems and allow humanity to advance to the next level. One may even go so far as calling it a.... final solution.
He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt
it was really quite hypnotic
Try not taking things so personally. I bet you're one of those people who, when asked to conserve energy, angrily turns off every single light in their house and pouts about how awful and stupid it is.
PS: I got rid of my car last year and it's been great
The amount of algae growth required for powering America's fleet of vehicles would cover every ocean and kill every single fish on the planet.
Land-based farms require pumping water, maintenance, energy, etc. If you build them in the desert, you suffer horrendous water losses. If you build them near the ocean, you encroach on livable and arable land.
The price of gas is never going to be reasonable again. Maybe a few dips here and there, but nothing long-term and certainly nothing permanent. Don't bank on some miracle technology to bail you out -- this is a fundamental thermodynamics issue.
If it takes you that long to break WEP, you're doing it wrong. Replay some packets to generate traffic and your IVs will reach ~20,000 within a couple of minutes. Then, the key cracking itself takes maybe 40 seconds.
Well, I don't hear any other message from any other environmental groups, so what am I supposed to believe?
Probably because you're intellectually lazy and don't bother looking for other environmental groups or doing some basic research about environmental issues.
I guess the problem is that you absorb whatever "knowledge" is placed in front of you, without regard to its legitimacy or source.
An amorphous blob consisting of people who know basic physics, physics experts, knowledge gleaned from experiments, and people who observe things beyond the confines of this planet say you're absolutely wrong about everything you discuss on that "nasty little truths" page.
No ad-hominem here. Happy now?
Also, why do you need to know who he is or what he has done in order to defend your claim? It doesn't matter whether a world-renowned physicist or a schoolchild proves you wrong, as long as the rebuttal is based on facts.
You must have flunked basic English. Read that post again, paying careful attention to this part: "...so they are grown for shipping and not nutrition, and then often picked unripe and gassed to give the appearance of freshness"
Shipping doesn't significantly affect nutritional value, but nutritional value is affected when crops are specifically grown for "durability" during shipping (rather than optimal nutritional value) and picked when not fully ripened (further reducing their already crippled nutritional value).
The capitalist system IS the business model. There's no money to be made in basic research when you can sell shitty packaged "solutions" consisting mostly of off-the-shelf hardware. An example: The Army uses mobile PCs with touchscreens that are given out to soldiers in the field. They're made by Toshiba, I believe. What do they run? Windows with some shitty full-screen GUI. Yes, they do crash. The defense budget takes the biggest chunk of the USA's budget. Even with all that money, they still get utter crap peddled to them by "system integrators". How can this be?
Business plan:
1. determine how to maximize profit no matter what
2. repeat indefinitely
Don't be obtuse.
Biodiesel is better because it does not release *extra* carbon into the air. The plant it came from sucked in existing atmospheric CO2, unlike petroleum-based fuels which release "new" (long-sequestered) CO2.
Also, no one believes that "clean coal" bullshit.
Dogtanian is talking about the cost of service vs cost of hardware. The phone (hardware) has a certain determinable cost that is based on component and manufacturing costs, both of which are determined by the "free market".
The "value" of the service (call minutes), however, is almost completely arbitrary and is *very* loosely based on actual costs of transmission, cell tower cost, operation cost, etc.
This is just like those commercials that sell "bonus gifts" along with some shoddy product. The product is worth $19.99, but it comes with "$100" worth of extras. These extra products make it seem like you're getting a great deal when in reality you're getting a box of crap that's really worth $5 at most.
Compare this to the "cost" of sending and receiving text messages. It costs the company almost nothing (and often literally nothing), but some charge upwards of 10 cents per message sent/received (T-Mobile Prepaid)!
"but you can't forge anything when you present it from a website"
Uh, what? Somebody is greatly misinformed...
I meant that if you go to a website such as MyFICO from one of THEIR (the phone company's) computers, log into your account (allowing access to the credit report you paid for), and show them the credit report then it is reasonable to expect that the data presented is legitimate and that it is coming from MyFICO and not something you concocted.
Sure, I can poison their DNS or do pull some kind of zany man-in-the-middle attack, but what I am talking about is a reasonable expectation of the legitimacy of the data.
What about running a credit check on yourself (costs ~$12) and presenting them a copy of it (maybe with the non-essential details redacted)? I mean, you get the same information they do, so what's the big idea? You can forge a printout, but you can't forge anything when you present it from a website (such as MyFICO).
In fact, looking at the credit report I printed earlier, I can see that the SSN is redacted automatically and only the last 4 digits are shown. The rest of the information is public knowledge (current address), or innocuous (birth month and year).
Giving out your SSN is total bullshit. Tinfoil hat or not, I go out of my way to avoid it.
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Your suggestion of moving to AZ may be problematic for non-white people.
How about this modest proposal: let's grind up the "weak" and turn them into cat food! In fact, let's have sweeps on a yearly basis. This will finally solve our problems and allow humanity to advance to the next level. One may even go so far as calling it a.... final solution.
What happens when EVERYONE gets one of these? A full speed 5ghz 802.11n link is already difficult to achieve in crowded/built up areas.
He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt
it was really quite hypnotic
Encryption only fixes third-party snooping/throttling. :)
Malicious peers can use encryption too
Try not taking things so personally. I bet you're one of those people who, when asked to conserve energy, angrily turns off every single light in their house and pouts about how awful and stupid it is.
PS: I got rid of my car last year and it's been great
The amount of algae growth required for powering America's fleet of vehicles would cover every ocean and kill every single fish on the planet.
Land-based farms require pumping water, maintenance, energy, etc. If you build them in the desert, you suffer horrendous water losses. If you build them near the ocean, you encroach on livable and arable land.
The price of gas is never going to be reasonable again. Maybe a few dips here and there, but nothing long-term and certainly nothing permanent. Don't bank on some miracle technology to bail you out -- this is a fundamental thermodynamics issue.
Go look up "peak oil"
Maybe the solution is to reduce the number of cars instead of trying to figure out a way to power them (in an unsustainable manner)
Get XLink Kai, problem solved!
Supports original Xbox, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, PSP, and Gamecube.
It's free to use, and the source code is freely available:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XLink_Kai
...and that since video games are primarily played by children...
[citation needed]
you are completely wrong, by the way
Wow, are you assuming that anyone who criticises this game is a religious nut?
You fail at logic.
If it takes you that long to break WEP, you're doing it wrong. Replay some packets to generate traffic and your IVs will reach ~20,000 within a couple of minutes. Then, the key cracking itself takes maybe 40 seconds.
All eggs are edible, you insensitive clod!
Well, I don't hear any other message from any other environmental groups, so what am I supposed to believe?
Probably because you're intellectually lazy and don't bother looking for other environmental groups or doing some basic research about environmental issues. I guess the problem is that you absorb whatever "knowledge" is placed in front of you, without regard to its legitimacy or source.
An amorphous blob consisting of people who know basic physics, physics experts, knowledge gleaned from experiments, and people who observe things beyond the confines of this planet say you're absolutely wrong about everything you discuss on that "nasty little truths" page.
No ad-hominem here. Happy now?
Also, why do you need to know who he is or what he has done in order to defend your claim? It doesn't matter whether a world-renowned physicist or a schoolchild proves you wrong, as long as the rebuttal is based on facts.
they still have the views I pointed out in my post, and are extremely loud and abrasive about them.
...
I agree with you entirely. Most environmentalists do not.
Greenpeace does not even come close to representing the views of "most environmentalists".
Like you said, they are loud and abrasive. So is the Westboro Baptist Church.
You must have flunked basic English. Read that post again, paying careful attention to this part:
"...so they are grown for shipping and not nutrition, and then often picked unripe and gassed to give the appearance of freshness"
Shipping doesn't significantly affect nutritional value, but nutritional value is affected when crops are specifically grown for "durability" during shipping (rather than optimal nutritional value) and picked when not fully ripened (further reducing their already crippled nutritional value).
The capitalist system IS the business model. There's no money to be made in basic research when you can sell shitty packaged "solutions" consisting mostly of off-the-shelf hardware.
An example: The Army uses mobile PCs with touchscreens that are given out to soldiers in the field. They're made by Toshiba, I believe. What do they run? Windows with some shitty full-screen GUI. Yes, they do crash. The defense budget takes the biggest chunk of the USA's budget. Even with all that money, they still get utter crap peddled to them by "system integrators". How can this be?
Business plan:
1. determine how to maximize profit no matter what
2. repeat indefinitely
Don't be obtuse.
Biodiesel is better because it does not release *extra* carbon into the air. The plant it came from sucked in existing atmospheric CO2, unlike petroleum-based fuels which release "new" (long-sequestered) CO2.
Also, no one believes that "clean coal" bullshit.
Yeah, like we are going to RTFA the farking article.
That's pretty redundant
Sounds to me like if you know so much maybe you were one of the people that helped hack this system.
You are an idiot.
You don't get it.
Dogtanian is talking about the cost of service vs cost of hardware. The phone (hardware) has a certain determinable cost that is based on component and manufacturing costs, both of which are determined by the "free market".
The "value" of the service (call minutes), however, is almost completely arbitrary and is *very* loosely based on actual costs of transmission, cell tower cost, operation cost, etc.
This is just like those commercials that sell "bonus gifts" along with some shoddy product. The product is worth $19.99, but it comes with "$100" worth of extras. These extra products make it seem like you're getting a great deal when in reality you're getting a box of crap that's really worth $5 at most.
Compare this to the "cost" of sending and receiving text messages. It costs the company almost nothing (and often literally nothing), but some charge upwards of 10 cents per message sent/received (T-Mobile Prepaid)!
"but you can't forge anything when you present it from a website"
Uh, what? Somebody is greatly misinformed...
I meant that if you go to a website such as MyFICO from one of THEIR (the phone company's) computers, log into your account (allowing access to the credit report you paid for), and show them the credit report then it is reasonable to expect that the data presented is legitimate and that it is coming from MyFICO and not something you concocted. Sure, I can poison their DNS or do pull some kind of zany man-in-the-middle attack, but what I am talking about is a reasonable expectation of the legitimacy of the data.
What about running a credit check on yourself (costs ~$12) and presenting them a copy of it (maybe with the non-essential details redacted)? I mean, you get the same information they do, so what's the big idea? You can forge a printout, but you can't forge anything when you present it from a website (such as MyFICO). In fact, looking at the credit report I printed earlier, I can see that the SSN is redacted automatically and only the last 4 digits are shown. The rest of the information is public knowledge (current address), or innocuous (birth month and year). Giving out your SSN is total bullshit. Tinfoil hat or not, I go out of my way to avoid it.