I keep a car on average for 6-7 years after which time maintenance costs start to cut in to the point where you should have repurchased, I wish I had sold my current car at 6 years (hit that last year), would have been far better off as have spent $3000 alone in repairs this year.
You're making no sense at all. $3000 a year is only $250 a month. How can that possibly be higher than car payments? Unless it's a complete shitbox. Anyway, $3000 in repairs indicates to me that you deferred maintenance, which is a dumb policy.
Unfortunately, holding on to a new car for more than 6 years stops helping much (annual costs become dominated by other factors).
Utter bullshit. I financed my cat for 5 years and I am currently in my 16th year of ownership. I have had no car payments for the last 11 years. That saved me almost $500 a month. No way in hell have my repairs and maintenance come anywhere near $500 a month, and anyway there were repairs and maintenance on the first 5 years too.
Is that just a polite, politically-correct way of saying that they're fixing up all of the shit that the GNOME 3 and systemd crowd have broken over the past several years?
But Mint is a slave to all the blockheaded systemd shit, just like almost everybody else. I do think Mate on FreeBSD has a lot of potential.
I see a lot of hipster angst going on here. Me? I use what is convenient and falls ready to hand. I scribble on 3x5 cards which I have stacks of on my desk, but mostly I use plain text in emacs. Some 30 years ago I used pmate, and every one of those files, just like all my emacs files, remains perfectly readable using the "less" command or cat to stdout. I do maintain my own dokuwiki on a VPS. The VPS costs me only $3 a month and is accessible from anywhere with an internet connection. It is searchable and can never get lost. All the content is stored in plain text files. That VPS is the best investment I ever made.
Those mentioning emacs org-mode are on to something. I haven't picked up much fluency with it, but it has the huge advantage of leveraging plain text with some very clever presentation tricks.
We're talking about an element that is consumed at a rate much faster than it is produced naturally
Likely so, but I don't think anyone knows what is the rate of natural helium generation in the earth by nuclear decay.
and which escapes the atmosphere if released.
That's not a meaningful concept. Helium is constantly being released by the earth into the atmosphere, and constantly escapes the atmosphere, but the concentration in the atmosphere is quite constant, any amount released by humans is a fart in the wind, and it does not all "rise to the top". That's not how gaseous diffusion works. 0.0005% by volume, or 0.00007% by mass, of the earth's atmosphere is helium, and will remain so (in terms of individual human or even societal existence), essentially forever. All the helium you could ever possibly want is right there in the atmosphere - 20 TRILLION cubic meters - 100 MILLION Hindenburgs worth. And it would take a mind-boggling infrastructure and energy input (i.e., $) to extract it.
But extraction quite possible. The concentration of neon in the atmosphere is only four times that of helium, and ALL the neon used is extracted from the atmosphere. It is "merely" very expensive compared to the present-day price of helium as skimmed out of natural gas.
Well, technically, the party balloon helium is quite impure, and it often is economically unviable to refine it for scientific usage.
The second part, after the "and", is complete and utter nonsense. All currently economically viable helium starts out at about 1-7% purity in the selected natural gas fields. It is refined from there to Grade A (99.995% purity). Actually that has been superseded, and nowadays you can obtain helium refined to anywhere from balloon grade, which is anything from 80-99.98%, through Grade 4, which is 99.99%, all the way to Grade 7 99.99999%. All it takes is progressive refinement. It is perfectly obvious that it is way easier and cheaper to raise 80% to 99.99+%, than it is 1-7% to 99.99+%.
Your list isn't very good, as it doesn't break out use as a lifting gas, and it's not at all clear where that is buried in those categories. I have seen the claim that a total of 7% is used in party balloons, weather balloons, scientific balloons, and a very few airships.
The USGS statistics are the very definition of insanity. In 2015 the US produced from natural gas 76 million m^3, withdrew from storage 24 million m^3, imported for consumption 10 million m^3, and AT THE SAME TIME EXPORTED 67 million m^3. Prior to 2013, the US never imported any helium.
Domestic consumption totaled 43 million m^3 - much less than the amount produced domestically without any withdrawals from storage. We export much more than we use.
So what. It's a market opportunity. Make a plain motion/still camera/microphone in the same convenient form factor as a smartphone, but without this horseshit built into it. And definitely no cell receiver. Actually, they already have tons of them, just not in the same form factor.
You can't stop people recording you, nazis. Give it up. Any ordinary citizen nowadays can equip himself with technology far beyond what the CIA, KGB, Gestapo, and Stasi had in their heyday. This always makes me think of the deranged asshole Frank Booth in Blue Velvet: "Don't you fucking look at me!" Yeah, whatever, Frankie baby.
I'm having a hard time buying this "difficulty to know when it is in park" premise. Yes, the shifter design is silly/stupid, and I wouldn't favor it. But, come on. There is an indicator light (actually I think there are two, no?). If it lights up "P", it is in park. If it doesn't light up "P", it is NOT in park. How hard is that? Additionally, the chime when you open the door and it is not in park should be a giant clue.
I just don't get it. The case is sad and regrettable, but I don't see any wrongdoing and it shouldn't be legally actionable. If I'm missing something, please inform me.
They're [Sony] a good company that has made quality innovative products and they are being teared [sic] apart for no reaosn [sic].
Yeah, they brought the world Betamax, MiniDiscs, MS flash, CD rootkits, Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, MafiAA persecution, and exploding batteries. How could we survive without them?
I do remember LONG ago when Sony popularized the pocket transistor radio, and somewhat more recently when their excellent 7600 portable SW receiver took the world by storm, but not much other positive contribution.
if anyone else wants to see how their senator voted you can find it here
Thank you. I am not too bashful to admit that my Markey and Warren, both of whom I thoroughly disagree with most of the time, came through like champs in this instance. So, from an unexpected corner, thank you Markey and Warren.
I think it's pretty clear and obvious that Freedom of Religion doesn't mean clear reign to do anything if you frame your actions in religious mumbo-jumbo.
For example, murder is illegal whether "God tells you" to do it or not.
Venomous hate speech is illegal whether "God tells you" to vocally express unbridled hate or not.
And so on. Also, in a wider sense, freedom to worship in a manner of your choosing does not imply that you may coerce or force others to worship the way you wish them to, or that you may attempt to forcibly prevent them from disagreeing with you. There is also the question of: when does a cult become a seditious conspiracy.
As far as I know I'm allowed to sell it to another person in most (if not all) states without performing a background check.
You better be very careful.
All private sales in California must employ a licensed firearms dealer as middleman, and the dealer must perform a background check. Connecticut and Delaware require background checks on all private sales. Each county in Florida may or may not require a check. Hawaii requires anyone purchasing a firearm from anyone to acquire a permit involving a background check. In Illinois, anyone not a licensed firearms dealer must coordinate the transferee's Firearms Owner ID Card with the state, and await approval. Illinois does have a loophole for gifts to close relatives. In Iowa, anyone providing or acquiring a handgun without the transferee possessing a valid annual permit is a criminal. Private transfers of handguns and "assault weapons" in Maryland must be conducted through licensed dealers, with a background check. Massachusetts basically outlaws private transfers completely, but with a loophole for "not more than four" weapons in one year. Private sales must be reported by both sides to the "Department of Criminal Justice Information Services". In Michigan, when purchasing a handgun from other than a licensed firearms dealer, the buyer must have a handgun purchase license or a license to carry a concealed handgun. New York requires a National Instant Criminal Background Check by a licensed dealer before any private transfer other than to immediate family. Oregon requires private sellers to perform a background check. And so on.
TL;DR: it's a hodgepodge of state laws. Plenty of states require background checks, and just about all of them make it an illegal act to knowingly transfer to an unsavory party. And there are a significant number of states where it is almost impossible for an ordinary person to legally even POSSESS a firearm, let alone carry it.
New GNOME (in Fedora 24) will also let you easily upgrade to Fedora 25
Fedora has had a huge problem with upgrades in the past. They believe they have finally fixed that.
All right, I'll bite. What the hell does the DE have to do with whether your upgrade-release mechanism works or is broken? Or whether there even is an upgrade-release mechanism?
Ah yes, I remember participating in the Fedora treadmill. Then I discovered Arch. With Arch I have the latest packages every single day, and I never have to reinstall or upgrade to a new release. With either of them (running Arch or constantly upgrading to the newest Fedora) you do at times run into buggy bleeding edge behavior. For systems I need to be stable and absolutely dependable (basically servers/infrastructure), I stick with CentOS or FreeBSD.
Yeah. You can get away with it in tracked vehicles. The US Marines WWII LVT "Amtrack" propelled itself using the same tracks on water and on land. It could make 6 knots in water. The AAV-7 is similar and is still in use by the Marines. I'm not sure if that one has anything more than the tracks for water propulsion.
The guy you're responding to thinks replacing brakes, timing belt, and water pump is too much of investment based on some utterly irrelevant measure of how much the car is "worth". He is obviously intellectually incapable of rational thought.
That's twice you have made an ass of yourself on this topic. I was trying to figure out what elaborate joke you were playing that was eluding me, but [shudder] I think you're absolutely on the level with your dreck. Go shill somewhere else.
Only in your labyrinthine mind does freedom of assembly have anything whatever to do with lobbying, aka subversion and corruption.
Let's allow the assumption that American companies currently dominate the encryption field.
Let's not. Let's not even allow that COMPANIES dominate any technology. I think the words you want are "worlwide" instead of "American", and "scientists" instead of "companies".
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You're making no sense at all. $3000 a year is only $250 a month. How can that possibly be higher than car payments? Unless it's a complete shitbox. Anyway, $3000 in repairs indicates to me that you deferred maintenance, which is a dumb policy.
Utter bullshit. I financed my cat for 5 years and I am currently in my 16th year of ownership. I have had no car payments for the last 11 years. That saved me almost $500 a month. No way in hell have my repairs and maintenance come anywhere near $500 a month, and anyway there were repairs and maintenance on the first 5 years too.
BWAHAHAHA! You want to move TO Firefox to REDUCE bloat and junk? Are you crazy?
FTFY.
But Mint is a slave to all the blockheaded systemd shit, just like almost everybody else. I do think Mate on FreeBSD has a lot of potential.
I see a lot of hipster angst going on here. Me? I use what is convenient and falls ready to hand. I scribble on 3x5 cards which I have stacks of on my desk, but mostly I use plain text in emacs. Some 30 years ago I used pmate, and every one of those files, just like all my emacs files, remains perfectly readable using the "less" command or cat to stdout. I do maintain my own dokuwiki on a VPS. The VPS costs me only $3 a month and is accessible from anywhere with an internet connection. It is searchable and can never get lost. All the content is stored in plain text files. That VPS is the best investment I ever made.
Those mentioning emacs org-mode are on to something. I haven't picked up much fluency with it, but it has the huge advantage of leveraging plain text with some very clever presentation tricks.
Likely so, but I don't think anyone knows what is the rate of natural helium generation in the earth by nuclear decay.
That's not a meaningful concept. Helium is constantly being released by the earth into the atmosphere, and constantly escapes the atmosphere, but the concentration in the atmosphere is quite constant, any amount released by humans is a fart in the wind, and it does not all "rise to the top". That's not how gaseous diffusion works. 0.0005% by volume, or 0.00007% by mass, of the earth's atmosphere is helium, and will remain so (in terms of individual human or even societal existence), essentially forever. All the helium you could ever possibly want is right there in the atmosphere - 20 TRILLION cubic meters - 100 MILLION Hindenburgs worth. And it would take a mind-boggling infrastructure and energy input (i.e., $) to extract it.
But extraction quite possible. The concentration of neon in the atmosphere is only four times that of helium, and ALL the neon used is extracted from the atmosphere. It is "merely" very expensive compared to the present-day price of helium as skimmed out of natural gas.
This has all been worked out already.
The second part, after the "and", is complete and utter nonsense. All currently economically viable helium starts out at about 1-7% purity in the selected natural gas fields. It is refined from there to Grade A (99.995% purity). Actually that has been superseded, and nowadays you can obtain helium refined to anywhere from balloon grade, which is anything from 80-99.98%, through Grade 4, which is 99.99%, all the way to Grade 7 99.99999%. All it takes is progressive refinement. It is perfectly obvious that it is way easier and cheaper to raise 80% to 99.99+%, than it is 1-7% to 99.99+%.
Your list isn't very good, as it doesn't break out use as a lifting gas, and it's not at all clear where that is buried in those categories. I have seen the claim that a total of 7% is used in party balloons, weather balloons, scientific balloons, and a very few airships.
The USGS statistics are the very definition of insanity. In 2015 the US produced from natural gas 76 million m^3, withdrew from storage 24 million m^3, imported for consumption 10 million m^3, and AT THE SAME TIME EXPORTED 67 million m^3. Prior to 2013, the US never imported any helium.
Domestic consumption totaled 43 million m^3 - much less than the amount produced domestically without any withdrawals from storage. We export much more than we use.
So what. It's a market opportunity. Make a plain motion/still camera/microphone in the same convenient form factor as a smartphone, but without this horseshit built into it. And definitely no cell receiver. Actually, they already have tons of them, just not in the same form factor.
You can't stop people recording you, nazis. Give it up. Any ordinary citizen nowadays can equip himself with technology far beyond what the CIA, KGB, Gestapo, and Stasi had in their heyday. This always makes me think of the deranged asshole Frank Booth in Blue Velvet: "Don't you fucking look at me!" Yeah, whatever, Frankie baby.
I'm having a hard time buying this "difficulty to know when it is in park" premise. Yes, the shifter design is silly/stupid, and I wouldn't favor it. But, come on. There is an indicator light (actually I think there are two, no?). If it lights up "P", it is in park. If it doesn't light up "P", it is NOT in park. How hard is that? Additionally, the chime when you open the door and it is not in park should be a giant clue.
I just don't get it. The case is sad and regrettable, but I don't see any wrongdoing and it shouldn't be legally actionable. If I'm missing something, please inform me.
Yeah, they brought the world Betamax, MiniDiscs, MS flash, CD rootkits, Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, MafiAA persecution, and exploding batteries. How could we survive without them?
I do remember LONG ago when Sony popularized the pocket transistor radio, and somewhat more recently when their excellent 7600 portable SW receiver took the world by storm, but not much other positive contribution.
Yeah, I can think of a goddam good valid cause to kill 49 people. That is, if they are attacking you with deadly force.
Thank you. I am not too bashful to admit that my Markey and Warren, both of whom I thoroughly disagree with most of the time, came through like champs in this instance. So, from an unexpected corner, thank you Markey and Warren.
I think it's pretty clear and obvious that Freedom of Religion doesn't mean clear reign to do anything if you frame your actions in religious mumbo-jumbo.
For example, murder is illegal whether "God tells you" to do it or not.
Venomous hate speech is illegal whether "God tells you" to vocally express unbridled hate or not.
And so on. Also, in a wider sense, freedom to worship in a manner of your choosing does not imply that you may coerce or force others to worship the way you wish them to, or that you may attempt to forcibly prevent them from disagreeing with you. There is also the question of: when does a cult become a seditious conspiracy.
You spelled BITCH McConnell wrong.
Still too qualified. How about, "killed 49 people without cause".
You better be very careful.
All private sales in California must employ a licensed firearms dealer as middleman, and the dealer must perform a background check. Connecticut and Delaware require background checks on all private sales. Each county in Florida may or may not require a check. Hawaii requires anyone purchasing a firearm from anyone to acquire a permit involving a background check. In Illinois, anyone not a licensed firearms dealer must coordinate the transferee's Firearms Owner ID Card with the state, and await approval. Illinois does have a loophole for gifts to close relatives. In Iowa, anyone providing or acquiring a handgun without the transferee possessing a valid annual permit is a criminal. Private transfers of handguns and "assault weapons" in Maryland must be conducted through licensed dealers, with a background check. Massachusetts basically outlaws private transfers completely, but with a loophole for "not more than four" weapons in one year. Private sales must be reported by both sides to the "Department of Criminal Justice Information Services". In Michigan, when purchasing a handgun from other than a licensed firearms dealer, the buyer must have a handgun purchase license or a license to carry a concealed handgun. New York requires a National Instant Criminal Background Check by a licensed dealer before any private transfer other than to immediate family. Oregon requires private sellers to perform a background check. And so on.
TL;DR: it's a hodgepodge of state laws. Plenty of states require background checks, and just about all of them make it an illegal act to knowingly transfer to an unsavory party. And there are a significant number of states where it is almost impossible for an ordinary person to legally even POSSESS a firearm, let alone carry it.
All right, I'll bite. What the hell does the DE have to do with whether your upgrade-release mechanism works or is broken? Or whether there even is an upgrade-release mechanism?
Ah yes, I remember participating in the Fedora treadmill. Then I discovered Arch. With Arch I have the latest packages every single day, and I never have to reinstall or upgrade to a new release. With either of them (running Arch or constantly upgrading to the newest Fedora) you do at times run into buggy bleeding edge behavior. For systems I need to be stable and absolutely dependable (basically servers/infrastructure), I stick with CentOS or FreeBSD.
Yeah. You can get away with it in tracked vehicles. The US Marines WWII LVT "Amtrack" propelled itself using the same tracks on water and on land. It could make 6 knots in water. The AAV-7 is similar and is still in use by the Marines. I'm not sure if that one has anything more than the tracks for water propulsion.
The guy you're responding to thinks replacing brakes, timing belt, and water pump is too much of investment based on some utterly irrelevant measure of how much the car is "worth". He is obviously intellectually incapable of rational thought.
First sentence of summary is a MASSIVE FAIL. Using RAM is not what wastes power. Using CPU wastes power.
That's twice you have made an ass of yourself on this topic. I was trying to figure out what elaborate joke you were playing that was eluding me, but [shudder] I think you're absolutely on the level with your dreck. Go shill somewhere else.
Only in your labyrinthine mind does freedom of assembly have anything whatever to do with lobbying, aka subversion and corruption.
Let's not. Let's not even allow that COMPANIES dominate any technology. I think the words you want are "worlwide" instead of "American", and "scientists" instead of "companies".