I prefer artist name - album name - track number - song name. It's a bit redundant because I sort them in directories \artist name\album name, however I do find it useful.
Actually his ruling just stated that it is perfectly legal for you to call him and try to sell him stuff. It's a matter of free speech. Of course I do believe if he says he's not interested and never to call him again, you must abide by that.
Then you missed my point entirely. My point was that it doesn't matter whether CO2 does lead to global warming, the fact that it reducing emissions is benificial in other reasons is more than enough reason to reduce it.
Whether or not CO2 is pollution is what is in dispute.
Okay, name something that puts C02 in the air that doesn't also pollute in other ways? Burning fossil fuels is where most of the C02 comes from. Burning fossil fuels is also where most of the pollution comes from. Therefore cut down on the emission of C02, you will also cut down on the emission of pollution.
Less polution in the air will make people more healthy: less alergies, less asthma, less lung cancer, fewer cases of resperitory illness. That is undisputable.
Your talking about spending billions of dollars refitting essentially the entire power delivery industry (electric, gasoline, natural gas, propane etc.)
Did I say lets tear down everything and spend billions rebuilding. No I didn't. Driving smaller more fuel efficient cars and hybrid vehicles doesn't cost billions, those cars aren't signifigantly more expensive than what we like to drive now. And our power grid is in essential need of billions of dollars. Instead of building more dirty plants and putting bandaids on it, why not invest in better technologies, by building nuclear power plants?
Why does it harm our society to emit less CO2? we drive more efficient cars, using hydrogen and electric power, use nuclear power to generate our electricity, plant trees? That's going to make the society better and more healthy... what's the harm in that?
Before you ask me to dump a ton of money, time and energy into a cause, you had better have good reason to believe it's actually going to do some good and not do more harm. Because the changes you're proposing are not easy to make, and will impact society greatly, all for some tenuous belief that it might help.
I think the 100's of millions of years the world supported life without us emitting tons of CO2 is proof that us cutting our emissions won't do more harm. Hell, we have 1000's of years of human history without us emitting tons of CO2 to use as evidence.
Okay, what is the result of using less fossil fuel on the world economy? Details please. How do you fuel the fight against AIDs in Africa? How do you fuel Latin America? Now, not pie in the sky "we'll harness the wind" bullshit, how do you fucking heat homes around the world now?! How do you make hydrogen for fuel cells?
Nuclear, solar and wind power. With the emphasis on nuclear. Not all of us environmentalists are against nuclear power.
So you're saying if I want to eat a balanced diet I should eat just as many twinkies as I do pieces of broccoli? There is more than one definition of balance. You seem to be stuck on this one:
balancen. A state of equilibrium or parity characterized by cancellation of all forces by equal opposing forces.
Try using these defintions instead:
balancen. A harmonious or satisfying arrangement or proportion of parts or elements, as in a design.
balancen. A stable mental or psychological state; emotional stability.
Besides, Lucas himself on the directors commentaries of both AOTC and TPM has said balance means no Sith, and balance is achieved when vader kills the emperor and then dies.
Actually Lucas' original story did call for 7,8, and 9. However, not the way you are thinking. In his original story Luke fails. It's then up to his sister to continue on. In the this story Leia is not the sister, she's been hidden on a different planet in preparation.
Vader does bring balance... just not like you think. Balance is harmony, not numbers in this case. So balance is achieved when their are no sith remaining. Vader kills Palpatine, and in doing so himself, wiping out the sith and bringing balance.
You know what... they really don't care. The cost of developing for you wouldn't be made up by the small number of linux users who would actually pay for their product.
not only does their number grow, the amount of people in close proximity to them that they can kill grows. In 1790 living in Tennessee you could be a crackpot who loved to kill people, but might have a hard time doing it, as there weren't many people around.
SBC and Verizon realize that downloading music and movies is already a driving force behind the adoption of broadband. If the ability or the desire for filesharing were to disappear many people wouldn't feel the need to purchase broadband. That's why they're fighting this.
But just like harmon/kardon and bose you really aren't getting anything better, you're just paying for the name. And in this case, just like bose you're getting a worse product for more money.
There is something else you forgot to consider. The best selling albums of all time clock in at around 20 million copies sold. If you figure $8 for a movie ticket that would be the equivalent of a $160 million dollar movie, which seems to be a pretty average blockbuster. A gold record sells 500,000 copies a platinum record sells 1,000,000. If only that many people went to your movie, you'd be looking at box office takes of 4 and 8 million dollars. which would be considered a flop.
considering that an expensive album costs 4 million dollars to make, and the wholesale price of a cd is about $10. That album has to sell 400,000 copies before it breaks even. Most albums don't get close to selling that many copies. What the music industry needs to do is start producing more albums that don't cost alot. Most bands could record an album easy for $50,000. In fact most bands could equip a studio for $50,000 and would then lower the costs of each subsequent album. At $50,000 a band would only need to sell 5,000 records before a profit was seen. That seems to be a much more realistic goal.
wouldn't your winter driving be better in something like a subaru, audi, or vw with AWD? weight is exactly what you don't want when trying to stop on ice or snow!
But if all our fossil fuels were replaced with bio-diesel, the amount of CO2 in the air would never increase. Everything we burned would be used up by the plants we grew to burn.
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I prefer artist name - album name - track number - song name. It's a bit redundant because I sort them in directories \artist name\album name, however I do find it useful.
Actually his ruling just stated that it is perfectly legal for you to call him and try to sell him stuff. It's a matter of free speech. Of course I do believe if he says he's not interested and never to call him again, you must abide by that.
Then you missed my point entirely. My point was that it doesn't matter whether CO2 does lead to global warming, the fact that it reducing emissions is benificial in other reasons is more than enough reason to reduce it.
Whether or not CO2 is pollution is what is in dispute.
Okay, name something that puts C02 in the air that doesn't also pollute in other ways? Burning fossil fuels is where most of the C02 comes from. Burning fossil fuels is also where most of the pollution comes from. Therefore cut down on the emission of C02, you will also cut down on the emission of pollution.
Less polution in the air will make people more healthy: less alergies, less asthma, less lung cancer, fewer cases of resperitory illness. That is undisputable.
Your talking about spending billions of dollars refitting essentially the entire power delivery industry (electric, gasoline, natural gas, propane etc.)
Did I say lets tear down everything and spend billions rebuilding. No I didn't. Driving smaller more fuel efficient cars and hybrid vehicles doesn't cost billions, those cars aren't signifigantly more expensive than what we like to drive now. And our power grid is in essential need of billions of dollars. Instead of building more dirty plants and putting bandaids on it, why not invest in better technologies, by building nuclear power plants?
Why does it harm our society to emit less CO2? we drive more efficient cars, using hydrogen and electric power, use nuclear power to generate our electricity, plant trees? That's going to make the society better and more healthy... what's the harm in that?
can you post a link to this story? I've never heard it mentioned before.
Before you ask me to dump a ton of money, time and energy into a cause, you had better have good reason to believe it's actually going to do some good and not do more harm. Because the changes you're proposing are not easy to make, and will impact society greatly, all for some tenuous belief that it might help.
I think the 100's of millions of years the world supported life without us emitting tons of CO2 is proof that us cutting our emissions won't do more harm. Hell, we have 1000's of years of human history without us emitting tons of CO2 to use as evidence.
Okay, what is the result of using less fossil fuel on the world economy? Details please. How do you fuel the fight against AIDs in Africa? How do you fuel Latin America? Now, not pie in the sky "we'll harness the wind" bullshit, how do you fucking heat homes around the world now?! How do you make hydrogen for fuel cells?
Nuclear, solar and wind power. With the emphasis on nuclear. Not all of us environmentalists are against nuclear power.
unless of course you're in public... then they can site you for public intoxiaction.
Don't forger pfizer and eli lilly. They want you to take their drugs, not the marijuana... I prefer pot to prozac myself.
So you're saying if I want to eat a balanced diet I should eat just as many twinkies as I do pieces of broccoli? There is more than one definition of balance. You seem to be stuck on this one:
balance n. A state of equilibrium or parity characterized by cancellation of all forces by equal opposing forces.
Try using these defintions instead:
balance n. A harmonious or satisfying arrangement or proportion of parts or elements, as in a design.
balance n. A stable mental or psychological state; emotional stability.
Besides, Lucas himself on the directors commentaries of both AOTC and TPM has said balance means no Sith, and balance is achieved when vader kills the emperor and then dies.
In episode II a entire shooting script was leaked... certain people new everything more than a year in advance.
Actually Lucas' original story did call for 7,8, and 9. However, not the way you are thinking. In his original story Luke fails. It's then up to his sister to continue on. In the this story Leia is not the sister, she's been hidden on a different planet in preparation.
Vader does bring balance... just not like you think. Balance is harmony, not numbers in this case. So balance is achieved when their are no sith remaining. Vader kills Palpatine, and in doing so himself, wiping out the sith and bringing balance.
No Linux support? Lame. They just lost my money.
You know what... they really don't care. The cost of developing for you wouldn't be made up by the small number of linux users who would actually pay for their product.
not only does their number grow, the amount of people in close proximity to them that they can kill grows. In 1790 living in Tennessee you could be a crackpot who loved to kill people, but might have a hard time doing it, as there weren't many people around.
SBC and Verizon realize that downloading music and movies is already a driving force behind the adoption of broadband. If the ability or the desire for filesharing were to disappear many people wouldn't feel the need to purchase broadband. That's why they're fighting this.
But just like harmon/kardon and bose you really aren't getting anything better, you're just paying for the name. And in this case, just like bose you're getting a worse product for more money.
There is something else you forgot to consider. The best selling albums of all time clock in at around 20 million copies sold. If you figure $8 for a movie ticket that would be the equivalent of a $160 million dollar movie, which seems to be a pretty average blockbuster. A gold record sells 500,000 copies a platinum record sells 1,000,000. If only that many people went to your movie, you'd be looking at box office takes of 4 and 8 million dollars. which would be considered a flop.
considering that an expensive album costs 4 million dollars to make, and the wholesale price of a cd is about $10. That album has to sell 400,000 copies before it breaks even. Most albums don't get close to selling that many copies. What the music industry needs to do is start producing more albums that don't cost alot. Most bands could record an album easy for $50,000. In fact most bands could equip a studio for $50,000 and would then lower the costs of each subsequent album. At $50,000 a band would only need to sell 5,000 records before a profit was seen. That seems to be a much more realistic goal.
Putting socialist in your name doesn't actually make you a socialist.
wouldn't your winter driving be better in something like a subaru, audi, or vw with AWD? weight is exactly what you don't want when trying to stop on ice or snow!
Do they make them... yes. Can you get one... that depends. Do you live in Europe? or Mexico? They sell them there... my dream car is a TDI A3.
But if all our fossil fuels were replaced with bio-diesel, the amount of CO2 in the air would never increase. Everything we burned would be used up by the plants we grew to burn.