Quite the opposite. After a certain point roads start being congested because, while it takes time in traffic to move, the road is "free" and so people use it. There's been a growing voice in Toronto, Canada saying that tolls should be introduced: we have some of the worst traffic jams (worse than LA), and stretches of Highway 401 get over 500,000 cars an hour (the busiest in the world).
How about the situation where people use free roads to avoid expensive tolls, resulting in more congestion on the free roads, while the toll road remains underused? One might expect the toll to be lowered to balance this out, but it seems the tolls only go higher.
I would never eat food from a Costco or Walmart knowing what their buying practices are like.
I wont question the statement about Walmart, but is Costco really that bad? I can't remember reading horror stories about them the way I have Walmart, so do you have some examples, or are you just lumping them in because they seem similar?
3: Don't invade mainland Japan. Establish dominance around the area, but don't forget that in the end, it was an island.
Is it an attractive option? Perhaps not from the perspective of American retribution. We might not be in such a beneficial situation today. However to say that it is less of an option than firebombing cities and killing tens of millions of people is incorrect.
And watch the Soviets invade instead? Do you really think Japan would have been better off in the long run?
The article also mentions that in his scuffle with the bikers, he claimed they had BBQ'd and eaten a cat. Then was forced to admit he made it up. Why would you give him any credibility with regards to this supposed threat he received, when he has lied about his opposition in the past?
For example, if I grab you in the alley, your gun is useless;
What does this have to do with martial arts? The first step to ensuring your own safety is to be aware of your surroundings. Letting someone get close enough to grab you while you're walking alone through an alley means you already failed at the most basic level of self defense.
But it doesn't actually work like that. LRAD emits a high frequency sound at 146db, which is loud and painful, but can easily be countered with standard hearing protection.
A cheap set of earplugs would seem like a simpler answer, and less likely to blow up in your face. You could even buy them in bulk and hand them out to your fellow protesters. Ones made for shooting are rated from 25-35db in noise reduction and can be had for under $1 each. Sure, it's not as cool as beaming microwaves, but I think it's a bit more practical.
How does requiring the UID to match prove any more secure than requiring a username match, for a portable drive? If I have the drive in my hand, I can plug it into any computer I want and access it as root anyway.
A lot of recent car models have gas mileage numbers available via the dashboard lcd display. On my VW, I can easily pull up either "real-time" or average mileage readouts.
There's a significant loss in the efficiency of the conversion to electricity. You only get about 25-35% of the power you're outputting after conversion, so you'd have to put out 300-400 watts sustained to keep that 100 watt bulb going.
I think I'd rather flip burgers than waste over half of my free time per day in a commute.
Or more realistically, one could just get a smaller house, or rent an apartment, rather than trying to live above their means by commuting 4 hours a day.
Comcast's bittorrent filtering has almost certainly cost them money in the form of hardware and software to implement it. If continual updates to the protocol make it more difficult and expensive to filter, then theres always the chance that ISPs could decide it's actually a better investment in the long run to upgrade their networks, rather than upgrade their filtering. That could just be wishful thinking, tho...
Well, for serious developers, it means only having to look at the documentation on the actual standards, rather than scour the web for information detailing every rendering quirk in IE. Not that I'm defending the idea of having to add an extra tag just to make it work right, but if that's the only option, then it beats the alternative of dealing with random-IE-brokeness.
While netflix does currently offers such gems as 'Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter' and 'The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai', a quick look at the top-50 for streaming shows just how hard it would have been to even use up 17 hours with their selection of movies. It'd also be nice if there were more options for playback, instead of just windows+ie, but I already have a laptop running windows hooked up to my display full-time anyway, so it's not a big deal to me.
Still, can't complain too much about it, as it's pretty much a free perk to the netflix membership that I have anyway.
The other question is, once you have the DNA how do you kickstart the process. They appear to be inserting it into and E. coli with the nucleus removed. This means that the cellular machinery of the E. coli will be used to translate the DNA into protein and eventually a new synthetic cell. Does this mean that it is human created if we use naturally occuring cellular machinery?
The way I see it, the existing bacteria is just a DNA-compiler.
If I write a C-compiler in C, I need to use an existing C-compiler to build it. The old compiler, like the bacteria, is just a tool used in the process - no one would claim I didn't really write my compiler just because I had to bootstrap it off an existing one.
On the other hand, if I just took gcc and modified it extensively, I couldn't claim that I created it myself.
So putting lives at risk, harming your body, and funding gangs and terrorists and etc is the American SPRIT of Freedom????
Oh, so it's not ok for people to 'harm their body'? Let me know when cigarettes are banned.
Funding gangs and terrorists? Maybe if there wasn't an arbitrary list of substances that people were not allowed to buy legitimately, there wouldn't be a black market. Put some responsibility on the ones who feel the need to push their values on others.
Seriously, do you think that everyone who smokes a joint belongs in jail? We already have the world's highest documented prison population rate, thanks in part to people who think that way.
I think you're looking at things a bit wrong. You need to consider that, aside from a few shows, almost all anime airs in Japan late at night (as in, after midnight). When they're shown on cartoon network during the day in the US and aimed towards children, its no surprise that theres a different standard to match as far as nudity goes. As far as language goes, you're also kind of pushing it when you say chikushou is a 'very strong curse word'. It's pervasiveness places it more along the lines of more mild experlatives such as "damn" or "damnit", which is how I've usually seen it translated.
What they're doing with the Simpsons is entirely different. They're editing it for actual content. Homer no longer drinks beer! How much of the show will they have to cut out, because it was based on Homer being drunk? This has been tried with some anime here in the past, and for the most parts, fans rejected it (Example: the butchered Cardcaptors dub that failed badly). Idealy, the Arab audience will do the same with Al Shamshoon, and they'll eventually get to see things as they were originally written. Maybe I'm just being overly optimistic tho, as I can't say I'm really in touch with their society.
If someone wanted to form an agency of free nations to manage DNS and IP-allocation, I wouldn't mind the US giving it up, but I don't think I want countries that already censor internet content to have any say in how DNS is run.
the UN [yah, it's based here and we do provide a decent amount of their budget, I think Japan is the only one who pays more]
The US contributed 24.5% of the UN's budget in 2004. Japan 18.9%. No one else even broke 10%.
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Quite the opposite. After a certain point roads start being congested because, while it takes time in traffic to move, the road is "free" and so people use it. There's been a growing voice in Toronto, Canada saying that tolls should be introduced: we have some of the worst traffic jams (worse than LA), and stretches of Highway 401 get over 500,000 cars an hour (the busiest in the world).
How about the situation where people use free roads to avoid expensive tolls, resulting in more congestion on the free roads, while the toll road remains underused? One might expect the toll to be lowered to balance this out, but it seems the tolls only go higher.
Yeah, widespread blackouts due to seemingly minor problems never happen...
I would never eat food from a Costco or Walmart knowing what their buying practices are like.
I wont question the statement about Walmart, but is Costco really that bad? I can't remember reading horror stories about them the way I have Walmart, so do you have some examples, or are you just lumping them in because they seem similar?
You can buy antibiotics for animals OTC: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000ALFCIO/
Same stuff you'll get from a pharmacy with a prescription.
3: Don't invade mainland Japan. Establish dominance around the area, but don't forget that in the end, it was an island.
Is it an attractive option? Perhaps not from the perspective of American retribution. We might not be in such a beneficial situation today. However to say that it is less of an option than firebombing cities and killing tens of millions of people is incorrect.
And watch the Soviets invade instead? Do you really think Japan would have been better off in the long run?
The article also mentions that in his scuffle with the bikers, he claimed they had BBQ'd and eaten a cat. Then was forced to admit he made it up. Why would you give him any credibility with regards to this supposed threat he received, when he has lied about his opposition in the past?
For example, if I grab you in the alley, your gun is useless;
What does this have to do with martial arts? The first step to ensuring your own safety is to be aware of your surroundings. Letting someone get close enough to grab you while you're walking alone through an alley means you already failed at the most basic level of self defense.
But it doesn't actually work like that. LRAD emits a high frequency sound at 146db, which is loud and painful, but can easily be countered with standard hearing protection.
A cheap set of earplugs would seem like a simpler answer, and less likely to blow up in your face. You could even buy them in bulk and hand them out to your fellow protesters. Ones made for shooting are rated from 25-35db in noise reduction and can be had for under $1 each. Sure, it's not as cool as beaming microwaves, but I think it's a bit more practical.
How does requiring the UID to match prove any more secure than requiring a username match, for a portable drive? If I have the drive in my hand, I can plug it into any computer I want and access it as root anyway.
How about an asian giant hornet? I think any fear of them would be justified.
It's opt-in. Go here: http://www.netflix.com/silverlightoptin
They're too busy using PD (think freenet, but fast).
A lot of recent car models have gas mileage numbers available via the dashboard lcd display. On my VW, I can easily pull up either "real-time" or average mileage readouts.
There's a significant loss in the efficiency of the conversion to electricity. You only get about 25-35% of the power you're outputting after conversion, so you'd have to put out 300-400 watts sustained to keep that 100 watt bulb going.
I think I'd rather flip burgers than waste over half of my free time per day in a commute. Or more realistically, one could just get a smaller house, or rent an apartment, rather than trying to live above their means by commuting 4 hours a day.
Comcast's bittorrent filtering has almost certainly cost them money in the form of hardware and software to implement it. If continual updates to the protocol make it more difficult and expensive to filter, then theres always the chance that ISPs could decide it's actually a better investment in the long run to upgrade their networks, rather than upgrade their filtering. That could just be wishful thinking, tho...
> How about trying to win PEACE with China instead?
I don't think that's the military's job...
Well, for serious developers, it means only having to look at the documentation on the actual standards, rather than scour the web for information detailing every rendering quirk in IE. Not that I'm defending the idea of having to add an extra tag just to make it work right, but if that's the only option, then it beats the alternative of dealing with random-IE-brokeness.
While netflix does currently offers such gems as 'Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter' and 'The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai', a quick look at the top-50 for streaming shows just how hard it would have been to even use up 17 hours with their selection of movies. It'd also be nice if there were more options for playback, instead of just windows+ie, but I already have a laptop running windows hooked up to my display full-time anyway, so it's not a big deal to me.
Still, can't complain too much about it, as it's pretty much a free perk to the netflix membership that I have anyway.
The other question is, once you have the DNA how do you kickstart the process. They appear to be inserting it into and E. coli with the nucleus removed. This means that the cellular machinery of the E. coli will be used to translate the DNA into protein and eventually a new synthetic cell. Does this mean that it is human created if we use naturally occuring cellular machinery?
The way I see it, the existing bacteria is just a DNA-compiler.
If I write a C-compiler in C, I need to use an existing C-compiler to build it. The old compiler, like the bacteria, is just a tool used in the process - no one would claim I didn't really write my compiler just because I had to bootstrap it off an existing one.
On the other hand, if I just took gcc and modified it extensively, I couldn't claim that I created it myself.
I guess thats nice for you, but trying to install it for the first time, I'm greeted with the following broken installer message.
Considering I've written an app that uses winhttp on this computer, I'm going to have to lean towards blaming Yahoo!'s installer for the problem.
So putting lives at risk, harming your body, and funding gangs and terrorists and etc is the American SPRIT of Freedom????
Oh, so it's not ok for people to 'harm their body'? Let me know when cigarettes are banned.
Funding gangs and terrorists? Maybe if there wasn't an arbitrary list of substances that people were not allowed to buy legitimately, there wouldn't be a black market. Put some responsibility on the ones who feel the need to push their values on others.
Seriously, do you think that everyone who smokes a joint belongs in jail? We already have the world's highest documented prison population rate, thanks in part to people who think that way.
I think you're looking at things a bit wrong. You need to consider that, aside from a few shows, almost all anime airs in Japan late at night (as in, after midnight). When they're shown on cartoon network during the day in the US and aimed towards children, its no surprise that theres a different standard to match as far as nudity goes. As far as language goes, you're also kind of pushing it when you say chikushou is a 'very strong curse word'. It's pervasiveness places it more along the lines of more mild experlatives such as "damn" or "damnit", which is how I've usually seen it translated.
What they're doing with the Simpsons is entirely different. They're editing it for actual content. Homer no longer drinks beer! How much of the show will they have to cut out, because it was based on Homer being drunk? This has been tried with some anime here in the past, and for the most parts, fans rejected it (Example: the butchered Cardcaptors dub that failed badly). Idealy, the Arab audience will do the same with Al Shamshoon, and they'll eventually get to see things as they were originally written. Maybe I'm just being overly optimistic tho, as I can't say I'm really in touch with their society.
If someone wanted to form an agency of free nations to manage DNS and IP-allocation, I wouldn't mind the US giving it up, but I don't think I want countries that already censor internet content to have any say in how DNS is run.
the UN [yah, it's based here and we do provide a decent amount of their budget, I think Japan is the only one who pays more]
The US contributed 24.5% of the UN's budget in 2004. Japan 18.9%. No one else even broke 10%.