"Why would we need street lights with a very strong light source using the same spectrum as the sun"
i think you answered your own questions. oh and you know what else disturbs the wildlife? being run over by cars that can't see them because of poor lighting.
this kid is a classic gen Y. expects the top pay rate out of school, it's going to be temper tantrums in a year or 2 when these guys hit the work force in full.
one other point i want to make about places like google and MS, they seem like awesome places to work, giving you free lunches and rides to and from work. that is until you realise it's a trap so you don't notice the 70 hour working week. trades make significantly more money (atleast here in AU they do). i make 6 figures now all up, but friends of mine that did electrical trades are on 2x what i'm on.
spoken like a true college kid who hasn't been out in the real world yet.
sure, money isn't EVERYTHING, but it's about 90% of it. when your all grown up and have a house and other responsibilites like a family, you'll learn you'd happily shovel shit for a living if it paid the right money.
and call me jaded, but even in my day critical thinking was dead in college.
i'd also like to point out that "you can easily be making a high five or low six figures straight out of college" is bullcrap and won't happen. you'll have to go into a graduate program after getting your engineering degree, where they will teach you how things are really done and pay you shit money for the pleasure.
Do a trade instead. you'll make more money and have more free time, AND you'll get paid to learn. I wish i had of done an electrical tade out of high school. i'd be on 2x the money now, not only that it would have tied in well with computers and electronics anyway.
by the time the insider has done his trade, it's too late for everyone else you idiot.
oh and if tax lawyers could allow you to pay less tax, why the fuck aren't you doing it? i'll tell you why, because it's a greatly over exaggerated myth that rich people do this and save heaps of tax. sure they can BREAK the law and pay less tax, but shockingly revenue services know all the loopholes since they wrote the laws.
fuck me, reading all these comments makes me think virus writers are rubbing their hands together right now.
listen up. antivirus is a good thing. repeat, a good thing. all these twats saying they have never been infected.... give me a break. you probably ARE infected and don't have a clue... BECAUSE YOU DONT RUN ANTIVIRUS.
how fucking big do you think a dell pc is? the screen and keyboard of the mini are going to be the exact same size as the dell's, the only space saving is the box itself and you aren't trying to tell me there's NO WHERE in your study to put that?
on the sound side of things, they use the same hd tech and cpu fan, the only difference is going to be the psu fan (and maybe the gpu since it lacks any real grunty graphic card). I have dell's at work and they are whisper quiet.
sure a small computer is nifty, but all you are paying for is wank factor, nothing more.
"A lot better? Give me a break. I challenge you to put together a Dell for $650 (or $750 including monitor, since with a lot of their budget PCs you can't unbundle it) that matches the mini's specs. I challenge you."
i'm from wheat country, and let me assure you most of that stems from farmers wanting government assistance. here we had farmers on both drought AND flood assistance. figure that one out.
i'm so sick of being told of what i need to be afraid of. no wonder the world is full of pill popping zombies, i just wish these people would fuck off with their end of the world nonesense.
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i think you answered your own questions. oh and you know what else disturbs the wildlife? being run over by cars that can't see them because of poor lighting.
quick stop working on that cure to cancer, light pollution is SERIOUS, man
and that doesn't apply to the ipod because.....?
this kid is a classic gen Y. expects the top pay rate out of school, it's going to be temper tantrums in a year or 2 when these guys hit the work force in full.
one other point i want to make about places like google and MS, they seem like awesome places to work, giving you free lunches and rides to and from work. that is until you realise it's a trap so you don't notice the 70 hour working week. trades make significantly more money (atleast here in AU they do). i make 6 figures now all up, but friends of mine that did electrical trades are on 2x what i'm on.
sure, money isn't EVERYTHING, but it's about 90% of it. when your all grown up and have a house and other responsibilites like a family, you'll learn you'd happily shovel shit for a living if it paid the right money.
and call me jaded, but even in my day critical thinking was dead in college.
i'd also like to point out that "you can easily be making a high five or low six figures straight out of college" is bullcrap and won't happen. you'll have to go into a graduate program after getting your engineering degree, where they will teach you how things are really done and pay you shit money for the pleasure.
but then i guess that's what higher education has fallen to these days.
Do a trade instead. you'll make more money and have more free time, AND you'll get paid to learn. I wish i had of done an electrical tade out of high school. i'd be on 2x the money now, not only that it would have tied in well with computers and electronics anyway.
our grandchildren will probably look back 50 years from now and wonder how we could be so stupid.
at 1500m below the pressure on it will be crushing, it would be under 100's of tons of pressure.
wow there might be an issue 100 years in the future, better abandon the project.
why would that be, the alcohol has long let your system.
by the time the insider has done his trade, it's too late for everyone else you idiot.
oh and if tax lawyers could allow you to pay less tax, why the fuck aren't you doing it? i'll tell you why, because it's a greatly over exaggerated myth that rich people do this and save heaps of tax. sure they can BREAK the law and pay less tax, but shockingly revenue services know all the loopholes since they wrote the laws.
listen up. antivirus is a good thing. repeat, a good thing. all these twats saying they have never been infected.... give me a break. you probably ARE infected and don't have a clue... BECAUSE YOU DONT RUN ANTIVIRUS.
on the sound side of things, they use the same hd tech and cpu fan, the only difference is going to be the psu fan (and maybe the gpu since it lacks any real grunty graphic card). I have dell's at work and they are whisper quiet.
sure a small computer is nifty, but all you are paying for is wank factor, nothing more.
More apple wankery.
I accept.
let's compare shall we. http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/desktops_good?c=au&cs=audhs1&l=en&s=dhs
vs
http://store.apple.com/133-622/WebObjects/australiastore.woa/wa/RSLID?nnmm=browse&mco=7B723681&node=home/shop_mac/family/mac_mini for $50AUD more then the mini superdrive, the dell gives you an extra gig of ram, 170gigs of extra hd space, a 256meg 3d card, 20" wide screen lcd and a 2.25ghz 2m cache core 2 duo.
that's a much much faster machine for the same price point.
lets look at the base line mini "combodrive". for $50 less dell gives twice the hd space and a 19" monitor
so all you are paying for is the wank factor, thank you very much. please stop spouting nonsense about mac's competing with pc's on price.
if you can afford shit like mini's, you can afford a large enough living area to put a pc. seriously they aren't fucking mobility device.
you lose at the internet.
I suspect the quality of that science is also very lacking....
the space elevator is not plausible in the slightest. end of story.
whats that, you do it because you can? thank you very much you just answered your own question.
step 2. let unwary developer implement it
step 3. profit!
i'm from wheat country, and let me assure you most of that stems from farmers wanting government assistance. here we had farmers on both drought AND flood assistance. figure that one out.
i'm so sick of being told of what i need to be afraid of. no wonder the world is full of pill popping zombies, i just wish these people would fuck off with their end of the world nonesense.