How many millions of gallons of the stuff are we going to *make*? How much of an impact will all those chemicals have when, not if, but when they leak? Continuing upkeep and environmental cleanup have to be added in. Then there's producing all this wonderful stuff, the chemicals, steels, seals, wire, pumps, generators, etc. It takes energy, materials and labor which costs money. Once you've added up the total cost of owner ship then you compare that to the benefits.
Has anyone projected our energy needs to 2100? Has anyone figured out how much energy we could make maximum if we covered 90 percent of the earth in asphalt/solar cell/etc?;)
I'll look at that Nokia. I have a 6030 and it works well but it is not robust. It has handled a couple of drops but dissembles itself. I really want an open source phone I can use with my service but I doubt they will allow it.
*sobs* I had one. An Erickson. Old analog phone that got service in places goats wouldn't go. With the extra large battery it was quite a brick. It finally just wore out and the local cell phone companies were not reactivating analog phones so I didn't get one. I dropped that countless times with no problems.
I'm sure some would pay a couple hundred extra for an iPod that would survive a six foot drop and a six foot dunk. I wish there were a cell phone that would (damn nokia).
Since you'll probably not get it, stick a bluetooth transmitter on the ipod and stick it in a sealed RF transparent but near invulnerable box.;) It'll cost about the same.
I know you're joking but most will just die because their protected environment went away. How many will die if insulin were just not available? A friend needs ranitidine to survive, without it he'd be dead within a short period of time. Turn off the civilization switch and you'll lose a huge percentage. It really doesn't take much to turn it off either.:(
Punitive civil damages. A way of bitch slapping them so they won't do it again. In Indiana the government keeps 90 percent of such judgments. The left over is usually eaten up in attorney fees or the attorney will gamble and take all of that 10 percent even if there is zero awarded the client then pays no fees and keeps the whole refund.
That definitely would be fraud. Several local companies lost their contract because they'd tell a customer it was lightning or some other drivel and then charge them then turn it in under warranty. Yes, they were that incredibly stupid and criminal.
Sony contacted 100 percent of the warranty claims. Others did a percentage but would put a service center on 100 percent if they smelled a rat.
At least one service center got a surprise. Ever time they fraudulently billed a warranty claim they broke the law. It's kind of fuzzy if the document or every line item can be considered a seperate offense. It's wire and/or mail fraud and of course the US district attorney went for blood. Since they'd marked their computer with a code saying they'd lied. It was easy to come up with 2000+ offenses at 30 years and 250,000 fine per each offense.
Brand new 3.5" floppies do not last like the older media. It had gotten to the point that I could not count on writing a disk at work and getting it home intact. I'd write two and verify both of them and one would invariably be corrupted sometimes both. These were Sony disks. The first time I've bought disks in the last ten years has been to try and resurrect an old laptop for some physical computing uses. They worked long enough to do the job and one cost more than 10 CDRs
for consumer electronics. I worked at a warranty center for 35 brands and to keep fraud to a dull roar the wanted the parts back. We'd fill out all the paperwork, stick it and the parts in a bin and wait for the field rep to audit them. Then they'd take them back or tell us to dispose of them.
I assume it's similar in other industries. It's way too easy to claim you replaced a set of brake pads or that microprocessor and not do it but get the money for the part.
Since the party paying is the manufacturer then they get the old parts back.
You're right and there's been bitching about putting down more concrete and doing so in areas away from urban blight creating many smaller airports. But then NIMBY, Sierra Club, Greanpeas and others start howling....
It's a ludicrous ripoff of Manchurian Candidate/Bourne Identity/Quantum Leap etc with an incredibly stupid title on a network that's butchered too many good shows to be trusted.
There is a three day opt out of any contract in the US. I'm not sure how you go about doing it but I'd suspect a properly certified letter would do. If the store refuses the return then you can either charge back the credit card or sue them in small claims court.
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How many millions of gallons of the stuff are we going to *make*? How much of an impact will all those chemicals have when, not if, but when they leak? Continuing upkeep and environmental cleanup have to be added in. Then there's producing all this wonderful stuff, the chemicals, steels, seals, wire, pumps, generators, etc. It takes energy, materials and labor which costs money. Once you've added up the total cost of owner ship then you compare that to the benefits.
;)
Has anyone projected our energy needs to 2100? Has anyone figured out how much energy we could make maximum if we covered 90 percent of the earth in asphalt/solar cell/etc?
I'll look at that Nokia. I have a 6030 and it works well but it is not robust. It has handled a couple of drops but dissembles itself. I really want an open source phone I can use with my service but I doubt they will allow it.
*sobs* I had one. An Erickson. Old analog phone that got service in places goats wouldn't go.
With the extra large battery it was quite a brick. It finally just wore out and the local cell phone companies were not reactivating analog phones so I didn't get one.
I dropped that countless times with no problems.
I'm sure some would pay a couple hundred extra for an iPod that would survive a six foot drop and a six foot dunk. I wish there were a cell phone that would (damn nokia).
;) It'll cost about the same.
Since you'll probably not get it, stick a bluetooth transmitter on the ipod and stick it in a sealed RF transparent but near invulnerable box.
I'm not sure if the following offers any remote capability, didn't look to close and I'm not endorsing them, just pointing at the first I found
http://www.bluetomorrow.com/content/section/153/255/
Not sure if both would fit in here http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp;jsessionid=NQ0NFJEDBR0IRLAQBBICCOVMCAEFCIWE?id=0037999018340a&type=product&cmCat=perf&rid=0180101070502&xpid=k17401&cm_ven=Performics&cm_cat=Affiliate-click&cm_pla=Nextag&cm_ite=DDI%20Link&afsrc=1&_requestid=121893
but should fit in here, the other one is a bit more portable but Pelican is good stuff.
http://www.pelicanproducts.us.com/detailaspx8.html?gclid=CPTnguLP05ACFQUsPAodBDFxXQ
I know you're joking but most will just die because their protected environment went away. :(
How many will die if insulin were just not available? A friend needs ranitidine to survive, without it he'd be dead within a short period of time. Turn off the civilization switch and you'll lose a huge percentage. It really doesn't take much to turn it off either.
Punitive civil damages. A way of bitch slapping them so they won't do it again. In Indiana the government keeps 90 percent of such judgments. The left over is usually eaten up in attorney fees or the attorney will gamble and take all of that 10 percent even if there is zero awarded the client then pays no fees and keeps the whole refund.
I'm so scared!
Yes it's sarcasm.
They look so metrothexual.
http://www.cardtechnology.com/article.html?id=20061117ST7IODKW
That definitely would be fraud. Several local companies lost their contract because they'd tell a customer it was lightning or some other drivel and then charge them then turn it in under warranty. Yes, they were that incredibly stupid and criminal.
Sony contacted 100 percent of the warranty claims. Others did a percentage but would put a service center on 100 percent if they smelled a rat.
At least one service center got a surprise. Ever time they fraudulently billed a warranty claim they broke the law. It's kind of fuzzy if the document or every line item can be considered a seperate offense. It's wire and/or mail fraud and of course the US district attorney went for blood. Since they'd marked their computer with a code saying they'd lied. It was easy to come up with 2000+ offenses at 30 years and 250,000 fine per each offense.
Brand new 3.5" floppies do not last like the older media. It had gotten to the point that I could not count on writing a disk at work and getting it home intact. I'd write two and verify both of them and one would invariably be corrupted sometimes both. These were Sony disks. The first time I've bought disks in the last ten years has been to try and resurrect an old laptop for some physical computing uses. They worked long enough to do the job and one cost more than 10 CDRs
for consumer electronics. I worked at a warranty center for 35 brands and to keep fraud to a dull roar the wanted the parts back. We'd fill out all the paperwork, stick it and the parts in a bin and wait for the field rep to audit them. Then they'd take them back or tell us to dispose of them.
I assume it's similar in other industries. It's way too easy to claim you replaced a set of brake pads or that microprocessor and not do it but get the money for the part.
Since the party paying is the manufacturer then they get the old parts back.
True. I'm surprised no one exploited the flaw in the Thinkpads that had the eeprom which would brick them.
http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2002-July/000884.html
Nah after paramounted stuck a stake in the franchise let it go...
You could however come over to the darkside and enjoy the novels. Not the paramounted ones but the ones by Pocket books.
Only because the bought linksys and got that as a bonus. I suspect they'll rape that as soon as they can.
You're right and there's been bitching about putting down more concrete and doing so in areas away from urban blight creating many smaller airports. But then NIMBY, Sierra Club, Greanpeas and others start howling....
"So Can I Blowup?"
Does Firefox+adblock+noscript kill most of this?
http://textfiles.com/
It's not intuitive but stringing them together doesn't work well. I'd just dump md5 and go with more proven code.
I don't understand why a gnupg digital signature is not used by default.
Cursed wet behind the ears pup!
that they bombed it and got money from "Ant" for "fixing" it later?
That's weapons development at it's finest. Just ask the Sgt York team.
It's a ludicrous ripoff of Manchurian Candidate/Bourne Identity/Quantum Leap etc with an incredibly stupid title on a network that's butchered too many good shows to be trusted.
All the schools that had shootings had no other armed students or teachers.
There is a three day opt out of any contract in the US. I'm not sure how you go about doing it but I'd suspect a properly certified letter would do. If the store refuses the return then you can either charge back the credit card or sue them in small claims court.
Couldn't they have picked someone that looks like a man and not a metrothexuaal?