Because such a bill would be just another piece of ridiculous regulation? Here's what the driver has to do:
Keep the engine RPM low
In any case, I'd be surprised to see any modern car above the absolute lowest class without some kind of device that would keep track of fuel consumption. Our '85 Ford/Merkur Scorpio had it, and my dad's more recent Nissan Primera has an even more advanced version accessible through its central console thingie.
I don't hate Uwe personally, but I have no faith in his directing ability either. I also enjoyed the Postal games and I'd love to see Postal done in the classical cheesy B-movie style with crappy effects and lame one-lines, but my prediction is that Postal will suck as hard as anything else he's made. It won't be "so bad it's good", it won't be parodying its genre or itself, it would just plain suck.
Still, I don't have a crystal ball so maybe Postal will be Uwe's Schindler's List, who knows.
> Some of the houses that I looked at when buying my current house, a couple years ago, were ~$100k. My current 3-bedroom, 2 bath house (in-city) is ~$125k.
I have no doubt that there are houses that cost ~$100k, somewhere. But it's still mislead to use that in a comparison. To make it sound even more outrageous, one could say that he demanded the price of a private aircraft! The aircraft in question would, of course, be a 30-year-old Cessna.
> Oooh, he got a date wrong when repeating something his parents told him, when giving not a stump speech, but a one-off that was for a single location. *Shudder*. What's next, mixing a metaphor? Splitting an infinitive? Oh yes he did get a date wrong. I mean, it's not like we can expect him to know his birthday and the date when the event which he was there to talk about took place, and be able to perform basic mathematical operations on the two. After all, he's only went to Harward Law School, they probably don't teach stuff like this there.
> All with the hopes of getting a big payoff when Obama ran. That's called cybersquatting.
No. I'm probably stretching my analogy skills here, but I'll give it a try. There's an open source project which adds a feature or a file format to MS Office. It's called "Feature X for MS Office". The developer spent a lot of his time during the last 2 years to developer and maintain it. Now MS wants to release a new version of Office, and they want this app. The dev doesn't want to give up the pet project. MS asks him to name a price, and he does.
So, is this guy cybersquatting? Even if he hoped that MS would buy him out eventually, that at most makes him an entrepreneur, not a cybersquatter. Same for this guy, except the chances that he planned the sellout all along are even smaller here.
Look, I'm not trying to get you to vote (or not to vote) for anyone, but just to get the facts straight. You may now proceed with voting for whatever puppet you find more to your likening.
Holy shit, you're almost as good at spinning as Obama himself! You should run for president too, or at least ask one of the politicians for a job.
Half the price of a house? Bwhahaha. You know he asked about $50,000, don't you? What kind of a house are you talking about anyway, a refrigerator box under a bridge somewhere? You can't buy anything in fucking Ukraine for that amount of money (the second column from the right, with the $ sign). Or you're using the same fuzzy math Obama used to show that he's related to the civil rights movement. All this is, of course, completely disregarding the fact that the guy set up the page several years ago and actually worked on and maintained the page the whole time.
Congratulations, you have good career potential in politics.
> Is that truly changing the cost, or just moving it around?
Moving the cost around is exactly what subsidies do. The point is that subsidies can decrease costs in exactly the same way they can decrease price, because the two are connected -- one's cost is also somebody's price. For example, the government pays the manufacturer $X for every laptop to make it cheaper by that amount, it also makes the school's (or whatever) costs for operating a computer lab lower by the same amount. Meanwhile, somebody's costs in terms of taxes just went up.
IANAEconomist, so corrections or additions are welcome.
You can decrease the marginal costs somewhat by getting bulk discounts from suppliers, but of course on the other hand you will eventually have to build more factories and hire more people to produce the increased quantity, raising the costs elsewhere.
In any case, one million units is not a very high number. Asus alone sells more than that every year, and they're one of the smaller players on the global scale.
> It also says that $10 is the cost, which a subsidy can't change - a subsidy would just alter the selling price.
There may or may not be as subsidy (I only scanned TFA for tech specs), but a subsidy can change the cost. The government could subsidize the labor, material, or basically any other input that goes into production of this laptop. The govt lets the manufacturer use a factory for $1 a month == subsidy == reduction of cost.
Somebody modded the parent post offtopic, but I think it's actually quite ontopic.
While the huge quote from the blog itself isn't directly relevant to the discussion, it shows what kind of stuff many soldiers post, and that it's not just "shit sucks here" and "we're going on patrol through street X at YY:ZZ", but intelligent opinions which question or undermine the whole concept behind this war. This is possibly what many are afraid of more than just revealing trivial secrets. Censorship might have its place in the military, but it's exactly stuff like this that must not be affected by it.
The blog is, indeed, no longer online and it looks like it archive.org doesn't have it either, but google cache comes to the rescue!
> Google reached their position through complete and utter competence. They didn't advertise their site. "Google" as a verb spread through word of mouth alone.
Maybe up to a certain point. Then they started paying everyone to make their site the default search engine.
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> How is jPhone like iPhone?
Well, maybe it will feature crappy talk time, a non-replaceable battery, and a useless, locked down OS?
- Keep the engine RPM low
In any case, I'd be surprised to see any modern car above the absolute lowest class without some kind of device that would keep track of fuel consumption. Our '85 Ford/Merkur Scorpio had it, and my dad's more recent Nissan Primera has an even more advanced version accessible through its central console thingie.If it weren't privatized, they'd just claim the information is a matter of national security and still refuse to release it.
Uncle fucka, is that you?
And I think I speak for all of us who are in the EU and are familiar with how it works: "Well, duh."
He's the worst director of all time.
I don't hate Uwe personally, but I have no faith in his directing ability either. I also enjoyed the Postal games and I'd love to see Postal done in the classical cheesy B-movie style with crappy effects and lame one-lines, but my prediction is that Postal will suck as hard as anything else he's made. It won't be "so bad it's good", it won't be parodying its genre or itself, it would just plain suck.
Still, I don't have a crystal ball so maybe Postal will be Uwe's Schindler's List, who knows.
This sounds promising. I also have reliable insider information that Uwe Boll is to direct the movie.
Now they'll experience how it feels to be on the receiving end of violation of privacy!
They offered a chance to win one of five USB flash drives and an external 80 gig hdd.
That, or he would've been iGiven some iBackdated stock
> Some of the houses that I looked at when buying my current house, a couple years ago, were ~$100k. My current 3-bedroom, 2 bath house (in-city) is ~$125k.
I have no doubt that there are houses that cost ~$100k, somewhere. But it's still mislead to use that in a comparison. To make it sound even more outrageous, one could say that he demanded the price of a private aircraft! The aircraft in question would, of course, be a 30-year-old Cessna.
> Oooh, he got a date wrong when repeating something his parents told him, when giving not a stump speech, but a one-off that was for a single location. *Shudder*. What's next, mixing a metaphor? Splitting an infinitive?
Oh yes he did get a date wrong. I mean, it's not like we can expect him to know his birthday and the date when the event which he was there to talk about took place, and be able to perform basic mathematical operations on the two. After all, he's only went to Harward Law School, they probably don't teach stuff like this there.
> All with the hopes of getting a big payoff when Obama ran. That's called cybersquatting.
No. I'm probably stretching my analogy skills here, but I'll give it a try. There's an open source project which adds a feature or a file format to MS Office. It's called "Feature X for MS Office". The developer spent a lot of his time during the last 2 years to developer and maintain it. Now MS wants to release a new version of Office, and they want this app. The dev doesn't want to give up the pet project. MS asks him to name a price, and he does.
So, is this guy cybersquatting? Even if he hoped that MS would buy him out eventually, that at most makes him an entrepreneur, not a cybersquatter. Same for this guy, except the chances that he planned the sellout all along are even smaller here.
Look, I'm not trying to get you to vote (or not to vote) for anyone, but just to get the facts straight. You may now proceed with voting for whatever puppet you find more to your likening.
according to Tom's Hardware. There is no difference in power consumption between XP and Vista w/ Aero.
> Sentence them to Virtual time in a Virtual prison.
With Virtual assrape!
Holy shit, you're almost as good at spinning as Obama himself! You should run for president too, or at least ask one of the politicians for a job.
Half the price of a house? Bwhahaha. You know he asked about $50,000, don't you? What kind of a house are you talking about anyway, a refrigerator box under a bridge somewhere? You can't buy anything in fucking Ukraine for that amount of money (the second column from the right, with the $ sign). Or you're using the same fuzzy math Obama used to show that he's related to the civil rights movement. All this is, of course, completely disregarding the fact that the guy set up the page several years ago and actually worked on and maintained the page the whole time.
Congratulations, you have good career potential in politics.
> Is that truly changing the cost, or just moving it around?
Moving the cost around is exactly what subsidies do. The point is that subsidies can decrease costs in exactly the same way they can decrease price, because the two are connected -- one's cost is also somebody's price. For example, the government pays the manufacturer $X for every laptop to make it cheaper by that amount, it also makes the school's (or whatever) costs for operating a computer lab lower by the same amount. Meanwhile, somebody's costs in terms of taxes just went up.
IANAEconomist, so corrections or additions are welcome.
You can decrease the marginal costs somewhat by getting bulk discounts from suppliers, but of course on the other hand you will eventually have to build more factories and hire more people to produce the increased quantity, raising the costs elsewhere.
In any case, one million units is not a very high number. Asus alone sells more than that every year, and they're one of the smaller players on the global scale.
> It also says that $10 is the cost, which a subsidy can't change - a subsidy would just alter the selling price.
There may or may not be as subsidy (I only scanned TFA for tech specs), but a subsidy can change the cost. The government could subsidize the labor, material, or basically any other input that goes into production of this laptop. The govt lets the manufacturer use a factory for $1 a month == subsidy == reduction of cost.
> And another thing, in a more or less democratic country, an "idiotic" leader is not a very good reflection of the people that gave him the job.
Oh really? Think about what you've just said and what it implies about the general population.
The trick is to set the benchmark to the most demanding mode and run it at least a few dozen times to ensure the most accurate results possible.
Somebody modded the parent post offtopic, but I think it's actually quite ontopic.
While the huge quote from the blog itself isn't directly relevant to the discussion, it shows what kind of stuff many soldiers post, and that it's not just "shit sucks here" and "we're going on patrol through street X at YY:ZZ", but intelligent opinions which question or undermine the whole concept behind this war. This is possibly what many are afraid of more than just revealing trivial secrets. Censorship might have its place in the military, but it's exactly stuff like this that must not be affected by it.
The blog is, indeed, no longer online and it looks like it archive.org doesn't have it either, but google cache comes to the rescue!
Nope, that's business as usual for him.
What the author does not mention, of course, is that he paid $100 twice to get on digg. No wonder he's so pissed now.
California...
Is nice to the homeless.
California-nya-nya, super cool to the homeless.
In the city!!
City of Santa Monica.
Lots of Rich people, giving change to the homeless.
In the city!!
City of Brentwood, they take really good care,
Of all their homeless.
In the city!!
Marina Del Ray. They're so nice to the homeless. Built the port-a-potties!
> Google reached their position through complete and utter competence. They didn't advertise their site. "Google" as a verb spread through word of mouth alone.
Maybe up to a certain point. Then they started paying everyone to make their site the default search engine.