I bet fuel consumption in California is not falling...
Why should you be taxed per mile when heavier vehicles damage or wear the roads down more? Fuel tax seems like the ideal way that these heavier vehicles can pay for their road use. They pay more because they cost more per mile driven.
If the fuel tax is not generating enough revenue, perhaps its time to raise the fuel tax? Not spend $300+ dollars to equip cars with GPS...
My last threes cars cost under $400 each and I've put about 80,000 miles on them total. I dont want to double the cost of the car with GPS.
i find slate extremely helpful, between the explainers to todays papers. some of it can be quite silly, but the majority of the content is excellent stuff. i've been checking out the washington post lately because of slate. they have quite a bit of helpful information that you don't find anywhere else, and they seem to carry full stories. if i want to find out what is actually going on and the motivations for that, i read the post. hopefully they can bring more of that to slate and slate can give them a bigger online audience.
I don't dispute that these networks are becoming more common, or atleast being used more.
As a systems administrator, we have a seen a huge increase in mail storms and such in the past year, even in the past three months. Thousands upon thousands of machines trying to dictionary attack us. We see all the thousands of cable modems sending us double bounces email in a coordinated fashion overloading our front end mail machines.
You skeptics can say its just the virus guys trying to make money or scare people. I honestly think its real, I've seen the effects.
Whenever someone in my family comes to ask me about a computer, I steer them towards Apple, so I don't have to clean out their system full of spyware every few months.
we at the university of michigan use radmind to update and deploy software to our linux environment. it is a great tool that helps us centrally manage our environment and rapidly deploy security updates. update one machine, take a snapshot of the differences, and push it out to 50 machines or more. command line freaks will love it.
I drove a '93 ford escort and averaged about 37 mpg, but most of it was highway. i think it had alot to do on the car being a manual.
when i drove a '91 escort automatic, it averaged about 28 mpg. same sort of highway vs city ratio.
same engine, similar cars.
my next car will be a focus zx5 manual. it should be interesting to see what kind of mileage i get on that. i think i'm going to get the partial zero emission engine. pretty sweet stuff, puts out 1/15 of the pollution a normal car does. i *heart* the future.
anyone see us switching to an ethanol economy instead of a hydrogen economy? i kinda think that hydrogen cars are going to be like electric cars, neat concept, but not pratical in any sense. ethanol can use our existing infrastructure and its not as difficult to handle as hydrogen.
this site and the geek running is pretty cool. i am a geek who runs and bikes. the largest reason i like to run is i get away from technology, the comfort factor that accompanies so much of modern life. skip the ipod, the fancy shorts, the headphones, the gps, just get up and go. don't get me wrong, i dont skimp on shoes or socks, as if you do you end up injured, but i like being away from it all. it calms me.
anyone know of geekish organizations who campaign for more parks and trails? we should get together and lobby for it. it will be easier to establish parks now than in the future, as land prices go up. people often forget to plan ahead.
Seems like it might be cheaper to feed them and house them than track them using some sort of rfid tags. That is, unless walmart is going to start selling the homeless by the pallette.
I think that the government can provide some services cheaper and better than private enterprise. Like auto insurance. I believe in Alberta, government supplies auto insurance, its cheaper than anywhere else in Canada by a large margin. And because the same agency deals with building and maintaining roads as paying out insurance premiums, if a certain section of road leads to more accidents, the government looks at redesigning the roads. While the intial outlay of cash is expensive, it ends up with safer roads and lower insurance rates. Everyone wins!
I've heard about Apple dying before. Maybe its just my social circle, but I know of alot of people who are getting macs, the kind of cool kids that lead the general population by about 6 months to a year. On a side note. I'm definitely getting a mac for my mom instead of a pc. With the pc she has had, every 3 months there is always some virus or something like that that she is getting. Even if the pc is cheaper, its not worth the hassle.
Just to point out, its not just 20 PHD's, its
"Washington, D.C.--Today, more than 60 leading scientists--including Nobel laureates, leading medical experts, zombies, former federal agency directors and university chairs and presidents....
And theo rganization includes over 100,000 scientists, minions and killer robots according to the website.
Remember the Xfiles? If fox had gone on ratings the show would have never made it the first two seasons. Think how much the show made them in the long run.
I hope that someone picks up Angel. Whoever does stands to make tons on money on reruns and dvds.
while the effort is noble, it seems it will fall prey to the same beast that kills alot of the good ideas that rely on wide adoption. the greatest force in the universe. inertia.
looks like i know how to format slashdot posts. ill try that again.
burning coal actually releases small amounts of uranium into the air. we burn lots of coal, so the amount of uranium released is substaintial.
"Second, although not as well known, releases from coal combustion contain naturally occurring radioactive materials--mainly, uranium and thorium."
the article goes on to state
"The fact that coal-fired power plants throughout the world are the major sources of radioactive materials released to the environment has several implications. It suggests that coal combustion is more hazardous to health than nuclear power and that it adds to the background radiation burden even more than does nuclear power. It also suggests that if radiation emissions from coal plants were regulated, their capital and operating costs would increase, making coal-fired power less economically competitive."
burning coal actually releases small amounts of uranium into the air. we burn lots of coal, so the amount of uranium released is substaintial.
"Second, although not as well known, releases from coal combustion contain naturally occurring radioactive materials--mainly, uranium and thorium."
the article goes on to state
"The fact that coal-fired power plants throughout the world are the major sources of radioactive materials released to the environment has several implications. It suggests that coal combustion is more hazardous to health than nuclear power and that it adds to the background radiation burden even more than does nuclear power. It also suggests that if radiation emissions from coal plants were regulated, their capital and operating costs would increase, making coal-fired power less economically competitive."
http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/ colmain.html
aha! I should have said, KILLER GIANT robot soliders to clarify.
The soliders should be robots, and giant, and killers.
Good point about there not being any giants causing trouble anymore.
Why not work on GIANT KILLER robot soliders? If your going for robots, you might as well go all the way.
I hear the Japanese have some interesting designs for giant robots. Something about a facination with them.
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wouldnt the burst only hit half the planet? the other half being shielded by earth's mass?
just a thought.
I bet fuel consumption in California is not falling...
Why should you be taxed per mile when heavier vehicles damage or wear the roads down more? Fuel tax seems like the ideal way that these heavier vehicles can pay for their road use. They pay more because they cost more per mile driven.
If the fuel tax is not generating enough revenue, perhaps its time to raise the fuel tax? Not spend $300+ dollars to equip cars with GPS...
My last threes cars cost under $400 each and I've put about 80,000 miles on them total. I dont want to double the cost of the car with GPS.
science should be held above political agendas.
typical republican response:
its not happening.
it is happening, but clinton did it first.
left wing media conspiracy to slam bush. (which is pretty funny considering the whole talon news thing.)
cite another left wing conspiracy. BOOGIE MEN EVERYWHERE!
cite michael crichton.
cite a volcano! think of how many spotted owls have been killed by volcanos! think of how much C02 volcanos release.
like humans can actually damage nature, its so big!
but economic growth is important.
when the real response should be: really? lets fix this. remove politics from the system.
i find slate extremely helpful, between the explainers to todays papers. some of it can be quite silly, but the majority of the content is excellent stuff. i've been checking out the washington post lately because of slate. they have quite a bit of helpful information that you don't find anywhere else, and they seem to carry full stories. if i want to find out what is actually going on and the motivations for that, i read the post. hopefully they can bring more of that to slate and slate can give them a bigger online audience.
same thing here a university of michigan. a number of the no's should be yes.
I don't dispute that these networks are becoming more common, or atleast being used more. As a systems administrator, we have a seen a huge increase in mail storms and such in the past year, even in the past three months. Thousands upon thousands of machines trying to dictionary attack us. We see all the thousands of cable modems sending us double bounces email in a coordinated fashion overloading our front end mail machines. You skeptics can say its just the virus guys trying to make money or scare people. I honestly think its real, I've seen the effects. Whenever someone in my family comes to ask me about a computer, I steer them towards Apple, so I don't have to clean out their system full of spyware every few months.
we at the university of michigan use radmind to update and deploy software to our linux environment. it is a great tool that helps us centrally manage our environment and rapidly deploy security updates. update one machine, take a snapshot of the differences, and push it out to 50 machines or more. command line freaks will love it.
learn more at radmind.org
I drove a '93 ford escort and averaged about 37 mpg, but most of it was highway. i think it had alot to do on the car being a manual.
when i drove a '91 escort automatic, it averaged about 28 mpg. same sort of highway vs city ratio.
same engine, similar cars.
my next car will be a focus zx5 manual. it should be interesting to see what kind of mileage i get on that. i think i'm going to get the partial zero emission engine. pretty sweet stuff, puts out 1/15 of the pollution a normal car does. i *heart* the future.
hopefully, we can switch to a 'green' economy, with ethanol slowly replacing gasoline. carbon neutral would totally rule.
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this is good news for these guys from awhile back.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/0
anyone see us switching to an ethanol economy instead of a hydrogen economy? i kinda think that hydrogen cars are going to be like electric cars, neat concept, but not pratical in any sense. ethanol can use our existing infrastructure and its not as difficult to handle as hydrogen.
this site and the geek running is pretty cool. i am a geek who runs and bikes. the largest reason i like to run is i get away from technology, the comfort factor that accompanies so much of modern life. skip the ipod, the fancy shorts, the headphones, the gps, just get up and go. don't get me wrong, i dont skimp on shoes or socks, as if you do you end up injured, but i like being away from it all. it calms me.
anyone know of geekish organizations who campaign for more parks and trails? we should get together and lobby for it. it will be easier to establish parks now than in the future, as land prices go up. people often forget to plan ahead.
Seems like it might be cheaper to feed them and house them than track them using some sort of rfid tags. That is, unless walmart is going to start selling the homeless by the pallette.
I think that the government can provide some services cheaper and better than private enterprise. Like auto insurance. I believe in Alberta, government supplies auto insurance, its cheaper than anywhere else in Canada by a large margin. And because the same agency deals with building and maintaining roads as paying out insurance premiums, if a certain section of road leads to more accidents, the government looks at redesigning the roads. While the intial outlay of cash is expensive, it ends up with safer roads and lower insurance rates. Everyone wins!
I've heard about Apple dying before. Maybe its just my social circle, but I know of alot of people who are getting macs, the kind of cool kids that lead the general population by about 6 months to a year. On a side note. I'm definitely getting a mac for my mom instead of a pc. With the pc she has had, every 3 months there is always some virus or something like that that she is getting. Even if the pc is cheaper, its not worth the hassle.
Just to point out, its not just 20 PHD's, its "Washington, D.C.--Today, more than 60 leading scientists--including Nobel laureates, leading medical experts, zombies, former federal agency directors and university chairs and presidents.... And theo rganization includes over 100,000 scientists, minions and killer robots according to the website.
Remember the Xfiles? If fox had gone on ratings the show would have never made it the first two seasons. Think how much the show made them in the long run. I hope that someone picks up Angel. Whoever does stands to make tons on money on reruns and dvds.
while the effort is noble, it seems it will fall prey to the same beast that kills alot of the good ideas that rely on wide adoption. the greatest force in the universe. inertia.
looks like i know how to format slashdot posts. ill try that again.
x t/ colmain.html
burning coal actually releases small amounts of uranium into the air. we burn lots of coal, so the amount of uranium released is substaintial.
"Second, although not as well known, releases from coal combustion contain naturally occurring radioactive materials--mainly, uranium and thorium."
the article goes on to state
"The fact that coal-fired power plants throughout the world are the major sources of radioactive materials released to the environment has several implications. It suggests that coal combustion is more hazardous to health than nuclear power and that it adds to the background radiation burden even more than does nuclear power. It also suggests that if radiation emissions from coal plants were regulated, their capital and operating costs would increase, making coal-fired power less economically competitive."
http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/te
burning coal actually releases small amounts of uranium into the air. we burn lots of coal, so the amount of uranium released is substaintial. "Second, although not as well known, releases from coal combustion contain naturally occurring radioactive materials--mainly, uranium and thorium." the article goes on to state "The fact that coal-fired power plants throughout the world are the major sources of radioactive materials released to the environment has several implications. It suggests that coal combustion is more hazardous to health than nuclear power and that it adds to the background radiation burden even more than does nuclear power. It also suggests that if radiation emissions from coal plants were regulated, their capital and operating costs would increase, making coal-fired power less economically competitive." http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/ colmain.html
aha! I should have said, KILLER GIANT robot soliders to clarify. The soliders should be robots, and giant, and killers. Good point about there not being any giants causing trouble anymore.
Why not work on GIANT KILLER robot soliders? If your going for robots, you might as well go all the way. I hear the Japanese have some interesting designs for giant robots. Something about a facination with them.