The two Senators from my state plus Ron Wyden got emails from me on this issue before I posted on Slashdot. What did you do about it, mister shit-talking anonymous coward?
No, seriously, why shouldn't Wendy's be allowed to call it a "super size menu" if they want? Even your example explaining why this isn't actually fucked up, is itself fucked up!
That's an interesting conspiracy theory (and I mean that sincerely), but the transaction costs (court fees, lawyer salaries, etc.) seem unacceptably high.
Speaking of "in theory," considering what the news is reporting about how the FBI is going after the wife of the Orlando shooter, wouldn't failure to indict make every member of Congress an accomplice?
The only way I think that Firefox could possibly redeem itself is if the UI was reverted back to a usable state (we're talking Firefox 3.5), and the focus veered hard to privacy. Firefox's salvation could come from providing users the most secure and private browsing experience possible. It should become their main focus.
First of all, I completely agree with you about the "veer hard to privacy" idea.
Second, as a user of Phoen^WFirebir^WFirefox since about 0.5, who just lets the thing update instead of trying to customize it extensively (except for installing my favorite extensions, of course), it's been so long since 3.5 that I don't remember what the old UI was like anymore. Could you remind me what was so great about it?
Under 18 U.S.C. ss. 1001, lying to Congress is offense punishable by up to five years in prison (or eight if the lie is terrorism-related). The correct "response" to John Brennon's blatant, politically motivated, criminal lie is to indict him, convict him, and send him to Federal prison where totalitarian freedom-hating enemies of the American public like him belong.
Total non-sequitur: the issue of cleanliness is completely orthogonal to the issue of suitability for nighttime generation.
Moreover, the claim that "renewables" as a category don't work for base load power generation is a blatant lie. Windmills work just fine at night. Tidal works just fine at night. Even solaractually can, in fact, work at night!
Furthermore, even if it were somehow valid to exclude renewables from consideration for base load generation, fossil fuels still lose on cleanliness, by many orders of magnitude, to nuclear.
Your attempts to claim that American copyright law don't apply to torrent sites are as much a waste of time and energy as defending "sovereign citizen" ideas.
If torrent sites are liable for copyright infringement, then by the same logic, I should be able to sue Google Maps for trespassing because they let people look up my address.
I hit "submit" too soon. In addition to greenhouse gas emissions, natural gas is also not "clean" in terms of water table contamination, earthquakes, etc. Correctly pricing fossil fuels means taking into account all negative externalities, and natural gas has almost as many as coal and oil.
But in this case it's a government that in one fell swoop changes it's mind and poof, everything changes.
No, that's not even slightly true. Coal mining has always been a horrible, polluting, dangerous business. Everyone involved with it has known -- or should have known -- for decades that it's unsustainable in the long run not only due to government recognition of its environmental impact (which itself has been a long time coming) but also the simple economics and the fact that mines are eventually depleted. These communities have had ample warning and opportunity to plan for this entirely expected and inevitable outcome!
If we still power our electric cars with lithium ion batteries in 2040 it will be a sad day indeed as it's not unlikely a better battery technology will come around by then.
We already have really great batteries for cars. See, what you do is store the energy in hydrogen. But just storing hydrogen is hard because it's either a non-energy-dense gas or a cryogenic liquid, so what you do is simply add some carbon to it so that it's liquid at normal temperatures and pressures. Then you can simply pump this "hydrocarbon" liquid fuel into a "tank" and voila -- you get a car that runs for hundreds of miles on a single charge, and can completely recharge in only a minute or so! IT'S AMAZING!
(Note, by the way, I'm not talking about continuing to rely on global-warming-causing fossil fuels. Instead, I'm talking about using biofuel or synthetic fuel. Either way, the essential reaction is CO2 + H2O + solar power -> fuel, accomplished by biology or machinery respectively.)
You have competing fossil fuels being sold below actual cost (their cost doesn't currently include the full cost of the pollution they generate)...Scale would solve some of the cost problems but technology improvements are still needed to really get them where they need to go.
Or regulatory improvements are needed to solve the mis-pricing of fossil fuels and reveal how uncompetitively expensive they are.
Sure, but what is the solution then? Subsidize pollution? Pay the coal mines not to produce, like the Farm Bill does with corn growers?
To be honest, I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for these "whole communities being wiped out." Maybe they should have thought about that possibility before basing their entire economy on one industry.
Maybe it's different because I live in the South, where you say "excuse me" and they scoot their cart over (or you scoot it over yourself if they don't).
But seriously folks, do American buildings really skip the 13th floor?
The one I work in does. At least, the elevator skips 13. I don't know if there's a mechanical floor immediately above 12, or if the "14th" floor (and all floors above) are just mislabeled.
That probably depends upon the customer. The main reason why I go to Walmart is because I can be in an out in 10 minutes. At least for the store that I go to: the layout seems to put the most popular departments near the checkout, and the less frequented departments in the fringes. They also have a true express checkout lane (one line feeds six cashiers for people with small purchases).
That's weird; the Wal-Marts I've been to are exactly the opposite: the stuff I'm in there to buy (usually things like milk or motor oil, but not at the same time) is inevitably at the far back corner of the store, and the registers are so understaffed that I spend 10 minutes just waiting to check out!
In most cases, people would be better off not "browsing" either lists on websites or physical aisles in stores in the first place. Instead, they should decide what they need to buy before hand and get only the things on that list -- they'd save a lot of money that way.
From that perspective, this motorized shopping cart is a solution looking for a problem. A better idea would just be to close the aisles to people and have the carts be robotic pickers that deliver everything to the customer waiting at checkout. Of course, Wal-Mart would never design it that way because impulse buys are a substantial source of its profit.
It does say something about his judgement that he wears that thing in public and thinks it looks OK. I mean, there are expensive rugs that look really good and you can't tell. If dude is so rich and cares so much about his appearance, why would he go out looking like a troll doll with radiation poisoning?
Sad to say, considering the hilarity of the hairpiece memes, but I think that's pretty good proof Trump's hair is actually real.
Here's a great American president who didn't spend $60k on a bad weave:
There's lots of guys who can pull off being bald (including two out of five Star Trek captains, for example). Trump, however, is certainly not one of them.
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The two Senators from my state plus Ron Wyden got emails from me on this issue before I posted on Slashdot. What did you do about it, mister shit-talking anonymous coward?
No, seriously, why shouldn't Wendy's be allowed to call it a "super size menu" if they want? Even your example explaining why this isn't actually fucked up, is itself fucked up!
Hey now, there's plenty of idiocy going around to blame both the perpetrators and the copyright office/court system!
That's an interesting conspiracy theory (and I mean that sincerely), but the transaction costs (court fees, lawyer salaries, etc.) seem unacceptably high.
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Literally every 3rd party request, including images (e.g. tracking pixels).
Speaking of "in theory," considering what the news is reporting about how the FBI is going after the wife of the Orlando shooter, wouldn't failure to indict make every member of Congress an accomplice?
First of all, I completely agree with you about the "veer hard to privacy" idea.
Second, as a user of Phoen^WFirebir^WFirefox since about 0.5, who just lets the thing update instead of trying to customize it extensively (except for installing my favorite extensions, of course), it's been so long since 3.5 that I don't remember what the old UI was like anymore. Could you remind me what was so great about it?
Under 18 U.S.C. ss. 1001, lying to Congress is offense punishable by up to five years in prison (or eight if the lie is terrorism-related). The correct "response" to John Brennon's blatant, politically motivated, criminal lie is to indict him, convict him, and send him to Federal prison where totalitarian freedom-hating enemies of the American public like him belong.
Total non-sequitur: the issue of cleanliness is completely orthogonal to the issue of suitability for nighttime generation.
Moreover, the claim that "renewables" as a category don't work for base load power generation is a blatant lie. Windmills work just fine at night. Tidal works just fine at night. Even solar actually can, in fact, work at night!
Furthermore, even if it were somehow valid to exclude renewables from consideration for base load generation, fossil fuels still lose on cleanliness, by many orders of magnitude, to nuclear.
Yeah, I mostly quit buying textbooks somewhere around sophomore year (other than the very few classes where they were truly necessary).
If torrent sites are liable for copyright infringement, then by the same logic, I should be able to sue Google Maps for trespassing because they let people look up my address.
I hit "submit" too soon. In addition to greenhouse gas emissions, natural gas is also not "clean" in terms of water table contamination, earthquakes, etc. Correctly pricing fossil fuels means taking into account all negative externalities, and natural gas has almost as many as coal and oil.
Not in terms of net greenhouse gas emissions.
No, that's not even slightly true. Coal mining has always been a horrible, polluting, dangerous business. Everyone involved with it has known -- or should have known -- for decades that it's unsustainable in the long run not only due to government recognition of its environmental impact (which itself has been a long time coming) but also the simple economics and the fact that mines are eventually depleted. These communities have had ample warning and opportunity to plan for this entirely expected and inevitable outcome!
We already have really great batteries for cars. See, what you do is store the energy in hydrogen. But just storing hydrogen is hard because it's either a non-energy-dense gas or a cryogenic liquid, so what you do is simply add some carbon to it so that it's liquid at normal temperatures and pressures. Then you can simply pump this "hydrocarbon" liquid fuel into a "tank" and voila -- you get a car that runs for hundreds of miles on a single charge, and can completely recharge in only a minute or so! IT'S AMAZING!
(Note, by the way, I'm not talking about continuing to rely on global-warming-causing fossil fuels. Instead, I'm talking about using biofuel or synthetic fuel. Either way, the essential reaction is CO2 + H2O + solar power -> fuel, accomplished by biology or machinery respectively.)
Or regulatory improvements are needed to solve the mis-pricing of fossil fuels and reveal how uncompetitively expensive they are.
Sure, but what is the solution then? Subsidize pollution? Pay the coal mines not to produce, like the Farm Bill does with corn growers?
To be honest, I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for these "whole communities being wiped out." Maybe they should have thought about that possibility before basing their entire economy on one industry.
Somebody needs to hack Intel and AMD and release their private keys and source code.
Maybe it's different because I live in the South, where you say "excuse me" and they scoot their cart over (or you scoot it over yourself if they don't).
The one I work in does. At least, the elevator skips 13. I don't know if there's a mechanical floor immediately above 12, or if the "14th" floor (and all floors above) are just mislabeled.
It's so that carts being pushed in opposite directions can pass. You knew that, of course, but didn't say so because it ruins your joke.
That's weird; the Wal-Marts I've been to are exactly the opposite: the stuff I'm in there to buy (usually things like milk or motor oil, but not at the same time) is inevitably at the far back corner of the store, and the registers are so understaffed that I spend 10 minutes just waiting to check out!
In most cases, people would be better off not "browsing" either lists on websites or physical aisles in stores in the first place. Instead, they should decide what they need to buy before hand and get only the things on that list -- they'd save a lot of money that way.
From that perspective, this motorized shopping cart is a solution looking for a problem. A better idea would just be to close the aisles to people and have the carts be robotic pickers that deliver everything to the customer waiting at checkout. Of course, Wal-Mart would never design it that way because impulse buys are a substantial source of its profit.
But not a funny one.
Sad to say, considering the hilarity of the hairpiece memes, but I think that's pretty good proof Trump's hair is actually real.
There's lots of guys who can pull off being bald (including two out of five Star Trek captains, for example). Trump, however, is certainly not one of them.