It's not free, just substantially cheaper. By spreading the risk across the largest possible population, you lower the cost to individuals. That's how insurance works.
Also, you have a system where a healthy populus is good for the people (less tax money taken out) instead of good for the companies (the threat of being sick or injured allows companies to raise rates).
Yeah! If you get two of them! Or rent another car!
The idea that you get one car that does everything is ludicrous. This is why you have rental companies. Why drive a huge SUV to run errands for the few times you have to carry 8 people around.
Without Microsoft on board this won't make it. Well, it will make it, and a few people (like me) will use it. But major companies won't, because of all the lusers who use IE. Microsoft will copy it and make it less secure and less stable, and everyone will use Microsoft's new system.
There's agreed-upon standards and de facto standards. The Davids make agreed-upon standards, but they're always trumped by the de facto standards that Microsoft creates.
Men and women were asked to draw a bike from memory. Women always had all the right parts, but rarely in the right places. Men rarely had all the parts, but always in the right places. There is a difference in how men and women's minds work. It's not that one is better or worse than the other, it's that they're different.
There was a show on the Discovery channel a while back about the differences between men and women. They were given the task of parking a car (VW New Beetle) in a space 1 foot longer than the length of the car. All of the men who tried could do it. Only 70% of the women could get it in. While not a definitive study, it does provide some non-anecdotal evidence that this is the case.
To be fair, in the same show they did an experiment where men and women were given a list of things to do in a time limit. Things like answering the door, the phone, cooking, cleaning, writing out a grocery list, and other basic household stuff. All but one of the men failed to finish in the time period, and experienced significantly more stress in accomplishing these tasks. They also tended to do one thing at a time and got flustered when their concentration was broken. All of the women had no trouble finishing the same tasks from the same list in the same environment.
My ideal car is a VW Jetta wagon TDI running straight biodiesel with a veggie kit. A small trailer can turn it into a pickup truck (with internal cargo space, towing around 1,000 pounds), and it'll get >40mpg on fuel that's cheap most of the year, or fuel that's closed carbon cycle and cheap all year round.
IF a 14 year old can't find porn on the 'net, they probably won't ever find porn. Most people I know started looking at porn around 14. Including my idiot little brother who put it on a Zip disk in his underwear drawer. Like that wouldn't raise suspicion.
Yes, but the military requirement for polar launches influenced shuttle design.
And he didn't say it was a military operation, just that it was for military purposes. Or was that whole space race thing about international cooperation?
I'd like to see the cops chase after those who impede traffic (30MPH in a 45MPH zone). Course, we can't have that in PA, as it would offend all those older voters (I think they outnumber everyone else). Grannies, wearing coke-bottle glasses, out driving their Buicks. Left-blinker, for 2 1/2 freaking miles.
I'm convinced that it's not the grannies, but the Buicks. Every one I've encountered has driven below the speed limit and comes to a complete stop at every turn, even merging into highway traffic. I will never buy a Buick because they seem so incredibly hard to drive.
Does it have the capability to send VoIP packets over said 802.11 network? This would be a cheap, easy way for people to extend cell phone reception into locations that currently can't get a connection. Like basements. Or server rooms.
Instead of buying a $600 active repeater, or bodging together a passive repeater, people could simply use their existing broadband connection and 802.11 network.
What my sister does with her own body is her business, so long as it's not destructive. Yeah, I wouldn't want my niece watching it until she's at least 18, but that's me. So long as she is happy and not at risk, I don't mind what she does.
And FYI, prude: My fiance loves watching porn AND SHE'S A WOMAN!(And she's done some of the stuff in pornos, too!)
Yes. Fun is bad. Work is good. War is peace. Freedom is slavery.
If you would rather stare at a wall than watch porn, you have a problem. Besides, I already know what I want out of life, so why should I waste my time?
I never said I was a better person because of porn. I said I'm not screwed up because of porn.
How about prohibition? Should we outlaw that? Maybe sports? Or video games. Or slashdot. Nothing good came out of slashdot, so why waste time and resources on it?
Anyone who thinks that sex is a naughty, scary thing is an idiot.
Porn isn't going to fuck with anyone's mind if they're over 14. Hell, I've had kinkier fantasies than almost anything out there. (Goatse not included.) Does that mean porn fucked me up? Hell no. I means that I was (and am) a horny little bastard.
I treat women with total respect. But when the lights are low and things get hot, I *gasp* have sex with my fiance! How degrading! They should lock me up right now for the things I've done to her! That poor woman! (We had consensual sex. People do that. Even in pornos.)
Yeah, there are people who spend more on porn than their cars. But there are also people who are alcoholics and have gambling and drug addictions. Don't blame porn for this; blame human nature. Help those people.
I'm an adult. I should be able to look at boobies. I should be able to see sex on a TV screen. The solution isn't to outlaw porn, because that didn't help with drugs. The solution is to keep porn safe and legal.
You'll take my porn when you pry it from my cold, dead, sticky fingers.
The problem with reporting today isn't that it's biased, it's that it's corporate. It's all done for ratings. They're using shock and awe tactics to draw viewers. Instead of spending time discussing budget deficits or science or other boring stuff, it's Sex and Violence News. One six-minute story on Laci Peterson (regrettable, but hardly national news) followed by another six-minute story on how some teacher slept with a student. Then they break for commercial and come back with how people are being tortured.
It wouldn't be so bad except SVN is on every damn news channel!
Slashdot Mirror
Signed,
Slave to a Wintellian Regime.
Where do you live? What are the immigration requirements? Are you hiring tech workers?
Also, you have a system where a healthy populus is good for the people (less tax money taken out) instead of good for the companies (the threat of being sick or injured allows companies to raise rates).
Chicks! What am I thinking?!? This is /.!!!
Forgot three things:
7) Free health care
8) Polite people
9) Chicks can go around topless.
The idea that you get one car that does everything is ludicrous. This is why you have rental companies. Why drive a huge SUV to run errands for the few times you have to carry 8 people around.
People who breed like rabbits need not respond.
I get really turned on when she starts critiquing other people's research techniques... *drool*
Of course, I'm a freak, so I don't count. Damned statistical outliers.
There's agreed-upon standards and de facto standards. The Davids make agreed-upon standards, but they're always trumped by the de facto standards that Microsoft creates.
Men and women were asked to draw a bike from memory. Women always had all the right parts, but rarely in the right places. Men rarely had all the parts, but always in the right places. There is a difference in how men and women's minds work. It's not that one is better or worse than the other, it's that they're different.
To be fair, in the same show they did an experiment where men and women were given a list of things to do in a time limit. Things like answering the door, the phone, cooking, cleaning, writing out a grocery list, and other basic household stuff. All but one of the men failed to finish in the time period, and experienced significantly more stress in accomplishing these tasks. They also tended to do one thing at a time and got flustered when their concentration was broken. All of the women had no trouble finishing the same tasks from the same list in the same environment.
My ideal car is a VW Jetta wagon TDI running straight biodiesel with a veggie kit. A small trailer can turn it into a pickup truck (with internal cargo space, towing around 1,000 pounds), and it'll get >40mpg on fuel that's cheap most of the year, or fuel that's closed carbon cycle and cheap all year round.
IF a 14 year old can't find porn on the 'net, they probably won't ever find porn. Most people I know started looking at porn around 14. Including my idiot little brother who put it on a Zip disk in his underwear drawer. Like that wouldn't raise suspicion.
Or have you seen the original Japanese version? Because I can't speak Japanese.
And Ed's a girl.
And he didn't say it was a military operation, just that it was for military purposes. Or was that whole space race thing about international cooperation?
But only if I partner with an ex-cop with a prosthetic arm, a hot chick with no memory, an adolescent female hacker named Ed, and a Welsh Corgi.
I'd like to get an Insight for commuting, since we have a Vibe that can hold just about everything. How do you like it?
27-30mpg.
I'm convinced that it's not the grannies, but the Buicks. Every one I've encountered has driven below the speed limit and comes to a complete stop at every turn, even merging into highway traffic. I will never buy a Buick because they seem so incredibly hard to drive.
Signed,
A fellow Pennsylvanian.
Instead of buying a $600 active repeater, or bodging together a passive repeater, people could simply use their existing broadband connection and 802.11 network.
Now flight sims (like X Plane) are where it's at. And Civ III-type games.
Don't get me wrong, I like killing people, but I prefer doing it in the "crush their civilization and assimilate them" way.
And FYI, prude: My fiance loves watching porn AND SHE'S A WOMAN!(And she's done some of the stuff in pornos, too!)
If you would rather stare at a wall than watch porn, you have a problem. Besides, I already know what I want out of life, so why should I waste my time?
I never said I was a better person because of porn. I said I'm not screwed up because of porn.
How about prohibition? Should we outlaw that? Maybe sports? Or video games. Or slashdot. Nothing good came out of slashdot, so why waste time and resources on it?
Porn isn't going to fuck with anyone's mind if they're over 14. Hell, I've had kinkier fantasies than almost anything out there. (Goatse not included.) Does that mean porn fucked me up? Hell no. I means that I was (and am) a horny little bastard.
I treat women with total respect. But when the lights are low and things get hot, I *gasp* have sex with my fiance! How degrading! They should lock me up right now for the things I've done to her! That poor woman! (We had consensual sex. People do that. Even in pornos.)
Yeah, there are people who spend more on porn than their cars. But there are also people who are alcoholics and have gambling and drug addictions. Don't blame porn for this; blame human nature. Help those people.
I'm an adult. I should be able to look at boobies. I should be able to see sex on a TV screen. The solution isn't to outlaw porn, because that didn't help with drugs. The solution is to keep porn safe and legal.
You'll take my porn when you pry it from my cold, dead, sticky fingers.
It wouldn't be so bad except SVN is on every damn news channel!