Without a battery system, you're stuck without power when your power company has an outage (which in certain places is more often than others). If you're not interested in saving money, you can just cut out the whole "solar power" thing and save yourself a TON of trouble by paying your power company a lot more money for supposedly "green energy" that supposedly comes from renewable resources and wind power and so on (right, suuuure it is). Also, you have to take into account the energy required to produce and maintain the panels in the first place. As it turns out, plenty of supposedly "earth friendly" behaviors and solutions turn out to be far less clean and efficient than promised (and sometimes, supposedly, moreso than the supposedly bad behavior).
Not being a millionaire, my interests lie far more with cutting expenses than anything else.
When I looked into solar panels a few months ago, the case was still that the expense of buying, installing, and maintaining panels were so expensive that you would not begin to save money until after their warranty and estimated 20-25yr life span had already expired. It's going to take a lot of work to make these efficient, durable, and cheap enough that people are going to install them on a widespread basis.
Not to mention, having a battery system (so you can store excess energy for later use) complicates matters (and expenses). Additionally, they're ugly and are not allowed by a lot of HOAs or city ordinances.
That would never fly in America. We don't have more resources, when there are less people. Our people *are* our resources. Or, more specifically, each generation needs to be much larger than the previous, so they can pay for the social security and medicaid and medicare benifits of the generations before it who have written a check on their backs, because saving their own money is "too hard".
Time change is irrelevant to me. I sleep when I'm tired and wake up when I'm not. That means that in a single week, I might sleep twice in a day. Or not at all. And I may sleep during the day and be awake all night and in the same week, be awake all day and sleep all night. The idea of sleeping at a specific time -- no matter what -- seems a lot to me like eating at a certain time every day. If you're not hungry, why eat just because it's noon? If you're not tired, why sleep, just because it's 10pm?
Just a few days ago, we were told that everyone is bashing Ubuntu and then a couple days later, we all bashed the crap out of Ubuntu regarding news about their interactions with GNOME. Now we're being told that we're bashing GNOME, even though we were bashing Ubuntu/Canonical all week?
Anyway, when I do need to use Ubuntu, I opt for XUBUNTU.
I didn't know Word Perfect was still maintained and released. I believe the last version I saw was WP6 and it had gone the way of MS Word, which wasn't appealing. I know I'm not alone in my sentiment that WP 4.2 remains the greatest word processing environment, ever.
I'm not talking merely about the questionable attitude of, say, Red Cross. Where their executives get paid half a million in salary and when people donate for a specific cause, they take it and fund everything else with it. I'm not even talking about what percentage of overhead and administration a particular charity requires.
I'm talking specifically about the many reports of organizations having raised massive amounts of money immediately after the events in Haiti (and continue to raise the, today) . . . but haven't allocated them. Of course, there's the issue of governments also having pledged billions of dollars that they never followed through on, but . . . we all saw that coming, anyway.
And, yeah, of course people get paid to work. But isn't a million dollar salary a bit extreme for any position within a _CHARITY_?
I'm not sure how it's possible to misread what I wrote, but I think you might of. I wasn't casting victims as perpetrators. I was casing supposed CHARITIES as perpetrators. Remember that whole Clinton Bush Haiti Fund? I believe they raised something like $300-500 million dollars. Last news I saw about it was that only a few million had actually ever made its way into charitable use and some organizations were proposing investigating what was going on with all those funds they had raised, in the first place.
You can already promote results to the top of the search page (for yourself) and star them. I'm sure that factors in to the global behavior of their algorithm, if enough aggregate data is gathered.
The first thing that's going to get blocked is that (google promoted, apparently) "Rip-Off Report" site that is a scam and basically blackmails people. The second thing is going to be Yahoo! Answers and any of the related wastes of internet that are constantly showing up in searches alongside it.
I might be a bit harsh here, but if nature has determined that you're too old to be breeding and you can't get it up, maybe you should stop fucking. One might go so far as to say that if you can't get it up and you're a younger person, you maybe shouldn't be breeding, either (sort of how certain people don't seem to be able to conceive children *together*, as nature's sort of way of preventing some asstarded attrocity -- or a litter of them -- from being foisted upon the genetic pool) . . . but I would probably extend some sympathy to the younger guys, since not being able to get it up when you're still young and have the desire to get it up is probably insanely frustrating.
Also, thanks, but I'll take a limp dick over letting a spider bite me (and probably find some way to lay its nasty eggs in me, only to have them hatching and crawling out of my urethra in the tens of thousands later on).
You do realize Hackers isn't a film that you're supposed to take seriously, right? It's a great movie. Feel free to criticize technology in the majority of films out there, but complaining about it in Hackers is like complaining about how much Monty Python sucks, because "there isn't really any such thing as a ministry of funny walks!".
You are missing the point. Hackers was a FANTASTIC movie and it should be taken in a fairly tongue-in-cheek sort of way. If you're nit-picking Hackers, you're "doing it wrong".
I can't remember the movie, but a very long time ago, there was a movie I saw on TV. It might have even been made-for-TV. In it, an airplane everyone was on was somehow compromised and it couldn't be piloted. Thankfully, a teenage girl on the plane had an Apple laptop (this would have been around 1997, maybe?). She plugged her laptop into the cockpit and was able to pilot the plane again, saving all on board.
Oh, if only that were true. Unfortunately, we have people like Vivek Kundra and his whole wealth of "experience" and "knowledge" that undermines that whole idea. I think everyone recognizes titles as the rewards they are and the whole "okay, I did your bidding, now employ me" model.
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Without a battery system, you're stuck without power when your power company has an outage (which in certain places is more often than others). If you're not interested in saving money, you can just cut out the whole "solar power" thing and save yourself a TON of trouble by paying your power company a lot more money for supposedly "green energy" that supposedly comes from renewable resources and wind power and so on (right, suuuure it is). Also, you have to take into account the energy required to produce and maintain the panels in the first place. As it turns out, plenty of supposedly "earth friendly" behaviors and solutions turn out to be far less clean and efficient than promised (and sometimes, supposedly, moreso than the supposedly bad behavior).
Not being a millionaire, my interests lie far more with cutting expenses than anything else.
Unlikely.
When I looked into solar panels a few months ago, the case was still that the expense of buying, installing, and maintaining panels were so expensive that you would not begin to save money until after their warranty and estimated 20-25yr life span had already expired. It's going to take a lot of work to make these efficient, durable, and cheap enough that people are going to install them on a widespread basis.
Not to mention, having a battery system (so you can store excess energy for later use) complicates matters (and expenses). Additionally, they're ugly and are not allowed by a lot of HOAs or city ordinances.
They have a long way to go.
YOU CAN'T IGNORED!
All of their plugin-robot-overlords are fucked.
That doesn't make sense. They don't ask for or accept help, because they are humble. What's more humble than accepting help?
That would never fly in America. We don't have more resources, when there are less people. Our people *are* our resources. Or, more specifically, each generation needs to be much larger than the previous, so they can pay for the social security and medicaid and medicare benifits of the generations before it who have written a check on their backs, because saving their own money is "too hard".
Wow, way to mix Japan up in a Vietnamese meme.
She's getting married at twenty. She's with a thief. And apparently a druggie. I suspect she already had plenty of experience with the justice system.
Yeah, between dating a thief and getting married at *TWENTY*, her life had so much promise ahead of it full of wise choices and decisions.
DHS is involved in EVERYTHING.
I'm not exaggerating. Name something and DHS has or can assert authority over it.
When I first say "NGP", I thought National Gross Product and then I thought Neo Geo Portable, too! The truth was such a let down. Damn...
Time change is irrelevant to me. I sleep when I'm tired and wake up when I'm not. That means that in a single week, I might sleep twice in a day. Or not at all. And I may sleep during the day and be awake all night and in the same week, be awake all day and sleep all night. The idea of sleeping at a specific time -- no matter what -- seems a lot to me like eating at a certain time every day. If you're not hungry, why eat just because it's noon? If you're not tired, why sleep, just because it's 10pm?
Just a few days ago, we were told that everyone is bashing Ubuntu and then a couple days later, we all bashed the crap out of Ubuntu regarding news about their interactions with GNOME. Now we're being told that we're bashing GNOME, even though we were bashing Ubuntu/Canonical all week?
Anyway, when I do need to use Ubuntu, I opt for XUBUNTU.
I didn't know Word Perfect was still maintained and released. I believe the last version I saw was WP6 and it had gone the way of MS Word, which wasn't appealing. I know I'm not alone in my sentiment that WP 4.2 remains the greatest word processing environment, ever.
Whenever people refer to it as WP7, I momentarily get excited and wonder if Word Perfect has finally returned.
I'm not talking merely about the questionable attitude of, say, Red Cross. Where their executives get paid half a million in salary and when people donate for a specific cause, they take it and fund everything else with it. I'm not even talking about what percentage of overhead and administration a particular charity requires.
I'm talking specifically about the many reports of organizations having raised massive amounts of money immediately after the events in Haiti (and continue to raise the, today) . . . but haven't allocated them. Of course, there's the issue of governments also having pledged billions of dollars that they never followed through on, but . . . we all saw that coming, anyway.
And, yeah, of course people get paid to work. But isn't a million dollar salary a bit extreme for any position within a _CHARITY_?
I'm not sure how it's possible to misread what I wrote, but I think you might of. I wasn't casting victims as perpetrators. I was casing supposed CHARITIES as perpetrators. Remember that whole Clinton Bush Haiti Fund? I believe they raised something like $300-500 million dollars. Last news I saw about it was that only a few million had actually ever made its way into charitable use and some organizations were proposing investigating what was going on with all those funds they had raised, in the first place.
You can already promote results to the top of the search page (for yourself) and star them. I'm sure that factors in to the global behavior of their algorithm, if enough aggregate data is gathered.
The first thing that's going to get blocked is that (google promoted, apparently) "Rip-Off Report" site that is a scam and basically blackmails people. The second thing is going to be Yahoo! Answers and any of the related wastes of internet that are constantly showing up in searches alongside it.
You guys both have it wrong. You're supposed to KNOCK boots. Not shake them.
I might be a bit harsh here, but if nature has determined that you're too old to be breeding and you can't get it up, maybe you should stop fucking. One might go so far as to say that if you can't get it up and you're a younger person, you maybe shouldn't be breeding, either (sort of how certain people don't seem to be able to conceive children *together*, as nature's sort of way of preventing some asstarded attrocity -- or a litter of them -- from being foisted upon the genetic pool) . . . but I would probably extend some sympathy to the younger guys, since not being able to get it up when you're still young and have the desire to get it up is probably insanely frustrating.
Also, thanks, but I'll take a limp dick over letting a spider bite me (and probably find some way to lay its nasty eggs in me, only to have them hatching and crawling out of my urethra in the tens of thousands later on).
You do realize Hackers isn't a film that you're supposed to take seriously, right? It's a great movie. Feel free to criticize technology in the majority of films out there, but complaining about it in Hackers is like complaining about how much Monty Python sucks, because "there isn't really any such thing as a ministry of funny walks!".
You are missing the point. Hackers was a FANTASTIC movie and it should be taken in a fairly tongue-in-cheek sort of way. If you're nit-picking Hackers, you're "doing it wrong".
I can't remember the movie, but a very long time ago, there was a movie I saw on TV. It might have even been made-for-TV. In it, an airplane everyone was on was somehow compromised and it couldn't be piloted. Thankfully, a teenage girl on the plane had an Apple laptop (this would have been around 1997, maybe?). She plugged her laptop into the cockpit and was able to pilot the plane again, saving all on board.
Oh, if only that were true. Unfortunately, we have people like Vivek Kundra and his whole wealth of "experience" and "knowledge" that undermines that whole idea. I think everyone recognizes titles as the rewards they are and the whole "okay, I did your bidding, now employ me" model.
You can do whatever you want, as long as you buy carbon credits to make up for it.