OK, so maybe I should have included my source with my post. According to Kelly Blue Book (kbb.com) the resale value of a Prius is significantly higher than a Corolla.
Kelly Blue Book is usually considered to be standard for determining trade in or resale value of a car.
You should also add in the resale or trade in value. Trade in value for 2005 Prius in excellent condition is around $11,000 while trade in value of Corolla in excellent condition is around $6,000. So after 5 years, the Prius still holds about $5,000 value over the Corolla which nullifies most of the price difference from the initial purchase. Also, the Prius has held on to more of it's value (30 to 50%) versus the Corolla (15 to 30%).
Just saying, if you want to do a detailed analysis you should include resale cost since most people do use their existing cars as trade ins when they purchase new cars.
Yes, the approx. $50,000 a year starting salary my wife had to settle for after receiving her 2 year nursing degree (the local hospital also paid her tuition) pales in comparison to the approx. $60,000 starting salary she could have gotten had she instead went for a four year degree in Computer Science...
You seem to be missing a fundamental shift that has occurred in the U.S. and around the world over the last 30 years. You are right, the customer is king and that any companies primary goal should be to serve their customers. And in the case of Yahoo, as well as most other large American corporations that's exactly what they are doing...
What you are missing is the shift that has occurred as to who exactly the customer is. Now days, for most large corporations the customer is the stock holder. We, the consumers are the product that is being sold. With Yahoo, Google, MSN etc. it's about how many eyeballs they have looking at their pages. For companies such as Ford, GM, Target, WalMart it's all about the size of their consumer base. That's why Ford and GM don't spend a lot of time building cars that tomorrows consumers might want. Their only focus is to build as many of whatever cars the consumer is buying today.
In this new world, as far as the corporations are concerned we're just a bunch of whores and their all fighting to see who is going to be our pimp.
As I understand it, what is in the emails isn't what's important. There have been several people accusing her of using her personal email account to conduct public business, in order to hide the emails from becoming part of the public record (sounds familiar). The catch was that the people who were supposed to be investigating this claim stated there was no proof, therefore nothing to investigate...
Now, there is proof...
What she said isn't the story, it's who she said it to.
For those of us who remember the 70's and early 80's which was sort of the Nuclear Power heyday, it wasn't the dangers of Nuclear energy that caused people to turn against the technology. It was the poor construction and management of the Nuclear Power Plants that was the problem. With Three Mile Island, there was the faulty sensor, at Browns Ferry it was discovered that many of the fail-safe provisions had been left out of the construction to save costs. I remember watching the news and seeing Nuclear Waste being stored in leaky, rusty barrels in a parking lot covered by a tarp. It's not Nuclear Energy most of us are against, it's the fact that too many companies were insisting that it cost too much to build safe Nuclear Power Plants. That's what killed Nuclear Power in the 70's and 80's. It wasn't the technology, it was the management of the technology.
That's a subjective term that means different things to different people. Be honest, tell the people what you want. Do you want someone who can produce good code, fast or great code slow. Do you want someone who is a strong team leader or a strong team member. What does the job require, how many hours a week are you expecting from your workers, what is a reasonable salary range. Is this a short term contract or is this a long term position.
In my house I have a PC running Linux, a PC running Windows XP and a Mac running OS X. My wife and thirteen year old son almost always use the PC running Windows because it's what they're used to.
But here's where it gets strange. In an attempt to get them to use the Mac more, I got them both hooked on iTunes, and at first it seemed to be working. They would both log onto the Mac, start up iTunes, download some songs and maybe do some web browsing. After a few weeks though, they had both returned to using XP most of the time for all of their online activities. Admitting defeat, I installed iTunes on the Windows PC so they wouldn't have to keep going from computer to computer, but to my surprise, they still continue to log into the Mac to use iTunes. It's what they learned, it's what they're used to.
Another example of the "average user". My wife will tell my son to get off the Windows PC so that she can log on to check her email. Her email is a Yahoo Mail account and I tell her that she can check it from any of the computers. But since she learned how to set up and access her Yahoo Mail account using the Windows PC, that's how she thinks she is supposed to access it.
Lets face it, the average user is the last target any OS should be aiming for...
The typical family day... Wife gets up, turns on news and weather while she drinks a cup of coffee (15 min) I get up, watch news and weather while I eat my breakfest (15 min) Son gets up, watches cartoons while he "finishes" waking up (30 min)
Everyone leaves to go to their respective job or school...
Son gets home, watches t.v. and lies around on the couch (2 hours) Wife gets home, yells at son for watching t.v. instead of doing chores, sends him to his room to do homework, turns on cooking channel to "relax" before she starts to make dinner (1 hour) I get home after 10 hours of software engineering work followed by 1.5 hours of either gym or grad school class, sit on the couch and "unwind" while watching t.v. (1 hour)
Everyone home, homework done, dinner ready we all sit down together in the living room, watch t.v. and talk about our day (2 hours)
Kids go to bed, wife and I sit up, have a couple of drinks, watch t.v. and spend some quality time talking about adult stuff with each other(1 hour)
Total t.v. time: 8 hours.
Just in case you didn't notice, we're not transfixed to the t.v. while it's on. It is there to provide filler for the in-between times. Without t.v. we spend maybe 30 minutes together as a family until we have said all that we want to say to each other, then we go our separate ways. Several studies have shown that this is typical, that in homes without t.v. families tend to spend less time together interacting with each other.
So the real question is What the hell is wrong with you, to feel that you have the ability to pass judgment on others without even caring about the facts? Maybe you should turn on the t.v. and get a life...
Downloading music from the internet is no more illegal or unethical than listening to music for free on the radio. What is illegal is making music available for download on the internet, and judging by my latest experiences, not so many people are doing that these days (or maybe I'm just getting old, and out of touch with the internet music scene).
It's all about the distribution rights, and controlling the market. That's where the money is...
I spent all of last year working on Robotics at my current company. I was asked to join the project because they needed someone with a good knowledge of linux.
On all the Robotics projects I was involved with, the first thing that was needed was to get the mechanics working. Most of my work during this phase was working with the mechanical engineers helping them to model the kinematics. Being able to talk with and understand mechanical engineers was important.
After the mechanical problems were solved, we had to provide the sensors, computer hardware and power that the system was going to need. Being able to speak the language of electrical engineers was important. I had to have a good understanding of embedded systems so that I could work with the electrical guys to determine the CPU and power requirements needed by the software.
From my experience, what I would recommend for anyone who wants to work in the Robotics field is learn as much as you can on your own, being able to express yourself to people who are currently working in the Robotics field is very important.
Get a lot of experience with embedded programming. Most of the software created for Robotics projects falls under the heading of embedded.
Choose a degree in Computer Engineering instead of Compueter Science. Usually there isn't a lot of difference between the two, except that Computer Engineering deals a little more with Electrical Engineering topics. I would also recommend a good background in multimedia communications and computer networking.
But the best advice that I can give is don't get hung up on the platform. Last year I was working on Robotics, this year it's software defined radios. Next year, if the funding returns, maybe I will go back to Robotics, who knows. In the past I've worked on telecommunications systems, aeronotics systems, guidance systems, infrared camera sysems, satellite communications systems and Robotics systems. Sure the Robotics was a lot of fun, but in the end, it was just another platform.
Already having kids, you and the parent poster must have forgotten what it was like before the first child was born.
Here's how almost every conversation for the past three months with my pregnant wife has started...
Why don't you care about the Baby...
Why don't you take more interest in the Baby...
Why don't you ever buy anything for the Baby...
You spend too much time in front of the Computer when you could be talking to me about the Baby...
Are you at least looking at Baby websites...
When are you going to start taking an interest in the Baby...
Baby...
Baby...
Baby...
Baby...
I try to explain to her that we already have a room full of stuff for the baby and there's not much for me to do until January, when the baby arrives.
At least with the advertised CD, I can sit in front of the computer and if she complains I can tell her that "Hey, I'm learning about the baby..."
When I go to the store and buy something, I get immediate gratification: I saw it, I paid for it, I got it.
When I order something online, I know that I'm going to have to wait as much as two weeks for delivery. So now my purchase is followed by immediate anxiety: I saw it, I paid for it, now when is it going to get here?
Without immediate gratification, there is little incentive to impluse buy.
India, China and Brazil are involved in Kyoto. They have an exemption until 2012, after that they are required to begin cutting emmisions.
However, I've been reading several news stories lately about China already putting in place several projects to cut current Greenhouse Gas emissions. They've recently cancelled many Government projects due to environmental concerns.
According to Greenpeace China's campaign director Lo Sze Ping, "[the] observation is that, compared with the 1980s, 1990s, the Chinese government's position has changed. They can now see their share of responsibility and they are working very hard."
Last month, the State Environment Protection Administration suspended 30 large construction projects, including the five-billion-dollar Xiloudu hydropower plant, for failing to get environmental impact assessments approved.
It seems that many of the leading Chinese scientist agree that Global Warming is a major concern and the Chinese Government is listening to what they have to say. The government also believes that by cutting their own emissions they will have more "credits" to sell to other countries. In other words, the Chinese government has come to the conclusion that they can improve long term growth and profit by "being green".
Satellite Radio is much like a TiVo. Those who don't have it, don't really miss it. Those that do, can't imagine life without it.
A year ago, my wife bought me a TiVo for my birthday and I got her a Sirius Sattelite radio. It seemed like a good deal at the time, I rarely listened to the radio and she didn't watch much T.V. A year later, she spends all of her time watching TiVo and I spend all my time listening to sattelite radio.
Since getting sattelite radio, I have pretty much stopped downloading mp3's (don't need them, too much good music on Sirius). A couple of months ago, I bought my first CD in THIRTEEN YEARS. I'm not joking, the last album I paid money for music before this past December was Tesla's Edison's Medicine in 1991.
Sure, you can download several hundred songs for your iPod and create your own commercial free radio, but describing Sattelite Radio as commercial free is like describing Open Source software a software you don't have to pay for. Commercial free is just scratching the surface.
There's nothing wrong with it. Many people already do it. It's ususally referred to as a 401K or IRA.
Social Security isn't just about retirement, however. Many millions of Americans who are disabled depend on it to survive. And, of course, there's the single worker families with a stay at home mom or dad. What happens to them when the bread winner dies at an early age?
Also, there are very few jobs in America today that pay enough for a worker to raise a family, buy a house, afford college and save for retirement. Most people that I know who have decent paying jobs, are still struggling to just live paycheck to paycheck. It's not from bad money management, it's because rasising kids today is damned expensive.
A question for you now...
If you don't support government run Social Security, would you support a law that requires all compaines that do business in the U.S. to pay their U.S. employees not just a living wage, but I retirement wage?
Van Allen comments that "the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure."
Is there any other reason for science, any science, to exist? We as a species survived for thousands of years without it. Most species on Earth today have absolutely no concept of science and still manange to thrive.
Science exists soley because we as a species are curious, very curious. As my high school science teacher, all those years ago explained it, "If science didn't exists, we, as a species, would invent it". As a species, we need it to keep us and our intelligent brains challenged. The specifics of the science really don't matter, it is the pursuit of knowledge that is important.
So science has added a few years to my lifespan, cured some deseases and has in general raised my quality of life above that of my ancestors, but as far as the human species is concerned, nothing has really changed. We still survive pretty much the way our Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great,... Grandfather did all those years ago. We spend most of our time hunting for food, shelter and an opportunity to mate.
I guess your opinions on Michael Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11 depend on where you get your information. You, unfortunately, chose to point out that your information comes from a well known, and well debunked personal attack by Christopher Hitchens against Michael Moore.
My suggestion is if you choose to get your information about someones credibility, at least try to choose a credible source.
Bought my 2004 Honda Civic Hybrid in October. I've got a little over 7,000 miles mostly city driving. My daily commute round trip is about 16 miles a day. I've also made several trips to Orlando which is about 200 miles round trip.
First month I averaged around 38 MPG.
Modified my driving style and second month average MPG was around 41.
Modified my driving style and third month average MPG was around 43.
After a couple of months of practice (also started driving mostly with the AC off, and I live in Florida) my MPG is now averaging between 45 and 48 MPG.
My wifes car started having problems, so she drove my car for a week, average fuel milage fell to 37 MPG.
The reason I love my car so much is because it is a real "drivers" car. What I mean by thats is the car will do everything that it claims to do, if you are a skilled enough driver.
The camaro I traded in for the Civic Hybrid claimed to do 150 MPH, but almost everywhere I go has a Max Speed limit of 45 so I was never able to see if I could drive the car at that speed. Now I have a car that gives me a driving skill test that I can actually do.
Military experience is rarely helpful in getting a job when you get out. You have to remember that most of the people you will be interviewing with have never served, and aren't familiar with the training that you have received.
I got out of the Navy after 6 years. I was an Aegis Radar Display Technician. I had been told repeatedly by others in the Navy that my training would really help when I got out. Turns out, they were wrong.
After 6 years, got tired of playing around so I got out of the Navy, went back to school and got a bachelors degree in Computer Engineering. I Thought that with my degree and Military experience working with electronics, I would have no problem getting a job. Surprisingly though, at many of the places where I was interviewing, I was asked to submit a copy of my resume without the military experience included.
Turns out when the choice was between me with my 3.0 GPA and 6 years military experience working with electronics and little Johnny with his 3.8 GPA and never worked a day in his life, most places would choose little Johnny.
The truth is, military experience is just that. It's what you have as long as you are in the military, once out it means basically nothing.
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OK, so maybe I should have included my source with my post. According to Kelly Blue Book (kbb.com) the resale value of a Prius is significantly higher than a Corolla. Kelly Blue Book is usually considered to be standard for determining trade in or resale value of a car.
You should also add in the resale or trade in value. Trade in value for 2005 Prius in excellent condition is around $11,000 while trade in value of Corolla in excellent condition is around $6,000. So after 5 years, the Prius still holds about $5,000 value over the Corolla which nullifies most of the price difference from the initial purchase. Also, the Prius has held on to more of it's value (30 to 50%) versus the Corolla (15 to 30%).
Just saying, if you want to do a detailed analysis you should include resale cost since most people do use their existing cars as trade ins when they purchase new cars.
So it's not just me. I like Matt Smith, but to me when I watch the new episodes it feels more like Harry Potter than Dr. Who.
Yes, the approx. $50,000 a year starting salary my wife had to settle for after receiving her 2 year nursing degree (the local hospital also paid her tuition) pales in comparison to the approx. $60,000 starting salary she could have gotten had she instead went for a four year degree in Computer Science...
You seem to be missing a fundamental shift that has occurred in the U.S. and around the world over the last 30 years. You are right, the customer is king and that any companies primary goal should be to serve their customers. And in the case of Yahoo, as well as most other large American corporations that's exactly what they are doing...
What you are missing is the shift that has occurred as to who exactly the customer is. Now days, for most large corporations the customer is the stock holder. We, the consumers are the product that is being sold. With Yahoo, Google, MSN etc. it's about how many eyeballs they have looking at their pages. For companies such as Ford, GM, Target, WalMart it's all about the size of their consumer base. That's why Ford and GM don't spend a lot of time building cars that tomorrows consumers might want. Their only focus is to build as many of whatever cars the consumer is buying today.
In this new world, as far as the corporations are concerned we're just a bunch of whores and their all fighting to see who is going to be our pimp.
As I understand it, what is in the emails isn't what's important. There have been several people accusing her of using her personal email account to conduct public business, in order to hide the emails from becoming part of the public record (sounds familiar). The catch was that the people who were supposed to be investigating this claim stated there was no proof, therefore nothing to investigate...
Now, there is proof...
What she said isn't the story, it's who she said it to.
For those of us who remember the 70's and early 80's which was sort of the Nuclear Power heyday, it wasn't the dangers of Nuclear energy that caused people to turn against the technology. It was the poor construction and management of the Nuclear Power Plants that was the problem. With Three Mile Island, there was the faulty sensor, at Browns Ferry it was discovered that many of the fail-safe provisions had been left out of the construction to save costs. I remember watching the news and seeing Nuclear Waste being stored in leaky, rusty barrels in a parking lot covered by a tarp. It's not Nuclear Energy most of us are against, it's the fact that too many companies were insisting that it cost too much to build safe Nuclear Power Plants. That's what killed Nuclear Power in the 70's and 80's. It wasn't the technology, it was the management of the technology.
That's a subjective term that means different things to different people. Be honest, tell the people what you want. Do you want someone who can produce good code, fast or great code slow. Do you want someone who is a strong team leader or a strong team member. What does the job require, how many hours a week are you expecting from your workers, what is a reasonable salary range. Is this a short term contract or is this a long term position.
In my house I have a PC running Linux, a PC running Windows XP and a Mac running OS X. My wife and thirteen year old son almost always use the PC running Windows because it's what they're used to.
But here's where it gets strange. In an attempt to get them to use the Mac more, I got them both hooked on iTunes, and at first it seemed to be working. They would both log onto the Mac, start up iTunes, download some songs and maybe do some web browsing. After a few weeks though, they had both returned to using XP most of the time for all of their online activities. Admitting defeat, I installed iTunes on the Windows PC so they wouldn't have to keep going from computer to computer, but to my surprise, they still continue to log into the Mac to use iTunes. It's what they learned, it's what they're used to.
Another example of the "average user". My wife will tell my son to get off the Windows PC so that she can log on to check her email. Her email is a Yahoo Mail account and I tell her that she can check it from any of the computers. But since she learned how to set up and access her Yahoo Mail account using the Windows PC, that's how she thinks she is supposed to access it.
Lets face it, the average user is the last target any OS should be aiming for...
The typical family day...
Wife gets up, turns on news and weather while she drinks a cup of coffee (15 min)
I get up, watch news and weather while I eat my breakfest (15 min)
Son gets up, watches cartoons while he "finishes" waking up (30 min)
Everyone leaves to go to their respective job or school...
Son gets home, watches t.v. and lies around on the couch (2 hours)
Wife gets home, yells at son for watching t.v. instead of doing chores, sends him to his room to do homework, turns on cooking channel to "relax" before she starts to make dinner (1 hour)
I get home after 10 hours of software engineering work followed by 1.5 hours of either gym or grad school class, sit on the couch and "unwind" while watching t.v. (1 hour)
Everyone home, homework done, dinner ready we all sit down together in the living room, watch t.v. and talk about our day (2 hours)
Kids go to bed, wife and I sit up, have a couple of drinks, watch t.v. and spend some quality time talking about adult stuff with each other(1 hour)
Total t.v. time: 8 hours.
Just in case you didn't notice, we're not transfixed to the t.v. while it's on. It is there to provide filler for the in-between times. Without t.v. we spend maybe 30 minutes together as a family until we have said all that we want to say to each other, then we go our separate ways. Several studies have shown that this is typical, that in homes without t.v. families tend to spend less time together interacting with each other.
So the real question is What the hell is wrong with you, to feel that you have the ability to pass judgment on others without even caring about the facts? Maybe you should turn on the t.v. and get a life...
Downloading music from the internet is no more illegal or unethical than listening to music for free on the radio. What is illegal is making music available for download on the internet, and judging by my latest experiences, not so many people are doing that these days (or maybe I'm just getting old, and out of touch with the internet music scene).
It's all about the distribution rights, and controlling the market. That's where the money is...
I spent all of last year working on Robotics at my current company. I was asked to join the project because they needed someone with a good knowledge of linux.
On all the Robotics projects I was involved with, the first thing that was needed was to get the mechanics working. Most of my work during this phase was working with the mechanical engineers helping them to model the kinematics. Being able to talk with and understand mechanical engineers was important.
After the mechanical problems were solved, we had to provide the sensors, computer hardware and power that the system was going to need. Being able to speak the language of electrical engineers was important. I had to have a good understanding of embedded systems so that I could work with the electrical guys to determine the CPU and power requirements needed by the software.
From my experience, what I would recommend for anyone who wants to work in the Robotics field is learn as much as you can on your own, being able to express yourself to people who are currently working in the Robotics field is very important.
Get a lot of experience with embedded programming. Most of the software created for Robotics projects falls under the heading of embedded.
Choose a degree in Computer Engineering instead of Compueter Science. Usually there isn't a lot of difference between the two, except that Computer Engineering deals a little more with Electrical Engineering topics. I would also recommend a good background in multimedia communications and computer networking.
But the best advice that I can give is don't get hung up on the platform. Last year I was working on Robotics, this year it's software defined radios. Next year, if the funding returns, maybe I will go back to Robotics, who knows. In the past I've worked on telecommunications systems, aeronotics systems, guidance systems, infrared camera sysems, satellite communications systems and Robotics systems. Sure the Robotics was a lot of fun, but in the end, it was just another platform.
Already having kids, you and the parent poster must have forgotten what it was like before the first child was born.
Here's how almost every conversation for the past three months with my pregnant wife has started...
Why don't you care about the Baby...
Why don't you take more interest in the Baby...
Why don't you ever buy anything for the Baby...
You spend too much time in front of the Computer when you could be talking to me about the Baby...
Are you at least looking at Baby websites...
When are you going to start taking an interest in the Baby...
Baby...
Baby...
Baby...
Baby...
I try to explain to her that we already have a room full of stuff for the baby and there's not much for me to do until January, when the baby arrives.
At least with the advertised CD, I can sit in front of the computer and if she complains I can tell her that "Hey, I'm learning about the baby..."
Ford now owns Volvo,
Chrysler owns Mercedes
So should we expect to that soon we will be buying Gateway Apples, Dell Apples or HP Apples?
When I go to the store and buy something, I get immediate gratification: I saw it, I paid for it, I got it.
When I order something online, I know that I'm going to have to wait as much as two weeks for delivery. So now my purchase is followed by immediate anxiety: I saw it, I paid for it, now when is it going to get here?
Without immediate gratification, there is little incentive to impluse buy.
India, China and Brazil are involved in Kyoto. They have an exemption until 2012, after that they are required to begin cutting emmisions.
However, I've been reading several news stories lately about China already putting in place several projects to cut current Greenhouse Gas emissions. They've recently cancelled many Government projects due to environmental concerns.
According to Greenpeace China's campaign director Lo Sze Ping, "[the] observation is that, compared with the 1980s, 1990s, the Chinese government's position has changed. They can now see their share of responsibility and they are working very hard."
Last month, the State Environment Protection Administration suspended 30 large construction projects, including the five-billion-dollar Xiloudu hydropower plant, for failing to get environmental impact assessments approved.
It seems that many of the leading Chinese scientist agree that Global Warming is a major concern and the Chinese Government is listening to what they have to say. The government also believes that by cutting their own emissions they will have more "credits" to sell to other countries. In other words, the Chinese government has come to the conclusion that they can improve long term growth and profit by "being green".
Satellite Radio is much like a TiVo. Those who don't have it, don't really miss it. Those that do, can't imagine life without it.
A year ago, my wife bought me a TiVo for my birthday and I got her a Sirius Sattelite radio. It seemed like a good deal at the time, I rarely listened to the radio and she didn't watch much T.V. A year later, she spends all of her time watching TiVo and I spend all my time listening to sattelite radio.
Since getting sattelite radio, I have pretty much stopped downloading mp3's (don't need them, too much good music on Sirius). A couple of months ago, I bought my first CD in THIRTEEN YEARS. I'm not joking, the last album I paid money for music before this past December was Tesla's Edison's Medicine in 1991.
Sure, you can download several hundred songs for your iPod and create your own commercial free radio, but describing Sattelite Radio as commercial free is like describing Open Source software a software you don't have to pay for. Commercial free is just scratching the surface.
yeah right,
Tell one of them spoiled little rich kids they got to wait 950 years to collect their inheritence...
I predict that within a few hundered years, people will start to realize that the best way to die young, is to be rich.
Of course, it could be even worse. Can you imagine having to watch a slutty 300 year old Paris Hilton.
There's nothing wrong with it. Many people already do it. It's ususally referred to as a 401K or IRA.
Social Security isn't just about retirement, however. Many millions of Americans who are disabled depend on it to survive. And, of course, there's the single worker families with a stay at home mom or dad. What happens to them when the bread winner dies at an early age?
Also, there are very few jobs in America today that pay enough for a worker to raise a family, buy a house, afford college and save for retirement. Most people that I know who have decent paying jobs, are still struggling to just live paycheck to paycheck. It's not from bad money management, it's because rasising kids today is damned expensive.
A question for you now...
If you don't support government run Social Security, would you support a law that requires all compaines that do business in the U.S. to pay their U.S. employees not just a living wage, but I retirement wage?
because of the trees...
Van Allen comments that "the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure."
Is there any other reason for science, any science, to exist? We as a species survived for thousands of years without it. Most species on Earth today have absolutely no concept of science and still manange to thrive.
Science exists soley because we as a species are curious, very curious. As my high school science teacher, all those years ago explained it, "If science didn't exists, we, as a species, would invent it". As a species, we need it to keep us and our intelligent brains challenged. The specifics of the science really don't matter, it is the pursuit of knowledge that is important.
So science has added a few years to my lifespan, cured some deseases and has in general raised my quality of life above that of my ancestors, but as far as the human species is concerned, nothing has really changed. We still survive pretty much the way our Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great,... Grandfather did all those years ago. We spend most of our time hunting for food, shelter and an opportunity to mate.
I guess your opinions on Michael Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11 depend on where you get your information. You, unfortunately, chose to point out that your information comes from a well known, and well debunked personal attack by Christopher Hitchens against Michael Moore.
My suggestion is if you choose to get your information about someones credibility, at least try to choose a credible source.
Someone please explain why this comment was given a 5 rating when everything that the author states is absolutely wrong...
Bought my 2004 Honda Civic Hybrid in October. I've got a little over 7,000 miles mostly city driving. My daily commute round trip is about 16 miles a day. I've also made several trips to Orlando which is about 200 miles round trip. First month I averaged around 38 MPG.
Modified my driving style and second month average MPG was around 41.
Modified my driving style and third month average MPG was around 43.
After a couple of months of practice (also started driving mostly with the AC off, and I live in Florida) my MPG is now averaging between 45 and 48 MPG.
My wifes car started having problems, so she drove my car for a week, average fuel milage fell to 37 MPG.
The reason I love my car so much is because it is a real "drivers" car. What I mean by thats is the car will do everything that it claims to do, if you are a skilled enough driver.
The camaro I traded in for the Civic Hybrid claimed to do 150 MPH, but almost everywhere I go has a Max Speed limit of 45 so I was never able to see if I could drive the car at that speed. Now I have a car that gives me a driving skill test that I can actually do.
As being the recommended chip for running Microsoft Longhorn Version of Windows. Wonder if this has anything to do with Intel's decision.
Military experience is rarely helpful in getting a job when you get out. You have to remember that most of the people you will be interviewing with have never served, and aren't familiar with the training that you have received.
I got out of the Navy after 6 years. I was an Aegis Radar Display Technician. I had been told repeatedly by others in the Navy that my training would really help when I got out. Turns out, they were wrong.
After 6 years, got tired of playing around so I got out of the Navy, went back to school and got a bachelors degree in Computer Engineering. I Thought that with my degree and Military experience working with electronics, I would have no problem getting a job. Surprisingly though, at many of the places where I was interviewing, I was asked to submit a copy of my resume without the military experience included.
Turns out when the choice was between me with my 3.0 GPA and 6 years military experience working with electronics and little Johnny with his 3.8 GPA and never worked a day in his life, most places would choose little Johnny.
The truth is, military experience is just that. It's what you have as long as you are in the military, once out it means basically nothing.