Of course, the Model-T had no plastics to contend with.
I sincerely doubt the veracity of some of the assertions of this article. The 10% ethanol that's currently in gasoline has no appreciable impact on fuel economy, and the alcohol content dries the fuel, which is helpful in damp/cool climates to offset condensation.
I think we all know ethanol from corn is a money loser. The "net energy loss" argument is spurious, however. Charging a battery is a net energy loser, but is anyone suggesting batteries are a bad idea? We need a portable form of energy for the internal combustion engine, and we have to pay a "tax" in order to change the state of that energy from something we have to something we need.
Brazil runs all of their cars (a lot of old vehicles, I might add) on 100% ethanol. The problem here is finite-life engineering; Parts, like plastic fuel pumps, that are designed to fail after the warranty runs out (5-8 years). Detroit used to rely on rust to make people buy new cars (remember the 70s?), but people quickly realized that a paint + patch was cheaper than replacing the car, as long as it was mechanically sound, and no-one pays a dealer to do that.
Now they charge you 900$ for 6$ worth of plastic...
The only thing that shocks me is that one vinyl fetishist keeps posting articles about how his particular freakazoid defect is making a comeback, but nobody is tagging these stories as duplicates of his previous rants.
Okay, kdawson, we get it, you like records. Give it a rest and go play with your betamax VCR.
The US is sitting on thousands of tons of used Uranium fuel rods... notice I said "used" and not "spent". When the US finally accepts reprocessing as part of the fuel cycle, they'll have sufficient reserves for hundreds of years, not to mention that weapons grade plutonium from retired warheads can also be made in to a MOX fuel, and Lord knows you've got a zillion of those damn things.
eBay doesn't have a monopoly on payments.
It has a monopoly on auctions.
Except for some specific niche markets, eBay is The Place to go for online auctions. It's as dominant as Microsoft is in operating systems.
You don't get to use a monopoly in one area to manipulate the market in another.
Market dominance is NOT a monopoly; The courts have reinforced this time and time again. eBay may get slapped on the wrist for it's anti-competitive business practices (re: billing), but there's nothing that eBay does that prevents another organization from opening a new for-profit auction site, or Internet payment system (e.g. Google payments).
If the CO2 you're worried about is coming from plants, those plants grow by consuming CO2, and the net change in atmospheric carbon dioxide is (virtually) zero. The problem is when we liberate sequestered carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and change the net atmospheric content.
The FCC can't kill this, as it doesn't transmit anything to anywhere, it's not even a powered device (persay). For example, if a builder decides to line the walls of his building with lead to achieve the same result, tough luck cell user. If an interior designer likes chromium (and they did in the '20s) and builds a lobby that is in essence a Faraday box, tough luck BlackBerry.
Personally, I like the idea of creating a domestic space where I'm not being bombarded by microwave energy, around the clock. Just because every idiot neighbour I have feels that they need a WiFi network, cordless phone, and what-have-you, doesn't mean that I should have to sleep in their energy pollution.
After acquiring a warrant from a friendly judge, the FBI proceeded to seize all electrical items in the library including photocopiers, printers, lightbulbs and such. They further proceeded to search the homes of all University employees who were freedom hating "library card" carrying Islamic radicals.
Ms. Kathy Glick-Weil, if that is indeed her real name, was questioned, beaten, questioned again, put on the Homeland Security "No-Fly" list, and will be watched by federal authorities for the rest of her life, which will be spent in beautiful Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
When asked what her feelings on the matter were, Ms. Glick-Weil was beaten again.
A vast quantity of high energy plasma moving at very nearly the speed of light escapes magnetic containment and you're talking about some "hard X-rays"? Think about the laws of thermodynamics... where the heck to do think all that energy is going to go?
The only way thigns are going to change for you is if you impress upon management that while you're doing mundane things like installing software, rebooting PCs, and reloading printer paper, you aren't doing valuable things like R&D, security (firewall, backups) monitoring, spam filter tuning, network performance tuning, etc...
Start out looking for an assistant, someone junior who can handle desktop support. If you can't get that kind of assistance, then you're really under-rated at your current employ and you should be working on an exit strategy.
How on earth did a reference to maritime law warrant an "insightful" mod? Particularly an incorrect reference? The 1994 Law of the Sea secures territorial waters to 12 nautical miles, not three. There is an additional cause to allow an area of influence of an additional 12 nautical miles, for law/customs/immigration enforcement.
http://www.dvdisaster.com/
Generates error recovery data from a DVD and writes it to a "backup" CD. Of course, you have to worry about the CD now as well, since you've got nothing protecting it, but CDs were always more scratch tolerant than DVDs.
As for environmental effects, I recently pulled some ~10 year old floppy disks out of a cardboard box in a closet (Borland Turbo C) and they worked just fine, so a jewel case would probably protect optical media at least as long.
S
Has anybody thought about the solid waste management nightmare this would cause? Tens of millions of DVD rentals occur annually; What would we do with the millions of now useless read-once discs?
Doctors are trained to trake control away from patients and to maintain a "clinical distance" that alienates their charges. This is probably the root of many of the complaints about western medicine ("Doctors don't care").
The other truth is that a "differential diagnosis" in medicine is what just about every other profession calls an "educated guess". Doctors don't have that much information to go on to start with, because they're talking to layman who might not realize what is or isn't a significant symptom.
You get partial information from the patient, you take a look at whatever medical/family history is available, you do a quick exam or (maybe) run a test or two, tell them it's the flu and send them home.
I don't know if just protestors are getting more stupid, but you've made some interesting points I'd like to touch on. Yes, protesting has become a parody of itself, just another past time in a society with far too much free time and nothing to really complain about. Yes, MLK had people dress up in their Sunday best, but those people were second class citizens vying for respectability on the national stage. It also should be mentioned that MLK got shot for his politics.
I think people are pretty stupid across the board, and most protestors are hanger-ons who don't really know anything about the cause, per say, but rather someone involved in the cause. The media seems to have a knack for finding the biggest retard (nob?) in the group (mob?) to interview, so even when these groups have a point to make it isn't communicated by their members.
Eventually, this sort of thing will lead to a ban on public gatherings of all sorts anyway, which is probably the point of the whole thing.
Although I believe your analogies to be spurious, I think one has to analyse exactly what it is your preaching against.
What if all auto manufacturer's installed a governor that limited the speed of vehicles to 75MPH (max)? How many BILLIONS of dollars would be saved in not having to enforce the speed limits nationwide, because it simply isn't possible to drive too fast. What if your car wouldn't start without your seatbelt buckled? Another savings and a massive reduction in accidental deaths... Good God, we can't have that.
DRM will eliminate the cost to law enforcement and the justice system of enforcing the will of intellectual property rights holders and will probably save billions of dollars. If you don't want to pay for software, movies, music, or what have you, you still aren't obligated to do so.
Don't like the way things are going? Unplug. You've always been free to do that.
You don't buy music anymore than you buy a story; This view of the world is simplistic and childish, as possession is not 9/10ths of the law, and names will hurt you plenty.
The reality of intellectual copyright laws is that you buy a CD or a BOOK, but the rights to the contents thereof are still reserved by the author. This used to be the defacto arrangement, and it still makes sense today, although the industry is having trouble mapping this paradigm to new content delivery mechanisms.
Why would anyone spend years writing novels and songs if there was absolutely no way to profit from the effort? Sharing knowledge would be defeatist, as the efforts of a lifetime would be lost as soon as they were published.
Get real, people.
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Of course, the Model-T had no plastics to contend with. I sincerely doubt the veracity of some of the assertions of this article. The 10% ethanol that's currently in gasoline has no appreciable impact on fuel economy, and the alcohol content dries the fuel, which is helpful in damp/cool climates to offset condensation. I think we all know ethanol from corn is a money loser. The "net energy loss" argument is spurious, however. Charging a battery is a net energy loser, but is anyone suggesting batteries are a bad idea? We need a portable form of energy for the internal combustion engine, and we have to pay a "tax" in order to change the state of that energy from something we have to something we need. Brazil runs all of their cars (a lot of old vehicles, I might add) on 100% ethanol. The problem here is finite-life engineering; Parts, like plastic fuel pumps, that are designed to fail after the warranty runs out (5-8 years). Detroit used to rely on rust to make people buy new cars (remember the 70s?), but people quickly realized that a paint + patch was cheaper than replacing the car, as long as it was mechanically sound, and no-one pays a dealer to do that. Now they charge you 900$ for 6$ worth of plastic...
So, will this result in the elimination of pattern baldness, or just "natural male enhancement"?
Why don't we get illegal immigrants to do it?
The only thing that shocks me is that one vinyl fetishist keeps posting articles about how his particular freakazoid defect is making
a comeback, but nobody is tagging these stories as duplicates of his previous rants.
Okay, kdawson, we get it, you like records. Give it a rest and go play with your betamax VCR.
Reads like a who's-who of PC World Advertisers...
Did they rate them by number of ads, or total dollars spent?
The US is sitting on thousands of tons of used Uranium fuel rods... notice I said "used" and not "spent". When the US finally accepts reprocessing as part of the fuel cycle, they'll have sufficient reserves for hundreds of years, not to mention that weapons grade plutonium from retired warheads can also be made in to a MOX fuel, and Lord knows you've got a zillion of those damn things.
Amen Brother! We're MERCENARIES, not WHORES.
Ahem:
If the CO2 you're worried about is coming from plants, those plants grow by consuming CO2, and the net change in atmospheric carbon dioxide is (virtually) zero. The problem is when we liberate sequestered carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and change the net atmospheric content.
QED
The FCC can't kill this, as it doesn't transmit anything to anywhere, it's not even a powered device (persay). For example, if a builder decides to line the walls of his building with lead to achieve the same result, tough luck cell user. If an interior designer likes chromium (and they did in the '20s) and builds a lobby that is in essence a Faraday box, tough luck BlackBerry.
Personally, I like the idea of creating a domestic space where I'm not being bombarded by microwave energy, around the clock. Just because every idiot neighbour I have feels that they need a WiFi network, cordless phone, and what-have-you, doesn't mean that I should have to sleep in their energy pollution.
After acquiring a warrant from a friendly judge, the FBI proceeded to seize all electrical items in the library including photocopiers, printers, lightbulbs and such. They further proceeded to search the homes of all University employees who were freedom hating "library card" carrying Islamic radicals.
Ms. Kathy Glick-Weil, if that is indeed her real name, was questioned, beaten, questioned again, put on the Homeland Security "No-Fly" list, and will be watched by federal authorities for the rest of her life, which will be spent in beautiful Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
When asked what her feelings on the matter were, Ms. Glick-Weil was beaten again.
Are you out of your flipping mind?
A vast quantity of high energy plasma moving at very nearly the speed of light escapes magnetic containment and you're talking about some "hard X-rays"? Think about the laws of thermodynamics... where the heck to do think all that energy is going to go?
Idiot.
The series was great, the movie was terrible.
Why did River have to become Buffy? Whedon's a hack, that's why.
Dumb-dumb-dumb.
The good things about using the poor for drug testing are;
1) There are lots of them
2) You don't have to pay them much
3) They have all sorts of illnesses to treat
4) No one will miss them
The only way thigns are going to change for you is if you impress upon management that while you're doing mundane things like installing software, rebooting PCs, and reloading printer paper, you aren't doing valuable things like R&D, security (firewall, backups) monitoring, spam filter tuning, network performance tuning, etc ...
Start out looking for an assistant, someone junior who can handle desktop support. If you can't get that kind of assistance, then you're really under-rated at your current employ and you should be working on an exit strategy.
How on earth did a reference to maritime law warrant an "insightful" mod? Particularly an incorrect reference? The 1994 Law of the Sea secures territorial waters to 12 nautical miles, not three. There is an additional cause to allow an area of influence of an additional 12 nautical miles, for law/customs/immigration enforcement.
Screw you, moderator scum!
http://www.dvdisaster.com/ Generates error recovery data from a DVD and writes it to a "backup" CD. Of course, you have to worry about the CD now as well, since you've got nothing protecting it, but CDs were always more scratch tolerant than DVDs. As for environmental effects, I recently pulled some ~10 year old floppy disks out of a cardboard box in a closet (Borland Turbo C) and they worked just fine, so a jewel case would probably protect optical media at least as long. S
Has anybody thought about the solid waste management nightmare this would cause? Tens of millions of DVD rentals occur annually; What would we do with the millions of now useless read-once discs?
Doctors are trained to trake control away from patients and to maintain a "clinical distance" that alienates their charges. This is probably the root of many of the complaints about western medicine ("Doctors don't care").
The other truth is that a "differential diagnosis" in medicine is what just about every other profession calls an "educated guess". Doctors don't have that much information to go on to start with, because they're talking to layman who might not realize what is or isn't a significant symptom.
You get partial information from the patient, you take a look at whatever medical/family history is available, you do a quick exam or (maybe) run a test or two, tell them it's the flu and send them home.
I guess weekly launches aren't unattainable, as long as there's no requirement for an equal number of landings, and a large supply of launch vehicles.
S
I don't know if just protestors are getting more stupid, but you've made some interesting points I'd like to touch on. Yes, protesting has become a parody of itself, just another past time in a society with far too much free time and nothing to really complain about. Yes, MLK had people dress up in their Sunday best, but those people were second class citizens vying for respectability on the national stage. It also should be mentioned that MLK got shot for his politics.
I think people are pretty stupid across the board, and most protestors are hanger-ons who don't really know anything about the cause, per say, but rather someone involved in the cause. The media seems to have a knack for finding the biggest retard (nob?) in the group (mob?) to interview, so even when these groups have a point to make it isn't communicated by their members.
Eventually, this sort of thing will lead to a ban on public gatherings of all sorts anyway, which is probably the point of the whole thing.
Although I believe your analogies to be spurious, I think one has to analyse exactly what it is your preaching against.
What if all auto manufacturer's installed a governor that limited the speed of vehicles to 75MPH (max)? How many BILLIONS of dollars would be saved in not having to enforce the speed limits nationwide, because it simply isn't possible to drive too fast. What if your car wouldn't start without your seatbelt buckled? Another savings and a massive reduction in accidental deaths... Good God, we can't have that.
DRM will eliminate the cost to law enforcement and the justice system of enforcing the will of intellectual property rights holders and will probably save billions of dollars. If you don't want to pay for software, movies, music, or what have you, you still aren't obligated to do so.
Don't like the way things are going? Unplug. You've always been free to do that.
... and you'll go on thinking that, because it's what we (Canada) want you to think.
Mu-hu-hahaha!
I find it sad that the Chinese complain about American protectionism, then pull a stunt like this.
We really ought to consider pulling most-favoured nation status.
You don't buy music anymore than you buy a story; This view of the world is simplistic and childish, as possession is not 9/10ths of the law, and names will hurt you plenty. The reality of intellectual copyright laws is that you buy a CD or a BOOK, but the rights to the contents thereof are still reserved by the author. This used to be the defacto arrangement, and it still makes sense today, although the industry is having trouble mapping this paradigm to new content delivery mechanisms. Why would anyone spend years writing novels and songs if there was absolutely no way to profit from the effort? Sharing knowledge would be defeatist, as the efforts of a lifetime would be lost as soon as they were published. Get real, people.