"Avro Canada, this company started in 1945 as an aircraft plant and became within thirteen years the third-largest company in Canada, one of the largest 100 companies in the world, and directly employing over 50,000." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada
Doesn't even exist anymore. Rumor is Dan Aykroyd had something to do with it's demise, probably at the behest of the Alien controled US governement.
I mean sure, if you live on a farm (no one does anymore really), or if you work construction and own your own company (tax right off for truck), I could see the need for a truck.
However most people I see with a truck, don't really use it as a truck (i.e. to haul stuff). They drive it around like a car, which is why everyone needs extended cabs, etc... They however like the idea of a truck, or an image of having a truck.
I mean I saw this one guy at home depot, with a +70,000$ super huge truck, with like a 15ft trailer attached. He was hauling, like 5 boards of lumber. I had more lumber stuffed into my Nissan Sentra by a factor of 10. You could fit my whole car on his trailer... But at least he was hauling some stuff.
I see these idiots driving around the city, with HUGE trucks. I mean a contractor used to buy a cheap small truck, now I am not sure you can even buy those anymore. They are just massive. I think as I walk by them, They must be murder to run on gas. Likely the owners bitch about how much they spend on gas also.
China should take a cue from Harper's Conservative Canadian government and simply create a new law making it illegal for them to strike, then use the OMG for the sake of the greater good of our fragile economy to justify it.
We increased military expenditures, because we like war.
Are more likely to carry guns as we got rid of the gun registry
Want to create more private healthcare
Have made us the worldwide laughingstock due to enviromental stance, and lost our seat at the UN table
Have broken unions and forced private individuals back to work
Our minister of science and technology is a creationist and a chiropractor, resolve conflict by making laws forcing work rather than arbitration or bargaining
Some Canadians are polite, It you try that street crossing shit in Toronto, you will probably die. John Baird and Dean Del Mastro.
"2) Punched into a secure room by going through two sheets of sheetrock."
I've often wondered that myself. I've seen some "secure" steal doors, with complex code locks, and heavy steal frame, and I coulnd't help but wonder, "I bet I should just take a wrecking bar to the wall beside it and bypass the whole mess"... I mean some obvisouly have concrete walls, but others, obvisoiuly do not.
Also mixed procedures/policies which are not all that hard to figure out. Like elevators that require passcards. During the day of course you can social engineer. However after hours not so much. However during a fire emergency, all the elevators automatically go to the ground floor. So if you want to leave, pull a fire alarm I guess.
I think you are assuming that anyone that is intelectually capable of constructing and operating such a device that has all of time to look at (subjectively, assuming they haven't solved aging yet either), would find our particular speck of time worthy of visitation. Also presuming that the technology for time travel is vastly beyond our near term abilities, and would be invented so far into our future as to make this recordable time moot. Likely also a tightly controlled technology.
As an added byproduct I bet A) Your average tenured professor would start to look a bit different, and B) You gotta bet they would be taking way less shit from students and TA's...
Though seriously though, I know in some circles it has been discussed that not every university be structured in the same way. For the most part most/many are more less training centres rather than places of deep discovery.
Tenure and papers, might make sense if your primary goal is the discovery of the universe. However if your primary goal is moving another year of pukes out the door, perhaps you just need a system like they already have for high school teachers (not that it is all that great either).
14000$ Price of Gas today: 1.24$ per Litre. MPG for a 1996 Honda Civic: 31 or 13.18 kmpl
14k$/1.24$ = 11290.32 Litres of gas
11290.32 * 13.18kmpl = 148,806.45 Km.
So I would say from an "energy" perspcetive it is practical if perhaps your electric motor and batteries can even last 150,000 KM of travel.
From every other perspective, with a nominal trip range of 30 miles (48.2 Km), you would have to take 3087 trips or full charges before that is even possible.
So likely under any loosely defined definition of practical, I don't think it could be thought of as such. That is not to say that under certain very specific conditions it might be however. Living with a 20Km commute that you drive more less every day changing at night that might work. Of course even then, it would take you over 12 years of doing so (working 250 days a year) just to break even. So even then it is a bit of a strech.
However he probably enjoyed doing it, talking about it, and hey he just got an article on Slashdot....:)
I think the arguemnet here, isn't if it is practicle or not, but the fact that gearheads routinely spend that on cars for no other purpose than they really want to...
Though trying to avoid political persacution and interfearance has been around since it all began. I'm sure Galileo wasn't really all that keep on the Catholic Church hearing about his research until he was ready to publish. In fact he might have even regret it a few times after as well.
That was Delroy Lindo apparently. Can't really give you a hard time, I briefly thought it was Morgan Freeman which is clearly ridiclous. Morgan Freeman has been on my mind since that YouTube video I saw awhile ago, so maybe that's it.
Shouldn;t we be talking about the shadowy and huge bike helmut lobby that owns all the politicians that create these so called "safety" laws, when we all know its the greed and corruption of said international helmut consortium!
Because I see nothing wrong with this. Targeting groups of people (any) to let them know what your policies are in the hopes that they vote for you? I thought that was the whole point. The fact that they are actually using data mining tells me that maybe just maybe they aren't technologocial dinosaurs either...
I still think the conservatives are a bunch of jerks, but this doesn't seem all that vile to me, particularly compared to some of their other tricks.
Besides, it is only a matter of time before some intern gets two mailing lists mixed up, and hilarity can ensue!:)
My favorite which doesn't surprise me at all: "I think there were more people in the lobby group than there are same-sex marriages."
Though they did ram the gun registry thing through recently, though as a result some provinences simply said they would start their own then. Though I thought it was particulary spiteful that the conservatives wanted/did (not sure result) delete all the data, making prov. start afresh.
For supposedly "fiscally" responsible conservatives, they are nothing more than idological bandwagon vote sponges.
I mean that gun registry, like it or hate it cost 3 Billion with a B to construct, and the rational that they used to destroy it was that it cost 3 Million bucks a year. To put that in terms mear mortals can understand, it's like buying a car for 30,000$, and then after a couple of years throwing it away becuase it costs you annually 30$ to maintain it. I mean who wouldn't say that makes fiscial sense?!
What would happen if the first man on the moon's name was "Wussy McSissypants" or something.
Sailor: "Sigh, yes I have just been assigned to the USS Sinkable, a McSissypants class cruiser..."
For the future, I think for the next big step (pardon pun) in human achievement the US needs to find someone with the name Manly Bigpenis or something.
For serious though, throwing money at education is hardly a solution. Changing the culture is. When you start rewarding your best and brightest, you will probably find that more will try to achieve that. The current cultural enviroment isn't exactly promoting science and education.
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"Avro Canada, this company started in 1945 as an aircraft plant and became within thirteen years the third-largest company in Canada, one of the largest 100 companies in the world, and directly employing over 50,000."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada
Doesn't even exist anymore. Rumor is Dan Aykroyd had something to do with it's demise, probably at the behest of the Alien controled US governement.
The article is probably refering to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada#Avro_STAT_.28SST.29
However take a look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Avrocar.gif
Apparently it couldn't go more than 3ft in the air however...
Canadians also, thought not as bad.
I mean sure, if you live on a farm (no one does anymore really), or if you work construction and own your own company (tax right off for truck), I could see the need for a truck.
However most people I see with a truck, don't really use it as a truck (i.e. to haul stuff). They drive it around like a car, which is why everyone needs extended cabs, etc... They however like the idea of a truck, or an image of having a truck.
I mean I saw this one guy at home depot, with a +70,000$ super huge truck, with like a 15ft trailer attached. He was hauling, like 5 boards of lumber. I had more lumber stuffed into my Nissan Sentra by a factor of 10. You could fit my whole car on his trailer... But at least he was hauling some stuff.
I see these idiots driving around the city, with HUGE trucks. I mean a contractor used to buy a cheap small truck, now I am not sure you can even buy those anymore. They are just massive. I think as I walk by them, They must be murder to run on gas. Likely the owners bitch about how much they spend on gas also.
China should take a cue from Harper's Conservative Canadian government and simply create a new law making it illegal for them to strike, then use the OMG for the sake of the greater good of our fragile economy to justify it.
We increased military expenditures, because we like war.
Are more likely to carry guns as we got rid of the gun registry
Want to create more private healthcare
Have made us the worldwide laughingstock due to enviromental stance, and lost our seat at the UN table
Have broken unions and forced private individuals back to work
Our minister of science and technology is a creationist and a chiropractor, resolve conflict by making laws forcing work rather than arbitration or bargaining
Some Canadians are polite, It you try that street crossing shit in Toronto, you will probably die. John Baird and Dean Del Mastro.
I always just assumed he was undead.
Sounds more like a horizontal rocket to me.
"2) Punched into a secure room by going through two sheets of sheetrock."
I've often wondered that myself. I've seen some "secure" steal doors, with complex code locks, and heavy steal frame, and I coulnd't help but wonder, "I bet I should just take a wrecking bar to the wall beside it and bypass the whole mess"... I mean some obvisouly have concrete walls, but others, obvisoiuly do not.
Also mixed procedures/policies which are not all that hard to figure out. Like elevators that require passcards. During the day of course you can social engineer. However after hours not so much. However during a fire emergency, all the elevators automatically go to the ground floor. So if you want to leave, pull a fire alarm I guess.
I think you are assuming that anyone that is intelectually capable of constructing and operating such a device that has all of time to look at (subjectively, assuming they haven't solved aging yet either), would find our particular speck of time worthy of visitation. Also presuming that the technology for time travel is vastly beyond our near term abilities, and would be invented so far into our future as to make this recordable time moot. Likely also a tightly controlled technology.
"Ewwww why would you want to go then?"
It's what Scientists Crave!
Have an annual fight to the death for tenure.
As an added byproduct I bet A) Your average tenured professor would start to look a bit different, and B) You gotta bet they would be taking way less shit from students and TA's...
Though seriously though, I know in some circles it has been discussed that not every university be structured in the same way. For the most part most/many are more less training centres rather than places of deep discovery.
Tenure and papers, might make sense if your primary goal is the discovery of the universe. However if your primary goal is moving another year of pukes out the door, perhaps you just need a system like they already have for high school teachers (not that it is all that great either).
14000$
Price of Gas today: 1.24$ per Litre.
MPG for a 1996 Honda Civic: 31 or 13.18 kmpl
14k$/1.24$ = 11290.32 Litres of gas
11290.32 * 13.18kmpl = 148,806.45 Km.
So I would say from an "energy" perspcetive it is practical if perhaps your electric motor and batteries can even last 150,000 KM of travel.
From every other perspective, with a nominal trip range of 30 miles (48.2 Km), you would have to take 3087 trips or full charges before that is even possible.
So likely under any loosely defined definition of practical, I don't think it could be thought of as such. That is not to say that under certain very specific conditions it might be however. Living with a 20Km commute that you drive more less every day changing at night that might work. Of course even then, it would take you over 12 years of doing so (working 250 days a year) just to break even. So even then it is a bit of a strech.
However he probably enjoyed doing it, talking about it, and hey he just got an article on Slashdot.... :)
I think the arguemnet here, isn't if it is practicle or not, but the fact that gearheads routinely spend that on cars for no other purpose than they really want to...
It's what all of science is based on afterall.
Though trying to avoid political persacution and interfearance has been around since it all began. I'm sure Galileo wasn't really all that keep on the Catholic Church hearing about his research until he was ready to publish. In fact he might have even regret it a few times after as well.
Or a time machine. To go back in time, and put another time machine inside a time machine.
Afterwhich the ramifications of using a 3D printer to make a gun will seem insignificant.
Someone's been reading a little too much Terry Goodkind...
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005148/
That was Delroy Lindo apparently. Can't really give you a hard time, I briefly thought it was Morgan Freeman which is clearly ridiclous. Morgan Freeman has been on my mind since that YouTube video I saw awhile ago, so maybe that's it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eV8l_Qb8Fc
Shouldn;t we be talking about the shadowy and huge bike helmut lobby that owns all the politicians that create these so called "safety" laws, when we all know its the greed and corruption of said international helmut consortium!
I believe Halle Berry gave Hugh Jackman some "incentive" during the movie Swordfish...
The article was all greek to me. Was the comment making fun or making hate, big differance there.
Even we up in the cold north of Canada have hate crime laws prohibiting free speech that cross a line.
Because I see nothing wrong with this. Targeting groups of people (any) to let them know what your policies are in the hopes that they vote for you? I thought that was the whole point. The fact that they are actually using data mining tells me that maybe just maybe they aren't technologocial dinosaurs either...
I still think the conservatives are a bunch of jerks, but this doesn't seem all that vile to me, particularly compared to some of their other tricks.
Besides, it is only a matter of time before some intern gets two mailing lists mixed up, and hilarity can ensue! :)
I agree, I agree.
My favorite which doesn't surprise me at all: "I think there were more people in the lobby group than there are same-sex marriages."
Though they did ram the gun registry thing through recently, though as a result some provinences simply said they would start their own then. Though I thought it was particulary spiteful that the conservatives wanted/did (not sure result) delete all the data, making prov. start afresh.
For supposedly "fiscally" responsible conservatives, they are nothing more than idological bandwagon vote sponges.
I mean that gun registry, like it or hate it cost 3 Billion with a B to construct, and the rational that they used to destroy it was that it cost 3 Million bucks a year. To put that in terms mear mortals can understand, it's like buying a car for 30,000$, and then after a couple of years throwing it away becuase it costs you annually 30$ to maintain it. I mean who wouldn't say that makes fiscial sense?!
Than the unhelpful robot, which aparently just repeatedly tells you to fuck off
Because I find the idea of an entire empire comprised of nothing but foot stools to be utterly ridiculous!
Close. The US is ruled by an elected 18% majority system. They just happen to be totally controlled by the .1%
Big differance. Fixed that for you.
The 0.1% don't want to rule, thats tedious and boring. They just want to make sure those that do, know their place.
What would happen if the first man on the moon's name was "Wussy McSissypants" or something.
Sailor: "Sigh, yes I have just been assigned to the USS Sinkable, a McSissypants class cruiser..."
For the future, I think for the next big step (pardon pun) in human achievement the US needs to find someone with the name Manly Bigpenis or something.
You need less dumb people.
- Microsoft
For serious though, throwing money at education is hardly a solution. Changing the culture is. When you start rewarding your best and brightest, you will probably find that more will try to achieve that. The current cultural enviroment isn't exactly promoting science and education.