All cars with perhaps the exception of an all electric car run on "air".
Try running a car without air and see what happens. "But no, a car uses Petrol for fuel!" Actually a car uses more air for fuel than Petrol. A car uses combustion (for the most part) to generate kenetic energy, and your ain't going to get a whole lot of combustion without air.
Yes I am just being pedantic, and if I bothered to read the article I realize they are probably talking about compressed air or something.
Make it steam and huge flywheels to satisfy my steampunk craving and you have a deal!
All wearing bowler hats and black suites. You could blast Nina Semone's "Sinner Man" on the embassy speakers, tape the whole thing, put it on youtube, and make the UK look like an even bigger ass.
Um. ya. But I'm not from the US (which I assume you assumed).
I'm from Canada. Anyway even with those countries, all I meant was the the US will be near the top for the world, of the 183 or whatever countries there are, there are a lot of other places not so great for women.
1) Just about anywhere is better than Iran for women I would guess. The list is long there, the USA is hardly failing in that regard.
2) Cause VS Cauality: Not to rain on your gender parade, but I doubt women being empowered has all that much to do with runing circles around other countries. If you like you could look at various variables, like the when the women got to vote VS relitive economic prowess for various couuntries, etc... but I am not sure the outcome would even tell you all that much. Sounds like a great idea for a thesis or book however!
1) Want to make me mad? Announce 77 of fucking something then not detail what those 77 things are! Argh!
2) Provided that "Statician" isn't one ofthose 77 listed, I think that is where I would go if I was a women. Then just tell the guys some made up BS, know they won't know the difference, and volia 77 courses now open to women again.
Of course, "Lyin' about statistics.... that's a stonin'" so maybe not.
I mean it really skipped the "desktop" and went right to phone and tabet devices. Next is consoles. Then of course consoles will kill PC's so it will be moot right?
But that is ONLY 5% of the number of paying players.
So I expect when they figure it all out, and make it online only registration play DRM etc... There sales should increase by 24.7 Billion to an astonishing 26 Billion dollars in sales annually!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence Has a bunch of stuff in there, but basically calls the king of england a big dickhole. Demands rights. Note: All these things are in referance to a forign power interfearing with their lives, not a domestic goverenment, which they are in fact they are actually demanding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights Mostly this addresses the grievences of the above. Mostly addressing justice, the fact they want their own goverement, to run their own affairs, not the king of england, has some stuff about having a standing army, own religion, etc...
Nowhere in any of those things above do I see anything remotly about rights given to private industry to solve problems for the public. In fact, it is very much the oppsite of that, in that they are DEMANDING their own government to do these things themselves, not the british king.
So I don't know if you have some sort of historical insight that I fail to see, but it is far more likely you just ascribe to some ideological dogma, and you see everything through that lens. Somehow I can see you saying all of the above is on wiki, so the dems must be messing with it. Please enlighten me if you think there are some more "formative" examples in US history that say that the USA was formed so that private companies using markets could solve social problems.
Anyway I don't even care, I'm impartial, not even from the US. However this sort of lazy ideological thinking isn't restricted to the US, but many sure love it for some reason. Even after all the recent troubles, greenspan was wrong, a hack. The ideal that markets solve everything is simplistic. Even if it were true, there is enough interfereance (by those within the markets to change them to their advantage) to make it not. Its like playing a board game, where some players can change the rules, and then act all surprised at the end when they own everything.
Don't even, "well in an ideal world" either, as we plainly don't live in one, and if that were the case Communism would actually work out well, which it plainly did not.
You clearly can't think your current health care model works for example? How are the insurance companies and markets working there for you?
Don't get me wrong markets can be powerful modivators, however they do not solve all problems, and they need to be regulated (you know by rules) to prevent companies (players) from "cheating". Otherwise it goes out of wack and you get ruin.
Case in point, Chapters. Sure there are brick and morter type costs. However for years now you can look at what you pay online, with free delievry VS what you pay in the store, and it is considerably less. I do the same. I figure sooner or later these companies will wake up, but it has been a very long time, with little change. Too much of it I suspect are monolopies and corporate policies that basically say, "this is the price we are going to charge in this market, because we can force them to pay it". I will subvert that in anyway I can, and hopefully they will change their practices. However all you have to do is look at certain industries, like Books, Software, Music, Movies, etc... and they all assoications, and groups, that decide this stuff (and individual corporations should they have enough market share), along with the lobby they create to influance governments to make it illegal to circiumvent their commercial pollicies.
Anyway it is a larger fight between corporate intrerests VS the interests of the individual and isn't going anywhere fast.
There was an interesting example of this story on here awhile back about a group that was essientially smuggling cheaper cancer drugs. On one side they are providing a service for individuals who cannot possibly afford the crazy prices some of these drugs fetch, and while illegal were potentially saving lives. However argued against that of course is the company that say it needs those profits for R&D to create the drugs in the first place and if you get rid of those profits many less drugs will be created... Same story really about software, movies, music, etc...
The bottom line is companies will charge "what the market will support". So, Canada gets a certain price, Au a different one, UK a different one, USA a different one, Thailand a different one, China a different one, etc... Hence all the crazy international trade deals that basically say you do as we say or else. They come up with technological fixes in the past, but we are reaching these stage that normal individuals can bypass them without much difficulty, Region setting for DVD's for example. Now they have go the next step to basically say, OK that didn't work, now we will just make it illegal for you to do so and use your own governments to enforce our rules for us. Canada just passed into law the whole Digital Locks BS this year.
You are also forgetting that not only are those ebooks have price differances than the US, but also that they are just as expensive or more so than normal books, and have DRM in them to limit how you can even use them. It baffles me how people can just go along with that. Anyway its a big issue with many sides...
Books are a sore spot for me. Forever we have always had on the jacket 11.99USA/26.99CAN and it really pisses me off.
Sure in the past they could argue about there being a currancy differeance. However how long has the Canadian dollar been at par or better?
Sure they could argue a lag in distrabution, etc... but they still do this for magizines...
It really is silly.
The other thing is electronics? Why? Its not like they produce them... They are all shiped from Thailand, China, Taiwan, etc... Smaller market, distrabution centers, maybe but still I don't see it.
So far as I can tell from the hype, Windows 8 is supposed to be a dumbed down version of 7 optimized for the touch screens of tablets and phones.
People who build their own computers do not build tablets or phone, and typically want MORE OS than you basic user. They are more likely to want the Pro, or the Enterprise version of the OS, not the Home basic, and certainly not something limited beyond even that.
Sure some builder and makers play with some touch screens, usually for the front of some massive tower to control fans and lights and stuff like that, but not as an OS.
So MS is making a special version of the Windows 8 OS for "Personal Use". To me that tells me that it will probably be limited in someway that the others are not, particulary if it is cheap.
So a OS that is designed to be limited, and a version of that, that will be even more limited, for users who want more than normal? I might be guessing, but the demand for such a thing might be non-existant, which is maybe why they are doing it.
Though my interest is piqued for the personal licence anyway. The fact that they arn't ignoring us is something at least, even though perhaps their thinking may be wrong. We shall see.
True I agree that it is a food distrabution issue, however perhaps we could stop being such a huge impact on the enviroment if we didn't require so much food at least.
In addition, while we might not have a food supply problem right now, fast forward 20, 50, 100 years and what will our popoulation be? Anyone looking into some bright ideas of how to feed that many people?
I believe John Scalzi already had this idea in his book Old Man's War wereby soldier bodies were built to include a bit of photosynthesis, making the bodies a lovely light green colour.
There may have been other science fiction that describes this, but that is one that came to mind recently.
They were shocked that the NATIONAL test included evolution, and want to change that.
So yes your premis is correct, only it doesn't apply to the backwards kentuckians.
The majory of the nation wants evolution, thus it is in NATIONAL tests. Don't want that? Then don't use them, use whatver your witchdoctor shamans come up with on some tree bark and use that to your hearts content provided that the rest of your little nutjob commune is ok with that.
Which is eactly what they did, asking for a Kentuckian test be made specifically. To which the respose seemed to be, no thats too expensive.
So yeah, backwards people getting left behind, story at 11.
The best is we call the one dollar coin a Loonie, because it has a picture of a "Loon" (which is a bird).
So what do we call the two dollar coin that came after that has a fracking POLAR BEAR on it? A Twonie... or Toonie, I don't even know how one would spell it.
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All cars with perhaps the exception of an all electric car run on "air".
Try running a car without air and see what happens. "But no, a car uses Petrol for fuel!" Actually a car uses more air for fuel than Petrol. A car uses combustion (for the most part) to generate kenetic energy, and your ain't going to get a whole lot of combustion without air.
Yes I am just being pedantic, and if I bothered to read the article I realize they are probably talking about compressed air or something.
Make it steam and huge flywheels to satisfy my steampunk craving and you have a deal!
All wearing bowler hats and black suites. You could blast Nina Semone's "Sinner Man" on the embassy speakers, tape the whole thing, put it on youtube, and make the UK look like an even bigger ass.
1) Run a diseal generator to keep support staff
2) Have support staff slowly chip ice off windmills, and repair frozen machines
3) Sequester CO2!
Yes because maintaining windmills in the artic will be a cakewalk I am sure.
Windmills being noteriously immune to ice and cold weather.
Um. ya. But I'm not from the US (which I assume you assumed).
I'm from Canada. Anyway even with those countries, all I meant was the the US will be near the top for the world, of the 183 or whatever countries there are, there are a lot of other places not so great for women.
1) Just about anywhere is better than Iran for women I would guess. The list is long there, the USA is hardly failing in that regard.
2) Cause VS Cauality: Not to rain on your gender parade, but I doubt women being empowered has all that much to do with runing circles around other countries. If you like you could look at various variables, like the when the women got to vote VS relitive economic prowess for various couuntries, etc... but I am not sure the outcome would even tell you all that much. Sounds like a great idea for a thesis or book however!
Sounds like something a bunch of stoners might say... oh wait, what?
1) Want to make me mad? Announce 77 of fucking something then not detail what those 77 things are! Argh!
2) Provided that "Statician" isn't one ofthose 77 listed, I think that is where I would go if I was a women. Then just tell the guys some made up BS, know they won't know the difference, and volia 77 courses now open to women again.
Of course, "Lyin' about statistics.... that's a stonin'" so maybe not.
I mean it really skipped the "desktop" and went right to phone and tabet devices. Next is consoles. Then of course consoles will kill PC's so it will be moot right?
Duh, this is slashdot...
Also ignite the thermite sprinkled all over my electronics...
Then using my pre-arranged zombie apocolypse kit, move in with some deranged survivalists in the wilderness.
After that there isn't much left to do by wait, I would recommend lots of booze and recreational drugs.
Rather than spending $50K on a NES cartridge, you could just go to the iPhone app store and buy Final Fantasy II for 8.99$.
Just sayin'.
So using Ubi Soft's numbers of 95% piracy...
They got about 1.3 Billion dollars in sales last year.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ubisoft-profits-rise-to-30m-in-fy2012/096074
But that is ONLY 5% of the number of paying players.
So I expect when they figure it all out, and make it online only registration play DRM etc...
There sales should increase by 24.7 Billion to an astonishing 26 Billion dollars in sales annually!
Well done Ubi Soft, well done!
I wasn't aware that the reason America was founded was to solve problems using private industry.
In fact I am pretty sure it wasn't.
For your education should you decide to look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War
Basically says it was all about taxes, particulary without representation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
Has a bunch of stuff in there, but basically calls the king of england a big dickhole. Demands rights.
Note: All these things are in referance to a forign power interfearing with their lives, not a domestic goverenment, which they are in fact they are actually demanding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights
Mostly this addresses the grievences of the above. Mostly addressing justice, the fact they want their own goverement, to run their own affairs, not the king of england, has some stuff about having a standing army, own religion, etc...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution
Its all very long and complicated, but it basically outlines the various pieces of governemnt, the justice system, executive, some rights, blah blah blah...
Nowhere in any of those things above do I see anything remotly about rights given to private industry to solve problems for the public. In fact, it is very much the oppsite of that, in that they are DEMANDING their own government to do these things themselves, not the british king.
So I don't know if you have some sort of historical insight that I fail to see, but it is far more likely you just ascribe to some ideological dogma, and you see everything through that lens. Somehow I can see you saying all of the above is on wiki, so the dems must be messing with it. Please enlighten me if you think there are some more "formative" examples in US history that say that the USA was formed so that private companies using markets could solve social problems.
Anyway I don't even care, I'm impartial, not even from the US. However this sort of lazy ideological thinking isn't restricted to the US, but many sure love it for some reason. Even after all the recent troubles, greenspan was wrong, a hack. The ideal that markets solve everything is simplistic. Even if it were true, there is enough interfereance (by those within the markets to change them to their advantage) to make it not. Its like playing a board game, where some players can change the rules, and then act all surprised at the end when they own everything.
Don't even, "well in an ideal world" either, as we plainly don't live in one, and if that were the case Communism would actually work out well, which it plainly did not.
You clearly can't think your current health care model works for example? How are the insurance companies and markets working there for you?
Don't get me wrong markets can be powerful modivators, however they do not solve all problems, and they need to be regulated (you know by rules) to prevent companies (players) from "cheating". Otherwise it goes out of wack and you get ruin.
Honestly Republicans just sound lazy.
Q1: Question?
Rep: Meh. Let the Markets figure it out.
Its like they can't be bothered to come up with anything, just let the "market" fix everything for everyone.
Just restart the game, thats what I do.
Come on now, name it Glactus already!
Agreed.
Case in point, Chapters. Sure there are brick and morter type costs. However for years now you can look at what you pay online, with free delievry VS what you pay in the store, and it is considerably less. I do the same. I figure sooner or later these companies will wake up, but it has been a very long time, with little change. Too much of it I suspect are monolopies and corporate policies that basically say, "this is the price we are going to charge in this market, because we can force them to pay it". I will subvert that in anyway I can, and hopefully they will change their practices. However all you have to do is look at certain industries, like Books, Software, Music, Movies, etc... and they all assoications, and groups, that decide this stuff (and individual corporations should they have enough market share), along with the lobby they create to influance governments to make it illegal to circiumvent their commercial pollicies.
Anyway it is a larger fight between corporate intrerests VS the interests of the individual and isn't going anywhere fast.
There was an interesting example of this story on here awhile back about a group that was essientially smuggling cheaper cancer drugs. On one side they are providing a service for individuals who cannot possibly afford the crazy prices some of these drugs fetch, and while illegal were potentially saving lives. However argued against that of course is the company that say it needs those profits for R&D to create the drugs in the first place and if you get rid of those profits many less drugs will be created... Same story really about software, movies, music, etc...
The bottom line is companies will charge "what the market will support". So, Canada gets a certain price, Au a different one, UK a different one, USA a different one, Thailand a different one, China a different one, etc... Hence all the crazy international trade deals that basically say you do as we say or else. They come up with technological fixes in the past, but we are reaching these stage that normal individuals can bypass them without much difficulty, Region setting for DVD's for example. Now they have go the next step to basically say, OK that didn't work, now we will just make it illegal for you to do so and use your own governments to enforce our rules for us. Canada just passed into law the whole Digital Locks BS this year.
You are also forgetting that not only are those ebooks have price differances than the US, but also that they are just as expensive or more so than normal books, and have DRM in them to limit how you can even use them. It baffles me how people can just go along with that. Anyway its a big issue with many sides...
Books are a sore spot for me. Forever we have always had on the jacket 11.99USA/26.99CAN and it really pisses me off.
Sure in the past they could argue about there being a currancy differeance. However how long has the Canadian dollar been at par or better?
Sure they could argue a lag in distrabution, etc... but they still do this for magizines...
It really is silly.
The other thing is electronics? Why? Its not like they produce them... They are all shiped from Thailand, China, Taiwan, etc... Smaller market, distrabution centers, maybe but still I don't see it.
So far as I can tell from the hype, Windows 8 is supposed to be a dumbed down version of 7 optimized for the touch screens of tablets and phones.
People who build their own computers do not build tablets or phone, and typically want MORE OS than you basic user. They are more likely to want the Pro, or the Enterprise version of the OS, not the Home basic, and certainly not something limited beyond even that.
Sure some builder and makers play with some touch screens, usually for the front of some massive tower to control fans and lights and stuff like that, but not as an OS.
So MS is making a special version of the Windows 8 OS for "Personal Use". To me that tells me that it will probably be limited in someway that the others are not, particulary if it is cheap.
So a OS that is designed to be limited, and a version of that, that will be even more limited, for users who want more than normal? I might be guessing, but the demand for such a thing might be non-existant, which is maybe why they are doing it.
Though my interest is piqued for the personal licence anyway. The fact that they arn't ignoring us is something at least, even though perhaps their thinking may be wrong. We shall see.
Colour me confused, but wouldn't it be more "anti-science" NOT to put the GM labels on food to educate people about the food they eat?
Maybe they are just saying they think the majority of plebs in the USA are anti-science to begin with.
More likely Apple would empoly the Red Bull to herd all the existing unicorns carring iPhones into the ocean for over sea delivery to the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Unicorn
True I agree that it is a food distrabution issue, however perhaps we could stop being such a huge impact on the enviroment if we didn't require so much food at least.
In addition, while we might not have a food supply problem right now, fast forward 20, 50, 100 years and what will our popoulation be? Anyone looking into some bright ideas of how to feed that many people?
I believe John Scalzi already had this idea in his book Old Man's War wereby soldier bodies were built to include a bit of photosynthesis, making the bodies a lovely light green colour.
There may have been other science fiction that describes this, but that is one that came to mind recently.
They were shocked that the NATIONAL test included evolution, and want to change that.
So yes your premis is correct, only it doesn't apply to the backwards kentuckians.
The majory of the nation wants evolution, thus it is in NATIONAL tests. Don't want that? Then don't use them, use whatver your witchdoctor shamans come up with on some tree bark and use that to your hearts content provided that the rest of your little nutjob commune is ok with that.
Which is eactly what they did, asking for a Kentuckian test be made specifically. To which the respose seemed to be, no thats too expensive.
So yeah, backwards people getting left behind, story at 11.
The best is we call the one dollar coin a Loonie, because it has a picture of a "Loon" (which is a bird).
So what do we call the two dollar coin that came after that has a fracking POLAR BEAR on it? A Twonie... or Toonie, I don't even know how one would spell it.