Wow um...that sucks. I picked up a 10 or 12 pack at Sam's Club about a year ago when they were on sale (just a couple cents more than a similar quantity of normal bulbs) and haven't had any troubles. Instantly on, same light color as normal bulbs (I believe it was marked white, but was actually the typical yellow/orange tint), and only a slight reduction in light output (perhaps ~50w instead of the advertised 60). Light output is at about 80% instantly, with 5-10 seconds to get to full brightness. After a couple weeks I picked up a second pack, I was so pleased with them. The power reduction wasn't noticeable on the electrical bill, but I tested em and they're right around the advertised actual wattage (16-17w). Oh and they're the spiral design, not round.
If yours are really that bad, try a few different brands and light colors to find something that works for you. Not all of em are bad.
Since I never made that statement you quoted, I shall ignore your comment.:) Next time try to make proper quotes *ahem* plagiarism is not cool, especially when you're changing the meaning. Now if you are just randomly asking me that question and the quotes are for emphasis rather than a misquotation, then I say of course not, I don't like to deal in absolutes. It is almost certainly known by a person in every country of the world, yes. CSU and UC are two of the largest universities in the world, so academics do know of them. As for the googling, yea that's nice. And calstate is the second. My own page is crap, but ranks higher than similar pages in its genre because of good google marketing. If google ranking meant anything, GWB could sue google for libel.:P
CSU = calstate just about everywhere in the world (and U.S.) except for Colorado (with the exception of a few international unis with the same abbreviation). 414,000 students vs 25,000. Your considerably smaller uni gets drowned out by the superior numbers and international renown of calstate. Just like the abbreviation, "UC." For example, UCB = Berkeley to most of the world, not Boulder. It sucks for the smaller universities and colleges, but there aren't enough letters to go around.
Most of the online materials I draw on are publicly available and reproducible journal articles, but limited to non-profit reproduction and for academic purposes (the going standard, from what I've encountered in the informatics and compsci fields). My uni's copy center runs at a slight loss after staffing (the staff are paid through fa work programs, to justify the loss), so there's no profit to be had. As for the vending machines, it really depends on how they're run. If they're purchasable by organizations for nonprofit use (colleges, libraries, etc) then the production cost would be the only cost to the end user. However, if it's a true vending machine there would be severe limitations on what could legally be printed. The article mentioned Google's ethically (and perhaps legally) questionable project as a source of printables, and if these were being sold for a profit I don't see On Demand Books making it through the storm of lawsuits. The article mentioned debuts at bookstores, which implies the latter method.:( It's a shame companies are so often too greedy for their own good.
Last quarter I had an open notes (but closed laptop) exam that covered around 500 pages of online material. After binding that was almost 30 bucks, but damn 5 bucks if I ordered through this thing, and printed in minutes? Even if you doubled the pages to make the font legible that would be a steal.
So they know our credit card info, billing addresses, real names, etc from Google Checkout, they read our emails (Gmail), they know what we've been searching for (Google Search), they have access to our images (Picasa), access to our videos (Google Video), access to our IM habits (Google Talk), they track our movements (Google Earth), and now they want to monitor our telephone conversations? Next we'll be hearing that Cheney's been having secret meetings with Schmidt. . . .:P
All kidding aside, it's going to be interesting to see what Google eventually does with all this stored information.
I'm in fact a single child; that is but one of your (incorrect) assumptions.
calling them 'Sex Workers' would also mean us hard-working folks would be lumped together with prostitutes and pimps
Hardly. The point is that you still have your own title (garbage collector, secretary, programmer, etc). Prostitutes are disappearing, and "sex workers" are popping up in their place. The same is happening across the board for all erotic professions, even those that do not involve sexual intercourse, or oral sex, or any other act involving ejaculation. Your christian pov (you may not be, but your pov is shared) is quite tiresome, I deal with it every day. Lumping all "perverted" acts together is the first step in eradicating them entirely. Once distinction is lost, it is easy to refer to all of "those whoreish professions" in the singular and mark them as Wrong and Immoral. I see it on a daily basis here in the States with the local strip clubs and massage parlors, which are under attack by the local churches.
Funny, I must've missed the "put to death" reference in TFA. In Iran people are permitted to express opposing POVs to those held by their government, so long as they don't cross certain lines that the government associates with radicalism. Kinda like in America, you don't want to get too radical in your opposition to the treatment of animals and the environment (PETA, Green Peace, ELFs, etc), nor do you want to call your friend Jack on an airplane, nor do you want to debate the validity of security arrangements in U.S. airports while standing near some security officers in a security check line (unless you enjoy being strip searched by the same sex and having your cavities searched, which some fetishists may). And the list goes on. Just because they have different restrictions doesn't mean the U.S. is any better than Iran. Same bullshit, in the name of national security (for both nations). What one calls a freedom fighter, the other calls a terrorist/radical (and vice versa).
My problem is when "sex worker" replaces prostitute/hooker AND replaces stripper/exotic dancer. Then the distinction between the two is lost. In Germany and other parts of the world where prostitution is legalized, sex worker has virtually replaced "prostitute" and "stripper" and "erotic masseuse" and other professions related to sexual stimulation and erotica, thereby lumping all of them under the same roof. A relative of mine stripped to pay for college, but would never even consider accepting money for sex. Yet she was a "sex worker", lumped together with the HIV-bearing hookers working West Hollywood, and having unprotected sex. Along with all the less extreme examples of prostitutes.:) Now that terms like prostitute, hooker, stripper, etc are becoming un-PC, this general term encompasses all of them and is replacing them. Labels serve a purpose.
The problem is that what's happening in the sex industry is effectively this: software engineer, network analyst, and database administrator are all becoming simply "IT Staff". So someone who just does network analysis now has the same title as those database administrator whores (derogatory term used to make a point; I have nothing against database admins), and when people refer to IT Staff it refers to all three fields. Not everyone does all three.
As an aside, this *is* happening with the IT staff and is a horrible situation. Employers have certain expectations of the constantly-redefined "IT staff" individual, that the employee may not have been hired for, and have no business doing. For the sex worker who strictly strips, getting propositioned for the selling of one's body (sexually) may be insulting, sexual harassment, or downright illegal (depending on where you live). Distinction and clarity are necessary.
The shadier the lines are, the easier it is to generalize about the entire group as a single entity.
Yea the human model has been in use for some time now. DARPA lent out the prototype to Cheney in the late 90's, for field testing. The remote can't handle linguistics as well as they'd hoped, but otherwise it's worked perfectly.
Lots of younger people have that. A TV could be muted, but I could 'hear' it in a completely different part of the house. It's more like a separate sense than truly hearing it, but yea anyway. It still works for me, but not nearly as powerful; I used to be able to do it from a few houses away (and say exactly where it was), which was kinda creepy. Parents wrote it off as me watching too much television. Now it's just a wall or two that I can go through (although that may in part be due to my mind blocking it out after so many years).
Following the rules to a T will get you killed, or at least increase your chances of accidents. As my old driving instructor (at a licensed driving school) told me years ago when I was learning how to drive, "unofficially, the only time you should signal in Southern California, NY, or Texas is when a cop is near by. Or when you're taking your driving test." I still signal 90% of the time, but the underlying general message stuck with me. You have to judge what is safest for each situation, and that path is not always the law abiding one.
And in response to The fact that you hit the other car suggests that you were following too closely for the speed at which you were driving., bs. It is the same as if I'd been driving by a long line of cars, and one of them pulled out in front of me suddenly. I cannot assume that every one of those cars in the line might do that (I would have to travel at a crawl in a 25-65mph zone, depending on the road, and that is itself illegal), so I have to trust that other drivers have enough intelligence to look before merging. That is one of many holes in the 2-3 second rule that is now being "enforced" by these Arizona cops.
I was driving behind a brand new 700 series (~3 car lengths with both of us at 50mph; compare to the local (los angeles) practice of 80mph bumper to bumper) and she signals to make a right turn. Light turns yellow and she slams on her brakes. I make to pass on her left, and she starts moving back into center of lane (with signal still blinking right...). I slam on my brakes and check my options. SUV to the left, curb to the right, no room on either side of her within the lane. Well thanks to bmw crumple zones and japanese superiority/reliability my toyota ended up with $8 in damage (needed touchup paint on bumper and the adjustment pin replaced for right headlight, but not one dent), and the bmw required $5,000 in repairs. Tore off her fender trying to squeeze to the left of her without hitting suv, all the while pumping brakes. To quote her statement to the accident investigation po, "the light turned orange [sic], and orange means stop." *grumbles about FOBs* The po hand delivered the report to Records to make sure I didn't get a ticket on that one.
So anyway, yea. It also depends on what kind of car you're driving (and what's being driven in front of and behind you). Those bmws have killer brakes. And in fender benders (or *cough* shredders) those nifty crumple zones that many modern cars have can be counter productive.
Oh, and try to avoid ever driving behind any vehicles that are in the $100k+ category.
As a UC student, I personally would've slinked out of there. Even filming the incident is dangerous if the UC PD sees you doing it. At the very least they'd confiscate your phone, which is a real pita. Activism is fun and all, but as a student I can't afford to lose any of my hardware or $$$ (in bail money and legal fees).
That said, the police were way over the line and should be disciplined for their inappropriate use of a taser. The guy was an idiot and obviously putting on the dramatics, but the police played right in to it. Their stupidity deserves punishment.
Actually yes, it is ineffective (potentially). Ever heard of the split brain procedure for severe epileptics? And of course, there's that chick with the split heart. The body is extraordinarily resilient. You're best off using the beam to chop off the opponent's head. Then soak the head in sodium hydroxide, to avoid the possibility of freezing for later revival.
Student loans. One of the reasons why public universities and colleges have been going up in tuition is because of all the financial assistance they give out. Make the most of it. I didn't qualify for any decent grant money going through uni, but I had plenty of low/no interest loans provided by the fao at my school. Oh and living at home sucks but it's definitely the way to go if you can. Most residential areas have a 2 year within driving distance, and that saves you a bundle. I paid ~7500/yr for uc system tuition, but only ~650 in tuition for the entire year I spent at a cc (full schedule). Books are extra and not cheap (even if you buy everything used), and mustn't forget gas money, and car insurance (health insurance is usually provided if you're going to a 4 year), and utilities, and food (and rent, if living on your own). Expensive, but quite doable. Even without a job and living on your own. There's no excuse for a lack of a degree in this day and age. Money certainly is not an issue; hell, the poorer you are the better off you are at college. I know a guy who got a free ride (tuition, housing, food, books, everything) just because of his ethnic background (3rd gen nigerian-american) and old neighborhood (watts la). Guy had a freaking 3.0 hs gpa going in to engineering at well known engineering school, where normally anything less than a 4 is automatically rejected admittance.
And lets not forget the Peanut Butter Jelly Time joke that Family Guy used, without permission from the creator. Of course, the creator used materials from other sources (w/o their consent) to create the original PBJT short. So if a YouTuber put that up, would it be 1st, 2nd, and 3rd hand copyright infringement? I bet the **aa lawyers are salivating over that one . . . .
Um...HELLO? A relative of mine works at the local city hall (which adjoins the police department) and she's had an rfid card for the entire time she's worked there (over 15 years). The RFID battle is over for state/govt employees, it happened a LONG time ago.
In California a huge chunk of the population (myself included) has FasTrak. It allows automated toll processing for FasTrak lanes on freeways (carpool for the socially challenged) and for access to dedicated toll roads.
As much as I hate Bush, this is technology that has been in *use* for longer than he's been in office. Worry when they're mandatory for Average Joe, but until then this is old news.
Take Two should just send a copy of some of the game tester recordings. I participated in a game test/marketing study once, and they record the entire thing (and even have average joe responses/feedback to the more questionable content). Should be able to come up with 100 hours of gameplay quite easily, and that way the judge can just put it on FF looking for the naughty parts -- if it's a he, I'm sure he has plenty of experience.
Now if the judge refuses that, you know he's just trying to screw with the product. The testers' responses and recordings provide public opinions of 20-30 semi-random people on appropriateness of the product, whereas a copy of the game restrains to a single pov.
You sir are a bigot. Blacks make up the largest ethnic group of criminals, so lets just cut to the chase and fry em all! Oh wait...that's racism.
Polls are useless (see: 2000 and 2004 elections), as they only survey a small portion of the whole. If a survey is conducted at an anti-capitalism rally for example, I would be shocked to see more than a fraction of a percent in favor of capitalism.
Continuing the you sir are a bigot (and more) line of thought:
Have you stopped to consider the fact that there are MULTIPLE BRANCHES OF ISLAM? All of the 9/11 hijackers were wahabists and (mostly) saudi arabian. They make up a small portion of sunni islam, which itself is only one of the three main branches. If we're going to start pulling this shit with Islam, you'll have to toss in the IRA...after all, their terrorist cell structure and attack methods are virtually identical to those used by al qaeda (except the IRA was *not* created and funded by the united states, unlike al qaeda). If we stop the madness at this point, all christians and muslims are banned from flying. We of the Atheist/Buddhist/Jewish/Hindu/etc remainder thank you for the extreme reduction in airtraffic! But wait! There are terrorist cells among the remainder as well!!!
Lets just cut to the chase and ban airtravel altogether. And to reduce the risk of conflict between ethnicities and religious groups, each religious group of each ethnic group of each political group of each hair color (natural) can have its very own biodome to live in isolation from the world around it, oblivious to everyone else. w00t! I've managed to attain a viable plan for world peace! [note: sarcasm]
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If yours are really that bad, try a few different brands and light colors to find something that works for you. Not all of em are bad.
Since I never made that statement you quoted, I shall ignore your comment. :) Next time try to make proper quotes *ahem* plagiarism is not cool, especially when you're changing the meaning. Now if you are just randomly asking me that question and the quotes are for emphasis rather than a misquotation, then I say of course not, I don't like to deal in absolutes. It is almost certainly known by a person in every country of the world, yes. CSU and UC are two of the largest universities in the world, so academics do know of them. As for the googling, yea that's nice. And calstate is the second. My own page is crap, but ranks higher than similar pages in its genre because of good google marketing. If google ranking meant anything, GWB could sue google for libel. :P
CSU = calstate just about everywhere in the world (and U.S.) except for Colorado (with the exception of a few international unis with the same abbreviation). 414,000 students vs 25,000. Your considerably smaller uni gets drowned out by the superior numbers and international renown of calstate. Just like the abbreviation, "UC." For example, UCB = Berkeley to most of the world, not Boulder. It sucks for the smaller universities and colleges, but there aren't enough letters to go around.
Most of the online materials I draw on are publicly available and reproducible journal articles, but limited to non-profit reproduction and for academic purposes (the going standard, from what I've encountered in the informatics and compsci fields). My uni's copy center runs at a slight loss after staffing (the staff are paid through fa work programs, to justify the loss), so there's no profit to be had. As for the vending machines, it really depends on how they're run. If they're purchasable by organizations for nonprofit use (colleges, libraries, etc) then the production cost would be the only cost to the end user. However, if it's a true vending machine there would be severe limitations on what could legally be printed. The article mentioned Google's ethically (and perhaps legally) questionable project as a source of printables, and if these were being sold for a profit I don't see On Demand Books making it through the storm of lawsuits. The article mentioned debuts at bookstores, which implies the latter method. :( It's a shame companies are so often too greedy for their own good.
the production cost is about a penny per page
Last quarter I had an open notes (but closed laptop) exam that covered around 500 pages of online material. After binding that was almost 30 bucks, but damn 5 bucks if I ordered through this thing, and printed in minutes? Even if you doubled the pages to make the font legible that would be a steal.
All kidding aside, it's going to be interesting to see what Google eventually does with all this stored information.
The article itself is a crime.
I'm in fact a single child; that is but one of your (incorrect) assumptions.
calling them 'Sex Workers' would also mean us hard-working folks would be lumped together with prostitutes and pimps
Hardly. The point is that you still have your own title (garbage collector, secretary, programmer, etc). Prostitutes are disappearing, and "sex workers" are popping up in their place. The same is happening across the board for all erotic professions, even those that do not involve sexual intercourse, or oral sex, or any other act involving ejaculation. Your christian pov (you may not be, but your pov is shared) is quite tiresome, I deal with it every day. Lumping all "perverted" acts together is the first step in eradicating them entirely. Once distinction is lost, it is easy to refer to all of "those whoreish professions" in the singular and mark them as Wrong and Immoral. I see it on a daily basis here in the States with the local strip clubs and massage parlors, which are under attack by the local churches.
Funny, I must've missed the "put to death" reference in TFA. In Iran people are permitted to express opposing POVs to those held by their government, so long as they don't cross certain lines that the government associates with radicalism. Kinda like in America, you don't want to get too radical in your opposition to the treatment of animals and the environment (PETA, Green Peace, ELFs, etc), nor do you want to call your friend Jack on an airplane, nor do you want to debate the validity of security arrangements in U.S. airports while standing near some security officers in a security check line (unless you enjoy being strip searched by the same sex and having your cavities searched, which some fetishists may). And the list goes on. Just because they have different restrictions doesn't mean the U.S. is any better than Iran. Same bullshit, in the name of national security (for both nations). What one calls a freedom fighter, the other calls a terrorist/radical (and vice versa).
My problem is when "sex worker" replaces prostitute/hooker AND replaces stripper/exotic dancer. Then the distinction between the two is lost. In Germany and other parts of the world where prostitution is legalized, sex worker has virtually replaced "prostitute" and "stripper" and "erotic masseuse" and other professions related to sexual stimulation and erotica, thereby lumping all of them under the same roof. A relative of mine stripped to pay for college, but would never even consider accepting money for sex. Yet she was a "sex worker", lumped together with the HIV-bearing hookers working West Hollywood, and having unprotected sex. Along with all the less extreme examples of prostitutes. :) Now that terms like prostitute, hooker, stripper, etc are becoming un-PC, this general term encompasses all of them and is replacing them. Labels serve a purpose.
As an aside, this *is* happening with the IT staff and is a horrible situation. Employers have certain expectations of the constantly-redefined "IT staff" individual, that the employee may not have been hired for, and have no business doing. For the sex worker who strictly strips, getting propositioned for the selling of one's body (sexually) may be insulting, sexual harassment, or downright illegal (depending on where you live). Distinction and clarity are necessary.
The shadier the lines are, the easier it is to generalize about the entire group as a single entity.
Although I must admit, doubleplussex worker has a nice ring to it.
Yea the human model has been in use for some time now. DARPA lent out the prototype to Cheney in the late 90's, for field testing. The remote can't handle linguistics as well as they'd hoped, but otherwise it's worked perfectly.
Lots of younger people have that. A TV could be muted, but I could 'hear' it in a completely different part of the house. It's more like a separate sense than truly hearing it, but yea anyway. It still works for me, but not nearly as powerful; I used to be able to do it from a few houses away (and say exactly where it was), which was kinda creepy. Parents wrote it off as me watching too much television. Now it's just a wall or two that I can go through (although that may in part be due to my mind blocking it out after so many years).
And in response to The fact that you hit the other car suggests that you were following too closely for the speed at which you were driving., bs. It is the same as if I'd been driving by a long line of cars, and one of them pulled out in front of me suddenly. I cannot assume that every one of those cars in the line might do that (I would have to travel at a crawl in a 25-65mph zone, depending on the road, and that is itself illegal), so I have to trust that other drivers have enough intelligence to look before merging. That is one of many holes in the 2-3 second rule that is now being "enforced" by these Arizona cops.
So anyway, yea. It also depends on what kind of car you're driving (and what's being driven in front of and behind you). Those bmws have killer brakes. And in fender benders (or *cough* shredders) those nifty crumple zones that many modern cars have can be counter productive.
Oh, and try to avoid ever driving behind any vehicles that are in the $100k+ category.
That said, the police were way over the line and should be disciplined for their inappropriate use of a taser. The guy was an idiot and obviously putting on the dramatics, but the police played right in to it. Their stupidity deserves punishment.
Or you could just use a gun. . . .
Student loans. One of the reasons why public universities and colleges have been going up in tuition is because of all the financial assistance they give out. Make the most of it. I didn't qualify for any decent grant money going through uni, but I had plenty of low/no interest loans provided by the fao at my school. Oh and living at home sucks but it's definitely the way to go if you can. Most residential areas have a 2 year within driving distance, and that saves you a bundle. I paid ~7500/yr for uc system tuition, but only ~650 in tuition for the entire year I spent at a cc (full schedule). Books are extra and not cheap (even if you buy everything used), and mustn't forget gas money, and car insurance (health insurance is usually provided if you're going to a 4 year), and utilities, and food (and rent, if living on your own). Expensive, but quite doable. Even without a job and living on your own. There's no excuse for a lack of a degree in this day and age. Money certainly is not an issue; hell, the poorer you are the better off you are at college. I know a guy who got a free ride (tuition, housing, food, books, everything) just because of his ethnic background (3rd gen nigerian-american) and old neighborhood (watts la). Guy had a freaking 3.0 hs gpa going in to engineering at well known engineering school, where normally anything less than a 4 is automatically rejected admittance.
That happened in hungary, and they tossed out everyone who made it to the final round of candidates.
You have to have a cc on file.
And lets not forget the Peanut Butter Jelly Time joke that Family Guy used, without permission from the creator. Of course, the creator used materials from other sources (w/o their consent) to create the original PBJT short. So if a YouTuber put that up, would it be 1st, 2nd, and 3rd hand copyright infringement? I bet the **aa lawyers are salivating over that one . . . .
In California a huge chunk of the population (myself included) has FasTrak. It allows automated toll processing for FasTrak lanes on freeways (carpool for the socially challenged) and for access to dedicated toll roads.
As much as I hate Bush, this is technology that has been in *use* for longer than he's been in office. Worry when they're mandatory for Average Joe, but until then this is old news.
Now if the judge refuses that, you know he's just trying to screw with the product. The testers' responses and recordings provide public opinions of 20-30 semi-random people on appropriateness of the product, whereas a copy of the game restrains to a single pov.
Polls are useless (see: 2000 and 2004 elections), as they only survey a small portion of the whole. If a survey is conducted at an anti-capitalism rally for example, I would be shocked to see more than a fraction of a percent in favor of capitalism.
Continuing the you sir are a bigot (and more) line of thought:
Have you stopped to consider the fact that there are MULTIPLE BRANCHES OF ISLAM? All of the 9/11 hijackers were wahabists and (mostly) saudi arabian. They make up a small portion of sunni islam, which itself is only one of the three main branches. If we're going to start pulling this shit with Islam, you'll have to toss in the IRA...after all, their terrorist cell structure and attack methods are virtually identical to those used by al qaeda (except the IRA was *not* created and funded by the united states, unlike al qaeda). If we stop the madness at this point, all christians and muslims are banned from flying. We of the Atheist/Buddhist/Jewish/Hindu/etc remainder thank you for the extreme reduction in airtraffic! But wait! There are terrorist cells among the remainder as well!!!
Lets just cut to the chase and ban airtravel altogether. And to reduce the risk of conflict between ethnicities and religious groups, each religious group of each ethnic group of each political group of each hair color (natural) can have its very own biodome to live in isolation from the world around it, oblivious to everyone else. w00t! I've managed to attain a viable plan for world peace! [note: sarcasm]