Does your phone charger have several feet of 4 inch thick copper cabling? Yeah, with the price of scrap copper these days, leave 20 pounds of copper hanging out there unattended in the city and watch how fast it disappears.
The only question is, who is going to take the hit - Joe Carowner who has to replace a dozen of these expensive cables every year due to theft loss, or Exxon Battery Charging who has to replace hundreds?
When you say "Dangerous", does this mean that the girls are actually ninja assassins from South Secaucus NJ? Or is the statutory rape conviction hanging over your head if you boink one of them the "dangerous" part? Or are they actually from a high school with 50-ton pieces of masonry falling off the top floors due to lack of preventative maintenance?
If you never check voicemail, do you at least record something stating that you never check voicemail? While I'd personally be happy as a clam if voicemail were to disappear tomorrow, 99.9 percent of those with whom I interface have and use it.
I wonder if Douglas Jackson, Barry Downey and Reid Jackson will be able to buy a golden salve off the prison commissary that will help soothe their inflamed rectums after Bubba PENalizes them during their first night in the can? Kinda brings a new meaning to the phrase "Substantial penalty for early withdrawal"
I've yet to figure out why everybody doesn't have a whole-house flash water heater - the top-of-the-line model I have was about 4 bills on EBay. They heat water only when you need it, not all the time like standard water heaters. And I've got mine set where only half the burners operate when it comes on because the water I'd get if they were turned on fully would be so hot that it would be unusable.
My average gas bill 2 years ago before I installed my Bosch was almost $100 a month. Since I installed the thing, my bills are averaging about 1/5th of that - it finished paying for itself in January of this year. And I could take that bill down even farther (almost to zero) by installing a solar water heater.
What, you don't like sticky floors, being locked in with hypercaffeinated brats who yap on their cell phones all the way through the picture, and the chance of acquiring whatever airborne maladies the sickest of your fellow theatergoers might be suffering from? Man up - what kind of consumer are you? (j/k)
The idea of using a central location to display entertainment content won't die out entirely until one or more of the following happens:
1. The viewing experience can be convincingly replicated at home (minus the negatives I outlined above of course). As home monitors get larger and more technologically advanced, this day is coming.
2. The producers of content (i.e. the studios) stop artificially propping up the horse-and-buggy system of central theaters and make their content directly available to the consumer on a zero-day basis. Again, this is already happening on a small scale. And consumers are starting to force the issue by utilizing P2P to download 1-day movies (invariably with crappy video and sound). So the lesson learned here is make your product available directly to the consumer on zero day the way you want to present it, and you get the twofer of having a new revenue stream as well as destroying the pirate's raison d'etre.
3. The idea of premiering movies at a central location will probably never die out completely because of the promotional value involved in staging premieres. Superfans in costume make great eye candy for the 10 o'clock news. There has to be some way of transferring the paradigm of the world premiere to everybody's living room. I just wish I had the answer to that.
The shutter thing would work great for the exterior windows, but would be problematic for solar panels mounted on the roof. What I really want is to push a button and have a big storm cover scroll over the panels. And I do carry homeowners insurance already, but I have to open a vein every month as it is just to pay the premium (Lloyds coverage, the only type I can get in this hail-prone area). I'd probably have to start selling bodily organs to add panel coverage.
The panels the author referenced in the story are guaranteed to resist up to 1" hail falling at 52 MPH. But 1" is considered small in this part of the country - we routinely get tennis ball-sized or even larger chunks during storms, and they're falling a hell of a lot faster than 52 MPH. So some sort of robust shielding material as an add-on would be a necessity if I were to install these. Either that or the first thunderstorm we got would destroy a $50,000 investment.
It is awfully hard to debate your point when you don't actually mention what you feel is a logical fallacy.
The line from your post that I rendered in italics would be a good start. But just to make it crystal clear, exactly how do you propose that I prove a negative, that humans aren't increasing the temperature of the planet? When you can instruct me how to do that, I'll prove beyone any reasonable doubt that you aren't a duckbill platypus.
There was a nice discussion about this in Firehose before this made it to the Big Page. A couple of the candidates for the liquid metal that might be used in this thing are environmentally neutral (bismuth, tin, etc.).
I mean, unless you're so superficial and trendy that you just have to have the "cool look" of the iPhone, why on earth would you do something like this?
You know, I think you've hit on something here. Somebody could pretty much print their own money if they could design a cost-effective way to produce cell phones to order on a one-off basis. For example, if I wanted a phone that looked like an old-school Star Trek communicator or with a 1-inch popup screen on it that could play.avi files, I could order and get it. I don't think the price would be much of a barrier either - it would sure beat waiting for Apple or Nokia to design a form factor that truly met one's needs.
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If a child is receiving pressure to have sex too early, is that a sexual harassment pander?
And can I put my tongue across the terminals to make sure its working like I do with my cell phone wall wart?
Does your phone charger have several feet of 4 inch thick copper cabling? Yeah, with the price of scrap copper these days, leave 20 pounds of copper hanging out there unattended in the city and watch how fast it disappears. The only question is, who is going to take the hit - Joe Carowner who has to replace a dozen of these expensive cables every year due to theft loss, or Exxon Battery Charging who has to replace hundreds?
I'll take "Something That Would Stop This Sort of Nonsense" for a thousand, Alex.
When you say "Dangerous", does this mean that the girls are actually ninja assassins from South Secaucus NJ? Or is the statutory rape conviction hanging over your head if you boink one of them the "dangerous" part? Or are they actually from a high school with 50-ton pieces of masonry falling off the top floors due to lack of preventative maintenance?
Very odd link you posted there - chock full of gems like this one:
What Asia LeeShawn Ferguson IV's favorite book or TV show? ...
Duck or The Ultimate Haircut?
If Asia LeeShawn Ferguson IV could have any job, what do you think he/she could have done? ...
Professional Darwin Award winner Emeritus?
If you never check voicemail, do you at least record something stating that you never check voicemail? While I'd personally be happy as a clam if voicemail were to disappear tomorrow, 99.9 percent of those with whom I interface have and use it.
We're not doing anything important with Guam right now. Hell, throw in all the Marianas just to be a mensch.
Now that WAS off-topic. At least you're batting 50/50 now.
Bad moderator, BAD. It wasn't off-topic.
I wonder if Douglas Jackson, Barry Downey and Reid Jackson will be able to buy a golden salve off the prison commissary that will help soothe their inflamed rectums after Bubba PENalizes them during their first night in the can? Kinda brings a new meaning to the phrase "Substantial penalty for early withdrawal"
Who do you call to repair a hydropower backup generator? An electrician or a plumber?
I've yet to figure out why everybody doesn't have a whole-house flash water heater - the top-of-the-line model I have was about 4 bills on EBay. They heat water only when you need it, not all the time like standard water heaters. And I've got mine set where only half the burners operate when it comes on because the water I'd get if they were turned on fully would be so hot that it would be unusable.
My average gas bill 2 years ago before I installed my Bosch was almost $100 a month. Since I installed the thing, my bills are averaging about 1/5th of that - it finished paying for itself in January of this year. And I could take that bill down even farther (almost to zero) by installing a solar water heater.
It couldn't be any worse than this.
I think theaters will just die.
What, you don't like sticky floors, being locked in with hypercaffeinated brats who yap on their cell phones all the way through the picture, and the chance of acquiring whatever airborne maladies the sickest of your fellow theatergoers might be suffering from? Man up - what kind of consumer are you? (j/k)
The idea of using a central location to display entertainment content won't die out entirely until one or more of the following happens:
1. The viewing experience can be convincingly replicated at home (minus the negatives I outlined above of course). As home monitors get larger and more technologically advanced, this day is coming.
2. The producers of content (i.e. the studios) stop artificially propping up the horse-and-buggy system of central theaters and make their content directly available to the consumer on a zero-day basis. Again, this is already happening on a small scale. And consumers are starting to force the issue by utilizing P2P to download 1-day movies (invariably with crappy video and sound). So the lesson learned here is make your product available directly to the consumer on zero day the way you want to present it, and you get the twofer of having a new revenue stream as well as destroying the pirate's raison d'etre.
3. The idea of premiering movies at a central location will probably never die out completely because of the promotional value involved in staging premieres. Superfans in costume make great eye candy for the 10 o'clock news. There has to be some way of transferring the paradigm of the world premiere to everybody's living room. I just wish I had the answer to that.
The shutter thing would work great for the exterior windows, but would be problematic for solar panels mounted on the roof. What I really want is to push a button and have a big storm cover scroll over the panels. And I do carry homeowners insurance already, but I have to open a vein every month as it is just to pay the premium (Lloyds coverage, the only type I can get in this hail-prone area). I'd probably have to start selling bodily organs to add panel coverage.
The panels the author referenced in the story are guaranteed to resist up to 1" hail falling at 52 MPH. But 1" is considered small in this part of the country - we routinely get tennis ball-sized or even larger chunks during storms, and they're falling a hell of a lot faster than 52 MPH. So some sort of robust shielding material as an add-on would be a necessity if I were to install these. Either that or the first thunderstorm we got would destroy a $50,000 investment.
It is awfully hard to debate your point when you don't actually mention what you feel is a logical fallacy.
The line from your post that I rendered in italics would be a good start. But just to make it crystal clear, exactly how do you propose that I prove a negative, that humans aren't increasing the temperature of the planet? When you can instruct me how to do that, I'll prove beyone any reasonable doubt that you aren't a duckbill platypus.
Shouldn't they turn it into beer instead? We've got quite enough roofing tar in the world as it is.
I propose that you cannot prove that we aren't increasing the temperature of the planet
Every time you post a logical fallacy, God kills a kitten.
Please, think of the kittens.
That's the one. It set me to Googling for almost an hour. Thanks for posting.
There was a nice discussion about this in Firehose before this made it to the Big Page. A couple of the candidates for the liquid metal that might be used in this thing are environmentally neutral (bismuth, tin, etc.).
And You can have my mouse when you pry it from my cold, dead, fingers. above (posted at 1949) gets modded 3 Insightful?
Mods here suck big time.
... rip it from my cold dead carpal-tunneled hand.
I mean, unless you're so superficial and trendy that you just have to have the "cool look" of the iPhone, why on earth would you do something like this?
You know, I think you've hit on something here. Somebody could pretty much print their own money if they could design a cost-effective way to produce cell phones to order on a one-off basis. For example, if I wanted a phone that looked like an old-school Star Trek communicator or with a 1-inch popup screen on it that could play .avi files, I could order and get it. I don't think the price would be much of a barrier either - it would sure beat waiting for Apple or Nokia to design a form factor that truly met one's needs.