Just like people were once told that the sun circled the earth. For both of wich I got no absolute proof.
You can, in fact, prove that the earth revolves around the sun (of course it's all relative to your POV, but you can prove what most people mean when they say the earth revolves around the sun). It's just a matter of some astronomical observations with your naked eye and a little ptolemaic math.
No, because I'm not enough of an idiot to wear headphones while riding
eh, take a risk. You'll still hear a car horn or a bus coming, keep the volume down. No worse than talking on cell phone/turning the stereo all the way up while simultaneously eating a burger and talking to your friend in the backseat while driving your beamer 40mph down the same road next to the poor cyclist doing nothing but listening to a little dave matthews.
But what teenager has the $300 for a game console plus $50 per game without getting the money from his parents
Among all teenagers, 34 percent were employed sometime during the year(1998), with average annual earnings of $2,270.source
With no mortgage, rent, food or bills to pay that can go a long way. But any kid who holds down a job and makes that much money ought to be able handle a video game.
I generally agree that these issues should be left up to the free market. But here's where the problem is: The guy who can afford to water his lawn twice a day (or drive aggressively in his hummer down the highway) removes let's say an amount that could have been used by five more conservative users. Now since the demand for the product has gone up the price will naturally go up which means that even if the guy can afford to waste water/energy he probably should be mindful of the fact that he's driving the price up even for the people who are careful about the impact they make.
Imagine if Bill and Steve decided to buy up the world's oil/water and throw a big bon fire/dilute all their toxins this weekend. Would we still argue for the free market then?
Granted, a guy driving around a hummer or a guy watering his lawn twice a day only drives the price up a negligble amount. But how about 100,000 Americans driving around or living using five times as much as they otherwise would if they just took ten minutes to adjust their habits?
I didnt notice any of my usual web reading as being filtered (google new, wikipeda etc all worked).
Next time you're there try a google search for Tiananmen Square Massacre, then you'll see the effects of the great firewall. I did it about a year ago and got nill.
How about everyone with a drivers license gets a magnetic strip card that's swiped at the pump and is allowed 50 gallons of gasoline a month tax free. As soon as you get over 50 gallons you pay a 100% tax on the gas that pays for the cards/management/enforcement and public transport.
with virtually all the borders on this planet drawn for good
uh huh. Much like the immutable Roman, Greek and British empires, the USSR, Korea. The United States was split in half a mere 150 years ago.
Political borders and governments aren't as permament as their citizens would like to believe they are. And as far as 'power and security resting in space'. Right, I'm sure it goes just like this:
World Leader: Now to secure our position of world domination there's only one step left!
World Leader Advisor: Right! Secure all the fossil fuels!
World Leader: No! You nit!
World Leader Advisor: Right! Establish ports and military bases in strategic chokepoints around the world!
World Leader: No! You nit! We'll build a moon base! Then they'll all bow down to us! Mwwwahahahaha
with virtually all the borders on this planet drawn for good
uh huh. Much like the immutable Roman, Greek and British empires, the USSR, Korea. The United States was split in half a mere 150 years ago.
Political borders and governments aren't as permament as their citizens would like to believe they are. And as far as 'power and security resting in space'. Right, I'm sure it goes just like this:
World Leader: Now to secure our position of world domination there's only one step left!
World Leader Advisor: Right! Secure all the fossil fuels!
World Leader: No! You nit!
World Leader Advisor: Right! Establish ports and military bases in strategic chokepoints around the world!
World Leader: No! You nit! We'll build a moon base! Then they'll all bow down to us! Mwwwahahahaha
My 65mpg 250cc bike runs off E85, only 15% fossil fuel. Meaning my direct consumption of gas per year with my 4 mile roundtrip daily commute comes to approximately: 2.4 gallons per year.
Of course, occasionally I'll take a trip up to Santa Fe on a nice day so it's probably more like an egregious 12 gallons per year...
I got my parents to switch to Vonage over their cable modem. Some high winds after the hurricanes came along this past summer knocked several trees down onto the phone lines, cutting out their POTS line that they keep because they want to keep the #.
Well guess what, it took two days to fix the wires from all the felled trees while that buried cable and vonage service kept chugging away.
If you were really worried about realiability like all the slashdot nuts seem to be (what did people do in 1920 when there was a fire and no phone? Run up and down the streets screaming, that's right, and it'd work today too) you'd have both a POTS, Cell, Sat. Cell, VoIP, Ham Radio, Smoke Signals and reduntant internet. Safety at any price afterall!
I'm surfing/chatting/ftp-ing all on my 115kb/s t-mobile cellular connection. A short usb cable lets me dial-up through my cell phone. All for $19.99 month/unlimited. I've been connected for 8 hours straight without being disconnected.
I live off-grid and this works great. Plus, my 50 minute train commute each way to/from work is spent with productive/. reading. If I need to download an ISO I just stop by the university library on my way home and use the Free WAN.
Surfing/chatting/uploading changes to my site i.e. 98% of the stuff I do on the net I can do over the cell connection. The only thing I miss is streaming video from cnn. But npr's audio streams are just fine.
There's a one-way street I take home everyday. 30mph speed limit and with lights every 1/5th mile or so. It is CLEARLY posted between EACH light that the lights are set to the speed limit.
EVERY morning it works like this:
+ I sit on my motorcycle in the righthand lane going 30
+ Morons in the two left lanes go 40mph and reach the next light 4 seconds before me. Light turns green and while they're busy accelerating from 0-40 I pass right by on the right going 30mph.
+ Rinse, wash, repeat and watch them do it for 6 miles.
Slashdot Mirror
Already ehre.
$20/month with a phone plan, $30/month stand alone. Unlimited.
I can back this up. I lived in Hunan last summer. Many an afternoon I read slashdot.
I'm a jew, but thanks...
here here! I think it's bloated and overhyped.
Just like people were once told that the sun circled the earth. For both of wich I got no absolute proof.
You can, in fact, prove that the earth revolves around the sun (of course it's all relative to your POV, but you can prove what most people mean when they say the earth revolves around the sun). It's just a matter of some astronomical observations with your naked eye and a little ptolemaic math.
The second largest category of motor vehicle deaths, after occupants, is pedestrians...
Exactly who might the third category of motor vehicle deaths apply to? People hanging on to the spoiler? People sitting?
If you're not an occupant in a car and you're involved in a car accident then aren't you a pedestrian by default?
No, because I'm not enough of an idiot to wear headphones while riding
eh, take a risk. You'll still hear a car horn or a bus coming, keep the volume down. No worse than talking on cell phone/turning the stereo all the way up while simultaneously eating a burger and talking to your friend in the backseat while driving your beamer 40mph down the same road next to the poor cyclist doing nothing but listening to a little dave matthews.
But what teenager has the $300 for a game console plus $50 per game without getting the money from his parents
Among all teenagers, 34 percent were employed sometime during the year(1998), with average annual earnings of $2,270. source
With no mortgage, rent, food or bills to pay that can go a long way. But any kid who holds down a job and makes that much money ought to be able handle a video game.
meh, they're ok
I generally agree that these issues should be left up to the free market. But here's where the problem is: The guy who can afford to water his lawn twice a day (or drive aggressively in his hummer down the highway) removes let's say an amount that could have been used by five more conservative users. Now since the demand for the product has gone up the price will naturally go up which means that even if the guy can afford to waste water/energy he probably should be mindful of the fact that he's driving the price up even for the people who are careful about the impact they make.
Imagine if Bill and Steve decided to buy up the world's oil/water and throw a big bon fire/dilute all their toxins this weekend. Would we still argue for the free market then?
Granted, a guy driving around a hummer or a guy watering his lawn twice a day only drives the price up a negligble amount. But how about 100,000 Americans driving around or living using five times as much as they otherwise would if they just took ten minutes to adjust their habits?
I didnt notice any of my usual web reading as being filtered (google new, wikipeda etc all worked).
Next time you're there try a google search for Tiananmen Square Massacre, then you'll see the effects of the great firewall. I did it about a year ago and got nill.
Wouldn't this fall under monopolistic/anti-competition laws? Giving something away below cost in order to crush competition?
How about everyone with a drivers license gets a magnetic strip card that's swiped at the pump and is allowed 50 gallons of gasoline a month tax free. As soon as you get over 50 gallons you pay a 100% tax on the gas that pays for the cards/management/enforcement and public transport.
with virtually all the borders on this planet drawn for good
uh huh. Much like the immutable Roman, Greek and British empires, the USSR, Korea. The United States was split in half a mere 150 years ago.
Political borders and governments aren't as permament as their citizens would like to believe they are. And as far as 'power and security resting in space'. Right, I'm sure it goes just like this:
World Leader: Now to secure our position of world domination there's only one step left!
World Leader Advisor: Right! Secure all the fossil fuels!
World Leader: No! You nit!
World Leader Advisor: Right! Establish ports and military bases in strategic chokepoints around the world!
World Leader: No! You nit! We'll build a moon base! Then they'll all bow down to us! Mwwwahahahaha
with virtually all the borders on this planet drawn for good
uh huh. Much like the immutable Roman, Greek and British empires, the USSR, Korea. The United States was split in half a mere 150 years ago.
Political borders and governments aren't as permament as their citizens would like to believe they are. And as far as 'power and security resting in space'. Right, I'm sure it goes just like this:
World Leader: Now to secure our position of world domination there's only one step left!
World Leader Advisor: Right! Secure all the fossil fuels!
World Leader: No! You nit!
World Leader Advisor: Right! Establish ports and military bases in strategic chokepoints around the world!
World Leader: No! You nit! We'll build a moon base! Then they'll all bow down to us! Mwwwahahahaha
... well sort of.
My 65mpg 250cc bike runs off E85, only 15% fossil fuel. Meaning my direct consumption of gas per year with my 4 mile roundtrip daily commute comes to approximately: 2.4 gallons per year.
Of course, occasionally I'll take a trip up to Santa Fe on a nice day so it's probably more like an egregious 12 gallons per year...
I got my parents to switch to Vonage over their cable modem. Some high winds after the hurricanes came along this past summer knocked several trees down onto the phone lines, cutting out their POTS line that they keep because they want to keep the #.
Well guess what, it took two days to fix the wires from all the felled trees while that buried cable and vonage service kept chugging away.
If you were really worried about realiability like all the slashdot nuts seem to be (what did people do in 1920 when there was a fire and no phone? Run up and down the streets screaming, that's right, and it'd work today too) you'd have both a POTS, Cell, Sat. Cell, VoIP, Ham Radio, Smoke Signals and reduntant internet. Safety at any price afterall!
Mainland China is only one timezone.
we should find out what percentage of violent video game players DO NOT commit violent crimes... probably in the high 90 percentage
We should find out how many violent people have a toothbrush, probably right near 100% I imagine!!!! Let's go get 'em!
HA! 112kb/s cellular
Here here!
/. reading. If I need to download an ISO I just stop by the university library on my way home and use the Free WAN.
I'm surfing/chatting/ftp-ing all on my 115kb/s t-mobile cellular connection. A short usb cable lets me dial-up through my cell phone. All for $19.99 month/unlimited. I've been connected for 8 hours straight without being disconnected.
I live off-grid and this works great. Plus, my 50 minute train commute each way to/from work is spent with productive
Surfing/chatting/uploading changes to my site i.e. 98% of the stuff I do on the net I can do over the cell connection. The only thing I miss is streaming video from cnn. But npr's audio streams are just fine.
I have mod points but I wanted to comment.
the area right off of the coach is very susceptible to huge earthquakes
Thank god I volunteer asst. coach on Saturday's for the local H.S. soccer team.
Guys...unless you are gay, leave the ear rings at home
Fuck You
There's a one-way street I take home everyday. 30mph speed limit and with lights every 1/5th mile or so. It is CLEARLY posted between EACH light that the lights are set to the speed limit.
EVERY morning it works like this:
+ I sit on my motorcycle in the righthand lane going 30
+ Morons in the two left lanes go 40mph and reach the next light 4 seconds before me. Light turns green and while they're busy accelerating from 0-40 I pass right by on the right going 30mph.
+ Rinse, wash, repeat and watch them do it for 6 miles.