where is the downside?
Other than forcing everyone to take great pains in their outdoor activity's preparation and costs in order to suit your apparently miraculously-sensitive nose that can pickup scents buried 8" below the dirt? Nah, no downside.
who the hell wants to bike to work and get sweaty in the summer and freeze during the winter?
Yeah, sucks being in shape, having your workout built into your commute and not having to pay for insurance, gas, maintenance, a gym membership, occasional emergency tows or parking.
But it is just as reasonable for a school student who is not a geek to not realize what may be happening.
Well I'd go further and say it would be perfectly reasonable, even for a geek who knows the ease and potential for abuse like this, to not believe a school administrator he sees daily and entrusts with his well-being would ACTUALLY commit such an abuse.
If I saw the light come on and they told me there was a known glitch with our laptop model. I'm not sure I'd take the time to put tape over the camera either. It's not that I don't understand how technically easy it would be to spy on me. It's just that, given the consequences of actually doing it (as the courts are about to nicely demonstrate for us), I simply could not fathom than any school administrator would actually go through with it.
Guess it's time to trade in my rose-colored glasses for one of those fashionable tin-foil hats.
Well then, sir, you should be happy to know that you are too young to be President of the United States, collect social security retirement benefits, use medicare or medicaid, buy a home in a 55+ community, or to be a skateboarder.
being labeled a well-known whistle-blower isn't going to do you much justice when you're out looking for a job.
We need a +1 coward moderation.
There are plenty of arguments about why this guy shouldn't be concerned about using his finger print to clock in and out, but being worried about being labeled as a honest man who fights for his principles isn't one of them.
Changes in government following lawful elections very clearly do not amount to an overthrow of the state.
Well that makes sense to me. But ah wundah if the people of the grate state of sowth cah-oh-lina might find it to be a bit hinkey.
What about a group naming themselves after an event that helped spark a revolution? That sounds a little fishy to me, like maybe some people want to start a new revolution. Those tea partiers best register themselves up right quick, lest they face prosecution.
we've all complained about the coworker who sends out a 15MB movie of their kids playing with the dog to a mailing list, but what option do most average users have?
What power do you -we- have? Boycotting is not an options, they live on hype and money from impulsive buyers.
Just do what I do, don't buy a game until it has been out for 3-6 months and there has already been a large patch or two. Let the impulsive buyers be your sucker beta testers while you enjoy a stable game six months later.
I'm as big a fan of gaming as they come. I typically buy at least a few games each month for pc and consoles. But in the last five years I have purchased MAYBE two games within a week of their release, the rest have a good 3-6 month lag.
That's good to know. So if I'm held hostage by a nut with dynamite strapped to himself I can turn to my fellow hostages and console them with, "Don't worry, statistically it's almost impossible for us to die this way so everything's probably going to be fine."
I could be worried about an elevator car falling 20 stories and killing me in the fall, or being hit by lightning. Either of those are more likely than a repeat of 9/11.
That doesn't mean that you ought to make yourself the tallest object in a wide-open field during a lightning storm.
If there is an imminent threat nearby it makes sense to take some precautions, even if your death by that threat, population wide, is statistically unlikely. Just because you're unlikely to die by lightning doesn't mean you ought to go play golf during the next storm. And if there's a large, unexpected, low-flying, strange plane in NYC flanked by military jets I don't think it's unreasonable to decide that it might be a good time to take your lunch down in a first-floor deli somewhere.
I agree. One need only take a look at the typical use of a personal automobile to see that battery-swapping will be very rarely used. The average American daily work commute is less than 40 miles. How many people are really going to bother signing up for an expensive battery-swapping service where they have to make a special trip to the charging station once or twice a week when they could simply plug their cars in at home each night and forget about it?
Given what hobbyists are already doing I wouldn't be surprised if we see all-electric affordable production cars in the next 10-20 years averaging over 100 miles/charge with some lighter ones getting over 150/charge. With that kind of range I know my personal automotive-transportation needs for all but perhaps 3 trips in the past 5 years would be covered.
For those people who frequently take long road trips, or those who just absolutely cannot live with the idea of not owning a machine capable of taking them more than 150 miles without a break, there's the plug-in hybrid model with an on-board ICE for recharging on the go with fossil or alcohol fuels. Or the oft-mentioned option, cumbersome as it may be, of renting one or renting a plain old ICE car.
Or how about an electric car with the option of towing behind it a small trailer carrying an ICE electric generator for those occasional long-distance trips? You'd probably be able to go over to Enterprise and rent the trailer on those rare occasions when you'd actually need to go more than 150 miles without stopping.
And for those people who drive more than 150 miles at a go with some frequency they can either 1. own their own generator/trailer or 2. just use a plug-in hybrid that already had an integrated generator built-into the car.
Don't those options seem so much simpler and cheaper than trying to manage tens of thousands of shared battery packs and building robotized transfer stations?
And getting kids to enjoy and actively seek out learning is probably the biggest hurdle in our educational system.
I don't know. I find young kids to be naturally curious and eager to learn. It seems the biggest hurdle in our educational system is figuring out how not to destroy that while still productively fostering a complex knowledge base.
Where is the electrical energy supposed to come from? Our power plants still aren't close to being non-polluting let alone carbon neutral. This will be an improvement over current gasoline engines, but it only solves part of the problem.
Are you the guy who at the scene of a near-deadly car accident says, "Oh good, you've stopped the bleeding and saved his life. But he still has brain cancer so what good was all that work?"
Cavalry fight from horseback, and cohesive military cavalry usage requires stirrups. Romans DID use mounted infantry though, and this could also perhaps harass enemy skirmish flankers. Stirrups wasn't invented until approximately the 7th or 8th Century. Thus, cavalry does not mean "mounted soldier".
It's this kind of blatant disregard for historical accuracy that just RUINS these games for me.
The problem begins with the fact that all the choices you have to vote on are bad. I mean really, a choice between 2 candidates
I don't know where you voted. But in Middlesex County in Massachusetts I had around 5 - 7 choices for President plus an option to write in any name I wanted.
People believing that those "other names" and write-in fields are just there as a technicality is the problem. Those options are there for a reason. We don't need a revolution or to take up arms or anything, we just need people to reach over and pull the third lever.
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What ever happened to buying old cars and restoring them or going on bike rides or outdoor activites?
Yeah! Or pushing a hoop down the street with a stick!?
where is the downside?
Other than forcing everyone to take great pains in their outdoor activity's preparation and costs in order to suit your apparently miraculously-sensitive nose that can pickup scents buried 8" below the dirt? Nah, no downside.
Never heard of an outhouse?
who the hell wants to bike to work and get sweaty in the summer and freeze during the winter?
Yeah, sucks being in shape, having your workout built into your commute and not having to pay for insurance, gas, maintenance, a gym membership, occasional emergency tows or parking.
But it is just as reasonable for a school student who is not a geek to not realize what may be happening.
Well I'd go further and say it would be perfectly reasonable, even for a geek who knows the ease and potential for abuse like this, to not believe a school administrator he sees daily and entrusts with his well-being would ACTUALLY commit such an abuse.
If I saw the light come on and they told me there was a known glitch with our laptop model. I'm not sure I'd take the time to put tape over the camera either. It's not that I don't understand how technically easy it would be to spy on me. It's just that, given the consequences of actually doing it (as the courts are about to nicely demonstrate for us), I simply could not fathom than any school administrator would actually go through with it.
Guess it's time to trade in my rose-colored glasses for one of those fashionable tin-foil hats.
Well then, sir, you should be happy to know that you are too young to be President of the United States, collect social security retirement benefits, use medicare or medicaid, buy a home in a 55+ community, or to be a skateboarder.
being labeled a well-known whistle-blower isn't going to do you much justice when you're out looking for a job.
We need a +1 coward moderation.
There are plenty of arguments about why this guy shouldn't be concerned about using his finger print to clock in and out, but being worried about being labeled as a honest man who fights for his principles isn't one of them.
Changes in government following lawful elections very clearly do not amount to an overthrow of the state.
Well that makes sense to me. But ah wundah if the people of the grate state of sowth cah-oh-lina might find it to be a bit hinkey.
What about a group naming themselves after an event that helped spark a revolution? That sounds a little fishy to me, like maybe some people want to start a new revolution. Those tea partiers best register themselves up right quick, lest they face prosecution.
...you can make decent money.
OK, but what does that mean? 50k? 90k?
In my experience people have vastly different perceptions of what a decent living is.
we've all complained about the coworker who sends out a 15MB movie of their kids playing with the dog to a mailing list, but what option do most average users have?
youtube?
I know! How do they squeeze in more than 15 hrs/week online after the 20/week playing solo and the 6-8/week playing casual games?
Hey, if I owned the company and knew all my customers were such suckers I'd do the same thing.
Stop paying them!
What power do you -we- have? Boycotting is not an options, they live on hype and money from impulsive buyers.
Just do what I do, don't buy a game until it has been out for 3-6 months and there has already been a large patch or two. Let the impulsive buyers be your sucker beta testers while you enjoy a stable game six months later.
I'm as big a fan of gaming as they come. I typically buy at least a few games each month for pc and consoles. But in the last five years I have purchased MAYBE two games within a week of their release, the rest have a good 3-6 month lag.
Don't worry, if you're idea is any good nobody will properly execute it.
Has there ever been a case where people got out their guns, and the police said "Oh dear, we'll back down then and ignore them"?
Yes.
One thing that's attractive with NH is that the sales tax is extremely low
Yeah, 0% is pretty low.
Almost as low as the 0% income tax.
Being a New Hampshire hiker that hurts.
Reminds me though of my Colorado friend who was bragging to me about how he hiked two 12,000 ft mountains in one day.
Me: "Wow, what elevation did you start at?"
Colorado Friend: "10,800"
Me: Blank Stare
Give me a break, in New Hampshire we have to climb 1,200 feet to get to the foot of the mountain.
Scaling a mountain in Colorado's only impressive if you start in Nebraska.
That's good to know. So if I'm held hostage by a nut with dynamite strapped to himself I can turn to my fellow hostages and console them with, "Don't worry, statistically it's almost impossible for us to die this way so everything's probably going to be fine."
I could be worried about an elevator car falling 20 stories and killing me in the fall, or being hit by lightning. Either of those are more likely than a repeat of 9/11.
That doesn't mean that you ought to make yourself the tallest object in a wide-open field during a lightning storm.
If there is an imminent threat nearby it makes sense to take some precautions, even if your death by that threat, population wide, is statistically unlikely. Just because you're unlikely to die by lightning doesn't mean you ought to go play golf during the next storm. And if there's a large, unexpected, low-flying, strange plane in NYC flanked by military jets I don't think it's unreasonable to decide that it might be a good time to take your lunch down in a first-floor deli somewhere.
I agree. One need only take a look at the typical use of a personal automobile to see that battery-swapping will be very rarely used. The average American daily work commute is less than 40 miles. How many people are really going to bother signing up for an expensive battery-swapping service where they have to make a special trip to the charging station once or twice a week when they could simply plug their cars in at home each night and forget about it?
Given what hobbyists are already doing I wouldn't be surprised if we see all-electric affordable production cars in the next 10-20 years averaging over 100 miles/charge with some lighter ones getting over 150/charge. With that kind of range I know my personal automotive-transportation needs for all but perhaps 3 trips in the past 5 years would be covered.
For those people who frequently take long road trips, or those who just absolutely cannot live with the idea of not owning a machine capable of taking them more than 150 miles without a break, there's the plug-in hybrid model with an on-board ICE for recharging on the go with fossil or alcohol fuels. Or the oft-mentioned option, cumbersome as it may be, of renting one or renting a plain old ICE car.
Or how about an electric car with the option of towing behind it a small trailer carrying an ICE electric generator for those occasional long-distance trips? You'd probably be able to go over to Enterprise and rent the trailer on those rare occasions when you'd actually need to go more than 150 miles without stopping.
And for those people who drive more than 150 miles at a go with some frequency they can either 1. own their own generator/trailer or 2. just use a plug-in hybrid that already had an integrated generator built-into the car.
Don't those options seem so much simpler and cheaper than trying to manage tens of thousands of shared battery packs and building robotized transfer stations?
And getting kids to enjoy and actively seek out learning is probably the biggest hurdle in our educational system.
I don't know. I find young kids to be naturally curious and eager to learn. It seems the biggest hurdle in our educational system is figuring out how not to destroy that while still productively fostering a complex knowledge base.
Where is the electrical energy supposed to come from? Our power plants still aren't close to being non-polluting let alone carbon neutral. This will be an improvement over current gasoline engines, but it only solves part of the problem.
Are you the guy who at the scene of a near-deadly car accident says, "Oh good, you've stopped the bleeding and saved his life. But he still has brain cancer so what good was all that work?"
So life in corporate America is now what's considered the "real world"?
God help us.
What? You mean like this?
Cavalry fight from horseback, and cohesive military cavalry usage requires stirrups. Romans DID use mounted infantry though, and this could also perhaps harass enemy skirmish flankers. Stirrups wasn't invented until approximately the 7th or 8th Century. Thus, cavalry does not mean "mounted soldier".
It's this kind of blatant disregard for historical accuracy that just RUINS these games for me.
The problem begins with the fact that all the choices you have to vote on are bad. I mean really, a choice between 2 candidates
I don't know where you voted. But in Middlesex County in Massachusetts I had around 5 - 7 choices for President plus an option to write in any name I wanted.
People believing that those "other names" and write-in fields are just there as a technicality is the problem. Those options are there for a reason. We don't need a revolution or to take up arms or anything, we just need people to reach over and pull the third lever.