You can still get cellphone internet, hook that up to your laptop/pda/just use the cellphone, and browse all the porn you want.
The only thing that's being limited is the government's service of providing wifi at trucker rest spots. If the trucker wants to surf porn, he can buy a cellphone.
Now that that's out of the way, this is a dumb idea because the implimentation will never work; truckers will surf porn with proxies so that they can get some late nigh-wanking in before they go to sleep, and children in RVs won't be able to do research projects on the breeding patterns of the praying mantis; it's how these filters allwase end up working. So, it's a useless waste of money put together to attempt to garner votes from soccer moms with needless 'were thinking of the children' responces.
I like flourescent bulbs myself- but they don't fit in a lot of the sockets I have (I use small form factor bulbs in them, or the socket relies on the neck of a regular lightbulb and most flourescents immediatly bloom to full bulb size.
Really; we should go and legislate the following needing to be places on non-open source programs
'Warning this program has not been checked for backdoors, the creators or this program have specifically made it impossible to check for backdoors or correct errors in the coding.'
Ironically however, ADAD can be used by canadian companies that only call the united states. My brother works for a phone solicitation company, and it only flicks him into a call after the machine has dialed, and registered that there is a person on the other end of the line.
I'm looking, and while this is very neat, I don't see it getting results superior to those you'll be getting with a dremel that has a depth gauge, a spin saw set for metal, and a set of router bits.
This is also pretty labour intensive, you have to completely paint the area you don't want destroyed first, then you can destroy the non-painted area, then you'll probabally have to refinish the edges on anything really complex like a spider design, or text, because in the pictures the cut lines are pretty ragged.
Once again, don't get me wrong, this is very neat; and if your looking for a rough-hewn 'disolved by acid' look, it's perfect; but to say that it's superior to a well stocked dremel or spin saw is stretching things.
Where in China are you moving; because if your moving to hong-kong, it's not going to be very different then the most amazingly crowded part of lets say new york, save;
1- it will be more crowded
2- Everyone will speak chinese first, english second
3-The average height will be 5'6"
4-When you board the subway, a man or woman with a large 'gladiator' style prodd will force you into the train during rush hour traffic.
Outside of hong-kong the firewall might be more of an issue; but I woulden't circumvent it if I were you, as other's have pointed out; if you have a fundamental problem with the rights affoarded to you by a country you plan to move to; perhaps you should reconsider the move?
Just kidding, you yanks make a bunch of good decisions, but you also make a lot of bad ones, which is of course what gets the press, and international ire.
See I think biometrics is the wrong way to go on the smart gun technology. Biometrics is not an exacting science, it's all about averages, because your hand is never going to be exactly the same every time you try to activate the gun, so there are allowances, which may be enough for someone else to use it- or may not be enough for you to use it in a time of crisis (Only applies to law enforcement agents; but there the ones who will be beta testing this garbage)
It's a lot easier/energy efficent/reliable to simply have a 'key' ring that the gun's opperator will wear on one of his fingers/thumb which like any RFID device will signal that 'yes this is the guns owner' and allow firing. This is an exacting science; the RFID tag will have a specific key to it, and only that key will do. The power requirements would be so small that the action of sliding the magazine into the weapon could charge a capacitor for several minutes of opperation, and some of the kick from the gun could be applied to keeping that capacitor charged. The ring itself could be a completely passive key (uses the incomming radio signal for power and sends a responce signal), requring no batteries.
incorrect.
In Canada only one party in a conversation has to be aware of a recording in order for it to be legal. Hence if I call you, and I know I'm recording you it is completely legal. As well due to cross country details, if a call center is located in Canada, all the protections affoarded by individuals states no longer applies; canadian law says that only one party needs to be aware of recording; and the person doing the recording is bound by Canadain law since they live and opperate in Canada. (think about that when you calling from one of the 'safe' states).
I wasen't sugesting this as a solution for global power; just personal power.
Also, converting light, even infa-red light into power really dosen't reduce the heat in the planet, because when that energy gets used at a later date it will produce heat- remember; energy cannot be created or destroyed- if you were to capture 100% of the suns energy, but then use 100% of it you would get just as much heat as you would having that energy strike the planet earth.
So the net change to the planet from covering a suitable portion of it with this paint woudl be 0; the local dynamics however might be changed; for instance, right now cities with there black roads and mirrored buildings- with very littel plantlife, are generally a few degreess hotter then the country during the day- with this paint, they might be a few degress cooler, or they might be equal.
I read the article, and responded to it's staments in the most favorable way possible (listed his monthly savings as $100 rather then $50, because that's his peek output; etc); you evidently diden't read my post- because you responded with that article as a reason I should look into solar power, and I responded with how it dosen't apply to ME, not to some guy in california.
By the way, if you look at the math in his setup he actually looses in the end $600/yr x 30 years(lifetime of panels) = 18,000, less then the 25,000 he invested
Lets be honest, I don't care weither it works for someone in california, I care weither or not it works for me, things that rely on californian laws, and legaleese don't apply to me.
Next look at the three 'reasons' you listed as being a winning proposition:
1-Increase in home value; that's all fine and good if your going to sell your home immediatly after installing the solar panels, but then it just becomes someone elses problem to make it cost effective, and they start at an additional 50% increase on the install cost.
2-More cost effective when power costs go up. Sure, as long as energy costs go up; but he's still looking at 30+ years befor return on investment, in that time someone may develop a fusion powerplant and deploy them across the country reducing power costs to pennies per megawatt, in which case you'd never get a return on your investment (unlikely, but 30 years is a long time.)
3-Protects against property incursions: While this one is appealing, it's not even absolute in california, and if your neighbor has enough money to build a 'McMansion' they can probabally bury you in weird zoning laws; besides, if you own a medium sized lot of land which you've built your house on they could build anything short of a skyscraper next to you and it won't block any light.
I don't know how what you posted is any different from the exact problem I outlined with my research into solar panels. It's still the same problem; 30,000 investment (I mentioned I'm in canada, so I don't get an energy rebate), break even dosen't take place for 20 years, and they are only guaranteed for 25. As well solar panels are relatively britle; they can be dammaged by snow, hail, heavy winds, falling branches, agressive wire-eating critters, etc. So you may never see break even because you need to replace dammaged panels.
He listed his cost as 25,000 american, which is actually more then then 30,000 canadian I was qoted (Though if your dollar keeps dropping...). Also in a place like Canada, where you will be getting snow, lots of snow (For a few monthes out of the year in anycase), and hail ocassionally. You need more robust panels then you need in a relative desert.
He listed his energy savings as ~80-100 a month, even if we take the ideal (100 a month), that's 1200 a year, and he paid 25,000 for his equipment; that's more then 20 years before the break even point.
As well, due to the tilt of the earth places like most of canada get variable ammoutns of sunlight during summer and winter so if I generated ~100 in summer, I might only generate ~30kwh in the winter (Shorter days, less intence light during those days, partial snow coverage on panels...). In other words, the system I reasearched was far more cost effective then his, but it still didne't pay for itself with any reliability. If there was an energy rebate it might make the difference, but there isint.
This is so typical of the american arrogance. China has got to start looking out for US company interestes? China has got to start doing things that the US isin't even doing yet!?! To protect american buisneesses?
If I were a governing individual in China, I would be so upset about such a statement I'd make up some sort of law that imunises chinese hackers and IP infringers so long as it was all american material.
I notice his primary theoretical application was painting shirts so that you can charge your Ipod. What about buildings damnit!
With a nearly 5x increase in power efficency, and the ability to simply paint it on this material strikes me as being ideal for partially powering houses. You paint your roof every summer (Or if the paint is particularly durable every 5 years) and get a grid tie in possibly paying nothing during particiarly sunny monthes.
Of course I supose it ultimately comes down to how expensive this stuff is. When I last looked into solar grid tie ins, it would have cost about 30,000 (cdn.) to get only a few kilowatts of output- the panels were insured for 25 years; and it would have taken 20 for them to pay for themselves, and that dosen't count the concept of any of them breaking in heavy hail, or snow buildup. Not a great investment.
If this paint is durable enough to be put on clothes, and cheap enough to have that done as well, I think that painting the roofs of houses should be the primary applicatino, not keeping all your portable gadgets charged...
Better not take them to a school that has windows, or outdoor activities then, cause a good telescope costs a lot less then a computer.
I hope you are at least consistant and apply your same level of fearmongering to the physical aspects of any place you consider enrolling your child in, which would mean your kid is not in a daycare.
The ability to watch your child at there daycare allows YOU to take note of any new interests they may have. I mean it goes without saying that you can't watch your kid during the day- that's why it's called a day-care. However, just because you can't physically watch them dosen't mean you now ignore them- cameras allow you as a a parant to spend some time with your kid even if it's only for a half hour during your lunch.
I generally make a point of correctly labeling my files, and making strong directory structures, eveything nessassary for good organization;
Yet I still desire a tool like this. Why? Because I forget thing- I may remember that two years ago I worked on a programmign project that displayed all the pictures in a directory- but I don't remember the filename, the project it's attached to, or the date I last used it.
I can search my programming directory, my backup directory, etc; eventually I'll find it, but I'll have to open basically every project I have to do so- by making a search for the contents of the file and searching for notes I would have put into my properly documented pseudo code, or whatever else I can come up with, in an advanced search routine that uses a lot of AND/OR statements, I'll find it.
and these are good points, because when you show this report to other's you can say 'see- look at these things there IGNORING and it's still in linux's favor; there not byassed zelots, I was right and you were wrong! LINUX LINUX GNU GNU GURAA!'
Somehow this wil also get you a girlfriend and millions of dollars. In short it is the perfect report.
except that if your computer regularly gets bogged down to the point of unusability by spyware then you AREN'T using the right tool for the job at hand and it's time to look at your options again more seriously this time.
Outside of having an apple lable attatched to this, and being told that your 'intended' to wear it around your neck (I am dubious of this idea), how is this different from something like the Rio Cali?
I dunno, thousands of people were and are willing to shell out big cash for evercrack and it's dozens of variations, why not shell out $5 more per hour and play it on a computer that's not full of virii, up to date (So you don't get lagdeath), and on a VERY high speed connection (lagdeath again), and on a very big monitor.
Why run PPC linux?
I run linux happily on my littel G3 imac; gentoo PPC is running about 33-45% faster then OS 10.2 was (and I'm sure as hell not shelling out for 10.3 when linux is running just fine).
Also, there are more bloddy programs ported to PPC linux then there are FOR OSX natively, including some of my faviorate old school games (or there equivalents); like Gnomebots! (Not much more you can use on a 333 Imac then gnomebots, even when it is running 33-45% faster)
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There are a lot of good points about paid subscriptions:
Look at the forums on somethingawful.com
You can still get cellphone internet, hook that up to your laptop/pda/just use the cellphone, and browse all the porn you want.
The only thing that's being limited is the government's service of providing wifi at trucker rest spots. If the trucker wants to surf porn, he can buy a cellphone.
Now that that's out of the way, this is a dumb idea because the implimentation will never work; truckers will surf porn with proxies so that they can get some late nigh-wanking in before they go to sleep, and children in RVs won't be able to do research projects on the breeding patterns of the praying mantis; it's how these filters allwase end up working. So, it's a useless waste of money put together to attempt to garner votes from soccer moms with needless 'were thinking of the children' responces.
I like flourescent bulbs myself- but they don't fit in a lot of the sockets I have (I use small form factor bulbs in them, or the socket relies on the neck of a regular lightbulb and most flourescents immediatly bloom to full bulb size.
Is it just me, or dose the 'beamer' box look exactly like an ASUS pundit case?
Asus Pundit
Really; we should go and legislate the following needing to be places on non-open source programs 'Warning this program has not been checked for backdoors, the creators or this program have specifically made it impossible to check for backdoors or correct errors in the coding.'
Ironically however, ADAD can be used by canadian companies that only call the united states. My brother works for a phone solicitation company, and it only flicks him into a call after the machine has dialed, and registered that there is a person on the other end of the line.
I'm looking, and while this is very neat, I don't see it getting results superior to those you'll be getting with a dremel that has a depth gauge, a spin saw set for metal, and a set of router bits.
This is also pretty labour intensive, you have to completely paint the area you don't want destroyed first, then you can destroy the non-painted area, then you'll probabally have to refinish the edges on anything really complex like a spider design, or text, because in the pictures the cut lines are pretty ragged.
Once again, don't get me wrong, this is very neat; and if your looking for a rough-hewn 'disolved by acid' look, it's perfect; but to say that it's superior to a well stocked dremel or spin saw is stretching things.
Where in China are you moving; because if your moving to hong-kong, it's not going to be very different then the most amazingly crowded part of lets say new york, save;
1- it will be more crowded
2- Everyone will speak chinese first, english second
3-The average height will be 5'6"
4-When you board the subway, a man or woman with a large 'gladiator' style prodd will force you into the train during rush hour traffic.
Outside of hong-kong the firewall might be more of an issue; but I woulden't circumvent it if I were you, as other's have pointed out; if you have a fundamental problem with the rights affoarded to you by a country you plan to move to; perhaps you should reconsider the move?
America, good decision?
Just kidding, you yanks make a bunch of good decisions, but you also make a lot of bad ones, which is of course what gets the press, and international ire.
See I think biometrics is the wrong way to go on the smart gun technology. Biometrics is not an exacting science, it's all about averages, because your hand is never going to be exactly the same every time you try to activate the gun, so there are allowances, which may be enough for someone else to use it- or may not be enough for you to use it in a time of crisis (Only applies to law enforcement agents; but there the ones who will be beta testing this garbage)
It's a lot easier/energy efficent/reliable to simply have a 'key' ring that the gun's opperator will wear on one of his fingers/thumb which like any RFID device will signal that 'yes this is the guns owner' and allow firing. This is an exacting science; the RFID tag will have a specific key to it, and only that key will do. The power requirements would be so small that the action of sliding the magazine into the weapon could charge a capacitor for several minutes of opperation, and some of the kick from the gun could be applied to keeping that capacitor charged. The ring itself could be a completely passive key (uses the incomming radio signal for power and sends a responce signal), requring no batteries.
incorrect. In Canada only one party in a conversation has to be aware of a recording in order for it to be legal. Hence if I call you, and I know I'm recording you it is completely legal. As well due to cross country details, if a call center is located in Canada, all the protections affoarded by individuals states no longer applies; canadian law says that only one party needs to be aware of recording; and the person doing the recording is bound by Canadain law since they live and opperate in Canada. (think about that when you calling from one of the 'safe' states).
I wasen't sugesting this as a solution for global power; just personal power.
Also, converting light, even infa-red light into power really dosen't reduce the heat in the planet, because when that energy gets used at a later date it will produce heat- remember; energy cannot be created or destroyed- if you were to capture 100% of the suns energy, but then use 100% of it you would get just as much heat as you would having that energy strike the planet earth.
So the net change to the planet from covering a suitable portion of it with this paint woudl be 0; the local dynamics however might be changed; for instance, right now cities with there black roads and mirrored buildings- with very littel plantlife, are generally a few degreess hotter then the country during the day- with this paint, they might be a few degress cooler, or they might be equal.
I read the article, and responded to it's staments in the most favorable way possible (listed his monthly savings as $100 rather then $50, because that's his peek output; etc); you evidently diden't read my post- because you responded with that article as a reason I should look into solar power, and I responded with how it dosen't apply to ME, not to some guy in california.
By the way, if you look at the math in his setup he actually looses in the end $600/yr x 30 years(lifetime of panels) = 18,000, less then the 25,000 he invested
Lets be honest, I don't care weither it works for someone in california, I care weither or not it works for me, things that rely on californian laws, and legaleese don't apply to me.
Next look at the three 'reasons' you listed as being a winning proposition:
1-Increase in home value; that's all fine and good if your going to sell your home immediatly after installing the solar panels, but then it just becomes someone elses problem to make it cost effective, and they start at an additional 50% increase on the install cost. 2-More cost effective when power costs go up. Sure, as long as energy costs go up; but he's still looking at 30+ years befor return on investment, in that time someone may develop a fusion powerplant and deploy them across the country reducing power costs to pennies per megawatt, in which case you'd never get a return on your investment (unlikely, but 30 years is a long time.)
3-Protects against property incursions: While this one is appealing, it's not even absolute in california, and if your neighbor has enough money to build a 'McMansion' they can probabally bury you in weird zoning laws; besides, if you own a medium sized lot of land which you've built your house on they could build anything short of a skyscraper next to you and it won't block any light.
I don't know how what you posted is any different from the exact problem I outlined with my research into solar panels. It's still the same problem; 30,000 investment (I mentioned I'm in canada, so I don't get an energy rebate), break even dosen't take place for 20 years, and they are only guaranteed for 25. As well solar panels are relatively britle; they can be dammaged by snow, hail, heavy winds, falling branches, agressive wire-eating critters, etc. So you may never see break even because you need to replace dammaged panels. He listed his cost as 25,000 american, which is actually more then then 30,000 canadian I was qoted (Though if your dollar keeps dropping...). Also in a place like Canada, where you will be getting snow, lots of snow (For a few monthes out of the year in anycase), and hail ocassionally. You need more robust panels then you need in a relative desert.
He listed his energy savings as ~80-100 a month, even if we take the ideal (100 a month), that's 1200 a year, and he paid 25,000 for his equipment; that's more then 20 years before the break even point. As well, due to the tilt of the earth places like most of canada get variable ammoutns of sunlight during summer and winter so if I generated ~100 in summer, I might only generate ~30kwh in the winter (Shorter days, less intence light during those days, partial snow coverage on panels...). In other words, the system I reasearched was far more cost effective then his, but it still didne't pay for itself with any reliability. If there was an energy rebate it might make the difference, but there isint.
This is so typical of the american arrogance. China has got to start looking out for US company interestes? China has got to start doing things that the US isin't even doing yet!?! To protect american buisneesses?
If I were a governing individual in China, I would be so upset about such a statement I'd make up some sort of law that imunises chinese hackers and IP infringers so long as it was all american material.
I notice his primary theoretical application was painting shirts so that you can charge your Ipod. What about buildings damnit!
With a nearly 5x increase in power efficency, and the ability to simply paint it on this material strikes me as being ideal for partially powering houses. You paint your roof every summer (Or if the paint is particularly durable every 5 years) and get a grid tie in possibly paying nothing during particiarly sunny monthes.
Of course I supose it ultimately comes down to how expensive this stuff is. When I last looked into solar grid tie ins, it would have cost about 30,000 (cdn.) to get only a few kilowatts of output- the panels were insured for 25 years; and it would have taken 20 for them to pay for themselves, and that dosen't count the concept of any of them breaking in heavy hail, or snow buildup. Not a great investment.
If this paint is durable enough to be put on clothes, and cheap enough to have that done as well, I think that painting the roofs of houses should be the primary applicatino, not keeping all your portable gadgets charged...
Which company charges for recieving text messages?
I'm with rogers, my girlfriend is with bell- both of us have unlimited recieve (once your paying the $10/month for the text message service).
Better not take them to a school that has windows, or outdoor activities then, cause a good telescope costs a lot less then a computer.
I hope you are at least consistant and apply your same level of fearmongering to the physical aspects of any place you consider enrolling your child in, which would mean your kid is not in a daycare.
The ability to watch your child at there daycare allows YOU to take note of any new interests they may have. I mean it goes without saying that you can't watch your kid during the day- that's why it's called a day-care. However, just because you can't physically watch them dosen't mean you now ignore them- cameras allow you as a a parant to spend some time with your kid even if it's only for a half hour during your lunch.
I generally make a point of correctly labeling my files, and making strong directory structures, eveything nessassary for good organization;
Yet I still desire a tool like this. Why? Because I forget thing- I may remember that two years ago I worked on a programmign project that displayed all the pictures in a directory- but I don't remember the filename, the project it's attached to, or the date I last used it.
I can search my programming directory, my backup directory, etc; eventually I'll find it, but I'll have to open basically every project I have to do so- by making a search for the contents of the file and searching for notes I would have put into my properly documented pseudo code, or whatever else I can come up with, in an advanced search routine that uses a lot of AND/OR statements, I'll find it.
and these are good points, because when you show this report to other's you can say 'see- look at these things there IGNORING and it's still in linux's favor; there not byassed zelots, I was right and you were wrong! LINUX LINUX GNU GNU GURAA!'
Somehow this wil also get you a girlfriend and millions of dollars. In short it is the perfect report.
except that if your computer regularly gets bogged down to the point of unusability by spyware then you AREN'T using the right tool for the job at hand and it's time to look at your options again more seriously this time.
Outside of having an apple lable attatched to this, and being told that your 'intended' to wear it around your neck (I am dubious of this idea), how is this different from something like the Rio Cali?
I dunno, thousands of people were and are willing to shell out big cash for evercrack and it's dozens of variations, why not shell out $5 more per hour and play it on a computer that's not full of virii, up to date (So you don't get lagdeath), and on a VERY high speed connection (lagdeath again), and on a very big monitor.
That is an awsome idea, really, I applaud you!
Why run PPC linux? I run linux happily on my littel G3 imac; gentoo PPC is running about 33-45% faster then OS 10.2 was (and I'm sure as hell not shelling out for 10.3 when linux is running just fine). Also, there are more bloddy programs ported to PPC linux then there are FOR OSX natively, including some of my faviorate old school games (or there equivalents); like Gnomebots! (Not much more you can use on a 333 Imac then gnomebots, even when it is running 33-45% faster)