Charming thing for a civilized country to be practicing & defending.
Who claimed the US was a civilized country??? That's pretty subjective, and the perception about the US from within her walls are a lot different than the perception outside her walls.
So if X files suit against Y, is it up to Y to bring evidence that prove X's case against Y? I should certainly hope not. I thought the burden of proof fell on X, not Y.
The bring out new programs and almost ever hit the mark, with a great rate of success, but without hesitating to remove from the net their fiascos, like that Google Accelerator thing.
I think they missed the mark with Hello.com. What a stupid investment - at least so far. What the hell were they thinking?
Personally I switched to google when Yahoo thought it was a good idea to inundate me with the X10 popups.
I switched because it was a clean, no frills search engine.
Now google is just rife with Link Farms, Google Spam, Usenet clone sites, and sites that replicate themselves across multiple domains just to get higher page rankings.
If it wasn't for usenet search I'd have switched long ago.
Sorry, I just wanted to remind you of how bad music is these days.
This is the first decade without a strong defining genre. The 90's had grunge, the late 80's had hair rock, the 80's had pop, the 70's had disco and the 60's had rock.
In the 2000's we had Bananas - B-A-N-A-N-A-S
Yeah, it's friggin' bad. Still some gems out there though like Pearl Jam and Tool...
Of course is you had spelt it properly, I was going to jokingly correct it to Nucular.
Just to point out the word I think you wanted was if not is
If you're going to be pedantic, ensure your own posts are free from errors...
And as for nucular - I threw that in on purpose. makes me cringe every time that moron says it wrong. Can't believe half you guys voted for that doofus.
Hey, does Canada have any surplus electricity, and if it does, does it sell it to the "brownout boys" to the south? Just wondering.
Yes, but then they don't pay their bills.
BC sold electricity to California during the.com boom, when electricity prices were soaring. I think they are still in court - California is arguing we were price gouging, even though in NAFTA charging market rates is legal.
BC used to be a net exporter, but recently with our economic boom we've had to import some.
*sigh*, you really are a "rainman", just staring at your own nose and spouting back facts.
No, it's much better to use conjecture and rhetoric instead of facts right? We'll play make believe that some magic solution will come along that'll save our asses. Or we can be pragmatic about it and think that there is a side effect to switching the masses to electric cars.
You've been watching too much Mr. Rogers. In the real world, we can't think that someone will innovate our way out of our problems. We need to think that WE have to innovate our way out of our problems instead of thumbing our noses at them.
Natural Gas? Fossil fuel like Coal, not renewable. Wind? No. Not enough land to do it effeciently. Solar? Not cost effective. Hydro? Bad environmental impact. Can't dam up every river in the country? Tidal? Not enough ROI. Nuclear? Too much radioactive waste. Yes I realize we've made some vast improvements in nuclear tech.
Consider if you took every car off the road and everyone at 6pm was charing their cars for three hours, we'd suffer from some mega brownouts.
Yes, I know today != tomorrow, but to be pragmatic, today the electric car is impractical considering the extra power we'll need to generate.
It was planted there deliberately. I know how to spell nuclear -> I just giggle every time Dubya says nucular. No it isn't a regional thing, any more than ebonics is. It's an excuse to justify presidential stupidity.
(not to mention it's a lot more efficient, as technology progresses, to upgrade emissions controls on a few power plants, than every car on the road)
Have you a clue how many power plants will have to be built in order to satisfy demand for electricity needed if the entire US converted to electric cars? I don't, but I've heard it's lots.
Ever driven from Salt Lake City to Reno? There's an entire valley with a permanent cloud over it in the desert. Absolutely disgusting. Consider the environmental damage that one plant is causing.
I don't think the percentages have anything to do with it. The accessory manufacturers are going to go after the iPod demographic because those are the types of people most likely to spend more $ on.
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Well I think we all know what he's talking about, but he just doesn't understand why it's happening.
I recall in FF the old CSS would somtimes get corrupted but IIRC that was a flaw in FF, not a flaw in TCP/IP haha...
He's such a dumbass...
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If your Internet connection happens to lose a bit of CSS data, you get a mess on your screen.
When does that happen? When the web server times out because the CSS is too big to host out? Or when Dvorak's AOL connection kicks him off because his free 100 minutes has run out?
I'm wondering: is the future not a public standard but a mess of proprietary ones that may work better, even if they require plug-ins and additional software to work?
That's why I'm a fan of Flash. Sure it has its flaws, but you can be assured that if it looks nice in one browser, it'll look nice in all of them the same.
Please don't get so angry with me. I didn't make these laws, and I don't agree with them. But you'd have to be fucking retarded to ignore laws that affect our rights.
Not angry at all:)
Thing is, these laws have yet to be tested against the constitution. Don't forget these interenet gambling companies are worth literally Billions of dollars, and can afford to hire the most expensive team of lawyers you've ever seen to challenge these laws, if they were finding their revenues were impacted.
There's a fine line between what the government says is illegal and what's really illegal according to the SCOTUS.
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Charming thing for a civilized country to be practicing & defending.
Who claimed the US was a civilized country??? That's pretty subjective, and the perception about the US from within her walls are a lot different than the perception outside her walls.
So if X files suit against Y, is it up to Y to bring evidence that prove X's case against Y? I should certainly hope not. I thought the burden of proof fell on X, not Y.
The bring out new programs and almost ever hit the mark, with a great rate of success, but without hesitating to remove from the net their fiascos, like that Google Accelerator thing.
I think they missed the mark with Hello.com. What a stupid investment - at least so far. What the hell were they thinking?
. Their search engine works.
What? Have you used it lately?
Link farms, usenet dumps, and useless google spam. It works okay, but there's gotta be some innovation soon...
Personally I switched to google when Yahoo thought it was a good idea to inundate me with the X10 popups.
I switched because it was a clean, no frills search engine.
Now google is just rife with Link Farms, Google Spam, Usenet clone sites, and sites that replicate themselves across multiple domains just to get higher page rankings.
If it wasn't for usenet search I'd have switched long ago.
3) Watch the ensuing hilarity as the RIAA sues it's own heads for infringement.
4) ???
5) Profit!
(I know I know... should be a four step plan not five. Couldn't resist though)
Sorry, I just wanted to remind you of how bad music is these days.
This is the first decade without a strong defining genre. The 90's had grunge, the late 80's had hair rock, the 80's had pop, the 70's had disco and the 60's had rock.
In the 2000's we had Bananas - B-A-N-A-N-A-S
Yeah, it's friggin' bad. Still some gems out there though like Pearl Jam and Tool...
Of course is you had spelt it properly, I was going to jokingly correct it to Nucular.
Just to point out the word I think you wanted was if not is
If you're going to be pedantic, ensure your own posts are free from errors...
And as for nucular - I threw that in on purpose. makes me cringe every time that moron says it wrong. Can't believe half you guys voted for that doofus.
You already have a spell checker with IE in the google toolbar.
Cos you know that your supermarket buys wheat from the west.
When's the last time you when to a supermarket and bought wheat?
Last I saw it was wheat products like flour and cereal and stuff. Can't just go in and get "wheat".
Hey, does Canada have any surplus electricity, and if it does, does it sell it to the "brownout boys" to the south? Just wondering.
.com boom, when electricity prices were soaring. I think they are still in court - California is arguing we were price gouging, even though in NAFTA charging market rates is legal.
Yes, but then they don't pay their bills.
BC sold electricity to California during the
BC used to be a net exporter, but recently with our economic boom we've had to import some.
Dude, did you just write "nucular"?
Yeah. Pretty funny huh?
I cringe every time the dumbass says nucular. I actually yell at the TV: "It's fucking nuclear. Noo-Clee-Ar. How fucking hard is that?"
=D
*sigh*, you really are a "rainman", just staring at your own nose and spouting back facts.
No, it's much better to use conjecture and rhetoric instead of facts right? We'll play make believe that some magic solution will come along that'll save our asses. Or we can be pragmatic about it and think that there is a side effect to switching the masses to electric cars.
You've been watching too much Mr. Rogers. In the real world, we can't think that someone will innovate our way out of our problems. We need to think that WE have to innovate our way out of our problems instead of thumbing our noses at them.
Not here in Canada. And it will be phased out alltogether by 2009. Ironically we have 1% of all the worlds coal.
I live in BC. We have an abundance of hydro electric power. Not all of the US is as fortunate.
To replace all the coal reactors in the US with hydro would probably mean damming up every river in the US (Just guessing btw)
We have 10% of the US population. If we had their population we'd have their energy problems too.
:) Thanks for that post - saved me a whole helluva lot of typing.
Sincerely, GP
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You can see past today, can't you?
Natural Gas? Fossil fuel like Coal, not renewable.
Wind? No. Not enough land to do it effeciently.
Solar? Not cost effective.
Hydro? Bad environmental impact. Can't dam up every river in the country?
Tidal? Not enough ROI.
Nuclear? Too much radioactive waste. Yes I realize we've made some vast improvements in nuclear tech.
Consider if you took every car off the road and everyone at 6pm was charing their cars for three hours, we'd suffer from some mega brownouts.
Yes, I know today != tomorrow, but to be pragmatic, today the electric car is impractical considering the extra power we'll need to generate.
I'm going to give you a pass on "nucular"
It was planted there deliberately. I know how to spell nuclear -> I just giggle every time Dubya says nucular. No it isn't a regional thing, any more than ebonics is. It's an excuse to justify presidential stupidity.
It isn't a nuculus. Ergo it isn't nucular.
(not to mention it's a lot more efficient, as technology progresses, to upgrade emissions controls on a few power plants, than every car on the road)
Have you a clue how many power plants will have to be built in order to satisfy demand for electricity needed if the entire US converted to electric cars? I don't, but I've heard it's lots.
Ever driven from Salt Lake City to Reno? There's an entire valley with a permanent cloud over it in the desert. Absolutely disgusting. Consider the environmental damage that one plant is causing.
I can't imagine any administration that could be more inept or stupid then this one.
I can - but not in US history. Maybe Lenin? Well just as fashist as this one anyway...
I consider our reliance on oil much more "evil" than our reliance on electronics. PDA's aren't killing the earth quite as fast as cars are ^_^
Until something replaces Coal power plants as the main method of generating electricity, you're just replacing one evil for the other.
Yes, I'm aware of Nucular, Hydro, Wind, Tidal, Natrual Gas. Doesn't matter. Coal is the most popular choice today.
I don't think the percentages have anything to do with it. The accessory manufacturers are going to go after the iPod demographic because those are the types of people most likely to spend more $ on
s/iPod/PC
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The argument goes one way and not the other???
Well I think we all know what he's talking about, but he just doesn't understand why it's happening.
I recall in FF the old CSS would somtimes get corrupted but IIRC that was a flaw in FF, not a flaw in TCP/IP haha...
He's such a dumbass...
If your Internet connection happens to lose a bit of CSS data, you get a mess on your screen.
When does that happen? When the web server times out because the CSS is too big to host out? Or when Dvorak's AOL connection kicks him off because his free 100 minutes has run out?
C'mon...
I'm wondering: is the future not a public standard but a mess of proprietary ones that may work better, even if they require plug-ins and additional software to work?
That's why I'm a fan of Flash. Sure it has its flaws, but you can be assured that if it looks nice in one browser, it'll look nice in all of them the same.
Please don't get so angry with me. I didn't make these laws, and I don't agree with them. But you'd have to be fucking retarded to ignore laws that affect our rights.
:)
Not angry at all
Thing is, these laws have yet to be tested against the constitution. Don't forget these interenet gambling companies are worth literally Billions of dollars, and can afford to hire the most expensive team of lawyers you've ever seen to challenge these laws, if they were finding their revenues were impacted.
There's a fine line between what the government says is illegal and what's really illegal according to the SCOTUS.