Nobody worried about it because the large businesses were presumed to have large enough volume of tubes to make a trip to the recycle plant or a call for pickup worthwhile. They were still required to dispose of them properly.
The difference now is that that individual homeowners are buying them, and the recycling options aren't anywhere near as convenient as they ought to be.
My home, for instance, burns about one CFL every six months. There is only one recycling center in my home state that accepts them, and even then, they're geared for industrial uses: they only collect them on certain days, and even then by appointment (according to the website...). I managed to catch them when dropping of my computer monitor, though, and my collection of two years of dead CFLs (a small box of about five of 'em) was laughed at. They still took them, though.
Regardless, If I don't want to keep years worth of potentially leaky mercury tubes in my basement (I don't know why they failed. It could just be a faulty ballast, I hope..), I'd pretty much have to drive 25 miles every six months to drop off ONE bulb.
Ironically, if they failed more often, they'd probably be easier to dispose of correctly.
So you want all those streetlights, roads, sidewalks, traffic lights and stop signs for free, right?
Well, it would be best if those things were paid for only by people who used them. But even if we concede that it's ok for municipalities to spend everyone's money on one thing with a simple majority, that does not necessarily mean that they have the moral authority to do so on any old thing.
Everyone benefits from roads. Even those who don't use them, because the roads allow the ambulance to reach them in time, or the fire department to extinguish the neighbor's fire before it affects your house.
The only people who benefit from municipal broadband (wireless or otherwise) are the people who use it.
So, if 75% really do want it, why do they need the other 25%'s money? Why can't they just incorporate and build the network themselves, perhaps greasing the wheels a bit on easements and such by their vote. They could even let the remaining 25% join later, for a fee, of course...
I think I'm going to start a business and in addition to SSN's, I'm going to start requiring people to sign over Power of Attorney before I let them sign the contract for whatever it is I'm going to sell.
It doesn't matter that there was EXTREME concern that this might happen way back when the SSN was invented, it happened anyway.
Well, to be fair, that was probably the real point of the exercise. The opposition even realized it and complained, but they apparently were soothed by the lies or weren't squeaky or numerous enough to prevent the atrocity. There was a depression going on at the time, so we had to do something and that was certainly something.
Did you remember to factor out the deaths due to differing rates of non-medical causes such as homicide and vehicular accidents as the parent suggested was skewing the figures down?
The proper response to, "I think there is a different interpretation of the data" is not "Yeah, but look at the data."
Uh, why? We've had four Moore cycles since phones got tiny. They ought to be cheap as dirt to produce (at least "just-a-phones" anyway). Sure, you can pay $500 for your smartphone if you want, but there already are pretty capable phones that cost less than $100, and aren't subsidized. You can get them at wal*mart, and they go under the name "go fone" or "trac phone" or whatever. They have few frills and cost as little as $30.
That's right. Cell phones that cost less than some "cordless" phones. No subsidy. Already available. In fact, when you look at what the modern phones do, the "subsidized price" really ought to be the "actual price."
I mean, seriously, what does that iPhone do that the iPod Touch doesn't that makes it worth four times as much?!
Other than the OS, the main problem is you want 2-3x ram for virtual memory and I can't see being under 2 gigs of ram. Also mail is now frequently in the megabytes.
Why? Most of those two gigs are going to be filled with disk cache -- pre-loaded stuff from the hard drive that the machine thinks might help with responsiveness.
Are you suggesting that that stuff should then be re-cached back to the disk?
You don't necessarily need more swap just because you can afford more RAM. Sometimes it means you can get away with no swap at all. If a program can't fit in the available memory (compactly taking advantage of sparse structures if need be), then it's got problems that swap doesn't really solve, anyway.
8GB SSD. All your media files are going to reside on your iPod (or whatever Portable Media Device you carry) or your PC at home. The OS can easily fit in 4GB (which is pretty bloated, if you ask me), leaving 4GB for whatever it is you plan to do with a computer who's primary design concern is how long it lasts and how little it costs (and for which a NEO, which has a battery life of 1 month of continuous use, is insufficiently powerful)
You're not going to be playing mp3s off the subnotebook anyway, because a portable mp3 player is vastly more efficient on power, and ergonomically superior as well. (you can clip the player to your person and have shorter and fewer cables to get tangled up or tug things off counter tops.)
If your plan is to edit movies...on a subnotebook...using battery power, then I don't know what to say.
Or, here's a thought: stop putting parking lot ring-roads next to the building. Instead put them around the outside of the parking lot. Put some big potted plants in so you can only continue to the next row when you're close to the building.
Then they're still robbing people with hybrids, who would otherwise be regen'ing into their own batteries.
Also, P = m*v^2/2, but u = mgh. Which is the more useful equation for the situation you describe. It's actually more efficient at lower speeds, but I'll leave that for you and Carnot to hash out.
That makes no sense. Tomatoes weren't even introduced to italy until the late 15th century, and weren't ever really popular there (partly due, I'm sure, to the fact that tomatoes are members of the deadly nightshade family.)
Get the pan pizza. Not only does it have much higher profit margins, but it also fills you up more since it's got so much more bread. It's like eating a greased up cotton ball.
Take out a chess board. Starting with the bottom left, and in any order you please, place a mustard seed in the first square. Then two in the next square. Then double that in the next square. Keep going until you get to a little less than half the board (25 squares I should think). Those are your voters. If each of the inhabitants of the next lower square sums the ones above them and passes the count down to the first seed, you can see that it shouldn't take very long at all to count any number of votes.
Note: this scheme implies that all the seeds are capable of counting votes. But if you're not capable of counting votes, then maybe you shouldn't be allowed to vote.
The iPhone costs $2800. Of course the owners are going to tend to be more affluent. In fact, I'd suggest that if you earn less than $70k and you bought an iPhone for personal use, you're a dumb-ass.
Model 2 is best, not model 3. In model 3, it's quite obvious that bias is not only possible, but likely, given the kind of vanity that someone would have to have to fund an entire news source.
Model 2 is better because although it is probably biased (CSM is a particularly good example, btw. It ought to be heavily biased, but it falls far short of that), the bias is conspicuous. You can filter it yourself.
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Nobody worried about it because the large businesses were presumed to have large enough volume of tubes to make a trip to the recycle plant or a call for pickup worthwhile. They were still required to dispose of them properly.
The difference now is that that individual homeowners are buying them, and the recycling options aren't anywhere near as convenient as they ought to be.
My home, for instance, burns about one CFL every six months. There is only one recycling center in my home state that accepts them, and even then, they're geared for industrial uses: they only collect them on certain days, and even then by appointment (according to the website...). I managed to catch them when dropping of my computer monitor, though, and my collection of two years of dead CFLs (a small box of about five of 'em) was laughed at. They still took them, though.
Regardless, If I don't want to keep years worth of potentially leaky mercury tubes in my basement (I don't know why they failed. It could just be a faulty ballast, I hope..), I'd pretty much have to drive 25 miles every six months to drop off ONE bulb.
Ironically, if they failed more often, they'd probably be easier to dispose of correctly.
In a world where all our power comes from giant spinning fans densely scattered around the countryside, only terrorists will have kites.
So you want all those streetlights, roads, sidewalks, traffic lights and stop signs for free, right?
Well, it would be best if those things were paid for only by people who used them. But even if we concede that it's ok for municipalities to spend everyone's money on one thing with a simple majority, that does not necessarily mean that they have the moral authority to do so on any old thing.
Everyone benefits from roads. Even those who don't use them, because the roads allow the ambulance to reach them in time, or the fire department to extinguish the neighbor's fire before it affects your house.
The only people who benefit from municipal broadband (wireless or otherwise) are the people who use it.
So, if 75% really do want it, why do they need the other 25%'s money? Why can't they just incorporate and build the network themselves, perhaps greasing the wheels a bit on easements and such by their vote. They could even let the remaining 25% join later, for a fee, of course...
Can you really call it "making love" if you have to put on plastic gloves like a freakin' subway sandwich artist? Really intimate...
I think I'm going to start a business and in addition to SSN's, I'm going to start requiring people to sign over Power of Attorney before I let them sign the contract for whatever it is I'm going to sell.
It doesn't matter that there was EXTREME concern that this might happen way back when the SSN was invented, it happened anyway.
Well, to be fair, that was probably the real point of the exercise. The opposition even realized it and complained, but they apparently were soothed by the lies or weren't squeaky or numerous enough to prevent the atrocity. There was a depression going on at the time, so we had to do something and that was certainly something.
When the library of classic works available so dwarfs what you can expect to complete in a mere few years anyway?
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Dammit. I had mods in this thread, but this typo is too funny to ignore:
google about our Jail situation, where they have a comuter program...
That is a bad overcrowding problem, indeed, if measures like that need to be taken.
Did you remember to factor out the deaths due to differing rates of non-medical causes such as homicide and vehicular accidents as the parent suggested was skewing the figures down?
The proper response to, "I think there is a different interpretation of the data" is not "Yeah, but look at the data."
You know.. Social Security started out voluntary, too...
Well, over the last decade, what has the CO2 level been doing? What has the global temperature done?
Uh, why? We've had four Moore cycles since phones got tiny. They ought to be cheap as dirt to produce (at least "just-a-phones" anyway). Sure, you can pay $500 for your smartphone if you want, but there already are pretty capable phones that cost less than $100, and aren't subsidized. You can get them at wal*mart, and they go under the name "go fone" or "trac phone" or whatever. They have few frills and cost as little as $30.
That's right. Cell phones that cost less than some "cordless" phones. No subsidy. Already available. In fact, when you look at what the modern phones do, the "subsidized price" really ought to be the "actual price."
I mean, seriously, what does that iPhone do that the iPod Touch doesn't that makes it worth four times as much?!
Other than the OS, the main problem is you want 2-3x ram for virtual memory and I can't see being under 2 gigs of ram. Also mail is now frequently in the megabytes.
Why? Most of those two gigs are going to be filled with disk cache -- pre-loaded stuff from the hard drive that the machine thinks might help with responsiveness.
Are you suggesting that that stuff should then be re-cached back to the disk?
You don't necessarily need more swap just because you can afford more RAM. Sometimes it means you can get away with no swap at all. If a program can't fit in the available memory (compactly taking advantage of sparse structures if need be), then it's got problems that swap doesn't really solve, anyway.
8GB SSD. All your media files are going to reside on your iPod (or whatever Portable Media Device you carry) or your PC at home. The OS can easily fit in 4GB (which is pretty bloated, if you ask me), leaving 4GB for whatever it is you plan to do with a computer who's primary design concern is how long it lasts and how little it costs (and for which a NEO, which has a battery life of 1 month of continuous use, is insufficiently powerful)
You're not going to be playing mp3s off the subnotebook anyway, because a portable mp3 player is vastly more efficient on power, and ergonomically superior as well. (you can clip the player to your person and have shorter and fewer cables to get tangled up or tug things off counter tops.)
If your plan is to edit movies...on a subnotebook...using battery power, then I don't know what to say.
Or, here's a thought: stop putting parking lot ring-roads next to the building. Instead put them around the outside of the parking lot. Put some big potted plants in so you can only continue to the next row when you're close to the building.
Then they're still robbing people with hybrids, who would otherwise be regen'ing into their own batteries.
Also, P = m*v^2/2, but u = mgh. Which is the more useful equation for the situation you describe. It's actually more efficient at lower speeds, but I'll leave that for you and Carnot to hash out.
Yes, but not as funny as rhinoplasty.
Meh. Just stick in 50GB worth of RAM in there. No one's filling a Blu-Ray disk with 3d environment data yet, are they?
Why should a game even hit the disk except when saving, these days?
Actually it's not 100%. Some percentage of PSP users use them only for playing movies.
That makes no sense. Tomatoes weren't even introduced to italy until the late 15th century, and weren't ever really popular there (partly due, I'm sure, to the fact that tomatoes are members of the deadly nightshade family.)
Get the pan pizza. Not only does it have much higher profit margins, but it also fills you up more since it's got so much more bread. It's like eating a greased up cotton ball.
Take out a chess board. Starting with the bottom left, and in any order you please, place a mustard seed in the first square. Then two in the next square. Then double that in the next square. Keep going until you get to a little less than half the board (25 squares I should think). Those are your voters. If each of the inhabitants of the next lower square sums the ones above them and passes the count down to the first seed, you can see that it shouldn't take very long at all to count any number of votes.
Note: this scheme implies that all the seeds are capable of counting votes. But if you're not capable of counting votes, then maybe you shouldn't be allowed to vote.
They actually do that all the time. You just don't know about it because you don't get your news about fox news from fox news.
2006 OMG Ponies!!!
The iPhone costs $2800. Of course the owners are going to tend to be more affluent. In fact, I'd suggest that if you earn less than $70k and you bought an iPhone for personal use, you're a dumb-ass.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694
Model 2 is best, not model 3. In model 3, it's quite obvious that bias is not only possible, but likely, given the kind of vanity that someone would have to have to fund an entire news source.
Model 2 is better because although it is probably biased (CSM is a particularly good example, btw. It ought to be heavily biased, but it falls far short of that), the bias is conspicuous. You can filter it yourself.