Keep in mind, inaddition to my computer, I've also got an old 19" CRT to suck the power. I need to get one of those kill-o-watt thingies and find out for myself.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=300W+*+%2 4.08%2F(1+kW*h)*24h*30&btnG=Search but according to google calculator, I'm probably paying almost $20 a month for my computer (ok probably less since I don't think i'm using the full 300W and I don't have the thing on all day, but I've done so in the past. Anyway, that's out of a total bill of $150 which includes AC, refrigerator, water heater, etc. So that 10% figure might not be so farfetched.
I usually just reply to friends and family with the snopes link to whatever "virus warning" or "bill gates gives $1000 per forward" they send me. Then I chew them out for not removing the two hundred headers and the ten levels of 'forwarding' markers. I actually don't care if a relative wants to forward me the latest joke or what have you as long as they take the time to fix up the formatting a bit so I can read it without getting a headache.
I believe that we are improperly focusing the debate however. There is only one question and both sides seem to avoid actually discussing it: What is a human being and what isn't? Anything that falls under the human being category deserves all of the rights of every person, so all of the questions become moot at that point:
If it is just a mass-o-cells, then any amount of experimentation or termination or whatever is acceptable. To perform experiments on a human being however is unacceptable without consent. Of course, how could you obtain consent from a four cell human? Ending the life of a human being of any age or state is unacceptable. There is a word for it and it is prohibited by both God's law and man's: homicide. There are circumstances under which homicide is acceptable, at least according to man's law. I am fuzzy about the concept of killing in self-defense theologically, but it is certainly legal and societally accepted.
As a result, my position causes me to be opposed to many forms of birth control, all forms of abortion*, and all forms of experimentation on embryo derived cells despite the possible gains.
I am reminded of a short story I learned in literature class (but I cannot remember the name) about a town that lived in perfect peace. They had no disquiet, no disease, and nobody suffered in any way. When their children turned 10, they would become old enough to learn the terrible bargain: the secret to their success was that a child under 10 must every so often be taken into a small cell to suffer in the darkness and his/her own waste, fed only bread and water until s/he died and was replaced by another child.
*a procedure which saves the life of the mother but results in the ancillary death of the child within her womb saddens me, but only that it must be done. I don't envy any mother or doctor that must make a decision like that.
Anyway, I base my position on the principle that life begins at conception: the clearly definable moment when the sperm penetrates the egg, causing an "instantaneous" chemical change rendering the egg perminantly impenetrable. As a result, anything that we do to that being following that event we do to a human and all the rules to all other humans applies.
The debate should center on that question and that question alone: what clearly definable event or state must occur before which, there is a mass of cells which we can do anything we want to and after which there is a human being?
Interestingly, no new laws need to be passed if we focus on the proper question. Once we have properly and satisfactorially defined a human being, existing law is sufficient to cover all current circumstances.
Make sure it supports your iPod specifically (as in, someone with your model has actually tried it and wrote a glowing review). I tried to add some mp3s to my 6G mini and either I fouled it up because I couldn't understand the help files or it doesn't support my model yet. Also I did something stupid. In the end, I ended up having to do a reboot & reformat before I could load all my songs back on: I messed something up that made iTunes upload 3-5 songs at a time and then quit.
Definately some people need to get on those help files and flesh them out more.
anyway, the point is: gtkpod doesn't "just work" like iTMS is. does iTMS work under wine?
I don't know, we used to have games that could've been made by the anasazi with "knotted rope map" technology® but they were playable and fun. Now everything seems so bland. There are a few good games out there, but so many pretenders and entire genres have all but disappeared. What happened to the {something} quest adventure games? or the clever puzzle games?
What ever happened to manuals with jokes in them?
And why do people keep buying 'the sims'? It's a "real life" simulator with 4x the frustration and none of the "chance for passing on your genes"
It's as if we've become so risk averse that we are unwilling to try anything that might fail or offend someone, even if it's tremendously creative.
The games end up being coded fairly well by competant programmers who enjoy what they do, but fail to be designed by creative authors, artists, and just plain clever people. So we get a programmers idea of a good game instead of actually good games:
technically excellent, visually stunning, boring. I point to `Racing game of the week: Ford car advertisement' and `Madden sells out again! 2005' as evidence. Gone are the days of super mario bros, the legend of zelda, frogger, TIE fighter, space quest and the lot. (Where have all the comic adventure games gone to anyway? I know there's a new leisure suit larry, but is that it?)
photons are more like a "packet" of those wave forms. They are most decidedly NOT the underlying medium of vibration. What you are describing is the aether. Read about the michelson-morley experiment for more information.
strictly speaking, the shuttle's safety record: ~98% is the highest of any launch system (soyuz is 98-.1% or something like that). The difference is that the shuttle's record is declining with disasters lat in the projects lifetime whereas those other systems are improving with each successful launch: their disasters all occured during development or at the begining of the life cycle of those systems.
One word: reboost. Whatever you put up there that you want to keep up there, you have to boost from time to time because of atmospheric drag. As it grows, you must make sure you can send engines and fuel sufficient to accomplish that task.
What are you talking about? If you pump the brakes (like you should've been doing before anti-lock) you lose all the anti-lock goodness. If anything they're getting safer now that people are unlearning the bad habits from before.
But what's wrong with taking something that's been established at an acceptable level of safety and achieving that same level of safety a different way that allows an improvement in performance? Would you rather we go back to rail travel at the same speed as it used to be when trains were powered by wood burning steam boilers, only with all the improvements in safety since then? or just not make any improvements at all?
Why not wear your shirt around your waist and your shoes on your hands? technically you'd be obeying the rules but brazenly violating the spirit and you wouldn't have to expose your naughty parts to do it. (you'd probably need to modify a tie function as a belt..)
I sent a lexmark jumpdrive through a washing machine and then drier once before I realised it was still in my pants pocket. Not only did it survive, the data was still there when I crossed my fingers and plugged it into my computer.
If they can survive electrolyte rich caustic laundry detergent imbued water, the spin cycle and static discharge (I never use drier sheets), I'm sure they can hold up to a few measly decades out in the rain.
You neglected to say whose nipple it was. It wasn't just some young attractive woman, it was Janet Jackson. I think it is certainly in the public interest to protect everyone from aging former pop stars' chrome enhanced mammaries being foisted upon a public resource as scarce as the broadcast-television band of the radio spectrum.
If you don't think having children is important, try paying for social security with a shrinking working population. If you are unwilling to support the 'production' of new people, what claim do you think you should have on the wages of that generation?
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Keep in mind, inaddition to my computer, I've also got an old 19" CRT to suck the power. I need to get one of those kill-o-watt thingies and find out for myself.
They're not actually going broke. They've just found a way to tap a less risky revinue stream. Look at AMTRAK for the extreme example of this tactic.
We used to have that technology in the US. Turns out it was easier to just type the dang url.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=300W+*+%2 4.08%2F(1+kW*h)*24h*30&btnG=Search but according to google calculator, I'm probably paying almost $20 a month for my computer (ok probably less since I don't think i'm using the full 300W and I don't have the thing on all day, but I've done so in the past. Anyway, that's out of a total bill of $150 which includes AC, refrigerator, water heater, etc. So that 10% figure might not be so farfetched.
1400 watts "input" 1000 watts "outut"
sounds suspiciously like someone is making a square root of two error (perhaps by confusing peak to peak something with RMS of that something)
square root of 2 ~ 1.414
I usually just reply to friends and family with the snopes link to whatever "virus warning" or "bill gates gives $1000 per forward" they send me. Then I chew them out for not removing the two hundred headers and the ten levels of 'forwarding' markers. I actually don't care if a relative wants to forward me the latest joke or what have you as long as they take the time to fix up the formatting a bit so I can read it without getting a headache.
I believe that we are improperly focusing the debate however. There is only one question and both sides seem to avoid actually discussing it: What is a human being and what isn't? Anything that falls under the human being category deserves all of the rights of every person, so all of the questions become moot at that point:
If it is just a mass-o-cells, then any amount of experimentation or termination or whatever is acceptable. To perform experiments on a human being however is unacceptable without consent. Of course, how could you obtain consent from a four cell human? Ending the life of a human being of any age or state is unacceptable. There is a word for it and it is prohibited by both God's law and man's: homicide. There are circumstances under which homicide is acceptable, at least according to man's law. I am fuzzy about the concept of killing in self-defense theologically, but it is certainly legal and societally accepted.
As a result, my position causes me to be opposed to many forms of birth control, all forms of abortion*, and all forms of experimentation on embryo derived cells despite the possible gains.
I am reminded of a short story I learned in literature class (but I cannot remember the name) about a town that lived in perfect peace. They had no disquiet, no disease, and nobody suffered in any way. When their children turned 10, they would become old enough to learn the terrible bargain: the secret to their success was that a child under 10 must every so often be taken into a small cell to suffer in the darkness and his/her own waste, fed only bread and water until s/he died and was replaced by another child.
*a procedure which saves the life of the mother but results in the ancillary death of the child within her womb saddens me, but only that it must be done. I don't envy any mother or doctor that must make a decision like that.
Anyway, I base my position on the principle that life begins at conception: the clearly definable moment when the sperm penetrates the egg, causing an "instantaneous" chemical change rendering the egg perminantly impenetrable. As a result, anything that we do to that being following that event we do to a human and all the rules to all other humans applies.
The debate should center on that question and that question alone: what clearly definable event or state must occur before which, there is a mass of cells which we can do anything we want to and after which there is a human being?
Interestingly, no new laws need to be passed if we focus on the proper question. Once we have properly and satisfactorially defined a human being, existing law is sufficient to cover all current circumstances.
Make sure it supports your iPod specifically (as in, someone with your model has actually tried it and wrote a glowing review). I tried to add some mp3s to my 6G mini and either I fouled it up because I couldn't understand the help files or it doesn't support my model yet. Also I did something stupid. In the end, I ended up having to do a reboot & reformat before I could load all my songs back on: I messed something up that made iTunes upload 3-5 songs at a time and then quit.
Definately some people need to get on those help files and flesh them out more.
anyway, the point is: gtkpod doesn't "just work" like iTMS is. does iTMS work under wine?
I don't know, we used to have games that could've been made by the anasazi with "knotted rope map" technology® but they were playable and fun. Now everything seems so bland. There are a few good games out there, but so many pretenders and entire genres have all but disappeared. What happened to the {something} quest adventure games? or the clever puzzle games?
What ever happened to manuals with jokes in them?
And why do people keep buying 'the sims'? It's a "real life" simulator with 4x the frustration and none of the "chance for passing on your genes"
It's as if we've become so risk averse that we are unwilling to try anything that might fail or offend someone, even if it's tremendously creative.
One of the many Open MRI systems.
Excellent. I'm going to start day trading tomorrow. You should too...
The games end up being coded fairly well by competant programmers who enjoy what they do, but fail to be designed by creative authors, artists, and just plain clever people. So we get a programmers idea of a good game instead of actually good games:
technically excellent, visually stunning, boring. I point to `Racing game of the week: Ford car advertisement' and `Madden sells out again! 2005' as evidence. Gone are the days of super mario bros, the legend of zelda, frogger, TIE fighter, space quest and the lot. (Where have all the comic adventure games gone to anyway? I know there's a new leisure suit larry, but is that it?)
I want write-in mods. Let the meta-moderators weed out the bad spelling and stupidity somehow.
Who meta-moderates the meta-moderators?
and whose bright idea was it to put dozens of tiny metal teeth there anyway?
The when you make links, you can do it like this:
<a href="http://www.url.org/stuff">some words describing the link</a>
I'm not sure if you actually need the quotes.
As a possible benefit, I have not seen slashcode mangle html links made "manually" like this.
photons are more like a "packet" of those wave forms. They are most decidedly NOT the underlying medium of vibration. What you are describing is the aether. Read about the michelson-morley experiment for more information.
strictly speaking, the shuttle's safety record: ~98% is the highest of any launch system (soyuz is 98-.1% or something like that). The difference is that the shuttle's record is declining with disasters lat in the projects lifetime whereas those other systems are improving with each successful launch: their disasters all occured during development or at the begining of the life cycle of those systems.
One word: reboost. Whatever you put up there that you want to keep up there, you have to boost from time to time because of atmospheric drag. As it grows, you must make sure you can send engines and fuel sufficient to accomplish that task.
What are you talking about? If you pump the brakes (like you should've been doing before anti-lock) you lose all the anti-lock goodness. If anything they're getting safer now that people are unlearning the bad habits from before.
But what's wrong with taking something that's been established at an acceptable level of safety and achieving that same level of safety a different way that allows an improvement in performance? Would you rather we go back to rail travel at the same speed as it used to be when trains were powered by wood burning steam boilers, only with all the improvements in safety since then? or just not make any improvements at all?
but he probably does have a $200k mortgage on a house with a two car garage and a couple of sport utes.
Why not wear your shirt around your waist and your shoes on your hands? technically you'd be obeying the rules but brazenly violating the spirit and you wouldn't have to expose your naughty parts to do it. (you'd probably need to modify a tie function as a belt..)
I sent a lexmark jumpdrive through a washing machine and then drier once before I realised it was still in my pants pocket. Not only did it survive, the data was still there when I crossed my fingers and plugged it into my computer.
If they can survive electrolyte rich caustic laundry detergent imbued water, the spin cycle and static discharge (I never use drier sheets), I'm sure they can hold up to a few measly decades out in the rain.
You neglected to say whose nipple it was. It wasn't just some young attractive woman, it was Janet Jackson. I think it is certainly in the public interest to protect everyone from aging former pop stars' chrome enhanced mammaries being foisted upon a public resource as scarce as the broadcast-television band of the radio spectrum.
You are the geeky kid next door.
If you don't think having children is important, try paying for social security with a shrinking working population. If you are unwilling to support the 'production' of new people, what claim do you think you should have on the wages of that generation?