Oh, my god! You found the truth. All the hundreds of millions of people in Europe are so wrong! They all lived in deep misery all these years without knowing the Truth. If only they could hear you...
This is just Conservative bullshit at its best. You're not accounting on the growth of the product, the dramatic growth of productivity, etc.
Yeah, go invest in those new titles the banks are selling. We all know how much more reliable they are. Because if it's the State, it's a Ponzi scheme. If it's the banks, multiplying money is just natural. We all know they can take money out of their asses and make us all rich.
Genital mutilation is not Muslim. It's an ancient Egyptian tradition from the time of the Pharaohs. It's widespread across mid-Africa and it has been incorporated in the Muslim traditions of some communities. As far as I know, it's not used in the Arab world, except for Egypt.
That was when he was the best friend of the US or after?
Are you sure the shredder wasn't "made in USA"?
And the guys thrown off the top of a building, weren't they "dangerous communists, enemies of America"?
A very good friend of the USA, General Augusto Pinochet, used to throw prisoners off from helicopters over the Atlantic. Saddam, at least saved on heli fuel, but the Pinochet method was less messy.
Oh, did I mention the guys thrown off the helis were "dangerous communists, enemies of America"? At least the CIA black list delivered to Pinochet said so... Did I mention a similar list containing hundreds of thousands of targets was delivered to Saddam, also?
Yeah, Fox News, the great source of truth! When I was in the US I used to watch if to get some laughs. But, better thinking, some millions of people take it seriously, and that's not fun at all...
I haven't really noticed any flicker with the CFLs so far.
CFLs use an internal electronic ballast that generate frequencies in the order of KHz. There's no way you can have flicker at these frequencies. The household fluorescent tubes normally use a ferromagnetic ballast that feeds the lamps the usual 50-60Hz, giving that unpleasant flicker we all know. Also, electronic ballasts prevent the lamp from being damaged by turning on and off, that makes the CFL lifespan a lot bigger than fluorescent tubes.
So basically yah, CFLs aren't the best we can do, but they're the best affordable replacement for incandescents we have so far.
I'll hold on to my incandescents and carbon arc lamps, thanks.
Yes, because a 100W incandescent is much more efficient than a 18W CFL that after all, consumes 36W. Come on, people. I know you're naturally allergic to anything "green", but isn't this reasoning completely stupid?
Can sound get THAT loud? According to this, 115dB is the threshold of pain for humans. 203 dB is simply 33,000 times louder.
If you account for the high sound sensitivity of dolphins and water being a better sound conductor, just imagine the damage! It's like dropping a bomb on your head.
Couldn't the sonar be replaced by something less damaging? I guess water muffles radio waves, so a water radar is not a good idea. Maybe a very low frequency radar?
Linux is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Of course Linux has critics. Linux has everything. Those who say otherwise should be flogged and forced to shut the fuck up. Stop denigrating Linux you bastards!
It's not true. In my country (10 million people) there are 4 open TV channels (and 1 more to start anytime soon) and a bunch of only-cable ones. Also a lot of radios. Almost none one of them is profitable. The same with newspapers, all are huge money black-holes, with the exception of 1 or 2.
The only ones which are profitable have the usual tits-n-ass shows, murder & atrocity news reports, stupid reality shows for old ladies in the morning and for brain dead teens in the afternoon.
The big corporations invest in media because they need propaganda, not because they make money out of it. If left only to the market to decide, only the tits-n-ass profitable media would survive and corporations would have no means to influence the higher tiers of society, who don't consume the low down shit that shows in popular media.
Cool, let's just execute all the useless geezers as soon as they turn 30. They're just dead weight, anyway. Is gas chamber alright, or you have a better suggestion?
It has nothing to do with loving your company. What people don't realize often is that wasting company resources affects those who work in it.
If the employees are wasting too much power, the money to pay for them won't be taken from shareholder dividends or executive incentives. It will come from salaries.
So, it's not about loving the company. Don't waste company resources because, in the end, it's YOU who pays the bill.
Besides, also think about the impact of waste on the environment.
I don't know how it is in the US, but in my country you can't enter an intersection if you can't get out of it immediately. Anyway, some people don't give a shit and it usually generates lots of anger when the green light opens for the guys in the other street and they can't get through.
Passing a red light or stuck in the middle of the intersection, fine them anyway. What is the privacy issue? If you don't want your picture taken, obey the traffic laws. They exist for a reason, protect us all.
This said, any attempt to turn the cameras into profit sources by tampering with the lights should be regarded as intentional threats to road safety and severely punished. After a few city hall officers are jailed for public safety violations nobody will dare to dream of doing that. But just because some abused the cameras, it doesn't automatically make the cameras evil.
There is a better way. People can get off their asses and participate. Most people don't give a damn about politics, they think the system just runs by itself. When they wake up, they suddenly notice the government is fucking them.
Democracy is not only about casting the vote, it's about full citizenship and it definitely doesn't work if people simply go cast the vote and then forget it.
A politician can (and will) do things that are exactly the opposite of what people elected him for. You see, the corporations are whispering in the politicians' ears all the time, not only during campaign. If people can't make more noise meanwhile, guess who the politician is going to listen to?
"Are you ready for the 37-degree data center? Rackable Systems has introduced a new enclosure that it says can run high-density racks safely in environments as hot as 40 degrees C, offering customers the option of saving energy in their data center. Most data centers operate in a range between 20 and 23 degrees. Raising the thermostat can lower the power bill, allowing data centers to use less power for cooling. But higher temperatures can be less forgiving in the event of a cooling failure, and not likely to be welcomed by employees working in the data center."
Phosphates, nitrates and just plain shit are plant fertilizers too, but they pollute a lot. Being a pollutant or not depends on where you put it and how much of it.
Yeah, unfortunately you're just right. It's human nature. I was just talking about capitalism because someone brought that issue up.
The fact that selfish, insensitive and bully people tend to be more successful makes both capitalist and communist utopias impossible to work for a long time. Without mechanisms to prevent it, in both systems, the bully will climb the ladder to power and make society work on their benefit.
What I have seen in my life is that, precisely in this Capitalistic system we have, "deserving" has nothing to do with it.
People who are cocky and demand more than they deserve are always more successful than the others. Sometimes they crash and burn, but they move on to the next and are back on their feet again in short time.
The problem is that vane, selfish and greedy people tend to climb to upper positions and the more competent, hard-working and discrete people tend to stay in the shade. I don't know if this is a problem with capitalism, but it's definitely a problem.
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Oh, my god! You found the truth. All the hundreds of millions of people in Europe are so wrong! They all lived in deep misery all these years without knowing the Truth. If only they could hear you...
This is just Conservative bullshit at its best. You're not accounting on the growth of the product, the dramatic growth of productivity, etc.
Yeah, go invest in those new titles the banks are selling. We all know how much more reliable they are. Because if it's the State, it's a Ponzi scheme. If it's the banks, multiplying money is just natural. We all know they can take money out of their asses and make us all rich.
Genital mutilation is not Muslim. It's an ancient Egyptian tradition from the time of the Pharaohs. It's widespread across mid-Africa and it has been incorporated in the Muslim traditions of some communities. As far as I know, it's not used in the Arab world, except for Egypt.
That was when he was the best friend of the US or after?
Are you sure the shredder wasn't "made in USA"?
And the guys thrown off the top of a building, weren't they "dangerous communists, enemies of America"?
A very good friend of the USA, General Augusto Pinochet, used to throw prisoners off from helicopters over the Atlantic. Saddam, at least saved on heli fuel, but the Pinochet method was less messy.
Oh, did I mention the guys thrown off the helis were "dangerous communists, enemies of America"? At least the CIA black list delivered to Pinochet said so... Did I mention a similar list containing hundreds of thousands of targets was delivered to Saddam, also?
Yeah, Fox News, the great source of truth! When I was in the US I used to watch if to get some laughs. But, better thinking, some millions of people take it seriously, and that's not fun at all...
We need sonar because people we don't implicitly trust (Iran, China, Russia, NKorea?) have submarines.
And they have them because you have them, because they have them, because you have them, and so on.
I haven't really noticed any flicker with the CFLs so far.
CFLs use an internal electronic ballast that generate frequencies in the order of KHz. There's no way you can have flicker at these frequencies. The household fluorescent tubes normally use a ferromagnetic ballast that feeds the lamps the usual 50-60Hz, giving that unpleasant flicker we all know. Also, electronic ballasts prevent the lamp from being damaged by turning on and off, that makes the CFL lifespan a lot bigger than fluorescent tubes.
So basically yah, CFLs aren't the best we can do, but they're the best affordable replacement for incandescents we have so far.
You are right, the summary is silly, at least.
I'll hold on to my incandescents and carbon arc lamps, thanks.
Yes, because a 100W incandescent is much more efficient than a 18W CFL that after all, consumes 36W. Come on, people. I know you're naturally allergic to anything "green", but isn't this reasoning completely stupid?
203dB goes waaaaaay beyond the level of the loudest heavy metal gig. Like tens of thousands more.
Can sound get THAT loud? According to this, 115dB is the threshold of pain for humans. 203 dB is simply 33,000 times louder.
If you account for the high sound sensitivity of dolphins and water being a better sound conductor, just imagine the damage! It's like dropping a bomb on your head.
Couldn't the sonar be replaced by something less damaging? I guess water muffles radio waves, so a water radar is not a good idea. Maybe a very low frequency radar?
Linux is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Of course Linux has critics. Linux has everything. Those who say otherwise should be flogged and forced to shut the fuck up. Stop denigrating Linux you bastards!
Yeast produces alcohol and CO2. It's great if you want to stay drunk forever. But beware of the CO2, too much of it and you'll choke.
Yeast do not create carbon from thin air. They convert the sugars in the plants (grapes or barley) into alcohol and CO2.
The plants have absorbed that carbon from the atmosphere using photosynthesis.
So the total sum of carbon added to the atmosphere is zero. And this is a dumb article.
It's not true. In my country (10 million people) there are 4 open TV channels (and 1 more to start anytime soon) and a bunch of only-cable ones. Also a lot of radios. Almost none one of them is profitable. The same with newspapers, all are huge money black-holes, with the exception of 1 or 2.
The only ones which are profitable have the usual tits-n-ass shows, murder & atrocity news reports, stupid reality shows for old ladies in the morning and for brain dead teens in the afternoon.
The big corporations invest in media because they need propaganda, not because they make money out of it. If left only to the market to decide, only the tits-n-ass profitable media would survive and corporations would have no means to influence the higher tiers of society, who don't consume the low down shit that shows in popular media.
I think that's a problem with American cars.
Japanese are efficient and dull-looking, European are a little less efficient but good looking, Americans are neither.
Cool, let's just execute all the useless geezers as soon as they turn 30. They're just dead weight, anyway. Is gas chamber alright, or you have a better suggestion?
That's why I use hibernation. It takes one minute to shutdown and another to startup.
It has nothing to do with loving your company. What people don't realize often is that wasting company resources affects those who work in it.
If the employees are wasting too much power, the money to pay for them won't be taken from shareholder dividends or executive incentives. It will come from salaries.
So, it's not about loving the company. Don't waste company resources because, in the end, it's YOU who pays the bill.
Besides, also think about the impact of waste on the environment.
I don't know how it is in the US, but in my country you can't enter an intersection if you can't get out of it immediately. Anyway, some people don't give a shit and it usually generates lots of anger when the green light opens for the guys in the other street and they can't get through.
Passing a red light or stuck in the middle of the intersection, fine them anyway. What is the privacy issue? If you don't want your picture taken, obey the traffic laws. They exist for a reason, protect us all.
This said, any attempt to turn the cameras into profit sources by tampering with the lights should be regarded as intentional threats to road safety and severely punished. After a few city hall officers are jailed for public safety violations nobody will dare to dream of doing that. But just because some abused the cameras, it doesn't automatically make the cameras evil.
you must be horribly misinformed about the state of real world outside the US
Well, I happen to live in that place, the "real world outside the US".
But the US-like health system is widely available in most 3rd World countries, so there is no lack of alternatives.
Get a 1st World health care system. Those that don't like it can move to Sudan or Chad and be happy.
There is a better way. People can get off their asses and participate. Most people don't give a damn about politics, they think the system just runs by itself. When they wake up, they suddenly notice the government is fucking them.
Democracy is not only about casting the vote, it's about full citizenship and it definitely doesn't work if people simply go cast the vote and then forget it.
A politician can (and will) do things that are exactly the opposite of what people elected him for. You see, the corporations are whispering in the politicians' ears all the time, not only during campaign. If people can't make more noise meanwhile, guess who the politician is going to listen to?
"Are you ready for the 37-degree data center? Rackable Systems has introduced a new enclosure that it says can run high-density racks safely in environments as hot as 40 degrees C, offering customers the option of saving energy in their data center. Most data centers operate in a range between 20 and 23 degrees. Raising the thermostat can lower the power bill, allowing data centers to use less power for cooling. But higher temperatures can be less forgiving in the event of a cooling failure, and not likely to be welcomed by employees working in the data center."
Phosphates, nitrates and just plain shit are plant fertilizers too, but they pollute a lot. Being a pollutant or not depends on where you put it and how much of it.
Yeah, unfortunately you're just right. It's human nature. I was just talking about capitalism because someone brought that issue up.
The fact that selfish, insensitive and bully people tend to be more successful makes both capitalist and communist utopias impossible to work for a long time. Without mechanisms to prevent it, in both systems, the bully will climb the ladder to power and make society work on their benefit.
What I have seen in my life is that, precisely in this Capitalistic system we have, "deserving" has nothing to do with it.
People who are cocky and demand more than they deserve are always more successful than the others. Sometimes they crash and burn, but they move on to the next and are back on their feet again in short time.
The problem is that vane, selfish and greedy people tend to climb to upper positions and the more competent, hard-working and discrete people tend to stay in the shade. I don't know if this is a problem with capitalism, but it's definitely a problem.