Nobody is really going to terraform Mars with greenhouse gases. But if you get people to accept the argument that greenhouse gases can cause global climate change, you win the political argument that it can, or does happen here. It forces the question quite handily.
I know how outrageous the odds are. But I know two lottery winners -- and I'm a fairly antisocial individual. It doesn't sway me, but it does make the odds seem a little less astronomical.
I think I played the lotto maybe 5 times for curiosity's sake. Won $180, and stopped playing.
"For people (like me) who order just about everything they buy from Amazon, $1500/yr is not a large amount."
I don't think it's a particularly large amount just for books. I bought nearly that much in work-related books last year, plus 2 semesters' worth of university textbooks, plus a few hundred dollars' worth of sheet music. Not all of it from Amazon, but that is only because Amazon doesn't have everything.
"While SS shiping can be quite fast, I have found myself ordering extra things I didn't really need to get up to the $25 you need for SS shipping."
You've sussed the operating model behind SS shipping.
You don't win a prize. I think you actually end up paying a premium, because it seems that a whole lot of other people have figured this out as well, and now Amazon is trying a new approach.
You don't really think SS shipping will be available after this subscription model rolls, do you?
Hey, you can spend your money on wire, or you can spend it on better preamps, power amps, or speakers.
This topic comes up because someone wants to spend money to improve his sound. Which can always be done. Start with Klein & Hummel or Genelec speakers. Don't run speaker wire, run balanced audio cable to the power amp which is near (or in) the speaker. Spend the money on power amps, or preamps, or microphones, or patchbay cables. By all means, spend money to improve your sound, but don't expect anything but a placebo effect if you just spend it on "Monster speaker wire."
It seems like most people who are into stuff like "Monster cable" are also of the opinion that music sounds better when it's louder, or perhaps just with a frequency curve weighted to the bass. For them, a couple of QSC power amps and some stage horns would probably satisfy more than any home stereo ever will.
If you're building a mastering studio, I'm sure you already have a pretty good idea where to spend your money, and it starts with choosing the speakers. Have I recommended Klein and Hummel yet? If you want to spend money where it will make a difference in your sound quality, there is where you should spend it.
>The constitution also doesn't say "separation of > church and state".... but I wish it did.
It does. Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
That is the very essence of the doctrine of separation of church and state, and goes much further to protect this fundamental right of the people than your wished-for clause would.
I was in SF last summer, and I was amazed at both, how well the public transportation worked (it was actually very useful), and also how economical it was (and it still would be, even with incremental fare increases).
It's the only public transportation system I've ever seen that actually *works*, with the possible exception of Rome. Since BART/MUNI/etc. are without peers, I'd be inclined to cut them some slack when they raise fares. But then, I don't live in Oakland and work in a fish market in chinatown where.25 would be a major problem...
One of the guy's own kids? If so, it's not such a foregone conclusion that he's not somewhat responsible -- maybe not for arson, but for insurance purposes, there's possibly difference between someone setting your house on fire to try to kill you, versus someone in your family setting the fire by negligence or whatever.
If the kid used the Safeway card, then the story takes on a much more reasonable, much less chilling dimension.
"The recent Caltrain newsletter actually has comments from riders saying that they hate them, but Caltrain goes with them because of the cash flow."
More importantly, that cash flows because people are being persuaded by the ads to buy the products. I'll be Target can measure more business increase due to their ad placement, than BART/Caltrain can measure loss due to the ads.
I wonder how these same folks would respond to a proposal to raise fares by the same amount to compensate for the ad revenue? I think I know how that would go over.
We know the name, marital status, and grocery affiliation of the innocent victim, but we don't even know the gender of the person who admitted guilt? What is wrong with this picture?
They're going to lock the guy in a room where they create their own reality, to show him that locking himself in a room to create his own reality is wrong?
I was a legal secretary. It was routine for us to have to transcribe from tapes. That means you needed to type as fast as you could listen, and get it right the first time. 70wpm was a minimum requirement to even be considered for the job.
"There is no way that someone is going to go through the trouble of learning how to type on a different keyboard."
You're thinking only from the perspective of "re-learning" which is difficult. Consider that someone might start out on Dvorak keys. Or learn several layouts from the beginning. It probably won't happen in the US, but it might be possible elsewhere.
The comment I was responding to mentioned chess specifically as an application for which Windows supposedly surpasses Linux, that's all. I don't think it's a big deal, but I also thought it was incorrect. And yeah, any chess program since Sargon I has been able to beat the pants off *me.* I'm better at darts than any computer though.
I haven't seen any problem. If anything, I find it better, since I didn't have to configure anything to make the scanner work, something I haven't managed to accomplish using SANE.
Otherwise, I see no problem at all -- what problems have you experienced?
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Nobody is really going to terraform Mars with greenhouse gases. But if you get people to accept the argument that greenhouse gases can cause global climate change, you win the political argument that it can, or does happen here. It forces the question quite handily.
"Socialism [started in the US because of] the great depression."
*cough* Eugene V. Debs and Victor Berger, Socialists, 1898. *cough*
The 1930s are considered the *decline* of Socialism in the US.
"...but the drivers dont keep a cent of it. The reason why..."
I don't follow your explanation. Why does the owner get the delivery money and not the driver? Sounds like a shithole place to work.
>People still play the lottery..
I know how outrageous the odds are. But I know two lottery winners -- and I'm a fairly antisocial individual. It doesn't sway me, but it does make the odds seem a little less astronomical.
I think I played the lotto maybe 5 times for curiosity's sake. Won $180, and stopped playing.
"For people (like me) who order just about everything they buy from Amazon, $1500/yr is not a large amount."
I don't think it's a particularly large amount just for books. I bought nearly that much in work-related books last year, plus 2 semesters' worth of university textbooks, plus a few hundred dollars' worth of sheet music. Not all of it from Amazon, but that is only because Amazon doesn't have everything.
Just be glad the bargain shipping rate doesn't cause them to intentionally delay your package!
"Hey, Joe, this isn't supposed to be delivered till Friday, you want I should toss it back in the truck?"
"While SS shiping can be quite fast, I have found myself ordering extra things I didn't really need to get up to the $25 you need for SS shipping."
You've sussed the operating model behind SS shipping.
You don't win a prize. I think you actually end up paying a premium, because it seems that a whole lot of other people have figured this out as well, and now Amazon is trying a new approach.
You don't really think SS shipping will be available after this subscription model rolls, do you?
"What does the study say about talking to your buddy in the passenger seat? Come on."
Your buddy in the passenger seat has the ability to scream when he sees imminent danger, whereas the person on the other end of the phone call can't.
"Hey, I just crashed my car, I can't feel my legs. I'll have to call you back ok?"
Hey, you can spend your money on wire, or you can spend it on better preamps, power amps, or speakers.
This topic comes up because someone wants to spend money to improve his sound. Which can always be done. Start with Klein & Hummel or Genelec speakers.
Don't run speaker wire, run balanced audio cable to the power amp which is near (or in) the speaker. Spend the money on power amps, or preamps, or microphones, or patchbay cables. By all means, spend money to improve your sound, but don't expect anything but a placebo effect if you just spend it on "Monster speaker wire."
It seems like most people who are into stuff like "Monster cable" are also of the opinion that music sounds better when it's louder, or perhaps just with a frequency curve weighted to the bass. For them, a couple of QSC power amps and some stage horns would probably satisfy more than any home stereo ever will.
If you're building a mastering studio, I'm sure you already have a pretty good idea where to spend your money, and it starts with choosing the speakers. Have I recommended Klein and Hummel yet? If you want to spend money where it will make a difference in your sound quality, there is where you should spend it.
"You had me all the way up to Monster Cable. [Shudder] You're falling for a lot of marketing hype."
ABX testing has shown Home Depot 18 gauge lamp cord to be identical or even superior to Monster Cable in all respects.
>The constitution also doesn't say "separation of .... but I wish it did.
> church and state"
It does. Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
That is the very essence of the doctrine of separation of church and state, and goes much further to protect this fundamental right of the people than your wished-for clause would.
I was in SF last summer, and I was amazed at both, how well the public transportation worked (it was actually very useful), and also how economical it was (and it still would be, even with incremental fare increases).
.25 would be a major problem...
It's the only public transportation system I've ever seen that actually *works*, with the possible exception of Rome. Since BART/MUNI/etc. are without peers, I'd be inclined to cut them some slack when they raise fares. But then, I don't live in Oakland and work in a fish market in chinatown where
'A kid started it by accident'.
One of the guy's own kids? If so, it's not such a foregone conclusion that he's not somewhat responsible -- maybe not for arson, but for insurance purposes, there's possibly difference between someone setting your house on fire to try to kill you, versus someone in your family setting the fire by negligence or whatever.
If the kid used the Safeway card, then the story takes on a much more reasonable, much less chilling dimension.
"The recent Caltrain newsletter actually has comments from riders saying that they hate them, but Caltrain goes with them because of the cash flow."
More importantly, that cash flows because people are being persuaded by the ads to buy the products. I'll be Target can measure more business increase due to their ad placement, than BART/Caltrain can measure loss due to the ads.
I wonder how these same folks would respond to a proposal to raise fares by the same amount to compensate for the ad revenue? I think I know how that would go over.
We know the name, marital status, and grocery affiliation of the innocent victim, but we don't even know the gender of the person who admitted guilt? What is wrong with this picture?
They're going to lock the guy in a room where they create their own reality, to show him that locking himself in a room to create his own reality is wrong?
"99.99% of people who run MySQL run it on the same machine as their webserver that queries it."
What research method did you use to come up with that precise number?
"Our sysadmin came running this morning and was totally devastated."
Devastated? You sure it wasn't the happy dance? He just got handed a SA's dream -- no longer wearing the pager for a Windows server!
I was a legal secretary. It was routine for us to have to transcribe from tapes. That means you needed to type as fast as you could listen, and get it right the first time. 70wpm was a minimum requirement to even be considered for the job.
"Sure, for the top 1% of typists who actually can acheive about 80 WPM"
1%? You've obviously never had to compete for a clerical job that required typing. If only 70-80 wpm were a skill that put you in the 1%...
"There is no way that someone is going to go through the trouble of learning how to type on a different keyboard."
You're thinking only from the perspective of "re-learning" which is difficult. Consider that someone might start out on Dvorak keys. Or learn several layouts from the beginning. It probably won't happen in the US, but it might be possible elsewhere.
> if you are a 'vi' user, then this keyboard will
> likely drive you mad.
A vi user on a Dvorak keyboard uses dhtn for cursor keys.
The comment I was responding to mentioned chess specifically as an application for which Windows supposedly surpasses Linux, that's all. I don't think it's a big deal, but I also thought it was incorrect. And yeah, any chess program since Sargon I has been able to beat the pants off *me.* I'm better at darts than any computer though.
"2. Gimp on Windows/Cygwin sucks sucks badly."
I haven't seen any problem. If anything, I find it better, since I didn't have to configure anything to make the scanner work, something I haven't managed to accomplish using SANE.
Otherwise, I see no problem at all -- what problems have you experienced?
I thought crafty could beat fritz with a full endgame book.