...and yes, I'm aware that gasoline fuel cells are fairly big with current technology, that's the point... It's likely a lot easier to make them smaller than to come up with a hydrogen infrastructure. GM already has one in a pickup truck.
I think a gasoline fuel cell would be the best approach that could be had. You can use a supercapacitor for regenerative breaking, and develop extremely good electric powertrains until batteries or other elextric storage picks up. A cell that would convert gasoline to electricity at 80+% efficiency (which I think is already possible) would practically double the mileage of all cars.
Actually, our company is in exactly this situation. But there are other factors that you do not take into account. Large companies also like to screw their own customers. We found that plain hatred of the competition has driven a lot of customers our way, merely because we like to treat them like human beings.
Very large corporations also compete within their own department. Our bandwidth salesman makes zero money off of his company's DSL customers. Any customer we get is more bandwidth sold for him and he gives us a very decent deal.
I don't think conservatives trust the government with that either... Or much of anything. What you're describing (in an US setting) is Republicans. Big difference nowadays. Republicans are only supposed to disagree with dempocrats long enough for us to keep believing in the whole sick joke and to vote like it's going to change anything. Change the American people got suckered into believing in once again. This is what the 'lesser evil' gets you.
Actually, I think properly done science would not show any bias whatsoever even if they mentioned little green men worshiping the great BoingBoing.
Proper science would only look at the observed facts.
The kind of science you are referring to is more in line with the 'scientists' who called Galileo crazy or the man-made (or not) global warming crowds.
To discredit a genuine scientific (or otherwise) theory because some religious/spiritual bozos are running around screaming about something similar (in this case a date) is not proper science.
The encouraging thing is that we seem to be part of the same 'movement'. People really are waking up nowadays... And paying attention. Keep up the good fight.
You know, you may be on to something. Maybe we need a grassroots effort to bribe every congressman out there, document it, then accuse them of taking bribes. That would 1- clean out the filthy ones willing to take bribes and 2- help make sure they don't try to take bribes again.
People could raise 6 millions in 24h for Ron Paul, they surely could manage something like this.
And if they don't get what they initially wanted, they'll try another law, and if that doesn't go through, they'll try another law... Until they finally manage to come up with the perfect timing when nobody is paying attention and it goes through.
That or they'll just declare that it's in effect, they can get away with that more and more these days. It's not like voting them out would change anything.
Actually, all you have to do is respect the constitution if the part you highlighted is right. Libertarian, Republican, Democrat or any other... So long as you agree with what the constituion calls for (limited federal authority in favor of stare or local), you are a mean nasty terrorist.
We offer two services. Normal service is 25GB/month 5Mbit 40$, 'big' service is 50GB/month 6Mbit 50$. People seem pretty happy with those conditions. We merely warn customers that regularly bust their quota and only send a bill if they fail to keep it in check after being warned.
Obviously we aren't a gigantic ISP with millions of customers, but even then, bandwidth is cheap enough for us to cut a decent profit under those conditions and maintain enough capacity to deliver.
If we scaled to a hundread thousand customers or so, we could probably offer twice that monthly bandwidth at the same price without problem. I really don't see what the large ISPs are complaining about.
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Just consider the velocity US policy in the 20th century.
Actually, acceleration would describe things better than velocity. Otherwise, wonderfully said. The world needs more people like you.
...and yes, I'm aware that gasoline fuel cells are fairly big with current technology, that's the point... It's likely a lot easier to make them smaller than to come up with a hydrogen infrastructure. GM already has one in a pickup truck.
I think a gasoline fuel cell would be the best approach that could be had. You can use a supercapacitor for regenerative breaking, and develop extremely good electric powertrains until batteries or other elextric storage picks up. A cell that would convert gasoline to electricity at 80+% efficiency (which I think is already possible) would practically double the mileage of all cars.
The ending of a number in binary indicates its oddness.
Why wouldn't it indicate it's evenness?
They could at last release the iWii! Oh this one was just aching to come out...
The oldest appointment I have dates back to Sept 2001.
Bet it wasn't a girl...
Actually, our company is in exactly this situation. But there are other factors that you do not take into account. Large companies also like to screw their own customers. We found that plain hatred of the competition has driven a lot of customers our way, merely because we like to treat them like human beings.
Very large corporations also compete within their own department. Our bandwidth salesman makes zero money off of his company's DSL customers. Any customer we get is more bandwidth sold for him and he gives us a very decent deal.
I believe they still do this actually.
I don't think conservatives trust the government with that either... Or much of anything. What you're describing (in an US setting) is Republicans.
Big difference nowadays. Republicans are only supposed to disagree with dempocrats long enough for us to keep believing in the whole sick joke and to vote like it's going to change anything.
Change the American people got suckered into believing in once again. This is what the 'lesser evil' gets you.
Webcam, lava lamp.
Actually, I think properly done science would not show any bias whatsoever even if they mentioned little green men worshiping the great BoingBoing.
Proper science would only look at the observed facts.
The kind of science you are referring to is more in line with the 'scientists' who called Galileo crazy or the man-made (or not) global warming crowds.
To discredit a genuine scientific (or otherwise) theory because some religious/spiritual bozos are running around screaming about something similar (in this case a date) is not proper science.
It seems the media industry has much stronger political influence than the people.
Industry has always had stronger political influence than the people. It's just more obvious when industry actually disagrees with the people.
Time to start a new one. Incindently, my ID is lower than yours! Nah nah prrrrt!
The encouraging thing is that we seem to be part of the same 'movement'. People really are waking up nowadays... And paying attention. Keep up the good fight.
You know, you may be on to something. Maybe we need a grassroots effort to bribe every congressman out there, document it, then accuse them of taking bribes. That would 1- clean out the filthy ones willing to take bribes and 2- help make sure they don't try to take bribes again.
People could raise 6 millions in 24h for Ron Paul, they surely could manage something like this.
And if they don't get what they initially wanted, they'll try another law, and if that doesn't go through, they'll try another law... Until they finally manage to come up with the perfect timing when nobody is paying attention and it goes through.
That or they'll just declare that it's in effect, they can get away with that more and more these days. It's not like voting them out would change anything.
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1202103&cid=27610881 provided a citation...
Actually, all you have to do is respect the constitution if the part you highlighted is right. Libertarian, Republican, Democrat or any other... So long as you agree with what the constituion calls for (limited federal authority in favor of stare or local), you are a mean nasty terrorist.
Enough with the frickin' stuff already!
Now all we need to do is convince a few more hundred million Americans to understand that basic principle of yours.
In the meantime, enjoy some well earned respect on my part.
Technically, he's controlled by the banks. But yes, Hollywood is an interesting sideline/hobby type deal if we follow your line of thought.
Or of the following presidency...
Tell me about it, I expected something like those creepies in 'The Day The Earth Stood Still'
As someone who works for an ISP, I can tell you that you are quite correct. That's what we do and we make a fairly decent living.
We offer two services. Normal service is 25GB/month 5Mbit 40$, 'big' service is 50GB/month 6Mbit 50$. People seem pretty happy with those conditions. We merely warn customers that regularly bust their quota and only send a bill if they fail to keep it in check after being warned.
Obviously we aren't a gigantic ISP with millions of customers, but even then, bandwidth is cheap enough for us to cut a decent profit under those conditions and maintain enough capacity to deliver.
If we scaled to a hundread thousand customers or so, we could probably offer twice that monthly bandwidth at the same price without problem. I really don't see what the large ISPs are complaining about.