From the other side of the ponds, the story is quite different. About 113,000 people cast their vote here. In this worldwide shadow election: Kerry wins (77.1%), and Bush comes second at 9.1%.
What does that prove, in and of itself? The "whole world" hated President Reagan, to.
...especially the Soviet Union, Communist Romania, Communist Poland, Checkoslovakia, Hungary, Georgia... In fact all of the Eastern European communist regimes. May they rest in peace.
In many Asian countries, the mentality is to work as a group, rather than individually, with the individual sacrificing themselves for the group...Perhaps, as this experiment shows, the Asian mentality may actually be the superior strategy?
If we grant your rather broad assumption about the "asian mentality", it's still hard to see what makes that "the superior strategy". As TFA said, the strategy created a vast pool of losers, and a small number of very big winners. Is that really "superior"? For the three big winners, it clearly is--but what about the millions of peasants on whose back the winners stand?
Would you care when one of those morons built a rocket that came apart, killing everyone on board and raining down debris? You would certainly complain bitterly if it was one of your family on board, or if it was your house that was hit by debris.
The problem with this objection is that you think it's plausible. Are you actually claiming that morons will sell tickets to ascend the heavens in erstwhile VW bugs?
The fact is that killing customers is bad business. And heirs tend to sue. And reporters would love to get the scoop when a "space jalopy kills seven". And people tend not to patronize an establishment after the newspaper accuses them of "killing seven" with their "space jalopies".
Regulation doesn't really offer stronger safeguards. Indeed regulation is usually sought by the industry itself! Why? Because it reduces competition by raising barriers to entry, and because it offers a great alibi in case of lawsuits.
"Look, we're government certified; our ships all have the federal seal on their hatches; the cruise ship 'Challenger' was even inspected one week before the fatal flight!"
I keep wondering why solar can't provide some of this. Build a series of solar panels, collect water (say from a local river), break down the water into H2+O, let the latter out into the air and keep the former for fuel.
It can be done. The problem is that it's way too slow. You'll get only a trickle of hydrogen, which isn't enough for continuous power generation. That's exactly the problem with the experiment in TFA.
The lowest cost hydrogen production method uses fossil fuel: steam reforming of natural gas. Purified natural gas is exposed to steam at about 800 degrees celsius, in the presence of a catalyst. This produces hydrogen and carbon oxides. Carbon monoxide from the reaction combines with steam, producing carbon dioxide and releasing more hydrogen. The resulting hydrogen is separated and purified for use.
Apprdoximately 50% of the eligible voters actually bothered in 2000. This means only 25% of the eligible voters wanted either one.
You can't assume that. Abstention can as easily be taken to mean that either choice is acceptable. In that case, approximately 75% are content to have Bush, while about 75% would have been content to have Gore.
"In the cable and satellite world the 'all you can eat' subscription business model has proven to be much more popular than the transactional pay-per-view model," said Starz chairman, founder and CEO, John J. Sie.
Going from $8 per view to $13 per month certainly looks like a step in the right direction. Maybe market forces will drive things toward a workable model after all. This is almost something I'd consider subscribing to.
Building one of these using transistors? It should reduce maintenance costs, and the leftover power would meet all the energy needs of the museum it lives in, plus the surrounding towns.
I'm pretty sure that the Y2K bug started well before the 1970's.
True. But they were still churning them out vigorously in the '70s, confident that obsolescence would take their software out of service within thirty years.
As for the DOS PC, that was in 1981.
Also true. But it was on the drawing boards in the '70s: Microsoft was founded in 1975, and wrote disk BASIC in 1979. QDOS was written in 1980. So while this is right on the edge, it still speaks to the legacy of the "1970s, when people built things to last!"
Of course you realise that by doing that you are violating several patents on "Air Gap Firewall Technology".
You're right! My bad! I forgot the most important step: to avoid an Air-Gap lawsuit from SCO, you must insert both cable ends into a bucket of sand. Change the sand periodically, to avoid a buildup of spam and viruses.
I love how "properly configured firewall" is the solution to everything. Hackers root your box? You didn't have a properly configured firewall. System eaten by a worm? You should have had a properly configured firewall. Your windows box zombified and sending out spam? Seriously consider investing in a properly configured firewall.
I've come up with the final word in firewall technology. What I do is connect my PC to the DSL router with a 10' ethernet cable. Then, using an approved tool, I carefully cut the cable, making sure to sever it completely. Haven't had a problem since.
What we really need is an article suggesting how I can speed up my downloads...
Making disposable packaging is "building things to last"? The early '70s are the "long lost days when people built real quality"? That's why Japanese cars started to overwhelm the American market about that time, I suppose.
I couldn't live without my Palm IIIxe. Ebooks on the bus, note-taking in meetings, studying with SuperMemo on potty breaks, are too deeply imbedded in my life now to give up. So if PDAs are dead, what will I do when my Palm's buttons stop working? I'm already on PDA #3 due to worn-out buttons.
If the PDA does die, it will be by suicide: WinCE, massive RAM increases, wireless, etc., all nudge PDAs into the space already occupied by laptops. In that niche, they're doomed--a PDA just isn't as good as a laptop at being a laptop.
That's why I've reluctantly retired my Zaurus and gone back to Palm. What's the use of a handheld that can run MySQL, if the batteries last about 40 minutes?
(The IIIxe sits right in the sweet spot for me: enough RAM for a dozen ebooks; battery life measured in weeks; small form factor; acceptable resolution; easily replaced batteries available from any store; standard serial interface that can talk to my XP, Linux, Mac and GPS. And graffiti kicks the thumb-keyboard's posterior.)
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From the other side of the ponds, the story is quite different. About 113,000 people cast their vote here. In this worldwide shadow election: Kerry wins (77.1%), and Bush comes second at 9.1%.
What does that prove, in and of itself? The "whole world" hated President Reagan, to.
...especially the Soviet Union, Communist Romania, Communist Poland, Checkoslovakia, Hungary, Georgia... In fact all of the Eastern European communist regimes. May they rest in peace.
Len.
In many Asian countries, the mentality is to work as a group, rather than individually, with the individual sacrificing themselves for the group...Perhaps, as this experiment shows, the Asian mentality may actually be the superior strategy?
If we grant your rather broad assumption about the "asian mentality", it's still hard to see what makes that "the superior strategy". As TFA said, the strategy created a vast pool of losers, and a small number of very big winners. Is that really "superior"? For the three big winners, it clearly is--but what about the millions of peasants on whose back the winners stand?
Len.
So is everyone at FreeRepublic.com. Check out their "Freep the Ballot!" ads next election.
The problem with this objection is that you think it's plausible. Are you actually claiming that morons will sell tickets to ascend the heavens in erstwhile VW bugs?
The fact is that killing customers is bad business. And heirs tend to sue. And reporters would love to get the scoop when a "space jalopy kills seven". And people tend not to patronize an establishment after the newspaper accuses them of "killing seven" with their "space jalopies".
Regulation doesn't really offer stronger safeguards. Indeed regulation is usually sought by the industry itself! Why? Because it reduces competition by raising barriers to entry, and because it offers a great alibi in case of lawsuits.
"Look, we're government certified; our ships all have the federal seal on their hatches; the cruise ship 'Challenger' was even inspected one week before the fatal flight!"
It's pretty easy to convert methane to hydrogen. In fact, the process is the usual one for producing hydrogen today from natural gas.
Going the other way would seem rather pointless, since that's where the hydrogen came from in the first place.
It can be done. The problem is that it's way too slow. You'll get only a trickle of hydrogen, which isn't enough for continuous power generation. That's exactly the problem with the experiment in TFA.
The lowest cost hydrogen production method uses fossil fuel: steam reforming of natural gas. Purified natural gas is exposed to steam at about 800 degrees celsius, in the presence of a catalyst. This produces hydrogen and carbon oxides. Carbon monoxide from the reaction combines with steam, producing carbon dioxide and releasing more hydrogen. The resulting hydrogen is separated and purified for use.
You can't assume that. Abstention can as easily be taken to mean that either choice is acceptable. In that case, approximately 75% are content to have Bush, while about 75% would have been content to have Gore.
The meaning of an abstention is far from clear.
First off, MS hasn't even been *around* for 25 years.
Actually, it was started in 1975, which by my count is about 29 years ago.
Going from $8 per view to $13 per month certainly looks like a step in the right direction. Maybe market forces will drive things toward a workable model after all. This is almost something I'd consider subscribing to.
Building one of these using transistors? It should reduce maintenance costs, and the leftover power would meet all the energy needs of the museum it lives in, plus the surrounding towns.
Is that the issue? I didn't read the article...
True. But they were still churning them out vigorously in the '70s, confident that obsolescence would take their software out of service within thirty years.
Also true. But it was on the drawing boards in the '70s: Microsoft was founded in 1975, and wrote disk BASIC in 1979. QDOS was written in 1980. So while this is right on the edge, it still speaks to the legacy of the "1970s, when people built things to last!"
You're right! My bad! I forgot the most important step: to avoid an Air-Gap lawsuit from SCO, you must insert both cable ends into a bucket of sand. Change the sand periodically, to avoid a buildup of spam and viruses.
I've come up with the final word in firewall technology. What I do is connect my PC to the DSL router with a 10' ethernet cable. Then, using an approved tool, I carefully cut the cable, making sure to sever it completely. Haven't had a problem since.
What we really need is an article suggesting how I can speed up my downloads...
I couldn't live without my Palm IIIxe. Ebooks on the bus, note-taking in meetings, studying with SuperMemo on potty breaks, are too deeply imbedded in my life now to give up. So if PDAs are dead, what will I do when my Palm's buttons stop working? I'm already on PDA #3 due to worn-out buttons.
If the PDA does die, it will be by suicide: WinCE, massive RAM increases, wireless, etc., all nudge PDAs into the space already occupied by laptops. In that niche, they're doomed--a PDA just isn't as good as a laptop at being a laptop.
That's why I've reluctantly retired my Zaurus and gone back to Palm. What's the use of a handheld that can run MySQL, if the batteries last about 40 minutes?
(The IIIxe sits right in the sweet spot for me: enough RAM for a dozen ebooks; battery life measured in weeks; small form factor; acceptable resolution; easily replaced batteries available from any store; standard serial interface that can talk to my XP, Linux, Mac and GPS. And graffiti kicks the thumb-keyboard's posterior.)