Working in tech support myself, here are some tips that might actually be useful: Asking for the name and employee ID of a tech is a good way to make them resent you right off the bat. Thinking that this infomation will somehow be of use to you in the future baffles me... I'm not entirely sure what you think you can do with it. The other funny thing is the constant demands from irate customers who aren't getting a straight answer is to speak to supervisors or managers. They fail to realize that a manager or supervisor probably has less information on the topic than the front level agent you were speaking with. Their job is to run a call center, to make sure a certain number of calls are being handled, and that the agents are doing their jobs. The reason you're not getting a straight answer is because your OEM or ISP simply isn't providing the call center with that information, probably because they don't want to. Getting an employee's ID number or demanding to speak to a manager is just a waste of your time, and theirs, but customers do it all the time, even when I try to explain this to them.
You've taken the findings and twisted them to match your political views. The article states that people with more liberal views tend to feel emotions like fear and empathy more intensely, not that liberals are "crippled by fear", nor that conservatives were less emotional in other ways or more rational.
Claiming that liberals are irrationally ruled by fear has no more basis than claiming all conservatives are irrationally ruled by greed or rage.
Always be wary of someone who opens up an opinionated post pointing out how "well reasoned" it is.
Maybe you should actually do some research before spouting off an urban legend.
From www.wasteonline.org.uk
Does recycling paper help the environment?
Although the raw material for making paper is predominantly trees, it is a common misconception that recycling waste paper saves trees. Trees for paper making are grown and harvested as a long term crop with new trees planted to replace those cut down. Nearly all paper is made from wood grown in these "sustainable" forests. The more important environmental issues are:
1. The nature of forests and where they are situated. As the demand for paper has increased, more timber has been needed to meet the demand for wood pulp.
In some cases this has meant the loss of valuable wildlife habitats and ecosystems, as old Forests have been replaced by managed plantations, usually of conifers. The use of recycled paper helps to protect wildlife habitats.
2. By using waste paper to produce new paper disposal problems are reduced.
3. Producing recycled paper involves between 28 - 70% less energy consumption than virgin paper and uses less water. This is because most of the energy used in papermaking is the pulping needed to turn wood into paper. However, much of the energy used in virgin pulp production is from renewable sources, such as incineration of the by-products of the timber process, whereas the energy used for recycling in the UK is from fossil fuels. Some mills also recycle the water used in the pulping process, reducing the quantity used even further.
The costs of transportation can, however, increase the amount of energy which is needed to produce recycled paper.
4. Recycled paper produces fewer polluting emissions to air and water. Recycled paper is not usually re-bleached and where it is, oxygen rather than chlorine is usually used. This reduces the amount of dioxins which are released into the environment as a by-product of chorine bleaching processes.
There has been some research undertaken on whether it is better to recycle or incinerate waste paper. A report from the organisation CSERGE (Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment) concluded that: recycling is a process which benefits the community - incineration currently imposes a net cost to the community; the UK's national income rises by around 154 for every additional tonne of paper recycled; recycling creates three times the number of jobs that incineration would; recycling offers savings for local authorities; and recycling paper saves more energy than is generated through its incineration.
For every tonne of paper used for recycling - savings = 7000 gallons of water saved, 4200 KWh less electricity used (enough for an average [US] house for six months), emissions reduced by 20lbs of carbon dioxide, nearly 40lbs of nitrogen.
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Working in tech support myself, here are some tips that might actually be useful: Asking for the name and employee ID of a tech is a good way to make them resent you right off the bat. Thinking that this infomation will somehow be of use to you in the future baffles me... I'm not entirely sure what you think you can do with it. The other funny thing is the constant demands from irate customers who aren't getting a straight answer is to speak to supervisors or managers. They fail to realize that a manager or supervisor probably has less information on the topic than the front level agent you were speaking with. Their job is to run a call center, to make sure a certain number of calls are being handled, and that the agents are doing their jobs. The reason you're not getting a straight answer is because your OEM or ISP simply isn't providing the call center with that information, probably because they don't want to. Getting an employee's ID number or demanding to speak to a manager is just a waste of your time, and theirs, but customers do it all the time, even when I try to explain this to them.
You've taken the findings and twisted them to match your political views. The article states that people with more liberal views tend to feel emotions like fear and empathy more intensely, not that liberals are "crippled by fear", nor that conservatives were less emotional in other ways or more rational.
Claiming that liberals are irrationally ruled by fear has no more basis than claiming all conservatives are irrationally ruled by greed or rage.
Always be wary of someone who opens up an opinionated post pointing out how "well reasoned" it is.
Actually, yes, it does.
If they released the code for the profit() function, the economy would probably collapse :/
Maybe you should actually do some research before spouting off an urban legend. From www.wasteonline.org.uk Does recycling paper help the environment? Although the raw material for making paper is predominantly trees, it is a common misconception that recycling waste paper saves trees. Trees for paper making are grown and harvested as a long term crop with new trees planted to replace those cut down. Nearly all paper is made from wood grown in these "sustainable" forests. The more important environmental issues are: 1. The nature of forests and where they are situated. As the demand for paper has increased, more timber has been needed to meet the demand for wood pulp. In some cases this has meant the loss of valuable wildlife habitats and ecosystems, as old Forests have been replaced by managed plantations, usually of conifers. The use of recycled paper helps to protect wildlife habitats. 2. By using waste paper to produce new paper disposal problems are reduced. 3. Producing recycled paper involves between 28 - 70% less energy consumption than virgin paper and uses less water. This is because most of the energy used in papermaking is the pulping needed to turn wood into paper. However, much of the energy used in virgin pulp production is from renewable sources, such as incineration of the by-products of the timber process, whereas the energy used for recycling in the UK is from fossil fuels. Some mills also recycle the water used in the pulping process, reducing the quantity used even further. The costs of transportation can, however, increase the amount of energy which is needed to produce recycled paper. 4. Recycled paper produces fewer polluting emissions to air and water. Recycled paper is not usually re-bleached and where it is, oxygen rather than chlorine is usually used. This reduces the amount of dioxins which are released into the environment as a by-product of chorine bleaching processes. There has been some research undertaken on whether it is better to recycle or incinerate waste paper. A report from the organisation CSERGE (Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment) concluded that: recycling is a process which benefits the community - incineration currently imposes a net cost to the community; the UK's national income rises by around 154 for every additional tonne of paper recycled; recycling creates three times the number of jobs that incineration would; recycling offers savings for local authorities; and recycling paper saves more energy than is generated through its incineration. For every tonne of paper used for recycling - savings = 7000 gallons of water saved, 4200 KWh less electricity used (enough for an average [US] house for six months), emissions reduced by 20lbs of carbon dioxide, nearly 40lbs of nitrogen.