Hey, I ought to move to Canada. Maybe I could make it as an artist there. If the government forces you to listen to my music often enough, I know you'll like it!
We don't have any toll roads in Missouri either, thank Gawd. I was surprised when I went out west and passed through Kansas and had to pay a toll on Interstate 70. Hey, that's the same interstate I ride for free all the time in the St. Louis area. What gives? Or when I went to New York State, and encountered all the toll roads there. Despite the toll roads in other parts of the country, the roads are no better then here in Missouri. Someone is being ripped off, and it ain't us Missourians. I hope to God Missouri never has toll roads.
Another poster mentioned making sure your gas cap is tight. You should also check if you need a new gas cap. As gas caps age they lose their ability to keep a seal, and start to leak, causing the Check Engine light to come on.
It happened to me on my 2002 Malibu. My Check Engine light came on. Tightening the cap didn't help, so I got a new cap from Napa and stuck it on. It took a day or two, but the Check Engine light finally went off, and has stayed off for about a year and half since, with no problems, no Check Engine light, and no Car Dealer ripping me off $400 for doing jack.
I'm renting Witchblade right now from Netflix, and am about halfway through it. Its a great show, which I would recommend to anybody who likes that genre. Like another reply alluded to, the series was cut short because Yancy Butler, the lead actress, went into alcoholic rehab.
I have an exercise bike wheel that hooks up to my computer. The movement of the pedals can be mapped to keyboard keys. Using it, I can control the forward and backward motion for games which can use the arrow keys to move. I use a USB numeric keypad or a wireless joystick for the other movements and functions. I've played Resident Evil 3 and 4, and Silent Hill 2, and also Baulder's Gate like this. It worked great in all those games.
The biggest problem is finding games that work well with it. It works best for action games with a second person perspective, where your looking over the characters shoulder, and not as well with games with a first person perspective, where your looking through his eyes. The setup works well with games that were translated from consoles, and not as well with mouse oriented games. I actually preferred pedaling to move forward and back, as opposed to using the gamepad. After playing for months just using my feet to move, using just the gamepad to move didn't feel right.
The name of the exercise bike wheel is PC Gamer. I have an older one called Symcycle, which can simulate the speed of an analogue joystick. Unfortunately, they are no longer in business.
Man, a few days ago, I fell and hurt my side, and whenever I laugh, my side hurts. No joke. So I'm reading this, alternating between laughter and pain, trying to suppress the laughter. Funny post.
The point that IS relevant, to me at least, is that already about 60% of our taxes are paid by the top 5% of wage earners. Over a third of all wage-earners pay no income tax at all. How is this remotely fair?
No, what isn't fair is that the top 5% earn 60% of the income.
The day will come where computers can just have a database of every single possble chess move in any game.
Considering that the total number of board positions for chess is about 10^120 and the total number of atoms in the universe is estimated to be about 10^75, this isn't going to happen.
Second we need to divert every research dollar available to fusion. And I mean EVERY available dollar. Freeze every other research at 75% of current dollars, AIDS, green tech, EVERYTHING included and start ramping up research on fusion just as fast as the projects can get vetted and construction underway.
Well, the only problem with this idea is it may not work. Billions and billions have already been spent on fusion research worldwide and practical fusion is still 25 years in future, just like it was fifty years ago. So, while workable fusion would be great, what if after 15 or 20 years, it still isn't economically practical? If there was light at the end of the tunnel, there would already be a big push to make it a reality.
So why spend umpteen billions above whats already been spent on something which may not pan out, when that same umpteen billions could be put into things that already work - solar, wind, geothermal, wave, and nuclear fission.
Good post. There is so much BS flying around that people claim as fact its incredible. Not only from critics of Christianity, but in Christianity itself. The original poster was totally full of it, but he got modded up. I doubt you will.
I've learned to take everything with a grain of salt in these religious debates. Basically, people come up with these speculative hypothesis and pass them off as facts. Much of Bible analysis is this way. You made a good point
There's no good reason to believe than any of the New Testament books were written after the destruction of Jerusalem in AD70.
That's a perfect example. Many religious 'scholars' use the fact that Christ's spoke of the destruction of Jerusalem as 'proof' the Gospels were written after 70 A.D., basicaly saying Christ couldn't have prophesied about the destruction of the Temple in 36 A.D. (or whatever the year he made that prophesy), which basically denies the whole premise of Christ and the Bible. They date Daniel using the same logic. Daniel couldn't have prophesied those emipres in 360 B.C., so it must have been written in 200 B.C.
They throw out all of these dates of when the various books, the Gospels, Revelation, etc. were written, but they haven't got a clue, or any real proof of any of them. If they want to speculate, fine, but they act like its fact, not some speculation based on next to nothing. Religious scholars are the biggest intellectual frauds there are.
Well, actually, modern Bibles use the oldest Greek and Hebrew manuscripts to corroborate and correct the text of the older Bibles, such as the King James and Douay-Rheims (or Latin Vulgate). The best of today's translations are the most accurate ever. That being said, some translations will interpret passages, and slant the translation to fit in with a particular theological point of view (under the excuse of 'this is what the verse really means'). This happens mainly in the apocalypses, and it is a relatively minor problem, affecting only a small number of verses. And of course a more accurate translation of any slanted verse can always be found in other translations.
Its pretty hypocritical of the Government to persecute people for selling their vote, when politicians do it all the time. What is congress, but politicians selling their vote to various interest groups.
Simple really. Its because of collusion between the hot dog and bun companies.
1. You run out of buns, but still have hot dogs.
2. Buy more buns to eat the leftover hot dogs. Have buns leftover.
3. Buy more hot dogs to use the leftover buns. Have hot dogs left over.
4. Goto 2
5. Profit!
It has a 20GB drive, but also a CompactFlash slot. I did a timing test to see how long the battery would last running songs off both storage media. The battery lasted about 1 hour longer when using the CompactFlash memory card than using the hard drive.
Well, the problem with that is you aren't writing any data; which, due to how flash writes, takes quite a bit more power then reading.
Let's see what's wrong with Vista:
1) lack of hardware drivers, rendering many machines obsolete
...which is a problem with the hardware and/or the hardware manufacturer who decided not to support their hardware in Vista. It is NOT a problem of Vista any more than some hardware without a working Linux driver is a problem of Linux.
Why is this a problem with the hardware manufacturers? Microsoft made major changes to the driver model, partly to implement their DRM, so writing new drivers is time consuming and expensive. So Microsoft gets to make a fortune selling Vista; but the hardware manufacturers are supposed to spend a fortune writing new drivers for old equipment they sold years ago, so everyone upgrades to Vista and Microsoft can make even more money. Microsoft should pay the hardware manufacturers to write new drivers.
You think Time Magazine has a political leftist agenda? You must be to the right of Bush to see Time magazine as leftist. On international politics it is right wing.
The mainstream American Press as a whole is very right wing. The publishers are right wing. If a news source prints.00001% of the crimes the U.S. Government does in the world, the Right Wing accuse it of being leftist.
That's why such a large percentage of the American people are so ignorant. They've been fed propaganda all their lives about how America is some goody two shoes trying to help the world. The millions of innocent people killed directly and indirectly by the U.S. Government around the world since WW II is not reported on.
This is similar to what happened to the Native Americans. The Presidents slaughtered them and stole their land, but almost none of it makes it into the mainstream histories taught in schools. Of course, people like you would accuse any such accounts of being left wing.
"lowering income tax rates has increased revenue to the government every time it has been tried since the establishment of the income tax."
Well, what your saying doesn't necessarily prove anything. The situation is more complex then that.
-Both George Bush 43 and Reagan's massive tax cuts for the wealthy were accompanied by massive deficit spending for the military industrial complex. This massive infusion of deficit money all goes to corporations and into people's pockets, which raises income, which raises revenue. But the increased revenue from this is all from borrowed money. Both Reagan and Bush raised the budget deficit to record highs.
- In 1993, Clinton 42 raised taxes on the top 1.2% of taxpayers, while giving tax breaks to fifteen million low income families and small business. (This was on top of large tax increases Bush 41 made in 1990). This was followed by several years of increased tax revenue, which led to a balanced budget. By your logic, this proves we can safely raise taxes on the ultra wealthy, while cutting them for the poor and small business, and the economy will benefit even more.
- About the Bush 43 tax cut / increase revenues, fleshing out what I already said; Bush invaded Iraq around the same time he made the tax cuts. So for the years after that, hundreds of billions of dollars were pumped into peoples pockets and corporations to finance that war, which wouldn't have been pumped in otherwise. Of course, people and corporations paid taxes on this money, so it increased tax revenue.
-The country is now in a recession. Retail sales are down, prices are up. Things don't look as good for tax revenue. Does that prove the long term effects of a tax cut are an eventual decline in revenue?
There are too many factors involved to prove tax cuts cause an increase in tax revenue. It could be due to the normal business cycle, or the government pumping huge amounts of deficit spending into the economy.
Note - I am in favor of cutting taxes in principle, but I am more worried that massive deficit spending will lead to our eventual ruin. And in case you haven't notice, deficits have reached an all time high under Bush
People frequently get modded down for making reasonable comments on Slashdot if it doesn't fit in with standard Slashdot groupthink. You were not offtopic, you were implicitly stating you didn't trust composite aircraft as opposed to aluminum. A reasonable and on topic statement. God forbid anyone saying they think downloading music without paying for it is wrong.
Its still an obsolete technology. Shouldn't businesses inform the consumer of this? Maybe the buyer, once informed, will not want to buy an obsolete technology.
Sure, you can get a converter box, with a government subsidy covering part of the cost. But not everyone will want too jump through those hoops to use an obsolete technology.
And it will also work with analog cable. But a TV is a long term investment. And while the U.S. and much of the world coninues moving to high definition widescreen television, the purchasers of the analog TV may be stuck have to throw out an almost new set in order to keep up. And what's to prevent the cable companies from charging a premium rate for analog cable as digital becomes the standard?
Of course, some people may not care, and that's fine. But the whole point of my first reply is the store should inform the customers so they can make a decision of what they want of do, not be sold an obsolete technology without any warning.
It's the consumer's job to educate his or herself about a product he or she is interested in buying - not the responsibility of a retailer and especially not the responsibility of government to enforce.
Its unethical to knowingly sell something that should work for five or ten years, but will only work for less then a year, without the seller informing the buyer.
Why do conservatives demand ethical behavior from individuals, but believe business has no ethical
responsibilities at all?
Well, besides humans, this would also aply to any intelligent life that might evolve on such a planet. Would rocket technology be sufficient to get off a planet with two or three times the gravity of earth? At point would the gravity be too great for rocket technology to work?
I'm sure we'd have no problem with that sort of technology by the time we actually reached that planet.
Well, that's sort of a meaningless answer, since your talking about technology that doesn't exist either in reality or in theory. Why not talk about flying unicorns to solve the problem? Its just as unreal. No offense to you, but I'm mystified your answer was modded insightful. I've got news for the mods. WARP DRIVE DOESN'T EXIST, AND MAY NEVER EXIST. Just because its on Star Trek doesn't make it real. Warp drive violates the known laws of physics, and is likely impossible.
At 5x mass and 1.5x radius, I believe the surface gravity would only be about 2.2 g's
This poses a question. Would rocket power be sufficient to get off a planet of this mass? On earth, it seems rockets are pushed to the limit to launch any significant payload. At twice earth gravity, it seems like your payloads would really be limited, if you can even reach escape velocity with rocket technology.
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Hey, I ought to move to Canada. Maybe I could make it as an artist there. If the government forces you to listen to my music often enough, I know you'll like it!
We don't have any toll roads in Missouri either, thank Gawd. I was surprised when I went out west and passed through Kansas and had to pay a toll on Interstate 70. Hey, that's the same interstate I ride for free all the time in the St. Louis area. What gives? Or when I went to New York State, and encountered all the toll roads there. Despite the toll roads in other parts of the country, the roads are no better then here in Missouri. Someone is being ripped off, and it ain't us Missourians. I hope to God Missouri never has toll roads.
I always thought is was a shame Venus isn't in the orbit that Mars is. It potentially could have been a very livable planet.
Another poster mentioned making sure your gas cap is tight. You should also check if you need a new gas cap. As gas caps age they lose their ability to keep a seal, and start to leak, causing the Check Engine light to come on.
It happened to me on my 2002 Malibu. My Check Engine light came on. Tightening the cap didn't help, so I got a new cap from Napa and stuck it on. It took a day or two, but the Check Engine light finally went off, and has stayed off for about a year and half since, with no problems, no Check Engine light, and no Car Dealer ripping me off $400 for doing jack.
I'm renting Witchblade right now from Netflix, and am about halfway through it. Its a great show, which I would recommend to anybody who likes that genre. Like another reply alluded to, the series was cut short because Yancy Butler, the lead actress, went into alcoholic rehab.
I have an exercise bike wheel that hooks up to my computer. The movement of the pedals can be mapped to keyboard keys. Using it, I can control the forward and backward motion for games which can use the arrow keys to move. I use a USB numeric keypad or a wireless joystick for the other movements and functions. I've played Resident Evil 3 and 4, and Silent Hill 2, and also Baulder's Gate like this. It worked great in all those games.
The biggest problem is finding games that work well with it. It works best for action games with a second person perspective, where your looking over the characters shoulder, and not as well with games with a first person perspective, where your looking through his eyes. The setup works well with games that were translated from consoles, and not as well with mouse oriented games. I actually preferred pedaling to move forward and back, as opposed to using the gamepad. After playing for months just using my feet to move, using just the gamepad to move didn't feel right.
The name of the exercise bike wheel is PC Gamer. I have an older one called Symcycle, which can simulate the speed of an analogue joystick. Unfortunately, they are no longer in business.
Man, a few days ago, I fell and hurt my side, and whenever I laugh, my side hurts. No joke. So I'm reading this, alternating between laughter and pain, trying to suppress the laughter. Funny post.
The point that IS relevant, to me at least, is that already about 60% of our taxes are paid by the top 5% of wage earners. Over a third of all wage-earners pay no income tax at all. How is this remotely fair?
No, what isn't fair is that the top 5% earn 60% of the income.
The day will come where computers can just have a database of every single possble chess move in any game.
Considering that the total number of board positions for chess is about 10^120 and the total number of atoms in the universe is estimated to be about 10^75, this isn't going to happen.
Second we need to divert every research dollar available to fusion. And I mean EVERY available dollar. Freeze every other research at 75% of current dollars, AIDS, green tech, EVERYTHING included and start ramping up research on fusion just as fast as the projects can get vetted and construction underway.
Well, the only problem with this idea is it may not work. Billions and billions have already been spent on fusion research worldwide and practical fusion is still 25 years in future, just like it was fifty years ago. So, while workable fusion would be great, what if after 15 or 20 years, it still isn't economically practical? If there was light at the end of the tunnel, there would already be a big push to make it a reality.
So why spend umpteen billions above whats already been spent on something which may not pan out, when that same umpteen billions could be put into things that already work - solar, wind, geothermal, wave, and nuclear fission.
I don't know about going to Mars. It would be like going on vacation. Its fun for the first week or so, but after that, I want to go home.
Good post. There is so much BS flying around that people claim as fact its incredible. Not only from critics of Christianity, but in Christianity itself. The original poster was totally full of it, but he got modded up. I doubt you will.
I've learned to take everything with a grain of salt in these religious debates. Basically, people come up with these speculative hypothesis and pass them off as facts. Much of Bible analysis is this way. You made a good point
There's no good reason to believe than any of the New Testament books were written after the destruction of Jerusalem in AD70.
That's a perfect example. Many religious 'scholars' use the fact that Christ's spoke of the destruction of Jerusalem as 'proof' the Gospels were written after 70 A.D., basicaly saying Christ couldn't have prophesied about the destruction of the Temple in 36 A.D. (or whatever the year he made that prophesy), which basically denies the whole premise of Christ and the Bible. They date Daniel using the same logic. Daniel couldn't have prophesied those emipres in 360 B.C., so it must have been written in 200 B.C.
They throw out all of these dates of when the various books, the Gospels, Revelation, etc. were written, but they haven't got a clue, or any real proof of any of them. If they want to speculate, fine, but they act like its fact, not some speculation based on next to nothing. Religious scholars are the biggest intellectual frauds there are.
Well, actually, modern Bibles use the oldest Greek and Hebrew manuscripts to corroborate and correct the text of the older Bibles, such as the King James and Douay-Rheims (or Latin Vulgate). The best of today's translations are the most accurate ever. That being said, some translations will interpret passages, and slant the translation to fit in with a particular theological point of view (under the excuse of 'this is what the verse really means'). This happens mainly in the apocalypses, and it is a relatively minor problem, affecting only a small number of verses. And of course a more accurate translation of any slanted verse can always be found in other translations.
Its pretty hypocritical of the Government to persecute people for selling their vote, when politicians do it all the time. What is congress, but politicians selling their vote to various interest groups.
Fusion is the energy source of the future, and always will be.
Simple really. Its because of collusion between the hot dog and bun companies.
1. You run out of buns, but still have hot dogs.
2. Buy more buns to eat the leftover hot dogs. Have buns leftover.
3. Buy more hot dogs to use the leftover buns. Have hot dogs left over.
4. Goto 2
5. Profit!
It has a 20GB drive, but also a CompactFlash slot. I did a timing test to see how long the battery would last running songs off both storage media. The battery lasted about 1 hour longer when using the CompactFlash memory card than using the hard drive.
Well, the problem with that is you aren't writing any data; which, due to how flash writes, takes quite a bit more power then reading.
Let's see what's wrong with Vista: 1) lack of hardware drivers, rendering many machines obsolete
...which is a problem with the hardware and/or the hardware manufacturer who decided not to support their hardware in Vista. It is NOT a problem of Vista any more than some hardware without a working Linux driver is a problem of Linux.
Why is this a problem with the hardware manufacturers? Microsoft made major changes to the driver model, partly to implement their DRM, so writing new drivers is time consuming and expensive. So Microsoft gets to make a fortune selling Vista; but the hardware manufacturers are supposed to spend a fortune writing new drivers for old equipment they sold years ago, so everyone upgrades to Vista and Microsoft can make even more money. Microsoft should pay the hardware manufacturers to write new drivers.
You think Time Magazine has a political leftist agenda? You must be to the right of Bush to see Time magazine as leftist. On international politics it is right wing.
.00001% of the crimes the U.S. Government does in the world, the Right Wing accuse it of being leftist.
The mainstream American Press as a whole is very right wing. The publishers are right wing. If a news source prints
That's why such a large percentage of the American people are so ignorant. They've been fed propaganda all their lives about how America is some goody two shoes trying to help the world. The millions of innocent people killed directly and indirectly by the U.S. Government around the world since WW II is not reported on.
This is similar to what happened to the Native Americans. The Presidents slaughtered them and stole their land, but almost none of it makes it into the mainstream histories taught in schools. Of course, people like you would accuse any such accounts of being left wing.
"lowering income tax rates has increased revenue to the government every time it has been tried since the establishment of the income tax."
Well, what your saying doesn't necessarily prove anything. The situation is more complex then that.
-Both George Bush 43 and Reagan's massive tax cuts for the wealthy were accompanied by massive deficit spending for the military industrial complex. This massive infusion of deficit money all goes to corporations and into people's pockets, which raises income, which raises revenue. But the increased revenue from this is all from borrowed money. Both Reagan and Bush raised the budget deficit to record highs.
- In 1993, Clinton 42 raised taxes on the top 1.2% of taxpayers, while giving tax breaks to fifteen million low income families and small business. (This was on top of large tax increases Bush 41 made in 1990). This was followed by several years of increased tax revenue, which led to a balanced budget. By your logic, this proves we can safely raise taxes on the ultra wealthy, while cutting them for the poor and small business, and the economy will benefit even more.
- About the Bush 43 tax cut / increase revenues, fleshing out what I already said; Bush invaded Iraq around the same time he made the tax cuts. So for the years after that, hundreds of billions of dollars were pumped into peoples pockets and corporations to finance that war, which wouldn't have been pumped in otherwise. Of course, people and corporations paid taxes on this money, so it increased tax revenue.
-The country is now in a recession. Retail sales are down, prices are up. Things don't look as good for tax revenue. Does that prove the long term effects of a tax cut are an eventual decline in revenue?
There are too many factors involved to prove tax cuts cause an increase in tax revenue. It could be due to the normal business cycle, or the government pumping huge amounts of deficit spending into the economy.
Note - I am in favor of cutting taxes in principle, but I am more worried that massive deficit spending will lead to our eventual ruin. And in case you haven't notice, deficits have reached an all time high under Bush
People frequently get modded down for making reasonable comments on Slashdot if it doesn't fit in with standard Slashdot groupthink. You were not offtopic, you were implicitly stating you didn't trust composite aircraft as opposed to aluminum. A reasonable and on topic statement. God forbid anyone saying they think downloading music without paying for it is wrong.
Its still an obsolete technology. Shouldn't businesses inform the consumer of this? Maybe the buyer, once informed, will not want to buy an obsolete technology.
Sure, you can get a converter box, with a government subsidy covering part of the cost. But not everyone will want too jump through those hoops to use an obsolete technology.
And it will also work with analog cable. But a TV is a long term investment. And while the U.S. and much of the world coninues moving to high definition widescreen television, the purchasers of the analog TV may be stuck have to throw out an almost new set in order to keep up. And what's to prevent the cable companies from charging a premium rate for analog cable as digital becomes the standard?
Of course, some people may not care, and that's fine. But the whole point of my first reply is the store should inform the customers so they can make a decision of what they want of do, not be sold an obsolete technology without any warning.
Its unethical to knowingly sell something that should work for five or ten years, but will only work for less then a year, without the seller informing the buyer.
Why do conservatives demand ethical behavior from individuals, but believe business has no ethical responsibilities at all?
Well, besides humans, this would also aply to any intelligent life that might evolve on such a planet. Would rocket technology be sufficient to get off a planet with two or three times the gravity of earth? At point would the gravity be too great for rocket technology to work?
I'm sure we'd have no problem with that sort of technology by the time we actually reached that planet.
Well, that's sort of a meaningless answer, since your talking about technology that doesn't exist either in reality or in theory. Why not talk about flying unicorns to solve the problem? Its just as unreal. No offense to you, but I'm mystified your answer was modded insightful. I've got news for the mods. WARP DRIVE DOESN'T EXIST, AND MAY NEVER EXIST. Just because its on Star Trek doesn't make it real. Warp drive violates the known laws of physics, and is likely impossible.
At 5x mass and 1.5x radius, I believe the surface gravity would only be about 2.2 g's
This poses a question. Would rocket power be sufficient to get off a planet of this mass? On earth, it seems rockets are pushed to the limit to launch any significant payload. At twice earth gravity, it seems like your payloads would really be limited, if you can even reach escape velocity with rocket technology.