No, you got older and your view of the world has changed significantly. Teenagers, especially boys, just love to see the world burn. As we get older and have more invested in said world, the fires tend to lose their luster.
Part of the increased cost is the fact that the EU puts the financial burden of disposing of the battery safely on the seller of the product, whereas in the US no such regulations exist. Futhermore there are taxes to contend with(VAT in the EU is a national tax whereas sales tax in the US varies from state to state and is generally not charged on internet orders), labor is cheaper in the US than it is in Europe etc. The EU wants all these nice protections, but don't pretend there aren't any costs involved. They charge more in the EU because the EU puts a shit-ton of regulations on the companies greatly increasing their costs.
I've spent the past 5 years in Germany and Japan and while I don't watch much TV, I have been at hotels and just flicked it on for a little bit. While TV is pretty stupid the world round(Germany has a show about a monkey veterinarian and is obsessed with model shows, Japan has a lot of shows where you watch people watching TV....), what is refreshing is what I DIDNT see, namely commercials for drugs(most of which have a generic equivalent that does pretty much the same thing) and commercials for lawyers. Banning these drug commercials would pretty much automatically lower health care costs IMO.
You are missing the point entirely, in calculus the validity of how you derived your answers is as important as the answer, how you organize your notes is not at all important in a speech(references are and I handed those over in the correct format). I never did anything remotely approaching that essay to any other teacher, 99% of whom I respected immensely even when I received (well-deserved) grades that were less than spectacular. But enforcing a requirement that has no bearing on the final product is absurd and needs to be called out.
Hah, if you hadn't made that mundane mistake in your little scheme it would have worked perfectly, but Lumberg is on to you, you are going to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison!
Ironically you sound just like my speech teacher....seriously. At my university we were required to take a speech class and in that speech class we had to hand over our notes. I repeatedly lost points because my notes weren't in the "right format"...but they are my fucking notes, why shouldn't they be in the format that I find most useful? Hopefully this book takes a much less mechanical approach.
I did let my speech teacher know my frustrations with her in a not so subtle fashion. For our midterm we were required to formulate an argument and list points supporting it. My argument was that she was a horrible speech teacher and should be fired, but since I made all my points in the required format, I got an A.
I believe the science actually says that prisons manufacture and "enhance" criminals.
I don't think a one-dimensional analysis is valid though. If you look at the rich countries in the world (ie the US, Western Europe, and Japan) you will find that the US has both long sentences and lots of crime, Europe has relatively light sentences and low amounts of crime, and Japan has sentences that are at least as harsh as those in the US(sometimes a lot harsher) and has low levels of crime(outside of organized crime, but that is a whole different ballgame).
That being said, I do believe harsh sentences for minor crimes actually cause people who may be thrown in jail to commit more serious crimes in order to avoid getting caught(esp. when you consider the whole plea bargain thing, ie if you get caught for one crime you may do 10 years, but if you get caught for several you can plea bargain them down to 15 years or so, it essentially makes doing more crimes more "efficient"). It also I think raises the # of cases where someone winds up getting killed, if you do 20 for armed robbery and 30 for killing someone, it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to let the person you just robbed live because the "expected value" of your sentence probably increases, ie there is a 50% chance you will get caught if you let the person live, since they will be able to testify against you, vs. a 25% chance you will get caught if you kill them, 10 years expected value vs. 7.5 years, you are better off(in a purely statistical sense of course), finishing the job.
that can do some basic internet surfing. Its a lot more convenient than a laptop when you are out and about and want to jump on wifi to quickly check your email(many of the long distance trains in the UK have free wi-fi). Plus you won't get roped into doing work on your vacation.
It would be even better if your device had some sort of GPS, an open wifi spot and my phone have saved my ass from getting hopelessly lost more times than I care to admit.
HAHAHAHAHA, you make me laugh. Bribery is as much a problem in the EU as it is in the US. I've had cops and gov't officials here in Germany not so subtly tell me that if I paid them then they wouldn't subject me to the pointless bureaucratic hell that is the EU. They like the bribes over income because they don't have to pay the 50% tax on them.
Is wind power really unlimited though? The thing about wind power that I don't really understand is what the long term effects of taking massive amounts of energy from the wind and pumping it into the power grid will have. The ecosystem has evolved over millions of years with the wind essentially being unimpeded by manmade objects, so what will the long term effects of generating wind power be? How will it effect the weather? You can certainly make the argument that global warming has a much larger adverse effect on the environment, but I am curious to see if anyone really has studied how sucking energy out of wind will affect the environment.
You are also missing another factor, part of the reason there are no hot women in Appalachia is because the hot women born in Appalachia tend to leave Appalachia for other, more prosperous, areas. Like it or not, attractive people tend to earn higher wages, and then again she could always use said attractiveness to find a mate that has some money and can afford some of the nicer things in life(pretty rare in Appalachia...)
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ago. Quick, deploy the smell-o-scope!
No, you got older and your view of the world has changed significantly. Teenagers, especially boys, just love to see the world burn. As we get older and have more invested in said world, the fires tend to lose their luster.
Just don't say that into a mirror.....
Mr. Burns would still come out on top though.
Part of the increased cost is the fact that the EU puts the financial burden of disposing of the battery safely on the seller of the product, whereas in the US no such regulations exist. Futhermore there are taxes to contend with(VAT in the EU is a national tax whereas sales tax in the US varies from state to state and is generally not charged on internet orders), labor is cheaper in the US than it is in Europe etc. The EU wants all these nice protections, but don't pretend there aren't any costs involved. They charge more in the EU because the EU puts a shit-ton of regulations on the companies greatly increasing their costs.
I've spent the past 5 years in Germany and Japan and while I don't watch much TV, I have been at hotels and just flicked it on for a little bit. While TV is pretty stupid the world round(Germany has a show about a monkey veterinarian and is obsessed with model shows, Japan has a lot of shows where you watch people watching TV....), what is refreshing is what I DIDNT see, namely commercials for drugs(most of which have a generic equivalent that does pretty much the same thing) and commercials for lawyers. Banning these drug commercials would pretty much automatically lower health care costs IMO.
by sticking your cell phone into the strippers ass. Thats pretty much the only useful thing I can think of.
to establish the perfect environment for electronic documents.
Ten 0s for every 1?
You are missing the point entirely, in calculus the validity of how you derived your answers is as important as the answer, how you organize your notes is not at all important in a speech(references are and I handed those over in the correct format). I never did anything remotely approaching that essay to any other teacher, 99% of whom I respected immensely even when I received (well-deserved) grades that were less than spectacular. But enforcing a requirement that has no bearing on the final product is absurd and needs to be called out.
Hah, if you hadn't made that mundane mistake in your little scheme it would have worked perfectly, but Lumberg is on to you, you are going to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison!
Ironically you sound just like my speech teacher....seriously. At my university we were required to take a speech class and in that speech class we had to hand over our notes. I repeatedly lost points because my notes weren't in the "right format"...but they are my fucking notes, why shouldn't they be in the format that I find most useful? Hopefully this book takes a much less mechanical approach.
I did let my speech teacher know my frustrations with her in a not so subtle fashion. For our midterm we were required to formulate an argument and list points supporting it. My argument was that she was a horrible speech teacher and should be fired, but since I made all my points in the required format, I got an A.
You mean I won't be able to sell crack on the Barney the Dinosaur message boards anymore? Thats where all my best customers come from!
I believe the science actually says that prisons manufacture and "enhance" criminals.
I don't think a one-dimensional analysis is valid though. If you look at the rich countries in the world (ie the US, Western Europe, and Japan) you will find that the US has both long sentences and lots of crime, Europe has relatively light sentences and low amounts of crime, and Japan has sentences that are at least as harsh as those in the US(sometimes a lot harsher) and has low levels of crime(outside of organized crime, but that is a whole different ballgame).
That being said, I do believe harsh sentences for minor crimes actually cause people who may be thrown in jail to commit more serious crimes in order to avoid getting caught(esp. when you consider the whole plea bargain thing, ie if you get caught for one crime you may do 10 years, but if you get caught for several you can plea bargain them down to 15 years or so, it essentially makes doing more crimes more "efficient"). It also I think raises the # of cases where someone winds up getting killed, if you do 20 for armed robbery and 30 for killing someone, it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to let the person you just robbed live because the "expected value" of your sentence probably increases, ie there is a 50% chance you will get caught if you let the person live, since they will be able to testify against you, vs. a 25% chance you will get caught if you kill them, 10 years expected value vs. 7.5 years, you are better off(in a purely statistical sense of course), finishing the job.
They are high on life of course! I would never question something that my government put together!
and/or force a grad student to be the one that finally tastes the meat? That poor(literally and figuratively) person....
you just have to hit the turbo button! Duh!
Now that you said that, by slashdot law, I have to post the following:
I for one welcome our new ant overlords!
that can do some basic internet surfing. Its a lot more convenient than a laptop when you are out and about and want to jump on wifi to quickly check your email(many of the long distance trains in the UK have free wi-fi). Plus you won't get roped into doing work on your vacation.
It would be even better if your device had some sort of GPS, an open wifi spot and my phone have saved my ass from getting hopelessly lost more times than I care to admit.
They don't block the search for Mavericks suck?
HAHAHAHAHA, you make me laugh. Bribery is as much a problem in the EU as it is in the US. I've had cops and gov't officials here in Germany not so subtly tell me that if I paid them then they wouldn't subject me to the pointless bureaucratic hell that is the EU. They like the bribes over income because they don't have to pay the 50% tax on them.
based on the Data Center Chicks of course!
The solar radiation and wind
Is wind power really unlimited though? The thing about wind power that I don't really understand is what the long term effects of taking massive amounts of energy from the wind and pumping it into the power grid will have. The ecosystem has evolved over millions of years with the wind essentially being unimpeded by manmade objects, so what will the long term effects of generating wind power be? How will it effect the weather? You can certainly make the argument that global warming has a much larger adverse effect on the environment, but I am curious to see if anyone really has studied how sucking energy out of wind will affect the environment.
You would think IceWeasel would win there....
I mean come on, the Wiimote makes a perfect virtual penis, why haven't developers taken advantage of this yet?
You are also missing another factor, part of the reason there are no hot women in Appalachia is because the hot women born in Appalachia tend to leave Appalachia for other, more prosperous, areas. Like it or not, attractive people tend to earn higher wages, and then again she could always use said attractiveness to find a mate that has some money and can afford some of the nicer things in life(pretty rare in Appalachia...)