I don't have to win this argument now, because it's going to happen. Eventually you will have to pay the full price of the life you want to lead (and stop forcing the externalities on everyone else). Then you'll either keep paying to have your 'uncrowded, clean, calm' house, or you'll see that I was right.
Either way, my house will be worth more than yours.
Your stigma of the city is just another symptom. The city I'm moving to isn't crowded, dirty or frantically paced. And cities don't have to be. Good design, an informed and concerned population, and enough money to implement the necessary policies is all that's needed. Just take some time travelling around European cities. The streets are so clean you could eat off of them; there is plenty of open space because they don't have to provide parking.
And nobody said you had to live in a big city. The city I'm moving into is about 350,000 people. It's a college town, with an Amtrak stop in it. You don't have to live in the city at all. Small towns along rail lines can accomodate people who, like you, want more space. But you still won't have to own a car.
Want to see the city of tomorrow? Look at the college town of today. Walkable, bikeable, efficient public transit (for the most part), with small, locally owned shops near the center of town.
I could go on, but I don't feel that my arguments will be more effective than just letting you see what happens. As energy prices go up, suburbia will become less attractive. People will move into townhomes and condominiums in the city or near public transportation because it will be cheaper than paying to drive around and paying to keep their single family residences heated and cooled. And as that happens, they'll both demand and pay for cleaning up the cities. At which point my $115,000 townhouse will be worth much more than a $115,000 single family home in the suburbs.
I've noticed something interesting while my wife and I were looking for a house. Houses built before 1950 usually didn't have garages. Houses built in the 1950s and 1960s had one-car garages. Houses built in the 70's, 80's and early 90s had two car garages. Houses built recently often have three or four car garages.
Now why would anyone need three cars? Because their kids have cars, because it's less work than having to haul their asses to school and soccer practice and their friend's house.
Walkable communities will increase the quality of life for just about everyone: Parents can walk to work. Kids can walk to school. The elderly can walk to their doctor and pharmacy, and nobody has to get into a car.
The sign of a truly advanced society isn't car ownership, it's the lack of car ownership. An advanced society is one that can plan its communities and run its public transportation so efficiently that you never need to own a car.
I just bought a house in town, less than half a mile from my job, and around the corner from a grocery store, a bar and a pizza place. The only reason I'll need my car is to go out to CostCo, but hopefully they'll offer a delivery service.
The only "barrier" to public transportation is the fact that we've been sold this "dream" of a nice house in the suburbs. If Americans lived in cities and near the centers of small towns that were connected with railroads, we'd have a decent shot at a good public transportation system. Instead, we're moving into huge houses and then driving to huge stores that necessitate having a car. And the infrequency of the trips, coupled with the fact that we want to go buy everything at one store instead of what we need for the day, coupled with the fact that the roads are completely bike and pedestrian infriendly, means that cars are the only safe, efficient way of getting around.
If there is a problem with people voting twice, why not do it the Iraqi way? Purple ink that disappears in a couple days provides a way to identify who voted and who didn't without any action on the voter's part. No need for ID or anything like that.
I look forward to seeing Mr. Gonzalez prosecute the leaders of the huge piracy rings in the Far East. It will be good to stop their wholesale theft of intellectual property...
Wait a minute... he's going to be prosecuting who?
Am I the only one who's perfectly happy with his 4-year-old Sony 27" CRT TV? I don't want a Hi Def TV, and I sure as hell don't want to spend thousands of dollars on a TV and then pay extra for content.
Can someone explain to me the allure of buying three or four thousand dollar TVs? Cause I must be missing something.
The idea that there are tens of thousands of people that go to other districts and vote is just wrong. The majority of voter fraud isn't caused by people voting twice, but by people inside the system altering the results.
Or the smell of the geek who was up all night trying to make it work.
I mean, seriously, getting Linux running on a whitebox is hard enough, and that OS is *trying* to work. Imagine getting one to work that won't. And then you'll get no support for it. You're not going to see an Apple Genius helping out someone who stole the OS.
Apple just has to make things difficult enough so that it's obvious that you're breaking the EULA by doing it.
1) Create website with guestbook
2) Wait for some idiot to post disparaging comments about his school.
3) Get suspended (woohoo! four day weekend!)
4) Get the ACLU to sue the school for him
5) Profit! At taxpayer expense!
Fixing stuff would take time. Time the Microsofties don't have. I mean, if they're fixing bugs and tightening up their OS, who is going to swim in their pools filled with money? Their trophy wives?
I've had Comcast cable guys tell me my Mac wasn't "Internet Ready" and "didn't have Ethernet" and that "it's not the same as a PC." The fact that another one of those idiots didn't know you didn't need a phone line to do On Demand doesn't suprise me.
Large-scale solar deployments can be in places like ranches or farms and can be used to suppliment a farmer's income. Explain how this isn't practical or environmental.
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There's a word for people like you: Tool.
Work is a way for me to pay for the other things in life that I enjoy. I come in, punch the clock, and do the job. Then I go home and don't do work.
The problem is, I'm competing against people who have nothing better to do than work, who will work for 80 hours a week because they have no interest in becoming a well-rounded person, just a cog in a machine.
There's this amazing technology that can sequester carbon. Not only is it completely natural, it's also solar powered and requires very little maintenance. And you can also use its byproducts as fuel, building materials or even paper. They're probably foreign to most coal power plant owners, but they're called "trees."
But seriously, we solve the problem of pumping CO2 in to the air, where we didn't foresee the outcome, by pumping it into the oceans, where we also don't know the outcome?
Or, local cronyism.
1) Buy local politicians
2) Have them outlaw open wireless networks
3) Charge people $60/month for WiFi
4) Profit!
Just because they're privately owned doesn't make them nice
I am also not a radio engineer, but I'd imagine that it's calculated this way: Say you've got 1MHz of bandwidth (You 'own' the radio spectrum between 9MHz and 10MHz.) On that one band, you can transmit 7.4Mbps with a transmitter that uses one watt of power. If you double the Wattage, you double the bandwidth. If you get another MHz, you double the bandwidth again.
GSM uses 890-915MHz for phone transmit and 935-960MHz for base transmit, so this system could transmit 185Mbps with one watt, or 18.5Gbps with 100W
This doesn't make sense. While police are busy decrypting some guy's pr0n, there will be REAL terrorists plotting REAL attacks. Just take the hard drive and decrypt it. Better yet, learn how to hack into the system while its in operation so you can stop the attacks. Picking up one of their compatriots is just going to slow them down.
These police don't understand that the easiest way to hack any system is with social engineering and not brute force. If you really need to look at the hard drive, just take the hard drive, clone it bit-for-bit, and then put it back. Ain't digital technology grand?
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Said solar, meant wind. My bad.
Trollish, with my apologies
Either way, my house will be worth more than yours.
\looking forward to zero gallons per week
And nobody said you had to live in a big city. The city I'm moving into is about 350,000 people. It's a college town, with an Amtrak stop in it. You don't have to live in the city at all. Small towns along rail lines can accomodate people who, like you, want more space. But you still won't have to own a car.
Want to see the city of tomorrow? Look at the college town of today. Walkable, bikeable, efficient public transit (for the most part), with small, locally owned shops near the center of town.
I could go on, but I don't feel that my arguments will be more effective than just letting you see what happens. As energy prices go up, suburbia will become less attractive. People will move into townhomes and condominiums in the city or near public transportation because it will be cheaper than paying to drive around and paying to keep their single family residences heated and cooled. And as that happens, they'll both demand and pay for cleaning up the cities. At which point my $115,000 townhouse will be worth much more than a $115,000 single family home in the suburbs.
Just wait.
Now why would anyone need three cars? Because their kids have cars, because it's less work than having to haul their asses to school and soccer practice and their friend's house.
Walkable communities will increase the quality of life for just about everyone: Parents can walk to work. Kids can walk to school. The elderly can walk to their doctor and pharmacy, and nobody has to get into a car.
The sign of a truly advanced society isn't car ownership, it's the lack of car ownership. An advanced society is one that can plan its communities and run its public transportation so efficiently that you never need to own a car.
I just bought a house in town, less than half a mile from my job, and around the corner from a grocery store, a bar and a pizza place. The only reason I'll need my car is to go out to CostCo, but hopefully they'll offer a delivery service.
The only "barrier" to public transportation is the fact that we've been sold this "dream" of a nice house in the suburbs. If Americans lived in cities and near the centers of small towns that were connected with railroads, we'd have a decent shot at a good public transportation system. Instead, we're moving into huge houses and then driving to huge stores that necessitate having a car. And the infrequency of the trips, coupled with the fact that we want to go buy everything at one store instead of what we need for the day, coupled with the fact that the roads are completely bike and pedestrian infriendly, means that cars are the only safe, efficient way of getting around.
If there is a problem with people voting twice, why not do it the Iraqi way? Purple ink that disappears in a couple days provides a way to identify who voted and who didn't without any action on the voter's part. No need for ID or anything like that.
Wait a minute... he's going to be prosecuting who?
Can someone explain to me the allure of buying three or four thousand dollar TVs? Cause I must be missing something.
The idea that there are tens of thousands of people that go to other districts and vote is just wrong. The majority of voter fraud isn't caused by people voting twice, but by people inside the system altering the results.
I mean, seriously, getting Linux running on a whitebox is hard enough, and that OS is *trying* to work. Imagine getting one to work that won't. And then you'll get no support for it. You're not going to see an Apple Genius helping out someone who stole the OS.
Apple just has to make things difficult enough so that it's obvious that you're breaking the EULA by doing it.
Yup. All we need are some RTGs. What do you mean I'll get cancer?
1) Create website with guestbook
2) Wait for some idiot to post disparaging comments about his school.
3) Get suspended (woohoo! four day weekend!)
4) Get the ACLU to sue the school for him
5) Profit! At taxpayer expense!
No student loans for this kid, eh?
Fixing stuff would take time. Time the Microsofties don't have. I mean, if they're fixing bugs and tightening up their OS, who is going to swim in their pools filled with money? Their trophy wives?
I don't have a problem with that.
But I'm sure you're a nice person.
Large-scale solar deployments can be in places like ranches or farms and can be used to suppliment a farmer's income. Explain how this isn't practical or environmental.
Work is a way for me to pay for the other things in life that I enjoy. I come in, punch the clock, and do the job. Then I go home and don't do work.
The problem is, I'm competing against people who have nothing better to do than work, who will work for 80 hours a week because they have no interest in becoming a well-rounded person, just a cog in a machine.
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\\\\Turns on SpamAssassin
But seriously, we solve the problem of pumping CO2 in to the air, where we didn't foresee the outcome, by pumping it into the oceans, where we also don't know the outcome?
Here's a clue: MAKE LESS CO2.
Or, local cronyism. 1) Buy local politicians 2) Have them outlaw open wireless networks 3) Charge people $60/month for WiFi 4) Profit! Just because they're privately owned doesn't make them nice
GSM uses 890-915MHz for phone transmit and 935-960MHz for base transmit, so this system could transmit 185Mbps with one watt, or 18.5Gbps with 100W
But, like I said, IANARE
These police don't understand that the easiest way to hack any system is with social engineering and not brute force. If you really need to look at the hard drive, just take the hard drive, clone it bit-for-bit, and then put it back. Ain't digital technology grand?
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