Errrrm... pages change... sites become unavailable. I think the poster wants to make sure he can access the exact same information he came across two years ago.
Because, instead of going into a rant, you could have read his post. He is simply indicating that they are not solely "direct" anymore. He did not say there was anything wrong with it. Dell has, for years, maintained that direct was the only way to provide the lowest costs. This was their credo. Now that are going against what they have preached for years.
Fine. Make the choices you want to make. It is a free country.
However, you should have to pay the cost of your decisions and I should pay the cost of mine. With gasoline being subsidized and the indirect costs divided arbitrarily, we don't pay true costs. Some pay more, some pay less. The result is an sub-optimal system and the mess we are in today.
lack of MPG targets for manufacturers The other two are at least somewhat addressable by some means of legislation or industry curtailing.
A more sane way of solving the problem is to have the consumer pay the true cost of energy. Does the gasoline you buy require us to import from unstable governments, resulting in a higher defense bill when we are in more conflicts over it? Put a tax on gas to foot the bill. Does gasoline hurt the environment? Put a tax on it to cover the cost.
Worried about tax payer backlash? Give out a refund check to cover the average cost. Those who buy the fuel efficient car or choose not to live an hour from work will make a killing. Those who don't will get killed. I bet you'd see habits change REAL quick.
Nope. If you click 'search' and THEN hit 'news', it works. But if you just type something in the search box and go 'oh crap I am in the wrong area' and click 'news', it does not remember the search box text.
I've always tried to use paper bags vice plastic. My logic? I can grow more trees, but I can't grow more dinosaurs.
Question: How old are you? I am in my mid-30's and remember the late 70's and early 80's how paper bags were evil because they killed trees. I am wonder if our difference in perception has to do with the years we grew up...
So you make assumptions about his lifestyle that he is "required" to live 20 miles away, yet assume I CAN ride a bike...
It would be nice... however there is no way in hell I will ride a bike on the major roads that lead to my place of employment. There aren't even shoulders to walk on. I get scared enough in a car when the cell phone talking, SUV driver changes lanes without a signal.
But my bottom line point? We look to technology to save us from our bad decisions. We create a system where we "have" to drive 15,000 miles a year, then look for ways to mitigate that and call it progress.
Funniest recent example? Plastic bags were introduced to save us from the evil of paper bags and deforestation. Companies embraced this, and we had a collective orgasm that we were doing something to save the environment. Now cities and states are trying to ban those bags for their negative impact on the budget. Companies revert back to paper and we have another collective orgasm. Net change: zero.
Am I against technological improvement? No. But technology will never replace good choices.
Nope. Studies have been done on these 'suppressed memories'. The general consensus is that these memories are manufactured after the fact. What is scary is that when suppressed memories were all the rage about a decade ago, people were getting convicted based on this evidence. I wonder how many innocent people are still in jail based on pop-science.
1) Go into business 2) Gather home pages of major competitors 3) Add links to these home pages on disreputable web sites 4) Watch their traffic go down. 5) Watch your traffic go up. 6) Profit
Just cant figure out where the "..." fits into this one.
Slashdot Mirror
Or the fool who follows the fool who was following another fool?
The one and only.
For the believer, it seems, this museum provides a kind of relief:
No, actually it makes me consider becoming an atheist again. But my faith is in God not silly people.
1/3 less calories.
CutePDF.
Errrrm... pages change... sites become unavailable. I think the poster wants to make sure he can access the exact same information he came across two years ago.
Or use snapfish. I like it a lot and is very cheap.
Because, instead of going into a rant, you could have read his post. He is simply indicating that they are not solely "direct" anymore. He did not say there was anything wrong with it. Dell has, for years, maintained that direct was the only way to provide the lowest costs. This was their credo. Now that are going against what they have preached for years.
Nothing wrong with this. Just a change.
Wouldn't a better analogy be the guy who use my water spicket to wash his car?
Fine. Make the choices you want to make. It is a free country.
However, you should have to pay the cost of your decisions and I should pay the cost of mine. With gasoline being subsidized and the indirect costs divided arbitrarily, we don't pay true costs. Some pay more, some pay less. The result is an sub-optimal system and the mess we are in today.
lack of MPG targets for manufacturers
The other two are at least somewhat addressable by some means of legislation or industry curtailing.
A more sane way of solving the problem is to have the consumer pay the true cost of energy. Does the gasoline you buy require us to import from unstable governments, resulting in a higher defense bill when we are in more conflicts over it? Put a tax on gas to foot the bill. Does gasoline hurt the environment? Put a tax on it to cover the cost.
Worried about tax payer backlash? Give out a refund check to cover the average cost. Those who buy the fuel efficient car or choose not to live an hour from work will make a killing. Those who don't will get killed. I bet you'd see habits change REAL quick.
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Yeah... but what if he'd been shot with a modern gun?
Full Cavity Search
Nope. If you click 'search' and THEN hit 'news', it works. But if you just type something in the search box and go 'oh crap I am in the wrong area' and click 'news', it does not remember the search box text.
I've always tried to use paper bags vice plastic. My logic? I can grow more trees, but I can't grow more dinosaurs.
Question: How old are you? I am in my mid-30's and remember the late 70's and early 80's how paper bags were evil because they killed trees. I am wonder if our difference in perception has to do with the years we grew up...
So you make assumptions about his lifestyle that he is "required" to live 20 miles away, yet assume I CAN ride a bike...
It would be nice... however there is no way in hell I will ride a bike on the major roads that lead to my place of employment. There aren't even shoulders to walk on. I get scared enough in a car when the cell phone talking, SUV driver changes lanes without a signal.
But my bottom line point? We look to technology to save us from our bad decisions. We create a system where we "have" to drive 15,000 miles a year, then look for ways to mitigate that and call it progress.
Funniest recent example? Plastic bags were introduced to save us from the evil of paper bags and deforestation. Companies embraced this, and we had a collective orgasm that we were doing something to save the environment. Now cities and states are trying to ban those bags for their negative impact on the budget. Companies revert back to paper and we have another collective orgasm. Net change: zero.
Am I against technological improvement? No. But technology will never replace good choices.
So his choice to work 20 miles from home is okay? But mine to not ride a bike is not? Interesting logic.
Nope. Studies have been done on these 'suppressed memories'. The general consensus is that these memories are manufactured after the fact. What is scary is that when suppressed memories were all the rage about a decade ago, people were getting convicted based on this evidence. I wonder how many innocent people are still in jail based on pop-science.
Amazing how folks' minds go to Paris. I would argue her thinking is not restricted at all. This does not translate into "intelligent".
Wealthier individuals with the larger home... does the environment itself produce children who are less restricted in their thinking?
I have a prius. I have a 20+ mile commute one way. Yesterday I averaged 70.3 MPG for the trip home
I drive a gas-guzzling 20mpg minivan. But I work 3 miles from home. Which of us is "greener"?
Damn! This is like Rosie O' Donnell calling you fat and obnoxious.
Slashdot editors are overpaid.
1) Go into business
2) Gather home pages of major competitors
3) Add links to these home pages on disreputable web sites
4) Watch their traffic go down.
5) Watch your traffic go up.
6) Profit
Just cant figure out where the "..." fits into this one.
Try putting that in terms of GDP per person.