I do not agree with the OP that intentional ignorance to weather conditions and other problems is a consideration. I prefer to fly United because they let me listen in to air traffic control -- not just the communications between *my* pilot and ATC, but every plane on the particular frequency. I have been on many flights where specific weather has been discussed, in particular during thunderstorm season where ATC has steered us around various cells.
The professionalism on ATC channels is very high and matter of fact. It could be hailing golf balls but everything is described in the terms the pilot needs to know.
I prefer to fly United as a closet plane buff and as someone who loves to pretend that I know what is going on. I occasionally even fly MS Flight Simulator on my laptop once at 10,000 feet on the same flight path. I find it fascinating and I enjoy almost every minute of each flight, including US coast to coast flights.
I have no idea from your comment how tall you are, but my Mini Cooper S *with* a sunroof has tons of headroom. I am just over 6 feet and there are at least 4 inches to the ceiling. If I got the car without the sunroof I think there is another inch. This is all with the seat in a relaxed position for me, as I think it can go down a little further toward the floor still. The only problem is leg length - that the seat pushes a little too far back. My son can fit in the back with his feet between the seatback and his seat but my daughter (whose legs do not yet touch the floor) cannot so she has to sit behind my wife.
Second problem is that this car only gets 31 mpg in my daily commute. The non-S with the smaller engine gets 2 - 3 mpg better but it is still remarkably low (probably due to its boxy unaerodynamic shape) considering its size.
Your comment about the UN deconstructing phrases reminds me of Life of Brian with the People's Front of Judea.
For example:
"Brian: Thank God you've come, Reg.
Reg: Well, I think I should point out first, Brian, in all fairness, we are not, in fact, the rescue committee. However, I have been asked to read the following prepare statement on behalf of the movement. "We the People's Front of Judea, brackets, officials, end brackets, do hereby convey our sincere fraternal and sisterly greetings to you, Brian, on this, the occasion of your martyrdom. "
Brian: What?
Reg: "Your death will stand as a landmark in the continuing struggle to liberate the parent land from the hands of the Roman imperialist aggressors, excluding those concerned with drainage, medicine, roads, housing, education, viniculture and any other Romans contributing to the welfare of Jews of both sexes and hermaphrodites. Signed, on behalf of the P. F. J. , etc. " And I'd just like to add, on a personal note, my own admiration, for what you're doing for us, Brian, on what must be, after all, for you a very difficult time. "
So there are laws againsts throwing CFLs, thermometers and everything else containing mercury in the trash. But honestly, who is going to know? I could put all kinds of stuff in my trash (though only generate one bag a week) and have no idea what is and is not legal to put in there. I don't, and I recycle everything I can too. But no way in heck am I making a $10 per visit trip to the dump just to drop off the one CFL that broke or old battery that died. It is just much easier to toss it than keep it separated in a separate box/place for that visit, and I suspect that is what most people will do. Have you seen the atrocious recycling rates we get in the U.S.? People would rather just toss it. We have the same problem here with SUVs... until it hits people directly, they'll choose to ignore it since their own personal impact is so minute.
Are pennies 100% copper anymore? So wouldn't the price per pound be significantly more than $1.81 a pound discounting for the alloy that is created when you melt them down containing less copper?
Holy smokes my son (11 years old) and myself love Total Annihilation. Of all the games (20+ at this point) we have only Need For Speed gets more game play. I bought this game for $10 in the bargain bin at Circuit City many years ago for my 400mhz computer and it is great. There are probably tons of options we have not yet explored since we prefer playing against the AI.
Actually blame the ranchers and farmers. If they hadn't killed off predators to protect their livestock then there wouldn't be a deer problem.
But I think this is just a problem looking for a novel solution. I like the idea of hunters taking down game and then providing it to homeless shelters. There must be other ways of using this food source to benefit others.
With cheap power comes less incentive to design products efficiently. With cheap power living becomes easier and I am guessing a potential population boom. So you would need to account for that future growth in any solar power station plans, and we know how difficult it is to predict future events... my guess is that we will underestimate power usage and will need to cover the planet with solar arrays eventually.
Quite an interesting read when you substitute "Polish" for "polish" in your head. I am thinking, what is this guy talking about Polish people needing to be redone.
Do you mind telling me where you bought the stone loose from? My 10 year anniversary just passed and like the dorky stud that I am I bought her an iPod Nano but only because I didn't have the $6,000 for the earrings she really wanted. She loved it, but nonetheless if the price is many many times less, then I might be able to swing a pair for Christmas.
Please let me know at "fprint dot fprintf @ gmail.com" if you'd prefer not to repost the info here.
World of Warcraft, Diablo (II) and other online games are perfect examples of the Skinner Box. In the Skinner box, the psychologist Dr. Skinner trained rats to click a button for food. If the button was predictable, say 5 button presses and a food pellet came out, the rat would click until it was no longer hungry. If the button was somewhat random, the rat would click constantly in search of food even after it was no longer hungry. If a computer game gives you the same rewards for the same effort, eventually it becomes predictable and playability suffers. If, however, you create some randomness to the rewards, then people become addicted to playing the game just to see what comes out next.
I have not played WoW, but I can relate based on the hours I once wasted on Diablo II... clicking away just to get the occasional uber drops. Meph runs after Meph runs. Joining up with friends for hours online at a time just to get that one extra character level. Fortunately for me Blizzard ruined my fun by banning MapHack and made it not so easy to do those rapid mouseclicks. Addiction happens, and is made especially more acute by the randomness of really extra nice stuff dropping every once in a really long time in computer games.
With all the news on North Korea, I think this "evolution" isn't going to have time to happen. World War III sparked by nuclear North Korea is going to change the whole of human history with the 3rd nuclear bomb dropped in anger.
Bush was only born in Connecticut and then went to college here. From what I hear, he grew up in his formative years (e.g. Toddler through Middle School) in Texas. I'd say that makes him more Texan than a nutmeger.
Because if I want to run a memory intensive application alongside a web page I have open in Firefox I don't feel like copying the URL, restarting Firefox and pasting the URL back in. Not everyone has 2GB of memory now, my machine has 1GB on XP and Firefox at 500MB seriously curtails the other programs I want to run (at least on XP -- it gets very slow if it has to page anything)
OT, but get ready to go back to those days of expecting threats to the 2nd amendment the way these midterm elections are going. Granted, even with an overturning of both houses of Congress the President probably wouldn't sign any more restrictions. But you *never* know, especially with a lame duck President paving the way for his "moderate" successor.
I, for one, have been quite happy that the challenges to the 2nd amendment have died down for these past 6 years.
Well everyone makes mistakes. I had no idea that my system was under someone else's control. I had an occasionally on wireless connection through my neighbors high speed connection. Windows Firewall and Avast anti-virus, plus SpyBot-SD were always running whenever I connected the machine to the net. Windows Automatic Update is turned off, but I update the machine weekly.
I finally got my own DSL connection last week. Within a few minutes I noticed my machine was running really slowly. My mouse was moving slower than I thought it should. Then a few emails disappeared (including my login email AT&T sent me). Ouch, I think I've been taken over.
So I restarted the machine with Ubuntu, logged into my AT&T account manager via a dial-up connection to change all my passwords etc. and then proceeded to download ZoneAlarm and read up on making my Linksys router more secure (beyond WPA). So I got busted despite my best intentions by letting down my guard. Hopefully not too much personal data was stolen. Fortunately I do very little on the 'Net beyond spending time on online forums and playing http://liveforspeed.net/ so the only passwords stolen will be my logins to Slashdot and such.
Live and learn. Pay attention to all this security stuff, even when you think you are secure.
I highly doubt that this IE6 user will get any patches to IE anytime soon. As a user behind an entire team of corporate security experts our machines are locked down. So make any plans for not supporting IE6 cautiously, there are probably millions of us locked into IE6 for the next 12 months or more!
(home is a different story, I'll probably get IE7 as soon as I can just to see what all the fuss is about)
My guess is that if you cannot spell "HIPAA" correctly, you won't be working for your current employer for very long. Remember, there are no hippos in HIPAA.
HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It is so commonly misspelled that the link you provided redirects to the appropriate link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIPAA
You'd think that the several thousand deliverable nuclear warheads would be enough to ensure our safety......
Except in order to ensure our safety you need to be willing to use those nucular warheads. And we all know the likelihood of that. So our enemies do *just enough* damage to inflict pain, but not incur the wrath of a full nucular response.
So with conventional weapons, however, you now have a way of responding without a full-out nuclear response.
I'll stick to itunes also, but may come to regret that stance when (not if) they are required to turn on some kind of DRM protections. Eventually, given the rise in Apple's popularity, they too will become the evil empire.
I'll just add that because of "white flight" from the cities that the best education for our children is in the suburbs or private schools in/near the cities. Sorry to say but I have made a personal choice that my 90 minutes of commuting each day and approx. $9,000 in local taxes are necessary for my kids to go to school in a safe, consistent and academically rewarding environment. The tax dollars have followed those with money, out to the burbs. This has left our cities with very poor schools and it will take very exorbitant commuting prices to drive those with money back into the cities.
p.s. Most gentrification in the cities is being driven by empty-nesters. Exactly the wrong type of people to drive any increase in school funding.
I'd like to add one more: when it has been cloudy, rainy and windy for a week (common in the Atlantic) it'd be nice to be moving rather than waiting for the sun.
I used to sail a lot, particularly windsurfing. But then I became a wind snob, only sailing when the forecast was 15 - 25+, which doesn't happen a lot around here. I'd hate to buy a boat that absolutely relied upon it being sunny cause then I *know* most of my weekends would be cloudy!:-)
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I do not agree with the OP that intentional ignorance to weather conditions and other problems is a consideration. I prefer to fly United because they let me listen in to air traffic control -- not just the communications between *my* pilot and ATC, but every plane on the particular frequency. I have been on many flights where specific weather has been discussed, in particular during thunderstorm season where ATC has steered us around various cells.
The professionalism on ATC channels is very high and matter of fact. It could be hailing golf balls but everything is described in the terms the pilot needs to know.
I prefer to fly United as a closet plane buff and as someone who loves to pretend that I know what is going on. I occasionally even fly MS Flight Simulator on my laptop once at 10,000 feet on the same flight path. I find it fascinating and I enjoy almost every minute of each flight, including US coast to coast flights.
I have no idea from your comment how tall you are, but my Mini Cooper S *with* a sunroof has tons of headroom. I am just over 6 feet and there are at least 4 inches to the ceiling. If I got the car without the sunroof I think there is another inch. This is all with the seat in a relaxed position for me, as I think it can go down a little further toward the floor still. The only problem is leg length - that the seat pushes a little too far back. My son can fit in the back with his feet between the seatback and his seat but my daughter (whose legs do not yet touch the floor) cannot so she has to sit behind my wife.
Second problem is that this car only gets 31 mpg in my daily commute. The non-S with the smaller engine gets 2 - 3 mpg better but it is still remarkably low (probably due to its boxy unaerodynamic shape) considering its size.
For example:
"Brian: Thank God you've come, Reg.
Reg: Well, I think I should point out first, Brian, in all fairness, we are not, in fact, the rescue committee. However, I have been asked to read the following prepare statement on behalf of the movement. "We the People's Front of Judea, brackets, officials, end brackets, do hereby convey our sincere fraternal and sisterly greetings to you, Brian, on this, the occasion of your martyrdom. "
Brian: What?
Reg: "Your death will stand as a landmark in the continuing struggle to liberate the parent land from the hands of the Roman imperialist aggressors, excluding those concerned with drainage, medicine, roads, housing, education, viniculture and any other Romans contributing to the welfare of Jews of both sexes and hermaphrodites. Signed, on behalf of the P. F. J. , etc. " And I'd just like to add, on a personal note, my own admiration, for what you're doing for us, Brian, on what must be, after all, for you a very difficult time. "
So there are laws againsts throwing CFLs, thermometers and everything else containing mercury in the trash. But honestly, who is going to know? I could put all kinds of stuff in my trash (though only generate one bag a week) and have no idea what is and is not legal to put in there. I don't, and I recycle everything I can too. But no way in heck am I making a $10 per visit trip to the dump just to drop off the one CFL that broke or old battery that died. It is just much easier to toss it than keep it separated in a separate box/place for that visit, and I suspect that is what most people will do. Have you seen the atrocious recycling rates we get in the U.S.? People would rather just toss it. We have the same problem here with SUVs... until it hits people directly, they'll choose to ignore it since their own personal impact is so minute.
Are pennies 100% copper anymore? So wouldn't the price per pound be significantly more than $1.81 a pound discounting for the alloy that is created when you melt them down containing less copper?
Holy smokes my son (11 years old) and myself love Total Annihilation. Of all the games (20+ at this point) we have only Need For Speed gets more game play. I bought this game for $10 in the bargain bin at Circuit City many years ago for my 400mhz computer and it is great. There are probably tons of options we have not yet explored since we prefer playing against the AI.
Actually blame the ranchers and farmers. If they hadn't killed off predators to protect their livestock then there wouldn't be a deer problem.
But I think this is just a problem looking for a novel solution. I like the idea of hunters taking down game and then providing it to homeless shelters. There must be other ways of using this food source to benefit others.
With cheap power comes less incentive to design products efficiently. With cheap power living becomes easier and I am guessing a potential population boom. So you would need to account for that future growth in any solar power station plans, and we know how difficult it is to predict future events... my guess is that we will underestimate power usage and will need to cover the planet with solar arrays eventually.
What a ramble! Have you ever used the "Enter" key to make paragraphs before? Phew!
Just try taking their reserved parking spaces closest to the mall entrance and you will see just how "imposing" disabled people can be about it.
Quite an interesting read when you substitute "Polish" for "polish" in your head. I am thinking, what is this guy talking about Polish people needing to be redone.
Do you mind telling me where you bought the stone loose from? My 10 year anniversary just passed and like the dorky stud that I am I bought her an iPod Nano but only because I didn't have the $6,000 for the earrings she really wanted. She loved it, but nonetheless if the price is many many times less, then I might be able to swing a pair for Christmas.
Please let me know at "fprint dot fprintf @ gmail.com" if you'd prefer not to repost the info here.
World of Warcraft, Diablo (II) and other online games are perfect examples of the Skinner Box. In the Skinner box, the psychologist Dr. Skinner trained rats to click a button for food. If the button was predictable, say 5 button presses and a food pellet came out, the rat would click until it was no longer hungry. If the button was somewhat random, the rat would click constantly in search of food even after it was no longer hungry. If a computer game gives you the same rewards for the same effort, eventually it becomes predictable and playability suffers. If, however, you create some randomness to the rewards, then people become addicted to playing the game just to see what comes out next.
I have not played WoW, but I can relate based on the hours I once wasted on Diablo II... clicking away just to get the occasional uber drops. Meph runs after Meph runs. Joining up with friends for hours online at a time just to get that one extra character level. Fortunately for me Blizzard ruined my fun by banning MapHack and made it not so easy to do those rapid mouseclicks. Addiction happens, and is made especially more acute by the randomness of really extra nice stuff dropping every once in a really long time in computer games.
With all the news on North Korea, I think this "evolution" isn't going to have time to happen. World War III sparked by nuclear North Korea is going to change the whole of human history with the 3rd nuclear bomb dropped in anger.
Bush was only born in Connecticut and then went to college here. From what I hear, he grew up in his formative years (e.g. Toddler through Middle School) in Texas. I'd say that makes him more Texan than a nutmeger.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_w._bush#Early
So don't blame him on us either!
Because if I want to run a memory intensive application alongside a web page I have open in Firefox I don't feel like copying the URL, restarting Firefox and pasting the URL back in. Not everyone has 2GB of memory now, my machine has 1GB on XP and Firefox at 500MB seriously curtails the other programs I want to run (at least on XP -- it gets very slow if it has to page anything)
OT, but get ready to go back to those days of expecting threats to the 2nd amendment the way these midterm elections are going. Granted, even with an overturning of both houses of Congress the President probably wouldn't sign any more restrictions. But you *never* know, especially with a lame duck President paving the way for his "moderate" successor.
I, for one, have been quite happy that the challenges to the 2nd amendment have died down for these past 6 years.
http://www.qrz.com/p/testing.pl has a nice online test so you can see how "easy" it is to get an amateur radio license.
Well everyone makes mistakes. I had no idea that my system was under someone else's control. I had an occasionally on wireless connection through my neighbors high speed connection. Windows Firewall and Avast anti-virus, plus SpyBot-SD were always running whenever I connected the machine to the net. Windows Automatic Update is turned off, but I update the machine weekly.
I finally got my own DSL connection last week. Within a few minutes I noticed my machine was running really slowly. My mouse was moving slower than I thought it should. Then a few emails disappeared (including my login email AT&T sent me). Ouch, I think I've been taken over.
So I restarted the machine with Ubuntu, logged into my AT&T account manager via a dial-up connection to change all my passwords etc. and then proceeded to download ZoneAlarm and read up on making my Linksys router more secure (beyond WPA). So I got busted despite my best intentions by letting down my guard. Hopefully not too much personal data was stolen. Fortunately I do very little on the 'Net beyond spending time on online forums and playing http://liveforspeed.net/ so the only passwords stolen will be my logins to Slashdot and such.
Live and learn. Pay attention to all this security stuff, even when you think you are secure.
I highly doubt that this IE6 user will get any patches to IE anytime soon. As a user behind an entire team of corporate security experts our machines are locked down. So make any plans for not supporting IE6 cautiously, there are probably millions of us locked into IE6 for the next 12 months or more!
(home is a different story, I'll probably get IE7 as soon as I can just to see what all the fuss is about)
My guess is that if you cannot spell "HIPAA" correctly, you won't be working for your current employer for very long. Remember, there are no hippos in HIPAA.
HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It is so commonly misspelled that the link you provided redirects to the appropriate link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIPAA
Except in order to ensure our safety you need to be willing to use those nucular warheads. And we all know the likelihood of that. So our enemies do *just enough* damage to inflict pain, but not incur the wrath of a full nucular response.
So with conventional weapons, however, you now have a way of responding without a full-out nuclear response.
I'll stick to itunes also, but may come to regret that stance when (not if) they are required to turn on some kind of DRM protections. Eventually, given the rise in Apple's popularity, they too will become the evil empire.
I'll just add that because of "white flight" from the cities that the best education for our children is in the suburbs or private schools in/near the cities. Sorry to say but I have made a personal choice that my 90 minutes of commuting each day and approx. $9,000 in local taxes are necessary for my kids to go to school in a safe, consistent and academically rewarding environment. The tax dollars have followed those with money, out to the burbs. This has left our cities with very poor schools and it will take very exorbitant commuting prices to drive those with money back into the cities.
p.s. Most gentrification in the cities is being driven by empty-nesters. Exactly the wrong type of people to drive any increase in school funding.
I'd like to add one more: when it has been cloudy, rainy and windy for a week (common in the Atlantic) it'd be nice to be moving rather than waiting for the sun.
:-)
I used to sail a lot, particularly windsurfing. But then I became a wind snob, only sailing when the forecast was 15 - 25+, which doesn't happen a lot around here. I'd hate to buy a boat that absolutely relied upon it being sunny cause then I *know* most of my weekends would be cloudy!