Because my convenience and quality of life should not be impinged upon because of ass-hats that litter or utter-drooling-morons that think the only way to stop littering is to ban a product entirely.
If you find a magic way to get rid of all the asshats then you can start having nice things again.
Until then, we have to think of the planet. There's only one and it's not disposable, in theory it has to last forever (stop and really think about what that means before replying...)
#6 plastic is recycled where I live, but straws lack the mass to stay on the conveyor belts used to separate recyclable materials and transport them into separate piles
So, what you're saying is they automatically separate themselves from the other stuff as they're being conveyed?
I wonder if there's a way that could be a feature?
never mind that the evolution of certain things, such as eyes, are still unexplained
Complete bollocks.
Out in the real world there's animals with "eyes" in every stage of evolutionary development, from single, light-sensitive cells all the way up to complex mammalian eyes.
There's also animals that are losing their eyes because they went to live underground.
True, but in the modern information age we can know far more wrong things than before, eg. Oprah, 'History' Channel...
This study might be reflecting the effect of all that misinformation. Everybody now thinks they're experts on complicated stuff but before they didn't even have an opinion.
eg. Vaccines, Climate change.
Opinion trumps pesky facts, real scientists and doctors aren't held in high esteem any more (or even listened to).
In the first half of the 20th century people were plain ignorant.
In the first half of the 21st century they all have a box in the corner of the room throwing out disinformation 24/7 as if it were God's Own Truth. I'm not just talking about Fox News, I include all the crap on the History Channel, the evangelical channels, etc.
The problem ain't what you don't know, the problem's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Anybody who looks at a graph of bitcoin prices can see it's artificial. It goes in stairsteps, not the sloping ups and downs of human buying. Sometimes the humans come in and mess it up but watch it for a few days and you'll see it clearly. Robotrading.
(find a 12 or 24 hour view of prices to see it best)
It goes up a step, up a step, up a step,... then crashes down again. Somebody definitely a lot of robots set up doing the pumping and dumping.
You know how I can tell that neither of you actually read the article?
The main concern here isn't the dust storm itself. It's the need to keep the rover's heaters operational while maintaining a minimal power level in the batteries.
I wonder how long it could last in standby if someone hadn't been foolish enough to force it to waste power phoning home just to say "I'm still here." That single transmission could possibly be what killed it.
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So anything that's temporarily not operational is now "soft-bricked"?
Yes.
Please try to keep up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Don't discount the Polynesian islands who have kept their pre-colonial habit of "throw it in the ocean" garbage disposal.
Remember: Polynesian islands have McDonalds, too.
Because my convenience and quality of life should not be impinged upon because of ass-hats that litter or utter-drooling-morons that think the only way to stop littering is to ban a product entirely.
If you find a magic way to get rid of all the asshats then you can start having nice things again.
Until then, we have to think of the planet. There's only one and it's not disposable, in theory it has to last forever (stop and really think about what that means before replying...)
Yep. Even if they get rid of the straw there's still the plastic lid, etc.
Do civilized people sitting at tables really need straws and lids? Can't they just drink normally?
#6 plastic is recycled where I live, but straws lack the mass to stay on the conveyor belts used to separate recyclable materials and transport them into separate piles
So, what you're saying is they automatically separate themselves from the other stuff as they're being conveyed?
I wonder if there's a way that could be a feature?
Wouldn't it be useful to have an Uber-esque display that shows how far away a cop is to you?
I'm sure a lot of criminals would appreciate that feature, yes.
http://www.deathclock.com/ has already been doing this for well over a decade.
To avoid confusing any Americans in the room.
never mind that the evolution of certain things, such as eyes, are still unexplained
Complete bollocks.
Out in the real world there's animals with "eyes" in every stage of evolutionary development, from single, light-sensitive cells all the way up to complex mammalian eyes.
There's also animals that are losing their eyes because they went to live underground.
True, but in the modern information age we can know far more wrong things than before, eg. Oprah, 'History' Channel...
This study might be reflecting the effect of all that misinformation. Everybody now thinks they're experts on complicated stuff but before they didn't even have an opinion.
eg. Vaccines, Climate change.
Opinion trumps pesky facts, real scientists and doctors aren't held in high esteem any more (or even listened to).
I think there might be a grain of truth to it.
In the first half of the 20th century people were plain ignorant.
In the first half of the 21st century they all have a box in the corner of the room throwing out disinformation 24/7 as if it were God's Own Truth. I'm not just talking about Fox News, I include all the crap on the History Channel, the evangelical channels, etc.
The problem ain't what you don't know, the problem's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
(eg. that's not a Mark Twain quote...)
Anybody who looks at a graph of bitcoin prices can see it's artificial. It goes in stairsteps, not the sloping ups and downs of human buying. Sometimes the humans come in and mess it up but watch it for a few days and you'll see it clearly. Robotrading.
(find a 12 or 24 hour view of prices to see it best)
It goes up a step, up a step, up a step, ... then crashes down again. Somebody definitely a lot of robots set up doing the pumping and dumping.
Build new networks that are not just paper insulated wireline?
Usable bandwidth to the dwelling would allow for 4K, HD and other video resolutions on demand.
Yours isn't? Weird.
I live in Europe and I get 300MBs symmetrical with 5ms ping for $30 a month. It's fiber all the way to my router.
All speeds measured and confirmed: http://www.speedtest.net/resul...
3,400 million ... apparently the person writing this has never heard of the concept of billion.
What an odd way to write that.
Apparentley the person who wrote that is an ignorant Xenophobe who doesn't know that other countries do things differently than his.
Problem: A lot of them are in charge of running the country!
My shares in buggy whips never recovered. I was ruined!
There should be firm laws against this sort of 'progress'.
someone needs to loose their engineering degree.
I don't know about that but somebody definitely needs to learn to spell "lose".
It's only four letters, FFS.
You know how I can tell that neither of you actually read the article?
The main concern here isn't the dust storm itself. It's the need to keep the rover's heaters operational while maintaining a minimal power level in the batteries.
I'm sure one of the dust devils will come along and clean the panels.
Sure, but how is buying Bitcoin worse than buying commemorative crap on the Home Shopping Channel?
Home Shopping Channel makes even Bitcoin look like a good investment.
Merchants accepted cheques for a century prior to that without any such system.
Sure, but only because the plebs didn't have cheque books.
(or even bank accounts)
Meh. What's an extra 0.1% risk to a motorcyclist?
Get out there and live your dream!
I wonder how long it could last in standby if someone hadn't been foolish enough to force it to waste power phoning home just to say "I'm still here." That single transmission could possibly be what killed it.
Um, no.
Alright, but keep the restocking fee.
Most of Amazon's 'problems' aren't caused by defective goods, they're cause by people who buy three of everything so they can try them out at home.
(and make the youtube 'unboxing' videos and/or go to parties in the new clothes before returning them to Amazon)
No, I want Amazon to accept the consequences of their business model.
If it costs them extra to de-louse everything and do a factory reset on every returned smartphone then that's too bad.
All it means is that the prices charged by Amazon will resemble more closely the true costs of doing business in that way.