Well, that's what I was hoping but I didn't take the time to think through the cost of replacing end-of-life batteries, who would pay that cost (duh, consumers), or how that cost would be spread. Glad someone agrees with me.:)
Make the batteries modular and easily removable. Set up all the service stations in the country with battery-swapping stations so that instead of stopping for gas, you make the stop for a battery swap. You get a fresh one, and the spent ones can be charged at their leisure. You pay a service fee for the swap. Plus you now have an easy method for recycling batteries at the ends of their life cycles.
I'm sure there's some kind of cost associated with all this that I'm not thinking of, but I'm thinking about it purely from the convenience aspect of making battery charging as convenient as filling up the tank...
So why haven't you killed yourself yet if it's too much to bear living with that? Or just stop having the treatments and die like you want. Stop being a hypocrite, and stop underestimating the amount of progress that can happen in 10/15/20/50/100 years.
I just finished updating iTunes on Vista Home Premium to install iOS5, and when it was done, it prompted me to reboot my computer before doing anything else. FWIW.
What do you mean I can't run Win7 on my Commodore 64?!
Big fucking deal. With new hardware coming out every year, do you really expect your device to be upgradeable to the latest and greatest software for life? Get real.
It's not the "Love one another" message that's the problem. That's actually a pretty great idea. Unfortunately, it usually comes packaged with "and join our cult of talking to invisible people or we'll shun you, tell you you're going to hell to be punished for eternity, and possibly burn you at the stake. Love you!"
Buddhism and the Dalai Lama also say to "Love one another" but no one really seems to have a problem with them. I wonder why that is....
As a synthesizer player, I was so excited for Stream of Passion because it was Ayreon and then so disappointed in it because it had no synthesizers at all in it. I think I listened to it once, then deleted it off of my iPhone and put the CD up somewhere. I'd love to hear more Ambeon as well. Ambient metal was pretty epic. \m/
Somehow, I think there's quite a difference between my being verbally hostile towards religion and religious people who burn others at the stake, interrupt funerals of gay soldiers, influence public environmental policy based on beliefs in the imminent End Times, call for jihad against nonbelievers and deny their children much-needed medical care because it goes against their interpretation of some ancient book. Yes, I'm proud to be not too happy about those kind of people.
I don't mind one bit being considered a bigot towards religion. At all. Because I think it's fucking stupid and I'll continue to rant with hostile tone against people who believe in religious bullshit. I think most people would prefer that over calling for their deaths for their beliefs (or lack of). We have at the very least one data point towards life being able to spontaneously develop on a lifeless planet compared to the zero data points for any gods or supernatural bullshit.
We already have one case study of life developing on a planet: us. Considering the size and scope of the universe, it'd be ludicrous to think that this has only happened once in the whole of existence. That's only one data point, but it's still 1 to religion's 0.
Talking to invisible friends: check.
Believing in invisible friends: check.
Believing that wanting something really, really badly is going to make it come true: check.
Thinking that talking snakes, people that can walk on water, and other manner of physics-defying shit really happens: check.
Just because you can get a whole lot of people to go along with your batshit insane ideas doesn't mean that they aren't batshit insane. See the Heaven's Gate cult among all the other examples throughout history.
Hundreds of years ago, pop musicians like Bach, Beethoven, and more wrote music because they were commissioned by wealthy patrons to compose music for them so they could be shown off at the patrons' private concerts. Also, it was the only way for them to afford to hire "studio musicians" to come and play the works they created. So they certainly were "selling out" to make a living. That didn't stop them from creating art. That's not to say they didn't love creating music, but don't think that they were only doing it out of some selfless love of artistic creation.
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Well, that's what I was hoping but I didn't take the time to think through the cost of replacing end-of-life batteries, who would pay that cost (duh, consumers), or how that cost would be spread. Glad someone agrees with me. :)
Make the batteries modular and easily removable. Set up all the service stations in the country with battery-swapping stations so that instead of stopping for gas, you make the stop for a battery swap. You get a fresh one, and the spent ones can be charged at their leisure. You pay a service fee for the swap. Plus you now have an easy method for recycling batteries at the ends of their life cycles.
I'm sure there's some kind of cost associated with all this that I'm not thinking of, but I'm thinking about it purely from the convenience aspect of making battery charging as convenient as filling up the tank...
So why haven't you killed yourself yet if it's too much to bear living with that? Or just stop having the treatments and die like you want. Stop being a hypocrite, and stop underestimating the amount of progress that can happen in 10/15/20/50/100 years.
And that's the problem. That anyone gives fuck all about what someone like that guy says, especially for being a child molester enabler.
I just finished updating iTunes on Vista Home Premium to install iOS5, and when it was done, it prompted me to reboot my computer before doing anything else. FWIW.
Big fucking deal. With new hardware coming out every year, do you really expect your device to be upgradeable to the latest and greatest software for life? Get real.
GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD. Look, I spelled it, with the O and all that shit. And no lightning strike. Please get the fuck over it.
But what if the bullet has IR camouflage also?!
Chances are, if you just fired your main gun, you probably don't need stealth anymore...
Nope, no lightning struck me. Stop being such a pussy. And stop assuming that we need some stupid contrived "salvation" from your sky daddy myths.
How much do they charge?
Buddhism and the Dalai Lama also say to "Love one another" but no one really seems to have a problem with them. I wonder why that is....
Skynet will label us all redundant pretty soon.
Yay! And... fourth! *lol*
As a synthesizer player, I was so excited for Stream of Passion because it was Ayreon and then so disappointed in it because it had no synthesizers at all in it. I think I listened to it once, then deleted it off of my iPhone and put the CD up somewhere. I'd love to hear more Ambeon as well. Ambient metal was pretty epic. \m/
Ayreon on MTV would be mind-fuckingly-blowing! :D
Somehow, I think there's quite a difference between my being verbally hostile towards religion and religious people who burn others at the stake, interrupt funerals of gay soldiers, influence public environmental policy based on beliefs in the imminent End Times, call for jihad against nonbelievers and deny their children much-needed medical care because it goes against their interpretation of some ancient book. Yes, I'm proud to be not too happy about those kind of people.
I don't mind one bit being considered a bigot towards religion. At all. Because I think it's fucking stupid and I'll continue to rant with hostile tone against people who believe in religious bullshit. I think most people would prefer that over calling for their deaths for their beliefs (or lack of). We have at the very least one data point towards life being able to spontaneously develop on a lifeless planet compared to the zero data points for any gods or supernatural bullshit.
We already have one case study of life developing on a planet: us. Considering the size and scope of the universe, it'd be ludicrous to think that this has only happened once in the whole of existence. That's only one data point, but it's still 1 to religion's 0.
Talking to invisible friends: check.
Believing in invisible friends: check.
Believing that wanting something really, really badly is going to make it come true: check.
Thinking that talking snakes, people that can walk on water, and other manner of physics-defying shit really happens: check.
Just because you can get a whole lot of people to go along with your batshit insane ideas doesn't mean that they aren't batshit insane. See the Heaven's Gate cult among all the other examples throughout history.
Hundreds of years ago, pop musicians like Bach, Beethoven, and more wrote music because they were commissioned by wealthy patrons to compose music for them so they could be shown off at the patrons' private concerts. Also, it was the only way for them to afford to hire "studio musicians" to come and play the works they created. So they certainly were "selling out" to make a living. That didn't stop them from creating art. That's not to say they didn't love creating music, but don't think that they were only doing it out of some selfless love of artistic creation.
You must've only had an indie rock band protecting those. ;)
That must be an expensive cable if you hired a metal band to protect it. \m/
Jeff Hawkins would probably mostly disagree with you.
If this ever happened and Apple allowed it, no one would ever trust another Apple product ever again. Ever. Bye bye Apple.