(note in advance: This reply is based on not only the post I'm replying to, but other posts by you on this story that I also read)
I've always thought that "Standard of Living" is measured in wildly inaccurate ways.
I get paid roughly what a "middle class American" gets paid in relation to my living costs, but my lifestyle is vastly different. Because of this, the types of resources that I am a drain on (after all, we're all a drain on SOME resources) are quite different to that of the hypothetical "middle class American" in question.
The upshot of all this is that I don't think it's reasonable to assume that raising standard of living for people necessarily means the same resources will be being used in the same quantities by everyone, and thus measuring resource usage by standard of living is somewhat disingenuous.
On my last business trip to the US, I ordered a steak "medium rare". What I got was barely even pink in the middle. So, the next steak I ordered (at a different place) was "rare" and came to me cooked in a way that the rest of the world would call "medium rare" (i.e. How I like it). Based on this, I get the feeling that "medium" is actually leaning towards the "well done" side of things from a non-US perspective.
40 meters wide is OK, but saying something weights 71 million kilograms sounds stupid. In countries where the metric system is in use, nobody would say, rather simply use "71 thousand tons"
Although "71 thousand tons" sounds a bit better to me, it still doesn't quite ring true. I prefer "71 kilotons".
That said of course, it's a matter of preference, and the great thing with the metric system is easy conversion.
(as an example of preference: mainland Europeans use "centilitres" a lot for liquid measurement (a standard can of Coke here is 33cl), but in Australia and New Zealand which are use metric, that's quite unheard of. They prefer to give it in millilitres (a typical can of Coke there is 375ml))
Not true Were copyright abolished completely, the GPL would become meaningless, but that doesn't mean all software would be GPL'ed (well, the equivalent thereof, in terms of the actual effects); it'd all be BSD'ed
That's pretty much what I meant when I said "the real "forced openness" that the GPL gives would be gone as well"...
Indeed... Everyone seems to have their own ideas on patent reform, and while I'm more in favour of some of the "bigger" measures, a simple "little" measure that would probably help would be to say that if you have no business plan to actually use your patent, and someone else does, then they have a defacto right to purchase the patent from you.
It would stop this kind of patent troll that patents ideas and then nickle-and-dimes others out of their cash. The "idea companies" (as this one claims to be) could still exist, and would make money from SELLING the patents to other people who think the idea has merit, but not a cent after that.
Please don't use the word "Muslims" like that... it's tarring all people of one belief with the same brush.
It's probably equally as accurate to say that most Christians who die violently do so at the hands of other Christians. (although I have no cite for this, just as you have no cite for your Troll)
(disclaimer: I'm not a Muslim or a Christian - in fact, I'm a staunch atheist that thinks both the Muslim and Christian faiths are COMPLETELY ridiculous. I just don't like it when people fuel hatred in this manner)
there could have been a big comet, etc, but then, where is the crater, they don't just go away you know.
You're right, they don't...
Overview - [1] [2]
Chicxulub - [1] [2]
Shiva - [1] [2]
Boltysh - [1] [2] And probably more, such as the Silverpit crater, although that's a bit more debated.
My apologies - I guess I just got a little riled up by other posters who were spouting off about, "but you're not a REAL guitar hero for playing it!", and took my frustration out on the wrong person. You didn't deserve it.
For someone who doesnt know the instrument / is a beginner, this is is a distraction from the real thing.
Of course, what about those of us who enjoy Guitar Hero (I've played it a few times at a friend's place, and had a great time, but don't actually own it myself), but have ZERO interest in learning how to play a real guitar?
I am under no illusion that I have any guitar skill, despite becoming relatively good at Guitar Hero. It's a game. It's about pressing buttons with the right timing, like MANY games, but somewhat simplified to the most basic game play form and with a soundtrack of music that for the most part I rather like.
The GPL is a license that enforces "copyright" for the explicit purpose of fitting in to the current legal system. Were copyright to be greatly reformed or abolished completely, you're completely right that the GPL would immediately become as worthless as every other license, BUT it also wouldn't be necessary anymore.
True, the landscape would look very different, and the real "forced openness" that the GPL gives would be gone as well (unless that was framed in the new copyright laws, but I can NEVER imagine that happening!), but don't for a moment think that GPL advocates actually like copyright. The GPL exists in the realm of copyright because it has to in order to be legally enforceable, NOT because anyone thinks it really belongs there.
I've never owned an eBook reader, but I FAR prefer eBooks to paper.
Many other posters have already pointed out the reliability improvements of eBooks (digital media doesn't last forever, but backups are easy, so the digital data remains), so I won't go over those arguments again in any detail.
Others have also pointed out the simplicity of carrying a small library with you when it comes to eBooks, unlike the dead-tree editions, so I won't rehash that either.
Instead, here's a description of my "eBook usage".
For fiction/light-reading/whatever, I used to have a Windows Mobile device (first generation Dell Axim), on which I used Microsoft Reader with free books from Gutenburg that I converted manually to.lit format. The conversion process was a little painful at times, but I managed to get it all sorted out quite quickly after doing a few of them.
I no longer own the Axim, and instead read all those eBooks on my laptop now, which is less comfortable, but still preferred to the dead-tree edition. I will almost certainly get another mobile device (maybe a phone of some kind) that I'll use in the future.
For technical manuals, I always use my laptop, and my preferred format is PDF. I can have multiple open at once (taking MUCH less real estate than having multiple dead-tree editions open) and can use search functions to find stuff quickly and efficiently. I often even convert dead-tree editions in to PDF (scan and OCR) before using them.
This also holds true for manuals that I need to look at at the same time as I'm doing something else (which is most of them really). In these cases though, I never have the manual open on the same computer that I'm using for the task it describes - I always have (at least) two computers, so the manual can be open on one and I work on the other. I find this the most comfortable way to work, as I don't need to constantly switch between the book and the task at hand. My work environment is specifically set up like this with one laptop that is only email and ebook reader, while the other is my "main" laptop for development and testing.
Hah, as a native born Kiwi, I'm WELL aware of that... the Aussies still call Australia "Godzone" as well though.
And also in my defence, I'm not the original author of that rather humorous piece - I just posted it for the funny mods (and managed to pick up an "Informative" and "Insightful" somehow as well it seems, but that wasn't my intention!).
Australia is a very confusing
place, taking up a large amount of the bottom half of the planet. It is
recognizable from orbit because of many unusual features, including what at
first looks like an enormous bite taken out of it's southern edge; a wall of sheer
cliffs which plunge deep into the girting sea. Geologists assure us that this
is simply an accident of geomorphology and plate tectonics, but they still call
it the "Great Australian Bight" proving that not only are they
covering up a more frightening theory, but they can't spell either.
The first of the confusing things about Australia is
the status of the place. Where other land masses and sovereign lands are
classified as either continent, island, or country, Australia is considered all
three. Typically, it is unique in this.
The second confusing thing
about Australia are the animals. They can be divided into three categories.
Poisonous, Odd, and Sheep. It is true that of the 10 most poisonous arachnids
on the planet, Australia has 9 of them. Actually, it would be more accurate to
say that of the 9 most poisonous arachnids, Australia has all of them. Though,
there are curiously few snakes, possibly because the spiders have killed them
all. Even the spiders won't go near the sea. Any visitors should be careful to
check inside boots (before putting them on) under toilet seats (before sitting
down) and generally everywhere else. A stick is very useful for this task.
Strangely, it tends to be the
second class of animals (the Odd) that are more dangerous. The creature that
kills the most people each year is the common Wombat. It is nearly as
ridiculous as it's name, and spends it's life digging holes in the ground, in
which it hides. During the night it comes out to eat worms and grubs. The
wombat kills people in two ways: First, the animal is indestructible. Digging
holes in the hard Australian clay builds muscles that outclass Olympic
weightlifters. At night, they often wander the roads. Semi-trailers (Road
Trains) have hit them at high speed, with all 9 wheels on one side, and this
merely makes them very annoyed. They express this by snorting, glaring, and
walking away. Alas, to smaller cars, the wombat becomes an asymmetrical
high-speed launching pad, with results that can be imagined.
The second way the wombat
kills people relates to it's burrowing behavior. If a person happens to put
their hand down a Wombat hole, the Wombat will feel the disturbance and think
"Ho! My hole is collapsing!" at which it will brace its muscled legs
and push up against the roof of it's burrow, with incredible force, to prevent
it's collapse. Any unfortunate hand will be crushed, and attempts to withdraw
will cause the Wombat to simply bear down harder. The unfortunate will then
bleed to death through their crushed hand as the wombat prevents him from
seeking assistance. This is considered the third most embarrassing known way to
die, and Australians don't talk about it much.
At this point, we would like
to mention the Platypus, estranged relative of the mammal, which has a duck-bill,
otter's tail, webbed feet, lays eggs, detects it's aquatic prey in the same way
as the electric eel, and has venemous barbs attached to its hind legs, thus
combining all 'typical' Australian attributes into a single improbable
creature.
The last confusing thing about
Australia is the inhabitants. First, a short history: Some time around 40,000
years ago, some people arrived in boats from the north. They ate all the
available food, and lot of them died. The ones that survived learned respect
for the balance of nature, man's proper place in the scheme of things, and
spiders. They settled in, and spent a lot of the intervening time making up
strange stories.
Then, around 200 years ago,
Europeans arrived in boats from the north. More accurately, European convicts
were sent, with a few deranged and stupid people in charge. They tried to plant
their crops in Autumn (failing to take
Couldn't agree more. In my last job, I worked in a semi-open kind of area (cubicles, but only 8 of them) and now I have an office. I LOVE the ability to get a coffee then close the door, light a cigarette (I live in a country where that's okay in the office!), turn on some quiet background music and get down to serious coding.
And let me guess-- like most posts pointing out the left-leaning hypocrisy so rampant here in the last five years or so, this will get modded as 'flamebait'.:/
No, if it gets modded flamebait, it'll be because we've all read posts like yours a million times, and not only do you know it, but the only reason you'd post it again is to encourage flames - so your post is both the epitome of flamebait, as well as redundant.
Personally, I couldn't care less what this guy's political leanings are - there are scarce few posts on this story that concentrate on anything else, but those that do are really quite interesting.
My post has little to do with the person you're replying to, but I really wanted to throw my views in on some of the supposed "bad" things you're attributing to people.
...Clintons? Murder, land scams, hookers, drugs...etc..etc. ...Obama...America hater, radical, liar, drug user/seller, property scams...etc..etc.
Murder = bad
Land scams = bad
Hookers = not bad unless bad things are involved (e.g. child prostitution, forced prostitution etc)
Drugs = Depends on the drugs, but I'm strongly in favour of legalisation of anything that isn't both very addictive and very harmful (either/or is okay, with sufficient warnings and age limit, but not both. If it's neither, it should be at least as freely available as alcohol)
America hater = good, in the right context. I don't care if it's "offensive" to some people's views, but hating the current state of affairs is exactly the right attitude to have in order to effect positive change. If you believe everything is going fine and there are no problems (i.e. You don't "hate" anything about the current state of affairs), then you won't do much to improve thing.
Liar = bad
Drug user/seller = depends on the drugs, as above.
Property scams = bad
Also note that I don't actually know the details of most of the points you raise with regard to the people you're referring to (as I'm not an American, nor do I follow American politics very closely (and the "political entertainment" even less so)), so some of these things may be better/worse depending on circumstance.
Compared to the roughly $8 USD per gallon (€1,40 per litre) that we pay for petrol here in Germany, that's WELL worth it! I still don't understand why Tesla are ignoring the European market.
Let me rephrase - I work a low-paying twelve-hour overnight shift in a factory
Okay, but isn't that even more reason not to waste money driving a short distance?
I can fully understand not wanting to walk home after a 12 hour shift in a factory, but surely you can find something that works out both cheaper and more sensible? (I don't know your exact situation, so I can only throw out the ideas of: Public transport; smaller and very cheap car (like, a second hand Smart or something); motorised bicycle; ride with co-worker who lives further away but passes your place; etc)
Sorry, I'm not that familiar with US states, so I had to check a map just now - suffice to say, it didn't initially ring any alarm bells as it were.
let's see you walk to work in the middle of winter when there's a foot or two (or more) of snow on the ground.
Depends on the temperature at the time... if it's above negative five or so (celcius), I'll happily walk through the snow - I actually find it quite pleasant to do so.
but who wants to waste a half-hour (give or take) each way when you could be there in a few minutes?
Given that the temperature is okay... ummm... me? A half an hour walk is pretty nice really - if I could do that to get to and from work each day, I'd love it. As it is, I'm just SLIGHTLY too far, which is a little annoying really (around 8km - so walking would take between an hour and a half and two hours, but driving still feels sort of silly sometimes)
All of that said, I'll accept his answer in another post that he works a 12 hour nightshift in a factory - that's gotta be a pretty tiring kind of job and I can understand not wanting to walk home after that.
Well, not quite "wood shanty type", but really - it is possible to skimp on the building of nuclear plants and they do end up being horribly scary things. I wouldn't really expect any "first world" country to do that, but I just threw the comment in in case the troll types wanted to find something to pick on my post for.
Anyway, good to hear I'm not alone in my views on nuclear power!:)
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(note in advance: This reply is based on not only the post I'm replying to, but other posts by you on this story that I also read)
I've always thought that "Standard of Living" is measured in wildly inaccurate ways.
I get paid roughly what a "middle class American" gets paid in relation to my living costs, but my lifestyle is vastly different. Because of this, the types of resources that I am a drain on (after all, we're all a drain on SOME resources) are quite different to that of the hypothetical "middle class American" in question.
The upshot of all this is that I don't think it's reasonable to assume that raising standard of living for people necessarily means the same resources will be being used in the same quantities by everyone, and thus measuring resource usage by standard of living is somewhat disingenuous.
On my last business trip to the US, I ordered a steak "medium rare". What I got was barely even pink in the middle. So, the next steak I ordered (at a different place) was "rare" and came to me cooked in a way that the rest of the world would call "medium rare" (i.e. How I like it).
Based on this, I get the feeling that "medium" is actually leaning towards the "well done" side of things from a non-US perspective.
Although "71 thousand tons" sounds a bit better to me, it still doesn't quite ring true. I prefer "71 kilotons".
That said of course, it's a matter of preference, and the great thing with the metric system is easy conversion.
(as an example of preference: mainland Europeans use "centilitres" a lot for liquid measurement (a standard can of Coke here is 33cl), but in Australia and New Zealand which are use metric, that's quite unheard of. They prefer to give it in millilitres (a typical can of Coke there is 375ml))
I thought somewhere between 0.35g and 0.40g... but I don't recall exactly and I'm too lazy to look it up right now.
Were copyright abolished completely, the GPL would become meaningless, but that doesn't mean all software would be GPL'ed (well, the equivalent thereof, in terms of the actual effects); it'd all be BSD'ed
That's pretty much what I meant when I said "the real "forced openness" that the GPL gives would be gone as well"...
Indeed... Everyone seems to have their own ideas on patent reform, and while I'm more in favour of some of the "bigger" measures, a simple "little" measure that would probably help would be to say that if you have no business plan to actually use your patent, and someone else does, then they have a defacto right to purchase the patent from you.
It would stop this kind of patent troll that patents ideas and then nickle-and-dimes others out of their cash. The "idea companies" (as this one claims to be) could still exist, and would make money from SELLING the patents to other people who think the idea has merit, but not a cent after that.
Please don't use the word "Muslims" like that... it's tarring all people of one belief with the same brush.
It's probably equally as accurate to say that most Christians who die violently do so at the hands of other Christians. (although I have no cite for this, just as you have no cite for your Troll)
(disclaimer: I'm not a Muslim or a Christian - in fact, I'm a staunch atheist that thinks both the Muslim and Christian faiths are COMPLETELY ridiculous. I just don't like it when people fuel hatred in this manner)
You're right, they don't...
Overview - [1] [2]
Chicxulub - [1] [2]
Shiva - [1] [2]
Boltysh - [1] [2]
And probably more, such as the Silverpit crater, although that's a bit more debated.
My apologies - I guess I just got a little riled up by other posters who were spouting off about, "but you're not a REAL guitar hero for playing it!", and took my frustration out on the wrong person. You didn't deserve it.
Of course, what about those of us who enjoy Guitar Hero (I've played it a few times at a friend's place, and had a great time, but don't actually own it myself), but have ZERO interest in learning how to play a real guitar?
I am under no illusion that I have any guitar skill, despite becoming relatively good at Guitar Hero. It's a game. It's about pressing buttons with the right timing, like MANY games, but somewhat simplified to the most basic game play form and with a soundtrack of music that for the most part I rather like.
The GPL is a license that enforces "copyright" for the explicit purpose of fitting in to the current legal system. Were copyright to be greatly reformed or abolished completely, you're completely right that the GPL would immediately become as worthless as every other license, BUT it also wouldn't be necessary anymore.
True, the landscape would look very different, and the real "forced openness" that the GPL gives would be gone as well (unless that was framed in the new copyright laws, but I can NEVER imagine that happening!), but don't for a moment think that GPL advocates actually like copyright. The GPL exists in the realm of copyright because it has to in order to be legally enforceable, NOT because anyone thinks it really belongs there.
I've never owned an eBook reader, but I FAR prefer eBooks to paper.
Many other posters have already pointed out the reliability improvements of eBooks (digital media doesn't last forever, but backups are easy, so the digital data remains), so I won't go over those arguments again in any detail.
Others have also pointed out the simplicity of carrying a small library with you when it comes to eBooks, unlike the dead-tree editions, so I won't rehash that either.
Instead, here's a description of my "eBook usage".
For fiction/light-reading/whatever, I used to have a Windows Mobile device (first generation Dell Axim), on which I used Microsoft Reader with free books from Gutenburg that I converted manually to .lit format. The conversion process was a little painful at times, but I managed to get it all sorted out quite quickly after doing a few of them.
I no longer own the Axim, and instead read all those eBooks on my laptop now, which is less comfortable, but still preferred to the dead-tree edition. I will almost certainly get another mobile device (maybe a phone of some kind) that I'll use in the future.
For technical manuals, I always use my laptop, and my preferred format is PDF. I can have multiple open at once (taking MUCH less real estate than having multiple dead-tree editions open) and can use search functions to find stuff quickly and efficiently. I often even convert dead-tree editions in to PDF (scan and OCR) before using them.
This also holds true for manuals that I need to look at at the same time as I'm doing something else (which is most of them really). In these cases though, I never have the manual open on the same computer that I'm using for the task it describes - I always have (at least) two computers, so the manual can be open on one and I work on the other. I find this the most comfortable way to work, as I don't need to constantly switch between the book and the task at hand. My work environment is specifically set up like this with one laptop that is only email and ebook reader, while the other is my "main" laptop for development and testing.
Honestly, that's what I love about that whole thing... it's framed as comical humour, but almost everything is says is actually quite correct.
I'm a kiwi originally, but I spent 6 years in Oz, so I'm pretty familiar with it.
Hah, as a native born Kiwi, I'm WELL aware of that... the Aussies still call Australia "Godzone" as well though.
And also in my defence, I'm not the original author of that rather humorous piece - I just posted it for the funny mods (and managed to pick up an "Informative" and "Insightful" somehow as well it seems, but that wasn't my intention!).
Are you also aware of their electrolocation feature? That's pretty cool and weird at the same time also.
Australia: The Confusing Country
Australia is a very confusing place, taking up a large amount of the bottom half of the planet. It is recognizable from orbit because of many unusual features, including what at first looks like an enormous bite taken out of it's southern edge; a wall of sheer cliffs which plunge deep into the girting sea. Geologists assure us that this is simply an accident of geomorphology and plate tectonics, but they still call it the "Great Australian Bight" proving that not only are they covering up a more frightening theory, but they can't spell either.
The first of the confusing things about Australia is the status of the place. Where other land masses and sovereign lands are classified as either continent, island, or country, Australia is considered all three. Typically, it is unique in this.
The second confusing thing about Australia are the animals. They can be divided into three categories. Poisonous, Odd, and Sheep. It is true that of the 10 most poisonous arachnids on the planet, Australia has 9 of them. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that of the 9 most poisonous arachnids, Australia has all of them. Though, there are curiously few snakes, possibly because the spiders have killed them all. Even the spiders won't go near the sea. Any visitors should be careful to check inside boots (before putting them on) under toilet seats (before sitting down) and generally everywhere else. A stick is very useful for this task.
Strangely, it tends to be the second class of animals (the Odd) that are more dangerous. The creature that kills the most people each year is the common Wombat. It is nearly as ridiculous as it's name, and spends it's life digging holes in the ground, in which it hides. During the night it comes out to eat worms and grubs. The wombat kills people in two ways: First, the animal is indestructible. Digging holes in the hard Australian clay builds muscles that outclass Olympic weightlifters. At night, they often wander the roads. Semi-trailers (Road Trains) have hit them at high speed, with all 9 wheels on one side, and this merely makes them very annoyed. They express this by snorting, glaring, and walking away. Alas, to smaller cars, the wombat becomes an asymmetrical high-speed launching pad, with results that can be imagined.
The second way the wombat kills people relates to it's burrowing behavior. If a person happens to put their hand down a Wombat hole, the Wombat will feel the disturbance and think "Ho! My hole is collapsing!" at which it will brace its muscled legs and push up against the roof of it's burrow, with incredible force, to prevent it's collapse. Any unfortunate hand will be crushed, and attempts to withdraw will cause the Wombat to simply bear down harder. The unfortunate will then bleed to death through their crushed hand as the wombat prevents him from seeking assistance. This is considered the third most embarrassing known way to die, and Australians don't talk about it much.
At this point, we would like to mention the Platypus, estranged relative of the mammal, which has a duck-bill, otter's tail, webbed feet, lays eggs, detects it's aquatic prey in the same way as the electric eel, and has venemous barbs attached to its hind legs, thus combining all 'typical' Australian attributes into a single improbable creature.
The last confusing thing about Australia is the inhabitants. First, a short history: Some time around 40,000 years ago, some people arrived in boats from the north. They ate all the available food, and lot of them died. The ones that survived learned respect for the balance of nature, man's proper place in the scheme of things, and spiders. They settled in, and spent a lot of the intervening time making up strange stories.
Then, around 200 years ago, Europeans arrived in boats from the north. More accurately, European convicts were sent, with a few deranged and stupid people in charge. They tried to plant their crops in Autumn (failing to take
My lungs are MY problem... and as for "a hapless passerby", why are they in my office when my door is closed?
Couldn't agree more. In my last job, I worked in a semi-open kind of area (cubicles, but only 8 of them) and now I have an office. I LOVE the ability to get a coffee then close the door, light a cigarette (I live in a country where that's okay in the office!), turn on some quiet background music and get down to serious coding.
No, if it gets modded flamebait, it'll be because we've all read posts like yours a million times, and not only do you know it, but the only reason you'd post it again is to encourage flames - so your post is both the epitome of flamebait, as well as redundant.
Personally, I couldn't care less what this guy's political leanings are - there are scarce few posts on this story that concentrate on anything else, but those that do are really quite interesting.
...Clintons? Murder, land scams, hookers, drugs...etc..etc.Murder = bad
Also note that I don't actually know the details of most of the points you raise with regard to the people you're referring to (as I'm not an American, nor do I follow American politics very closely (and the "political entertainment" even less so)), so some of these things may be better/worse depending on circumstance.Land scams = bad
Hookers = not bad unless bad things are involved (e.g. child prostitution, forced prostitution etc)
Drugs = Depends on the drugs, but I'm strongly in favour of legalisation of anything that isn't both very addictive and very harmful (either/or is okay, with sufficient warnings and age limit, but not both. If it's neither, it should be at least as freely available as alcohol)
America hater = good, in the right context. I don't care if it's "offensive" to some people's views, but hating the current state of affairs is exactly the right attitude to have in order to effect positive change. If you believe everything is going fine and there are no problems (i.e. You don't "hate" anything about the current state of affairs), then you won't do much to improve thing.
Liar = bad
Drug user/seller = depends on the drugs, as above.
Property scams = bad
Compared to the roughly $8 USD per gallon (€1,40 per litre) that we pay for petrol here in Germany, that's WELL worth it! I still don't understand why Tesla are ignoring the European market.
Okay, but isn't that even more reason not to waste money driving a short distance?
I can fully understand not wanting to walk home after a 12 hour shift in a factory, but surely you can find something that works out both cheaper and more sensible? (I don't know your exact situation, so I can only throw out the ideas of: Public transport; smaller and very cheap car (like, a second hand Smart or something); motorised bicycle; ride with co-worker who lives further away but passes your place; etc)
Sorry, I'm not that familiar with US states, so I had to check a map just now - suffice to say, it didn't initially ring any alarm bells as it were.
let's see you walk to work in the middle of winter when there's a foot or two (or more) of snow on the ground.Depends on the temperature at the time... if it's above negative five or so (celcius), I'll happily walk through the snow - I actually find it quite pleasant to do so.
but who wants to waste a half-hour (give or take) each way when you could be there in a few minutes?Given that the temperature is okay... ummm... me? A half an hour walk is pretty nice really - if I could do that to get to and from work each day, I'd love it. As it is, I'm just SLIGHTLY too far, which is a little annoying really (around 8km - so walking would take between an hour and a half and two hours, but driving still feels sort of silly sometimes)
All of that said, I'll accept his answer in another post that he works a 12 hour nightshift in a factory - that's gotta be a pretty tiring kind of job and I can understand not wanting to walk home after that.
Well, not quite "wood shanty type", but really - it is possible to skimp on the building of nuclear plants and they do end up being horribly scary things. I wouldn't really expect any "first world" country to do that, but I just threw the comment in in case the troll types wanted to find something to pick on my post for.
Anyway, good to hear I'm not alone in my views on nuclear power! :)
Short, like "zero" (or also like "Xerography", where the name comes from)