Right, because if all those people WERE NOT riding bikes, they wouldn't be consuming food or producing carbon dioxide at all, right? I'd much rather people get their exercise by foregoing the use of their SUV than by going to a health club to work out -- even moreso if they DRIVE to the gym!
In fact, I have a new belief, that the extreme right is anti-education for the exact same reasons the Taliban are, because educated people are far less likely to support their misguided causes!
There's a problem with that reasoning. 95% of the wear-and-tear on public streets is done be trucks. Damage increases exponentially with the weight on each tire (and probably with speed). The wear caused by a bicycle on the street is basically immeasurable; the ocaissional motor vehicle that wanders into the bike lane does far more damage. When was the last time you saw a bicycles-only path the showed _any_ signs of tire wear?
By bike commuting, you are burning a lot more calories per day than the average person. You need to replace those calories, so you need to eat more than I do just to maintain your current weight. Granted, it makes a lot more sense to burn the calories actually accomplishing something than going to the gym. But if the average person ate more calories than you do when you're burning off several hundred extra calories per day, they'd all look like Honey Boo Boo's mom... oh wait, the average person DOES look like than now, don't they?
(My daughter is a cheerleader. I have to buy her 3 full size cheeseburgers and a milkshake after every practice... she's frickin' 12 years old and weighs about 80 pounds, and she still eats twice as much as I do at more than twice her weight!)
My experience (my daughter has ADD) has convinced me that ADD is not a lack of ability to focus, but rather a lack of ability to focus on things you're not interested in or see no point to. My daughter can focus for hours on something she wants to do, like sewing, playing video games, or making videos. The problem is our educational system regards the ability to read and comprehend hundreds of pages of material you could care less about as the highest virtue. Unless you later become a game show contestant, most of the stuff you're required to memorize in school is just useless trivia.
I've got to agree with you on this. Yes, you pay a significant premium for Apple gear, but they do make up for it with customer service that figuratively kisses the customers ass every time, sometimes even throwing in fixes for free on equipment that is no longer under warranty.When Clarke's Discount Honda fixed my car for free (more than once, actually) they DID buy long-time customer loyalty from me. So Apple should believe it will work with most of their customers too. It partially works for me; my wife has a top-end iPad and old MacBook, my daughter has a top-end new PowerBook. But for myself, I just got a $300 Dell laptop from Walmart, which was a heck of a lot cheaper than the $2000 I paid for my daughter's laptop.
You don't understand. The conservatives are anti-education for precisely the same reason the Taliban is anti-education: an educated population is much less likely to support them. It's no accurate that all the bastions of liberalism and Democratic voting in Virginia are exactly the same as the areas surrounding universities.
So put the control centers closer to the drone... say in the air way above the fighter. Also, drones should be cheap enough so that you can afford to lost dozens of them taking out a single manned aircraft. When your drones outnumber manned jets 50 to one, I'd say they have a huge advantage even with some lag.
And where are you getting this "10-30 second round trip"? The speed of light is 186,282.397 miles per second. The circumference of the earth is only 24,901 miles. A radio signal can circle the earth 7.5 times in a single second... where's this "2-4 seconds latency" coming from?
Want to make fighter jet more effective and orders of magnitude less expensive? Remove the pilot! Manned fighters are soon to be a thing of the past. (Long range bombers probably still need to be manned.) Sure, communications and control can be cut off... but a manned fighter can't take any action without checking with control first either!
If they can tell the cable modem to redirect HTTP requests, then it's not YOUR cable modem, it's THEIR cable modem. Third party cable modems are available...
Your first second was good. You should have followed it up with "They make most of their money off charging both customers and advertisers for programming, therefore they have no financial incentive to provide you with a service that would allow you to download an unlimited amount of unrestricted content for free!"
Bill Gates never actually made the 640K comment; it is falsely attributed to him. The other two quotes are accurate and very relevant to this conversation.
Waiting for porn? Ain't nobody got time for dat!
The problem is usually that the servers themselves don't support a high streaming rate; having a huge pipe to deliver a trickle from the server doesn't really buy you much. Unless you're simultaneously downloading from several different sites, you're usually not going to use all that bandwidth anyway.
Yes and no. Over a long distance, say hundreds of feet, there is probably perceptible phase distortion. Over the 3 foot length of typical cables, I don't think it makes any detectable difference.
Another thing about local honey -- it helps you build up an immunity to pollen allergies! Sounds bizarre, but I suggested it to my Mom, and she says it worked.
No gun can be made full auto "easily".
I disagree. As a kid, I had a Remington 22 that went full auto on me, emptied all 17 rounds in one trigger pull. I'm still not sure if the firing pin wore down or if my dad was "experimenting" with the rifle, but I'd insist many semi-autos can be made full auto simply by filing down the firing pin.
That being said, I don't think full auto is that useful in most situations, because you simply can't carry enough ammo or feed it into the weapon fast enough.
Sovereign Immunity. You cannot sue the government without their permission, so it's not as easy as "just file in the appropriate court" when you're suing the government itself. Yes, it is that easy for suing anyone else.
Ahmadinejad is a buffoon, and he's not the person running Iran.Ayatollah Khamenei is the one that could actually order a nuclear attack. Unlike Ahmadinejad, Khamenei doesn't make threats against Israel, and has publicly stated that the use of nuclear weapons is immoral. He will also still be in power long after Ahmadinejad is gone.
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Right, because if all those people WERE NOT riding bikes, they wouldn't be consuming food or producing carbon dioxide at all, right? I'd much rather people get their exercise by foregoing the use of their SUV than by going to a health club to work out -- even moreso if they DRIVE to the gym!
The way is was explained to me is: We all know BS stands for "bull shit". MS stands for "more shit", and PhD stands for "piled higher & deeper"!
In fact, I have a new belief, that the extreme right is anti-education for the exact same reasons the Taliban are, because educated people are far less likely to support their misguided causes!
There's a problem with that reasoning. 95% of the wear-and-tear on public streets is done be trucks. Damage increases exponentially with the weight on each tire (and probably with speed). The wear caused by a bicycle on the street is basically immeasurable; the ocaissional motor vehicle that wanders into the bike lane does far more damage. When was the last time you saw a bicycles-only path the showed _any_ signs of tire wear?
By bike commuting, you are burning a lot more calories per day than the average person. You need to replace those calories, so you need to eat more than I do just to maintain your current weight. Granted, it makes a lot more sense to burn the calories actually accomplishing something than going to the gym. But if the average person ate more calories than you do when you're burning off several hundred extra calories per day, they'd all look like Honey Boo Boo's mom... oh wait, the average person DOES look like than now, don't they? (My daughter is a cheerleader. I have to buy her 3 full size cheeseburgers and a milkshake after every practice... she's frickin' 12 years old and weighs about 80 pounds, and she still eats twice as much as I do at more than twice her weight!)
My experience (my daughter has ADD) has convinced me that ADD is not a lack of ability to focus, but rather a lack of ability to focus on things you're not interested in or see no point to. My daughter can focus for hours on something she wants to do, like sewing, playing video games, or making videos. The problem is our educational system regards the ability to read and comprehend hundreds of pages of material you could care less about as the highest virtue. Unless you later become a game show contestant, most of the stuff you're required to memorize in school is just useless trivia.
I've got to agree with you on this. Yes, you pay a significant premium for Apple gear, but they do make up for it with customer service that figuratively kisses the customers ass every time, sometimes even throwing in fixes for free on equipment that is no longer under warranty.When Clarke's Discount Honda fixed my car for free (more than once, actually) they DID buy long-time customer loyalty from me. So Apple should believe it will work with most of their customers too. It partially works for me; my wife has a top-end iPad and old MacBook, my daughter has a top-end new PowerBook. But for myself, I just got a $300 Dell laptop from Walmart, which was a heck of a lot cheaper than the $2000 I paid for my daughter's laptop.
Doesn't the Smart car have an automatic manual (that really sucks, IMHO).
You don't understand. The conservatives are anti-education for precisely the same reason the Taliban is anti-education: an educated population is much less likely to support them. It's no accurate that all the bastions of liberalism and Democratic voting in Virginia are exactly the same as the areas surrounding universities.
So put the control centers closer to the drone... say in the air way above the fighter. Also, drones should be cheap enough so that you can afford to lost dozens of them taking out a single manned aircraft. When your drones outnumber manned jets 50 to one, I'd say they have a huge advantage even with some lag. And where are you getting this "10-30 second round trip"? The speed of light is 186,282.397 miles per second. The circumference of the earth is only 24,901 miles. A radio signal can circle the earth 7.5 times in a single second... where's this "2-4 seconds latency" coming from?
Want to make fighter jet more effective and orders of magnitude less expensive? Remove the pilot! Manned fighters are soon to be a thing of the past. (Long range bombers probably still need to be manned.) Sure, communications and control can be cut off... but a manned fighter can't take any action without checking with control first either!
If they can tell the cable modem to redirect HTTP requests, then it's not YOUR cable modem, it's THEIR cable modem. Third party cable modems are available...
Your first second was good. You should have followed it up with "They make most of their money off charging both customers and advertisers for programming, therefore they have no financial incentive to provide you with a service that would allow you to download an unlimited amount of unrestricted content for free!"
Bill Gates never actually made the 640K comment; it is falsely attributed to him. The other two quotes are accurate and very relevant to this conversation.
Waiting for porn? Ain't nobody got time for dat! The problem is usually that the servers themselves don't support a high streaming rate; having a huge pipe to deliver a trickle from the server doesn't really buy you much. Unless you're simultaneously downloading from several different sites, you're usually not going to use all that bandwidth anyway.
Obviously Time Warner is not taking porn into consideration here.
Yes and no. Over a long distance, say hundreds of feet, there is probably perceptible phase distortion. Over the 3 foot length of typical cables, I don't think it makes any detectable difference.
Another thing about local honey -- it helps you build up an immunity to pollen allergies! Sounds bizarre, but I suggested it to my Mom, and she says it worked.
Who cares? Isn't Yahoo just about as relevant as AOL these days? They won't be around much longer anyway.
Mt. Dew takes like what I imagine fermented piss would taste like.
I've tried both. Mt. Dew actually tastes slightly better.
I know the feeling, bro! I got some meth for breakfast this morning, because caffeine just wasn't doing the trick today!
You mean, Mt. Dew wasn't ALREADY a breakfast drink???
No gun can be made full auto "easily". I disagree. As a kid, I had a Remington 22 that went full auto on me, emptied all 17 rounds in one trigger pull. I'm still not sure if the firing pin wore down or if my dad was "experimenting" with the rifle, but I'd insist many semi-autos can be made full auto simply by filing down the firing pin. That being said, I don't think full auto is that useful in most situations, because you simply can't carry enough ammo or feed it into the weapon fast enough.
Sovereign Immunity. You cannot sue the government without their permission, so it's not as easy as "just file in the appropriate court" when you're suing the government itself. Yes, it is that easy for suing anyone else.
Ahmadinejad is a buffoon, and he's not the person running Iran.Ayatollah Khamenei is the one that could actually order a nuclear attack. Unlike Ahmadinejad, Khamenei doesn't make threats against Israel, and has publicly stated that the use of nuclear weapons is immoral. He will also still be in power long after Ahmadinejad is gone.