check out table 3 -- i had no idea that nearly 69% of the west coast's energy is produced from non-fossil sources. this might give folks some idea about what would be powering the car in each of the major regions...
hmm. i'm in a similar situation as you, except *i'm* the adoptee who found his family... my half-brother and i great friends now and i've never been happier in my life.
so, yeah, i just LOVE your plan, "let's just revoke the civil rights of all adoptees because your truth-averse family can't cope with staring down its own lies..."
you have no idea why you love your parents because you weren't torn from them at birth and forced to live with strangers. you can't know for certain that you would have loved the strangers just as much because they were nice enough to raise you. everything is just speculation at this point.
i love how non-adoptees are alwyas so quick to tell us that their biology doesn't matter when they've never known what it's like to have no connection to their roots. how fucking dare you try to deny me something that you've been able to take for granted your whole life!
who my bio-parents ARE is central to WHO I AM. knowing that is not some special "privilege." and privacy fucking schmivacy! you can't enter into ANY legal agreement that can undo the biological truth that you ARE the parent. i feel sorry for people who get duped into believing the rhetoric of "just sign here and it'll be just like this never child ever happened..." but their naiveté is not something that i should be punished for. sorry.
why don't you try loving your brother for god's sake? what he's going thru right now is more difficult that anything you can possibly imagine. have some compassion. get some therapy.
all of my friends are like in_fucking_sanely into this show. and i have to say that i just don't get it, either. if i'm baked out of my mind, it's funny. but i've watched it sober and i laff like once and episode. maybe twice. i actually don't think it sucks, it's moreso that everyone is so god-dammed gung-ho about it and they're setting my expectations way to high. and yes i know eveyrone borrows plotlines (hello "simpsons did it" episode of south park) but for gods sake there are 4 zillion programs out there to rip off, why does it always have to be the simpsons.
i live in san francisco. i've been sharing my wifi connection for 2 years. there's a big coffeehouse and two cafes across the street from me. i named my wifi network with a URL so people could read about who i am if they were so inclined. people using my connection have been so sweet. i get kind emails all of the time. i've gotten pints of ben and jerry's, been invited to local parties and have gotten some killer CDs. one of my closest friends now is someone i met via my wi-fi sharing. yes there are dangers. but it's worth it.;)
but for most places in america (meaning the suburban, sprawly-type places) even "your neighborhood cafe" is probably well out of range. but for people in densely packed places like SF -- just go ahead and do it!
i know what you mean. losing webvan was a bummer. in SF, you can do pretty well using a combination of the BMW (meaning BART + MUNI + Walk) plus CityCarShare (www.citycarshare.org) for doing things like big grocery runs or hardware store trips.
the thing that cracks me up about this thread is that people on both sides of the argument think of taking mass transit as something you *should* do -- like recycling or something. like you should do your part and suffer for the planet. and that doesn't make any sense. i take the train because it's the fastest way to get to where i'm going, and it's pretty cheap. anyone who would drive from castro to go shopping downtown SF is a complete idiot because parking costs between $5 and $17 an hour in a lot and because the person on BART/MUNI will beat you there by at least 10 minutes.
good transit planning, to me, means building appropriate options for people based on the conditions in their community. design a solution that will actually save people time and then spend the money to build it right. how many systems have been killed by compromise and cost-cutting (seattle immediately comes to mind)?
the other thing i wanted to point out is that the highway system is a monopoly in most places and is completely controlled by the government. the anti-transit people always try to paint highways as the sort of "free market", right-thinking, flexible alternative to "fixed" transit. this is nonsense. when and how new freeways are constructed is highly political, insanely expensive, entirely government subsidized, and costs billions a year just to maintain what's already been built. it's not evil, it's not bad, but 'free market' it definitely is not. i don't understand why privatization-loving right-wingers never call for the privatization of the highway system. surely what's good for transit is good for roads...
the worst thing about the boeings was when muni had the bright idea to retrofit them with automatic train control for the market street tunnel. those crappy 70's trains were bad enough when humans tried to drive them -- and when they tried to graft 90s technology on them we ended up with the infamous "muni meltdown". that was 1998. and now, early 2002 all of those trains are out of commission. one has to wonder how much money was wasted retrofitting those cars for less than 3 years of service. but that's our MUNI -- Multiple Unfriendly Nuts Inside.
i saw this same screening and the film-y crowd there at the moma was more interested in symbolism and how disney stifled his creativity. to me, the biggest revealation the director made was that in this film tron == bill gates. he said that. that the film was about how bill gates broke up IBM and the mainframe and distributed computing to the masses. he wrote the script. everyone in the audience was trying to read more into it than was there. personally, all i wanted to know was what kind of hardware they rendered it on... but i didn't get a chance to ask my question!
apple's unending desire to be the bang & olufsen of the computer world is what sank the company back in the early 90s. you don't win marketshare by catering to an ever-smaller and more specialized audience. the history of the computer industry has proven that you make the most money by bringing technology to as many people as possible. the iMac is hopefully proof that they've learned from their mistakes. this $4k montitor is proof that they can still make money off of the yuppie B&O crowd.
i've seen stranger stuff than this in the SF designer appliances stores and on places like homeportfolio.com. i wonder how much overlap there is between the crowd that will pay $3000 for a sheet ironer or $6000 for a wine chiller and the crowd that would pay big bux for this refrigerator...
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i think the iphone's lack of flash support is going to force more and more web developers to offer alternatives to flash or to drop flash altogether.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/page/co2_report/co2report.html#electric
check out table 3 -- i had no idea that nearly 69% of the west coast's energy is produced from non-fossil sources. this might give folks some idea about what would be powering the car in each of the major regions...
just sold 800 shares that i paid $9 for... for once, i'm not shuddacuddawudding myself!!
this will pay for the Tivo stock that i paid $45 for back in the 90s!!!
hmm. i'm in a similar situation as you, except *i'm* the adoptee who found his family... my half-brother and i great friends now and i've never been happier in my life.
so, yeah, i just LOVE your plan, "let's just revoke the civil rights of all adoptees because your truth-averse family can't cope with staring down its own lies..."
you have no idea why you love your parents because you weren't torn from them at birth and forced to live with strangers. you can't know for certain that you would have loved the strangers just as much because they were nice enough to raise you. everything is just speculation at this point.
i love how non-adoptees are alwyas so quick to tell us that their biology doesn't matter when they've never known what it's like to have no connection to their roots. how fucking dare you try to deny me something that you've been able to take for granted your whole life!
who my bio-parents ARE is central to WHO I AM. knowing that is not some special "privilege." and privacy fucking schmivacy! you can't enter into ANY legal agreement that can undo the biological truth that you ARE the parent. i feel sorry for people who get duped into believing the rhetoric of "just sign here and it'll be just like this never child ever happened..." but their naiveté is not something that i should be punished for. sorry.
why don't you try loving your brother for god's sake? what he's going thru right now is more difficult that anything you can possibly imagine. have some compassion. get some therapy.
all of my friends are like in_fucking_sanely into this show. and i have to say that i just don't get it, either. if i'm baked out of my mind, it's funny. but i've watched it sober and i laff like once and episode. maybe twice. i actually don't think it sucks, it's moreso that everyone is so god-dammed gung-ho about it and they're setting my expectations way to high. and yes i know eveyrone borrows plotlines (hello "simpsons did it" episode of south park) but for gods sake there are 4 zillion programs out there to rip off, why does it always have to be the simpsons.
i live in san francisco. i've been sharing my wifi connection for 2 years. there's a big coffeehouse and two cafes across the street from me. i named my wifi network with a URL so people could read about who i am if they were so inclined. people using my connection have been so sweet. i get kind emails all of the time. i've gotten pints of ben and jerry's, been invited to local parties and have gotten some killer CDs. one of my closest friends now is someone i met via my wi-fi sharing. yes there are dangers. but it's worth it. ;)
but for most places in america (meaning the suburban, sprawly-type places) even "your neighborhood cafe" is probably well out of range. but for people in densely packed places like SF -- just go ahead and do it!
i know what you mean. losing webvan was a bummer. in SF, you can do pretty well using a combination of the BMW (meaning BART + MUNI + Walk) plus CityCarShare (www.citycarshare.org) for doing things like big grocery runs or hardware store trips.
the thing that cracks me up about this thread is that people on both sides of the argument think of taking mass transit as something you *should* do -- like recycling or something. like you should do your part and suffer for the planet. and that doesn't make any sense. i take the train because it's the fastest way to get to where i'm going, and it's pretty cheap. anyone who would drive from castro to go shopping downtown SF is a complete idiot because parking costs between $5 and $17 an hour in a lot and because the person on BART/MUNI will beat you there by at least 10 minutes.
good transit planning, to me, means building appropriate options for people based on the conditions in their community. design a solution that will actually save people time and then spend the money to build it right. how many systems have been killed by compromise and cost-cutting (seattle immediately comes to mind)?
the other thing i wanted to point out is that the highway system is a monopoly in most places and is completely controlled by the government. the anti-transit people always try to paint highways as the sort of "free market", right-thinking, flexible alternative to "fixed" transit. this is nonsense. when and how new freeways are constructed is highly political, insanely expensive, entirely government subsidized, and costs billions a year just to maintain what's already been built. it's not evil, it's not bad, but 'free market' it definitely is not. i don't understand why privatization-loving right-wingers never call for the privatization of the highway system. surely what's good for transit is good for roads...
the worst thing about the boeings was when muni had the bright idea to retrofit them with automatic train control for the market street tunnel. those crappy 70's trains were bad enough when humans tried to drive them -- and when they tried to graft 90s technology on them we ended up with the infamous "muni meltdown". that was 1998. and now, early 2002 all of those trains are out of commission. one has to wonder how much money was wasted retrofitting those cars for less than 3 years of service. but that's our MUNI -- Multiple Unfriendly Nuts Inside.
i saw this same screening and the film-y crowd there at the moma was more interested in symbolism and how disney stifled his creativity. to me, the biggest revealation the director made was that in this film tron == bill gates. he said that. that the film was about how bill gates broke up IBM and the mainframe and distributed computing to the masses. he wrote the script. everyone in the audience was trying to read more into it than was there. personally, all i wanted to know was what kind of hardware they rendered it on... but i didn't get a chance to ask my question!
when i read this i just heard that videotape of nancy kerrigan in my head (the one right after tonya's boyfriend whacked her), "whhhhyyyyyyy!!!??"
apple's unending desire to be the bang & olufsen of the computer world is what sank the company back in the early 90s. you don't win marketshare by catering to an ever-smaller and more specialized audience. the history of the computer industry has proven that you make the most money by bringing technology to as many people as possible. the iMac is hopefully proof that they've learned from their mistakes. this $4k montitor is proof that they can still make money off of the yuppie B&O crowd.
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i've seen stranger stuff than this in the SF designer appliances stores and on places like homeportfolio.com. i wonder how much overlap there is between the crowd that will pay $3000 for a sheet ironer or $6000 for a wine chiller and the crowd that would pay big bux for this refrigerator...
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