Don't just mail them back their offer. Stuff the envelope full of whatever advertising material came in the mail that day. Given their penchant for saving people money, they surely will be interested in the weekly specials from your local supermarket.
Additionally, don't just fold the stuff once. Fold it numerous times, so it becomes a fat wad of paper. In Australia, at least, Australia Post charges a premium for letters in excess of 5mm thick.
So you've made it quite obvious that you are able to recognise this situation as a hazard. Now all you need is the ability to drive at a speed appropriate to those conditions.
If I was the Principal, I'd have asked the IT Manager to sniff the myspace user password, and then edited and added all sorts of depraved photoshopped images to the site. But perhaps that's why I'm not the Principal.
Don't you just love the corporate spin: The AACS (Advanced Access Content System) just happens to be a mechanism to deny access to the content. The moniker certainly makes the technology appear benign to Joe Sixpack consumer.
The company I worked for (Automotive parts manufacturing) between Sept '95 and Jan '97 had a system where interstate (non-local) calls could be routed through their leased data lines. There was a dialling prefix for each endpoint node. The data lines were ordinarily used for warehouse inventory/stock control operations (I think it was a VAX/VMS system, so I'm not sure what networking protocols were used for these data links). This was introduced halfway through my period of employment there, and given the conservative nature of the company, I'd be surprised if this was a bleeding edge installation at the time. Obviously it would have been developed well before this implementation.
I think that the key to reducing car dependency is to increase the marginal cost of car use. The problem with the current financial structure of car ownership, is that the most visible marginal cost is fuel usage. Owning and operating a car is obviously much more costly than that, but most of these extra (fixed) costs are hidden away as once-per-year payments (registration, insurance, maintenance), and once-per-five-year payments (depreciation).
If there was a way of converting the annual and biennial/triennial fixed costs into, say weekly (variable) costs (like every time you fill up), then people would start to think twice about whether to use the car for a particular trip, or would aggregate separate trips into one, to minimise the net distance travelled. Those who commute by car would then be forced to acknowledge the real per-trip cost of that transport mode.
I think that this could be done by introducing an optional levy at the pump, which could then be used as either a credit toward the next new car purchase, or perhaps enabling cars being bought on a credit/leasing arrangement to be paid off at the pump. This would permit car ownership, while encouraging people to look for (then) cost-effective transport alternatives.
What the GP is saying is that we are fast approaching or have exceeded the sustainable population limits of the planet. You are being deliberately obtuse in suggesting that everyone born from now on will starve to death. There is, however, a growing population base that lives in regions subject to famine. These are the people who will face starvation. The only reason the west has the ability to avoid these conditions is because it also has the political and economic clout enabling imports to cover any shortages. So third world populations are doing the starving for us.
The reality is that the affluent western lifestyle is unsustainable 90+th percentile standard of living, which cannot be shared at current population levels. This will become particularly obvious when the increasing energy demands of the emerging middle class from China, India et. al. begin to approach supply limits.
It is unlikely that fossil fuels alone will sustain the next 50 years of projected growth in energy demand, and just as unlikely that adding the (agriculture based, fossil fuel subisidsed) biofuels industry to this will help much either. Something will have to give and unfortuately, in the short term, it will probably be the remaining forrested land area that will be sacrificed. In the long term, expect to see some starvation in the western world too, particularly during extreme drought conditions, as the capacity of normally arable land is adversely limited.
Perhaps you don't recall what was the Dust Bowl of the 1930's? Be assured that we will see something like it again at some point. Imagine the economic devastation when both food and fuel is dependent on agriculture.
Which means the drivers who are really paying attention, are watching the car in front of the car in front (amongst other things) for clues as to when to get their shit together.
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Your argument does nothing to address the Catholic stance on masturbation and use of birth control within a marriage.
Read? On the toilet? It's not the space between letters that counts, it's the space between other, er... geometric elements.
When you vote for our candidate, the voting machine automatically direct deposits PHP200.00 to your bank account.
Is there anything in the slashcode that allows users to submit regex's to filter/block repeated troll/spam posts like this?
DHMO is such a lame joke, it makes me want to puke everytime I see it. It is sooo last century.
Sleep? Is that what you're supposed to do at your workstation?
Don't just mail them back their offer. Stuff the envelope full of whatever advertising material came in the mail that day. Given their penchant for saving people money, they surely will be interested in the weekly specials from your local supermarket.
Additionally, don't just fold the stuff once. Fold it numerous times, so it becomes a fat wad of paper. In Australia, at least, Australia Post charges a premium for letters in excess of 5mm thick.
Here is an informative study done in 1999
Voice Over Eye Pee?
Is that a BBC documentary sound track about golden showers?
So you've made it quite obvious that you are able to recognise this situation as a hazard. Now all you need is the ability to drive at a speed appropriate to those conditions.
And if google earth had been 'round in 1940's?
Is that pr0n being images of lesbians, or is that pr0n that lesbians like to, er... ..look at.
If it is one an the same, then that makes lesbians just like dirty old men (and slashdot basement dwellers).
What? You don't think you could do it with a GNU/Linux LiveCD, GIMP, tor and a non-edu internet connection?
If I was the Principal, I'd have asked the IT Manager to sniff the myspace user password, and then edited and added all sorts of depraved photoshopped images to the site. But perhaps that's why I'm not the Principal.
Don't you just love the corporate spin: The AACS (Advanced Access Content System) just happens to be a mechanism to deny access to the content. The moniker certainly makes the technology appear benign to Joe Sixpack consumer.
The company I worked for (Automotive parts manufacturing) between Sept '95 and Jan '97 had a system where interstate (non-local) calls could be routed through their leased data lines. There was a dialling prefix for each endpoint node. The data lines were ordinarily used for warehouse inventory/stock control operations (I think it was a VAX/VMS system, so I'm not sure what networking protocols were used for these data links). This was introduced halfway through my period of employment there, and given the conservative nature of the company, I'd be surprised if this was a bleeding edge installation at the time. Obviously it would have been developed well before this implementation.
I think that the key to reducing car dependency is to increase the marginal cost of car use. The problem with the current financial structure of car ownership, is that the most visible marginal cost is fuel usage. Owning and operating a car is obviously much more costly than that, but most of these extra (fixed) costs are hidden away as once-per-year payments (registration, insurance, maintenance), and once-per-five-year payments (depreciation).
If there was a way of converting the annual and biennial/triennial fixed costs into, say weekly (variable) costs (like every time you fill up), then people would start to think twice about whether to use the car for a particular trip, or would aggregate separate trips into one, to minimise the net distance travelled. Those who commute by car would then be forced to acknowledge the real per-trip cost of that transport mode.
I think that this could be done by introducing an optional levy at the pump, which could then be used as either a credit toward the next new car purchase, or perhaps enabling cars being bought on a credit/leasing arrangement to be paid off at the pump. This would permit car ownership, while encouraging people to look for (then) cost-effective transport alternatives.
If you live long enough, you get to soil your pants and they have to clean it up.
As an engineer, I"m surprised you'd be selling any items measured in centimetres. Real engineers use millimetres or metres.
Mod parent up!
Interaction? What, do you wave your mouse at the naughty bits?
Zunecasts. A new name for diarrhoea.
What the GP is saying is that we are fast approaching or have exceeded the sustainable population limits of the planet. You are being deliberately obtuse in suggesting that everyone born from now on will starve to death. There is, however, a growing population base that lives in regions subject to famine. These are the people who will face starvation. The only reason the west has the ability to avoid these conditions is because it also has the political and economic clout enabling imports to cover any shortages. So third world populations are doing the starving for us.
The reality is that the affluent western lifestyle is unsustainable 90+th percentile standard of living, which cannot be shared at current population levels. This will become particularly obvious when the increasing energy demands of the emerging middle class from China, India et. al. begin to approach supply limits.
It is unlikely that fossil fuels alone will sustain the next 50 years of projected growth in energy demand, and just as unlikely that adding the (agriculture based, fossil fuel subisidsed) biofuels industry to this will help much either. Something will have to give and unfortuately, in the short term, it will probably be the remaining forrested land area that will be sacrificed. In the long term, expect to see some starvation in the western world too, particularly during extreme drought conditions, as the capacity of normally arable land is adversely limited.
Perhaps you don't recall what was the Dust Bowl of the 1930's? Be assured that we will see something like it again at some point. Imagine the economic devastation when both food and fuel is dependent on agriculture.
Nah. Kuiper Belt is a better name.
Which means the drivers who are really paying attention, are watching the car in front of the car in front (amongst other things) for clues as to when to get their shit together.