Except you'd get MORE power building on mountains where photon flux density is higher, and floating barges would be a waste when you've got tidal energy.
"I don't get people that think that directly using solar power will be better for nature. We have to steal the energy from plants directly when using solar or wind power"
I can think of several locations where you aren't stealing from plants, because plants simply don't exist.
And they just so happen to be pretty much uninhabited by anything else due to the extreme conditions, such as a lack of available water and insane heat (or lack of,) which means they can't survive there at all.
It's called the desert, and in orbit.
The only major ecological impact we'll have is all of the mining done to get the resources needed to power the entire planet from solar, and of course logistics involved in transport, etc.
Too bad you people rely upon Wikipedia so much, with its inaccurate and usually lacking information.
When tokens get minted to take on weight and size of currently-used currency (which is how the machines sort it) that's conspiracy to commit fraud.
Again, HOW IS THIS NOT ILLEGAL? I know of several vending machines not even in Chuck E. Cheese that will take the tokens, think they're quarters, and you can buy a soda or snack.
I've had vending machines return tokens as change for a dollar bill after buying soda.
Please explain the fake money at Chuck E Cheese and other places that have arcade games, then. It's intended for use as current money (geared to be accepted by CURRENT coin collecting and vending machines, it also weigh the same and is similarly-sized to our currency, for the purpose of compatibility with current machines.)
"When you've actually read what I have to say feel free to come back and hate."
No, we'll hate because you are detracting from the purpose of this site. Keep the fucking discussion here or get the fuck back inside your reality distortion field and stay quiet.
You're exhibiting the same thieving mentality of Jobs. It isn't welcome here.
Fuck yes I burned my moderation in this thread just to respond. People like you are a blight.
"No, they're fighting to control the content they created. No need to exaggerate. "
This is why they have 'emergency funds' for those artists whose copyright they 'accidentally' infringe for nothing, then? Yea, I don't think so. Witness Canada's version, which recently got busted doing exactly that.
"Anyone can create a movie production company."
Assuming they have the money. You forget how hard Hollywood worked (and violated many patents while dong so) to become what they are today. They set a rather high barrier to entry in one form or another.
"No need to exaggerate, as if the MPAA owns all movies created everywhere by anyone."
They've been busted distributing a movie internally against copyright. Your words are meaningless in the face of their currently in-light actions.
"I'm pretty sure Google would contend in a court of law that they are not."
Did you already forget the story either yesterday or before about Yahoo, Google, etc sending out a letter to California Legislature stating essentially that if they were not allowed to violate our privacy, the economy would go to shit?
That's the first piece of evidence I'd submit against them to show they're full of shit.
"However, America, Canada, and Australia are all about to produce large amounts of RE."
My industry contacts show no major RE operations gearing up in USA or Aus. If they were, I'd be watching, as my LED business depends VERY heavily upon it.
Canada isn't in my market, yet, so I haven't been watching them.
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Except you'd get MORE power building on mountains where photon flux density is higher, and floating barges would be a waste when you've got tidal energy.
Next?
"I don't get people that think that directly using solar power will be better for nature. We have to steal the energy from plants directly when using solar or wind power"
I can think of several locations where you aren't stealing from plants, because plants simply don't exist.
And they just so happen to be pretty much uninhabited by anything else due to the extreme conditions, such as a lack of available water and insane heat (or lack of,) which means they can't survive there at all.
It's called the desert, and in orbit.
The only major ecological impact we'll have is all of the mining done to get the resources needed to power the entire planet from solar, and of course logistics involved in transport, etc.
"I'm sure one day Sony will be brought down by /. posters."
Well, I took EA down a peg. I'm looking into doing the same to Sony.
And still be out of date instead of current with newest technology.
No thanks.
Too bad you people rely upon Wikipedia so much, with its inaccurate and usually lacking information.
When tokens get minted to take on weight and size of currently-used currency (which is how the machines sort it) that's conspiracy to commit fraud.
Again, HOW IS THIS NOT ILLEGAL? I know of several vending machines not even in Chuck E. Cheese that will take the tokens, think they're quarters, and you can buy a soda or snack.
I've had vending machines return tokens as change for a dollar bill after buying soda.
"It is a pretty clear cut case."
Please explain the fake money at Chuck E Cheese and other places that have arcade games, then. It's intended for use as current money (geared to be accepted by CURRENT coin collecting and vending machines, it also weigh the same and is similarly-sized to our currency, for the purpose of compatibility with current machines.)
"The offender in question is riding the edge of libel/slander/defamation here."
Benjamin Franklin frowns HEAVILY upon your ignorance and the ignorance of those that modded me troll.
I think you need to go back to school and brush up on American History. Make your primary focus Benjamin Franklin.
Come back when you've been enlightened.
Sincerely,
The last surviving member of the Party of Common Sense
"Standing up for a minor issue "
Bait and Switch is HARDLY a minor issue.
"their extended warranties "service plans" are nothing but a joke and good luck getting your hardware fixed through it."
I got my hardware fixed or replaced. I'm actually on my third free laptop, starting on a DV9000 and now I've got a DV7.
That extra 300 was pretty much worth it since I knew what sort of unreliable hardware I was purchasing.
"When you've actually read what I have to say feel free to come back and hate."
No, we'll hate because you are detracting from the purpose of this site. Keep the fucking discussion here or get the fuck back inside your reality distortion field and stay quiet.
You're exhibiting the same thieving mentality of Jobs. It isn't welcome here.
Fuck yes I burned my moderation in this thread just to respond. People like you are a blight.
"No, they're fighting to control the content they created. No need to exaggerate. "
This is why they have 'emergency funds' for those artists whose copyright they 'accidentally' infringe for nothing, then? Yea, I don't think so. Witness Canada's version, which recently got busted doing exactly that.
"Anyone can create a movie production company."
Assuming they have the money. You forget how hard Hollywood worked (and violated many patents while dong so) to become what they are today. They set a rather high barrier to entry in one form or another.
"No need to exaggerate, as if the MPAA owns all movies created everywhere by anyone."
They've been busted distributing a movie internally against copyright. Your words are meaningless in the face of their currently in-light actions.
"You don't know what it is to lack free speech, because you've had it all your life"
Umm, bullshit. Go up to a cop and say "Get your lazy ass back to work if you aren't on a sanctioned break" back in the 60s and watch what happens.
You're terribly ignorant.
"Capital punishment in schools was abused, but was 95% effective. "
We killed children in school?
See, this is further proof of our educational system getting fucked up. Children think spankings are killings, now.
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.
In several states you have to give it up to even get into a bar.
What makes you think this won't become the norm in the future?
You can buy honey pills. Honey is quite antibiotic. So is Capsaicin.
"On a national level that means cut taxes and eliminate wasteful government jobs programs."
Then why the fuck isn't the TSA gone, yet?
DMV-verifiable license/ID numbers.
It's TRIVIAL to implement. It gets used on a site I frequent quite often. ZERO children.
Nope, it's Facebook's fault. They know about it yet they do nothing to stop it.
They are actively refusing to enforce their own ToS. By doing so, they rake in more advertising money.
The children are simply being exploited for advertising money.
Do you know what the fuck Google Ads even is?
Multiple scratchcards in my magazine are for other magazines. They are quite clearly advertisements.
"It wasn't so long ago you could purchase antibiotics"
You can still buy them all day long over the counter. Triple-biotic ointments and more.
"I'm pretty sure Google would contend in a court of law that they are not."
Did you already forget the story either yesterday or before about Yahoo, Google, etc sending out a letter to California Legislature stating essentially that if they were not allowed to violate our privacy, the economy would go to shit?
That's the first piece of evidence I'd submit against them to show they're full of shit.
"However, America, Canada, and Australia are all about to produce large amounts of RE."
My industry contacts show no major RE operations gearing up in USA or Aus. If they were, I'd be watching, as my LED business depends VERY heavily upon it.
Canada isn't in my market, yet, so I haven't been watching them.
Facebook chooses advertising profit (all those users) over actively enforcing their TOS.
Facebook should be fined for this predatory practice. This is a nasty exploitation of children.
I turn on my RDR: I get "Cannot connect to PSN, Trophies are unavailable."
I actually hold futures and stock in the rare-earth materials market - do you?
I've been to China. The sheer amount of untapped resources they have dwarfs the USA by far.
The USA will never be able to regain a good foothold in that market, not for decades.