The better question is why do we even need newspapers anymore? Yes, we still need Journalists to report news; however we no longer need the newspaper as an aggregator. Journalists should be able to make a living on the web as independent contractors.
Tell that to the people of Pakistan, where our robots are killing innocent civilians.
If we know a terrorist is there instead of using a robot to drop a bomb we could have sent in a military police force to arrest the suspect. Instead, since we have removed ourselves from combat, we just play our video game a drop bombs on civilians.
There is a very obvious reason for why this is. If we actually really understood what being dead meant and really thought about it on the deep levels we would be in such a panic that we couldn't function as a society.
The more I think about my own mortality the more I view Religion as a coping mechanism.
You have never had sex while high. Most likely you've never had sex.
If you shut down half your brain and then clearly focused on 1 sense at a time without distraction you might get a sense of what you'll feel when "tripping" or "high". Your pupils dilate letting more light in and you see more; or at least you pay more attention to what you are seeing. So even if your brain function is diminished it causes you to focus more on simple things which your overly complex brain normally ignores.
Sex is better while high because you feel everything on every inch of your skin, no sensitivity is lost it is all amplified, or at least your focus on it is.
The volt isn't the car for the times. Its a half ass electric and a half ass economy car.
How often do you do "long haul" trips? How many of those "long haul" trips are over 300 miles? I drive 600 miles to my parents house several times a year, and I could do that driving a Model S with a little planning. Leave in the afternoon, stop for the night or just dinner (fully charges in an hour) and then drive the rest of the way after a meal or after spending the night. You just need to plan your trip a little better.
I'm still waiting for my Model S, but in the mean time I'm driving a 2009 Corolla. The car cost ~$18,000 and gets 35 MPG, my shifting habits decrease that to 32MPG for me; still if cost is any part of the equation the Corolla or Civic are much better cars. Over the lifetime of the car they will cost the owner less than Volt. You can buy a lot of gas for $15,000; you can almost buy a second Corolla/Civic.
To answer your question about the "long haul" the solution is actually the hybrid garage. I'll have my Model S for my daily commute which is 98% of my driving, then for those long trips and vacations I have a Sequoia. If you don't have a second car you can always rent a car for long trips, but the majority of drivers use their car just to commute to work. All of those cars should be pure electric.
Anyway I'm a hybrid hater, if you want people to adopt the new technology how about making it better than what we have now. Either increase the performance of the car or decrease the cost. The new hybrid cars aren't cost efficient and have reduced performance compared to either a pure electric or a pure combustion engine. I can't think of a single reason to buy a hybrid over Corolla or Civic, a difference of 5-15 MPG with a cost difference of $10,000 doesn't add up to the amount of money you'll save in fuel over the life of the car. Especially if you don't pay cash and are paying interest on the car! It doesn't make financial sense. It doesn't make performance sense. The entire hybrid fad doesn't make sense.
You guys must not have a Droid. The apps you download have an update feature. Really all you need to do is make a popular app without any malware in it, then release an update that has the malware. Most people will update it without even thinking about it just to get rid of the notification. I've found that a lot of popular games started off "Ad Free" and "Free" then add an update that adds ads to the application so they earn money.
As a droid owner, any app you install lets you know what services it has access to. I don't have many apps installed because most of the time I'll load an app and it will have access to something it has no reason to access.
The freedom of the droid is nice; but at the same time it requires more responsibility on the owner.
I still don't know how Brittany Spears didn't get thrown in jail for child porn. I don't think she was "18" when she filmed the "Baby One More Time" video and if that isn't sexually explicit I don't know what is.
You vastly underestimate the population of Atlanta. It is the second largest populated area in the Southeastern United States behind Miami by only 100,000.
By Metropolitan Area London's Population is the 18th Largest in the world (12,875,000) and has a population density of 1,100 per km. (citation)
Atlanta's Metropolitan Area has a population of 5,376,285.(citation - see above Atlanta link)
So if your Murder figures are correct, yes it is worse in Atlanta, but only 2.4 to 1 not the 17 to 1 ratio you cite.
Math for that:
12,875,000/5,376,285=2.39 & rounded 129 to 130
8,500,000/500,000=17
where BDV here is the virus whose DNA they were searching for in the human genome. There you go, if you're depressed, manic or schizophrenic, it could be one of your ancestors got a brain virus.
Why would a Brain virus cause a genetic mutation? Wouldn't the DNA in your crotch be unchanged?
Now I could see how an STD would affect the DNA of your offspring...
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Hybrid engines are such a waist!! why do so many people promote the BS that they are in some way better. They are a piss poor electric engine and an even crappier combustion engine. They are even a bad financial decision since buying a civic or corolla which both get 35mpg or better each for about half the cost of a comparable hybrid. Go diesel, pure electric, or economy car; but please, please don't buy a hybrid, they are such a waist and a horrible fad.
I don't know why this is modded funny, it is the truth. When I got my first "professional" job the three other developers dumped all of their maintenance tasks on me. I still spend most of my day doing their old tasks to give the senior developers more time to work.
Well, you to are wrong. The recordings of musicians are just advertisements for their abilities. It used to be that you would make a demo tape and pay people to listen to it to get you a gig. You got paid by the gig. Another way artists make money is by endorsements. Want to use my song to promote your product? Want to commission a song to promote your product? The artist then gets paid.
Honestly individuals downloading tracks to promote an artist should be free, there are thousands of ways to make money as a musician without charging people for recorded sample tracks of your music. You should be thankful for the exposure.
If you want to see how to make money off of your music look at "KISS" and how they merchandise. Merchandising is where the real money is at, the music is just an advertisement for all the Merch.
So I rented "The Hangover" last night. There is a nice new nasty FBI warning when you load the disk and it won't let you skip the previews or go to the main menu. It was another nail in the coffin for me an purchasing or renting movies. I'm about one more bad experience away from becoming a full blown pirate. What made DVD's great when they first came out was the ability to skip all the crap and to not have to rewind, this forcing you to watch PSA's before the movie is utter crap. (Yes there is a stop smoking PSA you can't skip too...)
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The better question is why do we even need newspapers anymore? Yes, we still need Journalists to report news; however we no longer need the newspaper as an aggregator. Journalists should be able to make a living on the web as independent contractors.
and your chicks for free?
Tell that to the people of Pakistan, where our robots are killing innocent civilians.
If we know a terrorist is there instead of using a robot to drop a bomb we could have sent in a military police force to arrest the suspect. Instead, since we have removed ourselves from combat, we just play our video game a drop bombs on civilians.
There is a very obvious reason for why this is. If we actually really understood what being dead meant and really thought about it on the deep levels we would be in such a panic that we couldn't function as a society.
The more I think about my own mortality the more I view Religion as a coping mechanism.
Since when is "frequent sexual intercourse" not fun?
You mention Bill Gates, but isn't Steve Jobs on his deathbed?
You have never had sex while high. Most likely you've never had sex.
If you shut down half your brain and then clearly focused on 1 sense at a time without distraction you might get a sense of what you'll feel when "tripping" or "high". Your pupils dilate letting more light in and you see more; or at least you pay more attention to what you are seeing. So even if your brain function is diminished it causes you to focus more on simple things which your overly complex brain normally ignores.
Sex is better while high because you feel everything on every inch of your skin, no sensitivity is lost it is all amplified, or at least your focus on it is.
Thank god! If a neural net ever took off on a windows box we'd all be screwed. At least the current neural nets have a limited market share.
The volt isn't the car for the times. Its a half ass electric and a half ass economy car.
How often do you do "long haul" trips? How many of those "long haul" trips are over 300 miles? I drive 600 miles to my parents house several times a year, and I could do that driving a Model S with a little planning. Leave in the afternoon, stop for the night or just dinner (fully charges in an hour) and then drive the rest of the way after a meal or after spending the night. You just need to plan your trip a little better.
I'm still waiting for my Model S, but in the mean time I'm driving a 2009 Corolla. The car cost ~$18,000 and gets 35 MPG, my shifting habits decrease that to 32MPG for me; still if cost is any part of the equation the Corolla or Civic are much better cars. Over the lifetime of the car they will cost the owner less than Volt. You can buy a lot of gas for $15,000; you can almost buy a second Corolla/Civic.
To answer your question about the "long haul" the solution is actually the hybrid garage. I'll have my Model S for my daily commute which is 98% of my driving, then for those long trips and vacations I have a Sequoia. If you don't have a second car you can always rent a car for long trips, but the majority of drivers use their car just to commute to work. All of those cars should be pure electric.
Anyway I'm a hybrid hater, if you want people to adopt the new technology how about making it better than what we have now. Either increase the performance of the car or decrease the cost. The new hybrid cars aren't cost efficient and have reduced performance compared to either a pure electric or a pure combustion engine. I can't think of a single reason to buy a hybrid over Corolla or Civic, a difference of 5-15 MPG with a cost difference of $10,000 doesn't add up to the amount of money you'll save in fuel over the life of the car. Especially if you don't pay cash and are paying interest on the car! It doesn't make financial sense. It doesn't make performance sense. The entire hybrid fad doesn't make sense.
Then why have all the winners of the Le Mans since 2006 been diesel? The fastest cars in the world are diesel...
I caught it, I just thought if other people caught it as well it should have been modded funny. I just didn't have any mod points today...
Just put a 1.5 TB SATA drive in the tube and skip the USB transfer all together.
You guys must not have a Droid. The apps you download have an update feature. Really all you need to do is make a popular app without any malware in it, then release an update that has the malware. Most people will update it without even thinking about it just to get rid of the notification. I've found that a lot of popular games started off "Ad Free" and "Free" then add an update that adds ads to the application so they earn money.
As a droid owner, any app you install lets you know what services it has access to. I don't have many apps installed because most of the time I'll load an app and it will have access to something it has no reason to access.
The freedom of the droid is nice; but at the same time it requires more responsibility on the owner.
You do realize that is a porn site, or at least was...
I still don't know how Brittany Spears didn't get thrown in jail for child porn. I don't think she was "18" when she filmed the "Baby One More Time" video and if that isn't sexually explicit I don't know what is.
Best doctors visit ever: High school physical, Hot Nurse, Turn and cough. There was no stopping the inevitable...
You vastly underestimate the population of Atlanta. It is the second largest populated area in the Southeastern United States behind Miami by only 100,000.
By Metropolitan Area London's Population is the 18th Largest in the world (12,875,000) and has a population density of 1,100 per km. (citation)
Atlanta's Metropolitan Area has a population of 5,376,285.(citation - see above Atlanta link)
So if your Murder figures are correct, yes it is worse in Atlanta, but only 2.4 to 1 not the 17 to 1 ratio you cite.
Math for that:
12,875,000/5,376,285=2.39 & rounded 129 to 130
8,500,000/500,000=17
where BDV here is the virus whose DNA they were searching for in the human genome. There you go, if you're depressed, manic or schizophrenic, it could be one of your ancestors got a brain virus.
Why would a Brain virus cause a genetic mutation? Wouldn't the DNA in your crotch be unchanged?
Now I could see how an STD would affect the DNA of your offspring...
Citation needed, better yet go to the Mythbusters fan page and see if you can get them to test this. Snopes?
Hybrid engines are such a waist!! why do so many people promote the BS that they are in some way better. They are a piss poor electric engine and an even crappier combustion engine. They are even a bad financial decision since buying a civic or corolla which both get 35mpg or better each for about half the cost of a comparable hybrid. Go diesel, pure electric, or economy car; but please, please don't buy a hybrid, they are such a waist and a horrible fad.
I don't know why this is modded funny, it is the truth. When I got my first "professional" job the three other developers dumped all of their maintenance tasks on me. I still spend most of my day doing their old tasks to give the senior developers more time to work.
Most of my solutions come when I'm in the shower before work, or when I'm on the crapper at work. Time at work is maintenance and implementation.
Well, you to are wrong. The recordings of musicians are just advertisements for their abilities. It used to be that you would make a demo tape and pay people to listen to it to get you a gig. You got paid by the gig. Another way artists make money is by endorsements. Want to use my song to promote your product? Want to commission a song to promote your product? The artist then gets paid.
Honestly individuals downloading tracks to promote an artist should be free, there are thousands of ways to make money as a musician without charging people for recorded sample tracks of your music. You should be thankful for the exposure.
If you want to see how to make money off of your music look at "KISS" and how they merchandise. Merchandising is where the real money is at, the music is just an advertisement for all the Merch.
So I rented "The Hangover" last night. There is a nice new nasty FBI warning when you load the disk and it won't let you skip the previews or go to the main menu. It was another nail in the coffin for me an purchasing or renting movies. I'm about one more bad experience away from becoming a full blown pirate. What made DVD's great when they first came out was the ability to skip all the crap and to not have to rewind, this forcing you to watch PSA's before the movie is utter crap. (Yes there is a stop smoking PSA you can't skip too...)