I've seen lots of third party driver updates on windows update. Video, modem, network, even HID. Take a 5 year old mainstream computer (like a dell) and put a fresh OS on it. You'll see several "Optional Hardware" updates.
One obvious problem with this theory is the fact that the incidence of rape has gone down as porn has become available over the last hundred years. It is clear that porn does not necessarily lead to acting out the situations, it may even act as a safe release for urges.
Let's say that a big version of this boat costs $100m. You want to buy 24 of them to have a pipe. That's $2.4b, and you have to add in the value of the ore or whatever you are shipping. You only have to buy the ships once (ignoring depreciation) but you have to pay for them up front, and that is an eternal cost from the pov of the company. They could have built a mine which would be providing income for many years with that $2.4b55
I have trouble with this concept as well. Unfortunately it is growing increasingly popular in the business world. The attitude is: I have $10m worth of whatever sitting unpaid for. Every day that whatever sits there, I could have made $10m * 15% / 365 = $4,110 (use whatever the actual cost of capitol for your business)
I don't know how true this is, but it is a very strong force in the business world. I personally think there are other factors that weigh more, such as the cost of running out or being unable to fill unexpected large orders, or in this case having drastically lower delivery costs.
Whatever the case, most businesses have been working like crazy to reduce inventory-days very close to zero. It's truly crazy with say carmakers, who have the door handles delivered seconds before they are installed. It seems idiotic to me to be that tight. If a truck tips over you have to stop the whole line. Oh well, at least they aren't paying to store door handles.
Anyway, no big business would look on this setup fondly. They would choke on the fact you have these valuable commodities sitting unpaid for in all these boats all the time.
You bring up an excellent point, thank you. That is something I like about LDS, the ability to change with the times. I don't know how biblical fundamentalists can live with all the subjugation of women, slavery, etc. in the eternal unchanging bible.
I bet that's why people joke about Mormons and polygamy now that you bring it up. Most non-Mormons don't know much about the flexibility built in, in fact required by, LDS teachings.
I find the whole attitude bizarre. You can't found a church on polygamy, change the church's stance, and then disown any tie to the practice. It's dishonest. It's fine to say we no longer support the practice, but you have to accept responsibility for those 50k self-proclaimed Mormons who would have been considered Mormons by the founders of the religion.
I've come across so many people who act as if LDS never approved of the practice and are indignant whenever somebody cracks a joke about polygamy when Utah or Mormonism comes up.
You know, I have come across this with other religions as well. There are countless times I've heard "Well, so-and-so isn't a real Christian" which is even more strange than LDS disowning people who follow Joseph Smith's teachings. At least there is one central authority with LDS, but with Christians there are countless wacky sects who believe all kinds of weird stuff. It seems to me that you can believe pretty much anything and be a real Christian.
Anyway, if you want to call those 50k people not real Mormons, what do you call Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, et al? Were they not real Mormons? The implications of that are dire!
Wow, a sore point, huh? OK, down to business. The OP called a joke about utah being curious about polygamy "ridiculous." This joke is NOT ridiculous. It is based on historical FACT. LDS was founded by polygamists, was friendly to polygamists for quite a while, and has never been successful in stamping out the practice.
I'm well aware that current LDS policy is against polygamy. That doesn't change history, and it doesn't change reality. You won't find more polygamists anywhere else in the US, and that is solely due to the Mormon church.
I know a lot of people don't like it, but it is the truth. I should know, I grew up in rural Utah and did a dissertation on LDS history. Plus, I know the secret of the bees.
You sound pretty knowledgeable about Mormons, but I have a big shock for you. Joseph Smith had 34 wives! Please try to keep that in mind whenever someone makes a joke about Mormons and polygamy.
It isn't as if the church has always been against polygamy, either. Things were conflicted after the late 1800s when it was officially discouraged, and even in 2008 there are about 50k Mormon polygamists living in and around Utah.
Play it down if you must, but you're being dishonest by claiming that any linkage between Utah and polygamy is ridiculous.
I have a 81 nissan diesel pickup that gets 30-40mpg and I'd like to get a replacement someday. It isn't fast or anything, but I can move large things around and not waste fuel. There simply isn't anything close on the market anymore. I cringe to think about how much technology has advanced in the past 25 years and we've gone backward as far as fuel efficiency goes.
I've used several analog computers. Slide rule, astrolabe, and analog synthesizers are all analog computers. There are countless other examples. You probably have an analog computer in your multiple driver speakers that takes an analog signal and outputs a highpass, lowpass, and possibly bandpass signal.
First, let's take sickle cell. If you live in a malarial area, you want to have one gene for this even if it means risking getting two and developing anemia. So is one recessive gene better than none? It depends on your situation.
Second, you say that thin is better than fat. Then you say that needs less food is better than needs more food. A mutation that stored lots of fat would help you need less food to survive. Those two statements are in conflict. Which is better again depends on situation. If food is plentiful, wasting calories is helpful. If famine is the case you want to conserve every single calorie.
I can find problems with every single one of your statements. For example, an amoral rapist has a huge advantage (as far as genetic propagation) in many circumstances. Physically weaker might be an advantage if it means less food is needed during famine, or you are less prone to fighting and getting killed. A quick thinker would be at a disadvantage if food was scarce and physical endurance was very important; you don't want to drag around a heavy energy-intensive huge brain in that situation.
It's not avoiding responsibility. It's the simple fact that people tend to socialize with others in a similar education level. You aren't likely to meet many uneducated people in college or at your professional job.
Fertility rates are affected by nothing more powerfully than education. So an educated person is not likely to meet very many people with lots of kids, and an uneducated person is not likely to meet many people who reproduce below the average rate. Unfortunately this reinforces the divide.
It is a serious problem. I don't see any good coming of below-replacement-rate reproduction among the educated and way-above-replacement-rate among the uneducated.
I think it is closer to 2 hours, as long as it can start playing almost instantly. Who cares how long it takes to download if it is less time than the movie? You start downloading, and when you have a minute or two buffered start playback, then download the rest while the movie plays.
Yeah, I didn't even go into all that. I hear so many problems with cellphones that would munge a modem connection: Reverb, dropouts, clipping, ridiculously low fidelity, etc. Heck, it even interferes with communication using spoken English.
I suspect that a cellphone-optimized modem standard could get decent throughput, but what an idiotic idea. You already have a digital connection, just lame pricing schemes.
I am not trying to defend Verizon, a company I actively hate, but I'd like to explain why this didn't work.
Most digital voice service uses lossy compression, like the mp3 format. If you lossily compress the analog modem noise you won't have a stable signal. You would find the same problem with pretty much any cellular service and most VOIP services. Even with lossless compression you would probably have problems and end up with a low data rate.
Remember, there is a city of 600k people there. Apparently they have a way of dealing with this issue. From Wikipedia's entry on permafrost:
Building on permafrost is difficult due to the heat of the building (or pipeline) melting the permafrost and sinking. This problem has three common solutions. Using foundations on wood piles, building on a thick gravel pad (usually 1-2 meters/3.3-6.6 feet thick), or using anhydrous ammonia heat pipes. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System uses insulated heat pipes to prevent the pipeline from sinking. Qingzang railway in Tibet was built using a variety of methods to keep the ground cool.
At the Permafrost Research Institute in Yakutsk, it has been found that the sinking of large buildings into the ground (known to the Yakuts before Yakutsk was founded) can be prevented by using stilts extending down to about fifteen metres or more. At this depth the temperature does not change with the seasons, remaining at about -5 C (23F)
The biggest error you make is in assuming 100% use of the motor during vehicle use. It is more likely to almost never be 100%; usually you will use a few percent/zero/regenerating.
Having 15 minutes at 100% power would translate to several hours of a typical commute.
I am angry about the whole exploding car myth. I've personally seen 3 car fires, and none of them exploded.
One of the fires was in a vacant field with an abandoned tow-truck, about 20 gallons of gasoline, and the stated goal to blow it up. Yes, I started it. The damn thing had trouble burning, even after we threw half a dozen flares in the interior. Most of the time it was just shooting a fountain of flame out the gas nozzle.
Once the whole thing was burning pretty good, I snuck up to it and inserted the gas cap. We had to keep dousing it with gasoline shot from bugsprayers to keep it burning. Finally, after a couple of hours, the gas tank finally expanded or something enough to leak. Then it was a bigger fire, actually somewhat impressive, but there was never even a whisper of an explosion.
You need a bomb to make an explosion. Liquid gasoline, even in a closed container, is not a bomb.
There's a weird gray area here. Let's use a Gucci handbag. It costs $2k. There is a counterfeit one which costs $20.
They're identical, even made in the same factory. The counterfeit one was made after hours and sold on the black market. How much is each handbag worth?
I'm sad that payphones are dying. I actually got a cellphone even though I don't want one since payphones are nearing extinction. Luckily, I found one for free, no contract for $6.66/month if you buy 3 months.
Anyway, on topic, I was looking up a fish & chips place on my cellphone using goog-411. It's called GB Fish & Chips, for Great Britain.
GOOG-411 dutifully pronounced: "Gigabyte Fish & Chips" I still laugh at that poor robot being forced to utter that phrase.
Sure you can ethically test. Get 10k infants and test their lead levels yearly. Collect all the obvious crime indicators such as income, education, etc. 22 years later count up all the test subjects who have been convicted of a violent crime and plot it against lead levels, separate categories for different risk categories.
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I've seen lots of third party driver updates on windows update. Video, modem, network, even HID. Take a 5 year old mainstream computer (like a dell) and put a fresh OS on it. You'll see several "Optional Hardware" updates.
One obvious problem with this theory is the fact that the incidence of rape has gone down as porn has become available over the last hundred years. It is clear that porn does not necessarily lead to acting out the situations, it may even act as a safe release for urges.
I thought of a better way to explain this.
Let's say that a big version of this boat costs $100m. You want to buy 24 of them to have a pipe. That's $2.4b, and you have to add in the value of the ore or whatever you are shipping. You only have to buy the ships once (ignoring depreciation) but you have to pay for them up front, and that is an eternal cost from the pov of the company. They could have built a mine which would be providing income for many years with that $2.4b55
I have trouble with this concept as well. Unfortunately it is growing increasingly popular in the business world. The attitude is: I have $10m worth of whatever sitting unpaid for. Every day that whatever sits there, I could have made $10m * 15% / 365 = $4,110 (use whatever the actual cost of capitol for your business)
I don't know how true this is, but it is a very strong force in the business world. I personally think there are other factors that weigh more, such as the cost of running out or being unable to fill unexpected large orders, or in this case having drastically lower delivery costs.
Whatever the case, most businesses have been working like crazy to reduce inventory-days very close to zero. It's truly crazy with say carmakers, who have the door handles delivered seconds before they are installed. It seems idiotic to me to be that tight. If a truck tips over you have to stop the whole line. Oh well, at least they aren't paying to store door handles.
Anyway, no big business would look on this setup fondly. They would choke on the fact you have these valuable commodities sitting unpaid for in all these boats all the time.
You bring up an excellent point, thank you. That is something I like about LDS, the ability to change with the times. I don't know how biblical fundamentalists can live with all the subjugation of women, slavery, etc. in the eternal unchanging bible.
I bet that's why people joke about Mormons and polygamy now that you bring it up. Most non-Mormons don't know much about the flexibility built in, in fact required by, LDS teachings.
OK, in this scenario your IP taxes are a healthy percentage of ONE HUNDRED BILLION TRILLION ZOMG BBQ DOLLARS.
See the disincentive to overbidding?
I find the whole attitude bizarre. You can't found a church on polygamy, change the church's stance, and then disown any tie to the practice. It's dishonest. It's fine to say we no longer support the practice, but you have to accept responsibility for those 50k self-proclaimed Mormons who would have been considered Mormons by the founders of the religion.
I've come across so many people who act as if LDS never approved of the practice and are indignant whenever somebody cracks a joke about polygamy when Utah or Mormonism comes up.
You know, I have come across this with other religions as well. There are countless times I've heard "Well, so-and-so isn't a real Christian" which is even more strange than LDS disowning people who follow Joseph Smith's teachings. At least there is one central authority with LDS, but with Christians there are countless wacky sects who believe all kinds of weird stuff. It seems to me that you can believe pretty much anything and be a real Christian.
Anyway, if you want to call those 50k people not real Mormons, what do you call Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, et al? Were they not real Mormons? The implications of that are dire!
Wow, a sore point, huh? OK, down to business. The OP called a joke about utah being curious about polygamy "ridiculous." This joke is NOT ridiculous. It is based on historical FACT. LDS was founded by polygamists, was friendly to polygamists for quite a while, and has never been successful in stamping out the practice.
I'm well aware that current LDS policy is against polygamy. That doesn't change history, and it doesn't change reality. You won't find more polygamists anywhere else in the US, and that is solely due to the Mormon church.
I know a lot of people don't like it, but it is the truth. I should know, I grew up in rural Utah and did a dissertation on LDS history. Plus, I know the secret of the bees.
You sound pretty knowledgeable about Mormons, but I have a big shock for you. Joseph Smith had 34 wives! Please try to keep that in mind whenever someone makes a joke about Mormons and polygamy.
It isn't as if the church has always been against polygamy, either. Things were conflicted after the late 1800s when it was officially discouraged, and even in 2008 there are about 50k Mormon polygamists living in and around Utah.
Play it down if you must, but you're being dishonest by claiming that any linkage between Utah and polygamy is ridiculous.
I have the same problem.
I have a 81 nissan diesel pickup that gets 30-40mpg and I'd like to get a replacement someday. It isn't fast or anything, but I can move large things around and not waste fuel. There simply isn't anything close on the market anymore. I cringe to think about how much technology has advanced in the past 25 years and we've gone backward as far as fuel efficiency goes.
And people say Brits can't cook. (it actually sounds like a good restorative to me)
It's a UK term for a bacon & egg breakfast.
I've used several analog computers. Slide rule, astrolabe, and analog synthesizers are all analog computers. There are countless other examples. You probably have an analog computer in your multiple driver speakers that takes an analog signal and outputs a highpass, lowpass, and possibly bandpass signal.
Your arguments are conflicting and overly simple.
First, let's take sickle cell. If you live in a malarial area, you want to have one gene for this even if it means risking getting two and developing anemia. So is one recessive gene better than none? It depends on your situation.
Second, you say that thin is better than fat. Then you say that needs less food is better than needs more food. A mutation that stored lots of fat would help you need less food to survive. Those two statements are in conflict. Which is better again depends on situation. If food is plentiful, wasting calories is helpful. If famine is the case you want to conserve every single calorie.
I can find problems with every single one of your statements. For example, an amoral rapist has a huge advantage (as far as genetic propagation) in many circumstances. Physically weaker might be an advantage if it means less food is needed during famine, or you are less prone to fighting and getting killed. A quick thinker would be at a disadvantage if food was scarce and physical endurance was very important; you don't want to drag around a heavy energy-intensive huge brain in that situation.
It's not avoiding responsibility. It's the simple fact that people tend to socialize with others in a similar education level. You aren't likely to meet many uneducated people in college or at your professional job.
Fertility rates are affected by nothing more powerfully than education. So an educated person is not likely to meet very many people with lots of kids, and an uneducated person is not likely to meet many people who reproduce below the average rate. Unfortunately this reinforces the divide.
It is a serious problem. I don't see any good coming of below-replacement-rate reproduction among the educated and way-above-replacement-rate among the uneducated.
I think it is closer to 2 hours, as long as it can start playing almost instantly. Who cares how long it takes to download if it is less time than the movie? You start downloading, and when you have a minute or two buffered start playback, then download the rest while the movie plays.
Oh, I misunderstood. I thought you were placing a voice call to avoid paying for their data package. I guess I don't understand your complaint.
Yeah, I didn't even go into all that. I hear so many problems with cellphones that would munge a modem connection: Reverb, dropouts, clipping, ridiculously low fidelity, etc. Heck, it even interferes with communication using spoken English.
I suspect that a cellphone-optimized modem standard could get decent throughput, but what an idiotic idea. You already have a digital connection, just lame pricing schemes.
I am not trying to defend Verizon, a company I actively hate, but I'd like to explain why this didn't work.
Most digital voice service uses lossy compression, like the mp3 format. If you lossily compress the analog modem noise you won't have a stable signal. You would find the same problem with pretty much any cellular service and most VOIP services. Even with lossless compression you would probably have problems and end up with a low data rate.
The biggest error you make is in assuming 100% use of the motor during vehicle use. It is more likely to almost never be 100%; usually you will use a few percent/zero/regenerating.
Having 15 minutes at 100% power would translate to several hours of a typical commute.
I am angry about the whole exploding car myth. I've personally seen 3 car fires, and none of them exploded.
One of the fires was in a vacant field with an abandoned tow-truck, about 20 gallons of gasoline, and the stated goal to blow it up. Yes, I started it. The damn thing had trouble burning, even after we threw half a dozen flares in the interior. Most of the time it was just shooting a fountain of flame out the gas nozzle.
Once the whole thing was burning pretty good, I snuck up to it and inserted the gas cap. We had to keep dousing it with gasoline shot from bugsprayers to keep it burning. Finally, after a couple of hours, the gas tank finally expanded or something enough to leak. Then it was a bigger fire, actually somewhat impressive, but there was never even a whisper of an explosion.
You need a bomb to make an explosion. Liquid gasoline, even in a closed container, is not a bomb.
There's a weird gray area here. Let's use a Gucci handbag. It costs $2k. There is a counterfeit one which costs $20.
They're identical, even made in the same factory. The counterfeit one was made after hours and sold on the black market. How much is each handbag worth?
(I have never understood the brand-name premium.)
I'm sad that payphones are dying. I actually got a cellphone even though I don't want one since payphones are nearing extinction. Luckily, I found one for free, no contract for $6.66/month if you buy 3 months.
Anyway, on topic, I was looking up a fish & chips place on my cellphone using goog-411. It's called GB Fish & Chips, for Great Britain.
GOOG-411 dutifully pronounced: "Gigabyte Fish & Chips" I still laugh at that poor robot being forced to utter that phrase.
Sure you can ethically test. Get 10k infants and test their lead levels yearly. Collect all the obvious crime indicators such as income, education, etc. 22 years later count up all the test subjects who have been convicted of a violent crime and plot it against lead levels, separate categories for different risk categories.