Unless you live in a city where the best way to get a breath of fresh air is to open a window and stick your head in a building (with apologies to Douglas Adams), fresh air from outside is actually reasonably good for you, especially considering all the crap that evaporates (not the right word I know) from all the plastics etc that we have in houses these days.
At most, increased humidity. But modern electronics are actually pretty resistent to this, especially if they're producing enough heat to avoid condensation. Which doesn't take much.
Yes, in all, the swamp cooler is more likely to increase the life of the components than decrease them. I'm a bit north of Melbourne, and only remember it getting to 47 degrees once, about 18 months ago. I sat inside my house with the evaporative cooler on and was quite comfortable, provided I didn't actually do anything other than sit.
I've often wondered what i'd do in the same position, but it's impossible to say without actually being there... afaik, with cancer treatments the sooner you start the better, and if you are feeling fine now and the treatment could save you or kill you tomorrow then I'm not so sure i would.
Fingers crossed for you that they do come up with a cure tomorrow.
That's a tricky one. I've listened to a few radio interviews with a guy who was previously the highest ranking member of the kkk. He's enlightened now, but has a good understanding of how he came to hate certain people as much as he did. In his case he was brainwashed by people other than his parents, but if those people had kids you can bet that's what they'd do, and IMHO that's abuse even if it's done in the spirit of a perceived 'truth'.
You stuck the words 'honest', and 'peaceful' in there as a sort of disclaimer, but white supremacists are warped enough to believe that they are promoting peace by wiping out people they don't like. Ditto for almost any other group based on hate.
Hmmm... i've always thought the moon would be much more useful if it was down here on Earth. How much of a kick do you think we would need to accomplish that?
Definitely. The plan is to build a ship made out of unobtanium and fly it into the sun. Once it reaches the core some nukes will be detonated which will reverse the spin of the sun and avert this catastrophe.
That's gotta be worth a few billion at least in feasibility dollars!
In saying that, i don't think we have to worry about an encryption bill, he obviously has no idea that encryption exists...
You are underestimating the power of a stupid puppet. He just needs someone to tell him that encryption is what paedophiles use to molest kids with and he'll be all over it like a bad rash. It won't matter that he doesn't understand it.
i bet those islamic radicals in the middle east and east africa never played a video game in their lives and they are among the most barbaric and violent peoples in the world.
They probably have a high level of exposure to violence though.
Bemusing really, isn't it. To objectify the taking of life is commonplace in cinema and literature, but its creation is taboo.
Put like that it sounds a bit silly, but the reality is that most people are more affected by watching sex than by watching violence. All other things being equal, there is a higher chance of you feeling like wanting sex after watching people doing it than the chance of you getting bloodlust after watching violence.
I'm not saying that the reaction is a basis for banning one over the other, but I think that you are over simplifying.
They aren't thinking smart enough. We've got all this nuclear and other toxic waste that we don't know where to put, and they've got a great big hole under their city that will collapse unless they fill it with something. Surely there is a common solution to both our problems?
They're really best for comparing cars, not for gauging actual mileage
That's my theory too. My car gets, on paper, something like 3.7l/100km highway and 5.3l/100km city, for a combined rating of 4.5l/100km (~52MPG). I'm pretty sure that highway figure requires an 80km/h speed, a dry road, a light driver, and tyres inflated to or above the upper rating. On a flat road at 110km/h I get around 4.5l/100km according to the dash reading, and the average since I last had it serviced is about 6l/100km.
Do wear your seat belts so safety features can work! One wreck that sticks in my memory was a small truck ('Yota IIRC) that had two obvious face prints in the windshield, complete with hair, "stuff" and dried blood. The front end wasn't too bad, so the hit wasn't at high speed.
Yes. There was a fatal single vehicle accident near here just recently. I haven't heard anything official but it sounds like the woman drove out of her driveway and hit something at about 30km/h and hadn't put her seatbelt on (yet?). The car was barely damaged but she was dead. It may depend on the local laws, but almost all safety features are designed with the idea that you'll be wearing your seatbelt.
You will always find accidents where someone wasn't wearing a seatbelt and survived only because of that fact (eg kid in the back that was thrown clear of a car that burst into flames) but it's very rare.
If you put a couple of average people (or one fatty) in it the weight of the car would double. And then when you got out, it would blow away in a light breeze.
Slashdot Mirror
Almost every web page I visit seems to know where I live down to the town or suburb. I think we slipped down this slope a long time ago.
IPv6 might wipe that database clean effectively, but it won't take long to repopulate.
That's the one!
heatsinks are NOT noisy
They never make a sound when _you_ are in the room, but just wait until your back is turned. They're bitchy little things.
get rid of all air leaks.
Unless you live in a city where the best way to get a breath of fresh air is to open a window and stick your head in a building (with apologies to Douglas Adams), fresh air from outside is actually reasonably good for you, especially considering all the crap that evaporates (not the right word I know) from all the plastics etc that we have in houses these days.
At most, increased humidity. But modern electronics are actually pretty resistent to this, especially if they're producing enough heat to avoid condensation. Which doesn't take much.
Yes, in all, the swamp cooler is more likely to increase the life of the components than decrease them. I'm a bit north of Melbourne, and only remember it getting to 47 degrees once, about 18 months ago. I sat inside my house with the evaporative cooler on and was quite comfortable, provided I didn't actually do anything other than sit.
Or they could just eat them...
+1 Insightful.
Or maybe +1 funny. The article is brief on details but it may be possible to have your potato as a battery and then eat it.
I've often wondered what i'd do in the same position, but it's impossible to say without actually being there... afaik, with cancer treatments the sooner you start the better, and if you are feeling fine now and the treatment could save you or kill you tomorrow then I'm not so sure i would.
Fingers crossed for you that they do come up with a cure tomorrow.
That's a tricky one. I've listened to a few radio interviews with a guy who was previously the highest ranking member of the kkk. He's enlightened now, but has a good understanding of how he came to hate certain people as much as he did. In his case he was brainwashed by people other than his parents, but if those people had kids you can bet that's what they'd do, and IMHO that's abuse even if it's done in the spirit of a perceived 'truth'.
You stuck the words 'honest', and 'peaceful' in there as a sort of disclaimer, but white supremacists are warped enough to believe that they are promoting peace by wiping out people they don't like. Ditto for almost any other group based on hate.
That's rubbish and you know it. All the scientific evidence points to the fact that dinosaurs cremated their dead.
We could park it in the oil leak, beats using golf balls and shredded car tyres!
now _that's_ thinking!
Give things a kick, they come down on their own
Hmmm... i've always thought the moon would be much more useful if it was down here on Earth. How much of a kick do you think we would need to accomplish that?
(and where would we put it?)
There _were_ whales. The whalers on the moon hunted them to extinction.
Should've chosen Keith Richards. Man's practically indestructible. If we could reverse engineer him, we'd have a genetically perfect superarmy.
An army that's only useful for an attack on the playboy mansion or a large alcohol factory.
Retroviruses would work
Retroviruses are so last-century.
public fear can me made into profit
Definitely. The plan is to build a ship made out of unobtanium and fly it into the sun. Once it reaches the core some nukes will be detonated which will reverse the spin of the sun and avert this catastrophe.
That's gotta be worth a few billion at least in feasibility dollars!
My first thought was that if the Russians announced a plan to put someone on the moon again the Yanks would be back there tomorrow.
In saying that, i don't think we have to worry about an encryption bill, he obviously has no idea that encryption exists...
You are underestimating the power of a stupid puppet. He just needs someone to tell him that encryption is what paedophiles use to molest kids with and he'll be all over it like a bad rash. It won't matter that he doesn't understand it.
i bet those islamic radicals in the middle east and east africa never played a video game in their lives and they are among the most barbaric and violent peoples in the world.
They probably have a high level of exposure to violence though.
Bemusing really, isn't it. To objectify the taking of life is commonplace in cinema and literature, but its creation is taboo.
Put like that it sounds a bit silly, but the reality is that most people are more affected by watching sex than by watching violence. All other things being equal, there is a higher chance of you feeling like wanting sex after watching people doing it than the chance of you getting bloodlust after watching violence.
I'm not saying that the reaction is a basis for banning one over the other, but I think that you are over simplifying.
They aren't thinking smart enough. We've got all this nuclear and other toxic waste that we don't know where to put, and they've got a great big hole under their city that will collapse unless they fill it with something. Surely there is a common solution to both our problems?
I'd definitely go with the random data. Only a pirates use Linux so you'd be determined guilty right from the start!
I think it would be fun to start naming Ubuntu releases after the latest movies. Then we could have 'Avatar', 'Hurtlocker', 'Toystory3' etc
Go to dictionary.com and look up the word 'volunteer', I'm sure you won't find the word 'warrant' in that definition.
Of course if you don't volunteer then you obviously have something to hide :)
They're really best for comparing cars, not for gauging actual mileage
That's my theory too. My car gets, on paper, something like 3.7l/100km highway and 5.3l/100km city, for a combined rating of 4.5l/100km (~52MPG). I'm pretty sure that highway figure requires an 80km/h speed, a dry road, a light driver, and tyres inflated to or above the upper rating. On a flat road at 110km/h I get around 4.5l/100km according to the dash reading, and the average since I last had it serviced is about 6l/100km.
Do wear your seat belts so safety features can work!
One wreck that sticks in my memory was a small truck ('Yota IIRC) that had two obvious face prints in the windshield, complete with hair, "stuff" and dried blood. The front end wasn't too bad, so the hit wasn't at high speed.
Yes. There was a fatal single vehicle accident near here just recently. I haven't heard anything official but it sounds like the woman drove out of her driveway and hit something at about 30km/h and hadn't put her seatbelt on (yet?). The car was barely damaged but she was dead. It may depend on the local laws, but almost all safety features are designed with the idea that you'll be wearing your seatbelt.
You will always find accidents where someone wasn't wearing a seatbelt and survived only because of that fact (eg kid in the back that was thrown clear of a car that burst into flames) but it's very rare.
that weighed only 300 lbs
If you put a couple of average people (or one fatty) in it the weight of the car would double. And then when you got out, it would blow away in a light breeze.