Yeah It's ironic that now there's TOO MUCH dot-connectin' going on. Better disconnect some of those recently connected dots or there could be another 9-11!
The reason so many socialists are gleefully trashing libertarians over this fire-story (with a guaranteed +5 insightful) is because they only consider events dramatic enough to make the news. A loss that is spread out evenly over many people goes straight into their blind spot. It is unjust to force anyone to pay for fire service. That injustice is nothing to socialists because it isn't a dramatic event they can point to. But multiply it out over the vast number of people the injustice is imposed on, and the loss is greater than this house that burned down. Too bad a full cost/benefit analysis would make too boring a story for anyone to watch.
What helmet law? Last I checked, the helmet law in Texas had been repealed, and the Austin BICYCLE helmet law repealed about a week later. Did they reinstate some BS save-one-life/temporary-emergency helmet law just for the rally?
Very informative, thanks. When you say the electrons have a definite momentum about the Z-axis, do you mean just one chosen axis (depending on your perspective and axes you assign) or does it have something to do with which way is "up" or gravity?
1. Send someone in with diving suit and CO2 or Argon tank 2. Close shuttle door and open tank, pressurizing shuttle 3. Remove knob, release pressure 4. Go home and quit robbing us of obscene amounts of cash
The hard drive was neither SCSI or SATA.. so the flash drive was the only thing that should have been mounted sd(x). It was plugged in from the beginning. I guess if you have an IDE hard drive, Grub looks there first, does its thing on hda, and Ubuntu doesn't pass the right info to Grub to make it do otherwise..
Yeah, I had the BIOS set to boot off a USB device first. That does not solve the problem.. GRUB still ignores the fact that the linux install is on/sda and puts itself on/hda.
Funny you should mention Slax.. I tried that next, and it works great!
Agreed.. the Ubuntu interface and speed are great, even running off a live CD.
But if you plan to install to a flash drive, do not trust it to leave your hard drive alone. When it gets to the GRUB installation, it reverts back to a hard drive install and messes with your MBR. I tried it on a Windows XP machine, and it made both XP and the flash drive unbootable.. should have yanked the hard drive first.
If the power output is constant, you'd start off like a rock out of a slingshot. Then as you reached top speed the acceleration would taper off asymtotically. Kinetic energy = 1/2 mass x velocity^2 I think.
A low-tech way of taking advantage of the large specific heat of water is to have a few large aquariums around your house. Of course they cost a little in electricity to pump water around(as would a large-tank heat transfer system) but they really do moderate the day-to-day temperature variations. For seasonal variations, of course you'd need the large tank you are talking about.
One could always start a pledge on pledgebank.com, advertise it far and wide, and see how many people at least say they intend to stick with the boycott. If the pledge doesn't reach a certain number, it fails and nobody wastes their time.
Personally, I'm satisfied with only the tiny effect I have when "voting with my dollars." Whether or not a boycott brings down the whole RIAA is secondary.. 1-man boycotts let you feel better about your own effect on the market, regardless of what others do.
More specifically:
1. There are things that are perfectly legal, but embarassing or uncomfortable to expose. Do you want officer Peeping Tom to rifle through your wife's underwear drawer?
2. Some laws are unjust and should be broken.
3. Frame-ups, in combination with bullshit "forfeiture" laws. Do you trust that cop not to "find" bag of weed in your very nice car? And if he does, do you expect to keep it?
The "speed of force" as you put it, is not really a speed inherent to force. You would be measuring how fast a tensile or compressive wave passes through the pole, same as the speed of sound through it. It would be much slower than the speed of light.
Provided that person (who's smell and demeanor you don't approve of) has the wherewithal to hold down a job, or run a machine shop, or is otherwise competent enough to attain a gun, then you have no right to prevent him from having one. You are correct to point out that simply handing a gun to a crazy person (or toddler, or anyone else who does not understand actions and consequences) would be irresponsible and dangerous. But that is a strawman argument as applied to this topic.
If any country puts a base on the moon, Japan will be first. These are people who will work their asses off for land. After all, they did lop off the top of one of their mountains so they could build an airport in the ocean..
Networks already syncronize commercials so that there's little or no incentive to change the channel to avoid them. There's no way this new channel-locking feature is going to improve on that enough to justify its existence.
The register trolling? I think Digg just passed them up, as far as overall maturity goes. Today's load of smartassed remarks from Otto Stern was the last straw.. bookmark deleted.
I am not sure what the typical % loss is in piping natural gas all the way to a house, but it is definitely less than for electricity. The price of gas delivered is only about 2 times the wholesale price.. plus the gas company has to build and maintain the network of pipes, meters and regulators. So I'd guess the pressure losses are minimal.
Hopefully, these new developments such as Honda's will begin to bridge the gap (in efficiency) between home generators and the big ones that power the grid. Of coarse, most people care only about what is cost effective, and home generators are expensive. But as the price of fuel goes through the roof, hopefully the cost gap will be bridged as well.
Yeah, but there are transmission losses. You only get to use about 25% of what the power stations generate. The rest goes to heating up power lines, transformers and whatnot.
Well, a patent used only as an impediment would not generate any revenue, thus it would count as a frivolous patent that would expire the 6th year. If the patent's use is both for commerce -and- defensive, there are still time limits. Calculations.. granted, it would be difficult to enforce an accurate yearly report from the patent holder (of profits from the patented device) And devices that involve multiple patents would have to be pro-rated, and the FTC would have to watch for corporate book-cooking. This might seem like more micromanagement from government, but really, it is up to the patent owner to decide if the burden of self-accounting is worth the protections afforded by patent ownership. And that's nothing compared to the convoluted tax code everyone in the US is forced to deal with.
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Yeah It's ironic that now there's TOO MUCH dot-connectin' going on. Better disconnect some of those recently connected dots or there could be another 9-11!
The reason so many socialists are gleefully trashing libertarians over this fire-story (with a guaranteed +5 insightful) is because they only consider events dramatic enough to make the news. A loss that is spread out evenly over many people goes straight into their blind spot. It is unjust to force anyone to pay for fire service. That injustice is nothing to socialists because it isn't a dramatic event they can point to. But multiply it out over the vast number of people the injustice is imposed on, and the loss is greater than this house that burned down. Too bad a full cost/benefit analysis would make too boring a story for anyone to watch.
What helmet law? Last I checked, the helmet law in Texas had been repealed, and the Austin BICYCLE helmet law repealed about a week later. Did they reinstate some BS save-one-life/temporary-emergency helmet law just for the rally?
Very informative, thanks. When you say the electrons have a definite momentum about the Z-axis, do you mean just one chosen axis (depending on your perspective and axes you assign) or does it have something to do with which way is "up" or gravity?
1. Send someone in with diving suit and CO2 or Argon tank
2. Close shuttle door and open tank, pressurizing shuttle
3. Remove knob, release pressure
4. Go home and quit robbing us of obscene amounts of cash
The hard drive was neither SCSI or SATA.. so the flash drive was the only thing that should have been mounted sd(x). It was plugged in from the beginning. I guess if you have an IDE hard drive, Grub looks there first, does its thing on hda, and Ubuntu doesn't pass the right info to Grub to make it do otherwise..
Yeah, I had the BIOS set to boot off a USB device first. That does not solve the problem.. GRUB still ignores the fact that the linux install is on /sda and puts itself on /hda.
Funny you should mention Slax.. I tried that next, and it works great!
Agreed.. the Ubuntu interface and speed are great, even running off a live CD. But if you plan to install to a flash drive, do not trust it to leave your hard drive alone. When it gets to the GRUB installation, it reverts back to a hard drive install and messes with your MBR. I tried it on a Windows XP machine, and it made both XP and the flash drive unbootable.. should have yanked the hard drive first.
7. Carefully put the peripheral back in box (BIB)
8. Place SIB ad on Ebay
9. Profit again!
If the power output is constant, you'd start off like a rock out of a slingshot. Then as you reached top speed the acceleration would taper off asymtotically. Kinetic energy = 1/2 mass x velocity^2 I think.
A low-tech way of taking advantage of the large specific heat of water is to have a few large aquariums around your house. Of course they cost a little in electricity to pump water around(as would a large-tank heat transfer system) but they really do moderate the day-to-day temperature variations. For seasonal variations, of course you'd need the large tank you are talking about.
..Which is why if your stuff is about to be confiscated, you should break it.
One could always start a pledge on pledgebank.com, advertise it far and wide, and see how many people at least say they intend to stick with the boycott. If the pledge doesn't reach a certain number, it fails and nobody wastes their time. Personally, I'm satisfied with only the tiny effect I have when "voting with my dollars." Whether or not a boycott brings down the whole RIAA is secondary.. 1-man boycotts let you feel better about your own effect on the market, regardless of what others do.
More specifically: 1. There are things that are perfectly legal, but embarassing or uncomfortable to expose. Do you want officer Peeping Tom to rifle through your wife's underwear drawer? 2. Some laws are unjust and should be broken. 3. Frame-ups, in combination with bullshit "forfeiture" laws. Do you trust that cop not to "find" bag of weed in your very nice car? And if he does, do you expect to keep it?
The "speed of force" as you put it, is not really a speed inherent to force. You would be measuring how fast a tensile or compressive wave passes through the pole, same as the speed of sound through it. It would be much slower than the speed of light.
How's that "Contract With America" coming along, fuckface?
Provided that person (who's smell and demeanor you don't approve of) has the wherewithal to hold down a job, or run a machine shop, or is otherwise competent enough to attain a gun, then you have no right to prevent him from having one. You are correct to point out that simply handing a gun to a crazy person (or toddler, or anyone else who does not understand actions and consequences) would be irresponsible and dangerous. But that is a strawman argument as applied to this topic.
If any country puts a base on the moon, Japan will be first. These are people who will work their asses off for land. After all, they did lop off the top of one of their mountains so they could build an airport in the ocean..
Networks already syncronize commercials so that there's little or no incentive to change the channel to avoid them. There's no way this new channel-locking feature is going to improve on that enough to justify its existence.
The register trolling? I think Digg just passed them up, as far as overall maturity goes. Today's load of smartassed remarks from Otto Stern was the last straw.. bookmark deleted.
Win or lose, the EFF always does good. When they win, they set a good precedent. When they lose, they point out the absurdity of the law or court.
EFF beyond its usefulness? Heh. Talk to me when the EFF *actions* get as off-base and smartassed as the Register's *words.*
Long live the EFF!
This is where some idiot says "Yay Capitalism!" Yes, future idiot, rootkits are caused by capitalism.
I am not sure what the typical % loss is in piping natural gas all the way to a house, but it is definitely less than for electricity. The price of gas delivered is only about 2 times the wholesale price.. plus the gas company has to build and maintain the network of pipes, meters and regulators. So I'd guess the pressure losses are minimal.
Hopefully, these new developments such as Honda's will begin to bridge the gap (in efficiency) between home generators and the big ones that power the grid. Of coarse, most people care only about what is cost effective, and home generators are expensive. But as the price of fuel goes through the roof, hopefully the cost gap will be bridged as well.
Yeah, but there are transmission losses. You only get to use about 25% of what the power stations generate. The rest goes to heating up power lines, transformers and whatnot.
Well, a patent used only as an impediment would not generate any revenue, thus it would count as a frivolous patent that would expire the 6th year. If the patent's use is both for commerce -and- defensive, there are still time limits. Calculations.. granted, it would be difficult to enforce an accurate yearly report from the patent holder (of profits from the patented device) And devices that involve multiple patents would have to be pro-rated, and the FTC would have to watch for corporate book-cooking. This might seem like more micromanagement from government, but really, it is up to the patent owner to decide if the burden of self-accounting is worth the protections afforded by patent ownership. And that's nothing compared to the convoluted tax code everyone in the US is forced to deal with.