Ok, so you spend $12K instead of $10K to deal with the derating that will occur over the life of the panels. Plus your utility will pay you for the power you generate with those extra panels. Still coming out ahead, it just takes a couple of years. Not all investments are short term.
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Granted, we have taken a lot of the natural selection process out of the equation, and substituted a lot of artificial selection, but rest assured, we are still evolving.
Well there's your problem. You care more about quality. I don't. I rarely pick Blu-ray when I have a choice (and Blu-ray player/disc sales seem to indicate I'm in the majority). I'd prefer more content cheaper than higher quality content. Ooooh, only two channel sound. So? I'll enjoy what Netflix can offer and get content they or Hulu don't have through other methods.
Hopefully this pushes someone to write a Boxee bittorrent plugin. Hulu-like interface, but shows are fetched from other Boxee users via bittorrent. Win all around.
That's cool if we stick with a fuel tax. Just keep in mind you'll be paying more of your share than someone with an electric vehicle or a hybrid. That's the problem with a fuel tax, when you can't control the distribution of the fuel (in this case, electricity).
No method is going to be completely fair, but a flat tax is going to be the only effective method after electric vehicles come about and you can get your fuel from anywhere. It's a better option than trying to bill everyone for every mile they travel. So, yeah, people who drive infrequently are going to get the shaft. But if you drive a fairly small amount, you probably live in the city (and not the suburbs or a rural area) and could use a car share or car rental for the times you need to drive, and they would include the flat fee in their costs. In that case, the flat fee would be spread among everyone who uses the vehicles (which is pretty fair).
Lets switch to charging a yearly fee based on the weight of your vehicle then. From a weight perspective, motorcycles/hybrids > cars > SUVs > Semis. Seems fair to me, as how heavy the vehicle is correlates directly to how much damage the vehicle does to the road.
I'm simply saying that just because someone says something online doesn't mean you can say whatever you want about whomever you want without reprisal, legal or otherwise.
Seriously, grow the fuck up morons. No one with 1/16th of a brain gives a shit what any Internet troll has to say and no one, and I mean no one, pays any fucking attention to Topix what-so-ever. There really has to be a better way for this couple to waste their money, right?
Apparently, the court system is Texas *does* give a shit what someone says online.
Bittorrent: You can grab an episode of Battlestar Galactica or Heroes about 30-60 minutes after the show airs. Comcast just upped my connection to 12Mb down/2Mb up for no additional charge. At those speeds you can get an entire episode in roughly 20-25 minutes.
Hulu: Hulu is streamed to our PS3 via PlayOn's media server. Everything comes in at 480p (HD option configured through Hulu). We watch Family Guy, Bones, House, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Fringe, etc. without any problems.
Netflix: PlayOn streams Netflix Watch It Now content to our TV as well.
Do I still need an internet connection from Comcast? Yes. But I'd need that anyway. If I can get TV over IP (not in the traditional sense of course) why should I pay $50-$150/month extra for Comcast's version?
I use Mediamall's PlayOn media server ($30) to stream Hulu and Netflix to our PS3 and PopcornHour box. It's extremely wife-friendly. I just added the shows the wife watches to my Hulu queue with subscriptions, and she gets emails when there are new episodes to watch. Sounds simple enough to me. We of course don't watch sports, so no need for a live OTA feed, as we get news from web video feeds through PlayOn as well.
Glad cable is cheap where you and GPP live. Comcast in my area no longer offers standard cable. Minimum service is digital basic, starting at $60/month. That doesn't include additional decoder boxes past the first. So a $500 box has an ROI for me of a little under 9 months. It also insulates me from further rate hikes by Comcast (which they don't seem to shy about). Similar to a solar panel install on the roof of your house. There's an investment, but it pays off at some point and insulates you from further increases in cost.
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Most of Twitter runs on the Amazon EC2 cluster. Huge bill, but it's elastic and based on how much capacity is used.
Ok, so you spend $12K instead of $10K to deal with the derating that will occur over the life of the panels. Plus your utility will pay you for the power you generate with those extra panels. Still coming out ahead, it just takes a couple of years. Not all investments are short term.
Granted, we have taken a lot of the natural selection process out of the equation, and substituted a lot of artificial selection, but rest assured, we are still evolving.
Just under the wrong criteria.
Well there's your problem. You care more about quality. I don't. I rarely pick Blu-ray when I have a choice (and Blu-ray player/disc sales seem to indicate I'm in the majority). I'd prefer more content cheaper than higher quality content. Ooooh, only two channel sound. So? I'll enjoy what Netflix can offer and get content they or Hulu don't have through other methods.
You haven't tried the Roku box with the HD update. The quality is on par with 480p. Amazing.
If I need to pay taxes on digital downloads to keep my government solvent, I'm moving to a jurisdiction that can actually budget/spend less.
Hopefully this pushes someone to write a Boxee bittorrent plugin. Hulu-like interface, but shows are fetched from other Boxee users via bittorrent. Win all around.
Argh. Is there anything you can do in the UK without a permit and inspections?
Just a mile? You should see what us private pilots can pick up from 10,000 feet =) (yes, yes, I'm aware that's right around 1.5 miles)
Most people use a toll collection tag anyway, so the tag reporting their current mileage isn't that far of a stretch.
That's cool if we stick with a fuel tax. Just keep in mind you'll be paying more of your share than someone with an electric vehicle or a hybrid. That's the problem with a fuel tax, when you can't control the distribution of the fuel (in this case, electricity).
Not a problem. I (as well as hundreds of other technical folks) welcome a challenge. Build it and they will come (to break it).
No need for a scan arch. Have your ipass/toll collection device report your mileage for you.
Any system that resides in someone's vehicle is untrusted.
No method is going to be completely fair, but a flat tax is going to be the only effective method after electric vehicles come about and you can get your fuel from anywhere. It's a better option than trying to bill everyone for every mile they travel. So, yeah, people who drive infrequently are going to get the shaft. But if you drive a fairly small amount, you probably live in the city (and not the suburbs or a rural area) and could use a car share or car rental for the times you need to drive, and they would include the flat fee in their costs. In that case, the flat fee would be spread among everyone who uses the vehicles (which is pretty fair).
Lets switch to charging a yearly fee based on the weight of your vehicle then. From a weight perspective, motorcycles/hybrids > cars > SUVs > Semis. Seems fair to me, as how heavy the vehicle is correlates directly to how much damage the vehicle does to the road.
but reasonable use fees are exactly what's called for her
*Mechanic's Voice*: Well, there's yer problem right there.
The problem is, the fee may start reasonable, but soon gets escalated as $TOLL_AUTHORITY decides they need more cash for project $XYZ
If the comments are anything like what is currently on YouTube, I very much hope they nuke those comments from orbit.
I'm simply saying that just because someone says something online doesn't mean you can say whatever you want about whomever you want without reprisal, legal or otherwise.
Seriously, grow the fuck up morons. No one with 1/16th of a brain gives a shit what any Internet troll has to say and no one, and I mean no one, pays any fucking attention to Topix what-so-ever. There really has to be a better way for this couple to waste their money, right?
Apparently, the court system is Texas *does* give a shit what someone says online.
If I want something older, I use Netflix.
Bittorrent: You can grab an episode of Battlestar Galactica or Heroes about 30-60 minutes after the show airs. Comcast just upped my connection to 12Mb down/2Mb up for no additional charge. At those speeds you can get an entire episode in roughly 20-25 minutes.
Hulu: Hulu is streamed to our PS3 via PlayOn's media server. Everything comes in at 480p (HD option configured through Hulu). We watch Family Guy, Bones, House, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Fringe, etc. without any problems.
Netflix: PlayOn streams Netflix Watch It Now content to our TV as well.
Do I still need an internet connection from Comcast? Yes. But I'd need that anyway. If I can get TV over IP (not in the traditional sense of course) why should I pay $50-$150/month extra for Comcast's version?
I use Mediamall's PlayOn media server ($30) to stream Hulu and Netflix to our PS3 and PopcornHour box. It's extremely wife-friendly. I just added the shows the wife watches to my Hulu queue with subscriptions, and she gets emails when there are new episodes to watch. Sounds simple enough to me. We of course don't watch sports, so no need for a live OTA feed, as we get news from web video feeds through PlayOn as well.
Glad cable is cheap where you and GPP live. Comcast in my area no longer offers standard cable. Minimum service is digital basic, starting at $60/month. That doesn't include additional decoder boxes past the first. So a $500 box has an ROI for me of a little under 9 months. It also insulates me from further rate hikes by Comcast (which they don't seem to shy about). Similar to a solar panel install on the roof of your house. There's an investment, but it pays off at some point and insulates you from further increases in cost.
Now there's a modest proposal.