The common pool of money idea is one I've thought about and seen bandied about semi-seriously, but I've yet to see it seriously discussed. It sounds interesting, and potentially a solution to many of the inherent corruptable flaws in our current system. Does anyone have any links where this idea is discussed? Aside from the obvious "if everyone entered the ring, the pool is nickel and dimed away" issue, why wouldn't this work?
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would it have to be one big honkin' windmill? if the building is sufficiently large, would a bunch of smaller (think tv satellite dish sized) windmills on balconies and the side of the building make up enough spinning mass to generate anything?
which leads me to my next question: why do wind farms consist of all those huge windmills? wouldn't 100 times as many smaller windmills generate a similar amount of power?
one thing, tho, that i don't think a lot of folks think about with full 180/360 degree rotating wheels is the forward momentum.
I build crazy bikes for fun. Tallbikes, backwards steering bikes, monster chopper bikes, long bikes, etc. One idea I had was a bike with dual wheel steering. Of course, if both wheels turn in opposite directions, this would allow for a smaller turning radius. But if they turn in the same direction, taken to their ultimate logical conclusion, you'd end up with a segway, with the bike moving sideways. What happens when you turn both wheels while moving toward a fence? Instead of changing the direction of travel, the bike just changes its orientation in that it's still moving towards the fence, but it's facing sideways...
Of course, with a proper speed limiting doowhatzit, I think it would be fairly trivial to disable the wheels' ability to turn beyond x degrees while moving faster than y mph.
If it could be used to feed livestock, could it be used to feed humans?/puts on flameproof pants for the response I'm guessing my username will bring/
Seriously, if we're using a potential livestock food source as the fuel, how possible would it be to just skip the livestock and feed it to humans?
(On a somewhat offtopic side note, I lived in the Mississippi delta for a year a while ago. I was excited when we first moved there to find that there were soybean farms galore. Grain silos full of soybeans. I called a few, asking about buying some soybeans. The smallest amount I could get is what I was after, since these places moved semitruck loads full of the things daily. Me and my measly 250 pounds of soybeans. I was informed (and laughed at a couple of times) that "soybeans--them's for feed!!" and that you couldn't eat them, since they had all kinds of chemicals in them, but that they feed them to the cows, which are then fed to the people...)
Couldn't you just somberly say something like "Um...he's no longer with us...", and let them assume the rest? Wouldn't be the whole truth, but it certainly wouldn't be a lie, if they've moved...
so many episodes i remember...
mouse traps in the plexiglass box, the iodine/starch pitcher pour, the newspaper to break the stick, the candle making the paper spiral spin around, the impossibly cut paper, the hole in the paper so large i can jump through, all the LOGO exercises, the speech recognition software that shows you a waveform of your voice, so those with speech issues can "see" their speech and make it better, the measuring of the tree with a plate of water, the starter pistol sound delay via walkee talkee, the neighbor's dog's tracks in plaster, the i beam vs solid beam...
i think some of the shorter skits from mr wizard's world are on youtube, i rememeber looking those up once, and spending a few hours reliving many of these. they weren't as mindblowing as i remember, but the girls i had crushes on then--as a 9 year old--had some pretty good fashion sense.
i've always wondered what those kids are up to now...
Taking that idea a little further, didn't Kevin have to do some kind of community service to help tighten the security he found ways around?
Perhaps I'm just thinking of him getting employment by some computer security firm post incarceration. I guess the problem here is Vitale could make more money by continuing to spam than he would at an anti-spam place...
I've seen several stories on/. about open source hardware, and now with this one (I must have missed the first project), I'm wondering if there's not a place for open source type "politics" or methods in things like designs for buildings, cars, bikes, etc. Granted, with something like a car, at this point, there's all kinds of prior art which would be off limits, but with the right development team, couldn't someone(s) come up with an effecient design that could be built by diy'ers, or by some company that would play a role similar to red hat, etc?
Perhaps you jest, but wouldn't something like this possibly provide something that's pretty much random, but also within the realm of description? Some sort of live video feed that users have to describe. What about those public roadway cctv cameras which are accessible?
"what color was the last car to drive by?" type thing...
It's a scandal when they lead us into a quagmire of a war and kill more US citizens than 9/11 did. This is just science, no one will give a shit about it enough to cause a scandal in the first place...
They led us into a what of a war? Kill more citizens than 9/1---oh-em-gee-zzz, Paris Hilton's going to jail!!!!11oneone...
a friend of mine (who happens to be one of the guys who started a company a few slashdotters have heard of, as well as probably work for) has some cool light switches installed. they're not automated, but they do have motion sensors in them. the sensor is only sensitive to within about 12 inches, so you just have to wave your hands in front of them to make the lights come on. they're on timers, which are adjustable, so they shut off after a bit. they also have an "on" switch if you're going to be in there a while. In rooms like the kitchen, or the living room, the "on" switches get used more often. in the bathroom, the utility room off the garage, are both excellent places where you would want to be able to turn on the lights without touching the light switch. i know the switches in several houses i've lived in have been super dirty in the rooms where i go to wash my hands...
There's no shortage sunlight, true...but there's a shortage on space.
So beef up the solar panels, and build the roads with them. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of roads. Have it be municipal. Whoever builds the roads gets the power from them. ie city road power goes to cities, interstate road power goes to the fed. Agencies can sell the power or use it or whatever. Private companies could put in private roads (toll roads) and sell the power, but they'd have to buy the tracts of land. Railroads, maybe?
The power could also be used to power the cars/streetlights/crossing signals that follow the roads.
Aside from the obvious "they're made from glass" issue, why else wouldn't this work? Concrete's made of sand, too.
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Some people apparently like watch the Bowflex commercials over and over and over again. I would, if the actors were naked and fucking each other.
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The common pool of money idea is one I've thought about and seen bandied about semi-seriously, but I've yet to see it seriously discussed. It sounds interesting, and potentially a solution to many of the inherent corruptable flaws in our current system. Does anyone have any links where this idea is discussed? Aside from the obvious "if everyone entered the ring, the pool is nickel and dimed away" issue, why wouldn't this work?
would it have to be one big honkin' windmill? if the building is sufficiently large, would a bunch of smaller (think tv satellite dish sized) windmills on balconies and the side of the building make up enough spinning mass to generate anything?
which leads me to my next question: why do wind farms consist of all those huge windmills? wouldn't 100 times as many smaller windmills generate a similar amount of power?
gah, i was missing it.
one thing, tho, that i don't think a lot of folks think about with full 180/360 degree rotating wheels is the forward momentum.
I build crazy bikes for fun. Tallbikes, backwards steering bikes, monster chopper bikes, long bikes, etc. One idea I had was a bike with dual wheel steering. Of course, if both wheels turn in opposite directions, this would allow for a smaller turning radius. But if they turn in the same direction, taken to their ultimate logical conclusion, you'd end up with a segway, with the bike moving sideways. What happens when you turn both wheels while moving toward a fence? Instead of changing the direction of travel, the bike just changes its orientation in that it's still moving towards the fence, but it's facing sideways...
Of course, with a proper speed limiting doowhatzit, I think it would be fairly trivial to disable the wheels' ability to turn beyond x degrees while moving faster than y mph.
If it could be used to feed livestock, could it be used to feed humans? /puts on flameproof pants for the response I'm guessing my username will bring/
Seriously, if we're using a potential livestock food source as the fuel, how possible would it be to just skip the livestock and feed it to humans?
(On a somewhat offtopic side note, I lived in the Mississippi delta for a year a while ago. I was excited when we first moved there to find that there were soybean farms galore. Grain silos full of soybeans. I called a few, asking about buying some soybeans. The smallest amount I could get is what I was after, since these places moved semitruck loads full of the things daily. Me and my measly 250 pounds of soybeans. I was informed (and laughed at a couple of times) that "soybeans--them's for feed!!" and that you couldn't eat them, since they had all kinds of chemicals in them, but that they feed them to the cows, which are then fed to the people...)
I would think that 90 would be enough, no? With a forward and a reverse...or am I missing something?
So how do they know it's you to refuse, if you won't give them the number?
Couldn't you just somberly say something like "Um...he's no longer with us...", and let them assume the rest? Wouldn't be the whole truth, but it certainly wouldn't be a lie, if they've moved...
A. Six thought and again three much disorder for too deficiency zinc.
nothing that casts a shadow...
I think he's just yankin' your chain.
Because frying it in chicken fat would be harmful to chickens.
so many episodes i remember... mouse traps in the plexiglass box, the iodine/starch pitcher pour, the newspaper to break the stick, the candle making the paper spiral spin around, the impossibly cut paper, the hole in the paper so large i can jump through, all the LOGO exercises, the speech recognition software that shows you a waveform of your voice, so those with speech issues can "see" their speech and make it better, the measuring of the tree with a plate of water, the starter pistol sound delay via walkee talkee, the neighbor's dog's tracks in plaster, the i beam vs solid beam...
i think some of the shorter skits from mr wizard's world are on youtube, i rememeber looking those up once, and spending a few hours reliving many of these. they weren't as mindblowing as i remember, but the girls i had crushes on then--as a 9 year old--had some pretty good fashion sense.
i've always wondered what those kids are up to now...
Taking that idea a little further, didn't Kevin have to do some kind of community service to help tighten the security he found ways around?
Perhaps I'm just thinking of him getting employment by some computer security firm post incarceration. I guess the problem here is Vitale could make more money by continuing to spam than he would at an anti-spam place...
I've seen several stories on /. about open source hardware, and now with this one (I must have missed the first project), I'm wondering if there's not a place for open source type "politics" or methods in things like designs for buildings, cars, bikes, etc. Granted, with something like a car, at this point, there's all kinds of prior art which would be off limits, but with the right development team, couldn't someone(s) come up with an effecient design that could be built by diy'ers, or by some company that would play a role similar to red hat, etc?
Perhaps you jest, but wouldn't something like this possibly provide something that's pretty much random, but also within the realm of description? Some sort of live video feed that users have to describe. What about those public roadway cctv cameras which are accessible?
"what color was the last car to drive by?" type thing...
maybe eating only grass is not good for mental health.
i only eat grass, you insensitive clod!
Netcraft confirms it!
all the movies you can watch, mail back, and wait for replacements of for about $20 month
Fixed that for you.
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It's a scandal when they lead us into a quagmire of a war and kill more US citizens than 9/11 did. This is just science, no one will give a shit about it enough to cause a scandal in the first place...
They led us into a what of a war? Kill more citizens than 9/1---oh-em-gee-zzz, Paris Hilton's going to jail!!!!11oneone...
That's correct.
Automated lights aren't particularly useful, IMO.
a friend of mine (who happens to be one of the guys who started a company a few slashdotters have heard of, as well as probably work for) has some cool light switches installed. they're not automated, but they do have motion sensors in them. the sensor is only sensitive to within about 12 inches, so you just have to wave your hands in front of them to make the lights come on. they're on timers, which are adjustable, so they shut off after a bit. they also have an "on" switch if you're going to be in there a while. In rooms like the kitchen, or the living room, the "on" switches get used more often. in the bathroom, the utility room off the garage, are both excellent places where you would want to be able to turn on the lights without touching the light switch. i know the switches in several houses i've lived in have been super dirty in the rooms where i go to wash my hands...
just happens to be about the same as a RIAA "settlement offer."
You didn't think they were gonna pay them out of their own pockets, did you?
Getting the consumers you sue to pay to make stricter laws which enables you to make more money from lawsuits sounds like a solid business plan to me.
There's no shortage sunlight, true...but there's a shortage on space.
So beef up the solar panels, and build the roads with them. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of roads. Have it be municipal. Whoever builds the roads gets the power from them. ie city road power goes to cities, interstate road power goes to the fed. Agencies can sell the power or use it or whatever. Private companies could put in private roads (toll roads) and sell the power, but they'd have to buy the tracts of land. Railroads, maybe?
The power could also be used to power the cars/streetlights/crossing signals that follow the roads. Aside from the obvious "they're made from glass" issue, why else wouldn't this work? Concrete's made of sand, too.
by Profane MuthaFucka (574406) * Alter Relationship busheatskok@gmail.com on Friday June 01, @12:24PM (#19355087) (http://www.stileproject.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday May 30, @09:04AM) Some people apparently like watch the Bowflex commercials over and over and over again. I would, if the actors were naked and fucking each other.
Somedays the jokes just write themselves.