did you "meet" them, or just have to share a road with them.
not refuting or anything. i drive a beamer, but i don't own it:) i'm an '88 corolla driver at heart, but i have to be careful not to drive the BMW in the same way (speed laws and all that).
tl;dr - anybody who drives a car that makes them feel more important than everyone else on the road will drive like an arsehole.
conversely, anybody who drives a car with a high likelihood of containing an arsehole due to the above rule of thumb will be treated like an arsehole by other drivers.
there was a marked difference between how i was treated in the blue corolla hatch versus how i'm treated in a 325i. the effect can be offset by wearing a stupid hat though. more research is needed, and more funding - i want to see how driving a maserati changes things...
roads can't be traded like "generic trade goods" can. they don't work like TVs in boxes on trucks.
infrastructure is not a traditional product, and market models can get somewhat confused when dealing with immovable things that are used all the time and need maintenance.
if you look at private rail systems, they're a very mixed bunch. some do it better than others.
what prevents the selection and evolution you speak of are the little details like you can't just choose another city's infrastructure because they're better or more efficient. you're stuck with what you've got where you live, and there's very little incentive for the local monopoly to improve things if their bottom line is not going to be improved.
melbourne's rail system was privatized in the '90s, originally split to 3 companies who handled a third of the network each. they eventually all merged into the one, which was a multinational. they made more money in london than they did here, so they effectively trained up drivers here and offered them packages in london. they only bought new trains when their hands were forced. they hired goons to shake people down for ticket infractions. the fines for no ticket are higher than the fines for exceeding the speed limit by 20km/h +.
this company then got the arse when their contract was up for renewal. people were sick of them. the network had not had significant works in over a decade. another company moved in their place, and were left with the canonical "stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure" of a system. the previous tenant had left enough leeway in their contract that major works were not assigned explicitly to either state government or them, so they just didn't get done.
works are finally happening now, slowly. the public are absorbing the cost in a big way, road traffic is worse than it has ever been because people stopped taking the train.
wtf you talking about? you ever met a photographer?
when a photographer colloquially refers to a "fast" lens, they are saying the lens lets through comparatively more light than an "average lens". this enables them to shoot with a higher shutter speed, hence the lens enables a faster shot for the same film rating.
i suppose they could call them "light" and "dark" lenses and it'd make more sense from an optical point of view, but in practical terms when shooting in low light, you want fast film, fast lens and fast shutter or you'll have to bolt your subject to the ground to prevent them from moving during your exposure.
that will likely bugger the drive up completely. some flash drives get written past the end or some crap like that.
long story short, i tried this on a thumb drive that reported 8 gigs and was actually 4 gigs... after running dd it was completely useless and unrecoverable, at least by someone of my level of proficiency. YMMV
there was a precedent set centuries ago when immigrants were actively selected from their homes and shipped to the USA in order to work slavish jobs for very little benefits. literally second-class citizens (well, not citizens at all).
i hope Google and Samsung paid the fees for "A System And Process For Removing Useful Features Via Auto-Update". that one's owned by a consortium of Apple, Sony and Adobe.
MS have a similar patent on moving things you use all the time around between versions.
even Machiavelli understood that some form of security was needed in a civilised society (or you'll be overthrown by the downtrodden, which is never a good way to go - they take everything so personally).
if i were making 10 bucks an hour, i'd be glad of the escape and release i got from shagging.
beyond that it's just a numbers game as to whether she gets pregnant - the failure rate of your preferred contraception, chance she's ovulating, relative potency, and how often you shag.
- points out that $pet_ideology "predicted" this outcome. - points out some flaws in a system that is != $pet_ideology - propose $pet_ideology as solution - completely ignore any other flaws than $pet_ideology might entail
Japan is about 95% forest, and has been since shogunate times.
but it's a pretty good point - natural selection doesn't care too much about increased cancer risk on timescales far longer than the length of an average generation in that species.
how do you convince an electrical utility company to build seawalls for 355k people with the money they _weren't_ going to spend on seawalls for themselves?
too cheap to meter was most likely the promise of a Very Big weapons program, and the economy of scale that brings. if the government has a vested interest in lots of nuke power, they get a lot easier to build.
the MAGNOX plants in the UK are a good example of this. basically a less thermally efficient and less insane answer to the USSR's RBMK plants.
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did you "meet" them, or just have to share a road with them.
not refuting or anything. i drive a beamer, but i don't own it :) i'm an '88 corolla driver at heart, but i have to be careful not to drive the BMW in the same way (speed laws and all that).
tl;dr - anybody who drives a car that makes them feel more important than everyone else on the road will drive like an arsehole.
conversely, anybody who drives a car with a high likelihood of containing an arsehole due to the above rule of thumb will be treated like an arsehole by other drivers.
there was a marked difference between how i was treated in the blue corolla hatch versus how i'm treated in a 325i. the effect can be offset by wearing a stupid hat though. more research is needed, and more funding - i want to see how driving a maserati changes things...
roads can't be traded like "generic trade goods" can. they don't work like TVs in boxes on trucks.
infrastructure is not a traditional product, and market models can get somewhat confused when dealing with immovable things that are used all the time and need maintenance.
if you look at private rail systems, they're a very mixed bunch. some do it better than others.
what prevents the selection and evolution you speak of are the little details like you can't just choose another city's infrastructure because they're better or more efficient. you're stuck with what you've got where you live, and there's very little incentive for the local monopoly to improve things if their bottom line is not going to be improved.
melbourne's rail system was privatized in the '90s, originally split to 3 companies who handled a third of the network each. they eventually all merged into the one, which was a multinational. they made more money in london than they did here, so they effectively trained up drivers here and offered them packages in london. they only bought new trains when their hands were forced. they hired goons to shake people down for ticket infractions. the fines for no ticket are higher than the fines for exceeding the speed limit by 20km/h +.
this company then got the arse when their contract was up for renewal. people were sick of them. the network had not had significant works in over a decade. another company moved in their place, and were left with the canonical "stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure" of a system. the previous tenant had left enough leeway in their contract that major works were not assigned explicitly to either state government or them, so they just didn't get done.
works are finally happening now, slowly. the public are absorbing the cost in a big way, road traffic is worse than it has ever been because people stopped taking the train.
number in arsenal/number used would give interesting results. iran would have used an infinite number...
wtf you talking about? you ever met a photographer?
when a photographer colloquially refers to a "fast" lens, they are saying the lens lets through comparatively more light than an "average lens". this enables them to shoot with a higher shutter speed, hence the lens enables a faster shot for the same film rating.
i suppose they could call them "light" and "dark" lenses and it'd make more sense from an optical point of view, but in practical terms when shooting in low light, you want fast film, fast lens and fast shutter or you'll have to bolt your subject to the ground to prevent them from moving during your exposure.
gross, i was thinking of Michael Palin, making the python reference relevant.
dammit, i thought i was being clever, but /. is drawn to US politics like a magnet.
what if it had been raining?
that will likely bugger the drive up completely. some flash drives get written past the end or some crap like that.
long story short, i tried this on a thumb drive that reported 8 gigs and was actually 4 gigs... after running dd it was completely useless and unrecoverable, at least by someone of my level of proficiency. YMMV
Palin C? I much prefer to code in Monty Python.
there was a precedent set centuries ago when immigrants were actively selected from their homes and shipped to the USA in order to work slavish jobs for very little benefits. literally second-class citizens (well, not citizens at all).
fuck off, kdawson.
enjoy your abacus then, because you'd be hard pressed to find any device made by a company that doesn't sue every other company.
money will soon be done away with - we'll all buy things by exchanging useless patents.
i hope Google and Samsung paid the fees for "A System And Process For Removing Useful Features Via Auto-Update". that one's owned by a consortium of Apple, Sony and Adobe.
MS have a similar patent on moving things you use all the time around between versions.
tell that to North Korea when they can finally get their 2nd stages to ignite without blowing up the whole missile.
this. ...wait, celebrity goss on MY /. that doesn't involve Steve Jobs?
no, that question is kinda stupid.
atoms aside, we're also sexually reproducing biological organisms.
it should not be severely detrimental to an animal of this kind to reproduce itself, intentionally or not.
i leave out the example of spiders that eat their mates after being inseminated...
that was a big waste of my time, though it did increase my knowledge on the few points that were stated objectively.
-1 informative.
this.
even Machiavelli understood that some form of security was needed in a civilised society (or you'll be overthrown by the downtrodden, which is never a good way to go - they take everything so personally).
if i were making 10 bucks an hour, i'd be glad of the escape and release i got from shagging.
beyond that it's just a numbers game as to whether she gets pregnant - the failure rate of your preferred contraception, chance she's ovulating, relative potency, and how often you shag.
yeah, how's that monopoly going?
i look around my office... at a glance, maybe 30% mac?
seem to be missing the elephant in the room with your examples of evil companies...
nice! but how'd the Israelis cause the tsunami? that's pretty clever of them to blame the earthquake though.
- points out that $pet_ideology "predicted" this outcome.
- points out some flaws in a system that is != $pet_ideology
- propose $pet_ideology as solution
- completely ignore any other flaws than $pet_ideology might entail
seems good to me!
Japan is about 95% forest, and has been since shogunate times.
but it's a pretty good point - natural selection doesn't care too much about increased cancer risk on timescales far longer than the length of an average generation in that species.
how do you convince an electrical utility company to build seawalls for 355k people with the money they _weren't_ going to spend on seawalls for themselves?
too cheap to meter was most likely the promise of a Very Big weapons program, and the economy of scale that brings. if the government has a vested interest in lots of nuke power, they get a lot easier to build.
the MAGNOX plants in the UK are a good example of this. basically a less thermally efficient and less insane answer to the USSR's RBMK plants.