1% profit is not the same as 1% ROI. The first 1% is out of gross receipts, the second is out of initial investment which are two completely different numbers. 1% profit can easily be 20-30% ROI depending on the structure of the business (grocery stores come to mind).
Incorrect. Rotate mouse around it's vertical axis to change your direction of motion--the real bitch is holding the mouse over a radio button long enough to click.
Wrong. Solar is nearly as cheap as burning oil or coal to make electricity RIGHT NOW. Yes, it only works in the day, but if it came down to it, we could adapt. (via variable pricing : in the extreme case, power at night could cost 5 to 10 times what it does in the day)
Stopped reading here. You are so clueless it is hysterical. Really, my sides hurt. Every time I see this absurd, ignorant myth it just ticks me off.
Photovoltaic may only work during the day, but solar-thermal power works 24/7.
Since the CSP plant generates heat first of all, it can store the heat before conversion to electricity. With current technology, storage of heat is much cheaper and more efficient than storage of electricity. In this way, the CSP plant can produce electricity day and night. If the CSP site has predictable solar radiation, then the CSP plant becomes a reliable power plant. Reliability can further be improved by installing a back-up system that uses fossil energy. The back-up system can reuse most of the CSP plant, which decreases the cost of the back-up system.
Heat is stored in a fluid reservoir underground and used to generate electricity 24/7.
Uh, we did march into Somalia. And Bosnia. Pretty sure those were Clinton's wars. Granted we didn't occupy them with 100,000 troops, but blame Clinton for that. Bush was still pretending to be a Texan back then.
Actually I think the burden falls on someone to come up with a reason why we should have a schedule instead of full immediate withdrawl.
Here's one for you: # of soldiers/(# boats/planes/teleportation pods * # seats)*# days for round trip.
Can't leave any faster than that (unless you're suggesting they walk home).
If you seriously think you can move several hundred thousand people 6,000 miles quickly on anything other than a schedule, share whatever you're smoking.
Also, learn to use quote tags. Your post is 'nigh unreadable.
develop some sort of time-travel based ABM device -- zap the enemy's missiles back in time so they can explode harmlessly in the past. Seriously.
No, no, no. They've got it all wrong. You zap them a few seconds into the FUTURE, assuming they maintain their position during the shift, then the Earth will have moved away from them and they will be left to burn up in the atmosphere on reentry.
If OTOH the time-travel ABM system works in such a fashion that the missiles maintain their inertial motion, shift them forward in time (or backwards) such that the earth's rotation places an enemy installation in their path (as the rotation is non-inertial motion).
And yet such a theory fails to account for the perihelion shift of Mercury, so it is, strictly speaking, wrong. Just like everything else in science. Science is a progression of best guesses, that are all ultimately wrong but each is progressively closer to being right than the last.
I hope your science profs failed you, because you don't understand science.
Everything in science is WRONG, strictly construed. Newton's theory of gravity is WRONG (gravity is not proportional to 1/R^2), but it's reasonably close for many applications. Einstein's theory of general relativity is WRONG, strictly construed, but it is LESS wrong than anything else we've managed to come up with (for certain applications).
Science is the continual quest for explanations that are less wrong, not right ones. Even if we found THE right answer, we'd never know it. We'd only ever be able to know that it was the least wrong answer ever thought up.
It's 9.04 (Dust theme, with some compiz tweaking, nothing special), and no I didn't. In fact, I'm sitting here trying to drag windows up and away past my screen, and can't.
Maybe you're referring to Docky, which obscured the button in one of the shots, but only because I had just used it to take the screenshot, and it hadn't popped down out of the way yet. If that's not it, then share whatever it is you're smoking.
I was talking about idiot-friendliness. Having programs fuck up other programs is not idiot friendly, and due to SANE software design rules on UN*X systems would not happen.
No, Linux antivirus would not go as deeply into the OS--there's no reason for it. There's hardly a reason for it in windows. Is there a need for a low level system security layer--sure, but it sure shouldn't be merged with the user-space security program. EVER.
Change an Ubuntu screen to 640x480, and then try to change it back, without using secret hidden commands. Can't be done
While this begs the question of why you changed it in to that in the first place, I just did it, so yes you can.
As for idiot friendly, I just had to fix a Vista-AVG combined bug that kept my brother from being able to download ANYTHING. AVG was nixing everything (without even functioning as an anti-virus). Had to reboot to safe mode to remove it to fix the problem. Could never happen in Linux (because of sane software design principles).
No, no argument. I only want to know how such a thing has come to pass--I'd have thought an improbability drive necessary to force such a post into existence.
I mean, strictly speaking your post is, but it is so far off topic that you might as well have brought up the Scopes Monkey Trial, or the imprisonment of the jurors of the William Penn trial in 1640 for all your post has to do with this topic.
This is about NET neutrality, which has NOTHING to do with SUBJECT neutrality, which is what you are talking about. Equating the two is like equating intestines and feet. They're both body parts, but that's about it.
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No, only outlaws will be lobbyists.
And that's fine by me. Hunt those bastards down like dogs.
1% profit is not the same as 1% ROI. The first 1% is out of gross receipts, the second is out of initial investment which are two completely different numbers. 1% profit can easily be 20-30% ROI depending on the structure of the business (grocery stores come to mind).
It is. GP is a moron.
He's not Republican. That's pretty much the definition of a conservative these days.
Incorrect. Rotate mouse around it's vertical axis to change your direction of motion--the real bitch is holding the mouse over a radio button long enough to click.
I keep my insanity confined to the bedroom. There is very little running, but many moks.
Nah, that can't run faster than the refresh rate*pixel width. Too damn slow.
So would a $1 cardboard box labelled magic bomb detector. I'll sell it to you for $10,000. That's cheaper than these pieces of bullshit.
Wrong. Solar is nearly as cheap as burning oil or coal to make electricity RIGHT NOW. Yes, it only works in the day, but if it came down to it, we could adapt. (via variable pricing : in the extreme case, power at night could cost 5 to 10 times what it does in the day)
Stopped reading here. You are so clueless it is hysterical. Really, my sides hurt. Every time I see this absurd, ignorant myth it just ticks me off.
Photovoltaic may only work during the day, but solar-thermal power works 24/7.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_energy#High-temperature_collectors
Specifically note:
Since the CSP plant generates heat first of all, it can store the heat before conversion to electricity. With current technology, storage of heat is much cheaper and more efficient than storage of electricity. In this way, the CSP plant can produce electricity day and night. If the CSP site has predictable solar radiation, then the CSP plant becomes a reliable power plant. Reliability can further be improved by installing a back-up system that uses fossil energy. The back-up system can reuse most of the CSP plant, which decreases the cost of the back-up system.
Heat is stored in a fluid reservoir underground and used to generate electricity 24/7.
Uh, we did march into Somalia. And Bosnia. Pretty sure those were Clinton's wars. Granted we didn't occupy them with 100,000 troops, but blame Clinton for that. Bush was still pretending to be a Texan back then.
Actually I think the burden falls on someone to come up with a reason why we should have a schedule instead of full immediate withdrawl.
Here's one for you: # of soldiers/(# boats/planes/teleportation pods * # seats)*# days for round trip.
Can't leave any faster than that (unless you're suggesting they walk home).
If you seriously think you can move several hundred thousand people 6,000 miles quickly on anything other than a schedule, share whatever you're smoking.
Also, learn to use quote tags. Your post is 'nigh unreadable.
develop some sort of time-travel based ABM device -- zap the enemy's missiles back in time so they can explode harmlessly in the past. Seriously.
No, no, no. They've got it all wrong. You zap them a few seconds into the FUTURE, assuming they maintain their position during the shift, then the Earth will have moved away from them and they will be left to burn up in the atmosphere on reentry.
If OTOH the time-travel ABM system works in such a fashion that the missiles maintain their inertial motion, shift them forward in time (or backwards) such that the earth's rotation places an enemy installation in their path (as the rotation is non-inertial motion).
Can't those Pentagon monkeys get anything right?
Perhaps you should look up the meanings of those big words before using them.
And yet such a theory fails to account for the perihelion shift of Mercury, so it is, strictly speaking, wrong. Just like everything else in science. Science is a progression of best guesses, that are all ultimately wrong but each is progressively closer to being right than the last.
And how many men apply make-up in their cars while driving? Zero?
You don't drive through West Hollywood very often...
I hope your science profs failed you, because you don't understand science.
Everything in science is WRONG, strictly construed. Newton's theory of gravity is WRONG (gravity is not proportional to 1/R^2), but it's reasonably close for many applications. Einstein's theory of general relativity is WRONG, strictly construed, but it is LESS wrong than anything else we've managed to come up with (for certain applications).
Science is the continual quest for explanations that are less wrong, not right ones. Even if we found THE right answer, we'd never know it. We'd only ever be able to know that it was the least wrong answer ever thought up.
It's 9.04 (Dust theme, with some compiz tweaking, nothing special), and no I didn't. In fact, I'm sitting here trying to drag windows up and away past my screen, and can't.
Maybe you're referring to Docky, which obscured the button in one of the shots, but only because I had just used it to take the screenshot, and it hadn't popped down out of the way yet. If that's not it, then share whatever it is you're smoking.
I was talking about idiot-friendliness. Having programs fuck up other programs is not idiot friendly, and due to SANE software design rules on UN*X systems would not happen.
No, Linux antivirus would not go as deeply into the OS--there's no reason for it. There's hardly a reason for it in windows. Is there a need for a low level system security layer--sure, but it sure shouldn't be merged with the user-space security program. EVER.
Only among people even more paranoid than me.
So Birthers, Truthers, Moon-Landing hoaxers, MK-ULTRA obsessors--actually, it's looking like a sizeable niche.
Who in the hell modded you insightful? You're the biggest PEBKAC in history.
Seriously? Off the Screen? Click and drag is that hard?
You don't believe me? What are you, six? Certainly not an adult.
Have some screen shots:
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http://s806.photobucket.com/albums/yy346/MaskedSlacker/?action=view¤t=selecting.png
http://s806.photobucket.com/albums/yy346/MaskedSlacker/?action=view¤t=640x480.png
http://s806.photobucket.com/albums/yy346/MaskedSlacker/?action=view¤t=OhNoItsOffscreen.png
http://s806.photobucket.com/albums/yy346/MaskedSlacker/?action=view¤t=OhLookClickAndDragItBack.png
http://s806.photobucket.com/albums/yy346/MaskedSlacker/?action=view¤t=Reselecting.png
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http://s806.photobucket.com/albums/yy346/MaskedSlacker/?action=view¤t=PEBKAC.png
Maybe he wants to party like it's 1989?
Change an Ubuntu screen to 640x480, and then try to change it back, without using secret hidden commands. Can't be done
While this begs the question of why you changed it in to that in the first place, I just did it, so yes you can.
As for idiot friendly, I just had to fix a Vista-AVG combined bug that kept my brother from being able to download ANYTHING. AVG was nixing everything (without even functioning as an anti-virus). Had to reboot to safe mode to remove it to fix the problem. Could never happen in Linux (because of sane software design principles).
No, no argument. I only want to know how such a thing has come to pass--I'd have thought an improbability drive necessary to force such a post into existence.
What a load of crap:
Ask Oedipus: "You killed father and have two daughters with mother."
or
"You die when we turn this machine off. Goodbye."
or
"Your penis has turned green and fallen off suddenly."
or
"Ryan Seacrest is your new roommate now. Have fun!"
I can do this all day.
How the fuck did you get modded insightful?
I mean, strictly speaking your post is, but it is so far off topic that you might as well have brought up the Scopes Monkey Trial, or the imprisonment of the jurors of the William Penn trial in 1640 for all your post has to do with this topic.
This is about NET neutrality, which has NOTHING to do with SUBJECT neutrality, which is what you are talking about. Equating the two is like equating intestines and feet. They're both body parts, but that's about it.