I mean the whole chocobo thing requires you to race your chocobos just to breed them up in order to get to the point where you can even get one of the characters...
Eh? Just curious if there's a 10th character I've never known about. I always thought it was about getting 4 kickass materia (well, 3 kickass, 1 shitty) and access to the Ancient Forest before killing Ultimate Weapon. Which then led to being able to whoop Ruby's butt and give you something useless... A 2nd, but much slower, Gold Chocobo, woohoo! Lame.
Not anymore, Detroit's adult population is only 47% functionally illiterate now! Don't worry, people get to make their own cliches these days. This one is my favorite:
That's right! The 15th most dangerous city in the US, with a homicide rate about eight times higher than the national average and an unemployeement rate (8.5%) almost twice the national average, is "a great place to live, work, and raise a family."
That would be inaccurate. In that episode Chandler "revealed" that he'd been secretly going to dance classes for weeks leading up to the wedding event as a gift to Monica. That made it the big deal. The shoes being slippery ruined hours on planning and a heart-filled gift he was giving to his new bride. Or it was a crappy episode because the writers well still high from summer, and as a result like most season openers sucked. Friends was notorious for trying to set up cliffhangers that led to nothing but episodes about cleaning up. Is it better to have an episode about shoes or a sweater? Can't decide? It's season 8 and we have our audience hooked, people will watch anyway, make both!
Good question. I don't have mod points for ya, so... Maybe to force you to spend more money when you have to replace those drives or to increase future compatibility. Firewire really hasn't caught on as much as it should have. Perhaps standardizing as much as possible to SATA will be a good thing, as long as its performance continues to increase as a decent pace that keeps up with the target audience (everyone, including high-end tech geeks that might want 8 Raptors running RAID 5 for their FPS's).
So I hear. I've never actually seen one myself in person, so it could be some government conspiracy. As far as I've seen with my own eyes, the world may just drop off a mile off either coast.
Gee, don't you watch any news other than/.? That would be unfair to all the illegal aliens who don't have SSNs. (Not to mention people that don't live in the US)
That would be you. Saying something is expensive is arbitrary. And where did you buy a $12000 iPod? You should really browse over to NewEgg.com. When they first came out cassette walkmans weren't 5 bucks or so as your math would imply. Nor are they really comparable considering how much more music an iPod can store. Seriously, read about the Inductrak systems. You may never believe them to be cheap, but they are energy efficient. The coils required for the system are self-contained (easily mass produced) and self-powered (by the movement of the train over them). "Maglev requires the entire track to consist of large, powerful electromagnets." How's that so much different than an entire track made of a pair (or set of 3) of large heavy steel rails? You can call them monstrosities, expensive, and inefficient if you want, but simple facts I shouldn't have to argue is they're faster, safer, and more energy efficient than the current systems we use that are based on nearly 2 century old technology. One of the biggest arguments against maglev/monorail systems is they aren't compatible with the current 200 year old systems. Hardly a valid argument in my mind, since the older systems are much less safe. But there are also those that still believe monorails can't have curves in their lines or switch tracks while moving.
If you have enough money you can make almost anything legal/law.
"the market for synthetic drugs is much greater than the market for naturally occuring drugs due to the corporate and political climates in this country"
lmao, "Synthehol, 2020's gateway drug that leads to 'hard' liquor." The same (liquor) shit people made in bathtubs a hundred years before then a month after the govenment said it was illegal. I could actually see something like that airing on the news even now, in an effort to cover this article, wouldn't have to wait til 2020. We're becoming such pussies.
excess of typical norms have to die before they realize this was a bad can of worms to open?
Geez, how many people do you think alcohol kills every year? I'd be willing to bet it's less than the sum of road rage and psychopaths. A drink might have actually helped in both those cases.:)
improve oneself and the society in which they live.
We did. We invented alcohol. And people stopped dying of dysentery. At this point in the span of humanity, alcohol has probably still saved more lives than it has taken. You and I might not be here today if our ancestors hadn't had the stuff around as a disinfectant. DFO was the typical norm way back when, I'm all for technology that saves lives and has fun side effects.
But they don't reduce their outputs dramatically. They prefer to run more near full capacity. And Hydro plants only run at night when they absolutely have to for the environmental reasons, but that's not that bad cause there's always more water coming from upstream... Else there wouldn't be a dam there. Closing off a dam completely would take a long time to make the poor plants and animals thirsty. They'd asphyxiate sooner from depleted oxygen levels due to the low water movement/turnover rates:). AFAIK, Raccoon Mountain is unique, I just find it interesting and thought others would as well.
And an economy our size is capable of that commitment. All it would take is the majority of public and private sector entities to just say "I want this." and it would happen. There's not a single true financial or technological roadblock down the path of such a big change.
The technology is available. The money would just have to be diverted from elsewhere. As bad as that sounds. How long would it take to "save" a trillion dollars. That would be almost enough for the number I lowballed ($10k/household @ ~135M households in the US would be $1.35T), so I'll go for that ($1.35T). The US consumed (2004, from CIA World Fact Book) 19.65M barrels/day of crude oil. I'll take that... 19,650,000 bbl/day * 365 day/year * $60/bbl = $430,335,000,000/yr. (Add another $7B/yr for every dollar over 60 the cost of oil is). In 3 years just from stopping the use of oil. Now, that would ruin some industries of course, so how about if we just stopped importing oil (13.15 million bbl/day), the amount of money save by not purchasing oil from outside the US would be $287,985,000,000/yr. And the numbers have all grown since then except days in a year. But even at that low number, it would only take 4.7 years to produce the savings (in oil imports alone, and certainly not decades) to pay for the capital costs of a major electrical system redesign.
If the infrastructure was built to create the new systems inside the US, those new industries would contain a multitude of new jobs that would offset the ones being destroyed.
But, like I said earlier, the things holding us back from accomplishing this aren't technological or financial, it's the "we can't", "that's impossible", "a more plausible 'nonsolution' is" attitudes.
All I have to say is thanks... well, and I hope you get modded +informative. I don't have a clue about the electric rail stuff. And 40ft sounds a lot more reasonable than 6 for a 500kV line. The closest I've ever gotten to any is walking under them, never working on them (I worked a summer as a groundman in an electrical substation, but it wasn't 500).
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I mean the whole chocobo thing requires you to race your chocobos just to breed them up in order to get to the point where you can even get one of the characters...
Eh? Just curious if there's a 10th character I've never known about. I always thought it was about getting 4 kickass materia (well, 3 kickass, 1 shitty) and access to the Ancient Forest before killing Ultimate Weapon. Which then led to being able to whoop Ruby's butt and give you something useless... A 2nd, but much slower, Gold Chocobo, woohoo! Lame.
Not anymore, Detroit's adult population is only 47% functionally illiterate now! Don't worry, people get to make their own cliches these days. This one is my favorite:
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http://www.comptoncity.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton,_California#
http://www.governmentguide.com/community_and_home
http://www.venturi-staffing.com/la_ui.asp
That's right! The 15th most dangerous city in the US, with a homicide rate about eight times higher than the national average and an unemployeement rate (8.5%) almost twice the national average, is "a great place to live, work, and raise a family."
Or let an Asian race and kill everyone. I understand my joke but not yours, so I don't know if it's true.
Oh, stop being so politically correct and call them what they are, bribes from lobbyists.
"You can't dance to begin with"
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That would be inaccurate. In that episode Chandler "revealed" that he'd been secretly going to dance classes for weeks leading up to the wedding event as a gift to Monica. That made it the big deal. The shoes being slippery ruined hours on planning and a heart-filled gift he was giving to his new bride. Or it was a crappy episode because the writers well still high from summer, and as a result like most season openers sucked. Friends was notorious for trying to set up cliffhangers that led to nothing but episodes about cleaning up. Is it better to have an episode about shoes or a sweater? Can't decide? It's season 8 and we have our audience hooked, people will watch anyway, make both!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Friends_epis
Good question. I don't have mod points for ya, so... Maybe to force you to spend more money when you have to replace those drives or to increase future compatibility. Firewire really hasn't caught on as much as it should have. Perhaps standardizing as much as possible to SATA will be a good thing, as long as its performance continues to increase as a decent pace that keeps up with the target audience (everyone, including high-end tech geeks that might want 8 Raptors running RAID 5 for their FPS's).
I blame the mainstream media... for almost everything.
So I hear. I've never actually seen one myself in person, so it could be some government conspiracy. As far as I've seen with my own eyes, the world may just drop off a mile off either coast.
Gee, don't you watch any news other than /.? That would be unfair to all the illegal aliens who don't have SSNs. (Not to mention people that don't live in the US)
That would be you. Saying something is expensive is arbitrary. And where did you buy a $12000 iPod? You should really browse over to NewEgg.com. When they first came out cassette walkmans weren't 5 bucks or so as your math would imply. Nor are they really comparable considering how much more music an iPod can store. Seriously, read about the Inductrak systems. You may never believe them to be cheap, but they are energy efficient. The coils required for the system are self-contained (easily mass produced) and self-powered (by the movement of the train over them). "Maglev requires the entire track to consist of large, powerful electromagnets." How's that so much different than an entire track made of a pair (or set of 3) of large heavy steel rails? You can call them monstrosities, expensive, and inefficient if you want, but simple facts I shouldn't have to argue is they're faster, safer, and more energy efficient than the current systems we use that are based on nearly 2 century old technology. One of the biggest arguments against maglev/monorail systems is they aren't compatible with the current 200 year old systems. Hardly a valid argument in my mind, since the older systems are much less safe. But there are also those that still believe monorails can't have curves in their lines or switch tracks while moving.
millions of shops will sell you Linux boxen without fear of reprisal
But there aren't that many shops that would/could sell a million Linux boxes without fear.
He must have written that post with a Mac.
You mean gathering proof he's nuts? Er, Nutts.
If you have enough money you can make almost anything legal/law.
"the market for synthetic drugs is much greater than the market for naturally occuring drugs due to the corporate and political climates in this country"
I'd say that was the GP's main point.
the US is STILL recovering from the effects of alcohol prohibition
I don't think we're ever gonna be able to get rid of NASCAR now.
when I'm drinking I never think about hangover
:)
...Nevermind, I was just gonna make one of those "duh" statements.
lmao, "Synthehol, 2020's gateway drug that leads to 'hard' liquor." The same (liquor) shit people made in bathtubs a hundred years before then a month after the govenment said it was illegal. I could actually see something like that airing on the news even now, in an effort to cover this article, wouldn't have to wait til 2020. We're becoming such pussies.
excess of typical norms have to die before they realize this was a bad can of worms to open?
:)
Geez, how many people do you think alcohol kills every year? I'd be willing to bet it's less than the sum of road rage and psychopaths. A drink might have actually helped in both those cases.
improve oneself and the society in which they live.
We did. We invented alcohol. And people stopped dying of dysentery. At this point in the span of humanity, alcohol has probably still saved more lives than it has taken. You and I might not be here today if our ancestors hadn't had the stuff around as a disinfectant. DFO was the typical norm way back when, I'm all for technology that saves lives and has fun side effects.
much like a Cuban cigar - it's the law that makes them taste so damned good
Really? And I thought it was 12 year olds. I mean that semi-seriously, as child labor often has better work ethic than adults.
No, but a psychopharmacologist writing about Sci-Fi shit does a lot in terms of aquiring kindling.
That's an interesting theory.
But they don't reduce their outputs dramatically. They prefer to run more near full capacity. And Hydro plants only run at night when they absolutely have to for the environmental reasons, but that's not that bad cause there's always more water coming from upstream... Else there wouldn't be a dam there. Closing off a dam completely would take a long time to make the poor plants and animals thirsty. They'd asphyxiate sooner from depleted oxygen levels due to the low water movement/turnover rates :). AFAIK, Raccoon Mountain is unique, I just find it interesting and thought others would as well.
And you mean "stand" as in "erect" right? Sorry, I just had to jump in on this thread cause it actually made me laugh.
And an economy our size is capable of that commitment. All it would take is the majority of public and private sector entities to just say "I want this." and it would happen. There's not a single true financial or technological roadblock down the path of such a big change.
The technology is available. The money would just have to be diverted from elsewhere. As bad as that sounds. How long would it take to "save" a trillion dollars. That would be almost enough for the number I lowballed ($10k/household @ ~135M households in the US would be $1.35T), so I'll go for that ($1.35T). The US consumed (2004, from CIA World Fact Book) 19.65M barrels/day of crude oil. I'll take that... 19,650,000 bbl/day * 365 day/year * $60/bbl = $430,335,000,000/yr. (Add another $7B/yr for every dollar over 60 the cost of oil is). In 3 years just from stopping the use of oil. Now, that would ruin some industries of course, so how about if we just stopped importing oil (13.15 million bbl/day), the amount of money save by not purchasing oil from outside the US would be $287,985,000,000/yr. And the numbers have all grown since then except days in a year. But even at that low number, it would only take 4.7 years to produce the savings (in oil imports alone, and certainly not decades) to pay for the capital costs of a major electrical system redesign.
If the infrastructure was built to create the new systems inside the US, those new industries would contain a multitude of new jobs that would offset the ones being destroyed.
But, like I said earlier, the things holding us back from accomplishing this aren't technological or financial, it's the "we can't", "that's impossible", "a more plausible 'nonsolution' is" attitudes.
All I have to say is thanks... well, and I hope you get modded +informative. I don't have a clue about the electric rail stuff. And 40ft sounds a lot more reasonable than 6 for a 500kV line. The closest I've ever gotten to any is walking under them, never working on them (I worked a summer as a groundman in an electrical substation, but it wasn't 500).