Maybe, but it's only American cars I've ever noted that tie the remote lock mechanism to the horn, rather than a distinct chirp like my Sienna's. The horn sound is specifically chosen to be startling, and it's annoying as hell when one of then beeps from a foot or two away from you.
But what difference does it make if it's pictures? 2GB is 2GB, regardless of the source.
The reason I originally brought it up is that back when I bought my DVD writer (early 2003), my camera had a 256 MB card. It took quite a bit longer to fill a DVD with that, and thus backing up to DVD wasn't so painful. I don't have any other sources of data that generate gigabytes and require backup; video torrents may be that size, but you have a handy backup at piratebay...
Te point is that with hi-res cameras I can fill up 2 GB in a weekend, meaning that my photo/movie library grows by that amount on a pretty regular basis. Thus DVDs tend not to be enough.
It's especially cheap compared to the value of that time. I've been trying to back up photos on DVDs, but with the amount of pics and movies I can take with a 2 GB card, it's a pretty time-consuming process. On the other hand, with 500 GB external drives for ~$140, that's less than $6 for 20 GB, so that's still a cheaper option at the moment.
You must admit that dealing with low disk space requires a lot more mental effort than dealing with low gas. In the second case, you simply add gas. In the first, you need to figure out what you can delete. Or, if you don't have much to delete, you could add a hard drive. But that doesn't enlarge your home folder, does it? So you still have to move things.
Maybe you're happy with an attorney general who's either incompetent (given all of his "I don't recall" testimony -- apparently he has no idea of what's going on in his own department) or lying in saying he doesn't remember, but I think calling for his resignation is quite appropriate.
"The attorney general's testimony was very, very damaging to his own credibility. It has been damaging to the administration," Arlen Specter said of Gonzales' appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee this past week. "No doubt, it is bad for the Department of Justice. It is harmful. There has been a very substantial decrease in morale."
[...]
Republican Sens. John Sununu of New Hampshire and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma have called for Gonzales' resignation. Coburn, a Judiciary committee member, told Gonzales on Thursday the firings were "handled incompetently" and he "ought to suffer the consequences."
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, also questioned whether Gonzales should stay. "You said something that struck me -- that sometimes it just came down to these were not the right people at the right time," Graham told Gonzales at the hearing. "If I applied that standard to you, what would you say?"
You've prioritized, which is fine, but don't pretend this overbearing thing called "life" keeps hammering away at you and preventing you from exercising. You can find 30 minutes a day if you really want to.
Do you have kids? I do. Hell, I've slammed on other threads for wanting to spend anything less than 90% of my free time on my kids.
What am I supposed to believe: facts, or Slashdot FUD?
I just know I don't know anyone with Vista. My company has yet to allow it except for one isolated test machine, because it doesn't support our firewall/anti-virus/etc standard. I also don't know any private individuals who have bought it. Nor has it had much buzz. I suppose people could be quietly buying it, it just seems so at odds to what I've seen and heard that it makes one question whether MS's numbers really reflect the number of active Vista machines.
I asked for allegations of corruption investigations being suppressed by the Administration.
Where? I looked at your past postings on the subject, and don't see anything that matches that claim. I do see what I was responding to:
gilroy: If the attorneys were fired as a way to interfere in ongoing corruption investigations
mi: The only accusations I read, were "firings for political reasons". D'oh!.. A political appointee fired for a political reason... mi: Can you show a link detailing the accusation you bring up?
A senator pushing for charges to be brought is interfering in investigations. The article goes on further to claim Rove's involvement in the firings, which ties things to the Administration.
Can you show a link detailing the accusation you bring up?
The one attached to the article makes numerous such claims.
"GREG PALAST: Captain Iglesias, the US prosecutor, knew something was very wrong when, just a week before the 2006 midterm elections, he received a strange and threatening call to his home. It was his state's senior senator, the powerful Republican leader Pete Domenici on the line, pushing Iglesias to file criminal charges against a Democrat before the election.
DAVID IGLESIAS: I'm sitting in my bedroom, and here's the killer point, Greg. He says, "Are these going to get filed before November?" And I said I didn't think so. And the line goes dead. In other words, our senior senator hung up on me. A terribly inappropriate call.
GREG PALAST: Inappropriate, certainly. Obstruction of justice, possibly.
DAVID IGLESIAS: He basically wanted to know: are you going to file these cases that can help Heather out? That was the subtext. I felt terrible after that phone call. "
Why should highly paid tech workers feel they should have protection yet are willing to let factory workers get screwed so that they can enjoy low-cost products?
Factory workers' jobs got outsourced. This isn't a discussion about outsourcing, which also affects programmers, it's a discussion about importing workers -- which never (legally) happened to U.S. factory workers.
I find it disturbing that such focus is put on third world children when a significant number of children in the U.S. and other developed countries do not have access to a similiar device or good educational opportunities.
The design is open, and the price is based on the manufacturing cost. Nothing stops Western governments from buying in, and even the poorest areas in the U.S. can afford $100/schoolchild. According to OLPC's Wiki, Massachusetts has shown some interest in the project.
Your link says: "Human Activity: Humans are changing the CO2 cycle by burning fossil fuels and biomass (e.g., forests). These increases in CO2 are linked to increased warming in our atmosphere, as discussed above; for example, the CO2 level in our atmosphere was only about 280 ppm before human-induced changes began occurring about 150 years ago. Since humans started to pump CO2 into the atmosphere there has been a large increase in atmospheric CO2, and this increase will undoubtedly continue in the future as indicated by the following graph (Figure 8). The CO2 concentration in our atmosphere will likely double with only a modest 1% growth over the next 100 years (note that global population growth is much greater than that at the present). This rise in CO2 will increase the Earth's temperature as shown in Figure 9, and will impact the climate that we actually "feel" in the future (Figure 10)."
Bizarre. You give a link that actually supports your opponent.
Well, for one, you might start reading the damn papers.
Uh. Are you seriously claiming volcanoes don't outgas CO2?
No.
What I'm saying is that volcanoes have been outgassing CO2 for billions of years. Living things and other processes have absorbed this CO2, as well as some being lost to space. So over that billion years, it's been a relatively steady state situation, or least to the point that volcanoes do not, in general, increase CO2 levels by more than 25% over the course of 150 years or so. For your hypothesis to be correct, there would (a) need to be evidence that volcanic activity was dramatically higher over the last 150 years, and (b) that these volcanoes are putting out enough CO2 to explain the rise.
The problem is, it just ain't so. As another person's link said: "Comparison of CO2 emissions from volcanoes vs. human activities. Scientists have calculated that volcanoes emit between about 130-230 million tonnes (145-255 million tons) of CO2 into the atmosphere every year (Gerlach, 1999, 1991). This estimate includes both subaerial and submarine volcanoes, about in equal amounts. Emissions of CO2 by human activities, including fossil fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring, amount to about 27 billion tonnes per year (30 billion tons) [ ( Marland, et al., 2006) - The reference gives the amount of released carbon (C), rather than CO2, through 2003.]. Human activities release more than 130 times the amount of CO2 emitted by volcanoes--the equivalent of more than 8,000 additional volcanoes like Kilauea (Kilauea emits about 3.3 million tonnes/year)! (Gerlach et. al., 2002)"
It's worth actually looking at the CO2 graph. You'll find for example that the vast bulk of those increases occur after Mount Saint Helens, Mount Pinatubo, Cerro Hudson, El Chichon, Ksudach or Novarupta.
Feh. If volcanoes cause CO2 increases, then they would have been doing so for the past many millions of years, and CO2 levels would be monstrous. If they increased CO2 by 100 ppm over the past 200 years, you would expect a similar pattern over the past 2000 -- except that would imply we had negative CO2 ppm around 1200AD.
Now maybe you could prove that volcanism has been more extreme in the past 200 years, but that's your claim -- and it's up to you to provide some evidence.
You forgot #4: reprocessing had a terrible history at that point. Incidentally, Ford started the policy the year before.
"Reprocessing plants around the world have exhibited poor records of occupational safety, pollution control, waste containment, and security. For example, at the Hanford military plutonium reprocessing plant in Washington State, over a million gallons of high-level liquid waste has escaped from steel-and-concrete tanks into the soil. One gallon of this waste is enough to ruin an entire city's water supply. Hanford workers have also shown a significant increase in the incidence of cancer. In Russia, an explosion involving high-level liquid waste contaminated hundreds of square miles and hospitalized thousands of people. In the UK, a small explosion in 1973 occurred at the Windscale reprocessing plant [now known as Sellafield], and radioactive effluents have been substantial. In the US, large quantities of plutonium are missing and "unaccounted for" -- enough to make several hundred atomic bombs." (http://www.ccnr.org/AECL_plute.html)
The UK has been reprocessing recently at their THORP plant, and it suffered a significant leak in 2005, so it's not just ancient history.
Granted, much of the current concern about reprocessing is about making weapons-grade Plutonium, but the concern is generally that a country like Iran might use U.S. reprocessing to justify their own, but tweak their own plant to create Pu-239.
There's one example of real world evidence I know of: Japan.
There's a bigger one: the U.S. And probably most of Europe.
The Internet has made porn available fairly freely and discreetly where it wasn't available before. Name your perversion: a quick google search will turn up lots of hits. And any Geek Squad member or other computer repair person knows that a great number of people, who never would have read anything more extreme than Playboy before, have porn collections and pretty bizarre stuff.
Have we suddenly reduced sentences on rape since the birth of Netscape and broadband? Hardly. The original poster refers to a survey made during Ed Meese's crusade against porn. Funny that in the last 23 years apparently nothing has come out that supports it. But I guess the Mormons (like him/her) still try to hype it.
could it be that our lives are not as dull as yours and we actually have something to say to one another besides what is on the grocery list?
Could be. I'll be the first to admit I'm a terrible conversationalist, and I was cripplingly shy until about age 20. I meant no insult, I'm just trying to understand.
P.S. It's hard to have a conversation with an AC, regardless.
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Maybe, but it's only American cars I've ever noted that tie the remote lock mechanism to the horn, rather than a distinct chirp like my Sienna's. The horn sound is specifically chosen to be startling, and it's annoying as hell when one of then beeps from a foot or two away from you.
But what difference does it make if it's pictures? 2GB is 2GB, regardless of the source.
The reason I originally brought it up is that back when I bought my DVD writer (early 2003), my camera had a 256 MB card. It took quite a bit longer to fill a DVD with that, and thus backing up to DVD wasn't so painful. I don't have any other sources of data that generate gigabytes and require backup; video torrents may be that size, but you have a handy backup at piratebay...
Te point is that with hi-res cameras I can fill up 2 GB in a weekend, meaning that my photo/movie library grows by that amount on a pretty regular basis. Thus DVDs tend not to be enough.
It's especially cheap compared to the value of that time. I've been trying to back up photos on DVDs, but with the amount of pics and movies I can take with a 2 GB card, it's a pretty time-consuming process. On the other hand, with 500 GB external drives for ~$140, that's less than $6 for 20 GB, so that's still a cheaper option at the moment.
You must admit that dealing with low disk space requires a lot more mental effort than dealing with low gas. In the second case, you simply add gas. In the first, you need to figure out what you can delete. Or, if you don't have much to delete, you could add a hard drive. But that doesn't enlarge your home folder, does it? So you still have to move things.
Heck, what about CD writers? In 1994 I worked for a company that often burned CD-Rs. The writer cost $8,000, the discs $16, and bad burns were common.
I have a better CD writer sitting in a box now, because it's not worth my time to put it in any of my machines.
Maybe you're happy with an attorney general who's either incompetent (given all of his "I don't recall" testimony -- apparently he has no idea of what's going on in his own department) or lying in saying he doesn't remember, but I think calling for his resignation is quite appropriate.
p ecter.ap/index.html
"The attorney general's testimony was very, very damaging to his own credibility. It has been damaging to the administration," Arlen Specter said of Gonzales' appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee this past week. "No doubt, it is bad for the Department of Justice. It is harmful. There has been a very substantial decrease in morale."
[...]
Republican Sens. John Sununu of New Hampshire and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma have called for Gonzales' resignation. Coburn, a Judiciary committee member, told Gonzales on Thursday the firings were "handled incompetently" and he "ought to suffer the consequences."
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, also questioned whether Gonzales should stay. "You said something that struck me -- that sometimes it just came down to these were not the right people at the right time," Graham told Gonzales at the hearing. "If I applied that standard to you, what would you say?"
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/22/gonzales.s
You've prioritized, which is fine, but don't pretend this overbearing thing called "life" keeps hammering away at you and preventing you from exercising. You can find 30 minutes a day if you really want to.
Do you have kids? I do. Hell, I've slammed on other threads for wanting to spend anything less than 90% of my free time on my kids.
Interesting, that you do not know this definitively.
But you claimed it definitively. read up before you start making any more bogus claims, I don't have the time to correct your inaccuracies.
What am I supposed to believe: facts, or Slashdot FUD?
I just know I don't know anyone with Vista. My company has yet to allow it except for one isolated test machine, because it doesn't support our firewall/anti-virus/etc standard. I also don't know any private individuals who have bought it. Nor has it had much buzz. I suppose people could be quietly buying it, it just seems so at odds to what I've seen and heard that it makes one question whether MS's numbers really reflect the number of active Vista machines.
Oh, so trying to speed something up means "interfering", I see.
No, trying to speed things up to try and influence the results of an election is interfering.
Oh, so trying to speed something up means "interfering", I see.
If your boss wants you to check in your barely functional code so he can get a bigger performance bonus, then yes, he's interfering.
Having a corrupt official re-elected is bad.
While not stated definitively, my reading of the article is that the charges were not against a candidate in the election.
I asked for allegations of corruption investigations being suppressed by the Administration.
Where? I looked at your past postings on the subject, and don't see anything that matches that claim. I do see what I was responding to:
gilroy: If the attorneys were fired as a way to interfere in ongoing corruption investigations
mi: The only accusations I read, were "firings for political reasons". D'oh!.. A political appointee fired for a political reason...
mi: Can you show a link detailing the accusation you bring up?
A senator pushing for charges to be brought is interfering in investigations. The article goes on further to claim Rove's involvement in the firings, which ties things to the Administration.
Can you show a link detailing the accusation you bring up?
The one attached to the article makes numerous such claims.
"GREG PALAST: Captain Iglesias, the US prosecutor, knew something was very wrong when, just a week before the 2006 midterm elections, he received a strange and threatening call to his home. It was his state's senior senator, the powerful Republican leader Pete Domenici on the line, pushing Iglesias to file criminal charges against a Democrat before the election.
DAVID IGLESIAS: I'm sitting in my bedroom, and here's the killer point, Greg. He says, "Are these going to get filed before November?" And I said I didn't think so. And the line goes dead. In other words, our senior senator hung up on me. A terribly inappropriate call.
GREG PALAST: Inappropriate, certainly. Obstruction of justice, possibly.
DAVID IGLESIAS: He basically wanted to know: are you going to file these cases that can help Heather out? That was the subtext. I felt terrible after that phone call. "
Why should highly paid tech workers feel they should have protection yet are willing to let factory workers get screwed so that they can enjoy low-cost products?
Factory workers' jobs got outsourced. This isn't a discussion about outsourcing, which also affects programmers, it's a discussion about importing workers -- which never (legally) happened to U.S. factory workers.
A friend of mine was considering putting FieldTurf (or a competitor) in his backyard.
I find it disturbing that such focus is put on third world children when a significant number of children in the U.S. and other developed countries do not have access to a similiar device or good educational opportunities.
The design is open, and the price is based on the manufacturing cost. Nothing stops Western governments from buying in, and even the poorest areas in the U.S. can afford $100/schoolchild. According to OLPC's Wiki, Massachusetts has shown some interest in the project.
Oh don't be ridiculous.
Jeff Gordon wrecks people from behind.
Your link says:
"Human Activity: Humans are changing the CO2 cycle by burning fossil fuels and biomass (e.g., forests). These increases in CO2 are linked to increased warming in our atmosphere, as discussed above; for example, the CO2 level in our atmosphere was only about 280 ppm before human-induced changes began occurring about 150 years ago. Since humans started to pump CO2 into the atmosphere there has been a large increase in atmospheric CO2, and this increase will undoubtedly continue in the future as indicated by the following graph (Figure 8). The CO2 concentration in our atmosphere will likely double with only a modest 1% growth over the next 100 years (note that global population growth is much greater than that at the present). This rise in CO2 will increase the Earth's temperature as shown in Figure 9, and will impact the climate that we actually "feel" in the future (Figure 10)."
Bizarre. You give a link that actually supports your opponent.
Well, for one, you might start reading the damn papers.
Pot, meet kettle.
Uh. Are you seriously claiming volcanoes don't outgas CO2?
No.
What I'm saying is that volcanoes have been outgassing CO2 for billions of years. Living things and other processes have absorbed this CO2, as well as some being lost to space. So over that billion years, it's been a relatively steady state situation, or least to the point that volcanoes do not, in general, increase CO2 levels by more than 25% over the course of 150 years or so. For your hypothesis to be correct, there would (a) need to be evidence that volcanic activity was dramatically higher over the last 150 years, and (b) that these volcanoes are putting out enough CO2 to explain the rise.
The problem is, it just ain't so. As another person's link said:
"Comparison of CO2 emissions from volcanoes vs. human activities.
Scientists have calculated that volcanoes emit between about 130-230 million tonnes (145-255 million tons) of CO2 into the atmosphere every year (Gerlach, 1999, 1991). This estimate includes both subaerial and submarine volcanoes, about in equal amounts. Emissions of CO2 by human activities, including fossil fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring, amount to about 27 billion tonnes per year (30 billion tons) [ ( Marland, et al., 2006) - The reference gives the amount of released carbon (C), rather than CO2, through 2003.]. Human activities release more than 130 times the amount of CO2 emitted by volcanoes--the equivalent of more than 8,000 additional volcanoes like Kilauea (Kilauea emits about 3.3 million tonnes/year)! (Gerlach et. al., 2002)"
Stick a fork in it, the volcano theory is dead.
It's worth actually looking at the CO2 graph. You'll find for example that the vast bulk of those increases occur after Mount Saint Helens, Mount Pinatubo, Cerro Hudson, El Chichon, Ksudach or Novarupta.
Feh. If volcanoes cause CO2 increases, then they would have been doing so for the past many millions of years, and CO2 levels would be monstrous. If they increased CO2 by 100 ppm over the past 200 years, you would expect a similar pattern over the past 2000 -- except that would imply we had negative CO2 ppm around 1200AD.
Now maybe you could prove that volcanism has been more extreme in the past 200 years, but that's your claim -- and it's up to you to provide some evidence.
My 2001 Jimmy "gas guzzling SUV" is substantially lighter
Note that the 2001-2004 Jimmy/Blazer has the worst rollover fatality rate of any vehicle of that era. Be careful in that thing, OK?
http://www.iihs.org/sr/pdfs/sr4204.pdf
You forgot #4: reprocessing had a terrible history at that point. Incidentally, Ford started the policy the year before.
"Reprocessing plants around the world have exhibited poor records of occupational safety, pollution control, waste containment, and security. For example, at the Hanford military plutonium reprocessing plant in Washington State, over a million gallons of high-level liquid waste has escaped from steel-and-concrete tanks into the soil. One gallon of this waste is enough to ruin an entire city's water supply. Hanford workers have also shown a significant increase in the incidence of cancer. In Russia, an explosion involving high-level liquid waste contaminated hundreds of square miles and hospitalized thousands of people. In the UK, a small explosion in 1973 occurred at the Windscale reprocessing plant [now known as Sellafield], and radioactive effluents have been substantial. In the US, large quantities of plutonium are missing and "unaccounted for" -- enough to make several hundred atomic bombs." (http://www.ccnr.org/AECL_plute.html)
The UK has been reprocessing recently at their THORP plant, and it suffered a significant leak in 2005, so it's not just ancient history.
Granted, much of the current concern about reprocessing is about making weapons-grade Plutonium, but the concern is generally that a country like Iran might use U.S. reprocessing to justify their own, but tweak their own plant to create Pu-239.
There's one example of real world evidence I know of: Japan.
There's a bigger one: the U.S. And probably most of Europe.
The Internet has made porn available fairly freely and discreetly where it wasn't available before. Name your perversion: a quick google search will turn up lots of hits. And any Geek Squad member or other computer repair person knows that a great number of people, who never would have read anything more extreme than Playboy before, have porn collections and pretty bizarre stuff.
Have we suddenly reduced sentences on rape since the birth of Netscape and broadband? Hardly. The original poster refers to a survey made during Ed Meese's crusade against porn. Funny that in the last 23 years apparently nothing has come out that supports it. But I guess the Mormons (like him/her) still try to hype it.
could it be that our lives are not as dull as yours and we actually have something to say to one another besides what is on the grocery list?
Could be. I'll be the first to admit I'm a terrible conversationalist, and I was cripplingly shy until about age 20. I meant no insult, I'm just trying to understand.
P.S. It's hard to have a conversation with an AC, regardless.
I have a Commander Tacometer myself, but it's always pegged saying I'm reading way too much slashdot.