That's not how that works. Organic matter buried takes substantially longer to decompose, assuming it ever does, than it does on the surface. This is one of the reasons why archaeologists still unearth intact wooden roads from time to time. How long is going to depend upon the specific conditions, but it can take centuries or longer if the conditions are right.
There's also the issue of reuse. The local company that handles the city's composting contract sells the byproducts to gardeners allowing for them to charge somewhat less to collect the waste than if they had to just dump it in a landfill.
Around here we went mandatory on composting a few years back. It wasn't anywhere near the infringement on our liberties that a lot of libertarians would have you believe. We had to get the service unless we composted the items ourselves. IIRC there was a boost to the trash collection fee that went into effect about that time as well.
So, we had the option of composting ourselves or arranging for it to be composted by somebody else.
But, ultimately, it is a matter of the social contract, landfill space isn't unlimited and if communities take recycling and composting seriously the total cost that they pay can definitely decrease. We saw a similar situation with water use. We pay more more a gallon of water than they do in most parts of the country, but it's incredibly clean and over all our water bill is still substantially lower than it is elsewhere.
You don't have to be quite that tough. Around here you can select various sizes of receptacles. Each with a price attached depending upon the size. You can put out more, IIRC, but they'll bill you for the extra. In practice though it's not really much of an issue because I've found that the smallest size is typically more than enough for a 3 person household.
That's less than ideal. I assume you don't know what quantity of the recycled goods are unusable afterwards due to contamination. These days we have to sort into recycle, trash and compost, the company that collects is responsible for sorting out the recyclables into metal, glass and various plastics.
But, probably the biggest issue with not doing it at the curb is that there's no way of setting different rates for the bins. We pay most for the garbage, less for the composting and nothing for the recycling, which tends to put an incentive on maximizing the proportion that ends up in the recycle bin.
Additionally, the waste collection company has regular contests to award neighborhoods that reduce their waste the most with money to spend on neighborhood improvements. All in all it seems to be working well as we're using less landfill space than we did years back despite being a much larger city.
I'd mod you down to oblivion if I had any mod points.
The fact that there's competition between vendors is a good thing for the consumers and it's one of the reasons why Apple's being outsold by such a heavy margin. Different manufacturers have different strategies and it means that if I don't want to buy an HTC handset I can buy a Samsung or LG handset without having to move to a different platform.
As for profit, that's one dimension, but personally, I like to know that if my preferred vendor goes tits up or decides to change the product in a way that I don't like that I can move to a different vendor without having to give up all my apps. You still can't do that with Apple and probably never will.
At the end of the day though, you're just a run of the mill Apple fanbois, don't expect any of that to sink in.
You shouldn't be that hit by it. Trains are how we used to move food across the US, and we still have a good system. A gallon of gas gets a ton ~480 miles further down the line on average via train. Even if the price were to double that would still come out to a pretty piddly sum of money.
The bigger concern ought to be the cost of producing the food in the first place.
Standards, the FDA doesn't have the time to inspect all the foreign pharmaceutical lines to the same extent that they inspect the American ones, and the difference is pretty significant. Also, just because a medication is generic does not guarantee that the body will react to it the same way that it reacts to the name brand. It's definitely not common, but it does happen from time to time and most of the time it's because the pills aren't really identical.
That being said, the ultimate reason is that unless one has no insurance one has no meaningful idea as to the cost of the medicine as they pay the same cost either way.
It gets somewhat complicated for that reason. If you want to know if a medication is safe to take with something else the pharmacist is your best bet. They'll know more than you could ever possibly want to know about those things and are worth listening to when they disagree with a doctor about combining medications.
That being said, they don't necessarily know that a particular person only has a reaction to the generic option of a medication and really shouldn't be making that sort of substitution without permission. Such things are much more likely to be reported to the doctor directly.
It probably has, Cool 'n' Quiet has been around for nearly a decade, so I'd bet that would be about the same time that they added the temp sensors and throttling. IIRC that was about the same time that Intel introduced similar technology.
AMD's been more or less out before. I've got an AMD chip in my laptop and it's really nice. I get good battery life and the performance is good. Plus, I was able to buy the entire thing for a fraction of what an Intel rig of similar power would cost.
That being said, it doesn't look good and they're going to have to kick R&D up a few notches if they want to earn business other than the not Intel crowd.
MOBI isn't any sort of standard. Amazon was the only shop to use it and epub is the actual standard. Amazon opened it up because they lost the battle, but if you want something that's going to work in many different ereaders, then you're looking at epub. Epub doesn't use Amazon's DRM.
If you want informative and insightful here you pretty much have to browse at -1, otherwise you're likely to miss the most informative posts. It varies somewhat topic to topic, pretty much anything that badmouths or otherwise questions st. Jobs tends to get moderated into oblivion unless it attracts the attention of people who actually know something about the topic.
Just look at all the threads about the stupid rectangle with rounded corners. Pretty much invariably the ones defending Apple get a +1 and the rest get ignored.
And yet that's what happens. By default people don't even see posts that aren't at least 1, IIRC, and I regularly see posts getting inappropriately downrepped, in fact it seems to be a lot more common than seeing posts that are inappropriately uprepped.
Given that there's a considerable number of moderators that haven't even bothered to read the guidelines, I think it's a tad optimistic to think that they care at all about the intention of the points. Also, the reason why there's only 3 types, or really 4 if you count overrated is purely a matter of power. Once something gets hidden it's likely that a lot of folks with mod points won't even see it.
It's pretty much completely unpredictable. I've been here long enough to know that it's a lot more complicated than that. Putting an insult in whether or not deserved will ratchet up the unpredictability greatly. But you're fooling yourself if you think the moderators around here are intelligent enough to recognize a strawman. I'd be very surprised if that deviated at all from random chance.
Also, you definitely can get downmodded for a respectful and informative response, it's happened to me fairly often over time. Usually because I'm pointing out something that the Apple fanboys don't like. Of the factions around here they seem to be the ones that are most prone to abuses of mod points. At least in my experience. Probably the second worst would be the pro-legalization libertarians that can't fathom that there might be good reasons to keep drugs banned pending further research.
I've also noticed some posts will attract a huge number of mod points as the mods battle each other out. In the end there's a very definite bias towards hiding things rather than showing things and I don't think most people with mod points even bother to read the guidelines.
You do realize that B&N uses the industry standard DRM, right? No lock involved, in fact you can open the books on any computer that supports Adobe Editions, which if I'm not mistaken covers most mobiles as well as on Linux via Wine.
It's a tad ignorant to suggest that B&N and Amazon are equally guilty here of using vendor lock in when B&N doesn't use any at all.
Strictly speaking that's not likely to be a violation of the constitution, but IMHO it does justify amending the constitution to provide at least some protection for it.
The difference is that Google sells views and Facebook sells information. Both are potentially worrying, but of the two I'd be a lot more concerned about Facebook.
It's still bullshit. Things have been that shape for many years, which was sort of the point of pointing out the occurrence in 2001 of a similarly shaped device.
Back ups should be completely automated and where the sysadmin only has to verify that they were completed and that they are viable for restore. Having to do anything more than that is an indication that things aren't being done properly and that you're going to lose data at some point.
Wipes OTOH can be automated, but it's going to depend how confident you are that you're wiping the correct machine and that the backups are completely current and haven't been corrupted.
Within reasonable limits that happens, but it doesn't mean that there isn't valuable information to be had or that in the future they might be necessary. It's extremely far fetched, but they went along with that in Star Trek IV.
If the process were happening much more slowly it probably wouldn't be that big of a deal, but it's not happening slowly and we don't have a lot of data to tell us what's going to happen if the mass extinctions continue. There is a point where there's been too much extinction and things will take an extremely long time to remedy themselves.
The difference is that we're very efficient killing machines. How many other species routinely kill off entire species.
I realize that there's a lot of libertards and otherwise extremely self centered people that genuinely don't give a fuck, but that's why we have a government so that whackos like that don't fuck things up for the rest of us. The science is very clear that allowing the levels to change this rapidly is a bad idea, now if the science later reveals that we were wrong, we can loosen up. Unfortunately if we decide now to let everything go extinct it's going to be a hell of a lot more expensive and difficult, assuming it's possible at all, to fix things.
What happened to it is that natural selection is a result of natural processes and tends to happen rather slowly in response to gradual shifts in environmental conditions. Whereas this is man made and both significantly faster and longer in duration than anything that typically happens. If it were more gradual but man made it probably wouldn't be worth worrying about, but natural or not, it's not good for us to have the planet changing so quickly.
Seems to me that you might do well to crack some books rather than regurgitating that sort of pseudo-scientific bunk.
That's actually not true. Teaching tends to be somewhat cyclical over the last few years there have been a lot of teachers retiring that were hired during the 60s and 70s.
Higher salaries definitely would help, if they're going to continue to stretch the school year out the salaries are going to have to increase to accommodate for the fact that teachers can't have a second job during the summer like they used to. Plus, with increasing demands to keep their teaching certificates there really needs to be more money for the increased workload. In real dollars the pay is fine, but it's all that extra work load that happens outside of class time that needs to be addressed.
As for better and lesser, the issue there is one of certification, we could have better teachers if we paid more. The main reason is that it's hard to justify becoming a teacher when the standards keep increasing without additional support and without additional pay. Typically you're looking at a bachelors plus a teaching certificate and then on top of that you're looking at additional endorsements and certificates.
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Ah, so that's why my June ski trip to Whistler ended badly.
That's not how that works. Organic matter buried takes substantially longer to decompose, assuming it ever does, than it does on the surface. This is one of the reasons why archaeologists still unearth intact wooden roads from time to time. How long is going to depend upon the specific conditions, but it can take centuries or longer if the conditions are right.
There's also the issue of reuse. The local company that handles the city's composting contract sells the byproducts to gardeners allowing for them to charge somewhat less to collect the waste than if they had to just dump it in a landfill.
Around here we went mandatory on composting a few years back. It wasn't anywhere near the infringement on our liberties that a lot of libertarians would have you believe. We had to get the service unless we composted the items ourselves. IIRC there was a boost to the trash collection fee that went into effect about that time as well.
So, we had the option of composting ourselves or arranging for it to be composted by somebody else.
But, ultimately, it is a matter of the social contract, landfill space isn't unlimited and if communities take recycling and composting seriously the total cost that they pay can definitely decrease. We saw a similar situation with water use. We pay more more a gallon of water than they do in most parts of the country, but it's incredibly clean and over all our water bill is still substantially lower than it is elsewhere.
You don't have to be quite that tough. Around here you can select various sizes of receptacles. Each with a price attached depending upon the size. You can put out more, IIRC, but they'll bill you for the extra. In practice though it's not really much of an issue because I've found that the smallest size is typically more than enough for a 3 person household.
That's less than ideal. I assume you don't know what quantity of the recycled goods are unusable afterwards due to contamination. These days we have to sort into recycle, trash and compost, the company that collects is responsible for sorting out the recyclables into metal, glass and various plastics.
But, probably the biggest issue with not doing it at the curb is that there's no way of setting different rates for the bins. We pay most for the garbage, less for the composting and nothing for the recycling, which tends to put an incentive on maximizing the proportion that ends up in the recycle bin.
Additionally, the waste collection company has regular contests to award neighborhoods that reduce their waste the most with money to spend on neighborhood improvements. All in all it seems to be working well as we're using less landfill space than we did years back despite being a much larger city.
I'd mod you down to oblivion if I had any mod points.
The fact that there's competition between vendors is a good thing for the consumers and it's one of the reasons why Apple's being outsold by such a heavy margin. Different manufacturers have different strategies and it means that if I don't want to buy an HTC handset I can buy a Samsung or LG handset without having to move to a different platform.
As for profit, that's one dimension, but personally, I like to know that if my preferred vendor goes tits up or decides to change the product in a way that I don't like that I can move to a different vendor without having to give up all my apps. You still can't do that with Apple and probably never will.
At the end of the day though, you're just a run of the mill Apple fanbois, don't expect any of that to sink in.
You shouldn't be that hit by it. Trains are how we used to move food across the US, and we still have a good system. A gallon of gas gets a ton ~480 miles further down the line on average via train. Even if the price were to double that would still come out to a pretty piddly sum of money.
The bigger concern ought to be the cost of producing the food in the first place.
Standards, the FDA doesn't have the time to inspect all the foreign pharmaceutical lines to the same extent that they inspect the American ones, and the difference is pretty significant. Also, just because a medication is generic does not guarantee that the body will react to it the same way that it reacts to the name brand. It's definitely not common, but it does happen from time to time and most of the time it's because the pills aren't really identical.
That being said, the ultimate reason is that unless one has no insurance one has no meaningful idea as to the cost of the medicine as they pay the same cost either way.
It gets somewhat complicated for that reason. If you want to know if a medication is safe to take with something else the pharmacist is your best bet. They'll know more than you could ever possibly want to know about those things and are worth listening to when they disagree with a doctor about combining medications.
That being said, they don't necessarily know that a particular person only has a reaction to the generic option of a medication and really shouldn't be making that sort of substitution without permission. Such things are much more likely to be reported to the doctor directly.
It probably has, Cool 'n' Quiet has been around for nearly a decade, so I'd bet that would be about the same time that they added the temp sensors and throttling. IIRC that was about the same time that Intel introduced similar technology.
AMD's been more or less out before. I've got an AMD chip in my laptop and it's really nice. I get good battery life and the performance is good. Plus, I was able to buy the entire thing for a fraction of what an Intel rig of similar power would cost.
That being said, it doesn't look good and they're going to have to kick R&D up a few notches if they want to earn business other than the not Intel crowd.
MOBI isn't any sort of standard. Amazon was the only shop to use it and epub is the actual standard. Amazon opened it up because they lost the battle, but if you want something that's going to work in many different ereaders, then you're looking at epub. Epub doesn't use Amazon's DRM.
If you want informative and insightful here you pretty much have to browse at -1, otherwise you're likely to miss the most informative posts. It varies somewhat topic to topic, pretty much anything that badmouths or otherwise questions st. Jobs tends to get moderated into oblivion unless it attracts the attention of people who actually know something about the topic.
Just look at all the threads about the stupid rectangle with rounded corners. Pretty much invariably the ones defending Apple get a +1 and the rest get ignored.
And yet that's what happens. By default people don't even see posts that aren't at least 1, IIRC, and I regularly see posts getting inappropriately downrepped, in fact it seems to be a lot more common than seeing posts that are inappropriately uprepped.
Given that there's a considerable number of moderators that haven't even bothered to read the guidelines, I think it's a tad optimistic to think that they care at all about the intention of the points. Also, the reason why there's only 3 types, or really 4 if you count overrated is purely a matter of power. Once something gets hidden it's likely that a lot of folks with mod points won't even see it.
It's pretty much completely unpredictable. I've been here long enough to know that it's a lot more complicated than that. Putting an insult in whether or not deserved will ratchet up the unpredictability greatly. But you're fooling yourself if you think the moderators around here are intelligent enough to recognize a strawman. I'd be very surprised if that deviated at all from random chance.
Also, you definitely can get downmodded for a respectful and informative response, it's happened to me fairly often over time. Usually because I'm pointing out something that the Apple fanboys don't like. Of the factions around here they seem to be the ones that are most prone to abuses of mod points. At least in my experience. Probably the second worst would be the pro-legalization libertarians that can't fathom that there might be good reasons to keep drugs banned pending further research.
I've also noticed some posts will attract a huge number of mod points as the mods battle each other out. In the end there's a very definite bias towards hiding things rather than showing things and I don't think most people with mod points even bother to read the guidelines.
You do realize that B&N uses the industry standard DRM, right? No lock involved, in fact you can open the books on any computer that supports Adobe Editions, which if I'm not mistaken covers most mobiles as well as on Linux via Wine.
It's a tad ignorant to suggest that B&N and Amazon are equally guilty here of using vendor lock in when B&N doesn't use any at all.
Strictly speaking that's not likely to be a violation of the constitution, but IMHO it does justify amending the constitution to provide at least some protection for it.
The difference is that Google sells views and Facebook sells information. Both are potentially worrying, but of the two I'd be a lot more concerned about Facebook.
You're not seriously suggesting that despite evidence to the contrary that Apple invented the rectangle with rounded corners, are you?
It's still bullshit. Things have been that shape for many years, which was sort of the point of pointing out the occurrence in 2001 of a similarly shaped device.
Back ups should be completely automated and where the sysadmin only has to verify that they were completed and that they are viable for restore. Having to do anything more than that is an indication that things aren't being done properly and that you're going to lose data at some point.
Wipes OTOH can be automated, but it's going to depend how confident you are that you're wiping the correct machine and that the backups are completely current and haven't been corrupted.
Within reasonable limits that happens, but it doesn't mean that there isn't valuable information to be had or that in the future they might be necessary. It's extremely far fetched, but they went along with that in Star Trek IV.
If the process were happening much more slowly it probably wouldn't be that big of a deal, but it's not happening slowly and we don't have a lot of data to tell us what's going to happen if the mass extinctions continue. There is a point where there's been too much extinction and things will take an extremely long time to remedy themselves.
The difference is that we're very efficient killing machines. How many other species routinely kill off entire species.
I realize that there's a lot of libertards and otherwise extremely self centered people that genuinely don't give a fuck, but that's why we have a government so that whackos like that don't fuck things up for the rest of us. The science is very clear that allowing the levels to change this rapidly is a bad idea, now if the science later reveals that we were wrong, we can loosen up. Unfortunately if we decide now to let everything go extinct it's going to be a hell of a lot more expensive and difficult, assuming it's possible at all, to fix things.
What happened to it is that natural selection is a result of natural processes and tends to happen rather slowly in response to gradual shifts in environmental conditions. Whereas this is man made and both significantly faster and longer in duration than anything that typically happens. If it were more gradual but man made it probably wouldn't be worth worrying about, but natural or not, it's not good for us to have the planet changing so quickly.
Seems to me that you might do well to crack some books rather than regurgitating that sort of pseudo-scientific bunk.
That's actually not true. Teaching tends to be somewhat cyclical over the last few years there have been a lot of teachers retiring that were hired during the 60s and 70s.
Higher salaries definitely would help, if they're going to continue to stretch the school year out the salaries are going to have to increase to accommodate for the fact that teachers can't have a second job during the summer like they used to. Plus, with increasing demands to keep their teaching certificates there really needs to be more money for the increased workload. In real dollars the pay is fine, but it's all that extra work load that happens outside of class time that needs to be addressed.
As for better and lesser, the issue there is one of certification, we could have better teachers if we paid more. The main reason is that it's hard to justify becoming a teacher when the standards keep increasing without additional support and without additional pay. Typically you're looking at a bachelors plus a teaching certificate and then on top of that you're looking at additional endorsements and certificates.