Why don't you just wish them to total their car so that they can be forced to buy a newer, more fuel efficient car.
It's more like watching them make the engine explode in flames because they never changed the oil in 80,000 miles.
There's unavoidable mechanical failure and then there's not keeping up on maintenance. The former is forgivable, despite being annoying. The latter drives me to wreak havoc on my liver.
Think about it this way: if urea was actually a reasonable energy source, we'd already be concentrating it and burning it for power.
Not really...it took us til the 1930s to really grasp the power of the atom. By the logic above, we already should have had nuclear plants otherwise it wouldn't be efficient.
(I make no assumptions on how efficient piss power will be...I'm just saying as technology advances, more reasonable energy sources can be made that weren't even pipe dreams decades earlier.)
I'd be worried how plugins work across multiple processes. Do we run an addon seperately for each process? Do they all load under the firefox process? Can we crash an addon in one process and not have it bring down other processes?
Chrome and IE have the benefit of not dealing with those questions.
That's incorrect. I have filed official government documents, signed, with my name and license plate on them, identifying me as the person responsible for that car and the associated plate. It's called "vehicle registration." It's an official government document.
That just means whenever something happens involving your car, you're the first they come to.
Now, what if someone stole your rental and ran the red light?
Let's change that anecdote accordingly:
In 2004, my company, who had rented a car to me, had been passed a traffic-camera ticket from the registered owners (the rental agency), they in turn passed it on to me... But car was stolen before the ticket was issued. I was able to contact the local police and get a statement saying I was not in posession of that car at the time the red light was run. Since the actual identity of the driver could not be apparent, the ticket was junked. NOT GUILTY.
What you're missing is the licence plate or the IP gives a jumping off point. It's simply Wikipedia. Sure, it looks like a duck, and it's quacking like a duck, we're pretty sure it's a duck...
But you don't use Wikipedia as a source. You actually have to do work and confirm facts rather than just copy/paste the article. And on closer inspection, sure, it might 90% of the time be a duck, but it might also be a stuffed duck with a button on its belly that you can press to make quack noises.
The licence plate gave the police a jumping off point. It went to the rental place, who knew your company rented it. Your company gave it to you, because they knew you were there. But if you can prove it wasn't you, and instead some stuffed, battery powered duck, you're off the hook.
So you mean that since the days of cassette tapes every person who has made their girlfriend/boyfriend a mix tape or mix CD is in violation of the law? It must be true, the RIAA says so.
You think those long haul trucks delivering your food and consumer level electronics magically float above the ground and don't damage the road they travel on? Just because you, personally, don't use highways doesn't mean you don't benefit from them.
In order to get more tax revenue, we have to spend taxes on an infrastructure with GPS devices, auditors, support...
Wait, HOW exactly is the gov't making money on this scheme? Seems to me anything they get out of this tax is going to end up paying for the infrastructure in place to...well...tally up the tax.
Not only that, from my personal experience, troubleshooting Vista is hindered by the new 'security' features MS put in.
One of my personal favorites... Acrobat Reader won't install on Vista. Why? The temp setup files are, by default, going to C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\LocalLow
DESPITE the user having local admin (which I'm loathe to give out in the first place, but Vista's a pain in the ass in that regard too) the damn files won't execute there to begin with. So I have to copy them OUT of the locallow folder after the unpack is done but before setup runs to somewhere the user HAS rights. Cancel the setup (which deletes the files out of locallow), and run the temp setup file.
Further, Don LaFontaine was famous and you never even got to see him in anything.
Fame sometimes screws up and manages to find people that are just downright charming, enjoy doing what they do and make others enjoy their work. The people that actually deserve a little bit of notoriety but are all too often buried under the current flavour of the month.
But which services of Google did those "competitors" that they bought out actually compete with?
What was Google doing for newsgroups before buying Dejanews? What was Google doing for document formatting before buying Writely?
In order to buy out the competition, you have to have something in place first that they are competing with.
You can't have Boeing buy up McDonald's and say they're removing competition because on no level (where it matters) does Boeing compete with McDonald's.
And most of that overperforming is due to sheer dumb luck that the Mars winds (a) found the rovers and (b) are strong enough to blow dust off of the panels.
It's because people are "emotionally attached" to the penny.
Seriously. Nostalgia and nothing more.
Well, there is a fringe group that thinks it'll overwhelmingly burden the people who pay cash, cause, you know, prices will automatically round up and people who pay in plastic get the same price (which, that second part shouldn't happen, the price should round BEFORE the type of transaction is known)
tl;dr: People are thinking with their hearts and not with their heads, not realizing sometimes what's best for the nation is not always the feel good solution.
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I'll admit I know nothing about cars and what would happen if maintenance is skipped.
But the point remains that the car would be in a not working state and it would not be something covered under warranty.
Why don't you just wish them to total their car so that they can be forced to buy a newer, more fuel efficient car.
It's more like watching them make the engine explode in flames because they never changed the oil in 80,000 miles.
There's unavoidable mechanical failure and then there's not keeping up on maintenance. The former is forgivable, despite being annoying. The latter drives me to wreak havoc on my liver.
I'm just picking on the last bit of your post.
Just because it wasn't done in the past doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad idea; perhaps the technology just didn't exist to make it workable.
If this turns out to be pie-in-the-sky, well, so be it, but maybe in 50, 100 years we actually will be peeing into our gas tanks.
Think about it this way: if urea was actually a reasonable energy source, we'd already be concentrating it and burning it for power.
Not really...it took us til the 1930s to really grasp the power of the atom. By the logic above, we already should have had nuclear plants otherwise it wouldn't be efficient.
(I make no assumptions on how efficient piss power will be...I'm just saying as technology advances, more reasonable energy sources can be made that weren't even pipe dreams decades earlier.)
I'd be worried how plugins work across multiple processes. Do we run an addon seperately for each process? Do they all load under the firefox process? Can we crash an addon in one process and not have it bring down other processes?
Chrome and IE have the benefit of not dealing with those questions.
That's incorrect. I have filed official government documents, signed, with my name and license plate on them, identifying me as the person responsible for that car and the associated plate. It's called "vehicle registration." It's an official government document.
That just means whenever something happens involving your car, you're the first they come to.
Now, what if someone stole your rental and ran the red light?
Let's change that anecdote accordingly:
In 2004, my company, who had rented a car to me, had been passed a traffic-camera ticket from the registered owners (the rental agency), they in turn passed it on to me... But car was stolen before the ticket was issued. I was able to contact the local police and get a statement saying I was not in posession of that car at the time the red light was run. Since the actual identity of the driver could not be apparent, the ticket was junked. NOT GUILTY.
What you're missing is the licence plate or the IP gives a jumping off point. It's simply Wikipedia. Sure, it looks like a duck, and it's quacking like a duck, we're pretty sure it's a duck...
But you don't use Wikipedia as a source. You actually have to do work and confirm facts rather than just copy/paste the article. And on closer inspection, sure, it might 90% of the time be a duck, but it might also be a stuffed duck with a button on its belly that you can press to make quack noises.
The licence plate gave the police a jumping off point. It went to the rental place, who knew your company rented it. Your company gave it to you, because they knew you were there. But if you can prove it wasn't you, and instead some stuffed, battery powered duck, you're off the hook.
Yes, we do get to get pissy.
We just can't do anything about it other than choose not to shop there.
http://usa.visa.com/personal/cards/prepaid/index.html
http://www.mastercard.com/us/personal/en/aboutourcards/prepaid/index.html
Pre-paid card.
Card with a low limit.
You don't exactly have to use your Black AMEX for Pandora if you're that worried about it...
So you mean that since the days of cassette tapes every person who has made their girlfriend/boyfriend a mix tape or mix CD is in violation of the law? It must be true, the RIAA says so.
Well, actually, yeah.
I find it hilarious that you chose to omit the second half of that quote which ends up poofing God in a puff of logic.
Assuming the teamsters didn't get to him first.
Like...you?
You think those long haul trucks delivering your food and consumer level electronics magically float above the ground and don't damage the road they travel on? Just because you, personally, don't use highways doesn't mean you don't benefit from them.
In order to get more tax revenue, we have to spend taxes on an infrastructure with GPS devices, auditors, support...
Wait, HOW exactly is the gov't making money on this scheme? Seems to me anything they get out of this tax is going to end up paying for the infrastructure in place to...well...tally up the tax.
It's sporatic. Uncommon enough for me to not bother looking for the 'why' but common enough for me to know exactly what to do when the user bugs me.
I'm cheap, but after having experience dealing with Vista on a support level, frankly, you can pry my retail copy of XP out of my cold, dead hands.
Not only that, from my personal experience, troubleshooting Vista is hindered by the new 'security' features MS put in.
One of my personal favorites... Acrobat Reader won't install on Vista. Why? The temp setup files are, by default, going to C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\LocalLow
DESPITE the user having local admin (which I'm loathe to give out in the first place, but Vista's a pain in the ass in that regard too) the damn files won't execute there to begin with. So I have to copy them OUT of the locallow folder after the unpack is done but before setup runs to somewhere the user HAS rights. Cancel the setup (which deletes the files out of locallow), and run the temp setup file.
Love it. Seriously. /hork
Yeah, I left the ONE exception off my list.
Let me know what some of those 'among others' are, thanks.
Clearly you've never seen a Billy Mays advert.
Further, Don LaFontaine was famous and you never even got to see him in anything.
Fame sometimes screws up and manages to find people that are just downright charming, enjoy doing what they do and make others enjoy their work. The people that actually deserve a little bit of notoriety but are all too often buried under the current flavour of the month.
But which services of Google did those "competitors" that they bought out actually compete with?
What was Google doing for newsgroups before buying Dejanews?
What was Google doing for document formatting before buying Writely?
In order to buy out the competition, you have to have something in place first that they are competing with.
You can't have Boeing buy up McDonald's and say they're removing competition because on no level (where it matters) does Boeing compete with McDonald's.
And most of that overperforming is due to sheer dumb luck that the Mars winds (a) found the rovers and (b) are strong enough to blow dust off of the panels.
*right conditions of lighting, shading and resolution.
It's because people are "emotionally attached" to the penny.
Seriously. Nostalgia and nothing more.
Well, there is a fringe group that thinks it'll overwhelmingly burden the people who pay cash, cause, you know, prices will automatically round up and people who pay in plastic get the same price (which, that second part shouldn't happen, the price should round BEFORE the type of transaction is known)
tl;dr: People are thinking with their hearts and not with their heads, not realizing sometimes what's best for the nation is not always the feel good solution.
Yep...I wish we could get rid of the penny and replace the dollar bill with coinage...
(and maybe increase the flow of $2 bills, cause, well, strippers need love too, and without the $1s...)