I'm curious... if we send pioneers to another planet, and somehow manage to make it livable/cover it with vegetation/create an earth-like atmosphere...
Will people still care about the environment?
Will they care more because we poured our blood and sweat into it?
or will they care less because even if we bomb the place back into a baron wasteland we're just back where we started?
How would doing that on another planet effect people's respect of the environment on earth?
I'd agree with you if it was a fee per comment... but it's a ONE TIME fee, ie: a registration fee... and then you can comment as much as you like... so it is 10c a comment as long as you leave 10 comments, and the price goes down from there!
have you ever tried to pull or modify an airbag system? it's actually quite easy to do.
Do to the "explosive" nature of the device itself everything is clearly marked (the entirety of the harness is wrapped in bright yellow tape with black lettering stating "AIR BAG") and simply designed (no fancy serial signals, each data bit gets it's own wire) so as to ensure no accidental detonation.
I've removed the airbag system on 3 cars that I've owned, and one one I swapped steering wheels (meaning swapped air-bags) and had to modify the system for the new bag... very simple. indeed.
if you remove the airbag passenger's of the car are none the wiser since everything looks as it did before... Also they're pretty fun to explode after removial with a car battery and some 20ft of speaker wire.
oil will always have the ability to be price competitive with alternatives... the problem is that it's only harvested and not grown, so the supply is finite and can only be harvested from certain locations, which gives those land owners an unfair advantage in comparison to the rest of the world.
Making the switch to Ethanol shouldn't be done for cost reasons, rather it should be done to gain independence from foreign oil "owners", and switch dependency to a resource that can be renewed as opposed to one that will eventually dry up.
like any manufactured product new techniques will develop that will help drive the costs down... but the first step is making the switch.
It's anecdotal evidence but in my area Cable internet alone is $74 a month, and a package deal with Cable internet & TV is $86 (+taxes). (if I were to order cable TV on it's own without internet it would be about $70)
I don't have a cable box, and I don't even rent a cable modem (I own all my own equipment). They charge an additional $15 for a crappy Motorola DVR box. Rather than pay that I built my own SageTV box with a few TB of storage... It's more convenient than torrents or DVDs and I can skip the commercials,and it's cheaper in the long run.
My internet provider blows too, the reason I own my own modem is because the one they rented me barely worked and they refused to replace it. The only other local ISP besides dial-up is Verizon DSL which is slightly slower than what I've got and just as expensive.
This Hulu services will apparently be available on the PS3 in July and the Xbox 360 next year... I would venture a guess that you could use on your laptop, desktop, and HTPC should you so choose.
Personally I've got a SageTV box built with a few TB of storage... Torrents are too much work... my time is worth more than the $$ savings a torrent provides.
I have a tattoo of of the glider formation from John Conway's game of Life on my back. Not just a grid with dots but cubes in an isometric view. It's geeky but more interesting than something as simple as a written equation, or something as overt as a video game character or logo.
I don't live anywhere near any of my highschool or college friends. I don't drink, nor have I ever been one to go out to clubs and bars. I get along with my co-workers but most of them have very little in common with me socially. I do love building and working on my own cars and I found a forum online for people in my area that drive my make and model car. I've made a lot of great friends though this club.
Similarly I've made a lot of friend by seeking out other local clubs for the other hobbies of mine.
My grandmother moved out of her home state to be closer to some family that had moved away, she joined a local singing group and made lots of friends though that.
It's easy to find like minded individual in your area.. you just have to look in the right places.
It's your fault for reading it somewhere else and not immediately posting it here. Ask not what Slashdot can do for you, ask what you can do for Slashdot!
I used to do that all the time, but I got tired of my submissions getting passed over for days/(weeks) and then once the rest of the major online media outlets decided it was worthy to report someone else's late submission got pushed though.
Why should I waste my time with submissions that never go though when making snarky comments is infinitely more entertaining and rewarding?
Except that the American government already tells you the consumption as well as the MPG for every car sold in America. Go visit FuelEconomy.gov
They tell you not just the MPG, but
the average cost per mile
the average annual fuel cost
the average cost to fill up
tank size
mileage range on a single tank
average consumption per year in barrels
Annual Tons of CO2 Emitted
.... other crap you might care about
it even has calculators so you can plug in your own average miles traveled and driving style and determine how that effects the above.
also on there has a "garage" feature where you can have your cars and plug in how much you paid for gas and how many miles you got per gallon. (you don't even have to do the math yourself) and it will plot your mileage and allow you to compare what you're getting against the car's listed ratings as well as other drivers with the same car as you. I've got complete gas mileage charts for ever car I've owned over the last few years thanks to that site.
The site was created by the American government, it's been around for years, and it's openly available to any American smart enough to conjure the phrase "Fuel Economy" and plug it into Google.
Not everything needs to be stickered to the damn car... I'm sure you friendly neighborhood car salesman would be happy to give you the sheet that explains all this information about the car too. Don't assume that the only information available is only what's fed to you in TV ads...
With some googling I found out that in the year 2000 [unitedjustice.com] 15,517 people were murdered while 41,611 died in car accidents. That means that if we could prevent all car accidents the benefit in human lives would be almost three times greater.
yeah but that doesn't take into account the people that died in accidents that would have been murdered had they not... sheesh haven't you ever seen Final Destination.
Not all of them area like that, I can tell you that one of the machines at my arcade had any kind of "fake drop" condition. Working at the arcade I played them enough just in testing them after maintenance and repair that I could collect a prize almost always without fail.
typically, at least the older games, are skewed in the operator's favor by having a weak claw grip with slippery claws, and in the case of stuffed animals they would get packed tight enough that the crane was strong enough to move them a little but not strong enough to actually pull them out.
I could write a book about all the ridiculous hidden tricks employed in "redemption" type games. Personally I always preferred pinball, because there's no hidden agenda, it's pure skill and the prize is your enjoyment of playing the game.
I'm not exactly sure where our slot machines came from (the arcade I worked at was in New England, so may be Atlantic City?) But last time I was in Las Vegas I don't recall any slot machines having buttons to stop the rollers. it was pure "chance" in that you pulled the lever and the rollers would stop themselves after a few seconds.
it could be that they've since changed laws outlawing the "near miss" forced condition, or it simply varies by state.
I worked in an arcade repairing machines for 3 years... we bought a few dozen decommissioned slot machines from casinos that I retrofitted to dispense prize tokens as opposed to money.
I can tell you that the machines are absolutely programmed to make you lose even if you hit the buttons at the exact right time to stop the rollers. Basically the operator programs the payout to be a ratio of the money deposited. Our machines were programmed to dispense 2 cents worth of prize tokens for every 25 cents deposited. The machine word operate honestly until the ratio got too far in the user's favor, then it would cheat on the last roller to correct the ratio. a jack pot scenario would only be allowed to happen if the ratio was already deep in the favor of the operator.
It was pretty comical, with the machine open I could stop the rollers right in the position I wanted by hand, and if the machine decided to "correct" the ratio it would use the stepper motor to index the last roller one or two positions past where I had stopped it. Pretty much undetectable to the human eye while the thing is spinning.
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I'm curious... if we send pioneers to another planet, and somehow manage to make it livable/cover it with vegetation/create an earth-like atmosphere...
Will people still care about the environment?
Will they care more because we poured our blood and sweat into it?
or will they care less because even if we bomb the place back into a baron wasteland we're just back where we started?
How would doing that on another planet effect people's respect of the environment on earth?
it's not a knock off it's a 100% original art installation titled: Optamus Plime
Cheney is soooooo last presidency.
They'd be billionaires if they could figure out a way to harvest energy directly from FAT.
I'd agree with you if it was a fee per comment... but it's a ONE TIME fee, ie: a registration fee... and then you can comment as much as you like... so it is 10c a comment as long as you leave 10 comments, and the price goes down from there!
have you ever tried to pull or modify an airbag system? it's actually quite easy to do.
Do to the "explosive" nature of the device itself everything is clearly marked (the entirety of the harness is wrapped in bright yellow tape with black lettering stating "AIR BAG") and simply designed (no fancy serial signals, each data bit gets it's own wire) so as to ensure no accidental detonation.
I've removed the airbag system on 3 cars that I've owned, and one one I swapped steering wheels (meaning swapped air-bags) and had to modify the system for the new bag... very simple. indeed.
if you remove the airbag passenger's of the car are none the wiser since everything looks as it did before... Also they're pretty fun to explode after removial with a car battery and some 20ft of speaker wire.
I guess I don't see how your analogy works...
Forget finding a way around it... I can't wait for someone to develop an "app" that intentionally blows the fuse.... that will be great fun.
oil will always have the ability to be price competitive with alternatives... the problem is that it's only harvested and not grown, so the supply is finite and can only be harvested from certain locations, which gives those land owners an unfair advantage in comparison to the rest of the world.
Making the switch to Ethanol shouldn't be done for cost reasons, rather it should be done to gain independence from foreign oil "owners", and switch dependency to a resource that can be renewed as opposed to one that will eventually dry up.
like any manufactured product new techniques will develop that will help drive the costs down... but the first step is making the switch.
Personally I think the lag is unacceptable unless approved by Korean Starcraft Players.
it's not over until 4chan says so.
... and maybe we're all just meat-popsicles and none of this matters.
^I'm also interested in this.
It's anecdotal evidence but in my area Cable internet alone is $74 a month, and a package deal with Cable internet & TV is $86 (+taxes). (if I were to order cable TV on it's own without internet it would be about $70)
I don't have a cable box, and I don't even rent a cable modem (I own all my own equipment). They charge an additional $15 for a crappy Motorola DVR box. Rather than pay that I built my own SageTV box with a few TB of storage... It's more convenient than torrents or DVDs and I can skip the commercials,and it's cheaper in the long run.
My internet provider blows too, the reason I own my own modem is because the one they rented me barely worked and they refused to replace it. The only other local ISP besides dial-up is Verizon DSL which is slightly slower than what I've got and just as expensive.
This Hulu services will apparently be available on the PS3 in July and the Xbox 360 next year... I would venture a guess that you could use on your laptop, desktop, and HTPC should you so choose.
Personally I've got a SageTV box built with a few TB of storage... Torrents are too much work... my time is worth more than the $$ savings a torrent provides.
I have a tattoo of of the glider formation from John Conway's game of Life on my back. Not just a grid with dots but cubes in an isometric view. It's geeky but more interesting than something as simple as a written equation, or something as overt as a video game character or logo.
next time, before you travel. See if there is an episode of Man vs Food for the city you're traveling too and watch that before you leave.
Do you not have any hobbies?
I don't live anywhere near any of my highschool or college friends. I don't drink, nor have I ever been one to go out to clubs and bars. I get along with my co-workers but most of them have very little in common with me socially. I do love building and working on my own cars and I found a forum online for people in my area that drive my make and model car. I've made a lot of great friends though this club.
Similarly I've made a lot of friend by seeking out other local clubs for the other hobbies of mine.
My grandmother moved out of her home state to be closer to some family that had moved away, she joined a local singing group and made lots of friends though that.
It's easy to find like minded individual in your area.. you just have to look in the right places.
I'm in NH... it can't be that much more over the border...
I used to do that all the time, but I got tired of my submissions getting passed over for days/(weeks) and then once the rest of the major online media outlets decided it was worthy to report someone else's late submission got pushed though.
Why should I waste my time with submissions that never go though when making snarky comments is infinitely more entertaining and rewarding?
They tell you not just the MPG, but
it even has calculators so you can plug in your own average miles traveled and driving style and determine how that effects the above.
also on there has a "garage" feature where you can have your cars and plug in how much you paid for gas and how many miles you got per gallon. (you don't even have to do the math yourself) and it will plot your mileage and allow you to compare what you're getting against the car's listed ratings as well as other drivers with the same car as you. I've got complete gas mileage charts for ever car I've owned over the last few years thanks to that site.
The site was created by the American government, it's been around for years, and it's openly available to any American smart enough to conjure the phrase "Fuel Economy" and plug it into Google.
Not everything needs to be stickered to the damn car... I'm sure you friendly neighborhood car salesman would be happy to give you the sheet that explains all this information about the car too. Don't assume that the only information available is only what's fed to you in TV ads...
yeah but that doesn't take into account the people that died in accidents that would have been murdered had they not... sheesh haven't you ever seen Final Destination.
Not all of them area like that, I can tell you that one of the machines at my arcade had any kind of "fake drop" condition. Working at the arcade I played them enough just in testing them after maintenance and repair that I could collect a prize almost always without fail.
typically, at least the older games, are skewed in the operator's favor by having a weak claw grip with slippery claws, and in the case of stuffed animals they would get packed tight enough that the crane was strong enough to move them a little but not strong enough to actually pull them out.
I could write a book about all the ridiculous hidden tricks employed in "redemption" type games. Personally I always preferred pinball, because there's no hidden agenda, it's pure skill and the prize is your enjoyment of playing the game.
I'm not exactly sure where our slot machines came from (the arcade I worked at was in New England, so may be Atlantic City?) But last time I was in Las Vegas I don't recall any slot machines having buttons to stop the rollers. it was pure "chance" in that you pulled the lever and the rollers would stop themselves after a few seconds.
it could be that they've since changed laws outlawing the "near miss" forced condition, or it simply varies by state.
I worked in an arcade repairing machines for 3 years... we bought a few dozen decommissioned slot machines from casinos that I retrofitted to dispense prize tokens as opposed to money.
I can tell you that the machines are absolutely programmed to make you lose even if you hit the buttons at the exact right time to stop the rollers. Basically the operator programs the payout to be a ratio of the money deposited. Our machines were programmed to dispense 2 cents worth of prize tokens for every 25 cents deposited. The machine word operate honestly until the ratio got too far in the user's favor, then it would cheat on the last roller to correct the ratio. a jack pot scenario would only be allowed to happen if the ratio was already deep in the favor of the operator.
It was pretty comical, with the machine open I could stop the rollers right in the position I wanted by hand, and if the machine decided to "correct" the ratio it would use the stepper motor to index the last roller one or two positions past where I had stopped it. Pretty much undetectable to the human eye while the thing is spinning.
I'm waiting for the book by Steve Ballmer
... I'm especially looking forward to the chapter on looking at every day objects (like a simple chair) from a COMPLETELY different perspective.
Designers!
Designers!
Designers!
Designers!