Using the same principal, I light my kitchen with only the dull red glow...
Wow, and when I was in school I thought MY principal was a hothead! Or did you mean "principle?" If so, never trust your spell checker (or as they say at slashdot, "All weighs tryst you're spill chucker, looser"")
CFLs don't yet have as complete and warm a spectrum
What PUSSIES you kids are! Jesus H Christ what WHINERS. People lived with candles and shit (literally; many of the ancients burned dung) for thousands of years. Did they whine about "spectrum?" A candle's color is so "warm" it's like sunset.
Not that I'd want to live in my great grandparents' time but come on! You're willing to FUCK THE PLANET UP FOR YOUR GREAT GRANDCHILDREN for the sake of the color spectrum of your fucking LIGHT? Do you even CARE how goddamned selfish you sound?
I'd mod the parent flamebait because I just deleted the flame I almost replied with. Fucking goddamned spoiled rich brats...
If the free market cured all ills then we wouldn't need government at all. This is one place where government, not the free market you money worshipers think is the end all and be all to all problems, is badly needed.
I don't need government (conservatives telling me not to smoke dope or liberals telling me not to eat meat) to protect me from myself. I need government to protect me from you. You're (not you specifically, the plural "you". Maybe I should fall into redneck mode and say "yall") are too fucking stupid and cowardly to give up that artificial dick* called an "SUV" and are too stupid and stubborn and short sightedly a cheapassed bastard to trade your hot bulbs for twirley bulbs.
But your SUV and your hot bulbs are fucking up the planet my yet to be born grandchildren will be living in.
You're too god damned stupid and selfish to trust with my welfare. I don't need government to protect me from me, but I need it to protect me from you.
-mcgrew
*One of the ladies I'm "familiar" with tells me her BF, who drives one of those bigassed Ford pickup trucks you almost need a ladder to get into, has a little dick. So the stereotype is correct in at least one instance. How big is your vehicle?
That's not the issue here. Your light bulb, your computer, your TV, every electric thing you own produces greenhouse gasses. Not the device itself, but the generator that powers it (at least unless your electricity comes from hydro or wind or nuke).
An incandescant uses four times as much electricity as a twirley bulb, so it produces four times the greenhouse gasses.
I see problems, however, as I've already replaced all the incandescants I can with twirley bulbs.
The light in the refrigerator is, ironically, one of the hot damned incandesents. A twirley won't fit.
I'm afraid to put one in the oven!
And my house was built in the 1930s or 40s, and has its bulbs by the bathroom mirror that are flame shaped. In order to use twirleys in there I'll have to remodel the whole fucking bathroom.
-mcgrew (speaking of my old bathroom, here's an almost on topic link to an old article I wrote at K5, Useful Dead Technologies.
What I can't figure out is why the federal government is involved with gambling. Gambling is legal in many states; we have horse tracks and casinos here in Illinois.
I prefer Las Vegas casinos, though, because hookers are legal.
And speaking of gambling, I'd not gambled in a casino since a couple of buddies talked me into going to Nevada when I was stationed in California in the USAF in 1975. So last summer I went to the riverboat, and the new electronic slot machines SUCK! Boring as hell. You young folks don't know what you missed back when they had mechanical one armed bandits.
First time I've seen a computerized anything and wished for the mechanical version.
I already used "DOH!" as a subject line today. And yes it certainly IS the Springfield you're thinking of, as I illustrated in this comment responding a few comments down.
If you're ever in Springfield, mix Paxil and alcohol and you'll REALLY see the cartoons come out (I've been off the Paxil for a few years now but I still love my beer).
I'd have to see the research, as that doesn't make sense to me. Yes, coasting through a light right after it turns green is dangerous, especially here in Springfield, as is going through a yellow, but when the light is green in the middle of the cycle you should be safest.
No mountains in Illinois except Mt Vernon, Mt Pulaski, Mt. Olive, etc but I see the same thing on the Stanford Avenue viaduct that goes over the railroad tracks here. They'll accellerate going up the hill and then brake going down.
It's mostly the bigassed Escalades, Hummers etc that do that I've noticed. They say that the size of your car is inversely proportional to the size of your penis, but I think that's incorrect. I think it's inversely proportional to the size of your IQ.
I saw that show. In that context, used in a cruise control system, it would make sense as well and I've been waiting for one ever since I saw the show. IIRC it was at least ten years ago I saw it, I can't remember what show it was either.
That's up in Clinton. It's just that burning coal releases more radioactivity into the air than a nuke plant. Plus that's not the only thing Groening got wrong; not everyone here is bugeyed (althogh a lot of them are). There are other cartoon characters here like Popeye, Olive Oyle, and Betty Boop, only like the linked diary mentions, the Springfield Betty's head is bigger, Springfield's Olive is flatter chested, and she isn't with Popeye.
The day before yesterday I saw Santa Claus tooling down the street in a motorized wheelchair with a set of golf clubs on his back, I shit you not! Come to se the Lincoln Presidential Library, stay for the 3-D cartoons.
Its scary thinking what Canadians must look like where you live! I can't figure out if I live in Cool World or Toon Town. Anyone reading my journals most likely thinks I either make them up or...
Well yes, many BASIC interpreters execute plain text as data as well, but you have to have the interpreter running for the data to be dangerous. You can't rename VIRUS.BAT to VIRUS.TXT and have it execute, nor can you rename VIRUS.BAS to VIRUS.BAT and have it execute.
You can use WMA's DRM to write a trojan; execute the trojaned WMA file in Windows (won't work in Linux, haven't tried it with Mac) with any media player I've tried including Winamp and you're hosed. But you can't write a virus afaik with an OGG file unless you somehow munge the ID3 and your media player is poorly designed or buggy.
If you rename TROJAN.WMA to TROJAN.MP3 and play it with Winamp, Winamp will choke and it simply won't play. Play that same file in Windows Media Player and you're hosed.
Technically you're right, but it's semantic hair splitting. Yes, it's all zeros and ones until you get to actual applications. I can't say such a thing doesn't exist but I've never seen a good reason to have macros in a word processing document.
You can't execute data that is being interpreted unless the interpreter is running. If the OS is the data's interpreter then your OS has a big gaping hole in it.
The Democrats are one of the two wings of the Republicrat Party. Republicrats (Democrats and Republicans) want marijuana outlawed; I want it legalized. They want gambling outlawed; I think it's none of their damned business. They want prostitution outlawed, I'm a horney single man.
Both wings voted for the Bono Act, the DMCA, the PATRIOT act, Bankrupcy Reform, all which I was and am vehemently against.
From my perspective I don't see any damned difference between the Democrats and Republicans. Both are for the things I am against, and against the things I'm for. Both are for the corporations, and against the citizens of our once great nation.
We now have a Democrat Senate and Congress, so why are we still wasting soldiers' lives in Iraq?
The problem would be alleviated quitre a bit if dimwits would stop tailgating, and even more annoying, braking for no reason whatever.
Here in Springfield they race to the red light, but brake going through a green light. If the dimwits would let off the gas when the light ahead turned red, and even speed up a bit if the light is green, they would save themselves a lot of gasoline, global warming, and aggrivation.
I don't like the idea of "automatic braking systems" as I try to keep my foot off the brake. Every time you touch your brake you're converting the momentum you spent gasoline obtaining into heat, and throwing it away. If it's an electric or hybrid that converts momentum into stored electricity I wouldn't mind an autometic braking system so much.
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Using the same principal, I light my kitchen with only the dull red glow...
Wow, and when I was in school I thought MY principal was a hothead! Or did you mean "principle?" If so, never trust your spell checker (or as they say at slashdot, "All weighs tryst you're spill chucker, looser"")
set your computers to go to sleep when idle
How about just shutting the damned thing off when you're not using it?
I live in Springfield, it gets down to below zero F here too and I have CFLs on both porches and the garage.
CFLs don't yet have as complete and warm a spectrum
What PUSSIES you kids are! Jesus H Christ what WHINERS. People lived with candles and shit (literally; many of the ancients burned dung) for thousands of years. Did they whine about "spectrum?" A candle's color is so "warm" it's like sunset.
Not that I'd want to live in my great grandparents' time but come on! You're willing to FUCK THE PLANET UP FOR YOUR GREAT GRANDCHILDREN for the sake of the color spectrum of your fucking LIGHT? Do you even CARE how goddamned selfish you sound?
I'd mod the parent flamebait because I just deleted the flame I almost replied with. Fucking goddamned spoiled rich brats...
If you want dim light just use candles
Yeah, that'll solve the greenhouse gas prob... oh wait...
Wal-Mart is for cheap hillbillies.
Not all rednecks live in the hills, y'all.
If the free market cured all ills then we wouldn't need government at all. This is one place where government, not the free market you money worshipers think is the end all and be all to all problems, is badly needed.
I don't need government (conservatives telling me not to smoke dope or liberals telling me not to eat meat) to protect me from myself. I need government to protect me from you. You're (not you specifically, the plural "you". Maybe I should fall into redneck mode and say "yall") are too fucking stupid and cowardly to give up that artificial dick* called an "SUV" and are too stupid and stubborn and short sightedly a cheapassed bastard to trade your hot bulbs for twirley bulbs.
But your SUV and your hot bulbs are fucking up the planet my yet to be born grandchildren will be living in.
You're too god damned stupid and selfish to trust with my welfare. I don't need government to protect me from me, but I need it to protect me from you.
-mcgrew
*One of the ladies I'm "familiar" with tells me her BF, who drives one of those bigassed Ford pickup trucks you almost need a ladder to get into, has a little dick. So the stereotype is correct in at least one instance. How big is your vehicle?
That's not the issue here. Your light bulb, your computer, your TV, every electric thing you own produces greenhouse gasses. Not the device itself, but the generator that powers it (at least unless your electricity comes from hydro or wind or nuke).
An incandescant uses four times as much electricity as a twirley bulb, so it produces four times the greenhouse gasses.
I see problems, however, as I've already replaced all the incandescants I can with twirley bulbs.
The light in the refrigerator is, ironically, one of the hot damned incandesents. A twirley won't fit.
I'm afraid to put one in the oven!
And my house was built in the 1930s or 40s, and has its bulbs by the bathroom mirror that are flame shaped. In order to use twirleys in there I'll have to remodel the whole fucking bathroom.
-mcgrew
(speaking of my old bathroom, here's an almost on topic link to an old article I wrote at K5, Useful Dead Technologies.
What I can't figure out is why the federal government is involved with gambling. Gambling is legal in many states; we have horse tracks and casinos here in Illinois.
I prefer Las Vegas casinos, though, because hookers are legal.
And speaking of gambling, I'd not gambled in a casino since a couple of buddies talked me into going to Nevada when I was stationed in California in the USAF in 1975. So last summer I went to the riverboat, and the new electronic slot machines SUCK! Boring as hell. You young folks don't know what you missed back when they had mechanical one armed bandits.
First time I've seen a computerized anything and wished for the mechanical version.
Like Pogo said, "About that nuclear power, it ain't so new and it ain't so clear."
I already used "DOH!" as a subject line today. And yes it certainly IS the Springfield you're thinking of, as I illustrated in this comment responding a few comments down.
If you're ever in Springfield, mix Paxil and alcohol and you'll REALLY see the cartoons come out (I've been off the Paxil for a few years now but I still love my beer).
I'd have to see the research, as that doesn't make sense to me. Yes, coasting through a light right after it turns green is dangerous, especially here in Springfield, as is going through a yellow, but when the light is green in the middle of the cycle you should be safest.
No mountains in Illinois except Mt Vernon, Mt Pulaski, Mt. Olive, etc but I see the same thing on the Stanford Avenue viaduct that goes over the railroad tracks here. They'll accellerate going up the hill and then brake going down.
It's mostly the bigassed Escalades, Hummers etc that do that I've noticed. They say that the size of your car is inversely proportional to the size of your penis, but I think that's incorrect. I think it's inversely proportional to the size of your IQ.
I saw that show. In that context, used in a cruise control system, it would make sense as well and I've been waiting for one ever since I saw the show. IIRC it was at least ten years ago I saw it, I can't remember what show it was either.
That's up in Clinton. It's just that burning coal releases more radioactivity into the air than a nuke plant. Plus that's not the only thing Groening got wrong; not everyone here is bugeyed (althogh a lot of them are). There are other cartoon characters here like Popeye, Olive Oyle, and Betty Boop, only like the linked diary mentions, the Springfield Betty's head is bigger, Springfield's Olive is flatter chested, and she isn't with Popeye.
The day before yesterday I saw Santa Claus tooling down the street in a motorized wheelchair with a set of golf clubs on his back, I shit you not! Come to se the Lincoln Presidential Library, stay for the 3-D cartoons.
We have lots of people here in South Park (no, not a joke) that run solar
Is this a first, someone from one cartoon town responding to someone else on slashdot from another cartoon town? We have an alderman named Gail Simpson here in Springfield. The power plant blew up a month or so ago, look at This editorial cartoon about it. Now look at a photo of Todd Renfrow, AKA "Mr. Burns" (on the right, in front of the giant check) and a photo of Springfield's Mayor.
Its scary thinking what Canadians must look like where you live! I can't figure out if I live in Cool World or Toon Town. Anyone reading my journals most likely thinks I either make them up or...
I'd like to think you're right but I'm not hopeful.
You're right; I told you I needed more coffee!
Well yes, many BASIC interpreters execute plain text as data as well, but you have to have the interpreter running for the data to be dangerous. You can't rename VIRUS.BAT to VIRUS.TXT and have it execute, nor can you rename VIRUS.BAS to VIRUS.BAT and have it execute.
You can use WMA's DRM to write a trojan; execute the trojaned WMA file in Windows (won't work in Linux, haven't tried it with Mac) with any media player I've tried including Winamp and you're hosed. But you can't write a virus afaik with an OGG file unless you somehow munge the ID3 and your media player is poorly designed or buggy.
If you rename TROJAN.WMA to TROJAN.MP3 and play it with Winamp, Winamp will choke and it simply won't play. Play that same file in Windows Media Player and you're hosed.
Technically you're right, but it's semantic hair splitting. Yes, it's all zeros and ones until you get to actual applications. I can't say such a thing doesn't exist but I've never seen a good reason to have macros in a word processing document.
What's the catch? Powering it at night :-)
Not hard. If I'm still on the grid I can buy electricity at night and sell it back in the daytime. If I'm not I can store it in batteries.
Your sig: It must have been something you assimilated...
That's pretty brave words when talking to a cyborg.
You can't execute data that is being interpreted unless the interpreter is running. If the OS is the data's interpreter then your OS has a big gaping hole in it.
When in China, do as the Chinese do...
Shoot people and charge their families for the bullet?
The Democrats are one of the two wings of the Republicrat Party. Republicrats (Democrats and Republicans) want marijuana outlawed; I want it legalized. They want gambling outlawed; I think it's none of their damned business. They want prostitution outlawed, I'm a horney single man.
Both wings voted for the Bono Act, the DMCA, the PATRIOT act, Bankrupcy Reform, all which I was and am vehemently against.
From my perspective I don't see any damned difference between the Democrats and Republicans. Both are for the things I am against, and against the things I'm for. Both are for the corporations, and against the citizens of our once great nation.
We now have a Democrat Senate and Congress, so why are we still wasting soldiers' lives in Iraq?
The problem would be alleviated quitre a bit if dimwits would stop tailgating, and even more annoying, braking for no reason whatever.
Here in Springfield they race to the red light, but brake going through a green light. If the dimwits would let off the gas when the light ahead turned red, and even speed up a bit if the light is green, they would save themselves a lot of gasoline, global warming, and aggrivation.
I don't like the idea of "automatic braking systems" as I try to keep my foot off the brake. Every time you touch your brake you're converting the momentum you spent gasoline obtaining into heat, and throwing it away. If it's an electric or hybrid that converts momentum into stored electricity I wouldn't mind an autometic braking system so much.
Yes, but now you're paying not per watt, but per watt hour.