The average motorcycle makes ten times more pollution per mile than the average car.
This is partially true, though it really depends on what sort of 'pollution' you are talking about. Smoke, fumes, smog, etc, you are probably right, it would suprize me if you weren't. However motorcycles release far less CO2 into the atmosphere than cars, because of their much higher MPGs. Burn less gass, create less CO2. Not that I actually give a crap about CO2 myself, but that might have been what the GP was talking about.
Somehow I'm not seeing how providing a single example of an incident contradicts the phrase "Freight trains are seldom derailed by collisions". Seldom != Never. Besides, in that incident it was the passenger train that derailed the freight train, not the car. If we really want to get into rube goldberg-esque cause and effects, then I suppose you could say it was really an internet dating website that derailed the train...
Or how about that doctor who was convicted of slamming on his brakes to "scare" cyclists? Two of them couldn't stop in time, and they smashed into his back window. It came out in court that he had a long history of such road rage against cyclists.
If you are tailgating someone so extremely with a bike that you cannot avoid a collision if they suddenly come to a stop, then you probably damn well deserve it. What is the average stopping distance of a bicycle, 10 to 15 feet? It couldn't have been at a terribly high rate of speed, seeing as this is cyclists tailgating a car.
Tailgaters get what they deserve, regardless of what they are riding.
The real reason any self-respecting slashdotter should be for these things is eventually this tech will trickle down into the civilan sector where we can actually start having fun with it.
Badass robots... or farm animals. Hmm, really hard choice....;)
When is the last time you read, 'motorist killed by cyclist'
When was the last time you read "Freight train killed my motorist"?
We all know that cars are bigger than bikes, but that doesn't mean that bikers are freed of responsibility in all cases.
If reading that story and looking at that picture of that orphan makes a couple of Slashdotters a liiiiitle bit more careful driving (around cyclists or not), then it was worth every mod point.
The thing is, guilt-tripping people like that doesn't actually work. If it did, PETA would have long since prevaled I wouldn't still be eating 5 pounds of cow every week. All stunts like that do is undermine your credibility by indicating to people that you are not willing to have a rational discussion, but instead need to resort to emotional arguments.
You seem to be a rather bitter when it comes to this subject so I'll help you out a bit: namecalling and trying to guilt-trip someone who very likely never did anything wrong is not going to win you over any minds. Try keeping a cool head and making reasoned arguments next time.
As a pedestrain (I neither drive, nor bike to work), I could start ranting about how many people bikers run over and hurt/kill while they were minding their own business crossing the streets at crosswalks or walking down the sidewalk every year. I could link you up with articles from local newspapers about a biker striking an older man, then picking up his bike and riding off as the man lay dying on the curb and suggest furiously that somehow you are partially responsible. But then I would look like a jackass, just as you do.
Of course a linksys router runs linux. Linux is a kernel and a router running linux is certainly making use of a good deal of it's functionality. Even if you were refering to "linux" as a desktop operating system, that comparison is nonsensical because there is not "one set of functionality" associated with desktop linux installs. This comparison is even dumber when you consider linux is traditionally most popular in servers, and chances are your linksys router is indeed running many servers, including a webserver, a dhcp server, and probably a telnet and ssh server.
On the other hand, there is a very good reason people say things like "the iPad doesn't run OSX". Suggesting that is does in anything outside of a technical discussion (ie, marketing materials) is disingenuous at best.
I fail to see why we should force kids today to pick up decades old computers to learn how to program. Sure they can do that, and there are arguably advantages to doing that, but why should they have to do that? It's like expecting teenagers to learn how to drive Model Ts before they can drive a modern car.
I understand not reading TFA, but at least read the fucking summary. One of his issues is "With every software update, the previous generation of "jailbreaks" stop working, and people have to find new ways to break into their own computers", and I must say, I agree.
How are "making a device that can be used by anybody" and "allowing open development" mutually exclusive? I'm pretty sure Mac OSX has shown that it's not. Charging $99 for the SDK does nothing to make the device easy to use for computer idiots.
You can't build a city by burning it to the ground.
On the contrary, sometimes a fire is just the thing a city needs. Numerous great cities have burned in the past, only to grow back stronger than ever. It's a similar concept to forest fires burning down old and dead trees, to allow room for new growth.
We should also probably be teaching Tolkien fantasy in history class too huh? Discussion of king arthur in schools would take place in english/literature classes, and frankly there are many far more important pieces of literature that should be taught instead. We actually briefly touched on king arthur in my english class my senior year in highschool, as part of a series of lessons on the history of early england, and the development of the english language. Origins of the phrase "to bring to the table" would have been far out of scope.
But hey, why pass by a chance to knock the american public schooling system?
That is where breeder reactors come into play. If you burn the nasty stuff as fuel again you: 1) get a lot more energy from the material you already have at your disposal. 2) reduce the radioactivity of the byproducts. The more you burn your waste as full, the longer the average halflife of the waste becomes.
Longer halflife == safer to handle, contray to popular belief.
I was commenting on your inability to actually form complete and coherent sentences in english. What your response does to address my assertion that you need to grow the hell up if you get offended by a strongly worded post on the internet, I have no fucking idea.
I'd argue it's closer to someone saying "This is the perfect Sci-Fi tablet -- you can get the complete works of Asimov". To the science fiction affectionado with very broad tastes, this statement might seem quite silly. To the average person though, it makes a lot of sense. Asimov is a big name that lots of people know as a pretty damned good author. Are there better authors? More modern and complex authors? Sure, but brand recognition counts for a lot.
For what it's worth, I think that scrabble, or any other board game, on these devices seems like an absolutely dreadful idea. The idea of playing board games is to spend some quality time with good friends, not to stare at a cellphone, surfing the internet between turns.
If you read the rest of his comment, instead immediately jumping on him for doing anything remotely resembling criticizing Apple, you would have read him explaining how this is not news, and thus is not technology related news.
I know the only reason I would ever play a board game is to have fun, and I know that I find Scrabble fun.
Can you explain this logic of yours to me? Because I'm certainly not going to spend my time digging through some forum online to try finding out why somebody thinks that "perfect board game" isn't a subjective term.
You have already given the world all the proof of your idiocy it will ever need.
- excellent, you now have proven every point. Wonderful logic.
Nice selective quoting there. If you were capable of keeping complete trains of thought going in your head for more than one sentence you would realize that I was not attempting to prove any point with that particular sentence. That sentence was an insult and the ones that followed it contained the arguments backing it up.
- ponzi scheme is similar to pyramid,
Only in that they are both scams.
I don't care about the definition of very minor differences between them. They both work by taking money away from a large population and channeling it to a small number of schemers.
That is an incredibly broad description that fits just about any scam in existance. How about I engage in a little selective quoting of my own:
I don't care about the definition
That right there is the crux of this issue. You don't care about the facts.
Whether these schemers are in the know or not is not relevant.
I have no idea what you are attempting to suggest by this. I made no mention of people "being in the know". Are you trying to suggest that people involved in pyramid schemes know they are part of a scam? I'll assume no and give you the benifit of the doubt here...
- why do you bother answering, you have proven already your point by such masterful use of language? So if I am an idiot, are you an idiot for arguing?
Does frying ants with a magnifying glass make you as tiny and flammable as they? Truth is, I do this for fun.
- you can't even differentiate between political believe and economic self-evident truths. Currencies that are not backed up by production or any tangible goods are worthless. Maybe it takes a while for the world to see it, but it will happen
You "being for something" is an opinion, which I have no interest in.
- nice troll by the way. Ad hominem, varios appeals, switching blame around, telling me I have no arguments while it is you have not presented a single one.
The argument which I am presenting becomes apparent when you view the discussion as a whole. In fact, you are actually working to prove my point for me, every time you pile more and more idiocy onto your posts. You see, sometimes all you really need to do is give people more rope with which to hang themselves.
...when you show at least some mastery of the rest of the languages I speak.
ooooh, my what a large e-penis you have. Color me impressed.
Because government is competing illegally, it does not produce anything, so it can print any amount of cash it desires and it does not back it up by anything.
Your ignorance of the Federal Reserve System is astounding.
Excuse me, I mistyped. Ponzi scheme, is that the correct spelling? Ok then. So lets see. A pyramid is when the people close to the top get all the profit, while people on the bottom, who have entered late are getting the bill and no profit at all.
Holy titty-fucking christ, you are stupid. I make the assertion "You do not know what a ponzi scheme is.". Any semi-intelligent person at this point would go look it up, coming back with a proper definition, and act like they knew it all along. You, like a fucking idiot, actually think you know what you are talking about and instead define what a pyramid scheme is. News flash dude, Ponzi schemes are not the same as pyramid schemes. You could have at least googled it...
- what, Hong Kong is not a good enough example of this working well? They are producers, the western civilization at this point are living on Asian credit.
No. A system entirely dependent on currencies created by private citizens and companies what we did before we had a national currency and it was a godawful system that crippled the economy by restricting effective trade. Do some fucking research.
Am I for the gold standard?
I did not ask you about your political beliefs, nor do I give a shit.
Go spend a few hours on wikipedia (you may find the "Simple English" wikipedia better suited for you, since you obviously have the reading comprehension of a blind crackbaby) and come back when you are ready to actually put forth a coherent argument with actual facts and logic.
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This is partially true, though it really depends on what sort of 'pollution' you are talking about. Smoke, fumes, smog, etc, you are probably right, it would suprize me if you weren't. However motorcycles release far less CO2 into the atmosphere than cars, because of their much higher MPGs. Burn less gass, create less CO2. Not that I actually give a crap about CO2 myself, but that might have been what the GP was talking about.
Somehow I'm not seeing how providing a single example of an incident contradicts the phrase "Freight trains are seldom derailed by collisions". Seldom != Never. Besides, in that incident it was the passenger train that derailed the freight train, not the car. If we really want to get into rube goldberg-esque cause and effects, then I suppose you could say it was really an internet dating website that derailed the train...
If you are tailgating someone so extremely with a bike that you cannot avoid a collision if they suddenly come to a stop, then you probably damn well deserve it. What is the average stopping distance of a bicycle, 10 to 15 feet? It couldn't have been at a terribly high rate of speed, seeing as this is cyclists tailgating a car.
Tailgaters get what they deserve, regardless of what they are riding.
The real reason any self-respecting slashdotter should be for these things is eventually this tech will trickle down into the civilan sector where we can actually start having fun with it.
Badass robots... or farm animals. Hmm, really hard choice.... ;)
When was the last time you read "Freight train killed my motorist"?
We all know that cars are bigger than bikes, but that doesn't mean that bikers are freed of responsibility in all cases.
The thing is, guilt-tripping people like that doesn't actually work. If it did, PETA would have long since prevaled I wouldn't still be eating 5 pounds of cow every week. All stunts like that do is undermine your credibility by indicating to people that you are not willing to have a rational discussion, but instead need to resort to emotional arguments.
You seem to be a rather bitter when it comes to this subject so I'll help you out a bit: namecalling and trying to guilt-trip someone who very likely never did anything wrong is not going to win you over any minds. Try keeping a cool head and making reasoned arguments next time.
As a pedestrain (I neither drive, nor bike to work), I could start ranting about how many people bikers run over and hurt/kill while they were minding their own business crossing the streets at crosswalks or walking down the sidewalk every year. I could link you up with articles from local newspapers about a biker striking an older man, then picking up his bike and riding off as the man lay dying on the curb and suggest furiously that somehow you are partially responsible. But then I would look like a jackass, just as you do.
Of course a linksys router runs linux. Linux is a kernel and a router running linux is certainly making use of a good deal of it's functionality. Even if you were refering to "linux" as a desktop operating system, that comparison is nonsensical because there is not "one set of functionality" associated with desktop linux installs. This comparison is even dumber when you consider linux is traditionally most popular in servers, and chances are your linksys router is indeed running many servers, including a webserver, a dhcp server, and probably a telnet and ssh server.
On the other hand, there is a very good reason people say things like "the iPad doesn't run OSX". Suggesting that is does in anything outside of a technical discussion (ie, marketing materials) is disingenuous at best.
Hey! That stuff will get me laid some day! That's how this works right?
No really, you should check it out. You should see how they wax those things.
The grocery store?
Semantics, whether you are paying for the SDK, or the right to use programs you make, my point stands.
I fail to see why we should force kids today to pick up decades old computers to learn how to program. Sure they can do that, and there are arguably advantages to doing that, but why should they have to do that? It's like expecting teenagers to learn how to drive Model Ts before they can drive a modern car.
I understand not reading TFA, but at least read the fucking summary. One of his issues is "With every software update, the previous generation of "jailbreaks" stop working, and people have to find new ways to break into their own computers", and I must say, I agree.
How are "making a device that can be used by anybody" and "allowing open development" mutually exclusive? I'm pretty sure Mac OSX has shown that it's not. Charging $99 for the SDK does nothing to make the device easy to use for computer idiots.
On the contrary, sometimes a fire is just the thing a city needs. Numerous great cities have burned in the past, only to grow back stronger than ever. It's a similar concept to forest fires burning down old and dead trees, to allow room for new growth.
We should also probably be teaching Tolkien fantasy in history class too huh? Discussion of king arthur in schools would take place in english/literature classes, and frankly there are many far more important pieces of literature that should be taught instead. We actually briefly touched on king arthur in my english class my senior year in highschool, as part of a series of lessons on the history of early england, and the development of the english language. Origins of the phrase "to bring to the table" would have been far out of scope.
But hey, why pass by a chance to knock the american public schooling system?
That is where breeder reactors come into play. If you burn the nasty stuff as fuel again you: 1) get a lot more energy from the material you already have at your disposal. 2) reduce the radioactivity of the byproducts. The more you burn your waste as full, the longer the average halflife of the waste becomes.
Longer halflife == safer to handle, contray to popular belief.
I was commenting on your inability to actually form complete and coherent sentences in english. What your response does to address my assertion that you need to grow the hell up if you get offended by a strongly worded post on the internet, I have no fucking idea.
Hope that helps? That doesn't even parse in my brain as english!
Go take your meds.
I'd argue it's closer to someone saying "This is the perfect Sci-Fi tablet -- you can get the complete works of Asimov". To the science fiction affectionado with very broad tastes, this statement might seem quite silly. To the average person though, it makes a lot of sense. Asimov is a big name that lots of people know as a pretty damned good author. Are there better authors? More modern and complex authors? Sure, but brand recognition counts for a lot.
For what it's worth, I think that scrabble, or any other board game, on these devices seems like an absolutely dreadful idea. The idea of playing board games is to spend some quality time with good friends, not to stare at a cellphone, surfing the internet between turns.
If you read the rest of his comment, instead immediately jumping on him for doing anything remotely resembling criticizing Apple, you would have read him explaining how this is not news, and thus is not technology related news.
I know the only reason I would ever play a board game is to have fun, and I know that I find Scrabble fun.
Can you explain this logic of yours to me? Because I'm certainly not going to spend my time digging through some forum online to try finding out why somebody thinks that "perfect board game" isn't a subjective term.
You have already given the world all the proof of your idiocy it will ever need.
Nice selective quoting there. If you were capable of keeping complete trains of thought going in your head for more than one sentence you would realize that I was not attempting to prove any point with that particular sentence. That sentence was an insult and the ones that followed it contained the arguments backing it up.
Only in that they are both scams.
That is an incredibly broad description that fits just about any scam in existance. How about I engage in a little selective quoting of my own:
That right there is the crux of this issue. You don't care about the facts.
I have no idea what you are attempting to suggest by this. I made no mention of people "being in the know". Are you trying to suggest that people involved in pyramid schemes know they are part of a scam? I'll assume no and give you the benifit of the doubt here...
Does frying ants with a magnifying glass make you as tiny and flammable as they? Truth is, I do this for fun.
You "being for something" is an opinion, which I have no interest in.
The argument which I am presenting becomes apparent when you view the discussion as a whole. In fact, you are actually working to prove my point for me, every time you pile more and more idiocy onto your posts. You see, sometimes all you really need to do is give people more rope with which to hang themselves.
ooooh, my what a large e-penis you have. Color me impressed.
Your ignorance of the Federal Reserve System is astounding.
Holy titty-fucking christ, you are stupid. I make the assertion "You do not know what a ponzi scheme is.". Any semi-intelligent person at this point would go look it up, coming back with a proper definition, and act like they knew it all along. You, like a fucking idiot, actually think you know what you are talking about and instead define what a pyramid scheme is. News flash dude, Ponzi schemes are not the same as pyramid schemes. You could have at least googled it...
No. A system entirely dependent on currencies created by private citizens and companies what we did before we had a national currency and it was a godawful system that crippled the economy by restricting effective trade. Do some fucking research.
I did not ask you about your political beliefs, nor do I give a shit.
Go spend a few hours on wikipedia (you may find the "Simple English" wikipedia better suited for you, since you obviously have the reading comprehension of a blind crackbaby) and come back when you are ready to actually put forth a coherent argument with actual facts and logic.
Somebody please, give this man a rimshot!