"America has the highest overall quality health care" also not true. You have the best healthcare for the richest people in the world BUT that doesn't speak for overall healthcare. For overall healthcare you place just below costa rica, just above cuba.
But I was referring to the inherent shit of the setup not particularly the care you get when you are there. Most places in the world the system is this: you have healthcare. In the US it is incredibly complex, can result in huge legal troubles, shit tons of bureaucracy and changing jobs could result in you permenantly losing healthcare. (Rates can multiply by 10 when you change jobs due to conditions you get while working.) This type of setup can force people to essentially be slaves for their company since it is death if they switch. And that is just ONE possible example of complications. There are many more.
If i cut my hand badly I go: oh fuck I have to go to the hospital. In the states I go, oh fuck, is this covered? How much will my premiums rise? Is it worth the cost? I could probably be ok if i just kept it under pressure. Fuck, I shouldn't have quit my job last month. Do I think we'll come out of the recession fast enough or could I lose my house over this, maybe I can risk a thumb.
Things you shouldn't be thinking as your blood drains out of you and you risk your fingers going necrotic.
At lunch maybe you think of something relevant online to the conversation to show people. Maybe it is a [citation needed] situation, maybe some pianist on youtube that you think is awesome. Whipping out a laptop is rarely ok, but a cellphone could work. The cellphone needs to be able to balance standing easily and aim the projector downwards (with some correction to fix the skewing) to allow to you show things on the table. Or to be able to point it at a wall if you want to do so. This would be a powerful use.
The other option is cellphones turning into netbooks. A projector combined with a camera or ladar type system gives you a screen and a full size keyboard on your desk, in something that fits in a pocket! That is truly powerful. You only need a 12x10cm 'screen' not poster sized for that to have vast uses. I'm sure given time I could think of more uses for a phone projector but I imagine time will tell better than I ever could.
The only reason I was thinking of buying that was to turn my older cellphone into a very tiny laptop. Take that projector, attach the phone to it, have a usable stand of battery, done. Phones have as much processing power as older laptops, and with the added resolution you could install linux on it, ignoring shitty phone OSs. You could also use HUD type glasses in lieu of a pico projector if you are going for the startrek TNG look (*obviously not afraid of looking like a nerd*). Figured I could fit it in a rather bulky pocket and get a few hours battery life out of it.
Sadly my phone didn't have a projector so the cost was fairly prohibitive for me. But! Assuming battery life gets better (I honestly don't care if my phone grows in size a bit once it eats the functionality of my ipod) to allow pico projectors to be at usable brightness during the day for over an hour I'll be sold. Something in the form factor of the projector keyboard would be perfect.
SSDs are improving very quickly. Yes they are more prone but that isn't the main story. We know much more about regular HDDs and their failure modes than we do for SSDs. Because of this SSDs seem to fail without warning, or don't degrade as nicely. Which is more of the problem tbh.
Developing a fast cheap smart grid seems more of google's biz than actual energy production. I'm sure the have experience with their heft energy usage. Perhaps it is part of getting into that business? Likely google is just doing energy for themselves and keeping more doors open because... that's simply being prudent.
They should only tax the people that voted this idiot in by your measure.
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Twitter - like headlines without the article.
Maybe it'd work for the/. crowd that doesn't RTFA. But what it does is it enforces shallow interaction at all points. Shallow interactions leave people feeling they know more than they do. Like republican's not believing in global warming because its snowing outside. Enforced ignorance sucks.
Brevity may yet be the soul of wit but Shakespeare meant to limit tediousness, not to day to day limit one's self to 140 characters; "tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes". In fact, his example of brevity is 193 characters long, further delving into Hamlet's madness after the initial statement...
"These natural sources are nearly balanced by physical and biological processes, called natural sinks, which remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. For example, some carbon dioxide dissolves in sea water, and some is removed by plants during the photosynthesis.
During the 100,000 year ice age cycle, CO2 varies between a low of approximately 200 ppm during cold periods and a high of 280 ppm during interglacials. Recent human influences have increased this to above 380 ppm. There is a large natural flux of CO2 into and out of the biosphere and oceans. In the pre-industrial era these fluxes were largely in balance. Currently about 57% of human-emitted CO2 is removed by the biosphere and oceans.[11] The ratio of the increase in atmospheric CO2 to emitted CO2 is known as the airborne fraction (Keeling et al., 1995); this varies for short-term averages but is typically about 45% over longer (5 year) periods."
From the next paragraph. Also, you said oceans and volcanoes NOT rot and fire. Also you did say I was a liar and then quoted the exact same thing as me. That [10] citation from the wiki is what I linked you before...
"Google might be intentionally implementing circumventable censorship" Honestly I think Google wants to follow local laws rather than the laws of everyone at the same time, or perhaps just American laws. Google books is disheartening for me in Canada because books that are out of copyright are blocked... since US copyright extends back to when people wrote on scrolls. Following local rules would make it much more friendly.
"I hope you're right." - me too haha....
And I don't think the patent means anything at all. It would be hilariously indefensible. They can't use it to break the law obviously so it doesn't help them there. And the amount of prior art on it goes back forever. Lastly all of the companies they'd want to harass with it are big and have the legal teams to knock the flimsy patent down no problem.
This. Black-hats are a group that need to avoid getting found so it is good to look at how they do it. Setting up multiple personas to have 'scripts' to go on that data miners grab hold of. And the other way is to make a lot of random meaningless noise. Lastly you give as little real information as possible.
You need to approach it from all angles. You don't necessarily need to give up your favourite w/e u-verse so long as you do other things.
Through a proxy gives interesting results. The initial web search shows the images in the preview but when you switch to the Google image search you get the following message: "" - "According to the local legislation laws and regulations and the policy, the search results will not show."
So it is sort of part way between their old position and their big change of heart. (From what I've heard, I never tried to proxy before.). Wish I checked by proxy over the last weeks.
Point is that Google is already ignoring certain countries laws on what they can show, by showing politically sensitive things, supporting freedom of speech. So foreign countries are already benefiting from Google, I don't expect that to vanish. At the moment though people in first world countries are not benefiting. If Google uses this patent as a way to remove censorship from things (Such as Google Books) then it could be a good thing for us.
Also, not everyone needs access to the proxies, proxies are holes in a wall. Only a few people need to go through and get the information to spread. But again, it all matters whether Google uses this to censor more or censor less. Also, having this particular patent is meaningless, since they were already censoring by region, Canada not getting access to many things Americans do. It might signify some kind of shift, and with the recent China change I am hopeful that it is for the best.
"And the fact is saying that human CO2 emissions are "infinitesimal" is to miss the point entirely." It is also a complete and total lie.
"Scientists have calculated that volcanoes emit between about 130-230 million tonnes (145-255 million tons) of CO2 into the atmosphere every year (Gerlach, 1999, 1992). This estimate includes both subaerial and submarine volcanoes, about in equal amounts. Emissions of CO2 by human activities, including fossil fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring, amount to about 22 billion tonnes per year (24 billion tons) [ ( Marland, et al., 1998) - The reference gives the amount of released carbon (C), rather than CO2.]. Human activities release more than 150 times the amount of CO2 emitted by volcanoes--the equivalent of nearly 17,000 additional volcanoes like Kilauea (Kilauea emits about 13.2 million tonnes/year)!"
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"America has the highest overall quality health care" also not true. You have the best healthcare for the richest people in the world BUT that doesn't speak for overall healthcare. For overall healthcare you place just below costa rica, just above cuba.
But I was referring to the inherent shit of the setup not particularly the care you get when you are there. Most places in the world the system is this: you have healthcare. In the US it is incredibly complex, can result in huge legal troubles, shit tons of bureaucracy and changing jobs could result in you permenantly losing healthcare. (Rates can multiply by 10 when you change jobs due to conditions you get while working.) This type of setup can force people to essentially be slaves for their company since it is death if they switch. And that is just ONE possible example of complications. There are many more.
If i cut my hand badly I go: oh fuck I have to go to the hospital. In the states I go, oh fuck, is this covered? How much will my premiums rise? Is it worth the cost? I could probably be ok if i just kept it under pressure. Fuck, I shouldn't have quit my job last month. Do I think we'll come out of the recession fast enough or could I lose my house over this, maybe I can risk a thumb.
Things you shouldn't be thinking as your blood drains out of you and you risk your fingers going necrotic.
American health care sucking horribly.
It's more like "No one picks on my little sister but me." .... --Big Brother
Like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bOD17rMSKI ? This seems like it is pretty standard with latest phones.
Why the wall? ... Tables are flat surfaces AFAIK...
At lunch maybe you think of something relevant online to the conversation to show people. Maybe it is a [citation needed] situation, maybe some pianist on youtube that you think is awesome. Whipping out a laptop is rarely ok, but a cellphone could work. The cellphone needs to be able to balance standing easily and aim the projector downwards (with some correction to fix the skewing) to allow to you show things on the table. Or to be able to point it at a wall if you want to do so. This would be a powerful use.
The other option is cellphones turning into netbooks. A projector combined with a camera or ladar type system gives you a screen and a full size keyboard on your desk, in something that fits in a pocket! That is truly powerful. You only need a 12x10cm 'screen' not poster sized for that to have vast uses. I'm sure given time I could think of more uses for a phone projector but I imagine time will tell better than I ever could.
The only reason I was thinking of buying that was to turn my older cellphone into a very tiny laptop. Take that projector, attach the phone to it, have a usable stand of battery, done. Phones have as much processing power as older laptops, and with the added resolution you could install linux on it, ignoring shitty phone OSs. You could also use HUD type glasses in lieu of a pico projector if you are going for the startrek TNG look (*obviously not afraid of looking like a nerd*). Figured I could fit it in a rather bulky pocket and get a few hours battery life out of it.
Sadly my phone didn't have a projector so the cost was fairly prohibitive for me. But! Assuming battery life gets better (I honestly don't care if my phone grows in size a bit once it eats the functionality of my ipod) to allow pico projectors to be at usable brightness during the day for over an hour I'll be sold. Something in the form factor of the projector keyboard would be perfect.
SSDs are improving very quickly. Yes they are more prone but that isn't the main story. We know much more about regular HDDs and their failure modes than we do for SSDs. Because of this SSDs seem to fail without warning, or don't degrade as nicely. Which is more of the problem tbh.
Developing a fast cheap smart grid seems more of google's biz than actual energy production. I'm sure the have experience with their heft energy usage. Perhaps it is part of getting into that business? Likely google is just doing energy for themselves and keeping more doors open because ... that's simply being prudent.
They should only tax the people that voted this idiot in by your measure.
Twitter - like headlines without the article.
/. crowd that doesn't RTFA. But what it does is it enforces shallow interaction at all points. Shallow interactions leave people feeling they know more than they do. Like republican's not believing in global warming because its snowing outside. Enforced ignorance sucks.
Maybe it'd work for the
Brevity may yet be the soul of wit but Shakespeare meant to limit tediousness, not to day to day limit one's self to 140 characters; "tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes". In fact, his example of brevity is 193 characters long, further delving into Hamlet's madness after the initial statement...
"once it starts charging $2.95 per month to use it" FUD or hilarious. If Facebook charged $1 once it would be gone in a matter of hours.
Facebook HAS decimated Myspace though..... sooooo
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/CANDU_fuel_cycles.jpg
... chain.
As humans are to the food chain, CANDU is to the nuclear fuel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candu
Come on America, you know you want to.
"This is a drop in the bucket from a stimulus perspective, and a drop in the bucket of our nation's energy infrastructure."
Probably true BUT the cost to effect ratio is really really good. Making it something to applaud.
Sad when TFA is almost as short as the link to it, god twitter sucks.
"These natural sources are nearly balanced by physical and biological processes, called natural sinks, which remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. For example, some carbon dioxide dissolves in sea water, and some is removed by plants during the photosynthesis.
During the 100,000 year ice age cycle, CO2 varies between a low of approximately 200 ppm during cold periods and a high of 280 ppm during interglacials. Recent human influences have increased this to above 380 ppm. There is a large natural flux of CO2 into and out of the biosphere and oceans. In the pre-industrial era these fluxes were largely in balance. Currently about 57% of human-emitted CO2 is removed by the biosphere and oceans.[11] The ratio of the increase in atmospheric CO2 to emitted CO2 is known as the airborne fraction (Keeling et al., 1995); this varies for short-term averages but is typically about 45% over longer (5 year) periods."
From the next paragraph. Also, you said oceans and volcanoes NOT rot and fire. Also you did say I was a liar and then quoted the exact same thing as me. That [10] citation from the wiki is what I linked you before...
"Google might be intentionally implementing circumventable censorship" ... since US copyright extends back to when people wrote on scrolls. Following local rules would make it much more friendly.
Honestly I think Google wants to follow local laws rather than the laws of everyone at the same time, or perhaps just American laws. Google books is disheartening for me in Canada because books that are out of copyright are blocked
"I hope you're right." - me too haha....
And I don't think the patent means anything at all. It would be hilariously indefensible. They can't use it to break the law obviously so it doesn't help them there. And the amount of prior art on it goes back forever. Lastly all of the companies they'd want to harass with it are big and have the legal teams to knock the flimsy patent down no problem.
This.
Black-hats are a group that need to avoid getting found so it is good to look at how they do it. Setting up multiple personas to have 'scripts' to go on that data miners grab hold of. And the other way is to make a lot of random meaningless noise. Lastly you give as little real information as possible.
You need to approach it from all angles. You don't necessarily need to give up your favourite w/e u-verse so long as you do other things.
Through a proxy gives interesting results. The initial web search shows the images in the preview but when you switch to the Google image search you get the following message: "" - "According to the local legislation laws and regulations and the policy, the search results will not show."
So it is sort of part way between their old position and their big change of heart. (From what I've heard, I never tried to proxy before.). Wish I checked by proxy over the last weeks.
They also don't use nuclear, which personally I think is lame.
BTW, Vancouver is in BC.... And they have carbon offsets available to reach zero emissions.
Point is that Google is already ignoring certain countries laws on what they can show, by showing politically sensitive things, supporting freedom of speech. So foreign countries are already benefiting from Google, I don't expect that to vanish. At the moment though people in first world countries are not benefiting. If Google uses this patent as a way to remove censorship from things (Such as Google Books) then it could be a good thing for us.
Also, not everyone needs access to the proxies, proxies are holes in a wall. Only a few people need to go through and get the information to spread. But again, it all matters whether Google uses this to censor more or censor less. Also, having this particular patent is meaningless, since they were already censoring by region, Canada not getting access to many things Americans do. It might signify some kind of shift, and with the recent China change I am hopeful that it is for the best.
"The fact is that the CO2 that humans put into the atmosphere is infinitesimal compared to volcanoes and the oceans."
Complete and total lie.
"And the fact is saying that human CO2 emissions are "infinitesimal" is to miss the point entirely."
It is also a complete and total lie.
"Scientists have calculated that volcanoes emit between about 130-230 million tonnes (145-255 million tons) of CO2 into the atmosphere every year (Gerlach, 1999, 1992). This estimate includes both subaerial and submarine volcanoes, about in equal amounts. Emissions of CO2 by human activities, including fossil fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring, amount to about 22 billion tonnes per year (24 billion tons) [ ( Marland, et al., 1998) - The reference gives the amount of released carbon (C), rather than CO2.]. Human activities release more than 150 times the amount of CO2 emitted by volcanoes--the equivalent of nearly 17,000 additional volcanoes like Kilauea (Kilauea emits about 13.2 million tonnes/year)!"