You don't think a lack of drinking water would be a really good reason to build a lot of nuke distillation/desalination plants?
Water isn't a scarce resource and neither is clean water (yet) that's why we don't have the capacity to purify lots of water. If we'd need it we would build the capacity.
No more than a ponzi scheme eh? You don't think we produce stuff more efficiently today than we did 10 years ago? You think all the growth is due to population increase and population increase alone?
How do you explain the economic growth in countries with negative or no population increase?
There's a mod for the original half-life that's called Natural Selection. The teams are aliens vs space marines and the teams are not "symmetric". The lowest class of alien is a dog sized thingy that kills a marine with two bites (it doesn't take more than half a second). It's fast as hell and can climb walls. Due to these mechanics a lone marine is a dead marine. You have to move together as marines or you're toast. That is the game that's given me the best teamwork experience on public servers.
It's probably not worth picking up due to it being so old. You will get your ass handed to you over and over. I do, however agree that more often than not public is a wasteland when it comes to teamwork.
Is that a new acronym that substitutes GMO? GE implies an organism made from scratch or at least have parts of its genome directly engineered (as oposed to cut and paste from existing organisms).
It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that Australia is an isolated continent and needs to send all data through underwater pipes which puts a premium on all connections outside Australia?
Most of Europe doesn't have any throttling or any caps. In Sweden I only ever heard of one guy that had a cap and he had 100/100 fiber just one or two hops from the backbone. This was three years ago and I think his cap was 200GB and he could buy more in 100GB increments for a fairly low sum.
The fastest pipe I can get is 8/1 ADSL at 50$ a month. It's about 80% of advertised speed all the time and latency is good all the time. When I had a bandwidth monitor I used about between 100 and 200 GB per month with a mean of about 120. I never got any slowdowns and I never got any complaints.
From where I stand capped pipes are the exception and I understand that you think it's normal but it doesn't have to be. I see four possibilities:
1. European (and Japanese) ISP's are altruists.
2. You're getting raped by your ISP's
3. Australia's international traffic is more expensive due to fewer interconnects
4. A combination of 2 and 3.
The other method would be to back up all your settings (one folder C:\Documents and Settings\$USER\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\$random.default IIRC). Then install the regular RC.
A dose would be the amount of nicotine absorbed in the body at each instance of smoking, chewing or using dip.
Do you have a case where someone has worn multiple nicotine patches and then smoked a cigarette and died from it?
IMO dangerous and harmful are two different things. I would define dangerous as something that is risky i.e. running with scissors. And harmful as something that causes injuries or sickness over the long or short term. Running with scissors is dangerous but it isn't harmful unless you fall down. And the same is somewhat true for nicotine. It isn't that harmful in and of it self. It's dangerous to overdose but accidental lethal or possibly lethal overdoses through normal use is unheard of (unless you can supply a case).
The research done on Swedish steam cured snuff(snus)with low levels of nitrosamines are inconclusive and that isn't even pure nicotine (other chemicals are might be the cause). I haven't read any long term studies done on nicotine patches and the like.
I'm not interested in animals eating tobacco, children swallowing butts or compulsive eaters swallowing either. I'm interested in smokers, chewers or snuffers that have given themselves lethal or near lethal overdoses.
Heroin gets you constipated. It's not dangerous to the body in and of itself. Look it up, you won't find any physical side effects other than constipation and perhaps itching. It's addictive as hell but its side effects are very mild compared to most other drugs.
What kind of idiotic reasoning is that? Is there even a known case of a tobacco user accidently getting a fatal overdose of nicotine from comercially produced tobacco?
If you'd talked about nicotines effects on the cardiovascular system or other health effects you would at least have had a point. But calling nicotine bad because taking 50+ doses at the same time could be fatal is idiotic.
Are you kidding me on the resource hog part? My top of the line (2.5 years ago) could run that game at low resolutions at medium quality. And this is an RTS-game that looks like a FPS game one or two generations old.
Is there a single RTS-game out the that isn't a clickfest? At least in WiC you only need to control 3-10 units at the most.
Don't you think the same would be true for kelvin if it was used in every day situations? I know it's the same for celsius and at least that is easily converted to kelvin.
That's the most brilliant thing I've seen in it so far (I've used the portable beta 3 for about an hour). When the password prompt isn't a window you can make sure the pasword is correct before storing it.
In most countries there is this thing called competition which means that ISP's give you what they sell i.e. 8/1 megabits of traffic per second and they don't hassle you if you use it. I've never heard of anyone getting a notice for "overutilizing" their connection. Over here I've only heard of one guy with a metered connection and he had 100/100 fiber and a monthly allowance of 200GB before he has to pay more. But that was three or so years ago so I don't know what flies nowadays.
Whether or not a country has metered connections and/or ISP's that bitch if you use your connection seems to depend either on data costs (Australia) or lack of competition (USA).
It hasn't "flattened" the world - the rich are still getting richer, the poor still live in squalor; good students still use traditional journals to research, mediocre students crib off their peers (whether that's by copying chunks from the guy across the dorm or the undergrad who wrote a Wikipedia entry, the result is the same); wars are still being waged; freedoms are being withdrawn with full force from citizens in Western nations; heavy industry and big pharma is more "closed source" than ever, with everything privatised under the Sun, and the Internet has done little to open up either field.
Please provide statistics that show absolute poverty remaining the same.
Please provide statistics that shows the number of killed in armed conflict remaining the same.
You will not find any but when you don't, will you change your unfounded negative opinion of the state of the world?
You can't have it both ways. Either culture is the same as TV/movies and music or it's not. If it is no country on this earth is "devoid" of orignal culture but has a large fraction of imported American culture. If it isn't no country on this earth is "devoid" of original culture and has but a small fraction of imported American culture. In other words you are plainly wrong however you put it.
As long as no laws are made prohibiting languages, holidays or demolishing historical structures I don't see a problem that people choose American "culture" before or rather side by side with their own. How you are going to inhibit this voluntary exchange is beyond me. Also you should be forced to watch indigenous Swedish TV-series. After a few minutes you should understand why people prefer American TV.
I call BS. How could you prove anything but a strong correlation between Beethoven and intelligence? What is the actual mechanism that makes you smart due to auditory input?
I find it much more likely that people listen to classical music because they are smart not that classical music makes them smart. And that's from someone who isn't very smart but appreciates classical music.
Australia is not unique in that. On our equivalent of ebay (since a few years back also owned by ebay) the preferred method of payment is direct bank transfer. I've bought twenty or so items and only ever had a problem with one incompetent seller that only prolonged full delivery somewhat. There is, however, an unrelated escrow service which is very useful when buying more expensive items. Deposit money, seller gets an email confirming the money is deposited, when the item is received you authorize release of the money. All this is done with a minimal web interface and costs 5% of the total. I can't really say how well this works when there is trouble since I've never had a problem with it. I assume it's no more safe than paypal but at least the you only "need" to use it on more expensive items.
I've no idea what you're talking about now. Using the word Reason in the context of this discussion and replying to what appears to be a libertarian, the word could have three meanings. Reason as in reason, reason as in the atomic powered gattling gun and finally reason the libertarian magazine. I chose the latter two when attempting a joke. It obviously failed. You responded by implying that reason is not a magnetic gattling gun but an atomic powered automatic cannon. I disputed that it was an automatic cannon due to the barrel count and stood by my claim that it works by electromagnetism. I never implied that it didn't use nuclear power.
How would I know that Reason has six barrels and fires metal slugs (depleted uranium AFAICR)if I hadn't read the book or at least knew that Reason is the name of a fictional weapon?
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You don't think a lack of drinking water would be a really good reason to build a lot of nuke distillation/desalination plants?
Water isn't a scarce resource and neither is clean water (yet) that's why we don't have the capacity to purify lots of water. If we'd need it we would build the capacity.
No more than a ponzi scheme eh? You don't think we produce stuff more efficiently today than we did 10 years ago? You think all the growth is due to population increase and population increase alone?
How do you explain the economic growth in countries with negative or no population increase?
There's a mod for the original half-life that's called Natural Selection. The teams are aliens vs space marines and the teams are not "symmetric". The lowest class of alien is a dog sized thingy that kills a marine with two bites (it doesn't take more than half a second). It's fast as hell and can climb walls. Due to these mechanics a lone marine is a dead marine. You have to move together as marines or you're toast. That is the game that's given me the best teamwork experience on public servers.
It's probably not worth picking up due to it being so old. You will get your ass handed to you over and over. I do, however agree that more often than not public is a wasteland when it comes to teamwork.
Is that a new acronym that substitutes GMO? GE implies an organism made from scratch or at least have parts of its genome directly engineered (as oposed to cut and paste from existing organisms).
It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that Australia is an isolated continent and needs to send all data through underwater pipes which puts a premium on all connections outside Australia?
Most of Europe doesn't have any throttling or any caps. In Sweden I only ever heard of one guy that had a cap and he had 100/100 fiber just one or two hops from the backbone. This was three years ago and I think his cap was 200GB and he could buy more in 100GB increments for a fairly low sum.
The fastest pipe I can get is 8/1 ADSL at 50$ a month. It's about 80% of advertised speed all the time and latency is good all the time. When I had a bandwidth monitor I used about between 100 and 200 GB per month with a mean of about 120. I never got any slowdowns and I never got any complaints.
From where I stand capped pipes are the exception and I understand that you think it's normal but it doesn't have to be. I see four possibilities:
1. European (and Japanese) ISP's are altruists.
2. You're getting raped by your ISP's
3. Australia's international traffic is more expensive due to fewer interconnects
4. A combination of 2 and 3.
Download portable firefox if you want to try it out without any risk. But you'll need to configure it from scratch.
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test
The other method would be to back up all your settings (one folder C:\Documents and Settings\$USER\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\$random.default IIRC). Then install the regular RC.
Stanford prison experiment.
It wasn't even a few bad apples, it was human nature.
A dose would be the amount of nicotine absorbed in the body at each instance of smoking, chewing or using dip.
Do you have a case where someone has worn multiple nicotine patches and then smoked a cigarette and died from it?
IMO dangerous and harmful are two different things. I would define dangerous as something that is risky i.e. running with scissors. And harmful as something that causes injuries or sickness over the long or short term. Running with scissors is dangerous but it isn't harmful unless you fall down. And the same is somewhat true for nicotine. It isn't that harmful in and of it self. It's dangerous to overdose but accidental lethal or possibly lethal overdoses through normal use is unheard of (unless you can supply a case).
The research done on Swedish steam cured snuff(snus)with low levels of nitrosamines are inconclusive and that isn't even pure nicotine (other chemicals are might be the cause). I haven't read any long term studies done on nicotine patches and the like.
I'm not interested in animals eating tobacco, children swallowing butts or compulsive eaters swallowing either. I'm interested in smokers, chewers or snuffers that have given themselves lethal or near lethal overdoses.
Heroin gets you constipated. It's not dangerous to the body in and of itself. Look it up, you won't find any physical side effects other than constipation and perhaps itching. It's addictive as hell but its side effects are very mild compared to most other drugs.
What kind of idiotic reasoning is that? Is there even a known case of a tobacco user accidently getting a fatal overdose of nicotine from comercially produced tobacco?
If you'd talked about nicotines effects on the cardiovascular system or other health effects you would at least have had a point. But calling nicotine bad because taking 50+ doses at the same time could be fatal is idiotic.
Are you kidding me on the resource hog part? My top of the line (2.5 years ago) could run that game at low resolutions at medium quality. And this is an RTS-game that looks like a FPS game one or two generations old.
Is there a single RTS-game out the that isn't a clickfest? At least in WiC you only need to control 3-10 units at the most.
Are you a member of the department for redundancy department?
Don't you think the same would be true for kelvin if it was used in every day situations? I know it's the same for celsius and at least that is easily converted to kelvin.
That's the most brilliant thing I've seen in it so far (I've used the portable beta 3 for about an hour). When the password prompt isn't a window you can make sure the pasword is correct before storing it.
You should take some consolation from the fact that you made a mistake in a thread titled "stupid stupid stupid".
In most countries there is this thing called competition which means that ISP's give you what they sell i.e. 8/1 megabits of traffic per second and they don't hassle you if you use it. I've never heard of anyone getting a notice for "overutilizing" their connection. Over here I've only heard of one guy with a metered connection and he had 100/100 fiber and a monthly allowance of 200GB before he has to pay more. But that was three or so years ago so I don't know what flies nowadays.
Whether or not a country has metered connections and/or ISP's that bitch if you use your connection seems to depend either on data costs (Australia) or lack of competition (USA).
Please provide statistics that shows the number of killed in armed conflict remaining the same.
You will not find any but when you don't, will you change your unfounded negative opinion of the state of the world?
You can't have it both ways. Either culture is the same as TV/movies and music or it's not. If it is no country on this earth is "devoid" of orignal culture but has a large fraction of imported American culture. If it isn't no country on this earth is "devoid" of original culture and has but a small fraction of imported American culture. In other words you are plainly wrong however you put it.
As long as no laws are made prohibiting languages, holidays or demolishing historical structures I don't see a problem that people choose American "culture" before or rather side by side with their own. How you are going to inhibit this voluntary exchange is beyond me. Also you should be forced to watch indigenous Swedish TV-series. After a few minutes you should understand why people prefer American TV.
What does "devoid of culture mean" in your original post?
You say this like it's a bad thing.
Also about 50% television programming and some music does not equal culture.
I call BS. How could you prove anything but a strong correlation between Beethoven and intelligence? What is the actual mechanism that makes you smart due to auditory input?
I find it much more likely that people listen to classical music because they are smart not that classical music makes them smart. And that's from someone who isn't very smart but appreciates classical music.
Australia is not unique in that. On our equivalent of ebay (since a few years back also owned by ebay) the preferred method of payment is direct bank transfer. I've bought twenty or so items and only ever had a problem with one incompetent seller that only prolonged full delivery somewhat. There is, however, an unrelated escrow service which is very useful when buying more expensive items. Deposit money, seller gets an email confirming the money is deposited, when the item is received you authorize release of the money. All this is done with a minimal web interface and costs 5% of the total. I can't really say how well this works when there is trouble since I've never had a problem with it. I assume it's no more safe than paypal but at least the you only "need" to use it on more expensive items.
Why would you need pseudoephedrine in a histamine pill?
It might pep you up but does it do anything else?
It was a joke, small male child.
I've no idea what you're talking about now. Using the word Reason in the context of this discussion and replying to what appears to be a libertarian, the word could have three meanings. Reason as in reason, reason as in the atomic powered gattling gun and finally reason the libertarian magazine. I chose the latter two when attempting a joke. It obviously failed. You responded by implying that reason is not a magnetic gattling gun but an atomic powered automatic cannon. I disputed that it was an automatic cannon due to the barrel count and stood by my claim that it works by electromagnetism. I never implied that it didn't use nuclear power.
How would I know that Reason has six barrels and fires metal slugs (depleted uranium AFAICR)if I hadn't read the book or at least knew that Reason is the name of a fictional weapon?
The real lesson is that tuna and mackarel should never be mixed.