Comment Re:danger vs taste (Score 1) 630
Drinking 119+ litres of _water_ every day is going to have negative effects
On the plus side, you'll be dead so you won't notice them.
Drinking 119+ litres of _water_ every day is going to have negative effects
On the plus side, you'll be dead so you won't notice them.
If you are thirsty, try tap water.
Or, if you're not a child, beer.
Audi Creates Fuel of the Future using just Carbon Dioxide and Water and Incredible Amounts of Energy
I seriously doubt anyone here thought they just mixed up Carbon Dioxide and Water in a beer barrel and had instant diesel on tap.
Germany actually pays its neighbors to take it when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining as the price of electricity between utility companies goes negative.
The obvious solution is to nationalise the utility companies and reduce the artificial inter-company trading then. But, I know, socialism.
It's only bad if you are trying to make money. If you just want clean energy, it's excellent. For-profit generation seems to be the real issue.
Most governments in Europe are believers in the free market religion, so that anything that doesn't generate profit is bad.
The EV might be ok for the american suburbs where everyone has a big house with a garage, but for for european ones where almost everyone live in apartments where you park your car either in the stress or on some parking lots.
Geez, I couldn't live like that. Just not having a place for my outdoor grill and smoker....or a place to set up my burners and pots for a crawfish boil (or do some home brewing) out back would drive me crazy.
I'd miss cooking out and having a bunch of friends over on the weekends.
I honestly can't tell whether you're mocking the OP's generalisation or trying to confirm it.
In reality, plenty of people in the US live in apartments, and plenty of people in Yurp have houses with garages.
I think the really important thing to take away is that in some universe, all
In that universe, you wouldn't be you.
A bunch of teenagers dressed provocatively trying to marry a band member. It would drive them nuts, as it did me.
Because they didn't want to marry you instead?
Android is going become extinct, and windows phone is the future!
Personally, I'm still hoping for an old skool retro MS-DOS 3.0 phone powered by a car battery and approximately the size and weight of a manual typewriter.
Well, it's not entirely pointless, as you can still use the pre-loaded apps and use usb to sync your music and movies to it.
And you can make phone calls!!
Only old people make phone calls.
When I first saw it, I assumed that it meant people born in or after 2000.
All the folks who know ancient Greek have better things to do? Like what?
Wanking off to the plays of Aristophanes probably. I for one collect jokes. Here's one:
If Euripides his trousers, then Eumenides his trousers
Ha, Ha Ha, HAHAHAHAHAHA
No, it's if Euripides trousers, then Eumenides trousers.
The "des" ending is pronounced "dese" as in "these".
12 years into my career and I've never been fired it laid off. Maybe you need to rethink how good you think you are?
If you never fail, you aren't trying ambitious enough projects, or you're sandbagging. If you're not occasionally pissing off managers, you're not doing your job as a senior engineer. Sometimes you get a petty manager who only wants minions and finds an excuse to remove you. *shrug* If you're good, you move to a better job.
I do interesting project the right way, and I target aggressive schedules. I tell managers when they're full of shit. If that's not right for a company, I'll be leaving eventually, one way or another. Why work at a crap company?
As is usual on slashdot, you are generalising from your own situation.
The truth is that, for most people, a job is just something that lets you eat and pay your bills, and the concept of "interesting" is just a handy bonus rather than a necessity.
Well now, this should end up a wonderful thread full of angsty "geniuses" whining about how they can totally identify with the Termites because no one "gets" them.
It's the geek equivalent of teenage girls moaning about how hard it is to be beautiful, and how they wish they could be plain like their friends, who have really great personalities.
I think there's a world market for about five computers. -- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943
