Reanimated!

.. UK?

I was pretty sure they didn't have servers outside the USA.. which is why my second virtual server is with Bytemark in the UK.

ALSO, you people are forgetting to mention the carbon footprint the electric one has: is it's power source a petro power station? Or a coal power station? Those cases would make the electric one worse.

No. According to a DOE study, switching vehicles over to electric would only increase particulate matter. SOx would remain about the same, NOx would decline somewhat, and CO and VOCs would be virtually eliminated. Furthermore, all pollutants would be emitted much further from people on average. CO2 would decline by... if I remember right, 27%.

And Vancouver primarily runs on hydro anyway.

(if not worse in the case of CFL bulbs)

What's wrong with CFLs? You could use a CFL over its lifespan, then vaporize all of the mercury from it straight into the jet stream, and you'd still have emitted less mercury into the atmosphere than a coal power plant would have emitted running incandescents during that time. And furthermore:

  * Mercury is just one pollutant of many that coal power plants emit. Not even near their worst.
  * Coal plants emit "organic" mercury (methylmercury, dimethylmercury, etc), which is much more toxic than the elemental mercury found in CFLs.
  * CFLs don't release all of their mercury when disposed of. If incinerated, about 1/4th of their mercury ends up in the environment. If recycled or landfilled, about 3% ends up in the environment. And if treated as hazardous waste, a negligible percent of the mercury ends up in the environment.

I see. I misunderstood. I thought you were saying (as someone else has) that the tax could not be that way because it's idiotic, or because "they don't have the authority to do that". The former is true in my opinion. The latter may be true, but if so nobody has managed to prove it in court.

Yeah, but good luck finding a mobile data package with a decent data usage limit. In the UK at least the limits are stupidly low, even on the packages advertised as 'unlimited'. In some cases the 'unlimited' packages can have limits of 500MB/month and charge per the MB above that - and they get away with it because they told the Advertising Standards Authority that 500MB was more than any 'reasonable' person would use in a month.

Sigh. Have I really got to hold your hand?

"Wyatt Earp (1029)" made a bad argument. I was attacking the form of his argument. I was NOT drawing a parallel between drunk driving and autism.

Many European countries have the same reservations about the US; how can you protect the vulnerable poor without universal healthcare? How can you protect the environment whilst flouting Kyoto? The poverty which exists in areas of the US may be nothing in comparison with India, but is still considered barbaric by most of Europe. Which 'level playing field' would you like?

ALL labour is 'exploited'; that's how Capitalism works. It doesn't need to be put in such loaded terms, but the fact is that Capitalism cannot exist without the appropriation of surplus value created by labour - if you want Capitalism, you have to put up with 'exploitation'. It seems to me that 'competing', in a purely business sense, is exactly what India is doing.

Even there, we suffer from a lack of standardi[sz]ation; in the UK, this has always been called 4x2*(pronounced 'four-be-two'), which to my ears is even more tongue-rolly than 2x4. One of us needs to give that sucker a quarter-turn.

* Even though it has actually been 100mm x 50mm for decades

See, I believe in everyone's potential. Pardon's are great for those that demonstrate it, but how about looking to demonstrate it to the ones that committed the crimes?

Limited budget arguments don't hold water for me. If we seriously thought about education, we could do more for less, and even have it pay for itself. I do believe in investing in children, and I believe in compassion. Everyone makes mistakes, and people will disagree where to draw the line on who to have compassion for. But regardless, lets give everyone a chance at a second chance. Not just throw them in schools for criminals with three hots and a cot.

  If they are truly mentally ill (unable to be capable of understanding the damage done) they should be exculpated. I still say that we should focus on healing them and continue to learn and explore. If they are not mentally ill (capable of understanding the damage done) then educate and help them understand. Until they do, they are a danger to society...

As close as you can get != close enough. The furthest we can get space probes is the outer solar system but that doesn't mean that we should pretend that's close enough to observe a black hole.

>Independance from US control is the second motivator.

Primary motivator. Galileo isn't a UK department for transport initiative, you know. In fact the UK, due to it's low funding, is a bit player. ( I'm from the UK and only got to work on Galileo because I was based in another country at the time )

7 cubed is 343, so slightly more than a third of the mass.(Given equal density and similar shapes)

How uncivilised - more enlghtened parts of the UK abolished prescription charges years ago:-)

I'm afraid they have; we (the British) managed to wipe out the entire indigenous population of Tazmania in the nineteenth century.

And that's why we're starting with an all-fiber network :)