I have a feeling the person you are arguing with spends his days
1) eating lead with the word "beef" chiseled on it,
2) drives his car inside the shopping mall and convenience stores to get to the indoor ATMs, and
3) likes to troll handicap people

Since the first action item somehow hasn't killed him yet, that just gives more weight to the rest as an indicator of just how awful of a person it is ;P

Says Mister DarkOx, if that is your real name...

Since you are out right admitting you are doing nothing but illegal crimes (perfectly sound reasoning once I saw your not-name in your post after all) - you'll need to do much much better to convince me and all of us why we should take the opinions of a criminal to be worth more than a grain of digital salt.

But it was a nice try, pedo :P

It works for Cafe Courier, and they have been doing just that (and making a profit, including off me) since the late 90s.

For the two years Kroger had their peachtree* delivery service, I used the crap out of that! Groceries and pharmaceuticals to your door, and for some even further and right into your fridge.
(Thou I mainly saw that last bit only for older and disabled people. I am just lazy and not wanting to go to the store)

These days I have to hope I get a regular pizza delivery guy that I can uber-overpay for him to stop and get me something extra, and even then if it isn't on or damn close to his normal route I don't even ask.
Plus it sucks dropping an extra $20 just for two fast-food milkshakes that would be like $6 otherwise :/

But hey, sometimes it can be worth it :P

You still have a point about the drones with claw-machine game arms... Once/if those happen, I say let the two options battle it out on price and time! Should be a good show even if a win.

Sounds great in theory, but in the US the term "broadband" is defined such that the minimum requirement is 128kbps (the speed of a fully utilized BRI line - the original high speed connection)

Since I don't see them successfully raising that first the past hundred or so attempts, the fact they are moving forward on any neutrality issues is pretty much a certainty your plan will never happen here.

In fact given the lack of evidence in either direction, I would naturally assume they will end up changing that min limit to 64k if anything... we suck just that bad :/

While I'm sure it was intended as a joke, we do (sadly) have that answer...

Just about 200 pages: http://oi61.tinypic.com/11tbbr...

I can second that.

A couple years back a week before christmas my uncles place burnt down in the middle of the night.
Everyone always said that because of the historic covered bridge from the road to back where those few homes were, that everyone best not have a heart attack or play with fire because no emergency vehicles could possibly get there...

Fortunately they both got out unharmed - but at that point with no worldly physical possessions except his truck (which I can't say was the bestest idea to go back in the garage to get) and the PJs on their backs.

To this day the things they miss the most are the few old family hand-me-downs, and the massive amounts of photo albums they had amassed.
Including family hand-me-down albums, over a hundred years worth of memories were gone just like that.

As my imediate family is only two people (my mother and her brother/my uncle) - a total of two people asking for computer help is far from problematic for me and so of course I still do.

Somewhere between un-oem'ing his laptops windows install and handing the thing back to him, I set him up an ssh account on one of my servers and a winscp dropbox style icon on the desktop for offsite backup purposes.
But every picture from 1920 to 2009 is now gone and gone for good.

Us "youngins" have a wonderful advantage with digital media that naturally affords us easy copies and easy backups, up to ridiculous extents that simply wouldn't be possible with physical items.

There is no excuse for us not to avail ourselves of them, file format be damned.

In retrospect I now kinda feel bad for the joke I made about the offsite storage thing (long before the fire however)
I told him that machine was "only" backed up to servers in three other states plus a backup server in my basement, but with a slight config change I could add his homedir to be copied to my non-us servers as well - resulting in the possibility of our data out surviving all of us if ww3 happened...

But my point with that is that it is so cheap and easy to fling data around these days that having only one or even two backups is only slightly less painful to hear than someone who has no backups, and the slight time investment most people would need to recover and the relatively tiny cost for something that was literally impossible to do not two generations ago - there is just no excuse not to.

I would even go so far as to say a pirated movie collection would deserve some redundancy right next to personal data like home pictures and movies - and the barriers to doing so are so tiny that they truly are not worth even thinking about at the "yes or no" level.
Only the higher up level of how many copies is worth pondering over (Ex. I don't really feel its worth having a copy of the matrix 2 spread over 8 machines and multiple countries for example ;P )

The real whole-world study has no control. You have to have a control to draw conclusions from a study. You don't know whether the ozone hole would have shrunk in the absence of curtailing CFCs. The real world is a very complex system.

I sneezed and an hour later the sun rose. I guess I better sneeze every morning or we are all in trouble.

P.S. - I'm not actually criticizing the curtailment of CFCs. I am much, much closer to agreeing that CFC curtailment is a Good Idea than I am that CO2 reduction, entailing energy starvation, is a Good Idea.

Whatever mystical crap floats your boat, sparky. The likelihood that you are a voter is chilling.

Judging from STTOS on TV, the original model was almost toy-like crude. The STTNG model was much more convincing, and that one already looks pretty crude compared to a good movie. The modelwork in 2001: A Space Odyssey stll impresses.

Cobra Commander was SO ahead of his time!

ps. Go Cobra!

Nice cherry-picking of material to support an insupportable postulate.

From your own goddam citation: "The approximately 2 million people around TMI-2 during the accident are estimated to have received an average radiation dose of only about 1 millirem above the usual background dose. To put this into context, exposure from a chest X-ray is about 6 millirem and the area's natural radioactive background dose is about 100-125 millirem per year for the area. The accident's maximum dose to a person at the site boundary would have been less than 100 millirem above background."

That is NOT SIGNIFICANT compared to normal variation in natural background radiation. It so happens the area around TMI has an unusually low NBR. The average NBR in the US is 300 mrem/y. The area with the highest NBR in the inhabited world is Ramsar, Iran, with 600 mrem/y. But you don't see anyone evacuating there do you?

Give up the hysterical exaggeration.

Just to be clear, when that airbag fills explosively, nobody's arms are going to do squat to stop it from filling, not even Sylvester Stallone's. But you're right, if they are anywhere near the bag they are going to flail like hell and almost certainly hit stuff with devastating impact. From ten-and-two you have a pretty decent chance of smashing your eyeglasses into your eyes with your flying hands/arms.

It's 9 and 3 if you have an airbag, according to the NHTSA.

Well, they're close, anyway. In the real world, around 8 and 4, or even 7:30 and 4:30 is a better choice when you're using two hands. It's been a LONG time since power steering obviated the need to ever use both hands to apply torque. Any but the most violent left turn can be easily accomplished solely with the right hand starting at 4 or 4:30, and any but the most violent right turn can easily be accomplished solely with the left hand starting at 7:30 or 8. With the hands starting low, there is much more available motion before you have to do hand-over-hand, and additionally it is safer in case the airbag goes off and tries to do you violent injury.

The unused hand only comes into play for extremely violent maneuvering; huge hand-over-hand steering inputs.

Most of the time on the highway, one hand at 12 or 1 is perfectly capable of making any required maneuvers. You can't apply huge inputs at highway speed without spinning out anyway.

For anybody who uses the seatbelt, the airbag is his worst enemy anyway. You don't want your arms anywhere near that damn thing when it goes off. Most definitely not above the center of the wheel, but better nowhere near it. Drivers who crash cars for a living always cross their arms over their chest just before impact so flailing arms won't shatter bones and gouge wounds if when they hit objects.

An airbag is not some kind of balloon that blows up fast, like in the cartoons. It has a goddam pyrotechnic inflator. That means explosive. Quicker than the blink of an eye. An airbag is a devastating weapon. If it saves the life of an imbecile who can't trouble to buckle up it MAY be worthwhile, but for anyone of normal intelligence it is a liability.

So, I guess the melt downs in 1959, 1960, 1966, and 1979 were on purpose?

You're getting really closed to being ignored by me because you are not paying attention; not reading for comprehension. I specifically said zero UNCONTAINED meltdowns for nuclear electric power generation. Two of those incidents were test or research reactors, so they have nothing to do with the point. The others released no significant uncontained radiation.

Repeating falsehoods does not make them true. ZFS does not mysteriously "require" ECC RAM, end of goddam story. Plenty of people are using ZFS without ECC RAM.