Has anyone not heard this episode of Freakonomics http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/01/13/freakonomics-radio-the-economics-of-trash/?
I especially like Taiwan's approach described in the show. By having trash collection comes around at common hour and requiring people to take out their trash by themselves, it actually, to some level, SHAMES people into separating their trash because it is easy to spot by your neighbor if you don't have a recyclable bag. Nothing like peer/neighbor-pressure modifies behavior fast.
Besides, not a bad way for
I agree. I have the tablet version of x201 and to my surprise, the touch screen also works almost out of box. I had to google something, but it was quick. Fingerprint reader also doesn't work, but quite frankly I don't trust fingerprint authentication anyway so.
But I don't know where you go for support. I kept a small win7 partition just so that I don't run into the "we don't support linux" when CSR tries to blinding diagnose hardware issue over the phone. So far, never had to boot it.
Probably wouldn't work. Who would take a scientific journal owned by the Chinese government seriously? All it would do is kill that journal off... as the staff quit in protest, crossed the street to some open office space and established a new one.
I agree with this point.
No, the problem is that the staff at most scientific journals are academic types who when push comes to shove are on the side of the Communists and thus do not want to censure them. So they have to speak out in extreme cases like this one to maintain credibility but will quietly accede to the demands once the hubbub dies out a bit.
Citation needed. Many of the academics scientists I work with are more Ron Paul than Ron Paul. I hardly know anyone remotely Marxist. Maybe there'd more in social science, I don't know. Anyway, most are fairly central and apolitical. If I put them in a distribution, I think it's pretty bell-curved. Just like any reasonably large sample. Although on social issue, it'd be skewed left, but that's a different discussion.
So large, naturally occurring sheets of graphene will naturally curl up into tubes? What are the odds of them being contaminated with H, O, N and P, "just so"? Pretty high given the numbers?
A lot, graphene edge tends to be pretty "dirty" due to all those dangling carbon bonds. Remember organic chemistry is possible because carbon is the most promiscuous of all the elements: http://startalkradio.net/2011/05/22/the-political-science-of-the-daily-show
This feels kinda heavily anecdotal. It's not like things like that don't happen in other countries as well. http://www.cyclechat.net/topic/86407-us-driver-deliberately-hits-then-runs-over-cyclist-faces-no-charges/
I am not saying that it's not happening in other countries. But unfortunately there are so many incidents like this in Chinese news that new terms like "second generation rich" and "second generation official" has entered the Chinese lexicon.
I've heard that in China, sometimes richer people drive cars while poorer people ride bicycles. If a car hits a bike rider, the bike rider can sue for damages. Thus, it can be advantageous, and it's allegedly common, for a car driver to accidentally hit a biker, back up, and run him over again to finish him off. I wonder if and when some company (maybe Google, maybe not) will have cars that do this.
Or he gets out of the car and stabs you to death when he notices you eyeing his license plate: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/world/asia/08china.html
....See how long it takes for your status to disappear. Or if it doesn't, ask your friends if they can see it, you might find that it has been made invisible to everyone but you.
Running experiment now...So I posted a link to a greasemonkey script that blocks facebook ads: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46560 It's been an hr now and my friend and I can still see it on my profile.
Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them over the horizon. -- K.A. Arsdall
