Comment: Re:only buy grass fed beef (Score 1) 274
I think Mark Zuckerberg has the right idea. Only eat animals that you are able to look in the eye and kill yourself.
You may want to read up on Chronic Wasting Disease before choosing your target.
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I think Mark Zuckerberg has the right idea. Only eat animals that you are able to look in the eye and kill yourself.
You may want to read up on Chronic Wasting Disease before choosing your target.
My wife's 20mpg (actually 23 average) Ford Freestyle on the other hand is driven probably 15,000 miles a year, and may get replaced soon, depending on what's available - being able to seat 7 passengers or carry considerably bulky items in a car-like vehicle definitely has its advantages, though now that our three kids will be in college next year the people-carrying capacity isn't as important - but then again, the amount of driving will probably be reduced as well.
Really what people need to consider when looking at fuel economy as an upgrade is this - does the overall economic picture substantiate the need for an upgrade? You're looking at helping the environment, but does buying a new car (the building of which probably incurred substantial environmental degradation in itself) actually save you and the environment anything?
Our station wagon (Freestyle) would get us perhaps $5k on the used market; buying a replacement which would function similarly though smaller (something Mazda3 hatchback sized, as we don't need to carry 7 people - mostly 2 or 3 and very occasionally 5) would get us a 8-10mpg increase but cost about $18k. Worth it? Probably not.
told Congress the destruction compared to the Nazis burning books
I've heard of threads getting Godwin'd..... but this one had it in the summary.
Doesn't that, by itself, mean that no further replies are necessary?
One cow can produce about two kilowatts of electricity
Given that 1 horsepower (hp) = 746 watts, 2Kw = 2.68hp.
It's generally accepted that your typical horse can't even put out 1hp for extended periods, so I have to assume that this cow of theirs is only going to put out 2hp for extremely short bursts.
I suppose the article could be confusing Kw with Kwh, but then the "one cow [can produce]... enough energy to power" doesn't make sense.
Overall, I call b-s, or cow-s, as the case may be.
1024 is actually 2 to the 8th power (2^8)
2^8 == 256 ; 2^10 == 1024.
I've got to say, though I personally was home-schooled for the first 3 years, I never got "properly socialized" to understand the mechanics of school society. I was able to function at its fringes, but I always did my best to avoid it.
My kids were homeschooled on and off. First 4 years of school at home, and then two of them did 7th and 8th grade at home. Non-religious (semi-atheist, agnostic, something... we did study religion but not as believers, if you can understand that). The kids are, by anyone's measure, among the best socialized kids you'll find - friendly, outgoing, thoughtful, respectful.
Of course, we made a big effort to provide social contact. In a controlled fashion, though, not like the free-for-all do-or-die in your typical school, where kids certainly aren't exposed to good practices.
I still intend to see it in 2D; I expect that it'll be better than the 3D, at least for my visual aparatus.
Personally I didn't see that much 3D about the film. Yes, there were seed pods floating around a bit and embers floating but most of the film didn't show substantial 3D aspects more than my own mind typically infers from a 2D film.
Both countries...
I understand the "our country" probably referring to the USA. What is the other country in the "both countries" that you're referring to? You are aware, I hope, that INTERPOL is an organization comprised of 188 nations... including the USA?
The recent "Faction Champions" scene in WoW's Trial of the Crusader deviates from the typical encounter as it is a more "PvP" style fight, but still the mobs aren't actually intelligent; they do have some aggro, they just drop it a lot and go immune to attempts to recover it, and they still don't do smart stuff like getting out of area damage spells or attempting to break crowd control; if a DM was running the mobs in this encounter, it would be considerably different still.
Obviously without true AI, an MMO has an extremely difficult time trying to optimize the game's reaction to the player(s) in the encounter, and the game's designers have to fall back upon certain assumptions - the alternative without a much better AI is to just make every encounter a free-for-all where the mobs have no aggro at all; this would mean that every class would have to invest in heavier armor (which most games - RGPs and MMOs both - deny from the magic using classes).
Besides, real warfare often utilizes the trinity itself, through on a macroscopic scale. The front ground troops are the tanks - they're in the midst of the battle. Aerial attacks are kind of the DPS, and hospitals behind the lines are the healers. If you want to look at medieval warfare, you still had the infantry (often with shields) as tanks, archers behind, and.... ok, so no healers.... but 2 out of 3 ain't bad
If you write software for a living, you can't go home and sell your days coding
Actually, you can, and many people do (at least in the state of California - laws may differ elsewhere). Anything you do on your own time, your own space, your own equipment - this is yours and you can sell it.
Don't try to say that if you're salaried you're never off the clock; there's a legislated 40-hour work week and just because you're salaried doesn't mean you're always at work. Haven't you heard of people having two jobs? It is done, and they can even both be salaried.
Of course if you write software at home in the evening on your employer's computer you've got ownership issues. People like me who have a home office have to be extra careful to make sure that we have separate computers for work and personal use.
Call it in folks. Don't go to a store if you can help it.
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. -- Jean-Paul Kauffmann