I've now got two Linodes, one in the UK and one in Atlanta
.. 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.
Also your analogy between drunk driving and vaccines causing autism is not really parallel...
Sigh. Have I really got to hold your hand?
There is more anecdotal evidence to prove vaccines don't cause autism, so wouldn't that push the debate into being over, if anecdotal evidence is the measuring bar?
There are lots of people who drink and drive who have never been in an accident. Does that push that debate to being over? Of course not.
"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.
Do I need to break out a
See, just doesn't roll off the tongue. 5cm x 10cm doesn't either.
Now 2x4, that's nice, simple, sounds good and gets the point across.
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 )
a 7 meter object has less than a third of the mass of a 10 meter object.
7 cubed is 343, so slightly more than a third of the mass.(Given equal density and similar shapes)
My Neurontin costs me $5 per month.
How uncivilised - more enlghtened parts of the UK abolished prescription charges years ago:-)
Has anyone ever really killed off a group of people?
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
BASIC is the Computer Science equivalent of `Scientific Creationism'.