OP: Are you being “nudged” too far….

So, you’re arguing that people disagree with you because they are brainwashed?

the sign was above and behind the ticket machine, he had to hold a camera above his head and take a picture of it to read it.

Quality.

“But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.”
>”Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything.”
>”But the plans were on display …”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
>”That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
>”Ah, well the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
>”But look, you found the notice didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’.”

I’ll write to them, ta.

The former, the machine and ticket were ~15 mins slower (although I can’t confirm that the person writing the notice had the correct time, but I did return at a time after the notice had allegedly been written)

I did take a photo on a disposable camera of the ticket, the enforcement notice and the machine, I haven’t had these developed yet.
They rejected it on grounds that it is my responsibility to return before the time on the ticket (Which I did, according to the machine that issued the ticket).

Imagine doing that with pcs

Windows Easy Transfer. Built in software, innit.

Are you totally sure it’s the motherboard?
First off, the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800 is your Processor, which sits in the motherboard via a socket, called either 939 or AM2 (or maybe even AM2+). This dictates what motherboard you need.
When was the computer new?

Multieffects have always sounded harsh and unrefined to me, but the Zooms are even more so. I used to play through a Digitech RP300, it was alright, but it never felt ‘direct’ enough for me.

Have you considered going Amp shopping?

I don’t always leave feedback. I also don’t put the dividers between my shopping and that of others on supermarket conveyor belts. Some people get all twitchy at that.

Uncomfortable to sleep in. Noisy suspension. Better brakes than a late 90s Ford Ka, comically underpowered. Nothing amazing.

>>>As the study talks about the environment impact of battery production, does it take into account the impact from oil drilling and refinement?
>>Yes.
>Where? http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/oct/05/electric-cars-emissions-bad-environment#block-2

No, that’s where the author claims it does take that into account. I can’t find any mention of it in the paper, nor any weighting matrices in the model supplied in the supporting documentation that comes with the paper that would be associated with this factor being taken into account.
Can someone point to where it is addressed in the paper? I’m very interested to see how they’ve quantified the environmental effect of oil drilling.

Edit: Seems Kryton and I are thinking along the same lines:

…we still don’t know the true impact of the internal combustion cars and the fuel they use. This information is obfuscated by historical habit, for 100 years no one wanted to know. For example, how much electricity from coal burning power plants goes into refining oil? Try and find out how much per gallon? I’ve asked when filming at a massive oil refinery that had it’s own set of pylons coming from a nearby coal burner. No one wants to tell you.

>>As the study talks about the environment impact of battery production, does it take into account the impact from oil drilling and refinement?

>Yes.
Where?

As the study talks about the environment impact of battery production, does it take into account the impact from oil drilling and refinement?

I have a strange habit of whistling the McDonalds one whenever a someone makes a noise that’s at the same pitch as the first note.

Your computers make noises when they start up? How quaint. 😉

You MUST NOT wait or park, or stop to set down and pick up passengers, on school entrance markings (see ‘Road markings’) when upright signs indicate a prohibition of stopping.

Sorry I wasn’t saying you were wrong…just that if the intonation is way out and he doesn’t react accordingly then he’ll look an idiot

High five, I owe you a drink! 😀

and an idiot to the trained one

May I ask how you test your saddle intonation?

I encourage you to learn on an electric. It won’t do you any harm in the long run, plus you’ll get to experience the joy of picking up an acoustic for the first time after you’ve got some playing ability. I’ll never forget that.

Keep an eye open for fretwear (fretwires have little dips in them where the strings hit them)
Also check for dodgy electronics (twist the knobs & flick the switches when it’s plugged in, listen out for any crackles, [hisses and hums are fine on singlecoils]).

If you fret the 12th fret and then pick the harmonic directly above the 12th fretwire on the same string, while tilting your head to one side as if you’re listening intently to the difference in intonation, you’ll look like an expert to the untrained eye 😉

it’s economically beneficial for a Chinese person to work in a factory than it is for them to be a subsistence farmer.

Of course, I’m simply arguing for the more quixotic life where benefits aren’t measured economically, that’s all. As I said, it’s my emotional reaction. There are many farmers who have been forced off of their land and have previously had no desire to chase a more economically viable way of life.

Apple have consistently shown that they can sell their product at a premium price compared to the competition; they have far more to offer a consumer than mining companies ever did, where I would imagine price pays far more of a factor – No one ever considered the mine from which the coal in their pocket originated as a lifestyle choice.

But as that article states, it is one of the better employers and wages have been increased, so arguably it is the very kind you should be supporting as it IS trickling down some of those margins.

Long may these benefits increase, but the margins are still too large on many items of desirable consumer electronics for my conscience.

It just seems a bit odd that people post images like that deriding Apple

I view these images as a natural response to cult following that Apple products enjoy. There are people that are complete ‘Apple fanbois’. There is a stereotype that Apple users are smug about their phone and irrationally view it as the best-phone-ever, making them a preferential target compared to someone who shuts up about their phone. Coupled with the aforementioned media oversaturation of all things Apple, Apple products in general get an awful lot more exposure than other brands. Likewise, the negative impacts of Apple’s choice of manufacturing also gets greater attention. I feel Apple’s praise and derision are linearly related. No one goes on about how bad Toshibas manufacturing policies are because no one goes on about how good their products are.

There’s a subtle difference between apathy and resignation.

Indeed, my apologies

Starbucks, ever since they’ve started installing ‘one button coffee machines’. I don’t care if it’s exactly the same, I want my coffee being accompanied with the ‘whack’ of emptying coffee filters.

Let me be clear: I don’t approve of “the systematic exploitation of cheap labour” either, but people in developing economies do need jobs.

I agree, I’m simply disheartened to see another economy becoming more and more westernised. This is purely emotional, mind you.

I think raising worldwide public awareness of conditions and putting pressure on companies we buy from to ensure their suppliers treat workers well and pay them properly is a much better way forward than just boycotting everything made in China or any other developing nation.

This is exactly what I’m trying to achieve with my posts, as well as my avoidance of products that produce massive margins which do not trickle down to the workers. I’ve had to draw a line somewhere. I’m not advocating boycotting everything made in China, I’m suggesting that the way things are are not the only way they can be, and ultimately we are all responsible for this consumerist cluster-love-in. This was mainly in response to your comments along the lines of ‘lots of other companies do it’ and ‘there isn’t much I can do about it’, as well as the general apathy you displayed.

I don’t know the socioeconomic situation in China well enough to comment with any authority, but my argument is based around ‘stop giving China money and their government will stop stealing the workers’ farmland, their worker’s sons won’t move to the cities looking for work, their worker’s sons won’t see a job at Foxconn as the best alternative in a bad situation’.
Who knows what the Chinese know? I sure don’t. I just know that the systematic exploitation of cheap labour is wrong, and I don’t want to say anything today that may perpetuate it.

It’s not that I don’t give a shit, it’s just that I can’t really do very much about it.

And there I was thinking you were a consumer…
I really can’t be bothered, I’ve rephrased this several times. Basically, I think your apathetic display on a public forum is as shameful as it is contagious. I find it arrogant that you feel that your actions are safeguarded because you know the bigger picture. I feel dismayed that you feel you are not to blame, and I am disappointed that you see the Suicide Net picture as, yes ‘saddening’, but otherwise purely in terms of whether or not it is Apple’s fault.

To stop it, Stop buying crap you don’t need.

They’re on the dorm rooms, not the factory.

I don’t think there is a problem…

“You two make a really great couple” – and as if by clockwork, 2 drinks later they’re trying to chat up my girlfriend.

…as far as I know the lunar astronauts didn’t develop cancer.

How about cataracts?
It’s the ‘know enough to get it very wrong’ thing in action. We’re taught radiation = cancer, if there was radiation there would be cancer, but really things are a little bit more complicated than that. Similarly to the ‘moon is really hot cause of the sun’ without adequate consideration of the forms of heat transfer at play in an environment with no air.
The great thing is that you could build a rocket, stick a camera on it and have a look. There are photos of the landing site that have been taken recently, yet when this is presented as evidence, deniers claim the stuff and tracks were deployed at a later date by robots…

My favourite was the BlackOps SONAR tests that killed a load of whales and a mermaid. Damn thing was covered up, but some scientists did some tests and recovered a body and did a show about it on Discovery Channel. Interesting stuff and makes a load of sense when you watch it. I didn’t mind about the lack of actual hard evidence, because they used CGI which is so real it’s basically the same, and there was a well in-depth narrative about mermaids in folklore, the amount of stuff on mermaids means they pretty much have to exist, right?
Ask yourself this. How do we all know what mermaids look like? If we evolved from the water, how do we know we all came out the water and that some of us didn’t get at it with fish or whatever?

Oh right, I see. Nice that someone came up with that one for you. Perhaps you need to work on your communications skills then, because that was not how you were coming across.

I’m flattered that you feel I have better comprehension skills than you, but if he really had poor communication skills, how would I have been able to elaborate on his original point?

deadlydarcy, do you feel one’s choice of phone can elevate one’s social status?

Come off it you lot, he insulted people that buy iPhones to show other people how cool they are.

He didn’t insult everyone who buys iPhones.

Fairy ’nuff 🙂

Tonight I’m going to watch the latest Jedi blog (and some other online stuff, perhaps some iPlayer) on my TV with my iPhone Android driving the content and onto TV via Apple TV uPNP and DLNA. No box required

🙂
GrahamS, for balance:
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/iphone-help-5
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/iphone-help-4
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/appiphone-help
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/help-iphone-4s-contacts-lost-re-icloud
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/iphone-help-please-its-died

What exactly are we trying to achieve here?

Let’s throw in some overpriced underflavour steak and I’m there.

Upon hearing the term “Skill” I feel compelled to reply with the phrase “African bum disease”

This. Every time, this.

Ah, dullards. They’re in every community. The tent next door at my last music festival was full of 18 year olds who had nothing to talk about except how much they’d had / were going to have.
These days it’s all promoters, promises and dirty looks. Ketamine simply destroys the vibe of both the venue and the after parties.

Forget all that – Did you get the takeaway?!

Now then, this is not the kind of statement which needs evidence is it? It’s a logical argument.

*ahem* Many apologies *ahem*

YES!
This is utterly brilliant. Thanks for posting 🙂

That may be your view, however, it doesn’t negate the prior statement.

To be honest, given the lack of supporting evidence presented with the prior statement, there’s not much to negate… 😉

I don’t think that’s the case; at 2000rpm in first gear, I get 15-20 mpg, at 2000rpm in fifth I get approx 45. Assume it’s drag on the drivetrain.

In fifth, you travel more miles in the same amount of time from the same engine RPM, hence the higher MPG.
Lets say initially that fuel consumption is fixed with RPM, independantly of speed and gear.
1st gear @ 2000rpm ~15mph. 1 mile = 8000 revs.
5th gear @ 2000rpm ~60mph. 1 mile = 2000 revs.
Taking your 1st gear fuel consumption @ 2000rpm as 17.5MPG, scaling it linearly to the 5th gear case would equate to 70MPG.
The fact it’s 45MPG is due to the losses and increased energy required to overcome drag, etc.

I think this is a false premise. They’re only ‘less fuel efficient’ relative to your speed. 200rpm in second is going to be as efficient as 2000rpm in fifth.

At the same RPM, in fifth you are travelling faster than you are in second. This requires more energy to overcome the increased drag.