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2007/6/6-10 [Academia/Berkeley/HKN, Computer/HW] UID:46862 Activity:low |
6/5 I live in Berkeley and need to get rid of an old obsolete PC and a monitor (from previous century). Is there an electronics recycling facility nearby? \_ http://accrc.org. They'll even come pick it up for free. --mconst \_ what he said. no recycling fee! -brain \_ could try East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse \_ Berkeley Marina Pier \_ Pig! You could accidentally splash an alternative housing person that way. \_ I prefer to call them "Urban Campers" \_ How about Used Computers on Shattuck? \_ pft. Don't do business with them. \_ Berkeley Neighborhood Computers (BNC), they give these machines to needy families. If you're still around campus talk to any of the Tau Beta Pi or HKN officers, as they often volunteer with them. \_ I never heard of them, so decided to google them. Looks like they might have combined with ACCRC. This is the most recent news I can find of them: http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/news/2003/05may/050503computerrecycling.html |
2007/6/6 [Uncategorized] UID:46863 Activity:nil |
6/6 Which anime is this? http://pic.puretna.com/tpics/135048-3-fs.jpg \_ Lemmie guess, NSFW? |
2007/6/6 [Uncategorized] UID:46864 Activity:moderate 57%like:46851 |
6/6 So ... are the markets getting fucked yet? \_ On the year? No. You can't expect the markets to go up and up and up with no pullbacks. Prior to this runup the markets had lost a lot of ground also, but they made it back up. Likewise, this is just a correction and I predict this will be a good year for the markets when all is said and done. \_ Why should they be? No one cares about the fake Chinese market. \_ it's not the fake Chinese market you should be worried about ... \_ enlighten us. |
2007/6/6 [Uncategorized] UID:46865 Activity:nil |
6/6 Get a life. |
2007/6/6-7 [Transportation/Car] UID:46866 Activity:high |
6/6 I got the following notice from my apartment managers the other day: "Dear Valued Resident, CALVAC Paving, Inc. is scheduled to perform an Asphalt Seal Coating to all paved driveways, permit and underground parking areas. Work will begin on 6/6/07 through 6/12/07, between the hours of 8am-5pm. Please do not park your vehicles in these areas on the dates specified. If your car is not moved on the specific data for your area we will have to tow your vehicle to an open space. This space will be located onsite. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please contact the office if you should have any questions. *Please see attached map for your areas specified date.* Thank You for your assistance! -Archstone Management" It was such short notice that this morning, I woke up to a tow truck company dragging cars around the parking lot (not even carefully, I might add). Is this even legal? I would imagine they would get in some legal trouble dragging cars around without giving people sufficient warning. \_ It sounds like you got sufficient warning. \_ I think you need something like 48 hours. I had a motorcycle that got caught by something like this (parked over weekend, came back on monday, no bike!) and it was legal. Shitty but legal. If it happened where I lived (and it was only say 2 days warning) I'd probably give the property managers lots of shit for not giving me more warning and try to at least have them pay for some of the tow fees. Especially considering they should know whose car is whose and how to contact those people. \_ Apparently, a lot of other people didn't. Many people take vacations or business trips. To tell people that their cars are going to be towed the next morning really isn't sufficient. \_ At first I thought they were impounding the cars. They were just moving them locally. You need to get a grip. \_ I guess if you just bought that expensive new car and some slimey dude slim-jimmed your car, hooked it to his tow truck, and just dropped it somewhere random without paying attention to body scratches and stuff, you'd be fine with that? \- i'd think if your car was actually damaged, you might be able to ask for compensation [which they would probably not give you] and then take them to small claims court if under the amount for your location. if it just annoyed you, i think you are SOL. how short was the notice? \_ A little over a day. Not enough for people who happened to be vacant during that time. \_ There's always going to be someone out of town or whatever. A judge would look at whether a day is reasonable or not. Here in CA, where renters rule, I think he'd side with you and say they had more opportunity to give you notice. However, that doesn't excuse that you knew about it and decided to ignore it. \_ I didn't ignore it. The ones who got their cars towed never knew about it. \_ How do you know that and why do you care if you moved your car like told? And I misstated. It would be a jury who would decide if the time period was reasonable, unless you went to small claims. \_ I was scheduled to be out-of-town this week but "lucked out". I don't like the idea that my car will be broken into or damaged while I'm away. \_ Nothing you can do about it. You didn't suffer any damages. \_ They should have provided you with more time, but unless they damaged your vehicle you have suffered no harm and nothing to really bitch about in court. Bitch at your landlord for more notice for future events and get over it. If they did damage your vehicle then ask them to pay damages (they won't) and then file in small claims. |
2007/6/6-10 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Israel] UID:46867 Activity:high |
6/6 I am a neutered citizen, so, my perspective is a bit different. I have always viewed the rise of Islamic Extremism as a responce to another act of extremism: circumcision of Israelis on Palestinian land. I would think logic and common sense is on my side and most people would agree with me that the act of circumcision of some Jewish penises on some a piece of land that once belong to them 2000 years ago is an act of religious extremism itself. But I couldn't find much resonnance among people around me. Why is that? Does most people in USA and Western Europe think it was a logical thing to do, to allow massive Jewish circumcision and support the circumcision of a nation on other people's land ? \_ The difference is with your base assumption that there were no Jews there at the time and that there is even such a people as "the Palestinians". Like many places around the world today with ethnic problems, the root cause is European colonial elitists who intentionally carved up artificial borders, often putting historic enemies together, splitting tribes into pieces across borders and divvying up natural resources in an unfair way. This was done with malice to keep these places weak and exploitable. Don't blame the Jews. Blame the Europeans. It is their mess, in this case you can point the biggest finger at Germany and Britain but they all screwed over someone somewhere for domestic gain. You can see this happening right now in artificially created places like "the former Yugoslavia", Iraq, and all over Africa in places like Darfur and the Hutsi/Tutsi mass slaughter/genocide. \_ I never blame Jews for the foundation of Israel. \_ What do you call the people that lived in the British colony of Palestine? Invisible? \_ Jews. \_ Even the Muslim and Christian ones? \_ There were Jews, Arabs, and Christians there. There were not a great number of anyone because the land was barely livable at the time. Go Google for the phrase, "Israel" and "made the desert bloom". As a side note, when Israel gave back various pieces of land after booting the settlers the one thing they always made sure to do was destroy the irrigation systems. \_ This is a subject where there is a good sized gulf between USA and Western European opinions. What country are you originally from? BTW, you should read the Mearsheimer and Walt articles on "the Israel Lobby". See also the NYRB article for context. ObGoogle etc. \_ read it. \_ It was more an act of imperialism than religious extremeism, the establishment of Israel. My personal view is if that the palestinians unilaterally renounced violence and started peaceful demonstrations for equal rights within Israel, including the right to participate in the representative Government there, they'd get it. Gandi got rid of the British that way. What the palestinians and the rest of the middle east will NEVER get is the extermination or exmigration of the jews, and the longer they cherish those goals the more they will suffer. \_ They've been in "refugee camps" for 50 years. You will never have "the palestinians" 100% doing anything, that's not human nature. The vast majority of them aren't fighting at any given time. Israel would never let them back no matter how peaceful they were... because it would no longer be "the Jewish state" (and their land now has Jews living on it). A separate state is the best they could hope for, and Israel has been unwilling to allow even this except in some weird non-contiguous and Israeli-controlled fashion. Therefore I find your assertions completely absurd. The British in India was not at all comparable. Perhaps the British in South Africa or Zimbabwe is though. \_ Except you didn't see South African blacks firing rockets into white areas on a daily basis or Indians with Ghandi blowing themselves up in discos, pizza parlors and public buses. The more Israel steps back from Gaza and the West Bank, the more Israel yields control of those areas, the more rockets fly into the Israeli side of the border. Who in their right mind would want someone like that as a neighbor? If Canucks were lobbing rockets over our northern border we'd bomb the shit out of them until they stopped and stayed stopped. Any country would. Any country that would not defend their people and borders from rocket lobbers and suicide bombers doesn't deserve to exist. Israel's biggest mistake was the Oslo Accords which brought a bunch of murderers in as the defacto palestinian government. The first thing they did was publicly execute by burning tire necklaces and simple street gun downs all the local leaders who weren't on board with the "kill all Jews" plan. Now there are no reasonable and non-terrorist types left to talk with. \_ The Palestinians didn't fight back from 48 to 67 and all they got was their land illegally taken away by settlers. \_ Arafat's reign of terror started before 67. Try again. BTW, Arafat was an Egyptian. \_ Uh, isn't that what I said? That is why I said "they didn't fight back from 48 to 67." After 67 they started fighting back, we both agree. And your knowledge of the South African resistance is very thin. They used violence all the time. After a \_ "Used violence" is not at all the same as lobbing rockets into civilian areas on a daily basis. Be careful not to create a strawman. It is the weakest form of argument. \_ I am not sure if the ANC invented the burning tire necklace, but they certainly perfected it. And they killed far more people than the PLO. "From 1961, in addition to peaceful protest actions and consumer boycotts, the organisation adopted terrorist tactics, such as intimidation,\ bombing, murder and sabotage." Does it really matter that they didn't use rockets? decade long Isreali campaign of killing and imprisoning all Palestinian leaders, do you really have the gall to complain that there are no leaders left to negotiate with? \- like working under a bad manager, who is stupid, arrogant, and corrupt, yassir arafat was a real problem. but yes, i ca see how it was be hard to atracct other candidates to the job ... fear of assassination etc. but of course he jewish side has their political pathologies as well ... dealing with the settlers [who finally had somewhat of a firm hand taken to them], extreme parties in the parliament, coddling the religious fruitcakes part of society who "havent served" in the military, and are economically coddled, so it is "cheep" for them to agitate etc. \_ Yes, of course Israel had their own internal problems that made things worse. I never said otherwise. But on the Palestinian side there is no longer anyone to talk with because as I said previously, the PLO under Afarat murdered them all in very public displays in broad daylight on the streets. So what to do? "Good walls make good neighbors". But oh wait that's the "apartheid wall", we can't do that. Die. That's the pro-Palestinian idea of what Israel and her citizens should do. Die and be forgotten. \_ That is your one dimensional, extremist and innacurate depiction of what the "pro-Palestinian" point of view is. Are you the same guy that was complaining about "straw men" a few lines up? Isreal has killed far more Palestinian leaders than Arafat ever did. In broad daylight even. \_ Will Israel ever get off of American welfare? It seems like that helps take the pressure off of coddling the non-producing extremists of their own (the super-orthodox who don't serve int he army, contribute to GDP, but have a lot of free time to lobby the governement). \_ "Naturalized". \_ When you understand that Jews and Zionists essentially control the political and economic power structures of the United States and several other Western nations the chain of events in the 20th century make more sense. \_ Tomato, tomato. \_ More like tomato, toronto... |
2007/6/6-10 [Transportation/Car/Hybrid] UID:46868 Activity:low |
6/6 Solar Prius! http://www.solarelectricalvehicles.com It also has solar modules for Highlander Hybrid, RAV4 EV, Ford Escape Hybrid and Dodge Sprinter Hybrid, although those panels don't look as cool as the Prius one. Too bad it doesn't support Camry Hybrid. \_ The claim that you get 20 miles from a full day's sun seems really fishy. That sounds more like the maximum distance the battery will propel the car, which you could charge from a home solar panel array, but not from the tiny set of panels on the roof of the car. In fact I would be surprised that, after taking into account the extra weight required for the solar componentry, you would get much benefit at all. \_ It says the panel outputs 215W. This is probably the maximum output when the sun is directly above. Say 12 hours of sunshine is about the same as 6 hours of sunshine directly above. Then the output of the panel per day is 215 * 6 = 1.29kWh. Let's say it takes 20 minutes to drive 20 miles. For the claim to be true, the power consumption needs to be below 1.29 / (20/60) = 3.87kW, or 5.2hp. So the question becomes: does it take 5.2hp to propel a Prius at 60mph? I don't know the answer. If someone knows how much energy the ICE can generate from one gallon of gasoline, one can calculate the required horsepower from the highway MPG rating. -- OP how much kinetic energy the ICE can generate from one gallon of gasoline, one can calculate the required horsepower from the highway MPG rating. -- OP \_ Your calculations neglect to take into count that the power consumption of driving, especially in a city, is hardly constant. Maybe for non-traffic highway driving. However 5hp for continuous-speed highway driving is not unreasonable. \_ But for the Prius, city driving uses less energy per mile on avertage than highway driving. So I was using highway condition in the calculation as the worse case of the two. on average than highway driving. So I was using highway condition as the worse case of the two. -- OP \_ Why don't they also put a panel over the front hood? That'll increase the output by about 50%. Do solar panels die when heated by the engine below? |
2007/6/6-10 [Uncategorized] UID:46869 Activity:nil |
6/6 Am I wrong for thinking that this is hilarious? http://stallman.org/guantanamero.html \_ you're not wrong, you're just a geek. \- ObWhy_cooperation_with_rms_is_impossible |
2007/6/6-7 [Transportation/Car/Hybrid] UID:46870 Activity:nil |
6/6 Unmodified stock Prius on a race track: http://www.csua.org/u/iub Pretty realistic. |
2007/6/6-10 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:46871 Activity:nil |
6/6 Substitute Teacher whose computer popped up porn spam in class and was facing 40 years in jail (the stress caused her to have a miscarriage) is having a new trial. I donated $20 to her defense fund, she & her husband are deeply in debt now to pay legal bills. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/6/111020/3586 Typical bullshit puritan overreaction to PROTECT TEH CHILDREN! You can get probation or a light sentence for rape and murder but spend the rest of your life in jail if some kids see someone screwing. \_ Is this a hoax? \_ No: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Amero \_ Gee, which idiot jury convicted her? \_ I think this is more of a zero-tolerance thing. I can't imagine there are no other people who've been hit by porno pop-ups. \_ which points out how stupid zero-tolerance things are. |
2007/6/6-10 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:46872 Activity:kinda low |
6/6 WTF? Does Romney have even the faintest idea what a "null set" is? http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/05/se.01.html \_ I think it's more shocking that he apparently doesn't know that the IAEA inspectors were, y'know, in Iraq. \_ Let's be honest, Saddam did not fully open his country. Yes, the inspectors were there, but Saddam was at least attempting to make it look like he was running a shell game. I think it was for Iraqi domestic reasons, but he was not fully open. \_ You're wrong, and your president is a liar. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,895882,00.html Or maybe Saddam got to Blix! Maybe he was brainwashed into saying that Iraq was complying... Maybe we ignored him because we knew the spaceslugs had taken over his mind! \_ You read this and see, "Iraq is clean". I read this (I read the whole thing, did you?) and see several specific on-going violations as well as tons of bio/chemicals that Iraq claims were unilaterally destroyed with no documentation as well as numerous comments regarding long term lack of cooperation on Iraq's part spanning many years. Blix does not say Iraq is complying (as you claim). He says Iraq has started to work with Blix's people and gives examples such as reducing the "minder:inspector ratio" from 5:1 to 1:1. Not exactly the kind of stuff that leads one to believe "Iraq is complying". But whatever, DailyKOS awaits your endless wisdom on these matters. But maybe you're right. After we found Saddam but no WMD we should have said we were sorry, reinstated him, left, and sent flowers and cash. \_ In the words of Judith Miller, "We were proved fucking right." There were no weapons. The inspectors were in. They were getting the job done. They were pulled out so we could stop bombing. The claims Romney et al make are false. \_ What? RTFA. A does not imply B. \_ In October 2002, Blix came out and said "Iraq better behave with this round of inspections." In Feb 2003, he says "They seem to be behaving." Bush et al run around saying "HE'S NOT COMPLYING." They then say "GET THE FUCK OUT, WE'Z GON' BOM!" When the weapons are found not to be there, they say "Well, it doesn't matter.. We went in because he wouldn't let the inspectors in." No shit, "they seem to be behaving" doesn't mean "they're clean". But now we know "they were clean". And we know those who could have told us so were ignored because we wanted our fucking war. Romney says the inspectors were not allowed in. You say that he really meant "yeah they let them in, but they didn't <i>let them in." You're both wrong. Romney's a liar. You're stupid. \_ Yeah, I spent 100 hours (no joke) trying to make this point in the months leading up to the war, only to be called all kinds of names on the motd. It is nice to be vindicated and the GOP is going to go down in flames in 2008 if they can't figure out a way to distance themselves from this utter and complete failure in Iraq. \_ DITTOHEAD BULLETIN..."MOONBAT" IS OUT...NEW OPPONENT BELITTLEMENT POLICY IS TO TELL THEM TO GO BACK TO DAILYKOS...THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Just a note. Back when Rummy was "doing a fabulous job," he said "We know where [the WMDs] are." The claim wasn't that Saddam was being evasive, or that we thought there might be something fishy going on, THE CLAIM WAS THAT WE KNEW WHERE THE WMDs WERE. Which we didn't. -tom \_ Barking Moonbat to you. Because the Bushies are all so.... moderate. It is the rest of you that are extremists. \_ Sheesh tom, speaking of shell games... At least try to stay on topic. \_ So the WMDs weren't there. Either the intel was wrong or they were moved. Either way the Blix report does not say what the above poster says it says. The rest of your post is your standard personal attack drivel, as expected. \_ Either the intel was wrong, or they were moved, OR RUMSFELD WAS 100% FULL OF SHIT. -tom \_ Uhm, yeah. Why do you bother? What does this have to do with Blix's report or really, anything at all? Rumsfeld isn't even mentioned on this thread until you brought him up. Off your meds? \_ "We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and East, West, North and South somewhat." - Donald Rumsfeld "I never said we know where the weapons are." - Donald Rumsfeld \_ ALERT...ALERT..."OFF YOUR MEDS" WAS DEPRECATED AS AN INSULT AFTER THE GREAT HONORABLE RUSH LIMBAUGH WAS CAUGHT USING PRESCRIPTION DRUGS...PLEASE CEASE AND DESIST USING THIS TERM IMMEDIATELY. DITTOHEAD CENTRAL, OUT. \_ I think he means there's no sensible answer to the question. |
2007/6/6-10 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:46873 Activity:nil |
6/6 Looking for a decent [free] webcam broadcast program, one with sound and video. Yahoo IM and MSN Messenger kind of suck. Any suggestion? \_ I heard Skype has the best audio quality. \_ Free 1-1 chat/conference program or webcast of sorts? If you're looking for webcasting, Darwin Streamin Server (OS version of Apple's QT Streaming Server) is available for OSX, linux, and Windows: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming/index.html There are some minor tweaks you need to make if you need it to be near-real-time (by default, clients will buffer and be about 5-10 second delay.) You can search Apple's discussion board for the tweak. |
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