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- Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:50 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Curious observation
- Replies: 50
- Views: 18432
I imagine he is just very busy, very very busy! If there was a way to easily see when someone last logged in, then you might at least know if someone was probably reading messages, but not having the time to reply. (As is the case on some forums.) I know myself I've been so busy at times I've not ha...
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:28 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How did we convert from horse and buggy to automobiles
- Replies: 91
- Views: 34040
> So why haven't they? Electric cars are available, and always > have been. A very good question. 20 years ago Sinclair tried with his C5, and whilst it sold 1,000 a month, he really wanted to sell 50,000 a month, so the product was shelved. Back then, petrol wasn't too expensive, the bus was cheap,...
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 3:56 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Human Nature not a constant ?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 39145
But your be glad to hear they met all their government targets :-) One of my favourites was the delivery time target, something like 1 hour, but thats only from ordering to delivery to the warehouse, the time you wait in the queue at the warehouse to pick up the item you ordered could well be anothe...
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:35 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: How did we convert from horse and buggy to automobiles
- Replies: 91
- Views: 34040
> London might pick up on them fast, but how many people there drive > as opposed to using mass transit? Despite the costs? There is more to the UK than just London :-) Ok, so we only have 60 million people living here, but still, I reckon thats a big enough market to develop something, after all, w...
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:17 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: found on the Los Alamos website
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4971
To amuse, my most favourite Los Alamos related item is:
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/co ... 2005/509/1
> Nanos Steps Down at Los Alamos
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/co ... 2005/509/1
> Nanos Steps Down at Los Alamos
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:14 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Human Nature not a constant ?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 39145
I can't remember if I've told this story or not here, but once when I was working in a government department my manager was telling me that we was due to spend a morning sorting a list, by hand! Yes, thats right, printing out a list, cutting every line into strip of paper, and then hand sorting thou...
- Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:35 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Human Nature not a constant ?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 39145
- Mon Dec 08, 2008 5:53 pm
- Forum: Administration
- Topic: Better Software?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15372
- Mon Dec 08, 2008 12:59 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Manipulation
- Replies: 99
- Views: 74155
> Your wrong in thinking that the poor will be the worst affected > from combating climate change, maybe the poor in the US > but not the global poor Does being in the UK count as global poor ? Here with electric and gas prices having gone up 50% in a short space of time, us poor (I'm poor, I can sp...
- Mon Dec 08, 2008 12:53 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How did we convert from horse and buggy to automobiles
- Replies: 91
- Views: 34040
> 2 hours on foot is 30mins by bicycle. True, I am in the process of teaching my girlfriend to ride a bike, but even if she did so, traffic is so bad here, she'd probably end up in an accident pretty quick like. (Plus I reckon it would be better if I drove/cycled her to work and back in a 3 wheeler ...
- Mon Dec 08, 2008 12:45 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Human Nature not a constant ?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 39145
- Sun Dec 07, 2008 2:13 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How did we convert from horse and buggy to automobiles
- Replies: 91
- Views: 34040
- Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:50 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Human Nature not a constant ?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 39145
Its not perfection I'm after, its people doing a decent job. The more profit is involved in that, the less it happens. (I know in theory your supposed to sack the bad workers and employ better ones, but in practice, the bad ones are cheaper to employ..) Though it also happens when you have governmen...
- Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:18 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: How did we convert from horse and buggy to automobiles
- Replies: 91
- Views: 34040
> Are there complaints? Sure! but what are people going to do about it.. My girlfriend walks 2 hours a day to work and back and her other workers think her kinda-weird for doing that, as they reply 'no one walks today with buses, trains!' as if to do so is free somehow.. But then, they are being pai...
- Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:00 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Manipulation
- Replies: 99
- Views: 74155