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Great story! Reminds me of Cheech and Chong Up In Smoke.

I know there's a meme in here somewhere...

Oh here it is!!!
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Get off my lawn

> According to the CDC more than 3/4 of suicides are men, yet the article makes it all about women. Do you feel privileged yet?

How dare you....
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Here in the arctic, when we were having a bloody cold day from hell, this fucking worm stuck it's ugly, stinking head out of the ground and tired to eat us: worm

If you've got similar problems in France, well, I can't wait for the 6th movie.

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Or it fails utterly

I had a typo. I wrote that Hoover Dam holds 147 square miles of water behind it. That should be 247 square miles.

The dam is 726 feet high. From highest to lowest levels, it can store about 1/3,000 of our energy needs to get through a typical large storm system. Obviously you'd still have to ration energy on days like this:

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You set up snipers in strategic locations across town to cover every and all traffic sign; and you shoot the fucker who dares get even close to it.

Here in Texas, they just shoot the traffic sign and skip the middleman. Because freedom has to be irrigated by the blood of patriotic drivers in self-driving cars. Or something. I don't remember the exact quote, but it's in the Second Amendment or the Bible, I'm pretty sure.

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Let's hope they have good aim

Sea Levels really are rising. But not very fast.

The good news is that the article is, like most of the stuff BeauHD posts, more or less unmitigated nonsense. Despite mankind's practice of building way to much stuff below the level likely to experience storm surge in a major storm, a few inches of sea level rise in the next 50 years clearly isn't going to do all that much additional harm.

The bad news is that there is no reason to expect sea levels to stop rising any time soon. Here's a link to the NOAA webpage for the tide gauge at The Battery in NYC. https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.... If you look carefully at the picture of the gauge, you'll see there is probably less than a meter clearance between the high tide line and the top of the dock. A few centuries of 20-30cm/century sea level rise and "they" are going to have a problem. And not only with the dock. The street, parking area, and building behind the dock all appear to be at about the same level as the dock.

BTW. The evidence is thin, but it looks like sea levels in the last interglacial period 120,000 years ago peaked 5 meters (16 feet in American) above current sea level.

For whatever reason, I couldn't get to historical tidal gauge data for the Battery from the NOAA site (503 error). Maybe I clicked the wrong link. Here's a link to a chart from a reputable source (psmsl.org)
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Note that a couple of cm per century of the Battery seal level Rise is thought to be due to tectonic forces -- The Battery is thought to be sinking a bit due to glacial isostasy.

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For what it's worth the summer arctic sea ice extent did fall to half of the 1981 to 2010 average in 2012.

Good point. Here's a graph of Arctic summer ice extent: Fairly stable until 1995 and then it seems to have fallen off a cliff. 2016 isn't shown here but it was the second lowest value on record after 2012. http://woodfortrees.org/plot/n...

(Middle of the road models may have been spot on...)

In fact the IPCC report projected much less arctic ice loss than has occurred.

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Here's what Adblock shows me for this page. Yeah, some of it is totally innocent, but the rest of it? Why do all of these things need to be loading? (I removed a lot of extra crap that seemed benign to get by the "you need more characters in your message" filter.)

And who thinks that gstatic.com isn't using their Google Plus icone (gplus-16.png) as a beacon?

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Not where bit it can determine it was taken after the London 2012 Olympics as it depics one of the finalist logos. https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic...

I can't explain why people using Android/ios any more than I can explain why people shop at Wal-Mart and eat at McDonald's. Sometimes, people are just dumb.

IOS is a sickness. Android (what I carry) although not perfect, works well enough. I'm not obsessive about it. Had offshore admins figured out how to keep BES up, I'd still be carrying a Blackberry.

But for me, having had the huge misfortune of owning a Windows Mobile 6 phone for a few months that felt like forever, I made the conscious decision to never, ever, own a Windows phone of any kind again. Call that dumb if you want. I mean seriously -- the audio driver "has encountered a problem and needs to close" and the phone won't ring anymore?

Fail, you ignorant fat cunt.

I do agree it's a non-problem at this stage. If bunches of other plutocrats head for Mars, then it's time to complain. There are plenty of real existing problems to complain about before ranting at plots from The Jetsons.

Better we test space with dare-devil plutocrats than poor chimps, anyhow. (Also send politicians, lawyers, and Comcast executives.)

Hmm... see this picture from taliban3.gstatic.com and judge for yourself!:

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From the paper:

Unlike other algorithms compared here, brotli includes a static dictionary. It contains 13’504
words or syllables of English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Russian and Arabic, as well as common
phrases used in machine readable languages, particularly HTML and JavaScript.

This means that brotli isn't a general purpose algorithm, but only built for the web, not more. I guess that future versions of the algorithm will include customized support for other, smaller languages, whose compression databases are only downloaded if you open a web page in that language.

Shall we have an argument about what makes art or not now?

Yes, please - if it can be done without insults, trolling and ad hominem attacks. It is then called "a discussion", and not only are - AFAIK - discussions the very purposing of Slashdot comments, discussions can be fruitful and interesting.

But to suggest that ONLY live music can be music is... just silly in this day and age.

Disagree, strongly so. Let me illustrate this with an example. Could you pretend you had a talk with another person, whenever all you'd had was a telephone conversation with that person ? No, you couldn't. Having an actual talk implies the visibility of hand gestures, facial expressions and body language, as well as the two of you being in the same acoustical environment, something even a very good video & audio recording can not provide. Hence, having an actual talk requires physical presence. I am saying that hearing actual music requires hearing that music live. See the informal Celibidache quote in one of my comments further up.

It is certainly a consequence of technology providing us with the possibility to have cheap copies of recordings of sound and images that uncounted millions of people equal, in their mind, "a recording of music" with actual "music". It is not because of uncounted millions of people doing so that making that equalization is also valid, or a mere tautology. So, I am just doing the best I can in trying to get things right. Even if that involves saying an inconvenient truth.

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I've seen the flag-on-the-truck thing many times - never seen a confederate flag.

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I rest my case.

I commend you as you managed to make it to the end, I sure as hell didn't. Also as you point out not everything can be a teachable moment but when it works out that way it does wonders.

I still remember when I was young and for some reason I got it in my head it would be a good idea to pull the dog's tail when it was eating. Why the fuck I thought this was a good idea is beyond me at this point. The dog turned barked loudly and snapped at me and I went and ran to my dad and complained that the dog tried to bite me. My dad's response was "Well don't pull the dog's tail when she is eating".

Then there was my oldest child who I had been telling for a while to not step on his toys for several weeks who never listened to me. Then one day I told him not to step on his toys just as he was about to step on a metal toy noodle grabber but he instead got the idea that he was going to show me. He lifts his foot way up and stomped down, right on to it and howled like crazy. I told him afterwards that I really don't care if he stepped on his toys since he will eventually destroy them or hurt himself.

No, but spacial pattern matching is exactly what this sort of thing is testing. And if you fed each of the parent segments into an image recognition algorithm, I bet it would pull out the right final result for at least some similar questions.

This is a hypothesis that requires testing, but it's still the case I'm making.

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Europe is about 1/2 the size of the US. Wyoming was an example, not the totality of "wilderness" states. Montana is bigger than all of Sweden, and 1/8th the population. The problem with comparing Europe with the USA, is that one cannot usually make comparisons that make sense. The point being, is that one cannot make "one size fits all" laws for Rural areas that work in Dense cities or visa versa.

School shootings occur in Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... claiming they don't is simply ignorance or wonton lies.

I don't see why those laws wouldn't work well in the US. I can see why they wouldn't be implemented with all the gun nuts around, but there is no reason to why they wouldn't work.

Gun control works, and also allows for dictators to arise. In the 230 years of our country's existence, we haven't had a single dictator. How has Europe fared in the same period? You anti gun nuts are simply ignoring the fact that a well armed population is not capable of being ruled by dictators.

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Europe is about 1/2 the size of the US. Wyoming was an example, not the totality of "wilderness" states. Montana is bigger than all of Sweden, and 1/8th the population. The problem with comparing Europe with the USA, is that one cannot usually make comparisons that make sense. The point being, is that one cannot make "one size fits all" laws for Rural areas that work in Dense cities or visa versa.

School shootings occur in Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... claiming they don't is simply ignorance or wonton lies.

I don't see why those laws wouldn't work well in the US. I can see why they wouldn't be implemented with all the gun nuts around, but there is no reason to why they wouldn't work.

Gun control works, and also allows for dictators to arise. In the 230 years of our country's existence, we haven't had a single dictator. How has Europe fared in the same period? You anti gun nuts are simply ignoring the fact that a well armed population is not capable of being ruled by dictators.

Steve was a little out of sorts at the time. He was looking at the Win8 after market sales figures on Amazon compared to the numbers of Android products.

How about the sapiens sapiens giving Europe back to the neanderthalensis?

Or is it too late for that too.

I think its in the works

Still doesn't make the chat system useful. It is everything but useful. It is like wrapping a Ferrari in shit.
Not to mention it lags a little when it loads, which is annoying as hell when I am trying to watch a video.
Google, the height of efficient coding. *
I straight-up blocked the entire API because of it.

* funny because people do think that, which is hilarious.
Google are hardly efficient. They brute-force crappy servers in to a network to create what you see as Google. (crappy in bad way, not crappy in a cheap way)
They (at least the last time I checked) wrapped so much code in JavaScript that it bogged everything the hell down and made sites slow as hell. **
This was extremely apparent in Google Wave. Everything had a wrapper around it for GOD KNOWS WHAT REASON. Google Wave would have been INSANELY FASTER if it weren't for that terrible JavaScript. It might have even been still ar.. aha no I can't even finish that.
Every layer of abstraction in JS cuts efficiency down considerably.
Not to mention using Python. The slowest of the slow. I'd honestly rather see them use PHP and PHP is disgustingly bad.

** let's check!
Yep, I can still see much of the same stuff.
JS file at gmail
There is why your gmail is slow.
This one is much worse. So many pointless functions that could have been inserted and compressed by the server and decompressed by the browser.
Needless source compression for a smaller footprint.
You'd think they would have learned from Wave and the fact they have their own JS engine. (that while better than most, still suffers from not even highly-layered code. JS needs a huge rewrite to fix that issue)

Still doesn't make the chat system useful. It is everything but useful. It is like wrapping a Ferrari in shit.
Not to mention it lags a little when it loads, which is annoying as hell when I am trying to watch a video.
Google, the height of efficient coding. *
I straight-up blocked the entire API because of it.

* funny because people do think that, which is hilarious.
Google are hardly efficient. They brute-force crappy servers in to a network to create what you see as Google. (crappy in bad way, not crappy in a cheap way)
They (at least the last time I checked) wrapped so much code in JavaScript that it bogged everything the hell down and made sites slow as hell. **
This was extremely apparent in Google Wave. Everything had a wrapper around it for GOD KNOWS WHAT REASON. Google Wave would have been INSANELY FASTER if it weren't for that terrible JavaScript. It might have even been still ar.. aha no I can't even finish that.
Every layer of abstraction in JS cuts efficiency down considerably.
Not to mention using Python. The slowest of the slow. I'd honestly rather see them use PHP and PHP is disgustingly bad.

** let's check!
Yep, I can still see much of the same stuff.
JS file at gmail
There is why your gmail is slow.
This one is much worse. So many pointless functions that could have been inserted and compressed by the server and decompressed by the browser.
Needless source compression for a smaller footprint.
You'd think they would have learned from Wave and the fact they have their own JS engine. (that while better than most, still suffers from not even highly-layered code. JS needs a huge rewrite to fix that issue)

..... a new format that doesn't seem like it will ever be feature-complete.

What features do you see WebP lacking. It uses the RIFF container format that allows XMP metadata, which itself can include EXIF data. It includes lossless and lossy modes, animation and alpha channel (transparency). What do you think is missing?

This and this guy. Mod up if you remember being pissed at how smug they were about it, the British bastards...

They forgot to say "The size of a basketball court for hamsters", it's the favourite sport at ESA, you should see new power forward, maaan! the critter is awesome, MVP for two consecutive seasons:

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Such a storm would (and did) destroy other kinds of power plants.

I rather suspect those will be put back up on poles and towers rather than taking the opportunity to bury a such of the local grid as possible. The lesson will have to be re-learned.

I believe power pretty much always goes up on poles and over land here, not buried. . . Besides being Typhoon-prone, we're in the pacific ring of fire so are earthquake prone. . . Japan does the same thing. . It can get a little messy, though I'm sure it doesn't have to look like this typical manila example: http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTAIMc75zk7cAb0GAzO1u-uhgfJ1c3_ZqvvLPhURmhtJusKhWXh

This

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Hi... You must be new to this planet!

And those are just a few of the idiots on 2 wheels. There are millions where those came from. We have millions that do it on 4 even more readily. You think they're capable of realizing the dangers of Glass on their own?

Somebody mod this guy funny! Quick!

Google Panel Truck.

Then Google exactly what McVeigh used. It was a lot bigger than a panel truck.

Oh MY!

California requires that I own a lock and/or safe which was purchased at the same time as the weapon

Yeah, it's crazy, I mean, I haven't filled my 30 gun safe yet. Most handgun safes hold at least 2-3 weapons. Why force me to buy a lock I'm not going to use because I have a perfectly functional safe at home?

Some of the dealerships I'm at have 'free' cable/trigger locks in a basket. It's up to you whether you take one or not. BTW, I know one guy who uses the cable lock that came with his gun on his gym locker...

Seems to me like most modern 1911 triggers have holes in them.

Mine's a milspec, no holes. A google search of 37 images for "1911" that is actually of a 1911 with the trigger exposed gave me 20 with holes, 17 without. Almost even. Even then, I wouldn't rate all of the holes as suitable for either putting a padlock through, or even if you can get a padlock into the hole, that it would restrain the trigger enough to prevent discharge.

For example, this image has the holes rather far forward...

The lock is for pure child safety. I prefer a safe.

or this this

The first one I used was not a very good experience. We went to the store and purchased a parallel port zip drive. We opened the documentation and read the instructions how to set up the parallel port zip drive. We spent too much time on trying to make it work. Then I noticed the little dial on the back with numbers 5-6 on it.

Turns out they had boxed a scsi zip drive in a parallel port box. Since they were both 25pin everything connected just fine.
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• dry area -- check
• surrounded by mountains -- check
• has inland sea -- check

• Mordor Utah

• populated by orcs -- ahem
• ruled by evil overlord -- OK, he's not that evil. And he has two eyes.

I can't believe how good this is, especially for a no budget horror. Whether or not you intended it, you actually have symbolism contained within the first 14 minutes of the call to action with the main character holding the world in his hand (his bicycle wheel, e.g., a spinning wheel is a symbol within a picture of Gandhi done by Ansel Adams for the world while Gandhi is studying, but this is a more active grip on the world, whereas Gandhi was passive). You actually mention gay issues in a way that is interesting. You build a plot, which goes above and beyond most Hollywood films. In the past, many of the films that have been created in Milwaukee are experimental films, so they don't receive as much attention, but it is good to see a common genre with unique quality.

Yours is broken, otherwise it would read like this working one

No, I mean this: http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS5BGGwrVEOr2730zGtOsOd9Piq7xHjjDsP2obIQVr6BxJFTfQE

Yep, I had Kanga Bangas for dinner last night. Not as succulent (fatty) as regular sausages and with a stronger flavour but not bad all the same. Kangaroo burgers rock, and Kangaroo steak is great when done quite rare, but overcook it and it goes tougher than a pair of Chuck Norris's boots.
Kangaroo meat is also much better for you and the environment than beef. Kangaroos need to be culled in many parts of Australia due to rising population levels (there are considerably more kangaroos in Australia now than before white settlement, due to agriculture), the meat is very low in fat, and kangaroos fart far less than cows, so we don't get the methane output that cows produce. If you can get kangaroo meat, try it.

They were fun before you had to get a second mortgage to visit.

I'd be up for a (debugged) Westworld. Sexbots, ho!

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