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Um, no. I'm pretty sure the mother's blood is circulating through the biological equivalent of a heat exchange with the fetus's blood. A nutrient exchange if you will. Baby's blood picks up nutrients from mom's blood, drops off some waste in the blood stream back to mom.

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You clearly didn't see Zardoz .

Fievel Mousekewitz is not a Disney character. Nor is Jerry. Or were you referring to the trademark flap between Disney and Deadmau5?

Well, hold on, now. Let's put some context on that number. First, our per-capita emissions are improving year over year (this is also true of Europe). This image gives us more context, but still leaves out some important facts: OECD Americas includes #2 America, while the lower China is #1. BUT, the image is pretty good for establishing trends in emissions. First world countries are trending down, China and ME are trending up. As China begins outsourcing production for their own environmental concerns, look for China the plateau and Africa to start spiking.

They already did: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

Actually, they do consider themselves a "technology and grantmaking operation" rather than an educational organization.

I'll let some pictures show why GTK+3 is an abomination.

This is a GTK+ 2 UI: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Gedit2261.png

This is the GTK+ 3 UI of a later version of the same application: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Gedit_3.11.92.png

The GTK+ 2 UI is a good one. It follows widely-used conventions, with toolbars containing frequently-used functionality (with relevant icons and descriptive text), and menus containing additional functionality that may not be used as often. This results in an application that's easy to use.

The GTK+ 3 UI is an awful one. There's no consistency. It's difficult to tell what's a button that results in an immediate action, and that is merely a menu. The icons don't describe the corresponding action. The application is nearly impossible to use.

Going from GTK+ 2 to GTK+ 3 was a total regression for gedit. Its UI was trashed, rendering it unusable. I sure hope that the Xfce developers don't make the same mistake.

Your pictures are right, but there is one more thing about GTK+ 3 applications. If you try running them in environments other than GNOME, they misbehave. As in they become fullscreen applications (as opposed to maximized applications) and there is no way of resizing them or moving them. In some DEs, like Lumina, where I tried runnng them, the app completely covers the top bar, making it impossible to do anything else. There ain't much difference b/w GNOME shell and GNOME 3 - both of which I've tried out under PCBSD.

I think the best migration from GTK+ 2 is to Qt 5.x. Far more sensible development platform.

I'll let some pictures show why GTK+3 is an abomination.

This is a GTK+ 2 UI: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Gedit2261.png

This is the GTK+ 3 UI of a later version of the same application: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Gedit_3.11.92.png

The GTK+ 2 UI is a good one. It follows widely-used conventions, with toolbars containing frequently-used functionality (with relevant icons and descriptive text), and menus containing additional functionality that may not be used as often. This results in an application that's easy to use.

The GTK+ 3 UI is an awful one. There's no consistency. It's difficult to tell what's a button that results in an immediate action, and that is merely a menu. The icons don't describe the corresponding action. The application is nearly impossible to use.

Going from GTK+ 2 to GTK+ 3 was a total regression for gedit. Its UI was trashed, rendering it unusable. I sure hope that the Xfce developers don't make the same mistake.

Your pictures are right, but there is one more thing about GTK+ 3 applications. If you try running them in environments other than GNOME, they misbehave. As in they become fullscreen applications (as opposed to maximized applications) and there is no way of resizing them or moving them. In some DEs, like Lumina, where I tried runnng them, the app completely covers the top bar, making it impossible to do anything else. There ain't much difference b/w GNOME shell and GNOME 3 - both of which I've tried out under PCBSD.

I think the best migration from GTK+ 2 is to Qt 5.x. Far more sensible development platform.

I'll let some pictures show why GTK+3 is an abomination.

This is a GTK+ 2 UI: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Gedit2261.png

This is the GTK+ 3 UI of a later version of the same application: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Gedit_3.11.92.png

The GTK+ 2 UI is a good one. It follows widely-used conventions, with toolbars containing frequently-used functionality (with relevant icons and descriptive text), and menus containing additional functionality that may not be used as often. This results in an application that's easy to use.

The GTK+ 3 UI is an awful one. There's no consistency. It's difficult to tell what's a button that results in an immediate action, and that is merely a menu. The icons don't describe the corresponding action. The application is nearly impossible to use.

Going from GTK+ 2 to GTK+ 3 was a total regression for gedit. Its UI was trashed, rendering it unusable. I sure hope that the Xfce developers don't make the same mistake.

Shit.. i kid you not, i thought i had some weird gtk bug that caused my windows to loose the windows decoration, and it's in a fact a feature...

I'll let some pictures show why GTK+3 is an abomination.

This is a GTK+ 2 UI: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Gedit2261.png

This is the GTK+ 3 UI of a later version of the same application: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Gedit_3.11.92.png

The GTK+ 2 UI is a good one. It follows widely-used conventions, with toolbars containing frequently-used functionality (with relevant icons and descriptive text), and menus containing additional functionality that may not be used as often. This results in an application that's easy to use.

The GTK+ 3 UI is an awful one. There's no consistency. It's difficult to tell what's a button that results in an immediate action, and that is merely a menu. The icons don't describe the corresponding action. The application is nearly impossible to use.

Going from GTK+ 2 to GTK+ 3 was a total regression for gedit. Its UI was trashed, rendering it unusable. I sure hope that the Xfce developers don't make the same mistake.

Shit.. i kid you not, i thought i had some weird gtk bug that caused my windows to loose the windows decoration, and it's in a fact a feature...

I'll let some pictures show why GTK+3 is an abomination.

This is a GTK+ 2 UI: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Gedit2261.png

This is the GTK+ 3 UI of a later version of the same application: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Gedit_3.11.92.png

The GTK+ 2 UI is a good one. It follows widely-used conventions, with toolbars containing frequently-used functionality (with relevant icons and descriptive text), and menus containing additional functionality that may not be used as often. This results in an application that's easy to use.

The GTK+ 3 UI is an awful one. There's no consistency. It's difficult to tell what's a button that results in an immediate action, and that is merely a menu. The icons don't describe the corresponding action. The application is nearly impossible to use.

Going from GTK+ 2 to GTK+ 3 was a total regression for gedit. Its UI was trashed, rendering it unusable. I sure hope that the Xfce developers don't make the same mistake.

I'll let some pictures show why GTK+3 is an abomination.

This is a GTK+ 2 UI: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Gedit2261.png

This is the GTK+ 3 UI of a later version of the same application: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Gedit_3.11.92.png

The GTK+ 2 UI is a good one. It follows widely-used conventions, with toolbars containing frequently-used functionality (with relevant icons and descriptive text), and menus containing additional functionality that may not be used as often. This results in an application that's easy to use.

The GTK+ 3 UI is an awful one. There's no consistency. It's difficult to tell what's a button that results in an immediate action, and that is merely a menu. The icons don't describe the corresponding action. The application is nearly impossible to use.

Going from GTK+ 2 to GTK+ 3 was a total regression for gedit. Its UI was trashed, rendering it unusable. I sure hope that the Xfce developers don't make the same mistake.

>>I'm looking forward to passage of an amendment to the square-cube law that will allow a concrete block to fly.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

Next problem?

that's current pages only at 42GB (as at Feb 2013). More than double for current pages with linked user and talk pages, the full history dumps for ENWiki runs (Feb 2013) to TEN Terabytes.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki...

So no, that does NOT include images or any other language.

I feel so very sorry.

Heh. You, sir, are a good sport.

In the larger context of the Constitution, most of these debates miss the fact that the Constitution is explicitly constructed as a whitelist of powers for the government. Everything else is reserved for the states and people. As for those Founders who opposed the Bill of Rights on the principle that it might mislead people into thinking the Constitution enshrines and delimits the people's rights... well, it seems they were correct after all.

The fact that the federal government has used a few privilege exploits ("general welfare" and commerce clause) to redefine the document does not change the fact that—the concept of civil rights not withstanding—the federal government simply does not have this power whitelisted.

I feel so very sorry.

They could print it, but the handwriting gives it a homestyle artistic "flare" that the restaurant wants to maintain:

"Flare" vs. "flair".

I like Inkscape. It's generally a great program. But its most serious problem is that it uses GTK+ as its toolkit.

GTK+ is rife with serious problems. The first is that it's affiliated with the GNOME crew. Their grasp of sensible, proper UI design is very suspect, especially after the GNOME 3 disaster. For example, these are the kind of people who took gedit, GNOME's text editor, and changed it from this sensible, usable UI to this hideous, unusable UI.

The portability of GTK+ is, to put it politely, utter rubbish. X11 is the only platform where it isn't a disgrace. It "works" under Windows and OS X, but if by "working" you mean it runs but is generally unusable. I haven't been able to ever get it working properly under OS X. It didn't even get to the point where it showed a UI, the last time I tried it.

It will be a lot of work, but they need to port Inkscape from GTK+ to Qt. Qt is a much better toolkit. It looks great. It works (and actually works, in that the resulting software is perfectly usable!) pretty much everywhere.

GTK+ had its place in the late 1990s. But we're well past that time now. Qt is the best toolkit to use these days. I truly wish that the Inkscape devs would port from GTK+ to Qt, so that we users can use it on Windows and OS X, as well as getting a much better experience under Linux.

I'm just a designer, and I've never done any C++ programming, but I'm thinking that maybe I'll have to learn it so I could potentially contribute to any effort that arises to fix the UI of Inkscape.

I like Inkscape. It's generally a great program. But its most serious problem is that it uses GTK+ as its toolkit.

GTK+ is rife with serious problems. The first is that it's affiliated with the GNOME crew. Their grasp of sensible, proper UI design is very suspect, especially after the GNOME 3 disaster. For example, these are the kind of people who took gedit, GNOME's text editor, and changed it from this sensible, usable UI to this hideous, unusable UI.

The portability of GTK+ is, to put it politely, utter rubbish. X11 is the only platform where it isn't a disgrace. It "works" under Windows and OS X, but if by "working" you mean it runs but is generally unusable. I haven't been able to ever get it working properly under OS X. It didn't even get to the point where it showed a UI, the last time I tried it.

It will be a lot of work, but they need to port Inkscape from GTK+ to Qt. Qt is a much better toolkit. It looks great. It works (and actually works, in that the resulting software is perfectly usable!) pretty much everywhere.

GTK+ had its place in the late 1990s. But we're well past that time now. Qt is the best toolkit to use these days. I truly wish that the Inkscape devs would port from GTK+ to Qt, so that we users can use it on Windows and OS X, as well as getting a much better experience under Linux.

I'm just a designer, and I've never done any C++ programming, but I'm thinking that maybe I'll have to learn it so I could potentially contribute to any effort that arises to fix the UI of Inkscape.

Distrowatch is not a measure of users. http://stats.wikimedia.org/wik... isn't representative necessarily either but at least it's an actual measure of users of something, and shows Ubuntu as over 100 times more popular than Mint.

Well gee, if you're gonna get picky...

Well, what I had in mind was a flyby of an object of a roughly comparable size, and I'm pretty sure that ~0.5-1km sized objects have been mapped pretty exhaustively. So, yeah, there will be a lot of flybys before 2027, but the flybys of things we don't know about yet are bound to be somewhat less significant.

The interesting thing here is the somewhat skewed shape of the size distribution of known NEAs, which suggests to me that the skew due to detectability happens somewhere below the ~300m region. That's what makes me think that most of the ~1km sized stuff has been already discovered.

Don't Peeps contain gelatin?

I'll use the maps. And the weather.

Why not something like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

This is an article from 1998. Scott McNealy liked to show off his Java ring at that time and talk about how it would be used to allow someone to walk into a hotel room and have sensors detect the person and their wishes such as music and mood lighting and it would also store your crypto keys on it. It will be interesting to see if people are read to wear tech as new devices enter the market.

http://www.javaworld.com/artic...

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

Citation? Ask any of the residents of high lattitude and they'll explain that, in summer (or winter), they have daylight - real daylight - until they go to sleep, at which point they frequently use thick curtains to block the light.

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First, I'd politely suggest that the first step toward constructive discussion is not to patronize the person you're talking to. Condescension might make you feel great, but isn't a great way to start a difficult discussion.

OTOH, if you're actually genuine about believing that "anyone who doesn't agree with global warming doesn't understand science"...then you might want to check your biases. There are a LOT of scientists - including some climatologists - who disbelieve the all or parts of the current paradigm that "the planet is warming and humans are the main cause". Let's use, for example, Dr. John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) who's shown that observed temps are *radically* different than pretty nearly all the climate models put forward by the IPCC: http://www.cnsnews.com/sites/d... ...if that doesn't make you suspicious of "sky is falling" predictions by the IPCC, what would?

As you posted AC, and I don't even know if you'll come back to respond, it's not worth a comprehensive discussion here, so I'll be as succinct as possible. (If you do come back, and want to have a constructive dialogue, I'd be happy to.)
First, we'll set aside all of planetary history before the last 3m years (because they were warmer), I'd invite you to look at this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...
or more zoomed in for specifics: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

There are *clearly* nearly-vertical temperature and CO2 spikes every 100k years or so. The last one was about 100k years ago.

If something happens repeatedly, say, a dozen times in a row, in a reasonably consistent cycle, and then it happens a 13th time, a reasonable observer is going to assert that what ever caused the previous 12 is causing the 13th, and whatever caused them to end will ALSO cause the 13th to end. The fact that you happen to be present to see the 13th, doesn't mean you're the cause.

First, I'd politely suggest that the first step toward constructive discussion is not to patronize the person you're talking to. Condescension might make you feel great, but isn't a great way to start a difficult discussion.

OTOH, if you're actually genuine about believing that "anyone who doesn't agree with global warming doesn't understand science"...then you might want to check your biases. There are a LOT of scientists - including some climatologists - who disbelieve the all or parts of the current paradigm that "the planet is warming and humans are the main cause". Let's use, for example, Dr. John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) who's shown that observed temps are *radically* different than pretty nearly all the climate models put forward by the IPCC: http://www.cnsnews.com/sites/d... ...if that doesn't make you suspicious of "sky is falling" predictions by the IPCC, what would?

As you posted AC, and I don't even know if you'll come back to respond, it's not worth a comprehensive discussion here, so I'll be as succinct as possible. (If you do come back, and want to have a constructive dialogue, I'd be happy to.)
First, we'll set aside all of planetary history before the last 3m years (because they were warmer), I'd invite you to look at this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...
or more zoomed in for specifics: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

There are *clearly* nearly-vertical temperature and CO2 spikes every 100k years or so. The last one was about 100k years ago.

If something happens repeatedly, say, a dozen times in a row, in a reasonably consistent cycle, and then it happens a 13th time, a reasonable observer is going to assert that what ever caused the previous 12 is causing the 13th, and whatever caused them to end will ALSO cause the 13th to end. The fact that you happen to be present to see the 13th, doesn't mean you're the cause.

The only thing that ultimately guarantees "publicly accountable" is the 2nd Amendment, once your 1st Amendment rights to bitch have been squashed by corrupt conspirators. If it can be called corrupt in a moral sense, but not in a legal sense, then there is something wrong with the law and the legislators that pimp it. Such as a customer does not have to buy anything such as insurance or lottery tickets he does not want to buy for any reason, most often that is price, or benefit returned for that price, but even simple things, like when shopping for a TV, some sales clerk offends you, you have the right to not buy a TV, even if you get an extreme bargain, even if you get the TV for free. He can walk out of the store and not do business with them and the lesson is that if they do it to the other customers too, they too don't have to buy, the customer is king in the Land of the Fre and the Home of the Brave and he does not have to do business with you unless he feels like he is getting a deal, or becase he likes you, or whatever his reasons are. If you offend a customer he has the right to walk out of your business and boycott it as far as removing his life from yours goes, he does not have the right to come back and bomb that business maffiozo style, but he has the right to shun you. That's how Amish people treat each other - they shun each other when circumstance require. They don't beat you with a stick, they don't hang you, they don't bomb you with explosives, they don't shoot you with a gun, they simply remove the benefit of what their life provides to you from you, called shunning. Usually you can take it for a while but the end result is most often just the person shunned leaving. I have the right to shun counties that have been abusive to me. Such as cutting my wildflowers. For instance, look at this picture http://commons.wikimedia.org/w... and look around at the girl's feet. A butterfly or other bugs would find this terrain absolutely gorgeous, because they could easily survive on the nectar collected from the abundant, natural wildflowers. If your sense of beauty is distorted when the only beautiful thing is a perfect green 8 millimeter tall grass lawn devoid of any red, yellow, blue or white, then I think you need to go to a shrink to get your head checked out, but in any case you have the right to be the best way you see fit for you, including cutting you grass, and I have the right to be the best way I see fit, such as not cutting mine. The argument that nature untouched by man is ugly does not fly. Nature does not need a constant human touch to be beautiful. Ask all the jungle people around the world what they think. And even if you cut the grass and steal it from my land, don't send me bills that cost more than $10 for the 20 minutes it takes to cut it per incident, which would come to $30/hr when going from neighboring lots to neighboring lots. We have a clash here over what's beautiful, and a couple hundred feet away at the end of he street there are a ton of standing wildflowers behind the fence on the lot of the public rail transit system and that is not attacked or constantly cut, so it's also a discrimination case. Under the circumstances I have the right to refuse accepting a job within county borders, over corrupt county government abuses, and withdraw the benefit my existence would provide to them, such as paying taxes. If the county attacks me financially to devastate me, I have the right to try to shun them financially in return. And then after considering the attacking from the county on the financial front, here comes Obamacare, a direct attack on my financial world straight from the Federal Government, trying to force me to go on government aid under my social holding me responsible for the bankrupt government's financial problems too, while making enormous payments on arbitrary prices on this on line Health Insurance Marketplace puppet show. I'm a customer and the basic rule is that I don't ha

Then read this
Bridge for sale, totally genuine. You have eyes? here is a picture http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

Why put that computer into a keyboard when you can put it into a joystick? (Jeri Ellsworth's C64-Direct-to-TV)

I would. I am lousy at playing games, but I really like watching others play. And I am not alone

I didn't move the goalposts. I responded to your original claims that "[dumping] the turbine exhaust into the combustion chamber [to] gain additional thrust from it (closed circuit rocket engine)" - which is EXACTLY what the RS-25 from the 1970s does - was allegedly "a unique technology" that "Lockheed Martin engineers" didn't believe was possible. The way your claims were stated, they were simply untrue and ignorant, perhaps aside from the fact that RS-25 indeed got very complex as a result of using this cycle.

The funny thing is that Russians were to a large extent forced to develop the oxygen-rich cycle hydrocarbon (and even hypergolic) engines because they didn't have the one thing that Americans did - efficient hydrogen/oxygen upper-stage engines (such as the RL-10) which removed a lot of the need for this cycle in the first stage (and perhaps even more importantly, the need to build the complex and expensive ground facilities for this propellant, which Russians did once - for Energia - and then swiftly canceled it for cost reasons). And once they had such engines as the RD-253, they simply learned to manage without high energy upper stages. Now whether getting hydrolox-crazy like Americans are even today was a good idea is highly debatable (Delta IV!), but that's how it ended up. Nowadays even the Angara is going to use the one Russian hydrogen engine that made it into an actual non-doomed vehicle (at least non-doomed yet!), the RD-0146 (which, unsurprisingly, is a redesign of RL-10).

This Wikipedia project is an excellent example of why this issue will never be "solved" to the satisfaction of those hell bent on seeing the number of women expanded. Briefly, for those who want a TL;DR take, the project's goal is to create a "safe space" for women where among other things, they don't have to deal with men "attacking them," "trashing them" or even really criticizing them.

There is something that all of the groups that demand a "safe space" all have in common and that's that they cannot function in a competitive workplace. If it's not completely "consensus-driven" without overt competition, they can't function. Most men and many women who do stick it out have no respect for this sort of person be it some male geek mentally stuck in high school even at the age of 30 or a woman who cannot bear normal male group dynamics.

And before someone tries to throw out a red herring about Linus Torvalds or some extreme case of sexual quid pro quo, I'd like to point out that most of the stories you see about why women leave come down to a few factors:

1. Uncomfortable with competitiveness.
2. Total lack of empathy with how men and certain types of women often see the world.
3. Not warmly, enthusiastically embraced as a "woman in STEM."

Just look at the Matt Taylor issue. If that is the sort of thing that makes you change your life direction, you don't deserve dreams. You're just too weak and pathetic of a human being to deserve even a day dream about where your life could go. That's so banal compared to real sexism like telling a woman that she has to advance on her back if she wants to advance at all that even uttering such a complaint takes you outside the realm of having anything authentic grievances.

The city government of D.C. likes tweaking the nose of the Federal government. Ever seen one of these? It's a D.C. license plate, and it reads "Taxation Without Representation".

Giving an ineffectual finger to the Feds is a pastime for them.

Given the original Chevy Volt concept looked like this and the production looked like this. I fully expect the Bolt to go from this to this.

Given the original Chevy Volt concept looked like this and the production looked like this. I fully expect the Bolt to go from this to this.

And likewise if you do an image search for roman concrete you can see it still wears away. It's more flexible and more resistant to salt but it still wears away and in fact is apparently weaker. It's a trade-off and all those nice buildings in Italy still require maintenance.

Just look at the colosseum, you can clearly see newer touch-up work. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

The earth's rotation isn't actually a known factor. It varies. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

And why the hell would hey have bothered about hte Amerika Bomber if they had A-10s??

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

Fucking hell, that's a gun with wings!!!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

Tell me that your Second Amendment allows stuff like this and I will swim all the way to your country and sell my balls to get the nationality.

And why the hell would hey have bothered about hte Amerika Bomber if they had A-10s??

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

Fucking hell, that's a gun with wings!!!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

Tell me that your Second Amendment allows stuff like this and I will swim all the way to your country and sell my balls to get the nationality.

I'm currently working on using a BeagleBone Black to build a Jeapardy like game system

I think you'd be better with the BeagleBone dull green with black and brown bits.

Sounds like an idea. It would, however, entail to break the law by getting into the complex in this place. ( Pic featured in this Wikipedia article, in German. ), as well as, literally, walking over a certain public feeling of decency, as this place is a memorial to so many victims from nearby concentration camp Mauthausen, who were forced to work an die here.

If they are really that important: there ought to be an interlock that means that they will only fly if there is a 5 star general strapped on board.

Or Slim Pickens.

It's not just news outlets, it's sensational people as well, and there are a LOT of them, especially on slashdot. For example, how many people routinely claim that the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer?

Well lets do a little then and now comparison:

Rich 100 years ago meant you owned an actual car, which was likely a piece of shit that poor people of today would even scoff at. Rich 50 years ago meant you owned more than one television, televisions which look like crap and had tiny screens compared to ones that poor people have access to in abundance today. Rich 30 years ago meant you had a car phone, which had crap coverage and no data, and perhaps a portable computer and perhaps a laser disc player. Middle class in the same era meant maybe owning a commodore vic-20.

If you were poor 100 years ago you could barely afford to eat enough calories to meet your minimum daily needs. Today poor people are often overweight, and I've seen homeless people carry a laptop to starbucks, and the money they get from begging usually goes towards booze or cigarettes (any actual food or clothing they need are usually given to them for free by food banks, and if they so choose, they can get free or close to free section 8 housing.)

In spite of all of this, its only politically correct to say that we're poorer now than we have ever been, mainly because a lot of people are incredibly dumb and can't tell the difference between money and wealth (money, by definition, does not make somebody rich or wealthy.)

Now, does some government spreadsheet say that we have more poor today than before? Yeah, probably, but mainly because the goalpost is constantly getting pushed up. Just to put things into perspective: If minimum wage ACTUALLY kept up with inflation from the day it was first introduced, then it would be only $4.15 an hour today.

Source:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Anyways my point is, it's not just news outlets that are at fault here. Most people, for whatever reason, hold the general belief that everything is always worse in the present day than it was in the past. Penn and Teller did an episode on this once:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Hey now! My aunt rode dressage in 2 olympics. One of my earliest memories was seeing her in the opening ceremonies in 1984.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...
She was holding the red balloon. :)

Dressage is defined as "the highest expression of horse training." My aunt dedicated her life to understanding and working with horses. Going to the olympics was an added bonus, awarded to her because she is very good at what she does.

Horses were largely replaced by the internal combustion engine about 100 years ago. Bows were replaced by firearms nearly 400 years ago. Both are archeaic and underappreciated. Honestly, I was surprised someone who enjoys longbow archery has no respect for dressage. Then I read NoNONAlphaCharsHere's reply and see that pretty much everything in your post is bullshit. So now I'm no longer surprised.

I wonder how hard it'd be to take The Open Bay and turn it into a "LegitTorrent" site centered around works under a Creative Commons license or other licenses for free cultural works. Such a site would promptly respond to OCILLA notices to help discover uploaders that have been engaging in license laundering.

I wonder how much of Matplotlib's use of this portrait relates to Playboy's copyright in the pic of Lena. The US Government always puts its works made for hire, such as the Navy portrait of Rear Admiral Hopper, in the public domain.

...& raise u a philco predicta in the basement;-)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

Your bacteria account for less than 20% of methane breakdown.
They are not eevrywhere.
And they arent the reason it breaks down in atmosphere.