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Exactly. When our neighbors across the pond need to borrow, say a few B-52s or an armored Brigade to deal with Bosnia or Kosovo, they ask and we almost always come through for them, even when, for instance, Kosovo wasn't as bad as everyone thought.
But when we want to borrow some German Infantry or French Armor for a cleanup in Iraq, a mess that was left by the French and British after the big mess they left in WWI, they won't lend us some Infantry or Armor and they go so far as to tell others in the subdivsion that if they lend us some guys, they might get introuble with the Home Owners Association (EU).
It was too expensive and too early. If they could have waited till MacWorld SF in Jan of '01 they might have shaved 100-150 bucks off the price and gotten more RAM in the box and shipped it with a Combodrive.
The treaty is about keeping landmines from being planted where they will kill or mame innocent people.
Having them in DMZs isn't against the spirit of the treaty. The United States also has a system of controlled landmines called FASCAM, that were also not exemptable.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/m un itions/landmines.htm "US mine warfare has undergone a remarkable transition in the last 30 years. The U.S. inventory of old-fashioned "dumb" mines has been significantly reduced and their use restricted. The most modern mines in the US inventory all possess self-destruct or self-neutralization features, they cease to function at predetermined times. These mines lose the ability to inflict casualties once their military utility on the battlefield is gone."
"Land mines cause about 26,000 casualties worldwide every year. Although most of these casualties are the result of the indiscriminate and irresponsible use of mines, they have caused antipersonnel (AP) mines to be severely stigmatized by the international community. As a leader of the "responsible" international community, the United States has chosen to pursue the regulation of AP mines. In setting a standard that we hope others will follow, the President announced a significant change in US policy for AP mines on 16 May 1996. The US unilaterally undertook not to use, and to place in inactive stockpile status with the intent to demilitarize by the end of 1999, all nonself-destructing AP mines not needed to train personnel engaged in demining and countermine operations, and to defend the United States and its allies from armed aggression that crosses the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
The US views the security situation on the Korean Peninsula as a unique case and in the negotiation of this agreement will protect the right to use AP mines there until alternatives become available or the risk of aggression has been removed. This policy eliminated the use of M14 blast AP mines and M16 bounding fragmentation mines outside the Republic of Korea. It did not affect the use of self-destructing mines or command-detonated weapons (M18 claymore)."
"The United States' landmine policy increases funding for humanitarian mine action substantially. It includes an unconditional commitment that U.S. military forces (despite worldwide treaty commitments and major ongoing operations) will cease the use of all persistent landmines, anti-vehicle as well as anti-personnel, by the end of 2010. The United States will also eliminate from its inventory all non-detectable mines, which pose an extraordinary risk to civilians and deminers."
Really? No aid? Might want to google for news on the subject.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/04us.htm "J anuary 04, 200520:08 IST
The United States on Tuesday committed another $1.6 million towards relief for the tsunami-affected people of India.
Earlier, it committed $1.5 million for the same purpose.
Denying that Washington had been stingy, US Ambassador to India David C Mulford said in New Delhi that the Bush administration responded immediately in the aftermath of the disaster and offered help in various forms."
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/m si d-984643,curpg-3.cms "...the Indian government had since reversed its stand and said it will accept foreign aid where needed, some damage has already been done amid spotty praise for New Delhi's stand."
Now, the Canadians did send forces to Afghanistan, and the Candians had a great military during the Cold War. But now the Canadians have cut and cut and cut and they are a shell of what they were.
Canadian snipers and what combat forces were in Afghanistan, for example, at Tora Bora, did outstanding, including the longest recorded and confirmed sniper kills.
"Are you joking or are you fucking moron? If Afghanistan was a total success, why does the UN still have 18,000 troops in the country?"
OK. Was the Allied invastion and liberation of Western Europe a total success?
The United States European Command [USEUCOM] primary mission in support of NATO is to provide combat-ready forces to support U.S. commitments to the NATO alliance. Although planning for NATO conflict is first priority at USEUCOM, consideration is also given to unilateral and multilateral contingency planning. This includes providing forces to other unified commands , and ranges from humanitarian relief to support of friendly governments with supplies.
The area of responsibility (AOR) of the United States European Command covers more than 13 million square miles and includes 91 countries and territories. This territory extends from the North Cape of Norway, through the waters of the Baltic and Mediterranean seas, most of Europe, parts of the Middle East, to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Several other countries and territories are considered to be part of the USEUCOM area of interest (AOI).
1st Infantry Division 1st Armored Division 1st Personnel Command 3rd Corps Support Command 5th Signal Command 7th Army Training Command 7th Army Reserve Command 21st Theater Support Command 266th Finance Command 48th Fighter Wing 52nd Fighter Wing 65th Air Base 85th Group 86th Airlift Wing 100th Air Refueling Wing 420th Air Base Group 435th Air Base Wing 4th ASOG 16th Air Expeditionary Wing 31st Air Expeditionary Wing 31st Fighter Wing 39th Air Base Wing 401st Air Expeditionary Wing
Or was the defeat and occupation of Japan a success in creating a democracy? There are still troops there too, including a Marine Division and an Aircraft Carrier Battlegroup http://www.globalsecurity.org/militar y/ops/korea-o rbat-usfj.htm
Was the liberation and defense of South Korea a success? There are over 35,000 US troops there under a UN mandate. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/o ps/korea-o rbat.htm
The US hasn't signed that bill because it would force the US to demine the Inter-Korean DMZ and the fence around Gitmo. The US has marked those fields, it has asked for either an extention for those two locations or an exeption. Both were refused, so the US refuses.
"Keep your military in your own damn country; no-one likes a nosy neighbour."
OK. So when the EU can take care of, say, problems a days drive from Berlin, like Kosovo or Bosnia, the United States should leave Europe, of course when the entire Red Army and Warsaw Pact was sitting on the other side of the Fulda Gap, it was alright to be nosy.
What about Korea? Ready for the DPRK to burn Seoul? Or Japan? Ready for the PRC to get back at Japan for WW2? Or Taiwan? Ready for the PRC to get back at them for having the gaul to resist the PRC?
Or how about things no one hears about, like the Green Berets demining all over the world? Or American SAR saving lives in the deep ocean? Or how about the 82nd Airborne keeping the DMZ in the Sinai since 1977?
Or what about the US military being there to assist in the Indian Ocean after the Tsuamni? Australia is the only other one in the region with any sealift or airlift and it's a fraction of what the US has.
As soon as the rest of the World shows the slightest ability to not burn itself down the moment we pull back to the US, we'll be happy to, until you all man up, you are stuck with us.
Video Games and TV don't stop crime in Prisons or Jails. Tight security stops crime in Prisons or Jails.
I've been in Jail, couple times actually. We didn't have video games or TV and there were no shankings or rape parties in the shower because of it being gone.
When I went to jail, it was because I was being a fuckin' dumbass and the other folks in jail with me had been fuckin' dumbasses. In fact, of my closer circle of friends from High School, we'll say 4/5th of them went to Jail, and every time and everyone was doing something dumb.
I know alot of folks who have been in jail, and none of them were innocent.
This is the problem with the Global Climate Change arguement that is being thrown about in the press and here.
The argument that it's all Man and the fixation of greenhouse gases and the refusal to look at anything else but Man and greenhouse gases.
CO2 does not mean warming. Go look at USHCN data for say New York City and Albany NY, NYC has gotten much warmer since 1822 and Albany hasn't. CO2 isn't causing that, urban heat islands are. As more and more places to collect data become urbanized more and more elevations in temprature will be recorded, but that doesn't mean the planet is getting warmer.
Now for all this CO2 in the air, why is the ice mass of Antarctica growing? And at the same time, even with decreased CO2 levels, why were the interglacial periods 400,000 years ago warmer than today?
The World is getting warmer, but just because CO2 is increasing at the same time doesn't mean CO2 is causing it.
Because Kyoto was and is fatally flawed and that it won't even start to reverse Global Warming and that it's been produced just to try and shackle the United States with the sorts of environmental laws the EU has been shackled with.
And somehow, the Senate pulled it's collective head from it's collective ass and figured that out. And it was 95-0, not 99-0 like I said before. The reason fiven was that the exemption of developing countries was "inconsistent with the need for global action."
"The Kyoto outcome will have an inconsequential impact on the climate system." - Richard Benedick, Kyoto negotiator.
Actually, we don't KNOW that our actions are causing the changes.
We KNOW that in a vacuum light goes so far a second. We KNOW that at sea level in a vacuum the gravitational acceleration is 9.81something something meters per second squared.
We don't know what out actions are causing and we don't know that further actions will cause further changes.
This has nothing to do with my wanting to pollute. But thanks for throwing that out, makes your argument much more believable. The old, if you don't agree with me, you must be bad routine.
Well, for China and India, we of course need to tell them, you know all that economic and industrial expansion Europe and the Americas and the Tigers of Asia got to have, unfettered by international restictions?
You Yellow and Brown Bastards can't do that too, because you see, what is good for Us, isn't good for You. So since Kyoto isn't going to solve the problem, here are 30 Kyotos worth of restictions. We're also going to keep all the American, Japanese and EU car makers from building car factories in your countries, because that's not fair.
So, we need to shackle India, China and Africa too, while we are at it, with restrictive treaties and industrial regulations, like the ones Japan, the United States, Mexico and the EU never, ever had.
The United States didn't ignore Kyoto, Bush didn't shelve it. The United States Senate voted 99 to 0 to say there was no way it was going to be passed as a treaty in the United States Senate.
No, actually Global Warming doesn't mean all those shake-ups will occur.
It doesn't mean any of them will occur. The fact of the matter is, all the computer models in the World and wildassed guesses mean that we know very little about how the planet, and solar system for that matter, are warming and what the ultimate side effects of that warming are.
We don't know that our actions are causing changes. Any speculation about "expecting a shake-up" is 99.99% BS.
Yep, that pro-Government and pro-Corporate idea set is why the freakin' Teacher's Unions are so damned strong.
Public Schools were set up to teach folks who were transitioning from agarian societies in the United States and Europe how to work in an Urban industrial environment. One-Room Schools in the United States and more rural school were and are more flexible than big schools are. Think for a moment about how the United States was and has been in transition from a rural society to an Urban one over the last 100 years, thats when the current education system kicked off.
Where I went in the 80s and where I worked in the late 90s were both rural and both allowed alot of flexibility for students who farmed or ranched.
The problem with the Internet in schools is that the majority of teachers don't have the foggiest idea how to use computers or the Internet to increase education and instead it becomes disruptive though bad use, bad supervision and it becoming a babysitter.
However, the vast majority of marriages were not strategic alliances, but people getting married and the age of consent for marriage was, for females, tenn through to thirteen were typically acceptable into the mid 19th century.
Usually the contractual age for an arranged marriage was at the point of sexual maturity.
The problem isn't the authors, it's the Editors. When there is a month without a dupe, I'll buy a subscription to/.
Howver that's not going to happen because Editors don't take thier job seriously. Seriously, they never have. From Sengan's great editorializing about the 1998 attack on Iraq (Comments are disabled, as I expect a lot of people will believe the US/UK side of the story...) and disabling comments to Katz to dupe after dupe.
It compressed the inhabitable area on the surface while that and other things were happening that effected the oceans, and at the same time we have contiental shifts greating deserts and squeezing out the shallow seas.
It was a triple-witching hour for extictions.
Time of widespread regression of the seas. Gymnosperms (seed plants) replaced many spore bearing plants. Widespread accumulation of evaporites. More of Permian salt deposits than of any other age Waters were hypersaline Mass extinction at the end of the Permian Trilobites all disappeared Rugose and tabulate corals all disappeared Blastoids all disappeared Fusulinid forams all disappeared
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Am I the only one who is sick of the weekly and monthly PR circus that is stories from other places obviously being submitted to /, to get traffic to their websites?
/, is going to do this over and over and over, give us Wired and Robert Cringely topics we can turn off.
Wired and Robert Cringely stick out, I'm sure there are others. If
Is iPod the Razor or the Blade?
On January 28th, 2005
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On January 21st, 2005
Bob Cringely's Predictions For 2005
On January 9th, 2005
Get Your Broadcast TV Anywhere
On December 2nd, 2004 - goes to a Cringley article
Search By.... Email?
On October 15th, 2004 - goes to a Cringley article
HP Sells Cheap FreeDOS PC in China
On December 10th, 2004 - goes to a Cringley article because "And while we're on China.."
It doesn't *need* to be saved. It would be nice if it was saved.
It outlasted its designed life by a huge margin.
Heh.
Exactly. When our neighbors across the pond need to borrow, say a few B-52s or an armored Brigade to deal with Bosnia or Kosovo, they ask and we almost always come through for them, even when, for instance, Kosovo wasn't as bad as everyone thought.
But when we want to borrow some German Infantry or French Armor for a cleanup in Iraq, a mess that was left by the French and British after the big mess they left in WWI, they won't lend us some Infantry or Armor and they go so far as to tell others in the subdivsion that if they lend us some guys, they might get introuble with the Home Owners Association (EU).
It was too expensive and too early. If they could have waited till MacWorld SF in Jan of '01 they might have shaved 100-150 bucks off the price and gotten more RAM in the box and shipped it with a Combodrive.
You are joking right?
On the average trip downtown or to college or the gym I see oodles of people with iPods.
The treaty is about keeping landmines from being planted where they will kill or mame innocent people.
m un itions/landmines.htm
h yp er/2004/nov/26/epf501.htm
Having them in DMZs isn't against the spirit of the treaty. The United States also has a system of controlled landmines called FASCAM, that were also not exemptable.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/
"US mine warfare has undergone a remarkable transition in the last 30 years. The U.S. inventory of old-fashioned "dumb" mines has been significantly reduced and their use restricted. The most modern mines in the US inventory all possess self-destruct or self-neutralization features, they cease to function at predetermined times. These mines lose the ability to inflict casualties once their military utility on the battlefield is gone."
"Land mines cause about 26,000 casualties worldwide every year. Although most of these casualties are the result of the indiscriminate and irresponsible use of mines, they have caused antipersonnel (AP) mines to be severely stigmatized by the international community. As a leader of the "responsible" international community, the United States has chosen to pursue the regulation of AP mines. In setting a standard that we hope others will follow, the President announced a significant change in US policy for AP mines on 16 May 1996. The US unilaterally undertook not to use, and to place in inactive stockpile status with the intent to demilitarize by the end of 1999, all nonself-destructing AP mines not needed to train personnel engaged in demining and countermine operations, and to defend the United States and its allies from armed aggression that crosses the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
The US views the security situation on the Korean Peninsula as a unique case and in the negotiation of this agreement will protect the right to use AP mines there until alternatives become available or the risk of aggression has been removed. This policy eliminated the use of M14 blast AP mines and M16 bounding fragmentation mines outside the Republic of Korea. It did not affect the use of self-destructing mines or command-detonated weapons (M18 claymore)."
http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/shanghai/pas/
"The United States' landmine policy increases funding for humanitarian mine action substantially. It includes an unconditional commitment that U.S. military forces (despite worldwide treaty commitments and major ongoing operations) will cease the use of all persistent landmines, anti-vehicle as well as anti-personnel, by the end of 2010. The United States will also eliminate from its inventory all non-detectable mines, which pose an extraordinary risk to civilians and deminers."
Really? No aid? Might want to google for news on the subject.
J anuary 04, 200520:08 IST
m si d-984643,curpg-3.cms
http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/04us.htm
"
The United States on Tuesday committed another $1.6 million towards relief for the tsunami-affected people of India.
Earlier, it committed $1.5 million for the same purpose.
Denying that Washington had been stingy, US Ambassador to India David C Mulford said in New Delhi that the Bush administration responded immediately in the aftermath of the disaster and offered help in various forms."
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/
"...the Indian government had since reversed its stand and said it will accept foreign aid where needed, some damage has already been done amid spotty praise for New Delhi's stand."
Now, the Canadians did send forces to Afghanistan, and the Candians had a great military during the Cold War. But now the Canadians have cut and cut and cut and they are a shell of what they were.
Canadian snipers and what combat forces were in Afghanistan, for example, at Tora Bora, did outstanding, including the longest recorded and confirmed sniper kills.
"Are you joking or are you fucking moron? If Afghanistan was a total success, why does the UN still have 18,000 troops in the country?"
r y/ops/korea-o rbat-usfj.htm
o ps/korea-o rbat.htm
OK. Was the Allied invastion and liberation of Western Europe a total success?
The United States European Command [USEUCOM] primary mission in support of NATO is to provide combat-ready forces to support U.S. commitments to the NATO alliance. Although planning for NATO conflict is first priority at USEUCOM, consideration is also given to unilateral and multilateral contingency planning. This includes providing forces to other unified commands , and ranges from humanitarian relief to support of friendly governments with supplies.
The area of responsibility (AOR) of the United States European Command covers more than 13 million square miles and includes 91 countries and territories. This territory extends from the North Cape of Norway, through the waters of the Baltic and Mediterranean seas, most of Europe, parts of the Middle East, to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Several other countries and territories are considered to be part of the USEUCOM area of interest (AOI).
1st Infantry Division
1st Armored Division
1st Personnel Command
3rd Corps Support Command
5th Signal Command
7th Army Training Command
7th Army Reserve Command
21st Theater Support Command
266th Finance Command
48th Fighter Wing
52nd Fighter Wing
65th Air Base
85th Group
86th Airlift Wing
100th Air Refueling Wing
420th Air Base Group
435th Air Base Wing
4th ASOG
16th Air Expeditionary Wing
31st Air Expeditionary Wing
31st Fighter Wing
39th Air Base Wing
401st Air Expeditionary Wing
Or was the defeat and occupation of Japan a success in creating a democracy? There are still troops there too, including a Marine Division and an Aircraft Carrier Battlegroup
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita
Was the liberation and defense of South Korea a success? There are over 35,000 US troops there under a UN mandate.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/
The US hasn't signed that bill because it would force the US to demine the Inter-Korean DMZ and the fence around Gitmo. The US has marked those fields, it has asked for either an extention for those two locations or an exeption. Both were refused, so the US refuses.
"Keep your military in your own damn country; no-one likes a nosy neighbour."
OK. So when the EU can take care of, say, problems a days drive from Berlin, like Kosovo or Bosnia, the United States should leave Europe, of course when the entire Red Army and Warsaw Pact was sitting on the other side of the Fulda Gap, it was alright to be nosy.
What about Korea? Ready for the DPRK to burn Seoul? Or Japan? Ready for the PRC to get back at Japan for WW2? Or Taiwan? Ready for the PRC to get back at them for having the gaul to resist the PRC?
Or how about things no one hears about, like the Green Berets demining all over the world? Or American SAR saving lives in the deep ocean? Or how about the 82nd Airborne keeping the DMZ in the Sinai since 1977?
Or what about the US military being there to assist in the Indian Ocean after the Tsuamni? Australia is the only other one in the region with any sealift or airlift and it's a fraction of what the US has.
As soon as the rest of the World shows the slightest ability to not burn itself down the moment we pull back to the US, we'll be happy to, until you all man up, you are stuck with us.
I call BS.
Video Games and TV don't stop crime in Prisons or Jails. Tight security stops crime in Prisons or Jails.
I've been in Jail, couple times actually. We didn't have video games or TV and there were no shankings or rape parties in the shower because of it being gone.
When I went to jail, it was because I was being a fuckin' dumbass and the other folks in jail with me had been fuckin' dumbasses. In fact, of my closer circle of friends from High School, we'll say 4/5th of them went to Jail, and every time and everyone was doing something dumb.
I know alot of folks who have been in jail, and none of them were innocent.
It's benefits and insurance and all sorts of things. I got my numbers from budget meetings in some K-12s I worked IT in from 1997-2003.
Your average budget for a K-12 is about 87% to HR, saleries, insurance, etc.
Health insurance, as a benefit, was a huge chunk.
Salary is 22K, but insurance and benefits are usually 100-150% of that.
Admin for schools is 60-120K a head, with insurance and benefitis at 120-160% of salary.
This is the problem with the Global Climate Change arguement that is being thrown about in the press and here.
The argument that it's all Man and the fixation of greenhouse gases and the refusal to look at anything else but Man and greenhouse gases.
CO2 does not mean warming. Go look at USHCN data for say New York City and Albany NY, NYC has gotten much warmer since 1822 and Albany hasn't. CO2 isn't causing that, urban heat islands are. As more and more places to collect data become urbanized more and more elevations in temprature will be recorded, but that doesn't mean the planet is getting warmer.
Now for all this CO2 in the air, why is the ice mass of Antarctica growing? And at the same time, even with decreased CO2 levels, why were the interglacial periods 400,000 years ago warmer than today?
The World is getting warmer, but just because CO2 is increasing at the same time doesn't mean CO2 is causing it.
Because Kyoto was and is fatally flawed and that it won't even start to reverse Global Warming and that it's been produced just to try and shackle the United States with the sorts of environmental laws the EU has been shackled with.
And somehow, the Senate pulled it's collective head from it's collective ass and figured that out. And it was 95-0, not 99-0 like I said before. The reason fiven was that the exemption of developing countries was "inconsistent with the need for global action."
"The Kyoto outcome will have an inconsequential impact on the climate system." - Richard Benedick, Kyoto negotiator.
Actually, we don't KNOW that our actions are causing the changes.
We KNOW that in a vacuum light goes so far a second. We KNOW that at sea level in a vacuum the gravitational acceleration is 9.81something something meters per second squared.
We don't know what out actions are causing and we don't know that further actions will cause further changes.
This has nothing to do with my wanting to pollute. But thanks for throwing that out, makes your argument much more believable. The old, if you don't agree with me, you must be bad routine.
Well, for China and India, we of course need to tell them, you know all that economic and industrial expansion Europe and the Americas and the Tigers of Asia got to have, unfettered by international restictions?
You Yellow and Brown Bastards can't do that too, because you see, what is good for Us, isn't good for You. So since Kyoto isn't going to solve the problem, here are 30 Kyotos worth of restictions. We're also going to keep all the American, Japanese and EU car makers from building car factories in your countries, because that's not fair.
So, we need to shackle India, China and Africa too, while we are at it, with restrictive treaties and industrial regulations, like the ones Japan, the United States, Mexico and the EU never, ever had.
The United States didn't ignore Kyoto, Bush didn't shelve it. The United States Senate voted 99 to 0 to say there was no way it was going to be passed as a treaty in the United States Senate.
That happened under the Clinton Administration.
No, actually Global Warming doesn't mean all those shake-ups will occur.
It doesn't mean any of them will occur. The fact of the matter is, all the computer models in the World and wildassed guesses mean that we know very little about how the planet, and solar system for that matter, are warming and what the ultimate side effects of that warming are.
We don't know that our actions are causing changes. Any speculation about "expecting a shake-up" is 99.99% BS.
Yep, that pro-Government and pro-Corporate idea set is why the freakin' Teacher's Unions are so damned strong.
Public Schools were set up to teach folks who were transitioning from agarian societies in the United States and Europe how to work in an Urban industrial environment. One-Room Schools in the United States and more rural school were and are more flexible than big schools are. Think for a moment about how the United States was and has been in transition from a rural society to an Urban one over the last 100 years, thats when the current education system kicked off.
Where I went in the 80s and where I worked in the late 90s were both rural and both allowed alot of flexibility for students who farmed or ranched.
The problem with the Internet in schools is that the majority of teachers don't have the foggiest idea how to use computers or the Internet to increase education and instead it becomes disruptive though bad use, bad supervision and it becoming a babysitter.
That's correct. Because something is legal, doesn't make it right. Was slavery in the United States right because it was legal until 1863?
Or were the Gulags right because they were legal in the Soviet Union?
Yea, they did.
However, the vast majority of marriages were not strategic alliances, but people getting married and the age of consent for marriage was, for females, tenn through to thirteen were typically acceptable into the mid 19th century.
Usually the contractual age for an arranged marriage was at the point of sexual maturity.
The problem isn't the authors, it's the Editors. When there is a month without a dupe, I'll buy a subscription to /.
Howver that's not going to happen because Editors don't take thier job seriously. Seriously, they never have. From Sengan's great editorializing about the 1998 attack on Iraq (Comments are disabled, as I expect a lot of people will believe the US/UK side of the story...) and disabling comments to Katz to dupe after dupe.
It compressed the inhabitable area on the surface while that and other things were happening that effected the oceans, and at the same time we have contiental shifts greating deserts and squeezing out the shallow seas.
It was a triple-witching hour for extictions.
Time of widespread regression of the seas.
Gymnosperms (seed plants) replaced many spore bearing plants.
Widespread accumulation of evaporites. More of Permian salt deposits than of any other age
Waters were hypersaline
Mass extinction at the end of the Permian
Trilobites all disappeared
Rugose and tabulate corals all disappeared
Blastoids all disappeared
Fusulinid forams all disappeared
3 Extinctions
Actually 2 or 3 events
End-Capitanian (Mid Permian)
End-Changsingian (LatePermian)
End-Olenekian (Triassic)