I find people think that the mouse is supposed to be some kind of replacement and/or is superior to the keyboard.
When I'm training people at work they're always asking me to slow down, show them 'how I did that', because they see me functioning rapidly (yes even in MS Windows) without using the mouse often. They are always amazed to hear about the edit keys, CTRL-S to save quickly and often, the CTRL-F mentioned here, as well as undo and redo via the keyboard only.
They are often confused - looking perplexed because they bought into the idea of the mouse as some sort of improvement over the keyboard. So i let them know that it's more of a case of 'the right tool for the right job' than it is a case of one being better than the other in any kind of broadly-based way.
Not sure you understand what an ecosystem is. From merriam-webster's:
"ecosystem: the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit"
Oil and carbon locked away far underground doesn't participate in the ecosystem. Oil & carbon burned and released into the atmosphere is suddenly part of the biological ecosystem of the air that's breathed, the water that's drunk, and the food that's eaten. That excess existed on earth but it was sequestered. It has a much different role being unlocked and mixed into the ecosystem.
If the entire population of the Earth died off tomorrow the release of thousands of tons of carbon that is locked up under ground in oceans of oil and mountains of coal would cease to be released into the atmosphere and the carbon dioxide - oxygen exchange would be balanced out, as you point out.
What the 'environmental wackos' are going on about is the EXTRA thousands of tons of carbon being released by human activities that WOULDN'T be there if the entire population of the Earth could die off tomorrow.
To say that we aren't creating any addition of carbon to the ecosystem is disingenuous at best.
There was a lot of carbon locked up in oceans of oil and mountains of coal underneath the earth's surface which is being increasingly released into the atmosphere over the last hundred years. This amount of carbon was not 'floating' around in the ecosystem because it was locked up underground but now, since the industrial revolution, it is being released into the ecosystem at a rate that would never be possible naturally. This is otherwise known as the 'carbon footprint'.
Also by riding year round and not owning a car how much of the medical systems' resources am I saving versus being the same person and driving instead all my life? That should be calculated too.
It's amazing to me that this type of thing only gets implemented due to a crisis when it should be obvious from the get go that developing and improving the methods of recycling and reclamation should always be part of the way we do anything.
Aldous Huxley did make an attempt at the utopian novel after BNW. It's called Island and I'd recommend it as mandatory immediately following the reading of BNW.
Yeah I know you'd think it so blatantly obvious that everyone would know better but unfortunately for a rather large proportion of the population coming to terms with magical thinking is still (unbelievably) insightful.
I could never understand why version numbers weren't simply the date of release. For example if a 'final' version of FF were released today it would be:
Firefox 2010.07.11
The other version schemes have all been useless to me since they don't tell me much of anything whereas the date a product is released happens once and only once, will never happen again, and tells you exactly how old the software is without any further research.
that's got nothing to do with getting kicked off FB though. That existed before FB and will exist long after. But at least now I do things other than play mobwars all day at work and there's nothing wrong with that now, is there?
i got banned from facebook without any explanation whatsoever. They must think they're pretty fucking special they can go around doing that to people. Well f-them - my life improved dramatically after that due to actually attending to my life as opposed to wasting time on their garbage so they actually did me a favour.
"It isn't like being a gun owner would prevent anyone from getting a job or anything...never heard of that one."
I wouldn't hire a gun owner. There's a lot of people who got upset and then brought their guns to work. Situations like that have caused a lot of lost productivity and I hate to imagine the lost profits from incidents like that. No - I want to know exactly who's a gun owner and who isn't. Easy to be responsible and rational when everything's going well but you just don't know when a person is going to snap - especially if you fire them.
Obviously we'd rather continue subsidizing criminals than to acknowledge people's right to put whatever in the hell they want into their own bodies, right?
"just make developers feel "pampered" then why not"
Because there's this sense of entitlement people have these days that I like to stomp out of them with the firmest of boots to the face, that's why not.
You say this like there's never any upgrades in capacity. so in a decade the infrastructure will not have grown at all? And if that's the case then what are the telco's doing with all our money?
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I find people think that the mouse is supposed to be some kind of replacement and/or is superior to the keyboard.
When I'm training people at work they're always asking me to slow down, show them 'how I did that', because they see me functioning rapidly (yes even in MS Windows) without using the mouse often. They are always amazed to hear about the edit keys, CTRL-S to save quickly and often, the CTRL-F mentioned here, as well as undo and redo via the keyboard only.
They are often confused - looking perplexed because they bought into the idea of the mouse as some sort of improvement over the keyboard. So i let them know that it's more of a case of 'the right tool for the right job' than it is a case of one being better than the other in any kind of broadly-based way.
Not sure you understand what an ecosystem is. From merriam-webster's:
"ecosystem: the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit"
Oil and carbon locked away far underground doesn't participate in the ecosystem. Oil & carbon burned and released into the atmosphere is suddenly part of the biological ecosystem of the air that's breathed, the water that's drunk, and the food that's eaten. That excess existed on earth but it was sequestered. It has a much different role being unlocked and mixed into the ecosystem.
If the entire population of the Earth died off tomorrow the release of thousands of tons of carbon that is locked up under ground in oceans of oil and mountains of coal would cease to be released into the atmosphere and the carbon dioxide - oxygen exchange would be balanced out, as you point out.
What the 'environmental wackos' are going on about is the EXTRA thousands of tons of carbon being released by human activities that WOULDN'T be there if the entire population of the Earth could die off tomorrow.
To say that we aren't creating any addition of carbon to the ecosystem is disingenuous at best.
There was a lot of carbon locked up in oceans of oil and mountains of coal underneath the earth's surface which is being increasingly released into the atmosphere over the last hundred years. This amount of carbon was not 'floating' around in the ecosystem because it was locked up underground but now, since the industrial revolution, it is being released into the ecosystem at a rate that would never be possible naturally. This is otherwise known as the 'carbon footprint'.
Also by riding year round and not owning a car how much of the medical systems' resources am I saving versus being the same person and driving instead all my life? That should be calculated too.
It's amazing to me that this type of thing only gets implemented due to a crisis when it should be obvious from the get go that developing and improving the methods of recycling and reclamation should always be part of the way we do anything.
Modded funny 'cuz it's true!
If it really were so cheap and safe it could get private insurance. But since it can't it's not.
Yeah 'cuz there's never been a conspiracy put to action by anyone. Anywhere. Anytime. Right.....
Aldous Huxley did make an attempt at the utopian novel after BNW. It's called Island and I'd recommend it as mandatory immediately following the reading of BNW.
Yeah I know you'd think it so blatantly obvious that everyone would know better but unfortunately for a rather large proportion of the population coming to terms with magical thinking is still (unbelievably) insightful.
Well for the price you pay for the things they darn well BETTER last longer than PC's!!
I could never understand why version numbers weren't simply the date of release. For example if a 'final' version of FF were released today it would be:
Firefox 2010.07.11
The other version schemes have all been useless to me since they don't tell me much of anything whereas the date a product is released happens once and only once, will never happen again, and tells you exactly how old the software is without any further research.
Yeah well YOUR spelling sucks. And that isn't my fault, pal.
that's got nothing to do with getting kicked off FB though. That existed before FB and will exist long after. But at least now I do things other than play mobwars all day at work and there's nothing wrong with that now, is there?
i got banned from facebook without any explanation whatsoever. They must think they're pretty fucking special they can go around doing that to people. Well f-them - my life improved dramatically after that due to actually attending to my life as opposed to wasting time on their garbage so they actually did me a favour.
That doesn't impress me when I'm looking for a job candidate who doesn't own guns. But thanks anyway.
"It isn't like being a gun owner would prevent anyone from getting a job or anything...never heard of that one."
I wouldn't hire a gun owner. There's a lot of people who got upset and then brought their guns to work. Situations like that have caused a lot of lost productivity and I hate to imagine the lost profits from incidents like that. No - I want to know exactly who's a gun owner and who isn't. Easy to be responsible and rational when everything's going well but you just don't know when a person is going to snap - especially if you fire them.
It's nowhere near as harmful to society as prohibition, I know THAT one for sure.
Obviously we'd rather continue subsidizing criminals than to acknowledge people's right to put whatever in the hell they want into their own bodies, right?
"just make developers feel "pampered" then why not"
Because there's this sense of entitlement people have these days that I like to stomp out of them with the firmest of boots to the face, that's why not.
You say this like there's never any upgrades in capacity. so in a decade the infrastructure will not have grown at all? And if that's the case then what are the telco's doing with all our money?
Shouldn't this have happened like 20 years ago?
Wowee.
Next up: drawing or writing about terrorism the same thing as committing it.
Yes that's what I thought; isn't this basically the same thing as asking "Who's your daddy?"