Would be nice to have a new Browser project which is a bit more concerned about User's Security Policy than whatever w3c says how the Internet is "supposed" to work. If, for some reason, I am opposed to the Internet, and want the browser to only extract and display the text (using only a bitmap font), show a clickable button instead of an image or iframe (or anything more complex), run only first-party scripts under an interpreter, giving the Script only what it needs in terms of DOM manipulation to keep the Script happy (and to display the desired results), and validate any certificates the website shows [even if I am the CA and am only using the browser on an Intranet] -- I should be able to do that. Moreover, the browser's software components should be coded simply enough that its minimalistic browsing mode should be verifiable.
Here is the perfect answer to your dreams. It still works perfectly well and does almost all of what you desire perfectly and very securely if you run it without root priv.
SCO was right, though. Their copyrighted source code is in Linux. The problem is that the open source community kept moving the goalposts, claiming that the code doesn't count. Meanwhile, IBM's lawyers dragged the case out excessively to bankrupt SCO. It was quite an abuse of the legal system.
Comical revisionist history on slashdot. A wonderful take on what happened indeed! You should work to the POTUS he is very high on this kind of take on the facts. As was HITLER!! SCO DID FUCK ALL TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE LINUX KERNEL on the contrary they tried desperately to prove there was use of proprietary secret header files from their version of a Unix kernel, which in reality was under copyright with Novell. Anyone who codes knows what actually occurred is complete and utter bullshit, because a header is not the fucking code and given the c programming involved in making a construct work inevitably there will be code with the same syntax and even variable names. The linux kernel is not a cut and paste monster which was just quickly cloned from Unix source code it is a reverse engineered opensource masterpiece that has made diverse competition in the home audio, television, entertainment device, IOT device and cell phone market possible.
The price we now pay for the linux kernel's existence it is the fact that you can go out and by cheap electronic devices that work extremely well. This rapid development to a main stream mainstay of our daily life as consumers of Samsung, LG, Sony, and all the other brands that have come to rely upon the linux kernel in one form or another is the thing that gave Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer night sweats and they were right in fearing linux, the penguins they are everywhere!!!!! MUWHAHAHAAHAA give me a fish or I will eat you sucker!
I am in an extremely good mood today and feel like burning some karma up on a useless anon coward who tries to engage in revisionist history.
You're either too young or too dense to remember a time when loudmouths with mobile phones roamed the earth.
I'll take 10,000 silent smartphone zombies over one loud motherfucker any day of the week...
True and somewhat insightful. However after having been rear ended by one a few years back and watching the horror show on the road with cell phones these days it would be far better if there was a driving block on cell towers signal that can only be overridden by signaling a disclaimer that you are a passenger not a fucking driver and that includes bicycle couriers and the like. Of course I can hear the howls of derision of this suggestion but if you kill someone while using a cell phone while driving you should be charged with the exact same charge as impaired driving.
It is sad when you see young parents in their cars with children using a cell phone behind the wheel and socially this kind of murderously stupid suicidal behavior must stop.
My fav is this doctor who makes more sense than all the rest combined. Then again if the BBC could have afforded to hire this Deviated Prevert he may easily have received my vote for best Dr Who. Certainly Douglas Adams would have had a blast working with either of my choices for Dr. Who, either of whom in the best scripts would have had one hell of a hard time keeping a dead pan straight face or keeping to a script.
Oh shit another session of cut and paste Vogon poetry. Wouldn't it be nice if someone constructed a stellar express way through the orbit of the planet Anus where all the assholes that post this shit come from? Common you guys there must be a way to turn your incoming comments container code into a nuclear reactor to melt down this kind of shit without having to rely upon member users wasting mod points.
Finally an anon coward that gets the point! One coward comment back and you have this laughable bullshit though
Idiotic, little does the AC know how ridiculous laws regarding net neutrality would become without the means to enforce the statutes and the fact that the imp at the wheel of the FCC is doing exactly what this AC is claiming the democrats will do creating an enforcement organization that essentially creates public policy instead of enforcing it. The same as what the trumpster is doing with Scott Pruitt at the EPA. I am certain the coming ISP created pay walls that are about to happen everywhere to access content on the web will be as effective the Great Wall of Donald even if the Mexicans refuse to pay up! Either way I sense some severely butt hurt Trump sheeple as they realize that they can no longer afford to use the internet.
Hell the internet in China might look more open by comparison if this asshole and the current group of gouging jerks lobbying for the telcos and cable cos in Washington have their way and use the FCC to lock down the internet. Who knows the tweeting moron of Pennsylvania Boulevard might even piss off a few of his friends with this bullshit. Fortunately pissing off your constituents in the first term in office is a sure way to go down in flames the next time around. The only thing I fear is that he will take the entire republican party with him!
What choices do you have to stay in touch with friends and family online? Honestly. Either you be the weird guy, or use facebook.
Funny. Lots of families have lots of weirdos. But seriously, e-mail still works. You can always throw in a hyperlink to your non-mainstream-hosted blog or if you aren't the type to formulate long thoughts, microblog (pump.io?)
What choices do you have for fulltext search? Duckduckgo? Get real.
I've witnessed both the downfall of Google being a great search engine for my tastes, and duckduckgo rising to the challenge. DDG wasn't a sufficient replacement in the early days, but lately it seems quite fine to me. I only use Google on the rare occasions when I want to track down a torrent for a tv show that weather interfered with my OTA DTV linux general computer based DVR recording correctly. Just to make a political point.
Would that I had OTA signal where I live in a fairly large city! My isp is my cable co and I do have the choice of either satellite, cable or even the phone company for tv. Though telus tv at 1 mile from the fiber hub through twisted pairs is not necessarily what they advertise and continually try to sell us. I cut their twisted pairs years ago and am at the mercy of the cable company because the jerks at Telus were way out of line with dsl pricing. The wife likes her nutflakes so we have cable dsl but she also insists on tv so the costs of media consumption for us are greater than our other utility bills combined!
My point is that if net neutrality is not observed by our current isp then our provider will be able to abuse the monopoly upon digital communications to an even greater extent than they already do. Question here for all the wifi tech gurus here on Splashdog? Could wifi mesh networks eventually replace the assholes on the poles and put an end to the problems with digital communication media? Would it not be fantastic if the only lines coming into your house were power? Ma bell or Belus as I call it here in Canada and cable tv has had it far too good for far too long and if subscription wifi mesh can become a replacement for these jerks then they deserve to be blindsided. As it is they by and large control all the cell towers, it would be even worse to allow them to dominate wifi mesh networking which our current ISP/cable company/telco/mediaprovider, Shaw, is experimenting with locally.
Bloomberg has a tainted perspective letting the current isps begin to control where and how users access content even more than they currently do is a huge mistake and would be as sensible as having to set Shaw at Home or Telus or Bing as my home page to get access to the internet. Which I am sure is a wet dream for them as it was a wet dream for Microsoft until Google ate them all for breakfast in search.
The point is if net neutrality is broken then it is entirely possible that providers will be able to redirect their customers away from their choice to whom ever pays them the most which will most likely be Microsoft. Certainly not the same thing as Firefux with a difficult to remove Yahoo search but in ways similar.
Break net neutrality and the providers will be able to freely restrict access routes on the internet, the already have the monopolies in place to screw their customers even more than they currently do. They are just waiting for the green light from both the FCC and the CRTC. Remember the old heady days of Win95 when you installed it and if you did not know how to use Trumpet Winsock the OS installed defaults were to local AOL phone numbers and an Iternut Exploiter AOL home page? NOW just imagine ISP created apps that allow you to access a point restricted internet that must be installed before you can have service the same way that cell phones are locked down. Frightening as hell but this is what the asshole republicans in the States and the telcos and cable company lobby in Washington are up to. Getting high tech advice from Bloomberg is as sensible as investing in Enron or falling for a Berni Madoff scam the way many who read Bloomberg when it first came out did! Beware the sheep in wolves clothing.
One of the few articles that are actually related to science. Not a clickbait headline... and there are no comments. I get that real science isn't "sexy" but it'd be nice to see a discussion about what this discovery could mean. What are the wild ideas for using lightning to create this isotope? What are the new possibilities? I imagine that we'll be able to generate them artificially, so what can be done with them? IANA Physicist but there used to be some here, and their comments were always welcomed and interesting.
Certainly and hopefully these discoveries will bring more funding for high energy physics labs. Hell we might even see a revival of a Tesla like super tower and in so doing discover many new things about how energy and matter interact. For one the plasma form of ball lightning is a fascinating manifestation of lightning that begs greater study, we know very little about what it can do to matter.
I very much look forward to seeing scientists having bad hair days again simply because they were too close to the action. They might even figure out the great secret of achieving the Trump Hair effect which has mystified humankind for a very long time. Either that or Elon Musk will find a way to recharge his cars and transport trucks anywhere after having a person to person talk with Nicola about how to demodulate and frequency modulate extremely high energy streams of wave energy created by the movement of electrons. Unfortunately what will most likely occur is Russians will beat us to it by re purposing the old Soviet equipment and technology that created the woodpecker signals which were known to do all sorts of strange unpredictable things when fired up. The program was built to confuse and jam Norad but wound up doing some really weird shit that the Russian scientists became excited about. But the GRU and the Kremlin put the kibosh on the program when the project failed to do what it was intended to do, which was simply to screw with radar signals long distance.
So yes there is a very great deal to learn from the physics involved in lightning and how to create it in different ways especially frequency modulated forms. One tends to forget that the visible spectrum of lightning is only a very small part of what is going on with Thor's Hammer.
She must have at least had some couching from musicians even if she can or can't read a lead sheet line. She has a pleasant face, a sense of timing, can carry a tune or at least seems to rely less on autotune than most of the other new faces out there.
Who is going to be the Harvey Weinstein of pop? I bet Simon Cowell.
Woohoo that was one hell of a Freudian slip!!! LOL At least she keeps time with her movements and actions so there has been some coaching no doubt. If she writes at all then I give her kudos even if her lyrics and music is essentially bubble gum pseudo country pop at least she knows where her bread is buttered. It is easy to forget that some very talented performers can also be very talented writers, we will see if she matures and moves on eventually beyond the genre that has her stereo typed as a single generational "pop" artist.
I won't but many of her fans will see if she has enough talent to overcome her generational stereo type and does not wind up in 40 years doing her schtick for what will then be a Las Vegas geritol crowd, like so many other so called "song stylists" of the pop industry have done. If she has no talent then all she will have achieved is creating an audience who wants to here the same shit over and over again. But there are a great many of my generation who get high enough on geritol mixed with bourbon to pay to hear the same shit over and over again in Las Vegas so if she has the staying power then I am sure she will still be on stage because it is obvious that she is a performer.
Think you lost everyone at Taylor Swift. She's got all the talent and sex appeal of a stick of linguine.
I don't know give her a little more credit than that. Seems that at least she can count while acting out her music vids and putting down the tracks. She must have at least had some couching from musicians even if she can or can't read a lead sheet line. She has a pleasant face, a sense of timing, can carry a tune or at least seems to rely less on autotune than most of the other new faces out there.
Sure what she is putting out is hyped up over produced bubble gum oriented "pop" but how the hell else do you expect the industry to survive these days? If it were not for the endless parade of fresh faced stars showing up on youtube, muchmusic and the other industry factory outlets the whole pop music industry would simply implode and revert to artists having to have enough real talent to be able to perform well enough to have live audiences want to hear them. As it is the stage end of rock and pop has also turned into a show not an actual musical performance. Without the money to back the stage work and cost of live performance most of today's so called "song stylists" would not stand a chance on a stage without expensive presentation gimmicks provided by the production companies sponsored by mega corps like Universal. So think of the dollars spent to produce a Taylor Swift show and then you have the answer as to why the situation with the industry is the way it is.
I wish her the best for making it as far as she has and who knows she might progress to a level where what she does reach above the need for the glitz if she studies the craft and works hard.
Come on, most MBA courses have some kind of ethics module these days. OK, your score gets subtracted from your overall grade, but it's a start.
Most of the traders who were climbing the ladder fast at Enron were MBA's, so I would say that the "ethics module" part of an MBA degree has little effect upon the ethics of the students. The cocaine culture and run away sole less short term gain greed there was evidence of the lost generation of greedy jerks with MBA's that Enron represented best. This same generation of greedy self centered cocaine powered jerks is now becoming pervasive in US politics and is to no small extent the reason why a self centered jerk became POTUS.
Ethics is not a subject that can be taught you either care about the well being of other humans or you don't plain and simple. As Dickens so aptly said: "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
It is very easy for anyone to hear these words but to truly understand them is the core of ethics. Then there are the economic sociopaths who could care less about the economic and social well being of others, they can sport an MBA equally as well as anyone can but having an MBA does not necessarily mean that you are an ethical business person.
Great. I can expect next year to be filled with "Global Warming Causes Earthquakes!" stories. Yay.
Here is one just to piss you off. As the loss of Greenland Ice cap accelerates in speed due to global warming and many millions of tonnes of ice quickly calve off into the Greenland Sea the reduction in weight of the ice cap over the land will result in upthrust and very large earth quakes and perhaps volcanoes where there have been few and few are known to exist. The same also applies to the continent of Antarctica as it loses the ice cap. So yes natural and man made global warming can cause seismic events in the long term it already has in recent history. As the ice cap melted off the top of North America the upthrust of the center of the continent did cause earth quakes and is still causing them to a less extent to this day.A sudden upthrust event in Greenland caused by the rapid loss of the ice cap may not happen soon but upthrust will occur and is scientifically predictable in the same way that other huge events like a Maunder Minimum of the sun are predictable.
Farting huge quantities of gas and liquids into shale rock to bring up oil and gas also is know to cause local earth quakes but again we have those, particularly in offices who deny that this is what is happening. I am sure that they will also point to this paper and say it was the slowing of the earth that is causing the recent earth quakes around their oil and gas fields. The misuse of the information gleamed by scientists is nothing new, the shills working as scientists for the petro chemical industry, the tobacco industry, the farm chemical industry have been doing it for years and are quite effective in creating lies. I ask you this if man made global warming is a huge scientific lie why is the evidence of this occurance proving to be irrefutable? And more importantly what would the scientist stand to gain from faking or fudging the related climate and atmospheric data they are all seeing? Paid scientists have been known to fake and hide data regarding tobacco usage, pesticides and many other commercially golden man made products that have killed millions. Show me which industry with a vested interest in man made global warming or Geo-science is sponsoring these flawed findings or just STFU
This is not a bug but a key feature of gig economy. Also, multi-billion valuation for a grocery delivery service? Why?
The service industry as a whole is becoming rife with assholes behind desks directing around suckers, excuse me workers and paying wages that are not high enough to live on. The janitorial industry is becoming concentrated in a few firms that sub contract to the lowest bidder to avoid hiring anyone. Essentially shell companies with assholes in chairs. Most of these service industry corps are overvalued and traded back and forth between more assholes in chairs. The over valuation of assholes in chairs will be the final nail in the coffin of the economy of North America while at the same time a few individuals take the money and run. The stock market is a sham and the valuation of the service industry as a whole is worse than the paper balloon that eventually popped in 1929.
This time the phoney balloon will not just pop it will fucking explode when a simple panic sets in again for some reason. Yes the valuation of this service industry startup with assholes in chairs calling the shots for actual work that requires human labor is way out of whack and the overhead of paying for expensive assholes in chairs will eventually expose it for what it is a fools game stacked against the working man. The same as Enron and all the other over valued pipe dream cruft of today's so called gig economy where way too many assholes in chairs get paid from the work of underpaid employees.
Soon the rich will be able to form holding companies and tax haven banks in space
Yeah, screw offshore accounts.
A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure.
(and tax havens).
I don't suppose the FDIC covers off-world banks.
The FDIC already does not cover the majority of off shore tax havens, physical assets do and that is the problem they pose for the Fed. What has been going on with asset transfer to gold has caused the recent inflation in the value of gold and the vast majority of gold ain't in Fort Knox anymore as the Fed would like us to believe. There are other physical assets being held offshore in some of these so called "banks" as well as gold, it is possible to have very large safety deposits that can be evaluated for exchange value or just secured by the owner. This is how to sell expensive stuff out of country and avoid exchange rate and taxation troubles. This is what I was alluding to with a satellite becoming a state they could also become means of exchange for land based assets which in reality is all some of the offshore tax havens really are. What good is an asset holding to a crook if they have no means of secret exchange?
I didn't think so, but I was responding to the parent poster's comment about "guards to guard the gold vaults".
It does kind of pique my interest generally how a place like Jersey holds Apple's $236 billion cash hoard and what the financial mechanics are of moving that kind of money across international borders and what actual form it takes, and what the security associated with it is.
My guess would just be electronic accounts tied to US treasury instruments, but the security gets to be kind of interesting as Jersey is something of an independent nation. What would happen if the Jersey government and bank officials were coerced into seizing those assets under some kind of US tax probe?
The whole point was to base the shares on land based gold holdings not US Treasury Bond issues. The exchange charges would be the income for the individual banks, thus slowly inflating the net value of the satellite transaction data past that of the original gold holding. Hell if the satellite was shot up or failed they could just launch a new one to replace it that way.
Today's ultra rich.1% like to hide away assets and have a penchant for exchanging bond holdings for gold and other precious commodities where and when ever they can. Look into what is under the city of Zürich and the extensive vault systems in some places like the Caribbean and you will find that the ultra rich have large amounts squirreled away. By and large they don't have it buried under their castles like their ancestors did that practice stopped during the second world war when castles became less safe for them and the Nazi's looted the vast majority of wealth that had been squirreled away in Europe.
Now the ultra rich of today have castles built all over the planet and own banks with the means to secure their loot where it is safe from forfeiture by some regime. The mafia did the same shit in Cuba with Batista before Castro cut their nuts off. The amount of asset loot that was very quickly taken out of Cuba and hidden away elsewhere by organized crime in late 1958 when they realized Batista had had the biscuit is amazing. Even Batista managed to set himself and his relatives up rather nicely. Crooks and their banks have a way of finding holes in trees to hide things especially when it comes to physical assets and you can almost bet that this is one way that will succeed if satellites can become autonomous states.
Sigh... it's built around a corruption either way, so you might as well.
(It's "Ásgarðr" - the "Garden of the Æsir"; the Æsir are the gods in the main Norse pantheon)
Send your data to the satellite and chances are it will encoded it with lyrical excerpts from Götterdämmerung. Want to bet that the access keys will be something funky like Ragnarök, who knows it might be really easy to crack with Austrian crack heads thinking up the idea and selling the product.
Soon the rich will be able to form holding companies and tax haven banks in space if this imaginary nation state is recognized. Could be the answer to the offshore tax havens needing to increase tax rates to pay for hurricane damage. Some are increasing their rates because of the increased costs of services in remote places and the simple fact that they also have to employ large numbers of expensive armed guards and costly security specialists to secure the gold vaults. The only thing that secretive offshore tax havens are really good at is hiding away physical assets like gold, not today's digital capital which any bank registered in these places can do. Yes they really are the new Pirates of the Caribbean.
How could they also achieve space tax heavens? Simply assign a value of a certain weight of land held gold to the space craft then like bit coin issues trade it in units that can be exchanged without government oversight essentially a unit based barter system for the very rich members who buy into the schemes. Essentially a new gold standard of exchange overstepping the US Fed and becoming a viable and stable means of exchange exclusively for the very rich.
One of the "achievements" noted is full support for last years version of macOS. Isn't open source amazing? You now can upgrade to last year's version of macOS.
Commercial software was upgraded a year ago.
Ok open source advocates, the floodgates are opened, you can now upgrade from a two year old O/S to a year old O/S.
But you guys have already have Garbage Band, the poor Windows guys do have something that can record in the software that comes with Windows but it does not even support audio editing. Just think how great it would be if Microsoft created a clone of Garbage Band, it would most likely have a ribbon interface and be part MS office suite of software. Most people who have a Mac and just want a free audio editor use the free crapple ware readily available from the Store not Audacity. By contrast Ms Sound Recorder on Windows is a just a bad joke that nobody uses for anything other than recording the occasional fart. With Garbage Band you don't even need to be able to fart to create the sounds!
Queue the excuses and finger pointing. That is all.
Not finger pointing. ASIO support is not something you will see in Audacity on Windows because no one will pay for it, secondly most Windows devices today have A/D D/A chipsets that do not support ASIO despite ASIO For All, the majority of today's HD Intel and other chipsets commonly used are not ASIO capable. This is why switching to a real time linux is a better choice hands down if you do not have an old pro level asio supported device. Even if you have a pro level card or device chances are it will be supported in real time in some linux audio distros.
Try out AV Linux if you do not believe me. I use it as a thumb drive DAW. It flies and works like a dream in real time. The support for high end audio devices in real time with ALSA and even Pulse audio is getting very good. For instance my new ZOOM H5 is fully supported under linux even if the device is name incorrectly it still functions perfectly. The ASIO drivers under windows for the Zoom device controls suck by comparison and are clunky and unreliable as hell to use compared to the same simple device control interfaces in linux.
Either use Reaper or Tracktion (if you insist on Linux). 2017 and still no real time effects? That's like Photoshop without layers.
Not at all the same problem. Real time acoustic audio recording at which Audacity excels is not the same as photo editing or today's hyped out DAW music production. It makes absolutely no sense to use a recording interface like Audacity for real time effects. The reasons for this are obvious the purpose of Audacity is not as a pass through to a sound stage output interface. Audacity controls are based around recording accurately to digital storage not complex mixing to a concert space with added effects like reverb, for this purpose they are simple and well laid out and work well in a real time system without having dropout and pop issues even at the highest bit rates possible with your A/D converters...IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
Add digital signal reprocessing effects into the mix at the DAW level and you add a place to cause latency problems especially with PC design specs. This is why dedicated effects processors are used not the PC recoding interface to add effects to a stage mix. Blaming Audacity for PC latency troubles is shooting the wrong messenger and is exactly why the devs at Audacity completely ignore including real time effects to the monitor as a sub routine. And for those bitching about the lack of VST plugins, well go out and pay for a Windows or Mac DAW and get off the free software lawn! As it is for real time high bit rate hall sound recording Audacity is just fine, if you know what you are doing in a concert hall and use good mics. For pure acoustic recording it can produce excellent results and allow you to edit to a final mix that sounds great depending upon the musicians and not relying upon a studio monkey at a DAW with pitch correct and a swack of loops and effects to make the music saleable.
However if all you want to produce the digitized compressed hyped up garbage garage band loop based rock musac that passes as the music today then paying around 5000 bucks a year for a pro audio daw seat with all the bells and whistles is what you need not a recording interface like Audacity.
What they are doing was already done in Canada by Stephen Harper. It was the major reason why he and his so called Conservatives got their ass handed to them on a plater in the last election. What they did was try to muzzle and pre-screen scientific data findings coming out of all scientists hired by the government of Canada. HOWEVER the Canadian public saw exactly what the assholes were up to and turfed their collective asses out of Ottawa. What happened afterwards was a purging of most the right wing nut jobs in the conservative party and some positive changes to bring some sanity back into the party.
Let us hope that the US does the same thing to Mr Trump next year by cutting the balls off the Republican controlled house and senate and turning Mr Trump into a yellow headed toupee sporting lame duck for the remainder of his term in office. I doubt that he is stupid enough to do something to cause his impeachment or that the whole Russian thing will bring down his castle, but trying to muzzle and castrate scientists could and should be an issue that will make enough intelligent Americans hand him his ass on a platter in 2018.
Maybe we need a new paradigm : anyone retardedly trying to deny global warming at this point gets their non-functioning testicles removed and fed to them with tartar sauce.
You have stumbled upon one positive aspect of global warming without even knowing it. The potential reduction of human population by DANGEROUS GLOBAL TESTICLE WARMING.
Lucky then that climate change causes increased evaporation and probably overall increased precipitation.
The highest food producing areas of Western North America in California, which by and large rely upon water from systems that are slowly but surely being effected by less and less rainfall on the mountains of West Coast
The rose coloured glass effect in spades. The fly in the ointment with this belief is that the areas that are warming the most are not receiving increased rainfall and will not, unless the patterns of the jet stream and continental weather streams change drastically. The arid deserts are not about to change suddenly into agricultural land, neither will the areas with the greatest biomass in the form of peat bogs and a cold climate desert ecology. The territories in Canada and the northern sections of the provinces are not suitable for agriculture and will not suddenly become arable lands, the fools that spout off about the benefits of global warming are exactly that FOOLS. Yes we will be soon able to send oil tankers through the North West Passage and drill the hell out of areas of the Arctic. Yes there are huge areas of fertile prairie which is quickly losing the permafrost but most are are based upon an acidic top soil that will not produce our chosen food stuffs or support adequate grass for grazing animals for centuries until many cycles of grass fires can change the top soil ph. This is how our prairie grain lands are created and is how they will eventually be created in some more northernly areas of North America
Some of the areas just south of the permafrost have already been used for Northern agriculture in a very recent time frame. The Peace River region is one example, but these areas have had centuries to adjust to the loss of the permafrost.
Unless the arm chair scientists claiming that global warming will increase food production have a way to change the polar rotation of the earth there is absolutely no way to increase the growing seasons of the North which around the 60th parallel is 3-4 months of frost free temperatures and enough daylight to grow plants.
Even more importantly, FYI what it takes to raise a cow on grass and forage plants at the 60th and even down to Dawson creek at 55.7596 N is more in monetary terms of feed than the animal will bring at market. Most cattle grown there are stock produced first or trucked in then range fed, then trucked out to then be market fattened in the production feed lots in southern Alberta before going to market. Also the animals must be housed during the coldest months in a heated barns to avoid them losing too much fat and muscle mass to the cold. The range season there much shorter than in Montana even if the winters are not much colder they are much longer. The low cost of natural gas in Canada is the only thing that makes cattle ranching there possible.
Traditional agriculture does not work in most of Canada and Russia and the fools who believe it will are living with rose coloured glasses that blind them to the realities of the environment of the north and what it takes to live and work there. Productive prairies are slowly created by cycles fire and grass and the slow warming since the last ice age. Prairie agricultural lands will not and cannot be magically created by man made global warming.
CO2 provides raw material for plant photosynthesis, which helps to grow food. Global warming = more food.
Food plants can't tolerate a desert. What we are doing is creating changes to the areas that produce the food. Even India, the greatest food producing nation on earth is suffering from localized seasonal temperature pattern changes that are slowly making areas that once produced food uninhabitable. The Mediterranean climate influenced food producing regions of Spain are also experiencing changes that make areas less productive of food and will kill humans at certain times of the year when temperatures soar to levels over 115f for weeks at a time.
But amongst the climate change deniers there are also those who think that rapid melting of permafrost will open up vast areas of land to agriculture. Little do they understand that the areas they so wrongly think can support agriculture are in reality are mostly the cold northern deserts which do not have the rainfall to support agriculture. In contrast the areas around the equator which have high rain fall are very low in biomass and when the farmers slash and burn the rain forests the land exposed cannot produce food for more than a few years.
The highest food producing areas of Western North America in California, which by and large rely upon water from systems that are slowly but surely being effected by less and less rainfall on the mountains of West Coast. So the water levels in the Colorado at lake Mead and the other dam ridden systems are slowly cycling lower and lower each year. While ironically the lakes behind the dams are filling with sediment at a faster than predicted rate because of sudden snow melts after large snow fall instead of a predictable cycle of sedimentation.
On top of this California which relies almost entirely upon imported water from the greater Pacific water shed is also experiencing what Spain, Portugal and other areas with similar climate parameters is also headed for dangerous ground in terms of losing areas of habitability due to prolonged heat waves.
We are raping the planet and as we reach the tipping point and start to see the serious consequences of our greed and stupidity there will always be those with rose coloured glasses who claim that the good ship earth is unsinkable.
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Would be nice to have a new Browser project which is a bit more concerned about User's Security Policy than whatever w3c says how the Internet is "supposed" to work. If, for some reason, I am opposed to the Internet, and want the browser to only extract and display the text (using only a bitmap font), show a clickable button instead of an image or iframe (or anything more complex), run only first-party scripts under an interpreter, giving the Script only what it needs in terms of DOM manipulation to keep the Script happy (and to display the desired results), and validate any certificates the website shows [even if I am the CA and am only using the browser on an Intranet] -- I should be able to do that. Moreover, the browser's software components should be coded simply enough that its minimalistic browsing mode should be verifiable.
Here is the perfect answer to your dreams. It still works perfectly well and does almost all of what you desire perfectly and very securely if you run it without root priv.
Wow, I made a mistake surfing /. at -1 today.
That's ok on this thread you might not have to look at your own posts for very long that way!
SCO was right, though. Their copyrighted source code is in Linux. The problem is that the open source community kept moving the goalposts, claiming that the code doesn't count. Meanwhile, IBM's lawyers dragged the case out excessively to bankrupt SCO. It was quite an abuse of the legal system.
Comical revisionist history on slashdot. A wonderful take on what happened indeed! You should work to the POTUS he is very high on this kind of take on the facts. As was HITLER!! SCO DID FUCK ALL TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE LINUX KERNEL on the contrary they tried desperately to prove there was use of proprietary secret header files from their version of a Unix kernel, which in reality was under copyright with Novell. Anyone who codes knows what actually occurred is complete and utter bullshit, because a header is not the fucking code and given the c programming involved in making a construct work inevitably there will be code with the same syntax and even variable names. The linux kernel is not a cut and paste monster which was just quickly cloned from Unix source code it is a reverse engineered opensource masterpiece that has made diverse competition in the home audio, television, entertainment device, IOT device and cell phone market possible.
The price we now pay for the linux kernel's existence it is the fact that you can go out and by cheap electronic devices that work extremely well. This rapid development to a main stream mainstay of our daily life as consumers of Samsung, LG, Sony, and all the other brands that have come to rely upon the linux kernel in one form or another is the thing that gave Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer night sweats and they were right in fearing linux, the penguins they are everywhere!!!!! MUWHAHAHAAHAA give me a fish or I will eat you sucker!
I am in an extremely good mood today and feel like burning some karma up on a useless anon coward who tries to engage in revisionist history.
You're either too young or too dense to remember a time when loudmouths with mobile phones roamed the earth.
I'll take 10,000 silent smartphone zombies over one loud motherfucker any day of the week...
True and somewhat insightful. However after having been rear ended by one a few years back and watching the horror show on the road with cell phones these days it would be far better if there was a driving block on cell towers signal that can only be overridden by signaling a disclaimer that you are a passenger not a fucking driver and that includes bicycle couriers and the like. Of course I can hear the howls of derision of this suggestion but if you kill someone while using a cell phone while driving you should be charged with the exact same charge as impaired driving.
It is sad when you see young parents in their cars with children using a cell phone behind the wheel and socially this kind of murderously stupid suicidal behavior must stop.
Tom Baker was not the best Doctor Who. Fight me.
My fav is this doctor who makes more sense than all the rest combined. Then again if the BBC could have afforded to hire this Deviated Prevert he may easily have received my vote for best Dr Who. Certainly Douglas Adams would have had a blast working with either of my choices for Dr. Who, either of whom in the best scripts would have had one hell of a hard time keeping a dead pan straight face or keeping to a script.
Oh shit another session of cut and paste Vogon poetry. Wouldn't it be nice if someone constructed a stellar express way through the orbit of the planet Anus where all the assholes that post this shit come from? Common you guys there must be a way to turn your incoming comments container code into a nuclear reactor to melt down this kind of shit without having to rely upon member users wasting mod points.
Idiotic, little does the AC know how ridiculous laws regarding net neutrality would become without the means to enforce the statutes and the fact that the imp at the wheel of the FCC is doing exactly what this AC is claiming the democrats will do creating an enforcement organization that essentially creates public policy instead of enforcing it. The same as what the trumpster is doing with Scott Pruitt at the EPA. I am certain the coming ISP created pay walls that are about to happen everywhere to access content on the web will be as effective the Great Wall of Donald even if the Mexicans refuse to pay up! Either way I sense some severely butt hurt Trump sheeple as they realize that they can no longer afford to use the internet.
Hell the internet in China might look more open by comparison if this asshole and the current group of gouging jerks lobbying for the telcos and cable cos in Washington have their way and use the FCC to lock down the internet. Who knows the tweeting moron of Pennsylvania Boulevard might even piss off a few of his friends with this bullshit. Fortunately pissing off your constituents in the first term in office is a sure way to go down in flames the next time around. The only thing I fear is that he will take the entire republican party with him!
Funny. Lots of families have lots of weirdos. But seriously, e-mail still works. You can always throw in a hyperlink to your non-mainstream-hosted blog or if you aren't the type to formulate long thoughts, microblog (pump.io?)
I've witnessed both the downfall of Google being a great search engine for my tastes, and duckduckgo rising to the challenge. DDG wasn't a sufficient replacement in the early days, but lately it seems quite fine to me. I only use Google on the rare occasions when I want to track down a torrent for a tv show that weather interfered with my OTA DTV linux general computer based DVR recording correctly. Just to make a political point.
Would that I had OTA signal where I live in a fairly large city! My isp is my cable co and I do have the choice of either satellite, cable or even the phone company for tv. Though telus tv at 1 mile from the fiber hub through twisted pairs is not necessarily what they advertise and continually try to sell us. I cut their twisted pairs years ago and am at the mercy of the cable company because the jerks at Telus were way out of line with dsl pricing. The wife likes her nutflakes so we have cable dsl but she also insists on tv so the costs of media consumption for us are greater than our other utility bills combined!
My point is that if net neutrality is not observed by our current isp then our provider will be able to abuse the monopoly upon digital communications to an even greater extent than they already do. Question here for all the wifi tech gurus here on Splashdog? Could wifi mesh networks eventually replace the assholes on the poles and put an end to the problems with digital communication media? Would it not be fantastic if the only lines coming into your house were power? Ma bell or Belus as I call it here in Canada and cable tv has had it far too good for far too long and if subscription wifi mesh can become a replacement for these jerks then they deserve to be blindsided. As it is they by and large control all the cell towers, it would be even worse to allow them to dominate wifi mesh networking which our current ISP/cable company/telco/mediaprovider, Shaw, is experimenting with locally.
Bloomberg has a tainted perspective letting the current isps begin to control where and how users access content even more than they currently do is a huge mistake and would be as sensible as having to set Shaw at Home or Telus or Bing as my home page to get access to the internet. Which I am sure is a wet dream for them as it was a wet dream for Microsoft until Google ate them all for breakfast in search.
The point is if net neutrality is broken then it is entirely possible that providers will be able to redirect their customers away from their choice to whom ever pays them the most which will most likely be Microsoft. Certainly not the same thing as Firefux with a difficult to remove Yahoo search but in ways similar.
Break net neutrality and the providers will be able to freely restrict access routes on the internet, the already have the monopolies in place to screw their customers even more than they currently do. They are just waiting for the green light from both the FCC and the CRTC. Remember the old heady days of Win95 when you installed it and if you did not know how to use Trumpet Winsock the OS installed defaults were to local AOL phone numbers and an Iternut Exploiter AOL home page? NOW just imagine ISP created apps that allow you to access a point restricted internet that must be installed before you can have service the same way that cell phones are locked down. Frightening as hell but this is what the asshole republicans in the States and the telcos and cable company lobby in Washington are up to. Getting high tech advice from Bloomberg is as sensible as investing in Enron or falling for a Berni Madoff scam the way many who read Bloomberg when it first came out did! Beware the sheep in wolves clothing.
One of the few articles that are actually related to science. Not a clickbait headline... and there are no comments. I get that real science isn't "sexy" but it'd be nice to see a discussion about what this discovery could mean. What are the wild ideas for using lightning to create this isotope? What are the new possibilities? I imagine that we'll be able to generate them artificially, so what can be done with them? IANA Physicist but there used to be some here, and their comments were always welcomed and interesting.
Certainly and hopefully these discoveries will bring more funding for high energy physics labs. Hell we might even see a revival of a Tesla like super tower and in so doing discover many new things about how energy and matter interact. For one the plasma form of ball lightning is a fascinating manifestation of lightning that begs greater study, we know very little about what it can do to matter.
I very much look forward to seeing scientists having bad hair days again simply because they were too close to the action. They might even figure out the great secret of achieving the Trump Hair effect which has mystified humankind for a very long time. Either that or Elon Musk will find a way to recharge his cars and transport trucks anywhere after having a person to person talk with Nicola about how to demodulate and frequency modulate extremely high energy streams of wave energy created by the movement of electrons. Unfortunately what will most likely occur is Russians will beat us to it by re purposing the old Soviet equipment and technology that created the woodpecker signals which were known to do all sorts of strange unpredictable things when fired up. The program was built to confuse and jam Norad but wound up doing some really weird shit that the Russian scientists became excited about. But the GRU and the Kremlin put the kibosh on the program when the project failed to do what it was intended to do, which was simply to screw with radar signals long distance.
So yes there is a very great deal to learn from the physics involved in lightning and how to create it in different ways especially frequency modulated forms. One tends to forget that the visible spectrum of lightning is only a very small part of what is going on with Thor's Hammer.
She must have at least had some couching from musicians even if she can or can't read a lead sheet line. She has a pleasant face, a sense of timing, can carry a tune or at least seems to rely less on autotune than most of the other new faces out there.
Who is going to be the Harvey Weinstein of pop? I bet Simon Cowell.
Woohoo that was one hell of a Freudian slip!!! LOL At least she keeps time with her movements and actions so there has been some coaching no doubt. If she writes at all then I give her kudos even if her lyrics and music is essentially bubble gum pseudo country pop at least she knows where her bread is buttered. It is easy to forget that some very talented performers can also be very talented writers, we will see if she matures and moves on eventually beyond the genre that has her stereo typed as a single generational "pop" artist.
I won't but many of her fans will see if she has enough talent to overcome her generational stereo type and does not wind up in 40 years doing her schtick for what will then be a Las Vegas geritol crowd, like so many other so called "song stylists" of the pop industry have done. If she has no talent then all she will have achieved is creating an audience who wants to here the same shit over and over again. But there are a great many of my generation who get high enough on geritol mixed with bourbon to pay to hear the same shit over and over again in Las Vegas so if she has the staying power then I am sure she will still be on stage because it is obvious that she is a performer.
Think you lost everyone at Taylor Swift. She's got all the talent and sex appeal of a stick of linguine.
I don't know give her a little more credit than that. Seems that at least she can count while acting out her music vids and putting down the tracks. She must have at least had some couching from musicians even if she can or can't read a lead sheet line. She has a pleasant face, a sense of timing, can carry a tune or at least seems to rely less on autotune than most of the other new faces out there.
Sure what she is putting out is hyped up over produced bubble gum oriented "pop" but how the hell else do you expect the industry to survive these days? If it were not for the endless parade of fresh faced stars showing up on youtube, muchmusic and the other industry factory outlets the whole pop music industry would simply implode and revert to artists having to have enough real talent to be able to perform well enough to have live audiences want to hear them. As it is the stage end of rock and pop has also turned into a show not an actual musical performance. Without the money to back the stage work and cost of live performance most of today's so called "song stylists" would not stand a chance on a stage without expensive presentation gimmicks provided by the production companies sponsored by mega corps like Universal. So think of the dollars spent to produce a Taylor Swift show and then you have the answer as to why the situation with the industry is the way it is.
I wish her the best for making it as far as she has and who knows she might progress to a level where what she does reach above the need for the glitz if she studies the craft and works hard.
Come on, most MBA courses have some kind of ethics module these days. OK, your score gets subtracted from your overall grade, but it's a start.
Most of the traders who were climbing the ladder fast at Enron were MBA's, so I would say that the "ethics module" part of an MBA degree has little effect upon the ethics of the students. The cocaine culture and run away sole less short term gain greed there was evidence of the lost generation of greedy jerks with MBA's that Enron represented best. This same generation of greedy self centered cocaine powered jerks is now becoming pervasive in US politics and is to no small extent the reason why a self centered jerk became POTUS.
Ethics is not a subject that can be taught you either care about the well being of other humans or you don't plain and simple. As Dickens so aptly said: "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
It is very easy for anyone to hear these words but to truly understand them is the core of ethics. Then there are the economic sociopaths who could care less about the economic and social well being of others, they can sport an MBA equally as well as anyone can but having an MBA does not necessarily mean that you are an ethical business person.
Great. I can expect next year to be filled with "Global Warming Causes Earthquakes!" stories. Yay.
Here is one just to piss you off. As the loss of Greenland Ice cap accelerates in speed due to global warming and many millions of tonnes of ice quickly calve off into the Greenland Sea the reduction in weight of the ice cap over the land will result in upthrust and very large earth quakes and perhaps volcanoes where there have been few and few are known to exist. The same also applies to the continent of Antarctica as it loses the ice cap. So yes natural and man made global warming can cause seismic events in the long term it already has in recent history. As the ice cap melted off the top of North America the upthrust of the center of the continent did cause earth quakes and is still causing them to a less extent to this day.A sudden upthrust event in Greenland caused by the rapid loss of the ice cap may not happen soon but upthrust will occur and is scientifically predictable in the same way that other huge events like a Maunder Minimum of the sun are predictable.
Farting huge quantities of gas and liquids into shale rock to bring up oil and gas also is know to cause local earth quakes but again we have those, particularly in offices who deny that this is what is happening. I am sure that they will also point to this paper and say it was the slowing of the earth that is causing the recent earth quakes around their oil and gas fields. The misuse of the information gleamed by scientists is nothing new, the shills working as scientists for the petro chemical industry, the tobacco industry, the farm chemical industry have been doing it for years and are quite effective in creating lies. I ask you this if man made global warming is a huge scientific lie why is the evidence of this occurance proving to be irrefutable? And more importantly what would the scientist stand to gain from faking or fudging the related climate and atmospheric data they are all seeing? Paid scientists have been known to fake and hide data regarding tobacco usage, pesticides and many other commercially golden man made products that have killed millions. Show me which industry with a vested interest in man made global warming or Geo-science is sponsoring these flawed findings or just STFU
This is not a bug but a key feature of gig economy. Also, multi-billion valuation for a grocery delivery service? Why?
The service industry as a whole is becoming rife with assholes behind desks directing around suckers, excuse me workers and paying wages that are not high enough to live on. The janitorial industry is becoming concentrated in a few firms that sub contract to the lowest bidder to avoid hiring anyone. Essentially shell companies with assholes in chairs. Most of these service industry corps are overvalued and traded back and forth between more assholes in chairs. The over valuation of assholes in chairs will be the final nail in the coffin of the economy of North America while at the same time a few individuals take the money and run. The stock market is a sham and the valuation of the service industry as a whole is worse than the paper balloon that eventually popped in 1929.
This time the phoney balloon will not just pop it will fucking explode when a simple panic sets in again for some reason. Yes the valuation of this service industry startup with assholes in chairs calling the shots for actual work that requires human labor is way out of whack and the overhead of paying for expensive assholes in chairs will eventually expose it for what it is a fools game stacked against the working man. The same as Enron and all the other over valued pipe dream cruft of today's so called gig economy where way too many assholes in chairs get paid from the work of underpaid employees.
Soon the rich will be able to form holding companies and tax haven banks in space
Yeah, screw offshore accounts.
A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure.
(and tax havens).
I don't suppose the FDIC covers off-world banks.
The FDIC already does not cover the majority of off shore tax havens, physical assets do and that is the problem they pose for the Fed. What has been going on with asset transfer to gold has caused the recent inflation in the value of gold and the vast majority of gold ain't in Fort Knox anymore as the Fed would like us to believe. There are other physical assets being held offshore in some of these so called "banks" as well as gold, it is possible to have very large safety deposits that can be evaluated for exchange value or just secured by the owner. This is how to sell expensive stuff out of country and avoid exchange rate and taxation troubles. This is what I was alluding to with a satellite becoming a state they could also become means of exchange for land based assets which in reality is all some of the offshore tax havens really are. What good is an asset holding to a crook if they have no means of secret exchange?
I didn't think so, but I was responding to the parent poster's comment about "guards to guard the gold vaults".
It does kind of pique my interest generally how a place like Jersey holds Apple's $236 billion cash hoard and what the financial mechanics are of moving that kind of money across international borders and what actual form it takes, and what the security associated with it is.
My guess would just be electronic accounts tied to US treasury instruments, but the security gets to be kind of interesting as Jersey is something of an independent nation. What would happen if the Jersey government and bank officials were coerced into seizing those assets under some kind of US tax probe?
The whole point was to base the shares on land based gold holdings not US Treasury Bond issues. The exchange charges would be the income for the individual banks, thus slowly inflating the net value of the satellite transaction data past that of the original gold holding. Hell if the satellite was shot up or failed they could just launch a new one to replace it that way.
Today's ultra rich .1% like to hide away assets and have a penchant for exchanging bond holdings for gold and other precious commodities where and when ever they can. Look into what is under the city of Zürich and the extensive vault systems in some places like the Caribbean and you will find that the ultra rich have large amounts squirreled away. By and large they don't have it buried under their castles like their ancestors did that practice stopped during the second world war when castles became less safe for them and the Nazi's looted the vast majority of wealth that had been squirreled away in Europe.
Now the ultra rich of today have castles built all over the planet and own banks with the means to secure their loot where it is safe from forfeiture by some regime. The mafia did the same shit in Cuba with Batista before Castro cut their nuts off. The amount of asset loot that was very quickly taken out of Cuba and hidden away elsewhere by organized crime in late 1958 when they realized Batista had had the biscuit is amazing. Even Batista managed to set himself and his relatives up rather nicely. Crooks and their banks have a way of finding holes in trees to hide things especially when it comes to physical assets and you can almost bet that this is one way that will succeed if satellites can become autonomous states.
Sigh... it's built around a corruption either way, so you might as well.
(It's "Ásgarðr" - the "Garden of the Æsir"; the Æsir are the gods in the main Norse pantheon)
Send your data to the satellite and chances are it will encoded it with lyrical excerpts from Götterdämmerung. Want to bet that the access keys will be something funky like Ragnarök, who knows it might be really easy to crack with Austrian crack heads thinking up the idea and selling the product.
How could they also achieve space tax heavens? Simply assign a value of a certain weight of land held gold to the space craft then like bit coin issues trade it in units that can be exchanged without government oversight essentially a unit based barter system for the very rich members who buy into the schemes. Essentially a new gold standard of exchange overstepping the US Fed and becoming a viable and stable means of exchange exclusively for the very rich.
One of the "achievements" noted is full support for last years version of macOS. Isn't open source amazing? You now can upgrade to last year's version of macOS.
Commercial software was upgraded a year ago.
Ok open source advocates, the floodgates are opened, you can now upgrade from a two year old O/S to a year old O/S.
But you guys have already have Garbage Band, the poor Windows guys do have something that can record in the software that comes with Windows but it does not even support audio editing. Just think how great it would be if Microsoft created a clone of Garbage Band, it would most likely have a ribbon interface and be part MS office suite of software. Most people who have a Mac and just want a free audio editor use the free crapple ware readily available from the Store not Audacity. By contrast Ms Sound Recorder on Windows is a just a bad joke that nobody uses for anything other than recording the occasional fart. With Garbage Band you don't even need to be able to fart to create the sounds!
Queue the excuses and finger pointing. That is all.
Not finger pointing. ASIO support is not something you will see in Audacity on Windows because no one will pay for it, secondly most Windows devices today have A/D D/A chipsets that do not support ASIO despite ASIO For All, the majority of today's HD Intel and other chipsets commonly used are not ASIO capable. This is why switching to a real time linux is a better choice hands down if you do not have an old pro level asio supported device. Even if you have a pro level card or device chances are it will be supported in real time in some linux audio distros.
Try out AV Linux if you do not believe me. I use it as a thumb drive DAW. It flies and works like a dream in real time. The support for high end audio devices in real time with ALSA and even Pulse audio is getting very good. For instance my new ZOOM H5 is fully supported under linux even if the device is name incorrectly it still functions perfectly. The ASIO drivers under windows for the Zoom device controls suck by comparison and are clunky and unreliable as hell to use compared to the same simple device control interfaces in linux.
Either use Reaper or Tracktion (if you insist on Linux). 2017 and still no real time effects? That's like Photoshop without layers.
Not at all the same problem. Real time acoustic audio recording at which Audacity excels is not the same as photo editing or today's hyped out DAW music production. It makes absolutely no sense to use a recording interface like Audacity for real time effects. The reasons for this are obvious the purpose of Audacity is not as a pass through to a sound stage output interface. Audacity controls are based around recording accurately to digital storage not complex mixing to a concert space with added effects like reverb, for this purpose they are simple and well laid out and work well in a real time system without having dropout and pop issues even at the highest bit rates possible with your A/D converters...IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
Add digital signal reprocessing effects into the mix at the DAW level and you add a place to cause latency problems especially with PC design specs. This is why dedicated effects processors are used not the PC recoding interface to add effects to a stage mix. Blaming Audacity for PC latency troubles is shooting the wrong messenger and is exactly why the devs at Audacity completely ignore including real time effects to the monitor as a sub routine. And for those bitching about the lack of VST plugins, well go out and pay for a Windows or Mac DAW and get off the free software lawn! As it is for real time high bit rate hall sound recording Audacity is just fine, if you know what you are doing in a concert hall and use good mics. For pure acoustic recording it can produce excellent results and allow you to edit to a final mix that sounds great depending upon the musicians and not relying upon a studio monkey at a DAW with pitch correct and a swack of loops and effects to make the music saleable.
However if all you want to produce the digitized compressed hyped up garbage garage band loop based rock musac that passes as the music today then paying around 5000 bucks a year for a pro audio daw seat with all the bells and whistles is what you need not a recording interface like Audacity.
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What they are doing was already done in Canada by Stephen Harper. It was the major reason why he and his so called Conservatives got their ass handed to them on a plater in the last election. What they did was try to muzzle and pre-screen scientific data findings coming out of all scientists hired by the government of Canada. HOWEVER the Canadian public saw exactly what the assholes were up to and turfed their collective asses out of Ottawa. What happened afterwards was a purging of most the right wing nut jobs in the conservative party and some positive changes to bring some sanity back into the party.
Let us hope that the US does the same thing to Mr Trump next year by cutting the balls off the Republican controlled house and senate and turning Mr Trump into a yellow headed toupee sporting lame duck for the remainder of his term in office. I doubt that he is stupid enough to do something to cause his impeachment or that the whole Russian thing will bring down his castle, but trying to muzzle and castrate scientists could and should be an issue that will make enough intelligent Americans hand him his ass on a platter in 2018.
Maybe we need a new paradigm : anyone retardedly trying to deny global warming at this point gets their non-functioning testicles removed and fed to them with tartar sauce.
You have stumbled upon one positive aspect of global warming without even knowing it. The potential reduction of human population by DANGEROUS GLOBAL TESTICLE WARMING.
Lucky then that climate change causes increased evaporation and probably overall increased precipitation.
And, again, good thing that climate change is here to help.
The rose coloured glass effect in spades. The fly in the ointment with this belief is that the areas that are warming the most are not receiving increased rainfall and will not, unless the patterns of the jet stream and continental weather streams change drastically. The arid deserts are not about to change suddenly into agricultural land, neither will the areas with the greatest biomass in the form of peat bogs and a cold climate desert ecology. The territories in Canada and the northern sections of the provinces are not suitable for agriculture and will not suddenly become arable lands, the fools that spout off about the benefits of global warming are exactly that FOOLS. Yes we will be soon able to send oil tankers through the North West Passage and drill the hell out of areas of the Arctic. Yes there are huge areas of fertile prairie which is quickly losing the permafrost but most are are based upon an acidic top soil that will not produce our chosen food stuffs or support adequate grass for grazing animals for centuries until many cycles of grass fires can change the top soil ph. This is how our prairie grain lands are created and is how they will eventually be created in some more northernly areas of North America
Some of the areas just south of the permafrost have already been used for Northern agriculture in a very recent time frame. The Peace River region is one example, but these areas have had centuries to adjust to the loss of the permafrost.
Unless the arm chair scientists claiming that global warming will increase food production have a way to change the polar rotation of the earth there is absolutely no way to increase the growing seasons of the North which around the 60th parallel is 3-4 months of frost free temperatures and enough daylight to grow plants.
Even more importantly, FYI what it takes to raise a cow on grass and forage plants at the 60th and even down to Dawson creek at 55.7596 N is more in monetary terms of feed than the animal will bring at market. Most cattle grown there are stock produced first or trucked in then range fed, then trucked out to then be market fattened in the production feed lots in southern Alberta before going to market. Also the animals must be housed during the coldest months in a heated barns to avoid them losing too much fat and muscle mass to the cold. The range season there much shorter than in Montana even if the winters are not much colder they are much longer. The low cost of natural gas in Canada is the only thing that makes cattle ranching there possible.
Traditional agriculture does not work in most of Canada and Russia and the fools who believe it will are living with rose coloured glasses that blind them to the realities of the environment of the north and what it takes to live and work there. Productive prairies are slowly created by cycles fire and grass and the slow warming since the last ice age. Prairie agricultural lands will not and cannot be magically created by man made global warming.
CO2 provides raw material for plant photosynthesis, which helps to grow food. Global warming = more food.
Food plants can't tolerate a desert. What we are doing is creating changes to the areas that produce the food. Even India, the greatest food producing nation on earth is suffering from localized seasonal temperature pattern changes that are slowly making areas that once produced food uninhabitable. The Mediterranean climate influenced food producing regions of Spain are also experiencing changes that make areas less productive of food and will kill humans at certain times of the year when temperatures soar to levels over 115f for weeks at a time.
But amongst the climate change deniers there are also those who think that rapid melting of permafrost will open up vast areas of land to agriculture. Little do they understand that the areas they so wrongly think can support agriculture are in reality are mostly the cold northern deserts which do not have the rainfall to support agriculture. In contrast the areas around the equator which have high rain fall are very low in biomass and when the farmers slash and burn the rain forests the land exposed cannot produce food for more than a few years.
The highest food producing areas of Western North America in California, which by and large rely upon water from systems that are slowly but surely being effected by less and less rainfall on the mountains of West Coast. So the water levels in the Colorado at lake Mead and the other dam ridden systems are slowly cycling lower and lower each year. While ironically the lakes behind the dams are filling with sediment at a faster than predicted rate because of sudden snow melts after large snow fall instead of a predictable cycle of sedimentation.
On top of this California which relies almost entirely upon imported water from the greater Pacific water shed is also experiencing what Spain, Portugal and other areas with similar climate parameters is also headed for dangerous ground in terms of losing areas of habitability due to prolonged heat waves.
We are raping the planet and as we reach the tipping point and start to see the serious consequences of our greed and stupidity there will always be those with rose coloured glasses who claim that the good ship earth is unsinkable.