According to earlier/. report, dogs and cats are causing climate change.
Not my dogs. They are rather large and do eat a lot. But I offset that by feeding them humans. That way no pollution is created by farming meat for them, and they help decrease the population as well as removing a source of energy use and CO2 production. I guess it may be a drag on the economy though. I suppose I could offset that by importing people from other countries, but then it would increase the CO2 production to get them here.
And as much as I would like you to turn in your 6 digit UID, I'll settle for either closer monitoring of your spell checker or remedial English as a Second Language.
It almost hurts. Especially when it is intended to buttress a grammar/vocabulary complaint, no matter how mild.
I first assumed that you stopped reading the rest of the signature, but you cleared that up with you last two sentences. Did you happen to hear a loud WHOOSH?
a move that environmental groups hailed as a victory
Why do stories have to have headlines for everything like it's a military battle or sporting event? It's no wonder so many have become combative in recent times. I'm sure it's always been this way to some extent, it just seems so over the top and never ending these days.
At this rate I expect the headline for a story like this in ten years to be "Environmental groups declared this a hard fought bloody victory against those who torture and maim baby fur seals and puppies"
Of course on the other side they will claim, "The dirty cavemen have descended on your city like murderous vikings to pillage your hard earned money and rape your pets"
That's what I thought at first too, but perhaps we misunderstood. In actuality there was a slow leak which eventually caused a loss of vacuum and the voltage in the maglev unintentionally dropped slowly toward the end of the test, which brought the pod to a gradual stop.
In a few more years they're likely to "discover" a hack on their smartphone that allows them to actually talk to people rather than text them. As a bonus they'll realize that they don't have to pay anything extra for it either.
Here's the plan. We're going to move the entire population of the earth to six cities all lined up in a row and all of the nukes will be launched from three locations. One in the middle of the cities and the other two flanking the cities. I'm going to need control of all nukes and hook all of that up to a radar screen. For controls I need a trackball and three firing buttons to select which location the missiles will be fired from. . Everything that gets past earth orbit gets nuked.
Unfortunately for nuclear, natural gas has become too cheap to compete with and there is no value in the market place on the reliability and emission free characteristics of nuclear.
The major problem is our shortsightedness. Nuclear plants take a long time to construct and operate for a long time as well. Natural gas prices can fluctuate a lot in the time it takes to plan, get approvals, and build a nuclear power plant, not to mention during it's operational time. Natural gas has traded for as low as $1.02 (1992) and as high as $15.39 (2005).
The mean construction time for the 441 operational reactors from this time last year was 7.5 years. To be fair, 18 of those reactors were completed in 3 years, included 3 in the US. Argentina did it's best of offset this by taking 33 years to complete it's Atucha-2 reactor though. But this also doesn't take into account planning, zoning, approvals, etc. So ten plus years would not be an unreasonable estimate.
If a company saw natural gas prices peak at $15 in 2005 and peak at $13 in 2008/09 they may have started planning to build a reactor. by the time they started construction, prices would have dropped to $4 for natural gas. So they panic and worry that prices will stay low as it's been below $4 since 2015. I would guess it's unlikely to stay that low, but we don't think long term in the US any longer. Everything seems to be what's happening this quarter.
Or would it just mean that the whole update cycle with people standing in line for the privilege of spending â1.000 is over for everyone?
That's been over for me for some time. My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy S5. I don't see any real need to update it anytime soon. I can swap batteries, have a 128GB SD card in it and it does more than I need it to. I would probably still have my S3 if it hadn't started having issues.
Why do we have to create new laws that contain the words "phone" and "tablet"?
Sadly because that's just how litigious our society has become. Look no further than our patent system. How may obvious/previously done patents are there that add "on a computer/phone/tablet"?
I'm thinking that someone will eventually turn this around and use it as a defense at some point. I can see the defense lawyer now:
Yes your honor, my client agrees, he did kill the victim. However my client was on his phone at the time, which the phone records clearly show in defense exhibit B. The infraction which my client is being charged with does not specifically state that clubbing the victim to death with a baby fur seal while talking on a phone is a crime. So my client has not actually committed the crime he has been charged with.
phones are not computers.. no matter how many Millennials think they are...
Sure they are. An iPhone 4 could perform 1.6 Gigaflops. A Cray 2 (1985) could perform 1.9. IBM's Deep Blue (1997) was rated at 11.4 GFLOPS. A Samsung S5 was rated at 142. A three year old smartphone is more powerful than a supercomputer from 20 years ago. I'd say that what we call a phone today is more like a computer that you can make calls on. It's certainly nothing like the rotary dial phones I grew up with.
Just because I'm old and can't always relate to Millennials, doesn't make them automatically wrong. I'm pretty sure it's the same in your case as well.
It will certainly make me go away. I tend to give my money to places that have better customer service, when possible.
I almost always buy RAM from Mushkin. Back when they sold direct, they actually had a real live person answer their phone. On top of that, they were very easy to understand, and actually knew what they were talking about. Even if/when they were the more expensive option, they always got my money.
If my choice is to pay a little more for a product from a business that has pleasant people who know what they're talking about, or pay less and deal with an automated system, or a company that will (maybe) call me back in a couple of days. I'll pay more money to the company with better service almost every time. Unfortunately in many cases, there is no company that has good customer service for the product I'm looking for.
How many 5 year olds are allowed to enlist? 92 year olds? This sounds like age discrimination
What about paraplegics and quadriplegics? More discrimination.
Diabetics will almost never be accepted, and in very rare cases a person who becomes diabetic may be able to get a waiver to stay in, but the vast majority of the time it's an automatic discharge.
A man missing one or both testicles due to a congenital disorder will also be disqualified. Hell, there have been people who were disqualified for their testicles being too large.
I really don't care what people want to identify as or what their sexual preferences are. But there are simply some cases where these things matter. If a transgender individual can't get their hormone medication, how is that going to affect their emotions or ability to do their job? What if they get captured by an enemy? What about being deployed in a country that has the death penalty for being transgender? This is the military, not a tech company in Silicon Valley. Hell, the tech industry seems to have difficulty with how they treat women. Perhaps they should work on that since women are around 50% of the population.
I don't know what the solution is, but a bunch of billionaires who never served in the military, who can't lead the men in their company to treat women as equals really don't' have an opinion that the military should worry about.
Kids will go "whee" instead of "vrr" when they play with toy cars.
Unlikely. They'll learn to make those noises from their older relatives. Just like people still say they want to "roll up/down the windows" in a car. My daughter says it and she was in a vehicle with hand cranked windows once in her life when she was 8 years old. People still "dial" a number on their phone and hang up their cell phone, pump gas, rewind a scene in a video, been through the wringer, etc.
Sadly, it would be pretty simple to decrease this by taking away the helmet and pads. No one is going to use the head like a battering ram for long without a helmet, which would reduce head injuries considerably.
Something similar was looked at with head injuries in the MMA. The recommendation was to get rid of the gloves. No one can continually hit someone in the head as much or as hard without them. But just like the protection in football, removing it would probably make the sport less exciting for the spectators.
Pay phone.
I actually saw one of those yesterday. I don't know if it was functional, but it's been so long since I saw one that it surprised me a little.
Autism rates have been on the decline, and this decline started when vaccination rates began their decline.
It has? Can you please give a citation or two? From what I understand autism rates have been steadily increasing for a while now. Though I've read a few sources that state it may be about to plateau.
Granted, part of the increase has to be from prior misdiagnosis and things like Asperger now considered autism. Black and Hispanics are also seeing increases. But some of that can be attributed to a lack of medical care in the past too. Regardless, it's still on the rise
It's my understanding that there are some special cases where vaccines may be harmful to a very small percentage of children, but it's nothing compared to how harmful hepatitis, tetanus, polio, etc can be if you contract those and are not one of those cases.
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According to earlier /. report, dogs and cats are causing climate change.
Not my dogs. They are rather large and do eat a lot. But I offset that by feeding them humans. That way no pollution is created by farming meat for them, and they help decrease the population as well as removing a source of energy use and CO2 production. I guess it may be a drag on the economy though. I suppose I could offset that by importing people from other countries, but then it would increase the CO2 production to get them here.
Pigs and chickens can be raised on scraps and don't require special facilities, so they can be raised with virtually zero impact.
Have you ever been around a pig farm? If you have, "virtually zero impact" is not something that you would claim.
"For all intensive purposes"
And as much as I would like you to turn in your 6 digit UID, I'll settle for either closer monitoring of your spell checker or remedial English as a Second Language.
It almost hurts. Especially when it is intended to buttress a grammar/vocabulary complaint, no matter how mild.
I first assumed that you stopped reading the rest of the signature, but you cleared that up with you last two sentences. Did you happen to hear a loud WHOOSH?
Cyanide is a molecule, not an atom.
...for the very obvious reason that cats and dogs don't drive cars.
Toonces begs to differ.
a move that environmental groups hailed as a victory
Why do stories have to have headlines for everything like it's a military battle or sporting event? It's no wonder so many have become combative in recent times. I'm sure it's always been this way to some extent, it just seems so over the top and never ending these days.
At this rate I expect the headline for a story like this in ten years to be "Environmental groups declared this a hard fought bloody victory against those who torture and maim baby fur seals and puppies"
Of course on the other side they will claim, "The dirty cavemen have descended on your city like murderous vikings to pillage your hard earned money and rape your pets"
with gradual breaking to come to a stop
Goddamnit.. the word is braking.
That's what I thought at first too, but perhaps we misunderstood. In actuality there was a slow leak which eventually caused a loss of vacuum and the voltage in the maglev unintentionally dropped slowly toward the end of the test, which brought the pod to a gradual stop.
In a few more years they're likely to "discover" a hack on their smartphone that allows them to actually talk to people rather than text them. As a bonus they'll realize that they don't have to pay anything extra for it either.
Here's the plan. We're going to move the entire population of the earth to six cities all lined up in a row and all of the nukes will be launched from three locations. One in the middle of the cities and the other two flanking the cities. I'm going to need control of all nukes and hook all of that up to a radar screen. For controls I need a trackball and three firing buttons to select which location the missiles will be fired from. . Everything that gets past earth orbit gets nuked.
Unfortunately for nuclear, natural gas has become too cheap to compete with and there is no value in the market place on the reliability and emission free characteristics of nuclear.
The major problem is our shortsightedness. Nuclear plants take a long time to construct and operate for a long time as well. Natural gas prices can fluctuate a lot in the time it takes to plan, get approvals, and build a nuclear power plant, not to mention during it's operational time. Natural gas has traded for as low as $1.02 (1992) and as high as $15.39 (2005).
The mean construction time for the 441 operational reactors from this time last year was 7.5 years. To be fair, 18 of those reactors were completed in 3 years, included 3 in the US. Argentina did it's best of offset this by taking 33 years to complete it's Atucha-2 reactor though. But this also doesn't take into account planning, zoning, approvals, etc. So ten plus years would not be an unreasonable estimate.
If a company saw natural gas prices peak at $15 in 2005 and peak at $13 in 2008/09 they may have started planning to build a reactor. by the time they started construction, prices would have dropped to $4 for natural gas. So they panic and worry that prices will stay low as it's been below $4 since 2015. I would guess it's unlikely to stay that low, but we don't think long term in the US any longer. Everything seems to be what's happening this quarter.
Or would it just mean that the whole update cycle with people standing in line for the privilege of spending â1.000 is over for everyone?
That's been over for me for some time. My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy S5. I don't see any real need to update it anytime soon. I can swap batteries, have a 128GB SD card in it and it does more than I need it to. I would probably still have my S3 if it hadn't started having issues.
Users want to block the javascript/html ads and tracking shitware while still accessing the dancing pig content.
Most don't even know/care about the tracking. If they did, do you think they'd use Windows 10?
Why do we have to create new laws that contain the words "phone" and "tablet"?
Sadly because that's just how litigious our society has become. Look no further than our patent system. How may obvious/previously done patents are there that add "on a computer/phone/tablet"?
I'm thinking that someone will eventually turn this around and use it as a defense at some point. I can see the defense lawyer now:
Yes your honor, my client agrees, he did kill the victim. However my client was on his phone at the time, which the phone records clearly show in defense exhibit B. The infraction which my client is being charged with does not specifically state that clubbing the victim to death with a baby fur seal while talking on a phone is a crime. So my client has not actually committed the crime he has been charged with.
India can do an election with a paper trail. They're poor as fuck and 4x as big.
And 50x as corrupt.
"32-bit apps don't surf!"
-Lt. Colonel Bill Kilgore
phones are not computers .. no matter how many Millennials think they are...
Sure they are. An iPhone 4 could perform 1.6 Gigaflops. A Cray 2 (1985) could perform 1.9. IBM's Deep Blue (1997) was rated at 11.4 GFLOPS. A Samsung S5 was rated at 142. A three year old smartphone is more powerful than a supercomputer from 20 years ago. I'd say that what we call a phone today is more like a computer that you can make calls on. It's certainly nothing like the rotary dial phones I grew up with.
Just because I'm old and can't always relate to Millennials, doesn't make them automatically wrong. I'm pretty sure it's the same in your case as well.
It will certainly make me go away. I tend to give my money to places that have better customer service, when possible.
I almost always buy RAM from Mushkin. Back when they sold direct, they actually had a real live person answer their phone. On top of that, they were very easy to understand, and actually knew what they were talking about. Even if/when they were the more expensive option, they always got my money.
If my choice is to pay a little more for a product from a business that has pleasant people who know what they're talking about, or pay less and deal with an automated system, or a company that will (maybe) call me back in a couple of days. I'll pay more money to the company with better service almost every time. Unfortunately in many cases, there is no company that has good customer service for the product I'm looking for.
Discrimination against anyone holds everyone back
How many 5 year olds are allowed to enlist? 92 year olds? This sounds like age discrimination
What about paraplegics and quadriplegics? More discrimination.
Diabetics will almost never be accepted, and in very rare cases a person who becomes diabetic may be able to get a waiver to stay in, but the vast majority of the time it's an automatic discharge.
A man missing one or both testicles due to a congenital disorder will also be disqualified. Hell, there have been people who were disqualified for their testicles being too large.
I really don't care what people want to identify as or what their sexual preferences are. But there are simply some cases where these things matter. If a transgender individual can't get their hormone medication, how is that going to affect their emotions or ability to do their job? What if they get captured by an enemy? What about being deployed in a country that has the death penalty for being transgender? This is the military, not a tech company in Silicon Valley. Hell, the tech industry seems to have difficulty with how they treat women. Perhaps they should work on that since women are around 50% of the population.
I don't know what the solution is, but a bunch of billionaires who never served in the military, who can't lead the men in their company to treat women as equals really don't' have an opinion that the military should worry about.
Are you sure? I thought Karl Marx was the "Cows say moo" guy, or was he the "Only appity apps can app apps" one?
Abe Lincoln once said "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need".
Abe Lincoln also said, "You can't believe everything you read on the internet"
You have a strange way of spelling Karl Marx by the way.
I gave up toys when I turned 35
I didn't, the toys got more expensive though. ;-)
Kids will go "whee" instead of "vrr" when they play with toy cars.
Unlikely. They'll learn to make those noises from their older relatives. Just like people still say they want to "roll up/down the windows" in a car. My daughter says it and she was in a vehicle with hand cranked windows once in her life when she was 8 years old. People still "dial" a number on their phone and hang up their cell phone, pump gas, rewind a scene in a video, been through the wringer, etc.
Sadly, it would be pretty simple to decrease this by taking away the helmet and pads. No one is going to use the head like a battering ram for long without a helmet, which would reduce head injuries considerably.
Something similar was looked at with head injuries in the MMA. The recommendation was to get rid of the gloves. No one can continually hit someone in the head as much or as hard without them. But just like the protection in football, removing it would probably make the sport less exciting for the spectators.
Pay phone. I actually saw one of those yesterday. I don't know if it was functional, but it's been so long since I saw one that it surprised me a little.
Autism rates have been on the decline, and this decline started when vaccination rates began their decline.
It has? Can you please give a citation or two? From what I understand autism rates have been steadily increasing for a while now. Though I've read a few sources that state it may be about to plateau.
Granted, part of the increase has to be from prior misdiagnosis and things like Asperger now considered autism. Black and Hispanics are also seeing increases. But some of that can be attributed to a lack of medical care in the past too. Regardless, it's still on the rise
It's my understanding that there are some special cases where vaccines may be harmful to a very small percentage of children, but it's nothing compared to how harmful hepatitis, tetanus, polio, etc can be if you contract those and are not one of those cases.