That would probably do a lot to stop single use plastic consumption.
You may have to carbonate the water.
Maybe we need some sort of biodegradable plastic?
The biggest problem regarding plastic is that the recycling/trash aspect of it is coming from two areas. China and Africa. But outfits like the UN are busy yelling at the USA and other first world countries.
We could drop our plastic waste to zero and it would make no real difference.
We could freaking ban plastics, go to all glass and metal and cloth and paper bags, and percentage wise, almost no difference.
It is quite fashionable to lay all problems at the feet of the first world, and especially that big ol' bogeyman USA, but it's like looking under a streetlight for your lost keys. You knew you lost them a hundred feet away, but the light is better under the lamp.
Furry artists who used tumblr have been migrating to other sites. Even the non-adult ones, knowing they might get caught up by association.
I don't doubt it. Tumblr is about to learn that it needs content providers more than content providers need tumblr.
We need to keep the stuff away from the young'uns. It's too advanced. But I think the demographics show that this is going to piss off a protected group soon.
Furries! Jeebuz K Rist. I don't have a problem with whatever two or more consenting adults do with each other, but where on earth did the concept of screwing a sexy rabbit come about?
And now the SJWs, or "feminists" as normal people call them, are pissed off.
To be more precise, the Social Justice Warriors are not exclusively feminists.
The whole thing is rather complicated isn't it? Few people are very interested in a pair of manboobs, so really, the complaint is all about representative female parts.
And one of the interesting things about the porn watching habits of women is that they tend to prefer lesbian porn. https://www.huffingtonpost.com... I pretty much suspect that many women prefer going to a site like Tumblr as opposed to say PornHub when they are in the mood for a little titillation. It probably seems less icky. Conjecture on my part, but plausible.
So I wouldn't be surprised if this move pisses off a lot of women - both those who identify as feminists, and are angry about manboobs, and females who are seeing their more innocent seeming source of porn going away.
Because really, one less website with naked people on it doesn't mean that much in the big picture of naked people - does it?
how is it safe when you can get banned for participation if you happen to show a nipple and whoever moderates it thinks that you look female enough?
Does the nipple presentation ban apply to animals too? The Furry crowd is very nervous these days. Cows are udderly a turn on for some of them. You also see the occasional dog peener too. I don't even want to think about the crowd that finds that interesting.
This has nothing to do with religious puritans, and is very much the work of the social justice crowd.
Tumblr getting out of porn sounds like a great business opportunity for someone who wants to take their place. I'm sure there's a Ferengi Rule of Acquisition for that.
Once upon a time it was considered a scandal when a female belly-button was briefly shown on "I Dream of Jeannie."
If I recall, they Spackled over her navel to hide the offending part. Censors are weird and kinky. I mean - what exactly do you do with a belly button other than do tiny shots of tequila from it?
Her lawyer said her "client was sorry and had since required hospitalisation for mental health problems". (I find the criminal justice system in Commonwealth countries often caves when female defendants pull out the mental health card; doesn't seem to hold water for many male defendants.)
One does wonder if the sentence would have been the same had the genders been reversed.
No need to wonder. on average men receive 63 percent longer prison terms than women for the same crimes. Sauce: https://www.law.umich.edu/news...
Note that is a University of Michigan author, so doesn't include New Zealand. But interesting nonetheless.
I like to know I'm getting the best I can out of the device I'm using. If I want stereo sound I'll sit in the living room with my stereo. In either case, I don't want the wireless protocol to be an additional bottleneck and source of compression if I can help it.
Take really good care of your smartphone then. As the top models fit your standards less and less, you may be forced to go to the cheapest phones out there in order to have your headphone jack.
The issue with the earlier claims regarding Trump's making the economy great, ignores the overlap effect.
We won't see the effects of the Republican Party's record deficit spending until it has been in effect for a while.
The best example of this is that Obama did not create the economy that he had handed to him when he took office. It took some time to get that worked out.
Unfortunately too many people do not understand the fiscal miracle that happened. Between the housing/banking bust and some of the payment of the emergency appropriations coming home to roost. - we were teetering on the brink of taking the entire world's economy down. That we ended up with only the Great Recession was about as good an outcome as you could hope for.
So we'll know how the record deficit spending (conservatives used to call this running the printing presses overtime) will turn out. Probably in the next year or so. The irony is the people and ideology that causes this sad state of affairs will be able to blame the people in power at the time for problems that were caused by others.
"Might not rise up enough in american news though over the deluge of daily violence and shootings."
And non-americans seem so convinced we have a deluge of daily violence and shooting. What about where you live?
And yet - the insinuation is that somehow Americans are so insular that we don't even know about the case in point.
Somply googling shows some coverage:
NBC, CBS, New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Washington Post, TMZ, Time, CNN, Rolling Stone, Market Watch, Fortune, USMAgazine, CNBC, New York Daily News, ABC, AOL, ETonline, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, LA Times, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, The Wrap.
I gave up after the third page. There are hundreds more. Over the spectrum from Fox News to HuffPost. From New York Times to Entertainment Tonight. Yes - we know all about it here in the USA. We care too.
Why is it ironic? Does it have to be an American incident to count?
You aren't grokking my objection. The objection is taking an incident of bombing in Manchester, and insinuating that it is somehow not noteworthy to people in the USA.
Yeah - it is noteworthy. Much better to discuss without bringing up pointless jabs like that. I could express some very interesting things to point out about Europeans, but that would only be inflammatory and piss off Europeans.
Just me writing that last sentence will likely get me modded down - In a further irony, proving my point.
>"Samsung is simply cutting costs on their budget line up by removing the headphone jack."
Seriously? As if a headphone jack costs more than $0.50?
Thickness and case intrusion are one problem with the headphone jack. You can pack in a significant amount of battery in the space taken up by the ingress - remember the ingress is going to define a line across the form that can't be taken up by battery.
Waterproofing the ingress area is going to take up space.
Then there is the problem of reliability. The mini headphone jack is a scaled down version of the quarter inch jack. Doesn't seem like much of a big deal until you factor in the spring strength, and there is a lot less pressure against the plug in the scaled down plug. I've replaced a lot of them over the years. Either through wear or the typical catching the cord on some object and pulling out the plug at an angle.
It is just a failure point, and while it could be made stronger, it would get bigger, and since the mini jack is supposed to be cheap, it would be putting lipstick on a pig.
Oh sure, I have a cheap bluetooth headset too. But I can't listen to music with it at all. At around $45 I can listen to music with wired headphones, but I haven't found a bluetooth pair I can listen to music with yet. No bass response.
Your "cheap bluetooth headset" might be a clue.
I find the concept of audiophile level listening with a smartphone pretty amusing.
But there are applications that will tailor the sound for you. I use Boom3d and get all the bass I could want. With the real benefit that I'm not tethered to anything.
Wired headphones are going to go the way of replaceable batteries. A few people will miss them terribly, most of us won't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This wasn't very long ago and was big news. Might not rise up enough in american news though over the deluge of daily violence and shootings.
Irony that you use a terrorist bombing in Manchester England to get a dig in at the USA. But the point remains that for the fearmongering sentence of "There have been so many bombings and mass shootings at music concerts over the past year to even remember without Googling" is hyperbole at the very core.
Yup, we remember even here. But those of us who were expecting to find "so many" acts mainly found that different people apparently have different definitions of the term.
People in Kansas sure love to eat, a lot, but barbecue restaurants are far less common than burgers, fried chicken, and Mexican, in fact aside from chain fast food, Mexican is definitely extremely common. Plus the barbecue there really, really, really sucks and isn't worthy of note.
Unfortunately the article only talks about how many shows are being produced. I’d be more interested in relative viewership numbers.
Why it matters: Apple is supposedly starting to produce tons of shows... but is anyone going to watch them? And how many people are actually subscribing to CBS All Access for more than one month?
I read this and the old "Solution to pollution is dilution" chestnut came to mind. So much choice on streaming.
In our latest C****st sub, we get NetFlix, Amazon, and Tubi, and some streams I haven't checked out yet. You can spend hours just checking out what to watch.
I don't know what I was doing at the time it was on network TV, but I've been binge watching Star Trek Voyager the past month. That was a pretty good series. Although Jeri Ryan's 7 of 9 character is terribly distracting, as I use closed captions, and find my eyes wandering elsewhere.
Bob: Er, so that other stuff over there... how do you know that didn't rain down on us?.
Joe: I hate you.
Seriously?
Location in strata, total amount, distrbution with other elements.
But your Iron-60....
Okay, a layer of a specific element is found in a thin layer of sediment that isn't found elsewhere. You can then try to figure where it might have come from. Iron is a good candidate for a supernova, because Iron creation is the end of the fusion process right before a star goes supernova.
None of those ideas will work. A nearby supernova and/or a gamma ray burst will probably occur during the Great Tribulation. It's very reasonable to interpret John's prophecy in the book of Revelation to include such an event.
Negative! any serious inspection of the truths contained in God's book make it very obvious that the Tribulation is started by a cosmic beatdown between Chic-Fil-A and Taco Bell.
Yes it is a sort of strange idea that cosmic rays would've driven a large shark of all things, famous for their resistance to cancer, extinct. If the rays did directly kill things they could've messed up the food chain well enough to drive large predators extinct more easily, I'd think.
There definitely are some issues with the hypothesis. The most compelling part is the Iron-60 anomaly. That being said the extinctions seem to be very selective. I'm pretty confident that there were some supernovae, but not so much that it caused the extinctions.
But that's why we have the hypothesis process. Set 'em up, tear 'em down.
I don't understand why they chose South Australia and gave up the advantages of a site closer to the equator.
2 thoughts:
1 - Russia seems to do okay with Baikonur at almost 46 degrees north.
2 - Not all orbits are served by being close to the equator.
Yes, in an ideal situation, a launch site should be at the equator, near the ocean but also near supply lines and also not near population areas. But there are plenty of other considerations.
Don't forget all the people stuck behind the leaf, running about 20% slower because the leaf WON'T move fast enough as they are trying to preserve their precious range.
TL,DR; Nissan Leaf is shit and causes more congestion, which causes higher emissions overall.
Whoosh! for maximum whooshes!
I tried to point out the stars, and all you saw was the tip of my finger.
The point is not to extol the virtues of the Leaf - I just picked an EV in the middle of the pac, and make note of it's MPGe.
If you cared to go to the link, you would see the Tesla has over 100 MPGe.
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That would probably do a lot to stop single use plastic consumption.
You may have to carbonate the water.
Maybe we need some sort of biodegradable plastic?
The biggest problem regarding plastic is that the recycling/trash aspect of it is coming from two areas. China and Africa. But outfits like the UN are busy yelling at the USA and other first world countries.
We could drop our plastic waste to zero and it would make no real difference.
We could freaking ban plastics, go to all glass and metal and cloth and paper bags, and percentage wise, almost no difference.
It is quite fashionable to lay all problems at the feet of the first world, and especially that big ol' bogeyman USA, but it's like looking under a streetlight for your lost keys. You knew you lost them a hundred feet away, but the light is better under the lamp.
Sell their body for sex?
Who pays for porn these days?
And that's pretty much the problem, who do you think is behind those bans?
The Amish?
Furry artists who used tumblr have been migrating to other sites. Even the non-adult ones, knowing they might get caught up by association.
I don't doubt it. Tumblr is about to learn that it needs content providers more than content providers need tumblr.
We need to keep the stuff away from the young'uns. It's too advanced. But I think the demographics show that this is going to piss off a protected group soon.
Furries! Jeebuz K Rist. I don't have a problem with whatever two or more consenting adults do with each other, but where on earth did the concept of screwing a sexy rabbit come about?
And now the SJWs, or "feminists" as normal people call them, are pissed off.
To be more precise, the Social Justice Warriors are not exclusively feminists.
The whole thing is rather complicated isn't it? Few people are very interested in a pair of manboobs, so really, the complaint is all about representative female parts.
And one of the interesting things about the porn watching habits of women is that they tend to prefer lesbian porn. https://www.huffingtonpost.com... I pretty much suspect that many women prefer going to a site like Tumblr as opposed to say PornHub when they are in the mood for a little titillation. It probably seems less icky. Conjecture on my part, but plausible.
So I wouldn't be surprised if this move pisses off a lot of women - both those who identify as feminists, and are angry about manboobs, and females who are seeing their more innocent seeming source of porn going away.
Because really, one less website with naked people on it doesn't mean that much in the big picture of naked people - does it?
how is it safe when you can get banned for participation if you happen to show a nipple and whoever moderates it thinks that you look female enough?
Does the nipple presentation ban apply to animals too? The Furry crowd is very nervous these days. Cows are udderly a turn on for some of them. You also see the occasional dog peener too. I don't even want to think about the crowd that finds that interesting.
This has nothing to do with religious puritans, and is very much the work of the social justice crowd.
Tumblr getting out of porn sounds like a great business opportunity for someone who wants to take their place. I'm sure there's a Ferengi Rule of Acquisition for that.
Porn on the internetz? Sounds like something new!
The problem with this is that after filling up 79GB from my favourite sites I now have over 200000 photos to sort through.
Pace yourself. Don't want to get friction burns........
Once upon a time it was considered a scandal when a female belly-button was briefly shown on "I Dream of Jeannie."
If I recall, they Spackled over her navel to hide the offending part. Censors are weird and kinky. I mean - what exactly do you do with a belly button other than do tiny shots of tequila from it?
Her lawyer said her "client was sorry and had since required hospitalisation for mental health problems". (I find the criminal justice system in Commonwealth countries often caves when female defendants pull out the mental health card; doesn't seem to hold water for many male defendants.)
One does wonder if the sentence would have been the same had the genders been reversed.
No need to wonder. on average men receive 63 percent longer prison terms than women for the same crimes. Sauce: https://www.law.umich.edu/news...
Note that is a University of Michigan author, so doesn't include New Zealand. But interesting nonetheless.
I like to know I'm getting the best I can out of the device I'm using. If I want stereo sound I'll sit in the living room with my stereo. In either case, I don't want the wireless protocol to be an additional bottleneck and source of compression if I can help it.
Take really good care of your smartphone then. As the top models fit your standards less and less, you may be forced to go to the cheapest phones out there in order to have your headphone jack.
economy and such, not?
The issue with the earlier claims regarding Trump's making the economy great, ignores the overlap effect.
We won't see the effects of the Republican Party's record deficit spending until it has been in effect for a while.
The best example of this is that Obama did not create the economy that he had handed to him when he took office. It took some time to get that worked out.
Unfortunately too many people do not understand the fiscal miracle that happened. Between the housing/banking bust and some of the payment of the emergency appropriations coming home to roost. - we were teetering on the brink of taking the entire world's economy down. That we ended up with only the Great Recession was about as good an outcome as you could hope for.
So we'll know how the record deficit spending (conservatives used to call this running the printing presses overtime) will turn out. Probably in the next year or so. The irony is the people and ideology that causes this sad state of affairs will be able to blame the people in power at the time for problems that were caused by others.
"Might not rise up enough in american news though over the deluge of daily violence and shootings."
And non-americans seem so convinced we have a deluge of daily violence and shooting. What about where you live?
And yet - the insinuation is that somehow Americans are so insular that we don't even know about the case in point.
Somply googling shows some coverage:
NBC, CBS, New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Washington Post, TMZ, Time, CNN, Rolling Stone, Market Watch, Fortune, USMAgazine, CNBC, New York Daily News, ABC, AOL, ETonline, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, LA Times, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, The Wrap.
I gave up after the third page. There are hundreds more. Over the spectrum from Fox News to HuffPost. From New York Times to Entertainment Tonight. Yes - we know all about it here in the USA. We care too.
Why is it ironic? Does it have to be an American incident to count?
You aren't grokking my objection. The objection is taking an incident of bombing in Manchester, and insinuating that it is somehow not noteworthy to people in the USA.
Yeah - it is noteworthy. Much better to discuss without bringing up pointless jabs like that. I could express some very interesting things to point out about Europeans, but that would only be inflammatory and piss off Europeans.
Just me writing that last sentence will likely get me modded down - In a further irony, proving my point.
>"Samsung is simply cutting costs on their budget line up by removing the headphone jack."
Seriously? As if a headphone jack costs more than $0.50?
Thickness and case intrusion are one problem with the headphone jack. You can pack in a significant amount of battery in the space taken up by the ingress - remember the ingress is going to define a line across the form that can't be taken up by battery.
Waterproofing the ingress area is going to take up space.
Then there is the problem of reliability. The mini headphone jack is a scaled down version of the quarter inch jack. Doesn't seem like much of a big deal until you factor in the spring strength, and there is a lot less pressure against the plug in the scaled down plug. I've replaced a lot of them over the years. Either through wear or the typical catching the cord on some object and pulling out the plug at an angle.
It is just a failure point, and while it could be made stronger, it would get bigger, and since the mini jack is supposed to be cheap, it would be putting lipstick on a pig.
Oh sure, I have a cheap bluetooth headset too. But I can't listen to music with it at all. At around $45 I can listen to music with wired headphones, but I haven't found a bluetooth pair I can listen to music with yet. No bass response.
Your "cheap bluetooth headset" might be a clue.
I find the concept of audiophile level listening with a smartphone pretty amusing.
But there are applications that will tailor the sound for you. I use Boom3d and get all the bass I could want. With the real benefit that I'm not tethered to anything.
Wired headphones are going to go the way of replaceable batteries. A few people will miss them terribly, most of us won't.
And I couldn't find even a single Bombing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... This wasn't very long ago and was big news. Might not rise up enough in american news though over the deluge of daily violence and shootings.
Irony that you use a terrorist bombing in Manchester England to get a dig in at the USA. But the point remains that for the fearmongering sentence of "There have been so many bombings and mass shootings at music concerts over the past year to even remember without Googling" is hyperbole at the very core.
Yup, we remember even here. But those of us who were expecting to find "so many" acts mainly found that different people apparently have different definitions of the term.
People in Kansas sure love to eat, a lot, but barbecue restaurants are far less common than burgers, fried chicken, and Mexican, in fact aside from chain fast food, Mexican is definitely extremely common. Plus the barbecue there really, really, really sucks and isn't worthy of note.
I'm surprised they allow Mexican.
When Voldemort uses my shampoo
Those search autofinish would be a little amusing at least.
Hard to imagine that this article got published anywhere. I'm only here because I can't look away from a train wreck.
Unfortunately the article only talks about how many shows are being produced. I’d be more interested in relative viewership numbers.
Why it matters: Apple is supposedly starting to produce tons of shows... but is anyone going to watch them? And how many people are actually subscribing to CBS All Access for more than one month?
I read this and the old "Solution to pollution is dilution" chestnut came to mind. So much choice on streaming.
In our latest C****st sub, we get NetFlix, Amazon, and Tubi, and some streams I haven't checked out yet. You can spend hours just checking out what to watch.
I don't know what I was doing at the time it was on network TV, but I've been binge watching Star Trek Voyager the past month. That was a pretty good series. Although Jeri Ryan's 7 of 9 character is terribly distracting, as I use closed captions, and find my eyes wandering elsewhere.
I shall work my way through the difficulties!
Commercials on cable and no commercials on streaming, guess which will win, like duhh.
As well, the choices are huge. I have NetFlix, Amazon, and Tubi.
And I sure don't miss the commercials for catheters, psoriasis medicines and antidepressents, and lawyers on fishing expeditions.
About the only thing I watch on traditional TV is Rick and Morty on Cartoon Network - although if they don't get new episodes soon that will go away.
Bob: Er, so that other stuff over there ... how do you know that didn't rain down on us?.
Joe: I hate you.
Seriously?
Location in strata, total amount, distrbution with other elements.
But your Iron-60....
Okay, a layer of a specific element is found in a thin layer of sediment that isn't found elsewhere. You can then try to figure where it might have come from. Iron is a good candidate for a supernova, because Iron creation is the end of the fusion process right before a star goes supernova.
None of those ideas will work. A nearby supernova and/or a gamma ray burst will probably occur during the Great Tribulation. It's very reasonable to interpret John's prophecy in the book of Revelation to include such an event.
Negative! any serious inspection of the truths contained in God's book make it very obvious that the Tribulation is started by a cosmic beatdown between Chic-Fil-A and Taco Bell.
Yes it is a sort of strange idea that cosmic rays would've driven a large shark of all things, famous for their resistance to cancer, extinct. If the rays did directly kill things they could've messed up the food chain well enough to drive large predators extinct more easily, I'd think.
There definitely are some issues with the hypothesis. The most compelling part is the Iron-60 anomaly. That being said the extinctions seem to be very selective. I'm pretty confident that there were some supernovae, but not so much that it caused the extinctions.
But that's why we have the hypothesis process. Set 'em up, tear 'em down.
I don't understand why they chose South Australia and gave up the advantages of a site closer to the equator.
2 thoughts:
1 - Russia seems to do okay with Baikonur at almost 46 degrees north.
2 - Not all orbits are served by being close to the equator.
Yes, in an ideal situation, a launch site should be at the equator, near the ocean but also near supply lines and also not near population areas. But there are plenty of other considerations.
Don't forget all the people stuck behind the leaf, running about 20% slower because the leaf WON'T move fast enough as they are trying to preserve their precious range.
TL,DR; Nissan Leaf is shit and causes more congestion, which causes higher emissions overall.
Whoosh! for maximum whooshes!
I tried to point out the stars, and all you saw was the tip of my finger.
The point is not to extol the virtues of the Leaf - I just picked an EV in the middle of the pac, and make note of it's MPGe. If you cared to go to the link, you would see the Tesla has over 100 MPGe.
That fast enough for ya?