Lots of minerals are already being deposited into the oceans from the very natural and rather unstoppable run off from the land.
These minerals are not carried away by evaporation and thus stay locked in the ocean, which means that slowly and inexorably the salinity of the ocean is increasing, with or without human intervention.
Or are we not suppose to mention completely natural changes in the environment that will change an ecosystem?
Which is a shame since there are so many people who want a new power line run through their property and even more who want to live next to a brand new power plant.
Just imagine living in a world where "NOT IN MY BACKYARD!!!!" was the standard response to any sort of infrastructure upgrade.
One thing (Sony especially) that other companies need to take note of is the price for these digital only games on the iPod.
Ten dollars or less is a good price range for a game you can't lend or sell. Paying current full retail price for a umd psp game for a digital only download that you can't move off of your system is an idea that isn't going to play out in Sony's favor. The DSi still has a card slot so there's still the illusion that you still will be able to own your games.
I'd expect any corporation that would indulge in this sort of skulduggery to have enough sense of self preservation to have funded their little cat's paw as indirectly as possible.
The bankruptcy will provide more than enough time for them to rearrange the shell companies if they actually want to bother with reclaiming their money, which I doubt they would do anyways. As long as they've burned up more of Apple's resources than they 'invested' it's going in the "win" column.
How a picture of round bales has anything to do with vermiculture being a very good source of nitrogen rich fertilizers that do not use petroleum in their production? Why yes, you do need to explain.
If only someone could come up with ways to make fertilizers that weren't petroleum based. They'd have to use something really crazy, like worms or something.
It's just so distasteful that such proletarian ideals such as actually being able to play the game have made it into our games.
We like being able to show off that we are so rich, so powerful, and so well connected that we can waste an hour or two a day doing absolutely nothing in the game other than demonstrating just how much cooler we are than all those people who only have an hour to play each night (and they actually want to accomplish something, what folly!).
"So, yes, I still wonder why the COH team doesn't fucking fix their game to be fun at all levels already. There was no level range on WoW where I had the impression that I just need to grind 9 more levels and _then_ it'll be fun. Whatever class I was playing, and I've played all 10, had a good enough mix of spells to be fun playing at any level from 1 to 80. Why can't COH be the same?"
Is there some other game that is called WoW? I ask because World of Warcraft doesn't really start being a game until max level with at least entry level purples in every slot. I like CoH precisely because you don't need to be level 50 with purple enhancements in every slot to actually have fun. (And if you actually enjoyed your druid on levels 1-19 you need to seek help, now.)
The Romans probably had the right idea with Hadrian's wall.
Towers every 555 yards and small fortresses every 5000 feet.
Put in an actual wall with a ditch and a few soldiers in every tower with heavier equipment in the fortresses.
With modern sensors and each tower supporting the adjacent towers for rapid response (either in manpower or firepower) there wouldn't be much making it across the border.
Any sufficiently powerful entity will be invested in both maintaining the status quo and making sure that any adjustments to industry will be ones that favor their solutions.
"Hell, when I was old enough growing up, "I" was directed to help start the family meals since I got home earlier from school than my parents did from their jobs. Both my parents worked, yet we had home cooked meals most of the time. Pizza or the fast food thing was an occasional treat."
My wager is on the shift from single income households to dual income households. People just don't have the time or energy required to prepare a meal from scratch. Toss in NOW very firmly informing everyone that no self respecting woman should be caught dead subjugating herself to male domination by performing any task that was previously viewed as a woman's job and you've got generations of women who don't know how to cook.
There's always been various niches of cooking that have been passed down as male orientated activities, grilling, preparing wild game, or brewing for example and now men are free to expand their interests to the more mainstream avenues of food preparation. [stereotype] And since cooking is basically applied chemistry and physics one can tinker with a recipe like they can with an engine or code. [/stereotype]
"Actually, it's more instinctive than that--you just do it. "
Ah, yes. Instinctual parenting. Never mind that annoying rationality. Simply being capable of following biological imperatives means you are above the need for actual thought.
"Is this the part where you thrust you lop off my head then impale on a stick, to impress upon me the "terrible glory" of humanity. Gee. That would be terrible."
Terrible. Dreadful. Most formidable. Intense, extreme in degree or extent. It is rather disingenuous to accept only the "good" of humanity. Empathy and atrocity are both integral parts of the human condition and society is only going to become more screwed up until people learn that is a truth which must be accepted.
Go check out an original version of Grimm's Fairy Tales. I can guarantee you it won't be the Disneyfied stuff you're force feeding your kid.
Go pick (even at random) any historical culture. Look at their myths. Those won't be the Disneyfied crap you're force feeding your kid.
Go look up the ancient Romans or Greeks, the foundation of Western Civilization. I bet there'd be a lot of stuff you wouldn't let your kid see.
Other cultures understood that violence was a part of being human.
They wouldn't go all squeamish when they realized that their big, tasty, burger was made from the carcass of a cute doe-eyed cow.
They understood that people kill people and that some people like killing people. They knew that there were other people who would like to come and kill the men, rape the women, enslave the children, and take their lands and that those evil people might be just across that wide river.
They knew that at some point, conditions might force parents to abandon their kids in the woods so that they, the parents, not the kids (who could easily be replaced), would survive.
So I thank you, dumbass spawner, for continuing the wussification of our culture and for being too cowardly to embrace humanity fully in all its terrible glory.
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Lots of minerals are already being deposited into the oceans from the very natural and rather unstoppable run off from the land.
These minerals are not carried away by evaporation and thus stay locked in the ocean, which means that slowly and inexorably the salinity of the ocean is increasing, with or without human intervention.
Or are we not suppose to mention completely natural changes in the environment that will change an ecosystem?
Which is a shame since there are so many people who want a new power line run through their property and even more who want to live next to a brand new power plant.
Just imagine living in a world where "NOT IN MY BACKYARD!!!!" was the standard response to any sort of infrastructure upgrade.
One thing (Sony especially) that other companies need to take note of is the price for these digital only games on the iPod.
Ten dollars or less is a good price range for a game you can't lend or sell. Paying current full retail price for a umd psp game for a digital only download that you can't move off of your system is an idea that isn't going to play out in Sony's favor. The DSi still has a card slot so there's still the illusion that you still will be able to own your games.
The real trick is getting exactly 1 out of a million odds.
Dwarf Fortress doesn't have real-time physics or lighting and I would argue it is not a child's game.
The fact that you equate the graphics of a game with the complexity of the game says a lot.
And then MS could release the NeoNatal to counter the new Wii.
"There is quackery in all professions unfortunately, and all are in the business of making money."
As a wise man once said, "Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
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Being in a blissful, meditative obedient state is a mental illness.
I'd expect any corporation that would indulge in this sort of skulduggery to have enough sense of self preservation to have funded their little cat's paw as indirectly as possible.
The bankruptcy will provide more than enough time for them to rearrange the shell companies if they actually want to bother with reclaiming their money, which I doubt they would do anyways. As long as they've burned up more of Apple's resources than they 'invested' it's going in the "win" column.
How a picture of round bales has anything to do with vermiculture being a very good source of nitrogen rich fertilizers that do not use petroleum in their production? Why yes, you do need to explain.
I see you didn't bother to look up vermiculture.
If only someone could come up with ways to make fertilizers that weren't petroleum based. They'd have to use something really crazy, like worms or something.
It's just so distasteful that such proletarian ideals such as actually being able to play the game have made it into our games.
We like being able to show off that we are so rich, so powerful, and so well connected that we can waste an hour or two a day doing absolutely nothing in the game other than demonstrating just how much cooler we are than all those people who only have an hour to play each night (and they actually want to accomplish something, what folly!).
Really? Chemoterrorist?
In the 50's was it Chemocommunist?
"So, yes, I still wonder why the COH team doesn't fucking fix their game to be fun at all levels already. There was no level range on WoW where I had the impression that I just need to grind 9 more levels and _then_ it'll be fun. Whatever class I was playing, and I've played all 10, had a good enough mix of spells to be fun playing at any level from 1 to 80. Why can't COH be the same?"
Is there some other game that is called WoW? I ask because World of Warcraft doesn't really start being a game until max level with at least entry level purples in every slot. I like CoH precisely because you don't need to be level 50 with purple enhancements in every slot to actually have fun. (And if you actually enjoyed your druid on levels 1-19 you need to seek help, now.)
The Romans probably had the right idea with Hadrian's wall.
Towers every 555 yards and small fortresses every 5000 feet.
Put in an actual wall with a ditch and a few soldiers in every tower with heavier equipment in the fortresses.
With modern sensors and each tower supporting the adjacent towers for rapid response (either in manpower or firepower) there wouldn't be much making it across the border.
Any sufficiently powerful entity will be invested in both maintaining the status quo and making sure that any adjustments to industry will be ones that favor their solutions.
Never assume ignorance when malice would suffice.
"Hell, when I was old enough growing up, "I" was directed to help start the family meals since I got home earlier from school than my parents did from their jobs. Both my parents worked, yet we had home cooked meals most of the time. Pizza or the fast food thing was an occasional treat."
My wager is on the shift from single income households to dual income households. People just don't have the time or energy required to prepare a meal from scratch. Toss in NOW very firmly informing everyone that no self respecting woman should be caught dead subjugating herself to male domination by performing any task that was previously viewed as a woman's job and you've got generations of women who don't know how to cook.
There's always been various niches of cooking that have been passed down as male orientated activities, grilling, preparing wild game, or brewing for example and now men are free to expand their interests to the more mainstream avenues of food preparation. [stereotype] And since cooking is basically applied chemistry and physics one can tinker with a recipe like they can with an engine or code. [/stereotype]
It might be a gray market if it is advertised on something as public and visible as Craigslist.
You're probably not going to see ads for the Chinese girls shipped in bulk on Craigslist. [citation needed]
Small time or self employed, yes. But not the "oh my god, the humanity of it all!" level stuff you're going on about.
And this is where someone should point out that this would be an excellent reason to support government funded general scientific research.
It's expensive, offers little return on investment monetarily but could greatly benefit the populace.
Corps aren't shelling out the cash like they used to on research that wasn't going profit the shareholders within a couple of years.
Monsanto would be the one to ask about that.
"Actually, it's more instinctive than that--you just do it. "
Ah, yes. Instinctual parenting. Never mind that annoying rationality. Simply being capable of following biological imperatives means you are above the need for actual thought.
"Is this the part where you thrust you lop off my head then impale on a stick, to impress upon me the "terrible glory" of humanity. Gee. That would be terrible."
Terrible. Dreadful. Most formidable. Intense, extreme in degree or extent. It is rather disingenuous to accept only the "good" of humanity. Empathy and atrocity are both integral parts of the human condition and society is only going to become more screwed up until people learn that is a truth which must be accepted.
Go check out an original version of Grimm's Fairy Tales. I can guarantee you it won't be the Disneyfied stuff you're force feeding your kid.
Go pick (even at random) any historical culture. Look at their myths. Those won't be the Disneyfied crap you're force feeding your kid.
Go look up the ancient Romans or Greeks, the foundation of Western Civilization. I bet there'd be a lot of stuff you wouldn't let your kid see.
Other cultures understood that violence was a part of being human.
They wouldn't go all squeamish when they realized that their big, tasty, burger was made from the carcass of a cute doe-eyed cow.
They understood that people kill people and that some people like killing people. They knew that there were other people who would like to come and kill the men, rape the women, enslave the children, and take their lands and that those evil people might be just across that wide river.
They knew that at some point, conditions might force parents to abandon their kids in the woods so that they, the parents, not the kids (who could easily be replaced), would survive.
So I thank you, dumbass spawner, for continuing the wussification of our culture and for being too cowardly to embrace humanity fully in all its terrible glory.
Hold on to it with one hand?
Hand it to the kid sitting in the driver's seat since the car is parked?
Have the kid in the driver's sear get the sugar since the car is parked?