You seem to be of the opinion that there are only two sides to this conflict.
I see it as likely to be a rebel group thinking "We can gas those infidels we hate over there, and Assad (who we also hate) will get blamed for it. Win, win!"
FYI, if you're worried about the "overall population", then you might want to tell China and India to do something about it. The western world is having trouble even keeping up with the replacement rate. (The US population is increasing because of immigration, not births.) China and India will probably start naturally slowing down as their standard of living increases, but they've got so much momentum that it'll be decades before it's under control. In the meantime, their increased standard of living multiplied by their population could use up a lot of resources.
You mean for the Earth to become COLD like Mars? Not unless we break its magnetic field. Mars is like it is because it lost its magnetic field, the solar winds blew the atmosphere away. (Hint: you might want to at least use Venus as your example.)
...which came about because everyone outsources ads these days, so there are only a limited number of domains to have to block. One flash ad, especially with audio or auto-start video, and the ad provider gets added to my block list. There are actually still a few web sites that I see ads on, because they do their own ads (or use a very scrupulous ad site) and haven't pissed me off yet.
tl;dr explanation for those who don't like clicking links: There are three main power grids in the US. The west coast (from NM/CO/WY/MN and west), the east coast (most of the rest of the US), and Texas (minus the two panhandles). That means any problems on the two monster power grids won't affect most of Texas. And the much smaller size of the Texas power grid means it's not as likely to have problems amplified by the scale of the whole grid.
How about this: it's rush hour, and everybody is bumper to bumper. But they're still somehow managing to go 30 MPH. Then a squirrel runs across the road in front of a blonde driver. LIKE OHMIGOD! She hits the brakes, and causes a 100-car pile-up accident.
To which the response would be "What chemical weapons? We're not supposed to have them and we don't!" (They're probably the very same chemical weapons that Saddam Hussein also didn't have, anyhow.)
Nope, Multivac is most definitely not the internet. Multivac is the old-school "humanity will only ever need twenty computers" IBM kind of thinking of the day. Everyone wired up with a direct terminal to one big mega-mainframe (sort of like having a leased line connection to Wikipedia?), and certainly nothing like Bookface/Twatter where user-created content is the focus. The internet is about millions of individual computers connected to each other.
Obligatory car analogy: the internet is like rush hour traffic with a bunch of convertible cars where you can shout at the driver next to you, but Multivac is like a big strip-mining dump truck where everyone jumps on for a ride and doesn't talk to anybody else.
A lot of times their errors are errors of omission. Who in the '50s was predicting the Internet? Asimov went with the "one giant computer to do everything" idea, without any clue of user-generated content being important. Or even how you would wire up every house in the world to Multivac.
Leave old one as deprecated for removal in some years.
...and this is how we get shit like PHP's "mysql_real_escape_string"?
(never mind that in that particular case the whole premise is wrong and you should really be using prepared statements instead of inserting parameters into SQL command strings like a 5-year old with scissors and glue)
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You seem to be of the opinion that there are only two sides to this conflict.
I see it as likely to be a rebel group thinking "We can gas those infidels we hate over there, and Assad (who we also hate) will get blamed for it. Win, win!"
tl;dr: This administration has been like a puppy mill of dogs to wag.
I want to see the BBC come up with a drama where the world is taken over by television detector vans. (In Soviet Cardiff, telly detect YOU!)
But what about fresh fruit? What do I do if someone comes at me with a banana and I don't have a tiger to release at them?
FYI, if you're worried about the "overall population", then you might want to tell China and India to do something about it. The western world is having trouble even keeping up with the replacement rate. (The US population is increasing because of immigration, not births.) China and India will probably start naturally slowing down as their standard of living increases, but they've got so much momentum that it'll be decades before it's under control. In the meantime, their increased standard of living multiplied by their population could use up a lot of resources.
You mean for the Earth to become COLD like Mars? Not unless we break its magnetic field. Mars is like it is because it lost its magnetic field, the solar winds blew the atmosphere away. (Hint: you might want to at least use Venus as your example.)
...which came about because everyone outsources ads these days, so there are only a limited number of domains to have to block. One flash ad, especially with audio or auto-start video, and the ad provider gets added to my block list. There are actually still a few web sites that I see ads on, because they do their own ads (or use a very scrupulous ad site) and haven't pissed me off yet.
Nah, just the Winter Olympics. Now they can have cross-country hockey.
I don't know, but they sure got waxed!
tl;dr explanation for those who don't like clicking links: There are three main power grids in the US. The west coast (from NM/CO/WY/MN and west), the east coast (most of the rest of the US), and Texas (minus the two panhandles). That means any problems on the two monster power grids won't affect most of Texas. And the much smaller size of the Texas power grid means it's not as likely to have problems amplified by the scale of the whole grid.
How about this: it's rush hour, and everybody is bumper to bumper. But they're still somehow managing to go 30 MPH. Then a squirrel runs across the road in front of a blonde driver. LIKE OHMIGOD! She hits the brakes, and causes a 100-car pile-up accident.
To which the response would be "What chemical weapons? We're not supposed to have them and we don't!" (They're probably the very same chemical weapons that Saddam Hussein also didn't have, anyhow.)
For all that HOPE and CHANGE we were promised back in 2008. How's that working out again?
I hope you know that's a photoshop from around 2005 or so. (And it's awesome, too.)
Nope, Multivac is most definitely not the internet. Multivac is the old-school "humanity will only ever need twenty computers" IBM kind of thinking of the day. Everyone wired up with a direct terminal to one big mega-mainframe (sort of like having a leased line connection to Wikipedia?), and certainly nothing like Bookface/Twatter where user-created content is the focus. The internet is about millions of individual computers connected to each other.
Obligatory car analogy: the internet is like rush hour traffic with a bunch of convertible cars where you can shout at the driver next to you, but Multivac is like a big strip-mining dump truck where everyone jumps on for a ride and doesn't talk to anybody else.
A lot of times their errors are errors of omission. Who in the '50s was predicting the Internet? Asimov went with the "one giant computer to do everything" idea, without any clue of user-generated content being important. Or even how you would wire up every house in the world to Multivac.
And even AT&T isn't AT&T now. It's Southwestern Bell, all grown up and swallowed up momma after most of her sisters.
Shoot the Moon is also a game with two steel rods and a steel ball.
So if they made a Star-Wars themed version, would they call it "Shoot the That's No Moon"?
The barycenter is still inside Earth's surface, so while there would be some wobble, it's hardly a binary system.
Or maybe KSC is just getting too busy. I think SpaceX has the right idea with Boca Chica.
He can leave his hair at home. I think that will reduce the payload weight considerably.
Leave old one as deprecated for removal in some years.
...and this is how we get shit like PHP's "mysql_real_escape_string"?
(never mind that in that particular case the whole premise is wrong and you should really be using prepared statements instead of inserting parameters into SQL command strings like a 5-year old with scissors and glue)
Nah, then they'd just use the radiation to make the whole neighborhood glow in the dark.
I think rectal divination is the preferred means on Slashdot.
Then they want it to win an idol singing contest.