To those who are canceling their Monster accounts as I did just a short time ago, before I canceled my account, I " updated " my user info by blanking, ( highlight, then delete ), all of the fields with my name, address, etc. I was surprised that it let me do this, but it did.
The only thing I couldn't just blank out was my email address. ( of course ). You can change, it, but you can't blank it out.
After I hit the "save" button at the bottom of the 'update user info' page, I then deleted the account.
Hopefully, this allowed me to actually nullify my info in their database when I made my changes and "saved" those changes, before canceling the account.
Granted, it may be too late for this round of Monster data breaches.
But I'll hope that in using this method, they shouldn't have my info in their database for the next round of user info loss that will likely follow.
They seem to invite these problems unto themselves.
Thank goodness that the password I'd used for the site was a one time password that I'd only used at a few other junk sites, and the email address was one I use for spam watching.
( I'd been registered with Monster for years, but had never taken the time to 'upgrade' the email and password on that site to the more trusted ones that I use for proven sites, especially after last years breach there ).
Now, I just have to try to convince the local newspaper to use someone other than Monster for their online job postings.
"How do you work in a team situation when all the other team members are fools and idiots?"
I SHINE !!
"How well do you program under the influence of hard drugs?"
I SHINE EVEN MORE !
"Have you ever beaten or killed a co-worker?"
COURSE. not.
"Give me a rough estimate of the maximum dollar amount that you've stolen from each of your previous employers."
BUT THEY OWED ME !
"Do you object to bullwhips in the workplace?"
NOT AS LONG AS I HAVE A HOLD OF THE HANDLE.
"Emacs or vi?"
OOo
"You have a large network of Suns being used by secretaries for word processing in FrameMaker. Which GNU packages would you install for your own entertainment, and how would you justify them later?"
WINDOWS IS PRETTY ENTERTAINING.
"You see a wounded puppy bleeding and whimpering on the side of the road while you're running to work to fix a downed computer that tens of users are waiting for. Do you let the puppy die?" "Why not?"
YOU"RE ASSUMING I SAVED THE PUPPY ? AIN'T MY DOG.
"How much of your workday would you waste by reading news?"
WHO READS NEWS ?
"Recite the GNU Manifesto."
FOSS ROCKS !
"How many clients (30% diskless, 60% dataless, 10%/var/spool/mail only) can a Sun 600MP server serve simultaneously, and what relation does this have to angels and pinheads?"
I failed one of these tests years ago,
the question they had a problem with was
"Would You Lie ?"
I answered Yes.
When the manager ( who was a friend of a friend ) later asked why I said I'd lie, I told him that I normally don't lie, but if he came up to me with a gun in his hands and in a rage, asking me where so and so is, I would lie to him about where so and so was.
So Yes, I'd lie.
I'm sure anyone would.. just depends on the circumstance.
How bout the Governor of Oregon stop coming up with ridiculous ways to drain his or her constituents wallets ?
Politicians are elected to Protect, Defend, Help, and Care about the people they represent.
They already collect.25 ? cents a Gallon in tax - for Every single Gallon of gas - sold all across the state -
in every city and small town - every single day.
Anyone want to add that up ?
Methinks the Gov needs to learn to live within budget and stop coming up with new and expensive ways to pull
money from peoples wallets.
Sheesh, it's no wonder 'We the People' don't have any money left to spend to bolster the economy.
The rich and our governments have taken it all.
This is just a new method for Sony to bilk it's customers.
Let's see, around
$17.00 a month to play ( 'bout $200.00 a year per account x how many million accounts ? )
$40.00 every 6 months to buy the newest expansion.
and now some folks might spend a hundred a month to level faster or have a "Pet".
Next Sony will be 'building' homes for each character and charging a monthly rent to live in said 'home',
charged directly off of ones credit card on file, of course.
multiply all the above by however many millions of active accounts there are.
No wonder Sony is not in line for bailout money.
I'd been wondering lately if water vapor and carbon dioxide could still exist in a familiar form at 1,600+ degrees outside of a highly contained lab. This is just the news I've been waiting for. ~
Those thieves should be super rich by now. Selling a CD Rom to a news crew was just the beginning, I bet. They are probably selling the other 120 copies they'd made of that CD Rom to other people/groups in other countries all this past week.
That's the way I do it.. I'd Never use autopay. I just could not do it.
But I do not pay by check either.
I pay online, manually, at each utilities website every month.
I balance my "checkbook" ( MS Money ) every week with my bank statement that I pull up online. I go down the list of transactions in my banks statement online, and check them off as cleared in my money program one at a time. Anything left over gets investigated.
As I am paying my bills, I am able to check and compare how much I am being charged vs how much of the service I've used each month.
For instance, it's neat to go to my electric companies website, log in, click Pay My Bill, pay using my debit card in a few clicks, save the receipt and confirmation numbers in special folders on my hard drive, ( which are automatically copied to a different hard drive, and I back up both hard drives weekly ), enter the payment in my Money program, and while still at the electric companies website, I can compare how much electricity I've used the last month, compared to the months before, and the same month one year before, and compared to the average usage on my street, in my neighborhood, and in my city. Same with the gas payment for heat and hot water. I'm able to watch how much I'm being charged per liter of natural gas, per gallon of water, per Kilowatt of electricity. And I'm able to track my expenses through my money program, which will also predict, forecast, and schedule the monthly payments I'll be making in the future.
So I know how much I used, how much it cost me, whether the cost is trending up or down ( useful for when I add a electric heater to a bedroom, or to see how much I watered the lawn, as well as how much each unit of whatever is costing me ).
And I can prepare for future costs with the trending reports on the utilities websites as well as my Money program.
It's quick, easy, and saves me from ever having to purchase checks from the bank, nor am I using paper checks and envelopes, which is good for the environment. And I rarely ever have to buy stamps.
( Although Christmas Cards are one of those times of year when I do have to buy a few books of stamps:)
Faster, environmentally friendlier, instant and comparable results, a firm grip on my expenses and where my money goes, a visual reality check every week, and it's all free. Plus, if I need to argue any payment, I can do so through the Visa check-card I use through my bank.
Each transaction gives me a electronic receipt AND a confirmation number instantly on the webpage as well as by email.
I like having the complete amount of total control and information I get by paying my bills this way.
btw, I haven't bounced a check in many years using this method. I don't think one can bounce a check this way.. since I'm not using checks, and don't have that "float" time that so many people come to depend on and get into trouble with. The way I pay my bills with my bankcard, if the money is not in the account, then the bill has to wait a week. Once the money hits the account, I can make the payment instantly. Easy as pie.
I can also tell you my exact account balance with just a glance of the money program, as well as how much will be in there this time next week, or next month.
I couldn't imagine paying my bills any other way now.
Give it a try.:)
Methinks that maybe Google needed more control of the browser, and thus the internet experience, than either IE or Firefox could afford them... thus, Google had to create it's own browser, with the final intent being total online domination. Not unlike Microsoft's failed and abandoned "the internet will be ours" strategy with it's free IE browser over the last decade plus.
Give Google time to refine it's new application, as well as pay off the OEM's to bundle it into their hardware, and Google should be able to reach 25% market share within years. Then they'll turn on the Google power behind the app. By tracking each and every persons web habits, and not having to rely on anyone searching for a particular term, or visiting a particular website, Google will have the upper hand in the " User Data for Sale" category. And if they mix that with their plan to sell TV ads via EchoStar and Experian as recently announced, then no ad company will be more powerful, or have more effect, than our friendly do-no-evil search page.. Google.
It's not that they ever hope to be cheaper than pencils, papers, OR books.. but they can offer a whole lot more to people who have few other similar alternatives.
Design factor was a priority from the start: the laptop could not be big, heavy, fragile, ugly, dangerous, or dull. Another imperative was visual distinction. In part, the goal is to strongly appeal to XO's intended users, but the machine's distinctive appearance is also meant to discourage gray-market traffic. There is no mistaking what it is and for whom it is intended.
XO is about the size of a textbook and lighter than a lunchbox. Thanks to its flexible design and "transformer" hinge, the laptop easily assumes any of several configurations: standard laptop use, e-book reading, and gaming.
The laptop has rounded edges. The integrated handle is kid-sized, as is the sealed, rubber-membrane keyboard. The novel, dual-mode, extra-wide touchpad supports pointing, as well as drawing and writing.
XO is fully compliant with the European Union's RoHS Directive. It contains no hazardous materials. Its LiFePO4 or NiMH batteries contain no toxic heavy metals, plus it features enhanced battery management for an extended recharge-cycle lifetime. It will also tolerate alternate power-charging sources, such as car batteries. Children may also have a second battery for group charging at school while they are using their laptop in class.
Experience shows that laptop components most likely to fail are the hard drive and internal connectors. Therefore, XO has no hard drive to crash and only two internal cables. For added robustness, the machine's plastic walls are 2mm thick, as opposed to the standard 1.3mm. Its wireless antennas, which far outperform the typical laptop, double as external covers for the USB ports, which are protected internally as well. The display is also cushioned by internal "bumpers."
The estimated product lifetime is at least five years. To help ensure such durability, the machines are being subjected to factory testing to destruction, as well as field testing by children.
I had to rent a car from the midwest to Hartford, Ct. weekend before last... it turned out to be a Toyota Camry. Loved the car.. loved the ride... and 36 miles per gallon, even up and over the Appalachian mountains ! I was seriously considering buying one. Now I won't. And no, I don't feel that *not* purchasing a great product because of the way a company conducts itself is my loss. Any company that cannot control it's greed and stupidity does not get my money. I.E. - because of the R.I.A.A., I have not purchased a new CD in years. And no, I do not download my music online either. I just do without. I already had way too many CD's before all that started with the music industry suing folks. I have my FM radio, and if I really want a CD, I can usually find it at a yard sale before long. I will not financially support the current music industry. I.E. #2 - Because of the way Sony decided to install root kits and other secret files onto peoples computers without notice, just from loading a CD Rom or the software for it's fingerprint readers, I will not purchase a Sony product. Nor have I done so for 3 or 4 years now.
I have a list I don't buy from.
Others still do purchase such products. Then they complain when the company then acts like it is above you, me, and the law. The company doesn't seem too worried about losing business. And in general, it probably doesn't lose much business. Folks still continue to send these companies their money.
I thought that a human had to step foot on the 'new found' soil and PLANT a flag and do some kinda ritual chant to claim 'new found' lands.
Someone must have changed the rules.
If I recall, America has a spacecraft leaving our solar system, if it 'drops a flag' just before, and sometime after leaving our solar system, does that mean that America can lay claim to the solar system and then the Universe ?
Not to mention our Mars rovers. They have flags on them, I believe. So America can claim Mars
too ?
Seeing as how Canada is supposed to be building a fleet of robotic ocean floor crawlers to lay claim to the oceans surrounding the Arctic as it melts away, I reckon they can lay claim to it in this way as well ? They say they can.
This is getting silly.
Yeah, and I can't wait to see what happens when all these 'lost' underwater nukes deteriorate like any metal on a sunken ship would, and begins leaking and releasing it's 'mild' radioactive substances into the oceans around Greenland and into the Mediterranean. Should happen in what ?.. another 10 to 20 years ?
Sorry for the anonymous post - I'm on the dead run here.
On the point made in the article about ponds drying up, this has never quite made sense to me. If the climate is warming, would that not imply more moisture in the atmosphere and thus more rain, or at least less evaporation?
Think about the last part of your sentence.
Where do you think the more moisture in the atmosphere comes from? More evaporation. Ponds have very little quantities of water, which are easier to run dry than say.... cold oceans in the arctic.
Now imagine that the ponds run dry and that moisture that goes to the atmosphere ends up in the Pacific Ocean. Also, remember that there are zones in the planet where rain occurs very rarely. Unfortunately, evaporation occurs on a daily basis, especially when the sun shines.
Also, climate change models suggest that areas of precipitation will be changing as warming accelerates. Areas that now get little rain may get much more rain, areas that how get plenty of rain may get much less. Think Atlanta, Georgia in the last few years.
You want a reason why a specific species is worth considering saving ?
Ok, I got one. Mankind.
If only so your children can see their children be born with just 2 arms and legs, and 10 fingers and toes, in a world they can live in and grow to watch their children grow and live and love.
Hope that's enough for you.
As for the rest. I assume that since you are reading this that you know about the food chain.
How every little ecosystem is somehow tied into every other ecosystem. How the loss of one species or habitat affects other species and habitats.
When all the whales and seals and bears and tigers are gone, and your grand-children don't even know what a zoo is, and they can only imagine a beautiful, magnificent world inhabited by such creatures, will you feel vindicated ?
When all that is left in this world are safe zones and un-inhabitable zones, and a very few spots that still have decent drinking water, though not enough to bathe in, because the men before them kept on polluting the land and water and let the animals die off because they did not care. Will you feel good about this then ?
Each species on the earth has a purpose.
Take Bees. Most folks would love to live on without them. But right now scientists and farmers nationwide are very worried about the sudden drop and die off of bees in America. Seems that bees are necessary to pollinate the foods we eat, like corn. And when all the cows and pigs die off, and the fish are all poisoned, I reckon we'll need plenty of corn. So millions of dollars and teams of specialists are now having to be put into a huge effort to determine why the bees are all dying.
So now you have mankind, and bees.
Do you need more ?
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After I hit the "save" button at the bottom of the 'update user info' page, I then deleted the account.
Hopefully, this allowed me to actually nullify my info in their database when I made my changes and "saved" those changes, before canceling the account.
Granted, it may be too late for this round of Monster data breaches.
But I'll hope that in using this method, they shouldn't have my info in their database for the next round of user info loss that will likely follow.
They seem to invite these problems unto themselves.
Thank goodness that the password I'd used for the site was a one time password that I'd only used at a few other junk sites, and the email address was one I use for spam watching.
( I'd been registered with Monster for years, but had never taken the time to 'upgrade' the email and password on that site to the more trusted ones that I use for proven sites, especially after last years breach there ).
Now, I just have to try to convince the local newspaper to use someone other than Monster for their online job postings.
I first saw this in the early 90's or so. Text included, to avoid melting the server (which I don't believe is canonical anyway)
http://kuoi.com/~kamikaze/Hacker/interview.php
"How do you work in a team situation when all the other team members are fools and idiots?"
I SHINE !!
"How well do you program under the influence of hard drugs?"
I SHINE EVEN MORE !
"Have you ever beaten or killed a co-worker?"
COURSE. not.
"Give me a rough estimate of the maximum dollar amount that you've stolen from each of your previous employers."
BUT THEY OWED ME !
"Do you object to bullwhips in the workplace?"
NOT AS LONG AS I HAVE A HOLD OF THE HANDLE.
"Emacs or vi?"
OOo
"You have a large network of Suns being used by secretaries for word processing in FrameMaker. Which GNU packages would you install for your own entertainment, and how would you justify them later?"
WINDOWS IS PRETTY ENTERTAINING.
"You see a wounded puppy bleeding and whimpering on the side of the road while you're running to work to fix a downed computer that tens of users are waiting for. Do you let the puppy die?" "Why not?"
YOU"RE ASSUMING I SAVED THE PUPPY ? AIN'T MY DOG.
"How much of your workday would you waste by reading news?"
WHO READS NEWS ?
"Recite the GNU Manifesto."
FOSS ROCKS !
"How many clients (30% diskless, 60% dataless, 10% /var/spool/mail only) can a Sun 600MP server serve simultaneously, and what relation does this have to angels and pinheads?"
DON"T F**K WITH ANGELS, YOU PINHEAD !
I failed one of these tests years ago, the question they had a problem with was
"Would You Lie ?"
I answered Yes.
When the manager ( who was a friend of a friend ) later asked why I said I'd lie, I told him that I normally don't lie, but if he came up to me with a gun in his hands and in a rage, asking me where so and so is, I would lie to him about where so and so was.
So Yes, I'd lie.
I'm sure anyone would.. just depends on the circumstance.
Maybe they were counting on the Wayback Machine, or Google archives, to restore their lost blogs.
No, no, no.. they found the cell phones and GPS devices in the spaceship that crashed at Roswell...
:)
just ask Will Smith.
They already collect .25 ? cents a Gallon in tax - for Every single Gallon of gas - sold all across the state -
in every city and small town - every single day.
Anyone want to add that up ?
Methinks the Gov needs to learn to live within budget and stop coming up with new and expensive ways to pull
money from peoples wallets.
Sheesh, it's no wonder 'We the People' don't have any money left to spend to bolster the economy.
The rich and our governments have taken it all.
Sure it was a meteorite and not a toolbag ?
Let's see, around
$17.00 a month to play ( 'bout $200.00 a year per account x how many million accounts ? )
$40.00 every 6 months to buy the newest expansion.
and now some folks might spend a hundred a month to level faster or have a "Pet".
Next Sony will be 'building' homes for each character and charging a monthly rent to live in said 'home',
charged directly off of ones credit card on file, of course.
multiply all the above by however many millions of active accounts there are.
No wonder Sony is not in line for bailout money.
"That's the nature of an unobservable object. All you can do is infer its existence through its effects on other objects,"
Kinda like God, and Gods effect on the authors of the many bibles written in dozens of different cultures worldwide ?
Arrrr ! The Black Perl was a good ship.
I'd been wondering lately if water vapor and carbon dioxide could still exist in a familiar form at 1,600+ degrees outside of a highly contained lab.
This is just the news I've been waiting for. ~
Those thieves should be super rich by now.
Selling a CD Rom to a news crew was just the beginning, I bet.
They are probably selling the other 120 copies they'd made of that CD Rom to other people/groups in other countries all this past week.
These are thieves. after all_
That's the way I do it.. I'd Never use autopay. I just could not do it. But I do not pay by check either. I pay online, manually, at each utilities website every month. I balance my "checkbook" ( MS Money ) every week with my bank statement that I pull up online. I go down the list of transactions in my banks statement online, and check them off as cleared in my money program one at a time. Anything left over gets investigated. As I am paying my bills, I am able to check and compare how much I am being charged vs how much of the service I've used each month. For instance, it's neat to go to my electric companies website, log in, click Pay My Bill, pay using my debit card in a few clicks, save the receipt and confirmation numbers in special folders on my hard drive, ( which are automatically copied to a different hard drive, and I back up both hard drives weekly ), enter the payment in my Money program, and while still at the electric companies website, I can compare how much electricity I've used the last month, compared to the months before, and the same month one year before, and compared to the average usage on my street, in my neighborhood, and in my city. Same with the gas payment for heat and hot water. I'm able to watch how much I'm being charged per liter of natural gas, per gallon of water, per Kilowatt of electricity. And I'm able to track my expenses through my money program, which will also predict, forecast, and schedule the monthly payments I'll be making in the future. So I know how much I used, how much it cost me, whether the cost is trending up or down ( useful for when I add a electric heater to a bedroom, or to see how much I watered the lawn, as well as how much each unit of whatever is costing me ). And I can prepare for future costs with the trending reports on the utilities websites as well as my Money program. It's quick, easy, and saves me from ever having to purchase checks from the bank, nor am I using paper checks and envelopes, which is good for the environment. And I rarely ever have to buy stamps. ( Although Christmas Cards are one of those times of year when I do have to buy a few books of stamps :)
Faster, environmentally friendlier, instant and comparable results, a firm grip on my expenses and where my money goes, a visual reality check every week, and it's all free. Plus, if I need to argue any payment, I can do so through the Visa check-card I use through my bank.
Each transaction gives me a electronic receipt AND a confirmation number instantly on the webpage as well as by email.
I like having the complete amount of total control and information I get by paying my bills this way.
btw, I haven't bounced a check in many years using this method. I don't think one can bounce a check this way.. since I'm not using checks, and don't have that "float" time that so many people come to depend on and get into trouble with. The way I pay my bills with my bankcard, if the money is not in the account, then the bill has to wait a week. Once the money hits the account, I can make the payment instantly. Easy as pie.
I can also tell you my exact account balance with just a glance of the money program, as well as how much will be in there this time next week, or next month.
I couldn't imagine paying my bills any other way now.
Give it a try. :)
Whoa, Dude, easy on the Eggnog...
The President and each and every Congress-person took an oath to defend and uphold the United States Constitution while in office.
Is there not a penalty for breaking the Oath of Office ?
Treason, maybe ?
NT
Methinks that maybe Google needed more control of the browser, and thus the internet experience, than either IE or Firefox could afford them...
thus, Google had to create it's own browser, with the final intent being total online domination. Not unlike Microsoft's failed and abandoned "the internet will be ours" strategy with it's free IE browser over the last decade plus.
Give Google time to refine it's new application, as well as pay off the OEM's to bundle it into their hardware, and Google should be able to reach 25% market share within years. Then they'll turn on the Google power behind the app. By tracking each and every persons web habits, and not having to rely on anyone searching for a particular term, or visiting a particular website, Google will have the upper hand in
the " User Data for Sale" category.
And if they mix that with their plan to sell TV ads via EchoStar and Experian as recently announced, then no ad company will be more powerful, or have more effect, than our friendly do-no-evil search page.. Google.
Also keep in mind that these were developed with 3rd world conditions in mind... origionally they were supposed to have a crank style power for recharging in the many areas without electricity.
And they are really good at forming their own adhoc networks between machines for accessibility.
http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/meshdemo.shtml?KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=500&width=720
It's not that they ever hope to be cheaper than pencils, papers, OR books.. but they can offer a whole lot more to people who have few other similar alternatives.
From the olpc website at laptop.org
specifically - http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/features.shtml
Design factor was a priority from the start: the laptop could not be big, heavy, fragile, ugly, dangerous, or dull. Another imperative was visual distinction. In part, the goal is to strongly appeal to XO's intended users, but the machine's distinctive appearance is also meant to discourage gray-market traffic. There is no mistaking what it is and for whom it is intended.
XO is about the size of a textbook and lighter than a lunchbox. Thanks to its flexible design and "transformer" hinge, the laptop easily assumes any of several configurations: standard laptop use, e-book reading, and gaming.
The laptop has rounded edges. The integrated handle is kid-sized, as is the sealed, rubber-membrane keyboard. The novel, dual-mode, extra-wide touchpad supports pointing, as well as drawing and writing.
XO is fully compliant with the European Union's RoHS Directive. It contains no hazardous materials. Its LiFePO4 or NiMH batteries contain no toxic heavy metals, plus it features enhanced battery management for an extended recharge-cycle lifetime. It will also tolerate alternate power-charging sources, such as car batteries. Children may also have a second battery for group charging at school while they are using their laptop in class.
Experience shows that laptop components most likely to fail are the hard drive and internal connectors. Therefore, XO has no hard drive to crash and only two internal cables. For added robustness, the machine's plastic walls are 2mm thick, as opposed to the standard 1.3mm. Its wireless antennas, which far outperform the typical laptop, double as external covers for the USB ports, which are protected internally as well. The display is also cushioned by internal "bumpers."
The estimated product lifetime is at least five years. To help ensure such durability, the machines are being subjected to factory testing to destruction, as well as field testing by children.
I had to rent a car from the midwest to Hartford, Ct. weekend before last... it turned out to be a Toyota Camry. Loved the car.. loved the ride... and 36 miles per gallon, even up and over the Appalachian mountains !
I was seriously considering buying one. Now I won't.
And no, I don't feel that *not* purchasing a great product because of the way a company conducts itself is my loss. Any company that cannot control it's greed and stupidity does not get my money.
I.E. - because of the R.I.A.A., I have not purchased a new CD in years.
And no, I do not download my music online either. I just do without. I already had way too many CD's before all that started with the music industry suing folks. I have my FM radio, and if I really want a CD, I can usually find it at a yard sale before long. I will not financially support the current music industry.
I.E. #2 - Because of the way Sony decided to install root kits and other secret files onto peoples computers without notice, just from loading a CD Rom or the software for it's fingerprint readers, I will not purchase a Sony product. Nor have I done so for 3 or 4 years now.
I have a list I don't buy from.
Others still do purchase such products. Then they complain when the company then acts like it is above you, me, and the law. The company doesn't seem too worried about losing business. And in general, it probably doesn't lose much business. Folks still continue to send these companies their money.
But not this person.
I thought that a human had to step foot on the 'new found' soil and PLANT a flag and do some kinda ritual chant to claim 'new found' lands. Someone must have changed the rules. If I recall, America has a spacecraft leaving our solar system, if it 'drops a flag' just before, and sometime after leaving our solar system, does that mean that America can lay claim to the solar system and then the Universe ? Not to mention our Mars rovers. They have flags on them, I believe. So America can claim Mars too ? Seeing as how Canada is supposed to be building a fleet of robotic ocean floor crawlers to lay claim to the oceans surrounding the Arctic as it melts away, I reckon they can lay claim to it in this way as well ? They say they can. This is getting silly.
Over 3 TONS of uranium per cubic Kilometer !??
I'm surprised I do not glow !
I'm surprised all my water-dog, surfing, lobster loving friends do not glow !
Yeah, and I can't wait to see what happens when all these 'lost' underwater nukes deteriorate like any metal on a sunken ship would, and begins leaking and releasing it's 'mild' radioactive substances into the oceans around Greenland and into the Mediterranean. .. another 10 to 20 years ?
Should happen in what ?
Heh - my captia is 'sinister' .
Hey, are you the guy that just emptied the AK-47 into the 12 year old trick or treater that rang the doorbell last weekend ?
Sorry for the anonymous post - I'm on the dead run here.
On the point made in the article about ponds drying up, this has never quite made sense to me. If the climate is warming, would that not imply more moisture in the atmosphere and thus more rain, or at least less evaporation?
Think about the last part of your sentence.
Where do you think the more moisture in the atmosphere comes from? More evaporation. Ponds have very little quantities of water, which are easier to run dry than say.... cold oceans in the arctic.
Now imagine that the ponds run dry and that moisture that goes to the atmosphere ends up in the Pacific Ocean. Also, remember that there are zones in the planet where rain occurs very rarely. Unfortunately, evaporation occurs on a daily basis, especially when the sun shines.
Also, climate change models suggest that areas of precipitation will be changing as warming accelerates. Areas that now get little rain may get much more rain, areas that how get plenty of rain may get much less. Think Atlanta, Georgia in the last few years.
You want a reason why a specific species is worth considering saving ? Ok, I got one. Mankind. If only so your children can see their children be born with just 2 arms and legs, and 10 fingers and toes, in a world they can live in and grow to watch their children grow and live and love. Hope that's enough for you. As for the rest. I assume that since you are reading this that you know about the food chain. How every little ecosystem is somehow tied into every other ecosystem. How the loss of one species or habitat affects other species and habitats. When all the whales and seals and bears and tigers are gone, and your grand-children don't even know what a zoo is, and they can only imagine a beautiful, magnificent world inhabited by such creatures, will you feel vindicated ? When all that is left in this world are safe zones and un-inhabitable zones, and a very few spots that still have decent drinking water, though not enough to bathe in, because the men before them kept on polluting the land and water and let the animals die off because they did not care. Will you feel good about this then ? Each species on the earth has a purpose. Take Bees. Most folks would love to live on without them. But right now scientists and farmers nationwide are very worried about the sudden drop and die off of bees in America. Seems that bees are necessary to pollinate the foods we eat, like corn. And when all the cows and pigs die off, and the fish are all poisoned, I reckon we'll need plenty of corn. So millions of dollars and teams of specialists are now having to be put into a huge effort to determine why the bees are all dying. So now you have mankind, and bees. Do you need more ?