Utter lie. He didn't make significant changes to Obama's ISIS strategy, and most of the fighting was done by other countries.
"brought massive tax reform"
An idiotic, poorly-thought out plan that he had zero knowledge about that was created by lobbyists and Republicans, and that will explode the deficit while offering no real help to most of the country.
"massive cuts to regulations"
You're a rube who has been tricked by greedy businesses into thinking regulations are this massive drain on the economy, while even the Trump Administration released a report stating that regulations provide economic benefits, not losses, to the economy.
"and now is on the verge of a permanent solution to the North Korean issue"
He's a profoundly stupid man in over his head.
"White liberals have completely destroyed their credibility and it will be 100 years before they rise to power again"
You got it the opposite, chief. So incompetent, stupid, and petty is Trump that he is ruining the conservative brand. Conservatives are already losing elections in deep red areas where they've held power for decades. The average conservative voter is far older than the average liberal, and even a lot of Republican strategists are terrified of the demographic change the country is going through.
"Maybe we can actually elevate ourselves beyond the reach of their greedy, grasping tentacles before then."
Conservatives are the ones jamming everything they can into their swollen mouths while they launch spit-flecked tirades because they're terrified at how the world is changing. Right now the Republican base is uneducated old boomers, while everyone else turns in disgust from them. Trump is the most corrupt President we have had in over 100 years. He's literally using the presidency to enrich his businesses, puts his family on the payroll, tried to get his personal pilot appointed head of the FAA (go ahead, defend that).
"Right... that's why there aren't any European plants growing in the Americas. Because we can't just go ahead and plant them; no, they have to evolve first."
So your argument is that because some plants can grow in different regions of the world, every plant can grow in different regions of the world? So like temperature, precipitation, etc. can have no effect because you can grow lettuce in both England and California. That's...brilliant.
First, the amount of mercury in pollock is far more than 100x that in tuna (https://www.fda.gov/food/foodborneillnesscontaminants/metals/ucm115644.htm).
Second, mercury evaporates and goes into the environment. I am continuously puzzled how you don't understand a fundamental geochemical process like that. You seem to think that since you, an uneducated layperson on the subject, can't think off the top of your head how this mercury can be a danger, then nobody else can figure it out either which is insane. Why don't you read this article:
You're misreading the chart. Even taking it as accurate, it simply means that about half the worldwide atmospheric deposition in that year came from Mt. St. Helens. The total exposure is a function of the mercury in the environment, not the mercury that popped up in one year.
Mount St. Helens absolutely did not double mercury exposure worldwide. And like I've said repeatedly on this slashdot story, mercury emissions from permafrost will be able to travel around the world. And you absolutely do eat fish from the Arctic; the Alaska pollack fishery is in the largest in the world.
It evaporates into the air, where it can circulate around the globe until it is deposited into aquatic ecosystems by either dry (settling of elemental forms) or wet (oxidation and subsequent scavenging by precipitation). After it's oxidized (and elemental forms can oxidize through a number of different processes in the terrestrial and aquatic environments) it is methylated through mostly bacterial action and can bioaccumulate to dangerous levels.
It doesn't stay in the arctic; evaporated elemental mercury can travel in the atmosphere for 6 months to a year before it's deposited.
First, it is far less toxic in those forms, but it is still toxic. Also there are numerous ways in which mercury transforms into toxic methylated forms; older chlor-allkali plants can produce large amounts of methylmercury (chemically identical to bacterially-created methylmercury), methylation can possibly happen in the body itself, and it can occur through abiotic processes in the water column.
Secondly, mercury inhalation can occur at temperatures far below the substance's boiling point. That's why cinnabar miners -- not just smelters -- are frequently exposed to dangerous amounts. I really don't get why so many people on slashdot think that evaporation only happens at boiling, when there are so many real-world, easily observable processes that contradict that.
Mercury distribution is driven by air mass movements, precipitiation patterns and the availability of oxidizing agents, most likely halogens, that are frequently found in higher amounts in the north polar region.
That absolutely wrong. Mercury, like just about all liquids, evaporates at room temperature. I mean, you don't need to know much about science to notice that if you leave a puddle of water on your kitchen floor alone it will eventually evaporate. Most of the mercury in the atmosphere is in its "metallic" or elemental form because mercury compounds are frequently reduced in nature.
The problem with your theory is that opioids are prescribed for extreme pain, and typically only for short periods of time following things like surgery. An entire town being prescribed them is beyond insane and there is no way you can feasibly make it out to sound like everyone in town -- every man, woman, and child -- needs them.
So the post you're responding to says "Technically, the iPhone wasn't any more innovative than what Palm had already created. But it combined the right things at the right time to make people want to buy it."
Then you say "LOL. Is that why everyone is using it and competitors (like copycat google) are cloning it."
You do realize that even if true the fact that "everyone is using it and competitors (like copycat google) are cloning it" does not disprove OP's argument? It's a mistake to assume that only innovative things are cloned.
It hasn't been a planned cycle; in each case they came out with a new system because they were pressured by their competitors releasing systems. When they don't have that pressure, see e.g. in the handheld market, they keep their systems going as long as possible, see e.g. game boy.
Slashdot Mirror
Wrong.
https://www.theatlantic.com/bu...
I am a citizen of the US. That doesn't mean I can just show up at any random US embassy with my pillow and insist I can sleep there.
"Someone like Assange will go stir-crazy "
Haha, "will go," right.
"Defeated ISIS"
Utter lie. He didn't make significant changes to Obama's ISIS strategy, and most of the fighting was done by other countries.
"brought massive tax reform"
An idiotic, poorly-thought out plan that he had zero knowledge about that was created by lobbyists and Republicans, and that will explode the deficit while offering no real help to most of the country.
"massive cuts to regulations"
You're a rube who has been tricked by greedy businesses into thinking regulations are this massive drain on the economy, while even the Trump Administration released a report stating that regulations provide economic benefits, not losses, to the economy.
"and now is on the verge of a permanent solution to the North Korean issue"
He's a profoundly stupid man in over his head.
"White liberals have completely destroyed their credibility and it will be 100 years before they rise to power again"
You got it the opposite, chief. So incompetent, stupid, and petty is Trump that he is ruining the conservative brand. Conservatives are already losing elections in deep red areas where they've held power for decades. The average conservative voter is far older than the average liberal, and even a lot of Republican strategists are terrified of the demographic change the country is going through.
"Maybe we can actually elevate ourselves beyond the reach of their greedy, grasping tentacles before then."
Conservatives are the ones jamming everything they can into their swollen mouths while they launch spit-flecked tirades because they're terrified at how the world is changing. Right now the Republican base is uneducated old boomers, while everyone else turns in disgust from them. Trump is the most corrupt President we have had in over 100 years. He's literally using the presidency to enrich his businesses, puts his family on the payroll, tried to get his personal pilot appointed head of the FAA (go ahead, defend that).
"because he has objectively been one of the best presidents in history and you can't talk about his actual job performance"
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Trump is obsessed with the Russia investigation and continually enraged by it, so I doubt he is intentionally pushing the investigation to continue.
Right, don't quite get the "eureka" aspect of this.
But the article is suggesting Apple might do something extremely positive for humanity, i.e. eliminating a horribly designed piece of software.
"You Americans"
Please identify a single country on earth that doesn't do the same thing and buy cheap Chinese manufactured goods.
You can still build equity if the value of the house increases.
You're forgetting to mention the lizard people who control the Club of Rome. And, of course, Soros' ninjas.
"Right ... that's why there aren't any European plants growing in the Americas. Because we can't just go ahead and plant them; no, they have to evolve first."
So your argument is that because some plants can grow in different regions of the world, every plant can grow in different regions of the world? So like temperature, precipitation, etc. can have no effect because you can grow lettuce in both England and California. That's...brilliant.
Yep, when I do academic writing I use Wikipedia heavily for big picture explanations and footnote references.
First, the amount of mercury in pollock is far more than 100x that in tuna (https://www.fda.gov/food/foodborneillnesscontaminants/metals/ucm115644.htm).
Second, mercury evaporates and goes into the environment. I am continuously puzzled how you don't understand a fundamental geochemical process like that. You seem to think that since you, an uneducated layperson on the subject, can't think off the top of your head how this mercury can be a danger, then nobody else can figure it out either which is insane. Why don't you read this article:
http://www.annualreviews.org/d...
Maybe that will clear things up.
You're misreading the chart. Even taking it as accurate, it simply means that about half the worldwide atmospheric deposition in that year came from Mt. St. Helens. The total exposure is a function of the mercury in the environment, not the mercury that popped up in one year.
Mount St. Helens absolutely did not double mercury exposure worldwide. And like I've said repeatedly on this slashdot story, mercury emissions from permafrost will be able to travel around the world. And you absolutely do eat fish from the Arctic; the Alaska pollack fishery is in the largest in the world.
It evaporates into the air, where it can circulate around the globe until it is deposited into aquatic ecosystems by either dry (settling of elemental forms) or wet (oxidation and subsequent scavenging by precipitation). After it's oxidized (and elemental forms can oxidize through a number of different processes in the terrestrial and aquatic environments) it is methylated through mostly bacterial action and can bioaccumulate to dangerous levels.
It doesn't stay in the arctic; evaporated elemental mercury can travel in the atmosphere for 6 months to a year before it's deposited.
First, it is far less toxic in those forms, but it is still toxic. Also there are numerous ways in which mercury transforms into toxic methylated forms; older chlor-allkali plants can produce large amounts of methylmercury (chemically identical to bacterially-created methylmercury), methylation can possibly happen in the body itself, and it can occur through abiotic processes in the water column.
Secondly, mercury inhalation can occur at temperatures far below the substance's boiling point. That's why cinnabar miners -- not just smelters -- are frequently exposed to dangerous amounts. I really don't get why so many people on slashdot think that evaporation only happens at boiling, when there are so many real-world, easily observable processes that contradict that.
The mercury in permafrost largely predates modern coal burning. It tends to concentrate in the arctic due to atmospheric characteristics.
Mercury distribution is driven by air mass movements, precipitiation patterns and the availability of oxidizing agents, most likely halogens, that are frequently found in higher amounts in the north polar region.
That absolutely wrong. Mercury, like just about all liquids, evaporates at room temperature. I mean, you don't need to know much about science to notice that if you leave a puddle of water on your kitchen floor alone it will eventually evaporate. Most of the mercury in the atmosphere is in its "metallic" or elemental form because mercury compounds are frequently reduced in nature.
The problem with your theory is that opioids are prescribed for extreme pain, and typically only for short periods of time following things like surgery. An entire town being prescribed them is beyond insane and there is no way you can feasibly make it out to sound like everyone in town -- every man, woman, and child -- needs them.
Revolutionary technologically? That doesn't follow simply because a lot were sold. That would imply that only revolutionary products sell a lot.
So the post you're responding to says "Technically, the iPhone wasn't any more innovative than what Palm had already created. But it combined the right things at the right time to make people want to buy it."
Then you say "LOL. Is that why everyone is using it and competitors (like copycat google) are cloning it."
You do realize that even if true the fact that "everyone is using it and competitors (like copycat google) are cloning it" does not disprove OP's argument? It's a mistake to assume that only innovative things are cloned.
It hasn't been a planned cycle; in each case they came out with a new system because they were pressured by their competitors releasing systems. When they don't have that pressure, see e.g. in the handheld market, they keep their systems going as long as possible, see e.g. game boy.