I like it. Clean and attractive. Maybe someone can get that guy to design a new logo/mascot for linux, something other than that annoying-looking penguin.
Don't be ridiculous; if I had an ipod it would just clash horribly with my gold medallions and my extensive collection of gold rings, including that one that goes on all my fingers at once and has my name spelled out in diamonds.
Some of us have style, man, and that's why we need the gold-plated mp3 players.
You've got to be kidding me? I dought there are more than 100 full time internet cafes in the entire US. Not counting the 6 that are opening and closing in any particular state at any giving moment. I've only ever seen one stable one in the entire down town Minneapolis area, and that one only makes money because they have a bakery.
Ummm, maybe that's because if you're in Minneapolis, you live in the middle of nowhere. There are at least 4 within a few blocks of my house.
With the dictators in Beijing bent on preventing access to independent (western) news, having smut as a pretext to close down internet cafes is pretty welcome. Probably the crime was actually to let customers read the New York Times. In China communists eyes, that is high treason. After all, they have their Great Firewall to prevent access to porn, haven't they?
It's not about communism; China really isn't communist anymore. They're extremely capitalistic, and also extremely authoritarian, with an unhealthy dose of nationalism thrown in.
The water held in the air is not available to flood anything.
Do you have any credible reason to think that the amount of increased atmospheric H2O will counteract rising sea level temperatures?
There are TROPICAL fossils and fossil fuels in the arctic. How did they get there?
Why do you keep asking this question? Nobody's disputing that the greenhouse effect was more pronounced a few million years ago. But just because champsosaurs didn't have a problem with the climate, don't assume that we won't. If you haven't noticed, we're not semi-aquatic alligators. But you know, you're just proving my point: climate change can mean extinction. And I really don't want to be extinct.
These changes take a long time and living things are very adaptable. We will also adapt over the many generations that such changes happen.
a) it could happen faster than that, and b) "adapting" requires a lot of organisms in a species dying.
But you who took a junior high school physics course forgot that warm air can hold HUGE quantities of water.
Oh my, where to begin...
Alright, first of all, we're not talking about atmospheric H2O causing sea level rise. What I'm referring to is water that has been heated, expands, but still doesn't evaporate. How much vapor the atmosphere holds is irrelevant, because the water that will be flooding coastal cities will be in its liquid form.
Secondly, atmospheric changes like that are extremely disruptive. An early frost or slightly less rain than usual can destroy entire crops; slow changes on a geological scale have immediate and destructive impacts.
Thirdly, if the Arctic is tropical, think what the rest of the planet will be like. Would you really want to live in a perpetually hot swamp?
Really? Is that why my beer cans shrink when they freeze? I think you are missing something.
Which is why I used the word "tends". Water is somewhat unique; when it changes from liquid to solid it expands, due to the formation of a crystal lattice.
But that behavior only happens in a narrow band of temperatures. It doesn't kick in until water hits about 4 degrees celsius; above that temperature, water behaves like other liquids, and expands when it's heated. Ocean temperature varies by latitude, but over much of the earth water doesn't hit the 4 degree mark until you go down more than a kilometer. So the water above that will, in fact, expand if you add heat.
1: Show me ACCURATE 1 million year tempature records. Wait!! We only have 80 years of records
It's called paleoclimatology. It was developed by people who actually studied when they went to school, as opposed to following your apparent curriculum of eating glue and getting your head stuck in bannisters.
2: Show me this hasnt happened before.
What does that have to do with anything? If it happened before it can't happen again? I mean, remember the last time you got your head stuck in a bannister? Did the fact that it had happened before prevent it from happening again?
3: Tell me the "scientists" studying arent also getting grants from... greenpeace or ELF..
Well, if you read the article then you would see who commissioned the study. But I guess it's more fun to accuse the scientists of being bribed liars. Because who wouldn't be corrupted by those climatology grants; you can really live the high life on those.
4: WHY exactly is global warming bad? Wont it give more landmass (eg, melts permafrost siberia) and lessen the "nice tropical -120F on antartica?
See, those pesky laws of thermodynamics mess things up. Maybe you should have taken junior high school physics instead of eating all that glue. Water, like many, many substances, tends to increase in volume when you add heat. So sea level rises. So you may gain part of Siberia, but you also lose a sizeable chunk of the world's coastal areas.
What if I use the distro that I use because it's the only one that I could get to actually work?
Then you must enter an intense period of training to hone your installation skills. Go out now and get a copy of NetBSD and begin. After you can install that, you can return to Linux in triumph, for you will be able to install anything.
In normal cases, people will just consult a lawyer (the shop owner did call her supplier, later), or at least ask for supporting documents before they complied to requests from officials. For example, you tend to ask for a search warranty if someone wants to search your house.
I guess their justification is it was a crime in progress, in a public place, so they didn't need a warrant. What they should do is contact their local congressman and see if they can get him to yell at homeland security for this. Whatever else the average congressperson's deficiencies, they oftentimes are surprisingly good at intimidating bureaucrats, when they have the inclination.
AOL's ability to hold onto subscribers who moved to broadband is awe-inspiring. I mean, they're basically charging people $20 a month for almost nothing. AND PEOPLE PAY. It's kind of like at the end of The Usual Suspects when you say to yourself "wow, that guy is so evil....but damn is he smooth." I think my expectations of the world have become so downgraded that I don't even mind evil, as long as it's halfway competent evil.
Like an over-enthusiastic cheerleader for the Chicago Browns, I fully expect him to wake up one day and realize that he is cheering on a group whose ambition far exceeds their ability to remember the lessons of the past, and expect their past glory to carry them on.
And then he realizes all those years of cheerleading have gotten him nothing. Oh, except for that VAST WEALTH. Geeze, people, you're trying to make him to sound pathetic. So he lies, it's not like he's doing it for personal reasons, it's his JOB. And he makes more than anyone who's reading this doing that job.
Then you should definitely write to the President of Nintendo, or the directors. Complaining to an independent contractor doesn't do much good; it's like if Nintendo outsourced console construction (don't know if I do or not, but bear with me), and you didn't like something in how they were manufacturing. You wouldn't contact the OEM directly; they can't just change things based on your input. You instead contact the executives of the company--THEY'RE the ones that, as stockholder, you've appointed to make the decision of which OEM to use.
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I'd settle for something a little stylized, like this one.
So why orange?
To warn people how frustrating installing netbsd will be?
I like it. Clean and attractive. Maybe someone can get that guy to design a new logo/mascot for linux, something other than that annoying-looking penguin.
Thirdly, a gold played mp3 player is dumb.
Don't be ridiculous; if I had an ipod it would just clash horribly with my gold medallions and my extensive collection of gold rings, including that one that goes on all my fingers at once and has my name spelled out in diamonds.
Some of us have style, man, and that's why we need the gold-plated mp3 players.
Nothing is going to "kill" the iPod
Used properly, this will.
You've got to be kidding me? I dought there are more than 100 full time internet cafes in the entire US. Not counting the 6 that are opening and closing in any particular state at any giving moment. I've only ever seen one stable one in the entire down town Minneapolis area, and that one only makes money because they have a bakery.
Ummm, maybe that's because if you're in Minneapolis, you live in the middle of nowhere. There are at least 4 within a few blocks of my house.
With the dictators in Beijing bent on preventing access to independent (western) news, having smut as a pretext to close down internet cafes is pretty welcome. Probably the crime was actually to let customers read the New York Times. In China communists eyes, that is high treason. After all, they have their Great Firewall to prevent access to porn, haven't they?
It's not about communism; China really isn't communist anymore. They're extremely capitalistic, and also extremely authoritarian, with an unhealthy dose of nationalism thrown in.
Wait which one - China or the US?
Yes.
They made it easier? Last time I tried installing it was like 95 or so, and it wasn't fun.
The water held in the air is not available to flood anything.
Do you have any credible reason to think that the amount of increased atmospheric H2O will counteract rising sea level temperatures?
There are TROPICAL fossils and fossil fuels in the arctic. How did they get there?
Why do you keep asking this question? Nobody's disputing that the greenhouse effect was more pronounced a few million years ago. But just because champsosaurs didn't have a problem with the climate, don't assume that we won't. If you haven't noticed, we're not semi-aquatic alligators. But you know, you're just proving my point: climate change can mean extinction. And I really don't want to be extinct.
These changes take a long time and living things are very adaptable. We will also adapt over the many generations that such changes happen.
a) it could happen faster than that, and b) "adapting" requires a lot of organisms in a species dying.
Coastal cities tend to vote democratic, so they probably wouldn't mind so much.
But you who took a junior high school physics course forgot that warm air can hold HUGE quantities of water.
Oh my, where to begin...
Alright, first of all, we're not talking about atmospheric H2O causing sea level rise. What I'm referring to is water that has been heated, expands, but still doesn't evaporate. How much vapor the atmosphere holds is irrelevant, because the water that will be flooding coastal cities will be in its liquid form.
Secondly, atmospheric changes like that are extremely disruptive. An early frost or slightly less rain than usual can destroy entire crops; slow changes on a geological scale have immediate and destructive impacts.
Thirdly, if the Arctic is tropical, think what the rest of the planet will be like. Would you really want to live in a perpetually hot swamp?
Really? Is that why my beer cans shrink when they freeze? I think you are missing something.
Which is why I used the word "tends". Water is somewhat unique; when it changes from liquid to solid it expands, due to the formation of a crystal lattice.
But that behavior only happens in a narrow band of temperatures. It doesn't kick in until water hits about 4 degrees celsius; above that temperature, water behaves like other liquids, and expands when it's heated. Ocean temperature varies by latitude, but over much of the earth water doesn't hit the 4 degree mark until you go down more than a kilometer. So the water above that will, in fact, expand if you add heat.
Also, with all that ice melted the earth will have a lower albedo, resulting in more absorption of solar radiation.
Out come the enviro-trolls.
Yes, here you come.
1: Show me ACCURATE 1 million year tempature records. Wait!! We only have 80 years of records
It's called paleoclimatology. It was developed by people who actually studied when they went to school, as opposed to following your apparent curriculum of eating glue and getting your head stuck in bannisters.
2: Show me this hasnt happened before.
What does that have to do with anything? If it happened before it can't happen again? I mean, remember the last time you got your head stuck in a bannister? Did the fact that it had happened before prevent it from happening again?
3: Tell me the "scientists" studying arent also getting grants from... greenpeace or ELF..
Well, if you read the article then you would see who commissioned the study. But I guess it's more fun to accuse the scientists of being bribed liars. Because who wouldn't be corrupted by those climatology grants; you can really live the high life on those.
4: WHY exactly is global warming bad? Wont it give more landmass (eg, melts permafrost siberia) and lessen the "nice tropical -120F on antartica?
See, those pesky laws of thermodynamics mess things up. Maybe you should have taken junior high school physics instead of eating all that glue. Water, like many, many substances, tends to increase in volume when you add heat. So sea level rises. So you may gain part of Siberia, but you also lose a sizeable chunk of the world's coastal areas.
What if I use the distro that I use because it's the only one that I could get to actually work?
Then you must enter an intense period of training to hone your installation skills. Go out now and get a copy of NetBSD and begin. After you can install that, you can return to Linux in triumph, for you will be able to install anything.
In normal cases, people will just consult a lawyer (the shop owner did call her supplier, later), or at least ask for supporting documents before they complied to requests from officials. For example, you tend to ask for a search warranty if someone wants to search your house.
I guess their justification is it was a crime in progress, in a public place, so they didn't need a warrant. What they should do is contact their local congressman and see if they can get him to yell at homeland security for this. Whatever else the average congressperson's deficiencies, they oftentimes are surprisingly good at intimidating bureaucrats, when they have the inclination.
AOL's ability to hold onto subscribers who moved to broadband is awe-inspiring. I mean, they're basically charging people $20 a month for almost nothing. AND PEOPLE PAY. It's kind of like at the end of The Usual Suspects when you say to yourself "wow, that guy is so evil....but damn is he smooth." I think my expectations of the world have become so downgraded that I don't even mind evil, as long as it's halfway competent evil.
Just trying to make a joke. Young women exposing their bodies to the world is the moral and right thing to do, unlike pushing drugs on children.
Like an over-enthusiastic cheerleader for the Chicago Browns, I fully expect him to wake up one day and realize that he is cheering on a group whose ambition far exceeds their ability to remember the lessons of the past, and expect their past glory to carry them on.
And then he realizes all those years of cheerleading have gotten him nothing. Oh, except for that VAST WEALTH. Geeze, people, you're trying to make him to sound pathetic. So he lies, it's not like he's doing it for personal reasons, it's his JOB. And he makes more than anyone who's reading this doing that job.
You're allowed to smack Texans upside the head. They usually deserve it.
...or simply writing a bill, handing it to a friendly congressman or woman, and saying "introduce this".
Then you should definitely write to the President of Nintendo, or the directors. Complaining to an independent contractor doesn't do much good; it's like if Nintendo outsourced console construction (don't know if I do or not, but bear with me), and you didn't like something in how they were manufacturing. You wouldn't contact the OEM directly; they can't just change things based on your input. You instead contact the executives of the company--THEY'RE the ones that, as stockholder, you've appointed to make the decision of which OEM to use.
"After selling drugs to children, nothing relaxes me like a nice refreshing Pepsi."
Unless you're an employee or agent of SG, it's not really any of your business to interfere.