>What's the by-product of photosynthesis? Oxygen. >What does every water molecule contain? An oxygen atom. Nobody is refuting conservation of matter; and even then, hydrogen is the limiting reagent.
The point is that it is a complex cycle which cannot be boiled down to your simple model of "drink, piss, evaporate, rain."
I stand by the assertion that you need to better educate yourself on the matter.
Consider fossil water: long-ago fallen rain, often in arid areas, mined to meet short-term needs. So how then, once the groundwater is tapped is there no shortage, eh?
Even if one is willing to assert that globally there might be no deficit (again, this assumes no pollution, change in fresh/salt balance, etc.) there can still be major local shortfalls. And while water is a fungible commodity, it is not a cheapily transported one; economically, or ecologically, on the scales necessary to slake the thirst of nations. As others have mentioned, many a civilization has fallen to water woes.
One last thought; "water" is short-hand for "potable water."
Just changes form eh? Like being converted into carbohydrates through photosynthesis? Or polluted by PCBs? Oh oh, what about all of the fossil water being extracted from the ground? Try to get a clue before spouting simplistic nonsense.
Yes, there is a finite amount of Uranium (on the order of 100 years worth at current consumption IIRC), however the "peak" was not in the 80's; there are many unmined sources.
Yes, because 27.7 fucking percent of the Earth's crust isn't enough! Not nearly enough!
Biodiesel (typically a 30% blend) and vegetable both burn well in diesel engines. though neither is the solution for the whole fleet of ICE transit, they'd be great for bulldozers etc.
Mmmm, I see. I grabbed onto the cache part... I don't see the history threshold as a cache, or for that matter likely to be much of a performance hit--I could be wrong-- compared to the page cache(s).
Indeed, but why you would offer a configurable hard limit for one, and not the other is beyond me.
You have it backwards, as ext2 etc. were never intended to accommodate those whom "expect" these things--indeed they arguably only do so because it's all they've ever known--and so it is not the developers role to "learn". Kindergartner's can learn case, why is everyone so accepting of the AOL-LiveJournal millenials who will not? Stop kowtowing to the massive ignorant!
The only reasonable circumstances where one can argue about case being a hindrance is with search, and yet most search tools (find, locate) provide case-insensitive search.
P.S. As for your take on accents, you've apparently not met many Europeans, particularly those of the French variety.
Seems to me FF threw the baby out with the bath water when they started, dropping a lot of the sane and useful stuff for pretty icons and other "funky" UI.
Being able to limit the memory and disk cache sizes was quite important if you have limited hardware and abnormal browsing habits.
Well the lusers are wrong, and mod_speling will solve the same "problem" and more for Apache. If you really want case insensitivity, why not simply use FAT?
I understand that it's about the schools getting their hands on the phones. My point was that it is ideally a non-issue because the phones oughtn't be there in the first place; however many contrived reasons parents and kids might have.
Why the hell are cell phones even being brought to school? There's no need for them. Your grandmother dies? Parents canc all the office. You want to see if Suzy likes you? Talk to somebody at lunch.
Sources are Wordnet and The Collaborative International Dictionary of English, via dict.
Wikipedia says "An ad hominem argument, also known as argumentum ad hominem", and follows with your definition of the term which, while literal, is the first time I've heard it used in that manner.
Re-reading the definitions they can be interpreted in the wikipedia vein, but also, as I intended and have seen the term: an appeal to emotion rather than logic.
http://www.answers.com/topic/ad-hominem actually has a good explanation on the difference in usage, indicating that my form is the original but now little-used.
Yes, because I clearly care about the "gender' of a table or chair!
I will grant that having a genderless 3rd person is nice. In English we're forced to use awful constructs like he/she/it, the ungrammatical they, or shifting person to the informal/ inaccurate/imperative you.
Yes and No. Nite and lazer are just stupid marketroids. -or and -ize are centuries old. But those are easy to grok. Even tyre/tire isn't too hard. but gaol/jail?
Heh heh, worse still we used to have a few extra characters including one for the th digraph (thorn)... I think he might be drawing on the 'long f' of yore.
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>What's the by-product of photosynthesis? Oxygen.
>What does every water molecule contain? An oxygen atom.
Nobody is refuting conservation of matter; and even then,
hydrogen is the limiting reagent.
The point is that it is a complex cycle which cannot be boiled down to your simple
model of "drink, piss, evaporate, rain."
I stand by the assertion that you need to better educate yourself on the matter.
Consider fossil water: long-ago fallen rain, often in arid areas, mined to meet
short-term needs. So how then, once the groundwater is tapped is there no shortage,
eh?
Even if one is willing to assert that globally there might be no deficit (again, this
assumes no pollution, change in fresh/salt balance, etc.) there can still be major
local shortfalls. And while water is a fungible commodity, it is not a cheapily
transported one; economically, or ecologically, on the scales necessary to slake
the thirst of nations. As others have mentioned, many a civilization has fallen to
water woes.
One last thought; "water" is short-hand for "potable water."
Just changes form eh? Like being converted into carbohydrates through photosynthesis?
Or polluted by PCBs? Oh oh, what about all of the fossil water being extracted from
the ground? Try to get a clue before spouting simplistic nonsense.
I don't know, I don't see any mention of Rupert.
...that you've made up false obstacles.
Hours to download? You don't download a CD over dialup.
There are also mini-CD liveCDs, and you can order physical media as well.
Consumer machines not set to boot from CD by default? 20 seconds to boot windows?
2 minutes to boot a LiveCD? I don't think so.
As for why many CDs don't seem to include loadlin and an autorun.inf pointing to a
webpage of directions? Couldn't say.
/dev/zero. /dev/random is also blocking on entropy which is bad... /dev/urandom is better.
True, but it still requires that editor do something; more specifically
they must still be capable of spotting the errors in order to flag them.
Yes, there is a finite amount of Uranium (on the order of 100 years worth at current
consumption IIRC), however the "peak" was not in the 80's; there are many unmined
sources.
Yes, because 27.7 fucking percent of the Earth's crust isn't enough! Not nearly enough!
Biodiesel (typically a 30% blend) and vegetable both burn well in diesel engines.
though neither is the solution for the whole fleet of ICE transit, they'd be great
for bulldozers etc.
Mmmm, I see. I grabbed onto the cache part... I don't see the history threshold as
a cache, or for that matter likely to be much of a performance hit--I could be wrong--
compared to the page cache(s).
Indeed, but why you would offer a configurable hard limit for one, and not the other
is beyond me.
You have it backwards, as ext2 etc. were never intended to accommodate those whom "expect"
these things--indeed they arguably only do so because it's all they've ever known--and so
it is not the developers role to "learn". Kindergartner's can learn case, why is everyone
so accepting of the AOL-LiveJournal millenials who will not? Stop kowtowing to the massive
ignorant!
The only reasonable circumstances where one can argue about case being a hindrance is with
search, and yet most search tools (find, locate) provide case-insensitive search.
P.S. As for your take on accents, you've apparently not met many Europeans, particularly those
of the French variety.
P.P.S. English itself has no accents.
You mean like Netscape used to have?
Seems to me FF threw the baby out with the bath water when they started,
dropping a lot of the sane and useful stuff for pretty icons and other "funky" UI.
Being able to limit the memory and disk cache sizes was quite important if you have
limited hardware and abnormal browsing habits.
Because case-insensitivity is an example of dumbing something down for no
real benefit simply to appease those unwilling to learn a simple concept.
win32 ports of rm, or perl -Ue unlink will often allow to to do these things.
Well the lusers are wrong, and mod_speling will solve the same "problem" and more for Apache.
If you really want case insensitivity, why not simply use FAT?
I understand that it's about the schools getting their hands on the phones.
My point was that it is ideally a non-issue because the phones oughtn't be there
in the first place; however many contrived reasons parents and kids might have.
Why the hell are cell phones even being brought to school? There's no need for them.
Your grandmother dies? Parents canc all the office. You want to see if Suzy likes
you? Talk to somebody at lunch.
Well, I still hold that "Won't somebody think of the children!!!" eq :-P
ad hominem in the (deprecated) "appeal to emotion" sense
What about (unconjugated) argumentum spectare proles?
Given the variety of choices for "child" in Latin this one has the
potential added benefit of the double-entendre for proletarian.
Sources are Wordnet and The Collaborative International Dictionary of English, via dict.
Wikipedia says "An ad hominem argument, also known as argumentum ad hominem", and follows
with your definition of the term which, while literal, is the first time I've heard it used in that manner.
Re-reading the definitions they can be interpreted in the wikipedia vein, but also,
as I intended and have seen the term: an appeal to emotion rather than logic.
http://www.answers.com/topic/ad-hominem actually has a good explanation on the
difference in usage, indicating that my form is the original but now little-used.
Interesting. I should think LEDS qualify for the SER part, but not the A (mplification)
Umm:
Ad hominem \Ad hom"i*nem\ [L., to the man.]
A phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the
principles, interests, or passions of a man.
Yes, because I clearly care about the "gender' of a table or chair!
I will grant that having a genderless 3rd person is nice.
In English we're forced to use awful constructs like he/she/it,
the ungrammatical they, or shifting person to the informal/ inaccurate/imperative you.
Yes and No. Nite and lazer are just stupid marketroids. -or and -ize are centuries old.
But those are easy to grok. Even tyre/tire isn't too hard. but gaol/jail?
Do you mean Noah Webster's spelling reform? http://www.m-w.com/info/spelling-reform.htm
Heh heh, worse still we used to have a few extra characters including one for the ... I think he might be drawing on the 'long f' of yore.
th digraph (thorn)