The caveats are always the same. Never store valuables in your vehicle. Never assume
... that a thief isn't going to put a brick through the window.
Once they can see something valuable enough to be worth the risk of getting caught, the glass is going to go and the dude is going to be off down the road with the goodies. Or if it's the car that is valuable enough, it's going to go onto the back of a tow truck (itself stolen, perhaps).
frankly, if we're able to decode all the other ancient languages I'm pretty sure someone will be able to decode these as well.
We're not able to decode all ancient languages. Some of those with a significant corpus of work remain incomprehensible. One example at the borderline of what should be possible is the Phaistos Disc language. Linear-A remains undeciphered, while it's descendent Linear-B has been deciphered. There was probably a more-or-less common language amongst the cities of the "Indus Valley Civilisation", but only scattered fragments of it's (syllable-based ?) written language have been found. And with that list, I've not even left the Indo-Aryan language group - probably.
Speaking of ancient... Err.. When did Vint go to Google?
I don't remember exactly ; it was a while ago, after he was doing work for NASA on high-latency networks - i.e. Interplanetary Internet. (Wikipedia says he went to Google in 2005, but work on "Interplanetary Internet" has been wobbling on since the early 1980s.
I've carried a pocket knife since my dad bought me one for my 8th birthday, not having that weight in that pocket doesn't feel right.
This I can understand. I have a "worry stone" - a nice piece of Connemara Marble - which fulfils a similar talismanic role. But it doesn't set off the metal detectors.
My hand-lens, being X-ray dense, caused a huge amount of head scratching at a Canadian airport once. Being a gift from Dad, I was not going to surrender it. It was a peculiarly ignorant gaggle of security people who had never seen one before, but fortunately I had the "worry stone" to demonstrate it's purpose and a sheaf of geological publications in my pocket. The hand-lens goes into the checked baggage now.
I tend to catch flights too early to be properly awake.. Going on vacation again in a couple of weeks, and I'll probably lose another either on the way there or the way back.
Put it into your to-be-put-in-the-hold baggage when you're getting undressed for bed the night before. Problem solved.
I'm trying to think of any occasion that I've flown without checked baggage, ever - and failing. I cannot think of it ever having happened, nor think of a circumstance under which I'd need to do it.
Nope, I can't think of any occasion when I'd not be travelling with hold ("checked" in American English?) baggage. If it's far enough to need to fly - say for a visit to a client - then the 4 hour plus process of getting from my door to the client's door already means that it's worthwhile travelling at civilized hours and overnighting in a hotel. Or, if I go to the national capital, save the hotel cost and spend the night with family nearby ; it saves money and is much nicer. (The regional capital is only 2.5 hours drive away - drive, or take the train. There's only one client based there though.) When I'm holidaying, I've got the walking kit in a rucksac in the hold - and cameras and laptop with me in the cabin. When I'm off to a work site, it's for weeks, and I've got my work equipment in the hold. All cases covered ; I can't see how or why I'd ever be flying without something in the hold.
they have a plausible excuse (raw material shortage)
That is a plausible excuse, but of course that would also impact the production of other similar drugs, depending on exactly which raw material it is which is in short supply. So, which other drugs are also implicated in this shortage. Seeing that doxycycline is a member of a large family of related drugs (the tetracycline antibiotics), then presumably some of those are also in short supply.
I hadn't actually heard of any shortage of this drug, but since we've got a health service, I don't need to worry about this myself. But if it concerns you, feel free to explore the credibility of the drug companies excuse as far as you want.
I think that FB's days are numbered; people seem pretty pissed of with the crap they have been pulling, with the lousy UI and the privacy abuses,
Agreed. So I've stopped using it. Haven't deleted the account, yet, but I have stopped logging in.
and the time is ripe for an alternative
IF, and only if, you want to have all your personal information in one easy-to-access place, where pretty much anyone can get hold of it. Which I don't particularly want to do. So I don't think that I will.
Actually, the licence fee is not for watching "live" TV ; it's for possession of equipment capable of receiving and decoding broadcast TV signals. Whether the equipment is actually used for that purpose, or used as a glorified oscilloscope is irrelevant to the law in question.
What you need to do (and what I did when I had to get a VHS player to play Open University course materials), is to disable the equipment capable of "receiving and decoding" the TV signals. I achieved that by opening up the UHF amplifier (the bit in the silvery pre-fabricated box on the circuit box) and shorting the inner and outer contacts of the RCA connector together with a soldered wire.
When the burglars took that VHS player and fenced it, I'm told that they got a punch in the face from the fence when his customer returned the (allegedly) broken player because it didn't receive TV. Which pleased me greatly, though I didn't find out until several years later.
Of course, it's possible that the law has changed since I had to work around it's edges ; but I haven't heard of any significant changes since they abolished the Radio Licence back in the early 1970s. Oh, this site is interesting. For certain, small, values of "interesting".
I think most would consider the licence fee a sort of tax.
And the fact that "most people" would, indeed do, do that, makes them right... just how?
FYI, I did spend over a decade not paying the licence fee, and regularly laughing in the face of the collectors wanting to get into the house (why did they always come round on rainy winter evenings? Fools!), and I do know the law concerning the question. I didn't pay the licence fee because I didn't have a TV (I still don't particularly want one, but the wife does). And I did request the BBC to bill me for a radio reception licence, which they refused to do.
Maybe if I present it in the form of a cryptography scheme for terrorist communications...
... that would really grab the attention of a banker. If anyone likes a good, solid, unbreakable encryption scheme more than a terrorist, it's a banker. For much the same reasons. Which makes one wonder.
Given that I know how we did things at our business (where we had a full time staff of 8 people for PC support) I thought I'd contribute some information.
Feynman taught his students that guessing was the first step in the scientific method
It's A first step. If (and only if) you are really sure that your several years of previous study of the matter have convinced you that further study is irrelevant
I recall... taking over a year to get a handle on spherical geometry (for optical analysis)... Some subjects are not (absolutely) easy. Oh, Feynman was saying that you can proceed from a guess if you have absolutely no other idea. But that's not all that he said for an idea from whose basis you had a way to proceed.
You can accept that basis, and destroy it ; or you can accept it, examine it, and then follow it to the point where it proves that Red is Green... and realise that it is not connected to the real world. And then you can go on to guessing. But you can't guess without doing the necessary leg-work first.
But go on ; you make your silly propositions in the name of a respected physicist... and I have a sad suspicion... that you'll win.
this means that any agreement an Amish farmer makes with a company is, for the farmer, practically unenforceable.
Taking "agreement" to mean "contract" (as it certainly does in my country), then why is the contract unenforceable without going to court? You complain to the other party that the contract is not being followed ; they either disagree (more complex) or agree, and start to correct their actions.
You're not suggesting that the "rampant piracy" model of business ethics is still prevalent in the home of ethical capitalist business, America. Or do you consider the concept of "ethical capitalist business" to be self contradictory? (I don't ; quite. But it takes unusual people, by the shipload, to achieve it.)
Its ridiculous to assume everyone in the world has to have an opinion on something which they may not find worthy of the time to consider.
I think that you're looking at the polytomy (multi-way : "cutting" = "-tomy") from the wrong end of the telescope. To you, *their* (God-Squaddies, etc) opinion is one of conflicting opinions, and *they* need to work for *your* attention ; but to *them*, *your* opinion (not agreeing with them, to the level of your children's sexual availability to senior church members) is an indication that *you* are already dead beyond redemption, and that *you* need to agree with *them* better to be worthy of attention and possible redemption (and taxation).
Now that you've got that, you see why your opinion is unimportant compared to theirs.
(I may be doing an injustice to some "God-Squaddies" of your acquaintance ; some of them may not be baby-buggerers. But I doubt that I'm significantly wrong.)
It gives one the tools to deal with the situation.
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Have gnu, will travel.
I just bet that you've got better shoes to-hand than I have. (I left home expecting a day in aeroplanes and airports, followed by a hotel, and then back to the air travel ; which is why I left home in slippers. My rational expectations have been broken.)
What sort of a saddle do you use for your gnu? Or "wildebeest", if you want the Afrikaans name. Or is it one of those "rope-over-the-horns hang-on-like-grim-death long-whip-for-poor steering" sort of "travel"?
Sorry : alternative model : long stick, string, carrot and much more gentle, "ambling" style of travel?
a horrific time where a lot of humans were savagely killed by weather, earthquakes, volcanoes, communicable diseases, carnivorous animals and by other humans.
The concept of "savage-ness" can only apply to the last two of your list. The others have no volition (or in the "communicable disease" threat category, no known method of communicating anything like "volition" from one victim to a contemporaneous victim [within one victim, chemical communication between members of the same plague species is not incredible, if not {clearly} demonstrated]), and so volitional terms are not appropriate.
Yes, I do get pissed off with descriptions of "treacherous storms" too. Heavy weather with 20+m waves is within my job description. It's no surprise to me. It's not a violation of any previous contract, treaty or "compact" ; I expect it from "weather", on the basis of snow storms, hypothermia, and near-death experiences. Natural forces will do what they are going to do, with no input from humans living on the surface like a skin disease. (Yes ; I do know about fluid-injection related earthquakes and mud volcanoes ; these are thoughtless (literally, not figuratively) responses to human actions, like planes falling out of the sky if they lose their engines as gravity "maliciously" continues to operate in the same way it did the preceding decade.)
Please, don't impute "agency" to forces that act without intellect or thought. They're events, or possibly responses. It's an open debate if a tiger eating a zoo-keeper is an act of volition or a response to instinct ; it's not a matter of (rational) debate if someone gets killed by an impacting meteorite (or has a bent car) "because" of the malevolent intent of the lump of interplanetary rock.
Are you promoting a Church-based 10% income tax (otherwise known as a "tithe") on top of what the State takes, with similar controls on the management of the tithing churches as apply to the State's representatives?
You know, while I consider churches in general to be a bad idea, that's one of the better ideas for reforming the existing ones that I've heard. I wish you well in your short remaining life, before being torn to shreds by people whose corruption you've threatened. Carry cyanide pills!
It's almost like She *wants* an in-decent percentage of us to go to Hell, right?
FTFY
Remember, God is a she, and She hasn't come for several millennia, so you can guess what Her mood will be when She arrives.
(And as an Ordained Minister of the Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, I shall greet Her with a rolled spliff, a lighter, and a selection of "ripped" studs ; we're more considerate that way than most Tree-Nailees and Clit-Cutters. Volunteers are invited.)
One of these days, I'm going to provoke a Femen activist to make a joke on there being a "member" in "re:member". More productive than arguing with God-Squaddies.
Sodium Pentothal. No inhabitions, no fear. Stress becomes water off a ducks back.
... and reaction times go to shit.
Looking back on some of the "fox hole" experiences of my life, so far (being attacked by gangs in bars ; equipment failures while diving in overhead environments ; helicopter engines dripping oil into the passenger cabin while miles out to sea ; just the usual joys of life), reduced reaction time (and slower thinking) is not generally conducive to survival.
But hey, your mileage may vary ; I've been asked to submit my CV for work onshore in Somalia ; would you want to join up too ; your technical qualifications are unimportant as long as I can either out-run you, or leave you looking for a (flash-)light while I crawl away through a cess pit.
Laying in some new fibre should be fairly cheap and easy by now.
Technically easy, yes ; but it still takes time and costs money to drill holes and pull cables (fibre optic or copper, they're the same in this respect) gently (!) through wall channels and conduits. As I said up-thread, retro-removal is surprisingly expensive, and so is retrofitting ; every single case need to have an economic case made for it (I've had to prepare spreadsheets estimating man-hours and materials costs to try to justify costs to my Boss. Same Boss, two different employers.)
We moved house recently ; I've put in wireless for the wife, and am building a wired network into my "den" room. I can't justify the hassle of routing cables through walls, though if the wife insists on moving the TV (and it's links to the satellite dish), then in that process I may decide to pull cables. But I'll wait until she has actually decided exactly what she wants (and I've drawn up plans, and she's changed her mind, and I've re-drawn the plans ; lather rinse and repeat several times until she gets sick of the treadmill) before lifting a single drill bit out of the tool box.
Major users will still absolutely insist upon the security provided by a physical link.
FTFY
Wireless, in my working environment (which is my living environment too, for about half the time ; I fly 400 miles to work this afternoon) is for recreational use ; wired is for shipboard services and for the client's data.
OK, we do have to use a wireless link between the vessel, the satellite, and the ground station. I don't know (or care) if the shipboard services level of the network is encrypted, but the client's VPN that sits on top of it always is, IME.
Wireless comms can be more easily jammed than a cable - which tends to need something like a backhoe/JCB to disrupt.
Our usual joy is when a crane booms a load through the line of sight from the comms dome to the satellite.
I don't see a "need" for a sequel either ; I've always considered Blade Runner to be one of the best films I've ever seen, and there are definitely times when milking the dead horse by making a sequel is only worthwhile for the filthy lucre.
and I expect that this will be terrible.
Having seen the piece of shit that was 'Prometheus", I fear so too. Can I have 2.5 hours of my life back?
Near-east agriculture seems to have been in full-swing in Egypt and Mesopotamia by 10000 BP.
Well... for certain meanings of "full swing". OTOH, the animal bones found at Gobekli Tepe and Catalhoyuk seem mostly to have been hunted wild animals, rather than "domesticated". Again, for certain values of "domesticated". The simple process of culling part of the population of a wild herd is going to have an effect on the genetic structure of the population. We're seeing precisely the same sort of changes in the red deer population here in Scotland as hunting practices change, without close control of the breeding of the animals. Same has been recently reported for elephants over the last century or so, with a rapid reduction in tusk size, simply because of the selection (culling) of "tuskers" form the 1880s (-ish) onwards.
Certainly our ancestors were not farming during the younger dryas.
"Certainly" ? Dangerous word that. "Probably", and with a qualification about not carrying out a full crop cycle, is about as far as I'd go.
Good luck finding that article. I think the 25k BP claim is a little specious personally, though if true, very interesting.
It wasn't too hard to find the reference to the article, or indeed access to the figures and tables from Elsevier's website. I'm still hoping to get the as-published PDF from the author to whom the claim is attributed, so that I can examine their dating evidence.
Cultivation at 9k BP in New Guinea, of all places, is impressive as it is.
Hmmm, well, I've got friends who've been travelling in PNG (cave exploration) for over 30 years, and I've been as far as interview (for oil exploration work) there too, so possibly I've been paying slightly closer attention to the country than most non-PNGians. I'm not terribly surprised.
If, as I suspect, the actual claim in the published paper is of evidence for 25kyr BP processing of "gathered" plant material, rather than necessarily it's cultivation, then this would be evidence for the indigenous development of agriculture in the area, as opposed to the introduction of an agricultural system from elsewhere, followed by substitution of appropriate local plants, which is what happened with the introduction of "Fertile Crescent" agriculture into Europe and Britain, and from there it's transfer to America.
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You saw him this morning, in the bathroom mirror. Didn't anyone tell you?
... that a thief isn't going to put a brick through the window.
Once they can see something valuable enough to be worth the risk of getting caught, the glass is going to go and the dude is going to be off down the road with the goodies. Or if it's the car that is valuable enough, it's going to go onto the back of a tow truck (itself stolen, perhaps).
That's nothing to do with key-less systems.
We're not able to decode all ancient languages. Some of those with a significant corpus of work remain incomprehensible. One example at the borderline of what should be possible is the Phaistos Disc language. Linear-A remains undeciphered, while it's descendent Linear-B has been deciphered. There was probably a more-or-less common language amongst the cities of the "Indus Valley Civilisation", but only scattered fragments of it's (syllable-based ?) written language have been found. And with that list, I've not even left the Indo-Aryan language group - probably.
I don't remember exactly ; it was a while ago, after he was doing work for NASA on high-latency networks - i.e. Interplanetary Internet. (Wikipedia says he went to Google in 2005, but work on "Interplanetary Internet" has been wobbling on since the early 1980s.
This I can understand. I have a "worry stone" - a nice piece of Connemara Marble - which fulfils a similar talismanic role. But it doesn't set off the metal detectors.
My hand-lens, being X-ray dense, caused a huge amount of head scratching at a Canadian airport once. Being a gift from Dad, I was not going to surrender it. It was a peculiarly ignorant gaggle of security people who had never seen one before, but fortunately I had the "worry stone" to demonstrate it's purpose and a sheaf of geological publications in my pocket. The hand-lens goes into the checked baggage now.
Put it into your to-be-put-in-the-hold baggage when you're getting undressed for bed the night before. Problem solved.
I'm trying to think of any occasion that I've flown without checked baggage, ever - and failing. I cannot think of it ever having happened, nor think of a circumstance under which I'd need to do it.
Nope, I can't think of any occasion when I'd not be travelling with hold ("checked" in American English?) baggage. If it's far enough to need to fly - say for a visit to a client - then the 4 hour plus process of getting from my door to the client's door already means that it's worthwhile travelling at civilized hours and overnighting in a hotel. Or, if I go to the national capital, save the hotel cost and spend the night with family nearby ; it saves money and is much nicer. (The regional capital is only 2.5 hours drive away - drive, or take the train. There's only one client based there though.) When I'm holidaying, I've got the walking kit in a rucksac in the hold - and cameras and laptop with me in the cabin. When I'm off to a work site, it's for weeks, and I've got my work equipment in the hold. All cases covered ; I can't see how or why I'd ever be flying without something in the hold.
That is a plausible excuse, but of course that would also impact the production of other similar drugs, depending on exactly which raw material it is which is in short supply. So, which other drugs are also implicated in this shortage. Seeing that doxycycline is a member of a large family of related drugs (the tetracycline antibiotics), then presumably some of those are also in short supply.
I hadn't actually heard of any shortage of this drug, but since we've got a health service, I don't need to worry about this myself. But if it concerns you, feel free to explore the credibility of the drug companies excuse as far as you want.
Agreed. So I've stopped using it. Haven't deleted the account, yet, but I have stopped logging in.
IF, and only if, you want to have all your personal information in one easy-to-access place, where pretty much anyone can get hold of it. Which I don't particularly want to do. So I don't think that I will.
What you need to do (and what I did when I had to get a VHS player to play Open University course materials), is to disable the equipment capable of "receiving and decoding" the TV signals. I achieved that by opening up the UHF amplifier (the bit in the silvery pre-fabricated box on the circuit box) and shorting the inner and outer contacts of the RCA connector together with a soldered wire.
When the burglars took that VHS player and fenced it, I'm told that they got a punch in the face from the fence when his customer returned the (allegedly) broken player because it didn't receive TV. Which pleased me greatly, though I didn't find out until several years later.
Of course, it's possible that the law has changed since I had to work around it's edges ; but I haven't heard of any significant changes since they abolished the Radio Licence back in the early 1970s. Oh, this site is interesting. For certain, small, values of "interesting".
And the fact that "most people" would, indeed do, do that, makes them right ... just how?
FYI, I did spend over a decade not paying the licence fee, and regularly laughing in the face of the collectors wanting to get into the house (why did they always come round on rainy winter evenings? Fools!), and I do know the law concerning the question. I didn't pay the licence fee because I didn't have a TV (I still don't particularly want one, but the wife does). And I did request the BBC to bill me for a radio reception licence, which they refused to do.
They don't need to - they sold that bucket of horse shit to some idiot in California several years ago.
... that would really grab the attention of a banker. If anyone likes a good, solid, unbreakable encryption scheme more than a terrorist, it's a banker. For much the same reasons. Which makes one wonder.
You must be new here.
It's A first step. If (and only if) you are really sure that your several years of previous study of the matter have convinced you that further study is irrelevant ... taking over a year to get a handle on spherical geometry (for optical analysis) ... Some subjects are not (absolutely) easy.
I recall
Oh, Feynman was saying that you can proceed from a guess if you have absolutely no other idea. But that's not all that he said for an idea from whose basis you had a way to proceed.
You can accept that basis, and destroy it ; or you can accept it, examine it, and then follow it to the point where it proves that Red is Green ... and realise that it is not connected to the real world. And then you can go on to guessing. But you can't guess without doing the necessary leg-work first.
But go on ; you make your silly propositions in the name of a respected physicist ... and I have a sad suspicion ... that you'll win.
Taking "agreement" to mean "contract" (as it certainly does in my country), then why is the contract unenforceable without going to court? You complain to the other party that the contract is not being followed ; they either disagree (more complex) or agree, and start to correct their actions.
You're not suggesting that the "rampant piracy" model of business ethics is still prevalent in the home of ethical capitalist business, America. Or do you consider the concept of "ethical capitalist business" to be self contradictory? (I don't ; quite. But it takes unusual people, by the shipload, to achieve it.)
I think that you're looking at the polytomy (multi-way : "cutting" = "-tomy") from the wrong end of the telescope. To you, *their* (God-Squaddies, etc) opinion is one of conflicting opinions, and *they* need to work for *your* attention ; but to *them*, *your* opinion (not agreeing with them, to the level of your children's sexual availability to senior church members) is an indication that *you* are already dead beyond redemption, and that *you* need to agree with *them* better to be worthy of attention and possible redemption (and taxation).
Now that you've got that, you see why your opinion is unimportant compared to theirs.
(I may be doing an injustice to some "God-Squaddies" of your acquaintance ; some of them may not be baby-buggerers. But I doubt that I'm significantly wrong.)
I just bet that you've got better shoes to-hand than I have. (I left home expecting a day in aeroplanes and airports, followed by a hotel, and then back to the air travel ; which is why I left home in slippers. My rational expectations have been broken.)
What sort of a saddle do you use for your gnu? Or "wildebeest", if you want the Afrikaans name. Or is it one of those "rope-over-the-horns hang-on-like-grim-death long-whip-for-poor steering" sort of "travel"?
Sorry : alternative model : long stick, string, carrot and much more gentle, "ambling" style of travel?
The concept of "savage-ness" can only apply to the last two of your list. The others have no volition (or in the "communicable disease" threat category, no known method of communicating anything like "volition" from one victim to a contemporaneous victim [within one victim, chemical communication between members of the same plague species is not incredible, if not {clearly} demonstrated]), and so volitional terms are not appropriate.
Yes, I do get pissed off with descriptions of "treacherous storms" too. Heavy weather with 20+m waves is within my job description. It's no surprise to me. It's not a violation of any previous contract, treaty or "compact" ; I expect it from "weather", on the basis of snow storms, hypothermia, and near-death experiences. Natural forces will do what they are going to do, with no input from humans living on the surface like a skin disease. (Yes ; I do know about fluid-injection related earthquakes and mud volcanoes ; these are thoughtless (literally, not figuratively) responses to human actions, like planes falling out of the sky if they lose their engines as gravity "maliciously" continues to operate in the same way it did the preceding decade.)
Please, don't impute "agency" to forces that act without intellect or thought. They're events, or possibly responses. It's an open debate if a tiger eating a zoo-keeper is an act of volition or a response to instinct ; it's not a matter of (rational) debate if someone gets killed by an impacting meteorite (or has a bent car) "because" of the malevolent intent of the lump of interplanetary rock.
You know, while I consider churches in general to be a bad idea, that's one of the better ideas for reforming the existing ones that I've heard. I wish you well in your short remaining life, before being torn to shreds by people whose corruption you've threatened. Carry cyanide pills!
FTFY Remember, God is a she, and She hasn't come for several millennia, so you can guess what Her mood will be when She arrives.
(And as an Ordained Minister of the Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, I shall greet Her with a rolled spliff, a lighter, and a selection of "ripped" studs ; we're more considerate that way than most Tree-Nailees and Clit-Cutters. Volunteers are invited.)
One of these days, I'm going to provoke a Femen activist to make a joke on there being a "member" in "re:member". More productive than arguing with God-Squaddies.
Looking back on some of the "fox hole" experiences of my life, so far (being attacked by gangs in bars ; equipment failures while diving in overhead environments ; helicopter engines dripping oil into the passenger cabin while miles out to sea ; just the usual joys of life), reduced reaction time (and slower thinking) is not generally conducive to survival.
But hey, your mileage may vary ; I've been asked to submit my CV for work onshore in Somalia ; would you want to join up too ; your technical qualifications are unimportant as long as I can either out-run you, or leave you looking for a (flash-)light while I crawl away through a cess pit.
Why do you think that this is a characteristic only of American companies ; or indeed, only of telecommunications companies?
Technically easy, yes ; but it still takes time and costs money to drill holes and pull cables (fibre optic or copper, they're the same in this respect) gently (!) through wall channels and conduits. As I said up-thread, retro-removal is surprisingly expensive, and so is retrofitting ; every single case need to have an economic case made for it (I've had to prepare spreadsheets estimating man-hours and materials costs to try to justify costs to my Boss. Same Boss, two different employers.)
We moved house recently ; I've put in wireless for the wife, and am building a wired network into my "den" room. I can't justify the hassle of routing cables through walls, though if the wife insists on moving the TV (and it's links to the satellite dish), then in that process I may decide to pull cables. But I'll wait until she has actually decided exactly what she wants (and I've drawn up plans, and she's changed her mind, and I've re-drawn the plans ; lather rinse and repeat several times until she gets sick of the treadmill) before lifting a single drill bit out of the tool box.
FTFY
Wireless, in my working environment (which is my living environment too, for about half the time ; I fly 400 miles to work this afternoon) is for recreational use ; wired is for shipboard services and for the client's data.
OK, we do have to use a wireless link between the vessel, the satellite, and the ground station. I don't know (or care) if the shipboard services level of the network is encrypted, but the client's VPN that sits on top of it always is, IME.
Our usual joy is when a crane booms a load through the line of sight from the comms dome to the satellite.
I don't see a "need" for a sequel either ; I've always considered Blade Runner to be one of the best films I've ever seen, and there are definitely times when milking the dead horse by making a sequel is only worthwhile for the filthy lucre.
Having seen the piece of shit that was 'Prometheus", I fear so too. Can I have 2.5 hours of my life back?
Well ... for certain meanings of "full swing". OTOH, the animal bones found at Gobekli Tepe and Catalhoyuk seem mostly to have been hunted wild animals, rather than "domesticated". Again, for certain values of "domesticated". The simple process of culling part of the population of a wild herd is going to have an effect on the genetic structure of the population. We're seeing precisely the same sort of changes in the red deer population here in Scotland as hunting practices change, without close control of the breeding of the animals. Same has been recently reported for elephants over the last century or so, with a rapid reduction in tusk size, simply because of the selection (culling) of "tuskers" form the 1880s (-ish) onwards.
"Certainly" ? Dangerous word that. "Probably", and with a qualification about not carrying out a full crop cycle, is about as far as I'd go.
It wasn't too hard to find the reference to the article, or indeed access to the figures and tables from Elsevier's website. I'm still hoping to get the as-published PDF from the author to whom the claim is attributed, so that I can examine their dating evidence.
Hmmm, well, I've got friends who've been travelling in PNG (cave exploration) for over 30 years, and I've been as far as interview (for oil exploration work) there too, so possibly I've been paying slightly closer attention to the country than most non-PNGians. I'm not terribly surprised.
If, as I suspect, the actual claim in the published paper is of evidence for 25kyr BP processing of "gathered" plant material, rather than necessarily it's cultivation, then this would be evidence for the indigenous development of agriculture in the area, as opposed to the introduction of an agricultural system from elsewhere, followed by substitution of appropriate local plants, which is what happened with the introduction of "Fertile Crescent" agriculture into Europe and Britain, and from there it's transfer to America.