Smartphones include geotagging features that many people aren't aware of,
In other news... people who buy complex devices and DON'T Read The Friendly Manual, From Cover To Cover, Twice... get bitten in their shiny metal asses. Big fucking deal.
That's a heck of a boyfriend - one who will go along with being known as a dumb louse who knocked up a teenager,
I note that TFS makes no assertion that he "pretended" to have dumped her, or to be denying that he was the father. Also, not knowing what the laws in the state in question are, there's no indication that he was accused of (let alone convicted of) a crime, so presumably the girl in question is over 14? ("senior" year isn't terribly informative if you don't know which country they're in, or which laws apply)
for a whole school year
I think TFS said 6 months, not a whole year - which would be 10+ months here, and would raise certain problems.
But overall, yes, that's a canny idea. Well done that girl!
It may come as a surprise to you, but there are quite good synthetic leather substitutes on the market. Certainly the better (i.e., not the cheapest) ones are better in terms of durability, flexibility, moisture and odour transmission (outwards, generally) than cheap-and-nasty leather.
If I still followed vegan principles (I still accept their logic ; I simply got ground down by the illegitimi), then I'd continue using them. The materials are perfectly good for town shoes, and I'd consider looking at them for 3-season mountain boots. (Plastic shell double boots replaced leather boots for serious 4-season work in my youth.)
The bottom end of the market was long ago left behind for poor quality materials, whether leather or non-leather.
I have found the IMSLP to be a very useful source [SNIP]. I just don't understand what there can be to argue about?
To quote from the front page of their site:
We at the IMSLP believe that music should be something that is easily accessible for everyone.
You will notice the lack of express or concealed profit motive there ; to some people, music without a financial profit being made is a crime on a par with baby buggery.
Not being a grammar nit ; I didn't understand what you were trying to say (which is the purpose of the exercise).
It's hell living in a democracy with respect for the rule of law when the people coming to dominate the population don't respect democracy or the rule of law.
Most of the Muslims that I've lived and worked with have a higher opinion of and adherence to the law compared to the (nominal) Christians. They may differ in their opinions of what the law should be (e.g., many think that alcohol should be banned outright, while "Smoking, Meh!"), but they are taking steps to ensure that they become the democratic majority. So that's all right then.
I wonder what a native American ("Indian", "Aztec", "Inca", whatever) makes of this angst. If they were laughing out loud, I wouldn't blame them for a second.
As monty python would put it, Among the many requirements for arable land, these include Water, soil, nutrients, a lack of plant poisons.
[Grammar nit : Monty Python is a proper noun. >G<]
Chloride, as in "half of sodium chloride" is an essential plant nutrient ; too much is a poison. Sulphur (typically as sulphate), ditto. As Paracelsus commented centuries ago, it's the dose that matters. You seem to have got the message (more than most people) that "soil" is a lot more complex than "dirt" ; I had a reasonable inkling about that as a kid (Dad's always been a keen botanist, as well as a chemist ; and we both knew that soil isn't just chemistry), and I spent 1/4 of an academic year at university putting some formal flesh onto the bones of that knowledge. Soil is complex stuff.
Your Google cite is probably right that salinization is an increasing problem. But that doesn't mean that it's inevitable. It isn't rocket science to avoid, and it is possible to rectify partial salinization in a relatively short time (only decades). But it does require reducing agricultural loading of the soil (lower yields) and it takes time, which probably explains why, as pressures on agriculture increase, it's becoming (Google asserts, and I'm happy to accept) more common.
"Violent agreement", indeed.
I think (not that I've studied it in any depth, just taking a normal citizen's interest in neighbourhood affairs) that you'll find that China's largest single cause of arable land loss is desertification in the West, in large part driven literally by wind erosion, and more distally by deforestation. Of course, China not being a democracy, they do have centrally mandated plans and processes to plant large areas of new forest, managed grasslands, etc to try to control the erosion and actually return some of that land to usability in due course. It's a genuine question whether they've done enough, quickly enough. And they probably have ridden rough-shod over many people's human rights in the areas they're trying to re-forest/ restore. Which they'd counter with concerns about the human right of their future citizens to not starve.
There are also genuine concerns about the silt-trapping consequences of the "Three Gorges" dam project on the Yangtze. That's will have effects downstream. You can question whether the Chinese have reckoned these correctly, but you can't claim that they have been (literally) reckless.
I wonder when someone will publish a "Surviving The Police State For Dummies" how-to book.
I wonder when the author and publisher of the planned "STPS4D" book are going to regain consciousness wearing concrete boots standing neck-deep in the sea at low tide?
Around here auto shops sell a small piece of metal that looks like
... a device designed and manufactured to circumvent the detection of crime. That's "conspiracy" between designer, manufacturer, seller and purchaser ; in addition to the punishment for the conspiracy, expect all of the above to be in court. The cars involved could well be seized for destruction. There's every possibility that the insurance companies would regard this as an unsupported modification of the vehicle, which could leave you facing charges for driving without insurance.
It looks like a simple technical fix ; I wouldn't want to be the first person to get caught with one.
(The same arguments go against the various modifications to font, size and space on the number plate, reflective paints, and all other devices to make reading the number plate more difficult. Specific devices aren't banned ; the entire class of devices is banned.)
Since they're both German-designed cars (I don't know if they have assembly plants in the US, not that it really matters.), that's a choice of metric or metric. Hell, even the last "American" car that I had (a Ford, probably from retard-land Essex) was metric.
Got a better example? Or was that your point?
(OK ; I've never taken a spanner to either a Beemer or a Merc ; but it's decidedly unlikely that they're imperial. And of course, I don't have any imperial spanners to get confused with, as far as I know.)
In the u.s. the hispanics openly talk about taking back their land for mexico* and are growing their population faster than the native population.
OIC : "out-breed", not "out [... pause...] breed".
In a few years they will have peacefully taken over the land.
The Paisley problem.
(In the Ulster War, one of the problems that Paisley (father and son) have been having is that the population has steadily been shifting towards being majority-Catholic instead of majority-Protestant, which would have then undermined their entire moral case for resisting Unification. (Of course, unification still wouldn't have happened ; the Irish had long since told the Ulster people that "WE do not want YOU". And the whole question is becoming moot with the expansion of Europe.)
In Europe islamic immigrants are breeding much faster than the natives.
An assertion often made, but I'm not aware of it being formally considered an issue.
You could see an islamic europe in 50 years without a shot being fired.
It's hell living in a democracy, isn't it?
I can't see how my children and grandchildren won't suffer. But there isn't anything we can do about it.
Oh, you've had children? Oh well, your choice ; your children's suffering is the consequence of your choices.
Water isn't the only basis for arable land.
Huh? [/self : looks through a year of "Soil Science" notes ;/self repeats "Huh?"]
As we use the land harder, it becomes poisoned with mineral salts and well salt. It needs time to rest- it needs rainwater irrigation to clean it. Good land is like a fully charged battery and we've been discharging it too fast for a couple hundred years now.
Ah, salt poisoning. Well, yes, if you overdo the irrigation, then you can certainly screw the soil. Well established, thanks to Nebchadezzar et al, (-800). So you don't over-do the irrigation. But sufficient water remains a necessary prerequisite for agriculture.
My key signed in person at the East Mudville branch of the Bank Of Kentucky
You have banks that would sign PGP keys? But how are the tellers or manager (except in quite uncommon circumstances) going to know you sufficiently well?
is more believable than your typical PGP signature, signed by gawd knows who.
That suggests that you don't have a very high opinion of the typical PGP user.
If I were going to get a PGP key signed, I'd probably start at my local LUG (where people do know who I am). Or I could go to a couple of local politicians I know (from drinking in the same pub as them), who are likely to have PGP keys. I do occasionally swap mails with RMS, but it's unlikely that he'd sign a key for me.
Presumably I could also get someone like Thawte or Canonical or whatever Shuttleworth's certificate signing company is called to sign one for me, for a fee. Is that what you're saying the Bank of Mudsville does?
Like your PGP signature with a somewhat more reliable web of trust than some guy in Slovenia that signed your key.
The guy in Slovenia shouldn't have signed your key unless he knew that the key that he was signing was your key, and that you were who you were claiming to be. The recommendation is that you meet in person (which you're likely to do, since you and Mr Slovenia have regular business together), and do the key signing in each other's presence.
Let me guess... the capes were made (for 13 cents apiece) by a company owned by one of the Bush family?
Sorry, my wife is just watching a random episode of that Scorcese gangster TV series for the first time and is having a job differentiating between the gangsters, the politicians, and the throat-cutting hit-men. I find that weirdly amusing.
Well, you're correct in working that out from the data provided in the summary (or even in TFA ; I'm not bothered to read it).
But, wouldn't it have been quicker to have paid attention to your chemistry teacher when you were 13 or so? Standard enthalpy of formation? Remember? The standard enthalpy of formation of aluminium oxide is about 5 times that of water.
Or alternatively, when you were reading your textbooks on explosive manufacture, you might have noticed the -AL in "Ammonal". You've just worked out why they put the aluminium in the mix.
I don't think water or oil. I think strategic metals or rare earths.
And arable land perhaps.
The arability of land depends very directly on the availability of water. No water? it might as desert.well be stones in the regdesert.
Right now we have this weird "move in and out breed the natives" form of warfare going on.
Umm, Please be clearer. I can see the in/out for Iraq/ Afghanistan (my nephew is there ; fool!) ; Pakistan (as important ; barely addressed) doesn't fit ; Saudi is just an off-the-horizon problem. But the "breed the natives bit?... Please explain.
Yea- I agree nothing will be done in time.
Agreed. I know that my children won't suffer ; I hope yours won't either.
Caesar was able to listen to 3 people giving him reports while he dictated 2 or 3 letters simultaneously to his scribes.
Allegedly. And your source is (probably) the letters that Caeser wrote to the Senate to bolster his position. Yeah, right.
Yes, books from Sokrates or Platon are available, but they more or less write about the result of their thinking, not how they got their mind trained.
Well, that is as good as you're going to get. Unless, of course, you are willing to subject your mind to the ministrations of people who CLAIM to have unique knowledge of past techniques. At which point, I ask for their sources (if they're authentic, they are happy to provide their sources; if they are bullshit-sellers, the sources will cost you everything you can pay, plus a kidney).
however endeavors like Alexander the Greats conquests surely needed lots of planning and preparations.
Ah ; you have studied history. Not.
Lots of stuff at that time was performed by people who had a brilliant memory and could memorize lots of facts without the need to check papers all the time.
I don't have a particularly good memory ; I don't have the contents of X-thousand papers in mind (If I did, I'd have the references to-mind too). But I do have a functionally effective memory - most things I see and do a double-think about, I remember (i.e., if I see it, and think "is that plausible?", I go back, re-read, and remember the event. When I have access to a worthwhile source, I file a copy too).
I find that the process of constructing data stores is, in itself, educational. (It only takes about 19 hours to learn (every day, for a couple of decades ; don't try to hold your breath) ; I don't claim to have an optimal solution.)
Did someone lie to you and give you the impression that "knowledge" is easy? If they did, get over their lie. "Knowledge" is just a first step ; digesting that "knowledge" for people who don't want to do the RTFM is another step ; putting it into action is another complete Marathon!
In the US, at least, we as a society have become much more divisive, and no amount of technology is going to reflect differently.
Fuck you, asshole, who the fuck are you to call us divisive?
A more important question, you deranged fucking Septic dumbfuck, is why the fuck should a Brit like TBL give a flying multi-coloured shit about the society of the US. Unlike most of you, he's got the option of leaving - he's got a passport and somewhere that would accept him.
is it safe to use the microwave for food after zapping CDs, or could there be chemicals in there you don't want in your food? Do you need to have a separate microwave for trashing electronics?
Reasonable question. It's been a while since I burned a disc (and longer since I felt a need to nuke a disc), but the smell is pretty offensive. Even if the fumes are harmless, the smell is an adequate reason.
If I wanted to do it again, I'd probably put the CD inside a disposable (e.g. takeaway food) container which seals loosely and will provide a surface for any nasty chemicals to condense onto. Cup of water too, of course.
I don't know if it would work with the CD immersed in the water - feel free to experiment.
Yes I'm sure you've very happy with yourself that you avoided one hazard when choosing a location.
It is only rational.
but just also make sure to avoid anywhere near the ocean at all in case of tsunamis
Not necessary, and your parodying tone suggests that you know that you're shooting your own argument in the foot.
You only need to be sufficiently far above/ inland from the normal coast to reduce the likelihood of experiencing direct problems to the (literally) astronomical. At the moment, we don't have any technologies for deflecting an incoming asteroid (in the continent-wiper size range), so the approximate 1 in 100k/year (very approximate) probability level is a suitable baseline.
In my region, that means being more than a km inland and more than 50m amsl, this being the approximate run-up of the tsunami from the Storegga Slide of 9ka BP. Our current house is at 80m amsl (but you could have predicted that).
and any cities over fault lines
Errr, fault lines that have significant activity on-going. I've spent plenty of time in Inverness (Great Glen Fault ; killed someone with an earthquake in about 1835, so passes the astronomical criterion), which is about the biggest surface-expression fault in the country. But I've no real worries about holidaying or working in "active" areas, because the duration of holiday/ work is low enough to dilute the increased risk to acceptable levels.
and anywhere in Tornado Alley
Why would I want to go to America ; it's full of dangerous nutters with guns and on it's own this raises the risk level sufficiently.
and anywhere which often experiences hurricanes and anywhere that has or could have problems with wildfires
They'd be in or near the tropics ; pay me and I'll go there, but I won't go of my own volition, it's too hot. Probability between 0.5 and 1.0, which exceeds the ~10^-5 criterion.
and anywhere bellow cliffs or steep hillsides in case of landslides or avalanches
I take care around cliffs etc (I'm a geologist by trade, and a mountaineer by hobby) because I've been on the receiving end of rockfall, and attended funerals because of rockfall. I've no illusions about what gravity can do to rocks.
and anywhere near an active or dormant volcano
Fine for holiday (we're just back from Tenerife ; last year we were on Santorini ; I'm pushing for Etna next year because it's cheaper than Iceland) ; not for living. In the order of 100,000 people died last century because they lived too close to volcanoes for too long.
BTW, as a geologist, I treat the concept "dormant volcano" as a piece of real-estate marketing speak ; i.e. it's a lie. If something is visible as a volcano, then it's likely enough to be active. Treat with care.
and anywhere near deep lakes in case of limnic eruptions
Ah, you're clearly not any sort of earth scientist, are you?
and anywhere which experiences serious dust storms
Shit : not given.
and anywhere which experiences extreme cold
My wife spent a decade and a half living and working in Siberia (the pension benefits are better), and I've visited there in winter while courting her ; "extreme cold" is a manageable risk. As I said, I'm a mountaineer for fun.
and anywhere where the land is unstable and might have large sinkholes.
Again, read your geology text books. I cave for fun.
Actually, I have an ongoing conversation with a South African speleologist about a technique for detection of subsurface cave from (potentially) ground level or even a
But I realize I can not think. [...] I believe in our time we only have self made geniuses and only very few still have this ancient knowledge.
Well, there's a commendable lack of bombast and self-(over-)inflation in there ; which almost certainly makes the statement as a whole self-contradictory. (It would also probably mark you as clinically depressed in America ; but that's America's problem, not yours.)
Regarding "ancient knowledge"... even a fairly cursory examination of the question reveals that there are plenty of manuals on how to think still in publication, ranging from Greek philosophers to the groaning shelves at your local airport.
So... hie yourself to the self-improvement section of the library. Or sign up for a course in relevant subjects at your local night school or correspondence university.
One of my abiding regrets about my choice of courses for my degree is that I declined "History and Philosophy of Science" for "Soil Science" (or "Computing 2.1.2" ; it's all timetable slots) ; from my friends who took it (from Christine the Shrink to Mad Fionnlaigh), it would probably have covered some of the areas you express interest in.
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In other news ... people who buy complex devices and DON'T Read The Friendly Manual, From Cover To Cover, Twice ... get bitten in their shiny metal asses. Big fucking deal.
I note that TFS makes no assertion that he "pretended" to have dumped her, or to be denying that he was the father. Also, not knowing what the laws in the state in question are, there's no indication that he was accused of (let alone convicted of) a crime, so presumably the girl in question is over 14? ("senior" year isn't terribly informative if you don't know which country they're in, or which laws apply)
I think TFS said 6 months, not a whole year - which would be 10+ months here, and would raise certain problems.
But overall, yes, that's a canny idea. Well done that girl!
If I still followed vegan principles (I still accept their logic ; I simply got ground down by the illegitimi), then I'd continue using them. The materials are perfectly good for town shoes, and I'd consider looking at them for 3-season mountain boots. (Plastic shell double boots replaced leather boots for serious 4-season work in my youth.)
The bottom end of the market was long ago left behind for poor quality materials, whether leather or non-leather.
To quote from the front page of their site :
You will notice the lack of express or concealed profit motive there ; to some people, music without a financial profit being made is a crime on a par with baby buggery.
"similar" meaning the porn-robot industry?
It is, however, better than being dead, which was the previous option (I cite a classmate and former colleague whose face got melted in a car crash.)
Most of the Muslims that I've lived and worked with have a higher opinion of and adherence to the law compared to the (nominal) Christians. They may differ in their opinions of what the law should be (e.g., many think that alcohol should be banned outright, while "Smoking, Meh!"), but they are taking steps to ensure that they become the democratic majority. So that's all right then.
I wonder what a native American ("Indian", "Aztec", "Inca", whatever) makes of this angst. If they were laughing out loud, I wouldn't blame them for a second.
[Grammar nit : Monty Python is a proper noun. >G<] Chloride, as in "half of sodium chloride" is an essential plant nutrient ; too much is a poison. Sulphur (typically as sulphate), ditto. As Paracelsus commented centuries ago, it's the dose that matters. You seem to have got the message (more than most people) that "soil" is a lot more complex than "dirt" ; I had a reasonable inkling about that as a kid (Dad's always been a keen botanist, as well as a chemist ; and we both knew that soil isn't just chemistry), and I spent 1/4 of an academic year at university putting some formal flesh onto the bones of that knowledge. Soil is complex stuff.
Your Google cite is probably right that salinization is an increasing problem. But that doesn't mean that it's inevitable. It isn't rocket science to avoid, and it is possible to rectify partial salinization in a relatively short time (only decades). But it does require reducing agricultural loading of the soil (lower yields) and it takes time, which probably explains why, as pressures on agriculture increase, it's becoming (Google asserts, and I'm happy to accept) more common.
"Violent agreement", indeed.
I think (not that I've studied it in any depth, just taking a normal citizen's interest in neighbourhood affairs) that you'll find that China's largest single cause of arable land loss is desertification in the West, in large part driven literally by wind erosion, and more distally by deforestation. Of course, China not being a democracy, they do have centrally mandated plans and processes to plant large areas of new forest, managed grasslands, etc to try to control the erosion and actually return some of that land to usability in due course. It's a genuine question whether they've done enough, quickly enough. And they probably have ridden rough-shod over many people's human rights in the areas they're trying to re-forest/ restore. Which they'd counter with concerns about the human right of their future citizens to not starve.
There are also genuine concerns about the silt-trapping consequences of the "Three Gorges" dam project on the Yangtze. That's will have effects downstream. You can question whether the Chinese have reckoned these correctly, but you can't claim that they have been (literally) reckless.
I wonder when the author and publisher of the planned "STPS4D" book are going to regain consciousness wearing concrete boots standing neck-deep in the sea at low tide?
"Clearly a double suicide."
... a device designed and manufactured to circumvent the detection of crime. That's "conspiracy" between designer, manufacturer, seller and purchaser ; in addition to the punishment for the conspiracy, expect all of the above to be in court. The cars involved could well be seized for destruction. There's every possibility that the insurance companies would regard this as an unsupported modification of the vehicle, which could leave you facing charges for driving without insurance.
It looks like a simple technical fix ; I wouldn't want to be the first person to get caught with one.
(The same arguments go against the various modifications to font, size and space on the number plate, reflective paints, and all other devices to make reading the number plate more difficult. Specific devices aren't banned ; the entire class of devices is banned.)
Laws in our country may vary.
Since they're both German-designed cars (I don't know if they have assembly plants in the US, not that it really matters.), that's a choice of metric or metric. Hell, even the last "American" car that I had (a Ford, probably from retard-land Essex) was metric.
Got a better example? Or was that your point?
(OK ; I've never taken a spanner to either a Beemer or a Merc ; but it's decidedly unlikely that they're imperial. And of course, I don't have any imperial spanners to get confused with, as far as I know.)
OIC : "out-breed", not "out [... pause ...] breed".
The Paisley problem.
(In the Ulster War, one of the problems that Paisley (father and son) have been having is that the population has steadily been shifting towards being majority-Catholic instead of majority-Protestant, which would have then undermined their entire moral case for resisting Unification. (Of course, unification still wouldn't have happened ; the Irish had long since told the Ulster people that "WE do not want YOU". And the whole question is becoming moot with the expansion of Europe.)
An assertion often made, but I'm not aware of it being formally considered an issue.
It's hell living in a democracy, isn't it?
Oh, you've had children? Oh well, your choice ; your children's suffering is the consequence of your choices.
Huh? [/self : looks through a year of "Soil Science" notes ; /self repeats "Huh?"]
Ah, salt poisoning. Well, yes, if you overdo the irrigation, then you can certainly screw the soil. Well established, thanks to Nebchadezzar et al, (-800). So you don't over-do the irrigation. But sufficient water remains a necessary prerequisite for agriculture.
You have banks that would sign PGP keys? But how are the tellers or manager (except in quite uncommon circumstances) going to know you sufficiently well?
That suggests that you don't have a very high opinion of the typical PGP user.
If I were going to get a PGP key signed, I'd probably start at my local LUG (where people do know who I am). Or I could go to a couple of local politicians I know (from drinking in the same pub as them), who are likely to have PGP keys. I do occasionally swap mails with RMS, but it's unlikely that he'd sign a key for me.
Presumably I could also get someone like Thawte or Canonical or whatever Shuttleworth's certificate signing company is called to sign one for me, for a fee. Is that what you're saying the Bank of Mudsville does?
The guy in Slovenia shouldn't have signed your key unless he knew that the key that he was signing was your key, and that you were who you were claiming to be. The recommendation is that you meet in person (which you're likely to do, since you and Mr Slovenia have regular business together), and do the key signing in each other's presence.
Let me guess ... the capes were made (for 13 cents apiece) by a company owned by one of the Bush family?
Sorry, my wife is just watching a random episode of that Scorcese gangster TV series for the first time and is having a job differentiating between the gangsters, the politicians, and the throat-cutting hit-men. I find that weirdly amusing.
It must be true ; I saw it on Slashdot a couple of months ago.
Huh? Missing word?
Because most people are lazy and foolish.
Sorry to disillusion you.
Santa doesn't exist either, and the Tooth Fairy was one or both of your parents.
Well, you're correct in working that out from the data provided in the summary (or even in TFA ; I'm not bothered to read it).
But, wouldn't it have been quicker to have paid attention to your chemistry teacher when you were 13 or so? Standard enthalpy of formation? Remember? The standard enthalpy of formation of aluminium oxide is about 5 times that of water.
Or alternatively, when you were reading your textbooks on explosive manufacture, you might have noticed the -AL in "Ammonal". You've just worked out why they put the aluminium in the mix.
The arability of land depends very directly on the availability of water. No water? it might as desert.well be stones in the regdesert.
Umm, Please be clearer. I can see the in/out for Iraq/ Afghanistan (my nephew is there ; fool!) ; Pakistan (as important ; barely addressed) doesn't fit ; Saudi is just an off-the-horizon problem. But the "breed the natives bit? ... Please explain.
Agreed. I know that my children won't suffer ; I hope yours won't either.
Allegedly. And your source is (probably) the letters that Caeser wrote to the Senate to bolster his position. Yeah, right.
Well, that is as good as you're going to get. Unless, of course, you are willing to subject your mind to the ministrations of people who CLAIM to have unique knowledge of past techniques. At which point, I ask for their sources (if they're authentic, they are happy to provide their sources; if they are bullshit-sellers, the sources will cost you everything you can pay, plus a kidney).
Ah ; you have studied history. Not.
I don't have a particularly good memory ; I don't have the contents of X-thousand papers in mind (If I did, I'd have the references to-mind too). But I do have a functionally effective memory - most things I see and do a double-think about, I remember (i.e., if I see it, and think "is that plausible?", I go back, re-read, and remember the event. When I have access to a worthwhile source, I file a copy too).
I find that the process of constructing data stores is, in itself, educational. (It only takes about 19 hours to learn (every day, for a couple of decades ; don't try to hold your breath) ; I don't claim to have an optimal solution.)
Did someone lie to you and give you the impression that "knowledge" is easy? If they did, get over their lie. "Knowledge" is just a first step ; digesting that "knowledge" for people who don't want to do the RTFM is another step ; putting it into action is another complete Marathon!
And by this point, you're barely a teacher.
Subject says it all.
A more important question, you deranged fucking Septic dumbfuck, is why the fuck should a Brit like TBL give a flying multi-coloured shit about the society of the US. Unlike most of you, he's got the option of leaving - he's got a passport and somewhere that would accept him.
Reasonable question. It's been a while since I burned a disc (and longer since I felt a need to nuke a disc), but the smell is pretty offensive. Even if the fumes are harmless, the smell is an adequate reason.
If I wanted to do it again, I'd probably put the CD inside a disposable (e.g. takeaway food) container which seals loosely and will provide a surface for any nasty chemicals to condense onto. Cup of water too, of course.
I don't know if it would work with the CD immersed in the water - feel free to experiment.
Allegedly (this is a foreign issue ; I've not wasted my time by RTFA).
Plausible ; not proven, but plausible.
So ... you get a phone from a non-American manufacturer. You guys have GSM over there, don't you?
When the customs/ police start seizing imported phones ... then you know that they've noticed you.
It is only rational.
Not necessary, and your parodying tone suggests that you know that you're shooting your own argument in the foot.
You only need to be sufficiently far above/ inland from the normal coast to reduce the likelihood of experiencing direct problems to the (literally) astronomical. At the moment, we don't have any technologies for deflecting an incoming asteroid (in the continent-wiper size range), so the approximate 1 in 100k/year (very approximate) probability level is a suitable baseline.
In my region, that means being more than a km inland and more than 50m amsl, this being the approximate run-up of the tsunami from the Storegga Slide of 9ka BP. Our current house is at 80m amsl (but you could have predicted that).
Errr, fault lines that have significant activity on-going. I've spent plenty of time in Inverness (Great Glen Fault ; killed someone with an earthquake in about 1835, so passes the astronomical criterion), which is about the biggest surface-expression fault in the country. But I've no real worries about holidaying or working in "active" areas, because the duration of holiday/ work is low enough to dilute the increased risk to acceptable levels.
Why would I want to go to America ; it's full of dangerous nutters with guns and on it's own this raises the risk level sufficiently.
They'd be in or near the tropics ; pay me and I'll go there, but I won't go of my own volition, it's too hot. Probability between 0.5 and 1.0, which exceeds the ~10^-5 criterion.
I take care around cliffs etc (I'm a geologist by trade, and a mountaineer by hobby) because I've been on the receiving end of rockfall, and attended funerals because of rockfall. I've no illusions about what gravity can do to rocks.
Fine for holiday (we're just back from Tenerife ; last year we were on Santorini ; I'm pushing for Etna next year because it's cheaper than Iceland) ; not for living. In the order of 100,000 people died last century because they lived too close to volcanoes for too long.
BTW, as a geologist, I treat the concept "dormant volcano" as a piece of real-estate marketing speak ; i.e. it's a lie. If something is visible as a volcano, then it's likely enough to be active. Treat with care.
Ah, you're clearly not any sort of earth scientist, are you?
Shit : not given.
My wife spent a decade and a half living and working in Siberia (the pension benefits are better), and I've visited there in winter while courting her ; "extreme cold" is a manageable risk. As I said, I'm a mountaineer for fun.
Again, read your geology text books. I cave for fun.
Actually, I have an ongoing conversation with a South African speleologist about a technique for detection of subsurface cave from (potentially) ground level or even a
I think you mean "positing" a problem. But that's English, not Information Theory.
Hmm. Yes. [#insert The Argument Sketch.]
You're the one who's been proposing a walled garden. Which probably says more about your fears than about what I wrote.
Well, there's a commendable lack of bombast and self-(over-)inflation in there ; which almost certainly makes the statement as a whole self-contradictory. (It would also probably mark you as clinically depressed in America ; but that's America's problem, not yours.)
Regarding "ancient knowledge" ... even a fairly cursory examination of the question reveals that there are plenty of manuals on how to think still in publication, ranging from Greek philosophers to the groaning shelves at your local airport.
So ... hie yourself to the self-improvement section of the library. Or sign up for a course in relevant subjects at your local night school or correspondence university.
One of my abiding regrets about my choice of courses for my degree is that I declined "History and Philosophy of Science" for "Soil Science" (or "Computing 2.1.2" ; it's all timetable slots) ; from my friends who took it (from Christine the Shrink to Mad Fionnlaigh), it would probably have covered some of the areas you express interest in.