Good people, I'm so happy you're all here tonight, but please, just a few words of caution. Now we are going to set this pile of evil ablaze, but because these are children's toys, the fire will spread quickly. So please stand back and try not to inhale the toxic fumes...
How is that any different than the people that refused to sit on the back of a bus in the south during the 60's?
You mean Rosa Parks, who was sitting in the back of the bus? She did not sit in the white section, and did not sit in the front of the bus. How can we take your statements seriously when your 60s references are incorrect.
I'll just go ahead and quote Wikipedia for you: "Near the middle of the bus, her row was directly behind the ten seats reserved for white passengers."
Secondly, she is not the only person who failed to follow orders on the bus. Hers is just the most famous example. There are examples of people who did not sit in the colored section at all.
The difference is that in the first case this are county officials who refuse to do their duty. When in function they are to abide by the law, plain and simple. If they do not, they ought to be fired, just like any employee will be fired if they openly refuse to follow orders by their boss.
If such a county official thinks the law is not just, they should still fulfil their duties under that law, in this case providing the information. And after that they may go on TV or whatever, still in function, and say that they do not agree with these regulations and that they will work hard to have the law changed.
The second case is private citizens not abiding by the law, and by breaking it openly try to draw attention to this issue.
So you're saying that people cannot stand for what is right in an official capacity? I can tell you right now that I would gladly be fired than to do something that I felt was dangerous to others, immoral, or unjust (of course, I don't have a family so I can be more risky). They claim they do not want to release the information because it puts people in danger. They are well within their rights to withhold the information. They are not immune from the consequences, however. They could very well end up in jail, or could be fired. That's their choice. It's not like they are secretly and quietly denying a Freedom of Information Act request. They are openly denying it, and stating their case. I have no doubt in my mind that if the Supreme Court rules that they must release the information, they will do so. I will gladly take some official openly defying the law over someone who does everything they are told to do without thought or consideration. This is not like a corporation at all. It is not their boss saying "Make 100 widgets before the end of business."
What's funny to me is the same people who want guns based on an amendment to the constitution so they can change the government if it's ever needed... are the same people who get furious at people who want to stop people from getting the government to make change.
Pro-Gun: "I need a gun in case I ever need to protest against my government and change the laws."
Anti-Gun: "I want to peacefully get my government to change the laws."
Pro-Gun: "You are anti American."
From an outsiders perspective it seems all the people who are pro guns want to use them to stop people from making the changes that are exactly the reason they say they need to have them. It seems like just pure insanity.
I would say that they are calling them anti-american because the 2nd amendment to the constitution expressly allows people to own guns. If they want to change that, they are going to have to pass a constitutional amendment. Not that name calling is mature, by any means. I've never heard of an anti-gun politician calling for a constitutional amendment, however. In fact the queen of gun control herself, Dianne Feinstein, has a concealed weapons permit. They are almost impossible to get in California, too, unless you live in specific counties. I would consider her desire to disarm her constituents to be very hypocritical.
The fact that Venezuela has a president who was arrested and convicted of a failed military coup in the 90's just goes to show how messed up their political system is.
Huh? The USA started out with a revolution.
Their constitution hasn't changed since he tried to overthrown the government. At least not before he had them change the constitution to allow his multiple re-elections. What kind of system allows criminals to hold such high and important offices?
You would not be able to run a military coup in the US and then run for president later, when it failed. In fact, a military coup is entirely different than a revolution of the people, in the first place.
Anyone else read the arrogant comment attributed to some unnamed source at Intel, stating that Intel was frustrated with "everyone doing a half-assed Google TV so it's going to do it themselves and do it right." ?
So, not surprisingly, Intel has now run into "delays" in securing agreements with content providers (in this case, the word "delay" means a quantity of time as large as forever). Why on earth would Intel believe that they have the consumer electronics clout to pull this off where Apple and Google continue to fail?
And who in their right mind at Intel decided to blast the media with their arrogant claims before they actually secured the elusive content agreements? Are they this completely incompetent as to think that Internet TV has anything at all to do with their fabulous semiconductor technology, instead of realizing it has everything to do with negotiation and leverage?
The kool-aid must run strong...
Simple. Intel will just add an instruction set to their processors that make bit torrenting easier, faster, and more reliable. That would scare the media companies into playing ball.;)
Actually, that wasn't the police that did the arresting. It was the military. In any event, both are government institutions and corrupt politicians and corrupt law enforcement go hand in hand. The fact that Venezuela has a president who was arrested and convicted of a failed military coup in the 90's just goes to show how messed up their political system is. Oh and the fact that he shouldn't have been able to be re-elected after his 2001ish election, and yet he has been re-elected several times.
But think about this a step further. Presumably, the people who are doing all of the threatening (clearly highly intimidating threats otherwise guards wouldn't be called in) are supposed to be the 'good guys' gun carriers, not the bad guy criminals who aren't supposed to have guns in the first place. This whole thing says a lot about the perceived power a gun holder has over someone without. Good guy or bad, own a gun and you start to feel power enough to turn into a thug.
And aren't the thugs what the good guy gun owners want to defend against?
As I said in a comment above, we have no idea who (if anyone) made these threats. The way that they published the information before makes me think they are attention whores. We all know attention whores do what they can to get more attention. But lets assume they were threatened. We still do not know who the people threatening them are, whether they own guns, whether they even live in the same time zone as the newspaper, etc. There are plenty of crazy people out there who would get a kick out of making such threats. I would agree making such threats would not qualify one as a responsible gun owner, however.
Actually, there's a county trying to stop the release of the information with which I have a bigger problem. Fix the law if it's bad, but I don't expect county officials to violate state law on their own discretion.
How is that any different than the people that refused to sit on the back of a bus in the south during the 60's? Sometimes the only way to get a law changed is to openly oppose it and violate it. If your case has merit, then the Supreme Court can make a valid ruling on it. I am all for any agency or person who puts their money where their mouth is and stands up for what they believe to be is right. Now they may be taking this stance to garner votes, but that's okay with me too. They are still challenging something that their constituents think is wrong.
So what they're saying is the only way they can stop bad guys with guns is good guys with guns. Gee where have I heard that recently....
And so what you're saying is that the gun owners who were mapped and are now making threats are "bad guys". A gun is what makes the difference between a blowhard you can ignore and a real threat of death.
No one said that it is the gun owners on the list who have made these threats. Hell, they could be non-gun owners from Seattle for all we know. For all we know they are also doing this to further garner media attention by claiming the reaction was more threatening than it was. Either way, there are plenty of responsible and irresponsible gun owners, and not everyone of those gun owners may be law abiding in the first place.
It's not a quip. US law is made largely according to the wishes of multinationals, via the mechanism of lobbyists funding politicians. That is corrupt.
GP is correct. The corruption here is nothing like it is in Venezuela. I'm not saying it shouldn't be fixed, but I do definitely appreciate it. I don't have to worry about getting arrested by men with machine guns as I ride the bus so that I'll pay bribe money to get it back. When I was in Venezuela, it was a constant worry. I carried a photocopy of my passport with me, and kept the original in a bank safety deposit box. I knew plenty of people who were arrested only to be charged money to get their passport back. I met a lot of Middle Easterners there, too. It was worse for them. They were hassled far more than USians were.
A lot of Venezuelans live off of $50 a month or less. When I lived there, my apartment cost me $15 a month, in a high rise, right on the beach. I spent less than $110/month on living expenses. And if you think the murder rate is bad there now, you should have seen what it was like when Chavez was temporarily disposed of in 2002. That was an interesting time. Anyway, Venezuela also has a lot of gold and diamonds. The government is very corrupt there, though, and the average person never sees a dime of the money coming out of the ground.
I used to live in Venezuela and it is true that the only thing cheaper than beer is gas. But it has nothing to do with owning PDVSA. It's because the government subsidizes the price of gas, much like Iran does. Their gas would be just as expensive as everyone else's if the government wasn't artificially lowering the price. PDVSA is also super corrupt now. Most people in the country do not make minimum wage. Being a janitor at PDVSA (if you can even get in), is a very well paying job.
Oakhurst is a pretty small community, yes. But it's also the last town on the way into Yosemite from Highway 41. I had a huge crush on a girl from Oakhurst when I was in college, and used to go up there all the time. There's also surrounding communities such as Bass Lake, which are even further from the nearest theater than Oakhurst. It's a small enough community where most people know each other, and all the locals I met were definitely into small businesses and restaurants. As long as they get new movies, I bet they will have plenty of customers. During the busy season, they'll likely get some teenage kids trying to escape the majestic beauty of Yosemite with their parents.
Except why should I bother? I am not going to fight tooth and nail to make their project better. I made an honest, good faith effort to send them a patch. I sent it multiple times, for multiple kernel versions. Eventually I gave up because it was less of a hassle to automatically patch new kernel versions than to continuously ask for a patch to be applied. I've submitted bug fixes for plenty of OSS projects, and I am always happy to help those that have a great community.
Again, the truth hurts. Projects like these don't tolerate stupidity well, especially given the fact that it's a community effort and there has to be a lot of lack of testing and communication on the part of the responsible party when something breaks like this. The price to be paid is twofold: (1) very public expressions of the harm caused by such issues, and (2) potential relief from duties related to the issue at hand, whether temporary or permanent in nature.
I don't believe you. Someone added a sleep to the USB-HID driver in 2.6.10. The problem is they were holding a spin lock at the time. I submitted a patch for it to every single kernel release from there until 2.6.18 when a Linux kernel developer submitted the same patch and it was accepted. It was a very simple fix. If they don't tolerate stupidity, why did they ignore my one line patch and leave a huge bug in the damn keyboard/mouse (and other devices of course) for so long? I have had zero interest in contributing to these large projects ever since, as they seem to be more about ego and status than moving the project forward.
The problem here is that homes may intentionally be targets for burglary because the criminal is looking for firearms. Do you really want to make it that much easier for criminals to get their hands on guns? The media should have no access to such records, why do they need it? What greater purpose does it server? The only reason such laws should exist (if they even should exist), is so that law enforcement can track down ownership of a gun. Since the person who had the federal firearms license that was used to transfer the gun from a business to a person has a record they are required to keep by law, I'm not sure why there needs to be a public set of records too.
I really don't see fatigue being much of an issue with browser extensions. A user should only be seeing a couple of warnings a year.
This is chrome we are talking about here. They've probably made 3 major releases just since they announced this feature in release 25. I mean how long has Chrome been around? The only software version that has a higher number than Chrome is Windows 98.
The fastest typing speed ever, 216 words in one minute, was achieved by Stella Pajunas in 1946 on an IBM electric.[6][7][8][9] As of 2005, writer Barbara Blackburn was the fastest English language typist in the world, according to The Guinness Book of World Records. Using the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, she has maintained 150 wpm for 50 minutes, and 170 wpm for shorter periods. She has been clocked at a peak speed of 212 wpm.
One of the most notable online records considered genuine is 256 wpm (a record caught on video) on TypeRacer by American Sean Wrona, the inaugural Ultimate Typing Championship winner, which is considered the highest legitimate score ever set on the site.
I guess I should go for the record then. The last time I took a typing class was in college. My car broke down, I had no way to get to school, so I had to drop 9 units of classes that were during a time of the day where I couldn't bum a ride from friends/family. I went below full time, and had to maintain full-time status so I took some typing classes, intro to word and excel, and other one-unit self paced classes at the library. If the software they used calculated the data right, I averaged over 150WPM with alphanumeric sentences and could burst up to ~260WPM on alphabet characters only. Of course its much easier to read something off the screen and type it off as you read it than to sit here and think about a response and type it. I got through college partially by doing legal transcription work for a law office. I went through a 6 month backlog of tapes in less than a month of 12 hour weeks. I wish I could do everything as well as I can type!
Bees die when they sting humans and other animals that have elastic skin. The stinger penetrates the skin, which closes around the stinger. The bee tries to extract the stinger and it rips off, often leaving the venom pouch inside the victim. If you think about it, it makes sense that one bee would sacrifice itself in this manner, as it would allow more venom to be pumped into a larger enemy. If you see a bee sting another insect, you can see it sting multiple times without any damage.
No surprise though that what is found is a well, as wells are of course rather like to fill up with dirt and end up under water, preserving the wood.
Dirt and water touching wood is about the worst possible combination you could have. If you've ever put in a fence or any other outdoor wooden structure, you know that the most important thing to do is to make sure that you poor cement into the post holes, and that the cement completely envelops the wood so it doesn't touch the dirt. Otherwise, you will get bugs and other such creatures attacking the wood from below. It will also rot faster as well.
Now it could be that they had some technique to avoid pest infestation and rot, or it could just be that the hole was deep enough that the bugs didn't typically hang out as low as the wood went, I don't know. But in general water + dirt + wood don't mix well!
No worries.:) It certainly would be nice if the EU had called Apple to task and made them add a microUSB port to their phones. I for one look forward to the day that I can borrow anyone's cable to charge my phone/tablet. Oh well, maybe some day.
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Good people, I'm so happy you're all here tonight, but please, just a few words of caution. Now we are going to set this pile of evil ablaze, but because these are children's toys, the fire will spread quickly. So please stand back and try not to inhale the toxic fumes...
Sorry, meant to add that you are right that she was in the colored section, but she was in the middle of the bus.
How is that any different than the people that refused to sit on the back of a bus in the south during the 60's?
You mean Rosa Parks, who was sitting in the back of the bus? She did not sit in the white section, and did not sit in the front of the bus. How can we take your statements seriously when your 60s references are incorrect.
I'll just go ahead and quote Wikipedia for you: "Near the middle of the bus, her row was directly behind the ten seats reserved for white passengers."
Secondly, she is not the only person who failed to follow orders on the bus. Hers is just the most famous example. There are examples of people who did not sit in the colored section at all.
The difference is that in the first case this are county officials who refuse to do their duty. When in function they are to abide by the law, plain and simple. If they do not, they ought to be fired, just like any employee will be fired if they openly refuse to follow orders by their boss.
If such a county official thinks the law is not just, they should still fulfil their duties under that law, in this case providing the information. And after that they may go on TV or whatever, still in function, and say that they do not agree with these regulations and that they will work hard to have the law changed.
The second case is private citizens not abiding by the law, and by breaking it openly try to draw attention to this issue.
So you're saying that people cannot stand for what is right in an official capacity? I can tell you right now that I would gladly be fired than to do something that I felt was dangerous to others, immoral, or unjust (of course, I don't have a family so I can be more risky). They claim they do not want to release the information because it puts people in danger. They are well within their rights to withhold the information. They are not immune from the consequences, however. They could very well end up in jail, or could be fired. That's their choice. It's not like they are secretly and quietly denying a Freedom of Information Act request. They are openly denying it, and stating their case. I have no doubt in my mind that if the Supreme Court rules that they must release the information, they will do so. I will gladly take some official openly defying the law over someone who does everything they are told to do without thought or consideration. This is not like a corporation at all. It is not their boss saying "Make 100 widgets before the end of business."
What's funny to me is the same people who want guns based on an amendment to the constitution so they can change the government if it's ever needed... are the same people who get furious at people who want to stop people from getting the government to make change.
Pro-Gun: "I need a gun in case I ever need to protest against my government and change the laws." Anti-Gun: "I want to peacefully get my government to change the laws." Pro-Gun: "You are anti American."
From an outsiders perspective it seems all the people who are pro guns want to use them to stop people from making the changes that are exactly the reason they say they need to have them. It seems like just pure insanity.
I would say that they are calling them anti-american because the 2nd amendment to the constitution expressly allows people to own guns. If they want to change that, they are going to have to pass a constitutional amendment. Not that name calling is mature, by any means. I've never heard of an anti-gun politician calling for a constitutional amendment, however. In fact the queen of gun control herself, Dianne Feinstein, has a concealed weapons permit. They are almost impossible to get in California, too, unless you live in specific counties. I would consider her desire to disarm her constituents to be very hypocritical.
The fact that Venezuela has a president who was arrested and convicted of a failed military coup in the 90's just goes to show how messed up their political system is.
Huh? The USA started out with a revolution.
Their constitution hasn't changed since he tried to overthrown the government. At least not before he had them change the constitution to allow his multiple re-elections. What kind of system allows criminals to hold such high and important offices?
You would not be able to run a military coup in the US and then run for president later, when it failed. In fact, a military coup is entirely different than a revolution of the people, in the first place.
Anyone else read the arrogant comment attributed to some unnamed source at Intel, stating that Intel was frustrated with "everyone doing a half-assed Google TV so it's going to do it themselves and do it right." ?
So, not surprisingly, Intel has now run into "delays" in securing agreements with content providers (in this case, the word "delay" means a quantity of time as large as forever). Why on earth would Intel believe that they have the consumer electronics clout to pull this off where Apple and Google continue to fail?
And who in their right mind at Intel decided to blast the media with their arrogant claims before they actually secured the elusive content agreements? Are they this completely incompetent as to think that Internet TV has anything at all to do with their fabulous semiconductor technology, instead of realizing it has everything to do with negotiation and leverage?
The kool-aid must run strong...
Simple. Intel will just add an instruction set to their processors that make bit torrenting easier, faster, and more reliable. That would scare the media companies into playing ball. ;)
Actually, that wasn't the police that did the arresting. It was the military. In any event, both are government institutions and corrupt politicians and corrupt law enforcement go hand in hand. The fact that Venezuela has a president who was arrested and convicted of a failed military coup in the 90's just goes to show how messed up their political system is. Oh and the fact that he shouldn't have been able to be re-elected after his 2001ish election, and yet he has been re-elected several times.
But think about this a step further. Presumably, the people who are doing all of the threatening (clearly highly intimidating threats otherwise guards wouldn't be called in) are supposed to be the 'good guys' gun carriers, not the bad guy criminals who aren't supposed to have guns in the first place. This whole thing says a lot about the perceived power a gun holder has over someone without. Good guy or bad, own a gun and you start to feel power enough to turn into a thug.
And aren't the thugs what the good guy gun owners want to defend against?
As I said in a comment above, we have no idea who (if anyone) made these threats. The way that they published the information before makes me think they are attention whores. We all know attention whores do what they can to get more attention. But lets assume they were threatened. We still do not know who the people threatening them are, whether they own guns, whether they even live in the same time zone as the newspaper, etc. There are plenty of crazy people out there who would get a kick out of making such threats. I would agree making such threats would not qualify one as a responsible gun owner, however.
By state law, it is public information. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/01/local-government-refuses-give-local-newspaper-data-its-gun-owner-map/60498/
Actually, there's a county trying to stop the release of the information with which I have a bigger problem. Fix the law if it's bad, but I don't expect county officials to violate state law on their own discretion.
How is that any different than the people that refused to sit on the back of a bus in the south during the 60's? Sometimes the only way to get a law changed is to openly oppose it and violate it. If your case has merit, then the Supreme Court can make a valid ruling on it. I am all for any agency or person who puts their money where their mouth is and stands up for what they believe to be is right. Now they may be taking this stance to garner votes, but that's okay with me too. They are still challenging something that their constituents think is wrong.
So what they're saying is the only way they can stop bad guys with guns is good guys with guns. Gee where have I heard that recently....
And so what you're saying is that the gun owners who were mapped and are now making threats are "bad guys". A gun is what makes the difference between a blowhard you can ignore and a real threat of death.
No one said that it is the gun owners on the list who have made these threats. Hell, they could be non-gun owners from Seattle for all we know. For all we know they are also doing this to further garner media attention by claiming the reaction was more threatening than it was. Either way, there are plenty of responsible and irresponsible gun owners, and not everyone of those gun owners may be law abiding in the first place.
Alternatively, upload human consciousnesses into mechanized hosts -- Sturdiest. Bodies. Ever.
The human body has an elegant way of repairing itself. One that we have yet to match with all our technological prowess.
It's not a quip. US law is made largely according to the wishes of multinationals, via the mechanism of lobbyists funding politicians. That is corrupt.
GP is correct. The corruption here is nothing like it is in Venezuela. I'm not saying it shouldn't be fixed, but I do definitely appreciate it. I don't have to worry about getting arrested by men with machine guns as I ride the bus so that I'll pay bribe money to get it back. When I was in Venezuela, it was a constant worry. I carried a photocopy of my passport with me, and kept the original in a bank safety deposit box. I knew plenty of people who were arrested only to be charged money to get their passport back. I met a lot of Middle Easterners there, too. It was worse for them. They were hassled far more than USians were.
A lot of Venezuelans live off of $50 a month or less. When I lived there, my apartment cost me $15 a month, in a high rise, right on the beach. I spent less than $110/month on living expenses. And if you think the murder rate is bad there now, you should have seen what it was like when Chavez was temporarily disposed of in 2002. That was an interesting time. Anyway, Venezuela also has a lot of gold and diamonds. The government is very corrupt there, though, and the average person never sees a dime of the money coming out of the ground.
I used to live in Venezuela and it is true that the only thing cheaper than beer is gas. But it has nothing to do with owning PDVSA. It's because the government subsidizes the price of gas, much like Iran does. Their gas would be just as expensive as everyone else's if the government wasn't artificially lowering the price. PDVSA is also super corrupt now. Most people in the country do not make minimum wage. Being a janitor at PDVSA (if you can even get in), is a very well paying job.
Oakhurst is a pretty small community, yes. But it's also the last town on the way into Yosemite from Highway 41. I had a huge crush on a girl from Oakhurst when I was in college, and used to go up there all the time. There's also surrounding communities such as Bass Lake, which are even further from the nearest theater than Oakhurst. It's a small enough community where most people know each other, and all the locals I met were definitely into small businesses and restaurants. As long as they get new movies, I bet they will have plenty of customers. During the busy season, they'll likely get some teenage kids trying to escape the majestic beauty of Yosemite with their parents.
Or I could spend my time and effort working on projects that probably need the help more than Kernel.org does anyway.
Except why should I bother? I am not going to fight tooth and nail to make their project better. I made an honest, good faith effort to send them a patch. I sent it multiple times, for multiple kernel versions. Eventually I gave up because it was less of a hassle to automatically patch new kernel versions than to continuously ask for a patch to be applied. I've submitted bug fixes for plenty of OSS projects, and I am always happy to help those that have a great community.
Again, the truth hurts. Projects like these don't tolerate stupidity well, especially given the fact that it's a community effort and there has to be a lot of lack of testing and communication on the part of the responsible party when something breaks like this. The price to be paid is twofold: (1) very public expressions of the harm caused by such issues, and (2) potential relief from duties related to the issue at hand, whether temporary or permanent in nature.
I don't believe you. Someone added a sleep to the USB-HID driver in 2.6.10. The problem is they were holding a spin lock at the time. I submitted a patch for it to every single kernel release from there until 2.6.18 when a Linux kernel developer submitted the same patch and it was accepted. It was a very simple fix. If they don't tolerate stupidity, why did they ignore my one line patch and leave a huge bug in the damn keyboard/mouse (and other devices of course) for so long? I have had zero interest in contributing to these large projects ever since, as they seem to be more about ego and status than moving the project forward.
The problem here is that homes may intentionally be targets for burglary because the criminal is looking for firearms. Do you really want to make it that much easier for criminals to get their hands on guns? The media should have no access to such records, why do they need it? What greater purpose does it server? The only reason such laws should exist (if they even should exist), is so that law enforcement can track down ownership of a gun. Since the person who had the federal firearms license that was used to transfer the gun from a business to a person has a record they are required to keep by law, I'm not sure why there needs to be a public set of records too.
I really don't see fatigue being much of an issue with browser extensions. A user should only be seeing a couple of warnings a year.
This is chrome we are talking about here. They've probably made 3 major releases just since they announced this feature in release 25. I mean how long has Chrome been around? The only software version that has a higher number than Chrome is Windows 98.
According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute
The fastest typing speed ever, 216 words in one minute, was achieved by Stella Pajunas in 1946 on an IBM electric.[6][7][8][9] As of 2005, writer Barbara Blackburn was the fastest English language typist in the world, according to The Guinness Book of World Records. Using the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, she has maintained 150 wpm for 50 minutes, and 170 wpm for shorter periods. She has been clocked at a peak speed of 212 wpm.
One of the most notable online records considered genuine is 256 wpm (a record caught on video) on TypeRacer by American Sean Wrona, the inaugural Ultimate Typing Championship winner, which is considered the highest legitimate score ever set on the site.
I guess I should go for the record then. The last time I took a typing class was in college. My car broke down, I had no way to get to school, so I had to drop 9 units of classes that were during a time of the day where I couldn't bum a ride from friends/family. I went below full time, and had to maintain full-time status so I took some typing classes, intro to word and excel, and other one-unit self paced classes at the library. If the software they used calculated the data right, I averaged over 150WPM with alphanumeric sentences and could burst up to ~260WPM on alphabet characters only. Of course its much easier to read something off the screen and type it off as you read it than to sit here and think about a response and type it. I got through college partially by doing legal transcription work for a law office. I went through a 6 month backlog of tapes in less than a month of 12 hour weeks. I wish I could do everything as well as I can type!
Bees die when they sting humans and other animals that have elastic skin. The stinger penetrates the skin, which closes around the stinger. The bee tries to extract the stinger and it rips off, often leaving the venom pouch inside the victim. If you think about it, it makes sense that one bee would sacrifice itself in this manner, as it would allow more venom to be pumped into a larger enemy. If you see a bee sting another insect, you can see it sting multiple times without any damage.
No surprise though that what is found is a well, as wells are of course rather like to fill up with dirt and end up under water, preserving the wood.
Dirt and water touching wood is about the worst possible combination you could have. If you've ever put in a fence or any other outdoor wooden structure, you know that the most important thing to do is to make sure that you poor cement into the post holes, and that the cement completely envelops the wood so it doesn't touch the dirt. Otherwise, you will get bugs and other such creatures attacking the wood from below. It will also rot faster as well.
Now it could be that they had some technique to avoid pest infestation and rot, or it could just be that the hole was deep enough that the bugs didn't typically hang out as low as the wood went, I don't know. But in general water + dirt + wood don't mix well!
No worries. :) It certainly would be nice if the EU had called Apple to task and made them add a microUSB port to their phones. I for one look forward to the day that I can borrow anyone's cable to charge my phone/tablet. Oh well, maybe some day.