I'm not sure which planet you're referring to, but during the current ice age ice sheets only extended partially down the continents; in the case of North America, they extended over almost all of Canada and much of the northern US. A very interesting book on the biology of the current interglacial period is After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America by E. C. Pielou. Many species which are now widespread held out in various "refugia" during the glacial periods; a striking example is that of maples and chestnuts, which grew around the mouth of the Mississippi River. They spread north at varying rates as well. Some species gained a foothold in an area, then died out as climate warmed too much for their liking.
Actually pre-recording devices most everyone sang; many played instruments. There was no concept of a "performance," outside of the art music world. Common folk would just make music as the mood struck them, which all changed when the recording industry became ubiquitous, and the attitude towards musicianship became much more formalized.
This music of the people is generally referred to as "traditional music," as opposed to "folk music," which means Pete Seeger et al; and it lasted - indeed, continued developing - a lot longer than the 17th century; in fact many people still play these various musics today.
The outpourings of the Columbia River Basalt Group turned hundreds of miles of land into an even, flat, black smoldering mass for a while. Between various groups we see brief sedimentary layers, some fossiliferous, so they didn't permanently extinguish life on even a local level. No extinctions are correlated with them, either. They did outgas a great deal of CO2, resulting in a spell of warmer/moister climate, laterizing the basalt in the process - hence the red soils you see here and there in the Willamette Valley.
A supervolcano would be disastrous for civilization - there's a large fossil cache in Nebraska which is composed of animals trapped in debris erupted from the Yellowstone caldera's eruption - but they happen so infrequently it's on the level of worrying about the Earth being struck by an asteroid larger than a house.
Thanks for not one but two LOLs, first at the pic, then the reveal that that cigar-with-wheels with a prop three times its size grafted on top is made out of foam.
Suppose it'd work if we all moved to the Bonneville Salt Flats. Maybe we could have solar-powered fans blowing air down every street?
How about a YouTube vid of these notions failing miserably for all to see? I get no end of hits on a search of course, and but of course most of those are sincere/marketing.
Don't know how effective such a demonstration would be; you'd have to have some sort of seal of approval behind it as well for it to carry any import. TED Talk, perhaps? You just can't expect people to grok thermodynamics, any more than you expect the checker at the KFC to be able to enter in "$4.99" on the register instead of stabbing at the button with the picture of an Extra Crispy Bucket. I mean, be real./sarcasm again
How about having the prop double as a wind turbine? Then you could fly forever. I'm always telling people about how we could just mount turbines on the roofs of cars and power the engine; they're inevitably enthusiastic about this idea./sarcasm
I thought it was odd that he'd consider Springfield OR "next to" Portland, too. They're about 110 miles apart, as near as SF and Sacramento, or LA and Tijuana, not exactly next door. Maybe his Dad tooled the family around in a private plane.
He's probably bored out of his skull after 20+ years of handling this stupid question. Who wouldn't be?
At the moment the highest price I see on eBay for an old Fender amp is $7,850 for a 1956 Super. I'd call that lust. And vintage Marshalls are actually cheaper, huh.
Actually there's a Universe of Bagpipes. Most every nation in Europe had or has an indigenous variety or varieties. Some of these are loud as hell, yes - Scottish (specifically Great Highland, the stuff you hear in parades), Breton, Galician. Others aren't any louder than an acoustic guitar, like the Irish pipes I play.
And curiously enough just this Tuesday I was talking to a friend about the Basie Band's guitarist, Freddy Green, who stuck to using a non-amplified archtop his whole career. Those things can really project, it seems.
They neglected to impose controls on Population, which would slow consumption of Resources, increase Industrial Output, provide for more Food per capita, and decrease Pollution. At least, according to computer models, anyway.
Shaw wrote the play, the song is from the musical based on it, and composed by Lerner and Lowe, a New Yorker and a German respectively. Enjoy some more dialectical distortion: SCTV: "MY FAIR LADY" (PIRINI SCLEROSO) - Youtube
Believe it or not Scorsese actually took that into consideration. Link
Harvey Keitel as Judas has been the subject of debate because of his NYC accent. Scorsese chose to depict Colloquial language, Generally choosing a “formal” British accent for Romans, and various other accents (American, Canadian, Southern, New York,etc for the common people, such as those Jesus associated with. Scorsese’s research showed that Galilean accent was strong, ridiculed in Jerusalem.
Or:
I mean, basically, they say, okay, this is a defense, in a way. We don't have to get too emotionally involved because this happened a long time ago and people spoke funny. We said no, this man talks like you, talks like me, some guy has a Brooklyn accent, another guy has a Canadian accent... where does it say that everybody in ancient Judea spoke by listening to the BBC?
I was going to link to a clip of Tony Curtis saying "Yonder lies the castle of my fodda" in The Black Shield of Falworth but turns out that's apocryphal...but dig how thick the Brooklynese is in this bit from Son of Ali Baba. Point being that Scorsese at least put some thought into these matters, unlike the wholly cavalier attitude that obtained before. Not that people don't put LTOC on lists of 10 Worst Film Accents anyway.
On a related note, I always thought traffic congestion must waste an enormous amount of fuel. Years ago I came across a stat related to this done by a Texas university, which stated that the daily average was something like 250k barrels of oil per day - which may seem like a lot, but bear in mind the US plows through ca. 9 million barrels of gasoline per day.
My original link is now a 404 but I've found the data source they used: Congestion Data for Your City — Urban Mobility Information. Go to the data for "All 439 Urban Areas," and down to the table for sums. This states that due to traffic congestion 1,943,330,000 gallons were wasted for 2010, thus 5,324,205 per day; there are 42 gallons in a barrel, thus 126,767 barrels/day. I'm not sure if this is the correct way to calculate this, as refineries actually crank out more like 19 barrels of gasoline per full barrel of crude; so maybe 280,221 b/d? That must be how the original study came to its conclusion. Either way it's not much of a dent in the 8.71 million barrels of oil we wolfed down in the form of gasoline last week: Petroleum and Other Liquids - Data - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
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They need to do way instain body.
I'm not sure which planet you're referring to, but during the current ice age ice sheets only extended partially down the continents; in the case of North America, they extended over almost all of Canada and much of the northern US. A very interesting book on the biology of the current interglacial period is After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America by E. C. Pielou. Many species which are now widespread held out in various "refugia" during the glacial periods; a striking example is that of maples and chestnuts, which grew around the mouth of the Mississippi River. They spread north at varying rates as well. Some species gained a foothold in an area, then died out as climate warmed too much for their liking.
A bigger question is where will the /. editors find room to store all of these geek cards?
Don't forget the stiff upper lip and the bad teeth. Hmm, is there a causal relationship at work there?
Actually pre-recording devices most everyone sang; many played instruments. There was no concept of a "performance," outside of the art music world. Common folk would just make music as the mood struck them, which all changed when the recording industry became ubiquitous, and the attitude towards musicianship became much more formalized.
This music of the people is generally referred to as "traditional music," as opposed to "folk music," which means Pete Seeger et al; and it lasted - indeed, continued developing - a lot longer than the 17th century; in fact many people still play these various musics today.
The outpourings of the Columbia River Basalt Group turned hundreds of miles of land into an even, flat, black smoldering mass for a while. Between various groups we see brief sedimentary layers, some fossiliferous, so they didn't permanently extinguish life on even a local level. No extinctions are correlated with them, either. They did outgas a great deal of CO2, resulting in a spell of warmer/moister climate, laterizing the basalt in the process - hence the red soils you see here and there in the Willamette Valley.
A supervolcano would be disastrous for civilization - there's a large fossil cache in Nebraska which is composed of animals trapped in debris erupted from the Yellowstone caldera's eruption - but they happen so infrequently it's on the level of worrying about the Earth being struck by an asteroid larger than a house.
So, how is it exactly that this is "renewable energy"?
Oil? Natural gas?
Pigs. I mean, landfills. Landfillshit. The lights, vehicles, all powered by a high energy gas called methane. Methane comes from landfillshit.
It's called Underworld. It's where Bartertown gets its energy. And don't forget, bust a deal, face the wheel.
Smoking contributes to weight loss, eh? Surprised Oprah didn't do a special on this. Does it throw the humours out of balance or something?
China/India/Indonesia/Greece all have male smokers at >40% in 2009: CBS - Across the world more men than women smoke - Web magazine. Curiously enough the percentages of women who smoke in the first three listed countries are much lower.
I was operating under the assumption that we have engineers working on sexbots full time. Rule 34 and all that.
Treats, sure. Dogs also chainsmoke when in a panic, as demonstrated by the Kids in the Hall.
Occasionally when remonstrating myself about something I think "Justify Your Existence!"
Thanks for not one but two LOLs, first at the pic, then the reveal that that cigar-with-wheels with a prop three times its size grafted on top is made out of foam.
Suppose it'd work if we all moved to the Bonneville Salt Flats. Maybe we could have solar-powered fans blowing air down every street?
How about a YouTube vid of these notions failing miserably for all to see? I get no end of hits on a search of course, and but of course most of those are sincere/marketing.
Don't know how effective such a demonstration would be; you'd have to have some sort of seal of approval behind it as well for it to carry any import. TED Talk, perhaps? You just can't expect people to grok thermodynamics, any more than you expect the checker at the KFC to be able to enter in "$4.99" on the register instead of stabbing at the button with the picture of an Extra Crispy Bucket. I mean, be real. /sarcasm again
How about having the prop double as a wind turbine? Then you could fly forever. I'm always telling people about how we could just mount turbines on the roofs of cars and power the engine; they're inevitably enthusiastic about this idea. /sarcasm
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I thought it was odd that he'd consider Springfield OR "next to" Portland, too. They're about 110 miles apart, as near as SF and Sacramento, or LA and Tijuana, not exactly next door. Maybe his Dad tooled the family around in a private plane.
He's probably bored out of his skull after 20+ years of handling this stupid question. Who wouldn't be?
At the moment the highest price I see on eBay for an old Fender amp is $7,850 for a 1956 Super. I'd call that lust. And vintage Marshalls are actually cheaper, huh.
Has said friend's career slowed down lately, too?
Actually there's a Universe of Bagpipes. Most every nation in Europe had or has an indigenous variety or varieties. Some of these are loud as hell, yes - Scottish (specifically Great Highland, the stuff you hear in parades), Breton, Galician. Others aren't any louder than an acoustic guitar, like the Irish pipes I play.
And curiously enough just this Tuesday I was talking to a friend about the Basie Band's guitarist, Freddy Green, who stuck to using a non-amplified archtop his whole career. Those things can really project, it seems.
They neglected to impose controls on Population, which would slow consumption of Resources, increase Industrial Output, provide for more Food per capita, and decrease Pollution. At least, according to computer models, anyway.
Shaw wrote the play, the song is from the musical based on it, and composed by Lerner and Lowe, a New Yorker and a German respectively. Enjoy some more dialectical distortion: SCTV: "MY FAIR LADY" (PIRINI SCLEROSO) - Youtube
I think you misunderestimate how lowbrow Texans can be.
Believe it or not Scorsese actually took that into consideration. Link
Harvey Keitel as Judas has been the subject of debate because of his NYC accent. Scorsese chose to depict Colloquial language, Generally choosing a “formal” British accent for Romans, and various other accents (American, Canadian, Southern, New York,etc for the common people, such as those Jesus associated with. Scorsese’s research showed that Galilean accent was strong, ridiculed in Jerusalem.
Or:
I mean, basically, they say, okay, this is a defense, in a way. We don't have to get too emotionally involved because this happened a long time ago and people spoke funny. We said no, this man talks like you, talks like me, some guy has a Brooklyn accent, another guy has a Canadian accent... where does it say that everybody in ancient Judea spoke by listening to the BBC?
I was going to link to a clip of Tony Curtis saying "Yonder lies the castle of my fodda" in The Black Shield of Falworth but turns out that's apocryphal...but dig how thick the Brooklynese is in this bit from Son of Ali Baba. Point being that Scorsese at least put some thought into these matters, unlike the wholly cavalier attitude that obtained before. Not that people don't put LTOC on lists of 10 Worst Film Accents anyway.
On a related note, I always thought traffic congestion must waste an enormous amount of fuel. Years ago I came across a stat related to this done by a Texas university, which stated that the daily average was something like 250k barrels of oil per day - which may seem like a lot, but bear in mind the US plows through ca. 9 million barrels of gasoline per day.
My original link is now a 404 but I've found the data source they used: Congestion Data for Your City — Urban Mobility Information. Go to the data for "All 439 Urban Areas," and down to the table for sums. This states that due to traffic congestion 1,943,330,000 gallons were wasted for 2010, thus 5,324,205 per day; there are 42 gallons in a barrel, thus 126,767 barrels/day. I'm not sure if this is the correct way to calculate this, as refineries actually crank out more like 19 barrels of gasoline per full barrel of crude; so maybe 280,221 b/d? That must be how the original study came to its conclusion. Either way it's not much of a dent in the 8.71 million barrels of oil we wolfed down in the form of gasoline last week: Petroleum and Other Liquids - Data - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)