How could anything good come after that? I'm pretty sure it would mean the next page was titled "A long series of failed emperors" or "The coming of the Visigoths".
The best reason that I can imagine for this occuring, is that the clouds can act as a giant cathode screen. Inside of a vacuum tube, you have a lot of volts on an anode, and there's a nearby cathode that the electrons are attracted towards. But at the cathode, instead of just being a plate, there is a fine screen or mesh. Then the electrons try to hit the cathode, but some of them pass it and continue on in the direction they were accelerated in. in the case with clouds, several large charges are attracted upwards towards a charge sink, and a conductive plasma column (lightning) forms and carries most of the electrons into the sink, but some of the adjacent electrons miss or are too late, and are instead accelerated into the thinner upper atmosphere, and there they ionize oxygen and cause these ephemeral flashes. Just an idea.
I came to say this as well, and add some personal experience. I grew up in Lancaster, and area called the Antelope Valley in the Mojave Desert, the high desert area halfway between LA and Bakersfield. When my grandpa was a boy, in the 1930's, the water table was between 3 and 30 feet underground. The area was excellent for alfalfa production, and farmers sucked up all of the groundwater, while simultaneously LA redirected streams in the mountains, that fed the aquifer, into their water supply. There are photographs from the 30's showing the region as arid, but black locust trees grew everywhere. Now the water table is below 2000 feet underground, and the region hardly supports desert scrub. There's one small hole in the ground, that if you drop a rock down, it rings thunderously for 10-20 seconds. And there's no more farming in the Antelope Valley, of course.
A huge el niño is forming, and there's going to be some relief, but the next time this happens, the rest of the state is going to be just like the Antelope Valley, because the legislature is doing nothing to fix the problem. Using up the groundwater changes the ecology, and it is really disheartening, because California is being ruined by these practices.
About 10% of great earthquakes trigger a volcanic eruption, and most eruptions are fairly minor, so the volcano risk is small compared to the earthquake risk.
I live in Olympia, and I like to say that when the big one hits, Mt. Ranier is going to blow, and as the black lightning-filled clouds tower over us in the east, all of the metal bands in town will climb onto the roofs of all of the buildings with all of their equipment and it will be the most Metal day ever. But it looks like experts believe otherwise.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/...
Petroleum would certainly be mined if we did not use it for energy, but it's only heavily used in making plastics because of our interest in its chemistry and its historical abundance as a carbon source. We use less than 3% of petroleum to make plastics, and less than 2% of natural gas, and we could easily lower those figures if we had to, with vegetable sources. Back at the turn of the 20th century we would not have developed polymers to the extent that we did without abundant petroleum, but now we certainly could replace it if the economy moved that way.
A vote for me gets the IRS the microscopes they so direly need! I don't have PACS, just millions of grad students writing grants! Whatever is leftover from the campaign, I will use to build gargantuan cannons that run on superconductors, that fire invisible stuff! Also I recently read an authortative article that subverts whatever 'fact' you happen to mention at a social function.
Despite what frequently crosses lips, most people care almost exclusively about Numero Uno. Cars changed the way people live. Electric cars, not so much. It is just that simple.
So? The bad people are everywhere, every goddamn "race" has them in probably exactly equal numbers because "races", just like borders, are imaginary. In Lousiana an entire parish has been refusing to marry anyone for months now, because they don't want LGBT weddings. The only reason they aren't burning people (any more: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) is because of the pacifying effect of the US's relative affluence (which in turn only due to the recent conquest of this land's natural resources). It's Christians in Africa who are executing men for being gay. There is no more violence in Muslim countries than you could predict by looking at their economies (which we shape with our imperialistic might) and noting the statistical correlation between poverty and violence.
seersucker clad golfbag toting used car salesman marketing drone
I'm stealing this. This was before my time, but I'm pretty sure that television nose-dived when pay-per-view came along. The television market was devised as radio + pictures, a one-way ticket as far as content. Computer networks were devised as tiers of peers, and once it's on my box, it's not yours. Pay-per-view functions, but it's fundamentally illogical. The content providers have to go through DRM acrobatics to sustain it at all. Premium channels overall make little sense. But online content is starving. Why can't we just pay artists, journalists, and FOSS programmers decent amounts of money? It's because of the seersucker clad golfbag toting used car salesman marketing drones, because some people are aggressive about making lots of money despite lacking skills that are actually useful, and I let them walk on me sometimes.
I really really don't think this is true.
"...smelting, soldering, annealing, electroplating, sintering, alloying, low-wax casting, and many other metallurgical techniques independent of any Old World influences",..., zero,... incredibly accurate calendars (and not just in Mesoamerica), many of the commonest vegetables at the market, lots of useful animal breeds in general, not just rubber but vulcanized balls, sandals, balloons, rubber syringes, bigger cities than Europe, canals, lots of agriculture... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Western European belief systems, by and large, gave the okay on all sorts of conquest (for god and salvation), whereas native American mythos by and large speak of a relationship with nature. That's not to say that there wasnt plenty of millitant behavior in the pre-Columbus Americas. But it looks like overall, the natives of North and South America were more interested in making lots of food and medicine than making bigger weapons and ships.
Note: as a technical note, free persons who commit criminal acts *could* in fact be made slaves today through court action, since you may deny someone their liberty through due process of law. We just don't use this particular loophole within our justice system.
So I understand the free speech libertarian if-it-gets-comments-we-run-it thing, but the comments on this article, while numerous, are 90% paraphrasable as "Why the @#$ is this on/.?"
So... ?
BS. The #1 reason pot was scheduled was racism. If we cared about 'cognitive decline' in teenagers, we'd be really scrupulous about keeping teens away from binging on alcohol and encouraging regular sleep patterns.
Imagine if for some reason some impoverished third world country became really attractive to rich Americans, who went there and bought up all the land and pretty soon none of the poor natives can afford to live in their own country anymore.
As far as life goes, there is a significant biome below the Earth's crust. If you were underground, you wouldn't notice anything other than low gravity and a strong Coriolis effect.
I dunno, I think that all surface water would be gone pretty quickly, and without water I don't think that life would exist even deep in the earth for more than ~300 years (given what I remember about aquifers).
let's create a whole range of "official" placebos. The "red one", the "blue version", the "green style" and so on. With fine print on label : "This is not a medicine. It is distilled water void of any active content with no effect other than potential - but not guaranteed - placebo effect
The green one always fixes my neuralgia. They say nothing in it does anything, but I think it's the green dye.
Yesterday I had to saw off a Kryptonite U-lock. I tried to start it with a regular 24 tpi hacksaw blade, stopped, licked my thumb, and rubbed it. Not a scratch. The moral is, if you want good armoring, plates of silicon carbide are the way to go.
I hate to say it, because I love Being Right On the Internet, but there's already a great explanation of all this malarkey* on the glorious Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and the problem of 0/0 = anything doesn't go away just because a progam finds it in an array operation. It's meaningful.
* here' I'm using malarkey in the proper mathematicly rigorous way
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Many, many comments about females on /. are wrong AND sexist, and this one is right, and helpful. I wish I had mod points today.
"2016-20—: President Trump
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How could anything good come after that? I'm pretty sure it would mean the next page was titled "A long series of failed emperors" or "The coming of the Visigoths".
The best reason that I can imagine for this occuring, is that the clouds can act as a giant cathode screen. Inside of a vacuum tube, you have a lot of volts on an anode, and there's a nearby cathode that the electrons are attracted towards. But at the cathode, instead of just being a plate, there is a fine screen or mesh. Then the electrons try to hit the cathode, but some of them pass it and continue on in the direction they were accelerated in. in the case with clouds, several large charges are attracted upwards towards a charge sink, and a conductive plasma column (lightning) forms and carries most of the electrons into the sink, but some of the adjacent electrons miss or are too late, and are instead accelerated into the thinner upper atmosphere, and there they ionize oxygen and cause these ephemeral flashes.
Just an idea.
I came to say this as well, and add some personal experience. I grew up in Lancaster, and area called the Antelope Valley in the Mojave Desert, the high desert area halfway between LA and Bakersfield. When my grandpa was a boy, in the 1930's, the water table was between 3 and 30 feet underground. The area was excellent for alfalfa production, and farmers sucked up all of the groundwater, while simultaneously LA redirected streams in the mountains, that fed the aquifer, into their water supply. There are photographs from the 30's showing the region as arid, but black locust trees grew everywhere. Now the water table is below 2000 feet underground, and the region hardly supports desert scrub. There's one small hole in the ground, that if you drop a rock down, it rings thunderously for 10-20 seconds. And there's no more farming in the Antelope Valley, of course.
A huge el niño is forming, and there's going to be some relief, but the next time this happens, the rest of the state is going to be just like the Antelope Valley, because the legislature is doing nothing to fix the problem. Using up the groundwater changes the ecology, and it is really disheartening, because California is being ruined by these practices.
The 10 year old boy inside of me wants to blow up a friggin planet, all right? Have some appreciation for a typical Forbes reader.
But then if you point to environmental pollution companies are like, "What's an externality?"
About 10% of great earthquakes trigger a volcanic eruption, and most eruptions are fairly minor, so the volcano risk is small compared to the earthquake risk.
I live in Olympia, and I like to say that when the big one hits, Mt. Ranier is going to blow, and as the black lightning-filled clouds tower over us in the east, all of the metal bands in town will climb onto the roofs of all of the buildings with all of their equipment and it will be the most Metal day ever. But it looks like experts believe otherwise. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/...
I don't understand how this is a response to what I wrote. I was just saying that plastics no longer strictly require oil.
Petroleum would certainly be mined if we did not use it for energy, but it's only heavily used in making plastics because of our interest in its chemistry and its historical abundance as a carbon source. We use less than 3% of petroleum to make plastics, and less than 2% of natural gas, and we could easily lower those figures if we had to, with vegetable sources. Back at the turn of the 20th century we would not have developed polymers to the extent that we did without abundant petroleum, but now we certainly could replace it if the economy moved that way.
we need a new pro-science party
A vote for me gets the IRS the microscopes they so direly need! I don't have PACS, just millions of grad students writing grants! Whatever is leftover from the campaign, I will use to build gargantuan cannons that run on superconductors, that fire invisible stuff! Also I recently read an authortative article that subverts whatever 'fact' you happen to mention at a social function.
Despite what frequently crosses lips, most people care almost exclusively about Numero Uno. Cars changed the way people live. Electric cars, not so much. It is just that simple.
The target of hatred and discrimination is subjective and sometimes even just invented or imagined.
So? The bad people are everywhere, every goddamn "race" has them in probably exactly equal numbers because "races", just like borders, are imaginary. In Lousiana an entire parish has been refusing to marry anyone for months now, because they don't want LGBT weddings. The only reason they aren't burning people (any more: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) is because of the pacifying effect of the US's relative affluence (which in turn only due to the recent conquest of this land's natural resources). It's Christians in Africa who are executing men for being gay. There is no more violence in Muslim countries than you could predict by looking at their economies (which we shape with our imperialistic might) and noting the statistical correlation between poverty and violence.
seersucker clad golfbag toting used car salesman marketing drone
I'm stealing this.
This was before my time, but I'm pretty sure that television nose-dived when pay-per-view came along. The television market was devised as radio + pictures, a one-way ticket as far as content. Computer networks were devised as tiers of peers, and once it's on my box, it's not yours. Pay-per-view functions, but it's fundamentally illogical. The content providers have to go through DRM acrobatics to sustain it at all. Premium channels overall make little sense. But online content is starving. Why can't we just pay artists, journalists, and FOSS programmers decent amounts of money? It's because of the seersucker clad golfbag toting used car salesman marketing drones, because some people are aggressive about making lots of money despite lacking skills that are actually useful, and I let them walk on me sometimes.
I really really don't think this is true. ..., zero, ... incredibly accurate calendars (and not just in Mesoamerica), many of the commonest vegetables at the market, lots of useful animal breeds in general, not just rubber but vulcanized balls, sandals, balloons, rubber syringes, bigger cities than Europe, canals, lots of agriculture... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"...smelting, soldering, annealing, electroplating, sintering, alloying, low-wax casting, and many other metallurgical techniques independent of any Old World influences",
Western European belief systems, by and large, gave the okay on all sorts of conquest (for god and salvation), whereas native American mythos by and large speak of a relationship with nature. That's not to say that there wasnt plenty of millitant behavior in the pre-Columbus Americas. But it looks like overall, the natives of North and South America were more interested in making lots of food and medicine than making bigger weapons and ships.
Note: as a technical note, free persons who commit criminal acts *could* in fact be made slaves today through court action, since you may deny someone their liberty through due process of law. We just don't use this particular loophole within our justice system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So I understand the free speech libertarian if-it-gets-comments-we-run-it thing, but the comments on this article, while numerous, are 90% paraphrasable as "Why the @#$ is this on /.?"
So... ?
BS. The #1 reason pot was scheduled was racism. If we cared about 'cognitive decline' in teenagers, we'd be really scrupulous about keeping teens away from binging on alcohol and encouraging regular sleep patterns.
Imagine if for some reason some impoverished third world country became really attractive to rich Americans, who went there and bought up all the land and pretty soon none of the poor natives can afford to live in their own country anymore.
Hawaii?
As far as life goes, there is a significant biome below the Earth's crust. If you were underground, you wouldn't notice anything other than low gravity and a strong Coriolis effect.
I dunno, I think that all surface water would be gone pretty quickly, and without water I don't think that life would exist even deep in the earth for more than ~300 years (given what I remember about aquifers).
let's create a whole range of "official" placebos. The "red one", the "blue version", the "green style" and so on. With fine print on label : "This is not a medicine. It is distilled water void of any active content with no effect other than potential - but not guaranteed - placebo effect
The green one always fixes my neuralgia. They say nothing in it does anything, but I think it's the green dye.
Yesterday I had to saw off a Kryptonite U-lock. I tried to start it with a regular 24 tpi hacksaw blade, stopped, licked my thumb, and rubbed it. Not a scratch.
The moral is, if you want good armoring, plates of silicon carbide are the way to go.
does not suggest a damn thing.
I hate to say it, because I love Being Right On the Internet, but there's already a great explanation of all this malarkey* on the glorious Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
and the problem of 0/0 = anything doesn't go away just because a progam finds it in an array operation. It's meaningful.
* here' I'm using malarkey in the proper mathematicly rigorous way
They're 2D