This is great news and lets us know that with the last 10 years of NO temperature increase it is likely the CO2 idea is decoupling from any possible warming....great news.
You gotta love the way deniers have decided that HADCRUT is the most reliable temperature record just because it gives them their cherries Hiding the rise?
The only thing slow is the build up of the Applications menu, because it re-reads the/usr/share/applications/ directory every time you open the menu. I can see why they did that, but I have rather a lot of packages installed, so I get a multisecond delay when opening the Applications view.
Lead in petrol, mercury in the sea, vaccines, internet, WiFi, video games, contraceptive pills, pesticides, radon, highway noise, electrical cables, plastic soft drink bottles
Some of these things are not like some of the others.
If you're seriously trying to say that the bolded examples are not bad then you have a problem:
Lead in petrol, mercury in the sea, vaccines, internet, WiFi, video games, contraceptive pills, pesticides, radon, highway noise, electrical cables, plastic soft drink bottles.
Some of the others are a problem in some contexts:
Lead in petrol, mercury in the sea, vaccines, internet, WiFi, video games, contraceptive pills, pesticides, radon, highway noise, electrical cables, plastic soft drink bottles.
And worrying about some of them is a good diagnostic of insanity:
Lead in petrol, mercury in the sea, vaccines, internet, WiFi, video games, contraceptive pills, pesticides, radon, highway noise, electrical cables, plastic soft drink bottles.
There are many "professors" out there who lecture maybe 2 or 3 days a year on a niche topic, sometimes but not necessarily related to the industry they work in. Many of these people derive the gig and title more from their buddy-network than anything else.
And the relevance of this to the ramblings of Lady Susan Greenfield, Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University,Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur and former director of the Royal Institution is?
She may be a nut, but a minor professor she isn't.
FWIW, you should only put two spaces after a period if you're typing in a monospaced font (like on a typewriter). For a proportionally spaced font, it's always one space.
If you're using a proportional font you should be using a sensible system that knows that the width of a space is not fixed.
Will the Euro debt crisis be a driving force to the spread of open source software?"
Not likely. Everywhere else money has been a problem, it has caused the spread of piracy
Slight difference here. We're talking abut the Portuguese government. Western governments don't, in general use piracy. (Now, privateering, that's different).
All my docs are written day-mon(abbrv)-year, i.e. 11-oct-2011 specifically because I have international consumers of my docs and no one agrees on a friggen date format. -nB
Mexico is borderline failed state by now. Sovereignty is a nice concept and all, but national security has always trumped and will always trump sovereignty of another state, for obvious reasons. And, unlike Iraq or Afghanistan or Libya, the situation in Mexico is a very real, direct and serious national security threat for U.S.
Ah, that explains the US occupation of Mexico.
Oh, there is no US occupation of Mexico?
So maybe your understanding of the problem is not generally accepted by the people in charge of national security?
"Stability in Mexico apparently is not financially beneficial to the United States. "
A prosperous Mexico = no more illegal aliens willing to risk their lives to go North = no more resources drained by illegal aliens = financially beneficial to the United States.
Uh, you went off the tracks here: "no more resources drained by illegal aliens". Aliens do more work for less money, therefore are beneficial to the parts of the US that count. (Hint: you don't count).
if you're in another country. Especially a rich one. The reason we tolerate the Mexican drug lords is they mostly keep to their own little piece of hell, plus a few boarder towns full of people who don't matter. If they start acting like terrorists their liable to get 'liberated'.
So, now you've declared victory in Iraq how long before Afghanistan is "won"?
No. Leave the warning labels on. The stupid ones already ignore them and there are some people ignorant of the effects who *would* heed the labels.
If you're going to let the stupid remove themselves, you need to ensure those left aren't culpable.
Think about why you would need a warning label. Oh yeah, because you want to put something into your body that you haven't taken the time to first research and learn about. You think that's the mark of good decision-making?
So how much research do you do before eating a packet of chips?
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This is great news and lets us know that with the last 10 years of NO temperature increase it is likely the CO2 idea is decoupling from any possible warming....great news.
You gotta love the way deniers have decided that HADCRUT is the most reliable temperature record just because it gives them their cherries Hiding the rise?
We could also substantially reduce our emissions by buying fewer goods from overseas. One cargo ship emits the equivalent pollution of 50 million cars (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/09/shipping-pollution).
Crap.
Don't confuse CO2 with "cancer and asthma-causing chemicals "
Read to the bottom of the article and find "Shipping is responsible for 3.5% to 4% of all climate change emissions".
That's only 4% for the total shipping fleet.
Were we to exploit all our oil, everywhere there is a drop of it under an American flag, we wouldn't have to do that
So, where are these mythical reserves of yours?
The only thing slow is the build up of the Applications menu, because it re-reads the /usr/share/applications/ directory every time you open the menu. I can see why they did that, but I have rather a lot of packages installed, so I get a multisecond delay when opening the Applications view.
It takes multiple seconds to read a directory?
Just how many packages do you have installed?
Lead in petrol, mercury in the sea, vaccines, internet, WiFi, video games, contraceptive pills, pesticides, radon, highway noise, electrical cables, plastic soft drink bottles
Some of these things are not like some of the others.
If you're seriously trying to say that the bolded examples are not bad then you have a problem:
Lead in petrol, mercury in the sea, vaccines, internet, WiFi, video games, contraceptive pills, pesticides, radon, highway noise, electrical cables, plastic soft drink bottles.
Some of the others are a problem in some contexts:
Lead in petrol, mercury in the sea, vaccines, internet, WiFi, video games, contraceptive pills, pesticides, radon, highway noise, electrical cables, plastic soft drink bottles.
And worrying about some of them is a good diagnostic of insanity:
Lead in petrol, mercury in the sea, vaccines, internet, WiFi, video games, contraceptive pills, pesticides, radon, highway noise, electrical cables, plastic soft drink bottles.
So, why the mixture?
There are many "professors" out there who lecture maybe 2 or 3 days a year on a niche topic, sometimes but not necessarily related to the industry they work in. Many of these people derive the gig and title more from their buddy-network than anything else.
And the relevance of this to the ramblings of Lady Susan Greenfield, Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University,Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur and former director of the Royal Institution is?
She may be a nut, but a minor professor she isn't.
"Most cases are diagnosed around the age of two, when not many children are using the internet" - Dr Dorothy Bishop
Autism is not "poor social skills".
FWIW, you should only put two spaces after a period if you're typing in a monospaced font (like on a typewriter). For a proportionally spaced font, it's always one space.
If you're using a proportional font you should be using a sensible system that knows that the width of a space is not fixed.
And speaking of phones, the software that runs the phone network is largely written in C.
Well, in the US.
Ericson stuff will be written in Erlang.
But they do have battery powered hair clippers.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2052020/Amish-bishop-cult-leader-Sam-Mullet-rules-community-iron-fist-harsh-punishments.html
Will the Euro debt crisis be a driving force to the spread of open source software?"
Not likely. Everywhere else money has been a problem, it has caused the spread of piracy
Slight difference here. We're talking abut the Portuguese government. Western governments don't, in general use piracy. (Now, privateering, that's different).
What do these "upgrades" and "support" get you?
"is office 2003 still supported?"
From a non-megacorp POV it was never supported.
Did anyone run ME?
ME was the broken version of '95 in the same way that Vista was the broken version of NT.
Microsoft have made 3 desktop OS's:
Windows 2, 3
Windows 95, 96, ME
Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7
He's worried about 3D acceleration on old cards.
It's nonsense, because even if it worked the performance wouldn't be worth it.
All my docs are written day-mon(abbrv)-year, i.e. 11-oct-2011 specifically because I have international consumers of my docs and no one agrees on a friggen date format.
-nB
Fail, WTF is "oct", don't you mean "OKT"? Maybe "HER"? http://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here or "URR"? http://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urri
Use the Swedish format - yyyy-mm-dd, it sorts, too.
Mexico is a sovereign nation. They can legalize drug production and export tomorrow morning if they want. Voila, new landscape.
With craters where their politicians used to be.
Citation needed.
Mexico is borderline failed state by now. Sovereignty is a nice concept and all, but national security has always trumped and will always trump sovereignty of another state, for obvious reasons. And, unlike Iraq or Afghanistan or Libya, the situation in Mexico is a very real, direct and serious national security threat for U.S.
Ah, that explains the US occupation of Mexico.
Oh, there is no US occupation of Mexico?
So maybe your understanding of the problem is not generally accepted by the people in charge of national security?
The Second World War was a real war,
By your criteria:
actual, real attacks on American soil
the last real war America was in was the civil war.
Which, to many Europeans, explains your lack of understanding of just how fucking awful war is.
"Stability in Mexico apparently is not financially beneficial to the United States. "
A prosperous Mexico = no more illegal aliens willing to risk their lives to go North = no more resources drained by illegal aliens = financially beneficial to the United States.
Uh, you went off the tracks here: "no more resources drained by illegal aliens". Aliens do more work for less money, therefore are beneficial to the parts of the US that count. (Hint: you don't count).
if you're in another country. Especially a rich one. The reason we tolerate the Mexican drug lords is they mostly keep to their own little piece of hell, plus a few boarder towns full of people who don't matter. If they start acting like terrorists their liable to get 'liberated'.
So, now you've declared victory in Iraq how long before Afghanistan is "won"?
No. Leave the warning labels on. The stupid ones already ignore them and there are some people ignorant of the effects who *would* heed the labels.
If you're going to let the stupid remove themselves, you need to ensure those left aren't culpable.
Think about why you would need a warning label. Oh yeah, because you want to put something into your body that you haven't taken the time to first research and learn about. You think that's the mark of good decision-making?
So how much research do you do before eating a packet of chips?
the cartels don't have a server farm
Well, the Colombians had an AS/400 so who knows?
http://cocaine.org/cokecrime/index.html
Yeah. Why didn't we get a story about the end of the world on 21/10/2011?
OTOH, many of the increasingly common peer to peer protocols, such as those used for VoIP are made less reliable and harder to diagnose by NAT.
Unfortunately many ISPs see this as a feature rather than a bug.