You know, you're not allowed to use hairspray anymore because if affects the ozone. You know that, right? I said, "You mean to tell me"- because you know hairspray's not like it used to be, it used to be real good. Give me a mirror. But no, in the old days, you put the hairspray on, it was good. Today, you put the hairspray on, it's good for 12 minutes, right? I said, "Wait a minute- so if I take hairspray and if I spray it in my apartment, which is all sealed, you're telling me that affects the ozone layer?" "Yes." I say, no way, folks. No way! No way! That's like a lot of the rules and regulations you people have in the mines, right? It's the same kind of stuff.
A compound doesn't have to undergo a chemical reaction to cause cancer. It can activate a receptor, attach itself to a binding site in an enzyme, or intercalate between DNA bases.
This isn't "dihydrogen monoxide", it's the class of compounds that includes C8, which was used in Teflon manufacture until recently. It never degrades and will last millions of years. It causes birth defects (reduced birth size, physical developmental delays, or miscarriage), cancer, and liver disease.
Old government videos about mining operations are great. Everyone is so optimistic and clueless- you see people messing around with uranium, asbestos, lead, etc. with cheerful music playing in the background. There are great videos about how awesome leaded gasoline is too.
Actually I don't think the point of all this is that we should be alarmed about this dump; it's more of a "ha-ha, look at that" story like the one in 2013 about the boat with climate scientists that got stuck in ice. Not so much substantive as ironic.
The US and USSR both did a lot of crazy shit during the Cold War. Today, chemical weapons are disposed of via thermal or chemical degradation (and are generally not made anymore), but from 1916 to the 1960s, we built those things assuming we were going to use them, and we made them hard to disassemble. So when they reached the end of their lifetimes we routinely disposed of them by dropping them into the ocean.
Meanwhile the USSR had a nasty habit of doing above-ground nuclear tests in Kazakhstan to see what the effects would be on a civilian population. They purposely didn't warn their citizens there (the USSR didn't have that kind of a government) and surprised them with mushroom clouds. Three generations later, babies are still being born or miscarried that have no arms, no skeletons, eyes in the wrong places or missing altogether, etc.
OK, I'm replying to myself here after RTFA. The dump is situated at the accumulation zone of the Greenland ice sheet, so if the earth's average temperature increases by five degrees C, anything buried that deep at the site will surface after 80 years.
This is land ice, not surface sea ice (which is declining year by year: see https://www.youtube.com/watch?... for a time-lapse). Land ice is declining in the rest of of Greenland which lies outside the accumulation zone.
Currently snow and ice forming is out running the melting, EVERY YEAR
Link?
I suspect you're making one of two common mistakes with claims like this: confusing land ice with sea ice, and confusing the Arctic with the Antarctic.
in maybe 80 years the melting might keep up the new snow/ice formation and begin reversing.
I don't think sophisticated math enters into it at all. If you've been paying attention for the past few days, it seems he and his surrogates are adopting a new strategy- declaring that the only way he can lose the election is if there is massive voter fraud. This is Roger Stone on the Milo Yiannopoulos show:
I think we have widespread voter fraud, but the first thing that Trump needs to do is begin talking about it constantly. He needs to say for example, today would be a perfect example: "I am leading in Florida. The polls all show it. If I lose Florida, we will know that there's voter fraud. If there's voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate, the election of the winner will be illegitimate, we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government."
If you can't have an honest election, nothing else counts. I think he's gotta put them on notice that their inauguration will be a rhetorical, and when I mean civil disobedience, not violence, but it will be a bloodbath. The government will be shut down if they attempt to steal this and swear Hillary in. No, we will not stand for it. We will not stand for it.
that he will be able to take down all the porn on the internet?
We're going to build a big fat firewall, 30 feet high, 2000 miles long, made of reinforced concrete, with a big beautiful door, so pictures of Melania can enter our country, legally.
The fact that you conflated the two while trying to defend JS is the funniest thing I read all day...thanks for the lulz...
I wasn't defending JavaScript (asshole!). Douglas Crockford described JavaScript as having a similar design to Scheme but having a pseudoclassical object oriented syntax forced onto it. FWIW JavaScript is a functional language also, but a half-assed one that discourages functional programming.
Nazi leader Hermann Goering, interviewed by Gustave Gilbert during the Easter recess of the Nuremberg trials, 1946 April 18, was quoted in Gilbert's book Nuremberg Diary:
GOERING: Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
GILBERT: There is one difference. In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
GOERING: Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
...because they're not trying to ban porn. They're trying to ban child porn
If you listen to these people, you'll realize they use the two terms interchangeably. They don't seem to recognize any sort of difference between adult and child porn.
I think JavaScript is actually harder language if you're coming from a Java background (or any other object-oriented language). JavaScript is a protoype-based language like Scheme, and it would have been a better language if Netscape hadn't pressed for it to "look like Java", which it isn't.
JavaScript is a lot like Hillary- it's been around for decades, nobody is terribly impressed by it, everyone is tired of it, it's weakly typed, it's just barely tolerable, it's only around because of historical accidents in the nineties, and although it has its diehard fans, most people just grumble with it and put up with it. But it will continue to prevail for years because at this point there simply is no viable alternative.
At some point the question you ask yourself changes from "How much more money do I need?" into "What if the guy putting at the next hole has more cash than I do?"
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There are lots of chemicals that can make you look like an angry tangerine. Is he spraying ozone on his hair?
You know, you're not allowed to use hairspray anymore because if affects the ozone. You know that, right? I said, "You mean to tell me"- because you know hairspray's not like it used to be, it used to be real good. Give me a mirror. But no, in the old days, you put the hairspray on, it was good. Today, you put the hairspray on, it's good for 12 minutes, right? I said, "Wait a minute- so if I take hairspray and if I spray it in my apartment, which is all sealed, you're telling me that affects the ozone layer?" "Yes." I say, no way, folks. No way! No way! That's like a lot of the rules and regulations you people have in the mines, right? It's the same kind of stuff.
What makes you think we would be served by a superior AI that we created in the long term?
Who's "we"? If your job gets replaced by a robot, you aren't served, but somebody is.
Oh come on. DHMO degrades during photosynthesis for crying out loud.
A compound doesn't have to undergo a chemical reaction to cause cancer. It can activate a receptor, attach itself to a binding site in an enzyme, or intercalate between DNA bases.
Asbestos never degrades either. It causes cancer when your DNA gets tangled on the needles.
This isn't "dihydrogen monoxide", it's the class of compounds that includes C8, which was used in Teflon manufacture until recently. It never degrades and will last millions of years. It causes birth defects (reduced birth size, physical developmental delays, or miscarriage), cancer, and liver disease.
Now "chemtrails" *are* bullshit.
To be the fastest internet in America, just tie a 256 character message to a raven and let it fly from your castle.
If you have a connection lasting longer than 4 hours, call your doctor.
Old government videos about mining operations are great. Everyone is so optimistic and clueless- you see people messing around with uranium, asbestos, lead, etc. with cheerful music playing in the background. There are great videos about how awesome leaded gasoline is too.
I hope we'll be able to organize a clean-up party in the next 170 years, before the waste starts to be exposed!
I doubt it- in the given scenario where the earth's temperature rises by 5 degrees Centigrade, this dump would probably be the least of our problems.
But who should we chooose? spread across the globe equally, or by some certain pattern?
I vote eugenics. You get to have a kid if you can program a computer.
Actually I don't think the point of all this is that we should be alarmed about this dump; it's more of a "ha-ha, look at that" story like the one in 2013 about the boat with climate scientists that got stuck in ice. Not so much substantive as ironic.
The US and USSR both did a lot of crazy shit during the Cold War. Today, chemical weapons are disposed of via thermal or chemical degradation (and are generally not made anymore), but from 1916 to the 1960s, we built those things assuming we were going to use them, and we made them hard to disassemble. So when they reached the end of their lifetimes we routinely disposed of them by dropping them into the ocean.
Meanwhile the USSR had a nasty habit of doing above-ground nuclear tests in Kazakhstan to see what the effects would be on a civilian population. They purposely didn't warn their citizens there (the USSR didn't have that kind of a government) and surprised them with mushroom clouds. Three generations later, babies are still being born or miscarried that have no arms, no skeletons, eyes in the wrong places or missing altogether, etc.
OK, I'm replying to myself here after RTFA. The dump is situated at the accumulation zone of the Greenland ice sheet, so if the earth's average temperature increases by five degrees C, anything buried that deep at the site will surface after 80 years.
This is land ice, not surface sea ice (which is declining year by year: see https://www.youtube.com/watch?... for a time-lapse). Land ice is declining in the rest of of Greenland which lies outside the accumulation zone.
Currently snow and ice forming is out running the melting, EVERY YEAR
Link?
I suspect you're making one of two common mistakes with claims like this: confusing land ice with sea ice, and confusing the Arctic with the Antarctic.
in maybe 80 years the melting might keep up the new snow/ice formation and begin reversing.
Link?
Why would I make a bet with the same people who are adjusting the temperature readings?
Exxon (XOM) was trading at $79 per share in August 2008 and now it's up to $86. You would have made a little money.
I think we have widespread voter fraud, but the first thing that Trump needs to do is begin talking about it constantly. He needs to say for example, today would be a perfect example: "I am leading in Florida. The polls all show it. If I lose Florida, we will know that there's voter fraud. If there's voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate, the election of the winner will be illegitimate, we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government."
If you can't have an honest election, nothing else counts. I think he's gotta put them on notice that their inauguration will be a rhetorical, and when I mean civil disobedience, not violence, but it will be a bloodbath. The government will be shut down if they attempt to steal this and swear Hillary in. No, we will not stand for it. We will not stand for it.
that he will be able to take down all the porn on the internet?
We're going to build a big fat firewall, 30 feet high, 2000 miles long, made of reinforced concrete, with a big beautiful door, so pictures of Melania can enter our country, legally.
The fact that you conflated the two while trying to defend JS is the funniest thing I read all day...thanks for the lulz...
I wasn't defending JavaScript (asshole!). Douglas Crockford described JavaScript as having a similar design to Scheme but having a pseudoclassical object oriented syntax forced onto it. FWIW JavaScript is a functional language also, but a half-assed one that discourages functional programming.
GOERING: Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
GILBERT: There is one difference. In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
GOERING: Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
...because they're not trying to ban porn. They're trying to ban child porn
If you listen to these people, you'll realize they use the two terms interchangeably. They don't seem to recognize any sort of difference between adult and child porn.
The relentless scandal factory has been at work since, what, 1992?
Better get used to it. We're going to be hearing this drivel for the next eight years.
If they didn't want her to be president they shouldn't have matched her against someone who attracts so much attention from neuroscientists.
I think JavaScript is actually harder language if you're coming from a Java background (or any other object-oriented language). JavaScript is a protoype-based language like Scheme, and it would have been a better language if Netscape hadn't pressed for it to "look like Java", which it isn't.
JavaScript is a lot like Hillary- it's been around for decades, nobody is terribly impressed by it, everyone is tired of it, it's weakly typed, it's just barely tolerable, it's only around because of historical accidents in the nineties, and although it has its diehard fans, most people just grumble with it and put up with it. But it will continue to prevail for years because at this point there simply is no viable alternative.
At some point the question you ask yourself changes from "How much more money do I need?" into "What if the guy putting at the next hole has more cash than I do?"