Makes perfect sense. I know a decade or so ago it cost about 25cents to make a music CD. I can only imagine that cost is even lower today- sounds a fantastic way to get people to buy who might otherwise be on the fence.
If it's not random- it's probably advanced space aliens sending us warnings. Every time we do something catastrophically stupid they throw a rock at us. Since NASA is American the space aliens are warning the Americans.
What catastrophically stupid things has America done this last year? I'm drawing a blank.
Cover art: Vinyl is the best way to deliver large scale artwork
Get the digital copy for the superior music, I'm sure the cover art is available online- print it off if you want a physical copy of the cover art. Best of both worlds.
I've never owned Vinyl. Cassettes had long since killed vinyl by the time I was old enough to care- so I can't give any first hand account of durability; however, I can quite confidently state that the very first CDs I ever bought still work 100% with no issues. So I can't understand the claim of CDs dying in 15 years.
Incidentally, my cassettes all sound horrible now unfortunately. Not sure if that's because I'm so used to digital now, or they just degraded. It's a shame, a lot of good music I liked that I simply can't stomach listening to in its current format.
That was my thought too. 1/6 the distance of the moon would make more sense. It's like saying Suzy is twice as skinny as Lucy... it doesn't really make sense even though we know what you mean by it.
Perhaps when you got your PhD in history you forgot to study world history. Still, I bet the humus dip parties were nice.
Look around what was happening in Asia and Africa during the medieval warming period- it wasn't all roses. The world is larger than Europe. That's the thing about climate change, it doesn't impact everyone equally. Canada will almost certainly benefit, for example, the corn belt will spread North. South Asia with it's huge population centers will be hit quite badly with projected rain fall losses. Nowadays even everything is so interconnected, upheaval in one part of the globe can spread quite quickly. If nuclear War between India and Pakistan started (where warming weather will cause more drought, unlike Europe that will likely get more rain) this will be of global importance.
And I will agree that, we're more likely to have nuclear war through other means rather than as a forced effort due to climate change- climate change is just one of many factors that could lead to nuclear war. US, Europe, Russia... probably not going to be led to destitution by climate change. China has a slight risk.
Israel, Pakistan and India are the three nuclear powers with the most risk to be majorly screwed by climate change.
Actually, I underestimated not over estimated- there is close to 20 million in the New York City metro area!
If one of those nations impacted by climate change is a nuclear nation. (India, Pakistan, both set to lose out on rainfall as part of climate change) It very well COULD be a nuclear war, that's the point. Climate change has led to war many times throughout history- it made the Vikings leave Denmark, caused the mass migration in Europe that led to the fall of Rome. Caused Egypt to fall, Chinese dynasties to be overthrown.
Predicted Climate change itself can probably only kill at most millions not billions at worst. but countries struggling to adapt and pushed to war because of climate change could kill billions. If the world went to a full nuclear war, most people would be wiped out. Some would presumably survive, but that is still pretty catastrophic.
So what you're saying is Trump is more diverse than Obummer? Cool.
Train keeps going.
Almost every President seems to be worse than the one before him...... I'm not sure how we're going to trump Trump though. Kanye West 2020? Charlie Sheen 2024? Satan 2028?
How are you going to move 15million people out of New York? Where are you going to put them? Where are you going to put people on islands where the vast majority of the islands are going to be at danger of regular flooding.
You don't seem to understand the concept. It's not just that water moves 6inches higher- it's that storm surges go up as water levels go up. Warmer temperatures mean higher storm surges too. Sure, you may live 8 inches above sea level and think- I'm safe, I have an extra 2 inches- but when the storms come in and flood your major cities- and areas like subways (which have parts below sea level... not sure if you knew that) get filled
Then there are countries like The Netherlands where half their country could be underwater if flood controls break and let in the sea water. You seem to have this rather naïve idea that water just slowly rises, there are no tides- no sudden flood events or storms that exacerbate the problem. Being a fly-over state person, many people don't really get ocean-front dynamics.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
(often misquoted as "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it")
If the rest of humanity is as unable to understand the concept that throughout history weather pattern changes have led to the rise and fall of civilizations, that sudden loss of resources lead to mass migrations of people and warfare, we're doomed to face catastrophic actions. WEATHER CHANGES DO impact people. Be it, forcing the Danes out of their native land to look for arable land to conquer- or the people of North Eastern Europe during the mass migration event that brought down the Roman Empire.
Famine in Egypt that brought down dynasties and let other nations conquer them. Floods in China have changed dynasties there. When nations a re plagued by famine because rain patterns change and inhabited parts of the globe no longer get rain, they will take little solace from your claim that there is more rain overall.
When Texas flooded not too long ago, that did nothing to relieve drought where I am. Nor did it really help Texas agriculturally. Having large swathes of the planet go dry and other parts of the planet suddenly subject to mass flooding events doesn't help.
Having areas of drought and monsoon doesn't help anyone, it certainly doesn't help feed the planet. There will be areas without food and water. There will be war (history has taught us this). Will nuclear nations be involved? That I can't say. I'm sure, to you in your comfortable home, two nations in Africa killing each other over water access will be inconsequential.
All good news for New Zealand then! I know my friends there complain about everything lagging and IT people there talk about being at "the far end of the internet" looks like New Zealand is proactively making steps to rectify that- good for them.
Some places get more rain others get fewer, that's what is meant by water resources changing. If you think countries with populations suddenly not able to have access to clean water are just going to migrate peacefully and gradually to countries that gain from this, you're mistaken. The places that get extra rainfall will get more deluges. This isn't good either. Flooding events do not produce much clean useable water even if you can trap it. It's frequently polluted and ill-suited to consumption.
Countries going to war is not necessarily doomsday. Status Quo is not necessarily doomsday. If parts of China suddenly become arid, and neighbors don't want to share water... well now, that could be doomsday. If you think suddenly stressed countries won't go to war- or elect unstable regimes... well, I'm sorry, you've got a surprise coming.
I went once, 5 years ago. (I know it was 5 years because I specifically remember the route I was on for my work at the time, and I only worked there one year- McD was only place I passed). It was awful and haven't eaten there again since.
Before that time it had been at least a decade- probably 2.
So one McDonalds outing in 25 years- and I consider that too frequent.
Spy parody about a decade ago. You'd frequently see Sub Way ad placements in the show- things like his boss at the Buy More sitting down to eat a fresh subway sandwich and go on to describe all that went into making it. It had lots of blatant ad placements like that.
This is a *Doomsday* clock, yes? As in, something that measures how close we potentially are to Doomsday - that is, an event that leads to the total extinction of the human race.
Can anyone - anyone! - say with a straight face that we are closer to that scenario right now than we were, say, at the height of the Cold War?
There were a couple of occasions where we were frighteningly close to war- but by and large the public didn't know about them. So no, we're not the closest we've ever been.
Generally, by and large during the cold war we had rational politicians who wanted to avoid war. Currently we have a militant leader in Russia who is willing to gamble on weakness in the west because he thinks the west will do nothing.
We have a Chinese government who want to assert their power and gobble up territory all over Asia... and we have a deluded megalomaniac running the United States and is so unstable he WOULD start nuclear war over something trivial rather than lose faith.
So perhaps we were closer on occasions that the public weren't aware about during the cold war- but right now, despite there being less reason for war,we have three primary world leaders who are much more likely to do something stupid because they don't fear the consequences.
Yes, by and large, this is more dangerous than the cold war because we have leaders who don't fear consequences.
# of IT workers in the US: 6.5million. Population of New Zealand: 4.5 million.
Of course New Zealand, can and does create their own content, as does Australia; however a decent amount of the websites they visit will have a round trip to a server in Europe or North America. It's a numbers game. Even if New Zealand was fully devoted to IT development they're going to have a lot of content from overseas. With any luck though they can stream "Meet the Feebles" from a local source.
Do you really think the environment will just change from one day to the next giving economies and people no chance to adept?
It has before, and appears to be happening now. A country like the US that has multiple ecological zones and climates may be able to adjust with minimal impact by moving resources around, but you take a country in a single climate zone with a less diverse economy and it could be disastrous. Historically there have been single flood events or famine events that have led to regime changes.
They have to do something. They're not profitable as they are and slowly becoming obsolete. They can't do nothing. Maybe it will work, or maybe it will speed their demise. Either way, they need to take risks at this point.
What happens when they fall out? There is nothing more dangerous than a woman scorned! How do you think Trump will react when Putin says "it's not you, it's me... can't we still be friends?"
Climate change changes resource availability. Particularly water. If areas that once had water no longer have water that will put stress on their economy potentially making them less politically stable.
If natural disasters increase linked to climate change, certain seas may no longer be feasible to collect oil from. Perhaps flooding from rising sea levels will cause areas to be evacuated causing widespread homelessness and unrest.
Climate change has upset the status quo many times over history. Encouraging the Vikings to leave Scandinavia and invade Europe. The mass migrations of populations throughout Europe, the so called "barbarian invasion" of Rome. Dynasties have been overturned in China with links to climate change, or natural disasters.
Climate change whether man made or natural always upsets the status quo... but now we have nuclear weapons.
This is a meaningless metric. There is no such thing as doomsday. The World is not a clock. You are OK. Breathe out.
Although the analogy with a clock may not be entirely accurate since it isn't always moving forwards, the concept of a metric to determine the risk of nuclear mass destruction isn't. (although it can never be very accurate without knowing what's going on inside the governing bodies behind closed doors).
Whereas Amazon's US retail business finally makes a profit, the corporation as a whole is still losing money every year over 20 years after it first started.
I live in a small town. Uber does not exist. Stop posting stories about non-existing crap.
I want to hear more about what Apple is going to ditch next. It takes courage to ditch things that people still use.
If they're really brave, the next iPhone (or Samsung Galaxy) will ditch the ability to make phone calls- because no one uses phones to make voice calls anymore. (or very few people do). Imagine how thin they can make the phone if they take the phone part out.
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(Some stick a CD in the sleeve, though.)
Makes perfect sense. I know a decade or so ago it cost about 25cents to make a music CD. I can only imagine that cost is even lower today- sounds a fantastic way to get people to buy who might otherwise be on the fence.
If it's not random- it's probably advanced space aliens sending us warnings. Every time we do something catastrophically stupid they throw a rock at us. Since NASA is American the space aliens are warning the Americans.
What catastrophically stupid things has America done this last year? I'm drawing a blank.
Cover art: Vinyl is the best way to deliver large scale artwork
Get the digital copy for the superior music, I'm sure the cover art is available online- print it off if you want a physical copy of the cover art. Best of both worlds.
I've never owned Vinyl. Cassettes had long since killed vinyl by the time I was old enough to care- so I can't give any first hand account of durability; however, I can quite confidently state that the very first CDs I ever bought still work 100% with no issues. So I can't understand the claim of CDs dying in 15 years.
Incidentally, my cassettes all sound horrible now unfortunately. Not sure if that's because I'm so used to digital now, or they just degraded. It's a shame, a lot of good music I liked that I simply can't stomach listening to in its current format.
What kind of english is that?
That was my thought too. 1/6 the distance of the moon would make more sense. It's like saying Suzy is twice as skinny as Lucy... it doesn't really make sense even though we know what you mean by it.
Perhaps when you got your PhD in history you forgot to study world history. Still, I bet the humus dip parties were nice.
Look around what was happening in Asia and Africa during the medieval warming period- it wasn't all roses. The world is larger than Europe. That's the thing about climate change, it doesn't impact everyone equally. Canada will almost certainly benefit, for example, the corn belt will spread North. South Asia with it's huge population centers will be hit quite badly with projected rain fall losses. Nowadays even everything is so interconnected, upheaval in one part of the globe can spread quite quickly. If nuclear War between India and Pakistan started (where warming weather will cause more drought, unlike Europe that will likely get more rain) this will be of global importance.
And I will agree that, we're more likely to have nuclear war through other means rather than as a forced effort due to climate change- climate change is just one of many factors that could lead to nuclear war. US, Europe, Russia... probably not going to be led to destitution by climate change. China has a slight risk.
Israel, Pakistan and India are the three nuclear powers with the most risk to be majorly screwed by climate change.
Actually, I underestimated not over estimated- there is close to 20 million in the New York City metro area!
If one of those nations impacted by climate change is a nuclear nation. (India, Pakistan, both set to lose out on rainfall as part of climate change) It very well COULD be a nuclear war, that's the point. Climate change has led to war many times throughout history- it made the Vikings leave Denmark, caused the mass migration in Europe that led to the fall of Rome. Caused Egypt to fall, Chinese dynasties to be overthrown.
Predicted Climate change itself can probably only kill at most millions not billions at worst. but countries struggling to adapt and pushed to war because of climate change could kill billions. If the world went to a full nuclear war, most people would be wiped out. Some would presumably survive, but that is still pretty catastrophic.
So what you're saying is Trump is more diverse than Obummer? Cool.
Train keeps going.
Almost every President seems to be worse than the one before him... ... I'm not sure how we're going to trump Trump though. Kanye West 2020? Charlie Sheen 2024? Satan 2028?
How are you going to move 15million people out of New York? Where are you going to put them? Where are you going to put people on islands where the vast majority of the islands are going to be at danger of regular flooding.
You don't seem to understand the concept. It's not just that water moves 6inches higher- it's that storm surges go up as water levels go up. Warmer temperatures mean higher storm surges too. Sure, you may live 8 inches above sea level and think- I'm safe, I have an extra 2 inches- but when the storms come in and flood your major cities- and areas like subways (which have parts below sea level... not sure if you knew that) get filled
Then there are countries like The Netherlands where half their country could be underwater if flood controls break and let in the sea water. You seem to have this rather naïve idea that water just slowly rises, there are no tides- no sudden flood events or storms that exacerbate the problem. Being a fly-over state person, many people don't really get ocean-front dynamics.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
(often misquoted as "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it")
If the rest of humanity is as unable to understand the concept that throughout history weather pattern changes have led to the rise and fall of civilizations, that sudden loss of resources lead to mass migrations of people and warfare, we're doomed to face catastrophic actions. WEATHER CHANGES DO impact people. Be it, forcing the Danes out of their native land to look for arable land to conquer- or the people of North Eastern Europe during the mass migration event that brought down the Roman Empire.
Famine in Egypt that brought down dynasties and let other nations conquer them. Floods in China have changed dynasties there. When nations a re plagued by famine because rain patterns change and inhabited parts of the globe no longer get rain, they will take little solace from your claim that there is more rain overall.
When Texas flooded not too long ago, that did nothing to relieve drought where I am. Nor did it really help Texas agriculturally. Having large swathes of the planet go dry and other parts of the planet suddenly subject to mass flooding events doesn't help.
Having areas of drought and monsoon doesn't help anyone, it certainly doesn't help feed the planet. There will be areas without food and water. There will be war (history has taught us this). Will nuclear nations be involved? That I can't say. I'm sure, to you in your comfortable home, two nations in Africa killing each other over water access will be inconsequential.
All good news for New Zealand then! I know my friends there complain about everything lagging and IT people there talk about being at "the far end of the internet" looks like New Zealand is proactively making steps to rectify that- good for them.
Some places get more rain others get fewer, that's what is meant by water resources changing. If you think countries with populations suddenly not able to have access to clean water are just going to migrate peacefully and gradually to countries that gain from this, you're mistaken. The places that get extra rainfall will get more deluges. This isn't good either. Flooding events do not produce much clean useable water even if you can trap it. It's frequently polluted and ill-suited to consumption.
Countries going to war is not necessarily doomsday. Status Quo is not necessarily doomsday. If parts of China suddenly become arid, and neighbors don't want to share water... well now, that could be doomsday. If you think suddenly stressed countries won't go to war- or elect unstable regimes... well, I'm sorry, you've got a surprise coming.
I went once, 5 years ago. (I know it was 5 years because I specifically remember the route I was on for my work at the time, and I only worked there one year- McD was only place I passed). It was awful and haven't eaten there again since.
Before that time it had been at least a decade- probably 2.
So one McDonalds outing in 25 years- and I consider that too frequent.
Spy parody about a decade ago. You'd frequently see Sub Way ad placements in the show- things like his boss at the Buy More sitting down to eat a fresh subway sandwich and go on to describe all that went into making it. It had lots of blatant ad placements like that.
This is a *Doomsday* clock, yes? As in, something that measures how close we potentially are to Doomsday - that is, an event that leads to the total extinction of the human race.
Can anyone - anyone! - say with a straight face that we are closer to that scenario right now than we were, say, at the height of the Cold War?
There were a couple of occasions where we were frighteningly close to war- but by and large the public didn't know about them. So no, we're not the closest we've ever been.
Generally, by and large during the cold war we had rational politicians who wanted to avoid war. Currently we have a militant leader in Russia who is willing to gamble on weakness in the west because he thinks the west will do nothing.
We have a Chinese government who want to assert their power and gobble up territory all over Asia... and we have a deluded megalomaniac running the United States and is so unstable he WOULD start nuclear war over something trivial rather than lose faith.
So perhaps we were closer on occasions that the public weren't aware about during the cold war- but right now, despite there being less reason for war,we have three primary world leaders who are much more likely to do something stupid because they don't fear the consequences.
Yes, by and large, this is more dangerous than the cold war because we have leaders who don't fear consequences.
# of IT workers in the US: 6.5million.
Population of New Zealand: 4.5 million.
Of course New Zealand, can and does create their own content, as does Australia; however a decent amount of the websites they visit will have a round trip to a server in Europe or North America. It's a numbers game. Even if New Zealand was fully devoted to IT development they're going to have a lot of content from overseas. With any luck though they can stream "Meet the Feebles" from a local source.
Do you really think the environment will just change from one day to the next giving economies and people no chance to adept?
It has before, and appears to be happening now. A country like the US that has multiple ecological zones and climates may be able to adjust with minimal impact by moving resources around, but you take a country in a single climate zone with a less diverse economy and it could be disastrous. Historically there have been single flood events or famine events that have led to regime changes.
They have to do something. They're not profitable as they are and slowly becoming obsolete. They can't do nothing. Maybe it will work, or maybe it will speed their demise. Either way, they need to take risks at this point.
What happens when they fall out? There is nothing more dangerous than a woman scorned! How do you think Trump will react when Putin says "it's not you, it's me... can't we still be friends?"
Climate change changes resource availability. Particularly water. If areas that once had water no longer have water that will put stress on their economy potentially making them less politically stable.
If natural disasters increase linked to climate change, certain seas may no longer be feasible to collect oil from. Perhaps flooding from rising sea levels will cause areas to be evacuated causing widespread homelessness and unrest.
Climate change has upset the status quo many times over history. Encouraging the Vikings to leave Scandinavia and invade Europe. The mass migrations of populations throughout Europe, the so called "barbarian invasion" of Rome. Dynasties have been overturned in China with links to climate change, or natural disasters.
Climate change whether man made or natural always upsets the status quo... but now we have nuclear weapons.
This is a meaningless metric. There is no such thing as doomsday. The World is not a clock. You are OK. Breathe out.
Although the analogy with a clock may not be entirely accurate since it isn't always moving forwards, the concept of a metric to determine the risk of nuclear mass destruction isn't. (although it can never be very accurate without knowing what's going on inside the governing bodies behind closed doors).
Whereas Amazon's US retail business finally makes a profit, the corporation as a whole is still losing money every year over 20 years after it first started.
We all know what the real answer would be, but most companies won't reimburse for hookers and blow.
No, but the federal government is a major employer in this country, and they will as long as you file it under "misc. entertainment"
I live in a small town. Uber does not exist. Stop posting stories about non-existing crap.
I want to hear more about what Apple is going to ditch next. It takes courage to ditch things that people still use.
If they're really brave, the next iPhone (or Samsung Galaxy) will ditch the ability to make phone calls- because no one uses phones to make voice calls anymore. (or very few people do). Imagine how thin they can make the phone if they take the phone part out.