I don't know. My girlfriend breeds them (Russian Blues)
While cats certainly recognize words, I have seen little evidence that they're aware of their name.
Totally different experience; cats whose owners have no emotional connection to the owners and live with many other cats and hearing the names of other cats continuously as the kitten mill churns along; and a cat that is kept as a pet and develops a long emotional bond with the owner and gets lots of one on one time.
A cat that is kept as a pet and has an emotional bond with their human is going to develop deeper understanding of their human than one that is a commodity to a human and doesn't have the emotional bond.
A warmer world means more rain and the Sahara and Australian desert turning green. What makes you think hotter means dryer?
It's a little more complicated than all that though. Some places will see more rain, often too much rain, the kind that causes seasonal flooding; many other places will become much drier.
Less of the rain that falls will be in the form of snow, meaning the summer run-offs from mountains will be less; as a result it will be lots of rain, but over a short period of time. Ironically, this means people will be less able to capture water without extensive reservoir and water retainment systems. As we get more rain, we'll have less water to use.
It means many agricultural economies set up on arable land will collapse as the ideal places to grow crops moves to places that don't have the infrastructure set up to grow and harvest them- and by the time they build those infrastructures, if warming continues, the ideal growing places will move again. Because of our lack of ability to capture the more seasonal and more "all-in-one-go" type rains that accompany global warming, we will have less water to irrigate crops with.
So yes, more rain, but not necessarily more usable water. A tree won't benefit from increased rainfall if it all happens in one month of the year and the tree experiences drought like conditions the rest of the year.
Police assume everyone is a criminal who has just not been caught yet.
They are! Everyone is! There are so many obscure or deliberately vague laws out there that I bet every adult human has broken a law in their life in the US, even if they were unaware they were doing so at the time!
That's why privacy and unreasonable protection from police snooping is so important. The solution is not to arrest the entire populace. When police have too much information, instead of being protect and serve, they can become political and arrest anyone. I've always thought we need fewer, more simpler, easy to follow laws, and more privacy and protection from digital snooping- so that police can only go after those who are really in the wrong.
When you make everything illegal- police can target specific groups more easily.
and I will never understand how grown ass men get obsessed with either of them.
Curiosity and play into adulthood are linked with higher intelligence and fewer mental disorders as one ages. Many intelligent species, from humans, to many mammels such as dogs, cats, elephants, etc, and more intelligent bird species show tendencies towards playfulness as they age.
That said, some people take the obsessions a little far, but we all have our quirks it is what makes us human.
Is there one that will just display emails in the order they came in and not try to write my replies for me?
I see you are trying to ask a question, would you like ClipyMail to completely change your question and e-mail it out to everyone on your contacts list with the nude photo of you and your mistress attached?
Driver further, get around corners better, break faster.
WRONG! The only part of that, that is true (for now) is the Drive further!
Electric cars handle better than ICE. They accelerate faster, CORNER FASTER, can tow more and how they break is entirely dependent car-by-car and often depends on the type of breaks used and the weight of the car. Some electric vehicles are heavier- but electric vehicles also can capture energy from breaking whereas ICE lose the breaking energy as heat.
Electric cars are superior to ICE for everything except for range on a given charge.
Norway is a massive oil exporter. Every drop of oil they don't burn in cars they export as oil instead. Norway moving to electric cars does nothing at all to reduce the overall problem because they just export the difference.
The demand in oil won't go up over-seas because Norway is exporting a larger % of what they earn. In fact as electric cars are beginning to take a larger share of the market in many places, and power stations switch from using oil, the demand for oil will decrease. It won't go away completely any time soon- but demand for oil is going to drop- and production of oil will drop in many places too- to keep the prices from free falling.
Not really. These people are buying $80,000+ cars because there are other benefits, including toll-free roads, HOV-lane access, free parking, and free charging. This is just rich people buying convenience.
You think the majority of Norweigan's are rich?
Admit it, the electric car is winning. Give it a decade and no-one will be surprised to hear of electric cars topping ICE cars in ANY country. It is the future- they just make more sense than ICE in almost every way.
I'm watching the Rivian and Tesla offerings closely and hoping they motivate Ford/GM/FCA to get seriously busy with EV versions of their trucks too.
I like the Rivian from all I've seen. Tesla often seems to go for flair rather than function- like their gullwing doors. Rivian seems all practical. I'd love a Rivian, there again- they're projecting them to cost $70k... there is no way I would spend that much on a car. I'm amazed that the average new car price in the US is now $35k; I have a good job that pays well and I'd never pay anything like that much for a new car so $70K is totally beyond my willingness to spend.
I'd rather spend the money on something else... although if I COULD get any car I wanted and money wasn't an issue- it'd be the Rivian Truck.
Very little of this is significant and barely even true. I live there. Most Norwegian live in areas where is just goes under freezing for 3-4 months at most, heavy snow is uncommon, cleared very effectively and few people commute very far at all.
It's all relative though. If I have one day where it's still freezing by noon I consider that pretty darn cold nowadays. What you consider not so bad a winter, many people on here would consider pretty severe. I've lived in 3 countries and never seen more than 7cm of snow fall, I'm sure 7cm is nothing to you though . I've seen how 3 inches can cause havoc on a city not prepared for snow. Heck, I've driven in my car behind a dump truck that had two men standing in the back shoveling sand on to the road as it slowly rolled forwards- that's the best remedy the city I lived in had to deal with the snow (that was in the mid-South, US). They didn't even have salt. "Heavy Snow is uncommon" vs "Heavy Snow would bring the city to a complete grinding halt."
What people were worried about is that sub-freezing temps would make the electric car not work. Norway has definitely proven this wrong.
There are few heavily populated places on earth that have REALLY severe weather- there's a reason most Norwegians live in the less severe parts of the country, I'm sure. Nonetheless, electric cars have proven they can do well in Norway, they've proven they can do well in almost any HEAVILY-POPULATED area. Maybe they won't do as well North of Trondheim (maybe they would), but people in those conditions represent a very small percent of the world's population.
They are a success because of tax. Petrol cars have a 100% tax, electric have zero, so a Telsa cost a similar amount to a medium sized car, a Leaf was cheaper than a well equipped hatchback. Plus they travel free on the toll roads and Norwegians have a lot of money they need to try to find a way of spending. In fact it was so successful the government had significant issues with the hole in the budget caused by the lack of income from reduced taxable car sales.
Aye, and that's a good model for the rest of us to follow.
The ingredient is also responsible for giving the patty red juices that make it look like it's bleeding, just like a piece of beef.
You can eat steak rare, but you should never eat ground beef rare: It's not at all safe, when you grind meat, exterior parts of meat covered in bacteria get pushed to the inside and cooking rare doesn't kill them off. If anyone sold bleeding hamburgers that were real meat- I would worry.
Please, feel free to eat your steaks rare as that's enough to kill off the bacteria on the surface... just don't eat burgers rare.
The spawning of this fungus has been toadaly out of control. We should always remember just how bad a pathogen can be to a species. Never froget about it.
Why are people so hung up on the proposed Space Force? The space part of the Air Force has been massive for years, it really is a separate function from acquiring and operating airplanes, and space is an extremely critical defense arena. Space has been a separate command in the Air Force for something like 20 years, it is perfectly logical that it become a separate complete force.
I think because it reeks of yet another vanity project rather than anything really needed. There really isn't enough space stuff in the Air Force to warrant the extra red tape involved. I think people just don't like all the expensive pointless vanity projects.
There may come a day when a "Space Force" is needed, but we're nowhere near that yet. We didn't create an Air Force with the first airplane that flew.
Why a different name? Air Force; Space Force. Sounds better than Space Corps or Space Guard.
Actually, I think Space Corps and Space Guard sound less comedic. Space Force sounds like some kind of spoof the "South Park" writers would come up with.
I think I prefer the name Space Guard. That said, it doesn't really matter what it's called- it's the concept that should be debated on- not the name. In the grand scheme of things, the name doesn't matter.
"This whole thing came about because the astronaut in question was fitted for the large torso, but on orbit determined that the medium torso was a better fit "
Fitted or not, with all that training that's needed, NASA couldn't get the size of an astronaut right?
I've seen plenty of science fiction. I pretty sure that the spandex space suits that female astronauts wear are one size fits all.
Well, both of those are hard to do when every President sets a different goal for NASA. Most NASA projects take longer than the average President's term in office; every President comes in and completely changes what it is he wants NASA to do. How is NASA supposed to operate successfully if their mission and goals change every 4 to 8 years?
NASA really should be given more independence with budget set out years in advance. Trump and Pence might give NASA one direction, two years from now President Justin Bieber might give them a completely different direction to take.
/ no one thought Trump had a chance at being President either
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I don't know. My girlfriend breeds them (Russian Blues)
While cats certainly recognize words, I have seen little evidence that they're aware of their name.
Totally different experience; cats whose owners have no emotional connection to the owners and live with many other cats and hearing the names of other cats continuously as the kitten mill churns along; and a cat that is kept as a pet and develops a long emotional bond with the owner and gets lots of one on one time.
A cat that is kept as a pet and has an emotional bond with their human is going to develop deeper understanding of their human than one that is a commodity to a human and doesn't have the emotional bond.
A warmer world means more rain and the Sahara and Australian desert turning green. What makes you think hotter means dryer?
It's a little more complicated than all that though. Some places will see more rain, often too much rain, the kind that causes seasonal flooding; many other places will become much drier.
Less of the rain that falls will be in the form of snow, meaning the summer run-offs from mountains will be less; as a result it will be lots of rain, but over a short period of time. Ironically, this means people will be less able to capture water without extensive reservoir and water retainment systems. As we get more rain, we'll have less water to use.
It means many agricultural economies set up on arable land will collapse as the ideal places to grow crops moves to places that don't have the infrastructure set up to grow and harvest them- and by the time they build those infrastructures, if warming continues, the ideal growing places will move again. Because of our lack of ability to capture the more seasonal and more "all-in-one-go" type rains that accompany global warming, we will have less water to irrigate crops with.
So yes, more rain, but not necessarily more usable water. A tree won't benefit from increased rainfall if it all happens in one month of the year and the tree experiences drought like conditions the rest of the year.
Police assume everyone is a criminal who has just not been caught yet.
They are! Everyone is! There are so many obscure or deliberately vague laws out there that I bet every adult human has broken a law in their life in the US, even if they were unaware they were doing so at the time!
That's why privacy and unreasonable protection from police snooping is so important. The solution is not to arrest the entire populace. When police have too much information, instead of being protect and serve, they can become political and arrest anyone. I've always thought we need fewer, more simpler, easy to follow laws, and more privacy and protection from digital snooping- so that police can only go after those who are really in the wrong.
When you make everything illegal- police can target specific groups more easily.
and I will never understand how grown ass men get obsessed with either of them.
Curiosity and play into adulthood are linked with higher intelligence and fewer mental disorders as one ages. Many intelligent species, from humans, to many mammels such as dogs, cats, elephants, etc, and more intelligent bird species show tendencies towards playfulness as they age.
That said, some people take the obsessions a little far, but we all have our quirks it is what makes us human.
Simple Robots... but I'd still find a way to brick them.
Is there one that will just display emails in the order they came in and not try to write my replies for me?
I see you are trying to ask a question, would you like ClipyMail to completely change your question and e-mail it out to everyone on your contacts list with the nude photo of you and your mistress attached?
Putting a fake stop-sign on the middle of the highway should be fun too.
Or painting a fake tunnel on a rock.
The great thing about painted tunnels is that birds can go through them but predators cannot.
Driver further, get around corners better, break faster.
WRONG! The only part of that, that is true (for now) is the Drive further!
Electric cars handle better than ICE. They accelerate faster, CORNER FASTER, can tow more and how they break is entirely dependent car-by-car and often depends on the type of breaks used and the weight of the car. Some electric vehicles are heavier- but electric vehicles also can capture energy from breaking whereas ICE lose the breaking energy as heat.
Electric cars are superior to ICE for everything except for range on a given charge.
Norway is a massive oil exporter. Every drop of oil they don't burn in cars they export as oil instead. Norway moving to electric cars does nothing at all to reduce the overall problem because they just export the difference.
The demand in oil won't go up over-seas because Norway is exporting a larger % of what they earn. In fact as electric cars are beginning to take a larger share of the market in many places, and power stations switch from using oil, the demand for oil will decrease. It won't go away completely any time soon- but demand for oil is going to drop- and production of oil will drop in many places too- to keep the prices from free falling.
Oil is slowly fading away.
Not really. These people are buying $80,000+ cars because there are other benefits, including toll-free roads, HOV-lane access, free parking, and free charging. This is just rich people buying convenience.
You think the majority of Norweigan's are rich?
Admit it, the electric car is winning. Give it a decade and no-one will be surprised to hear of electric cars topping ICE cars in ANY country. It is the future- they just make more sense than ICE in almost every way.
I'm watching the Rivian and Tesla offerings closely and hoping they motivate Ford/GM/FCA to get seriously busy with EV versions of their trucks too.
I like the Rivian from all I've seen. Tesla often seems to go for flair rather than function- like their gullwing doors. Rivian seems all practical. I'd love a Rivian, there again- they're projecting them to cost $70k... there is no way I would spend that much on a car. I'm amazed that the average new car price in the US is now $35k; I have a good job that pays well and I'd never pay anything like that much for a new car so $70K is totally beyond my willingness to spend.
I'd rather spend the money on something else... although if I COULD get any car I wanted and money wasn't an issue- it'd be the Rivian Truck.
I don't think you have really "tested" an EV unless you have lived with it for a month in -30C weather.
I would never go somewhere with -30C weather! Why would I subject myself to that?
Very little of this is significant and barely even true. I live there. Most Norwegian live in areas where is just goes under freezing for 3-4 months at most, heavy snow is uncommon, cleared very effectively and few people commute very far at all.
It's all relative though. If I have one day where it's still freezing by noon I consider that pretty darn cold nowadays. What you consider not so bad a winter, many people on here would consider pretty severe. I've lived in 3 countries and never seen more than 7cm of snow fall, I'm sure 7cm is nothing to you though . I've seen how 3 inches can cause havoc on a city not prepared for snow. Heck, I've driven in my car behind a dump truck that had two men standing in the back shoveling sand on to the road as it slowly rolled forwards- that's the best remedy the city I lived in had to deal with the snow (that was in the mid-South, US). They didn't even have salt. "Heavy Snow is uncommon" vs "Heavy Snow would bring the city to a complete grinding halt."
What people were worried about is that sub-freezing temps would make the electric car not work. Norway has definitely proven this wrong.
There are few heavily populated places on earth that have REALLY severe weather- there's a reason most Norwegians live in the less severe parts of the country, I'm sure. Nonetheless, electric cars have proven they can do well in Norway, they've proven they can do well in almost any HEAVILY-POPULATED area. Maybe they won't do as well North of Trondheim (maybe they would), but people in those conditions represent a very small percent of the world's population.
They are a success because of tax. Petrol cars have a 100% tax, electric have zero, so a Telsa cost a similar amount to a medium sized car, a Leaf was cheaper than a well equipped hatchback. Plus they travel free on the toll roads and Norwegians have a lot of money they need to try to find a way of spending. In fact it was so successful the government had significant issues with the hole in the budget caused by the lack of income from reduced taxable car sales.
Aye, and that's a good model for the rest of us to follow.
The ingredient is also responsible for giving the patty red juices that make it look like it's bleeding, just like a piece of beef.
You can eat steak rare, but you should never eat ground beef rare: It's not at all safe, when you grind meat, exterior parts of meat covered in bacteria get pushed to the inside and cooking rare doesn't kill them off. If anyone sold bleeding hamburgers that were real meat- I would worry.
Please, feel free to eat your steaks rare as that's enough to kill off the bacteria on the surface... just don't eat burgers rare.
Why don't we have carrier pigeons with USB sicks? Are drones that much more reliable and affordable to maintain?
A carrier pigeon might panic if it see's a cat and swallow the USB stick. What we need is Golden Eagles trained to act like carrier pigeons.
April 1st is Monday. I think /. 8 bit server is suffering from the Y2K bug.
Yeah, my first thought was, "wait is this an April Fools joke?"
As incompetent as Facebook are, I wouldn't be surprised if this were released too early.
The spawning of this fungus has been toadaly out of control. We should always remember just how bad a pathogen can be to a species. Never froget about it.
Any politics involving tractors always reminds me of British PM John Major's bizarre "Get Your Tractors Off Our Lawn" speech and makes me smile.
Why are people so hung up on the proposed Space Force? The space part of the Air Force has been massive for years, it really is a separate function from acquiring and operating airplanes, and space is an extremely critical defense arena. Space has been a separate command in the Air Force for something like 20 years, it is perfectly logical that it become a separate complete force.
I think because it reeks of yet another vanity project rather than anything really needed. There really isn't enough space stuff in the Air Force to warrant the extra red tape involved. I think people just don't like all the expensive pointless vanity projects.
There may come a day when a "Space Force" is needed, but we're nowhere near that yet. We didn't create an Air Force with the first airplane that flew.
Why a different name? Air Force; Space Force. Sounds better than Space Corps or Space Guard.
Actually, I think Space Corps and Space Guard sound less comedic. Space Force sounds like some kind of spoof the "South Park" writers would come up with.
I think I prefer the name Space Guard. That said, it doesn't really matter what it's called- it's the concept that should be debated on- not the name. In the grand scheme of things, the name doesn't matter.
They tried to boost it into a permanent orbit. But the rocket blew up, so they changed the story to claim they destroyed it intentionally.
I was going to say that they shot down a satellite, but they were aiming at Karachi, Pakistan.
April Fools Day has been cancelled this year and will instead be held on May 1st.
"This whole thing came about because the astronaut in question was fitted for the large torso, but on orbit determined that the medium torso was a better fit "
Fitted or not, with all that training that's needed, NASA couldn't get the size of an astronaut right?
I've seen plenty of science fiction. I pretty sure that the spandex space suits that female astronauts wear are one size fits all.
Setting bold goals and staying on schedule.
So I guess, they sacrifice safety.
Well, both of those are hard to do when every President sets a different goal for NASA. Most NASA projects take longer than the average President's term in office; every President comes in and completely changes what it is he wants NASA to do. How is NASA supposed to operate successfully if their mission and goals change every 4 to 8 years?
NASA really should be given more independence with budget set out years in advance. Trump and Pence might give NASA one direction, two years from now President Justin Bieber might give them a completely different direction to take.
/ no one thought Trump had a chance at being President either
Don't worry, you can probably just play a video of you paying attention to the phone and it'll take in place of you actually watching the ad.
I was just thinking of pointing the camera at a photograph of myself.