Not at all. There's a ton of good environmental news out there. It's just we never hear about it
Sure, there's a few cases of low hanging fruit that have been plucked, like curtailing the wanton spewage of certain chemicals or saving a couple of especially cute species from the brink of extinction.
Meanwhile, the elephant in the room which is climate change continues unabated, and in many ways worse than experts were recently predicting. Right behind it is habitat destruction and fragmentation, which is almost as hard to address and still running rampant all over the world.
Your attitude is like some guy standing on the stern of the Titantic saying: "Thing's aren't so bad. In fact, right now we're up higher away from the water than we were before we hit the iceberg!"
all the news we ever receive on the environment is bad, it sure seems to me that we never do anything right
Do you know why we get all that bad news?
It's because the actual situation is very bad, it is rapidly getting worse, and judging on who we've been putting in charge of policy, we indeed seem to be incapable of doing what's right.
Unless we make major efforts to address these issues soon, future generations may very well judge us to be the worst culture to ever live, and rightfully so.
Of course, this will also increase costs for basic good, like an extremely regressive tax, increasing the gap from rich too poor. Well done!
Better to have more intense hurricanes and rising sea levels. That hits the rich in their oceanfront properties harder than the poor, so it's like a progressive tax!
In particular, a legitimate "5.0" release really needs to be a "GT" version, and should include sport suspension, an aero package, 21-inch wheels, and Brembo brakes.
If you haven't been living under a rock, you'd know that the House is also gerrymandered out the wazoo. The affirmative action in that case has been ensured by the district borders that have been mapped by optimization algorithms to look like Mandelbrot fractals.
Ok, but to make things fair, there should be at least three CA states, each centered around a major city, and only one rural state, which would still have less people than any of the others. That way, the majority of the people won't get steamrollered by a even more backwater senators representing empty acreage than we already have in this country.
On the contrary, as your proposal highlights, conservatives must use extensive gerrymandering to maintain their grip on power: You want to split it up into one state packed to the gills with the vast majority of the population, and two new sparsely populated fly-over states. If that's not gerrymandering, what is?
I use Ooma for a land line, and it has had this same feature for quite some time.
On rare occasions its spam filter has a false positive, and it would be rather annoying if a call I was expecting got dropped with no trace. Ooma lets you do several things with suspected spam messages including continuous ring and "number disconnected" messages, but I keep it set to voicemail for this reason.
At any rate, the vast majority of spam calls that end up in voicemail simply hang up. We delete ones that do leave messages after about three seconds of listening.
The term "pesticides" also includes herbicides and fungicides.
If your life depends on successfully growing a monoculture over several years in a sealed tin can, you might need to at least consider having some fungicides on hand. Not to mention, some mites are almost microscopic. Without any natural predators, one pair slipping through might also ruin your day.
So now we have DNS servers on 1.1.1.1, 4.4.4.4, and 8.8.8.8. Who has 2.2.2.2
OK, all these different numerical addresses are starting to get confusing. Someone ought to invent some kind of protocol to automatically map human-readable names onto these obscure numbers.
Now Foxconn can make $2 USB cables, put them in Belkin boxes that claim that they're "low distortion", and sell them for $50 each. They'll pocket $48 in pure profit.
I was thinking that if this really were an MRI strapped onto someone's head, they better not test it while playing horseshoes or using any other ferromagnetic sports equipment.
Once DST is banished, all those people who can't figure out how to adjust their clocks twice per annum will probably kill themselves on the summer solstice because the sun is streaming in at 4:00 a.m.
It has nothing to do with whether you like your job, nor with how smug you are about your own occupation.
It's the combination of trying to do something useful an/or enjoyable while you're still bleary from sleep along with knowing that it will be interrupted in less than an hour.
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Not at all. There's a ton of good environmental news out there. It's just we never hear about it
Sure, there's a few cases of low hanging fruit that have been plucked, like curtailing the wanton spewage of certain chemicals or saving a couple of especially cute species from the brink of extinction.
Meanwhile, the elephant in the room which is climate change continues unabated, and in many ways worse than experts were recently predicting. Right behind it is habitat destruction and fragmentation, which is almost as hard to address and still running rampant all over the world.
Your attitude is like some guy standing on the stern of the Titantic saying: "Thing's aren't so bad. In fact, right now we're up higher away from the water than we were before we hit the iceberg!"
all the news we ever receive on the environment is bad, it sure seems to me that we never do anything right
Do you know why we get all that bad news?
It's because the actual situation is very bad, it is rapidly getting worse, and judging on who we've been putting in charge of policy, we indeed seem to be incapable of doing what's right.
Unless we make major efforts to address these issues soon, future generations may very well judge us to be the worst culture to ever live, and rightfully so.
I was going to say that you're wrong, but I looked it up, and unfortunately you're right as of January of this year.
I think it's likely that this is eventually going to mean the end of good deals on halfway-decent batteries.
Right. He is a big proponent of "aka US Liberalism". You can tell that by his focus on their favorite issues, lik LGBTQ rights for example.
Of course, this will also increase costs for basic good, like an extremely regressive tax, increasing the gap from rich too poor. Well done!
Better to have more intense hurricanes and rising sea levels. That hits the rich in their oceanfront properties harder than the poor, so it's like a progressive tax!
Yeah, because Putin is clearly one of the world's leading Progressivists.
In particular, a legitimate "5.0" release really needs to be a "GT" version, and should include sport suspension, an aero package, 21-inch wheels, and Brembo brakes.
If you haven't been living under a rock, you'd know that the House is also gerrymandered out the wazoo. The affirmative action in that case has been ensured by the district borders that have been mapped by optimization algorithms to look like Mandelbrot fractals.
If they're in the minority so that they need affirmative action in the Senate, they're not "mainstream".
Ok, but to make things fair, there should be at least three CA states, each centered around a major city, and only one rural state, which would still have less people than any of the others. That way, the majority of the people won't get steamrollered by a even more backwater senators representing empty acreage than we already have in this country.
On the contrary, as your proposal highlights, conservatives must use extensive gerrymandering to maintain their grip on power: You want to split it up into one state packed to the gills with the vast majority of the population, and two new sparsely populated fly-over states. If that's not gerrymandering, what is?
Nothing is stopping them from curing another disease and collecting another cool $20B or so.
This scheme is a shoe-in for the 2018 "polished turd of the year" award.
I use Ooma for a land line, and it has had this same feature for quite some time.
On rare occasions its spam filter has a false positive, and it would be rather annoying if a call I was expecting got dropped with no trace. Ooma lets you do several things with suspected spam messages including continuous ring and "number disconnected" messages, but I keep it set to voicemail for this reason.
At any rate, the vast majority of spam calls that end up in voicemail simply hang up. We delete ones that do leave messages after about three seconds of listening.
Now I'm confused... Was this discussion about immigration policy or bed-and-breakfast policy?
The term "pesticides" also includes herbicides and fungicides.
If your life depends on successfully growing a monoculture over several years in a sealed tin can, you might need to at least consider having some fungicides on hand. Not to mention, some mites are almost microscopic. Without any natural predators, one pair slipping through might also ruin your day.
So now we have DNS servers on 1.1.1.1, 4.4.4.4, and 8.8.8.8. Who has 2.2.2.2
OK, all these different numerical addresses are starting to get confusing. Someone ought to invent some kind of protocol to automatically map human-readable names onto these obscure numbers.
Now Foxconn can make $2 USB cables, put them in Belkin boxes that claim that they're "low distortion", and sell them for $50 each. They'll pocket $48 in pure profit.
I was thinking that if this really were an MRI strapped onto someone's head, they better not test it while playing horseshoes or using any other ferromagnetic sports equipment.
i.e. its just a fixup of neutonian equations to correct for mass
I thought that the Neutonians are a hostile species from the Vorxon VII star system, who are not known for their math skills.
BULLSHIT
You compress it, you will lose quality.
Or all of information theory is wrong.
I have three letters for you to study: PNG.
That's a fake. If it were really a picture of the blackout, there would be stars visible in the sky.
I'm a software engineer and I'm seeing much of a demand.
Maybe it's because you write buggy code that contains a lot of inverted logic errors.
Once DST is banished, all those people who can't figure out how to adjust their clocks twice per annum will probably kill themselves on the summer solstice because the sun is streaming in at 4:00 a.m.
It has nothing to do with whether you like your job, nor with how smug you are about your own occupation.
It's the combination of trying to do something useful an/or enjoyable while you're still bleary from sleep along with knowing that it will be interrupted in less than an hour.