Even the most extreme models did not predict a sea level rise that would have produce that particular real estate in Colorado.
Obviously, I should have proofread what I wrote. See the above correction.
Seriously, did you really expect us to believe a sea level rise on the order of 7000 feet?
I suspect you merely neglected to include the/sarcasm tag in your original post.
I apologize for any misunderstandings my failure to adequately proofread my own posts. I hope this exchange offered some entertainment value for the readers of/.
Driving the speed limit has always kept the road ahead clear for me on multilane highways. Everyone just goes around me, and I end up with a very easy drive, even during the rush hours. I find that I can control the craziness of the traffic around me by the way I drive my own car. For instance foreseeing upcoming tight spots ahead or behind me, and allowing more space for the faster drivers to maneuver into. Situational awareness and defensive driving is a lost art these days.
Yet another bad habit learned from Hollywood: Firing a signal shot into the air is just as likely to hit the person that's being signaled.
Last time I went hunting one of my hunting buddies missed his shot: I know because I heard the shot go zinging over my head. We were all hunting in different areas, out of sight from one another. I have no desire to be outdoors during hunting season ever again.
I sold all my guns this year and paid off a couple of credit cards with the money.
Best investment for "me" I've made in years!
No one wants to carry swords and crossbows anymore. You have to get too close to your target with a sword, and crossbows are way too cumbersome and only shoot one bolt at a time and take too long to reload. No money in selling them either...
If you moved to Colorado for the ocean view, you really are dumber than a box of rocks: Even the most extreme models predicted a sea level rise that would produce that particular real estate in Colorado. But you could go trolling for sandfish and make millions of tRump dollars selling them to your fellow bumpkins.
You kept on about the ads! I kept saying I didn't like them but I also said that I wasn't interested in paying extra not to see them. I also said that none of the content was worth paying extra for to either get it immediately nor to avoid the ads. Let it go already! I've wasted too much time on this topic. Don't you get it? IT'S NOT WORTH IT!
Yeah, I supposed if I actually cared about getting everything immediately, that would make a difference. I don't care about the media hype that comes with most of these shows at all: it's all just to market ads that are trying to sell me stuff I don't want or need anyway. If I wanted to watch commercials, I'd watch the local on-air stations. I guess I'm just a Un-American anti-consumerist. Most people, if they really thought 2 seconds about it, really don't need 99% of the crap the ads are trying to sell us. The ads only try to convince us that we're losers for not caring about what THEY want to sell to us, instead of paying attention to making sure we have what we actually need. The so-called "entertainment" is nothing that special, either.
Good point. However, using a distributed power system, and concentrating on putting the largest installations near the critical systems (Hospitals, etc) would limit the number and length of underground mains. Neighborhoods could be largely self-sufficient, requiring fewer above-ground transmission lines overall, which could be designed for the 150+ mph winds.
No more so than virtually ANY movie or TV show that uses all shiny new SUVs, pickup trucks, or new cars for any brand. At least with NF, you don't get the commercials, even with the basic plan. Unlike you get with Hulu. Not sure how the direct access plans of the major networks do it, but as I recall, they run commercials, AND charge you for the access.
You're assuming that the corporate-controlled Congress even cares about those people. What they want is their money. The fossil fuel companies that have a stranglehold on our economy don't want any forward-looking technology until they've finished gouging all USA for every penny they can get out of the old stuff.
Shiny new infrastructure is what they need at this point. The old stuff is trashed!
A distributed system is ideal for an island, especially when hurricanes can blow everything to bits so often. In this case, two storms wiped out the whole grid.
Now the island has the chance to put power distribution lines for the island's grid underground since they are likely to get big hurricanes more often now, due to climate change.
With a bit of engineering foresight, the solar arrays could be designed with a "hunker-down" mode to better survive the high winds, especially for critical facilities. Solar installations can be designed to withstand 150+ mph winds with minimal damage if need be.
The cost of solar is comparable to the fossil fuel based systems, and critical facilities like hospitals and airports could be up and running again very quickly (using backup panels stored in a safe place) even if the rest of the grid was knocked out.
Plastics companies and pharmaceutical companies have those sorts of markups all the time, yet you seem fine with all of that.
The free hand of the marketplace allows supply and demand to set the price, isn't that the justification, err excuse used by every other capitalist company in existence? Hypocrite!
This whole thing is so absurd, given that it was plainly stated on my first Social Security card:
"Not for use as Identification."
My original card wore out and had to be replaced sometime back, but by then, its use as an ID had become the norm...
We definitely need a more secure system of establishing a hack-proof ID.
He could set up a hyperloop to the launch ship terminal. No reason that TSA would be required if security prechecks are done enroute.
You/. techies are such sissy Luddites!
The ONLY good thing about Twitter was that it only allows 140 characters. To compose a really good Tweet takes some real thinking skills. That 140 character limit separates the mere twits from the real Tweets.
You are correct that hallucinogens probably have not had much of an effect in the selection of human traits. But how can we be sure that they were not instrumental in the evolution of homo sapiens? Such is the transformative power of such substances.
I agree that just because something is natural (hemlock is a natural and deadly poison) does not make it automatically better. Conversely, our process of scientific reductionism is no guarantee of establishing or quantifying all of the properties of any substance. The scientific method has a weakness when it comes to separating out the effects of numerous competing variables.
Often, anecdotal evidence is the only precursor to identifying that a substance has any value at all, and the reductionism of the scientific method does not always identify the full value of how the combination of ingredients might provide more than the sum of the parts.
You're complaining about a report about the results of one stage of a testing process. As such, it is a baseline benchmark which is a necessary step in a process, not intended to be a test under the realistic conditions to be expected in actual conditions of use. IMO, you are making a big fuss about nothing, and are missing the whole point of benchmark testing. The real world will always produce different results than a single benchmark test.
Sorry, I hit 'post' before completing my proofreading. The last line should have read: "To say that humans did not evolve using psychedelics and hallucinogens is ridiculous."
Also, the word "ridiculous" may be too strong for what I intended: merely to disagree with the contention that our brains were not exposed to psychedelics and hallucinogens during our evolution. Perhaps not LSD, but certainly others were used by humans in our pre-history.
In any case, I think the contention is irrelevant to our modern usage of these classes of drugs. We are using them now, and it is our present usage that must be studied.
I hope these clarifications help in the understanding of these expressions of my personal opinions...
I participated in Little League baseball as a kid in the late 50s. I was so poor at the sport that they'd hardly allow me to play in practice! But I persevered, and attended every practice, and sat on the bench in my perfectly clean uniform during every game.
My team won first place honors, and every member of the team received a first-place trophy.
I never had any delusions of being a good athlete, but I tried out for Babe Ruth league later on, and I actually got to play in two half innings! That team was also a first-place team.
As they say every so often in the military, "They also serve, who only stand and wait."
LSD is derived from a natural substance. It is very much like peyote or psilocybin. These substances were used by shamans and medicine men and women in rituals in prehistory and in the present. To say that humans did evolve using psychedelics and hallucinogens is ridiculous.
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Even the most extreme models did not predict a sea level rise that would have produce that particular real estate in Colorado.
Obviously, I should have proofread what I wrote. See the above correction.
Seriously, did you really expect us to believe a sea level rise on the order of 7000 feet?
I suspect you merely neglected to include the /sarcasm tag in your original post.
I apologize for any misunderstandings my failure to adequately proofread my own posts. I hope this exchange offered some entertainment value for the readers of /.
Driving the speed limit has always kept the road ahead clear for me on multilane highways. Everyone just goes around me, and I end up with a very easy drive, even during the rush hours. I find that I can control the craziness of the traffic around me by the way I drive my own car. For instance foreseeing upcoming tight spots ahead or behind me, and allowing more space for the faster drivers to maneuver into. Situational awareness and defensive driving is a lost art these days.
Yet another bad habit learned from Hollywood: Firing a signal shot into the air is just as likely to hit the person that's being signaled. Last time I went hunting one of my hunting buddies missed his shot: I know because I heard the shot go zinging over my head. We were all hunting in different areas, out of sight from one another. I have no desire to be outdoors during hunting season ever again. I sold all my guns this year and paid off a couple of credit cards with the money. Best investment for "me" I've made in years!
No one wants to carry swords and crossbows anymore. You have to get too close to your target with a sword, and crossbows are way too cumbersome and only shoot one bolt at a time and take too long to reload. No money in selling them either...
For the single least evolved class of people on the planet: The users of cell phone apps.
If you moved to Colorado for the ocean view, you really are dumber than a box of rocks: Even the most extreme models predicted a sea level rise that would produce that particular real estate in Colorado. But you could go trolling for sandfish and make millions of tRump dollars selling them to your fellow bumpkins.
You kept on about the ads! I kept saying I didn't like them but I also said that I wasn't interested in paying extra not to see them. I also said that none of the content was worth paying extra for to either get it immediately nor to avoid the ads. Let it go already! I've wasted too much time on this topic. Don't you get it? IT'S NOT WORTH IT!
Yeah, I supposed if I actually cared about getting everything immediately, that would make a difference. I don't care about the media hype that comes with most of these shows at all: it's all just to market ads that are trying to sell me stuff I don't want or need anyway. If I wanted to watch commercials, I'd watch the local on-air stations. I guess I'm just a Un-American anti-consumerist. Most people, if they really thought 2 seconds about it, really don't need 99% of the crap the ads are trying to sell us. The ads only try to convince us that we're losers for not caring about what THEY want to sell to us, instead of paying attention to making sure we have what we actually need. The so-called "entertainment" is nothing that special, either.
Good point. However, using a distributed power system, and concentrating on putting the largest installations near the critical systems (Hospitals, etc) would limit the number and length of underground mains. Neighborhoods could be largely self-sufficient, requiring fewer above-ground transmission lines overall, which could be designed for the 150+ mph winds.
Waaat? Read? Wuzzat?
No more so than virtually ANY movie or TV show that uses all shiny new SUVs, pickup trucks, or new cars for any brand. At least with NF, you don't get the commercials, even with the basic plan. Unlike you get with Hulu. Not sure how the direct access plans of the major networks do it, but as I recall, they run commercials, AND charge you for the access.
You're assuming that the corporate-controlled Congress even cares about those people. What they want is their money. The fossil fuel companies that have a stranglehold on our economy don't want any forward-looking technology until they've finished gouging all USA for every penny they can get out of the old stuff.
Shiny new infrastructure is what they need at this point. The old stuff is trashed!
A distributed system is ideal for an island, especially when hurricanes can blow everything to bits so often. In this case, two storms wiped out the whole grid.
Now the island has the chance to put power distribution lines for the island's grid underground since they are likely to get big hurricanes more often now, due to climate change.
With a bit of engineering foresight, the solar arrays could be designed with a "hunker-down" mode to better survive the high winds, especially for critical facilities. Solar installations can be designed to withstand 150+ mph winds with minimal damage if need be.
The cost of solar is comparable to the fossil fuel based systems, and critical facilities like hospitals and airports could be up and running again very quickly (using backup panels stored in a safe place) even if the rest of the grid was knocked out.
Oh shit! Get real!
Plastics companies and pharmaceutical companies have those sorts of markups all the time, yet you seem fine with all of that.
The free hand of the marketplace allows supply and demand to set the price, isn't that the justification, err excuse used by every other capitalist company in existence? Hypocrite!
This whole thing is so absurd, given that it was plainly stated on my first Social Security card: "Not for use as Identification." My original card wore out and had to be replaced sometime back, but by then, its use as an ID had become the norm... We definitely need a more secure system of establishing a hack-proof ID.
He could set up a hyperloop to the launch ship terminal. No reason that TSA would be required if security prechecks are done enroute. You /. techies are such sissy Luddites!
The ONLY good thing about Twitter was that it only allows 140 characters. To compose a really good Tweet takes some real thinking skills. That 140 character limit separates the mere twits from the real Tweets.
So 6 million years ago, humans wrote with their feet in mud flats? Sound immigration policy, if you ask me.
You are correct that hallucinogens probably have not had much of an effect in the selection of human traits. But how can we be sure that they were not instrumental in the evolution of homo sapiens? Such is the transformative power of such substances.
I agree that just because something is natural (hemlock is a natural and deadly poison) does not make it automatically better. Conversely, our process of scientific reductionism is no guarantee of establishing or quantifying all of the properties of any substance. The scientific method has a weakness when it comes to separating out the effects of numerous competing variables.
Often, anecdotal evidence is the only precursor to identifying that a substance has any value at all, and the reductionism of the scientific method does not always identify the full value of how the combination of ingredients might provide more than the sum of the parts.
You're complaining about a report about the results of one stage of a testing process. As such, it is a baseline benchmark which is a necessary step in a process, not intended to be a test under the realistic conditions to be expected in actual conditions of use. IMO, you are making a big fuss about nothing, and are missing the whole point of benchmark testing. The real world will always produce different results than a single benchmark test.
Sorry, I hit 'post' before completing my proofreading. The last line should have read: "To say that humans did not evolve using psychedelics and hallucinogens is ridiculous."
Also, the word "ridiculous" may be too strong for what I intended: merely to disagree with the contention that our brains were not exposed to psychedelics and hallucinogens during our evolution. Perhaps not LSD, but certainly others were used by humans in our pre-history.
In any case, I think the contention is irrelevant to our modern usage of these classes of drugs. We are using them now, and it is our present usage that must be studied.
I hope these clarifications help in the understanding of these expressions of my personal opinions...
I participated in Little League baseball as a kid in the late 50s. I was so poor at the sport that they'd hardly allow me to play in practice! But I persevered, and attended every practice, and sat on the bench in my perfectly clean uniform during every game.
My team won first place honors, and every member of the team received a first-place trophy.
I never had any delusions of being a good athlete, but I tried out for Babe Ruth league later on, and I actually got to play in two half innings! That team was also a first-place team.
As they say every so often in the military, "They also serve, who only stand and wait."
Go figure.
You have named a number of possible causes. Perhaps the truth is that they all contribute to the observed effects.
I have been called a troll so many times, I should be getting paid for all of my posts! LOL!
LSD is derived from a natural substance. It is very much like peyote or psilocybin. These substances were used by shamans and medicine men and women in rituals in prehistory and in the present. To say that humans did evolve using psychedelics and hallucinogens is ridiculous.