Same in Montana. We made a new all-time total snow record, tied a bunch of cold records, and had up to 5x normal spring precip before suddenly 100F summer. We'll probably have an abrupt and nasty winter.
All these new heat records suddenly evaporate if you include 1936, when North Dakota peaked over 100F for over a month. Or, say, the Medieval Warm Period.
Also, lately one of the weather stations that was "setting records" was found to be in the refrigeration exhaust path of an ice cream truck. (Yes, really.)
If you look at long-term raw data, the trend is actually for slight cooling.
And cooling is not good; cooler means crop failures and famine, as history amply demonstrates.
Good info! I prefer a glass surface (too many years with fussy ball mice) and of course that drives the standard types nuts. (For real fun, try a mirror.)
That's an interesting point, tho I wonder how it works out when all factors are considered -- there's less mass (shipping weight) and fewer moving parts in today's optical mice, so possibly less energy expended on manufacturing. Whether they last longer or not seems to be a toss-up; seen it go both ways.
I liked my old ball mice, used on glass (not a mouse pad) but as the old ones wore out, seems the newer ones didn't track as well, or had poor DPI, or one way or another just weren't up to snuff. (Admittedly I don't buy expensive ones, but some of the cheapest lasted the longest.) So eventually I went to optical (for which the ideal surface seems to be an old rubber typewriter pad), and now use wireless because otherwise with my setup the cords are constantly a mess and a tripping hazard. (3 computers that will not agree to share input via a KVM. Not even the good Belkin KVM. Someday I need to try KVM-via-network.)
Best mouse I ever had was a wireless infrared (rechargeable, with a ball) I got at DAK's fire sale... single-pixel accuracy combined with extreme yet perfectly controllable acceleration (twitch it a quarter inch and it flew all the way across the screen, yet stopped precisely on target). Unfortunately the IR connection was too slow for any system faster than a 286. But I still have one here in its original box. (And I still have my 286, too.)
Further, some jurisdictions have sales tax on services, and which services are taxable varies wildly. Charged someone a few bucks to fix their website? you may have to collect and remit sales tax on that.
Just got a notice from eBay saying they're about to do the same... if you don't run the browser of their choice, you'll no longer be able to buy stuff.
Yes, the dogs will find actual stashes. But they'll also alert on nonexistent stashes, if they believe they should (especially if reward-trained -- then you get "offered" behavior). As the Springer link lays out: Handler expectations influence the behavior of trained dogs, and even when you =think= you're giving no cues, the dog will pick up on it.
[pro dog trainer here; doesn't surprise me in the least, especially with highly reactive breeds like German Shepherds.]
Volcanic Halocarbons: Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in Volcanic Emissions Abstract "Although commonly regarded as not naturally occuring, halocarbons and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) do occur naturally and are emitted from volcanoes."
With Yanno vs Laurel, first time I heard Yanno, second time I heard Laurel, which became clearer upon repeat. I would have expected immediate total-Laurel bias since I live in a town named Laurel, but it didn't happen that way.
With Brainstorm vs Green Needle, I found with a little effort I could just as easily hear Brain Needle or Green Storm.
I use SeaMonkey's mail client which hies from the same origins. It's generally pretty good, tho occasionally has refused to let me create a new mailbox -- it insists on replacing an old mailbox instead. I haven't got this nailed down to reproducible (tho I wonder if a fragmented profile might cause it).
The other thing is that if mailboxes get too large or too fragmented, it can get slow and cranky, which I take as a cue to do a little maintenance and cleanup. I keep mail on its own partition which helps considerably.
That's precisely why I refuse to call it GNU/Linux. Stallman makes some good points, but his philosophy seems to be less about making more information free than about forcing everyone to conform to his Marxist vision of information redistribution. (A conclusion I reached during a long-ago discussion with RMS himself.)
This fluoride-free toothpaste is generally made from a plant called the toothbrush tree.
The toothbrush tree contains unusually high levels (for a plant) of fluoride, which is probably how it got the reputation as good for tooth-brushing in the first place.
My understanding was that someone in the Clinton camp originated the materials, then gave them to Fusion who then funneled it through Russians and thence to Steele. So basically they created the chain of provenance from scratch, with the Russians being merely a handy coincidence. If they'd been chasing "Trump colluded with China" the so-called "source" would have been Chinese instead.
We also use it because it's relatively durable and pest-resistant. Compare and contrast, frex, a wooden foundation vs a concrete foundation in an area with ground termites.
[for the uninitiated, ground termites can live just about anywhere that doesn't both hit -40F every winter and isn't regularly treated with discouraging pesticides.]
The problem with the average 16:9 is lack of height. All dandy for side-by-side if your eyes don't mind teeny tiny fonts. Not so good for aging eyes that would like to have more than a dozen lines of text visible at a time.
I wound up buying a bigger monitor than I really wanted because to get enough working height to not drive myself scrolling-mad, I had to get a bigger screen.
Slashdot Mirror
...when Firefox persists in trying to be a second-rate clone of Chrome?
Same in Montana. We made a new all-time total snow record, tied a bunch of cold records, and had up to 5x normal spring precip before suddenly 100F summer. We'll probably have an abrupt and nasty winter.
All these new heat records suddenly evaporate if you include 1936, when North Dakota peaked over 100F for over a month. Or, say, the Medieval Warm Period.
Also, lately one of the weather stations that was "setting records" was found to be in the refrigeration exhaust path of an ice cream truck. (Yes, really.)
If you look at long-term raw data, the trend is actually for slight cooling.
And cooling is not good; cooler means crop failures and famine, as history amply demonstrates.
+1 Perfect :D
And with a *model* of a bomb, you can blow up... what, exactly??
Good info! I prefer a glass surface (too many years with fussy ball mice) and of course that drives the standard types nuts. (For real fun, try a mirror.)
That's an interesting point, tho I wonder how it works out when all factors are considered -- there's less mass (shipping weight) and fewer moving parts in today's optical mice, so possibly less energy expended on manufacturing. Whether they last longer or not seems to be a toss-up; seen it go both ways.
I liked my old ball mice, used on glass (not a mouse pad) but as the old ones wore out, seems the newer ones didn't track as well, or had poor DPI, or one way or another just weren't up to snuff. (Admittedly I don't buy expensive ones, but some of the cheapest lasted the longest.) So eventually I went to optical (for which the ideal surface seems to be an old rubber typewriter pad), and now use wireless because otherwise with my setup the cords are constantly a mess and a tripping hazard. (3 computers that will not agree to share input via a KVM. Not even the good Belkin KVM. Someday I need to try KVM-via-network.)
Best mouse I ever had was a wireless infrared (rechargeable, with a ball) I got at DAK's fire sale... single-pixel accuracy combined with extreme yet perfectly controllable acceleration (twitch it a quarter inch and it flew all the way across the screen, yet stopped precisely on target). Unfortunately the IR connection was too slow for any system faster than a 286. But I still have one here in its original box. (And I still have my 286, too.)
I once knew a programmer who ran Win95 on a 386 (with a then-whopping 16mb RAM). It took 15 minutes just to boot up.
If every programmer had to work in such a constrained environment, our modern OSs would run like the wind on hardware from two generations back.
Further, some jurisdictions have sales tax on services, and which services are taxable varies wildly. Charged someone a few bucks to fix their website? you may have to collect and remit sales tax on that.
Just got a notice from eBay saying they're about to do the same... if you don't run the browser of their choice, you'll no longer be able to buy stuff.
Goodbye eBay...
Yes, the dogs will find actual stashes. But they'll also alert on nonexistent stashes, if they believe they should (especially if reward-trained -- then you get "offered" behavior). As the Springer link lays out: Handler expectations influence the behavior of trained dogs, and even when you =think= you're giving no cues, the dog will pick up on it.
[pro dog trainer here; doesn't surprise me in the least, especially with highly reactive breeds like German Shepherds.]
Like, maybe....
http://cfc.geologist-1011.net/
Volcanic Halocarbons: Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in Volcanic Emissions
Abstract
"Although commonly regarded as not naturally occuring, halocarbons and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) do occur naturally and are emitted from volcanoes."
With Yanno vs Laurel, first time I heard Yanno, second time I heard Laurel, which became clearer upon repeat. I would have expected immediate total-Laurel bias since I live in a town named Laurel, but it didn't happen that way.
With Brainstorm vs Green Needle, I found with a little effort I could just as easily hear Brain Needle or Green Storm.
I use SeaMonkey's mail client which hies from the same origins. It's generally pretty good, tho occasionally has refused to let me create a new mailbox -- it insists on replacing an old mailbox instead. I haven't got this nailed down to reproducible (tho I wonder if a fragmented profile might cause it).
The other thing is that if mailboxes get too large or too fragmented, it can get slow and cranky, which I take as a cue to do a little maintenance and cleanup. I keep mail on its own partition which helps considerably.
That's precisely why I refuse to call it GNU/Linux. Stallman makes some good points, but his philosophy seems to be less about making more information free than about forcing everyone to conform to his Marxist vision of information redistribution. (A conclusion I reached during a long-ago discussion with RMS himself.)
This fluoride-free toothpaste is generally made from a plant called the toothbrush tree.
The toothbrush tree contains unusually high levels (for a plant) of fluoride, which is probably how it got the reputation as good for tooth-brushing in the first place.
My understanding was that someone in the Clinton camp originated the materials, then gave them to Fusion who then funneled it through Russians and thence to Steele. So basically they created the chain of provenance from scratch, with the Russians being merely a handy coincidence. If they'd been chasing "Trump colluded with China" the so-called "source" would have been Chinese instead.
Further, who the hell pays any attention to ads on Facebook??
By the time we decide someone has caused so much harm that they need to be killed for the good of society, why do we care if they suffer in turn?
And I'm not sure sanitizing the process to make it look easy is such a good thing, either.
We also use it because it's relatively durable and pest-resistant. Compare and contrast, frex, a wooden foundation vs a concrete foundation in an area with ground termites.
[for the uninitiated, ground termites can live just about anywhere that doesn't both hit -40F every winter and isn't regularly treated with discouraging pesticides.]
Concrete lasts. How many times would you have to rebuild the same structure using less durable materials? what is the actual net energy savings??
"Communicating in a âtoneâ(TM) you donâ(TM)t find congenial"
How about if I don't find any tone "congenial" unless it conveys abject submission?
The problem with the average 16:9 is lack of height. All dandy for side-by-side if your eyes don't mind teeny tiny fonts. Not so good for aging eyes that would like to have more than a dozen lines of text visible at a time.
I wound up buying a bigger monitor than I really wanted because to get enough working height to not drive myself scrolling-mad, I had to get a bigger screen.
I learned to be suspicious of loudly proclaimed failure rates after a crash of some 30 years ago that resulted in two very unlike news reports:
#1: [this model of commercial airliner] has a long history, this being the first fatal crash since many-years-previous.
Okay, pretty good. No worries.
#2 (delivered in an alarmed voice): [this model of commercial airliner] has a history of crashes!!
Well, yeah, so does everything if you track it long enough. (That was the last time I watched that station's news, too.)
And as everyone knows, women don't come with manuals.
....Zuck is in trouble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...