Nor do they tell us the ratio to non-plastic junk floating in that same water, especially naturally occuring junk. Not every particle floating in the oceans is of human origin; I'd hazard most are the result of atmospheric dust.
More often they were tarred or varnished. And historical paints were made from equally 'natural' materials, eg. linseed oil and white lead. Which generally are more ablative than modern paints.
My next question is... if the ultimate upshot is a ban on ocean shipping, cui bono?
Where I used to live I had a choice of one, fixed wireless from a one-man band. And he liked to talk about his work. One thing he told me was that due to peering agreements, downloads cost nothing, and uploads are 5 cents per GB. (This was 7-8 years ago. Probably hasn't changed too much.) He came right off the AT&T backbone.
Mine (a newish but cheap ZTE Awe/Android) has an option to "go into airplane mode" when there's no signal; presumably rather than spend all day hunting for it when there is none. I imagine this is to mitigate that problem??
I don't know if this might be related, but when my wireless adapter is banging at the router trying to get a connection, or when the connection is made but iffy, it shoots the PC's CPU use to 100%. Obviously that takes more power than sitting idle. Do cellphones do anything similar when they can see the signal but can't connect?
I have firsthand experience of this. I had a $30/mo. account; my next-door neighbor had a $60/mo. account. I could only get about half the signal she did, even in the exact same location.
I don't know how that impacts battery life, but I got about 10 hours on a cheap phone (at least, before its battery went poorly at just over a year old).
First and foremost, Craigslist filled the need for an economical classifieds system... if it's free, no harm in trying it... so we did. Readers of classifieds naturally followed.
Speaking as one who used to rely on newspaper classifieds, the big reason private party ads in newspapers went away wasn't so much Craigslist, as that newspaper classifieds were increasingly expensive and increasingly had a poor ROI. $60/week for two lines (about 8 words) was typical. Yet ad response rates were dropping, far more than the decline in subscribership. I think a major factor was that as computerized layouts took over, line ads were buried in favor of more-profitable display ads. What no one can see in the clutter, no one responds to.
(Last time I used the L.A. Times, about 5 years ago, I spent $180 and got ZERO inquiries, never mind sales. Same ad I'd run occasionally for 20 years with good results was all of a sudden worthless.)
Not only that, but there are enough examples of the person who brought something to police attention being the one who is suddenly under the hot light, that reporting a possible crime is not a personally safe action. (And IMO anonymous reporting is questionable; it's too often abused.)
As to clients' data -- the GP has a good point. If you're still interested in snooping, you're not mature enough to behave professionally.
I've seen this a lot with venture-capital startups -- apparently the idea is not to accomplish the goal, but rather to spend all the venture capital, make a few headlines, then sell the "growing" company to the highest bidder. Competence or actually getting work done doesn't seem to be part of the equation.
Someone explain to me how this is more cost-effective than drilling several smaller paths using smaller, more-proven equipment that costs a whole lot less both to buy and to repair? Seriously, I'd like to see the numbers.
Maybe online sources should be cited via an archive.org link rather than a direct link; that way sources won't disappear (at least not nearly so often).
How expensive it really is? or how much they've decided each procedure can net?
The list of charges if you pay cash-in-advance on the wall at the Los Angeles County clinic in Lancaster CA. The most expensive item is:
Any surgery: $400.
Yep, four hundred dollars. Someone else the counter asked the desk nurse how they could do surgery for that price, and she said that's what it actually costs the clinic, and that pay-later get billed at a rate 3x higher, to make up for the large number of deadbeats and the difficulty collecting at all.
Considering that wild mice who live in proximity to humans markedly prefer to eat stuff humans have touched... I imagine you'd have to find wilderness mice to study!
Zoo primates could be 'contaminated' as well.
Looks like some future researcher is in for a long tramp through the back of beyond.:)
Obviously the time is right for someone to invent a little portable keyboard (possibly with its own battery) that plugs into the phone's USB port and lets you type like a normal person, instead of like a demented monkey chasing termites.
(Which is what I feel like when I use a stylus, but it's still better than fat-finger syndrome.)
No need; I'll just park out in this handy Montana hailstorm. Free dimples!
Actually, that happened to my old truck -- got hailed on pretty good and had small dimples pretty uniformly over its entire upper surface. Didn't do shit for its MPG. And after a few years the dimples went away (let's hear it for Ford steel!) and you couldn't tell it had ever happened.
It helps considerably when that state legislature is a part-time avocation, not a full-time career. Frex, here in Montana it's 90 days every other year -- not enough time to pass bullshit and certainly not enough income to make a living. So the nimrods who are unhireable except as politicians don't thrive here; you can't live off being a politician in MT. (And a lot of local positions, like some county commissioners, are volunteer.)
Conversely, look at California where the legislature is a fulltime job, and observe what a crowd of Peter Principles it's attracted...
And yes, I have considered it, because common sense has to start somewhere. Hell, there's a opening on the local mosquito abatement board... not every job has to be ruling the world. Fixing your little corner is most of it.
I don't know about other stuff or what's current, but back in the 1980s Southern California had basically two telcos: Pacific Bell (good service and reasonable rates), and GTE (horrible service and much higher rates). GTE, being the poor little put-upon underdog company, was given protected monopoly areas where PacBell was not *allowed* to offer telco service.
Fast-forward to the massive restructuring that eventually turned GTE into Verizon, and now Verizon enjoys the legacy of GTE's protected monopoly areas.... which they remained even tho Verizon was now the 800 pound gorilla.
Okay, since the effect is apparently speed-related -- your thought about channels underneath made me wonder if an air intake feeding a channel system could be designed to regulate that airflow according to forward speed, and therefore regulate dimpling, without the tedium and moving parts of yet another pump.
So you do it on the sides (which naturally drain), but not on the roof (which doesn't), and possibly on the undersurface (if practical). The sides are about 2/3rds of the surface area of a big truck box anyway. But per this interesting comment from an AC: http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... the benefit is speed-related, and "always drives at the same speed" is an absurd assumption for a car, let alone for a big truck.
Occurs to me to wonder, tho, what happens with drag if you reverse the dimples (as one would to prevent water accumulating). Someone who actually knows, pipe up!
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Nor do they tell us the ratio to non-plastic junk floating in that same water, especially naturally occuring junk. Not every particle floating in the oceans is of human origin; I'd hazard most are the result of atmospheric dust.
Being enthusiastically biocidal is better than unwittingly transporting mussels and other vermin from one coastline to another.
More often they were tarred or varnished. And historical paints were made from equally 'natural' materials, eg. linseed oil and white lead. Which generally are more ablative than modern paints.
My next question is... if the ultimate upshot is a ban on ocean shipping, cui bono?
Where I used to live I had a choice of one, fixed wireless from a one-man band. And he liked to talk about his work. One thing he told me was that due to peering agreements, downloads cost nothing, and uploads are 5 cents per GB. (This was 7-8 years ago. Probably hasn't changed too much.) He came right off the AT&T backbone.
"When three men sit down to discuss conspiracy, two are government agents and the third is a fool."
-- Soviet proverb
Mine (a newish but cheap ZTE Awe/Android) has an option to "go into airplane mode" when there's no signal; presumably rather than spend all day hunting for it when there is none. I imagine this is to mitigate that problem??
I don't know if this might be related, but when my wireless adapter is banging at the router trying to get a connection, or when the connection is made but iffy, it shoots the PC's CPU use to 100%. Obviously that takes more power than sitting idle. Do cellphones do anything similar when they can see the signal but can't connect?
...which usually come with a cheaper phone.
I have firsthand experience of this. I had a $30/mo. account; my next-door neighbor had a $60/mo. account. I could only get about half the signal she did, even in the exact same location.
I don't know how that impacts battery life, but I got about 10 hours on a cheap phone (at least, before its battery went poorly at just over a year old).
Or maybe the FSP got hacked :(
BTW I like your home page, quite retro-tech. And why don't we see you over on SoylentNews or Pipedot? you're everywhere else. :)
Would they expect to pay YOU to run an ad in the paper? No?? where's the difference??
First and foremost, Craigslist filled the need for an economical classifieds system... if it's free, no harm in trying it... so we did. Readers of classifieds naturally followed.
Speaking as one who used to rely on newspaper classifieds, the big reason private party ads in newspapers went away wasn't so much Craigslist, as that newspaper classifieds were increasingly expensive and increasingly had a poor ROI. $60/week for two lines (about 8 words) was typical. Yet ad response rates were dropping, far more than the decline in subscribership. I think a major factor was that as computerized layouts took over, line ads were buried in favor of more-profitable display ads. What no one can see in the clutter, no one responds to.
(Last time I used the L.A. Times, about 5 years ago, I spent $180 and got ZERO inquiries, never mind sales. Same ad I'd run occasionally for 20 years with good results was all of a sudden worthless.)
Not only that, but there are enough examples of the person who brought something to police attention being the one who is suddenly under the hot light, that reporting a possible crime is not a personally safe action. (And IMO anonymous reporting is questionable; it's too often abused.)
As to clients' data -- the GP has a good point. If you're still interested in snooping, you're not mature enough to behave professionally.
Somewhat OT, why does the 2nd link (BTC) in your sig redirect to "https://coinurl.com/index.php" ??
I've seen this a lot with venture-capital startups -- apparently the idea is not to accomplish the goal, but rather to spend all the venture capital, make a few headlines, then sell the "growing" company to the highest bidder. Competence or actually getting work done doesn't seem to be part of the equation.
Someone explain to me how this is more cost-effective than drilling several smaller paths using smaller, more-proven equipment that costs a whole lot less both to buy and to repair? Seriously, I'd like to see the numbers.
Maybe online sources should be cited via an archive.org link rather than a direct link; that way sources won't disappear (at least not nearly so often).
How expensive it really is? or how much they've decided each procedure can net?
The list of charges if you pay cash-in-advance on the wall at the Los Angeles County clinic in Lancaster CA. The most expensive item is:
Any surgery: $400.
Yep, four hundred dollars. Someone else the counter asked the desk nurse how they could do surgery for that price, and she said that's what it actually costs the clinic, and that pay-later get billed at a rate 3x higher, to make up for the large number of deadbeats and the difficulty collecting at all.
Considering that wild mice who live in proximity to humans markedly prefer to eat stuff humans have touched ... I imagine you'd have to find wilderness mice to study!
Zoo primates could be 'contaminated' as well.
Looks like some future researcher is in for a long tramp through the back of beyond. :)
Obviously the time is right for someone to invent a little portable keyboard (possibly with its own battery) that plugs into the phone's USB port and lets you type like a normal person, instead of like a demented monkey chasing termites.
(Which is what I feel like when I use a stylus, but it's still better than fat-finger syndrome.)
Have you looked at animal samples too? Seems to me it would be easier to get those upper gut samples...
Is it human-host only, or opportunistic wherever its favored bacteria thrive?
Has any of this virus been incorporated in our DNA?
Completely OT, having been preconditioned by the crAss cracks, my brain decided to parse your username as "robed wards" which made no sense. :)
No need; I'll just park out in this handy Montana hailstorm. Free dimples!
Actually, that happened to my old truck -- got hailed on pretty good and had small dimples pretty uniformly over its entire upper surface. Didn't do shit for its MPG. And after a few years the dimples went away (let's hear it for Ford steel!) and you couldn't tell it had ever happened.
It helps considerably when that state legislature is a part-time avocation, not a full-time career. Frex, here in Montana it's 90 days every other year -- not enough time to pass bullshit and certainly not enough income to make a living. So the nimrods who are unhireable except as politicians don't thrive here; you can't live off being a politician in MT. (And a lot of local positions, like some county commissioners, are volunteer.)
Conversely, look at California where the legislature is a fulltime job, and observe what a crowd of Peter Principles it's attracted...
And yes, I have considered it, because common sense has to start somewhere. Hell, there's a opening on the local mosquito abatement board... not every job has to be ruling the world. Fixing your little corner is most of it.
I don't know about other stuff or what's current, but back in the 1980s Southern California had basically two telcos: Pacific Bell (good service and reasonable rates), and GTE (horrible service and much higher rates). GTE, being the poor little put-upon underdog company, was given protected monopoly areas where PacBell was not *allowed* to offer telco service.
Fast-forward to the massive restructuring that eventually turned GTE into Verizon, and now Verizon enjoys the legacy of GTE's protected monopoly areas.... which they remained even tho Verizon was now the 800 pound gorilla.
Okay, since the effect is apparently speed-related -- your thought about channels underneath made me wonder if an air intake feeding a channel system could be designed to regulate that airflow according to forward speed, and therefore regulate dimpling, without the tedium and moving parts of yet another pump.
So you do it on the sides (which naturally drain), but not on the roof (which doesn't), and possibly on the undersurface (if practical). The sides are about 2/3rds of the surface area of a big truck box anyway. But per this interesting comment from an AC:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
the benefit is speed-related, and "always drives at the same speed" is an absurd assumption for a car, let alone for a big truck.
Occurs to me to wonder, tho, what happens with drag if you reverse the dimples (as one would to prevent water accumulating). Someone who actually knows, pipe up!