I had a similar thought, that if the replacement fluid included an antibacterial agent (perhaps a bacteria-specific virus engineered to suicide after a few generations, if such a thing is possible) that killed off every bacterium in its path -- that would greatly reduce the risk of an introduced infection, and if you have have to repopulate regions like the gut that can't function without bacteria, well, that's not hard to accomplish.
Nowhere to put it right now (stuck between houses, all my crap is in storage, and just got word that in a month I'll be homeless) or I might take ya up on it... well, if it's a ViewSonic.:)
Aren't you here in the Treasure State too?? or am I thinking of someone else?
Good reasoning, methinks. Do you have the model number handy? I suppose anything in that family would work for me, tho. I don't really need the rotating screen but I do want VGA.
Princeton used to make good CRTs, some marketed under another name which I've forgotten.
"...Over five years..." Goes to show how our expectations of monitor longevity have been downgraded!:( Plenty of CRTs out there 15 years old or more.
Thanks for the recommendation -- 1920 x 1200 screen at 24" looks like it would work very well for me too. I sit quite a ways from the screen (4-5 feet). What brand is yours? the least-bogus-looking offers on eBay are at the Dell refurb store, and there's one locally on CL, so maybe I'll get lucky.
And this cross between urban legends and the game of telephone has been going on since at least 1995, which IIRC was when I located the first of the stupid "clear your browser cache to cure all online ills" recommendations that became the gospel of tech support everywhere, despite that it didn't really have a good basis, tho was known to effect a =temporary= cure for some issues. Why did it halfassed work, but was still wrong? Because the real issue was either 1) the user's system was grossly fragmented, therefore cache was even more so, and clearing it temporarily alleviated cache fragmentation, or 2) the various problems were actually due to server bugs, mostly in NT4 and Netware5. But did you EVER ONCE hear that from tech support, or in a user-driven forum? Hell no. It was always "clear your cache", and it was repeated so often that it became tech support and forum gospel.
I got interested in this specific problem when I got handed "clear your cache" for the dreaded "Document contains no data" issue... which for the site I was arguing with proved to be caused by a known Netware5 bug.
Yeah, this was a long time ago, but that's my point -- this crap has been going on since there was internet forums and tech support, or lack thereof (companies noticed that support could be shuffled off to forums as soon as users eager to share became evident), and has always had the same issue with anecdote and apocrypha becoming gospel, because the solution works just enough for some issues, even tho the problem is misaddressed or the solution is wrong.
Might be an effect of being slightly more relaxed, the same effect a very small amount of alcohol can have if you're tense. So you get better reaction time because you don't have to overcome muscle tension first.
I see the problem in this argument (which is all up and down various threads).
Being able to see *individual pixels* is not the same as being able to see a *difference in quality*.
To my eye, if I can see the pixels, it sucks. So the pixels have to be small enough that they no longer *catch my attention*. And there's the difference. Higher resolution makes the pixels less noticeable, which makes the picture sharper and clearer. Making your eye resolve individual pixels isn't the goal here; quite the reverse.
People complained the wrong way. They shoulda said they wanted two of these dwarfy monitors side by side in *portrait* mode. Then the mfgrs woulda said "Oh, people want it tall as well!" and we wouldn't be feeling like someone set an anvil atop the monitor and squished it.
Yeah, I remember GoldStar, back when it was a crappy brand only K-Mart carried. Renaming it LG didn't fool me. I'll consider myself warned on the burn-in issue! Could happen just as easily when Windows decides not to run the screen saver, as it sometimes does.
The one I'm using right now (Acer, nominally 21" but closer to 20" in Real Life) is distorted at ANY resolution other than 1440x900, which fortunately is okay for me tho I'd rather not have menu text shrunk so much (enlarging that makes a mess). It's trying to die so I'm looking for a new monitor, preferably with a little more vertical space, but I'm leery of the distortion issue. Any thoughts?
Dunno about elsewhere, but someone up in Sidney MT just reported seeing a single-wide used trailer for sale for (are you sitting down?) $160,000, and that's for just the trailer, on wheels, no lot. You might pay $3000/mo. for a place to park it. Such a trailer was worth $5000 (and the lot $200/mo.) before Bakken oil.
All that aside, if I were 30 years younger I'd be up there too.
Can the kerogen be refined directly, without converting first? or is the real problem melting it out of the ground?
Also, what is the relative risk of refining at the site of extraction and transporting finished product, vs transporting crude to remote refineries (which will still need some storage and transport to end users), for both spillage risk and other risks? I'm thinkin' probably crude spills are more mess, but refined spills are more dangerous.
I'm pretty much with you on gov't, for the same reasons. But I would add that we need public schools because we've seen the alternative -- it's called the Middle Ages, where education was a luxury. But we don't need gov't telling the schools how to operate, beyond that they're expected to accomplish basic competency (which includes disciplining students as needed). And I'd say we also need a public police force, because we've seen the alternative to that, too -- it's called the Mob. But public policing needs to be limited BY a limited government with limited powers. Police departments gone rabid is a direct consequence of the expansion of government in general.
This is why I say kill the tax system and return to tariffs and only that level of gov't which tariffs can support -- encouraging domestic industry, not regulating it out of existence (and therefore with no product to export).
Alas, I have absolutely no patience with this sort of thing, so it wouldn't matter if I understood the algorithm or not. Conversely, I'll solve the "how much irregularly-shaped crap can you squish into an irregular space" problem by merely applying a quick eyeball.
So here's a question: how hard would it be to install another module inside the same sandbox, that streams the DRM'd content to another file instead of (or in addition to) the screen?
It takes 20 to 30 years for overcrowding and brush growth to achieve the kind of understory fuel load that makes for a megafire (where intense heat creates the chimneys that send the fire into the crown, where otherwise it's unlikely to reach). So, yeah, depending on when the last megafire went through that area, a lot of forests are about due, and will experience such a fire at the next incendiary opportunity, be that a dry year, a lightning strike, or a careless match.
The other day I got to thinking about the big Santa Clarita/Acton (SoCal) fire of a couple years ago, and realised that where the fire halted as it moved northward wasn't due to firefighters' efforts. It halted when the fire reached the area regularly grazed by sheep, where there's grass but no undergrowth, and all the junipers are browsed up 3 or 4 feet above the ground.
I found the sunspot-cycle correlation fascinating -- especially as it doesn't seem to suffer from the need to massage or cherrypick to reach the desired conclusion.
Incidentally there are fungi and grasses that alter behavior depending on the sunspot cycle.
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I had a similar thought, that if the replacement fluid included an antibacterial agent (perhaps a bacteria-specific virus engineered to suicide after a few generations, if such a thing is possible) that killed off every bacterium in its path -- that would greatly reduce the risk of an introduced infection, and if you have have to repopulate regions like the gut that can't function without bacteria, well, that's not hard to accomplish.
So that made me wonder:
With an injured person who might not ordinarily have time to reach medical help, is there any benefit to deliberately triggering this diving reflex?
Nowhere to put it right now (stuck between houses, all my crap is in storage, and just got word that in a month I'll be homeless) or I might take ya up on it... well, if it's a ViewSonic. :)
Aren't you here in the Treasure State too?? or am I thinking of someone else?
Good reasoning, methinks. Do you have the model number handy? I suppose anything in that family would work for me, tho. I don't really need the rotating screen but I do want VGA.
Princeton used to make good CRTs, some marketed under another name which I've forgotten.
"...Over five years..." Goes to show how our expectations of monitor longevity have been downgraded! :( Plenty of CRTs out there 15 years old or more.
[goes off, looks 'em up] Ah, THAT size!
Thanks for the recommendation -- 1920 x 1200 screen at 24" looks like it would work very well for me too. I sit quite a ways from the screen (4-5 feet). What brand is yours? the least-bogus-looking offers on eBay are at the Dell refurb store, and there's one locally on CL, so maybe I'll get lucky.
And this cross between urban legends and the game of telephone has been going on since at least 1995, which IIRC was when I located the first of the stupid "clear your browser cache to cure all online ills" recommendations that became the gospel of tech support everywhere, despite that it didn't really have a good basis, tho was known to effect a =temporary= cure for some issues. Why did it halfassed work, but was still wrong? Because the real issue was either 1) the user's system was grossly fragmented, therefore cache was even more so, and clearing it temporarily alleviated cache fragmentation, or 2) the various problems were actually due to server bugs, mostly in NT4 and Netware5. But did you EVER ONCE hear that from tech support, or in a user-driven forum? Hell no. It was always "clear your cache", and it was repeated so often that it became tech support and forum gospel.
I got interested in this specific problem when I got handed "clear your cache" for the dreaded "Document contains no data" issue... which for the site I was arguing with proved to be caused by a known Netware5 bug.
Yeah, this was a long time ago, but that's my point -- this crap has been going on since there was internet forums and tech support, or lack thereof (companies noticed that support could be shuffled off to forums as soon as users eager to share became evident), and has always had the same issue with anecdote and apocrypha becoming gospel, because the solution works just enough for some issues, even tho the problem is misaddressed or the solution is wrong.
Might be an effect of being slightly more relaxed, the same effect a very small amount of alcohol can have if you're tense. So you get better reaction time because you don't have to overcome muscle tension first.
I see the problem in this argument (which is all up and down various threads).
Being able to see *individual pixels* is not the same as being able to see a *difference in quality*.
To my eye, if I can see the pixels, it sucks. So the pixels have to be small enough that they no longer *catch my attention*. And there's the difference. Higher resolution makes the pixels less noticeable, which makes the picture sharper and clearer. Making your eye resolve individual pixels isn't the goal here; quite the reverse.
People complained the wrong way. They shoulda said they wanted two of these dwarfy monitors side by side in *portrait* mode. Then the mfgrs woulda said "Oh, people want it tall as well!" and we wouldn't be feeling like someone set an anvil atop the monitor and squished it.
Yeah, I remember GoldStar, back when it was a crappy brand only K-Mart carried. Renaming it LG didn't fool me. I'll consider myself warned on the burn-in issue! Could happen just as easily when Windows decides not to run the screen saver, as it sometimes does.
When you get tired of it let me know :)
The one I'm using right now (Acer, nominally 21" but closer to 20" in Real Life) is distorted at ANY resolution other than 1440x900, which fortunately is okay for me tho I'd rather not have menu text shrunk so much (enlarging that makes a mess). It's trying to die so I'm looking for a new monitor, preferably with a little more vertical space, but I'm leery of the distortion issue. Any thoughts?
Very good thoughts, especially about the lockout while in motion.
Dunno about elsewhere, but someone up in Sidney MT just reported seeing a single-wide used trailer for sale for (are you sitting down?) $160,000, and that's for just the trailer, on wheels, no lot. You might pay $3000/mo. for a place to park it. Such a trailer was worth $5000 (and the lot $200/mo.) before Bakken oil.
All that aside, if I were 30 years younger I'd be up there too.
Can the kerogen be refined directly, without converting first? or is the real problem melting it out of the ground?
Also, what is the relative risk of refining at the site of extraction and transporting finished product, vs transporting crude to remote refineries (which will still need some storage and transport to end users), for both spillage risk and other risks? I'm thinkin' probably crude spills are more mess, but refined spills are more dangerous.
I just had a vision of the driverless car offered as SaaS, and what happens when the Cloud goes down even for a moment.
I'm pretty much with you on gov't, for the same reasons. But I would add that we need public schools because we've seen the alternative -- it's called the Middle Ages, where education was a luxury. But we don't need gov't telling the schools how to operate, beyond that they're expected to accomplish basic competency (which includes disciplining students as needed). And I'd say we also need a public police force, because we've seen the alternative to that, too -- it's called the Mob. But public policing needs to be limited BY a limited government with limited powers. Police departments gone rabid is a direct consequence of the expansion of government in general.
This is why I say kill the tax system and return to tariffs and only that level of gov't which tariffs can support -- encouraging domestic industry, not regulating it out of existence (and therefore with no product to export).
Ford
Lincoln
Mercury
Toyota
Dodge
Chrysler
Plymouth
Honda
Hyundai
Yugo
Tesla
Studebaker
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I expect the effect would be rather like that of feral pigs.
There's the answer -- put a wulf in the trap. Disposes of the RAIM and you don't have to feed the wulf.
Alas, I have absolutely no patience with this sort of thing, so it wouldn't matter if I understood the algorithm or not. Conversely, I'll solve the "how much irregularly-shaped crap can you squish into an irregular space" problem by merely applying a quick eyeball.
So here's a question: how hard would it be to install another module inside the same sandbox, that streams the DRM'd content to another file instead of (or in addition to) the screen?
Map those fires across time and tell me what you see.
I see a marked shift west and south, becoming more pronounced the closer we are to the present, with a recent concentration on the Left Coast.
From this I conclude that wildfires are a consequence of the migration of treehuggers and other clueless envirotwats.
Substitute "heretic" for "denier", and all is explained.
It takes 20 to 30 years for overcrowding and brush growth to achieve the kind of understory fuel load that makes for a megafire (where intense heat creates the chimneys that send the fire into the crown, where otherwise it's unlikely to reach). So, yeah, depending on when the last megafire went through that area, a lot of forests are about due, and will experience such a fire at the next incendiary opportunity, be that a dry year, a lightning strike, or a careless match.
The other day I got to thinking about the big Santa Clarita/Acton (SoCal) fire of a couple years ago, and realised that where the fire halted as it moved northward wasn't due to firefighters' efforts. It halted when the fire reached the area regularly grazed by sheep, where there's grass but no undergrowth, and all the junipers are browsed up 3 or 4 feet above the ground.
A whole bunch more:
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Appears to be about 5%, not 0%.
I found the sunspot-cycle correlation fascinating -- especially as it doesn't seem to suffer from the need to massage or cherrypick to reach the desired conclusion.
Incidentally there are fungi and grasses that alter behavior depending on the sunspot cycle.