They could make up their mind what film they plan to do, too... The Lone Ranger as case in point. It couldn't decide if it was the classic remade (when it was, it was good), or something camp and "modern" (when it was, it sucked, and the camp crap often came on the heels of something serious and good, which ruined the scene).
Last time this came up, someone here pointed out that as drivers' own safety increases, they have less reason to be cautious, which is the real problem. Seatbelts, airbags, GIS, alert systems, have all reduced the need and habit of using their own brains.
Tho I will also say that in my observation, cyclists today are not nearly as cautious, nor as conscious of other traffic, as they were 30 or 40 years ago. Enter helmets and bike lanes, and now there's no need to pay attention to traffic with their own brains.
Which makes a person wonder to what degree that "freeing up resources" is responsible for greater longevity once vaccine use became widespread (in addition to reducing death from disease).
While back I read a paper on a DNA study that determined the average coefficient of inbreeding in a variety of common wild animals (eg. deer, coyotes) was around 0.25.
And there have been some studies of isolated (island) populations that grew from as little as a single female and her initial mates (so the entire current population is extremely inbred), yet show no particular negatives.
For comparison, the average level of inbreeding in purebred dogs is far lower -- around 0.03, 0.05 to 0.08 in purpose-bred dogs, and with some performance bloodlines hitting 0.18 or so. The more successful performance breeds (eg. Labradors, Border Collies) tend to have a higher COE, and the entire breed's population may trace back to a bare handful of ancestors (we have very complete historical pedigrees in some breeds, notably Labs).
Long-term inbreeding studies in dogs found that once the defectives and substandards were culled (which are rapidly exposed via inbreeding, and nature culls them via disease and predation), the more-inbred populations were overall healthier. (Contrary to popular belief and current theoretical science, which has crunched the numbers but hasn't run the experiments.) Once that was achieved, outcrosses actually degraded the population's overall health.
My point is, some will get in a dither about it, but it's not an unreasonable or even particularly "unnatural" approach, especially since the gene pool lacks alternatives.
Traditional education, now decried as being nothing but memorizing facts, is fading. Instead we have the "question everything" mindset, which, lacking the facts a prior generation had memorized and at their fingertips, most especially questions science (not as "we should confirm those results before we trust them too much" but rather "it's science, therefore questionable").
"...adding a selection pressure for immune systems which strongly respond to vaccinations."
Vaccination is just a controlled exposure to disease. A good vaccination response is not intrinsically different from a good response to exposure to viruses in the wild -- so the effect is to select toward better immune response to either type of exposure, and probably a net better disease resistance and recovery with fewer side effects (like immune system going overboard).
So take the OT system and add our modern jury system (with similar penalties to crooked jurors, should any arise... tho the research I've seen indicates that on the whole, jurors are meticulously honest if not necessarily wise). Get rid of plea-bargaining while we're at it.
So how many of these missing persons are inside the city limits, or on reasonably-accessable private property?
Drones hunting for a specific individual, for a specific purpose, in rough terrain (either public land or with private permission) is one thing. Drones cruising your town just in case you might be perps is quite another.
"If the police want to sit outside of a known brothel and record license numbers of all of the cars that visit there, well it's a public place and if they want to sit there and write down license numbers, that's fine. My wife could do the same thing, so I shouldn't park there if I don't want anyone to know."
There's the real point: Law enforcement (and gov't in general) should not be allowed to do anything they couldn't do as private citizens. If they are so allowed, then they must be "more equal" than the rest of us, who are demoted to second-class.
While that's true, part of the problem is people who believe that we only have rights that are specified in the Constitution, and all other possible rights -- we don't have. Eg. privacy. People don't get up in arms and try to change things because they believe they have no right...
Years ago I had a puppy who would watch [American] football, and Max Headroom, both with complete attention. She wasn't interested in anything else (so it wasn't just being attracted to motion), nor did she watch the commercials.
Try the raw, fresh florets =after= it's bloomed. I was amazed to find them tender and sweet and vastly better than the bud-form we traditionally eat. (Broccoli doesn't head up at all in the desert; it bolts into a brushy bloomy thing.)
I am a supertaster, and yeah, there are certain types of bitterness that even we can learn to like. Frex, gunpowder tea weaned me off sweetened tea, and now I drink all tea plain and bitter. And I like a light crisp bitterness in my beer, but not the bitter =aftertaste= that some has.
But there's a difference between flavorless and subtle: stuff like lettuce need not be bitter to have flavor -- to a supertaster, things like head lettuce and plain soda crackers can have subtle flavors which other people just can't detect.
As to broccoli... I'm not fond of it, but I did discover a peculiarity of broccoli grown in the desert (temps up to 122F, extremely alkali soil with no detectable nitrogen): it never forms a head, but rather it bolts immediately, ie. makes a loose broomlike cluster that's not really harvestable... but when it blooms, the blossoms are delicious and lightly sweet, like a non-bitter broccoli. I was amazed.
Probably not in '79, but from what I read somewhere on UP's site, they've apparently had them for quite a while.
They also have track-condition sensors on trains -- I've seen those at work; caused a loose rail to get fixed within a couple days (I lived across the road and had noted the different sound when it got loose) rather than when it caused an incident. You couldn't tell there was a problem by looking at it.
My impression is that everything about rail is hideously expensive, and busted stuff is even more expensive, so they already spend more than the average effort. I was reading about some relatively new regulations that cover stuff UP has done for decades, but now have to be done according to some federal rulebook rather than with an eye to what needs doing. UP said this won't improve safety (it doesn't actually fix anything) but will increase costs (by about 60% in that part of their operation). Which seems about par for the course with incident-driven "OMG Safety!" regulations.
True, but like the AC I was wondering about the economics of salvage, which historically has been a viable industry. Is the manifest available for analysis? And how much salvage makes it into the Dollar Store and seconds market worldwide? how much of it is more damaged by salt water than is immediately visible?
How much would it take to put a locator beacon on each container? Would it be cost-effective? (Considering that the contents are more than likely destroyed, and wondering what the insurance difference is between destroyed and lost-entirely)
Not entirely. Frex, I do very well learning math as abstract concepts. But when it's taught via "reality" (story problems and the like) it makes no sense to me. I need the abstract first, then I can grok the realworld application. I can't do it the other way around. I'm sure I'm not alone.
I'd have to agree with the parent post; farming/ranching is being squeezed out. It ultimately supports everything else, but get a couple tiers removed and people forget the importance of agriculture, and it becomes okay in their minds to urbanize good farmland and force out those smelly dairies and stockyards and sugar-beet refineries.
About 30 years ago someone researching the loss of arable land to urban sprawl concluded that about 50% of the best cropland has already been built over. It's only gotten worse since then.:(
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They could make up their mind what film they plan to do, too... The Lone Ranger as case in point. It couldn't decide if it was the classic remade (when it was, it was good), or something camp and "modern" (when it was, it sucked, and the camp crap often came on the heels of something serious and good, which ruined the scene).
Last time this came up, someone here pointed out that as drivers' own safety increases, they have less reason to be cautious, which is the real problem. Seatbelts, airbags, GIS, alert systems, have all reduced the need and habit of using their own brains.
Tho I will also say that in my observation, cyclists today are not nearly as cautious, nor as conscious of other traffic, as they were 30 or 40 years ago. Enter helmets and bike lanes, and now there's no need to pay attention to traffic with their own brains.
Which makes a person wonder to what degree that "freeing up resources" is responsible for greater longevity once vaccine use became widespread (in addition to reducing death from disease).
Especially if they mistake it for a history documentary.
While back I read a paper on a DNA study that determined the average coefficient of inbreeding in a variety of common wild animals (eg. deer, coyotes) was around 0.25.
And there have been some studies of isolated (island) populations that grew from as little as a single female and her initial mates (so the entire current population is extremely inbred), yet show no particular negatives.
For comparison, the average level of inbreeding in purebred dogs is far lower -- around 0.03, 0.05 to 0.08 in purpose-bred dogs, and with some performance bloodlines hitting 0.18 or so. The more successful performance breeds (eg. Labradors, Border Collies) tend to have a higher COE, and the entire breed's population may trace back to a bare handful of ancestors (we have very complete historical pedigrees in some breeds, notably Labs).
Long-term inbreeding studies in dogs found that once the defectives and substandards were culled (which are rapidly exposed via inbreeding, and nature culls them via disease and predation), the more-inbred populations were overall healthier. (Contrary to popular belief and current theoretical science, which has crunched the numbers but hasn't run the experiments.) Once that was achieved, outcrosses actually degraded the population's overall health.
My point is, some will get in a dither about it, but it's not an unreasonable or even particularly "unnatural" approach, especially since the gene pool lacks alternatives.
Traditional education, now decried as being nothing but memorizing facts, is fading. Instead we have the "question everything" mindset, which, lacking the facts a prior generation had memorized and at their fingertips, most especially questions science (not as "we should confirm those results before we trust them too much" but rather "it's science, therefore questionable").
The result is a generation of educated idiots.
"...adding a selection pressure for immune systems which strongly respond to vaccinations."
Vaccination is just a controlled exposure to disease. A good vaccination response is not intrinsically different from a good response to exposure to viruses in the wild -- so the effect is to select toward better immune response to either type of exposure, and probably a net better disease resistance and recovery with fewer side effects (like immune system going overboard).
So take the OT system and add our modern jury system (with similar penalties to crooked jurors, should any arise... tho the research I've seen indicates that on the whole, jurors are meticulously honest if not necessarily wise). Get rid of plea-bargaining while we're at it.
So how many of these missing persons are inside the city limits, or on reasonably-accessable private property?
Drones hunting for a specific individual, for a specific purpose, in rough terrain (either public land or with private permission) is one thing. Drones cruising your town just in case you might be perps is quite another.
"If the police want to sit outside of a known brothel and record license numbers of all of the cars that visit there, well it's a public place and if they want to sit there and write down license numbers, that's fine. My wife could do the same thing, so I shouldn't park there if I don't want anyone to know."
There's the real point: Law enforcement (and gov't in general) should not be allowed to do anything they couldn't do as private citizens. If they are so allowed, then they must be "more equal" than the rest of us, who are demoted to second-class.
Oh, wait...
While that's true, part of the problem is people who believe that we only have rights that are specified in the Constitution, and all other possible rights -- we don't have. Eg. privacy. People don't get up in arms and try to change things because they believe they have no right...
That's basically a problem of scale, I think.
I would say that the =writers= for the NYTimes are protected, even if the corporate entity is not.
No. Our rights are everything that isn't specifically *limited* by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
How do labor strikes and shopping boycotts hurt the *government* ??
Years ago I had a puppy who would watch [American] football, and Max Headroom, both with complete attention. She wasn't interested in anything else (so it wasn't just being attracted to motion), nor did she watch the commercials.
Try the raw, fresh florets =after= it's bloomed. I was amazed to find them tender and sweet and vastly better than the bud-form we traditionally eat. (Broccoli doesn't head up at all in the desert; it bolts into a brushy bloomy thing.)
I am a supertaster, and yeah, there are certain types of bitterness that even we can learn to like. Frex, gunpowder tea weaned me off sweetened tea, and now I drink all tea plain and bitter. And I like a light crisp bitterness in my beer, but not the bitter =aftertaste= that some has.
But there's a difference between flavorless and subtle: stuff like lettuce need not be bitter to have flavor -- to a supertaster, things like head lettuce and plain soda crackers can have subtle flavors which other people just can't detect.
As to broccoli... I'm not fond of it, but I did discover a peculiarity of broccoli grown in the desert (temps up to 122F, extremely alkali soil with no detectable nitrogen): it never forms a head, but rather it bolts immediately, ie. makes a loose broomlike cluster that's not really harvestable... but when it blooms, the blossoms are delicious and lightly sweet, like a non-bitter broccoli. I was amazed.
Probably not in '79, but from what I read somewhere on UP's site, they've apparently had them for quite a while.
They also have track-condition sensors on trains -- I've seen those at work; caused a loose rail to get fixed within a couple days (I lived across the road and had noted the different sound when it got loose) rather than when it caused an incident. You couldn't tell there was a problem by looking at it.
My impression is that everything about rail is hideously expensive, and busted stuff is even more expensive, so they already spend more than the average effort. I was reading about some relatively new regulations that cover stuff UP has done for decades, but now have to be done according to some federal rulebook rather than with an eye to what needs doing. UP said this won't improve safety (it doesn't actually fix anything) but will increase costs (by about 60% in that part of their operation). Which seems about par for the course with incident-driven "OMG Safety!" regulations.
True, but like the AC I was wondering about the economics of salvage, which historically has been a viable industry. Is the manifest available for analysis? And how much salvage makes it into the Dollar Store and seconds market worldwide? how much of it is more damaged by salt water than is immediately visible?
I know Union Pacific has trackside sensors to look for hot boxes and similar defects-in-progress; doesn't CP do likewise?
How much would it take to put a locator beacon on each container? Would it be cost-effective? (Considering that the contents are more than likely destroyed, and wondering what the insurance difference is between destroyed and lost-entirely)
How regularly is "regularly" ?? (Just wondering, having not seen any stats about it.)
Seems to me the losses must be cheaper than the insurance, or they'd find a way to have less "regularity".
Not entirely. Frex, I do very well learning math as abstract concepts. But when it's taught via "reality" (story problems and the like) it makes no sense to me. I need the abstract first, then I can grok the realworld application. I can't do it the other way around. I'm sure I'm not alone.
I'd have to agree with the parent post; farming/ranching is being squeezed out. It ultimately supports everything else, but get a couple tiers removed and people forget the importance of agriculture, and it becomes okay in their minds to urbanize good farmland and force out those smelly dairies and stockyards and sugar-beet refineries.
About 30 years ago someone researching the loss of arable land to urban sprawl concluded that about 50% of the best cropland has already been built over. It's only gotten worse since then. :(