How many ice ages we've had during last couple of millenias? I remember one ended about 10,000 years ago and during it large parts of Northern hemisphere were under a few km's of ice.
I'm completely convinced that human activity is influencing the climate, but I'm entirely unconvinced that a few degrees warmer climate equals disaster, famine and mass extinction. Global climate has been stuck in a rut for the past 2.5 million years, swinging wildly between ice ages and interglacials, and it can't seem to escape from the cycle. Maybe our burning of fossil fuel can give the final push, and rid the world of the permanent ice caps on the poles that have been keeping our climate hostage over the past 2.5 million years.
Sure, low lying lands will flood, but vast amounts of land in North America and Northern Asia that are too cold today will become available for cultivation to compensate.
Farmers use antibiotics on cows, pigs, and turkeys because they can't digest corn properly which leads to excessive gut bacteria (the corn diet makes them gain weight), and due to the unhealthy living conditions of shoving hundreds to thousands of animals together in a cramped warehouse.
This is a flawed theory from the 1950's, not based on experimental evidence. It's more of a religious ritual, there is no actual evidence the use of sub clinical doses of antibiotics as a feed additive has any effect on the weight gain of the animals. This use of antibiotics should be placed in the same category as hail cannons, rain dances, prayer and wearing lucky underpants, if it wasn't for the fact that this doesn't just not work, but poses a very real danger to society by creating the perfect conditions for antibiotic resistance to arise.
As some European countries have found out, even banning the practice has no effect, as the farmers and their veterinarians conspire together to get around it - now all the animals are frequently diagnosed with minor infections and are prescribed the exact same antibiotics as treatment. No farmer wants to fall behind his competitors, and since most people are physically incapable of absorbing and / or believing any finding that is opposite from "common knowledge", it is impossible to convince them it won't work and will only cause harm.
Please note I'm not calling farmers or vets especially stupid or bone headed, this same effect is true for almost everyone, going against "common knowlegde" is very very hard.
Already, three major cities in Japan have been turned into an uninhabitable nuclearwasteland, where no life can exist for millions of years, and you want to continue this trend? Already, Europeans have done the right thing and are starting to go along in banning radiation and nuclear. Germany is closing all its existing reactors. Do you want to be worse than Germany?
Yes, a test, specifically for them. Also, somebody should create jobs only for them, with that education, they'll never get a job at a regular firm, or perhaps just at that Chicken Shag that's been prominent for bigotry lately. Perhaps, as a job, they'd like a supervisor function in some cotton fields and perhaps cross-burnings on Saturdays to relax.
That's great, but I can think of only a handful of jobs out of the hundreds of thousands of possibilities where it makes even one iota of a difference what the candidate thinks about the origin of the species. I don't see why such a big deal is made about something that in the grand scheme of things, isn't all that important. So what if kids growing up in a fundamentalist town or state don't learn about evolution in hischool, it's not going to scar them for life. The concept can be explained in a few minutes.
making a Javascript maintenance nightmare for others.
The maintenance nightmare is GWT generated code. Eventually something will go wrong, even something small (like 'why is this box displayed 5 pixels to the left in IE9???')
In a normal project, you ask your local frontend specialist, but in a GWT project it's all generated, so while they may be able to tell you what is going wrong, it is your nightmare to track down just which component generated that bit of faulty html and why.
I say this as someone who is now maintaining a GWT project written by others.
- it would be fabulous to just write in Java [akin to how I can do this on the Web using Google Web Toolkit]).
I cannot let any undue praise for GWT go unrebuked. While I find it impressive from a technical point of view, I've come to believe actually using it is a potentially expensive mistake.
What you write for GWT, I wouldn't call Java but a-language-with-a-java-like-syntax-but-totally-different-characteristics. If you use your Java best practices, you'll end up with code that doesn't compile - only a certain subset of the Java api is supported - or worse. Don't assume a particular Locale? Using GWT you better assume the default. Program to interfaces rather than implementations? If you do that with GWT the client ends up downloading 20 megabytes worth of javascript to support every known implementation of every sub interface of java.util.Collection. Choosing GWT is also a way of saying 'who needs a steenkin frontend specialist?'. Since all that frontend stuff is generated from java-like server code, your UI will end up being coded by your server side java people. Finally, I'm not convinced Google will continue to support it, since they are actively working on a number of other javascript avoidance technologies, and have a history of announcing the end of life of a product they lose interest in with only a few days notice.
The Screwfly Solution by Alice Sheldon. Extinction of humanity in the most horrifying - and horrifyingly plausible - means possible.
epidemic of organized murder of women by men. (...) biological cause for this sexually selective insanity (...) a new religious movement (...) who believe that women are evil, (...) God is telling them to get rid of all of the women. (...) After most of the world's women are dead, adult men start murdering boys. (...) an entire society bent on femicide (...) the source and motivation behind the plague: an alien species is intentionally causing the human race to destroy itself so that the aliens can have Earth for themselves.
I don't know if it's a good book, I haven't read it, but if you feel it is plausible, maybe that Wiki page needs to be substantially rewritten.
I regret watching the movie after reading the book. I had pretty high expectations because the big screen version of 'no country for old men' turned out so good... ah well.
Wine is a fantastic tool! It allows me to run the sort of windows applications for which there already is a fine native Linux alternative available. Of course the Windows applications that Linux still lacks a native alternative for (my choice: games, visual studio) either won't(*) work or don't make sense in that setting, but still, very useful.
(*) Yeah, I know that with days of tinkering, a bit of luck and just the right hw configuration it can probably be done
Ok, in most sports, women wouldn't get to compete at the highest level any more, but it would be completely fair towards the non-standard gender community!
Great idea! Let's screw all the female athletes because of a few outliers. (Not that this would be the first time our society did such a thing...)
I can't believe anyone thought I was being serious, I thought I was clearly demonstrating how ridiculous the whole discussion is.
Some sports are all about genetic abnormalities. Bolt's genetic material must be quite unusual for him to go that fast.
This is a rather fatalistic misconception about talent. Bolt is as fast as he is, not because of some lucky draw in the gene pool, but because of proper training and starting at a young age. He wasn't born with his perfect technique, he got that through training. Of course you have to be healthy and have a bit of luck as well, and the right mix of fast and slow twitch muscles for your sport, but for every kind of mix of the two there's a sport to excel in.
The only catch all, fool proof and totally fair fix for this is the simplest of all: get rid of men's and women's events, and let both compete in the same event. Maybe add performance based tiers instead, so the very best women will mostly compete with guys (and lose, because, you know, testosterone really does work) and the second tier guys will be mostly competing against the best women (and win, again the testosterone thing). Ok, in most sports, women wouldn't get to compete at the highest level any more, but it would be completely fair towards the non-standard gender community!
I really feel sorry for kids learning to program for the first time today. Our videogames might have sucked compared to Half Life (or even Angry Birds), but at least we had computers that a single mortal could grasp, understand, and individually do cool & worthwhile things with after just a few days of practice and experimentation.
You know, I don't think we need to feel sorry for them, they probably feel sorry for us, the way we used to feel sorry for our senior colleagues for having had to cut punch cards when they were our age.
We have an intern, about the age I was when I was learning to turn a screen black by writing a number to a memory address, or trying to eliminate a clock cycle from a line drawing routine. That was fun stuff, don't take me wrong, but it wasn't useful, and only cool and impressive to a very tiny subset of the human population. This intern is making a mobile app that interfaces with our server application via web services, paid work immediately useful to our customers. God knows what a 20 yr old geek will be doing when he's in his late 30s, probably not fucking web services, heh.
Cut out the mega dose of vitamins. The case for mega doses of vitamin C was based on a very flawed thought experiment: Linus Pauling argued that dogs never got cancer, and his dog made so and so much of its own vitamin C, so people should eat so many grams of vitamin C each day to have the same vitamin C levels as dogs and never get cancer either.
Never mind the fact that dogs do get cancer, and that primates (including us, obviously), who don't make their own vitamin C, live much longer than other mammals of similar size, and have much better health in advanced age than dogs. Just look at a 20 year old dog, if you can find one.
The only study into the health effects of massive doses of vitamin C I could find, actually showed an increase in cancer. It turns out that our body actually uses free radicals for some things. White blood cells produce them to kill pathogens and dodgy cells.
I think you're mixing up events. The Krakatoa eruption took place after the end of the little ice age (1880's iirc), while the year without a summer, 1816, when frankenstein was written, took place after the eruption of another volcano. The little ice age lasted from late middle ages to mid 19th century, not just one year.
With that much fresh water being added to the North Atlantic,
It's not a lot of water, because the Summary of TFA is wrong. while it says:
On July 8, the satellites found evidence that about 40% of the ice sheet's surface had melted. Observations just four days later showed 97% of the surface had melted.
TFA actually says no such thing. It says melting has been observed over 97% of the surface. This does not mean the entire 2 km thick icecap has melted away, because even in tropical heat this would take a very long time, and temperatures are hardly tropical in Greenland
we ought to be talking about the health of the Atlantic Ocean currents that are energized by the temperature difference between equator and polar regions, and the deep water exchange, which is driven by the difference in salinization. Most important of these currents is the Gulf Stream. It stopped several hundred years ago, over the course of a single lifetime, and caused the Little Ice Age in Europe. I've already heard some reports about the speed of the current slowing. An awful lot depends on those currents, and we've heard nary a peep about the implications.
There is, as far as I know, no actual evidence that the little ice age was in any way connected to the gulf stream, it's just one of many theories.
There is still a *lot* of empty space. Also, if we managed to convert even a fraction of the developing world to the level of output that US farms have, we have plenty of food. Mostly the issue is water and sanitation.
But even then... the real issue is energy. We can deal with getting water to where it is needed if energy is cheap enough.
You do point out the elephant in the living room here by mentioning energy, but you seem to have missed just how big this elephant is. In a very real way, modern farming is a way of using land to turn fossil fuel into food. When thinking about peak oil, and cheap energy becoming a thing of the past, people think of their gas bill. This isn't the problem at all! Spending two or three times as much on gas to get to work is not a problem - people in Europe and Japan have been used to this for decades now and they've adapted. The real, society changing and possibly civilization collapsing problem is the price of food. A large chunk of the price of our food is in the form of the fuel it cost to make it, and this cost will continue to rise. Simply switching back to an old fashioned, less energy intensive way of farming is impossible - there is not enough available land to compensate for the substantially lower yield.
Every single forest in the world would have to be cleared for farming, and it still might not be enough. Here in the west, and doubling of the production cost will not immediately cause a doubling in the price of food, because a large portion of the price here consists of added services. In lower wage countries, this is not the case, and food prices swing wildly, which has triggered a cascade of revolutions and civil wars in the past few years. This may look like a good thing now, but just wait until it turns out that democracy can't bring their food prices down either.
I am under no illusion that just because we are rich, free and enlightened, our society will deal with a sustained shrinkage of the standard of living in a peaceful and dignified manner. 'Interesting' times may be ahead...
That area in Munich is only unsafe if you're afraid of Turks, it's not the kind of anarchy you describe. Are you claiming that these are areas where in your words "cops cannot do much, because they are outnumbered (and outgunned !) by the residents" ?
Please read again my statement. Where did I say it was normal ? I just wanted to express my opinion to the OP that it was not a France-related problem, but was, alas !, a global problem, not uncommon.
A global problem if you wish to compare your capital with the likes of Bogota, Lagos or Port-au-prince, perhaps, but do you think this could happen in Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Belgium or the UK to name some countries in the same region? Think about.
Funny that you seem to think of Miami as a major city, but that is not the only part of your statement I disagree with. It is NOT normal in major cities in the developed world to have areas where the police doesn't dare to go. If this happens in peace time, it is a serious breakdown in society. The fact that you seem to have come to think of it as normal is very troubling indeed.
That may happen, but antibiotic resistance usually happens because of overprescription, and people not following directions. Since there aren't many cases of Plague, pretty much any time it does pop up, those people are under careful care, so if there is any antibiotic resistance to it, it's probably because of "environmental antibiotics" - pets under treatment peeing excess, same for farm animals, leaching landfills, etc.
Antibiotic resistance usually happens because of the widespread use of sub therapeutic doses of antibiotics as a 'growth enhancer' in animal feed, and the ability of bacteria to exchange genes, even between different species of bacteria. A fairly recent example of this behavior is the EHEC strain, a strain of previously harmles e.coli bacteria that seems to have absorbed the gene for producing a deadly toxin from the dysentery bug.
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Yeah, who wouldn't want to write a syntax tree by hand? Who needs a parser? The programmer is your parser, such is the power of Lisp!
...I'm entirely unconvinced that a few degrees warmer climate equals disaster, famine and mass extinction... Sure, low lying lands will flood...
...and how does that not lead to disaster, famine and mass extinction?
Because it's slow! It takes thousands of years.
How many ice ages we've had during last couple of millenias? I remember one ended about 10,000 years ago and during it large parts of Northern hemisphere were under a few km's of ice.
Humans, including those afraid of climate change, would not enjoy an ice age. The holocene is not the 'post-glacial', we're 10,000 years into an interglacial - about as long as the warm half of the previous interglacial lasted.
I'm completely convinced that human activity is influencing the climate, but I'm entirely unconvinced that a few degrees warmer climate equals disaster, famine and mass extinction. Global climate has been stuck in a rut for the past 2.5 million years, swinging wildly between ice ages and interglacials, and it can't seem to escape from the cycle. Maybe our burning of fossil fuel can give the final push, and rid the world of the permanent ice caps on the poles that have been keeping our climate hostage over the past 2.5 million years.
Sure, low lying lands will flood, but vast amounts of land in North America and Northern Asia that are too cold today will become available for cultivation to compensate.
Farmers use antibiotics on cows, pigs, and turkeys because they can't digest corn properly which leads to excessive gut bacteria (the corn diet makes them gain weight), and due to the unhealthy living conditions of shoving hundreds to thousands of animals together in a cramped warehouse.
This is a flawed theory from the 1950's, not based on experimental evidence. It's more of a religious ritual, there is no actual evidence the use of sub clinical doses of antibiotics as a feed additive has any effect on the weight gain of the animals. This use of antibiotics should be placed in the same category as hail cannons, rain dances, prayer and wearing lucky underpants, if it wasn't for the fact that this doesn't just not work, but poses a very real danger to society by creating the perfect conditions for antibiotic resistance to arise.
As some European countries have found out, even banning the practice has no effect, as the farmers and their veterinarians conspire together to get around it - now all the animals are frequently diagnosed with minor infections and are prescribed the exact same antibiotics as treatment. No farmer wants to fall behind his competitors, and since most people are physically incapable of absorbing and / or believing any finding that is opposite from "common knowledge", it is impossible to convince them it won't work and will only cause harm.
Please note I'm not calling farmers or vets especially stupid or bone headed, this same effect is true for almost everyone, going against "common knowlegde" is very very hard.
Wow, nuclear fuel rod storage ponds sound like a great place to take a hot bath! Lets all go!
Maybe not in the storage ponds, but in Russia it is fairly normal to go swimming in the cooling water, because it's nice and warm in the winter.
Already, three major cities in Japan have been turned into an uninhabitable
nuclear wasteland, where no life can exist for millions of years, and you want to continue this trend? Already, Europeans have done the right thing and are starting to go along in banning radiation and nuclear. Germany is closing all its existing reactors. Do you want to be worse than Germany?
Yes, a test, specifically for them. Also, somebody should create jobs only for them, with that education, they'll never get a job at a regular firm, or perhaps just at that Chicken Shag that's been prominent for bigotry lately.
Perhaps, as a job, they'd like a supervisor function in some cotton fields and perhaps cross-burnings on Saturdays to relax.
That's great, but I can think of only a handful of jobs out of the hundreds of thousands of possibilities where it makes even one iota of a difference what the candidate thinks about the origin of the species. I don't see why such a big deal is made about something that in the grand scheme of things, isn't all that important. So what if kids growing up in a fundamentalist town or state don't learn about evolution in hischool, it's not going to scar them for life. The concept can be explained in a few minutes.
making a Javascript maintenance nightmare for others.
The maintenance nightmare is GWT generated code. Eventually something will go wrong, even something small (like 'why is this box displayed 5 pixels to the left in IE9???')
In a normal project, you ask your local frontend specialist, but in a GWT project it's all generated, so while they may be able to tell you what is going wrong, it is your nightmare to track down just which component generated that bit of faulty html and why.
I say this as someone who is now maintaining a GWT project written by others.
- it would be fabulous to just write in Java [akin to how I can do this on the Web using Google Web Toolkit]).
I cannot let any undue praise for GWT go unrebuked. While I find it impressive from a technical point of view, I've come to believe actually using it is a potentially expensive mistake.
What you write for GWT, I wouldn't call Java but a-language-with-a-java-like-syntax-but-totally-different-characteristics. If you use your Java best practices, you'll end up with code that doesn't compile - only a certain subset of the Java api is supported - or worse. Don't assume a particular Locale? Using GWT you better assume the default. Program to interfaces rather than implementations? If you do that with GWT the client ends up downloading 20 megabytes worth of javascript to support every known implementation of every sub interface of java.util.Collection. Choosing GWT is also a way of saying 'who needs a steenkin frontend specialist?'. Since all that frontend stuff is generated from java-like server code, your UI will end up being coded by your server side java people. Finally, I'm not convinced Google will continue to support it, since they are actively working on a number of other javascript avoidance technologies, and have a history of announcing the end of life of a product they lose interest in with only a few days notice.
The Screwfly Solution by Alice Sheldon. Extinction of humanity in the most horrifying - and horrifyingly plausible - means possible.
epidemic of organized murder of women by men. (...) biological cause for this sexually selective insanity (...) a new religious movement (...) who believe that women are evil, (...) God is telling them to get rid of all of the women. (...) After most of the world's women are dead, adult men start murdering boys. (...) an entire society bent on femicide (...) the source and motivation behind the plague: an alien species is intentionally causing the human race to destroy itself so that the aliens can have Earth for themselves.
I don't know if it's a good book, I haven't read it, but if you feel it is plausible, maybe that Wiki page needs to be substantially rewritten.
The Road
I endorse this choice
I regret watching the movie after reading the book. I had pretty high expectations because the big screen version of 'no country for old men' turned out so good... ah well.
Wine is a fantastic tool! It allows me to run the sort of windows applications for which there already is a fine native Linux alternative available. Of course the Windows applications that Linux still lacks a native alternative for (my choice: games, visual studio) either won't(*) work or don't make sense in that setting, but still, very useful.
(*) Yeah, I know that with days of tinkering, a bit of luck and just the right hw configuration it can probably be done
Ok, in most sports, women wouldn't get to compete at the highest level any more, but it would be completely fair towards the non-standard gender community!
Great idea! Let's screw all the female athletes because of a few outliers. (Not that this would be the first time our society did such a thing...)
I can't believe anyone thought I was being serious, I thought I was clearly demonstrating how ridiculous the whole discussion is.
Some sports are all about genetic abnormalities. Bolt's genetic material must be quite unusual for him to go that fast.
This is a rather fatalistic misconception about talent. Bolt is as fast as he is, not because of some lucky draw in the gene pool, but because of proper training and starting at a young age. He wasn't born with his perfect technique, he got that through training. Of course you have to be healthy and have a bit of luck as well, and the right mix of fast and slow twitch muscles for your sport, but for every kind of mix of the two there's a sport to excel in.
The only catch all, fool proof and totally fair fix for this is the simplest of all: get rid of men's and women's events, and let both compete in the same event. Maybe add performance based tiers instead, so the very best women will mostly compete with guys (and lose, because, you know, testosterone really does work) and the second tier guys will be mostly competing against the best women (and win, again the testosterone thing). Ok, in most sports, women wouldn't get to compete at the highest level any more, but it would be completely fair towards the non-standard gender community!
I really feel sorry for kids learning to program for the first time today. Our videogames might have sucked compared to Half Life (or even Angry Birds), but at least we had computers that a single mortal could grasp, understand, and individually do cool & worthwhile things with after just a few days of practice and experimentation.
You know, I don't think we need to feel sorry for them, they probably feel sorry for us, the way we used to feel sorry for our senior colleagues for having had to cut punch cards when they were our age.
We have an intern, about the age I was when I was learning to turn a screen black by writing a number to a memory address, or trying to eliminate a clock cycle from a line drawing routine. That was fun stuff, don't take me wrong, but it wasn't useful, and only cool and impressive to a very tiny subset of the human population. This intern is making a mobile app that interfaces with our server application via web services, paid work immediately useful to our customers. God knows what a 20 yr old geek will be doing when he's in his late 30s, probably not fucking web services, heh.
Cut out the mega dose of vitamins. The case for mega doses of vitamin C was based on a very flawed thought experiment: Linus Pauling argued that dogs never got cancer, and his dog made so and so much of its own vitamin C, so people should eat so many grams of vitamin C each day to have the same vitamin C levels as dogs and never get cancer either.
Never mind the fact that dogs do get cancer, and that primates (including us, obviously), who don't make their own vitamin C, live much longer than other mammals of similar size, and have much better health in advanced age than dogs. Just look at a 20 year old dog, if you can find one.
The only study into the health effects of massive doses of vitamin C I could find, actually showed an increase in cancer. It turns out that our body actually uses free radicals for some things. White blood cells produce them to kill pathogens and dodgy cells.
evacuate City 17 at once, if not sooner! I cannot state this without enough undue emphasis.
I think you're mixing up events. The Krakatoa eruption took place after the end of the little ice age (1880's iirc), while the year without a summer, 1816, when frankenstein was written, took place after the eruption of another volcano. The little ice age lasted from late middle ages to mid 19th century, not just one year.
With that much fresh water being added to the North Atlantic,
It's not a lot of water, because the Summary of TFA is wrong. while it says:
On July 8, the satellites found evidence that about 40% of the ice sheet's surface had melted. Observations just four days later showed 97% of the surface had melted.
TFA actually says no such thing. It says melting has been observed over 97% of the surface. This does not mean the entire 2 km thick icecap has melted away, because even in tropical heat this would take a very long time, and temperatures are hardly tropical in Greenland
we ought to be talking about the health of the Atlantic Ocean currents that are energized by the temperature difference between equator and polar regions, and the deep water exchange, which is driven by the difference in salinization. Most important of these currents is the Gulf Stream. It stopped several hundred years ago, over the course of a single lifetime, and caused the Little Ice Age in Europe. I've already heard some reports about the speed of the current slowing. An awful lot depends on those currents, and we've heard nary a peep about the implications.
There is, as far as I know, no actual evidence that the little ice age was in any way connected to the gulf stream, it's just one of many theories.
There is still a *lot* of empty space. Also, if we managed to convert even a fraction of the developing world to the level of output that US farms have, we have plenty of food. Mostly the issue is water and sanitation.
But even then... the real issue is energy. We can deal with getting water to where it is needed if energy is cheap enough.
You do point out the elephant in the living room here by mentioning energy, but you seem to have missed just how big this elephant is. In a very real way, modern farming is a way of using land to turn fossil fuel into food. When thinking about peak oil, and cheap energy becoming a thing of the past, people think of their gas bill. This isn't the problem at all! Spending two or three times as much on gas to get to work is not a problem - people in Europe and Japan have been used to this for decades now and they've adapted. The real, society changing and possibly civilization collapsing problem is the price of food. A large chunk of the price of our food is in the form of the fuel it cost to make it, and this cost will continue to rise. Simply switching back to an old fashioned, less energy intensive way of farming is impossible - there is not enough available land to compensate for the substantially lower yield.
Every single forest in the world would have to be cleared for farming, and it still might not be enough. Here in the west, and doubling of the production cost will not immediately cause a doubling in the price of food, because a large portion of the price here consists of added services. In lower wage countries, this is not the case, and food prices swing wildly, which has triggered a cascade of revolutions and civil wars in the past few years. This may look like a good thing now, but just wait until it turns out that democracy can't bring their food prices down either.
I am under no illusion that just because we are rich, free and enlightened, our society will deal with a sustained shrinkage of the standard of living in a peaceful and dignified manner. 'Interesting' times may be ahead...
That area in Munich is only unsafe if you're afraid of Turks, it's not the kind of anarchy you describe. Are you claiming that these are areas where in your words "cops cannot do much, because they are outnumbered (and outgunned !) by the residents" ?
Please read again my statement. Where did I say it was normal ? I just wanted to express my opinion to the OP that it was not a France-related problem, but was, alas !, a global problem, not uncommon.
A global problem if you wish to compare your capital with the likes of Bogota, Lagos or Port-au-prince, perhaps, but do you think this could happen in Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Belgium or the UK to name some countries in the same region? Think about.
Funny that you seem to think of Miami as a major city, but that is not the only part of your statement I disagree with. It is NOT normal in major cities in the developed world to have areas where the police doesn't dare to go. If this happens in peace time, it is a serious breakdown in society. The fact that you seem to have come to think of it as normal is very troubling indeed.
That may happen, but antibiotic resistance usually happens because of overprescription, and people not following directions. Since there aren't many cases of Plague, pretty much any time it does pop up, those people are under careful care, so if there is any antibiotic resistance to it, it's probably because of "environmental antibiotics" - pets under treatment peeing excess, same for farm animals, leaching landfills, etc.
Antibiotic resistance usually happens because of the widespread use of sub therapeutic doses of antibiotics as a 'growth enhancer' in animal feed, and the ability of bacteria to exchange genes, even between different species of bacteria. A fairly recent example of this behavior is the EHEC strain, a strain of previously harmles e.coli bacteria that seems to have absorbed the gene for producing a deadly toxin from the dysentery bug.