Netflix removed "Root Cause", which blames root canals for a host of medical problems, due to complaints from dentist groups. I saw it before that happened, and while I found it irritating and often flaky, it definitely made me think. Then I found a rebuttal, and I decided there is real reason for concern.
"I'd love to see one in my lifetime". Not me. When, not if, it failed, it'd smash down a line of utter destruction all the way around the planet. Or maybe twice around.
"pay-TV providers will be required to provide apps – free of charge– that consumers can download to the device of their choosing". So the cable companies will still have a stranglehold - I don't see independent developers being allowed to create the apps. I can see it now. "Well, yeah, the app really sucks, but we have this nifty box that works so much better, and you'll just have to pay a little bit each month...".
IIRC, HAARP was intended to heat the ionosphere so as to disrupt the flight path for Russian ICBMs. IMO, "study" using HAARP is like studying the sonar capabilities of Right whales by setting off massive underwater bombs. Which is what the Navy, and oil companies, are so eager to do.
"Batteries using this copolymer had an initial storage capacity of 1,225 mAh per gram of material. After 100 charge-discharge cycles, the capacity dropped to 1,005 mAh/g, and after 500 cycles it fell to about 635 mAh/g. In comparison, a lithium-ion battery typically starts out with a storage capacity of 200 mAh/g but maintains it for the life of the battery, Pyun says." So, the lithium sulfur battery, after a mere half as many cycles as a lithium ion battery can substain, only has THREE TIMES the charge of a new lithium battery. At what point does it fall to less than a lithium ion battery at the same number of cycles? Regardless, I think I could live with a battery that holds from 3 to 6 times as much charge as the typical lithium ion battery, even if it only lasted half as long.
Wrong. Police seize property not just on drug raids, but in all kinds of situations, and the money from selling that property goes to - the police department.
Clearly, you're some kinda commie. How DARE you suggest anything that would reduce the impact of commercial television (i.e., commercials occasionally interrupted by shows)?:-)
Not only is your idea excellent, but I want that functionality incorporated into my mute button. Commercials are STILL screaming at me (hasn't it been about 3 years since that law was passed mandating that commercials be no louder than the programs?). But the mute doesn't do anything to prevent my eyes from being assaulted. I want my mute button to not only darken the commercials, I want it to show only 1 frame per second. Ads are flashing images with convulsion-evoking abruptness. I frequently change the channel, because I just can't stand it. I soon give up, and just turn the damned thing off.
The virtual re-creation of a particular textbook is really a very small step toward fixing the aggressively broken scam that is textbooks. The textbooks change WAY too much already, and IMO it's only done to prop up the industry. Consider how many subjects could be taught using a 50-year-old textbook, with maybe a small supplement; math, basic physics, basic biology. Even history - it would probably be much more educational to read a 100-year-old history book, then a 50-year-old book covering, say, the Hundred Years' War, or the Renaissance, to see how current Zeitgeist affects the way such things are perceived, than to read some shiny new PC version of history.
Nevertheless, three cheers for Boundless. After many decades, I still remember the outrageous prices for (usually crappy) textbooks.
A high oxygen level would make it more feasible for land animals to once again become gigantic. I look forward (in a future incarnation), to hiding from a 50-foot-tall housecat.
It seems like sci-fi, but it's really just simple physics. (Although I don't know if the calculations work out). And it would probably happen a lot faster than millions of years.
Every time I need a password, I either beat out a spastic smattering of letters and numbers, or dream up a weird phrase, and use the first letters, with a few of them converted to numbers.
I'm fine, as long as no one gets to my written log of all those passwords. If that happens, I'm screwed.
I refuse to create any password that has the vaguest connection to anything. Which seems apt for today's disjointed world.
De nada. I'm fortunate in that my spelling is excellent, so I almost never use a spell checker. In fact, if I'm using Word on a new machine, the first thing I do is turn off the annoying spell checker and grammar checker underlining.
Keyboard shortcuts might be useful, but I typically only use them in mainframe emulation.
It may look clunky, but for now NeoOffice does everything I need.
The Diebold HackUrVote works as designed. It's the Diebold execs, and the Republicans and their Democratic enablers, who are responsible for intentionally destroying democracy.
I sincerely hope that someone, or some group, will do exactly that. Then, when their requests are rejected, compare the cases in which people are added to the list, to the politicians. And publicize, publicize, publicize.
Of course, if it's in the U.S., you're out of luck. Security lights, blowers and lawnmowers (often with defunct or absent mufflers), 150-decibel motorcycles, deep-thumping sound systems, if you complain about _any_ of it, you're gonna be seen as some kind of weirdo.
Which may explain the occasional snipers. People just lose it, because they apparently can't DO anything about it.
"stop all future mass extinctions."? Dude, we're CAUSING this mass extinction. We certainly aren't showing much evidence of success at retaining the richness of species that has been on this planet for, in some cases, many millions of years.
Here's another reason: security. I have an ancient laptop running WinME. (Stop laughing!). I almost never use it*, but when I do, I don't use IE, I don't use Outlook, and all traffic is going through a firewall and Zone Alarm. Result? No crap.
And yet another. I don't want Microsoft butting in when I need to switch to a different piece of hardware. But I suppose that's simply another aspect to security.
The Bush administration (and the FCC) has already decided to throw out neutrality. That means action by both the Senate and the House is necessary for anything to change. The House already voted against the Markey amendment (by 269-152, I think), so there doesn't appear to be _any_ chance of saving net neutrality.
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Well ain't that convenient. All those references in the Bill of Rights to "the people" only refer to adult people, I suppose.
They're all single-parent households?
Netflix removed "Root Cause", which blames root canals for a host of medical problems, due to complaints from dentist groups. I saw it before that happened, and while I found it irritating and often flaky, it definitely made me think. Then I found a rebuttal, and I decided there is real reason for concern.
https://www.todaysrdh.com/root...
Should the anti-vaxxing pieces have been removed? Tough call.
"I'd love to see one in my lifetime". Not me. When, not if, it failed, it'd smash down a line of utter destruction all the way around the planet. Or maybe twice around.
"pay-TV providers will be required to provide apps – free of charge– that consumers can download to the device of their choosing". So the cable companies will still have a stranglehold - I don't see independent developers being allowed to create the apps. I can see it now. "Well, yeah, the app really sucks, but we have this nifty box that works so much better, and you'll just have to pay a little bit each month...".
IIRC, HAARP was intended to heat the ionosphere so as to disrupt the flight path for Russian ICBMs. IMO, "study" using HAARP is like studying the sonar capabilities of Right whales by setting off massive underwater bombs. Which is what the Navy, and oil companies, are so eager to do.
Hanlon's Razor Corollary: Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.
"Batteries using this copolymer had an initial storage capacity of 1,225 mAh per gram of material. After 100 charge-discharge cycles, the capacity dropped to 1,005 mAh/g, and after 500 cycles it fell to about 635 mAh/g. In comparison, a lithium-ion battery typically starts out with a storage capacity of 200 mAh/g but maintains it for the life of the battery, Pyun says."
So, the lithium sulfur battery, after a mere half as many cycles as a lithium ion battery can substain, only has THREE TIMES the charge of a new lithium battery. At what point does it fall to less than a lithium ion battery at the same number of cycles?
Regardless, I think I could live with a battery that holds from 3 to 6 times as much charge as the typical lithium ion battery, even if it only lasted half as long.
Wrong. Police seize property not just on drug raids, but in all kinds of situations, and the money from selling that property goes to - the police department.
Clearly, you're some kinda commie. How DARE you suggest anything that would reduce the impact of commercial television (i.e., commercials occasionally interrupted by shows)? :-)
Not only is your idea excellent, but I want that functionality incorporated into my mute button. Commercials are STILL screaming at me (hasn't it been about 3 years since that law was passed mandating that commercials be no louder than the programs?). But the mute doesn't do anything to prevent my eyes from being assaulted. I want my mute button to not only darken the commercials, I want it to show only 1 frame per second. Ads are flashing images with convulsion-evoking abruptness. I frequently change the channel, because I just can't stand it. I soon give up, and just turn the damned thing off.
Yes, visual as well as audio mute. It's overdue.
My question is, how? How do they store the energy in batteries? We're talking about algae, not solar cells. What are they using, magic?
The virtual re-creation of a particular textbook is really a very small step toward fixing the aggressively broken scam that is textbooks. The textbooks change WAY too much already, and IMO it's only done to prop up the industry. Consider how many subjects could be taught using a 50-year-old textbook, with maybe a small supplement; math, basic physics, basic biology. Even history - it would probably be much more educational to read a 100-year-old history book, then a 50-year-old book covering, say, the Hundred Years' War, or the Renaissance, to see how current Zeitgeist affects the way such things are perceived, than to read some shiny new PC version of history.
Nevertheless, three cheers for Boundless. After many decades, I still remember the outrageous prices for (usually crappy) textbooks.
A high oxygen level would make it more feasible for land animals to once again become gigantic. I look forward (in a future incarnation), to hiding from a 50-foot-tall housecat.
It seems like sci-fi, but it's really just simple physics. (Although I don't know if the calculations work out). And it would probably happen a lot faster than millions of years.
Every time I need a password, I either beat out a spastic smattering of letters and numbers, or dream up a weird phrase, and use the first letters, with a few of them converted to numbers.
I'm fine, as long as no one gets to my written log of all those passwords. If that happens, I'm screwed.
I refuse to create any password that has the vaguest connection to anything. Which seems apt for today's disjointed world.
De nada. I'm fortunate in that my spelling is excellent, so I almost never use a spell checker. In fact, if I'm using Word on a new machine, the first thing I do is turn off the annoying spell checker and grammar checker underlining.
Keyboard shortcuts might be useful, but I typically only use them in mainframe emulation.
It may look clunky, but for now NeoOffice does everything I need.
19% in Maine. Vs 21% for McCain. That looks like double digits to me.
Love your 'Ronulans' label, by the way. Can't remember what their particular facial deformity was, though.
And here I thought it would be the cockroaches.
Absolutely. Or as I put it, well, DUH! You've said exactly what's going to happen. That 'soap, ballot, ammo' thing is looking inevitable.
The Diebold HackUrVote works as designed. It's the Diebold execs, and the Republicans and their Democratic enablers, who are responsible for intentionally destroying democracy.
I sincerely hope that someone, or some group, will do exactly that. Then, when their requests are rejected, compare the cases in which people are added to the list, to the politicians. And publicize, publicize, publicize.
Of course, if it's in the U.S., you're out of luck. Security lights, blowers and lawnmowers (often with defunct or absent mufflers), 150-decibel motorcycles, deep-thumping sound systems, if you complain about _any_ of it, you're gonna be seen as some kind of weirdo.
Which may explain the occasional snipers. People just lose it, because they apparently can't DO anything about it.
"stop all future mass extinctions."? Dude, we're CAUSING this mass extinction. We certainly aren't showing much evidence of success at retaining the richness of species that has been on this planet for, in some cases, many millions of years.
Too late. And, by extension, no, we no longer have even a passable illusion of a democracy.
Here's another reason: security. I have an ancient laptop running WinME. (Stop laughing!). I almost never use it*, but when I do, I don't use IE, I don't use Outlook, and all traffic is going through a firewall and Zone Alarm. Result? No crap.
And yet another. I don't want Microsoft butting in when I need to switch to a different piece of hardware. But I suppose that's simply another aspect to security.
* I use a Mac.
The Bush administration (and the FCC) has already decided to throw out neutrality. That means action by both the Senate and the House is necessary for anything to change. The House already voted against the Markey amendment (by 269-152, I think), so there doesn't appear to be _any_ chance of saving net neutrality.