Yup. Mankind bad, mmmkay? Apparently we just don't get anything right; but there is no way 7 billion of us, with needs of energy, transportation, communication, and commodities, are not going to take a substantial toll on the planet's resources and ecosystems. May as well have all humans drink the Jim Jones Koolaid and off ourselves from the face of the planet so nature can return to her natural state of bliss; then and only then can the unicorns return and rainbows will be permanent. Either this, or we should return to the stone age where we can have as little impact on the environment as possible, but keep it vegan.
I don't know, a major vendor releases updates just to address and fix bugs and doesn't try to force new unneeded/unwanted features or emojis on it's users? Seems kind of unique.
Even if a broken clock is right twice a day, you still have to be wary of any info from sites that are well known to be biased; and that goes for other side too, from Buzzfeed to HuffPost, Salon, Mic, Mother Jones, Vox, The Guardian, etc..
I'm sure that was just the first of their volley, the math is extremely difficult from those distances and velocities, so they hedged their bets and sent a few more our way to be sure. Damn Klendathuins. I hate bugs.
I second this, wholeheartedly. I'm sick of seeing endless commercials and crap programming from cable. The ratio of program material to advertisements is approaching 50/50 on many stations. On top of having to watch all the commercials, we're still paying on average over $100 month for cable. It's double jeopardy. I was slow to adopt streaming but I don't regret it paying for it; unfortunately, I still have cableTV as well for now, but I'm trying to convince my wife we don't need it any longer. She's convinced streaming and Internet programming will be slower, (I have about 300MB download speed with Xfinity, I think not) but what is digital cable, really? Ever since TV went digital (Comast anyway) there's an annoying delay when you change channels that analog never had. Overhead and metadata, I assume.
The more the merrier, I say. Redwoods are cool. They look like something from fantasy. I'd like to see them all over. I was just 5 when my family went west for a vacation (this was the 1960s) and visited CA, CO, AZ, and UT.. I remember.. just barely.. the giant redwood you could drive through, it was one of those things that left an indelible impression from so long ago.
If by part of that feature you mean, parsing curse words and coming back with a specific response, then yes. Funny, but creepy in that it's AI recognized it was being insulted. Also, this was around the time that rumors were swirling around stating that Samsung TVs could listen in on you at will. I don't own Alexa or Echo for that same reason.
Well, yeah, if you buy Kraft singles or some plastic crap like that. That's awful stuff but not truly representative. Forget the Supermarket, If you go to a good deli though, or get some brand like Blackbear, you can get some pretty delicious American cheeses.
I prefer American cheese for sandwiches, but Swiss is good too, often a blend is best. Blue cheese is awesome on salads, crackers, or steak; cheddar is more of a snack cracker cheese to me, but the sharper the better. Mild is bland. Gruyere and Swiss are great in French Onion Soup. I love cheese to a fault, and usually get mozzarella sticks every Friday, nice to know there's no shortage coming. I don't know that I've ever met a cheese I didn't like, though IIRC Gouda is lower on the list.
-or you could say they didn't know shit. Funny how that can mean the exact same thing as "knowing shit", but at least knowing *your* shit is unambiguous.
I used to have my 50" UHD Samsung TV (2014 model I believe) connected, after I first bought it. Curiosity, I suppose. The picture quality from online services (Prime, etc) however was never quite as good as when I used my older "smart" Sony BluRay player for some reason (both are wireless); then one day, experiencing some issues with the crappy 'banana' remote, I uttered a string of curse words and the TV replied onscreen: "That wasn't very nice". Funny as hell but creepy at the same time. I took if off my network after that, I even blocked the MAC in my router just in case. If I need to go online for Prime or Netflix, I just power up the BluRay player, which doesn't even have a microphone, and gives me a better picture anyway. Sony is still king where video is concerned, IMO, though I have no complaints whatsoever about the Samsung TV for normal cable use.
I don't recall this level of fear mongering when the government was shut down for 16 days in 2013, or the 21 days between 1995 and 1996. "Irreparable damage"..? FFS, government sure thinks highly of itself. Nature can't get by for a few weeks without it? The parks still look way better than the mess left behind by the "environmentalist "protesters who camped out over the Keystone pipeline.
"..kid" Oh, That's funny. You pull assumptions out of your behind like there's no tomorrow. If you check my id, you'll see I've been coming to slashdot for a long time too, and I started when I was older, and I get irritated when some pompous, supercilious blowhard feels they have the right to belittle another user for unmaliciously positing an assumption or question on a subject they find interesting. I never passed myself off as a geologist. It's also not my fault that my post got modded up, so sorry that triggered you into your little superiority complex tantrum but apparently many others here had wondered that same thing as well. But according to you, only people who are experts in a given field are allowed to comment. Who made you the slashdot police? Astounding arrogance.
You assert yourself as a geological expert, when in fact the original article is not by any means a disclosure of proof of the glacial hypothesis, and the skeptics mentioned in the article are likely geologists themselves. Do *you* happen to know the exact movement of the tectonic plates during this precambrian era? Are you an expert in the geography of Rodinia? You act as though this hypothesis is proven fact when it is certainly not. Additionally, "snowball" earth is still itself a hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... as there is no actual proof that the glaciers reached the equator, and further, where is the proof that each and every landmass during the precambrian/cyrogenian period moved and distributed themselves equally between temperate and tropical zones, ensuring the same degree of solar exposure? As it stands, this science is all still controversial, so your position of intellectual dominance is ironic.
Thanks, that helps. So let's assume the continents moved around enough that basically everywhere got roughly equal exposure near the equator as the poles, and so glaciation was more or less uniform (I'm still not entirely sold on that but maybe it's not necessary); glaciers scrubbed off all the softer sedimentary at the time leaving only the igneous basement behind, resetting the fossil record so to speak, until the Cambrian started building it back up to the modern day.
However, they believe that "up to a third of the earth's crust was sawn off", so with the current ratio of sedimentary to basement that would have had to have gone well beyond the sedimentary layer into the igneous.. unless the ratio was much different back then, where maybe that top third of the crust was all sedimentary. That works.
WOW... Seriously, fuck you. You have just invalidated everything you ever say. I didn't come across as more knowledgeable than anyone else, I merely posited a thought that was reasonable. It's still reasonable, because you haven't said anything to actually counter it, you just came across as a pompous dickwad with rude assumptions that didn't negate a thing I said. Regardless of how continents and plates move or how long the period was, the equator is always subjected to more sunlight. Glaciation will never be able to be as strong there for that simple reason. The chances of a solar system body being almost perfectly uniform are extremely slim, especially in the inner belt. There are images of a proposed snowball earth with a thin band of water at the equator, so obviously others have had the same thought. It that triggers you, you have serious ego and anger issues. You should seriously get some counseling.
It looks like you've had a bit too much to think. They said it was racist and so only a racist would dare question it! The media has spoken. Report to boxcar 451 immediately for "retraining".
unless you really are deliberately looking for something to pull out of your ass to hate/shame/bully people with, and have a "guilty by association" mindset like the Nazis.
Well that's pretty much the crux of the SJW modus operandi, in a nutshell.
Because the larger rock has attached the smaller 14km wide one, like cargo, holding tons of minerals. It's the Ultimate Thule! The pictures fail to reveal the giant bike rack on the back however.
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In that case he fits right in with Washington, because Pelosi is acting like a 2 year too.
Yup. Mankind bad, mmmkay?
Apparently we just don't get anything right; but there is no way 7 billion of us, with needs of energy, transportation, communication, and commodities, are not going to take a substantial toll on the planet's resources and ecosystems.
May as well have all humans drink the Jim Jones Koolaid and off ourselves from the face of the planet so nature can return to her natural state of bliss; then and only then can the unicorns return and rainbows will be permanent.
Either this, or we should return to the stone age where we can have as little impact on the environment as possible, but keep it vegan.
It's like a Shark Sandwich.
I don't know, a major vendor releases updates just to address and fix bugs and doesn't try to force new unneeded/unwanted features or emojis on it's users? Seems kind of unique.
Even if a broken clock is right twice a day, you still have to be wary of any info from sites that are well known to be biased; and that goes for other side too, from Buzzfeed to HuffPost, Salon, Mic, Mother Jones, Vox, The Guardian, etc..
MMmmm... donuts with beans.
I'm sure that was just the first of their volley, the math is extremely difficult from those distances and velocities, so they hedged their bets and sent a few more our way to be sure.
Damn Klendathuins. I hate bugs.
I second this, wholeheartedly.
I'm sick of seeing endless commercials and crap programming from cable. The ratio of program material to advertisements is approaching 50/50 on many stations. On top of having to watch all the commercials, we're still paying on average over $100 month for cable. It's double jeopardy.
I was slow to adopt streaming but I don't regret it paying for it; unfortunately, I still have cableTV as well for now, but I'm trying to convince my wife we don't need it any longer. She's convinced streaming and Internet programming will be slower, (I have about 300MB download speed with Xfinity, I think not) but what is digital cable, really? Ever since TV went digital (Comast anyway) there's an annoying delay when you change channels that analog never had. Overhead and metadata, I assume.
The more the merrier, I say. Redwoods are cool. They look like something from fantasy. I'd like to see them all over. I was just 5 when my family went west for a vacation (this was the 1960s) and visited CA, CO, AZ, and UT.. I remember.. just barely.. the giant redwood you could drive through, it was one of those things that left an indelible impression from so long ago.
But seems to be gaining as the favorite of the generation, from what I've read.
It was wireless. I wanted to be sure it couldn't reconnect.
Awesome username, BTW.
It's just more "sky is falling" fear mongering.
If by part of that feature you mean, parsing curse words and coming back with a specific response, then yes. Funny, but creepy in that it's AI recognized it was being insulted. Also, this was around the time that rumors were swirling around stating that Samsung TVs could listen in on you at will. I don't own Alexa or Echo for that same reason.
It absolutely did. Try it.
My blood is curdling, there's got to be a cheddar way of making cheesy jokes, just leave it brie. Some cultures are better left provolone.
Well, yeah, if you buy Kraft singles or some plastic crap like that. That's awful stuff but not truly representative. Forget the Supermarket, If you go to a good deli though, or get some brand like Blackbear, you can get some pretty delicious American cheeses.
I prefer American cheese for sandwiches, but Swiss is good too, often a blend is best. Blue cheese is awesome on salads, crackers, or steak; cheddar is more of a snack cracker cheese to me, but the sharper the better. Mild is bland. Gruyere and Swiss are great in French Onion Soup. I love cheese to a fault, and usually get mozzarella sticks every Friday, nice to know there's no shortage coming. I don't know that I've ever met a cheese I didn't like, though IIRC Gouda is lower on the list.
-or you could say they didn't know shit. Funny how that can mean the exact same thing as "knowing shit", but at least knowing *your* shit is unambiguous.
I used to have my 50" UHD Samsung TV (2014 model I believe) connected, after I first bought it. Curiosity, I suppose. The picture quality from online services (Prime, etc) however was never quite as good as when I used my older "smart" Sony BluRay player for some reason (both are wireless); then one day, experiencing some issues with the crappy 'banana' remote, I uttered a string of curse words and the TV replied onscreen: "That wasn't very nice". Funny as hell but creepy at the same time.
I took if off my network after that, I even blocked the MAC in my router just in case.
If I need to go online for Prime or Netflix, I just power up the BluRay player, which doesn't even have a microphone, and gives me a better picture anyway. Sony is still king where video is concerned, IMO, though I have no complaints whatsoever about the Samsung TV for normal cable use.
I don't recall this level of fear mongering when the government was shut down for 16 days in 2013, or the 21 days between 1995 and 1996.
"Irreparable damage"..? FFS, government sure thinks highly of itself. Nature can't get by for a few weeks without it?
The parks still look way better than the mess left behind by the "environmentalist "protesters who camped out over the Keystone pipeline.
"..kid" Oh, That's funny. You pull assumptions out of your behind like there's no tomorrow.
If you check my id, you'll see I've been coming to slashdot for a long time too, and I started when I was older, and I get irritated when some pompous, supercilious blowhard feels they have the right to belittle another user for unmaliciously positing an assumption or question on a subject they find interesting. I never passed myself off as a geologist. It's also not my fault that my post got modded up, so sorry that triggered you into your little superiority complex tantrum but apparently many others here had wondered that same thing as well. But according to you, only people who are experts in a given field are allowed to comment. Who made you the slashdot police? Astounding arrogance.
You assert yourself as a geological expert, when in fact the original article is not by any means a disclosure of proof of the glacial hypothesis, and the skeptics mentioned in the article are likely geologists themselves.
Do *you* happen to know the exact movement of the tectonic plates during this precambrian era? Are you an expert in the geography of Rodinia? You act as though this hypothesis is proven fact when it is certainly not. Additionally, "snowball" earth is still itself a hypothesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... as there is no actual proof that the glaciers reached the equator, and further, where is the proof that each and every landmass during the precambrian/cyrogenian period moved and distributed themselves equally between temperate and tropical zones, ensuring the same degree of solar exposure?
As it stands, this science is all still controversial, so your position of intellectual dominance is ironic.
Thanks, that helps. So let's assume the continents moved around enough that basically everywhere got roughly equal exposure near the equator as the poles, and so glaciation was more or less uniform (I'm still not entirely sold on that but maybe it's not necessary); glaciers scrubbed off all the softer sedimentary at the time leaving only the igneous basement behind, resetting the fossil record so to speak, until the Cambrian started building it back up to the modern day.
However, they believe that "up to a third of the earth's crust was sawn off", so with the current ratio of sedimentary to basement that would have had to have gone well beyond the sedimentary layer into the igneous.. unless the ratio was much different back then, where maybe that top third of the crust was all sedimentary. That works.
WOW... Seriously, fuck you. You have just invalidated everything you ever say.
I didn't come across as more knowledgeable than anyone else, I merely posited a thought that was reasonable.
It's still reasonable, because you haven't said anything to actually counter it, you just came across as a pompous dickwad with rude assumptions that didn't negate a thing I said.
Regardless of how continents and plates move or how long the period was, the equator is always subjected to more sunlight. Glaciation will never be able to be as strong there for that simple reason. The chances of a solar system body being almost perfectly uniform are extremely slim, especially in the inner belt.
There are images of a proposed snowball earth with a thin band of water at the equator, so obviously others have had the same thought.
It that triggers you, you have serious ego and anger issues. You should seriously get some counseling.
It looks like you've had a bit too much to think.
They said it was racist and so only a racist would dare question it!
The media has spoken.
Report to boxcar 451 immediately for "retraining".
unless you really are deliberately looking for something to pull out of your ass to hate/shame/bully people with, and have a "guilty by association" mindset like the Nazis.
Well that's pretty much the crux of the SJW modus operandi, in a nutshell.
Because the larger rock has attached the smaller 14km wide one, like cargo, holding tons of minerals. It's the Ultimate Thule!
The pictures fail to reveal the giant bike rack on the back however.