This is what gets me. If this is accurate, and correlation is causation, then it sounds like we're probably fucked. Why? If Earth's thin atmosphere is truly so delicate and fragile that just a mere few years of industry in it's infancy began to raise temperatures immediately, then there's a limit to modernity - because no method of energy production or industry is 100% clean. Even with prevalent solar,wind and nuclear energy, there's always going to be some degree of pollution or greenhouse gas released in energy production, or some kind of nasty byproduct in energy production or maintenance, like manufacture of the batteries needed for solar... at least, for the foreseeable future. I can't imagine zero greenhouse gas emissions being a reality while fulfilling the ever increasing energy demand the future will bring, yet, apparently, here is the implication that this is what it requires.
Yes! It doesn't seem to bother anyone else I know, but how can they enjoy music that sounds like it's coming from under several inches of water? Not an audiophile or anything, but I do want decent fidelity. I heard all the hype about satellite radio, then the first time I heard it, I thought something had to be wrong.
That reminds me, I've got to buy a modem, right now I'm still renting. I'm glad I started off that way though, as it removed an excuse for Comcast to blame my gear when I reported disconnects. Initially, right after signing up, I had crappy levels (especially upstream) that were making the modem reboot, but I got them to send a tech out, told them the issue had to be at the pole, and he replaced the tap, which resolved the issue. I have great levels now. Not sure I'm going to continue to pay for the 150mbs service though when the promotion is done, I could probably live with 25mbs. They also offer 75mpbs, but it's only $10 less than the 150mbps subscription, so I don't know why they bother. I want a modem with good logging capability, or something where I can replace the firmware, so probably a Linksys.
Regards #1, that's not what I heard. He said "IF you have the emails, release them to the FBI". He didn't suggest they actively go and hack for them if they didn't already have them in their possession, it was based on an assumption that Russia had already done the hacking prior.
Pretty horrible, which it was. Youtube was barely usable, constant buffering, waiting. Work VPN was terrible, screen refreshes felt like a lifetim. Finish a game on Steam, have to wait 5 minutes for your saves to sync with their cloud. Overall shitty speeds.
I switched a month ago, it's like night and day. Granted, at first, I was having connection drops (upstream signal was screaming at 57dbvm to talk to the CTMS) , but after convincing Comcast to send a guy out to look at the tap on the pole, they replaced that and it's been great ever since. Neither company are without headaches.
Well, truthfully, I switched a month ago, after having Verizon DSL since 1999 or so. I have no love for either mega-corp, but 150mpbs via Comcast is blowing the doors off my old 6mb connection (it's more $$ as well, as expected). Had Verizon actually rolled out FIOS in my area, for convenience I would've stayed with them, but a birdie from the company told me it's never going to happen. The sucky thing is, Verizon will never officially tell you that and keep stringing you along.
I've dropped my work S4 so many times, I've lost count. The clip on the holder case is fickle so it's easy to pop off , but the phone still works perfectly.
I hadn't used a case at all on my old personal iPhone5 for the past year and a half; one minor drop, no damage at all. However, the wife had a case on hers and still managed to crack the screen. Ah well. Have a new 6s now, I did get a case for that. But I don't run out and get the new shiny every 2 years, I usually give it twice that, but eventually the batteries go bad, buttons go bad, etc..
I know that feeling. When our security unit was first formed 12 years ago, they were so gung-ho, they effectively made every single port on the rack switches their own DMZ. I mean, same subnet, same DMZs technically, but all the ports were locked down so tight that all servers -within the same DMZ mind you- were cut off from each other by default. Which is antithetical to the whole point of a DMZ. It was a nightmare trying to get systems that needed to communicate to communicate, constant requests to get ports opened, and often, it would take several requests as we banged our heads trying to troubleshoot issues. Certain people retired and moved on, to where today, it's working reasonably.
Do you use Directory Services of any kind, eDirectory, Active Directory? There's always at least top level admin user for the Tree with rights to everything.
Well, not in my state it hasn't been "normal", and not in the state I vacationed in this summer either, which is relatively north for the US - Maine. It's been brutal. We've had several days that nearly hit, or did hit,100 degrees F in July. The last half decade has been like this. This is not normal, or rather, it's the new normal. When I was a little kid back in the late '60s, early '70s, we thought it was hot if it got over 80F. Then 90F was common.. As a previous skeptic, I can say it has definitely been getting hotter, at least, in the summer.
These records aren't coming from some political pundit, it's NOAA and NASA. And *even* if we dispute the degree of anthropogenic contribution, it certainly doesn't make sense to exacerbate the situation. Surely we can find a way to help things settle down, without crippling our economy, and continue to develop other methods of energy production, and work at reducing fossil fuel consumption. After all there are several reasons to do so, not just GW: 1) They're a finite source that will run out some day. That is an inescapable reality. Then what? 2) FFs often make 1st world countries more dependent on corrupt 2nd or 3rd world countries, which leads to foreign policy messes, and 3) burning oil and coal are quite dirty, and at the very least contribute to pollution, which is a huge problem in and of itself. Oil companies needn't just be "oil" companies, they should be "Energy" companies, flexible enough to produce energy with multiple means.
Really, alternative energy - solar, nuclear, wind, geothermal- could and should be for the 2000-teens and twenties what the Pentium, Windows, Solaris, and the Internet was for the 1990s, a huge tech boom that drives the economy while improving the standards of living.
How so? Everything I said was factual. He'd have been the first to tell you he was not an academic, at least, the old him would have. I never cared about that. But now that he's changed his political position, suddenly he's smarter than half the population including many of his friends and their family, and crowing about it daily. I'm not religious either but I don't go bashing people over it, unless they're extremists or something, and I don't post a lot of hateful crap on FB about the political nominee I don't like..(which is all of them, but some more than others). There'd be no point in talking to him; that wouldn't change his mind anymore than his rants change ours. It's a shame. But he's gotta realize his behavior is antisocial by himself.
Two wrongs make a right in political correctness.
True justice would be to stop hiring people on any basis other than their qualifications, and ensuring people have equal opportunity to achieve those qualifications. Providing opportunity is not the same as enforcing the end result however. What this is, is revenge.
Which is ironic, because knee-jerk labeling is exactly what true SJWs do best and foremost: blanket label anyone who doesn't subscribe 100% to their fanatical outlook as one or more of the following: haters, racists, homophobes, islamophobes, sexists, patriarchal, bigots, "old white male" (as that's rapidly becoming a hate label) or whatever other label they can dredge up (I'm waiting for "culturalist" or "culturophobe" to become a thing next). They typically make it pretty clear as to what they are, due to their extreme vitriolic soapboxing before being labeled as such.
But anyway, it seems some missed the sarcasm in your original comment.
Funnily, back in 1998, I had cable; I had a lot of lag playing Quake3, so I switched to DSL and actually got better results. Of course, that was almost 20 years ago. Cable evolved to blow the doors off DSL, and FIOS was not coming to my area, so I finally switched back to cable, recently. I'm much happier now. It's more money, but the connection is vastly speedier.
Um, no. This is basically putting your fingers in your ears and yelling la-la-la-la-la to avoid hearing the actual science.
Unfortunately, there are too many knee-jerk reactions like yours that are based on an ignorance of science.
Well, according to the Brazilian official Mario Andrada, "..chemistry is not an exact science". Direct quote.
Bottom line, agreed upon by many experts: they screwed up what should've been a fairly straightforward fix - algaecide and chlorine, not hydrogen peroxide.
How many other Olympic pools have had this issue in the past 25 years?
It's very hard today to be a moderate. Everyone wants you in their camp, and if you're not, you're either A) the "enemy", because you don't side fully with them (we tend to see our differences over our similarities), or B), someone they feel is weak and noncommittal, and can't make up their minds, and thus is also the "enemy". In today's political environment, there is no "right" choice that I can see. I really need to clean up my feed, it's full of political hogwash and even made up stories, and I see it on both sides.
That's the truth.
Anecdote time: I've got a friend who, for just the past year or two, suddenly, has bashed on his friends (or their family members) everyday on FB, and says how stupid he realizes they are now (without naming names, however), how racist or homophobic they are, how Trump is Hitler, Sanders is great, and religion is for mindless idiots, etc.. never thinking about the fact that some of his friends' wives are actually fairly religious and he's insulting them on a daily basis as well, and some are also conservative. He gets downright nasty.
Worse, he copies and pastes quotes he gets from his newsfeed to sound worldly and intelligent, but I've known the guy for 30 years; he's never voluntarily cracked open a fucking book in his life. He's barely computer literate and was probably lucky to graduate High School. He doesn't know about half the famous people whose quotes he uses, so it's even more irritating that he's a total pseudo-intellectual who now believes he's the intelligentsia, all due to his political stances; and then he gets baffled why anyone should get "offended" at the toxic crap he spews everyday! Freakin' Trump has got more tact than him.
He's changed dramatically in just the past year or two, to the point where his wife just left him a few weeks ago (his second divorce). He's gone completely off the SJW rails, all except for one aspect: feminism; women are still great when they're sitting on a Harley, wearing leather and showing their tits, and making him a sammich.
He's ruining all his relationships via Facebook,and it's not changing one damn opinion, except ours of him.
This is gold. What humorless, dour clod modded it down as offtopic? Ah, a butthurt administrator, I'm guessing..
It rarely hurts to insert a little topical humor in these discussions.
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This is what gets me. If this is accurate, and correlation is causation, then it sounds like we're probably fucked. Why? If Earth's thin atmosphere is truly so delicate and fragile that just a mere few years of industry in it's infancy began to raise temperatures immediately, then there's a limit to modernity - because no method of energy production or industry is 100% clean. Even with prevalent solar,wind and nuclear energy, there's always going to be some degree of pollution or greenhouse gas released in energy production, or some kind of nasty byproduct in energy production or maintenance, like manufacture of the batteries needed for solar... at least, for the foreseeable future. I can't imagine zero greenhouse gas emissions being a reality while fulfilling the ever increasing energy demand the future will bring, yet, apparently, here is the implication that this is what it requires.
Yes! It doesn't seem to bother anyone else I know, but how can they enjoy music that sounds like it's coming from under several inches of water? Not an audiophile or anything, but I do want decent fidelity. I heard all the hype about satellite radio, then the first time I heard it, I thought something had to be wrong.
Best mini-thread I've read in a while.
That reminds me, I've got to buy a modem, right now I'm still renting. I'm glad I started off that way though, as it removed an excuse for Comcast to blame my gear when I reported disconnects. Initially, right after signing up, I had crappy levels (especially upstream) that were making the modem reboot, but I got them to send a tech out, told them the issue had to be at the pole, and he replaced the tap, which resolved the issue. I have great levels now. Not sure I'm going to continue to pay for the 150mbs service though when the promotion is done, I could probably live with 25mbs. They also offer 75mpbs, but it's only $10 less than the 150mbps subscription, so I don't know why they bother. I want a modem with good logging capability, or something where I can replace the firmware, so probably a Linksys.
Regards #1, that's not what I heard. He said "IF you have the emails, release them to the FBI". He didn't suggest they actively go and hack for them if they didn't already have them in their possession, it was based on an assumption that Russia had already done the hacking prior.
Pretty horrible, which it was. Youtube was barely usable, constant buffering, waiting. Work VPN was terrible, screen refreshes felt like a lifetim. Finish a game on Steam, have to wait 5 minutes for your saves to sync with their cloud. Overall shitty speeds.
I switched a month ago, it's like night and day. Granted, at first, I was having connection drops (upstream signal was screaming at 57dbvm to talk to the CTMS) , but after convincing Comcast to send a guy out to look at the tap on the pole, they replaced that and it's been great ever since. Neither company are without headaches.
Well, truthfully, I switched a month ago, after having Verizon DSL since 1999 or so. I have no love for either mega-corp, but 150mpbs via Comcast is blowing the doors off my old 6mb connection (it's more $$ as well, as expected). Had Verizon actually rolled out FIOS in my area, for convenience I would've stayed with them, but a birdie from the company told me it's never going to happen. The sucky thing is, Verizon will never officially tell you that and keep stringing you along.
I've dropped my work S4 so many times, I've lost count. The clip on the holder case is fickle so it's easy to pop off , but the phone still works perfectly.
I hadn't used a case at all on my old personal iPhone5 for the past year and a half; one minor drop, no damage at all. However, the wife had a case on hers and still managed to crack the screen. Ah well. Have a new 6s now, I did get a case for that. But I don't run out and get the new shiny every 2 years, I usually give it twice that, but eventually the batteries go bad, buttons go bad, etc..
I know that feeling. When our security unit was first formed 12 years ago, they were so gung-ho, they effectively made every single port on the rack switches their own DMZ. I mean, same subnet, same DMZs technically, but all the ports were locked down so tight that all servers -within the same DMZ mind you- were cut off from each other by default. Which is antithetical to the whole point of a DMZ. It was a nightmare trying to get systems that needed to communicate to communicate, constant requests to get ports opened, and often, it would take several requests as we banged our heads trying to troubleshoot issues. Certain people retired and moved on, to where today, it's working reasonably.
Do you use Directory Services of any kind, eDirectory, Active Directory? There's always at least top level admin user for the Tree with rights to everything.
Well, not in my state it hasn't been "normal", and not in the state I vacationed in this summer either, which is relatively north for the US - Maine. It's been brutal. We've had several days that nearly hit, or did hit,100 degrees F in July. The last half decade has been like this. This is not normal, or rather, it's the new normal. When I was a little kid back in the late '60s, early '70s, we thought it was hot if it got over 80F. Then 90F was common.. As a previous skeptic, I can say it has definitely been getting hotter, at least, in the summer.
These records aren't coming from some political pundit, it's NOAA and NASA. And *even* if we dispute the degree of anthropogenic contribution, it certainly doesn't make sense to exacerbate the situation. Surely we can find a way to help things settle down, without crippling our economy, and continue to develop other methods of energy production, and work at reducing fossil fuel consumption. After all there are several reasons to do so, not just GW: 1) They're a finite source that will run out some day. That is an inescapable reality. Then what? 2) FFs often make 1st world countries more dependent on corrupt 2nd or 3rd world countries, which leads to foreign policy messes, and 3) burning oil and coal are quite dirty, and at the very least contribute to pollution, which is a huge problem in and of itself. Oil companies needn't just be "oil" companies, they should be "Energy" companies, flexible enough to produce energy with multiple means.
Really, alternative energy - solar, nuclear, wind, geothermal- could and should be for the 2000-teens and twenties what the Pentium, Windows, Solaris, and the Internet was for the 1990s, a huge tech boom that drives the economy while improving the standards of living.
Yay for a dystopian future!
Yes, a lobotomy.
But seriously, I've flirted with AMD, back in their K6 and K7 days.. but prefer Intel. And definitely nvidia over (AMD) Radeon.
How so? Everything I said was factual. He'd have been the first to tell you he was not an academic, at least, the old him would have. I never cared about that. But now that he's changed his political position, suddenly he's smarter than half the population including many of his friends and their family, and crowing about it daily. I'm not religious either but I don't go bashing people over it, unless they're extremists or something, and I don't post a lot of hateful crap on FB about the political nominee I don't like..(which is all of them, but some more than others). There'd be no point in talking to him; that wouldn't change his mind anymore than his rants change ours. It's a shame. But he's gotta realize his behavior is antisocial by himself.
Two wrongs make a right in political correctness.
True justice would be to stop hiring people on any basis other than their qualifications, and ensuring people have equal opportunity to achieve those qualifications. Providing opportunity is not the same as enforcing the end result however. What this is, is revenge.
Which is ironic, because knee-jerk labeling is exactly what true SJWs do best and foremost: blanket label anyone who doesn't subscribe 100% to their fanatical outlook as one or more of the following: haters, racists, homophobes, islamophobes, sexists, patriarchal, bigots, "old white male" (as that's rapidly becoming a hate label) or whatever other label they can dredge up (I'm waiting for "culturalist" or "culturophobe" to become a thing next). They typically make it pretty clear as to what they are, due to their extreme vitriolic soapboxing before being labeled as such.
But anyway, it seems some missed the sarcasm in your original comment.
Funnily, back in 1998, I had cable; I had a lot of lag playing Quake3, so I switched to DSL and actually got better results. Of course, that was almost 20 years ago. Cable evolved to blow the doors off DSL, and FIOS was not coming to my area, so I finally switched back to cable, recently. I'm much happier now. It's more money, but the connection is vastly speedier.
Um, no. This is basically putting your fingers in your ears and yelling la-la-la-la-la to avoid hearing the actual science.
Unfortunately, there are too many knee-jerk reactions like yours that are based on an ignorance of science.
Well, according to the Brazilian official Mario Andrada, "..chemistry is not an exact science". Direct quote.
Bottom line, agreed upon by many experts: they screwed up what should've been a fairly straightforward fix - algaecide and chlorine, not hydrogen peroxide.
How many other Olympic pools have had this issue in the past 25 years?
It's very hard today to be a moderate. Everyone wants you in their camp, and if you're not, you're either A) the "enemy", because you don't side fully with them (we tend to see our differences over our similarities), or B), someone they feel is weak and noncommittal, and can't make up their minds, and thus is also the "enemy". In today's political environment, there is no "right" choice that I can see. I really need to clean up my feed, it's full of political hogwash and even made up stories, and I see it on both sides.
That's the truth.
Anecdote time: I've got a friend who, for just the past year or two, suddenly, has bashed on his friends (or their family members) everyday on FB, and says how stupid he realizes they are now (without naming names, however), how racist or homophobic they are, how Trump is Hitler, Sanders is great, and religion is for mindless idiots, etc.. never thinking about the fact that some of his friends' wives are actually fairly religious and he's insulting them on a daily basis as well, and some are also conservative. He gets downright nasty.
Worse, he copies and pastes quotes he gets from his newsfeed to sound worldly and intelligent, but I've known the guy for 30 years; he's never voluntarily cracked open a fucking book in his life. He's barely computer literate and was probably lucky to graduate High School. He doesn't know about half the famous people whose quotes he uses, so it's even more irritating that he's a total pseudo-intellectual who now believes he's the intelligentsia, all due to his political stances; and then he gets baffled why anyone should get "offended" at the toxic crap he spews everyday! Freakin' Trump has got more tact than him.
He's changed dramatically in just the past year or two, to the point where his wife just left him a few weeks ago (his second divorce). He's gone completely off the SJW rails, all except for one aspect: feminism; women are still great when they're sitting on a Harley, wearing leather and showing their tits, and making him a sammich.
He's ruining all his relationships via Facebook,and it's not changing one damn opinion, except ours of him.
This is gold. What humorless, dour clod modded it down as offtopic? Ah, a butthurt administrator, I'm guessing..
It rarely hurts to insert a little topical humor in these discussions.
Wasn't that the Fifth Element?
I've always suspected they used The Wiggles for just this reason. ;) What else could explain them?
I'm kinda wigged out that this site had 29,000 users! Not that all of them were in the US, but there are a lot of pedos out there.
No, they've seen Japanese hentai and are coming to get their rocks off.