A Florida company, ICM Registry, proposed.xxx as a mechanism for the $12 billion online porn industry to clean up its act. All sites using.xxx would be required to follow yet-to-be-written "best practices" guidelines, such as prohibitions against trickery through spamming and malicious scripts.
Use of.xxx would be voluntary, however.
The people who wanted to make it mandatory were US politicians - those who control ICANN "just fine". That was before the loud-mouthed minority told them that ".xxx" would make access to porn easier and is EVIL!
Tracking the world's average temperature from the late 19th century, people in the 1930s realized there had been a pronounced warming trend. During the 1960s, scientists found that over the past couple of decades the trend had shifted to cooling. Many scientists predicted a continued and prolonged cooling, perhaps a phase of a long natural cycle or perhaps caused by human activities. Others insisted that humanity's emission of gases would bring warming over the long run. In the late 1970s, this group's views became predominant. By the late 1980s, it was plain that the cooling spell, whose cause remained mysterious, had been a temporary distraction. For whatever reason, unprecedented global warming was underway.
[... Global Cooling because of natural cycles] A panel of top experts convened by the National Academy of Sciences in 1975 tentatively agreed with Mitchell. True, in recent years the temperature had been dropping (perhaps as part of some unknown "longer-period climatic oscillation"). Nevertheless, they thought CO2 "could conceivably" bring half a degree of warming by the end of the century.
Meanwhile in 1975, two New Zealand scientists reported that while the Northern Hemisphere had been cooling over the past thirty years, their own region, and probably other parts of the Southern Hemisphere, had been warming.(29) There were too few weather stations in the vast unvisited southern oceans to be certain, but other studies tended to confirm it. The cooling since around 1940 had been observed mainly in northern latitudes. Perhaps cooling from industrial haze counteracted the greenhouse warming there? After all, the Northern Hemisphere was home to most of the world's industry. It was also home to most of the world's population, and as usual, people had been most impressed by the weather where they lived.(30*)
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Returning to old records, in 1986 the group produced the first truly solid and comprehensive global analysis of average surface temperatures (including the vast ocean regions, which most earlier studies had neglected). They found considerable warming from the late 19th century up to 1940, followed by some regional cooling in the Northern Hemisphere but roughly level conditions overall to the mid-1970s. Then the warming had resumed with a vengeance. The warmest three years in the entire 134-year record had all occurred in the 1980s.(35) Convincing confirmation came from Hansen and a collaborator, who analyzed old records using quite different methods from the British, and came up with substantially the same results. It was true: an unprecedented warming was underway, at least 0.5C in the past century.(36)
So in 1975 we had
a Newsweek article claiming the next Ice Age was near,
"a panel of top experts convened by the National Academy of Sciences" saying that increasing CO2 levels would counteract any "Global Cooling"
scientists saying that "there is no global cooling trend, the southern hemisphere is warming" and hypothesizing that air polution was the reason for the "local cooling".
Now which item does The New American bring as proof that Global Warming is a myth?
He didn't say he was sorry for making his Batman movies, but for them being so damn successful and thus the reason for all the othe Superhero movies that came after them.
Snow White made it's budget back a whopping 185 times over, domestically and internationally.
Which would translate to: it made no money outside the US. It seems nobody bothered with the money made in the international market until, well, Starwars and Grease.
For the sake of argument, let's say that "the scientists commenting on global warming like to talk about record high tempuratures". Now what does that have to do with "[them] also finding certain years with below-normal tempuratures as well"? Are you actually trying to equate record highs with some below-normals?
For instance, when I read an online article, being able to load links in background tabs is a godsend. I do that using a middle click. Or, I highlight the occasional word and right click to call up a dictionary.
Well, yes, but at other times I want to open them in a background window, or in a foreground tab. There are just too damn few buttons on a mouse to do what you can do with one mouse button and modifier keys.
Oh great, no we have a choice between finding a laptop that works with the Linux distro you want, or a free OS that works flawlessly with a specific laptop.
And why exactly is that? Because you can chose to be limited in what you can buy (a Mac) - and have it work for sure, or be completely free in what to buy (a PC notebook) - if you are willing to check first if Linux will work remotely reasonable on it?
Let's please not go accusing a small group of people of being murderers until we have something better than "it would have worked out well for them." It's just not cool.
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Use Ents, at least they can walk.
How would you know the IP address? By asking a DNS server, maybe?
So why did they grant ".biz", ".info" etc.? And don't tell me they don't grant ".xxx" because they actually learned somthing.
- a Newsweek article claiming the next Ice Age was near,
- "a panel of top experts convened by the National Academy of Sciences" saying that increasing CO2 levels would counteract any "Global Cooling"
- scientists saying that "there is no global cooling trend, the southern hemisphere is warming" and hypothesizing that air polution was the reason for the "local cooling".
Now which item does The New American bring as proof that Global Warming is a myth?That's the fault of your parents, not Apple's.
Assuming that the optimisations will not make your code faster on the next generation of CPUs.
He didn't say he was sorry for making his Batman movies, but for them being so damn successful and thus the reason for all the othe Superhero movies that came after them.
I watched Armageddon on TV - and I want my time back. I should have watched Contact on the other channel.
The funny part is: all later Highlander movies pretended H2 never was - and H2 was still better.
And that's why you want to get out of a project when Michael Bay declines your project for any reasons.
Which would translate to: it made no money outside the US. It seems nobody bothered with the money made in the international market until, well, Starwars and Grease.
Ohh yes, it "floated around". You are aware that Antartica is a continent?
For the sake of argument, let's say that "the scientists commenting on global warming like to talk about record high tempuratures". Now what does that have to do with "[them] also finding certain years with below-normal tempuratures as well"? Are you actually trying to equate record highs with some below-normals?
So it's Apple's fault that notebooks don't come with a trackball on each side?
Well, yes, but at other times I want to open them in a background window, or in a foreground tab. There are just too damn few buttons on a mouse to do what you can do with one mouse button and modifier keys.
Okay, you've done it. I didn't do it with Katz, but you made it. PLONK.
Yeah, it translates into "Jobs will soon call him a greedy bastard." ;-)
I'm going to guess that it got submitted 50,000,000 times and so they felt they had to. Besides, it's already being discussed in other comments.
I'm going to guess that Zonk was the editor in charge. That explains most WTF stories on Slashdot.
Oh great, no we have a choice between finding a laptop that works with the Linux distro you want, or a free OS that works flawlessly with a specific laptop.
Your argument is "Free" - as in "of content".
Talk about the uninformed Linutix.
Linux may work arguably better on this laptop. On most laptops it doesn't. So what will these kids do when Linux doesn't support their next laptop?
Are you talking about the GP or the GOP?
Sure, he could have, but how exactly did he get the Anthrax made in an American lab?