How is not having books any form of... I'm at a loss for words... not being torture ? Not being a form of punishement ? I mean many people would be OK left alone with a book. But left alone with the only option being watching already dry paint get drier ? How does that improve them as human being in any way ? It would turn anybody into a raving lunatic. I swear, people who run US prisons should be the first ones locked up in them.
It is a sad affair, as the only interest I find in car racing is to develop new technologies that are later applied to everyday cars. If you keep the technology at a 80s level, it is then only a dumb noisy polluting dangerous wasteful activity for rich rednecks.
I have a different scheme: first one email per site, simply website@mydns.com, so that I know who the fuckers are that sell my email to spammers. Then a standard hard password, appended with the site's name, appended with some scheme (like the number of letters in the site's name, or the last and 1st letter, whatever). This way every site has different login info and it's very easy to remember.
Makes me wish I got in on the bitcoin craze back in the start
Well, I did run a miner for a month back at the start. Then I forgot about it. The recent story about the guy who put 18$ in BT 4 years ago and just bought a house with it, made me check my wallet. It took an entire day to catch up and then I had... exactly 0 BT ! Something escapes me here.
OP here. I agree with you 99%. Even though I think many classics were truly appreciated for a time (not necessarily in 'their' time) by many people, and thus got their status of classic which is now hard to understand.
PS: As a foreigner (again), I've never groked Shakespeare. It's just painful to read. And having had to study Richard III three years in a row in English classes, I've grown a certain hatred for him.
PPS: if there's ONE classic I'd recommend, it's the Illiad. That thing is pure Rambo, blood, guts and testicles. And interesting to boot. Just get a prose translation in modern english.
As a foreigner, I'd never heard of Salinger or Catcher in the Rye. When I first made it to the US, my friend gave me the book: "You HAVE to read that". I was underwhelmed and to this day still do not understand what all the fuss is about. A story about a whiney teenager with too much money for his own good ? This describe America pretty well to me !!!
As a matter of fact I have, both parents worked in a slaughterhouse (one as a wet, the other doing microbiology), and I did autopsy photography there, which is why I find it absolutely insane that people feed antibiotics to cattle while saying: "Don't worry, it's safe". This WILL kill us all, since we all regularly get infections that require antibiotics.
You aren't successful because there is no evidence to back you idea
How about, before you put life changing drugs inside animal fodder, YOU prove that it's REALLY harmless. Why should the burden of proof be upon me ?!? And you know what, I've been following this for a long time, and there are more and more studies that prove that it is indeed a root cause of resistance buildup. 50% of all chicken meat produced in the US has some form of germs with antibiotics resistance, and (from memory) 30% of ground beef. Look it up, it's in the articles above.
As for being a douche for shortening a word, are you grasping at straws or what ?
It's not that Origin of Species is exactly a new book. By the time we developed the antibiotics evolutionary biology was well understood.
Market forces vs. scientists sounding the alarm:
“It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them There is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.” -- Fleming while accepting his Nobel prize in 1945
Most European countries have banned antibiotics in food decades ago. The french vs US beef war is not only about hormones... The fact that banning it completely would proscribe the kind of extreme density cattle houses is a bonus IMHO. A few days ago a video was doing the rounds of the web where such a farm decided to let the cows go on a field for the 1st time before sending them to the slaughterhouse. It breaks your heart to see how happy they are to see grass.
Yeah, per the article one in 9 people who get a skin infection after something as minor as a scrape... dies. That's food for thoughts.
Barely a few years ago there was a violent discussion on/. about adding antibiotics to cattle fodder. There were plenty of shills who defended it as safe. And I remember that I wrote that it would be our downfall. I tried to find that discussion again without success. I wish/. would implement a better search algo so that we can for instance search our own past posts.
Well, it completely depends on how brutal you want to be in the case of Venus (Earth is a whole other problem as you point out). A monomolecular film at the right angle could reflect a good portion of the sun. If you make it large enough to covert a sizable portion of the planet, take away 20% of the sunlight, it wouldn't take long. Such films do exist and aren't even hard to manufacture, but how stable would it be, gravitationally, resistance to UV, radiation, cosmic dust, static electricity trying to fold it on itself, solar wind pushing it, etc...? We are in the realm of SF.
And the makers don't want to make it easy on you. For instance I was trying to compare the inside volume of minivans. All the makers had sites in Flash with the dimensions and other stats impossible to extract, much less to compare even with other models of the same brand. Had to write them down manually in a spreadsheet. Of course some magazines have nice charts for you but they tend to go for the flashy models and anyway aren't interested to publish specs for anything from the current year or older.
Personally I wish we'd just man up and shoot the appropriate organisms into Venus' atmosphere to start the terraforming process.
I wonder how easy it would be to create a super-thin reflective film at L1 on Venus to drop the sun's contribution below a certain threshold and let some of the atmosphere condense to the ground (hopefully the sulfuric acid part) and drop in pressure in the process. If you can send a few tons of base material and a manufacturing satellite... Of course the Venusians might object to that global cooling.
Are you writing dumb on purpose ? Why would a kid run through an intersection on purpose, and not simply across a road ? It has nothing to do with 4-way stops.
A complete waste of time and gas when you cross it alone: why stop when you have 100% visibility ?!? I understand they do it in housing neighborhoods to get people to slow down, but still...
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How is not having books any form of... I'm at a loss for words... not being torture ? Not being a form of punishement ? I mean many people would be OK left alone with a book. But left alone with the only option being watching already dry paint get drier ? How does that improve them as human being in any way ? It would turn anybody into a raving lunatic. I swear, people who run US prisons should be the first ones locked up in them.
but I do agree that atheism is a religion. After all, how can one believe that a supernatural power does not exist except through faith?
So for you NOT collecting stamps is a hobby ?
It's not evidence if it's so easy to find debunking information about it: failed biblical prophecies
Like a former boss of mine said: "When you think you have a clever programming trick... forget it !"
It is a sad affair, as the only interest I find in car racing is to develop new technologies that are later applied to everyday cars. If you keep the technology at a 80s level, it is then only a dumb noisy polluting dangerous wasteful activity for rich rednecks.
That's ridiculous !
I have a different scheme: first one email per site, simply website@mydns.com, so that I know who the fuckers are that sell my email to spammers. Then a standard hard password, appended with the site's name, appended with some scheme (like the number of letters in the site's name, or the last and 1st letter, whatever). This way every site has different login info and it's very easy to remember.
Makes me wish I got in on the bitcoin craze back in the start
Well, I did run a miner for a month back at the start. Then I forgot about it. The recent story about the guy who put 18$ in BT 4 years ago and just bought a house with it, made me check my wallet. It took an entire day to catch up and then I had... exactly 0 BT ! Something escapes me here.
PS: As a foreigner (again), I've never groked Shakespeare. It's just painful to read. And having had to study Richard III three years in a row in English classes, I've grown a certain hatred for him.
PPS: if there's ONE classic I'd recommend, it's the Illiad. That thing is pure Rambo, blood, guts and testicles. And interesting to boot. Just get a prose translation in modern english.
As a foreigner, I'd never heard of Salinger or Catcher in the Rye. When I first made it to the US, my friend gave me the book: "You HAVE to read that". I was underwhelmed and to this day still do not understand what all the fuss is about. A story about a whiney teenager with too much money for his own good ? This describe America pretty well to me !!!
Try Netrunner, it comes from the company that supports kubuntu, is based on kubuntu but is more polished and complete.
Thanks. I've been using Kubuntu for years and the whole family uses it now. I wonder if Ubuntu fades away what it will mean for Kubuntu...
Mu.
"Organic agriculture", or as our grandparents called it: "agriculture".
As a matter of fact I have, both parents worked in a slaughterhouse (one as a wet, the other doing microbiology), and I did autopsy photography there, which is why I find it absolutely insane that people feed antibiotics to cattle while saying: "Don't worry, it's safe". This WILL kill us all, since we all regularly get infections that require antibiotics.
You aren't successful because there is no evidence to back you idea
How about, before you put life changing drugs inside animal fodder, YOU prove that it's REALLY harmless. Why should the burden of proof be upon me ?!? And you know what, I've been following this for a long time, and there are more and more studies that prove that it is indeed a root cause of resistance buildup. 50% of all chicken meat produced in the US has some form of germs with antibiotics resistance, and (from memory) 30% of ground beef. Look it up, it's in the articles above.
As for being a douche for shortening a word, are you grasping at straws or what ?
Yeah, I never wrote that. I should have specified 'skin infections not treated with antibiotics'
It's not that Origin of Species is exactly a new book. By the time we developed the antibiotics evolutionary biology was well understood.
Market forces vs. scientists sounding the alarm: “It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them There is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.” -- Fleming while accepting his Nobel prize in 1945
Most European countries have banned antibiotics in food decades ago. The french vs US beef war is not only about hormones... The fact that banning it completely would proscribe the kind of extreme density cattle houses is a bonus IMHO. A few days ago a video was doing the rounds of the web where such a farm decided to let the cows go on a field for the 1st time before sending them to the slaughterhouse. It breaks your heart to see how happy they are to see grass.
Yeah, per the article one in 9 people who get a skin infection after something as minor as a scrape... dies. That's food for thoughts. /. about adding antibiotics to cattle fodder. There were plenty of shills who defended it as safe. And I remember that I wrote that it would be our downfall. I tried to find that discussion again without success. I wish /. would implement a better search algo so that we can for instance search our own past posts.
Barely a few years ago there was a violent discussion on
Well, it completely depends on how brutal you want to be in the case of Venus (Earth is a whole other problem as you point out). A monomolecular film at the right angle could reflect a good portion of the sun. If you make it large enough to covert a sizable portion of the planet, take away 20% of the sunlight, it wouldn't take long. Such films do exist and aren't even hard to manufacture, but how stable would it be, gravitationally, resistance to UV, radiation, cosmic dust, static electricity trying to fold it on itself, solar wind pushing it, etc...? We are in the realm of SF.
And the makers don't want to make it easy on you. For instance I was trying to compare the inside volume of minivans. All the makers had sites in Flash with the dimensions and other stats impossible to extract, much less to compare even with other models of the same brand. Had to write them down manually in a spreadsheet. Of course some magazines have nice charts for you but they tend to go for the flashy models and anyway aren't interested to publish specs for anything from the current year or older.
Personally I wish we'd just man up and shoot the appropriate organisms into Venus' atmosphere to start the terraforming process.
I wonder how easy it would be to create a super-thin reflective film at L1 on Venus to drop the sun's contribution below a certain threshold and let some of the atmosphere condense to the ground (hopefully the sulfuric acid part) and drop in pressure in the process. If you can send a few tons of base material and a manufacturing satellite... Of course the Venusians might object to that global cooling.
Are you writing dumb on purpose ? Why would a kid run through an intersection on purpose, and not simply across a road ? It has nothing to do with 4-way stops.
A complete waste of time and gas when you cross it alone: why stop when you have 100% visibility ?!? I understand they do it in housing neighborhoods to get people to slow down, but still...
Yeah, I don't remember how I got it the 1st time...