The "Little Ice Age" was up to 500 years give or take - with some warmer years. But we don't really know what the future will hold - will we get a new "little ice age", a few cold winters/summers or will we get a new full-blown ice age?
The last option is the most worrying.
Maybe Global Warming/Climate Change will even it out?
Maybe you're OK with taking in peoples' wash and sewing for low pay, no benefits or sick days...
Why are you against voluntary exchange? If I want a person to drive me from point A to point B at a particular time, and we agree on the amount of compensation, what business is that of yours?
So you think it is far more appropriate for them to have to develop a nonstandard plug rather than trust in the honesty and decency of the citizens of the UK?
Actually, I think a better policy would be "Need to charge your phone while you're on the train? Use our outlets!" It would be a good PR move for them and help build goodwill.
We've had plenty of significant events happen in the past couple decades. One and only one - 9/11 - changed how the government does anything.
Yeah, and it only changed how the government did anything by making things worse. Now we're subjected to illegal searches, detainment, etc. by an incompetent bureaucracy that has stopped exactly 0 terrorist plots and misses over 95% of banned items in its screenings. Hopefully these aren't the kinds of changes you'd like to see with the oil industry as well.
I'm impressed that you're an expert on the things I know about. I know for instance, homeopathy is snake oil, Bruce Jenner is still a man even if he wants to get breast implants and dresses himself as a woman, and Rachel Dolezal is white, even if she wants to say she's black.
I'd like to mention as an addendum that as far as Jenner and Dolezal are concerned, I don't really care. I think people should be free to live their lives they way they want so long as they're not harming anyone else, even if I don't necessarily agree with what they're doing.
You're an armchair 'expert' who doesn't actually know anything about topics you're discussing, but you think your point of view is valid regardless.
I'm impressed that you're an expert on the things I know about. I know for instance, homeopathy is snake oil, Bruce Jenner is still a man even if he wants to get breast implants and dresses himself as a woman, and Rachel Dolezal is white, even if she wants to say she's black.
It's depressing that humanity's breadth of knowledge has increased to an unprecedented level, yet instead of educating themselves about the world they live in people prefer to just dig deeper holes to stick their heads in.
What's more depressing is all the SJWs that are so busy being offended by everything that they have to make everything awful for everyone else. Maybe it's the "enlightened" people like you who are part of the problem.
Nobody gets any data. Nobody - no car manufacturer, no Apple/Google, no insurance companies, no NSA/FBI. I, the consumer, don't need it or want it. Why does a car have to collect any data in the first place?
They collect the data for quantitative analysis, in case you get in an accident. It allows them to figure out if the driver was at fault, or if there was a defect in the vehicle. They are also able to provide it to law enforcement in case it's needed for an accident investigation, i.e. how fast was the driver going at the time of the accident, etc. At least that's what it says in my manual.
Homeopathy should not be given any legitimate platform, nor should any other form of ridiculous pseudoscience. If you want students to have a critical lens, then teach them more rigor about the scientific method and drawing proper conclusions. Teach about flawed experiment designs, fabricated data, and the dangers of pay to publish journals.
Why not? Guys can be gals, white women can be black women, and nothing means anything anymore except what's popular. In these days of academic/cultural relativism homeopathy seems like a perfectly cromulent subject to embiggen U of T's students. I just hope they include the proper trigger warnings!
If carpenter bees are considered a type of bumble bee I hope they do extinct ASAP. Not only do they drill holes in any wooden structure they can find, but after they've built a nest the woodpeckers tear it apart and make an even bigger hole.
Those suckers are nasty! I had one on my deck a few years back. It started boring a hole in one of the posts to make a nest. You could actually hear it chewing through the wood! I tried to swat it away, but it would keep coming after me, and I didn't want to get stung, so I decided to wait. It dug about half an inch into the wood in about 15 minutes. I figured it was safe at that point, so I took the hand spade I had been using in my garden and chopped it in half at the abdomen. Had to pull the head out by the wings and it was still chewing, but that was probably just reflexes. I stomped it on the deck - just to be sure...
Maybe bumblebees select habitats to colonize based more upon the daylight patterns than temperatures, and that is why they are not following the warmth as it moves towards the poles?
Sounds like something whose name starts with "bumble" would do.;-)
TFA: Iowans should figure out which roads âoewe really want to keepâ and let the others âoedeteriorate and go away.â
I think they have already done that in Michigan
// To all the roads...
Quoted for truth. Most of the roads I drive on in Michigan are atrocious. Then again, maybe that's why so many libertarians want to privatize them. It's about my least important issue on the spectrum, but it would be hard for them to do worse.
Yes, it's a bummer that basic curiosity and experimentation is suspicious and that we live in a society so scared of terrorism that we jump at shadows. But Nazis? Please...
It's not about what the cops did, it's about the sheepish reaction from the neighbor, whose "Don't question authority" attitude lends itself to the formation of authoritarian regimes. Eternal vigilance to tyranny is the price of liberty, but most people are more concerned with bread and circuses because thinking is too hard.
or.. they wouldn't be able to survive here because they like a dry dead planet with almost no oxygen and water. Assuming the universe is engaged in this large scale panspermia, aren't we getting hit by alien microbes constantly? why would the ones we make be so much more dangerous?
Because mundane microbes wouldn't make a very good science fiction plot.
Seriously though, if we were constantly getting hit by alien microbes,we haven't found any yet, so constantly seems like a bit of a stretch. Panspermia on the whole seems entirely improbable. First, you need a planet on which the conditions for life exist. Next, you need some sort of cataclysmic event like a meteor impact which strikes the surface of the planet hard enough to eject a portion of the impacted planet. Then the life forms on that portion need to survive the rigors of space including radiation, lack of normal gravity, lack of food & water, etc., plus travel through gas clouds, possible impacts with other objects, and so on. The life forms would have to survive that most likely for millions of years and then the ejected portion would have to come into contact with another planet capable of supporting the same type of life forms. Then the life forms would have to survive the entry into the planet's atmosphere and impact with the planet.
Hold it when corporations merge with government it's fascism
When government merges with corporations it's socialism
Good to have that cleared up, I have never been clear on the difference.
Think of it as right-totalitarianism vs. left-totalitarianism. One's mostly concerned with your bedroom activities, and the other's concerned about your bankbook. The problem is your bankbook can impact your bedroom activities, or vice versa, so eventually fascism/socialism have to regulate those activities as well. Hence the cause for your confusion. The difference is probably more easily explained using cows.
Somewhere in the Swiss Alps, a poor delivery drone lies buried in an avalanche, only to be rescued by a Saint Bernard trained how to change drone batteries.
Especially when the queen of asset forfeiture is in charge. If I was Snowden, I wouldn't take any deal from this administration, because you can't trust them. No honor among thieves, as the saying goes.
That's pretty much everyone's procedure, so Reddit's job is to make sure reddit.com doesn't become "one of those sites" for a sufficiently large group of people.
You can easily avoid a lot of the offensive stuff on Reddit by not visiting those subreddits Maybe a more sane alternative would be to allow people to filter out subreddits they don't like. Maybe this is in place already, but I don't know. Reddit has too high of a noise to signal ratio for my taste, so when I do check it out, I don't even bother signing in any more.
She is a terrible CEO and if reddits board had any brains they would fire her immediately.
Yeah, but could they afford the lawsuit? The smartest move would have been to never hire her in the first place. It seems clear that she's trying to drive it into the ground.
Reddit may eventually have to decide if they're an actual business that's supposed to make money or a hip BBS. The two identities are sorta in tension and I'm not sure it's resolvable.
Well, you're not going to make money if you continue to arbitrarily ban things that you find offensive or someone else might find offensive. There are things on the internet I don't like. I just don't go to those sites. I don't demand that they take those sites down. Aside from that, I don't know how a BBS makes money these days with ad block, etc, unless they're selling user info, which would probably go over huge with the reddit crowd.
Don't forget unintended consequences. Jimmy loves to hunt, so he is afraid to see a shrink lest the cops show up to grab his guns. So, he never gets any help. Is this really an improvement?
But if Jimmy goes on a shooting spree, then it gives the gun banners more ammo (pun intended). One thing you'll notice is that in most instances where there's been a mass shooting, the proposed remedy for gun control would not have prevented the mass shooting from happening in the first place.
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The "Little Ice Age" was up to 500 years give or take - with some warmer years. But we don't really know what the future will hold - will we get a new "little ice age", a few cold winters/summers or will we get a new full-blown ice age?
The last option is the most worrying.
Maybe Global Warming/Climate Change will even it out?
If you want to take a train an extra 200 miles, you need to lay track AND fuel it. With the plane you only need the fuel..
Unless you want to land? Or, at least, land intact, then take off again after landing?
Yeah, but isn't a runway a fraction of the cost of a 200 mile railroad track?
Maybe you're OK with taking in peoples' wash and sewing for low pay, no benefits or sick days...
Why are you against voluntary exchange? If I want a person to drive me from point A to point B at a particular time, and we agree on the amount of compensation, what business is that of yours?
So you think it is far more appropriate for them to have to develop a nonstandard plug rather than trust in the honesty and decency of the citizens of the UK?
Actually, I think a better policy would be "Need to charge your phone while you're on the train? Use our outlets!" It would be a good PR move for them and help build goodwill.
We've had plenty of significant events happen in the past couple decades. One and only one - 9/11 - changed how the government does anything.
Yeah, and it only changed how the government did anything by making things worse. Now we're subjected to illegal searches, detainment, etc. by an incompetent bureaucracy that has stopped exactly 0 terrorist plots and misses over 95% of banned items in its screenings. Hopefully these aren't the kinds of changes you'd like to see with the oil industry as well.
I'm impressed that you're an expert on the things I know about. I know for instance, homeopathy is snake oil, Bruce Jenner is still a man even if he wants to get breast implants and dresses himself as a woman, and Rachel Dolezal is white, even if she wants to say she's black.
I'd like to mention as an addendum that as far as Jenner and Dolezal are concerned, I don't really care. I think people should be free to live their lives they way they want so long as they're not harming anyone else, even if I don't necessarily agree with what they're doing.
You're an armchair 'expert' who doesn't actually know anything about topics you're discussing, but you think your point of view is valid regardless.
I'm impressed that you're an expert on the things I know about. I know for instance, homeopathy is snake oil, Bruce Jenner is still a man even if he wants to get breast implants and dresses himself as a woman, and Rachel Dolezal is white, even if she wants to say she's black.
It's depressing that humanity's breadth of knowledge has increased to an unprecedented level, yet instead of educating themselves about the world they live in people prefer to just dig deeper holes to stick their heads in.
What's more depressing is all the SJWs that are so busy being offended by everything that they have to make everything awful for everyone else. Maybe it's the "enlightened" people like you who are part of the problem.
Nobody gets any data. Nobody - no car manufacturer, no Apple/Google, no insurance companies, no NSA/FBI. I, the consumer, don't need it or want it. Why does a car have to collect any data in the first place?
They collect the data for quantitative analysis, in case you get in an accident. It allows them to figure out if the driver was at fault, or if there was a defect in the vehicle. They are also able to provide it to law enforcement in case it's needed for an accident investigation, i.e. how fast was the driver going at the time of the accident, etc. At least that's what it says in my manual.
It seemed to me that Watto the Slave Owner on Tatooine was a Jewish stereotype (look at his nose and listen to the accent)
I thought he was supposed to be an Italian stereotype?
Homeopathy should not be given any legitimate platform, nor should any other form of ridiculous pseudoscience. If you want students to have a critical lens, then teach them more rigor about the scientific method and drawing proper conclusions. Teach about flawed experiment designs, fabricated data, and the dangers of pay to publish journals.
Why not? Guys can be gals, white women can be black women, and nothing means anything anymore except what's popular. In these days of academic/cultural relativism homeopathy seems like a perfectly cromulent subject to embiggen U of T's students. I just hope they include the proper trigger warnings!
"The employees like it, the customers like it" By that reasoning, it should be legal to sell narcotics on the street.
Yes, it should. But more likely, if it was legal, it would be sold in stores.
If carpenter bees are considered a type of bumble bee I hope they do extinct ASAP. Not only do they drill holes in any wooden structure they can find, but after they've built a nest the woodpeckers tear it apart and make an even bigger hole.
Those suckers are nasty! I had one on my deck a few years back. It started boring a hole in one of the posts to make a nest. You could actually hear it chewing through the wood! I tried to swat it away, but it would keep coming after me, and I didn't want to get stung, so I decided to wait. It dug about half an inch into the wood in about 15 minutes. I figured it was safe at that point, so I took the hand spade I had been using in my garden and chopped it in half at the abdomen. Had to pull the head out by the wings and it was still chewing, but that was probably just reflexes. I stomped it on the deck - just to be sure...
Maybe bumblebees select habitats to colonize based more upon the daylight patterns than temperatures, and that is why they are not following the warmth as it moves towards the poles?
Sounds like something whose name starts with "bumble" would do. ;-)
TFA: Iowans should figure out which roads âoewe really want to keepâ and let the others âoedeteriorate and go away.â
I think they have already done that in Michigan
// To all the roads...
Quoted for truth. Most of the roads I drive on in Michigan are atrocious. Then again, maybe that's why so many libertarians want to privatize them. It's about my least important issue on the spectrum, but it would be hard for them to do worse.
Yes, it's a bummer that basic curiosity and experimentation is suspicious and that we live in a society so scared of terrorism that we jump at shadows. But Nazis? Please...
It's not about what the cops did, it's about the sheepish reaction from the neighbor, whose "Don't question authority" attitude lends itself to the formation of authoritarian regimes. Eternal vigilance to tyranny is the price of liberty, but most people are more concerned with bread and circuses because thinking is too hard.
or.. they wouldn't be able to survive here because they like a dry dead planet with almost no oxygen and water. Assuming the universe is engaged in this large scale panspermia, aren't we getting hit by alien microbes constantly? why would the ones we make be so much more dangerous?
Because mundane microbes wouldn't make a very good science fiction plot.
Seriously though, if we were constantly getting hit by alien microbes,we haven't found any yet, so constantly seems like a bit of a stretch. Panspermia on the whole seems entirely improbable. First, you need a planet on which the conditions for life exist. Next, you need some sort of cataclysmic event like a meteor impact which strikes the surface of the planet hard enough to eject a portion of the impacted planet. Then the life forms on that portion need to survive the rigors of space including radiation, lack of normal gravity, lack of food & water, etc., plus travel through gas clouds, possible impacts with other objects, and so on. The life forms would have to survive that most likely for millions of years and then the ejected portion would have to come into contact with another planet capable of supporting the same type of life forms. Then the life forms would have to survive the entry into the planet's atmosphere and impact with the planet.
Why does Carnegie Mellon imply that women should be shown stupider ads than the present algorithm identifies?
Because patriarchy.
So...the government is accessible to a full third of all citizens? (And probably not the elderly who need the most services.) What's the win, exactly?
That depends on whether or not you're a Malthusian...
Hold it when corporations merge with government it's fascism
When government merges with corporations it's socialism
Good to have that cleared up, I have never been clear on the difference.
Think of it as right-totalitarianism vs. left-totalitarianism. One's mostly concerned with your bedroom activities, and the other's concerned about your bankbook. The problem is your bankbook can impact your bedroom activities, or vice versa, so eventually fascism/socialism have to regulate those activities as well. Hence the cause for your confusion. The difference is probably more easily explained using cows.
Somewhere in the Swiss Alps, a poor delivery drone lies buried in an avalanche, only to be rescued by a Saint Bernard trained how to change drone batteries.
Especially when the queen of asset forfeiture is in charge. If I was Snowden, I wouldn't take any deal from this administration, because you can't trust them. No honor among thieves, as the saying goes.
That's pretty much everyone's procedure, so Reddit's job is to make sure reddit.com doesn't become "one of those sites" for a sufficiently large group of people.
You can easily avoid a lot of the offensive stuff on Reddit by not visiting those subreddits Maybe a more sane alternative would be to allow people to filter out subreddits they don't like. Maybe this is in place already, but I don't know. Reddit has too high of a noise to signal ratio for my taste, so when I do check it out, I don't even bother signing in any more.
She is a terrible CEO and if reddits board had any brains they would fire her immediately.
Yeah, but could they afford the lawsuit? The smartest move would have been to never hire her in the first place. It seems clear that she's trying to drive it into the ground.
Reddit may eventually have to decide if they're an actual business that's supposed to make money or a hip BBS. The two identities are sorta in tension and I'm not sure it's resolvable.
Well, you're not going to make money if you continue to arbitrarily ban things that you find offensive or someone else might find offensive. There are things on the internet I don't like. I just don't go to those sites. I don't demand that they take those sites down. Aside from that, I don't know how a BBS makes money these days with ad block, etc, unless they're selling user info, which would probably go over huge with the reddit crowd.
Don't forget unintended consequences. Jimmy loves to hunt, so he is afraid to see a shrink lest the cops show up to grab his guns. So, he never gets any help. Is this really an improvement?
But if Jimmy goes on a shooting spree, then it gives the gun banners more ammo (pun intended). One thing you'll notice is that in most instances where there's been a mass shooting, the proposed remedy for gun control would not have prevented the mass shooting from happening in the first place.