Stupid users will exist no matter what operating system you give them
Maybe not.
90% of home users want a console that plays games browses porn and has its own monitor. The device will need ports to accept scanners, printers, digital cameras, joysticks, and webcams. All such hardware should include its drivers in ROM contained in the peripheral device - performance and upgradability be damned. Performance/upgradability is of no importance compared with ease of use. Being able to use old peripherals on new boxen is important emulators and very sluggish performance are fine. Plugging in a new peripheral should be as easy as plugging in a new controller to your XBox. ( It should be OK to do on the fly with the box on too ).
CD-Rom drive is neccessary unless high speed internet is required. Reimaging ( rare ) should be possible by pressing a button on the back which will using ROM software, connect to OS Vendor and reinstall the OS, and any installed programs registered with the OS vendor's servers on the date that the user specifies. Buying software would then be a matter of having the software vendor send a message to the OS vendor saying that it is OK for box XDHAHE6W2 to install FantasyQuest V1.2.3
If no High Speed internet is available then the box should STILL connect to home-base during the re-image process to spit out 'Insert Disk 2 of Doom VI' messages during the reinstall.
These users are too stupid to secure their systems. Only Officially OS/Box-Vendor licensed software would be allowed to run on these boxen, and power over the box's operation would lie with the OS-Vendor, not the owner of the hardware.
Unless of course, hardware to run the OS were only available via subscription, and were actually owned by the OS vendor.
Large hard drives would be completely optional. They would hold installed programs, and would cache frequently used data, but the vast majority of user data would be stored on the OS Vendor's servers where they could via a EULA, make it available to any data miner that wanted to look at it, be they a grocery store chain, or the FBI. And their servers might hold tons of JPEGS of nude ladies, but they do not need to store duplicate files if they store one copy shared by multiple users, and look it up by SHA256 sum when one of them want's to view it. They would only need to store the equivalent of a copy of whole world wide web, plus lists of everyone's bookmarks. How many people who collect porn actually look at it again later? People hardly ever look at the files they save. Much less than they look at their favorite web pages.
In the case where a security hole were found in the OS or in officially licensed Software, hardware enforced phone-home on start up would enforce the application of any updates. This check would have to be done whenever one of these boxen tried to connect to the internet.
Officially licensed spam/spy/adware which was either written and distributed by the OS vendor with every new box, or whose purveyors paid kickbacks to the OS Vendor to be officially licensed ( every piece of software allowed to run on the OS would need to pay these kickbacks ), would still prevail on these console-boxen. The average user would see a massive performance/reliability boost from the current situation because Officially Licensed Crapware would not crash the computer much at all, and would only use 80-85% of available CPU cycles and bandwidth, guaranteeing the user at least 15% use of their computer at all times - a vast improvement.
Crapware is a misnomer. Officially Licensed Spy/Adware ( The official licensing process would bar illegal activities like sending spam, for the privilege of bypassing filtering protocols, business partners must pay an 'email certification fee' ) would no longer be crappy at all. It would be quality marketing and consumer profiling and targeting software that, because it does not need to be rewritten every three days to keep
Maybe junk DNA is like a bucket of lego-like building blocks that are randomly cut out and reinserted elsewhere during recombination, maybe they have *evolved* to be error prone in this way. If ACTG are the letters of the DNA alphabet, maybe the stuff in the Junk DNA sections are the words in the DNA dictionary ( or even common sentences ). Maybe having Junk DNA around made up of sequences that tend to be useful when an organism needs to adapt over multiple generations via evolution is worth conserving. Maybe not.
Once you are at the point of all out thermonuclear war, writing off large groups of people becomes inevitable. If you are near a blast, you are cooked, and that includes a lot of people. But for those who wouldn't be very near a blast deadly consequences are far from certain.
Once you see the blast, you have already been irradiated as you say. But those who would get a fatal dose this way are probably close enough that they will be burned to a crisp in a few seconds no matter what they do. But for the larger numbers of people who see the blast on the horizon that have not already gotten a lethal dose of radiation, ducking and covering would provide a modicum of protection from heat and debris.
How much radiation is in this initial firestorm? Is it like a pressure wave carrying little radioactive dust, or is it more like wind coming from the explosion carrying radioactive fallout with it. I would bet, it's more like a pressure wave, but I do not know for sure.
If I am right that the initial firestorm does not carry much radioactive debris, then most of it is in the air around and above the blast site. Prevailing winds will carry it from there, but that will take time.
The winds high up in the atmosphere travel at outrageous speeds, but they are high and people live down low. The air around the blast site would take 2 hours to get to you if you were 50 miles away with a 25 mph wind blowing it your way. If you got in your car and drove the other way, you could outrun it.
Dust from outside can be largely kept from a basement with wet sheets. But I would use the time before the fallout starts falling out to get as far into the boonies as I could before waiting it out. If I didn't think I could outrun the worst of the fallout I'd hole up in the basement ( for instance, if you were actually in the firestorm ) But if all you saw was bunch of mushroom clouds on the horizon, then outrunning the fallout in a car seems the best course of action. There is much more area surrounding a blast than in it. Lots of people will be in 'the suburbs'.
And the farther you get from the blast(s) the less likely the fallout will be carried to you.
As for the leaders, they will be fine. They will be whisked away by chopper with a half hour warning before the explosions start. The government not wanting to create a panic won't give the public jack for warning. They'll have their special channels all set up before hand and they won't get blown up. AM radio will work if all else fails.
And if forces are not under their control, then why should they fight? The military would probably all just go home and try to dig their families out of the rubble.
And fallout isn't permanent. The shorter lived the isotope, the more radioactive it is. The radioactivity of the fallout is very front-loaded. Most of the worst will be gone in a few days. Of course there are some isotopes ( cobalt 60 ) that stick around for a while but are still dangerously radioactive that will make near term resettlement impossible, we are talking about 100 years or less not 10000 years. A geiger counter would definately be a nice to have if you found yourself holed up near the blast site because you could use it to see when it is safe to come out. I wouldn't hang around the area when I did though, I'd take the car and get out of dodge to avoid those longer lived isotopes and wear a wet cloth over my face to avoid breathing as much of it as I could on the ride.
Man, I saw The Day After when it came out. I was 6 or 7 years old and it frikken gave me nightmares. I now know better. Nuclear war wouldn't be so bad as long as you weren't near a missile silo, military base, or a major city. People would be fine in the event of a nuke war as long as they were more than 50 or so miles from any blast. Once you see the blast. I think waiting it out at least 100 miles from any blast would be relatively ok. See a flash, duck and cover, and drive to grandma's before you inhale too much Cobalt 60. No big deal. Loot Wal*Mart for canned food until some semblance of order returns and the powers that be have signed all their treaties ( probably treaties would be signed within days )
Windows crashes all the time for me. It crashes more often than 95 ever did. And it runs less spiffily than 95 did even on my old retired for parts 233 MHz pentium 1. I see more CPU resources used for no added value. I don't give a damn about one thing the latest windows does that windows 95 doesn't except for protected memory, but even then windows manages to die often in such a way that I can't kill whatever task is giving it a hissy fit. It manages to overutilize a pentium 4 however, for web browsing and email.
What would happen if you made something out of aluminum, and a significant number of the atoms were changed by neutrons to carbon forming aluminum carbide, and then that something were exposed to water? You'd get methane gas and you thing would dissolve. Designing for the inside of a nuclear reactor seems next to impossible.
They aren't nasty, they are where the aroma comes from. If you see a volitile oil slick floating on your cup of coffee then you know it's not burnt (all the oils have evaporated from burnt coffee )
The oil evaporates from the grounds if you leave the lid off the tin or they are not fresh.
Maybe brewing cold does extract the most volitile fraction of oils without causing them to evaporate though, but the less volitile oils that are extracted with heat are marvelous too and become volitile enough to impart a lovely aroma to a cup of hot Joe. I would feel bad about leaving the heavier oils in the grounds.
So if there are different fractions of coffee volitiles and you want them all in your cup of coffee what to do? Brew the coffee concentrate in a sealed vessel and allow to cool. The more volitile parts would then recondense in the refrigerator. I never used a pressure cooker. Are they completely sealable so nothing escapes? If you could control the heat to prevent outgassing through the safety valve and then cool, you might have something... But then you'd want to shake before using to ensure an even distribution of the aroma fraction. The best bet might be to mix grounds in a sealed container with a safety valve, heat filter and serve if you were really intent on getting all the volitile oils. A sealed percolator with a safety valve that you allow to cool to drinking temperature ( below boiling to condense as much of the oils as possible ) before opening to pour
Or just drink it fresh from the coffee pot before it has been sitting around too long.
This means that anyone surfing on it, even on a super effective insulated surf board would *burst into flames from radiated heat alone*. I have personally stood 25 feet from a medium sized bonfire and not been able to move closer because the heat hurt my face. Lava is much hotter than a bonfire, and there is usually much more of it. Maybe Mario and Luigi can jump over lava pits unscathed, but not human beings - even with the Schwartz.
Nothing taught in a degree program is neccessary to be a code monkey. ( Code monkey = laborer who writes custom software for a business. ) And 99% of programming jobs are Code monkey jobs.
The remaining 1% are divided into canned software code monkey jobs who produce something used by more than one customer, and the other 1/2% are people with another esoteric skill that happen to have learned to program and are utilized to translate that skill into software. This is easier than feeling comfortable signing off on a black box delivered by a code monkey who doesn't really understand your skill.
Some code monkeys call themselves software engineers. Like that makes a difference! Dilber might be an engineer that designs bridges or electrical components or whatever but he's still a <insert medium here> monkey. There is no technical profession that you couldn't learn on the job.
And management can call themselves social engineers if they want to. They are people monkeys spending all day tiresomely jostling for position. Even their macheavellian skills are learnable on the job.
Taxed gas prices don't count.
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All those taxes on your gasoline that make it 5.50 a gallon pay for services. Other things are taxed in the US, or less services are provided ( like health insurance ) that must then be paid for out of pocket. If my employer paid me what they spend on health insurance, and that insurance were provided by gas taxes, then I would probably come out about even financially even if gas cost me what it does in Britain. People generally live as close to where they work as they can afford to. Property far away from any source of income is dirt cheap. Land near civilization makes anything but apartment living uneconomical.
But Europeans should still be feeling the crunch since some amount of driving is neccessary except in metropoli with excellent public transportation. I would not burn less gas than I do even at 5.50/gallon. My gas usage is almost entirely non-discresionary. I have to get to work and to the grocery store, there are no busses, and the population density is not high enough to support them, probably even at $5.50/gallon. And I am not walking far to/from a bus stop when it's 0 degrees Farenheight ( -18 Celcius ) or in the rain. Therefore I drive my reasonably fuel efficient car X miles a week regardless of gas prices.
I think it must depend on the flora in your gut at the time, because I have NEVER been able to light a fart despite numerous earnest attempts with a flame 'right up in there' It's weird, because lighting a match or even a butane lighter tends to reduce the smell, so something must either be burning off, or unburned vapors from the flame must be potent smell receptor numbing agents.
I do not see a flame of burning fart gas, so I would tend to guess that flames produce something that interferes with the ability to smell a fart - possibly this could be bottled as an anti-fart spray?
The smell of a fart doesn't come from the gasses expelled ( which I bet is mostly CO2 not methane as the fart lighting myth would have one believe - especially beer farts which most likely come from unburped bubbles. But even if there were methane, it is an odorless gas. The smell comes from aerosolized feces particles containing 3-methylindole. It is supposedly this potently stinky chemical that is eau-de-shit.
It might be worth extracting pure 3-methylindole ( skatole ) from feces using a solvent and burning it to see if it is incompletely burned combustion products of this chemical that 'vaccinates' the nose against the horrible smell of the unburned skatole.
I advocate extracting it yourself from crap using a solvent instead of buying it because apparently eau-de-shit is used for making a drug and so is watched by the DEA. ( It is also supposedly used in perfume - YUCK! as well as for other legitimate purposes excluding pranks, but the DEA doesn't care, they'll come to your house and confiscate the contents of your sceptic tank )
Googley was always an adjective that was usually applied to eyes. EG: Cookie monster has googley eyes. And if cookie monster gawked at the cookie jar with those eyes it would be natural to combine 'gawk' and 'googley' into 'goggle', as in the peeping tom goggled at the woman next door through the open window. But then since goggles are eyeware, one might wish to differentiate that made up verb from the noun and pronounce it google, further obscuring it's 'gawk' parent word. My theory is that because of the existance of the verb 'gawk', the adjective 'googley' was probably often morphed into the verb 'to google' even before the internet, though it was probably not found in any dictionary.
Of course, you shouldn't be able to copyright a number but that's another issue.
It seems that all google needs to do is rewrite it's history to claim a root in the words googley and gawk. It makes sence that as search engine that people use to LOOK for things on the internet would be named with a word with those two etymological roots.
The orignal post's logic was: There is a civilization in the universe. Therefore civilizations can spontaneously occur in the universe, therefore it is possible that it could occur more than once independently.
That reasoning is not circular at all.
As for the flawed line of reasoning: "I exist, therefore someone must've made me, he must be God, I'll worship him", the first problem occurs at "therefore someone must have made me". Origin of the Species gives another possible account of how humans could have arisen.
And if you consider the history of whole universe, it is no more of a stretch to say that the universe was not ever created than it is to say that a creator of a universe is not ever created.
In fact, the universe could not have been created. The universe is at least as old as any creator because the existance of a pre-universe universe-creator implies that that creator WAS the universe at the time before creation. Any creating he might have done ws merely additions to that already existing hypothetical universe containg only him. A creator of a universe is therefore an oxymoron.
Creating is an act that implies a before and an after, i.e. Before creating X there was no X. After it was created, behold, there was an X. Since a time before creation implies the existance of the universe at that time it could not have been created. ( note that does not rule out a diety existing within the universe and operating via as yet unknown means to do miraculous things like cause Big Bangs, it only deprives God of the overly grandiose title 'Creator of the Universe' that he is often falsely assumed to have. )
And I don't want to hear any replies saying that God exists "Outside the Universe" universe = everything. There is no outside. If there were, it would be considered inside. If you want to postulate a sub-universe containing everything we know of, and an as yet unseen section containing God which together make up the universe that's fine, but then God only gets to be the Creator of a Sub-Universe then, a title shared by any kid that's owned a goldfish or an ant farm.
guests will be required to show identity cards before they are let in
That is so whatever you do/look at can be traced back to you so that you can be punished, or better yet, so you no longer feel anonymous enough to try and view the contraversial that the Great Firewall of China has failed to block yet. The restriction on children is probably just an excuse to check IDs. They don't really care if children view the internet.
Maybe the people who run the cafes are claiming kids beat them up, but in fact, it's a gang of political protester types and the owner hit themselves with the fire extinguisher so they could explain the lack of ID logs.
What if google images indexes an illegal site? Should Google be liable for every possible illegal site that might be out there? Are they distributing it in their thumbnails?
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe not.
90% of home users want a console that plays games browses porn and has its own monitor. The device will need ports to accept scanners, printers, digital cameras, joysticks, and webcams. All such hardware should include its drivers in ROM contained in the peripheral device - performance and upgradability be damned. Performance/upgradability is of no importance compared with ease of use. Being able to use old peripherals on new boxen is important emulators and very sluggish performance are fine. Plugging in a new peripheral should be as easy as plugging in a new controller to your XBox. ( It should be OK to do on the fly with the box on too ).
CD-Rom drive is neccessary unless high speed internet is required. Reimaging ( rare ) should be possible by pressing a button on the back which will using ROM software, connect to OS Vendor and reinstall the OS, and any installed programs registered with the OS vendor's servers on the date that the user specifies. Buying software would then be a matter of having the software vendor send a message to the OS vendor saying that it is OK for box XDHAHE6W2 to install FantasyQuest V1.2.3
If no High Speed internet is available then the box should STILL connect to home-base during the re-image process to spit out 'Insert Disk 2 of Doom VI' messages during the reinstall.
These users are too stupid to secure their systems. Only Officially OS/Box-Vendor licensed software would be allowed to run on these boxen, and power over the box's operation would lie with the OS-Vendor, not the owner of the hardware.
Unless of course, hardware to run the OS were only available via subscription, and were actually owned by the OS vendor.
Large hard drives would be completely optional. They would hold installed programs, and would cache frequently used data, but the vast majority of user data would be stored on the OS Vendor's servers where they could via a EULA, make it available to any data miner that wanted to look at it, be they a grocery store chain, or the FBI. And their servers might hold tons of JPEGS of nude ladies, but they do not need to store duplicate files if they store one copy shared by multiple users, and look it up by SHA256 sum when one of them want's to view it. They would only need to store the equivalent of a copy of whole world wide web, plus lists of everyone's bookmarks. How many people who collect porn actually look at it again later? People hardly ever look at the files they save. Much less than they look at their favorite web pages.
In the case where a security hole were found in the OS or in officially licensed Software, hardware enforced phone-home on start up would enforce the application of any updates. This check would have to be done whenever one of these boxen tried to connect to the internet.
Officially licensed spam/spy/adware which was either written and distributed by the OS vendor with every new box, or whose purveyors paid kickbacks to the OS Vendor to be officially licensed ( every piece of software allowed to run on the OS would need to pay these kickbacks ), would still prevail on these console-boxen. The average user would see a massive performance/reliability boost from the current situation because Officially Licensed Crapware would not crash the computer much at all, and would only use 80-85% of available CPU cycles and bandwidth, guaranteeing the user at least 15% use of their computer at all times - a vast improvement.
Crapware is a misnomer. Officially Licensed Spy/Adware ( The official licensing process would bar illegal activities like sending spam, for the privilege of bypassing filtering protocols, business partners must pay an 'email certification fee' ) would no longer be crappy at all. It would be quality marketing and consumer profiling and targeting software that, because it does not need to be rewritten every three days to keep
Maybe junk DNA is like a bucket of lego-like building blocks that are randomly cut out and reinserted elsewhere during recombination, maybe they have *evolved* to be error prone in this way. If ACTG are the letters of the DNA alphabet, maybe the stuff in the Junk DNA sections are the words in the DNA dictionary ( or even common sentences ). Maybe having Junk DNA around made up of sequences that tend to be useful when an organism needs to adapt over multiple generations via evolution is worth conserving. Maybe not.
Once you see the blast, you have already been irradiated as you say. But those who would get a fatal dose this way are probably close enough that they will be burned to a crisp in a few seconds no matter what they do. But for the larger numbers of people who see the blast on the horizon that have not already gotten a lethal dose of radiation, ducking and covering would provide a modicum of protection from heat and debris.
How much radiation is in this initial firestorm? Is it like a pressure wave carrying little radioactive dust, or is it more like wind coming from the explosion carrying radioactive fallout with it. I would bet, it's more like a pressure wave, but I do not know for sure.
If I am right that the initial firestorm does not carry much radioactive debris, then most of it is in the air around and above the blast site. Prevailing winds will carry it from there, but that will take time.
The winds high up in the atmosphere travel at outrageous speeds, but they are high and people live down low. The air around the blast site would take 2 hours to get to you if you were 50 miles away with a 25 mph wind blowing it your way. If you got in your car and drove the other way, you could outrun it.
Dust from outside can be largely kept from a basement with wet sheets. But I would use the time before the fallout starts falling out to get as far into the boonies as I could before waiting it out. If I didn't think I could outrun the worst of the fallout I'd hole up in the basement ( for instance, if you were actually in the firestorm ) But if all you saw was bunch of mushroom clouds on the horizon, then outrunning the fallout in a car seems the best course of action. There is much more area surrounding a blast than in it. Lots of people will be in 'the suburbs'.
And the farther you get from the blast(s) the less likely the fallout will be carried to you.
As for the leaders, they will be fine. They will be whisked away by chopper with a half hour warning before the explosions start. The government not wanting to create a panic won't give the public jack for warning. They'll have their special channels all set up before hand and they won't get blown up. AM radio will work if all else fails.
And if forces are not under their control, then why should they fight? The military would probably all just go home and try to dig their families out of the rubble.
And fallout isn't permanent. The shorter lived the isotope, the more radioactive it is. The radioactivity of the fallout is very front-loaded. Most of the worst will be gone in a few days. Of course there are some isotopes ( cobalt 60 ) that stick around for a while but are still dangerously radioactive that will make near term resettlement impossible, we are talking about 100 years or less not 10000 years. A geiger counter would definately be a nice to have if you found yourself holed up near the blast site because you could use it to see when it is safe to come out. I wouldn't hang around the area when I did though, I'd take the car and get out of dodge to avoid those longer lived isotopes and wear a wet cloth over my face to avoid breathing as much of it as I could on the ride.
Man, I saw The Day After when it came out. I was 6 or 7 years old and it frikken gave me nightmares. I now know better. Nuclear war wouldn't be so bad as long as you weren't near a missile silo, military base, or a major city. People would be fine in the event of a nuke war as long as they were more than 50 or so miles from any blast. Once you see the blast. I think waiting it out at least 100 miles from any blast would be relatively ok. See a flash, duck and cover, and drive to grandma's before you inhale too much Cobalt 60. No big deal. Loot Wal*Mart for canned food until some semblance of order returns and the powers that be have signed all their treaties ( probably treaties would be signed within days )
I was dissapointed in Godzilla, because I thought it was too svelt. I like the lovable plush rubber nuke-o-saur with the beer belly of olde.
Terrorists, have reinvented the 'sticky bomb' in a new spring shade of mauve.
1) electrons should read neutrons 2) I meant to be logged in to post parent comment.
Windows crashes all the time for me. It crashes more often than 95 ever did. And it runs less spiffily than 95 did even on my old retired for parts 233 MHz pentium 1. I see more CPU resources used for no added value. I don't give a damn about one thing the latest windows does that windows 95 doesn't except for protected memory, but even then windows manages to die often in such a way that I can't kill whatever task is giving it a hissy fit. It manages to overutilize a pentium 4 however, for web browsing and email.
What would happen if you made something out of aluminum, and a significant number of the atoms were changed by neutrons to carbon forming aluminum carbide, and then that something were exposed to water? You'd get methane gas and you thing would dissolve. Designing for the inside of a nuclear reactor seems next to impossible.
The study was performed by the highly respected Doctors Who Don't Like to Dress Up Especially In the Summer Association of America.
I admit I've never tried cold brewed coffee. It just seems counterintuitive.
The oil evaporates from the grounds if you leave the lid off the tin or they are not fresh.
Maybe brewing cold does extract the most volitile fraction of oils without causing them to evaporate though, but the less volitile oils that are extracted with heat are marvelous too and become volitile enough to impart a lovely aroma to a cup of hot Joe. I would feel bad about leaving the heavier oils in the grounds.
So if there are different fractions of coffee volitiles and you want them all in your cup of coffee what to do? Brew the coffee concentrate in a sealed vessel and allow to cool. The more volitile parts would then recondense in the refrigerator. I never used a pressure cooker. Are they completely sealable so nothing escapes? If you could control the heat to prevent outgassing through the safety valve and then cool, you might have something... But then you'd want to shake before using to ensure an even distribution of the aroma fraction. The best bet might be to mix grounds in a sealed container with a safety valve, heat filter and serve if you were really intent on getting all the volitile oils. A sealed percolator with a safety valve that you allow to cool to drinking temperature ( below boiling to condense as much of the oils as possible ) before opening to pour
Or just drink it fresh from the coffee pot before it has been sitting around too long.
This means that anyone surfing on it, even on a super effective insulated surf board would *burst into flames from radiated heat alone*. I have personally stood 25 feet from a medium sized bonfire and not been able to move closer because the heat hurt my face. Lava is much hotter than a bonfire, and there is usually much more of it. Maybe Mario and Luigi can jump over lava pits unscathed, but not human beings - even with the Schwartz.
The remaining 1% are divided into canned software code monkey jobs who produce something used by more than one customer, and the other 1/2% are people with another esoteric skill that happen to have learned to program and are utilized to translate that skill into software. This is easier than feeling comfortable signing off on a black box delivered by a code monkey who doesn't really understand your skill.
Some code monkeys call themselves software engineers. Like that makes a difference! Dilber might be an engineer that designs bridges or electrical components or whatever but he's still a <insert medium here> monkey. There is no technical profession that you couldn't learn on the job.
And management can call themselves social engineers if they want to. They are people monkeys spending all day tiresomely jostling for position. Even their macheavellian skills are learnable on the job.
But Europeans should still be feeling the crunch since some amount of driving is neccessary except in metropoli with excellent public transportation. I would not burn less gas than I do even at 5.50/gallon. My gas usage is almost entirely non-discresionary. I have to get to work and to the grocery store, there are no busses, and the population density is not high enough to support them, probably even at $5.50/gallon. And I am not walking far to/from a bus stop when it's 0 degrees Farenheight ( -18 Celcius ) or in the rain. Therefore I drive my reasonably fuel efficient car X miles a week regardless of gas prices.
I do not see a flame of burning fart gas, so I would tend to guess that flames produce something that interferes with the ability to smell a fart - possibly this could be bottled as an anti-fart spray?
The smell of a fart doesn't come from the gasses expelled ( which I bet is mostly CO2 not methane as the fart lighting myth would have one believe - especially beer farts which most likely come from unburped bubbles. But even if there were methane, it is an odorless gas. The smell comes from aerosolized feces particles containing 3-methylindole. It is supposedly this potently stinky chemical that is eau-de-shit.
It might be worth extracting pure 3-methylindole ( skatole ) from feces using a solvent and burning it to see if it is incompletely burned combustion products of this chemical that 'vaccinates' the nose against the horrible smell of the unburned skatole.
I advocate extracting it yourself from crap using a solvent instead of buying it because apparently eau-de-shit is used for making a drug and so is watched by the DEA. ( It is also supposedly used in perfume - YUCK! as well as for other legitimate purposes excluding pranks, but the DEA doesn't care, they'll come to your house and confiscate the contents of your sceptic tank )
Of course, you shouldn't be able to copyright a number but that's another issue.
It seems that all google needs to do is rewrite it's history to claim a root in the words googley and gawk. It makes sence that as search engine that people use to LOOK for things on the internet would be named with a word with those two etymological roots.
That reasoning is not circular at all.
As for the flawed line of reasoning: "I exist, therefore someone must've made me, he must be God, I'll worship him", the first problem occurs at "therefore someone must have made me". Origin of the Species gives another possible account of how humans could have arisen.
And if you consider the history of whole universe, it is no more of a stretch to say that the universe was not ever created than it is to say that a creator of a universe is not ever created.
In fact, the universe could not have been created. The universe is at least as old as any creator because the existance of a pre-universe universe-creator implies that that creator WAS the universe at the time before creation. Any creating he might have done ws merely additions to that already existing hypothetical universe containg only him. A creator of a universe is therefore an oxymoron.
Creating is an act that implies a before and an after, i.e. Before creating X there was no X. After it was created, behold, there was an X. Since a time before creation implies the existance of the universe at that time it could not have been created. ( note that does not rule out a diety existing within the universe and operating via as yet unknown means to do miraculous things like cause Big Bangs, it only deprives God of the overly grandiose title 'Creator of the Universe' that he is often falsely assumed to have. )
And I don't want to hear any replies saying that God exists "Outside the Universe" universe = everything. There is no outside. If there were, it would be considered inside. If you want to postulate a sub-universe containing everything we know of, and an as yet unseen section containing God which together make up the universe that's fine, but then God only gets to be the Creator of a Sub-Universe then, a title shared by any kid that's owned a goldfish or an ant farm.
And maybe God created THEM in his own image too. ( which explains why 99% of intelligent aliens in Star Trek are humanoids )
to people who don't take kindly 'round heeyah!
Or frog legs with a hint of Cane Toad poison.
That is so whatever you do/look at can be traced back to you so that you can be punished, or better yet, so you no longer feel anonymous enough to try and view the contraversial that the Great Firewall of China has failed to block yet. The restriction on children is probably just an excuse to check IDs. They don't really care if children view the internet.
Maybe the people who run the cafes are claiming kids beat them up, but in fact, it's a gang of political protester types and the owner hit themselves with the fire extinguisher so they could explain the lack of ID logs.
I saw this documentary last night: Children of the Secret State. The Chinese return escaped North Korean refugees back to North Korea to be shot.
One big happy sex offender society! lol
What if google images indexes an illegal site? Should Google be liable for every possible illegal site that might be out there? Are they distributing it in their thumbnails?