Here is an example (not my pic but I bought the same brand/package from CVS yesterday). RO/Distilled, ozonated, no minerals added back (they normally label it if they do).
I always thought that meant they added minerals back in for taste.
That's "spring water" or "drinking water". Yea I don't get it either. I need distilled water for my humidifier. It's annoying having to check labels to see if it's just distilled water, filtered, or spring since I can't trust the names all the time anymore.
You have to take into consideration land cleared for building or agriculture where trees won't be allowed to regrow. If those types of land use are happening at a higher rate than other uses where trees are replanted or allowed to come back naturally, then you will have a net loss.
This is true, as far as farmland expansion, but doesn't explain why toilet paper & timber are counted as a net loss.
While Europe and North America paper industry does a lot of forest management, that's not true in developing areas of the world.
Even in those areas where they are allowed to regrow naturally, there will be attrition as the trees grown and compete with one another for space, light, and resources.
I don't see how this follows. The old trees also competed for space, light & resources.
You mentioned "covered in tree sprouts". Cut down a tree and you will get dozens, sometimes hundreds, of competing saplings in its place. But those eventually will be whittled down to only one or maybe a few surviving trees in the long term. It wouldn't be accurate to count those samplings on a 1:1 basis for replacing lost, fully grown trees. I'm not saying that's what you meant to imply, just making sure we're on the same page. That's all.
Purified and distilled are two separate things. Purified really just means filtered (paper filter, reverse osmosis, etc).
Not always. At least not anymore apparently. I buy distilled water regularly and recently it changed to "purified" but the label still states that it was distilled from municipal water sources, just like before. Not sure why the switch in marketing but you're right, it CAN mean other thing so not really happy about it.
That article also says: Someone can get infected with PAM from swimming in warm fresh water, such as a lake or river. So, there have possibly been zero deaths from chlorinated water. So it's more like being concerned over something that kills no people per year.
2 > 0
However, the victims - a 28-year-old man and a 51-year-old woman from Louisiana - had not been near freshwater. The only thing they had in common was that they both routinely used the tap water with neti pots. Further tests on their home plumbing came back positive for the amoeba, although the city's water distribution systems' tests came back negative. The bacteria was found in a tankless water heater in the man's home and in the bathroom sink and faucet tub of the woman's home.
Let's put it this way. Before his infection by N. fowleri, the APK troll was a perfectly well adjusted heterosexual male with normal bodily desires, and a healthy, can-do attitude towards life. After the infection, he became a host file-obsessed lunatic who can think of nothing else.
Tragic, really.
The APK troll is a bot.
Well he is NOW. Before N. Flowleri he was as human as you or me.
That's probably true in the US, at least from what I've heard, but is it true everywhere? China? India? South America?
Not sure about India and South America, but China is planting trees for paper production. They don't have a choice. They literally don't have enough natural forests left to support their paper production these days. China has become the world's largest producer of paper. They have been importing timber and pulp from all over the world for a while now but even that isn't sustainable forever. Their low prices have been kept that way by government subsidies for now.
There is a pretty good article on China's paper business on Pulitzer Center.
They think that about 5 billion new trees are planted or sprout annually, yielding a net loss of 10 billion
They don't say where that number came from, most likely pulled from someplace where the Sun doesn't shine. When a section of forest is cleared either by cutting or burning the ground is soon covered in tree sprouts. Take a look at regeneration in Yellowstone National Park after the fires burned about 1/3 of it in the late 80's.
You have to take into consideration land cleared for building or agriculture where trees won't be allowed to regrow. If those types of land use are happening at a higher rate than other uses where trees are replanted or allowed to come back naturally, then you will have a net loss. Even in those areas where they are allowed to regrow naturally, there will be attrition as the trees grown and compete with one another for space, light, and resources.
There isn't much of a point to doing it. Most of this stuff is sent via botnets now so most of those IPs are probably DHCP addresses from ISP pools for home users. Maybe if there are addresses that constantly keep popping up, that might be somewhat useful, but those are probably on the existing blacklists already.
The first few comments from IDs numbers between 50387607 and 50387627, all shooting down the review (most with : "let's avoid shopping chores" and one with "it's great for imaginative geeks").
Yeah, I don't really believe there's anything genuine there...
This post sounds like something a Wal-Mart employee would post....
I keep waiting for Samsung to resurrect the 1980's boombox with their ever increasing phone and tablet sizes. Teens walking down the road, a giant touchscreen device on their shoulders blasting the latest from Justin Bieber....
True but non as lightweight (if you want to block 100% of the visible spectrum) and probably not as cheap as the black plastic used. The main goal is to block algae growth. Preventing evaporation is a benefit, but the black balls do that as well. White balls may help a bit more with that, but it would be minimal. The vast reduction in the air/water interface surface area caused by the balls just being there would go a lot farther than trying to reduce the heat at the surface a degree or so.
Why you people think you need a GUI to work with text files is beyond me. We did fine before all you mouse jockeys came along and insisted on dumbing down everything to the level of a McDonalds cash register.
I agree that this is a good change for users. And when you go to change the setting from a 3rd party browser, it even pops up a message telling you where to go to make the change (it should just pop up the default programs applet but still).
My personal issue with all this is that when you upgrade a machine to Windows 10, it resets the default browser to Microsoft Edge instead of migrating the existing setting from the old OS. It migrates tons of other settings, so there is no technical reason they could not do this too. At least it does if you chose the express install (haven't tried it out with custom yet, just playing with some VMs at the moment). Express is what 99% of people will choose of course, and they know that.
If you're on public land, you don't get an expectation of privacy.
I've often heard this repeated, but is it actually true?
Suppose I'm in a public space (say, a park) having a quiet conversation with someone, and keeping track of passersby: If someone walks up we stop talking.
Does this mean that someone (from the government) with a parabolic mic can eavesdrop on my conversations without a warrant?
The argument is that it's only what a policeman would hear if he walked up and listened, but in that case we would stop talking.
I have every expectation of privacy if I take steps to ensure that privacy: looking around to make sure no one can see me, for instance. Does this mean that the police can video-tape the sidewalk from the window of any office building without a warrant?
I'll remind you of the two things needed for a free market: Freedom, and a market.
In this case you have neither. You must run Windows, and there is no alternative.
So you will be oppressed. You have two choices: be oppressed by a giant entity that you can (somewhat) vote for; or a giant entity against whom you have no recourse.
First of all, I think the millions of Mac and the 12 Linux desktop users of the world would be surprised to hear they have no choice but to run Windows. That aside, what you are talking about is taking it from a defacto monopoly to a sanctioned, possibly enforced one (the government doesn't really like competition when it comes to things they operate).
As for that giant entity that I can vote for, it doesn't exactly have the best record lately of being trustworthy for me. I don't recall voting to have them spy on me and everyone else but they seem to be doing it anyway. I don't think I voted to completely neuter the 4th amendment but hey, look: no balls there anymore. Not to mention I'm sure people living outside of the US who rely on Windows would be absolutely peachy with the idea of the US Government controlling their OS even though they don't get a vote. Right?
Yes, we all know that corporations are a pure as driven snow, have absolutely no influence over any individual and don't abuse their position in any way.
There are many kinds of power, not all of them come from the barrel of a gun.
True, but ones that do come at the barrel of a gun almost always trump the ones that don't. I really hope you don't think it's as black and white as that. Can you honestly tell me that you believe that having the US government nationalize Microsoft would somehow make ANYTHING better?* That you honestly believe the government of the United States of America would be more trustworthy when it came to control of the defacto OS of nearly every PC in the world than Microsoft? It's not a matter of "this one is pure and this one is evil". It's "I don't really trust this one so much but I sure as hell trust them more than that one".
*I'm assuming you don't work for the NSA, FBI, IRS, CIA, or other alphabet agency. In that case I'm sure it would from your perspective.
Android devices also tend to have tiny monitors. And if they have Google Play, they also have a window manager that forces every app to run maximized. They tend not to have even the "Snap an App" feature that is a standard feature for Universal Windows Platform apps in Windows 8 and Windows RT.
Android is not limited to tablets or phones. There are plenty of Android devices designed to be connected to regular monitors and TVs as PC replacements. As for running full screen apps, this is what most non-power users do anyway. Hell most power users do this as well. It's being able to switch between them easily (aka the Taskbar) that's the key, and that shouldn't be hard to emulate in Android.
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Not true. I have 5 old junk laptops each running mint and never have a suspend/resume problem.
So Linux only works properly on old hardware, don't expect it to work on anything recent. Thanks for setting us all straight!
Here is an example (not my pic but I bought the same brand/package from CVS yesterday). RO/Distilled, ozonated, no minerals added back (they normally label it if they do).
I always thought that meant they added minerals back in for taste.
That's "spring water" or "drinking water". Yea I don't get it either. I need distilled water for my humidifier. It's annoying having to check labels to see if it's just distilled water, filtered, or spring since I can't trust the names all the time anymore.
In the northeast USA, most new housing is built either on formerly commercial land or farmland. No trees.
And your implying that the majority of the rest of the world does the same thing?
You have to take into consideration land cleared for building or agriculture where trees won't be allowed to regrow. If those types of land use are happening at a higher rate than other uses where trees are replanted or allowed to come back naturally, then you will have a net loss.
This is true, as far as farmland expansion, but doesn't explain why toilet paper & timber are counted as a net loss.
While Europe and North America paper industry does a lot of forest management, that's not true in developing areas of the world.
Even in those areas where they are allowed to regrow naturally, there will be attrition as the trees grown and compete with one another for space, light, and resources.
I don't see how this follows. The old trees also competed for space, light & resources.
You mentioned "covered in tree sprouts". Cut down a tree and you will get dozens, sometimes hundreds, of competing saplings in its place. But those eventually will be whittled down to only one or maybe a few surviving trees in the long term. It wouldn't be accurate to count those samplings on a 1:1 basis for replacing lost, fully grown trees. I'm not saying that's what you meant to imply, just making sure we're on the same page. That's all.
Purified and distilled are two separate things. Purified really just means filtered (paper filter, reverse osmosis, etc).
Not always. At least not anymore apparently. I buy distilled water regularly and recently it changed to "purified" but the label still states that it was distilled from municipal water sources, just like before. Not sure why the switch in marketing but you're right, it CAN mean other thing so not really happy about it.
That article also says: Someone can get infected with PAM from swimming in warm fresh water, such as a lake or river. So, there have possibly been zero deaths from chlorinated water. So it's more like being concerned over something that kills no people per year.
2 > 0
However, the victims - a 28-year-old man and a 51-year-old woman from Louisiana - had not been near freshwater. The only thing they had in common was that they both routinely used the tap water with neti pots. Further tests on their home plumbing came back positive for the amoeba, although the city's water distribution systems' tests came back negative. The bacteria was found in a tankless water heater in the man's home and in the bathroom sink and faucet tub of the woman's home.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tap-water-in-neti-pots-behind-two-brain-eating-amoeba-deaths-in-2011-investigation-finds/
It's rare, sure, but it can and does happen.
Let's put it this way. Before his infection by N. fowleri, the APK troll was a perfectly well adjusted heterosexual male with normal bodily desires, and a healthy, can-do attitude towards life. After the infection, he became a host file-obsessed lunatic who can think of nothing else.
Tragic, really.
The APK troll is a bot.
Well he is NOW. Before N. Flowleri he was as human as you or me.
That's probably true in the US, at least from what I've heard, but is it true everywhere? China? India? South America?
Not sure about India and South America, but China is planting trees for paper production. They don't have a choice. They literally don't have enough natural forests left to support their paper production these days. China has become the world's largest producer of paper. They have been importing timber and pulp from all over the world for a while now but even that isn't sustainable forever. Their low prices have been kept that way by government subsidies for now.
There is a pretty good article on China's paper business on Pulitzer Center.
FTFA:
They think that about 5 billion new trees are planted or sprout annually, yielding a net loss of 10 billion
They don't say where that number came from, most likely pulled from someplace where the Sun doesn't shine. When a section of forest is cleared either by cutting or burning the ground is soon covered in tree sprouts. Take a look at regeneration in Yellowstone National Park after the fires burned about 1/3 of it in the late 80's.
You have to take into consideration land cleared for building or agriculture where trees won't be allowed to regrow. If those types of land use are happening at a higher rate than other uses where trees are replanted or allowed to come back naturally, then you will have a net loss. Even in those areas where they are allowed to regrow naturally, there will be attrition as the trees grown and compete with one another for space, light, and resources.
We warned you about global warming, and you didn't listen. Who will be the next victims of our inaction? Dolphins? Housecats? Gnus?
How about we warn the dolphins, then wait until after the housecats then start doing something?
There isn't much of a point to doing it. Most of this stuff is sent via botnets now so most of those IPs are probably DHCP addresses from ISP pools for home users. Maybe if there are addresses that constantly keep popping up, that might be somewhat useful, but those are probably on the existing blacklists already.
Should read: "OnHub Router -- Google's Trojan Horse?"
The first few comments from IDs numbers between 50387607 and 50387627, all shooting down the review (most with : "let's avoid shopping chores" and one with "it's great for imaginative geeks").
Yeah, I don't really believe there's anything genuine there...
This post sounds like something a Wal-Mart employee would post....
I keep waiting for Samsung to resurrect the 1980's boombox with their ever increasing phone and tablet sizes. Teens walking down the road, a giant touchscreen device on their shoulders blasting the latest from Justin Bieber....
I didn't say it was a pretty future....
(There exist opaque, bright white, UV-resistant plastic too.)
True but non as lightweight (if you want to block 100% of the visible spectrum) and probably not as cheap as the black plastic used. The main goal is to block algae growth. Preventing evaporation is a benefit, but the black balls do that as well. White balls may help a bit more with that, but it would be minimal. The vast reduction in the air/water interface surface area caused by the balls just being there would go a lot farther than trying to reduce the heat at the surface a degree or so.
Why you people think you need a GUI to work with text files is beyond me. We did fine before all you mouse jockeys came along and insisted on dumbing down everything to the level of a McDonalds cash register.
To the extent the point was to keep heat away from the water, I wonder why they didn't go for something with a high albedo instead of black.
"... to help block sunlight and UV rays that promote algae growth,"
Sure, noise is the right term, when used properly. To imply that the noise is in the data, as they do, but 'you can't hear it', is quite ridiculous.
They being who ever wrote the summary because it is not implied in the articles (yea, I know, who the fuck RTFAs).
My personal issue with all this is that when you upgrade a machine to Windows 10, it resets the default browser to Microsoft Edge instead of migrating the existing setting from the old OS. It migrates tons of other settings, so there is no technical reason they could not do this too. At least it does if you chose the express install (haven't tried it out with custom yet, just playing with some VMs at the moment). Express is what 99% of people will choose of course, and they know that.
What about airplanes and even satellites?
If you're on public land, you don't get an expectation of privacy.
I've often heard this repeated, but is it actually true?
Suppose I'm in a public space (say, a park) having a quiet conversation with someone, and keeping track of passersby: If someone walks up we stop talking.
Does this mean that someone (from the government) with a parabolic mic can eavesdrop on my conversations without a warrant?
The argument is that it's only what a policeman would hear if he walked up and listened, but in that case we would stop talking.
I have every expectation of privacy if I take steps to ensure that privacy: looking around to make sure no one can see me, for instance. Does this mean that the police can video-tape the sidewalk from the window of any office building without a warrant?
Pretty sure they can actually.
A free-marketer eh? So am I.
I'll remind you of the two things needed for a free market: Freedom, and a market.
In this case you have neither. You must run Windows, and there is no alternative.
So you will be oppressed. You have two choices: be oppressed by a giant entity that you can (somewhat) vote for; or a giant entity against whom you have no recourse.
First of all, I think the millions of Mac and the 12 Linux desktop users of the world would be surprised to hear they have no choice but to run Windows. That aside, what you are talking about is taking it from a defacto monopoly to a sanctioned, possibly enforced one (the government doesn't really like competition when it comes to things they operate).
As for that giant entity that I can vote for, it doesn't exactly have the best record lately of being trustworthy for me. I don't recall voting to have them spy on me and everyone else but they seem to be doing it anyway. I don't think I voted to completely neuter the 4th amendment but hey, look: no balls there anymore. Not to mention I'm sure people living outside of the US who rely on Windows would be absolutely peachy with the idea of the US Government controlling their OS even though they don't get a vote. Right?
Yes, we all know that corporations are a pure as driven snow, have absolutely no influence over any individual and don't abuse their position in any way. There are many kinds of power, not all of them come from the barrel of a gun.
True, but ones that do come at the barrel of a gun almost always trump the ones that don't. I really hope you don't think it's as black and white as that. Can you honestly tell me that you believe that having the US government nationalize Microsoft would somehow make ANYTHING better?* That you honestly believe the government of the United States of America would be more trustworthy when it came to control of the defacto OS of nearly every PC in the world than Microsoft? It's not a matter of "this one is pure and this one is evil". It's "I don't really trust this one so much but I sure as hell trust them more than that one".
*I'm assuming you don't work for the NSA, FBI, IRS, CIA, or other alphabet agency. In that case I'm sure it would from your perspective.
Android is thriving.
Android devices also tend to have tiny monitors. And if they have Google Play, they also have a window manager that forces every app to run maximized. They tend not to have even the "Snap an App" feature that is a standard feature for Universal Windows Platform apps in Windows 8 and Windows RT.
Android is not limited to tablets or phones. There are plenty of Android devices designed to be connected to regular monitors and TVs as PC replacements. As for running full screen apps, this is what most non-power users do anyway. Hell most power users do this as well. It's being able to switch between them easily (aka the Taskbar) that's the key, and that shouldn't be hard to emulate in Android.