Rave on True Believer. There's plenty of warming evidence I'll admit. What it all means is not exactly so clear and what impact it will have is even less clear. I'm not saying it'll be a good thing, no doubt there will be dire consequences but raving about the end of the world as most True Believers do isn't going to convince anyone. I've seen so many different climate models come and go and it seems like in their struggle to convince people to believe that the scenarios get more and more outlandish every year. And still I haven't heard any real plan to cope with carbon release that addresses reality.
I believe that the Earth is getting warmer. A lot of people do but where I and most of the "True Believers" differentiate is in the details. Things like how bad it will be and what is actually possible to do about it. So many of the True Believers foam at the mouth while screaming about the end of the world. I'm a little less paranoid. No doubt it will change the world but I'm not so sure about ending our existence. The other side is of course what to do and what it will take to accomplish these goals. Most True Believers talk like we can just wave a magic wand and without any real sacrifice we can reduce carbon output to a fraction of what it is now. Surely they can't really believe something so stupid? How do you force emerging nations to kill their economies for something that may or may not be the ultimate tragedy? The requirements would need force of a draconian nature and probably bring about a war to make WWII look like a scrimmage.
Obviously the original poster cares. Some old home movies are precious more than money many years later. I know the video I have of my children back in the 80's is priceless to me.
I think the point is that he doesn't want the picture to degrade even more. Just because it's not the best now, if you use shitty equipment it will go from not good to total crap. There are some nice vhs edit decks on ebay for not bad prices. I bought a dual 8mm deck off there that cost nearly 2 grand new for only 150 bucks. The output was indistinguishable from the original.
Well the situation I described was entirely hypothetical. The described actions are basically a mirror of what has happened in Ukraine. The current problem in Mexico is certainly a different can of worms. Frankly Mexico has been pretty much screwed up from the time they threw Spain out. Just looking at it you'd think they should do pretty well given their resources but for whatever reason that hasn't happened. No wonder so many are looking to get the hell out.
In the case of Texas there were about 8,000 Mexicans and 35,000 US immigrants plus I think 5,000 slaves at the time of the revolution. The central government got a little worried about the situation and changed the Mexican constitution and really the entire scheme of government as a reaction. This change caused a lot of strife and a bunch of rebellions broke out although only Texas of the 19 states broke away. I often wonder what would have happened without the change in government in Mexico. In any case Texas was an independent nation for a while until they joined the US and that started the US-Mexican war which was really bad for Mexico. A lot of parallels with the current situation although not quite the same.
I read a similar article in the Atlantic Monthly about 25 years ago. It dealt with national borders that had no basis in cultural reality. It mostly focused on the continent of Africa where European powers had carved up most of the continent into their own little fiefdoms and proceeded to strip the natural resources during the colonial period. I guess the same idea applies to Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. I know Yugoslavia was a nightmare.
I've tried a 4" screen but found it to be too much strain. I now use a samsung media player 5 and the 5" screen is just about perfect and it fits my pocket fine. I think it really is a matter of personal preference and with all the variable size tablets and phones available I think anyone can be happy.
What's with the bitching about Crimea. Didn't Putin basically just take that back? I think he actually had a leg to stand on there and really all anyone did about it was bitch. No real shooting or anything. Did getting his way make Putin happy? Doesn't appear so. Like all megalomaniacs he wants more now. I see him taking Ukraine. It's only a matter of weeks. Then what? Poland up next? Finland? East Germany? Don't worry though, no one's going to stop him. He's got nukes.
Did you really just compare Ukraine to communist North Korea? I was kind of seeing how you could twist things to see it your way if you really wanted to but that just untwisted the whole thing for me. Nah.....you're wrong.
Texas was part of Mexico at one time. Things were very fluid at the time though as Mexico as a sovereign nation had only existed for about 15 years at the time that Texas revolted. The overwhelming majority of the population were immigrants from the US and the Mexican government had actually encouraged this immigration with such things as a 10 year tax exemption for immigrants. A change in the government and the constitution put an end to that and shortly after fighting broke out. Fighting broke out in some of the other Mexican states as well as Texas but Texas succeeded in breaking free and was actually it's own independent nation for a couple of years as Texans are insufferably proud of. Lone Star state indeed.
That's some pretty twisted imagining there. More logical is that the Mexican people get tired of their corrupt government playing the USA's puppet. They then overthrow their corrupt leaders and tell the USA to shove it. Now imagine that the USA didn't like this and started to send special forces troops into Northern Mexico to pretend they were actually local immigrants fighting to free themselves from the new illegal government in Mexico City. Imagine then that the USA takes one of Mexico's Naval Ports and claims that the people there are actually mostly gringos and don't want to live under the new illegal regime that has taken over in Mexico City and they hold a fake election and to make sure it's 100% they intimidate any of the locals who might disagree. Additionally all the special forces troops get to vote too. The USA then states that they are tired of being threatened by a Mexican army that they outnumber by a vast amount in addition to having technical superiority over as well. They invade and state that if any other nation tries to stop them they will use their vast Nuclear Arsenal if they must.
Now, if the USA did this we'd be just as fucking wrong as Putin and Russia.
No chance of Nuclear war. Who's going to call his bluff? President Obama? Not likely. Germany? They like sucking his dick too much. France? Don't make me laugh. Poland has the balls but not the muscle. Nope, Putin can goble Ukraine a little at a time until it's all gone. Of course, when it's done what does he have? A lot of pissed off Ukranians to try to keep his boot on. Just what Russia needs, more indigestion.
You've got to be trolling because surely you can't really be that fucking stupid. Linux doesn't stop you from using whatever you want, the manufacturers stop you. Even if you could code the driver yourself they wont give you the information you need to do it. Just keep using windows. I support your right to use whatever you like but just quit trolling the Linux threads okay Fuckwad?
I noticed this scenario on my Mac recently. I did a clean upgrade to 10.9 and suddenly my Canon i960 didn't work anymore. I went to Apple and they told me that printer was no longer supported. I then went to Canon's website and downloaded the driver for 10.6, the latest they had, and installed that one. It works fine. WTF! What's that shit about?
I know there are trials and aggravations in running linux on newer hardware sometimes. Of course I've found them so much less than running windows with it's pains in the ass that abound. You're welcome to it.
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Rave on True Believer. There's plenty of warming evidence I'll admit. What it all means is not exactly so clear and what impact it will have is even less clear. I'm not saying it'll be a good thing, no doubt there will be dire consequences but raving about the end of the world as most True Believers do isn't going to convince anyone. I've seen so many different climate models come and go and it seems like in their struggle to convince people to believe that the scenarios get more and more outlandish every year. And still I haven't heard any real plan to cope with carbon release that addresses reality.
I'm betting the bike lanes helped a lot also. Not having to follow some guy dribbling down the road at half the speed limit is nice.
I believe that the Earth is getting warmer. A lot of people do but where I and most of the "True Believers" differentiate is in the details. Things like how bad it will be and what is actually possible to do about it. So many of the True Believers foam at the mouth while screaming about the end of the world. I'm a little less paranoid. No doubt it will change the world but I'm not so sure about ending our existence. The other side is of course what to do and what it will take to accomplish these goals. Most True Believers talk like we can just wave a magic wand and without any real sacrifice we can reduce carbon output to a fraction of what it is now. Surely they can't really believe something so stupid? How do you force emerging nations to kill their economies for something that may or may not be the ultimate tragedy? The requirements would need force of a draconian nature and probably bring about a war to make WWII look like a scrimmage.
Obviously the original poster cares. Some old home movies are precious more than money many years later. I know the video I have of my children back in the 80's is priceless to me.
I think the point is that he doesn't want the picture to degrade even more. Just because it's not the best now, if you use shitty equipment it will go from not good to total crap. There are some nice vhs edit decks on ebay for not bad prices. I bought a dual 8mm deck off there that cost nearly 2 grand new for only 150 bucks. The output was indistinguishable from the original.
I've got some on old reel 8mm tape.
Well the situation I described was entirely hypothetical. The described actions are basically a mirror of what has happened in Ukraine. The current problem in Mexico is certainly a different can of worms. Frankly Mexico has been pretty much screwed up from the time they threw Spain out. Just looking at it you'd think they should do pretty well given their resources but for whatever reason that hasn't happened. No wonder so many are looking to get the hell out.
In the case of Texas there were about 8,000 Mexicans and 35,000 US immigrants plus I think 5,000 slaves at the time of the revolution. The central government got a little worried about the situation and changed the Mexican constitution and really the entire scheme of government as a reaction. This change caused a lot of strife and a bunch of rebellions broke out although only Texas of the 19 states broke away. I often wonder what would have happened without the change in government in Mexico. In any case Texas was an independent nation for a while until they joined the US and that started the US-Mexican war which was really bad for Mexico. A lot of parallels with the current situation although not quite the same.
I read a similar article in the Atlantic Monthly about 25 years ago. It dealt with national borders that had no basis in cultural reality. It mostly focused on the continent of Africa where European powers had carved up most of the continent into their own little fiefdoms and proceeded to strip the natural resources during the colonial period. I guess the same idea applies to Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. I know Yugoslavia was a nightmare.
I didn't say they weren't capable. I only meant they wont lift a finger to help Ukraine or much of anyone else. I'm sure they'd fight to survive.
I've tried a 4" screen but found it to be too much strain. I now use a samsung media player 5 and the 5" screen is just about perfect and it fits my pocket fine. I think it really is a matter of personal preference and with all the variable size tablets and phones available I think anyone can be happy.
I think it was the Nuke thing. Nukes are geek news!
What's with the bitching about Crimea. Didn't Putin basically just take that back? I think he actually had a leg to stand on there and really all anyone did about it was bitch. No real shooting or anything. Did getting his way make Putin happy? Doesn't appear so. Like all megalomaniacs he wants more now. I see him taking Ukraine. It's only a matter of weeks. Then what? Poland up next? Finland? East Germany?
Don't worry though, no one's going to stop him. He's got nukes.
Did you really just compare Ukraine to communist North Korea? I was kind of seeing how you could twist things to see it your way if you really wanted to but that just untwisted the whole thing for me. Nah.....you're wrong.
Don't mess with Texas.
Texas was part of Mexico at one time. Things were very fluid at the time though as Mexico as a sovereign nation had only existed for about 15 years at the time that Texas revolted. The overwhelming majority of the population were immigrants from the US and the Mexican government had actually encouraged this immigration with such things as a 10 year tax exemption for immigrants. A change in the government and the constitution put an end to that and shortly after fighting broke out. Fighting broke out in some of the other Mexican states as well as Texas but Texas succeeded in breaking free and was actually it's own independent nation for a couple of years as Texans are insufferably proud of. Lone Star state indeed.
That's some pretty twisted imagining there. More logical is that the Mexican people get tired of their corrupt government playing the USA's puppet. They then overthrow their corrupt leaders and tell the USA to shove it. Now imagine that the USA didn't like this and started to send special forces troops into Northern Mexico to pretend they were actually local immigrants fighting to free themselves from the new illegal government in Mexico City. Imagine then that the USA takes one of Mexico's Naval Ports and claims that the people there are actually mostly gringos and don't want to live under the new illegal regime that has taken over in Mexico City and they hold a fake election and to make sure it's 100% they intimidate any of the locals who might disagree. Additionally all the special forces troops get to vote too. The USA then states that they are tired of being threatened by a Mexican army that they outnumber by a vast amount in addition to having technical superiority over as well. They invade and state that if any other nation tries to stop them they will use their vast Nuclear Arsenal if they must.
Now, if the USA did this we'd be just as fucking wrong as Putin and Russia.
No chance of Nuclear war. Who's going to call his bluff? President Obama? Not likely. Germany? They like sucking his dick too much. France? Don't make me laugh. Poland has the balls but not the muscle. Nope, Putin can goble Ukraine a little at a time until it's all gone. Of course, when it's done what does he have? A lot of pissed off Ukranians to try to keep his boot on. Just what Russia needs, more indigestion.
CNN? Maybe The Post in a real stretch but CNN a NATO parrot? You're fucking high.
You can't tell that from the actions of most teenagers.
You've got to be trolling because surely you can't really be that fucking stupid. Linux doesn't stop you from using whatever you want, the manufacturers stop you. Even if you could code the driver yourself they wont give you the information you need to do it. Just keep using windows. I support your right to use whatever you like but just quit trolling the Linux threads okay Fuckwad?
I noticed this scenario on my Mac recently. I did a clean upgrade to 10.9 and suddenly my Canon i960 didn't work anymore. I went to Apple and they told me that printer was no longer supported. I then went to Canon's website and downloaded the driver for 10.6, the latest they had, and installed that one. It works fine. WTF! What's that shit about?
I know there are trials and aggravations in running linux on newer hardware sometimes. Of course I've found them so much less than running windows with it's pains in the ass that abound. You're welcome to it.
It seems odd that the pigs are too irradiated to eat but seem to thrive and breed just fine.
It was obviously meant as a joke dude. Morbid maybe but then most /. humor is morbid.