There isn't a mystery about what the authors meant with the 14th, there's all kinds of correspondence. Even if you weren't mostly talking out your ass, are you sure you want to give the government a convenient way to strip citizenship? How many generations can you go back with documentation proving citizenship if birth certificates don't even count anymore? How long before your political enemies gain enough power to deport you to some country you've never known that has no reason to grant you citizenship there?
If they're motivated enough to buy their own computer I'd say let them have at it... otherwise I'd think you'd want them to be at least 12 to have manage the social morass and time management of the internet.
Some exposure is fine, it really sparks some inventive storylines when they're doing imaginary play with the toys and blocks when they begin to understand narrative structure. But yes, it is a bit more addictive than the magnatiles are so on, so if you don't set limits it wouldn't be good.
I didn't realize they couldn't tell the difference on average... we don't watch much broadcast, so the kids were exposed to children's cartoons on Netflix first, then eventually we would turn on things like PBS and even the interstitials there (not even real commercials!) bug the hell out of them for not being the program. We watch sports on broadcast, and there they find real commercials disinteresting except for movie trailers.
Oh no, those gray wolves and brown bears won't differentiate into pre-human levels of variety in a few decades, let alone how long it'd take to get lions back in North America or what have you.
That makes me think of my Samsung 850... what's the easiest way to check the estimated lifespan? Haven't made it a habit in a long while, used to use SpeedFan to check SMART info but that's not a thing for SSDs, right?
It was 60% of/populations/ of vertebrates, so not species extinction, but local extirpation. Kind of a funny number, but an interesting one to consider. Essentially it is dealing with fragments in populations and how these makes them more vulnerable to extinction from further disruption or changes in climate and so on. With range discontinuities, a locally extirpated population won't repopulate unless intentionally put back by humans.
They probably did something silly and advertised it on CBS reruns of Big Bang Theory instead of social media. Between not watching broadcast TV or listening to broadcast radio, using ad blockers and subscribing to advertising-free streaming sources, you probably need a deft hand to advertise this sort of thing to the target audience anyway, and deep pockets for their word of mouth to get you to critical mass.
Well you can still buy streams from ITunes or Amazon Video, it just doesn't seem like a good value for $2 or $4 when you pay $7 for a month of streaming the free stuff, whereas that would've been fine for a rental back in the day. Perception of the economics has changed.
Yeah I had an 07 Mazda3 that the manual said "see a dealer" to replace the headlamp. Youtube showed me how to do it. Oddly, after that one got totaled I replaced it with a new CX-5 and it has LED headlamps that are designed to last longer than the car, and must be entirely replaced if they do all burn out. The whole assembly is the 'bulb'. It gave me pause but we'll see how they do.
Yeah I don't see why we can't do a French Foreign Legion thing, let them enlist or sign up for a Depression style civil service and fix the infrastructure, get citizenship. There's plenty of work to be done, the robots haven't taken over yet. Certainly cheaper than these internment camps.
Eh, with HBO for example, you can subscribe for a month or two a year and watch everything you were interested in. Netflix is trying to keep you subscribed all year.
Would that matter? All they're doing is noticing that your deviceID/account doesn't ping them back for the app in question anymore, meaning you removed it. It's like if you got advertisements to your IP address for Windows 10 because Microsoft noticed they stopped getting telemetry because you installed Linux.
If the guy is smart, he used the buzzwords of cryptocurrency to fleece some VCs to build an IT Business Center that will otherwise keep itself afloat via normal means.
You know... I still buy the consumer grade stuff because it is cheaper, but I have considering getting the business line for some stuff like laptops because they're generally designed to be repairable by the company's local IT guys. Haven't had much up and die on me since... oh, an mp3 player that had an HDD in it, which was obsolete by the time it quit.
That's funny that they'd tout the benefits but put it in a plastic container.... "only contains virgin polycarbonate microplastics!" Of course, I suppose the discerning customers put the granules in a grinder with plastic gears.
When trying to pull an opinion out of one's ass in an educated manner, I find it helps to consider what potential mechanisms exist for harm. Since animals and humans ingest all sorts of inedible or partially inedible materials (like plant fiber), plants can uptake sand/silica and so on, small particulates of inedible organic material should be relatively 'normal'. So, microplastics in food should be less harmful than if they were, say, aerosolized and inhaled. Maybe not necessarily good, but probably no worse than eating vegetables from your garden that will have dirt, small bits of chitin from bugs, and other detritus you can't digest. To know for sure, you'd want to see if they dissolve into our blood when we eat them and, if so, then do a study with lab animals and go from there. Without considering mechanism, we would run around trying to prove that looking at yellow post-its doesn't give you eye cancer.
Those metallic "all natural" sunscreens don't work on me, used some my wife had bought for the kids when we went canoeing. Some sort of chemical reaction occurred, as I burned horribly and had black aluminum oxide from the oar all over my hands. She and the kids were fine. Looked it up and if you reduce the zinc in sunscreen it is transparent to light, so I assume my sweat was too acidic for it.
Oh I agree, we won't collapse the biosphere even if we wiped out all species of mosquitos. That would happen, however, if we wiped out all insects. I believe the English term for the moose fly you're describing is a botfly. They have ones that infest humans in South America...
And butterflies, used to see lots of monarchs and so on. At least there are still bumblebees in the garden. These days I almost feel like leaving the damn caterpillars eating my broccoli and kale alone... seeing weird stuff like woolly caterpillars climb the fence posts and die, not even burst open from wasps or anything...
This is also happening in places where malaria controls are not in effect, though... that's a good contributing factor to keep in mind but not the only thing. To answer your last question: if we collapse the biosphere we end up like Blade Runner 2049. If we are successful with efforts to eradicate the specific human parasites that cause human disease while not killing off the other arthropods then that would be great. If, for example, gene drives work to kill just the handful of mosquito species that carry malaria then we would not be negatively impacting the environment anymore than we are by farming and so on.
Are there more sports nerds than math nerds, though? Mostly it gives the commentators something to say, probably just the Fantasy Football guys would be interested in keeping their spreadsheets up to date at home.
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There isn't a mystery about what the authors meant with the 14th, there's all kinds of correspondence. Even if you weren't mostly talking out your ass, are you sure you want to give the government a convenient way to strip citizenship? How many generations can you go back with documentation proving citizenship if birth certificates don't even count anymore? How long before your political enemies gain enough power to deport you to some country you've never known that has no reason to grant you citizenship there?
If they're motivated enough to buy their own computer I'd say let them have at it... otherwise I'd think you'd want them to be at least 12 to have manage the social morass and time management of the internet.
Some exposure is fine, it really sparks some inventive storylines when they're doing imaginary play with the toys and blocks when they begin to understand narrative structure. But yes, it is a bit more addictive than the magnatiles are so on, so if you don't set limits it wouldn't be good.
I didn't realize they couldn't tell the difference on average... we don't watch much broadcast, so the kids were exposed to children's cartoons on Netflix first, then eventually we would turn on things like PBS and even the interstitials there (not even real commercials!) bug the hell out of them for not being the program. We watch sports on broadcast, and there they find real commercials disinteresting except for movie trailers.
Oh no, those gray wolves and brown bears won't differentiate into pre-human levels of variety in a few decades, let alone how long it'd take to get lions back in North America or what have you.
That makes me think of my Samsung 850... what's the easiest way to check the estimated lifespan? Haven't made it a habit in a long while, used to use SpeedFan to check SMART info but that's not a thing for SSDs, right?
It was 60% of /populations/ of vertebrates, so not species extinction, but local extirpation. Kind of a funny number, but an interesting one to consider. Essentially it is dealing with fragments in populations and how these makes them more vulnerable to extinction from further disruption or changes in climate and so on. With range discontinuities, a locally extirpated population won't repopulate unless intentionally put back by humans.
They probably did something silly and advertised it on CBS reruns of Big Bang Theory instead of social media. Between not watching broadcast TV or listening to broadcast radio, using ad blockers and subscribing to advertising-free streaming sources, you probably need a deft hand to advertise this sort of thing to the target audience anyway, and deep pockets for their word of mouth to get you to critical mass.
Well you can still buy streams from ITunes or Amazon Video, it just doesn't seem like a good value for $2 or $4 when you pay $7 for a month of streaming the free stuff, whereas that would've been fine for a rental back in the day. Perception of the economics has changed.
Yeah I had an 07 Mazda3 that the manual said "see a dealer" to replace the headlamp. Youtube showed me how to do it. Oddly, after that one got totaled I replaced it with a new CX-5 and it has LED headlamps that are designed to last longer than the car, and must be entirely replaced if they do all burn out. The whole assembly is the 'bulb'. It gave me pause but we'll see how they do.
Yeah I don't see why we can't do a French Foreign Legion thing, let them enlist or sign up for a Depression style civil service and fix the infrastructure, get citizenship. There's plenty of work to be done, the robots haven't taken over yet. Certainly cheaper than these internment camps.
Eh, with HBO for example, you can subscribe for a month or two a year and watch everything you were interested in. Netflix is trying to keep you subscribed all year.
Would that matter? All they're doing is noticing that your deviceID/account doesn't ping them back for the app in question anymore, meaning you removed it. It's like if you got advertisements to your IP address for Windows 10 because Microsoft noticed they stopped getting telemetry because you installed Linux.
Yeah, Mr Fake (fake@fake.com) ought to be really worried his wife is going to find out...
If the guy is smart, he used the buzzwords of cryptocurrency to fleece some VCs to build an IT Business Center that will otherwise keep itself afloat via normal means.
You know... I still buy the consumer grade stuff because it is cheaper, but I have considering getting the business line for some stuff like laptops because they're generally designed to be repairable by the company's local IT guys. Haven't had much up and die on me since... oh, an mp3 player that had an HDD in it, which was obsolete by the time it quit.
That's funny that they'd tout the benefits but put it in a plastic container.... "only contains virgin polycarbonate microplastics!" Of course, I suppose the discerning customers put the granules in a grinder with plastic gears.
When trying to pull an opinion out of one's ass in an educated manner, I find it helps to consider what potential mechanisms exist for harm. Since animals and humans ingest all sorts of inedible or partially inedible materials (like plant fiber), plants can uptake sand/silica and so on, small particulates of inedible organic material should be relatively 'normal'. So, microplastics in food should be less harmful than if they were, say, aerosolized and inhaled. Maybe not necessarily good, but probably no worse than eating vegetables from your garden that will have dirt, small bits of chitin from bugs, and other detritus you can't digest. To know for sure, you'd want to see if they dissolve into our blood when we eat them and, if so, then do a study with lab animals and go from there. Without considering mechanism, we would run around trying to prove that looking at yellow post-its doesn't give you eye cancer.
Yeah, a local ban on hunting is cited in the article. It'd either be that or reintroduce wolves.
The ones I've looked at use alcohol as the solvent...
Those metallic "all natural" sunscreens don't work on me, used some my wife had bought for the kids when we went canoeing. Some sort of chemical reaction occurred, as I burned horribly and had black aluminum oxide from the oar all over my hands. She and the kids were fine. Looked it up and if you reduce the zinc in sunscreen it is transparent to light, so I assume my sweat was too acidic for it.
Oh I agree, we won't collapse the biosphere even if we wiped out all species of mosquitos. That would happen, however, if we wiped out all insects. I believe the English term for the moose fly you're describing is a botfly. They have ones that infest humans in South America...
And butterflies, used to see lots of monarchs and so on. At least there are still bumblebees in the garden. These days I almost feel like leaving the damn caterpillars eating my broccoli and kale alone... seeing weird stuff like woolly caterpillars climb the fence posts and die, not even burst open from wasps or anything...
This is also happening in places where malaria controls are not in effect, though... that's a good contributing factor to keep in mind but not the only thing. To answer your last question: if we collapse the biosphere we end up like Blade Runner 2049. If we are successful with efforts to eradicate the specific human parasites that cause human disease while not killing off the other arthropods then that would be great. If, for example, gene drives work to kill just the handful of mosquito species that carry malaria then we would not be negatively impacting the environment anymore than we are by farming and so on.
Are there more sports nerds than math nerds, though? Mostly it gives the commentators something to say, probably just the Fantasy Football guys would be interested in keeping their spreadsheets up to date at home.