From watching The Road I suppose we could stockpile edible insects that live well on dead and dried plant material. Or try to come up with novel ways to confuse future archaeologists, like building a stone henge in the bottom of Lake Erie.
I guess that's what I mean... if we know for sure that it is going to blow soon, but the error bar on it is measured in decades how do you get people to do anything useful in response? It is hard enough to get people to evacuate when a hurricane is bearing down. In a supervolcano situation we could perhaps tell them that they need to leave because maybe they will all die, or maybe it won't be until their grandchildren are adults that they get blasted to oblivion. They're just going to accuse The Man of trying to take their valuable Montana dirt farm. Likewise if you would be trying to get agriculture to swap crops to something that would keep well liked cannable beans rather than whatever is the best cash crop for the land it would raise prices and piss everyone off, especially since many of them would go to their death beds before it actually exploded.
It'd be neat to know within decade precision when a supervolcano would blow, but that's still a pretty big window for humans to deal with practically. Can you do much to prepare for something on that scale that may or may not happen in 20 years?
If the device was password protected you at least narrow down the potential authors to those that new the password. Still not perfect, but maybe 'good enough' to give the judge something to go on.
Do you use iCloud for anything? That seems to be the most common culprit as far as I can tell, but as the article notes, it is hard to tell sometimes why you're being pestered for it. It may be akin to how if an email server is down your client will think you failed to log in and pester you a lot with a prompt. If you don't use the relevant services or never have connectivity issues it may leave you alone for the most part.
I imagine the solution will involve mecha holding up a very large tarp to bide time while still larger mecha lift the islands up so that they can be carried over to the mainland and dropped on top of China some place.
Siri is also upfront in some of the settings that if enabled will involve SMS uploaded to the cloud for dictation support and so on. For the virtual assistants they all treat the phone as a thin client.
If it could run apps for the extant operating systems it might stand a chance, but then again... can you make it so it can get into the apps stores to download them?
These feature removals mostly seem troublesome at a locked down PC environment at school or work where you can't install anything. So while not disastrous, it is certainly annoying when you can't do some trivial thing on a computer without admin rights on it.
Are you high pressure hosing meat juice off the board? You could be making aerosols that you could inhale. Better to just wipe it down with some soapy water in the sink. If you use a wood board it helps since bacteria have issues growing much in wood. Apply mineral oil and/or beeswax from time to time when the wood looks dried out. Bamboo cutting boards are inexpensive if you're nervous and want to replace them when they're scarred from use but I don't worry about it much, myself. Otherwise, yes, always fun to incorporate gardening into the kitchen.
Since bees are used to pollinate crops, which in turn are treated with pesticides, it does seem there might be selection bias. Unless they are feral I doubt there are honeybees making honey far from agriculture anywhere.
I see more crickets if I let the lawn get long. I suppose I have seen fewer grasshoppers lately, but they tend to like taller fields so maybe they're getting sprayed by the farmers. Oddly I have seen more katydids and mantises than the recent past. We find mantis nymphs sometimes in a potted plant (eggs in the potting soil or on the plant from the store, perhaps?) and relocate them to the garden so they can find things to eat.
With as far as bees venture I imagine that the practices of the nearest large farms (or if your house is new construction, perhaps the sprawl turning the farmland into apartment complexes and strip malls... fewer plants but fewer pesticides) might've been good for the bees moreso than just what you did with your own trees. Gardening is an interesting insight into why pesticides of various kinds get used... very hard to keep pumpkins alive with all the mildew, borers, and bugs that try to kill them... do you have any reputable sources on more pollinator friendly pest control? When I search I have trouble discerning hippie woo from good practice.
I've read articles about how bad the warehouses are, not seen anything about the white collar jobs. I guess if you want in management it would take less backstabbing than usual to climb the ladder with such rapid growth.
Yeah, the chaff has worsened less than more mainstream webpages like, say, CNN's comments. While it can be true for niche hobby forums, this is the most generalized webpage I can think of where you might actually have a respectful disagreement on a subject.
Happy birthday/.!
So... 50k developers sounded like an awful lot, according to Wikipedia that is more than currently work at Microsoft headquarters. And that'd be on top of whatever they already have... big plans from Amazon I guess?
The terms of the contract can't violate federal law about classified material... the only question is if the contractor's training was deficient or if he willfully ignored the rules and laws.
Maybe, but if there are still dongles... how good was a DAC on a phone anyway? If anything you could make a better one if the software on the phone supports digital output from the USB to something that is anticipated to swap it to analog.
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Tears in the rain... may as well throw a few lit sparklers in.
The military do some cool things with their research grant money. It'd just be nicer if there was more to go around for non-defense applications.
From watching The Road I suppose we could stockpile edible insects that live well on dead and dried plant material. Or try to come up with novel ways to confuse future archaeologists, like building a stone henge in the bottom of Lake Erie.
I guess that's what I mean... if we know for sure that it is going to blow soon, but the error bar on it is measured in decades how do you get people to do anything useful in response? It is hard enough to get people to evacuate when a hurricane is bearing down. In a supervolcano situation we could perhaps tell them that they need to leave because maybe they will all die, or maybe it won't be until their grandchildren are adults that they get blasted to oblivion. They're just going to accuse The Man of trying to take their valuable Montana dirt farm. Likewise if you would be trying to get agriculture to swap crops to something that would keep well liked cannable beans rather than whatever is the best cash crop for the land it would raise prices and piss everyone off, especially since many of them would go to their death beds before it actually exploded.
Have you ever interacted with the officials that award research grants? They aren't panicky people.
It'd be neat to know within decade precision when a supervolcano would blow, but that's still a pretty big window for humans to deal with practically. Can you do much to prepare for something on that scale that may or may not happen in 20 years?
That's a good point...
If the device was password protected you at least narrow down the potential authors to those that new the password. Still not perfect, but maybe 'good enough' to give the judge something to go on.
Do you use iCloud for anything? That seems to be the most common culprit as far as I can tell, but as the article notes, it is hard to tell sometimes why you're being pestered for it. It may be akin to how if an email server is down your client will think you failed to log in and pester you a lot with a prompt. If you don't use the relevant services or never have connectivity issues it may leave you alone for the most part.
I imagine the solution will involve mecha holding up a very large tarp to bide time while still larger mecha lift the islands up so that they can be carried over to the mainland and dropped on top of China some place.
Siri is also upfront in some of the settings that if enabled will involve SMS uploaded to the cloud for dictation support and so on. For the virtual assistants they all treat the phone as a thin client.
If it could run apps for the extant operating systems it might stand a chance, but then again... can you make it so it can get into the apps stores to download them?
These feature removals mostly seem troublesome at a locked down PC environment at school or work where you can't install anything. So while not disastrous, it is certainly annoying when you can't do some trivial thing on a computer without admin rights on it.
You still get a salary working at a not-for-profit. But yes, the money tends to come from the government rather than private investors.
Are you high pressure hosing meat juice off the board? You could be making aerosols that you could inhale. Better to just wipe it down with some soapy water in the sink. If you use a wood board it helps since bacteria have issues growing much in wood. Apply mineral oil and/or beeswax from time to time when the wood looks dried out. Bamboo cutting boards are inexpensive if you're nervous and want to replace them when they're scarred from use but I don't worry about it much, myself. Otherwise, yes, always fun to incorporate gardening into the kitchen.
Since bees are used to pollinate crops, which in turn are treated with pesticides, it does seem there might be selection bias. Unless they are feral I doubt there are honeybees making honey far from agriculture anywhere.
I see more crickets if I let the lawn get long. I suppose I have seen fewer grasshoppers lately, but they tend to like taller fields so maybe they're getting sprayed by the farmers. Oddly I have seen more katydids and mantises than the recent past. We find mantis nymphs sometimes in a potted plant (eggs in the potting soil or on the plant from the store, perhaps?) and relocate them to the garden so they can find things to eat.
With as far as bees venture I imagine that the practices of the nearest large farms (or if your house is new construction, perhaps the sprawl turning the farmland into apartment complexes and strip malls... fewer plants but fewer pesticides) might've been good for the bees moreso than just what you did with your own trees. Gardening is an interesting insight into why pesticides of various kinds get used... very hard to keep pumpkins alive with all the mildew, borers, and bugs that try to kill them... do you have any reputable sources on more pollinator friendly pest control? When I search I have trouble discerning hippie woo from good practice.
I've read articles about how bad the warehouses are, not seen anything about the white collar jobs. I guess if you want in management it would take less backstabbing than usual to climb the ladder with such rapid growth.
Yeah that's why I was so surprised... I can't fathom what they're going to put all that labor towards.
Yeah, the chaff has worsened less than more mainstream webpages like, say, CNN's comments. While it can be true for niche hobby forums, this is the most generalized webpage I can think of where you might actually have a respectful disagreement on a subject. Happy birthday /.!
So... 50k developers sounded like an awful lot, according to Wikipedia that is more than currently work at Microsoft headquarters. And that'd be on top of whatever they already have... big plans from Amazon I guess?
The terms of the contract can't violate federal law about classified material... the only question is if the contractor's training was deficient or if he willfully ignored the rules and laws.
Do you watch enough TV that it is worthwhile to subscribe to all of those at once?
Maybe, but if there are still dongles... how good was a DAC on a phone anyway? If anything you could make a better one if the software on the phone supports digital output from the USB to something that is anticipated to swap it to analog.