I have two Nexus 5 phones (for myself and my wife) that have together had six screen replacements and four battery replacements. I've done this all myself and I'm now getting quite good at it. Replacement screens and batteries are inexpensive and readily available. These phones are over five years old and they still work just fine. They run all of the current communications protocols (LTE, 3G, Bluetooth, Near Field, etc.) so they are not yet obsolete. The latest version of open source software is available for them. I really appreciate not spending money on new phones every few years. I think manufacturers need to realize that this is mature technology and customers don't need to upgrade frequently. The latest phones are just bells and whistles. The current focus is on better cameras and the new ones are better but I'm not a professional photographer and if I was I wouldn't use a camera phone. The "old" 8MP camera in the Nexus 5 is just fine for snaps. Happy to see Motorola taking this route instead of trying to extort money for a new sale from you. (ProTip... any glue used for phone assembly is easily softened with a heat gun.)
The problem with an early death is that it's usually from some debilitating chronic disease that makes you miserable for years before you die. It's one thing to get hit by a train at 52. It's another thing to spend 5 years in pain before you die at 52.
Good to choose exercise and weight loss rather than meds. You BP should recover to normal as your weight goes down. Also, watch your salt intake. Keep it less than 2000 mg/day. (A good rule of thumb is to look at the nutrition labels. If the mg of sodium is less than the number of calories in a serving, you'll be below 2000 mg a day.) Intermittent fasting has shown good benefits. You can fast from dinner one day until dinner the next without too much difficulty and it really improves health.
You really have to hand it to these people. They put the primary and secondary power systems together in the same room. This is cluelessness on a grand scale.
Meat takes about one square meter of land (and corresponding amounts of water, fertilizer, etc.) to produce a gram of protein. Plants take about 0.01 square meter of land. Meat takes 100 times as many resources as plants.
You can googleit, lots of people have studied it. However, you're missing the point that carbon particulates are not the main problem. The theory of the role of CO2 in Climate change didn't start with a graph.. it started with physics. Is there an explanation to how we can add >6,701,400 TWh/yr from radiative imbalance without heating the planet? What is it? Is the math wrong? If it's right how can global warming be false?
Air temperature is completely irrelevant to any informed discussion of manmade global warming. The fixation on air temperature by denier commentators and the media is an irritating distraction as it disregards basic laws of physics (which are taught in grade 11 in high school):
- The conservation of energy is a fundamental concept of physics - the law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system cannot change. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... - When assessed from the top of the atmosphere, the earth is in substance a closed system, subject only to the incoming and outgoing flows of radiative energy. - NASA has repeatedly confirmed that manmade greenhouse gas emissions are causing a net energy imbalance of approximately one half Watt per square metre the top of the atmosphere. See: http://phys.org/news/2012-01-n... - This surplus energy (equivalent to roughly the energy which would be released by the detonation of 300,000 Hiroshima bombs each and every day) is for the most part accumulating in the oceans, from which it will eventually find its way back into the atmosphere and increase the air temperatures on Earth. - As previously noted, numerous studies have fully accounted for the additional energy which is accumulating in the deep oceans as a consequence of manmade global warming. - The continuing massive additions to the total energy of the globe means that any apparent delay in the continuing increases in air as well as water temperatures are bound to be short lived, as water temperatures continue to rise. - The all-time record high global monthly temperatures for May and June of this year suggests that some of the energy accumulating in the oceans may well be making its way back into the atmosphere.
I would ask those who believe there to be any doubt about AGW to posit a credible theory and some evidence that the planet is not in an energy imbalance (the energy imbalance has been repeatedly demonstrated by the vast majority of peer reviewed scientific studies, and has been accepted by all national and international scientific bodies of any standing).
Or, alternatively, explain how they have managed to repeal the law of conservation of energy, such that the additional energy trapped by the AGW energy imbalance is magically disappearing rather than accumulating in the oceans from which it will eventually find its way back into the atmosphere and increase the air temperatures on Earth.
We need to stop burning fossil fuels. We have renewables (wind, solar, etc.) to substitute. We need to stop eating meat. We have healthy plant diets. Humans are omnivores and can thrive eating just about anything. There are several billion people who eat primarily plant diets and they have been healthy for millenia.
Yes, humanity is the problem. We are polluting our environment and changing the climate to the point where it will soon be uninhabitable. We have a choice. We can learn from science, change our behavior, stop polluting and have a chance of continuing to exist. Or, we can continue as we have been going and die off. The earth doesn't care. We should.
Particulate carbon is a problem but CO2, methane and other human generated gasses are a much bigger problem. We need to stop burning fossil fuels. We need to stop eating meat.
He said he was "considering" taking the company private, "funding secured", "all that is needed is shareholder approval". Shareholders told him they didn't approve so he dropped the plan before it even got to a vote. The only uncertainty was the "funding secured" part. Depends on your definition of "secured". Supposedly the Saudis have been hounding him to buy the company for a few years. People assume the funding was from the Saudis and they have the money.
Basically, anyone can spoof a number for their outbound calls. The local phone companies don't do any verification of the spoofed number... they just pass it on through the system and collect the money for the call. They could set up a system which verifies numbers and also certifies legitimate spoof uses (such as a central PBX) but that would cut into their profits and would take time and effort. On the receiving end, phone companies could flag and reject calls coming from outside their area without a valid return number. This, again, would cost them money so they aren't interested in doing it. When I had ATT landline, I used to get robocalls with a local number caller ID but it would also say "Out of Area" which was a dead giveaway. I knew not to answer those calls. I've since switched to Charter Spectrum phone service and set up NoMoRobo and the number of robocalls has dropped dramatically.
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Most people have access to a hair dryer. Or get a $15 Harbor Freight heat gun if you want to go pro.
I have two Nexus 5 phones (for myself and my wife) that have together had six screen replacements and four battery replacements. I've done this all myself and I'm now getting quite good at it. Replacement screens and batteries are inexpensive and readily available. These phones are over five years old and they still work just fine. They run all of the current communications protocols (LTE, 3G, Bluetooth, Near Field, etc.) so they are not yet obsolete. The latest version of open source software is available for them.
I really appreciate not spending money on new phones every few years.
I think manufacturers need to realize that this is mature technology and customers don't need to upgrade frequently. The latest phones are just bells and whistles. The current focus is on better cameras and the new ones are better but I'm not a professional photographer and if I was I wouldn't use a camera phone. The "old" 8MP camera in the Nexus 5 is just fine for snaps.
Happy to see Motorola taking this route instead of trying to extort money for a new sale from you.
(ProTip... any glue used for phone assembly is easily softened with a heat gun.)
It also captures the water gained by pyrolysis of wood. (CxHx + O2 -> H2O + CO2)
Probably good to get a standing desk. Sitting for hours is really bad for your health. Standing while working at your desk is much healthier.
The problem with an early death is that it's usually from some debilitating chronic disease that makes you miserable for years before you die. It's one thing to get hit by a train at 52. It's another thing to spend 5 years in pain before you die at 52.
Good to choose exercise and weight loss rather than meds. You BP should recover to normal as your weight goes down. Also, watch your salt intake. Keep it less than 2000 mg/day. (A good rule of thumb is to look at the nutrition labels. If the mg of sodium is less than the number of calories in a serving, you'll be below 2000 mg a day.)
Intermittent fasting has shown good benefits. You can fast from dinner one day until dinner the next without too much difficulty and it really improves health.
You should really watch the movie "Sorry to Bother You". It's a dystopian telemarketer movie.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5...
You really have to hand it to these people. They put the primary and secondary power systems together in the same room.
This is cluelessness on a grand scale.
We need to stop all industrial meat production.
Whatever happened to personal responsibility?
Is that only for poor people?
It means we can get nutrition from a wide variety of sources. It doesn't mandate any particular source.
(I can't believe I'm arguing with these idiots.)
I think you answered your own question.
Pretending that you can't do anything about it is folly.
Meat takes about one square meter of land (and corresponding amounts of water, fertilizer, etc.) to produce a gram of protein.
Plants take about 0.01 square meter of land.
Meat takes 100 times as many resources as plants.
It's not a causal effect. It a preventive effect.
You can googleit, lots of people have studied it. However, you're missing the point that carbon particulates are not the main problem.
The theory of the role of CO2 in Climate change didn't start with a graph.. it started with physics. Is there an explanation to how we can add >6,701,400 TWh/yr from radiative imbalance without heating the planet? What is it? Is the math wrong? If it's right how can global warming be false?
Air temperature is completely irrelevant to any informed discussion of manmade global warming. The fixation on air temperature by denier commentators and the media is an irritating distraction as it disregards basic laws of physics (which are taught in grade 11 in high school):
- The conservation of energy is a fundamental concept of physics - the law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system cannot change. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
- When assessed from the top of the atmosphere, the earth is in substance a closed system, subject only to the incoming and outgoing flows of radiative energy.
- NASA has repeatedly confirmed that manmade greenhouse gas emissions are causing a net energy imbalance of approximately one half Watt per square metre the top of the atmosphere. See: http://phys.org/news/2012-01-n...
- This surplus energy (equivalent to roughly the energy which would be released by the detonation of 300,000 Hiroshima bombs each and every day) is for the most part accumulating in the oceans, from which it will eventually find its way back into the atmosphere and increase the air temperatures on Earth.
- As previously noted, numerous studies have fully accounted for the additional energy which is accumulating in the deep oceans as a consequence of manmade global warming.
- The continuing massive additions to the total energy of the globe means that any apparent delay in the continuing increases in air as well as water temperatures are bound to be short lived, as water temperatures continue to rise.
- The all-time record high global monthly temperatures for May and June of this year suggests that some of the energy accumulating in the oceans may well be making its way back into the atmosphere.
I would ask those who believe there to be any doubt about AGW to posit a credible theory and some evidence that the planet is not in an energy imbalance (the energy imbalance has been repeatedly demonstrated by the vast majority of peer reviewed scientific studies, and has been accepted by all national and international scientific bodies of any standing).
Or, alternatively, explain how they have managed to repeal the law of conservation of energy, such that the additional energy trapped by the AGW energy imbalance is magically disappearing rather than accumulating in the oceans from which it will eventually find its way back into the atmosphere and increase the air temperatures on Earth.
We need to stop burning fossil fuels. We have renewables (wind, solar, etc.) to substitute.
We need to stop eating meat. We have healthy plant diets. Humans are omnivores and can thrive eating just about anything. There are several billion people who eat primarily plant diets and they have been healthy for millenia.
Yes, humanity is the problem. We are polluting our environment and changing the climate to the point where it will soon be uninhabitable.
We have a choice. We can learn from science, change our behavior, stop polluting and have a chance of continuing to exist. Or, we can continue as we have been going and die off. The earth doesn't care. We should.
Particulate carbon is a problem but CO2, methane and other human generated gasses are a much bigger problem.
We need to stop burning fossil fuels.
We need to stop eating meat.
Switching to a plant based diet has the same beneficial effect on the climate as giving up driving your car.
The earth could easily support ten times current population if people stopped eating meat.
www.cowspiracy.com
The indigestible fibrous material in beans (also vegetables, grains, etc.) is actually good for you. It soaks up the toxins and prevents bowel cancer.
Just keep wearing your tin foil hat and you'll be safe.
He said he was "considering" taking the company private, "funding secured", "all that is needed is shareholder approval".
Shareholders told him they didn't approve so he dropped the plan before it even got to a vote.
The only uncertainty was the "funding secured" part. Depends on your definition of "secured". Supposedly the Saudis have been hounding him to buy the company for a few years. People assume the funding was from the Saudis and they have the money.
Spoof your phone number. Since you can't Googleit yourself:
https://www.techwalla.com/arti...
https://lifehacker.com/5853056...
The legitimate PBX owner would need to be certified by the local phone company. This takes time and effort. (They could charge for this service.)
They could charge for this service. Probably wouldn't go over well with customers.
Basically, anyone can spoof a number for their outbound calls. The local phone companies don't do any verification of the spoofed number... they just pass it on through the system and collect the money for the call.
They could set up a system which verifies numbers and also certifies legitimate spoof uses (such as a central PBX) but that would cut into their profits and would take time and effort.
On the receiving end, phone companies could flag and reject calls coming from outside their area without a valid return number. This, again, would cost them money so they aren't interested in doing it.
When I had ATT landline, I used to get robocalls with a local number caller ID but it would also say "Out of Area" which was a dead giveaway. I knew not to answer those calls.
I've since switched to Charter Spectrum phone service and set up NoMoRobo and the number of robocalls has dropped dramatically.