Same. I love oregano but its a weed and grows everywhere. I let it flower this year and the bees love it. Basil and thai basil both producing more than I can use. Basil, dill, thyme, sage, marjoram, tarragon, I started from seed and once they germinated planted in the garden and they required no real care except trimming for use.
I've made pesto with basil, thats quite fun. Drying it isn't as fun, you have to plan ahead a little because the best result was height of summer. And then I was too lazy to go outside and get fresh stuff and used all the dried stuff up instead of saving it for winter.
The article says automation is the cause of "stellar" safety. So is this a numbers game? We accept the odd crash caused by the difficult interface between human and computer control in return for fewer crashes overall. I'd rather go with the numbers. Perhaps they just need even better automation response in these situations rather than ever giving pilots the ability to crash the plane.
I'm not sure what effect you're after, but if you believe that will make the rest of the world go "oh gosh, we better not piss off amercian corporations again" I think you might be disappointed. If the desire is to keep control for as long as possible then not giving the world a good reason to build their own infrastructure is probably the best course.
It would also seriously impact the business of those mega corps. Again, not sure what your goal is, but its probably not beneficial to the american economy as a whole... and outside short term pain, probably long term gain.
Oh I agree. I said they'd be insane to do nothing, but I fully accept insanity is the likely course. We were more insane in the west to ignore the problem and kick it down the road from the 80s when it would have been relatively easy to start dealing with it (not easy, but possible). Personal view is that it is too late, even if we stopped all emissions today, to stop effects that will impact food supply to the point of chaos. Sure things could be done to mitigate as you say, but we'll probably wait until its too late for that as well.
China are insane not to reduce emissions. They're going to be impacted sooner and far worse than most countries as their food producing regions will suffer decline. Same with India.
This is why the US should also step up. Crises in these places might represent a competitive edge but the impact won't stay there.
It'd be nice if you were right. Unfortunately not. CO2 is indeed potent compared to O2 and nitrogen for its warming. I mean, CO will kill you at trace amounts so it's not like a trace gas isn't known to have a strong effect.
Water vapour does cause warming too but has 2 key differences. First it was already there, we didn't upset the balance by adding to it, so it's not forcing but a feedback from the forcing. Second it is radiative in both directions, it can also cool, whereas CO2 is more opaque to the heat at the wavelengths leaving Earth.
To your point on the benefits of more CO2, the greening of the planet already happened and it did indeed offset some of our emissions. However, plants can only absorb so much extra, they need other nutrients and fresh water and have physical limits. We've long passed that one, sorry.
We model it, sorry. But I don't know if that model comes from derived historical observations of some kind. Anyway, 1% increase in lumenence every 100 million years, so about 0.5% less than today.
Not really, because it is possible to count the places its working too. You can be socialist and fiscally responsible, or socialist and fiscally irresponsible (Venezuela). Look at somewhere like Norway, a social democracy with very high levels of social welfare spending etc, driven by natural resources. They have saved the money and not just spent it all as soon as possible. Obviously Norway had a different starting point, but look at Bolivia too, right next to Venezuela, also has natural resources, also a socialist democracy, but has been more fiscailly conservative and used money to diversify and invest in the economy rather than just using it for social welfare spending.
You can understand why a poor country's people see all this oil money and demand it gets spent on the people now. A clever government would spend it on the people later.
When socialism works the capitalist side of the economy is also healthy, so we seem to forget that there is a socialist underpinning that enables that.
My company specifically bans using paper. We're an all remote team distributed around the world and if we printed stuff they'd need to sort out secure storage or disposal.
I lived in the US for a short while, and I've lived in other affluent countries. In all those places people have way too much stuff, but Americans have more shit they don't use than anyone else. Who knows why. And it's imperative that it turns up as quickly as humanly possible so they can use it once and then consign it to live forever in a kitchen cupboard.
That's not really true in most cases. The locals may not have owned in the first place, were renting at a reasonable price and were forced out by price rises. Also people are being forced out by tax rises - wealthy people buy the houses around you, house prices go up, your taxes go up, you're forced to sell because you can no longer afford the tax.
Yes, but that's not collecting the content of pages you visit and sending them off, which is what I meant.
Not sure what the argument is here. I don't need convincing that G doesn't have my best interests at heart. But neither does MS. What are the alternatives to give to kids? And even if you suggest something it tends to be niche and not available in NZ (not with a warranty anyway). Apple, Google, MS, choose your poison, or try and find hardware that works with Linux and spend your time configuring that. When I was younger I would, but nowadays I'm not interested enough.
The latency is middling. But it's not that much of an issue for the sort of usage you're thinking - once you've loaded the document you're working on then you will only notice latency during collaboration. And I believe NZ has better broadband penetration than the US, I certainly have a faster connection today in rural NZ than I did in California 3 years ago.
It's not just the quality of MS products though. Google apps are free to use, so teachers use them at home. They're also simpler and easier to access - I know this because if I want to type a really quick document I'll go to google docs, even though I have both Apple Pages and LibreOffice installed, both arguably more powerful products.
Well quite a lot if you assume that the point of collecting the data is to sell us stuff via ads.
Now you say including academic records. That would indicate you believe Chrome is scraping the content of the pages visited and sending that to google. That seems unlikely... I'm sure its something they'd like to do, but it would at least get reported. A more likely route for that information would be the education provider selling that data, and then it doesn't matter which OS you're using.
(the academic data doesn't get sent to their gmail accounts, or to anywhere via email. The only thing they've used email for so far is emailing family about wanted birthday presents - useful for advertising data I'm sure)
Well quite. That does worry me. At least you can install an adblocker on ChromeOS.
But how much better is it in Windows? ChromeOS has never pushed app ads on me, but Windows 10 does appear to do that (caveat: I installed and used it once out of curiosity. And it was awful).
Besides, I hear people are giving their kids smartphones, so they already have the personal data. At least my kids use of a chromebook is reasonably supervised.
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Same. I love oregano but its a weed and grows everywhere. I let it flower this year and the bees love it. Basil and thai basil both producing more than I can use. Basil, dill, thyme, sage, marjoram, tarragon, I started from seed and once they germinated planted in the garden and they required no real care except trimming for use.
I've made pesto with basil, thats quite fun. Drying it isn't as fun, you have to plan ahead a little because the best result was height of summer. And then I was too lazy to go outside and get fresh stuff and used all the dried stuff up instead of saving it for winter.
The article says automation is the cause of "stellar" safety. So is this a numbers game? We accept the odd crash caused by the difficult interface between human and computer control in return for fewer crashes overall. I'd rather go with the numbers. Perhaps they just need even better automation response in these situations rather than ever giving pilots the ability to crash the plane.
It is better than chrome. Choice of adblocker. better privacy mode. better tab management. I use Firefox, but Samsung is actually a good choice.
I'm not sure what effect you're after, but if you believe that will make the rest of the world go "oh gosh, we better not piss off amercian corporations again" I think you might be disappointed. If the desire is to keep control for as long as possible then not giving the world a good reason to build their own infrastructure is probably the best course.
It would also seriously impact the business of those mega corps. Again, not sure what your goal is, but its probably not beneficial to the american economy as a whole... and outside short term pain, probably long term gain.
Oh I agree. I said they'd be insane to do nothing, but I fully accept insanity is the likely course. We were more insane in the west to ignore the problem and kick it down the road from the 80s when it would have been relatively easy to start dealing with it (not easy, but possible). Personal view is that it is too late, even if we stopped all emissions today, to stop effects that will impact food supply to the point of chaos. Sure things could be done to mitigate as you say, but we'll probably wait until its too late for that as well.
China are insane not to reduce emissions. They're going to be impacted sooner and far worse than most countries as their food producing regions will suffer decline. Same with India.
This is why the US should also step up. Crises in these places might represent a competitive edge but the impact won't stay there.
It'd be nice if you were right. Unfortunately not. CO2 is indeed potent compared to O2 and nitrogen for its warming. I mean, CO will kill you at trace amounts so it's not like a trace gas isn't known to have a strong effect.
Water vapour does cause warming too but has 2 key differences. First it was already there, we didn't upset the balance by adding to it, so it's not forcing but a feedback from the forcing. Second it is radiative in both directions, it can also cool, whereas CO2 is more opaque to the heat at the wavelengths leaving Earth.
To your point on the benefits of more CO2, the greening of the planet already happened and it did indeed offset some of our emissions. However, plants can only absorb so much extra, they need other nutrients and fresh water and have physical limits. We've long passed that one, sorry.
We model it, sorry. But I don't know if that model comes from derived historical observations of some kind. Anyway, 1% increase in lumenence every 100 million years, so about 0.5% less than today.
Not really, because it is possible to count the places its working too. You can be socialist and fiscally responsible, or socialist and fiscally irresponsible (Venezuela). Look at somewhere like Norway, a social democracy with very high levels of social welfare spending etc, driven by natural resources. They have saved the money and not just spent it all as soon as possible. Obviously Norway had a different starting point, but look at Bolivia too, right next to Venezuela, also has natural resources, also a socialist democracy, but has been more fiscailly conservative and used money to diversify and invest in the economy rather than just using it for social welfare spending.
You can understand why a poor country's people see all this oil money and demand it gets spent on the people now. A clever government would spend it on the people later.
When socialism works the capitalist side of the economy is also healthy, so we seem to forget that there is a socialist underpinning that enables that.
My company specifically bans using paper. We're an all remote team distributed around the world and if we printed stuff they'd need to sort out secure storage or disposal.
They fed babies exclusively soy? I believe they'd also have trouble if you fed them exclusively cows milk. Everything in moderation and so forth.
I also moved the the countryside and took up gardening. Good for the mind. Not as strenuous, but still it's something for the body.
I stopped cycling because I work from home now. I don't live in the US, but could that be a reason for change?
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I lived in the US for a short while, and I've lived in other affluent countries. In all those places people have way too much stuff, but Americans have more shit they don't use than anyone else. Who knows why. And it's imperative that it turns up as quickly as humanly possible so they can use it once and then consign it to live forever in a kitchen cupboard.
because you can get a .tk domain for free. So any time I want a testing domain for a site I'm working on I'll just grab a free .tk domain for awhile.
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I've also been rereading all of the discworld novels to my kid.
That's not really true in most cases. The locals may not have owned in the first place, were renting at a reasonable price and were forced out by price rises. Also people are being forced out by tax rises - wealthy people buy the houses around you, house prices go up, your taxes go up, you're forced to sell because you can no longer afford the tax.
Yes, but that's not collecting the content of pages you visit and sending them off, which is what I meant.
Not sure what the argument is here. I don't need convincing that G doesn't have my best interests at heart. But neither does MS. What are the alternatives to give to kids? And even if you suggest something it tends to be niche and not available in NZ (not with a warranty anyway). Apple, Google, MS, choose your poison, or try and find hardware that works with Linux and spend your time configuring that. When I was younger I would, but nowadays I'm not interested enough.
The latency is middling. But it's not that much of an issue for the sort of usage you're thinking - once you've loaded the document you're working on then you will only notice latency during collaboration. And I believe NZ has better broadband penetration than the US, I certainly have a faster connection today in rural NZ than I did in California 3 years ago.
It's not just the quality of MS products though. Google apps are free to use, so teachers use them at home. They're also simpler and easier to access - I know this because if I want to type a really quick document I'll go to google docs, even though I have both Apple Pages and LibreOffice installed, both arguably more powerful products.
Well quite a lot if you assume that the point of collecting the data is to sell us stuff via ads.
Now you say including academic records. That would indicate you believe Chrome is scraping the content of the pages visited and sending that to google. That seems unlikely... I'm sure its something they'd like to do, but it would at least get reported. A more likely route for that information would be the education provider selling that data, and then it doesn't matter which OS you're using.
(the academic data doesn't get sent to their gmail accounts, or to anywhere via email. The only thing they've used email for so far is emailing family about wanted birthday presents - useful for advertising data I'm sure)
Well quite. That does worry me. At least you can install an adblocker on ChromeOS.
But how much better is it in Windows? ChromeOS has never pushed app ads on me, but Windows 10 does appear to do that (caveat: I installed and used it once out of curiosity. And it was awful).
Besides, I hear people are giving their kids smartphones, so they already have the personal data. At least my kids use of a chromebook is reasonably supervised.
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