Although the effects of climate change have been described as "severe" I don't think they are quite so severe as to make the planet uninhabitable altogether !
What will happen is that people will have to adjust to a new environment, rich western countries will probably have the money to do this relatively painlessly whereas more marginal communities will face dangers such as flooding or droughts which may cause a fair few deaths.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall in SCO Central so I'd certainly consider the enjoyment of hanging around to watch it all implode against the possible damage it might do to my earnings.
I spent a couple of months working in a warehouse pushing trays up and down aisles and a few more working for some dreadful door-to-door loans company ( Avg 200% APR )and compared to those jobs everything else has been a breeze.
The loans company was horrorific, a small office filled with 5 old embittered old ladies who had been working there for years and developed unbreakable routines for every single thing that happened in the office including the highly important and unchangeable in any aspect tea making routine. They expected you to learn these byzantine routines by a process of telepathy and osmosis and spent anytime you spent with any of them alone bitching about the other 4.
Throw into that the bunch of tw*ts who went out selling these loans and the moronic customers phoning up moaning and you have a very credible version of hell.
Example typical phone call
Phone rings
"Hello" "Where is he ?" "Who ?" "I want me money don't I, where is it ?" "Who ? What money ?" "I said I was going down the pub once Jeremy Kyle finished and he's not here" "I don't know what you're talking about" "This isn't right, don't mess me about or I'll have your name" "It's Mickey, what do you want ?" "F*ckin 'ell, I want me bloody money ! I can't wait around for 'im can I" "Someone, from this company is coming to see you to give you some money ?" "Yeah ! Where is he ?" "I don't know, you should have his number. We don't deal with agents directly here" "LOOK ! I'm going on holiday this evening and I've got to down the pub in 10 mins to meet the kids when they get off school and I NEED MY MONEY NOW !!!" "Well I can't help you."
Turns into 5 minutes of ranting about rights, the damage being caused to her kids and the important meeting she has down the pub.
When I bought my first PC back in 1998 it came with a wireless connection between the PC and the TV. You just plug one box into the graphics card and the other box into the TV and it works.
You can pick these up in any electronics retailer for around £30.
I've met up with people in Service Stations etc and its always been fine. I agree I'm not so sure I'd like random people turning up at my house though.
In the UK you have to return the goods and there is no compensation. A lot of people buying second hand cars get stung when the police turn up and tell them the car was stolen.
The car is the returned to it's orginal owner or sold by the insurance comany and the buyer gets nothing. This is why it's a good idea to check whether a car is stolen before you buy it because not even your insurance will cover you for this. I would guess its the same with any stolen goods in the UK.
As someone pointed out above the castle makes 10 Million Euros a year and spends 6 Million on expenses so even if you paid back the 40 Million for repairs etc over 20 years you'd still be making a profit of 2 Million a year.
I'm not so how that would work since it was built in the first place by the British Government I would expect that they are still the owners it's just that its not worth them doing anything about the current squatters right now.
Fair enough but its well known that computers need power to operate so the energy cabals should take their share of the blame as well. Without the internet this exploit is useless so ISPs and cable companies around the world should step up to take the rap too.
Who ever stole your brain, that was probably theft and sadly since I doubt it was overly large you should include everyone, even the smallest midgets in your ( no doubt moronic ) investigations.
I guess they're not too keen on that idea but I'm sure there even less keen on the idea of having huge portions of the US military camped out on their doorstep.
Recently I did a short stint for a household name UK company in their reporting department. They needed to report accurately on the performance of their call centres which were run on a number of Aspect ACDs, the call data from these ACDs were dumped into some kind of data warehouse.
From their the department needed to create a reliable and accurate reporting infrastructure to deliver key business data throughout the company.
What they had was a "primary layer" using Crystal Enterprise to create a number of huge spreadsheets containing the days data in large Excel files. The "secondary layer" were a Excel spreadsheets filled with VBA code to read the files created by Crystal process them a bit and output them as new files elsewhere. The "tertiary layer" was another lot of Excel spreadsheets filled with more VBA code to read the secondary layer and add drop down boxes and graphs etc to format the data. In some cases there was a "quatenary layer" which read the tertiary layer and did some more processing.
Needless to say all the VBA in the Excel files was mainly recorded macros with no attempt to check whether any of the various files it relied on were present or showing the correct data. All the files were scattered willy nilly around the network and all of them had to be ran manually in the correct order every day.
Frighteningly they had a huge backlog of further Excel files to write to do yet more processing and they were rebooting Crystal on a daily basis. I left after a couple of weeks because I didn't want to be around when the whole thing collapsed in a giant mess around their ears.
Selfless people like that have contributed a lot to Wikipedia. You don't want to scare them away. People aren't really being selfless when they contribute to a Wiki, they are doing it because they think the information they can provide will be useful to other people but also because they believe this will encourage other people to do the same and thus benefit them and because it gives them credibility and satisfaction to contribute knowledge which other people appreciate.
I certainly don't believe the majority of people are contributing to Wikipedia simply because they admire it's policy on not allowing advertisments but I do believe some people are scared that by changing the way things have been done up until now they will not maintain the same level control as they enjoy now.
Wikipedia is already doing a very credible job compared to its competitors in the marketplace and it could do an awful lot better if it had more money to improve its self. Using advertisments to generate income for this purpose could work and it could work without destroying any of the unique aspects of the Wikipedia but these changes need to be embraced and managed effectively by the community and I believe peoples resistance to advertisments is less of a moral outrage at the prospect of the Wikipedia being sullied by advertisements than concern that they cannot manage to use the opportunity of the extra revenue from the adverts sucessfully. This attitude is probably destructive and if prevalent will stunt what could be a marvelous resource and a credit to all it's contributors.
Wikipedia is not new knowledge, its a repository for the knowledge of many people and is an impressive collabarative document but it does have monetary value and it would be a shame if that value is not realised especially when it can be interesting projects or to help Wikpedia its self. I notice at the moment they are asking for donations which they wouldn't have to do if they could leverage their value to advertisers successfully.
Regarding the other points about everything being ready made and universities tailoring student courses to help the students do well when they finish their courses.
Clearly everything isn't ready made now, cars don't magically appear from the ground and animals don't farm themselves. People studying engineering or agriculture will probably tell you exactly how these products come about.
It seems to me to be a good thing that universities prepare their students for life after their courses, I can't see why you'd have a problem with that !
I'm glad more people don't think like him. Certainly monks and other such selfless people have contributed alot to science but I would say the vast majority of science has come about through the work of people who are deeply rooted in the real world for the purpose of solving the real world problems they came across.
The real world includes things like money, advertising and probably many other things you may consider to be corrupting or evil but it is often because of and not in spite of these facets of society that progress and learning advance.
In this case Wikipedia has the opportunity to raise very large amounts of money in a manner which need not interfere at all with their current operation, this money can be used for starting similar operations or even to fund real hard science. Whatever it is used for it will represent money being spent on useful projects that would not otherwise take place or have money spent on them.
I see no problem with adverts on Wikipedia so long as its obvious they're advertisments and corporate sponsorship does not affect the content.
Even very small and unobtrusive adverts would earn them an awful lot of revenue which can really only be a good thing.
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No fish can't talk or really communicate with each other on that level, so far as we know.
If they could though they'd be able to prove it easily, where they have encountered one fisherman there are likely to be a lot more and in places where there are special fishing spots around lakes they will probably be in exactly the same place.
All the fish abductee would have to do is remember where he was thrown back in and gather his disbelieving friends around to watch. Sooner or later they'd see the line and the hook come into the water and they could watch what happened when a fish was hooked and later thrown back in.
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Temperature in the UK has apparently been tracked for 350 years and last year had the highest average temperature of those 350 years.
Although the effects of climate change have been described as "severe" I don't think they are quite so severe as to make the planet uninhabitable altogether !
What will happen is that people will have to adjust to a new environment, rich western countries will probably have the money to do this relatively painlessly whereas more marginal communities will face dangers such as flooding or droughts which may cause a fair few deaths.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall in SCO Central so I'd certainly consider the enjoyment of hanging around to watch it all implode against the possible damage it might do to my earnings.
I spent a couple of months working in a warehouse pushing trays up and down aisles and a few more working for some dreadful door-to-door loans company ( Avg 200% APR )and compared to those jobs everything else has been a breeze.
The loans company was horrorific, a small office filled with 5 old embittered old ladies who had been working there for years and developed unbreakable routines for every single thing that happened in the office including the highly important and unchangeable in any aspect tea making routine. They expected you to learn these byzantine routines by a process of telepathy and osmosis and spent anytime you spent with any of them alone bitching about the other 4.
Throw into that the bunch of tw*ts who went out selling these loans and the moronic customers phoning up moaning and you have a very credible version of hell.
Example typical phone call
Phone rings
"Hello"
"Where is he ?"
"Who ?"
"I want me money don't I, where is it ?"
"Who ? What money ?"
"I said I was going down the pub once Jeremy Kyle finished and he's not here"
"I don't know what you're talking about"
"This isn't right, don't mess me about or I'll have your name"
"It's Mickey, what do you want ?"
"F*ckin 'ell, I want me bloody money ! I can't wait around for 'im can I"
"Someone, from this company is coming to see you to give you some money ?"
"Yeah ! Where is he ?"
"I don't know, you should have his number. We don't deal with agents directly here"
"LOOK ! I'm going on holiday this evening and I've got to down the pub in 10 mins to meet the kids when they get off school and I NEED MY MONEY NOW !!!"
"Well I can't help you."
Turns into 5 minutes of ranting about rights, the damage being caused to her kids and the important meeting she has down the pub.
Things like this, http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=42501 &criteria=WIRELESS%202.4ghz&doy=9m1 for £29
When I bought my first PC back in 1998 it came with a wireless connection between the PC and the TV. You just plug one box into the graphics card and the other box into the TV and it works.
You can pick these up in any electronics retailer for around £30.
So is someone is bad you is saying they should get caned ?
I've met up with people in Service Stations etc and its always been fine. I agree I'm not so sure I'd like random people turning up at my house though.
In the UK you have to return the goods and there is no compensation. A lot of people buying second hand cars get stung when the police turn up and tell them the car was stolen.
The car is the returned to it's orginal owner or sold by the insurance comany and the buyer gets nothing. This is why it's a good idea to check whether a car is stolen before you buy it because not even your insurance will cover you for this. I would guess its the same with any stolen goods in the UK.
Romania is a nice place to live and now it's in the EU and will no doubt have a lot more money pumped into it I imagine it will become even nicer.
Its certainly a lot closer than Brazil as well, a £40 plane journey I believe.
As someone pointed out above the castle makes 10 Million Euros a year and spends 6 Million on expenses so even if you paid back the 40 Million for repairs etc over 20 years you'd still be making a profit of 2 Million a year.
I'm not so how that would work since it was built in the first place by the British Government I would expect that they are still the owners it's just that its not worth them doing anything about the current squatters right now.
Fair enough but its well known that computers need power to operate so the energy cabals should take their share of the blame as well. Without the internet this exploit is useless so ISPs and cable companies around the world should step up to take the rap too.
Theres Klingons, on the starboard bow ! Starboard bow, Jim !
Who ever stole your brain, that was probably theft and sadly since I doubt it was overly large you should include everyone, even the smallest midgets in your ( no doubt moronic ) investigations.
The Kurds are probably just trouble makers 'cos I think Turkey wants to settle some scores with them just as soon as everyone is looking elsewhere.
I guess they're not too keen on that idea but I'm sure there even less keen on the idea of having huge portions of the US military camped out on their doorstep.
I wouldn't worry about them needing to restrain you all they really need to do is hang around and tell you it's all cool every now and again.
From my observations of people on acid you're really really deeply unlikely to become physically dangerous to anyone or to yourself.
Recently I did a short stint for a household name UK company in their reporting department. They needed to report accurately on the performance of their call centres which were run on a number of Aspect ACDs, the call data from these ACDs were dumped into some kind of data warehouse.
From their the department needed to create a reliable and accurate reporting infrastructure to deliver key business data throughout the company.
What they had was a "primary layer" using Crystal Enterprise to create a number of huge spreadsheets containing the days data in large Excel files. The "secondary layer" were a Excel spreadsheets filled with VBA code to read the files created by Crystal process them a bit and output them as new files elsewhere. The "tertiary layer" was another lot of Excel spreadsheets filled with more VBA code to read the secondary layer and add drop down boxes and graphs etc to format the data. In some cases there was a "quatenary layer" which read the tertiary layer and did some more processing.
Needless to say all the VBA in the Excel files was mainly recorded macros with no attempt to check whether any of the various files it relied on were present or showing the correct data. All the files were scattered willy nilly around the network and all of them had to be ran manually in the correct order every day.
Frighteningly they had a huge backlog of further Excel files to write to do yet more processing and they were rebooting Crystal on a daily basis. I left after a couple of weeks because I didn't want to be around when the whole thing collapsed in a giant mess around their ears.
I certainly don't believe the majority of people are contributing to Wikipedia simply because they admire it's policy on not allowing advertisments but I do believe some people are scared that by changing the way things have been done up until now they will not maintain the same level control as they enjoy now.
Wikipedia is already doing a very credible job compared to its competitors in the marketplace and it could do an awful lot better if it had more money to improve its self. Using advertisments to generate income for this purpose could work and it could work without destroying any of the unique aspects of the Wikipedia but these changes need to be embraced and managed effectively by the community and I believe peoples resistance to advertisments is less of a moral outrage at the prospect of the Wikipedia being sullied by advertisements than concern that they cannot manage to use the opportunity of the extra revenue from the adverts sucessfully. This attitude is probably destructive and if prevalent will stunt what could be a marvelous resource and a credit to all it's contributors.
This is in answer to both the above posts.
Wikipedia is not new knowledge, its a repository for the knowledge of many people and is an impressive collabarative document but it does have monetary value and it would be a shame if that value is not realised especially when it can be interesting projects or to help Wikpedia its self. I notice at the moment they are asking for donations which they wouldn't have to do if they could leverage their value to advertisers successfully.
Regarding the other points about everything being ready made and universities tailoring student courses to help the students do well when they finish their courses.
Clearly everything isn't ready made now, cars don't magically appear from the ground and animals don't farm themselves. People studying engineering or agriculture will probably tell you exactly how these products come about.
It seems to me to be a good thing that universities prepare their students for life after their courses, I can't see why you'd have a problem with that !
I'm glad more people don't think like him. Certainly monks and other such selfless people have contributed alot to science but I would say the vast majority of science has come about through the work of people who are deeply rooted in the real world for the purpose of solving the real world problems they came across.
The real world includes things like money, advertising and probably many other things you may consider to be corrupting or evil but it is often because of and not in spite of these facets of society that progress and learning advance.
In this case Wikipedia has the opportunity to raise very large amounts of money in a manner which need not interfere at all with their current operation, this money can be used for starting similar operations or even to fund real hard science. Whatever it is used for it will represent money being spent on useful projects that would not otherwise take place or have money spent on them.
I see no problem with adverts on Wikipedia so long as its obvious they're advertisments and corporate sponsorship does not affect the content.
Even very small and unobtrusive adverts would earn them an awful lot of revenue which can really only be a good thing.
No fish can't talk or really communicate with each other on that level, so far as we know.
If they could though they'd be able to prove it easily, where they have encountered one fisherman there are likely to be a lot more and in places where there are special fishing spots around lakes they will probably be in exactly the same place.
All the fish abductee would have to do is remember where he was thrown back in and gather his disbelieving friends around to watch. Sooner or later they'd see the line and the hook come into the water and they could watch what happened when a fish was hooked and later thrown back in.
Surely I have seen such devices before ?