Well, just doing something for the sake of doing something, can be harmful as well. You have to do the right thing.
Ferinstance - if global warming is due to the sun warming up (the most likely cause of warming), then we may need to start working on a truly gigantic orbital sunshade. Doing anything else, isn't going to help.
Feranotherinstance, if we spend oodles of money trying to cool the earth down, only to find that the sun stops getting hotter and global cooling sets in, turning the planet into a giant snowball again, then what?
Also, what is the ideal earth temperature anyway? We sure can do with some more farmland, so thawing the tundra in Canada and Russia is a good thing.
What I find totally astonishing is that the USA is unable to air drop 200,000 MREs a day into New Orleans and surrounding area. That is what is needed to keep the people alive and they are absolutely unable to do it. People are dying on the sidewalks, dying in the hospitals, dying in the highrise buildings, from a lack of food and water. Sending in more guard troops to stand around and look at the water is useless, they have to air drop supplies and the almighty USA simply can't do it...
Well, there is contest about whether global warming is happening. It has been warming up for more than 10,000 years. What is contested, is whether all this warming was caused by cavemen lighting fires to keep warm...
Well, actually, the ozone hole was first discovered by the South African Weather Service in about 1935, which is long before CFCs came into wide use - probably even before CFCs were invented. However, little discrepancies like that has never discouraged a devout environmentalist...
Because they are the poorest of the poor, who could not afford to leave the city and who are now hungry and scavenging for food and drink. There are some looting of high value stuff, but 'stealing' food is perfectly acceptable actually and probably perfectly legal under these circumstances.
Huh? ABS was first implemented by BMW and airbags are definately a US invention from the 1950s, so you are probably wrong on your remaining point too... Ooops...
The SA movie maker Jamie Uys had a scene in I think "The gods must be crazy" where the driver of a resort shuttle would get up and serve drinks in the back, while the truck runs along a two rutter in the desert.
The big problem there is that everything is submerged, including the pumps that are supposed to pump the water out. It is freakin hard to bootstrap such a mess. You cannot just turn the power back on either, cause you'll electrocute the emergency workers. Even the downtown areas that are presently dry could still flood, due to a lack of pumping ability. Only once the water is out, can people start to fix the communications.
Jeezus H Kryst - The Red Cross has to be able to talk to their own people to co-ordinate things. Everything on the ground is fucked up, broken and under water. All cables are wet, diesel generators are drowned and the Red Cross has to somehow get their people in and figure out WTF is going on. So, obviously they need radio equipment, computers, satellite equipment, generators and the like...
Not quite no. There are database systems that are used to figure out where a phone is. It is called RADIUS. If the phone is switched on, the system will know its position.
I think the honour for being the first company to ship a free virus with their flagship product belongs to Lotus, who shipped Lotus123 on infected floppies.
Traditionally, their main purpose is to annoy Europe or attack it with elephants or something - nowadays, it is computer viruses. I think I prefer elephants...
There are companies that makes huge amounts of money from installing redirection software on computers, for example 180 Networks. The software effectively makes online purchases appear to originate from 180 Networks, therefore if a user goes to for example Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, or Dell, or anybody that pays referral commissions to buy something, 180 gets sent a commission. Obviously for this to work properly, new commission theft software needs to disable or remove existing commission theft software.
The rule of thumb used by HR is to equate 3 years of experience with each year of tertiary study. So, if you have 20 years of experience, then certs don't matter much.
However, there is another way: Write a book on the subject.
If you are so good that you can write a book on it, then obviously you don't need the certificate.
Yup, that is why the White House is painted white. It was originally a sandstone building, but they had to do something to cover the soot and scorch marks.
Of course, Canada had some powerful friends in the war of 1812 and it is one reason why Canada is still a member of the UK Commonwealth. If you share a bar stool with an elephant, then you better have some big buddies beside you.;-)
Actually, I have started to see cases where companies give MS Office to senior office staff and OOo to other levels who only need to read documents, not write them.
The sun is indeed a variable star. The sunspots follow mainly an 11 year cycle, but there are also longer term cycles. The earth temperature is also affected by volcanic ash and meteor showers.
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Well, just doing something for the sake of doing something, can be harmful as well. You have to do the right thing. Ferinstance - if global warming is due to the sun warming up (the most likely cause of warming), then we may need to start working on a truly gigantic orbital sunshade. Doing anything else, isn't going to help. Feranotherinstance, if we spend oodles of money trying to cool the earth down, only to find that the sun stops getting hotter and global cooling sets in, turning the planet into a giant snowball again, then what? Also, what is the ideal earth temperature anyway? We sure can do with some more farmland, so thawing the tundra in Canada and Russia is a good thing.
Ooooooohhhh, I can see her semicolon!
What I find totally astonishing is that the USA is unable to air drop 200,000 MREs a day into New Orleans and surrounding area. That is what is needed to keep the people alive and they are absolutely unable to do it. People are dying on the sidewalks, dying in the hospitals, dying in the highrise buildings, from a lack of food and water. Sending in more guard troops to stand around and look at the water is useless, they have to air drop supplies and the almighty USA simply can't do it...
Well, there is contest about whether global warming is happening. It has been warming up for more than 10,000 years. What is contested, is whether all this warming was caused by cavemen lighting fires to keep warm...
Well, actually, the ozone hole was first discovered by the South African Weather Service in about 1935, which is long before CFCs came into wide use - probably even before CFCs were invented. However, little discrepancies like that has never discouraged a devout environmentalist...
Because they are the poorest of the poor, who could not afford to leave the city and who are now hungry and scavenging for food and drink. There are some looting of high value stuff, but 'stealing' food is perfectly acceptable actually and probably perfectly legal under these circumstances.
Well, GMC has had f*ing cars for a long time already - Chevy Astro vans make for good f*ing.
So, at least half your dream is true already, but you'll have get a girlfriend...
Huh? ABS was first implemented by BMW and airbags are definately a US invention from the 1950s, so you are probably wrong on your remaining point too... Ooops...
The SA movie maker Jamie Uys had a scene in I think "The gods must be crazy" where the driver of a resort shuttle would get up and serve drinks in the back, while the truck runs along a two rutter in the desert.
since we last had self driving cars. Friggen amazing that it took this long to re-invent the horse.
The big problem there is that everything is submerged, including the pumps that are supposed to pump the water out. It is freakin hard to bootstrap such a mess. You cannot just turn the power back on either, cause you'll electrocute the emergency workers. Even the downtown areas that are presently dry could still flood, due to a lack of pumping ability. Only once the water is out, can people start to fix the communications.
Jeezus H Kryst - The Red Cross has to be able to talk to their own people to co-ordinate things. Everything on the ground is fucked up, broken and under water. All cables are wet, diesel generators are drowned and the Red Cross has to somehow get their people in and figure out WTF is going on. So, obviously they need radio equipment, computers, satellite equipment, generators and the like...
Not quite no. There are database systems that are used to figure out where a phone is. It is called RADIUS. If the phone is switched on, the system will know its position.
Even diesel generators don't run well under 10 feet of water...
I think the honour for being the first company to ship a free virus with their flagship product belongs to Lotus, who shipped Lotus123 on infected floppies.
so don't use it.
Hopefully Flash will eventually go the way of the tag.
Traditionally, their main purpose is to annoy Europe or attack it with elephants or something - nowadays, it is computer viruses. I think I prefer elephants...
There are companies that makes huge amounts of money from installing redirection software on computers, for example 180 Networks. The software effectively makes online purchases appear to originate from 180 Networks, therefore if a user goes to for example Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, or Dell, or anybody that pays referral commissions to buy something, 180 gets sent a commission. Obviously for this to work properly, new commission theft software needs to disable or remove existing commission theft software.
Oh, they are trying to stay ahead of The Gimp...
The rule of thumb used by HR is to equate 3 years of experience with each year of tertiary study. So, if you have 20 years of experience, then certs don't matter much. However, there is another way: Write a book on the subject. If you are so good that you can write a book on it, then obviously you don't need the certificate.
Yup, that is why the White House is painted white. It was originally a sandstone building, but they had to do something to cover the soot and scorch marks.
;-)
Of course, Canada had some powerful friends in the war of 1812 and it is one reason why Canada is still a member of the UK Commonwealth. If you share a bar stool with an elephant, then you better have some big buddies beside you.
In the global village, we are all neighbours. BTW, I think in the last war between the US and Canada, Canada won and burned down the White House...
Actually, I have started to see cases where companies give MS Office to senior office staff and OOo to other levels who only need to read documents, not write them.
The sun is indeed a variable star. The sunspots follow mainly an 11 year cycle, but there are also longer term cycles. The earth temperature is also affected by volcanic ash and meteor showers.
Well, the `970s is before most people on the planet were born, so they still need to discover that the sun has cycles...