I used to do phone surveys (sorry, I was desperate for work). They "typical" respondent to a phone survey is far from a typical person. How many people do you know who are willing to spend 20 minutes of their time in an annoying activity that will not benefit them in any way? Not many.
On an open highway where there are no street lights is the only time that I can imagine high beam lights being appropriate. There is absolutely no reason to use them in the city, except to piss people off.
As someone who walks our dogs at night, we will be hating these lights the evening they hit the street. The intense blue and purple ones are already annoying enough, and the idiots who think that turning on their high beams any time that there isn't an oncoming car is a good idea should be taken out and flogged. These are going to be absolutely blinding.
From what I've read the Australian continent never joined the rest of the continents since the breakup of Gonwandaland, which is the reason for the survival of the isolated marsupials. The introduction of placental mammals to Australia, first humans, later dogs, then finally rats, Englishmen and rabbits, is devastating the less biologically-efficient marsupials. Flores Island, in the southern reach of Indonesia, has never been joined to the mainland either, but hosted populations of dwarf rhino dwarf elephants in addition to two species of Homo long before the invention of the boat. Australia was too far for the rhino, elephant and Homo Florensis.
Baloney. We are observing species evolving all the time. Currently English Sparrows from North America have diverged enough in their behavior that they refuse to breed with English Sparrows from Europe. Their genes are noticeably different now, and since they won't be interbreeding will only continue to diverge. They'll probably be mutually infertile within another century or at most two, at which point one of the major definitions of species will have been crossed. That's one example, there are scores of plants and animals large and small that we are observing evolve.
To deny that we have observations of evolution's progress is to deny the existence of the entire fossil record. There are many species that we can observe changing over time, the horse is a particularly good example because there are so bloody many examples. The camel could be another. Eohippus was pretty obviously the predecessor to horses, burros, and zebras, and the changes are gradual, obvious, and easily documented.
No, the bottle gourd exists in its present form because it has been domesticated for so long. It may well be the first domesticated plant, domesticated so long in fact that it only reproduces in the wild with great difficulty. The shell is so impervious to water that seeds don't get watered until the pod finally rots a year or more later, by which time the seeds are no longer viable.
Ten thousand years ago they were mostly rafts, rather than boats, but people were definitely using them on the open sea. Hell, 60,000 years ago they made it to Australia, well out of sight of land for most of the trip across a straight with very strong currents and foul weather. The question about the African bottle gourd is that the thing has been domesticated for so long that it can't reproduce reliably without help. The seeds never sprout because water never gets to them unless it is broken open. For the gourd to make it all the way across the Atlantic without being eaten en route (not likely) it would have had to wash up somewhere higher than the normal high tide where it wouldn't be poisoned by the salt water. Then it would have to break open, be buried deep enough to grow (gourds don't grow on the surface), and have fruit.
Now some enterprising local has to see the gourd, recognize it, and decide to cultivate it (at a time when almost nothing else was cultivated). This has to happen in the first, or maybe second, generation after the plant's almost miraculous survival. I can much more easily believe people carrying them across the ocean than I can believe an accidental migration.
Apparently you don't realize that the UL (Underwriters Laboratories) is not a Federal agency, so has no say as to whether anything can be imported or not. UL approval may be required by insurers (thus the 'underwriters' part of the name) and may be incorporated into building codes, but nothing about UL approval has the force of law.
If you had watched the Nye/Ham debate the other day (and you really should, it's hilarious in places) you would have realized the OP was simply channeling Ham's "arguments" from the debate. Not quite, but almost, "woosh".
If the drones are not causing problems, then there is no need to regulate them.
If the FAA didn't step in now, the first time that UPS's drone cargo 747 smashed into an airport terminal people would say, "Why haven't you been regulating these since the beginning?" Do you really think that FedEx is going to pay a pilot, copilot and engineer $100,000/year each for a day longer than they absolutely have to? The day they decide they can get away with running drone aircraft you'll see layoffs.
I grew up in northern Michigan. To be absolutely truthful, most of the ice fishing accidents (including my own) are caused by simple stupidity. The guys who fail so hard they die would probably have won a Darwin Award sooner rather than later.
Unlike Anonymous Cowards, the FAA is looking to the future when FedEx is flying drone 767 aircraft between major hubs. If the tell Lakemaid Beer that it's OK to run a drone without testing and permits FedEx is going to claim the same right.
By the way, the next time you're in the Seattle area take a tour through the Boeing factory. You might be surprised to find that airliners really ARE made of stuff closely resembling tinfoil.
Most companies??? Hardly. On a properly run network, sure. Those are rarer than hens' teeth. Retail corporations are some of the worst for squeezing their employees as much as possible while paying them as little as possible, if the network engineers are even Target employees and not contractors. The company that I used to work for refused to bid on jobs to install security equipment in retail stores for the simple reason that it is impossible to break even without doing shoddy slap-together work much less make money.
If Target is typical of most retail companies each store is a standalone node with a single link (with backup) up to regional/district hub. The segmentation happens at the store level, and everything within that segment can talk to everything else because no one wants to deal with the nightmare of custom VLAN configurations for each store. There **might** be an IDS running on the Corporate headquarters network, but it's doubtful that it would even be configured correctly much less maintained and monitored.
Seriously, here's how bad it is in the retail world. My wife has to do her annual self-review on the corporate network, so she brought home the instructions that they gave the employees. With 18 years of experience working with computers, web applications, and following obscure and poorly written documentation I was unable to make heads or tails of this mess. Not only are they unable to build a decent web app for something as simple as annual reviews, they can't even create a usable step-by-step instruction guide.
The major surprise in the Target attack was that it has taken this long to happen.
Well, the Iraqi invasion of Georgia, of course! Although to be truthful I think a lot of people would have welcomed it and been completely willing give it to them without a fight. I'd throw in Mississippi and Alabama if they'd take them, the rest of the country would be better off for it.
Carbon 14 dating is only good for the last few tens of thousands of years, beyond that the percentage of Carbon 14 is so small that quantum effects on decay take over. Potassium/Argon dating has to be used for older finds. Worth noting is that Ham's group once sent ash from Mount St. Helen's latest eruption to a lab for P/A dating. They were told by the lab that accurate results for samples less than a million years old were impossible (not enough time for decay to happen), but they insisted so the lab performed the test. They have used those inaccurate results as "proof" that P/A dating doesn't work.
A rather extreme over-simplification of the Peron regime, and if you look at the whole picture you may realize that the other two collapses were caused almost completely by the foreign banks. The only reason that Argentina's economy is recovering now is because they mostly abandoned the World Bank/IMF policies that they've been following for decades.
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I used to do phone surveys (sorry, I was desperate for work). They "typical" respondent to a phone survey is far from a typical person. How many people do you know who are willing to spend 20 minutes of their time in an annoying activity that will not benefit them in any way? Not many.
On an open highway where there are no street lights is the only time that I can imagine high beam lights being appropriate. There is absolutely no reason to use them in the city, except to piss people off.
As someone who walks our dogs at night, we will be hating these lights the evening they hit the street. The intense blue and purple ones are already annoying enough, and the idiots who think that turning on their high beams any time that there isn't an oncoming car is a good idea should be taken out and flogged. These are going to be absolutely blinding.
From what I've read the Australian continent never joined the rest of the continents since the breakup of Gonwandaland, which is the reason for the survival of the isolated marsupials. The introduction of placental mammals to Australia, first humans, later dogs, then finally rats, Englishmen and rabbits, is devastating the less biologically-efficient marsupials. Flores Island, in the southern reach of Indonesia, has never been joined to the mainland either, but hosted populations of dwarf rhino dwarf elephants in addition to two species of Homo long before the invention of the boat. Australia was too far for the rhino, elephant and Homo Florensis.
show me any Half This /Half that critters.
Mudskippers.
Going on 53 and just landed the best job of my life. No, I'm not in management.
Baloney. We are observing species evolving all the time. Currently English Sparrows from North America have diverged enough in their behavior that they refuse to breed with English Sparrows from Europe. Their genes are noticeably different now, and since they won't be interbreeding will only continue to diverge. They'll probably be mutually infertile within another century or at most two, at which point one of the major definitions of species will have been crossed. That's one example, there are scores of plants and animals large and small that we are observing evolve.
To deny that we have observations of evolution's progress is to deny the existence of the entire fossil record. There are many species that we can observe changing over time, the horse is a particularly good example because there are so bloody many examples. The camel could be another. Eohippus was pretty obviously the predecessor to horses, burros, and zebras, and the changes are gradual, obvious, and easily documented.
LG switches. Most horrible pieces of carp that I have ever dealt with in 18 years of networking.
Most of the IP security cameras on the market run a Linux kernel, so yeah.
No, the bottle gourd exists in its present form because it has been domesticated for so long. It may well be the first domesticated plant, domesticated so long in fact that it only reproduces in the wild with great difficulty. The shell is so impervious to water that seeds don't get watered until the pod finally rots a year or more later, by which time the seeds are no longer viable.
Ten thousand years ago they were mostly rafts, rather than boats, but people were definitely using them on the open sea. Hell, 60,000 years ago they made it to Australia, well out of sight of land for most of the trip across a straight with very strong currents and foul weather. The question about the African bottle gourd is that the thing has been domesticated for so long that it can't reproduce reliably without help. The seeds never sprout because water never gets to them unless it is broken open. For the gourd to make it all the way across the Atlantic without being eaten en route (not likely) it would have had to wash up somewhere higher than the normal high tide where it wouldn't be poisoned by the salt water. Then it would have to break open, be buried deep enough to grow (gourds don't grow on the surface), and have fruit.
Now some enterprising local has to see the gourd, recognize it, and decide to cultivate it (at a time when almost nothing else was cultivated). This has to happen in the first, or maybe second, generation after the plant's almost miraculous survival. I can much more easily believe people carrying them across the ocean than I can believe an accidental migration.
Apparently you don't realize that the UL (Underwriters Laboratories) is not a Federal agency, so has no say as to whether anything can be imported or not. UL approval may be required by insurers (thus the 'underwriters' part of the name) and may be incorporated into building codes, but nothing about UL approval has the force of law.
If you had watched the Nye/Ham debate the other day (and you really should, it's hilarious in places) you would have realized the OP was simply channeling Ham's "arguments" from the debate. Not quite, but almost, "woosh".
If the drones are not causing problems, then there is no need to regulate them.
If the FAA didn't step in now, the first time that UPS's drone cargo 747 smashed into an airport terminal people would say, "Why haven't you been regulating these since the beginning?" Do you really think that FedEx is going to pay a pilot, copilot and engineer $100,000/year each for a day longer than they absolutely have to? The day they decide they can get away with running drone aircraft you'll see layoffs.
I grew up in northern Michigan. To be absolutely truthful, most of the ice fishing accidents (including my own) are caused by simple stupidity. The guys who fail so hard they die would probably have won a Darwin Award sooner rather than later.
Unlike Anonymous Cowards, the FAA is looking to the future when FedEx is flying drone 767 aircraft between major hubs. If the tell Lakemaid Beer that it's OK to run a drone without testing and permits FedEx is going to claim the same right.
By the way, the next time you're in the Seattle area take a tour through the Boeing factory. You might be surprised to find that airliners really ARE made of stuff closely resembling tinfoil.
Cue the flood of flame . . .
Most companies??? Hardly. On a properly run network, sure. Those are rarer than hens' teeth. Retail corporations are some of the worst for squeezing their employees as much as possible while paying them as little as possible, if the network engineers are even Target employees and not contractors. The company that I used to work for refused to bid on jobs to install security equipment in retail stores for the simple reason that it is impossible to break even without doing shoddy slap-together work much less make money.
If Target is typical of most retail companies each store is a standalone node with a single link (with backup) up to regional/district hub. The segmentation happens at the store level, and everything within that segment can talk to everything else because no one wants to deal with the nightmare of custom VLAN configurations for each store. There **might** be an IDS running on the Corporate headquarters network, but it's doubtful that it would even be configured correctly much less maintained and monitored.
Seriously, here's how bad it is in the retail world. My wife has to do her annual self-review on the corporate network, so she brought home the instructions that they gave the employees. With 18 years of experience working with computers, web applications, and following obscure and poorly written documentation I was unable to make heads or tails of this mess. Not only are they unable to build a decent web app for something as simple as annual reviews, they can't even create a usable step-by-step instruction guide.
The major surprise in the Target attack was that it has taken this long to happen.
Well, the Iraqi invasion of Georgia, of course! Although to be truthful I think a lot of people would have welcomed it and been completely willing give it to them without a fight. I'd throw in Mississippi and Alabama if they'd take them, the rest of the country would be better off for it.
Carbon 14 dating is only good for the last few tens of thousands of years, beyond that the percentage of Carbon 14 is so small that quantum effects on decay take over. Potassium/Argon dating has to be used for older finds. Worth noting is that Ham's group once sent ash from Mount St. Helen's latest eruption to a lab for P/A dating. They were told by the lab that accurate results for samples less than a million years old were impossible (not enough time for decay to happen), but they insisted so the lab performed the test. They have used those inaccurate results as "proof" that P/A dating doesn't work.
A rather extreme over-simplification of the Peron regime, and if you look at the whole picture you may realize that the other two collapses were caused almost completely by the foreign banks. The only reason that Argentina's economy is recovering now is because they mostly abandoned the World Bank/IMF policies that they've been following for decades.
A commenter in the second posted story claims to be an Argentine fire fighter. He says that the fire was deliberate.
How does a table tennis blade get offensive? Does it have a brace to hold your middle finger erect during play, or are offensive images printed on the face? Inquiring minds want to know . . .
Oops, I took it the exact opposite way, as sarcasm. Never mind then.
OK, rephrasing. "it's too cold to allow atmospheric lifting that could raise sufficient water vapor to altitudes where snow could be produced."