Even if the seas were to raise, the US and Europe would just build higher and hold it back.
Just build higher?!
Do you have any concept of the time and money it takes to rebuild a commercial building more complex than a Wal-Mart? Or an interstate highway? Or a tunnel? Or a port? Or a railroad? Or an airport? Or a high-voltage power transmission line? Or a nuclear power plant? Do you have ANY idea how much human effort and raw material is tied up in the infrastructure of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Boston, Providence, Washington, Miami, New Orleans, Baltimore, Savannah, Norfolk, and Tampa? That's tens or hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of stuff to rebuild on the east coast of the US alone.
And what 'piles of cash' exactly, do we have to do it with, considering much of our vast national debt is held by China, who will be busy rebuilding what they lost in Hong Kong and Shanghai, and finding something to do with the Japanese and Taiwanese refugees?
And when Tel Aviv AND Gaza AND Qatar and Dubai flood out, those land pressures won't start a catastrophic war, no sir. And when India loses Mumbai and Chennai and Pakistan loses Karachi, there won't be any incentive for them to start lobbing nukes.
The first half or so of Half-Life made a pretty concerted attempt to make the health/ammo/weapon drops believable (although you had to wonder why so many of the scientists were keeping shotgun shells in their desks).
Yeah, they added randomness. That's why you almost never see original Pac-Man in the wild (it's a money-loser in terms of time per quarter once someone gets the patterns down), but Ms. Pac-Man can be found in dive bars reasonably often. Also why the ghosts sometimes do really stupid stuff in Ms. Pac-Man, like turn tail right before killing you.
What about healthcare providers? They cannot turn away people with incredibly expensive life-threatening injuries, and guess who the cost of caring for uninsured or claim-denied vegetables gets passed along to?
And that's not even getting into the effect on families, friends, employers, etc.
The choice to wear a seatbelt affects more people just the wearer.
I had the same situation, and found a pretty good solution - Earplugs.
I told my boss I'd be putting them in, and he could talk to me only when I removed them, otherwise I wouldn't be able to get work done. (this was an open office where my desk and my boss's desk faced and touched each other with no divider, and he was the type of guy who'd interrupt you from business-critical tasks when having trouble printing, which was all the time).
Now, you can actually hear stuff with earplugs on, but I pretended I couldn't, and I got neon green ones just to heighten the psychological effect.
You could go with a pair of big honking hearing protectors for maximum impact, too.
if things go out of control sooner or later you have guns in action
To my eye, this gets the guns in action sooner, as rioters in (or recovering from, or remembering) excruciating pain see the need to take out that goddamned raygun as soon as freaking possible.
Dude, the Nostromo drivers blow chunks under Windows, and the devs aren't the least bit interested in fixing them. And ATI's Windows drivers were substandard for years.
Something I've never understood - when do you need to drink the water in order to get hydrated? For example, chasing a shot of whiskey with a glass of water gets you a somewhat less concentrated alcoholic beverage in your gut, which it seems would still dehydrate you.
If net dehydration occurs even down to the alcohol content of beer, do you have to wait until the alcohol clears your stomach entirely in order to benefit from drinking water?
From a technical standpoint, sure, but why evaluate video games solely on the technology used?
Half Life was more than prettier Quake. It was prettier Quake with Screenwriting, which made a profound difference in the single player experience (at least up until that abortion of an ending).
You gotta give some credit to the Quake CTF / Team Fortress / Counterstrike creators for making something out of multiplayer beyond simple deathmatch as well.
municipal wireless internet access for individuals doesn't provide any obvious economic benefits that would increase the taxable base. It's just a hole to pump money into.
Neither do libraries.
Actually, maybe it doesn't increase the tax base, but municipal wi-fi would free up money for residents to spend locally instead of sending it to Verizon or Cablevision. Not that they necessarily will, of course, but it's not a total loss.
The only really effective way to these kinds of tests on people is with placebo-controlled clinical trials.
Such a long post, and you didn't mention the ethical problems of an experiment like that? It can still be called "science" even if it uses a less direct method of assesment that could pass an IRB, and the science of statistics can help, too.
When I cook something in normal fashion, I can be sure that the temperature of the food is BELOW the temperature of my heat source
The temperature of your flame is much, much higher than you will ever attain in a microwave.
Certain parts of the food can reach temperatures never attained in normal cooking
Consider this: Why can't you brown foods in a microwave without special equipment? The answer is that the temperature is limited by the boiling point of water (as with steaming/boiling/poaching/etc.). Browning takes place at significantly higher temeratures (between 300 and 400 F IIRC), and all sorts of things are formed as a result.
Your cheese tasting funny is irrelevant to this discussion.
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Just build higher?!
Do you have any concept of the time and money it takes to rebuild a commercial building more complex than a Wal-Mart? Or an interstate highway? Or a tunnel? Or a port? Or a railroad? Or an airport? Or a high-voltage power transmission line? Or a nuclear power plant? Do you have ANY idea how much human effort and raw material is tied up in the infrastructure of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Boston, Providence, Washington, Miami, New Orleans, Baltimore, Savannah, Norfolk, and Tampa? That's tens or hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of stuff to rebuild on the east coast of the US alone.
And what 'piles of cash' exactly, do we have to do it with, considering much of our vast national debt is held by China, who will be busy rebuilding what they lost in Hong Kong and Shanghai, and finding something to do with the Japanese and Taiwanese refugees?
And when Tel Aviv AND Gaza AND Qatar and Dubai flood out, those land pressures won't start a catastrophic war, no sir. And when India loses Mumbai and Chennai and Pakistan loses Karachi, there won't be any incentive for them to start lobbing nukes.
In fact, at one time the definition of "100% IBM-PC Compatible" was that it would run Flight Simulator.
That has to be their call, though. Taking a "parents should regulate their kids" stand means that some parents are going to be assholes.
The first half or so of Half-Life made a pretty concerted attempt to make the health/ammo/weapon drops believable (although you had to wonder why so many of the scientists were keeping shotgun shells in their desks).
Yeah, they added randomness. That's why you almost never see original Pac-Man in the wild (it's a money-loser in terms of time per quarter once someone gets the patterns down), but Ms. Pac-Man can be found in dive bars reasonably often. Also why the ghosts sometimes do really stupid stuff in Ms. Pac-Man, like turn tail right before killing you.
Nice!
Belkin realized this, so they named it after a doomed, alien-infested spaceship instead.
(I own one, and I want to love it, but...)
What, you've never seen canned (head)crab?
Don't you mean floating-point Lab? 8-bit HSV would be like trading feet for cubits.
You mean like if you used an ocean current to generate power to make hydrogen, and then shipped the hydrogen inland or put it in a vehicle? Idiotic.
And that's not even getting into the effect on families, friends, employers, etc.
The choice to wear a seatbelt affects more people just the wearer.
I told my boss I'd be putting them in, and he could talk to me only when I removed them, otherwise I wouldn't be able to get work done. (this was an open office where my desk and my boss's desk faced and touched each other with no divider, and he was the type of guy who'd interrupt you from business-critical tasks when having trouble printing, which was all the time).
Now, you can actually hear stuff with earplugs on, but I pretended I couldn't, and I got neon green ones just to heighten the psychological effect.
You could go with a pair of big honking hearing protectors for maximum impact, too.
Man, it must have taken you forever to type that.
What about the cockamamie wishes of megalomaniacal defense contractors?
To my eye, this gets the guns in action sooner, as rioters in (or recovering from, or remembering) excruciating pain see the need to take out that goddamned raygun as soon as freaking possible.
Dude, the Nostromo drivers blow chunks under Windows, and the devs aren't the least bit interested in fixing them. And ATI's Windows drivers were substandard for years.
If net dehydration occurs even down to the alcohol content of beer, do you have to wait until the alcohol clears your stomach entirely in order to benefit from drinking water?
So, do people understand you when you say you're going to the AT Machine?
Half Life was more than prettier Quake. It was prettier Quake with Screenwriting, which made a profound difference in the single player experience (at least up until that abortion of an ending).
You gotta give some credit to the Quake CTF / Team Fortress / Counterstrike creators for making something out of multiplayer beyond simple deathmatch as well.
Agreed, but very little hacking, and not everyone's cup of tea.
Neither do libraries.
Actually, maybe it doesn't increase the tax base, but municipal wi-fi would free up money for residents to spend locally instead of sending it to Verizon or Cablevision. Not that they necessarily will, of course, but it's not a total loss.
Reheat your pizza in a steamer and get back to me.
Such a long post, and you didn't mention the ethical problems of an experiment like that? It can still be called "science" even if it uses a less direct method of assesment that could pass an IRB, and the science of statistics can help, too.
The temperature of your flame is much, much higher than you will ever attain in a microwave.
Certain parts of the food can reach temperatures never attained in normal cooking
Consider this: Why can't you brown foods in a microwave without special equipment? The answer is that the temperature is limited by the boiling point of water (as with steaming/boiling/poaching/etc.). Browning takes place at significantly higher temeratures (between 300 and 400 F IIRC), and all sorts of things are formed as a result.
Your cheese tasting funny is irrelevant to this discussion.
Tried Darwinia?