Lookup the size of the greenland ice sheet, you may have to make a few assumptions to turn this into a volume of ice.
Now divide by the surface area of the oceans. Note that this result is in the neighborhood of 20 feet.
Note that the greenland ice sheet is not floating, and most of it is above sea level.
Eat your words.
Yay for real facts! (sorry for the nasty tone, but you asked for this one) The ice on land may be minuscule, but it is more than enough to make a big difference.
You can't be serious - you are actually comparing 100 BC Gaul - which wasn't a nation at the time - to 1940's France? The total population of Gaul was probably about that of 1940's Paris. 80,000 men was a rounding error compared to the casualties of just the Battle of Stalingrad.
The brutality of the average German or Soviet commander was on par with that of Julius Caesar. Rape, murder, Wiping towns and villages off the map - all par for the course on the eastern front.
The Soviets told their troops not to retreat - and backed that up with machine-gun nests to mow down those troops if they did. Yep - their own troops. And then send the families of those troops to Siberia. Later in the war the Germans did the same thing. And there were 14 year old boys in their armies by that time in the war....The descriptions of these atrocities go on for hours in the podcast I pointed out.
I am not trying to claim Caesar was a wimp - but nothing he did was any worse than what was common on the eastern front.
Go to dancarlin.com. go to the hardcore history. Listen to the Ghosts of the Ostfront series (warning - 6 hours+) Then come and tell me about a 'bunch of pussies'...
In general, your objections are valid. In this case, the device with the supposed kill switch is a radar. A giant radio receiver. You would be hard pressed to find a better communication channel than that, and it is hidden in plain sight.
Everything that is received by the radar goes through software at some point or other, and this is not trivial stuff, it is likely in ROM and not easily dumped or disassembled. Possibly encrypted to boot. A kill switch in general? Hard. For a radar? very plausible, and most of your objections have a simple answer for a radar.
TFA implies that "anyone who is old enough, has no respiratory problems, and who isn't immunosuppressed,", will have a strong immune response to the flu whether or not the get the vaccine. Those who do not fall into this category don't have a strong enough immune system to react to the vaccine anyway and receive no benefit. The studies to confirm or deny this have not been done.
There are conservatives living in urban areas - but their conservatism is likely to be of a very different kind than those living in small towns.
Actually, I don't think that is the case. It is just that the conservatives in urban areas are mostly first-generation urbanites. Unless you are talking about the deep south, or Utah for example. Those urban conservative areas do tend to be different from the rural conservatives, but it is the whole area, not just 'some conservatives'.
Meh. The page numbers in my post are off. That is what I get for going from memory. I remember a post either from the editor, or the publisher saying something to the effect that 'we can't bind books that big' - refering to the size the book would have been if they hadn't split it.
He didn't say that crashes were decreasing because of cell phone use - just that cell phone use is up, and crashes are down. He did not imply that they were even related. You did, and proceeded to chastise him for your own flaws. Think before you type.
It isn't the job of a plumber to make cheese sandwiches either - but there are lots of plumbers that do, and there is nothing wrong with that. There is no reason that a physics researcher can't also be an encyclopedia article author. Those jobs are not mutually exclusive. Wikipedia adopted that stance because it is the most brain-dead simple way of avoiding certain kinds of abuses. This policy is not the best way to make an encyclopedia. It is one of the simpler ones. The current rules aren't gospel - stop treating them like that.
No more reproduction in 500,000 years? That's not a problem. If my 4 month old niece keeps growing as fast as she is now, there won't be any room on this planet for anyone else by then anyway.
Examples: You are free to say what you want. This means that I can't stop you from talking.
I am free to own a car - you are restricted from stealing it.
You are free to live - I am restricted from killing you.
I am free to use your code that you GPLed (hypothetical of course) - You are not allowed to stop me from modifying and using that code.
This isn't just a fun list - in each case, the freedom is the direct result of the restriction. Remove the restriction and the freedom is gone. This applies equally well to both manmade restrictions (laws) as it does to physical limits. (I am not strong/fast/smart enough to stop you)
Because, to a true sociopath, their 'own' is a group of one. Themselves. - That is the defining characteristic of a sociopath. To them manipulating other people - including other sociopaths - is no different to them than manipulating bits is to most/.ers. The rules are a bit different, and that is about it.
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PS, politicians hinder their own kind all the time, it is called 'campaigning for office'...
You may well be correct that this is not an effective way to protect the account. I was just pointing out that the forum may have a compelling reason to protect accounts - even if you, the account holder, don't care.
As if the other replier weren't enough... In order to read your IP packets some machine in the network between you and the FTP server needs to be compromised. And the easiest by far is your own machine. The whole point of this story is that malware does just that - it sniffs the packets as they leave your own machine to get those passwords. That is easier than installing a keylogger.
You may not care if you account is compromised, but the forum may not want the flood of spam/crap that could result. I can't say for sure - but I wouldn't be surprised if this was the logic behind it.
If you have to break your own windows to get in about once a month - because your ridiculously complicated lock keeps locking you out - and it takes a week to replace those windows - then you probably need a simpler/less 'secure' lock. You might even be better off without a lock....
It isn't the differences between people that matter here. It is the differences in peoples habits.
How many meals have you had in the last week? My total is about 15. I tend to skip meals - cause I don't want to take the time to fix something to eat.
Do you habitually take the stairs two and three at a time? I feel stupid taking them one at a time. Elevators are for when I have a cart of stuff to move.
Do you jog from the car to the door? I do about half the time.
These are the (bad!) habits of someone who has to work at it to gain any weight (you describe it as 'Some people can maintain a light weight with no effort all.') I am not going to claim that this is healthy - it isn't. But when it comes right down to it, the reason that you gain weight is simple, you eat more calories than you burn. That is it. There are some metabolism differences between people. These are mostly the result of years of habits, not genes. Change you habits. (Although, I'll admit, that part can be very hard.)
The reason you have to work hard to lose weight is because you aren't changing you habits. Your habits have you eating more calories than you burn. Those people that have been replying to you are essentially right - there isn't anything different about you that makes it hard to lose weight. You just eat too much/burn too little. If that seems a little redundant (I've said it 3 times so far) it's 'cause you haven't listened to it yet. THAT IS ALL THERE IS TOO IT. Once you get this, perhaps you will be able to look at your life and see what you need to change. Changing may be hard - but it is a one-time thing, not a lifetime of hard work.
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Yay for real facts! (sorry for the nasty tone, but you asked for this one) The ice on land may be minuscule, but it is more than enough to make a big difference.
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You can't be serious - you are actually comparing 100 BC Gaul - which wasn't a nation at the time - to 1940's France? The total population of Gaul was probably about that of 1940's Paris. 80,000 men was a rounding error compared to the casualties of just the Battle of Stalingrad.
The brutality of the average German or Soviet commander was on par with that of Julius Caesar. Rape, murder, Wiping towns and villages off the map - all par for the course on the eastern front.
The Soviets told their troops not to retreat - and backed that up with machine-gun nests to mow down those troops if they did. Yep - their own troops. And then send the families of those troops to Siberia. Later in the war the Germans did the same thing. And there were 14 year old boys in their armies by that time in the war....The descriptions of these atrocities go on for hours in the podcast I pointed out.
I am not trying to claim Caesar was a wimp - but nothing he did was any worse than what was common on the eastern front.
Go to dancarlin.com. go to the hardcore history. Listen to the Ghosts of the Ostfront series (warning - 6 hours+) Then come and tell me about a 'bunch of pussies'...
The west is largely ignorant of this part of WWII
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In general, your objections are valid. In this case, the device with the supposed kill switch is a radar. A giant radio receiver. You would be hard pressed to find a better communication channel than that, and it is hidden in plain sight.
Everything that is received by the radar goes through software at some point or other, and this is not trivial stuff, it is likely in ROM and not easily dumped or disassembled. Possibly encrypted to boot. A kill switch in general? Hard. For a radar? very plausible, and most of your objections have a simple answer for a radar.
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Actually, I don't think that is the case. It is just that the conservatives in urban areas are mostly first-generation urbanites. Unless you are talking about the deep south, or Utah for example. Those urban conservative areas do tend to be different from the rural conservatives, but it is the whole area, not just 'some conservatives'.
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It isn't the job of a plumber to make cheese sandwiches either - but there are lots of plumbers that do, and there is nothing wrong with that. There is no reason that a physics researcher can't also be an encyclopedia article author. Those jobs are not mutually exclusive. Wikipedia adopted that stance because it is the most brain-dead simple way of avoiding certain kinds of abuses. This policy is not the best way to make an encyclopedia. It is one of the simpler ones. The current rules aren't gospel - stop treating them like that.
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No more reproduction in 500,000 years? That's not a problem. If my 4 month old niece keeps growing as fast as she is now, there won't be any room on this planet for anyone else by then anyway.
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Freedoms are lists of restrictions.
Examples: You are free to say what you want. This means that I can't stop you from talking.
I am free to own a car - you are restricted from stealing it.
You are free to live - I am restricted from killing you.
I am free to use your code that you GPLed (hypothetical of course) - You are not allowed to stop me from modifying and using that code.
This isn't just a fun list - in each case, the freedom is the direct result of the restriction. Remove the restriction and the freedom is gone. This applies equally well to both manmade restrictions (laws) as it does to physical limits. (I am not strong/fast/smart enough to stop you)
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Because, to a true sociopath, their 'own' is a group of one. Themselves. - That is the defining characteristic of a sociopath. To them manipulating other people - including other sociopaths - is no different to them than manipulating bits is to most /.ers. The rules are a bit different, and that is about it.
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PS, politicians hinder their own kind all the time, it is called 'campaigning for office'...
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If you have to break your own windows to get in about once a month - because your ridiculously complicated lock keeps locking you out - and it takes a week to replace those windows - then you probably need a simpler/less 'secure' lock. You might even be better off without a lock....
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It isn't the differences between people that matter here. It is the differences in peoples habits.
How many meals have you had in the last week? My total is about 15. I tend to skip meals - cause I don't want to take the time to fix something to eat.
Do you habitually take the stairs two and three at a time? I feel stupid taking them one at a time. Elevators are for when I have a cart of stuff to move.
Do you jog from the car to the door? I do about half the time.
These are the (bad!) habits of someone who has to work at it to gain any weight (you describe it as 'Some people can maintain a light weight with no effort all.') I am not going to claim that this is healthy - it isn't. But when it comes right down to it, the reason that you gain weight is simple, you eat more calories than you burn. That is it. There are some metabolism differences between people. These are mostly the result of years of habits, not genes. Change you habits. (Although, I'll admit, that part can be very hard.)
The reason you have to work hard to lose weight is because you aren't changing you habits. Your habits have you eating more calories than you burn. Those people that have been replying to you are essentially right - there isn't anything different about you that makes it hard to lose weight. You just eat too much/burn too little. If that seems a little redundant (I've said it 3 times so far) it's 'cause you haven't listened to it yet. THAT IS ALL THERE IS TOO IT. Once you get this, perhaps you will be able to look at your life and see what you need to change. Changing may be hard - but it is a one-time thing, not a lifetime of hard work.
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Most nails are put in with nailguns. Hammers these days are mostly used for demolition of various sorts, including pulling nails. T