I can think of another reason. With direct access to the root DNS, it's possible that a website could just accidentally become unreachable. And it's just so complicated that it could take months, maybe even years to fix the deleted entry....
I'm glad to see this happens elsewhere. I thought maybe Arizona had a monopoly on that. Here, they hold a vote, then decide whether to follow the result or not. Whenever they choose not to, their excuse is usually "the voters didn't understand this".
Well, that certainly is me. The desk I'm sitting at right now has piles of crap dating back years on it. Glancing at it, I see books on C++, unopened mail, candy, some fireworks, paper plates with code scrawled on them, magazines, and a whole lot of dust. Fucking MESS, but productive I am.
Right. How is the warming "unexpected"? The oceanic crust is much thinner than continental crust, and it's basaltic so it conducts heat a bit better than siliceous crustal rock. It doesn't surprise me at all if some heat is escaping through the ocean floors.
Tinkering with the environment may not be all that wise because we really don't understand the full mechanism of global warming. However, everyone seems to agree that it would be worthwhile to reduce the CO2 content of the atmosphere. So think about this:
First, we need a hell of a lot of electric power. That kind of dictates the location for the plant, because a nuclear power station is the only answer with present technology. So I suggest Midway Island. It's so far from mainland continents that no possible nuclear catastrophe could happen.
Okay, so we build a big power station there. Then we build an air liquefaction plant. Same technology that currently produces liquid oxygen and nitrogen, but on a massive scale. In that process, you also liquefy CO2, which is effectively scrubbed from the atmosphere. The plant pays for its operation with the commercially valuable liquid oxygen and nitrogen. (Yes, I realize transport of the product is a problem. But that's just a matter of technology, we can solve it).
Now what do we do with the CO2? There are several conversion processes, but they usually lead to CO and/or CH4, neither of which are what we want. So research needs to be done there. Ideally, we want solid carbon-black and O2 from it. But if that can't be done, then maybe it can be used to synthesize a commercially useful hydrocarbon. With the ocean and plenty of power available, getting hydrogen for the synthesis would be no problem.
This plan, admittedly, is expensive to implement. But it would work, scrubbing CO2 at a large rate and paying for itself over time without any risk of doing more environmental damage by tinkering with little-understood processes. Paint the ground white?? FFS!!
I honestly don't know. The issue has never come up for my little company. But I would point out that no one but ICANN can actually "kill" a registered domain. All they can do is set their nameservers so the domain doesn't resolve. So if you still have access to your control panel (as I think you would have with me), you can set your NS somewhere else and get around the problem.
Now, if you HOST with me, then of course you have to follow the TOS. My hosting is third-party and I have no control over that. But frankly, I would recommend hosting elsewhere anyway. I only offer hosting at all because all other registrars do and I have to compete.
I hesitate to "advertise" on here, but I am a registrar. Please check http://www.netwithus.net/ and see what I can do for you. My prices are competitive with Godaddy.
On the face of it, I would agree. But I'm afraid all that would happen is that a search for shoe stores would bring up hundreds of porn sites. Give a mess-maker better tools, and he will make bigger messes.
I'm not sure if it qualifies as a Googlebomb because there was no intent to increase page ranking, but I've been astonished at how quickly vandalized Wikipedia pages show up on Google. Considering that most vandalism is removed in minutes, it almost seems that Google's spider sits there and waits for new stuff to pounce on.
By contrast, I administer a MediaWiki installation for a non-profit organization. I get link spam constantly, but that fails to appear on Google. I can only assume the search engine knows about the "real" Googlebomb links and ignores them.
I was thinking the same thing. It's like Marvin the paranoid robot. "I can't do what I was supposed to do. My existence is meaningless. Guess I'll just stand over here and rust".
I've tried 20, every brand including the most expensive, all within the last 2 years. Of the 20, 18 died within 3 weeks. One exploded while on, sending glass shards everywhere. the final one lasted 5 or 6 weeks. Not one was satisfactory in color or brightness. I want (need - I have eye trouble) bright blue-white light like you get from a cool-white tube fluorescent. The compacts don't deliver. That light, at least to my eyes, is yellow and dim. And all the ones I tried came on gradually, not full brightness instantly. I hate that.
The fact that one exploded, presumably putting mercury vapor in my air, also makes them dangerous. As far as I can tell, it was something in the base electronics that blew. The base was shattered as well as the glass. These things are just not ready for any use I could put them to. They're expensive trash.
Well, I say they're all but useless. The light color is just horribly wrong. The coolest ones are yellow, and the warmer ones approach orange. Might as well use a kerosene lamp. And where are you finding ones that are instant-on? I see instant dim light that gradually comes up over a minute or so. VERY irritating. Then that burn-out in a few weeks I've had over and over again, plus the one that exploded...
I only turn the lights off when I leave for work. They stay on when I'm home. There's no connection with any appliance running, they just go dead while on and I'm just sitting here. It also happened in two different houses. And I'm talking about maybe 20 over 2-3 years. That's a lot of duds!
I don't care who sells them, I'm not buying any more. I've bought these bulbs from Ace Hardware, Home Depot, Lowe's, you name it, and so far every one has quit working within a month. Long life? Ha! And the light is unsatisfactory to me as well. I don't understand how other people like them.
I have no doubt this happens, I've seen it many times. Years ago, I was employed as a truck driver. You can see farther ahead from the higher vantage point of a truck, and I often saw the non-event that caused the braking. Usually just some dip either lane-hopping or slowing for no reason. Good thing sound doesn't transmit between cars, because I turned my air blue many times over that.
I can do this! Here, just Google for... oh look! Porn! Err, no, just Google for... oh, MORE porn! Wow, look at those titties! Err, what are we looking for again? Oh, yeah. Okay, this time we'll get... PORN!!!
Never have I said the agency is perfect. There are bad apples everywhere - even in major churches. What I say is that the USGS does research that is valuable, maybe even priceless to the people. Given the ability to continue that research, one day we will know enough about earthquakes and volcanoes to save countless lives. And maybe, just maybe we will learn how to live in this world without either giving up our lifestyle or ruining the environment. It's possible. And the future depends on it.
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Yes. We should make damn SURE it gets out. Bravo for one stand-up guy!
Considering that I work for the US Government, no. Beyond that, I agree with your reply.
I can think of another reason. With direct access to the root DNS, it's possible that a website could just accidentally become unreachable. And it's just so complicated that it could take months, maybe even years to fix the deleted entry....
I'm glad to see this happens elsewhere. I thought maybe Arizona had a monopoly on that. Here, they hold a vote, then decide whether to follow the result or not. Whenever they choose not to, their excuse is usually "the voters didn't understand this".
Well, that certainly is me. The desk I'm sitting at right now has piles of crap dating back years on it. Glancing at it, I see books on C++, unopened mail, candy, some fireworks, paper plates with code scrawled on them, magazines, and a whole lot of dust. Fucking MESS, but productive I am.
Right. How is the warming "unexpected"? The oceanic crust is much thinner than continental crust, and it's basaltic so it conducts heat a bit better than siliceous crustal rock. It doesn't surprise me at all if some heat is escaping through the ocean floors.
First, we need a hell of a lot of electric power. That kind of dictates the location for the plant, because a nuclear power station is the only answer with present technology. So I suggest Midway Island. It's so far from mainland continents that no possible nuclear catastrophe could happen.
Okay, so we build a big power station there. Then we build an air liquefaction plant. Same technology that currently produces liquid oxygen and nitrogen, but on a massive scale. In that process, you also liquefy CO2, which is effectively scrubbed from the atmosphere. The plant pays for its operation with the commercially valuable liquid oxygen and nitrogen. (Yes, I realize transport of the product is a problem. But that's just a matter of technology, we can solve it).
Now what do we do with the CO2? There are several conversion processes, but they usually lead to CO and/or CH4, neither of which are what we want. So research needs to be done there. Ideally, we want solid carbon-black and O2 from it. But if that can't be done, then maybe it can be used to synthesize a commercially useful hydrocarbon. With the ocean and plenty of power available, getting hydrogen for the synthesis would be no problem.
This plan, admittedly, is expensive to implement. But it would work, scrubbing CO2 at a large rate and paying for itself over time without any risk of doing more environmental damage by tinkering with little-understood processes. Paint the ground white?? FFS!!
Now, if you HOST with me, then of course you have to follow the TOS. My hosting is third-party and I have no control over that. But frankly, I would recommend hosting elsewhere anyway. I only offer hosting at all because all other registrars do and I have to compete.
I hesitate to "advertise" on here, but I am a registrar. Please check http://www.netwithus.net/ and see what I can do for you. My prices are competitive with Godaddy.
On the face of it, I would agree. But I'm afraid all that would happen is that a search for shoe stores would bring up hundreds of porn sites. Give a mess-maker better tools, and he will make bigger messes.
By contrast, I administer a MediaWiki installation for a non-profit organization. I get link spam constantly, but that fails to appear on Google. I can only assume the search engine knows about the "real" Googlebomb links and ignores them.
Seems like I read that just yesterday on meta.wikimedia.org. Are you the one who made that little mess?
I was thinking the same thing. It's like Marvin the paranoid robot. "I can't do what I was supposed to do. My existence is meaningless. Guess I'll just stand over here and rust".
The fact that one exploded, presumably putting mercury vapor in my air, also makes them dangerous. As far as I can tell, it was something in the base electronics that blew. The base was shattered as well as the glass. These things are just not ready for any use I could put them to. They're expensive trash.
Well, I say they're all but useless. The light color is just horribly wrong. The coolest ones are yellow, and the warmer ones approach orange. Might as well use a kerosene lamp. And where are you finding ones that are instant-on? I see instant dim light that gradually comes up over a minute or so. VERY irritating. Then that burn-out in a few weeks I've had over and over again, plus the one that exploded...
I only turn the lights off when I leave for work. They stay on when I'm home. There's no connection with any appliance running, they just go dead while on and I'm just sitting here. It also happened in two different houses. And I'm talking about maybe 20 over 2-3 years. That's a lot of duds!
I don't care who sells them, I'm not buying any more. I've bought these bulbs from Ace Hardware, Home Depot, Lowe's, you name it, and so far every one has quit working within a month. Long life? Ha! And the light is unsatisfactory to me as well. I don't understand how other people like them.
You're welcome. I aim to please!
They had message boards? I never look at anything bearing the Y logo.
I have no doubt this happens, I've seen it many times. Years ago, I was employed as a truck driver. You can see farther ahead from the higher vantage point of a truck, and I often saw the non-event that caused the braking. Usually just some dip either lane-hopping or slowing for no reason. Good thing sound doesn't transmit between cars, because I turned my air blue many times over that.
Micro pop-ups! Test your IQ! Spank the monkey and win a prize!
I can do this! Here, just Google for... oh look! Porn! Err, no, just Google for... oh, MORE porn! Wow, look at those titties! Err, what are we looking for again? Oh, yeah. Okay, this time we'll get... PORN!!!
CSU is also Colorado State. I are un allumnus frum ther.
I can't mod this because I already commented in the thread. If I could, I would mod it UP! Very true and very well said.
Never have I said the agency is perfect. There are bad apples everywhere - even in major churches. What I say is that the USGS does research that is valuable, maybe even priceless to the people. Given the ability to continue that research, one day we will know enough about earthquakes and volcanoes to save countless lives. And maybe, just maybe we will learn how to live in this world without either giving up our lifestyle or ruining the environment. It's possible. And the future depends on it.