This is interesting, as just last night I was reading about something similar in Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything"...
To summarise, Nebraska is well known for its ash deposits - mined for cleaning products like Ajax - but no-one knew where it all came from.
Then in 1971, Mike Voorhies found a mass grave of prehistoric bones - sabre-toothed deer, zebra-like horses etc. - all killed by something big 12 million years ago. They were all buried under volcanic ash up to 3 metres deep.
One problem - no-one knew where all the ash came from.
Now Yellowstone was known to be pretty active, with its geysers, boiling mud-pools etc. but they couldn't find a caldera, ie. an actual volcano cone anywhere in the park.
But fortunately NASA were testing some high altitude photography techniques and decided to take some pictures of Yellowstone, thoughtfully dropping some copies off at the Visitor Centre. It was then that they realised that in fact Yellowstone is ONE BIG CALDERA - i.e. a 'superplume', 9000 square kilometres of crater left from some humungous explosion a long time back.
In Bill Bryson's words, "imagine a pile of TNT about the size of an English county and reaching 13 kilometres into the sky, to about the height of the highest cirrus clouds, and you have some idea of what visitors to Yellowstone are shuffling about on top of".
He goes on, "The Yellowstone eruption of two million years ago put out enough ash to bury New York State to a depth of 20 metres..."
And then there's the last supervolcano eruption in Toba, in northern Sumatra, 74,000 years ago. Studies of ice cores in Greenland show that at least 6 years of 'volcanic winter' followed, and that humans probably were at the brink of extinction, with maybe only several thousand of us at any one time for thousands of years after (which maybe explains our relative lack of genetic diversity).
Yes, volcanoes are more than fire and magma - every now and then there're some *really* big ones.
Better not complain about the commercial break though...
Maybe a change of career is justified
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Well, if this is the way things are going, I might just retrain as a spammer.
If the law is occasionally on their side, won't that make them just a little more socially acceptable?
This is akin to a drug dealer claiming defamation of character because the local mothers reported him, and his buyers no longer feel safe coming round his place.
Contracts lost to perform illegal activities? Defamation? They must have GOOD lawyers.
It's kind of humourous in the context of the article, but in fact what you're experiencing is probably the need of the brain to delineate memories from different times somehow. Everyone has to know the difference between past, present and future by some mechanism. Most people use the apparent LOCATION of the memory (past often seems off to the left, future to the right), in your case you may simply be sorting by brightness.
The field of neuro-linguistic programming has more on this, although it's often a bit 'pop psych' unfortunately...
Now back to the topic...
Re:Here's how I got my mom to verify
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Another trick they play, and it's kind of obvious but can still catch people out, is the text of the link being valid, but the underlying href pointing somewhere else. eg.
my.bank.com
Anybody who needs educating in these respects, teach them to hover!
Since IE is bundled with a necessary expense it is essentially free. Perhaps not as in speech, but as in beer
Thing is, if you bought a new PC with bundled software it may cost you £1000 (here in the UK). So the software included is 'free'? But part of that £1000 covers the price of the software. You might have gone for a £750 PC without software instead and spent £250 on Windows and Office CDs. This is essentially the same thing (except a significant mark-up on non-OEM software I imagine).
Because there is not an explicit price breakdown doesn't mean there isn't one. A single transaction is not necessarily a single purchase.
Short and sweet... will there be a port... anybody know?
http://www.half-life2.org.uk/check.php/ says "There are rumors of a Linux CLIENT port, there will however be a server port."
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To summarise, Nebraska is well known for its ash deposits - mined for cleaning products like Ajax - but no-one knew where it all came from.
Then in 1971, Mike Voorhies found a mass grave of prehistoric bones - sabre-toothed deer, zebra-like horses etc. - all killed by something big 12 million years ago. They were all buried under volcanic ash up to 3 metres deep.
One problem - no-one knew where all the ash came from.
Now Yellowstone was known to be pretty active, with its geysers, boiling mud-pools etc. but they couldn't find a caldera, ie. an actual volcano cone anywhere in the park.
But fortunately NASA were testing some high altitude photography techniques and decided to take some pictures of Yellowstone, thoughtfully dropping some copies off at the Visitor Centre. It was then that they realised that in fact Yellowstone is ONE BIG CALDERA - i.e. a 'superplume', 9000 square kilometres of crater left from some humungous explosion a long time back.
In Bill Bryson's words, "imagine a pile of TNT about the size of an English county and reaching 13 kilometres into the sky, to about the height of the highest cirrus clouds, and you have some idea of what visitors to Yellowstone are shuffling about on top of".
He goes on, "The Yellowstone eruption of two million years ago put out enough ash to bury New York State to a depth of 20 metres ..."
And then there's the last supervolcano eruption in Toba, in northern Sumatra, 74,000 years ago. Studies of ice cores in Greenland show that at least 6 years of 'volcanic winter' followed, and that humans probably were at the brink of extinction, with maybe only several thousand of us at any one time for thousands of years after (which maybe explains our relative lack of genetic diversity).
Yes, volcanoes are more than fire and magma - every now and then there're some *really* big ones.
Better not complain about the commercial break though ...
Well, if this is the way things are going, I might just retrain as a spammer.
If the law is occasionally on their side, won't that make them just a little more socially acceptable?
This is akin to a drug dealer claiming defamation of character because the local mothers reported him, and his buyers no longer feel safe coming round his place.
Contracts lost to perform illegal activities? Defamation? They must have GOOD lawyers.
It's kind of humourous in the context of the article, but in fact what you're experiencing is probably the need of the brain to delineate memories from different times somehow. Everyone has to know the difference between past, present and future by some mechanism. Most people use the apparent LOCATION of the memory (past often seems off to the left, future to the right), in your case you may simply be sorting by brightness.
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The field of neuro-linguistic programming has more on this, although it's often a bit 'pop psych' unfortunately
Now back to the topic
Another trick they play, and it's kind of obvious but can still catch people out, is the text of the link being valid, but the underlying href pointing somewhere else. eg. my.bank.com Anybody who needs educating in these respects, teach them to hover!
Since IE is bundled with a necessary expense it is essentially free. Perhaps not as in speech, but as in beer
Thing is, if you bought a new PC with bundled software it may cost you £1000 (here in the UK). So the software included is 'free'? But part of that £1000 covers the price of the software. You might have gone for a £750 PC without software instead and spent £250 on Windows and Office CDs. This is essentially the same thing (except a significant mark-up on non-OEM software I imagine).
Because there is not an explicit price breakdown doesn't mean there isn't one. A single transaction is not necessarily a single purchase.
Short and sweet ... will there be a port ... anybody know?
http://www.half-life2.org.uk/check.php/ says "There are rumors of a Linux CLIENT port, there will however be a server port."