After suffering through hours of an amalgam of "Starship Troopers" (the book), "Dragonriders of Pern" and "Dancing with the Wolves" quotes, it didn't boggle mine... will never watch anything with "Cameron" in the credits list.
ext2fs works great with ext3, except when installed in the same time as Daemon Tools: my WinXP Home was crashing a few seconds after getting a desktop... and I reinstalled it a couple of times until MS got pissed off and told me to go buy another XP...
care to elaborate ? I mean: "broken", "mess" and "inconsistently" ?... or were you talking about PHP, Python, Java, C, C++ etc. ? As far as I can tell, Perl has the easiest way to find and install a shared library of them all... PHP and Java are coming along, though, with a similar setup...
that office came with an anti-glare monitor, too ?
basements are great for writing code, my best time was in a room that used to be a broom closet once: controlled lighting, silence, conference room cum smoking lounge around the corner... just perfect... ; large open offices I hate...
you should investigate how many regulations have the manufacturers to comply with, from production, to transportation, to disposal... I suspect the rules are lighter for other products.
Thank you, now can I print your answer and take it to the US embassy when I apply for a Green Card ?
I suppose you live in a country with a balmy climate, or you are very skilled at unfreezing the diesel engine with the gasoline burner.
So, you say all diesel engines in Europe got converted to the new model (particulate filtration and all) when the law was passed ? Where I live we called diesel automobiles "Halley"... because of the visible tail of smoke... or "tractors".
Last time I checked, the Sulfur was not the biggest problem, but rather the formaldehyde, the acrolein, the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and other nasties, which will get filtered only if you use a gas mask.
Huge swaths of land that used to be rainforest are now used for grazing cattle and soybean/palm oil farms.
let me rewrite that:
Huge swaths of land that used to be mostly swamps, have a very thin layer of soil and that supported crops only by slash and burn cultivation (cutting the forest, burning the wood, planting something for a few years in the ash, letting the forest grow back) and who were so unproductive that even populations with rather sophisticated agriculture, such as the Inca, avoided them, are now used for grazing cattle and soybean/palm oil farms.
now can you spot the paradox ?
People living in "rainforest" area were mostly hunter-gatherers with a luster of agriculture because it's damn' difficult to have agriculture where rains wash away your soil, weeds grow overnight, rivers wide as Missouri change their course every year by a few kilometers and bugs growing in the swamps those people called home kill most things that don't have scales or can get close enough to a smoky fire.
I can understand cutting the rainforest for the wood, but for grazing cattle ?? Did Argentina run out of pampas ?
I am sure there are swaths of rainforest cut for planting something else, but I doubt those swaths are "huge", unless US and EU protectionism disappeared while I wasn't looking, or those evil farmers like growing crops for the fun of it. Agricultural production needs a market, you know ? Evil guys that persecute mother Gaia without looking to make money happen only in cartoons.
For your information, no evil capitalistic farmer bothers to "graze cattle": much easier and profitable to force-feed them indoors. Only poor subsistence farmers and "free range" subsidized farmers do it.
Maybe I am too old, but it used to be a time when on Slashdot people could think two moves ahead: you cannot have Mother Gaia environmentalism, free-range-ism, no-tile-agriculture, bio-fuels and protection of the environment in the same time. The same laws that keep the energy expensive (such as forbidding the construction of new nuclear reactors) are causing the "huge swaths" of cut rainforest, and for very little benefit, since a "swath" of rainforest won't stay cultivated for more than a few years no matter how much artificial nitrates or phosphates you throw at it because some thousand millimeters of rain a month will make sure that after whatever soil was created by burning and is washed away, only the rainforest (yeah, the plants growing in the rainforest are pretty tough, you need something close to a nuke to kill them) will manage to grow in the sands and clays left in place.
Want environment protection ? Donate your backyard to a "nukular" power plant, then we won't need to pester Mother Gaia for agricultural land: we'll be able to grow crops and "graze cattle" in skyscrapers. I would donate my backyard, but then I'll have the whole local GreenPeace chapter camping in the front yard, and I won't get any sleep, won't be able to work, and my government won't be able to give them the blackmail money, so they will come after my shaving cream which, you know, contains very dangerous chemicals.
noisy diesels have sold well in Europe (thanks in part to diesel fuel subsidies)
pray, tell, which Europe are you writing about ? is it Europe nearby Jupiter ? Did NASA discover semi-intelligent life there (intelligent enough not to tax fuels, not intelligent enough to stop from subsidising them) ?
Welcome to the new threat to the welfare of high-school jocks: autsourcing. It used to be that the repetitive and extremely boring tasks belonged to them.
Good news is the aspies might find ways to automate those repetitive task they were prevented to look at before.
As far as the way I use a desktop is concerned, even if Windows had support for 3D desktops (Star Wars style) and Linux only for one 2D desktop, I still would install Cygwin if forced to work in Windows, only to get a decent shell, if not for something else (like egrep, case sensitive file systems or apt).
does the fine article say anything about controlling for age ? Since cell phones were first introduced, people stopped being killed by a host of things: 50 years ago finding a tumor was a death sentence, now it's something you can fight with reasonable chances of success.
If you have a bad contact in anything, starting with an car and ending with a computer board, it will leak "radiation" in the band used by radios and tv sets. Radio waves are "radiation", visible light is "radiation", heat is "radiation"... selling a device that will "poison" the reception of other devices close by is banned by law all countries.
farmers using them have to re-buy seed stock every year
How is this different from the practices of olden days when farmers had to buy hybrid seed every year, or risk getting only half the crop if they sow whatever grew from their hybrid seeds ? During those golden years, farmers had to buy hybrid seed every year from other evil farmers that specialized in producing those hybrids, or specialized in growing evil virus-free potato tubers from seed or leaf clones... and the unlucky farmers that sowed their own non-hybrid seed soon applied for bankruptcy, because their non-hybrid maize crops were poor, and their potato were rotten.
It would be much easier to breed some very stupid, ugly and disgusting pigs, which nobody would ever think of protecting and defending... our current breeds are way too cute, especially when they are very young. Some vermiform and really dumb cows would be nice, too.
Why are we assuming that a volcano that spews billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere can affect weather but us doing the same every year has no affect?
the ash spewed by the volcano affects the weather, not the CO2...
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After suffering through hours of an amalgam of "Starship Troopers" (the book), "Dragonriders of Pern" and "Dancing with the Wolves" quotes, it didn't boggle mine ... will never watch anything with "Cameron" in the credits list.
ext2fs works great with ext3, except when installed in the same time as Daemon Tools: my WinXP Home was crashing a few seconds after getting a desktop ... and I reinstalled it a couple of times until MS got pissed off and told me to go buy another XP ...
care to elaborate ? I mean: "broken", "mess" and "inconsistently" ? ... or were you talking about PHP, Python, Java, C, C++ etc. ? As far as I can tell, Perl has the easiest way to find and install a shared library of them all ... PHP and Java are coming along, though, with a similar setup ...
that office came with an anti-glare monitor, too ?
basements are great for writing code, my best time was in a room that used to be a broom closet once: controlled lighting, silence, conference room cum smoking lounge around the corner ... just perfect ... ; large open offices I hate ...
you should investigate how many regulations have the manufacturers to comply with, from production, to transportation, to disposal ... I suspect the rules are lighter for other products.
Part of the issue is a lack of government enforced standards since the phillips screwdriver.
Batteries (of any kind) not regulated by "government enforced standards" ? ... which planet ?
would you enlighten me on how does CO2 cause smog ?
Thank you, now can I print your answer and take it to the US embassy when I apply for a Green Card ?
I suppose you live in a country with a balmy climate, or you are very skilled at unfreezing the diesel engine with the gasoline burner.
So, you say all diesel engines in Europe got converted to the new model (particulate filtration and all) when the law was passed ? Where I live we called diesel automobiles "Halley" ... because of the visible tail of smoke ... or "tractors".
Last time I checked, the Sulfur was not the biggest problem, but rather the formaldehyde, the acrolein, the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and other nasties, which will get filtered only if you use a gas mask.
How many "soviet russia" and "overlord" jokes ? I would scrape the site and find out for myself, but don't want to slashdot slashdot.
Huge swaths of land that used to be rainforest are now used for grazing cattle and soybean/palm oil farms.
let me rewrite that:
Huge swaths of land that used to be mostly swamps, have a very thin layer of soil and that supported crops only by slash and burn cultivation (cutting the forest, burning the wood, planting something for a few years in the ash, letting the forest grow back) and who were so unproductive that even populations with rather sophisticated agriculture, such as the Inca, avoided them, are now used for grazing cattle and soybean/palm oil farms.
now can you spot the paradox ?
People living in "rainforest" area were mostly hunter-gatherers with a luster of agriculture because it's damn' difficult to have agriculture where rains wash away your soil, weeds grow overnight, rivers wide as Missouri change their course every year by a few kilometers and bugs growing in the swamps those people called home kill most things that don't have scales or can get close enough to a smoky fire.
I can understand cutting the rainforest for the wood, but for grazing cattle ?? Did Argentina run out of pampas ?
I am sure there are swaths of rainforest cut for planting something else, but I doubt those swaths are "huge", unless US and EU protectionism disappeared while I wasn't looking, or those evil farmers like growing crops for the fun of it. Agricultural production needs a market, you know ? Evil guys that persecute mother Gaia without looking to make money happen only in cartoons.
For your information, no evil capitalistic farmer bothers to "graze cattle": much easier and profitable to force-feed them indoors. Only poor subsistence farmers and "free range" subsidized farmers do it.
Maybe I am too old, but it used to be a time when on Slashdot people could think two moves ahead: you cannot have Mother Gaia environmentalism, free-range-ism, no-tile-agriculture, bio-fuels and protection of the environment in the same time. The same laws that keep the energy expensive (such as forbidding the construction of new nuclear reactors) are causing the "huge swaths" of cut rainforest, and for very little benefit, since a "swath" of rainforest won't stay cultivated for more than a few years no matter how much artificial nitrates or phosphates you throw at it because some thousand millimeters of rain a month will make sure that after whatever soil was created by burning and is washed away, only the rainforest (yeah, the plants growing in the rainforest are pretty tough, you need something close to a nuke to kill them) will manage to grow in the sands and clays left in place.
Want environment protection ? Donate your backyard to a "nukular" power plant, then we won't need to pester Mother Gaia for agricultural land: we'll be able to grow crops and "graze cattle" in skyscrapers. I would donate my backyard, but then I'll have the whole local GreenPeace chapter camping in the front yard, and I won't get any sleep, won't be able to work, and my government won't be able to give them the blackmail money, so they will come after my shaving cream which, you know, contains very dangerous chemicals.
I can't imagine why they don't use them
the clueless Naciremas did this right: diesel emissions are just awful, compared with gasoline, in terms of combustion byproducts.
noisy diesels have sold well in Europe (thanks in part to diesel fuel subsidies)
pray, tell, which Europe are you writing about ? is it Europe nearby Jupiter ? Did NASA discover semi-intelligent life there (intelligent enough not to tax fuels, not intelligent enough to stop from subsidising them) ?
Welcome to the new threat to the welfare of high-school jocks: autsourcing. It used to be that the repetitive and extremely boring tasks belonged to them.
Good news is the aspies might find ways to automate those repetitive task they were prevented to look at before.
I subscribe to that.
As far as the way I use a desktop is concerned, even if Windows had support for 3D desktops (Star Wars style) and Linux only for one 2D desktop, I still would install Cygwin if forced to work in Windows, only to get a decent shell, if not for something else (like egrep, case sensitive file systems or apt).
does the fine article say anything about controlling for age ? Since cell phones were first introduced, people stopped being killed by a host of things: 50 years ago finding a tumor was a death sentence, now it's something you can fight with reasonable chances of success.
If you have a bad contact in anything, starting with an car and ending with a computer board, it will leak "radiation" in the band used by radios and tv sets. Radio waves are "radiation", visible light is "radiation", heat is "radiation" ... selling a device that will "poison" the reception of other devices close by is banned by law all countries.
Amongst experts (and I am one of those experts) the only surprise is that it is coming on so *quickly*!
they should have hired some engineers to build it, then ...
porthouse, t-bone, tenderloin, filet ... are there more words for meat in English than there are for snow in Eskimo ?
much easier, probably, to just engineer a brainless (or with a very small brain, guaranteed to be insensitive to pain etc.) pig ...
farmers using them have to re-buy seed stock every year
How is this different from the practices of olden days when farmers had to buy hybrid seed every year, or risk getting only half the crop if they sow whatever grew from their hybrid seeds ? During those golden years, farmers had to buy hybrid seed every year from other evil farmers that specialized in producing those hybrids, or specialized in growing evil virus-free potato tubers from seed or leaf clones ... and the unlucky farmers that sowed their own non-hybrid seed soon applied for bankruptcy, because their non-hybrid maize crops were poor, and their potato were rotten.
omarius, you almost killed me ... only "4, Funny" ? This is a "5, 42".
If people didn't eat meat
they would die a horrible and disgusting death.
It would be much easier to breed some very stupid, ugly and disgusting pigs, which nobody would ever think of protecting and defending ... our current breeds are way too cute, especially when they are very young. Some vermiform and really dumb cows would be nice, too.
Why are we assuming that a volcano that spews billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere can affect weather but us doing the same every year has no affect?
the ash spewed by the volcano affects the weather, not the CO2 ...
global warming is very real, though AGW is a bit of b.........