It might be something to do with the polar vortices. At each pole there is more mixing between different levels in the atmosphere - incidentally why the CFC ozone holes formed at the poles. Presumably the ice was lifted from the lower atmosphere at the poles and is spreading south.
Normal water does leach minerals out of your body. Just not many of them. See Wikipedia, as usual. It's presumably more pronounced with distilled water but I wouldn't like to comment on whether it's a real concern or just one of those 'well technically...' facts.
The complete combustion of hydrocarbons releases energy, water, and carbon dioxide. The amount of energy, water, and carbon dioxide released is so minute compared to that of the sun and sea life that I do not believe it is causing any thing detrimental to the environment.
That's just an argument from personal incredulity. You need to think about what's being added to the system, not what's already there. If the bathtub is mostly full, why should I care that the tap is dripping? It's a tiny effect compared to the size of the bath. Or, as Einstein may have said, there is no force in the universe more powerful than compound interest.
Obviously only opera users will be able to run Unite, but any web user can benefit from it. Every time an opera user says "hold on, I'll upload those [photos|mp3s|our project|custom TF maps] to a server... ah, fuck it. Just get them from my Opera share." Opera gets free advertising and the downloader thinks about how handy it would be to run Opera themselves.
An interesting point about that teleporter room was that you could access it before encountering the game's copy protection. In Ultima VII you could explore the first town freely but would be challenged with some look-in-the-manual questions when you tried to leave.
Of course if you just want to skip the copy protection it's much easier to download the answers to those twelve questions from somewhere.
The crew would only broadcast if they thought that would help them right then and there. Their first priority is to fly the plane.
Surely not! If they're going down any sensible crew would radio their location so they could be picked up. And anecdotally, don't crashing pilots often report the details of their situation and systems failures right up to the moment they hit the ground?
Try using the classic index and classic discussion system from your user preferences. It turns slashdot into a mere web page instead of a web 2.0 monstrosity.
Interesting that you should mention those games; they're the same ones I keep coming back to (well, not nethack. Too perverse. But other roguelikes). I would also add X-COM (the original or Terror from the Deep), and honourabe mention to Alpha Centauri even though it's Civilisation in all but name.
Something to do with randomly generated but coherent maps really scratches an itch for me. It also stops the AI from cheating by being customised for a specific map. I think one of the big failures of the X-COM remakes has been that they sacrifice the jigsaw puzzle maps of the original for 'ooo 3d rendered, but only four maps'.
I would welcome suggestions of other games that do similar random content generation.
I would nitpick about using that as a general principle, and take the opportunity to mention the Overton window, which I think everyone should be aware of. You can adopt an extreme caricature of your vie so the middle moves towards the more moderate position you actually want.
That's comparing dissimilar properties of the government, like saying democracy and communism are opposites when really capitalism and communism are opposites and democracy is on a different axis. It might be better to call the US a democratic constitutional republic.
There are several replies already rationalising ethical behaviour, but I have a different reason for behaving 'ethically'. I'm built that way.
As other posters have said, there are rewards for participating in an ethical, cooperative society. It seems like a rational, cost/benefit analysis should support being ethical but nobody acutally _does_ that on a day-to-day basis.
I am a ludicrously cooperative person - I'll go well out of my way to help people for no clear benefit to myself. A while ago I helped an old man carry his groceries up the stairs to his house. I didn't know him, nobody saw me do it and I'll probably never see him again and yet it just felt like the right thing to do.
Why am I so cooperative? I'll tell you why. There _is_ a survival benefit to belonging to a cooperative society and so that is part of the fitness function my ancestors' genes evolved against. It's an evolved behaviour and the fact that it can be rationalised is secondary. People are more or less ethical/considerate and I'm at the top of the bell curve, to the degree that I instinctively want to even do things that are obviously unproductive for me.
...and that selective pressures would inevitably lead to the dominance of one particular type.
Why is that obvious? It seems obvious that left and right handed molecules should be useful for different things like the Z and S blocks in Tetris, but why should one be discarded entirely?
I have been told that the chemicals a cow releases when it's stressed will change the flavour of the meat. This is a problem for modern slaughterhouses because the cattle get packed into a truck, carted around for some hours then herded into a building that reeks with the remnants of their cousins right before they're killed.
On the flip side, if you can get meat direct from a small farm the cow has probably been having an uneventful day of eating and farting until the farmer comes over for a quiet chat.
Please sit down, I have some difficult news for you. The test results have come back and it seems the man you knew as your father was not your biological father. DNA testing shows that your true father was a middle aged german woman, possibly with a congenital heart condition. I know this must come as a shock to you.
I remember reading about that before I came to London, and there are two important things I noticed once I had used the underground myself. First, you quite likely wouldn't hear someone shouting for you to stop and second, the trains run frequently enough that there's about a 1 in 6 chance that you'll arrive to see a train waiting with its doors open about to leave any second. EVERYONE runs for the trains.
I'd in fact go further and say it has helped their evolution.
More precisely, you can't 'hurt' or 'help' evolution - you can't even really evolve in a 'bad' direction since evolution by definition increases the survivability of the species. An individual mutation could be good or bad, but evolution is the process of selecting the good mutations.
As you say, in this case 'good' means 'humans don't eat me'.
Now, TFA may mention this (but how would I know?), but the clever thing for fishermen to do is to catch the biggest, tastiest fish and then breed them. This leverages evolution by making 'tasty to humans' a survival trait. If you doubt this works, consider sheep, pigs, cows, wheat and rice.
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It might be something to do with the polar vortices. At each pole there is more mixing between different levels in the atmosphere - incidentally why the CFC ozone holes formed at the poles. Presumably the ice was lifted from the lower atmosphere at the poles and is spreading south.
Normal water does leach minerals out of your body. Just not many of them. See Wikipedia, as usual. It's presumably more pronounced with distilled water but I wouldn't like to comment on whether it's a real concern or just one of those 'well technically...' facts.
The complete combustion of hydrocarbons releases energy, water, and carbon dioxide. The amount of energy, water, and carbon dioxide released is so minute compared to that of the sun and sea life that I do not believe it is causing any thing detrimental to the environment.
That's just an argument from personal incredulity. You need to think about what's being added to the system, not what's already there. If the bathtub is mostly full, why should I care that the tap is dripping? It's a tiny effect compared to the size of the bath. Or, as Einstein may have said, there is no force in the universe more powerful than compound interest.
Well, at least he didn't go up against a Sicilian when death was on the line.
Obviously only opera users will be able to run Unite, but any web user can benefit from it. Every time an opera user says "hold on, I'll upload those [photos|mp3s|our project|custom TF maps] to a server... ah, fuck it. Just get them from my Opera share." Opera gets free advertising and the downloader thinks about how handy it would be to run Opera themselves.
Actually, it will still be evolution. It won't be evolution by means of natural selection though.
An interesting point about that teleporter room was that you could access it before encountering the game's copy protection. In Ultima VII you could explore the first town freely but would be challenged with some look-in-the-manual questions when you tried to leave.
Of course if you just want to skip the copy protection it's much easier to download the answers to those twelve questions from somewhere.
Surely not! If they're going down any sensible crew would radio their location so they could be picked up. And anecdotally, don't crashing pilots often report the details of their situation and systems failures right up to the moment they hit the ground?
Try using the classic index and classic discussion system from your user preferences. It turns slashdot into a mere web page instead of a web 2.0 monstrosity.
The Sims: buying stuff and telling people what to do.
Interesting that you should mention those games; they're the same ones I keep coming back to (well, not nethack. Too perverse. But other roguelikes). I would also add X-COM (the original or Terror from the Deep), and honourabe mention to Alpha Centauri even though it's Civilisation in all but name.
Something to do with randomly generated but coherent maps really scratches an itch for me. It also stops the AI from cheating by being customised for a specific map. I think one of the big failures of the X-COM remakes has been that they sacrifice the jigsaw puzzle maps of the original for 'ooo 3d rendered, but only four maps'.
I would welcome suggestions of other games that do similar random content generation.
I would nitpick about using that as a general principle, and take the opportunity to mention the Overton window, which I think everyone should be aware of. You can adopt an extreme caricature of your vie so the middle moves towards the more moderate position you actually want.
That's comparing dissimilar properties of the government, like saying democracy and communism are opposites when really capitalism and communism are opposites and democracy is on a different axis. It might be better to call the US a democratic constitutional republic.
There are several replies already rationalising ethical behaviour, but I have a different reason for behaving 'ethically'. I'm built that way.
As other posters have said, there are rewards for participating in an ethical, cooperative society. It seems like a rational, cost/benefit analysis should support being ethical but nobody acutally _does_ that on a day-to-day basis.
I am a ludicrously cooperative person - I'll go well out of my way to help people for no clear benefit to myself. A while ago I helped an old man carry his groceries up the stairs to his house. I didn't know him, nobody saw me do it and I'll probably never see him again and yet it just felt like the right thing to do.
Why am I so cooperative? I'll tell you why. There _is_ a survival benefit to belonging to a cooperative society and so that is part of the fitness function my ancestors' genes evolved against. It's an evolved behaviour and the fact that it can be rationalised is secondary. People are more or less ethical/considerate and I'm at the top of the bell curve, to the degree that I instinctively want to even do things that are obviously unproductive for me.
There's an old saying where I come from:
Look out! She's pregnant!
Hey, everyone knows mathematicians are way out on the far right.
Why is that obvious? It seems obvious that left and right handed molecules should be useful for different things like the Z and S blocks in Tetris, but why should one be discarded entirely?
So that's where lawyers come from!
Remember folks, there are in-holes and out-holes - do not confuse the two!
Bad language - Having someone constantly repeating the same political statement over and over again.
Yo momma panders to the masses!
I have been told that the chemicals a cow releases when it's stressed will change the flavour of the meat. This is a problem for modern slaughterhouses because the cattle get packed into a truck, carted around for some hours then herded into a building that reeks with the remnants of their cousins right before they're killed.
On the flip side, if you can get meat direct from a small farm the cow has probably been having an uneventful day of eating and farting until the farmer comes over for a quiet chat.
I'll bite; what segment of the population is it that can't feel the dots on j and f, but could on d and k?
Please sit down, I have some difficult news for you. The test results have come back and it seems the man you knew as your father was not your biological father. DNA testing shows that your true father was a middle aged german woman, possibly with a congenital heart condition. I know this must come as a shock to you.
I remember reading about that before I came to London, and there are two important things I noticed once I had used the underground myself. First, you quite likely wouldn't hear someone shouting for you to stop and second, the trains run frequently enough that there's about a 1 in 6 chance that you'll arrive to see a train waiting with its doors open about to leave any second. EVERYONE runs for the trains.
More precisely, you can't 'hurt' or 'help' evolution - you can't even really evolve in a 'bad' direction since evolution by definition increases the survivability of the species. An individual mutation could be good or bad, but evolution is the process of selecting the good mutations.
As you say, in this case 'good' means 'humans don't eat me'.
Now, TFA may mention this (but how would I know?), but the clever thing for fishermen to do is to catch the biggest, tastiest fish and then breed them. This leverages evolution by making 'tasty to humans' a survival trait. If you doubt this works, consider sheep, pigs, cows, wheat and rice.
So did I, but I'm from Canada.
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