Your point 1 is denial. Point 2 is blindingly obvious. Your point 3 is a classic line from the Creationists, who with confronted with science, attempt to denigrate it by lowering it to their level. Your point 4 is almost sociopathic in its selfishness. Your point 5 is just moronic, as George Carlin can't even be considered an informed layman.
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Dear IP Overloads. I'm worried. I want to get copies of the Gettysburg Address and , but if I read these words without paying the appropriate sums to the Lincoln and Shakespeare families, will I be sued, and what will be the fines for infringement? My understanding is that it is now the number of atoms in the universe squared dollars, but perhaps that has changed.
Yours sincerely, your frightened subservient intellectual serf.
WWI certainly exacerbated the 1918 pandemic, but it was hitting parts of the world that really couldn't be considered part of the sphere of the war, so you seem to be stretching things a bit. As to modern medicines, that's true enough, but if you look at what's happened in the UK a few times over the last ten years with medical services absolutely swamped by high numbers of people seeking medical care, well, one can get the sense that if first world healthcare systems really got nailed hard, you can only treat so many people before things hit crisis mode. Of course, a large portion of the world does not enjoy First World healthcare, and since the likelihood is that a pandemic would rise first in one of those areas, it's hard to see how modern medicine could be of much assistance in the initial stages of the outbreak.
Your post stinks of "it can't happen to us because we're so advanced" hubris. But I'll lean towards what the actual experts are saying, that a major flu pandemic would have critical effects on many nations, rather than somebody who seems to believe we have magic flu pills that can make the Big One go away.
People can mock WHO all they want, and hide their heads in the sand, but eventually we're going to get hit with another pandemic like the 1918 flu pandemic, and we'll see where these various types of antivaccers assholes sit. Maybe the seasonal vaccine doesn't do fuck all, and I'm no worse off than I was without it. But even reducing the odds of getting a virulent flue strain seems like a goddamned good idea to me.
I have had exactly one experience with lawyers, and that was over a property dispute. The day before my deposition by the opposing lawyer, my lawyer and I sat down and reviewed all the evidence and arguments, and at the end of it she said "You, of course, must tell the truth. You cannot lie."
There's no doubt that there are dishonest lawyers out there, and there is also often a bit of rationalization and see-no-evil behavior, but in general they are bound by a pretty strong code of ethics.
I'd say it does work. The bombing of German industrial areas severely hamstrung Germany's ability to sustain its war effort, and the bombing of Dresden was heavily demoralizing.
But Hiroshima and Nagasaki are probably the best examples. They stopped the War in the Pacific dead in its tracks.
The family of my best friend as a teenager came from Germany in the immediate post-war years. I remember one time, quite out of the blue, his grandfather (who had been a young man during the war) came up to and told us "If you ever hear a German tell you that we did not know what the Nazis were doing, he is lying." (these were his exact words). He went on to tell us how families would disappear, many Jewish but also others as well, and that while no one could be quite sure where they were taken, everyone knew that it was to their dooms.
It still stands as one of the most profoundly disturbing experiences of my life, to have this old man so brutally and honestly reveal a truth to me in such a fashion, to brush away all the standard excuses that German's of the wartime generation invoked to get out of any sense of responsibility for what had happened. To this day I actually have no idea why the old man came up to my friend and I, but he permanently altered my view of humanity, and how easy it is to rationalize any action, and even in many cases inaction. Europeans from Paris to Danzig stood by and let their countrymen be marched off to their deaths, and while there were heroes here and there (just as there were collaborators), all in all they just stood there.
Ever heard of awk and sed? Awk in particular is very easy to use and is designed to do exactly what you describe. I've used it to process bizarrely formatted mainframe generated inventory files of hundreds of thousands of records and turn them into csv files.
Powershell is a neat tool, but to act like it's somehow replacing what couldn't be done by the *nix command set is laughable.
The thriving ecosystem exists because of iDevices. If Apple had decided to use Fortran-88, then Objective C would remain some minor language, and everyone would be going on about how Fortran-88 is better than C++, Java or C#.
Better based on what? The Bourne shell derivatives have decades of libraries of scripts behind them. Yes, they don't pass objects, but I'm still not clear on the point of it. It's not like I've ever felt particularly hobbled because I don't have PowerShell on my *nix boxes.
Translation: Oh noooos!!! I have to type things!!!
In the *nix world, we've been working with complex configurations via CLI tools for the better part of four decades. I guess you'll just have to get over your phobia... or use server tools on a desktop machine.
It's not the warmth, it's the potential for an extension of dry-belt, semi-desert. You can grow lots of things in many environments providing you've got water.
Even if we adapt new grain varieties to more northerly latitudes (and no reason that genetic engineering won't deliver this), think about the power shift as the traditional grain belts head northward. The United States and Mexico would lose a vast amount of their arable land, and would become increasingly dependent on foreign cereal crops. Canada and Russia, in particular, would sit on top of the most arable land in the Northern Hemisphere. The geopolitical ramifications stagger the mind.
Ancient Roman cities for the most part had populations around what we would consider a small to medium sized town, with a few larger cities, and a very few major population centers like Rome and Byzantium. Moving a Classical port city a few miles one way or the other to deal with silting is one thing. Try imagine moving, say, New York City, London, Tokyo or Hong Kong.
No kidding. The way we're burning through oil reserves, even if we stop giving a shit about potable water, we've got, what? Maybe a couple of centuries. Not to mention that fossil fuels are just as important to countless industrial and material processes as they are to putting gas in your car, and that it isn't just the price of a gallon of gas that shoots up, but a whole host of other things as well.
And once you've burned through all the easily-obtainable long chain hydrocarbons, then not only do your freighters and jet plains don't work any more, and you end up at the very moment of greatest crisis having to try to catch up on all those energy sources that have been poo-pooed by the oil and gas industry and their shills.
He's making whatever argument allows him to rationalize continuing barfing millions of years of sequestered carbon into the atmosphere in the space of a few centuries. He doesn't care what happens in fifty or a hundred years. The world exists simply for his enjoyment.
Indeed. As is hominid evolution. Just because we are basing theories off of observed and currently happening phenomena does not mean that the science need be any weaker than working with phenomena for which active processes have largely ceased. Besides, geology is a ludicrously bad example. Just how many times do you get to observe Archean rocks form? That climatology is researching active processes is a benefit, not a negative. Helluva lot more difficult to test specifics of ancient geology or Big Bang cosmology when said events happened billions of years ago, and not, say, right fucking now.
There's this bizarre belief being stated by some of the skeptics on this particular article that somehow knowing the end of a process, but not the beginning, is in some way superior to knowing the beginning, but not the end.
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Your point 1 is denial.
Point 2 is blindingly obvious.
Your point 3 is a classic line from the Creationists, who with confronted with science, attempt to denigrate it by lowering it to their level.
Your point 4 is almost sociopathic in its selfishness.
Your point 5 is just moronic, as George Carlin can't even be considered an informed layman.
Dear IP Overloads. I'm worried. I want to get copies of the Gettysburg Address and , but if I read these words without paying the appropriate sums to the Lincoln and Shakespeare families, will I be sued, and what will be the fines for infringement? My understanding is that it is now the number of atoms in the universe squared dollars, but perhaps that has changed.
Yours sincerely, your frightened subservient intellectual serf.
With a reasonably decent emulator like DOSBox, I can play 20+ year old games if I like.
WWI certainly exacerbated the 1918 pandemic, but it was hitting parts of the world that really couldn't be considered part of the sphere of the war, so you seem to be stretching things a bit. As to modern medicines, that's true enough, but if you look at what's happened in the UK a few times over the last ten years with medical services absolutely swamped by high numbers of people seeking medical care, well, one can get the sense that if first world healthcare systems really got nailed hard, you can only treat so many people before things hit crisis mode. Of course, a large portion of the world does not enjoy First World healthcare, and since the likelihood is that a pandemic would rise first in one of those areas, it's hard to see how modern medicine could be of much assistance in the initial stages of the outbreak.
Your post stinks of "it can't happen to us because we're so advanced" hubris. But I'll lean towards what the actual experts are saying, that a major flu pandemic would have critical effects on many nations, rather than somebody who seems to believe we have magic flu pills that can make the Big One go away.
People can mock WHO all they want, and hide their heads in the sand, but eventually we're going to get hit with another pandemic like the 1918 flu pandemic, and we'll see where these various types of antivaccers assholes sit. Maybe the seasonal vaccine doesn't do fuck all, and I'm no worse off than I was without it. But even reducing the odds of getting a virulent flue strain seems like a goddamned good idea to me.
This is Slashdot, the site that never misses the opportunity to give a cold fusion or perpetual motion fraudster the opportunity at free advertising.
I have had exactly one experience with lawyers, and that was over a property dispute. The day before my deposition by the opposing lawyer, my lawyer and I sat down and reviewed all the evidence and arguments, and at the end of it she said "You, of course, must tell the truth. You cannot lie."
There's no doubt that there are dishonest lawyers out there, and there is also often a bit of rationalization and see-no-evil behavior, but in general they are bound by a pretty strong code of ethics.
I'd say it does work. The bombing of German industrial areas severely hamstrung Germany's ability to sustain its war effort, and the bombing of Dresden was heavily demoralizing.
But Hiroshima and Nagasaki are probably the best examples. They stopped the War in the Pacific dead in its tracks.
People would make considerably less noise about it if they read up on what the Mujahideen did to captured Soviet soldiers.
The family of my best friend as a teenager came from Germany in the immediate post-war years. I remember one time, quite out of the blue, his grandfather (who had been a young man during the war) came up to and told us "If you ever hear a German tell you that we did not know what the Nazis were doing, he is lying." (these were his exact words). He went on to tell us how families would disappear, many Jewish but also others as well, and that while no one could be quite sure where they were taken, everyone knew that it was to their dooms.
It still stands as one of the most profoundly disturbing experiences of my life, to have this old man so brutally and honestly reveal a truth to me in such a fashion, to brush away all the standard excuses that German's of the wartime generation invoked to get out of any sense of responsibility for what had happened. To this day I actually have no idea why the old man came up to my friend and I, but he permanently altered my view of humanity, and how easy it is to rationalize any action, and even in many cases inaction. Europeans from Paris to Danzig stood by and let their countrymen be marched off to their deaths, and while there were heroes here and there (just as there were collaborators), all in all they just stood there.
Ever heard of awk and sed? Awk in particular is very easy to use and is designed to do exactly what you describe. I've used it to process bizarrely formatted mainframe generated inventory files of hundreds of thousands of records and turn them into csv files.
Powershell is a neat tool, but to act like it's somehow replacing what couldn't be done by the *nix command set is laughable.
I'm not claiming one is better than the other. The poster I was responding to was.
The thriving ecosystem exists because of iDevices. If Apple had decided to use Fortran-88, then Objective C would remain some minor language, and everyone would be going on about how Fortran-88 is better than C++, Java or C#.
Better based on what? The Bourne shell derivatives have decades of libraries of scripts behind them. Yes, they don't pass objects, but I'm still not clear on the point of it. It's not like I've ever felt particularly hobbled because I don't have PowerShell on my *nix boxes.
Translation: Oh noooos!!! I have to type things!!!
In the *nix world, we've been working with complex configurations via CLI tools for the better part of four decades. I guess you'll just have to get over your phobia... or use server tools on a desktop machine.
I think I found your problem...
Does this have to be an either/or sort of question?
It's not the warmth, it's the potential for an extension of dry-belt, semi-desert. You can grow lots of things in many environments providing you've got water.
This is management we're talking about. If they can't blame someone else for their own failings, then what point is there to management?
Even if we adapt new grain varieties to more northerly latitudes (and no reason that genetic engineering won't deliver this), think about the power shift as the traditional grain belts head northward. The United States and Mexico would lose a vast amount of their arable land, and would become increasingly dependent on foreign cereal crops. Canada and Russia, in particular, would sit on top of the most arable land in the Northern Hemisphere. The geopolitical ramifications stagger the mind.
Ancient Roman cities for the most part had populations around what we would consider a small to medium sized town, with a few larger cities, and a very few major population centers like Rome and Byzantium. Moving a Classical port city a few miles one way or the other to deal with silting is one thing. Try imagine moving, say, New York City, London, Tokyo or Hong Kong.
No kidding. The way we're burning through oil reserves, even if we stop giving a shit about potable water, we've got, what? Maybe a couple of centuries. Not to mention that fossil fuels are just as important to countless industrial and material processes as they are to putting gas in your car, and that it isn't just the price of a gallon of gas that shoots up, but a whole host of other things as well.
And once you've burned through all the easily-obtainable long chain hydrocarbons, then not only do your freighters and jet plains don't work any more, and you end up at the very moment of greatest crisis having to try to catch up on all those energy sources that have been poo-pooed by the oil and gas industry and their shills.
He's making whatever argument allows him to rationalize continuing barfing millions of years of sequestered carbon into the atmosphere in the space of a few centuries. He doesn't care what happens in fifty or a hundred years. The world exists simply for his enjoyment.
Indeed. As is hominid evolution. Just because we are basing theories off of observed and currently happening phenomena does not mean that the science need be any weaker than working with phenomena for which active processes have largely ceased. Besides, geology is a ludicrously bad example. Just how many times do you get to observe Archean rocks form? That climatology is researching active processes is a benefit, not a negative. Helluva lot more difficult to test specifics of ancient geology or Big Bang cosmology when said events happened billions of years ago, and not, say, right fucking now.
There's this bizarre belief being stated by some of the skeptics on this particular article that somehow knowing the end of a process, but not the beginning, is in some way superior to knowing the beginning, but not the end.
Ghost was a decent product. I stopped using it years ago in favor of Clonezilla.