This right here is something that anyone who lives in a highly polluted urban area knows instinctively. You don't need studies and scientists to point out that pollution(air) is not healthy, and that exposure to it over time(years) is bad and probably contributes to Asthma and Emphysema(would appear obvious) and also things like Lung Cancer and Heart Disease... Common sense would dictate this observation.
This Common Sense observation, that air pollution is bad, is my main, MAIN point of animosity towards all the "there is no human caused global warming due to pollution or putting carbon into the atmosphere" douchebags.
Who gives a flying f*&k if the billions of tons of air pollution each year are causing climate change? Really! Why worry and argue about that when we know beyond any sort of Koch brothers funded propaganda that air pollution, the same air pollution putting billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere, is also killing the oceans via acidification, browning the forest and(drum roll please...) killing humans.
We should be doing everything in our power to reduce the amount of air pollution we put into the air, if not for what it is doing to the climate, at least for what it is doing to our health.
It always amazes me these idiots who make bold and sweepingly broad statements about California: "It's a desert! It's always been a desert!" Well, people, WTFU, because California actually has quite a few different climatic zones, and declaring the Central Valley a desert is nonsense.
watch a divx movie on the screen of an ABB Gas Chromatograph.
You mean they watched a movie using the computer connected tothe GC...
If you have your acquisition pc network vlan'd AND have that vlan blocked from going to the internet via firewall rules and/or proxy and/or GPO, then they can't be streaming movies.
If the pc in question auto logs on, and the logon account isn't administrator(and this isn't XP), and the usb ports are turned off in BIOS, then they couldn't install DIVX viewer or other such software for watching movies.
But yes, people are ingenious in finding ways to get around rules designed to stop them from having fun.
Not true.
What do you think Silicon Valley and the surrounding areas were before HP, et al took up shop?
Farms, orchards and ranches. And this was before the 1950's.
From Salinas, Watsonville, over the hill to Los Gatos, all of the Santa Clara valley, up the peninsula, across the bay, up in the north bay...
Tons of food was grown and rasied around the bay area before it turned into a hipster billionaires playground. Hell, there may still be some orchards hiding in Los Altos...
I think you are talking about southern California, which is a desert.
The Mediterranean Climate areas of the state, and especially the bay area and areas north were extremely fruitful and supported the largest numbers of native Americans on the continent before Europeans arrived.
and turn California's most fertile farming area turn into a desert in order to "save" some freaking minnows that actually need MORE water, not less.
TFA speaks about alfalfa growers in the Imperial Valley of California, which was and is a desert.
From Wikipedia: "Bordered by sand dunes and barren mountains, it was uninhabited until 1901, when the Imperial Canal was opened and diverted Colorado River water into the valley through Mexico."
With the water restrictions that are coming due to changes in the Colorado River Compact(which is where Imperial Valley gets its water, not from any source in California proper...) the Imperial Valley alfalfa farmers are going to be hard pressed. Their cheap water is coming to an end and they know it...
There are water issues in the norther third of the state regarding the Delta and fish on the Trinity and Klamath rivers. However that is hundreds of miles away in northern California. Maybe those are the minnows you are mentioning. You need to remember though that there is a fishing industry that makes money from the Salmon up there, and they are being hurt by the water being diverted in northern California and southern Oregon for the same type of alfalfa growing...
Not only that, but FTFA it shows that the Imperial Valley alfalfa growers are getting their water from the All American Canal, which by no meansgoes over the Sierra Nevada.
Marinetti was a douchebag blowhard like the rest of the fascists.
It's interesting how much pent up violence, psychopathy and uber-paternalistic bullshit the early twentieth century engendered.
And yes, there are many famous early twentieth century Americans you can add to that list.
This reads like Mein Kampf...
6. The poet must spend himself with ardor, splendor, and generosity, to swell the enthusiastic fervor of the primordial elements.
What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
I wonder what Freud, another early twentieth century bullshitter, would think of it?
But it appears that now it's being pushed onto us more deliberately.
Yes, I have to agree with most posters here:
The beta sucks bigtime...
I could write quite a bit on why, but really all you have to do is compare it with the./ we have been using.
This new one is really annoying.
Blocky, smashed together...
I logged in just to reply to your... let me clear my throat... WWWHHHAAAHHHHKK!!! (ahem) post.
Well, first off, you FAIL on a global scale in your assessment by making the black/white all/nothing argument.
EPIC FAIL
"One side says drugs are cool"
What?!?! Where did you hear that from?
It's obvious you have no knowledge of this debate or the reasons behind it.
Oh, and I'm a huge Hunter S. Thompson fan, but one area of expertise I would not trust his insight into is drug policy.
A persons proclivity towards drug "abuse" is almost completely attributable to brain chemistry.
You're scared to go to jail, and that stops you from doing meth!?!
Are you freeking serious?
Tweekers could give two shits about jail. Meth permanently rewires the brain and how it responds to pleasure. Fear of jail vs. drug "abuse" is a bullshit morality view of this issue and doesn't belong in a reasoned discussion.
Yea, I concur. Great story/idea. I think Marshall Brain's ideas and writing about how our society will be changed by computers, robots and AI is the most accurate portrayal I've read. It would be a great film, but the idea behind it is too radical, to close to home, as it were.
Actually, we are going to migrate our Oracle environment to Linux(which in the past it was on originally). We also use linux for other things like Cacti, Nagios, Snort, Splunk, etc;
Also, take the time to read what I wrote. I didn't say we, or anybody else "designs environments" to run on Linux(whatever TF that means...). What I said is that the "the software in question, along with pretty much everything else we use is designed to run on either Windows or Linux." This means that, as I said, much of our software can run on either of those platforms. I'm a huge proponent of Linux and have been using it since the late 90s.
I actually worked for several years doing support for software that ran on SCO OpenServer and SuSE so you can take your "MS shill" tag and shove it up your ass.
I have to support Apple devices in an AD environment, and yes it is a PITA. But, with that being said, I don't think total homogeneous technologies in an Enterprise make sense. It is a good thing to mix things up... But I think the Surface Pro is more of a work device versus an iPad or Android tablet.
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This right here is something that anyone who lives in a highly polluted urban area knows instinctively. You don't need studies and scientists to point out that pollution(air) is not healthy, and that exposure to it over time(years) is bad and probably contributes to Asthma and Emphysema(would appear obvious) and also things like Lung Cancer and Heart Disease... Common sense would dictate this observation.
This Common Sense observation, that air pollution is bad, is my main, MAIN point of animosity towards all the "there is no human caused global warming due to pollution or putting carbon into the atmosphere" douchebags.
Who gives a flying f*&k if the billions of tons of air pollution each year are causing climate change? Really! Why worry and argue about that when we know beyond any sort of Koch brothers funded propaganda that air pollution, the same air pollution putting billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere, is also killing the oceans via acidification, browning the forest and(drum roll please...) killing humans.
We should be doing everything in our power to reduce the amount of air pollution we put into the air, if not for what it is doing to the climate, at least for what it is doing to our health.
It always amazes me these idiots who make bold and sweepingly broad statements about California: "It's a desert! It's always been a desert!" Well, people, WTFU, because California actually has quite a few different climatic zones, and declaring the Central Valley a desert is nonsense.
Thanks for pointing this out!
watch a divx movie on the screen of an ABB Gas Chromatograph.
You mean they watched a movie using the computer connected to the GC...
If you have your acquisition pc network vlan'd AND have that vlan blocked from going to the internet via firewall rules and/or proxy and/or GPO, then they can't be streaming movies.
If the pc in question auto logs on, and the logon account isn't administrator(and this isn't XP), and the usb ports are turned off in BIOS, then they couldn't install DIVX viewer or other such software for watching movies.
But yes, people are ingenious in finding ways to get around rules designed to stop them from having fun.
Not true.
What do you think Silicon Valley and the surrounding areas were before HP, et al took up shop?
Farms, orchards and ranches. And this was before the 1950's.
From Salinas, Watsonville, over the hill to Los Gatos, all of the Santa Clara valley, up the peninsula, across the bay, up in the north bay...
Tons of food was grown and rasied around the bay area before it turned into a hipster billionaires playground. Hell, there may still be some orchards hiding in Los Altos...
I think you are talking about southern California, which is a desert.
The Mediterranean Climate areas of the state, and especially the bay area and areas north were extremely fruitful and supported the largest numbers of native Americans on the continent before Europeans arrived.
and turn California's most fertile farming area turn into a desert in order to "save" some freaking minnows that actually need MORE water, not less.
TFA speaks about alfalfa growers in the Imperial Valley of California, which was and is a desert.
From Wikipedia: "Bordered by sand dunes and barren mountains, it was uninhabited until 1901, when the Imperial Canal was opened and diverted Colorado River water into the valley through Mexico."
With the water restrictions that are coming due to changes in the Colorado River Compact(which is where Imperial Valley gets its water, not from any source in California proper...) the Imperial Valley alfalfa farmers are going to be hard pressed. Their cheap water is coming to an end and they know it...
There are water issues in the norther third of the state regarding the Delta and fish on the Trinity and Klamath rivers. However that is hundreds of miles away in northern California. Maybe those are the minnows you are mentioning. You need to remember though that there is a fishing industry that makes money from the Salmon up there, and they are being hurt by the water being diverted in northern California and southern Oregon for the same type of alfalfa growing...
It's usually better to research what you post before you post it. It saves you from looking like a tool.
Perhaps you should stick to letting Big Money steal elections in Michigan...
Yea, um, California has had a problem in that area recently...
because that whole area is just one big parking lot.
FTFY
Semantics are a funny thing.
Not only that, but FTFA it shows that the Imperial Valley alfalfa growers are getting their water from the All American Canal, which by no means goes over the Sierra Nevada.
Essentially this situation is more of the same fucked up water management of the Colorado River Basin, where uses for the water are illogical and based on greed, cronyism and short term thinking.
Don't worry though, this will change.
What?
To be fair, the Zep represents that rare breed of musician
"Oh by the way, which one's Pink
Yay for reactionary turd burglers inside Aunt Sally.
Douchebag is the only one I had to look up.
Cheaper.
Right, like health care is now... In the U.S.
It's interesting how much pent up violence, psychopathy and uber-paternalistic bullshit the early twentieth century engendered.
And yes, there are many famous early twentieth century Americans you can add to that list.
This reads like Mein Kampf...
6. The poet must spend himself with ardor, splendor, and generosity, to swell the enthusiastic fervor of the primordial elements.
What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
I wonder what Freud, another early twentieth century bullshitter, would think of it?
Why The Future Doesn't Need Us.
I've been trying to avoid the /. beta...
./ we have been using.
But it appears that now it's being pushed onto us more deliberately.
Yes, I have to agree with most posters here:
The beta sucks bigtime...
I could write quite a bit on why, but really all you have to do is compare it with the
This new one is really annoying.
Blocky, smashed together...
Also, hippies don't compromise.
I thought Reagan died in 2004...?
Thats ok though, you can keep up your "good fight" as long as you can, and look like the tool you are, because the renewable energy juggernaut has nothing to do with hippies or environmentalists. It has everything to do with being self reliant and putting less carbon into the atmosphere.
Right, and they(the 1%) know that.
That is why they have been successfully dismantling the unions in the US and the rest of the world since the 1980's.
Unless more of this information comes to the forefront of American culture and Media, it will slide in "under the radar" and then it will be too late to bring back unions.
Who the freek modded this up?
I logged in just to reply to your... let me clear my throat... WWWHHHAAAHHHHKK!!! (ahem) post.
Well, first off, you FAIL on a global scale in your assessment by making the black/white all/nothing argument.
EPIC FAIL
"One side says drugs are cool"
What?!?! Where did you hear that from?
It's obvious you have no knowledge of this debate or the reasons behind it.
Oh, and I'm a huge Hunter S. Thompson fan, but one area of expertise I would not trust his insight into is drug policy.
A persons proclivity towards drug "abuse" is almost completely attributable to brain chemistry.
You're scared to go to jail, and that stops you from doing meth!?!
Are you freeking serious?
Tweekers could give two shits about jail. Meth permanently rewires the brain and how it responds to pleasure. Fear of jail vs. drug "abuse" is a bullshit morality view of this issue and doesn't belong in a reasoned discussion.
That's an odd attitude with which to approach a movie.
Not if it's Peter Jackson's version of The Hobbit.
Yea, I concur. Great story/idea. I think Marshall Brain's ideas and writing about how our society will be changed by computers, robots and AI is the most accurate portrayal I've read.
It would be a great film, but the idea behind it is too radical, to close to home, as it were.
It would be a wake up call for the working people of the US, and that is the last thing the Kochs and the Devos family want...
Jobs? They will go away, along with what is left of middle class prosperity and the "American Dream".
Who will benefit from such a change in society? The ones who always do, the 1%(or whatever you want to call them)
Actually, we are going to migrate our Oracle environment to Linux(which in the past it was on originally). We also use linux for other things like Cacti, Nagios, Snort, Splunk, etc;
Also, take the time to read what I wrote. I didn't say we, or anybody else "designs environments" to run on Linux(whatever TF that means...). What I said is that the "the software in question, along with pretty much everything else we use is designed to run on either Windows or Linux." This means that, as I said, much of our software can run on either of those platforms. I'm a huge proponent of Linux and have been using it since the late 90s.
I actually worked for several years doing support for software that ran on SCO OpenServer and SuSE so you can take your "MS shill" tag and shove it up your ass.
I have to support Apple devices in an AD environment, and yes it is a PITA. But, with that being said, I don't think total homogeneous technologies in an Enterprise make sense. It is a good thing to mix things up... But I think the Surface Pro is more of a work device versus an iPad or Android tablet.
By Surface did you mean Surface Pro, which supports both Win32 and WinRT applications?
Correct.
My mistake that I realized after posting and I knew I would be caught. Yes, Surface Pro is what I meant.