It's my understanding that most of the cfc compounds that were banned were actually heavier than air. Just how the heck did they get up in the upper atmosphere?
You ever hear of diffusion? Or wind? Gravity is not the only force involved.
Anyway, those chemicals have been unequivocally detected in the upper atmosphere, so they definitely got there. See here And here
There were a lot of links in TFS, and at least two of them mentioned how the October 2015 ozone hole was unusually large, but that that could be correlated to volcanic activity increasing stratospheric clouds over Antarctica, and that it has been recently worked out how volcanoes could have had that effect.
So, no, it isn't such old news.
"duck and cover" drills were more of a fifties thing. I don't remember doing any in the 60s (though I do remember doing tornado drills) and we definitely didn't do any in the 70s.
. . . with no car or smartphone payment because that's a tax write off.
Are you kidding? They still have to make the payments, they just avoid the tax on the amount of the payment. My wife uses her car and phone for her self-employed job, and, believe me, there are still plenty of payments. The tax deductions at most reduce the costs by 30%, and it's only that high because our joint income puts us in a higher marginal bracket from which to deduct than she would be in by herself.
According to TFA, that figure includes a $16,000 car lasting 250,000 miles for an expense of 6.4 cents per mile. Which means they've figured no interest or other costs of money for the $16,000 car. Not to mention that $16,000 cars don't typically last 250,000 miles. They also figured $1.75/gal gas at 25 mpg. So, not so good.
According to TFA, they accounted for a $16,000 car lasting 250,000 miles, plus $3,000 / year in maintenance, and getting 25 mpg on gas that costs only $1.75/gal.
I believe you have it backwards, all ships are boats, but not all boats are ships.
There are several versions of the difference, the main one being that a ship's captain gets annoyed if you refer to his vessel as a boat, but a boat's captain does not get annoyed if you refer to his vessel as a ship.
A Navy version is that a ship is a vessel large enough to carry boats. There are exceptions though, like ferries that carry lifeboats are still known as boats, as are submarines of any size.
A somewhat better version is that a ship has a permanent crew and commanding officer, while a boat is only crewed when it is active and has no real commanding officer. Again, there are exceptions, like commercial fishing boats.
It gets confusing, so I'm sticking to the original definition: a ship is a vessel with three or more main square-rigged masts.
. . . the city had galvanized pipes put in the streets in 1880 and they held up very well, they were replaced with copper in 2005.>/blockquote>
Are you sure they were galvanized? They were more likely cast iron, probably coated in tar. The zinc used in galvanizing wouldn't last anywhere near that long, anyway.
It's sort of rare, but you can occasionally run into path limits . . .
I run into it all the time when unzipping.zip files that have their own directory structure into the folder it needs to be on our server, especially since I've noticed lately that people are using longer and longer file & directory names. In my opinion, file names and directory hierarchies should be kept as short as possible, anyway, for good readability.
The problem is that the update is scheduled already by the time that notification appears, and you must cancel the scheduled upgrade while still in that windows instead of closing it.
I believe that the only choices in that dialog are to click "OK" or to close the window with the little red "x". (at least that was true previously, the upgrade pop ups have been disabled on my work machine)
There's a practically infinite number of chord progressions . . .
There are two basic chord progressions: IV-V-I and V-IV-I; everything else is just variation. Even counting variations, you won't get a practically infinite number of chord progressions unless you move away from the seven modes and the diatonic scale, and even then, only if you create a practically infinite number of new scales and modes could you say there you have a practically infinite number of chord progressions. And what you'd be left with is a practically infinite number of incomprehensible noise plus a bunch of chord progressions that sound pretty much like the ones we know already. Our ears are just tuned that way.
when property rights started being assigned to intangible things like the text of books . . .
Still intangible, and maybe pedantic, but the actual property is the government-issued exclusive right to copy, not the text of books that the copyright covers.
LibreOffice API is Huge and complex, like you said. (MSOffice API is also big and complex, but a little easier to follow & understand.) On the other hand, most of of the macros I've written in spreadsheets are math/engineering functions that are called from a cell the same way the built-in functions are, so I don't really need much in the way of understanding the spreadsheet object model. Based on that, I've found it to be about the same effort writing macros in Calc and Excel, with Calc occasionally facilitating something that I couldn't easily do in Excel.
. . . but if you think that illegal immigrants or Muslims or Megyn Kelly & Rosie O'Donnell are a race, you might be an idiot
Illegal immigrants (Mexicans) or Muslims are as much as a race as Caucasians are. That is, biologically speaking, there is only a human race - other groupings don't rise to the level of difference to really warrant calling them separate races. But sociology speaking, they are being looked at like inferior "races" by Trump's followers.
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Not at all obvious to me.
Notes are not meant to be repositories of great knowledge for future generations, they're meant to be small reminders.
At some point, you need to quit calling them notes.
Yeah, because it's so hard to carry paper.
If you're building a 143 slide PowerPoint, you deserve the pain.
Linux may "imitate" Unix, but BSD is a Unix.
You ever hear of diffusion? Or wind? Gravity is not the only force involved.
Anyway, those chemicals have been unequivocally detected in the upper atmosphere, so they definitely got there.
See here
And here
bullshit
There were a lot of links in TFS, and at least two of them mentioned how the October 2015 ozone hole was unusually large, but that that could be correlated to volcanic activity increasing stratospheric clouds over Antarctica, and that it has been recently worked out how volcanoes could have had that effect.
So, no, it isn't such old news.
Because they actually have the guns for a well regulated militia, not for any random gangbangers or "survivalists".
"duck and cover" drills were more of a fifties thing. I don't remember doing any in the 60s (though I do remember doing tornado drills) and we definitely didn't do any in the 70s.
Are you kidding? They still have to make the payments, they just avoid the tax on the amount of the payment. My wife uses her car and phone for her self-employed job, and, believe me, there are still plenty of payments. The tax deductions at most reduce the costs by 30%, and it's only that high because our joint income puts us in a higher marginal bracket from which to deduct than she would be in by herself.
Yeah, at rates like $1.75 / gallon for gas and interest-free car payments. (According to TFA)
According to TFA, that figure includes a $16,000 car lasting 250,000 miles for an expense of 6.4 cents per mile. Which means they've figured no interest or other costs of money for the $16,000 car. Not to mention that $16,000 cars don't typically last 250,000 miles. They also figured $1.75/gal gas at 25 mpg. So, not so good.
According to TFA, they accounted for a $16,000 car lasting 250,000 miles, plus $3,000 / year in maintenance, and getting 25 mpg on gas that costs only $1.75/gal.
I believe you have it backwards, all ships are boats, but not all boats are ships.
There are several versions of the difference, the main one being that a ship's captain gets annoyed if you refer to his vessel as a boat, but a boat's captain does not get annoyed if you refer to his vessel as a ship.
A Navy version is that a ship is a vessel large enough to carry boats. There are exceptions though, like ferries that carry lifeboats are still known as boats, as are submarines of any size.
A somewhat better version is that a ship has a permanent crew and commanding officer, while a boat is only crewed when it is active and has no real commanding officer. Again, there are exceptions, like commercial fishing boats.
It gets confusing, so I'm sticking to the original definition: a ship is a vessel with three or more main square-rigged masts.
Great. Then we can all save time and money by getting rid of all the error correction algorithms in software and avoid expensive ECC memory.
I run into it all the time when unzipping .zip files that have their own directory structure into the folder it needs to be on our server, especially since I've noticed lately that people are using longer and longer file & directory names. In my opinion, file names and directory hierarchies should be kept as short as possible, anyway, for good readability.
I believe that the only choices in that dialog are to click "OK" or to close the window with the little red "x". (at least that was true previously, the upgrade pop ups have been disabled on my work machine)
There are two basic chord progressions: IV-V-I and V-IV-I; everything else is just variation.
Even counting variations, you won't get a practically infinite number of chord progressions unless you move away from the seven modes and the diatonic scale, and even then, only if you create a practically infinite number of new scales and modes could you say there you have a practically infinite number of chord progressions. And what you'd be left with is a practically infinite number of incomprehensible noise plus a bunch of chord progressions that sound pretty much like the ones we know already. Our ears are just tuned that way.
Not even remotely true.
Still intangible, and maybe pedantic, but the actual property is the government-issued exclusive right to copy, not the text of books that the copyright covers.
No, at least that's not how it's supposed to be. Functionality is not copyrightable, only creative expression.
LibreOffice API is Huge and complex, like you said. (MSOffice API is also big and complex, but a little easier to follow & understand.) On the other hand, most of of the macros I've written in spreadsheets are math/engineering functions that are called from a cell the same way the built-in functions are, so I don't really need much in the way of understanding the spreadsheet object model. Based on that, I've found it to be about the same effort writing macros in Calc and Excel, with Calc occasionally facilitating something that I couldn't easily do in Excel.
Illegal immigrants (Mexicans) or Muslims are as much as a race as Caucasians are. That is, biologically speaking, there is only a human race - other groupings don't rise to the level of difference to really warrant calling them separate races. But sociology speaking, they are being looked at like inferior "races" by Trump's followers.