The assumption is always made in these pieces that this is something desirable, or at least generally desirable. But for most users, the net is a giant timewaster and worse. Wiring the people of the world is not unlike the British bringing opium into China.
I like old-fashioned incandescent. Its light is like candlelight or firelight. I like that color for indoors, it's comforting somehow. The color of sunlight is for the daytime and it comes through windows. All psychological I guess, I'm a torch-wielding caveman in my soul.
and I suspect it could be a boon for Google. If I really knew what our ROIs were going to be, a predictable ad cost per verified lead (or an immediate sale for some type of products), I would look more deeply into the budgeting and margins and probably pay more for it. It tightens things up a bit, removes an element of the gamble in your game.
I don't know that I've had any problems with click-fraud, but I do understand that most of it is for pricier products. Fewer sales garnered through expensive ad bids - It becomes worthwhile for lowlife competitors and jilted lovers.
Why do these "panel of scientists" people do this?
The Global Climate changes. It has always changed. It has changed in historical times. It is changing again. It doesn't matter whether man's activities are playing a part in this one. For all we know we are extending our interglacial. sheesh
The best times mankind has experienced historically were during warm periods.
If they want to ponder a wretched future, they should hold off until Chinese container ships begin showing up in LA loaded with Soylent Green.
I get tired of this description of the Big Bang as an explosion in the usual terms, as in things flying apart out into something, "matter flying off in all directions". It's popular science, and most people wouldn't know what the heck you were talking about if you described it any other way. But, it ought to be restated...
It's an expansion of space, everything that is in space is just going along for the ride.
A visual way to clarify that is to shoot down the idea people have that things cannot recede faster than light. That gets their attention, they all know about Einstein and c. Things cannot move through space faster than light, but space itself puts a distance between things that C can never outpace.
Huh. My grandparents were clearly making the wrong decision on my behalf when they moved to this insane America place. Can I come back to get my cut of these oil revenues, and maybe a nicer cellphone?
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The assumption is always made in these pieces that this is something desirable, or at least generally desirable. But for most users, the net is a giant timewaster and worse. Wiring the people of the world is not unlike the British bringing opium into China.
I like old-fashioned incandescent. Its light is like candlelight or firelight. I like that color for indoors, it's comforting somehow. The color of sunlight is for the daytime and it comes through windows. All psychological I guess, I'm a torch-wielding caveman in my soul.
and I suspect it could be a boon for Google. If I really knew what our ROIs were going to be, a predictable ad cost per verified lead (or an immediate sale for some type of products), I would look more deeply into the budgeting and margins and probably pay more for it. It tightens things up a bit, removes an element of the gamble in your game. I don't know that I've had any problems with click-fraud, but I do understand that most of it is for pricier products. Fewer sales garnered through expensive ad bids - It becomes worthwhile for lowlife competitors and jilted lovers.
Why do these "panel of scientists" people do this? The Global Climate changes. It has always changed. It has changed in historical times. It is changing again. It doesn't matter whether man's activities are playing a part in this one. For all we know we are extending our interglacial. sheesh The best times mankind has experienced historically were during warm periods. If they want to ponder a wretched future, they should hold off until Chinese container ships begin showing up in LA loaded with Soylent Green.
That looks kinda cool, but better once you glue your 2" mirror ball to the spindle.
I get tired of this description of the Big Bang as an explosion in the usual terms, as in things flying apart out into something, "matter flying off in all directions". It's popular science, and most people wouldn't know what the heck you were talking about if you described it any other way. But, it ought to be restated...
It's an expansion of space, everything that is in space is just going along for the ride.
A visual way to clarify that is to shoot down the idea people have that things cannot recede faster than light. That gets their attention, they all know about Einstein and c. Things cannot move through space faster than light, but space itself puts a distance between things that C can never outpace.
Huh. My grandparents were clearly making the wrong decision on my behalf when they moved to this insane America place. Can I come back to get my cut of these oil revenues, and maybe a nicer cellphone?