I will also add that I am sick of wasting my time composing, to the point, reasoned, comments, and getting mod 1.
It's like there is nobody reading it. Then some inane, vacuous, poster does a master obfuscation of the point leaving me baffled and bewildered, and gets modded 5 or something. Phew.
I still look for the fun parts like the old days, but with increasingly decreasing returns.
Across northwestern North America, every example of a common peat moss called Sphagnum subnitens is genetically identical...
That means every specimen can be traced back to a single parent, which likely conquered North America in less than 300 years......the same is not true in Europe, where a wide variety of S. subnitens mosses live.
"All of the plants of S. subnitens in northwestern North America appear to have descended from just one parent,"...
"100% of the gene pool was contributed by one individual."
Genetically identical plants of S. subnitens range from coastal Oregon to the western Aleutian Islands, a distance of some 4115km.
I'm not going back to the article, it is long, but I don't remember that any of the eukaryotes made it, only the prokaryotes, Bacteria and Archaea. Those few that were alive (0.04% of samples) are hypothesised to have survived,in a "starvation-survival" form, by using the glycol derived from decomposing Algae./DOUGLAS
I have always hoped, at least, that a significant number of slashdoters were imbued with a bit of earth respect, and earth sense.
It may well be that I have been wrong.
A goodly proportion of Mongolian yak herders, and Angolan mamas' concerned about the education of their kids will instinctively know the concept of carrying capacity. From when they were hunters, from the production of their yaks, from the very vigour of the kids.
Any rancher with a brain knows that a piece of land is best grazed with a critical eye on the most sensitive sites on it. The sensitive sites are like the proverbial Canaries in the mineshaft. It is true liberties can be taken in this regard, but ultimately nature catches up.
The ground will only put up with a certain amount of mistreatment before it begins a negative feedback loop in direct response.
So what really ticks me is that most, not all, of the comments on this topic, on/. of all sites, don't get the simple fact that we as a species are reaching towards Carrying Capacity.
Me here in Canada, you there in Usa, and you in Germany are going to have to cut that ecological footprint 5% per year until it is down to 25% of what it is right now. Figure it out, what will that really mean? Do you doubt that what I suggest is true?
At the same time it is not fair, or just, to promote what is clearly an unsustainable expectation among the less historicaly favoured peoples of the world.
YES, I have lived with kerosene lanterns for decades of my life, and no my kids were never inept enough to sustain any consequential injury, relied on solar panels, butchered horses for jerky, you name it.....
I am too disturbed to continue at this time, but I would like to say that over the past, say a year, my estimation of the survival intelligence value afforded by/. commenters has lessened some
Damn, I can get netscape v 6 running but the v 4.5 is dependant on sun java 2 which I just don't have. That old machine is stripped of netcard, everything. Poop. Anyway v6 bookmark editor does NOT include IP #'s . I'm still damn near sure ver 4 did.
I would think the promulgation of competence for abstract thinking, which is inherant in mathematical thinking, is neccessary for the furtherance of a modern postindustrial society.
It is clear to me however that this tendency has been vastly overdone. Everyone should be exposed to it however, so those with a facile ability can be winnowed out and cultivated.
This should be done early on, those not winnowed out for further development should be inculcated with earthy wisdoms.
And YOU the MOD'ster, rtfp before you score me a measly 1, AGAIN damit.....
I have field notes on plants, animals, weather etc from 55 years ago. I don't have to rely on my memory if I want to cogitate on climate change or any number of other questions that might puzzle me. So remembering to forget as a philosophy has its limitations in my opinion.
I use several tools such as Advanced Diary, Linkman, etc.
http://www.csoftlab.com/Diary.html
The one most useful to me though is ZuluPadPro, a real simple wiki notepad. Raw format is Readable in ASCII for safety. My index page has about 30 - 40 categories and as it is searchable I don't lose anything for long. My dailyshit file is renewed yearly to keep the size managable, but all years are a click away. And yes I backup......
http://www.gersic.com/zulupad/
douglas
(___)
{O,O}/)__)
-"-"-
If I remember right it's around 30%. The type of alcohol, and the impurities are of more importance.
The fact that the trackside clientele I spoke of are aiming at a sustained state of semi-consciousness, ending in daily oblivion, day after day, needs to be considered also.
I don't do that anymore.
"No one buys a bottle of wine and dies because it's extra potent."
Na, yer rong.
Up here in Canada we got a pseudo sherry thing called (x' ) 74. Dilution 1::2 required.
All us beside the tracks winos know that 2 solid weeks of this shit will kill you.
yours, as a survivor
douglas the x'r
copyright considerations prohibit me publishing the identity of (x')
Alaska Thunderfuck Infringement of my copyright, circa 1976.
My original Kootnay ThunderFuck is well documented in High Times.
The Original Kootnay ThunderFuckErr...
Desist
SORRY, there is NGDW this post is funny.....! Read the last line.
This is an asertation that deserves scholarly erudition rather than usa undergraduate "peer review"
Hear, hear.....
""so we should concentrate on going to a new planet terraforming it. IF we only have 100--200 years left on this planet, that's "near-term future" enough for me.""
It's damn well time we quit TerraForming this planet lets practice up on some lifeless rock, so far this is the only home we have boys,
""we'd be better off investigating other means of modifying an asteroids path such as solar sails,""
Seriously, for my elucidation, could solar sails be a viable way of moving astroids, perhaps over long time periods? My physics doesn't give me any answers.
douglas
Well I have certainly learned a lot on this thread.
What y'all are missing is the up and comming new world order..
These percentages being bandied about as if they were real objects are merely PR fluff..
The burgeoning "Internet useage" reported for the usa's is mere "surogate tv".
I suspect there is a certain (small) amount of that in chinkland as well, But I also suspect a large percentile of serious business oriented (make stuff happen)content..
Overall, IMHO, the chicoms, with their 90% dedicated peasantry, and their 20% gung ho agressive business oriented warriors will kick ass in the "Capitalist" dominated world that the powers that be over here promulgamate as reality..
Yours.
douglas.
ps those
Coming around a corner on the highway, in Utah I believe it was, I was faced with a many stories high vertical face of that red sandstone the Buttes are made of down there. The thing had a flippin window smack dab in the middle. So there ya go it's possible.
Can't believe you people. Put your keys, sar, and whatever else in your Levis watch pocket on one big ring chained to a nice handle, they still make em big, with rivets. Put the handle down your pant leg pocket, make em all wonder if your happy to see um. Makes a mighty fine fly or asshole swatter as well as being hard to lose.
I am a sittin here
in the magnetic pe_rin_e_um,
Just a waitin for that storm.....
ditty inspired on date unknown by Waffle Iron,/. # 26156519
Am I the only one out here that has noticed that where people really have to work hard, they don't put up with much bullshit?
Any indian will tell you that america is a fools paradise, and we put up with so much malarky it's sickening.
Slashdot Mirror
and even a coyote or 2 around my house.
This would strongly imply you would drink your own bathwater as well. Ever skin one of those buggers?
douglas
Just like aliquis (678370)said.
I will also add that I am sick of wasting my time composing, to the point, reasoned, comments, and getting mod 1.
It's like there is nobody reading it. Then some inane, vacuous, poster does a master obfuscation of the point leaving me baffled and bewildered, and gets modded 5 or something. Phew.
I still look for the fun parts like the old days, but with increasingly decreasing returns.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9359000/9359075.stm
Across northwestern North America, every example of a common peat moss called Sphagnum subnitens is genetically identical...
That means every specimen can be traced back to a single parent, which likely conquered North America in less than 300 years... ...the same is not true in Europe, where a wide variety of S. subnitens mosses live.
"All of the plants of S. subnitens in northwestern North America appear to have descended from just one parent," ...
"100% of the gene pool was contributed by one individual."
Genetically identical plants of S. subnitens range from coastal Oregon to the western Aleutian Islands, a distance of some 4115km.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9359000/9359075.stm
DOUGLAS
I'm not going back to the article, it is long, but I don't remember that any of the eukaryotes made it, only the prokaryotes, Bacteria and Archaea. Those few that were alive (0.04% of samples) are hypothesised to have survived,in a "starvation-survival" form, by using the glycol derived from decomposing Algae. /DOUGLAS
FTFA = "Incubation under aerobic conditions for periods of up to 90 days led to the growth of cultures from five halite crystals"
The crystal surfaces were exhaustively treated for external contaminants.
These folks are doin their best to head off the, to be expected, objections.
Have to come up with a better one I guess.
>/ DOUGLAS
Otherwise called Ecological footprint
I have always hoped, at least, that a significant number of slashdoters were imbued with a bit of earth respect, and earth sense.
It may well be that I have been wrong.
A goodly proportion of Mongolian yak herders, and Angolan mamas' concerned about the education of their kids will instinctively know the concept of carrying capacity. From when they were hunters, from the production of their yaks, from the very vigour of the kids.
Any rancher with a brain knows that a piece of land is best grazed with a critical eye on the most sensitive sites on it. The sensitive sites are like the proverbial Canaries in the mineshaft. It is true liberties can be taken in this regard, but ultimately nature catches up.
The ground will only put up with a certain amount of mistreatment before it begins a negative feedback loop in direct response.
So what really ticks me is that most, not all, of the comments on this topic, on /. of all sites, don't get the simple fact that we as a species are reaching towards Carrying Capacity.
Me here in Canada, you there in Usa, and you in Germany are going to have to cut that ecological footprint 5% per year until it is down to 25% of what it is right now. Figure it out, what will that really mean? Do you doubt that what I suggest is true?
At the same time it is not fair, or just, to promote what is clearly an unsustainable expectation among the less historicaly favoured peoples of the world.
YES, I have lived with kerosene lanterns for decades of my life, and no my kids were never inept enough to sustain any consequential injury, relied on solar panels, butchered horses for jerky, you name it.....
I am too disturbed to continue at this time, but I would like to say that over the past, say a year, my estimation of the survival intelligence value afforded by /. commenters has lessened some
>>>But to heck with files - what about actual running programs?
Well, I use this prog in a DOS window on a regular basis. QubeCalc 301 (C) Copyright FormalSoft, Utah 1986-87.
The reason I still use it is that despite having Softmakers 'PlanMaker' and open office etc.,
No modern program I am familiar with will produce a true CUBICAL spreadsheet, database.
I have used it for my birdwatching and habitat field notes for 20 odd years and it's ability to be flipped sideways,
so your pages become columns in the new view is indispensible to me now.
Odd that nobody carried that idea beyond the legacy era.
nosig
Damn, I can get netscape v 6 running but the v 4.5 is dependant on sun java 2 which I just don't have. That old machine is stripped of netcard, everything. Poop. Anyway v6 bookmark editor does NOT include IP #'s . I'm still damn near sure ver 4 did.
Didn't the old (and beautiful) netscape bookmark editor include the IP address? I just don't know if I have an old running example on hand or not.
I'll look. Haha, I'm inspired, thanks
MOD'strs.
Remind me of my wife.....
I would think the promulgation of competence for abstract thinking, which is inherant in mathematical thinking, is neccessary for the furtherance of a modern postindustrial society.
It is clear to me however that this tendency has been vastly overdone. Everyone should be exposed to it however, so those with a facile ability can be winnowed out and cultivated.
This should be done early on, those not winnowed out for further development should be inculcated with earthy wisdoms.
And YOU the MOD'ster, rtfp before you score me a measly 1, AGAIN damit.....
I have field notes on plants, animals, weather etc from 55 years ago. I don't have to rely on my memory if I want to cogitate on climate change or any number of other questions that might puzzle me. So remembering to forget as a philosophy has its limitations in my opinion. I use several tools such as Advanced Diary, Linkman, etc. http://www.csoftlab.com/Diary.html The one most useful to me though is ZuluPadPro, a real simple wiki notepad. Raw format is Readable in ASCII for safety. My index page has about 30 - 40 categories and as it is searchable I don't lose anything for long. My dailyshit file is renewed yearly to keep the size managable, but all years are a click away. And yes I backup...... http://www.gersic.com/zulupad/ douglas (___) {O,O} /)__)
-"-"-
If I remember right it's around 30%. The type of alcohol, and the impurities are of more importance. The fact that the trackside clientele I spoke of are aiming at a sustained state of semi-consciousness, ending in daily oblivion, day after day, needs to be considered also. I don't do that anymore.
Incensed at a score of a mere 1 for a heartfelt, beside the tracks bit of intelligence. Incensed.
"No one buys a bottle of wine and dies because it's extra potent." Na, yer rong. Up here in Canada we got a pseudo sherry thing called (x' ) 74. Dilution 1::2 required. All us beside the tracks winos know that 2 solid weeks of this shit will kill you. yours, as a survivor douglas the x'r copyright considerations prohibit me publishing the identity of (x')
"" here's a list of controlled lab apparatuses in TX [state.tx.us](pdf)."" Oh goody, WHITE Phosphorous isn't on the list. Now I know where to go.
Alaska Thunderfuck Infringement of my copyright, circa 1976. My original Kootnay ThunderFuck is well documented in High Times. The Original Kootnay ThunderFuckErr... Desist
Q
SORRY, there is NGDW this post is funny.....! Read the last line. This is an asertation that deserves scholarly erudition rather than usa undergraduate "peer review"
Hear, hear..... ""so we should concentrate on going to a new planet terraforming it. IF we only have 100--200 years left on this planet, that's "near-term future" enough for me.""
It's damn well time we quit TerraForming this planet lets practice up on some lifeless rock, so far this is the only home we have boys,
""we'd be better off investigating other means of modifying an asteroids path such as solar sails,"" Seriously, for my elucidation, could solar sails be a viable way of moving astroids, perhaps over long time periods? My physics doesn't give me any answers. douglas
Well I have certainly learned a lot on this thread. .
What y'all are missing is the up and comming new world order..
These percentages being bandied about as if they were real objects are merely PR fluff..
The burgeoning "Internet useage" reported for the usa's is mere "surogate tv"
I suspect there is a certain (small) amount of that in chinkland as well, But I also suspect a large percentile of serious business oriented (make stuff happen)content..
Overall, IMHO, the chicoms, with their 90% dedicated peasantry, and their 20% gung ho agressive business oriented warriors will kick ass in the "Capitalist" dominated world that the powers that be over here promulgamate as reality..
Yours.
douglas.
ps those
Coming around a corner on the highway, in Utah I believe it was, I was faced with a many stories high vertical face of that red sandstone the Buttes are made of down there. The thing had a flippin window smack dab in the middle. So there ya go it's possible.
Can't believe you people. Put your keys, sar, and whatever else in your Levis watch pocket on one big ring chained to a nice handle, they still make em big, with rivets. Put the handle down your pant leg pocket, make em all wonder if your happy to see um. Makes a mighty fine fly or asshole swatter as well as being hard to lose.
/. # 26156519
I am a sittin here
in the magnetic pe_rin_e_um,
Just a waitin for that storm.....
ditty inspired on date unknown by Waffle Iron,
Am I the only one out here that has noticed that where people really have to work hard, they don't put up with much bullshit? Any indian will tell you that america is a fools paradise, and we put up with so much malarky it's sickening.