I mean, other than the idiot teenagers and the anti-science supporters of the GOP, everyone knows that frogs and toads are the canary in the coal mine... and this means we are in seriously deep sh*t.
Interesting question: any chance that this is someone's test gene editing gone horribly wrong?
The Chinese are planning it. I'd guess they're about equivalent to around 1965, US. The Russians are talking about it, too... and on just who's rockets have we been sending people to the Station since the Shuttle was retired.
The GOP don't give a shit, other than to talk, but won't put their money where their mouth is; never have, never will.
Where's the line in the Malignanat Carcinoma's federal budget for next year where NASA gets a 100% increase, from $20B to $40B?
Oh, I see, like any sleazy CEO, do more with less!!!
Datum: At the height of the Moon Race, in the sixties, NASA's budget was also $20B... in 1965 dollars. Adjusted for inflation, that would be about $180B or $200B now.
Anyone who wants more in space... without increasing the budget is a liar.
Correction: that's "my social media chamber that only challenges my views by online trolls, and sells information about me to spammers and targeted ads."
Slashdot *used* to have intelligent people posting, a dozen and more years ago. Now, you have to dig through the trolls and the 16 yr old idiots.
Haven't seen the headlines telling you all that the price of food, later this year, will go *way* up: bread, tortillas, meat (what do you think they feed cattle, pigs and chickens?).
Wonder if it'll result in food riots in the countries the US exports to....
Unions destroy companies? Really? So, are you working as a troll and getting paid for this propaganda, or are you just a sucker for the propaganda?
Example 1: Eastern Airlines. Before Lorenzo took over in the late '80's, the unions opposed him, with smoking gun letters they'd obtained, showing his goal was to destroy the unions. HE RAN EASTERN INTO THE GROUND, and it went under SOLELY BECAUSE HE WANTED TO BREAK THE UNIONS.
Example 2: The coal companies, a few years back, spun off another coal company, with *it* having all the union contracts, oh, and the payments to the health and pension funds. They *knew* it couldn't succeed, and it went under a couple years ago... and they're trying to use bankruptcy to break the union contracts.
Overwhelmingly, it's management who have always hated unions, and they have destroyed companies, rather than work with unions.
But that's ok, go to your job for 60 hrs/wk, and not be allowed to take vacation time, because you're "so important" (rather than being understaffed), and they expect you to answer phone calls and texts and email *all* of your time off, weekends, and evenings, and....
Maybe you SHOULDN'T ANSWER THEM? Maybe you should let the system take the message? When you're driving, you have ONE JOB: DRIVING, and PAY ATTENTION TO THE ROAD.
Your response suggests that you're one who should be pulled over and subjected to at least a 10-day intervention from your cellphone addiction in a jail cell.
Yeah, economic catastrophe... like 2008? You don't *like* lots of new jobs being created in renewable energy... as opposed to, say, coal[1]?
And what do you think the economy's going to do, when bad weather screws the US heartland, and there are worldwide food shortages[2]?
Or maybe those climate changes, like overuse of water and drought are some of what's causing conflict around the globe, and mass migration?[3]
Gee, think of all the folks who'll lose their job in the buggy whip factories.
1. 1972, the coal industry employed about 780,000 miners; coal output rose until about 15 years ago... but employs about 78,000 as of 5-10 years ago, due to strip mining and mountaintop removal. 2. I don't suppose you know about the food riots in Mexico and Central America, when too much of US corn production was diverted to ethanol, and there were shortages for bread and tortillas. 3. Do you have any clue about how major subsurface water, in the Central Valley of California, in the midwest, are being played out, not refilling, because of current weather, location, and agribusiness techniques?
Well, obviously a liberal education lets people actually learn how to spell... which suggests that, based on your post, anyone should trust you about as much as a drunken bum on a corner selling Rolex watches.
That says that one-third of all Americans HAVE NOT READ ONE SINGLE BOOK IN A YEAR.
Now, I wonder what the correlation is between those that have not read a book in a year, and supporters of the Malignant Carcinoma in the White House....
Or maybe I'd put up a big sign: this building is copyright by me, and no photographs allowed. Or maybe "you may only take pics on payment of royalty fees of $10 per picture, and $100 per minute of video."
Or maybe just a mobile phone jammer in the street.
The worst format ever? Really? Who said that, other than this moron?
Perhaps he's confusing cassette tapes with 8-track, which *was* dreadful.
He *brags* about having a large USB key with *one* song? So, he also has a zero-length attention span. Some of us, with an actual attention span, like to hear all of what an artist(s) have to say, and listent to an entire album (oh, gosh, listening to one artist or band for MORE THAN HALF AN HOUR?! So old school....
And either CDs or cassettes, I just shove into the player, and don't have to screw around with picking songs, which is NOT something you want to be doing while driving.
That being said, I really do need to burn my few hundred cassettes to disk for backup....
I mean, I'm streaming on my computer right now, with small speakers that are plugged into a small wallwort. It's really going to run more power than a boombox? Or, more realistically, more than a) my dvd player, and my tuner combined?
And has been for better than five years now. Their marketing dept has long since taken over the search algorithms. The signal-to-noise ration is *waaay* down from, say, 2012. Lots of garbage results. And then there's the "REALLY STOOOPID", like the time last year I was searching for some computer-related terms (this was at work), and though I don't remember what I was serrching for, I put "those terms" in quotes, and it returned "there were no results for that exact phrase, but here are the results without quotes: AND THE FIRST OR SECOND HIT WAS THE EXACT PHRASE, *IN* *QUOTES* IN THE DOCUMENT.
It's not just they've dropped the "don't be evil", they've gone to "sell above anything, search results don't matter".
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What, and the obnoxious church on 1431, just off 183, doesn't call you Evil?
Gee, where would that idea ever have come from?
By the bye, next time the crossbuck comes down, don't try to drive around it to beat the train pulled by diesel-electric locomotives....
(Or maybe we could go back to shipping most stuff long distance on *trains*, which get, lessee, how's their ad go? 1 ton 453mi on a gallon?)
Yeah, I noticed that too - the newest dozen or two posts were by what are apparently 16-yr-olds who think the Orange Cheetoh is a lib'rul.
I doubt any of 'em knows where / is.
No. It is not to ditch. The point is to communicate.
Or haven't you seen firefox or chome recently absolutely refusing to go to an http-only site? Or its cert is self-signed?
I have to wonder if this idiot has ever been within 100m of a computer running any distro of Linux, or if he's being paid to be an idiot.
Btw, I'm running CentOS 6 on my 10 yr old HP Netbook, with gnome (ugh), and it runs just fine.
So, unless John Carter really did get back, the White Martians wound up controlling all the others, the green, the red....
I mean, other than the idiot teenagers and the anti-science supporters of the GOP, everyone knows that frogs and toads are the canary in the coal mine... and this means we are in seriously deep sh*t.
Interesting question: any chance that this is someone's test gene editing gone horribly wrong?
Or they might be going for RFC 2549, Datagrams over Avian Carrier with QoS tools.
Not paying attention, are you?
The Chinese are planning it. I'd guess they're about equivalent to around 1965, US. The Russians are talking about it, too... and on just who's rockets have we been sending people to the Station since the Shuttle was retired.
The GOP don't give a shit, other than to talk, but won't put their money where their mouth is; never have, never will.
I'm so old that it was a joke on newbies that you could catch a virus by just reading an email.
Then Bill the Gates made that real, with HTML email. Now Google wants to add scripting into the email.
Great idea, goog... you have taken down all the "first, don't do evil" posters and shredded them, right?
And the people who want this? "I've got nothing at all to say, but let me give you me, singing and dancing!!!"
Where's the line in the Malignanat Carcinoma's federal budget for next year where NASA gets a 100% increase, from $20B to $40B?
Oh, I see, like any sleazy CEO, do more with less!!!
Datum: At the height of the Moon Race, in the sixties, NASA's budget was also $20B... in 1965 dollars. Adjusted for inflation, that would be about $180B or $200B now.
Anyone who wants more in space... without increasing the budget is a liar.
Correction: that's "my social media chamber that only challenges my views by online trolls, and sells information about me to spammers and targeted ads."
Slashdot *used* to have intelligent people posting, a dozen and more years ago. Now, you have to dig through the trolls and the 16 yr old idiots.
Haven't seen the headlines telling you all that the price of food, later this year, will go *way* up: bread, tortillas, meat (what do you think they feed cattle, pigs and chickens?).
Wonder if it'll result in food riots in the countries the US exports to....
Unions destroy companies? Really? So, are you working as a troll and getting paid for this propaganda, or are you just a sucker for the propaganda?
Example 1: Eastern Airlines. Before Lorenzo took over in the late '80's, the unions opposed him, with smoking gun letters they'd obtained, showing his goal was to destroy the unions. HE RAN EASTERN INTO THE GROUND, and it went under SOLELY BECAUSE HE WANTED TO BREAK THE UNIONS.
Example 2: The coal companies, a few years back, spun off another coal company, with *it* having all the union contracts, oh, and the payments to the health and pension funds. They *knew* it couldn't succeed, and it went under a couple years ago... and they're trying to use bankruptcy to break the union contracts.
Overwhelmingly, it's management who have always hated unions, and they have destroyed companies, rather than work with unions.
But that's ok, go to your job for 60 hrs/wk, and not be allowed to take vacation time, because you're "so important" (rather than being understaffed), and they expect you to answer phone calls and texts and email *all* of your time off, weekends, and evenings, and....
Fool.
Maybe you SHOULDN'T ANSWER THEM? Maybe you should let the system take the message? When you're driving, you have ONE JOB: DRIVING, and PAY ATTENTION TO THE ROAD.
Your response suggests that you're one who should be pulled over and subjected to at least a 10-day intervention from your cellphone addiction in a jail cell.
So, would you say the same of my generation, when we were teens... who were out in the streets protesting 'Nam and the draft?
Or the kids a bit older than me, who literally risked their lives to protest in the South for voting and other civil rights?
Go back to watching sportsball, and stay off the 'Net.
Yeah, economic catastrophe... like 2008? You don't *like* lots of new jobs being created in renewable energy... as opposed to, say, coal[1]?
And what do you think the economy's going to do, when bad weather screws the US heartland, and there are worldwide food shortages[2]?
Or maybe those climate changes, like overuse of water and drought are some of what's causing conflict around the globe, and mass migration?[3]
Gee, think of all the folks who'll lose their job in the buggy whip factories.
1. 1972, the coal industry employed about 780,000 miners; coal output rose until about 15 years ago... but employs about 78,000 as of 5-10 years ago, due to strip mining and mountaintop removal.
2. I don't suppose you know about the food riots in Mexico and Central America, when too much of US corn production was diverted to ethanol, and there were shortages for bread and tortillas.
3. Do you have any clue about how major subsurface water, in the Central Valley of California, in the midwest, are being played out, not refilling, because of current weather, location, and agribusiness techniques?
Well, obviously a liberal education lets people actually learn how to spell... which suggests that, based on your post, anyone should trust you about as much as a drunken bum on a corner selling Rolex watches.
That says that one-third of all Americans HAVE NOT READ ONE SINGLE BOOK IN A YEAR.
Now, I wonder what the correlation is between those that have not read a book in a year, and supporters of the Malignant Carcinoma in the White House....
No one else cares about your pics. NO ONE.
If I lived there, I'd be really ticked, too.
Or maybe I'd put up a big sign: this building is copyright by me, and no photographs allowed. Or maybe "you may only take pics on payment of royalty fees of $10 per picture, and $100 per minute of video."
Or maybe just a mobile phone jammer in the street.
The worst format ever? Really? Who said that, other than this moron?
Perhaps he's confusing cassette tapes with 8-track, which *was* dreadful.
He *brags* about having a large USB key with *one* song? So, he also has a zero-length attention span. Some of us, with an actual attention span, like to hear all of what an artist(s) have to say, and listent to an entire album (oh, gosh, listening to one artist or band for MORE THAN HALF AN HOUR?! So old school....
And either CDs or cassettes, I just shove into the player, and don't have to screw around with picking songs, which is NOT something you want to be doing while driving.
That being said, I really do need to burn my few hundred cassettes to disk for backup....
For the rest of us...right, you're going to use your card to buy a candy bar? Or a sex toy?
Oh, and btw, slashdotters, from MIT:
"Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked"
https://www.technologyreview.c...
I mean, I'm streaming on my computer right now, with small speakers that are plugged into a small wallwort. It's really going to run more power than a boombox? Or, more realistically, more than a) my dvd player, and my tuner combined?
And has been for better than five years now. Their marketing dept has long since taken over the search algorithms. The signal-to-noise ration is *waaay* down from, say, 2012. Lots of garbage results. And then there's the "REALLY STOOOPID", like the time last year I was searching for some computer-related terms (this was at work), and though I don't remember what I was serrching for, I put "those terms" in quotes, and it returned "there were no results for that exact phrase, but here are the results without quotes: AND THE FIRST OR SECOND HIT WAS THE EXACT PHRASE, *IN* *QUOTES* IN THE DOCUMENT.
It's not just they've dropped the "don't be evil", they've gone to "sell above anything, search results don't matter".
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