Are you kidding? Coal plants are located on the same ( usually ) fresh water resources that nuclear is, and have thousands of tons of radioactive and chemo-carcinogenic ash slurry on site. All you need to do to really hurt an entire regions water supply is get the slurry into the groundwater system. PPM wise the slurry is far more harmful than any subarial radio isotope releases, and quite arguably still worse than isotope leaching into groundwater.
This completely ignores the CO2 and other combustion byproducts that coal / gas fired plants dump into the atmosphere during operation. The argument could be made that the last 5 years or less of coal did more environmental harm than the entire releases of Chernobyl and Fukushima combined... since the Chernobyl explosion and meltdown.
Honestly, I think it is a little of both; FPS's need SOME plot, and games have been declining in recent years with the race for the best graphics at the cost of all else... the HL series was kind of a mashup of almost RPG with FPS elements to FPS with some RPG-like storyline immersion.
The way it sounds, at least for you and BF4, there just isn't enough plot to drive the game along, hence why I said it needs enough plot to get you to the next slaughter zone. Too many games in recent times just try to rely on who has the prettiest most intense graphics and don't care about story and gameplay.
Honestly, if a game had an awesome story combined with decent gameplay I couldn't care less what the graphics are like.... as long as they aren't so horrible that they make my eyes bleed.
Wow, engineer must mean "train throttle puller" in this case. There sure as hell isn't any indication of the logic that a builder / designer type engineer should exhibit.
It is quite obvious that " if the story didn't make sense it wouldn't be satisfying" refers to the previous sentence, particularly the last subject matter of the previous sentence having to do with the satisfaction of bringing a story to a fitting conclusion. It is further supported by the next portion of the sentence stating that "if that wasn't the aim there would have to be something else to provide satisfaction."
Furthermore, nothing, and I mean nothing past base biological necessities, applies to "everyone". The target in this, as well as nearly all arguments like it, target the majority. In arguments like these no one cares about the few individuals out on the fringe.
You are 100% correct in that not all games need a deep plot. FPS's for example just need enough plot to get you to the next slaughter zone.
A RPG with little to no plot would be pretty much worthless though. Yet as we have seen with Square-Enix and the unfortunate butchering of the Final Fantasy series post X / X-2 a good plot can't help if you have a battle system that people hate because it radically deviates from the 11 prior main story-line games that literally grew your franchise and people loved. FF-13's story was decent, but the game play just didn't feel like the FF series people had grown to love... especially for those who cut their teeth on FF7. It just wasn't fun running through a map that was basically a curved tunnel ( FF-13).
Same goes for the Tales of (____) series games, without the plot, and just as important, character interactions the games would just be doing boring repetitive shit for no reason.
In other words, games have to have enough plot to drive game play ( how much depends on the genre of game), and good enough game play ( not deviating too far from prior games if in a series and pissing off long time fans ) to keep people interested.
Some sciences would be the king, namely Geology and Chemistry...
Geology for not only knowing where to look for essential ores and mineral deposits, but also best / worst places to build settlements. Other than plague, most of the big high death disasters in history were from people building on or near geologically unstable zones. Well that, and geologists are used to camping it out rough and cooking over fires when out doing field work.
Chemists, well you can really do quite a lot with a small foundation of even basic chemicals and using solubility rules to move from the basics to more advanced chemicals... it would just take a lot longer than today since it can't be mass produced at first.
Umm, no, chromebooks are not just media consumption devices. I'm on one right now, find me another 100% Linux compatible laptop with a decent keyboard for ~$300USD. It should also be x86_64 and have a battery life of ~8-10+ hours with normal use and WiFi on.
QuickOffice / GoogleDocs ( even offline ) damn well better be good enough for highschool papers, it's good enough for college papers unless you are juggling enough sources to need a reference manager.
Honest question since I looked at powershell when it first came out, does it have the built in flexibility that bash / ash et al. does? When I looked at it, it looked more like a programming language than a command line interpreter, and it seemed to have some pretty weird syntax so I went with cygwin on the few windows machines I have ( not a major network admin ). Cygwin had the advantage of SSH, both client and server ( if needed ) as well.
Some examples of what I am asking if powershell supports: testing if files / directories exist like bash [ -f $FILE ] / [ -d $DIR ] tests? With available "!" ( not operator ) general piping E.G. "cat $FILE | sed $changes | $TEXT_EDITOR to review changes named pipes ( streaming the output of a program through a specific named pipe to another program ) something like the for / do loops in bash.
I really should look into it more, I think it is installed by default on my win8.1 laptop.
Anyways, hope to get a honest answer... since this is a honest question.
It could even be more simple than that; I don't remember 100% about the plague era history, but if I remember correctly near end symptoms were vomiting and swelling / cracking of the tongue. In both cases there is high probability that bacterium from the bloodstream would come in contact with the persons teeth. If you really want to get down to it, many victims were buried in mass graves and it is possible that there was cross contamination due to higher level corpses buboes rupturing when they had been tossed into the grave.
I do agree that rat > flea > human is not the only infection vector, after all, there was plenty of human > human contact in the incubation periods. Infected human > flea > human ( day to day life / brothel visiting ETC) would spread much faster due to larger amounts of contact, yet you would still need an original instigator action (the rat carriers).
This is all ignoring the fact of the Pnuemonic variants of the plague as well...
Final Fantasy 14 did something similar, you could give out positive reputation to the good players in the randomly generated parties for dungeons( you got 1 point to give, and 3 other party members to choose between who gets it). After certain amounts of positive reputation you got certain in game things ( title / eventually a mount thingy ), there was no negative reputation options. Less than a week after this option was launched party play improved significantly, but even then there were still occasional trolls.
Personally I think it would work out better if most ranking systems took this type of rep system into account ( get rated on how "good" you are ) using your rep score and amount of time played... that way new players aren't punished and it is harder to game the system.
Dude, it's literally a 30 second download for classicshell and maybe 1-2 minutes playing clicky clicky in the classicshell settings and you have win7 back, albeit with a shell start menu icon instead of the 7 winlogo icon. I haven't seen the metro shit in months ( bluetooth toggling is the last time).
Once classic shell was installed 8.0 is essentially the same as 7... 8.1 sucks if you use skydrive ( or whatever they call it now ) since you can't have a local acount AND use skydrive.
TL;DR - win8 + classic shell pretty much = win7. So if win7 wroked for you win8 can too.
Seriously, where do you find this tripe? First the completely implausible "explosion defies all physical known laws to throw heavy mass 30km" story, and yes, nuclear fuel is damn heavy mass... it's what makes it actually reactive.
Then you get this wonderful piece of drivel. On the off chance you you really do care about this lets take a look at why it is an absolute crap article shall we?
at Fukushima the game is to madly pump water in, in order to stop it melting down and exploding.
Well, damn. Oh wait, there is absolutely nothing to back this up, plus "it" isn't defined. "it" could be anything from the entire complex to a workboot. This is besides the fact that if "it" melted down the reactions would stop and the decay heat would not be enough to keep the fuel from spreading and solidifying. Solid fuel that literally can't sustain a reaction ( hence why it is solid ) isn't just randomly going to explode. The only explosions possible would be steam or hydrogen gas explosions, and only during the actual melt, with little to no risk of explosion after the fuel melted and solidified. This is also ignoring the fact that to date there has never been a nuclear explosion at anything other than intentional detonations.
That said it's a bigger pain to contain and dismantle a big blob of re-solidified core material than it is to try and keep it from melting.
That explosion blasted a significant, but unknown, quantity of lethally radioactive bits and pieces of fuel element around the site (where I heard they were bulldozed into the ground - who knows?), but it also blew the top off the building, covered the fuel elements under the water with rubble and pieces of crane machinery, and no doubt twisted and melted a large proportion of the remaining spent fuel.
What a load of shit.... this kind of writing would get an F in high school science / journalism classes. It's all just a bunch of contradictions, " an unknown but significant"...."no doubt twisted and melted...". The "journalist" "writing" this article can neither agree with himself nor bother to cite any type of sources.
I would go on further but I actually started laughing at what he said would happen if you broke a fuel assembly....
Ummm, Physics would happen? Unless you had a convenient hole to pool the melt in it will just spread out and solidify ( that what the "core catcher" dishes under the reactors are designed to do ) and stop "reacting" so you would not get the melt actually burning a hole in the ground, you just have a spread out highly radioactive glassy metallic mess sitting at hot temps because of the residual decay heat.
That and ground water, if the melt would burn down it's going to heat up water in the ground, resulting in radio-steam blasting from the hole, probable widening of the fractures the water is flowing through leading to ground instabilities, and irradiating of your groundwater supply.
As others have stated as well, anything the hot melt would burn would also be irradiated and sent to the atmosphere, as well as radio-decay gasses.
In other words, it would be a much more horrible headache than trying to control the decay heat until the fuel can be decanted and put into a longer term storage.
Well, you took away our choice. When we could still smoke in bars you very rarely saw anyone smoking on the street, and the streets remained cleaner since the bars / ETC. had ashtrays all over. Do you think the people smoking outside want to be standing in the cold / rain / heat / snow?
You also took away the establishment owners choice, if you really didn't agree with smoking you should have done it the capitalist way, take your business to a place that CHOSE to not allow smoking. You did not do that, you chose the dictatorial way, just telling everyone who disagreed with they are wrong, that you knew better than them, and that they aren't allowed to live and or run their business as they want.
So let me get this straight: you , one person, have "health issues". Then you bitch about how it was easier to avoid smoke just by not going to bars that allow smoking. Not only that but you then have the temerity to bitch that people are smoking outside of the bars now - the situation you and all the other morons who can't think ahead wanted when you took the choice away from the owners of the establishments - and you want society to conform to your "needs". Not only that, but you admit that "any smoke" causes the same affects, maybe we should outlaw campfires, cooking with oil, any types of fireworks and hell while we are in denial stupid outlaw land make a law against forest fires.
That's akin to me saying that seeing someone not smoking makes me depressed - we should have a law requiring everyone to have a cigarette / cigar / pipe so I don't get depressed and maybe think about killing myself...
TL:DR - Go up and slap some sense into your idiot lawmakers that take the choice to allow / disallow smoking in the establishments they own from said owners, because believe me, smokers don't want to have to go outside and listen to all the whiners walk past.
Iceland is currently rifting, so it is technically possible. From reading the article this isn't what has happened though. From what the article states they simply drilled to near the magma chamber of a volcano. I say "near" because in all likelihood that is what they did; If they had actually pierced the magma chamber there is an extremely high probability that it would trigger an eruption, especially after adding volatiles ( water for steam in this case ).
Except for the said rifting, where the island is literally being torn apart from plates diverging, Iceland typically has eruptions somewhere in the middle of the scale from effusive ( think Hawaii, lava just kind of oozes or sprays out without producing huge plumes of ash) and the more violent explosive ( think yellowstone / mount st Helens / the classic huge cloud of ash and lightening volcanos ). Volatiles such as dissolved CO2 and H2O play an enormous part in controlling how violent an eruption is, basically more volatiles = more boom, and adding water to a magma chamber is not going to turn out pretty... do a quick search for Krakatoa to find out what happens ( supposedly anyways, it's what data suggest anyways) when you breach a magma chamber and add volatiles.
Source: I'm starting my 3rd year undergrad as a Geologist, and plan to go to grad school focusing on Vulcanology....
but the Linux distributions are far more likely to remain stable.
Not really. I used Opera years and years ago when it was faster than Mozilla browsers on Linux. Then they came out with some point version that really messed with the UI dialogs, I didn't like it and it was time to abandon ship.
Other than the UI changes I didn't like, it was a pretty decent browser... I am a crusty old curmudgeon that doesn't like UI changes just for the sake of change ( also hence why I use Seamonkey / Iceape - you know, pretty much the same UI from the 90's ).
Alright story time is over, now get off my lawn you young pup!
It's pretty permanent if the disc is made of durable materials.
You do realize you are talking about a company here in America right? If they finally decide to do anything, they will decide to buy the cheapest shit they can shovel in... all in the name of the almighty bottom line.
No, as a matter of fact I'm better than Stallman. I'm not saying he should stop his idealism, only that it is stupid to push it onto others as hard as he does. He is entitled to his opinion, as I am entitled to mine. I am not disagreeing with his opinion, I am disagreeing with him trying to force / coerce other people into agreeing with him.
As for the complete bullshit about RMS using non-free software, no shit he had to build the first toolchain from non-free compilers et al. they won't spring up from nothing. Yet after that I know for a fact he has said, in the last decade no less - on multiple occasions, that he would rather use crippled hardware rather than use non-free drivers that are available gratis from manufacturers. He also said everyone should do the same, stating it in plain and unambiguous language no less.
So yes, his viewpoints are quite well known on the issues of non-free software - if it isn't open, do without. It has been the topic basis for many of his discussions around the world.
Yeah, because steam et al. are right there forcing you to install them on your system aren't they.
By the way, Debian, at it's core, strives to be the "Universal OS"- kind of hard to be that when your users aren't so much as "allowed" to install those "horribad" non-free things. Even if the Debian team removed the self hosted non-free repos and let developers host it off site, how do you trust the packages? Who do you think would get the blame if any unsavory packages made it into the repos? There would be egg on Debians face no matter what, after all Debian devs where hosting the site.
FOSS stuff is cool, it's awesome that if you want you can release your stuff for others to work on. But RMS can design an open sourced spoon to eat my ass when it comes to his rabid idealism that that is how the world absolutely has to be.
Yeah, I bought a "thinkpad" type laptop about 6 months ago. Decent-ish specs, but absolute shit keyboard. I had to put a large spacer between the mainboard and the keyboard tray base just to get the spacebar to work consistently. I hate that almost everybody is going with the shitty chicklet keyboards nowadays, it feels like you need to either be an elephant or hit the damn keys with a big hammer when typing.
Other than the shitty keyboard ( one thing I DO like is the full numpad for number entry), I can't complain about the hardware for the price I paid, it was cheap enough to toss 16gigs of ram in to make the i5 hum along for most things.
Weird; for the longest time WD was my go-to brand for hard drives, especially considering early on they had an incredible no-questions-asked replacement policy if you got in touch with their support.
Now I haven't had to buy much in the last few years but;
How the hell did you gt that lucky? I had / have a PC repair and networking small business late 90's through now and WD used to be an absolute nightmare to get warrantied, I still have a stack of 4gigs that they refused... about 9. Never really had problems in the rare occurrence of a Seagate failing / pre-failing, even if seatools said the drive was "fine". Seagate also had more graceful failures, you get the click of death, and maybe a few corrupt files, but you could almost always pull the data from the drive as long as you didn't put it off. WD would just shit the bed so bad even the BIOS wouldn't recognize the disk on the next boot.
It almost has to be a video / image codec if we are talking about internet era code. I mean the internet is what, 90% porn?
But in all seriousness, I would still say video codec code. All the devices out there consuming video at (usually) 24+FPS have to decode each frame. The line kind of blurs with DXVA / VDPAU and hardware decoding though.
Come to think of it, it could also easily be an audio codec, either in portable music players or cell phones.
Let me ask what about the permissioning of/opt? Who owns it?
Who cares about/opt? You can have your install script make users, setuid, et all and set permissions on your application directory, meaning that unless you are giving high level privileges to some moron who will link to a random non-system library you will have no problems since your users will never be able to see / read the contents of the dir.
BTW,/opt with permissions on the applications DIR for specific users is much safer than $HOME since the user can't just "delete a bunch of stuff to get some more space" ( worst case is they delete symlinks / *.desktop files).
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Oh my, what a place to drop a letter...
For starters, it's just embarrassing if you teacher makes obvious spelling or grammar mistakes, even if it's not a language teacher.
Don't worry, I do the same thing sometimes, usually it's with the letter "s" though.
Are you kidding? Coal plants are located on the same ( usually ) fresh water resources that nuclear is, and have thousands of tons of radioactive and chemo-carcinogenic ash slurry on site. All you need to do to really hurt an entire regions water supply is get the slurry into the groundwater system. PPM wise the slurry is far more harmful than any subarial radio isotope releases, and quite arguably still worse than isotope leaching into groundwater.
This completely ignores the CO2 and other combustion byproducts that coal / gas fired plants dump into the atmosphere during operation. The argument could be made that the last 5 years or less of coal did more environmental harm than the entire releases of Chernobyl and Fukushima combined... since the Chernobyl explosion and meltdown.
Honestly, I think it is a little of both; FPS's need SOME plot, and games have been declining in recent years with the race for the best graphics at the cost of all else... the HL series was kind of a mashup of almost RPG with FPS elements to FPS with some RPG-like storyline immersion.
The way it sounds, at least for you and BF4, there just isn't enough plot to drive the game along, hence why I said it needs enough plot to get you to the next slaughter zone. Too many games in recent times just try to rely on who has the prettiest most intense graphics and don't care about story and gameplay.
Honestly, if a game had an awesome story combined with decent gameplay I couldn't care less what the graphics are like.... as long as they aren't so horrible that they make my eyes bleed.
Wow, engineer must mean "train throttle puller" in this case. There sure as hell isn't any indication of the logic that a builder / designer type engineer should exhibit.
It is quite obvious that " if the story didn't make sense it wouldn't be satisfying" refers to the previous sentence, particularly the last subject matter of the previous sentence having to do with the satisfaction of bringing a story to a fitting conclusion. It is further supported by the next portion of the sentence stating that "if that wasn't the aim there would have to be something else to provide satisfaction."
Furthermore, nothing, and I mean nothing past base biological necessities, applies to "everyone". The target in this, as well as nearly all arguments like it, target the majority. In arguments like these no one cares about the few individuals out on the fringe.
You are 100% correct in that not all games need a deep plot. FPS's for example just need enough plot to get you to the next slaughter zone.
A RPG with little to no plot would be pretty much worthless though. Yet as we have seen with Square-Enix and the unfortunate butchering of the Final Fantasy series post X / X-2 a good plot can't help if you have a battle system that people hate because it radically deviates from the 11 prior main story-line games that literally grew your franchise and people loved. FF-13's story was decent, but the game play just didn't feel like the FF series people had grown to love... especially for those who cut their teeth on FF7. It just wasn't fun running through a map that was basically a curved tunnel ( FF-13).
Same goes for the Tales of (____) series games, without the plot, and just as important, character interactions the games would just be doing boring repetitive shit for no reason.
In other words, games have to have enough plot to drive game play ( how much depends on the genre of game), and good enough game play ( not deviating too far from prior games if in a series and pissing off long time fans ) to keep people interested.
Some sciences would be the king, namely Geology and Chemistry...
Geology for not only knowing where to look for essential ores and mineral deposits, but also best / worst places to build settlements. Other than plague, most of the big high death disasters in history were from people building on or near geologically unstable zones. Well that, and geologists are used to camping it out rough and cooking over fires when out doing field work.
Chemists, well you can really do quite a lot with a small foundation of even basic chemicals and using solubility rules to move from the basics to more advanced chemicals... it would just take a lot longer than today since it can't be mass produced at first.
Umm, no, chromebooks are not just media consumption devices. I'm on one right now, find me another 100% Linux compatible laptop with a decent keyboard for ~$300USD. It should also be x86_64 and have a battery life of ~8-10+ hours with normal use and WiFi on.
QuickOffice / GoogleDocs ( even offline ) damn well better be good enough for highschool papers, it's good enough for college papers unless you are juggling enough sources to need a reference manager.
Honest question since I looked at powershell when it first came out, does it have the built in flexibility that bash / ash et al. does? When I looked at it, it looked more like a programming language than a command line interpreter, and it seemed to have some pretty weird syntax so I went with cygwin on the few windows machines I have ( not a major network admin ). Cygwin had the advantage of SSH, both client and server ( if needed ) as well.
Some examples of what I am asking if powershell supports:
testing if files / directories exist like bash [ -f $FILE ] / [ -d $DIR ] tests? With available "!" ( not operator )
general piping E.G. "cat $FILE | sed $changes | $TEXT_EDITOR to review changes
named pipes ( streaming the output of a program through a specific named pipe to another program )
something like the for / do loops in bash.
I really should look into it more, I think it is installed by default on my win8.1 laptop.
Anyways, hope to get a honest answer... since this is a honest question.
It could even be more simple than that; I don't remember 100% about the plague era history, but if I remember correctly near end symptoms were vomiting and swelling / cracking of the tongue. In both cases there is high probability that bacterium from the bloodstream would come in contact with the persons teeth. If you really want to get down to it, many victims were buried in mass graves and it is possible that there was cross contamination due to higher level corpses buboes rupturing when they had been tossed into the grave.
I do agree that rat > flea > human is not the only infection vector, after all, there was plenty of human > human contact in the incubation periods. Infected human > flea > human ( day to day life / brothel visiting ETC) would spread much faster due to larger amounts of contact, yet you would still need an original instigator action (the rat carriers).
This is all ignoring the fact of the Pnuemonic variants of the plague as well...
Final Fantasy 14 did something similar, you could give out positive reputation to the good players in the randomly generated parties for dungeons( you got 1 point to give, and 3 other party members to choose between who gets it). After certain amounts of positive reputation you got certain in game things ( title / eventually a mount thingy ), there was no negative reputation options. Less than a week after this option was launched party play improved significantly, but even then there were still occasional trolls.
Personally I think it would work out better if most ranking systems took this type of rep system into account ( get rated on how "good" you are ) using your rep score and amount of time played... that way new players aren't punished and it is harder to game the system.
I would say it probably has to do with the "unskippable" previews on DVDs.
Of course the streaming source could always include the previews, and disable seeking in the stream player during previews, so who knows.
Dude, it's literally a 30 second download for classicshell and maybe 1-2 minutes playing clicky clicky in the classicshell settings and you have win7 back, albeit with a shell start menu icon instead of the 7 winlogo icon. I haven't seen the metro shit in months ( bluetooth toggling is the last time).
Once classic shell was installed 8.0 is essentially the same as 7... 8.1 sucks if you use skydrive ( or whatever they call it now ) since you can't have a local acount AND use skydrive.
TL;DR - win8 + classic shell pretty much = win7. So if win7 wroked for you win8 can too.
Seriously, where do you find this tripe? First the completely implausible "explosion defies all physical known laws to throw heavy mass 30km" story, and yes, nuclear fuel is damn heavy mass... it's what makes it actually reactive.
Then you get this wonderful piece of drivel. On the off chance you you really do care about this lets take a look at why it is an absolute crap article shall we?
at Fukushima the game is to madly pump water in, in order to stop it melting down and exploding.
Well, damn. Oh wait, there is absolutely nothing to back this up, plus "it" isn't defined. "it" could be anything from the entire complex to a workboot. This is besides the fact that if "it" melted down the reactions would stop and the decay heat would not be enough to keep the fuel from spreading and solidifying. Solid fuel that literally can't sustain a reaction ( hence why it is solid ) isn't just randomly going to explode. The only explosions possible would be steam or hydrogen gas explosions, and only during the actual melt, with little to no risk of explosion after the fuel melted and solidified. This is also ignoring the fact that to date there has never been a nuclear explosion at anything other than intentional detonations.
That said it's a bigger pain to contain and dismantle a big blob of re-solidified core material than it is to try and keep it from melting.
That explosion blasted a significant, but unknown, quantity of lethally radioactive bits and pieces of fuel element around the site (where I heard they were bulldozed into the ground - who knows?), but it also blew the top off the building, covered the fuel elements under the water with rubble and pieces of crane machinery, and no doubt twisted and melted a large proportion of the remaining spent fuel.
What a load of shit.... this kind of writing would get an F in high school science / journalism classes. It's all just a bunch of contradictions, " an unknown but significant"...."no doubt twisted and melted...".
The "journalist" "writing" this article can neither agree with himself nor bother to cite any type of sources.
I would go on further but I actually started laughing at what he said would happen if you broke a fuel assembly....
Ummm, Physics would happen? Unless you had a convenient hole to pool the melt in it will just spread out and solidify ( that what the "core catcher" dishes under the reactors are designed to do ) and stop "reacting" so you would not get the melt actually burning a hole in the ground, you just have a spread out highly radioactive glassy metallic mess sitting at hot temps because of the residual decay heat.
That and ground water, if the melt would burn down it's going to heat up water in the ground, resulting in radio-steam blasting from the hole, probable widening of the fractures the water is flowing through leading to ground instabilities, and irradiating of your groundwater supply.
As others have stated as well, anything the hot melt would burn would also be irradiated and sent to the atmosphere, as well as radio-decay gasses.
In other words, it would be a much more horrible headache than trying to control the decay heat until the fuel can be decanted and put into a longer term storage.
Well, you took away our choice. When we could still smoke in bars you very rarely saw anyone smoking on the street, and the streets remained cleaner since the bars / ETC. had ashtrays all over. Do you think the people smoking outside want to be standing in the cold / rain / heat / snow?
You also took away the establishment owners choice, if you really didn't agree with smoking you should have done it the capitalist way, take your business to a place that CHOSE to not allow smoking. You did not do that, you chose the dictatorial way, just telling everyone who disagreed with they are wrong, that you knew better than them, and that they aren't allowed to live and or run their business as they want.
So let me get this straight: you , one person, have "health issues". Then you bitch about how it was easier to avoid smoke just by not going to bars that allow smoking. Not only that but you then have the temerity to bitch that people are smoking outside of the bars now - the situation you and all the other morons who can't think ahead wanted when you took the choice away from the owners of the establishments - and you want society to conform to your "needs".
Not only that, but you admit that "any smoke" causes the same affects, maybe we should outlaw campfires, cooking with oil, any types of fireworks and hell while we are in denial stupid outlaw land make a law against forest fires.
That's akin to me saying that seeing someone not smoking makes me depressed - we should have a law requiring everyone to have a cigarette / cigar / pipe so I don't get depressed and maybe think about killing myself...
TL:DR - Go up and slap some sense into your idiot lawmakers that take the choice to allow / disallow smoking in the establishments they own from said owners, because believe me, smokers don't want to have to go outside and listen to all the whiners walk past.
Iceland is currently rifting, so it is technically possible. From reading the article this isn't what has happened though.
From what the article states they simply drilled to near the magma chamber of a volcano. I say "near" because in all likelihood that is what they did; If they had actually pierced the magma chamber there is an extremely high probability that it would trigger an eruption, especially after adding volatiles ( water for steam in this case ).
Except for the said rifting, where the island is literally being torn apart from plates diverging, Iceland typically has eruptions somewhere in the middle of the scale from effusive ( think Hawaii, lava just kind of oozes or sprays out without producing huge plumes of ash) and the more violent explosive ( think yellowstone / mount st Helens / the classic huge cloud of ash and lightening volcanos ). Volatiles such as dissolved CO2 and H2O play an enormous part in controlling how violent an eruption is, basically more volatiles = more boom, and adding water to a magma chamber is not going to turn out pretty... do a quick search for Krakatoa to find out what happens ( supposedly anyways, it's what data suggest anyways) when you breach a magma chamber and add volatiles.
Source: I'm starting my 3rd year undergrad as a Geologist, and plan to go to grad school focusing on Vulcanology....
but the Linux distributions are far more likely to remain stable.
Not really. I used Opera years and years ago when it was faster than Mozilla browsers on Linux. Then they came out with some point version that really messed with the UI dialogs, I didn't like it and it was time to abandon ship.
Other than the UI changes I didn't like, it was a pretty decent browser... I am a crusty old curmudgeon that doesn't like UI changes just for the sake of change ( also hence why I use Seamonkey / Iceape - you know, pretty much the same UI from the 90's ).
Alright story time is over, now get off my lawn you young pup!
It's pretty permanent if the disc is made of durable materials.
You do realize you are talking about a company here in America right? If they finally decide to do anything, they will decide to buy the cheapest shit they can shovel in... all in the name of the almighty bottom line.
No, as a matter of fact I'm better than Stallman. I'm not saying he should stop his idealism, only that it is stupid to push it onto others as hard as he does. He is entitled to his opinion, as I am entitled to mine. I am not disagreeing with his opinion, I am disagreeing with him trying to force / coerce other people into agreeing with him.
As for the complete bullshit about RMS using non-free software, no shit he had to build the first toolchain from non-free compilers et al. they won't spring up from nothing. Yet after that I know for a fact he has said, in the last decade no less - on multiple occasions, that he would rather use crippled hardware rather than use non-free drivers that are available gratis from manufacturers. He also said everyone should do the same, stating it in plain and unambiguous language no less.
So yes, his viewpoints are quite well known on the issues of non-free software - if it isn't open, do without. It has been the topic basis for many of his discussions around the world.
Yeah, because steam et al. are right there forcing you to install them on your system aren't they.
By the way, Debian, at it's core, strives to be the "Universal OS"- kind of hard to be that when your users aren't so much as "allowed" to install those "horribad" non-free things.
Even if the Debian team removed the self hosted non-free repos and let developers host it off site, how do you trust the packages? Who do you think would get the blame if any unsavory packages made it into the repos?
There would be egg on Debians face no matter what, after all Debian devs where hosting the site.
FOSS stuff is cool, it's awesome that if you want you can release your stuff for others to work on. But RMS can design an open sourced spoon to eat my ass when it comes to his rabid idealism that that is how the world absolutely has to be.
Yeah, I bought a "thinkpad" type laptop about 6 months ago. Decent-ish specs, but absolute shit keyboard. I had to put a large spacer between the mainboard and the keyboard tray base just to get the spacebar to work consistently. I hate that almost everybody is going with the shitty chicklet keyboards nowadays, it feels like you need to either be an elephant or hit the damn keys with a big hammer when typing.
Other than the shitty keyboard ( one thing I DO like is the full numpad for number entry), I can't complain about the hardware for the price I paid, it was cheap enough to toss 16gigs of ram in to make the i5 hum along for most things.
Weird; for the longest time WD was my go-to brand for hard drives, especially considering early on they had an incredible no-questions-asked replacement policy if you got in touch with their support.
Now I haven't had to buy much in the last few years but;
How the hell did you gt that lucky? I had / have a PC repair and networking small business late 90's through now and WD used to be an absolute nightmare to get warrantied, I still have a stack of 4gigs that they refused... about 9. Never really had problems in the rare occurrence of a Seagate failing / pre-failing, even if seatools said the drive was "fine". Seagate also had more graceful failures, you get the click of death, and maybe a few corrupt files, but you could almost always pull the data from the drive as long as you didn't put it off.
WD would just shit the bed so bad even the BIOS wouldn't recognize the disk on the next boot.
Come on.... ( pun intended )
It almost has to be a video / image codec if we are talking about internet era code. I mean the internet is what, 90% porn?
But in all seriousness, I would still say video codec code. All the devices out there consuming video at (usually) 24+FPS have to decode each frame. The line kind of blurs with DXVA / VDPAU and hardware decoding though.
Come to think of it, it could also easily be an audio codec, either in portable music players or cell phones.
Let me ask what about the permissioning of /opt? Who owns it?
Who cares about /opt? You can have your install script make users, setuid, et all and set permissions on your application directory, meaning that unless you are giving high level privileges to some moron who will link to a random non-system library you will have no problems since your users will never be able to see / read the contents of the dir.
BTW, /opt with permissions on the applications DIR for specific users is much safer than $HOME since the user can't just "delete a bunch of stuff to get some more space" ( worst case is they delete symlinks / *.desktop files).