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Aren't there tribes in the Amazon who have lived the same way for tens of thousands of years?

I recall reading that cargo and fishing vessels (or is that all seafaring vessels? Or all ships and boats?) produce at least as much CO2 and particulates as the cars we drive, as the ships aren't nearly as clean as road vehicles.

I've no source for that, though, it was quite some time ago that I read it.

This makes me rather sad, even though this is the first time I've heard of the guy.

My first computer was a ZX Spectrum, bought by my father shortly after he was permitted access to us again.

You see, my parents divorced a couple of years before the ZX81 was released, and my brother and I were constantly used as pawns by our (emotionally and physically abusive) mother against our father. She eventually relented and allowed him access, and so the ZX Spectrum he bought shortly after we moved back into his life became a symbol of the serious improvement in our lives.

I will always be grateful for those times.

I remember the first time someone verbalized about my completely relaxed face. I was miles away, daydreaming, and one of my friends touched my shoulder and asked if I was alright. I told her yes, and asked why. She said I just looked really sad.

So apparently I have resting sad face.

Has there been an improvement in air quality or have the changes been too small to have an impact as yet?

I remember riding on Dunedin's (New Zealand) Trolley Bus service when I was very small, which were standard bus bodies that were hooked to overhead power lines. I remember the driver hooking the bus back to the power lines. Must have been about '78 or '79.

My brain fell asleep in class once, and my head slipped off my hand. The noise of it hitting the desk woke me up again.

Everyone heard that one for sure!

56% of donations in 2017 went to the Republicans, and the article below states that while those working within may be "left leaning," the business is moving towards the Republican side of the fence.

It's also worth mentioning that the Democrats are right wing to the many nations in the rest of the world.

http://www.siliconbeat.com/2017/01/13/google-and-facebook-gi...

I came for the crackpot theories, but instead learned something fascinating.

Thanks!

I think that sort of work is actually given to a "hammer hand" or a "builder" in New Zealand. I think a carpenter is a step above those.

> where everyone did everything, and where doing everything was considered high-status: it meant you were competent at everything.

In my current (non-IT/software dev) workplace, the CEO and the manager pride themselves on how all our staff can do everything. We're all sold on it with the line that "..all your future employers will be amazed at how much you can do!" Unfortunately, everything we produce is second rate junk as a result of this, as we are "all responsible for quality control," and the customers pay appropriately.

It's not that it doesn't work, clearly it does for some businesses, it's just that someone has to be responsible for making sure that the product is fit to be presented to the customer, and if everyone's running around doing everything, nobody's really doing anything.

You're the one who introduced "collapse of the entire ecosystem," nobody that you've replied mentioned it.

We would lose a lot if denied access to orbit. For example, satellite communications, intel satellites would be gone, as well as weather satellites. Imagine the impact that would have on weather models and forecasting, and by extension farm productivity. Google Maps and the like would rapidly become out of date, and satellite phones would no longer work.

It'd be a disaster and while I'm sure we'd find ways to mitigate many aspects of it, there would still be a serious impact on our entire civilization.

I use Pine from time to time on my PC, if I'm on my laptop and I've SSH'd in, or if I'm on my (older) MacBook or iMac.

Years ago, I walked onto a car yard. I watched the guy look at my jeans and my t-shirt, and he tried to sell me a $2000 car. Exactly as you said.

Not directly related to your comment, but I was driving downhill a few months back when some halfwit came the other way in a car that clearly wasn't roadworthy. Must have been leaking a huge amount of coolant into the oil, because the cloud of steam (or smoke) behind it was so thick that half a dozen cars ended up just parked in the middle of the road, waiting for it to clear before moving off.

Turned my lights on to avoid being hit, seemed to work - or maybe I was just surrounded by cautious drivers that day.

I feel you there. My partner (who doesn't drive) just bought a second hand Corolla. She'd had it just a few days when I nearly t-boned a flatbed Toyota Hilux because it was hidden completely behind the pillar and just happened to have the correct speed relative to me to allow it to match my turn and remain completely hidden. Luckily, I'm quite cautious at intersections.

I've since learned to move around whenever I'm looking for other vehicles.

I (sort-of) play bass, and when I learn a song from tab, I'm pretty much just wrote learning. I'm sort-of learning to read musical notation, but I don't really have a visual memory which makes it really hard. It would certainly be a lot easier if I had a lot more knowledge of musical theory.

Playing by ear is much harder for me because I know just a few scales, and I can't hold a note in my head long enough to find it on the fretboard. Knowing the scales would make everything a subconscious pattern.

Mind you, I am starting to think that's entirely an anxiety thing.

I love the process of reading, but I've found for learning large amounts of material I read it out loud, record and MP3 it, and then listen to it through headphones, so that does work well.

Will look into those vitamins, thanks for the tip!

This sounds quite similar to my experience. I have a Non-Verbal Learning Disorder, and if I don't sub-vocalize everything, I end up with no idea of what I've just read. Often, I end up with my mind wandering in the same way and I'll have to go back and re-read everything I'd just read. While individual sentences and phrases will seem irritatingly familiar, I still have no idea of what I've read until I re-read it.

I'll sometimes find myself unable to grasp what I'm reading as if I were daydreaming while reading it, and I have to read it four or five times before I can get a clue about the material. It's easier if I break it down into the smallest fragments I can, and really force myself to understand those little bits, proceeding through it until I've stitched together a few of these into a larger concept. Rinse, repeat.

The toddler granddaughter of a colleague played with the colleague's father's (genuine) iPhone back in 2013, and disabled it for more than 43 years. ("iPhone is disabled try again in 22,685,550 minutes")

It's definitely not a new thing.

My understanding is that 2001 isn't so much an adaptation of the novel as it is a script that was written through extensive collaboration between both Kubrick and Clarke, eventually adapted into both screenplay and novel. I've got quite an interesting book that goes into some detail about it - "2001: filming the future"

I think it may have been in there that I read something to the effect of "Kubrick withheld his approval of the book because he didn't want to hurt the release of the film."

I just showed this to a friend of mine, who turned very white.

It seems that she's been sending some rather saucy texts, plus a topless photo or two and a few panty shots.

She went straight back to Facebook, though, and really doesn't seem to care that she's feeding the beast..

In New Zealand, Road User Charges (RUC) are charged separately on diesel vehicles, where petrol vehicles typically pay for them at the pump.

Presumably, you would pay the RUC in the same manner for electric vehicles at some point, if it isn't already in place. (I don't own one so don't know if they're already required.)

Yeah, he was an abusive piece of crap, and we were the children of another man. Think that pretty much covers it there.

I first saw it on a monochrome XT, and it looked amazing in just two colors.

A friend of my brother's played through it on the Amiga, right to the end. He did it while I was watching, although I never managed to finish it. I'm not sure if the Amiga version was any easier than the other versions. Still fun, though.

As someone who's had it for.. what, 37 years, let me tell you that you shouldn't let it terrify you. You can train yourself to ignore the sound. Doesn't mean you don't hear it, just that you won't pay attention to it most of the time. When properly trained, it's little more than an irritation.

I'm more terrified of arthritis than I am of tinnitus.

I bought a compressor a couple of years ago, and good grief is that thing noisy.

I always wearing hearing and eye protection when using it, and I'm glad for it. First time I tested the emergency release valve, I didn't know which direction it would release the air. If I hadn't been wearing safety glasses, I could have lost my eyes as it released directly into my face. I now have a rule of not allowing anybody in the workshop with me while using it, if they're not wearing both hearing and eye protection.

I have the balance problem, too. A hearing specialist suggested that one of the bones in my ear was made of a spongy material rather than bone, which can cause it.

I'm 43 years old, and in my 20s I went to a few loud rock shows. I had the same experience as you for days afterwards, but at the last one I attended without hearing protection, something funny happened in my right ear. It was like someone turned the tone control right down, and loud noises would distort so badly I couldn't make anything out.

A while later, I was watching a Scrubs episode where one of the characters ruptured an ear drum. That sound closely matched what I remembered hearing, so I've worn hearing protection to every concert since. Even had people make fun of me for it, but as soon as I say "probably ruptured an eardrum at a concert," they stop laughing.

I have tinnitus from a different cause, though. When I was very small, 5 or 6 years old, one of my mother's boyfriends would haul me around by my ears. I remember that my ear started ringing one day, and it never stopped.

I have two tones in one ear, and I think three in the other. 37 years later and it's as bad as it ever was, sadly. I have learned to just tune it out, but I can still hear it if I choose to - annoyingly, when I choose to hear it, I have to wait until I forget about it.

edit: Forgot to note, the ringing is very, very high pitched. Remember what CRT televisions would sound like when you turned them on? Higher pitched than that.

I feel you. My pulse would race every single time I felt the board buckle as I applied pressure.