Also, there is a limit to the amount of additional CO2 that is beneficial to plant growth, and it's a complex matter: CO2 enhanced plants will need extra water. Too high a concentration of CO2 causes a reduction of photosynthesis in certain of plants. Plants with exhorbitant (sic) supplies of CO2 run up against limited availability of other nutrients. Increasing CO2 will increase temperatures throughout the Earth. This will make deserts and other types of dry land grow. Et cetera, et cetera. Talk about simple ... .

For those who want to keep Win7/8 but want to make sure they won't have to pay for WinX after the end of July, just grab a fresh HD/SSD and perform a WinX clean install instead of an upgrade of your existing system. Remove the HD/SSD and replug your old Win7/8 drive and keep the WinX install until January 14, 2020.

Due to the nature of IP packets they are inherently unsuitable as a casus belli. This is common sense and whoever says otherwise wants to make sure to be able to construct grounds for war whenever necessary. If your scenario originated in Russia and the Russians made it look like the attack came from China, or from Norway, New Guinea or the Philippines, who'd you attack? Besides, where's the "I am part of a state sponsored cyberattack" flag inside the packet and why would I as an attacker set it? You've been lied to about Iraq's WMD, so why wouldn't they lie to you about the origin of TCP packets (the source of which can be spoofed)? Etc. etc. If you think of it, the whole "a cyberattack that kills people can obviously be grounds for war" nonsense is just that -- nonsense. Don't let them brainwash you into believing it's not.

grounds for war? You, Sir, have obviously been throughly brainwashed. Either that, or you have no idea what you are talking about.

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Oh and one more thing, though I hate replying to myself: $85.9 million divided by 31,200 employees = ~3750. Even if minimum wages would cause this profit to be "only" 3000 per employee, Wendy's probably wouldn't collapse, I guess.

I was just trying to add some actual numbers to the discussion. I wouldn't call a preliminary profit of $85.9 million "breaking even", but never mind me. 31 cents a share compared with 6 cents a share the previous year probably means that the announced automation is not a "response to the rising minimum wage", but another measure of shareholder value and profit maximization. IOW, rising minimum wages might cause a share return below 31 cents, but not the end (of profitability) of Wendy's or their franchisees. There's no "need" to lay off people and replace them by "ordering kiosks", it's just, well, more profitable.

Some numbers

Over all, Wendy's posted a preliminary profit of $85.9 million, or 31 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier profit of $23.3 million, or 6 cents a share. Excluding certain items, earnings from continuing operations were 12 cents a share, up from 8 cents a year ago.

Analysts, on average, had expected 11 cents a share, according to Thomson Reuters.

Revenue slipped 4.7% to $464.4 million, largely due to the ownership of 363 fewer company-operated restaurants in the period. Analysts had forecast $456 million in revenue.

short for Web Template Framework. HTH.

A pr0n business with 5000 employees plus R&D department?! Come on!

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Oh come on, we all loved (or craved) it while running Fractint, and prior to that we knew what they were for after seeing AutoCADs "remove hidden lines" feature on a math co-pro system!

Let me guess what that kinda gear was used for ... pr0n?

Don't get me wrong,I just can't think of anything else with a ROI that would justify such expenses back in the days ...

Some 100 or even 50 years ago, the majority of people especially in rural areas were able to make informed assumptions as to tomorrows weather by looking up into the evening sky. Today, a growing number of people will not even associate "sky" if you mention "clouds" to them.

While it is rather unlikely that this is anywhere near NY Times' Greg Milner's point (proudly not having RTFA), here's my take: the problem is neither GPS nor common sense or the lack thereof, but our growing dependency on tech, while at the same time we neglect basically all of the knowledge and experience it took to get us to where we are. To put it another way: if individuals wanting to go somewhere close by end up in Croatia, where will humankind end up once it completely subjects itself to todays automated emergency response systems, high speed trading algorithms and real time stock market analyses and all the rest of the things we can no longer live without? A person might be silly, but it'll yet have to turn out if we as a species are silly ... .

Oh come on, of course failed and failing states breed instability and of course the US is actively destabilizing regions all over the world. Rubio knows that, we all know that unless we don't want to hear it, and the brainwash you quote is just sickening. "[N]o longer legal and has theoretically stopped"? You might not be a liar, but you are certainly naive.

Don't get me wrong, it would be nice if we could still see the world the way you do, but it takes an awful lot of ignoring facts to do so.