There isn't a viable Left that can be voted for in the Untied States any more. In any other country the Democratic Party would be considered Center-Right, they've managed to stamp out almost all remnants of anti-corporate liberalism in their party.

They're 15-20 million years old. They're not viable organisms any more. Stop watching 'Jurassic Park' and start reading something besides programming manuals.

Anger? I actually wondered, since if it were a troll it was fairly well-done. Looked at your posting history just now, and you instead appear to be a young-earth creationist. You should spend some time investigating the multiple different methods used for dating, they're quite interesting even if they do give results you don't like. There are at least three dozen different methods of varying complexity and accuracy, about ten of which are in common use. If at all possible researchers try to use more than one method to date finds, to cross-check against contamination or other variables that could cause inaccuracy in the first test.

Anyway, as I said, seal a sample away from air and water and most of it will not change composition. There are insects that have been trapped in amber since before the dinosaurs walked the earth, long before this fossil, and the soft tissues are preserved perfectly. An X-ray or MRI of the sample will show the digestive tract, respiratory and circulatory systems, and mouth parts as though it were new.

Back when I was about ten years old (1971) I asked my grandfather, "When you were my age did you imagine computers and men on the moon?"

He replied, "Brian, when I was your age someone told me about radio, with people talking to each other across the ocean without wires. I didn't believe them."

Are you trolling? Hard to tell sometimes. Seal anything off from oxygen exchange and it will degrade very slowly if at all. (There is canned food from the Civil War that is still eatable.) Complex molecules such as DNA that are inherently unstable will fall apart, but simpler organic compounds have no reason to disassociate. There are carbon compounds in meteorites that are ten times that age.

Can't help but think it might well be more deliberate than lazy. The **staff** at MS want to create great products for their customers, it's only the shitheads in management that go out of their way to thwart customers. With Gates and the rest of the actual through-the-ranks programmers being pushed aside by the MBA-types there isn't anyone at the upper levels to speak of who would even know that you could block updates some other way, much less that it's almost trivially easy. And you can pretty much guarantee that none of the programmers want the job of keeping updates out of the wild (although I'm sure they could probably put some H-1B holder to the job if they thought it worthwhile).

Who did you think will pay the taxes? Businesses large and small, and the people who work for them. If the local government has to put up the taxpayers' money then they damn well better get that money back (something which is not happening with any sports stadium project that I've ever seen).

Glassification (mixing waste with sand, heating, and turning the stuff into glass) works really well. Stable, leak-proof, easy to handle. Hanford was going to start glassifying waste there a couple of decades ago, and some idiots gave the contract to Bechtel. Bechtel put up a building, got the equipment delivered, found it wouldn't fit into the building, and left it out in the rain all winter while they cashed their check. Not sure why the project didn't get re-started, I've never heard any actual objections to the process.

The best place for waste disposal is the bottom of the oceanic trenches, where it will be subducted into the Earth's mantle. The military objects of course, claiming that unidentified "enemies" might steal it. Of course if they have the ability to reach the bottom of the oceanic trenches and dig shit up then they probably already have the technology and money necessary to do considerably worse things than spread around some radioactive glass.

What point? Where you claim that I said temperature has no effect on snow packs? Or the one where you claim that I said humidity is the only factor in local weather? No, I didn't bother to "address" them, they're such fraudulent strawmen that it's not worth the effort. Yes, I'm quite aware of the prehistoric glaciers, go look up Milankovich Cycles. Oh, and go ask an Australian what they thought of the weather the last six months.

No, I'm saying you can't use the NBT protocol to transmit over the Internet. There's no routing information so your router has nowhere to forward it to beyond itself. Go ahead and remove TCP/IP and install NetBEUI on your network card and try it. You can't get there from here.

NetBEUI is a transport-level protocol. Routing happens at the network level.

Think about a city spending $100 million to subsidize a sports team. In order for the city to make that back the team would have to generate (at a 30% tax rate) $350 million in revenue that would otherwise not exist without it. Local taxable revenue, not earnings for the owner's Bahamian bank account. How often do you think that happens?

**Sigh**

You really have no concept of the difference between climate and weather, do you? If you want to use the Rockies as your example then look at the very old photos of Glacier National Park, and then look at pictures taken from the same viewpoint today. Your high snow pack is weather, the receding glaciers are climate. It's depressing to look at my photos of the Cordillera Blanca that I took in 1987 and images of the same peaks today. Even then I was late, photos in the museum from half a century before showed both sides of the Rio Santa valley covered with glaciers, only the eastern side still had white peaks then.

I always like RKeeper's (large Moscow-based POS system) quick-and-dirty solution: make all the POS machines use NetBEUI. Can't route, the only way to get to the machines from outside is through remote controlling the server.

Of course not, there wasn't anything like a "scientific community" until the mid-19th century. Prior to that pretty much all scientific work was done by or for wealthy hobbyists, or engineers actually hired to do something else (like Leonardo da Vinci). Our current culture and level of technology is a direct result of that change.