Another theory? stuff clings to the plastic and sinks it.
Yeah, and depending on ocean currents there are probably a few areas at the bottom of the ocean with hundred of meters thick of plastics where nobody has yet looked.
It wouldn't cost much to implement, and would be a trove of info. Have a public structure derived from the national healthcare in charge of it which enforces strong anonymity, and provide anonymity data to big data analysts. It wouldn't take long to figure out scandals such as the Mediator. I mean, if you can't take ONE minute to answer some questions that WILL help others, why should you get free health care ?
If you do not enjoy work then that is the problem to be fixed. Find a job you love.
I love sex. Doesn't mean I want to work as a whore.
And another issue for me was this whole There's More Than One Way To Do It philosophy which I find extremely frustrating. Write a piece of code in 20 lines and show it on usenet. Somebody writes it in 10. Then another one pipes up in 3. Then the true Guru comes up with a one-liner that nobody can grok. And they all run faster. Maybe.
It also mean that when you read somebody else's code, you have to pattern that you can recognize. In C if I have to go through an array, you can bet there's gonna be a loop. In Perl, mystery, it could be any of multiple and rarely used constructs. The thing that made Perl popular at once was the integration of regular expressions, but we now have this in Bash =~, so why bother ?!?
I don't know about the rest of the world, but I'm pretty sure our local stations keep records of major instrument overhauls which can be taken into consideration.
I used to work in climate science and we had a saying: "If you give a thermometer to a meteorologist, he knows what temperature it is. If you give him two, he's confused."
Most people have always said that advertising doesn't effect them. They said the same thing back in the days of TV, radio, and print.
I've always loathed advertisement. I consider it some form of mind rape that some company wants the 'right' to use some of my brain to store their shit. In a store, if I remember advertisement for a product, I consciously choose the competing product; how's that for 'doesn't affect them' ? Does that show in your stats ?
Eureka! -- Archimedes