Sure, itâ(TM)s quite possible for two people to exchange offhand remarks about the local weather apropos of nothing, with no broader point in mind. It happens all the time, even, I suppose, right in the middle of a discussion of the impact of climate change on the very parameters they were discussing.
CD players were standard until 2019, when luxury brands started to phase them out.
The last manufacturer to have them standard was Subaru, through 2023.
You must be a lessee?
My truck never had a CD player. I replaced the head unit with a cassette player with a $30 Walmart bluetooth unit a few years ago, and it's legit the fastest bluetooth connection I own. About a second after it gets power it's linked to the phone.
It's good to own multiple paid-for vehicles.
ThriftBooks has great deals on DVD's and CD's.
The large record labels appear to put some kind of copy protection or something on the discs to where they can no longer claim to be a "compact disc" as that is a trademark or something, if they don't follow the "red book" then they can't use the trademarks.
Google for "Sony rootkit fiasco". Basically, Phillips (cocreator of the CD... with SONY!?!) hit them with a suit for trademark infringement.
I buy CDs.
"Buy" access to a song on a streaming service that will go out of business and permanently revoke my access? No thanks.
Or, buy and download a song in an electronic format, which will then be lost if I have a disk crash? Again, no thanks.
Physical media is worth the cost, IMHO. I can rip it to
The court system has to protect their source of income. If every criminal is behind bars then the courts wouldn't have much to do. So release them, rinse and repeat.
The way they used the "Crowdstrike Outage" to hide crimes was to reboot into a WinPE environment and 'do recovery' while wiping evidence.
I haven't used a Mac in a while but it used to be booting from external media was easy.
I can imagine ways to require keys from secure boot and hardware to decrypt the main drive but I haven't seen those deployed myself.
So, reboot from external, copy data, reboot normally.
Somebody can tell me if Apple already provides a way to avoid this.
You were pretty vague
$6 in 1997 was about $8 in 2008.
$12 in 2008 is about $18.
Therefore current prices are only a little over 10% higher. There was a bigger increase over inflation between 1997 and 2008.
We don't have Patriots or THAAD near most US cities.
Our role, per DC, is to pay for the defense of other countries, not our own.
If Trump were worried about China he wouldn't have renewed the visas of 300,000 Chinese students in the past week or so.
China hardly has the money, population, or inclination to go to war. They do have the "excess male problem" but their population crash due to OCPF is so large they need them all to keep the economy running.
But the hypersonics are a good deterrent to war-mad nations where the legislators are all bought off by their military industry.
$10 in 1997 is $20 after inflation.
What was stopping you doing that before? Now you know how many minutes later you can turn up, but nothing's really changed.
You forgot the noise of unwrapping sweets from crinkly bits of cellophane.
The thing to understand is we're talking about sixth tenths of a degree warming since 1990, when averaged over *the entire globe* for the *entire year*. If the change were actually distributed that way -- evenly everywhere over the whole year -- nobody would notice any change whatsoever; there would be no natural system disruption. The temperature rise would be nearly impossible to detect against the natural background variation.
That's the thinking of people who point out that the weather outside their doors is unusually cool despite global warming. And if that was what climate change models actually predicted, they'd be right. But that's not what the models predict. They predict a patchwork of some places experiencing unusual heat while others experience unusual coolness, a patchwork that is constantly shifting over time. Only when you do the massive statistical work of averaging *everywhere, all the time* out over the course of the year does it manifest unambiguously as "warming".
In the short term -- over the course of the coming decade for example, -- it's less misleading to think of the troposphere becoming more *energetic*. When you consider six tenths of a degree increase across the roughly 10^18 kg of the troposphere, that is as vast, almost unthinkable amount of energy increase. Note that this also accompanied by a *cooling* of the stratosphere. Together these produce a a series of extreme weather events, both extreme heat *and* extreme cold, that aggregated into an average increase that's meaningless as a predictor of what any location experiences at any point in time.
Depends on your jurisdiction.
The New Hampshire Constitution guarantees that the only purpose of prison is reform.
I know, in some self-proclaimed "Christian" states they love to talk about gay rape as a purpose of prison.
Those are psychopaths, Donnie.
climate alarmism always has a home on Slashdot.
"Oh, you're in Dallas, what part? That's very interesting. I'll be there next month - what's a good restaurant there that you like? I always like to ask locals where to eat when I'm visiting get the real scoop."
The North Koreans get tripped up and stammer something irrelevant. Buh-bye, stop wasting our time.
The Feds took down one instance of the racket. It's like busting Epstein and Diddy but not the other twelve.
In specifications, Murphy's Law supersedes Ohm's.
