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Comment Re: Doesn't like military using their services (Score 1) 298

Second, you equate Palestinians with Hamas. I am not sure why but out of kindness I will assume that it is because you are ignorant rather than malicious.

He's both ignorant and malicious. He still keeps saying it's anti-semitic to hold Israel responsible for the Holocaust* it's perpetrating against the Palestinians, when they are literally more semitic than the Israelis, which Israel attempts to prevent its citizens from finding out from their end.

* An old English word not even used by most speakers of Hebrew

Comment Re:8GB is only to claim lower starting price... (Score 2) 367

that also comes with the caveat that swapping on SSDs is a stone cold cycle killer.

And also a stone cold SSD killer.

Apple needs to figure out how to let macs do modular ram.

They can't get this kind of performance (for those short-running tasks that actually perform well on an inadequately cooled system anyway) with modular RAM. It would also take some of the profit out of the machine, or they would have to charge an even more ridiculous price in order to maintain their enormous margins.

Comment Re:8 GB isn't enough for me to use more ... (Score 0) 367

There are some good arguments about why 8 GB might not be enough for some people, but 'when I choose to download an additional browser that is known to be inefficient, and when I then use it in a way that consumes as much memory as possible, I run out of memory' really isn't one of them.
There really are people out there who are perfectly happy browsing away in Safari on their 8 GB Airs.

You do realize that Safari is basically just an inferior version of the same browser, right? If Safari ever gets updated enough to be as good as Chrome, it will use just as many resources. Using less resources only makes it slower, it doesn't make it better, unless your criteria is "better on a machine with an inadequate amount of RAM". For what Apple is charging, 16GB ought to be the absolute minimum.

Comment Re:They have money (Score 3) 62

Also, a humid environment relies on large amounts of plants. If you have more extreme weather with long periods of drought followed by heavy rain, even if the rain was so heavy that the total longterm rain had increased, you'd have much less forest cover, and less humidity. You'd likely have a semi-arid region instead.

But this is your theory, vs my theory. We can't accurately predict what would become arid vs what would become a lush jungle again. There are some knowns, like we know where all the sinks and former lake beds are in the world, and we know that if there was enough rain those would fill up again. 1. Dead Sea, Jordan/Israel - 414 meters below sea level ... 2. Lake Assal, Djibouti - 155 meters below sea level ... 3. Turpan Pendi, China - 154 meters below sea level ... 4. Qattara Depression, Egypt - 133 meters below sea level ... 5. Vpadina Kaundy, Kazakhstan - 132 meters below sea level ... What we do know is a lot of these sinks (Dead sea especially) became more hostile to life as they dried up and salinity increased. All life, plants, aquatic and on land. If these basins were to refill and salinity diluted enough, there's a good chance that we could see life appearing in and around their shores again, which in turn could lead to a broader stabilization of flora/fauna as fauna tends to spread seed.

Comment Re:They have money (Score 0) 62

I've had a theory about global warming. Basically if most of the earths water is locked up in the poles, this would cause arid regions to form. Releasing the water in the poles would have the opposite effect, causing more rainfall than normal since a greater surface area of the earth would be covered in water, likely swamp like forests. If we look back at the start of the Carboniferous period, the earth was fairly warm, taken from this Berkeley publication.

The beginning of the Carboniferous generally had a more uniform, tropical, and humid climate than exists today. Seasons if any were indistinct. These observations are based on comparisons between fossil and modern-day plant morphology. The Carboniferous plants resemble those that live in tropical and mildly temperate areas today. Many of them lack growth rings, which suggests a uniform climate. This uniformity in climate may have been the result of the large expanse of ocean that covered the entire surface of the globe, except for a localized section where Pangea, the massive supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Triassic, was coming together.

What we do know of these arid regions today is they were once covered with water. The main difference though is as humans, we're the only species smart enough to do things like build storm walls, reservoirs, and flood control measures. It would be interesting if global warming took us to the start of the Carboniferous, where the majority of the planet was warm, humid, and frequently rainy.

Comment Re:Get them to read the Hamas Charter (Score 1) 496

Anyone who continues to support Hamas after the above needs to wear a T-shirt labelling them as supporters of rapes and assassinations of Israelis.

Tell us you're dumb enough to fall for obvious propaganda etc etc
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-...
You know people said the same shit Israel is saying about Palestinians about Jews forever and ever, right? Except they claimed they ate babies.

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