The MP3 format was completed September 1990... LONG before the 1993 internet release of Depeche Mode's album. QuickTime (with audio and video compression) was first released in 1991. The proprietary predecessor codecs that later became MP2 and MP3 date back to the mid 80s. And audio compression was around even earlier, with phone companies wanting to squeeze more calls in.
I completely disagree with #2 Chemical drain cleaners are a wonderful invention, which do wonders most of the time. Hair clogged shower drains open right up, toilets backed up because your kids flushed a towel, start flowing again after an hour. And all that with the tiniest bit of effort, and $1 worth of chemicals. A far cry from the time consuming, laborious and messy manual alternatives.
Of course its no help for long term problems, like roots, corroded or improperly installed sewer lines, or things like plastic bottles being flushed. But plumbers are only too happy to perform temporary and superficial fixes for problems (like roots) when it suits them, too.
That just HAS TO be prep for an upcoming eating completion... That's the only other place I've ever seen people soak burger/dog buns in their drinks, and scarf down multiple burgers so quickly.
Fire is a VERY inefficient and expensive way to generate small amounts of electricity. It gets better when you scale it up to huge power plant sizes. You'd be far better off with a solar panel, or a crank or pedals, to generate the electricity. I bet a boulder with a WiFi router inside it that you have to crank, would be at least equally viral, while more practical.
So police will be rushing to your house, alerted about the burglary, expecting possibly several well-armed men. Alarms blaring, so they won't be able to hear anything. And to make it more fun, fog so they won't be able to see a damn thing, either!
This sounds like the perfect way to accidentally kill your entire family, with the assistance of jumpy police, false alarms and mistaken identity.
Back in the 70s when universal bag checks started (in response to DB Copper and his ilk), there's no question they drastically and dramatically eliminated instances of hijacking and extortion aboard airlines, which were happening practically every week. But it didn't stop every idiot by force... The big, extra hurdle was just so widely known, that people stopped trying. Flash forward to today, and the same COULD be true... Potential terrorist might give up on hijacking or bombing planes before they start, because everybody knows about the extra security measures. Like the 70s, the only way to prove it is to try going years without the security measures as a test, and see how many people get killed.
I'm firmly in the TSA-goes-too-far camp, but there are plenty of arguements to be made against the blanket assertions in the video.
I don't understand why Cecil Jacobson isn't facing 75 child support claims... Even a man who was a minor and statutorily raped is responsible for child support. Even anonymous sperm donors have been held responsible for child support... why not this idiot who was convicted of fraud?
Roaches are a just a prolific pest. Even if most of them survive, without humans to keep their natural predators away, and provide them food and warm shelters, their numbers will fall to almost-nothing in short order.
No doubt humans will survive... Even if the planet is uninhabitable for all other mammals, we can terraform it, build greenhouses for crops, filter contaminants from the air, concentrate or even generate artificial sunlight, etc. Nothing else can take its survival to those lengths, though we'll surely drag several other species along with us.
Nothing else like Twilight Zone? What nonsense. How about Tales of Tomorrow, Beyond the Limits/Science Fiction Theatre, One Step Beyond, The Outer Limits, Ray Bradbury Theater, Way Out/Tales of the Unexpected, Tales From The Dark Side, Amazing Stories, Monsters, maybe even Alfred Hitchcock Presents, reboots of several of those series, and more? They all at least tried to capture the same lightning in a bottle.
And any mention of Serling & Twilight Zone is horribly incomplete without at least a mention of the Night Gallery, which was a truly lousy sequel to Twilight Zone.
Students are overloaded at the start of a semester, and he's just front-loading more work on them. He thinks his unique snowflake of a generic course description is special, even though his numbers clearly indicate his students do fine without reading it, so his captive audience must be forced to spend as much time reading it as he did writing it. Finally, the trick does nothing to prevent the class-shopping he claims is the problem. He's clearly made the wrong assumption about where the problem lies.
*Sigh*... Those are NOT "brilliant inventions". Those are expensive gimmicks made by 1st world engineering students.
* Solar ovens take FOREVER to warm-up food. You have to leave your food out in the sun ALL DAY LONG like a weak & inconvenient crock-pot. They have been given away to the poor for many years, and they DON'T USE THEM at all.
* Water filtration only requires letting it sink through 1-2 meters of sand. It costs nearly nothing and is infinitely renewable. An expensive manufactured filter that needs replacement parts is a gimmick you sell to rich hikers, because the poor could never afford them, and they would despise the effort required (imagine filtering several gallons every day, when you've got tons of other chores to do).
* Mosquito netting pretty well solves the bug problem, and doesn't need frequent & expensive replacements.
* Generic glasses are available for under $10 in drug stores here in the US, and would be cheaper to an NGO ordered direct from China. You just go in and try them on until you find the lenses that works for you. Your eyes change only little over the years (and glasses wear-out quicker than that), so adjusting them is a very expensive gimmick that few need.
* Hand-pumps are pretty cheap and last forever with minimal maintenance and work well for young and old. A solar-powered monstrosity is just an albatross sucking funds from more useful projects.
* An incubator for premature children is provided free by nature... Skin-on-skin contact with the mother's body will properly maintain & regulate the infant's body temperature.
* I could fashion a water cart from some wooden wheels pretty easily, or just roll a barrel with tight lid. Neither works very well over soft sand, mud and other rough terrain, which is why water gets carried, regardless.
* Hexayurts are hippie tents for Burning Man. Requires very expensive Styrofoam boards and strong tapes, are a severe fire hazard, and aren't very strong. Meanwhile, locally produced clay/adobe houses are dirt cheap, have plenty of thermal mass, aren't flammable, and can be repaired with local dirt.
* Pretty sure anybody can make sandals with local materials (wood or leather soles) for cheap. More a matter of convincing folks the benefits are worth the effort.
* Like potato clocks, a salt water lamp works by acid eating away copper & zinc rods (or a few other metals). They're low power, require a steady supply of expensive metals, and just not worth it. You're really just giving them one disposable lantern battery... Meanwhile, a solar light with good battery can cost as little as $2 and last for 6 years of regular use.
"she tries to sleep at the apartments of relatives or friends. Often, she is accommodated by her boyfriend, her mother or grandmother."
If that's "living on trains full-time", I know people that live at Starbucks full-time, others who live at a sports bar full-time, and more who live at their office full time, etc.
I've always thought the idea was extremely unworkable... A lock, at best, only slows-down the dishonest by a bit. There have been lock-picks and skeleton keys for as long as there have been locks. And hitting any of them with a rock, repeatedly, will get the desired result in short order. The idea of a simple lock being able to keep someone in bondage for years at a time, is absurd in the extreme.
Of course its no help for long term problems, like roots, corroded or improperly installed sewer lines, or things like plastic bottles being flushed. But plumbers are only too happy to perform temporary and superficial fixes for problems (like roots) when it suits them, too.
This sounds like the perfect way to accidentally kill your entire family, with the assistance of jumpy police, false alarms and mistaken identity.
I'm firmly in the TSA-goes-too-far camp, but there are plenty of arguements to be made against the blanket assertions in the video.
No doubt humans will survive... Even if the planet is uninhabitable for all other mammals, we can terraform it, build greenhouses for crops, filter contaminants from the air, concentrate or even generate artificial sunlight, etc. Nothing else can take its survival to those lengths, though we'll surely drag several other species along with us.
In fact it's a whole category (science fiction anthology TV series) and there were many more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthology_series#Science_fiction_and_horror
And any mention of Serling & Twilight Zone is horribly incomplete without at least a mention of the Night Gallery, which was a truly lousy sequel to Twilight Zone.
* Solar ovens take FOREVER to warm-up food. You have to leave your food out in the sun ALL DAY LONG like a weak & inconvenient crock-pot. They have been given away to the poor for many years, and they DON'T USE THEM at all.
* Water filtration only requires letting it sink through 1-2 meters of sand. It costs nearly nothing and is infinitely renewable. An expensive manufactured filter that needs replacement parts is a gimmick you sell to rich hikers, because the poor could never afford them, and they would despise the effort required (imagine filtering several gallons every day, when you've got tons of other chores to do).
* Mosquito netting pretty well solves the bug problem, and doesn't need frequent & expensive replacements.
* Generic glasses are available for under $10 in drug stores here in the US, and would be cheaper to an NGO ordered direct from China. You just go in and try them on until you find the lenses that works for you. Your eyes change only little over the years (and glasses wear-out quicker than that), so adjusting them is a very expensive gimmick that few need.
* Hand-pumps are pretty cheap and last forever with minimal maintenance and work well for young and old. A solar-powered monstrosity is just an albatross sucking funds from more useful projects.
* An incubator for premature children is provided free by nature... Skin-on-skin contact with the mother's body will properly maintain & regulate the infant's body temperature.
* I could fashion a water cart from some wooden wheels pretty easily, or just roll a barrel with tight lid. Neither works very well over soft sand, mud and other rough terrain, which is why water gets carried, regardless.
* Hexayurts are hippie tents for Burning Man. Requires very expensive Styrofoam boards and strong tapes, are a severe fire hazard, and aren't very strong. Meanwhile, locally produced clay/adobe houses are dirt cheap, have plenty of thermal mass, aren't flammable, and can be repaired with local dirt.
* Pretty sure anybody can make sandals with local materials (wood or leather soles) for cheap. More a matter of convincing folks the benefits are worth the effort.
* Like potato clocks, a salt water lamp works by acid eating away copper & zinc rods (or a few other metals). They're low power, require a steady supply of expensive metals, and just not worth it. You're really just giving them one disposable lantern battery... Meanwhile, a solar light with good battery can cost as little as $2 and last for 6 years of regular use.
If that's "living on trains full-time", I know people that live at Starbucks full-time, others who live at a sports bar full-time, and more who live at their office full time, etc.