rockstarmode

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[–] rockstarmode@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I see a lot of references to Ubuntu being filled with ads or scaring people into buying their services, but I've been daily driving it for over 15 years on personal desktops and servers and never noticed that. What have I missed?

I never saw the Amazon ad stuff, I hear it was a referral link?

Last I checked Ubuntu Pro is free for personal use on up to 5 machines.

I use apt to manage all my packages and upgrades, including dist-upgrade, maybe that's why I've never noticed snap? Why does snap suck?

[–] rockstarmode@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

False.

Source

Section 3, article 3: SPEAKERS IN HELMETS

The Coach-to-Player system allows a member of the coaching staff in the bench area or the coaches’ booth to communicate to a designated offensive or defensive player with a speaker in his helmet. The communication begins once a game official has signaled a down to be over and is cut off when the play clock reaches 15 seconds or the ball is snapped, whichever occurs first.

[–] rockstarmode@lemmy.world 84 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

The headsets are active between plays, and have one way communication with one player on each side. Typically this is the quarterback on offense and a team captain/play caller on defense. These players wear special helmets typically marked with a green dot on the back.

The refs or other officials cut off communication when the play clock reaches 15 seconds, preventing the kind of real-time communication you suggest.

[–] rockstarmode@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

YMMV = your mileage may vary, basically if you look into the author's statements you may find different results

CWIS = I'm pretty sure the author meant CIWS which is an automated targeting and firing weapons system that absolutely vaporizes anything nearby, usually mounted on Navy vessels. YouTube Video

[–] rockstarmode@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

6'3" 200lbs is about right for a fit male. I imagine her muscularity plus future stuff like diet and augmentation would make that realistic for a female.

[–] rockstarmode@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I'm not saying it's a safe idea, getting caught is expensive.

What're your chances of getting caught if you fly out in the middle of a national forest, hours from the nearest highway? Honest question, I'm not aware of how this is enforced.

A counterpoint would be hunting without a proper tag (poaching) I hunt in the middle of nowhere fairly regularly, but I encounter game wardens at least once a season, so enforcement in my area is pretty good.

[–] rockstarmode@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Noncompliance is also a way to go, just a thought.

[–] rockstarmode@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

You cannot introduce a human structure to manage water more efficiently than nature

If you actually believe this then there's nothing anyone can say to help you.

If a naturally occuring spring runs directly into a wide flat area in the middle of the Mojave desert, then it doesn't naturally reabsorb into the ground as the hard pack just makes it sit on the surface. Since the water is shallow and sitting on the surface, it evaporates instead of being used to water native plants or support native animals.

The golf course in question is not a dam, it's putting the already available water to use more efficiently. Growing non-native grass, but also native plant species, and providing native insects and animals a way to utilize that water before it would have otherwise evaporated.

Dams destroy native ecosystems by flooding and displacing them, or removing available water downstream. The golf course in question does none of those things.

"Nature is perfect and humans are capable of nothing but destroying it" is a great take BTW. You could have saved a few people some time by leading with that.

[–] rockstarmode@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You must be trolling.

Birds, insects, and reptiles are common even in the desert. A species can be native to an ecosystem or region, without naturally occuring in an small locality.

If humans manage water more efficiently than nature would have in this locality, it stands to reason that the resulting local ecosystem would be able to attract and support more native wildlife.

This is observable and provable for golf courses which manage their resources with a focus on limiting their natural resource use and increasing local biodiversity.

You just hate golf courses, which is fine, but you sound pretty uninformed.

[–] rockstarmode@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

waspy

President Biden is Catholic, not Protestant

[–] rockstarmode@lemmy.world -4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Golf courses aren't just grass, they plant all sorts of other vegetation, much of it native. This supports native wildlife that wouldn't otherwise be there.

Have you ever actually been to a responsibly managed golf course? Many in the southwest US are run this way, and tons more are moving in that direction to reduce water use.

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