To reproduce is to guarantee an innocent person all the suffering and tedium of a lifetime. I cannot imagine a more sadistic act than inflicting life.
There is no altruistic reason to have children. No one suffers when a person opts out of reproduction. To not reproduce is the ethical choice.
Sounds like a lot to pay for something that makes a better doorstop than computing device.
The editors don't edit or care enough to listen. The owners don't care either, despite the old Slashdot having vastly more users.
Being "Slashdotted" by users flocking to mentioned sites went away along with Slashdot influence.
They'll likely sell tons of them to users who don't need more than what those specs deliver. In ancient times netbooks sold well despite weak specs.
No electronic records are "safe", unless air-gapped.
It's not practical to have widely used systems and completely effective security. Humans and computers are inherently fallible.
Scapegoating does not exclude guilt. People lacking political pull are easily fed to the lions.
We got M13 in the early 1980s to use in exercise (aircraft hydraulic fluid simulated agent since the strips were basically PH test strips similar to those used in swimming pools) and wore the olive green CPOG with flappy overboots (until someone figured out rain boots were better in every way and not prone to holes).
The later gear is much comfier, and unlike M17 masks troops don't have to remove a contaminated mask to replace filters....
In US practice expired CBRN ensembles and others stencilled "For Training Use Only" are the standard during military exercises. In case of war new gear is issued.
When troops go through decontamination they doff their contaminated gear for processing or disposal, they shower etc and new or clean gear is issued.
I don't eat their unappetizing pseudo-food anyway but whatever deters others helps make the world a better place.
Chems are horrid but one can dress for them.
Nerve agent like other war gases degrades opponents by forcing them to wear CBRN ensembles which are miserable to work and fight in. (Gas is so nasty not even Hitler used it in combat because he'd personal experience in WWI.)
Modern CBRN suits are (barely) breathable because they can filter contaminants. Suits which even partly neutralize nerve agent would not just save lives but reduce misery. Gases are frequently inefficient even when used on undefended targets like Saddam Hussein's bombing of Halabja (which took multiple sorties to execute).
A chem suit fabric that can neutralize contamination could save lives and usefully decrease exposure. Chems don't magically wipe out everyone exposed. The 1995 Tokyo subway attack affected several thousand people while only causing ~14 direct fatalities among a concentrated, defenseless group. Neutralizing fabric would be very useful against highly diluted agents.
Mine work quite well and hold up the blackout panels underneath them. I have no problem making my bedroom pitch dark because I cut rectangular panels of lightweight aluminum-clad siding to fit inside my windows. Masonite etc is cheap, and cardboard not pretty but works in a pinch.
Effective outdoor lighting is useful for work and play. Many residents of extremely hot areas like Las Vegas or the Middle East stay indoors and come out at night because daytime heat is (even more) dangerous. Brightly lit roads make it easier to scan for vehicles and pedestrians. Outdoor "security" lights are rightly popular among home and business owners so we can see where we're going. Working outdoors at night allows me to DIY many things including home and vehicle maintenance and repair.
Sigh. I'll bite.
The question seemed to assume it was a good question, and its premises were correct. They aren't. In fact, the CO2 DOES absorb incoming IR, and with the same cross-section, as it does outgoing IR. It doesn't "know which way the radiation is going."
Now, any honest thinker would realize that the question was silly, because it doesn't admit other mechanisms other than "blocking" [sic] of IR.
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