I'm not even sure what killed it, but search is dead. Google used to be the best way to recall my old Slashdot posts. Now I can barely find a hand full from the last couple years. All the big search engines like that. The long tail of obscure corners of forgotten spider-web infested dank goth basement cheeto beer breath sites that used to make the Internet interesting has been un-linked from search. Dead.
You might as well just search Wiki, reddit, and a few other things now. AFAIK you can't keyword search the Wayback Machine. We'd need something like that to make search what it was until just a couple years ago.
99% of all hits returned from search now are just hot ad-infested garbage that wants you to page through dozens of auto-playing videos arbitrated by 30 or more 3rd party JavaScripts loading 50 megs of potentially malware laden garbage, in the vain hope of getting the 142 bytes of text that would supply you the answer.
You don't know how to use Google correctly anymore, then. You're thinking its 2005. Google is still as powerful as ever. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3F... Just search by dates, add a before:2017-01-01 after:2006-03-03 It is just now more useful to more people with the main results that nerds like us on Slashdot try to think we should get.
I live in a rural area. I use a Verizon MiFi with an unlimited data plan, that was mandated by the FCC in exchange for Verizon getting a chunk of spectrum. I get 34mbps wirelessly, which is enough and beats the crap out of the ~2mbps DSL available.
I live very far from the interstate and have very nice 4g - I wouldn't have been able to purchase my 45 acre plot of land for cheap if not for wireless data, because I work from home and depend on internet. I pay $45/mo for unlimited data.
You seem like you're making shit up, nice work!
it incentivized the little man to go out and buy a 10,000 pound diesel truck
Hey look you're talking about me! 14 months ago I bought a dually diesel F-350 so I could haul a 16k pound RV around America and check it out with my family of 5. I lived in the RV for a year, and it's not like I drove the truck every day, so for all I know my carbon footprint went down. I wouldn't know, since I don't actually give a shit.
My kids got to see more of America. It's a beautiful country, and the fact that I had an option like that is part of what makes it beautiful.
It's really hard for me to take the vast majority of environmentalists seriously since their ideological ancestors are the reason nuclear power has been hamstrung for so long. If we'd built nuclear power plants we'd be outputting drastically less CO2, and energy would be cheaper. Environmentalists took that away from me, and now they'd also like to take my truck away to 'pay' for their dumbass policies.
America is about freedom. Figure it out. Identify how to convince free people to change their behaviour in the way that you want.
You can do this by making reasonable arguments. Which brings me to:
the best possible thing that could happen for both the earth AND human beings would be for the price of oil and coal to skyrocket. Would it cause an economic disaster? Probably. Would it be worth it? Not a single doubt in my mind.
Millions of human beings would die in the short term. Specifically, poor people. It seems like an extreme position to say "let's kill millions of poor people, for the environment!" but you do you.
claimed she attend 10 gang rape parties but only stopped going after she was the target
Read closer, she doesn't even make that claim! She said she was the target in 1982 but attended ten parties from 1981 - 1983. She went back for more by her own account!
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
