Non-IT News Thread
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Natural gas is now getting in the way; US carbon emissions increase by 3.4%
Power sector emissions increased, jet fuel use more than offset gas reduction.
"The US was already off track in meeting its Paris Agreement targets. The gap is even wider headed into 2019."
That's the dire news from Rhodium Group, a research firm that released preliminary estimates of US carbon emissions in 2018. Though the Trump administration said it would exit the Paris Agreement in 2017, the US is still bound by the agreement to submit progress reports until 2020. But the administration has justified regulatory rollbacks since then, claiming that regulation from the US government is unnecessary because emissions were trending downward anyway.
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@mlnews I saw a preview of that. It just doesn't look interesting to me.
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@jmoore "The PS-LX310BT is priced at £200 and will be available from April 2019"
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@jmoore At $almost $300 US I'm not sure if it will take off - There are a lot of people with vinyl though so....
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@pchiodo said in Non-IT News Thread:
@jmoore At $almost $300 US I'm not sure if it will take off - There are a lot of people with vinyl though so....
Think about the target market... Those people have the cash to spare or they wouldn't be there anyway.
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@JaredBusch Oh they have the money for sure. I just wonder if the quality will be good enough for those that put needle to vinyl. Pretty finicky bunch IMHO
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Captain Marvel shows off her very own ‘Iron Fist’ in latest trailer
We catch a glimpse of a young Agent Coulson, but Jude Law's role remains murky
By now we know that Captain Marvel will be set in the 1990s, long before the infamous "Snappening" at the end of Avengers: Infinity War. She falls from the sky and lands in a Blockbuster Video and soon draws the attention of a young Nick Fury (all hail the power of CGI and Samuel L. Jackson). We also learned from prior trailers that she had a life on Earth as a pilot with the military. She was rescued, near death, by the Kree after her aircraft crashed. Left with no memories, they made her one of them so she "could live longer, stronger, superior."
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@pchiodo said in Non-IT News Thread:
@jmoore At $almost $300 US I'm not sure if it will take off - There are a lot of people with vinyl though so....
That's dirt cheap for a vinyl system. Normally people pay thousands who are into it.
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@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@pchiodo said in Non-IT News Thread:
@jmoore At $almost $300 US I'm not sure if it will take off - There are a lot of people with vinyl though so....
Think about the target market... Those people have the cash to spare or they wouldn't be there anyway.
hence why I think the low price point won't help it. But... hipsters now. Maybe it will.
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@mlnews I'm confused. The Captain Marvel I always read was male. How is it female now?
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@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews I'm confused. The Captain Marvel I always read was male. How is it female now?
That's old news.
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@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews I'm confused. The Captain Marvel I always read was male. How is it female now?
How is any character who was one thing and now another? Simply change/updating.
Personally, not sure why we need to reuse an old character and change these things instead of making a whole new one - but mostly I'm just meh.
Personally - I really dislike the helmeted version of costume - mohawk girl is what I call her.
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@pchiodo said in Non-IT News Thread:
@JaredBusch Oh they have the money for sure. I just wonder if the quality will be good enough for those that put needle to vinyl. Pretty finicky bunch IMHO
Point taken.
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@JaredBusch Oh ok. I haven't had much time for comics in several years so guess something changed somehow.
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@Dashrender Ok. I just didnt know that had changed is all. I read the original and then he died. The last I remember I think it was the original character's son.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Personally, not sure why we need to reuse an old character and change these things instead of making a whole new one - but mostly I'm just meh.
Because they are generally reusing old comic arcs for the base script of the movies.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews I'm confused. The Captain Marvel I always read was male. How is it female now?
How is any character who was one thing and now another? Simply change/updating.
Personally, not sure why we need to reuse an old character and change these things instead of making a whole new one - but mostly I'm just meh.
Personally - I really dislike the helmeted version of costume - mohawk girl is what I call her.
Carol Danvers is a really old Marvel character. She's been around since the 1960s and got her power (as Ms. Marvel) in the 1970's. I think this is a new-ish retelling of the Ms. Marvel origin.
I don't think she took on the Captain Marvel moniker until the early 2000s though.
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Of course there is also Shazam/Captain Marvel that DC published and has a movie coming out.
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@coliver Yeah its all confusing. I wish they would have stayed with the original or the son character. I liked reading those
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FDA’s routine food inspections halted amid government shutdown
Just when we thought it was safe to eat salad again…
With hundreds of food inspectors furloughed in the ongoing government shutdown, the Food and Drug Administration has suspended all routine inspections of domestic food processing facilities. That’s according to FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who revealed the news in an interview with the Washington Post published Wednesday.
