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Lad at 04:45s predicts global warming and sea rises, but he has his timing wrong, in 2000 we barely had 15cm rise and in 2100 it will be a few feet. Not 200 feet.
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@Dr.D00p wrong. my university had 10 Mbs in 1994, and that included connections to worker and some student dorms, in 1995 and 1996 this was rolled out to EVERY student dorm, so it was certainly possible to have such a fast speed in 1995. Note this was very rare, my university was one of the first places in the world to develop this, but I am sure some laboratories like you speak of had this even earlier in 1992 or 1993 ... tech is always older than you think
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Why are they so gloomy? the oil and other crises were in the 1970s. so not there yet.. the worst of the cold war was behind them and they were in the middle of a rise in wealth, people could start buying cars and other luxuries.. Music was booming like never before. Teenagers had more opportunities than ever before. Plus all kinds of old restraints were thrown away , more freedom.
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@mhmrules Early 80s was DEPRESSION all over europe . COLD WAR, Energy crisis in the late 70s, inflation, unemployment... You should know that. However this negative vibe in society lead to some of the best music in history.. and in the 2nd half of the 80s things got into overdrive and the economy was booming at the end of the decade. (but in 1987 they still had a Wall Street crash)
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@NoName-jq7tj if you had the Roxy Music album on vinyl, why on earth would you buy it on cassette, you could just COPY it on cassette for your car stereo, that was the WHOLE IDEA behind compact cassettes!
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@TinLeadHammer put them full of pirated games and warez and sell em at the schoolyard for $50.. that is what the nerds did at my highschool... big money
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@Ggdivhjkjl it was not, we consume 1.5 times the resources that the earth gives us every year, this means that every year we increase the deficit, meaning future generations can't use what we have used up. For us this is not a direct catastrophe , and that's why almost nobody cares. But for your grandchildren and their grandchildren it will be a big problem.
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@nickwallette6201 I was into it (CD-Rs) at the same time (early 90s) Sadly I didn't keep any of them. we were teenagers and we saw an opportunity! the CD writer was VERY expensive , like insanely expensive for a teen, but nobody had one. If we bought one, we could make CD's and data CDRoms and sell those at the school yard. so we pooled together and within a few months we made our money back. Pirates? nobody cared.. we were just kids with a little hussle . I remember those early writable CDs be all gold backside, unlike later ones who were silver or blue metallic
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@phoenixxavier9615 research universities used Sun workstations (SPARCstations) anyway, they kinda laughed at Windows
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