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I am old.

That's OK though. I feel no need to make excuses, to compensate, and my goal is to become (hopefully) wizened really old guy - hopefully healthy, too.

I know my limitations and I accept what nature has given me and is leaving me. Unfortunately, when I express that I hear things like," You're NOT old!" or "Don't be so negative!"

Yep. Been there, done that, made a t-shirt.

I actually am enjoying getting older. It's been the subject of a lot of my writing lately, even this that I posted yesterday.

Getting older sucks sometimes, but there are advantages too. You just have to learn how to appreciate them.

http://ircard.blogspot.com/ Click older about ten times, he posted them in plaintext without text wrapping, once you click one of the links. The reason this isn't all over the net is because it is useless to anyone not in Iran.

This reminds me of a recent Diamond Geezer post lampooning the new legal restrictions on the use of the words "London" and "2012":

We demand that you change your behaviour and amend your speech. Watch, and learn:

• Instead of "Today is January 3rd 2012" say "Today is three days after 2011."
• Instead of signing legal documents "03/01/2012" write "03/01/12"
• Instead of "My baby is due in June 2012" say "I'm having a baby in a special year, I am very blessed."
• Instead of "Do you have any 2012 tickets?" say "Do you have any Inspirational National Event tickets?"
• Instead of "2012 is turning out to be a shit year already" say "I think I'll just pop down to John Lewis and buy a cuddly Mandeville."

In July, it will also become illegal to mention the word "London" in public. We will issue further instructions at this time.

He's only half-joking—the British Parliament really did pass a law, the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006, which effectively prohibits the use of these words in certain combinations, except by the Olympics organizing committee and its official sponsors.* According to LOCOG's own guidelines, the prohibited expressions are

– any two of the words: Games, Two Thousand and Twelve, 2012, Twenty-Twelve
OR
– any word in the list above with one or more of the words: London, medals, sponsors, summer, gold, silver, bronze

*Technically, the only real crime is creating a false association between a business and the Olympics, regardless of what language is used, but the Act singles out a number of particular words and expressions for special consideration by the courts.

Let a lesson from this be that no matter where you are on the globe managerial types will typically disregard known and reported vulnerabilities until it is too late, generally failing to assess risk properly and address reported findings.

Karma whoring, dude's blog linked here (yay for in browser translation)

http://teamphoenicia.blogspot.com/ An extra dot/broken link.

Yes, I could and probably ought to have. http://teamphoenicia.blogspot.com./ The donate button is on the right. :)

I though we already established this

This would have helped the guy who ported it to the C64. Although, that might have spoiled some of the fun.

Step 23: Swim across the Marianas Trench.

Step 33: Swim across the Atlantic Ocean -- 3,462 miles.

it hasn't been called Mac OS for a decade now, maybe if you'd get up to speed...

It's called Mac OS X in the current bloody release, you condescending asshole. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S-5N0lndtfM/TyBBKqVHULI/AAAAAAAAAq0/DrQkcTSgcys/s1600/1073.png

It happens.

http://amandabauer.blogspot.com/2010/06/guatemala-sinkhole.html

Okay, what was wrong with your scenario? Someone whose business is the study of something would be considered knowledgeable about the subject. Right? I tend to listen to my mechanic, do you?

(side note: The oceans are boiling, the ice caps are melting (ignore the biased article and the biased website, just look at the picture), and the fields are burning! What more do you want?)

thanks for your post... and the best for apple.slashdot.org
blogshidik

Ok, so they aren't doing any better than Verizon.

The desire to deport all illegal, Mexican immigrants is not racism.

It's either rationalized racism or profound ignorance, take your pick.

And actually everyone (including OP) is neglecting the fact that the Ichiban Shibori is made from 100% Malted Barley -- NO RICE!

Additionally, it was the Germans who invented Rice Beer, not Americans:

http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2007/07/rice-beer.html

Prost!

I don't care what your pre-conceptions are, science is supposed to embrace and seriously consider all theories.

Young-Earth creationism was considered. For the whole of scientific history, up until the late 1800s when the gathering evidence finally made it impossible for geologists to take the idea seriously.

"Intelligent Design" has also been considered, and so far it has failed the tests. Every proposed example of "irreducible complexity", for example, has been conclusively shown not to be - the bacterial flagellum, the clotting cascade, the vertebrate immune system, and so forth. Cdesign proponentsists" can't even coherently define the 'information' they think living things display.

That's why we say that creationism and ID are not science.

Unpossible; Obama brought all the hope and change and protection of whistle blowers!

Actually your recycling is for profit.

http://noevalleysf.blogspot.com/2008/10/recycling-theft-469000.html

-- Terry

Having grown up in Oklahoma and having seen racism first hand, I am appalled at hating someone for the color of their skin.

However, in recent years, it is getting harder and harder to hold the line. Not out of hatred, rather out of fear. When black people (and their culture) can turn racist without consequences, they undermine those of us who agree with their plight and put us in the unenviable position of being their enemy, when we are not.

That is happening all over the country right now and EVERYONE knows it. Yet, nobody talks about it. Here listen for yourself. If the people on this conference call were white, you can bet your ass things would be different and people would be in jail for inciting violence. Yet......nothing is done while we all pretend it's OK. It's not.

You think this is a motherfarking game?

That cake is trivial, and this is only a nerd thing?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D_Z-D2tzi14/TLT2bSprcdI/AAAAAAAAD9M/6v6AJVGNyxw/s1600/Picture+6.png

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BMO

(Well, not exclude it ... it's there ... it's just not of the right magnitude / timing / sign to explain the recent warming.)

And there's your problem - you're claiming certainty where you simply can't. When post-high human CO2 emissions warming is indistinguishable from pre-high human CO2 emissions warming, you're making assertions that simply cannot hold.

The null hypothesis is that all observed climate change in the 1900s was caused by the same mechanisms as all observed climate change before the 1900s. You can't just say "here's my CO2 model, and no other models work as well as it does" - that's arguing against straw men. What you need is a falsifiable hypothesis statement.

There are, as I said, only a handful possibilities that can lead to significant radiative imbalance.

Wow. That's bold. You've just boiled down perhaps the most complicated system imaginable, and asserted that you've got a solid lock on every possible influence. How's this for a surprise for you:

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-paper-finds-climate-variation-due.html

The null hypothesis is the greenhouse effect, not vague handwaving.

Umm, no. The null hypothesis is natural climate change. Always has, always will. To show that you've got a model worth paying attention to, I'll assert you need the following - 1) a clear statement of what observations would falsify the basic conceit of your model (i.e., CO2 drives everything), and 2) a run of your model from say, 40,000BC to 2000AD, without arbitrary curve fitting, that is accurate to within 1% of observed data.

Note that even negative cloud feedbacks still lead to warming in response to a greenhouse forcing.

You're kidding me, right? Greenhouse forcing of butterfly breath leads to more heat, leads to more clouds, which happen to be of the heat reflecting type that makes the world cooler, and you're saying that this will make the world...warmer?

What, you conservatives don't like my flat tax? Why Not?

Because my version puts almost all the tax burden on the rich, as opposed to the vile conservative version that puts almost all the tax burden on the poor.

Why is the conservative version evil? Because a flat income tax is NOT fair - among other things it ignores the other taxes US citizens pay, almost all of which mainly affect the poor. From sales tax, property tax, to social security tax, they all have massive prejudices against the poor. The poor pay almost everything, while the wealthy pay a tiny portion of their income on these taxes.

Income tax does not exist in a vacuum - you need to look at the OTHER kinds of tax before blindingly trying to make only the income tax 'fair' for all.

No, you CAN'T separate these taxes out then say the poor pay no 'income taxes', because you don't count the taxes they do pay.

If you are want to read more, check out my blog entry about the flat tax at:

http://conservativelyliberal.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-flat-tax-idea.html/

"Police investigation closed with no support for there having been a hack." - Nice try. Here's a detail of the (competent, non-police) investigation into the hack: http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2009/11/climate-hack-used-open-proxies.html

"None of those eight committees investigated the actual allegations of misconduct found in the mails beyond "did you?". - do you have a citation to prove that? I didn't think so.

FWIW

Google has been using eye tracking technology in internal product testing for years. If they included electrooculography (EOG) sensors in the glasses, such as those demonstrated in this prototype from ETH Zürich, they could allow wearers to manipulate real world objects just by staring at them.

Some more thoughts on this (think: virtual telekinesis) here.

"With the cost of gas and oil on its way up it's a wonder that any one would be against the use of renewable energy sources."

One of the problems I would have with it is that wind farms tend to fall into disrepair after they are built. Somehow the money to maintain them disappears. Imagine having this in your backyard.

So I guess if I was in Arizona, then my blog Rick Barnes Sucks would potentially cause me legal issues. Hmmm.. I didn't know I was a troll. I can add that credential to my title now.

You have a misconception about the meaning of freedom. There is no such thing as freedom with the meaning you're attempting to give it. Freedom is not being completely unrestricted, it has never meant that, and it can never mean that. Your freedom ends where it begins to infringe on the rights of another. That's the only definition of freedom that has any value. Everything else is a fantasy. For more detail, see my blog post about it.

But in a forest setting. Last I heard, he'd already set up a stream, but if I recall correctly it was only for a few days so he could see how the system worked. Nothing too high-tech, just a gps and internet attatched to a toy robot with a camera in it, but for that cheap it's good enough I suppose. I think for doing something up in the Alps you'd need something a little hardier and better at climbing things, but it certainly is a start. I am all for attatching a spycam and GPS to the FreeSki monster, though. Just plant it on some poor sap and check his location every five minutes to see where it takes the body.

The article didn't discuss why there's controversy. The best writeup I've seen on why there's tension was an essay by Michael Siegal from the National Lawyer's Guild. He lives in the Bay Area so he's focused largely on Occupy Oakland and Occupy SF.

Yes, Yes it did

http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html

Mr AGILE actually works at Microsoft?
</bad+humor>

You do know there are thousands of developers working on the Windows platform. I'm pretty sure they can fix redundancies.

That's brilliant, you have a wicked sense of irony!

It reminds me of the Vista Shutdown Menu story http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html

It's cool to see a SDR for sub-$20, but to compare a 3.2 Msamp/sec with the USRP's 64+ Msamp/sec (or my home-grown SDR's 125 MSamp/sec) is really disingenuous. That's like saying "you can get an OWON scope for $500 compared to a $50k Agilent scope." Yeah... but the baseband bandwidth and sampling rates differ by an order of magnitude!

That said... there is some really cool low-cost microwave test equipment coming available. Mr. Vacuum Tube (who teaches the MIT DIY radar course) recently pointed out these "cheap" (sub-$500, "usb stick") multi-GHz RF synthesizers from Quonset Microwave. (Note: no affiliation, I just think they're pretty cool).

Is it possible to post links in the questions?
If so home many goatse links do you think will be there in a few days. Possibly ask a question if the following page is appropriate for a good Muslim to view, or if that is correct behavior for a good Muslim?

--posting anonymously to preserver mods--


Learn to take care of your car

Found! ExecutorElassus!

Interesting read here:

http://darwins-god.blogspot.com/2011/09/transgenerational-epigenetic.html

See my other post down a few on my high school bio teacher. Really got me curious.

According to this guy, yes:
http://darwins-god.blogspot.com/2011/09/transgenerational-epigenetic.html
I was originally made to be suspicious of this in high school, when my biology teacher, who was really quite excellent, strangely told us a story not in the textbook about how mice were observed to develop webbed feet in one generation when a swamp was flooded. The he got a puzzled look on his face, and explained that it couldn't possibly happen, because evolution and mutation were not single-generational, fully-developed mutation mechanisms. He was great to acknowledge the anecdote (I could never find a citation), but had no explanation.

Comrade Lysenko - http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/228752/comrade-lysenko-copenhagen/alex-alexiev . I've seen it in action. I used to work at the World Weather Building in the 1980s. After Clinton became President, Al Gore visited and the very tallented weather men were chased out. They didn't agree with Al and his Man Made Global Warming. As with Lysenko, it's worse now. Even though Man is almost certainly *NOT* causing Global Warming. Nothing to do with God, Nothing to do with conservatism, cold hard scientific facts that the left can't stand. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304636404577291352882984274.html . Makes it harder for them to sham us out of money. Something I'm sure you are in denial about. You're probably a true believer in MMGW.
The Koch brothers don't oppose science, they use it all the time. They make a lot of money with it. The difference is, they know when they are being lied to. Most people don't. Especially on the Nobel Comittee. The runner up when Al Gore got his prize for a SLIDE SHOW - http://monirae.blogspot.com/2008/07/runner-up-for-nobel-prize.html . Then you wonder why people don't believe in science? Not when it's not science anymore. I've also seen a huge decrease in quality in Science Fair projects over the past 30 years. I used to judge them. Lately it might as well be home economics, that's because science even at science and tech schools are mostly tought by liberal arts majors. It's scary, depressing. So many bright minds, right into the crapper!

I think it started to a large extent with Star Wars. George Lucas wanted the "Rebels" to sound American and the "Empire" to sound British, to evoke the "Revolutionary" feel of the American Revolution.

Many other movies have used this (Pirates of the Caribbean, for instance).

Also, don't forget that George was completely vilified for making some characters sound Asian and Jamaican in the Prequels.

http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2012/03/handy-bullshit-button-on-disasters-and.html

"A few quotable quotes from the report (from Chapter 4):

"There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change"

"The statement about the absence of trends in impacts attributable to natural or anthropogenic climate change holds for tropical and extratropical storms and tornados"

"The absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds for flood losses"

The report even takes care of tying up a loose end that has allowed some commentators to avoid the scientific literature:

"Some authors suggest that a (natural or anthropogenic) climate change signal can be found in the records of disaster losses (e.g., Mills, 2005; Höppe and Grimm, 2009), but their work is in the nature of reviews and commentary rather than empirical research.""

How do we get from "their work is in the nature of reviews and commentary rather than empirical research" to "climate change to drive weather disasters"?

Really?

Access the NY Times article without having to register with this link.

The article is, as is typical of the Times, full of detail about the story in question. Some salient points:

1. Norman Spinrad - who wrote the original script in question - requested Gene Roddenberry not to make the episode, after the comedy he wrote was re-written into what he called "a very unfunny comedy" by Gene L. Coon (TOS producer), and Roddenberry complied with his wishes.
2. Spinrad himself comments on this sequence of events on his blog
3. ST Phase II has already produced an episode based on an unused script from the ST:TNG era called "Blood and Fire" by David "The Trouble with Tribbles" Gerrold (which Gerrold himself directed) without any dissent from CBS.
4. The Star Trek script is called "He Walked Among Us". It should not be confused, however, with Spinrad's non-ST science fiction novel of the same name, which is available in RTF format as shareware.

Spinrad, who's 71 now, was an enfant terrible of SF back in the 1960's. His novels "Bug Jack Barron" and "The Men in the Jungle" broke what at the time was new ground (the former for its use of vulgarity, the latter for its subject matter). He's been one of the most consistently interesting SF writers ever since, and I can't recommend his work highly enough.

Surveys show that the public believes in AGW and wants the government to do something. However the public is against taxing gas and electricity and is in favor of offering tax breaks to produce clean energy and encourage clean products. I see that as us wanting change without the pain.

It is probably more helpful to the baby if you let him or her have all of its blood after it's born. Some hopefully helpful info for you and your wife (and congratulations): http://midwifethinking.com/2011/02/10/cord-blood-collection-confessions-of-a-vampire-midwife/ http://thenonconformistmom.blogspot.com/2011/07/delayed-cord-clamping-whats-that.html

Check out this documentary. Many if not most soldiers deployed are prescribed all kinds of nasty stuff.

BTW I just minted the term in my subject, I think, it's not from the linked video.

If we run out of "cheap oil", then oil will stop being an important part of our economy naturally - no government intervention required. I can think of 20 different technologies that could conceivably replace oil at higher cost that pumping from the ground but at lower cost than creating the oil using chemistry. Again, no government intervention is required - when oil starts getting expensive, everyone will look at there little corner of the world and say "I think X will work as well, and is now cheaper." This happens every day.

The point of the alternative energy movement is (1) the market will react but it won't react fast enough and (2) the energy market is heavily distorted by subsidies. That said, creating gasoline from air costs ~$4.60/gallon according to Green Freedom. If you can beat that significantly, you are getting pretty close to current pump prices in the US. I am honestly curious what these methods are and who is developing them.

Infinite wealth is also obvious. If you really believe that wealth is finite, then you believe that we have no more wealth than a cave man? We have no more wealth than a settler in the old west?

The universe is inherently finite. But, seriously, I am not quite sure what this argument is about. The original claim was that conservatives want to hoard wealth because they think it is finite. As you obviously don't hold that position, I am not sure what the point of this argument is. The original claim is either a misguided strawman or something other conservatives believe; either way, there can't be a useful argument on that point if neither side believes it.