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Launches on the US west coast are from Vandenberg launch complex. It's right on the ocean. No launch can be over populated areas (until it's really high) so launches from Vandenberg have to be pretty close to polar orbits, launching to the south.

Map:

https://www.google.ca/maps/pla...

Considering how low European emissions are compared to US emissions, quibbling over a bit of year-to-year shifts is a bit misleading.

https://www.google.ca/publicda...

The bet was well published when it was first made so if you had been paying attention in the right places you would have heard about it.

If you look up "Scientific Wager" in google, chances are at least a couple of the top ten results reference this bet. For example, here and here.

Followed by carefully selecting 1 study that presents your narrative.

It only took the very first result from 2018 on google scholar to give the lie to your assertion that "ECS seems to be trending downward"

mentioning you cited literature to brush off my argument, when my argument is literally a graph of dozens of peer reviewed studies

Yes, but apparently excluding results that don't support the narrative. But let's go down the list of results from 2018:

The first, as we mentioned earlier, is right in line with studies from 50 years ago. Better exclude it from the ironically named "No tricks zone"..

The second suggests that century-scale feedbacks can alter the climate sensitivity, so some lower estimates that rely on satellite data may be underestimating. That doesn't support the narrative. Better exclude it.

The third and fourth look at crop yields and forest growth for different sensitivities. No points either way. But the fifth finds a central figure of 3.2K with a range of (1.58.1K). Uh oh. 8K on the high end! That's not good. Better exclude it.

It's not until the sixth when we find a study with a lower estimate.

Tyndall describes an apparatus and experiment in 1861: "On the Absorption and radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapours, and on the Physical Connexion of Radiation, Absorption, and Conduction"

How about the leaks that could cost him is license to practice law?

Let's look for more information

The Moonie Times, Zero Hedge, World Nut Daily, Daily Caller, The Blaze, etc, etc, the usual suspects.

What is the basis for this and why are no serious publications reporting on this lawsuit? Because Ty Clevenger's lawsuit has no basis and zero chance of succeeding.

The whole thing is based on an article claiming that 4 out of 7 of Comey's memos had confidential information, and therefore he must have forwarded at least one classified memo to his law-school friend.

But the article doesn't actually cover when the information was deemed classified, it could very well have been classified after the fact in an effort to tar Comey. It also doesn't give any indication whether Comey would have reasonably thought the information to be classified, in fact he explicitly testified that he prepared the memos to be unclassified.

Not to mention the original reporter and only source I found has a history of inaccurate reporting, so we could be missing some crucial context.

Good point. Also the ridiculous things that can be considered racism these days is boggling. Any AI that could properly figure that out would be batshit insane.

YOUR VOICE IS NOT YOUR PASSWORD. If you don't recognize the reference, you have no business discussing this topic.

Google has 3 (three) results for that phrase, so for the benefit of everyone else, I will admit my ignorance and ask you to explain the reference. Thanks.

I dunno, I miss when April Fools Day was Slashdot Shitpost Day. Yes, it meant Slashdot was entirely useless for a day, but it helped build a sense of community. There's a lot of dumb things about Slashdot that I end up missing, like coverage of anime or video games that no one cares about. Things that made it seem more like a site for nerds and not this weird corporate pseudo-open source thing it's become. The loss of incredibly stupid April Fools pranks doesn't help.

I agree, Slashdot is usually my first site of the day and as such were the one site who had a chance of actually getting me with a story before I clued into the calendar.

But the greatest Slashdot April Fools was the OMG Ponies theme from.... holy crap 12 years ago!

Plus, if they expect this to take over for street addresses such as the headline suggests, they should think again. "Oh, it's on Walnut Street, just past 5th" is far more useful than "Oh, it's at CMXR+X6" which has everyone scrambling for Google Maps just to decode what the fuck you just said.

That doesn't work everywhere. Many countries have streets without names. in fact even my hometown in Canada had two streets they gave names to for no other reason that emergency services needed to find them. In Costa Rica for instance, not all major streets even have names and there are no house numbers making the entire country a confusing mess for even the locals.

Plus, if they expect this to take over for street addresses such as the headline suggests, they should think again. "Oh, it's on Walnut Street, just past 5th" is far more useful than "Oh, it's at CMXR+X6" which has everyone scrambling for Google Maps just to decode what the fuck you just said.

That doesn't work everywhere. Many countries have streets without names. in fact even my hometown in Canada had two streets they gave names to for no other reason that emergency services needed to find them. In Costa Rica for instance, not all major streets even have names and there are no house numbers making the entire country a confusing mess for even the locals.

thats what i think of when i think of humanity!

Having a private car isn't sustainable. It is a luxury for the 1% in the world. I know, you are going to get really upset by that (but "mah freedom"). Nothing is wrong with having a private car, but to say it is "sustainable" is a joke. Having it cost $75k - $150k is just more of a joke.

Sorry to burst your bad math bubble, but there's over 1 billion cars on the road right now, worldwide. Even if you choose to ignore the fact that many of those are shared by a family of more than one person, you're still looking at ~18% of people that have exclusive access to a car.

Perhaps what you meant to say is that the Bugatti Chiron is a luxury for the 1%?

https://www.google.ca/search?r...

I'd love some wine, thank you!

Apart from that, Obvious troll is still obvious.

Buy, trade, ect FB likes https://www.google.ca/search?q...

Actually, the poster seems to be absolutely correct. Here is the Google Maps image for the end of one of Edmonton Airport's runways in Canada clearly showing the leading '0' so Canada, like Europe, appears to require it. However, if you go south of the border to Helena in Montana then their runway does not contain a leading zero.

Actually, the poster seems to be absolutely correct. Here is the Google Maps image for the end of one of Edmonton Airport's runways in Canada clearly showing the leading '0' so Canada, like Europe, appears to require it. However, if you go south of the border to Helena in Montana then their runway does not contain a leading zero.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i...

Back to the original post, I am certain that Bill Gates, and Steve's Job and Wozniak, were both intimately familiar with the PLATO system. In another great book about the era, "Dealers in Lightning" about the team at XEROX Parc, in Palo Alto, "Early in 1972, researchers from Xerox PARC were given a tour of the PLATO system at the University of Illinois."

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t...

Of course, a few years later, after building the Xerox Star with graphical interface, both Microsoft and Apple were given tours of the new graphical interface, and promptly incorporated the concepts into what became the MacIntosh and Windows OS.

And, on that note, I have very clear memories of installing Windows 2.0 on 80286 Hewitt Rand computers (not the other HP) using the then very very new "paper white" monitors.

If you've never tried it, it's fascinating to do a Google Street View of Tokyo. The power infrastructure is cluttered AF:

Powerlines 1

Powerlines 2

Powerlines 3

If you've never tried it, it's fascinating to do a Google Street View of Tokyo. The power infrastructure is cluttered AF:

Powerlines 1

Powerlines 2

Powerlines 3

If you've never tried it, it's fascinating to do a Google Street View of Tokyo. The power infrastructure is cluttered AF:

Powerlines 1

Powerlines 2

Powerlines 3

Here's why. The projections in 1976 seem to have been overly optimistic regarding our minimum commitment to research, but possibly overly pessimistic regarding our ability to perform in the worse-than-worst-case scenario.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i...

This vote seems to come up every few months

https://www.google.ca/search?q...

Yet they still stick with Linux

Yes, but all it takes is one crazy ex-homeless to wreck a lumber storage area and releasing all that CO2 back into the atmosphere.

Heck, even this lumber storage area is already releasing those stored CO2 back into the atmosphere... No crazy ex-homeless needed.

Sorry?

Yep. You've got a local problem. And those problems should be taken up with provincial/state governments and local city councils.

Also here's a phone booth I can drive past it tonight when I head home if you really want a "up to date picture"(the one in google is ~3 years old) it's ~15mins out of my way but not a big deal, but it's still there. You could also use street view, head down Dundas St. in the cities of Woodstock and London, Ontario. Down Thames St.(Co. Hwy 119) in Ingersoll, Ontario. They're not all gone.

Meteorologist Jennifer Lawrence says Hurricanes are caused by Trump and his supporters and since she is in movies people must listen to her.

You mean this LifeLock?

Wikipedia can't make up its mind.

The A.I. Artificial Intelligence page consistently uses "Super-Toys", while the main article, Supertoys Last All Summer Long consistently goes the other direction.

Google: "Super-Toys" Last All Summer Long -"supertoys" = 66,800 results

Google: "SuperToys" Last All Summer Long -"super-toys" = 70,300 results

Squeaker. By the Law of Electoral College, I think the first item wins.

But no, let's aim higher.

Writing Talk: Conversations with top writers of the last fifty years — 2014

As this book goes to print in 2012, author Brian Aldiss tells me that his entire production of fiction is to be republished.

And this:

How many times can films destroy books? ...

"The risk was patent," he allowed, "because Stanley gave me a beautiful illustrated copy of Pinocchio, and he always wanted Pinocchio to be the Blue Fairy. When I heard those dreadful words, the Blue Fairy, I really started throwing up. I couldn't take this.

"But all right, I went to work with him. At ten o'clock they'd come and collect me, we'd find a pub, we'd go over this with lots of coffee, lots of Marlboros, and sometimes we seemed to be getting somewhere. But always he was determined that David the super toy should cease to be a fairy and become a real boy, while I hoped that between us we could have created a modern myth. That this robot child could exist in modern society and it would be of enormous interest.

"But this didn't interest Kubrick one bit. Do you know, he spent two years thinking about my short story? Perhaps he'd lost some of his earlier genius."

When Kubrick died it was taken over by Spielberg, and was out of reach of its originator, who now said to me wistfully, "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long is a nice title. It's poetic, it sounds nice. And what will the audience thing when winter comes?"

My bold & paragraph breaks.

I think Aldiss would have wanted his views known, so I quoted a bit more than normal given the occasion.

As copyright now works—de facto—everyone who reads the above quotation is now obligated to buy Alex Hamilton's fine book—that's how it now works, right?

It's not controversial among economists.

It actually is easy to find opposing viewpoints from economists, if you put the tiniest effort into searching. I would also note that the site you linked to has an obvious agenda against minimum wage. And while they didn't perform the study themselves, they did dictate the specific economists to send the survey to. Hmm.

Super Pochaco! Yeah, I'm a BBW lover! This anime is ridiculous!

Maybe NSFW

I'll see your single article and your claim that there are no studies on how effective the flu vaccine is and raise you SEVENTY NINE THOUSAND FUCKING EXAMPLES of scholarly studies on flu vaccines found with a 12 second Google search. Read that again you muppet, seventy nine thousand studies by educated and trained researchers who have done studies and have put them out for peer review, granting other experts an opportunity to poke holes in their findings, results and conclusions if at all possible. Every type of flu vaccination, every possible combination of flu vaccine and patient, ranging from pediatric to geriatric, including workplace, school and pregnancy situations.
Your entire article, clearly so well researched and thoughtfully written is entirely based on "viewing with alarm" one line of warning text in the insert from one single example of flu vaccine. IT DOESN'T SAY THERE ARE NO STUDIES ON FLU VACCINE EFFECTIVENESS, IT SAYS THERE HAVE BEEN NO CONTROLLED STUDIES SPECIFICALLY WITH FLULAVAL And that is largely because all of the individual ingredients in the formulation HAVE been tested and been found to be safe in these kinds of applications. Then there is the fact that you can't really test vaccine for flu A until flu A hits your area and makes a whole lot of people sick and kills a few. What researchers do instead is infer results to some degree. E.G. previous vaccines A, B and C have been tried, we now know how well they worked in the real world, so based on that, we can come up with next years vaccine based on those findings.
The only part of warning insert that is actually a semi-legitimate concern is the use of thiomersal as a preservative agent. Yes, Thiomersal contains mercury, albeit in truly minuscule amounts. The scientific consensus seems to be that, since it is such a tiny amount and NOT in the form of elemental mercury, it is safe to use it in vaccinations. (certainly the amounts of mercury in a vaccine are infinitesimal compared to what was routinely used in dental amalgam for fillings.)
That said, if you want to play it safe, there ARE non-thiomersal formulations available.

a lawyer that just happens to be a Russian national

She is much more than "just a Russian lawyer", which is why she has been attracting attention from the IC for some time. Take a look at thePrevezon fraud, the pattern starts to emerge

a lawyer that just happens to be a Russian national

She is much more than "just a Russian lawyer", which is why she has been attracting attention from the IC for some time. Take a look at thePrevezon fraud, the pattern starts to emerge

It's meat, as in, muscle tissue. It's almost certainly not grown from embryonic stem cells, but rather already differentiated muscle stem cells. Also, we can tell embryonic stem cells what to become:

https://www.google.ca/search?q...

The holy grail is being able to take an adult, fully differentiated cell, and turn it into a stem cell, in a simple way that doesn't involve potentially dangerous and imprecise viruses or gene editing.

Well except for that time Ted Kennedy actively attempted to get the Soviets to help the Dems against Reagan .

"straightened" out. You seem to have a problem with past participles.

https://www.google.ca/#q=past+...

Just trying to help you protect your brand as an author, it probably helps to master simple grammar.

https://www.google.ca/search?q...:

See what a disingenuous lying sack of shit he is?

It's the Airport in City of London. All of the other airports in London are actually outside of the city. Here is a link to the map at Google. https://www.google.ca/maps/pla...

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t...

FAA says batteries in equipment are OK. Spare Li-ion carry-on only.

Any decent game will have lag compensation

Yes, many games compensate for this by kicking players with bad latency because...

low-ping players will see side effects such as bullets seeming to bend around corners to hit them

...that kind of shenanigans ruins the gameplay. This is also why in most twitch shooters, all other things equal, fortune favours the aggressor.

Meh, my experience is that when these are added it usually means that the game is past its peak. From Google trends Minecraft is now below the halfway point - https://trends.google.ca/trend...

If you want to see what a real press ban looks like, you'd better start here. Because the Obama administration actually *did* ban the press on multiple occasions. In fact it was so bad at one point that multiple press agencies and reporters published a letter over it.

Really? So you're saying that his opinions of something are trying to shut them down.

Yep. Also this. I'm not defending SJWs or whatever other shenanigans some news organizations are getting into, I just don't pretend like it's only people from one political spectrum that are causing issues.

Actually we walked downhill to Overwaitea Foods, was about an hour from my house in Kamloops BC. Back then that use to get crazy snow in winters (1988). We then had to walk back uphill on the yet to be be finished/widened Trans Canada when they were building the Coquihala Hwy. This was our path https://www.google.ca/maps/dir...

It's not circular but equally out-of-the-box. Skyscraper Airport

of course they wouldn't...

"* Climbs up tower and replaces part: ehhhh...you win.

You have me on that last one. Replacing parts still requires a human. For now"

I could easily see that being replaced by a modular design of easy to fail parts and a drone. Drone flies up, puts part multitool into slot, unslots it and transfer the one from its drone bay in place. Optical sensors verify the repair and no air leaks.

Wrong. The parts are absurdly heavy and have to be winched up. This requires several people keeping tabs on where the part is and steering it so it doesn't smash other antennae on the way up. Furthermore, the tower is swaying back and forth in the wind.

Manually switching parts is difficult only because the parts havent been designed to be switched by a robot. Once that happens, game over. You've probably seen videos of robotic tape libraries already. https://www.google.ca/search?t...

I have a tape library. And a room full of servers. And hundreds of fiber links. And about a thousand spinning disks. There's no automated way to keep all of those things working. And none in sight.

All thats needed is to design and build the system. We have the technology. Making it cheaper than paying some forest ranger 50k a year to do it on the otherhand might take a while.

Wrong again. The more technology you throw at the system, the more important the human in charge of the system becomes. This is what robofetishists keep failing to recognize. It's a bit like the Dunning-Kruger Effect, which you have demonstrated by referring to broadcast engineers as forest rangers. I would remind you that we make quite a bit more than $50K/y, as well. What I make here in Alabama equates to about $160K in San Fransico's economy.

"* Climbs up tower and replaces part: ehhhh...you win.

You have me on that last one. Replacing parts still requires a human. For now"

I could easily see that being replaced by a modular design of easy to fail parts and a drone. Drone flies up, puts part multitool into slot, unslots it and transfer the one from its drone bay in place. Optical sensors verify the repair and no air leaks.

Manually switching parts is difficult only because the parts havent been designed to be switched by a robot. Once that happens, game over. You've probably seen videos of robotic tape libraries already. https://www.google.ca/search?t...

All thats needed is to design and build the system. We have the technology.
Making it cheaper than paying some forest ranger 50k a year to do it on the otherhand might take a while.