Nuclear power would be competitive with coal in terms of cost if it were not for the massive amount of red tape. In fact, if you built in the environmental cost that Coal has into the pricing, Nuclear power becomes the cheapest source of energy due to the much much lower CO2 emissions of the technology. France is a perfect example of a country that has cut its CO2 emissions to a third of comparable nations CO2/$ because of the fact that 70+ % of its power needs come from nuclear power.
The problem with that is that eventually they'll be found out. It may not be soon but it will most likely occur at some point and when it does it just sends the message that the nutters of the world may have a small point. They don't, but it appears that way to people who do not know any better.
Things that happen all the time like car accidents and heart attacks aren't published that often either. It's the rare occurances that get the attention.
Precisely. The vast majority of reactor leaks/accidents occured in 30+ year old nuclear plants and frankly, our ability to construct safe designs has increased drastically since these plants were built. It's like suggesting that cars are inherently dangerous because the 30 year old clunkers had a few problems. The solution is to design better cars/reactors not freak out about the entire technology.
Exactly. The leak its self was nothing to worry about, it was the fact that they felt it neccessary to lie about the leak that is troubling. Now as far as nuclear power goes, the technology is very safe as long as these corporations are held accountable.
The difference being that the Tritium in luminous devices is contained and no one has lied under oath about it. I am a big supporter of nuclear power for environmental and economic reasons and I believe these guys ought to be nailed to the cross over this. Nuclear power is one of the few technologies that are capable of displacing fossil fuels to any extent and the last thing we need is some corporation cutting corners and getting away with it. The public's confidence in nuclear power needs to be strengthened by making damn sure these corporations are doing what they are supposed to do in order to keep these plants safe.
Using Fourier Analysis on orbits to "fix" geocentric theory is like trying to deal with a leak in your roofing during a storm by adding more buckets to catch the water draining through your roof instead of getting a 2$ shingle and plugging the damn leak. Geocentric theory is broken. It has *zero* real predictive power which makes it fucking worthless to the scientific community. Same goes for newtonian physics; there becomes a point where the theory and reality have nothing in common any more and clinging to it under those circumstances is foolish.
Getting to an island that is now ~500 km off shore is understandably hard for the GP to imagine being anything other than daunting if not nearly impossible for hominids living at that time. The GP and GGP are just looking for an explanation that makes it easier for such an ancient journey(s) to have taken place. TFA doesn't explicitly cover this but considering that the average depth of the Mediterranean Sea is ~1500 meters I would imagine that islands would be rather rare even during periods of glaciation.
The Mediterranean Sea has an average depth of 1500 meters. It is possible that parts of the sea body were shallow enough to have exposed a few islands although it would seem that a great deal of it would still be very very deep and likely rather difficult to traverse without some sort of raft/boat technology.
That point lies within the Sun its self. The degree to which geocentric theory is wrong is several orders of magnitude more than the degree to which ideal heliocentric theory is. Geocentric theory could not be extended and at the same time remain internally consistent as well as explain the orbits of various objects in space. Heliocentric theory O.T.O.H. can easily be extended by Newton and later Einstein to match observations to an extreme degree of accuracy.
Crete has been an island for more than five million years, meaning that the toolmakers must have arrived by boat.
Stone tools found on an island indicates that humans were capable of rudimentary sea travel in order to get to Crete from the mainland. Also FTA:
More than 2,000 stone artifacts, including the hand axes, were collected on the southwestern shore of Crete, near the town of Plakias
That is an awful lot of stone tools to have just "washed up on to the beach" wouldn't you think so? TFA states that the team was originally looking for much younger tools on the order of ~11,000 years old when they found these instead. Also FTA:
The cliffs and caves above the shore, the researchers said, have been uplifted by tectonic forces where the African plate goes under and pushes up the European plate. The exposed uplifted layers represent the sequence of geologic periods that have been well studied and dated, in some cases correlated to established dates of glacial and interglacial periods of the most recent ice age. In addition, the team analyzed the layer bearing the tools and determined that the soil had been on the surface 130,000 to 190,000 years ago.
Dr. Runnels said he considered this a minimum age for the tools themselves. They include not only quartz hand axes, but also cleavers and scrapers, all of which are in the Acheulean style.
In other words, the dating of the soil associated with the tools indicates that they are at least 130,000 years old and are of a tool style used by humans/ancestors that is very ancient. The tools were not neccessarily made by early humans as at the time these tools were likely created, humans were not the only hominids. The upper limit for the date of these tools is ~700,000 years which would pre-date modern humans although it seems unlikely that they are that old.
That is why I noted that there should be limitations on what can be done with them. Lessons can be learned from copyright "property rights" and applied to privacy.
Bad example. Most people on a plane do not have piloting skills and frankly, they ought to be afraid of jumping into the pilot seat as should everyone else in the plane. Your example would be a more accurate analogy if being bad at math caused you to be more afraid of someone else doing the math for you.
Temp companies are doing this as well. Which to me is a good reason to establish property rights for privacy. In that case, you would be the sole non-transferable owner of your fingerprint scan among other data and have sole discretion over what is done with it. They would upon your consent store one single copy of the scan on the device which if copied or otherwise removed for other uses without your consent would now have legal consequences. The beauty of the concept is that you could also establish similar rights for the contents of mail and internet connections which could possibly address the net neutrality issue as well.
Just an anecdote but oddly enough most of the people I know that have gone on to high level math (>>Calc 3) tend not to be terribly good at doing basic math in their heads. It could be just my imagination or it could be that they rely much more on calculators/computers to do most of the actual calculations for them but it would be interesting to see a study on it. Perhaps study how anxiety affects basic math skills among those who are very advanced in mathematics.
It was also "obvious" that the Sun orbited the Earth until a significant amount of data supporting the heliocentric theory was found. Science requires data not just peoples' "intuition" which is very often wrong.
Editing text config files is common for fluxbox and E17 but Gnome, XFCE and KDE rarely if ever require config file editing to change settings. I would imagine that is a large part of why they are far far more popular than E17 and Fluxbox. People could dig into the config files if they have to but I agree that it's just a "frak it! no more fiddling!" moment for most people.
E17 is what runs on this hardware. I'm sure that if Gnome or KDE could run on it they'd base the ARM customized Ubuntu distro to use one of them instead. Problem is that Gnome and KDE use more resources than E17 does and E17 just doesn't have a GUI for changing certain settings. E17 isn't aiming to compete in the same areas that Gnome and KDE are. E17 is primarily used where computer resources are limited while Gnome and KDE are generally used on systems where computer resources aren't the major problem. Now if you've been using Linux for 10+ years, you probably have run into hardware that is crap by today's standards and would not run well with larger D.E.s.
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I'm sure everything will be fine and dandy when we shut down all these nuclear plants in order to switch to those safe, non-polluting coal plants...
Nuclear power would be competitive with coal in terms of cost if it were not for the massive amount of red tape. In fact, if you built in the environmental cost that Coal has into the pricing, Nuclear power becomes the cheapest source of energy due to the much much lower CO2 emissions of the technology. France is a perfect example of a country that has cut its CO2 emissions to a third of comparable nations CO2/$ because of the fact that 70+ % of its power needs come from nuclear power.
The problem with that is that eventually they'll be found out. It may not be soon but it will most likely occur at some point and when it does it just sends the message that the nutters of the world may have a small point. They don't, but it appears that way to people who do not know any better.
Things that happen all the time like car accidents and heart attacks aren't published that often either. It's the rare occurances that get the attention.
Precisely. The vast majority of reactor leaks/accidents occured in 30+ year old nuclear plants and frankly, our ability to construct safe designs has increased drastically since these plants were built. It's like suggesting that cars are inherently dangerous because the 30 year old clunkers had a few problems. The solution is to design better cars/reactors not freak out about the entire technology.
Exactly. The leak its self was nothing to worry about, it was the fact that they felt it neccessary to lie about the leak that is troubling. Now as far as nuclear power goes, the technology is very safe as long as these corporations are held accountable.
The difference being that the Tritium in luminous devices is contained and no one has lied under oath about it. I am a big supporter of nuclear power for environmental and economic reasons and I believe these guys ought to be nailed to the cross over this. Nuclear power is one of the few technologies that are capable of displacing fossil fuels to any extent and the last thing we need is some corporation cutting corners and getting away with it. The public's confidence in nuclear power needs to be strengthened by making damn sure these corporations are doing what they are supposed to do in order to keep these plants safe.
Using Fourier Analysis on orbits to "fix" geocentric theory is like trying to deal with a leak in your roofing during a storm by adding more buckets to catch the water draining through your roof instead of getting a 2$ shingle and plugging the damn leak. Geocentric theory is broken. It has *zero* real predictive power which makes it fucking worthless to the scientific community. Same goes for newtonian physics; there becomes a point where the theory and reality have nothing in common any more and clinging to it under those circumstances is foolish.
That's absurd.
Getting to an island that is now ~500 km off shore is understandably hard for the GP to imagine being anything other than daunting if not nearly impossible for hominids living at that time. The GP and GGP are just looking for an explanation that makes it easier for such an ancient journey(s) to have taken place. TFA doesn't explicitly cover this but considering that the average depth of the Mediterranean Sea is ~1500 meters I would imagine that islands would be rather rare even during periods of glaciation.
The Mediterranean Sea has an average depth of 1500 meters. It is possible that parts of the sea body were shallow enough to have exposed a few islands although it would seem that a great deal of it would still be very very deep and likely rather difficult to traverse without some sort of raft/boat technology.
That point lies within the Sun its self. The degree to which geocentric theory is wrong is several orders of magnitude more than the degree to which ideal heliocentric theory is. Geocentric theory could not be extended and at the same time remain internally consistent as well as explain the orbits of various objects in space. Heliocentric theory O.T.O.H. can easily be extended by Newton and later Einstein to match observations to an extreme degree of accuracy.
FTA:
Stone tools found on an island indicates that humans were capable of rudimentary sea travel in order to get to Crete from the mainland. Also FTA:
That is an awful lot of stone tools to have just "washed up on to the beach" wouldn't you think so?
TFA states that the team was originally looking for much younger tools on the order of ~11,000 years old when they found these instead. Also FTA:
In other words, the dating of the soil associated with the tools indicates that they are at least 130,000 years old and are of a tool style used by humans/ancestors that is very ancient. The tools were not neccessarily made by early humans as at the time these tools were likely created, humans were not the only hominids. The upper limit for the date of these tools is ~700,000 years which would pre-date modern humans although it seems unlikely that they are that old.
Membranes self assemble. See micelles.
Except for the metabolism bit which viruses also lack.
That is why I noted that there should be limitations on what can be done with them. Lessons can be learned from copyright "property rights" and applied to privacy.
Bad example. Most people on a plane do not have piloting skills and frankly, they ought to be afraid of jumping into the pilot seat as should everyone else in the plane. Your example would be a more accurate analogy if being bad at math caused you to be more afraid of someone else doing the math for you.
Temp companies are doing this as well. Which to me is a good reason to establish property rights for privacy. In that case, you would be the sole non-transferable owner of your fingerprint scan among other data and have sole discretion over what is done with it. They would upon your consent store one single copy of the scan on the device which if copied or otherwise removed for other uses without your consent would now have legal consequences. The beauty of the concept is that you could also establish similar rights for the contents of mail and internet connections which could possibly address the net neutrality issue as well.
Just an anecdote but oddly enough most of the people I know that have gone on to high level math (>>Calc 3) tend not to be terribly good at doing basic math in their heads. It could be just my imagination or it could be that they rely much more on calculators/computers to do most of the actual calculations for them but it would be interesting to see a study on it. Perhaps study how anxiety affects basic math skills among those who are very advanced in mathematics.
It was also "obvious" that the Sun orbited the Earth until a significant amount of data supporting the heliocentric theory was found. Science requires data not just peoples' "intuition" which is very often wrong.
I would imagine that someone that was very bad at math would be anxious about having to use their weakened mathematical ability.
So what do you suggest we do? Getting gifted students out of high school early and into a college of some sort makes a lot of sense.
I agree. Which is why I commented on this in another post.
Editing text config files is common for fluxbox and E17 but Gnome, XFCE and KDE rarely if ever require config file editing to change settings. I would imagine that is a large part of why they are far far more popular than E17 and Fluxbox. People could dig into the config files if they have to but I agree that it's just a "frak it! no more fiddling!" moment for most people.
E17 is what runs on this hardware. I'm sure that if Gnome or KDE could run on it they'd base the ARM customized Ubuntu distro to use one of them instead. Problem is that Gnome and KDE use more resources than E17 does and E17 just doesn't have a GUI for changing certain settings. E17 isn't aiming to compete in the same areas that Gnome and KDE are. E17 is primarily used where computer resources are limited while Gnome and KDE are generally used on systems where computer resources aren't the major problem. Now if you've been using Linux for 10+ years, you probably have run into hardware that is crap by today's standards and would not run well with larger D.E.s.