TFA has a video that explains quite a bit about the species and one of the interesting things about it is that the dragonfly cruses at an altitude of 1-2 km over the surface. They migrate in order to catch the rainy season of East Africa and India. The winds at this altitude move toward the rainy areas due to meteorological effects so they do make use of air currents.
Most of the nuclear waste in the US is recyclable. The amount of waste produced for a given amount of power is small compared to coal, pil and other fossil fuels. Thorium reactors produce even less waste than Uranium/Plutonium reactors do and is more common as well. There is also the problem of low carnot efficiency of solar updraft towers relative to other solar thermal designs because of the relatively small thermal gradient. The larger the thermal gradient, the higher the efficiency.
Only the idealists. The rest of us are generally ok with an imperfect solution that is better than an existing solution. Mostly because we can do the math. Coal plants make up the vast majority of the power plants in the US and are probaly the most environmentally damaging form of energy production on the planet so replacing them with something else is generally a smart thing to do.
We should be trying to extract the thermal energy we already have
What precisely do you think they're trying to do? Where do you think this thermal difference comes from exactly? Every single process that generates usable electrical power generates thermal energy. Simple thermodynamics dictates that a process must be less than 100% efficient and must create more disorder than order. So instead of converting coal and air into CO2, electrical power and heat; we're converting solar thermal energy into electrical power and waste heat. The thermal energy is already there and is going to waste otherwise.
Only the federal government has the authority to regulate interstate and foreign commerce. States can't levy tariffs on each other's goods because they were not given the constitutional authority to do so.
and implied that Global Warming its a greater threat to life
Well that is because it probably is. Terrorism is such a tiny nigh insignificant threat to the average westerner that a single extra hurricane due t AGW would be responsible for more loss of life. Just one.
does not support the notion of a "threat" on par or greater than terrorism.
Funny you mention terrorism as more people have died from Fireworks accidents than terror attacks. 9/11 was about 6 months worth of drowning accidents in the US.
The movie The Day After Tomorrow was fiction, folks.
Indeed. You won't find many climate scientists that weren't completely pissed off about that dreadful movie.
People wont be running for their lives away from gradual warming.
Recipe for frog soup. Of course if you're living in Florida or other low lying lands around the world you might want to raise your house a meter or two.
This is one of the few things Neocons and environmentalists are in general agreement; alternative energy is the way to go. Just for completely different reasons and by completely different methods.
Oh I'm pretty sure most slashdotters are familar with porn... it's the living, breathing female girlfriends that are largely in uncharted waters. I suspect that many slashdotters would prefer a generalization of what works for females (g-spot) rather than each female be different and thus more of a social challenge for them.
Well if they don't know that they have one, what exactly is the point? Of course it would probably be more accurate to ascertain whether or not there is a denser collection of nerves in a certain place on their anatomy but I'd guess that dissection isn't popular with living subjects...
If they discover additional places they have probable cause to search then they should not have any problem getting a proper warrant specifying as such. If they can't get a warrant for those formerly unknown devices then they really shouldn't be given a blanket warrant for said devices!
'India does value free speech and political speech. But they are weighing the harm of free speech against violence in their streets.'"
Translation: you can say *anything* you want as long as we approve of it. Censoring speech with which the government does not agree is completely incompatible with free speech.
In the USA, search and seizure powers were specifically limited by the fourth amendment for among other reasons, reducing the liklihood of fishing expeditions. Here you can't use the power to search something specific eg. someone's car to justify searching someone's house, mail etc. as well.
Considering that the operations in Iraq were once referred to as Operation Iraqi Liberation, it shouldn't surprise you that another government put minimal thought into the naming process for its new surveillance program.
You may not realize it but your argument could also be used to justify massive surveillance programs outside of peoples' homes like that in London. After all, what you do outside isn't terribly private either; people can see you all the time but that doesn't make the surveillance mundane and not worth mentioning...
Encrypted communication such as that between your self and your bank would be considered private. Do you really believe that the government tapping someone's communications is no big deal?
Police and SIS must still obtain an interception warrant naming a person or place they want to monitor but, compared to the phone taps of the past, a single warrant now covers phone, email and all internet activity.
In other words, they no longer have to specify which form of electronic communication they wish to monitor; one blanket warrant covers them all...
If the drug use/video game playing is voluntary then I'd say it was the user who was ruining their own life. The law should have only got involved if there was fraud or general violence involved.
The 32-bit time_t is signed (I'm assuming so you can expression times less than the epoch, but that's just a guess)
Indeed. Some binary blobs do require the use of a signed integer for calculating differences in time which is much of the apparent hesitancy to convert to a 32 bit unsigned integer time system. More here.
First of all, I did not put emphasis on the civilian death toll in order to make the point that even the ultra nationalist NAZI basturds in this country couldn't rationalize away so easily: that the W.O.T. has killed more Americans than 9/11 did.
while the civilian/innocent deaths are misquoted and almost ignored in the majority.
They're misquoted often because 1) we do not know the actual death toll and/or 2) the far right scumbags don't want to believe that a significant fraction of a million Iraqis are dead as a result... The death toll's enormity is downplayed by the far right for political reasons while the magnitude is of far greater importance to those who oppose the war. Honestly I feel like both ends of the political spectrum are lying out their ass on the issue. The far right for their NAZI like tendency to downplay the significance of the Iraqi deaths and the far left for cherry picking a very large figure from a study that used a flawed statistical sampling method. As far as I'm concerned, even 100,000 was more than reason enough to end the god damn war a long time ago.
I said US military deaths not civilians. As for the 600k figure, that figure was an estimate based on largely faulty statistical sampling. The number is still likely to be over 200,000+ but not likely the million+ hinted at by the "study." Iraq is basically in a state of civil war which is largely responsible for the massive casualty rate.
You might be able to make a case for the LP in that regard but one thing is definitely for sure: the two major parties have absolutely no interest in making necessary cuts in spending. The republicrats merely reduce the tax rate and call it a day. They don't actually cut spending which is in fact the problem.
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TFA has a video that explains quite a bit about the species and one of the interesting things about it is that the dragonfly cruses at an altitude of 1-2 km over the surface. They migrate in order to catch the rainy season of East Africa and India. The winds at this altitude move toward the rainy areas due to meteorological effects so they do make use of air currents.
Most of the nuclear waste in the US is recyclable. The amount of waste produced for a given amount of power is small compared to coal, pil and other fossil fuels. Thorium reactors produce even less waste than Uranium/Plutonium reactors do and is more common as well. There is also the problem of low carnot efficiency of solar updraft towers relative to other solar thermal designs because of the relatively small thermal gradient. The larger the thermal gradient, the higher the efficiency.
Only the idealists. The rest of us are generally ok with an imperfect solution that is better than an existing solution. Mostly because we can do the math. Coal plants make up the vast majority of the power plants in the US and are probaly the most environmentally damaging form of energy production on the planet so replacing them with something else is generally a smart thing to do.
What precisely do you think they're trying to do? Where do you think this thermal difference comes from exactly? Every single process that generates usable electrical power generates thermal energy. Simple thermodynamics dictates that a process must be less than 100% efficient and must create more disorder than order. So instead of converting coal and air into CO2, electrical power and heat; we're converting solar thermal energy into electrical power and waste heat. The thermal energy is already there and is going to waste otherwise.
Only the federal government has the authority to regulate interstate and foreign commerce. States can't levy tariffs on each other's goods because they were not given the constitutional authority to do so.
Well that is because it probably is. Terrorism is such a tiny nigh insignificant threat to the average westerner that a single extra hurricane due t AGW would be responsible for more loss of life. Just one.
Funny you mention terrorism as more people have died from Fireworks accidents than terror attacks. 9/11 was about 6 months worth of drowning accidents in the US.
Indeed. You won't find many climate scientists that weren't completely pissed off about that dreadful movie.
Recipe for frog soup. Of course if you're living in Florida or other low lying lands around the world you might want to raise your house a meter or two.
This is one of the few things Neocons and environmentalists are in general agreement; alternative energy is the way to go. Just for completely different reasons and by completely different methods.
You are under the impression that warming affects the various parts of the globe in the same way and this is distinctly not the case.
Oh I'm pretty sure most slashdotters are familar with porn... it's the living, breathing female girlfriends that are largely in uncharted waters. I suspect that many slashdotters would prefer a generalization of what works for females (g-spot) rather than each female be different and thus more of a social challenge for them.
Well if they don't know that they have one, what exactly is the point? Of course it would probably be more accurate to ascertain whether or not there is a denser collection of nerves in a certain place on their anatomy but I'd guess that dissection isn't popular with living subjects...
If they discover additional places they have probable cause to search then they should not have any problem getting a proper warrant specifying as such. If they can't get a warrant for those formerly unknown devices then they really shouldn't be given a blanket warrant for said devices!
Translation: you can say *anything* you want as long as we approve of it. Censoring speech with which the government does not agree is completely incompatible with free speech.
In the USA, search and seizure powers were specifically limited by the fourth amendment for among other reasons, reducing the liklihood of fishing expeditions. Here you can't use the power to search something specific eg. someone's car to justify searching someone's house, mail etc. as well.
Considering that the operations in Iraq were once referred to as Operation Iraqi Liberation, it shouldn't surprise you that another government put minimal thought into the naming process for its new surveillance program.
You may not realize it but your argument could also be used to justify massive surveillance programs outside of peoples' homes like that in London. After all, what you do outside isn't terribly private either; people can see you all the time but that doesn't make the surveillance mundane and not worth mentioning...
Encrypted communication such as that between your self and your bank would be considered private. Do you really believe that the government tapping someone's communications is no big deal?
In other words, they no longer have to specify which form of electronic communication they wish to monitor; one blanket warrant covers them all...
If the drug use/video game playing is voluntary then I'd say it was the user who was ruining their own life. The law should have only got involved if there was fraud or general violence involved.
That's what they all say... until someone is arrested for it.
Indeed.
Some binary blobs do require the use of a signed integer for calculating differences in time which is much of the apparent hesitancy to convert to a 32 bit unsigned integer time system. More here.
First of all, I did not put emphasis on the civilian death toll in order to make the point that even the ultra nationalist NAZI basturds in this country couldn't rationalize away so easily: that the W.O.T. has killed more Americans than 9/11 did.
They're misquoted often because 1) we do not know the actual death toll and/or 2) the far right scumbags don't want to believe that a significant fraction of a million Iraqis are dead as a result... The death toll's enormity is downplayed by the far right for political reasons while the magnitude is of far greater importance to those who oppose the war.
Honestly I feel like both ends of the political spectrum are lying out their ass on the issue. The far right for their NAZI like tendency to downplay the significance of the Iraqi deaths and the far left for cherry picking a very large figure from a study that used a flawed statistical sampling method. As far as I'm concerned, even 100,000 was more than reason enough to end the god damn war a long time ago.
I said US military deaths not civilians. As for the 600k figure, that figure was an estimate based on largely faulty statistical sampling. The number is still likely to be over 200,000+ but not likely the million+ hinted at by the "study." Iraq is basically in a state of civil war which is largely responsible for the massive casualty rate.
A total of 4371 US military deaths have occured since the invasion began in Iraq.
You might be able to make a case for the LP in that regard but one thing is definitely for sure: the two major parties have absolutely no interest in making necessary cuts in spending. The republicrats merely reduce the tax rate and call it a day. They don't actually cut spending which is in fact the problem.