Nobody has hit upon the obvious solution to the traffic problem. Why not just charge more for parking? Using the roads is free as they are public, but parking doesnt have to be public at all. People are driving into the center of london to get somewhere in the center, and they must park somewhere. Double the parking fees. If people have to pay 5 pounds a day to park its the same as charging 5 pounds a day to drive in.
Youre not touching on the previous posters points. He is saying that even if the US decided to ban land mines, there are alot of bad countries out there that wont. Not everybody listens to the US, in fact there are quite a few countries that if the US said,"Ban land mines" They would say "Lets build lots of land mines" I can grant out all your paints about land mines being bad and the previous poster still wins, because hes right, it doesnt matter wether the US bans land mines or not, bad people will still use them, all it will do to us is hamper us from protecting our friends and allies.
Nuclear Waste is a myth. There is really no need for a nuclear waste repository. The solution to waste is a "fast breeder" reactor, which converts spent fuel into new fuel. Uranium is converted into plutonium, which is then burned to produce uranium and other lighter elements. The Uranium can be burned in conventional nuclear power plants. The process does produce waste, but waste with a half life of 10's to 100's of years rather than 10000. Why dont we have any breeder reactors? Politics. Because one of the intermediate steps is plutonium, everyone is worried about proliferation. Polititans worry that if we do it, then hey, north korea will look at it and say "You guys are making plutonium, so can we". Heres a clue, North Korea will do it wether the US does or not, same with all the other rogue nations out there. The only thing youre preventing is a solution to the waste problem.
Did anyone else thing this movie was really short?I went to see it at 5 and I was out of the theater by 6:35, and thats after 20 minutes of trailers and watching the credits. It took 5 years to make that?
I think that perhaps, he underestimates the difficulty involved in slowing the planet down to 100 revolutions per orbit. Well we'll just speed it up to 1000 revolutions per orbit then smartguy:-p
I hear alot of people saying something to the effect of "I hope that the MS booth gets trashed because MS Sucks" This is probably EXACTLY what microsoft wants. Think about it, MS has done all it can to portray Linux as a system designed by crackers and script kiddies, one stop short of terrorists. How do you think the government will react if MS get physically attacked at a trade show? MS Will say: "See, we told you that those Linux geeks are all hackers, you cant trust them to make secure systems, but you can trust us, were the victim here." Which is what will happen im sure.
One Word: Prohibition The original "War on drugs" And incidentally the cause of much gang related crime in the US. You dont really hear about people going blind from moonshine anymore these days, but it was a big problem during prohibition. I wish more people would learn lessons from history.
Im sure you could find a job at Arthur Anderson. Theyre looking for adults with interest in math now, after their "Hire adults with no math skills" program didnt pan out.
Don't make the all-too-common mistake of thinking that mores (social norms) and morals (philosophical considerations of behavior)are different.;-) What do you think the difference between the two is?
Every man has a price; You just have to find that price.
Or more accurately, Morals are always relative. In some situations its moral to kill a man, in some situations its not. There are no moral absolutes. However, there are things that are right in certain situations and wrong in certain situations. For example, if some guy at a mcdonalds starts randomly shooting people, thats wrong. Morals are generally defined by society. My favorite example is "porn" from the victorian era. Its essentially women in leotards. To them it was totally immoral even to show a bare ankle on a woman, but look at today. Societies change, and as they do, so do morals
All it takes is for someone, somewhere to build an intelligent(ish) self-replicating machine programmed to spread throughout the galaxy - one per interesting star system.
You mean like God when he made man? Or maybe it was the monolith;-)
Pledge of Allegiance: One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all... As long as you buy into the Judeo-Christian creation myth, otherwise youre not part of america and you dont get any liberty and justice, sorry.
Not only that, but the ones that do list a "opt out" address actually subscribe you to their mailing list when you click on it. First of all, I dont buy from spammers, second of all, even if i did I dont know what they are trying to sell me
Further example: Apple Computer, which during the early 90's hemmoraged money like a sieve, even though they had revenues of 8 billion a year, they were losing up to $400 million a quarter. Enter steve jobs, who has made the company profitable for 9 of the last 10 quarters even though its yearly revenue has shrunk, all the while putting out new and innovative products (ipod, flat panel imac, cube). How much is Jobs salary? $1 a year. After 3 years of working for a dollar a year the board of directors had to finally give him some compensation in the form of stock options. Unfortunately those options are worthless ecause they excercise at $45 a share and apple is at ~$17 a share. Jobs works because he loves apple, not because of any other reason, and its too bad we dont have more CEO's like him.
Heres a question for you: What reduces poverty more: Giving somone a job or giving somone a handout? The answer is giving somone a job. Even if its for what to us would be less than what we wwould make panhandling, in Ghana even 1 dollar a day is more than somone would make being a policeman. In Ghana $3 a day is a _GOOD_ job. And you know what, as more companies move over there the wages and standard of living go up and demand for american goods and services increases. You cant buy a TV if you cant even feed your family. Having jobs is the way to get people out of poverty. Its basic supply and demand. Demand for jobs goes up, supply goes down wages go up.
This also sounds like A project that was also a class at the University of Maryland, Project Endurance. A zipped word file of the final report can be found here This project was the capstone design course for aerospace engineers at the university. Our task was to design a series of 6 missions to explore the lunar base for a period of 90 days each as a prelude to a fully manned base. Hope you enjoy.
Well first of all, why is the title of this questions scientology? Secondly, find in windows really sucks, I know, it takes like 15 minutes to just do a name search in a 5 gig hd. Try out sherlock on a mac sometime, you can search massive hds in seconds, it really kicks ass.
Spoiler: States say, "Here are our priorities for reforming MS." - MS says, "We don't need no stinkin' remedy.""
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Now youve ruined the whole trial for me, I thought MS was going to pull one of its trademark change of hearts and say please, please break us up. Thanks a lot.
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Then why don't satellites show a net change of external energy input and output over the past 20 years?
Because the only external source of energy input is the sun, which is relatively constant, unless you buy the solar variability hypothesis. I think you mean why has there been no evidence of an increase in trapped energy.
surface temperature changes are not uniform, as you would expect CO2 to be;
Why would you expect CO2 to result in a uniform temperature increase? When have temperature increases and decreases ever been uniform over the entire planet? Some places get hotter and colder than others based on variable weather patterns. You need to look at average temperature data taken over the entire planet, which shows that the last decade was the warmest on record.
So since google searches 2,073,418,204 webpagees, and you got 63,500,000, that means that 3.6% of the web is at least somewhat "sex" related, and this doesnt mean porn either, just instances of the word sex. So the internet is hardly the haven of pr0n fiends that it once was (slashdot notwithstanding)
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For example, sea temperature data has been inferred from characteristics of coral growth
Sea temperature is measured by satellite, not by inferring from coral growth. A correllation may be seen between coral growth and sea surface temperature, but the temperature is not measured by looking at the growth. See this NOAA site
2) Which "theory" are you referring to when you talk about global warming? As far as I know, the only theories are:
1) CO2 increases cause warming (trivial physics, but not a real hypothesis to test man-made global warming in this complex system).
2) Computer simulations show warming, and with enough tuning can sort-of match the past since temperature records were kept.
Number 2 (computer simulations) Isnt a hypothesis, or a theory, it is an attempt to verify the global warming hypothisis that you state in 1. A computer simulation is not a hypothesis in any case.
So really were only arguing about 1. Does an increase in Co2 decrease the rate of heat radiated by the planet. Thats the question. Does CO2 trap heat? Your alternative hypothesies, solar irradiation etc, may or may not be true. If solar variability is true, then that will contribute to an overall warming effect. Regardless we know one simple fact that cannot be disputed: CO2 traps heat. If it werent for some CO2 wed be living in an icebox. CO2 allows for liquid water, which then takes over as the dominant greenhouse gas. An increase in CO2 can therefore be assumed to increase the amount of heat trapped by the earths atmosphere, since CO2 has been doing that since the beginning of time. Regardless of any other causes to global warming, increasing CO2=Increasing trapped heat. So you may be right and solar variability may be a factor, granted, but this does not negate the effect of CO2 on the atmosphere. In fact it makes controlling CO2 even more vital, since we have to compensate for solar variations as well as human caused effects.
How about a device that will teleport the laser back into the eye of the dumbass teenager shooting his laser pointer on the movie theater screen?
They do that themselves. I remember riding the bus in HS, and the stoners who sat in the back would have contests to see who could shoot a laser pointer directly into their eye the longest before it hurt so much that they had to take it away.
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Nobody has hit upon the obvious solution to the traffic problem. Why not just charge more for parking? Using the roads is free as they are public, but parking doesnt have to be public at all. People are driving into the center of london to get somewhere in the center, and they must park somewhere. Double the parking fees. If people have to pay 5 pounds a day to park its the same as charging 5 pounds a day to drive in.
Youre not touching on the previous posters points. He is saying that even if the US decided to ban land mines, there are alot of bad countries out there that wont. Not everybody listens to the US, in fact there are quite a few countries that if the US said,"Ban land mines" They would say "Lets build lots of land mines" I can grant out all your paints about land mines being bad and the previous poster still wins, because hes right, it doesnt matter wether the US bans land mines or not, bad people will still use them, all it will do to us is hamper us from protecting our friends and allies.
Nuclear Waste is a myth. There is really no need for a nuclear waste repository. The solution to waste is a "fast breeder" reactor, which converts spent fuel into new fuel. Uranium is converted into plutonium, which is then burned to produce uranium and other lighter elements. The Uranium can be burned in conventional nuclear power plants. The process does produce waste, but waste with a half life of 10's to 100's of years rather than 10000. Why dont we have any breeder reactors? Politics. Because one of the intermediate steps is plutonium, everyone is worried about proliferation. Polititans worry that if we do it, then hey, north korea will look at it and say "You guys are making plutonium, so can we". Heres a clue, North Korea will do it wether the US does or not, same with all the other rogue nations out there. The only thing youre preventing is a solution to the waste problem.
Did anyone else thing this movie was really short?I went to see it at 5 and I was out of the theater by 6:35, and thats after 20 minutes of trailers and watching the credits. It took 5 years to make that?
I think that perhaps, he underestimates the difficulty involved in slowing the planet down to 100 revolutions per orbit. Well we'll just speed it up to 1000 revolutions per orbit then smartguy :-p
I hear alot of people saying something to the effect of "I hope that the MS booth gets trashed because MS Sucks" This is probably EXACTLY what microsoft wants. Think about it, MS has done all it can to portray Linux as a system designed by crackers and script kiddies, one stop short of terrorists. How do you think the government will react if MS get physically attacked at a trade show? MS Will say: "See, we told you that those Linux geeks are all hackers, you cant trust them to make secure systems, but you can trust us, were the victim here." Which is what will happen im sure.
One Word: Prohibition
The original "War on drugs" And incidentally the cause of much gang related crime in the US. You dont really hear about people going blind from moonshine anymore these days, but it was a big problem during prohibition. I wish more people would learn lessons from history.
Im sure you could find a job at Arthur Anderson. Theyre looking for adults with interest in math now, after their "Hire adults with no math skills" program didnt pan out.
Don't make the all-too-common mistake of thinking that mores (social norms) and morals (philosophical considerations of behavior)are different. ;-) What do you think the difference between the two is?
Or more accurately, Morals are always relative. In some situations its moral to kill a man, in some situations its not. There are no moral absolutes. However, there are things that are right in certain situations and wrong in certain situations. For example, if some guy at a mcdonalds starts randomly shooting people, thats wrong. Morals are generally defined by society. My favorite example is "porn" from the victorian era. Its essentially women in leotards. To them it was totally immoral even to show a bare ankle on a woman, but look at today. Societies change, and as they do, so do morals
Estimated cost of 1.142g of lunar material:
$5million
amount brought back by EACH mission:
100kg
total value of each lunar mission:
$437 billio
Any companies interested in that?
You mean like God when he made man? Or maybe it was the monolith ;-)
Read the article, they actually do find mutant goldfish and cockroaches and mutant crayfish and a troll.
Pledge of Allegiance: One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all... As long as you buy into the Judeo-Christian creation myth, otherwise youre not part of america and you dont get any liberty and justice, sorry.
Not only that, but the ones that do list a "opt out" address actually subscribe you to their mailing list when you click on it. First of all, I dont buy from spammers, second of all, even if i did I dont know what they are trying to sell me
Further example: Apple Computer, which during the early 90's hemmoraged money like a sieve, even though they had revenues of 8 billion a year, they were losing up to $400 million a quarter. Enter steve jobs, who has made the company profitable for 9 of the last 10 quarters even though its yearly revenue has shrunk, all the while putting out new and innovative products (ipod, flat panel imac, cube). How much is Jobs salary? $1 a year. After 3 years of working for a dollar a year the board of directors had to finally give him some compensation in the form of stock options. Unfortunately those options are worthless ecause they excercise at $45 a share and apple is at ~$17 a share. Jobs works because he loves apple, not because of any other reason, and its too bad we dont have more CEO's like him.
Heres a question for you: What reduces poverty more: Giving somone a job or giving somone a handout? The answer is giving somone a job. Even if its for what to us would be less than what we wwould make panhandling, in Ghana even 1 dollar a day is more than somone would make being a policeman. In Ghana $3 a day is a _GOOD_ job. And you know what, as more companies move over there the wages and standard of living go up and demand for american goods and services increases. You cant buy a TV if you cant even feed your family. Having jobs is the way to get people out of poverty. Its basic supply and demand. Demand for jobs goes up, supply goes down wages go up.
This also sounds like A project that was also a class at the University of Maryland, Project Endurance. A zipped word file of the final report can be found here This project was the capstone design course for aerospace engineers at the university. Our task was to design a series of 6 missions to explore the lunar base for a period of 90 days each as a prelude to a fully manned base. Hope you enjoy.
Well first of all, why is the title of this questions scientology? Secondly, find in windows really sucks, I know, it takes like 15 minutes to just do a name search in a 5 gig hd. Try out sherlock on a mac sometime, you can search massive hds in seconds, it really kicks ass.
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Now youve ruined the whole trial for me, I thought MS was going to pull one of its trademark change of hearts and say please, please break us up. Thanks a lot.
Because the only external source of energy input is the sun, which is relatively constant, unless you buy the solar variability hypothesis. I think you mean why has there been no evidence of an increase in trapped energy.
surface temperature changes are not uniform, as you would expect CO2 to be;
Why would you expect CO2 to result in a uniform temperature increase? When have temperature increases and decreases ever been uniform over the entire planet? Some places get hotter and colder than others based on variable weather patterns. You need to look at average temperature data taken over the entire planet, which shows that the last decade was the warmest on record.
So since google searches 2,073,418,204 webpagees, and you got 63,500,000, that means that 3.6% of the web is at least somewhat "sex" related, and this doesnt mean porn either, just instances of the word sex. So the internet is hardly the haven of pr0n fiends that it once was (slashdot notwithstanding)
Sea temperature is measured by satellite, not by inferring from coral growth. A correllation may be seen between coral growth and sea surface temperature, but the temperature is not measured by looking at the growth. See this NOAA site
2) Which "theory" are you referring to when you talk about global warming? As far as I know, the only theories are:
1) CO2 increases cause warming (trivial physics, but not a real hypothesis to test man-made global warming in this complex system).
2) Computer simulations show warming, and with enough tuning can sort-of match the past since temperature records were kept.
Number 2 (computer simulations) Isnt a hypothesis, or a theory, it is an attempt to verify the global warming hypothisis that you state in 1. A computer simulation is not a hypothesis in any case.
So really were only arguing about 1. Does an increase in Co2 decrease the rate of heat radiated by the planet. Thats the question. Does CO2 trap heat? Your alternative hypothesies, solar irradiation etc, may or may not be true. If solar variability is true, then that will contribute to an overall warming effect. Regardless we know one simple fact that cannot be disputed: CO2 traps heat. If it werent for some CO2 wed be living in an icebox. CO2 allows for liquid water, which then takes over as the dominant greenhouse gas. An increase in CO2 can therefore be assumed to increase the amount of heat trapped by the earths atmosphere, since CO2 has been doing that since the beginning of time. Regardless of any other causes to global warming, increasing CO2=Increasing trapped heat. So you may be right and solar variability may be a factor, granted, but this does not negate the effect of CO2 on the atmosphere. In fact it makes controlling CO2 even more vital, since we have to compensate for solar variations as well as human caused effects.
They do that themselves. I remember riding the bus in HS, and the stoners who sat in the back would have contests to see who could shoot a laser pointer directly into their eye the longest before it hurt so much that they had to take it away.
When was the last time you played a video and a laser beam came out of the TV?