No, but I guess I could include the elevation of the highest mini-golf hole at Challenge Park as that might be the highest point of terrain on the peninsula.
The Pacific tropical activity can be attributed, in part, to impressively warm ocean water.
El Nino is an anomalous, yet periodic, warming of the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. For reasons still not well understood, every 2 to 7 years, this patch of ocean warms for a period of 6 to 18 months.
Global warming caused by humans or effects of the not well understood El Nino? How much data do we have on simultaneous storms in the pacific? Assuming it was when the first weather satellite was launched in 1960, we've had 55 years of data which is what, maybe a dozen El Ninos? Is this an outlier? Is this normal? Or is it definitely evidence of human influence on the climate? Perhaps it's just a clickbait article from Weather.com...
Nope, it's a highway overpass. Well at least in NW Ohio. The eastern part of the state has some pretty decent hills. The southern part of the state has some gravel piles the glaciers left behind too.
Except by the time someone wants it or uses it, it'll be way behind the times. I'm sure the car manufacturers were "future proofing" their cars by putting in 8 track players too.
Make it replaceable if you want to plan for the future. My 1997 car has a better radio (not stock) that works far more reliably than my 2013 car with an integrated touchscreen infotainment system. I can also upgrade the 1997 radio again in 10 years, whereas the 2013 radio will be stuck with the same shit as long as the car lasts.
Hey, I'm sure there is a great reason why the HVAC controls need to be integrated into the radio and have components of the system put in like tetris blocks all under the dash. I'm guessing it has to do with the $2000 technology package that adds the value of a $200 double din radio.
That is shockingly true. The "Source" button in my car is functionally useless. It switches between sources, but it includes everything, inputs that aren't hooked up, satellite radio stations with no subscription, and FM and AM "sources" that have no saved presets. Are you telling me that a car computer that knows there is nothing in the USB port isn't smart enough to skip that source? Why can't I disable the AM and Satellite sources if I never use them? Why the hell is there FM 1,2, and 3 on a goddamn touchscreen? When there were buttons for saved presets, it made sense. You only had 6 buttons, so if you wanted more presets, you needed a way to differentiate them. I have a damn touchscreen and 10% of it is dedicated to the artificially limited 6 presets. Give me 18 buttons (there is plenty of space and memory to store them) and then just have on damn FM source. Or let me save as many stations as I want and dynamically adjust the size of the buttons to fit.
The problem with car manufacturers is they put a damn touchscreen computer in the dash and then program it to behave like a standard radio with fixed buttons. Then it sucks as a real radio AND it sucks as a computer.
Oh don't even get me started. Rather than plow through 17 CDs in an audiobook, I ripped them to mp3s and put them in folders by disk. MyFord Touch doesn't allow any sort of sorting by filename or directory tree. Thus I had to strip all metadata and rename the files to 001, 002, etc to actually get them to play in some semblance of order and EVEN THEN there were still random times where 087 would be out of order or some other bullshit.
I don't use half the features, and the other half don't even freaking work like you'd expect them to.
Right, but scientifically, there might be value in telling a patient they are getting a placebo when administering a drug to see if they get better despite not believing they are getting treatment. It is the inverse of believing they are getting treatment when they aren't. Both might be scientifically valid. Though I think I have read that some people get better on placebos even if they are told it is a placebo. People are funny creatures...
Move to Alaska in the winter and Antarctica in the summer and you'll be able to be free from most of the sun! Or just living in a cave works too I suppose.
Seriously, why does my air purifier need an LED power on indicator light? I can hear the damn thing if it is running! It shouldn't take 5 layers of duct tape to make it dark enough to sleep in my room...
Is there a name for an anti-placebo where you are giving them an actual drug but telling them it's a placebo to test if a patient thinking the drug does nothing is overcome by any actual benefits of the drug itself?
Yes, but what you are saying is that over time the wealthy keep getting wealthier and the poor keep getting poorer. And the evidence does not support your theory. The wealthy do keep getting wealthier, but the poor are also getting wealthier, albeit at a slower rate. In the first world, even the poor generally have a home, a car, air conditioning, a refrigerator, tv, internet, and access to free healthcare and education. It may seem crappy as opposed to what the wealthy have, but compared to what your ancestors had, the poorest of the poor are living pretty well.
Hey, you can't talk about economics with regards to education. This is socialism we are talking about here! And basic human rights to a 4 year party after high school!
Well when people talk about a college education being a right and that the government should just pay for everyone to get a college degree, a college degree becomes the new high school diploma. If everyone can get one, then what do you know, employers will make that the minimum requirement. Because if they have an open position, why wouldn't the hire the best educated one that applied?
Very poor citations: "Livestock systems occupy 45% of the global surface area" Really? Let's assume that they were stupid and really meant 45% of the LAND area of the globe. Even then estimates from 2000 put all agriculture usage (not just animal agriculture) at 30% of land area: http://www.unep.org/resourcepa...
I disagree. With more and more tasks going to be handled by computers and machines in the future, I would argue we have hit and passed peak education. As you see with people who have smart phones in their pocket all the time, knowledge will slowly decline in the future as computers do most of the thinking for us. Thankfully computers are more consistent in their thinking and will eliminate a lot of problems in the world caused by smart people missing things.
I forget who said it, but the honest truth is that we are all idiots. We are just not idiots all the time. Some people just happen to be idiots more often than others.
Did the business majors celebrating "Thirsty Thursdays" because they had no Friday classes rub it in to the engineering majors going to class at 8AM Friday morning? Yes... Yes they did.
The vast majority of people aren't getting philosophy or art history degrees to benefit society with their insightful realizations of life or their knowledge of the past with respect to art. Most of them are doing these majors because they are easy and require little skills. Anyone who has gone to college knows the majors that other people switch to because they have easy schedules and allow them to party after they dropped their preferred major after they found out it required hard work. People aren't getting these degrees to benefit society, they are getting these degrees to justify staying in college so they can avoid getting a real job and becoming an adult.
I'm questioning what level the benefits of education pay off for a society. Is a grade school education enough? Is a high school education enough (what we currently provide for free to all citizens)? People are now suggesting college be paid for too. Why not insist that everyone in society get a PhD? At some point the returns for education the entire population decrease while the costs continue to increase.
Is that true or are people who are less likely to be on welfare, more active in their communities, wear seat belts at higher rates, and practice healthy behaviors more likely to get a college degree? Correlation is not causation. I don't think we could end welfare, improve communities, have everyone wear seatbelts, and have a healthier society by forcing people to graduate from college... But I could be wrong.
You are correct on both points. If you can get a higher paying job without education, power to you and society doesn't need to provide you with a "free" education. If you value something more than a bigger salary in life, more power to you, but don't expect the rest of society to provide for you so you can pursue your dreams.
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No, but I guess I could include the elevation of the highest mini-golf hole at Challenge Park as that might be the highest point of terrain on the peninsula.
The Pacific tropical activity can be attributed, in part, to impressively warm ocean water.
El Nino is an anomalous, yet periodic, warming of the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. For reasons still not well understood, every 2 to 7 years, this patch of ocean warms for a period of 6 to 18 months.
Global warming caused by humans or effects of the not well understood El Nino? How much data do we have on simultaneous storms in the pacific? Assuming it was when the first weather satellite was launched in 1960, we've had 55 years of data which is what, maybe a dozen El Ninos? Is this an outlier? Is this normal? Or is it definitely evidence of human influence on the climate? Perhaps it's just a clickbait article from Weather.com...
True, mountains are about as boring as geotechnical engineering... Also, as Mugatu would say, "Volcanoes are so hot right now."
You should change that name. Denali isn't a volcano... I could see you being a Redoubt though! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nope, it's a highway overpass. Well at least in NW Ohio. The eastern part of the state has some pretty decent hills. The southern part of the state has some gravel piles the glaciers left behind too.
Except by the time someone wants it or uses it, it'll be way behind the times. I'm sure the car manufacturers were "future proofing" their cars by putting in 8 track players too.
Make it replaceable if you want to plan for the future. My 1997 car has a better radio (not stock) that works far more reliably than my 2013 car with an integrated touchscreen infotainment system. I can also upgrade the 1997 radio again in 10 years, whereas the 2013 radio will be stuck with the same shit as long as the car lasts.
Hey, I'm sure there is a great reason why the HVAC controls need to be integrated into the radio and have components of the system put in like tetris blocks all under the dash. I'm guessing it has to do with the $2000 technology package that adds the value of a $200 double din radio.
That is shockingly true. The "Source" button in my car is functionally useless. It switches between sources, but it includes everything, inputs that aren't hooked up, satellite radio stations with no subscription, and FM and AM "sources" that have no saved presets. Are you telling me that a car computer that knows there is nothing in the USB port isn't smart enough to skip that source? Why can't I disable the AM and Satellite sources if I never use them? Why the hell is there FM 1,2, and 3 on a goddamn touchscreen? When there were buttons for saved presets, it made sense. You only had 6 buttons, so if you wanted more presets, you needed a way to differentiate them. I have a damn touchscreen and 10% of it is dedicated to the artificially limited 6 presets. Give me 18 buttons (there is plenty of space and memory to store them) and then just have on damn FM source. Or let me save as many stations as I want and dynamically adjust the size of the buttons to fit.
The problem with car manufacturers is they put a damn touchscreen computer in the dash and then program it to behave like a standard radio with fixed buttons. Then it sucks as a real radio AND it sucks as a computer.
Oh don't even get me started. Rather than plow through 17 CDs in an audiobook, I ripped them to mp3s and put them in folders by disk. MyFord Touch doesn't allow any sort of sorting by filename or directory tree. Thus I had to strip all metadata and rename the files to 001, 002, etc to actually get them to play in some semblance of order and EVEN THEN there were still random times where 087 would be out of order or some other bullshit.
I don't use half the features, and the other half don't even freaking work like you'd expect them to.
Right, but scientifically, there might be value in telling a patient they are getting a placebo when administering a drug to see if they get better despite not believing they are getting treatment. It is the inverse of believing they are getting treatment when they aren't. Both might be scientifically valid. Though I think I have read that some people get better on placebos even if they are told it is a placebo. People are funny creatures...
Move to Alaska in the winter and Antarctica in the summer and you'll be able to be free from most of the sun! Or just living in a cave works too I suppose.
Seriously, why does my air purifier need an LED power on indicator light? I can hear the damn thing if it is running! It shouldn't take 5 layers of duct tape to make it dark enough to sleep in my room...
Or electrical tape works...
Is there a name for an anti-placebo where you are giving them an actual drug but telling them it's a placebo to test if a patient thinking the drug does nothing is overcome by any actual benefits of the drug itself?
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Yes, but what you are saying is that over time the wealthy keep getting wealthier and the poor keep getting poorer. And the evidence does not support your theory. The wealthy do keep getting wealthier, but the poor are also getting wealthier, albeit at a slower rate. In the first world, even the poor generally have a home, a car, air conditioning, a refrigerator, tv, internet, and access to free healthcare and education. It may seem crappy as opposed to what the wealthy have, but compared to what your ancestors had, the poorest of the poor are living pretty well.
Hey, you can't talk about economics with regards to education. This is socialism we are talking about here! And basic human rights to a 4 year party after high school!
Well when people talk about a college education being a right and that the government should just pay for everyone to get a college degree, a college degree becomes the new high school diploma. If everyone can get one, then what do you know, employers will make that the minimum requirement. Because if they have an open position, why wouldn't the hire the best educated one that applied?
Very poor citations: "Livestock systems occupy 45% of the global surface area" Really? Let's assume that they were stupid and really meant 45% of the LAND area of the globe. Even then estimates from 2000 put all agriculture usage (not just animal agriculture) at 30% of land area:
http://www.unep.org/resourcepa...
I disagree. With more and more tasks going to be handled by computers and machines in the future, I would argue we have hit and passed peak education. As you see with people who have smart phones in their pocket all the time, knowledge will slowly decline in the future as computers do most of the thinking for us. Thankfully computers are more consistent in their thinking and will eliminate a lot of problems in the world caused by smart people missing things.
I forget who said it, but the honest truth is that we are all idiots. We are just not idiots all the time. Some people just happen to be idiots more often than others.
Did the business majors celebrating "Thirsty Thursdays" because they had no Friday classes rub it in to the engineering majors going to class at 8AM Friday morning? Yes... Yes they did.
The vast majority of people aren't getting philosophy or art history degrees to benefit society with their insightful realizations of life or their knowledge of the past with respect to art. Most of them are doing these majors because they are easy and require little skills. Anyone who has gone to college knows the majors that other people switch to because they have easy schedules and allow them to party after they dropped their preferred major after they found out it required hard work. People aren't getting these degrees to benefit society, they are getting these degrees to justify staying in college so they can avoid getting a real job and becoming an adult.
I'm questioning what level the benefits of education pay off for a society. Is a grade school education enough? Is a high school education enough (what we currently provide for free to all citizens)? People are now suggesting college be paid for too. Why not insist that everyone in society get a PhD? At some point the returns for education the entire population decrease while the costs continue to increase.
Is that true or are people who are less likely to be on welfare, more active in their communities, wear seat belts at higher rates, and practice healthy behaviors more likely to get a college degree? Correlation is not causation. I don't think we could end welfare, improve communities, have everyone wear seatbelts, and have a healthier society by forcing people to graduate from college... But I could be wrong.
You are correct on both points. If you can get a higher paying job without education, power to you and society doesn't need to provide you with a "free" education. If you value something more than a bigger salary in life, more power to you, but don't expect the rest of society to provide for you so you can pursue your dreams.