Despite their name, rare earth elements (with the exception of the radioactive promethium) are relatively plentiful in Earth's crust, with cerium being the 25th most abundant element at 68 parts per million (similar to copper). However, because of their geochemical properties, rare earth elements are typically dispersed and not often found concentrated as rare earth minerals in economically exploitable ore deposits.[3] It was the very scarcity of these minerals (previously called "earths") that led to the term "rare earth".
The "rare" in Rare Earth Metals/Minerals says nothing about actual rarity. It's only a statement on whether they can be found in concentrated ores or not.
Nothing that mankind has control over is more likely to cause mass death than continuing to contribute to climate change
The most likely stable state the climate is going to end up in, compared to the interglacial we're in right now, is back into full glaciation.
There's no stable "hotter" state known (no matter the historical CO2 levels, which have been much much higher than we're projecting to ever reach) to science. The only question during an interglacial is whether the poles will be free of ice or not - and looking at the latest interglacial, the Eemian, we shouldn't be surprised if the arctic circle becomes ice free (still without any catastrophic effects whatsoever).
What do we need to do to get back into full glaciation?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Although - changing the albedo as proposed in the article might well bring us there sooner rather than later.
Caveat: This post reflects the current state of science accurately. Watch out for replies that don't.
The functionality is available in the Bitcoin protocol. Your complaint is apparently about BitPay. It's like blaming RFC 5246 for an incomplete TLS implementation by Microsoft.
I have had no issues using Bitcoin for payments and didn't know there had been any (all the scams I've seen are about people storing their private keys with someone else).
That's your choice. I was just pointing out that contrary to your claim the Bitcoin protocol fully supports M-N transactions (which credit cards do not) and by using that functionality some really cool escrow solutions can be developed and deployed - without me having to trust a single merchant.
Of course they would have, and did. There's enough liquidity going through Bitcoin exchanges every day for millions of dollars to go in/out of BTC.
A few years ago a co-worker and I had dinner, and since he was curious about Bitcoin I offered to pay my part of the dinner to him in BTC. That amounted to 10 BTC at the then-exchange rate of $4/BTC.
This is done in Sweden. The police both advertise where they're going to have speed checks for the week to come (newspapers, radio) - i most places there's a well placed "Speed camera up ahead" before each and every speed camera.
I fully agree with you - but - carbon dioxide is not in any way "pollution". It's plant food. It has likely contributed to our greening planet, which has caused deserts to shrink and our food output to reach record highs.
Either we explicitly want to cut down on CO2 production due to our skilled models saying it will hurt us - and/or we stop various forms of pollution. It's very unscientific to pretend there the same thing.
Hats off. The 68000 was the first CPU owned (Atari ST) and I had a good six years of assembly skills behind me when it was finally time to leave. Awesome CPU for the kind of magic demo tricks only hard core assembler coding could bring out.
There is no adequate explanation - which is why the court in its judgement specifically told the prosecutor to "get on with it". Including stating to the press that "get on with it" could mean "go to London and do the interrogation there".
I have no idea how that extremely important development could be left out from an objective summary..
No, no we are not in an unsually unstable period of climate. Or more accurately stated, that instability is BECAUSE OF US.
Not according to research.
Until a few decades ago it was generally thought that all large-scale global and regional climate changes occurred gradually over a timescale of many centuries or millennia, scarcely perceptible during a human lifetime. The tendency of climate to change relatively suddenly has been one of the most suprising outcomes of the study of earth history, specifically the last 150,000 years (e.g., Taylor et al., 1993). Some and possibly most large climate changes (involving, for example, a regional change in mean annual temperature of several degrees celsius) occurred at most on a timescale of a few centuries, sometimes decades, and perhaps even just a few years. The decadal-timescale transitions would presumably have been quite noticeable to humans living at such times, and may have created difficulties or opportunities (e.g., the possibility of crossing exposed land bridges, before sea level could rise)
No, there are exactly zero big catastrophes going on right now. If you want to find catastrophes you need look no further than the actual tsunami that caused Fukushima - which resulted in tens of thousands of deaths (compared to zero from the failing reactors).
I live in Sweden, one of the countries that was actually affected by Chernobyl fallout. We had to make sure we didn't eat mushrooms for a short while - and that was it.
My last Android phone had them uploading to Google+ by default, without my explicit approval or agreement.
Odd. I've always been asked, very explicitly and clear, if I approve of having my photos backed up to Google+ from my Android phone. I've always answered No, and they haven't.
40 years ago there were people just like you saying how perfectly safe nuclear power is.
... and here we are, 40 years later, and know it to be true. Even the worst failure scenarios possible have not resulted in catastrophe. On the contrary, nuclear has turned out to be the safest energy production method of all.
If we want to be rational and stick to the facts, of course.
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Yeah. If only there was an easy to use end2end encrypted mobile phone application for voice calls that Moxie had been involved in creating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sure - but the configuration of the continents was also different which means we can draw no conclusions from that time period.
Despite their name, rare earth elements (with the exception of the radioactive promethium) are relatively plentiful in Earth's crust, with cerium being the 25th most abundant element at 68 parts per million (similar to copper). However, because of their geochemical properties, rare earth elements are typically dispersed and not often found concentrated as rare earth minerals in economically exploitable ore deposits.[3] It was the very scarcity of these minerals (previously called "earths") that led to the term "rare earth".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
The "rare" in Rare Earth Metals/Minerals says nothing about actual rarity. It's only a statement on whether they can be found in concentrated ores or not.
Nothing that mankind has control over is more likely to cause mass death than continuing to contribute to climate change
The most likely stable state the climate is going to end up in, compared to the interglacial we're in right now, is back into full glaciation.
There's no stable "hotter" state known (no matter the historical CO2 levels, which have been much much higher than we're projecting to ever reach) to science. The only question during an interglacial is whether the poles will be free of ice or not - and looking at the latest interglacial, the Eemian, we shouldn't be surprised if the arctic circle becomes ice free (still without any catastrophic effects whatsoever).
What do we need to do to get back into full glaciation?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Although - changing the albedo as proposed in the article might well bring us there sooner rather than later.
Caveat: This post reflects the current state of science accurately. Watch out for replies that don't.
The functionality is available in the Bitcoin protocol. Your complaint is apparently about BitPay. It's like blaming RFC 5246 for an incomplete TLS implementation by Microsoft.
I have had no issues using Bitcoin for payments and didn't know there had been any (all the scams I've seen are about people storing their private keys with someone else).
That's your choice. I was just pointing out that contrary to your claim the Bitcoin protocol fully supports M-N transactions (which credit cards do not) and by using that functionality some really cool escrow solutions can be developed and deployed - without me having to trust a single merchant.
That's something completely different to claiming that the Bitcoin protocol doesn't support it, which it does.
(It seems BitPay has multisig escrow-capable wallets but I don't think it's part of their PoS solution yet)
http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/09...
Keyword: "digital"
(But I agree when it comes to resistance and analogue signals. I usually use common electrical wiring for speaker cables - plenty of throughput there)
In what way is CHECKMULTISIG in the protocol not supporting escrow?
Of course they would have, and did. There's enough liquidity going through Bitcoin exchanges every day for millions of dollars to go in/out of BTC.
A few years ago a co-worker and I had dinner, and since he was curious about Bitcoin I offered to pay my part of the dinner to him in BTC. That amounted to 10 BTC at the then-exchange rate of $4/BTC.
He sold them at $1000 each.
What's controversial?
Heard of humanity's latest hero - Snowden?
On my personal computer there's no IT department that needs any of the things you mentioned. Thus it should be configurable.
It's not.
This is done in Sweden. The police both advertise where they're going to have speed checks for the week to come (newspapers, radio) - i most places there's a well placed "Speed camera up ahead" before each and every speed camera.
I fully agree with you - but - carbon dioxide is not in any way "pollution". It's plant food. It has likely contributed to our greening planet, which has caused deserts to shrink and our food output to reach record highs.
Either we explicitly want to cut down on CO2 production due to our skilled models saying it will hurt us - and/or we stop various forms of pollution. It's very unscientific to pretend there the same thing.
Hats off. The 68000 was the first CPU owned (Atari ST) and I had a good six years of assembly skills behind me when it was finally time to leave. Awesome CPU for the kind of magic demo tricks only hard core assembler coding could bring out.
Relevant discussion: http://compgroups.net/comp.os....
There is no adequate explanation - which is why the court in its judgement specifically told the prosecutor to "get on with it". Including stating to the press that "get on with it" could mean "go to London and do the interrogation there".
I have no idea how that extremely important development could be left out from an objective summary ..
Dear Google,
Why didn't you just buy Flattr instead? https://flattr.com/
(And pay off Brokep's debt while at it)
If you have a Core 2 Duo Mac Mini it can run Lion, officially supported. And Mavericks, at least, unsupported.
No, no we are not in an unsually unstable period of climate. Or more accurately stated, that instability is BECAUSE OF US.
Not according to research.
Until a few decades ago it was generally thought that all large-scale global and regional climate changes occurred gradually over a timescale of many centuries or millennia, scarcely perceptible during a human lifetime. The tendency of climate to change relatively suddenly has been one of the most suprising outcomes of the study of earth history, specifically the last 150,000 years (e.g., Taylor et al., 1993). Some and possibly most large climate changes (involving, for example, a regional change in mean annual temperature of several degrees celsius) occurred at most on a timescale of a few centuries, sometimes decades, and perhaps even just a few years. The decadal-timescale transitions would presumably have been quite noticeable to humans living at such times, and may have created difficulties or opportunities (e.g., the possibility of crossing exposed land bridges, before sea level could rise)
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projec...
And Ericsson, whose research Gladwell misrepresented, most definitely didn't.
You'll still be vulnerable to any script that specifies #!/bin/bash - not uncommon
No, there are exactly zero big catastrophes going on right now. If you want to find catastrophes you need look no further than the actual tsunami that caused Fukushima - which resulted in tens of thousands of deaths (compared to zero from the failing reactors).
I live in Sweden, one of the countries that was actually affected by Chernobyl fallout. We had to make sure we didn't eat mushrooms for a short while - and that was it.
The "Big Lie" is that there have been nuclear catastrophes. A statement not supported by data: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/...
My last Android phone had them uploading to Google+ by default, without my explicit approval or agreement.
Odd. I've always been asked, very explicitly and clear, if I approve of having my photos backed up to Google+ from my Android phone. I've always answered No, and they haven't.
40 years ago there were people just like you saying how perfectly safe nuclear power is.
... and here we are, 40 years later, and know it to be true. Even the worst failure scenarios possible have not resulted in catastrophe. On the contrary, nuclear has turned out to be the safest energy production method of all.
If we want to be rational and stick to the facts, of course.
The actual question is: what are you going to do about it?
I became an active politician (and since I'm in a non-two party dictatorship it made a difference). /me - board member of the Swedish Pirate Party