More than 50% of the energy in Britain comes from renewables, about a fifth in the US. I
I am going to need a source for that, since the information I can find says it is significantly less than that. (I find several sources which put it at near 30% for the UK, and those all seem to be sources which are more likely to overstate it than understate it) and between !0 and 15 % for the U.S..
And how exactly are we going to use solar instead of coal for power plants when the current technology is unable to replace coal with solar. My problem is that there are too many people who want to shut down the coal plants BEFORE anyone has built the solar plants to replace them.
OK, Microsoft introduced the Ribbon interface because OpenOffice.org was getting too close to MS Office in functionality that they needed to introduce a UI that would artificially impose a barrier to converting. This was a resounding success. On the other hand, the Windows 8 Metro interface was introduced to make the PC desktop look like the WIndows Phone UI. The idea being to leverage the ubiquity of Windows to gain market share in the mobile market. This was a resounding failure. These were both about advancing the interests of Microsoft, not about anything benefiting the end-user.
Linux has nothing to do with why no one will stand in line to buy the next version of Windows, or even why they won't pay lots of money for it.
The reason no one will do those things is because, as of Windows XP, there are no new compelling features for an OS to offer. Windows XP did everything I, as a private individual, needed an OS to do. Microsoft has added some security features, and some things which I, as a computer professional, appreciate since then. Of course,since Windows 3.1 I have advised people to only upgrade their Microsoft OS when they upgrade their PC.
They did not have that choice. The government mandated that all health records be converted to Electronic Medical Records by a certain date or no more Medicaid payments (you still had to give care to Medicaid patients).
So, in other words, this study has no value whatsoever because there is nothing to actually compare it to. As you might guess, I find all "social science" studies to be somewhat suspect. Every now and again I see one which resembles actual science, but most of the time they are just confirmations of whatever the study author believed to be true.
How exactly are you going to control for the variables between the various states? There are a lot of variables which impact employment which vary from state to state and it seems to me that Alaska likely has a lot of things which are different from other states which may impact the degree to which someone chooses to seek a job.
I am confused as to how this study could test their hypothesis. As I understand it, everybody in Alaska gets this money, to whom are you comparing the people who receive this payment so as to see that someone who receives this payment is no less likely to seek a job than someone who does not?
It is not the silence which calls to conversation, it is the situation. Some situations call for a conversation. If one is in such a situation and there is no conversation, the silence is awkward/
Well, yes, a psychologically well balanced person will have something to say in a situation which calls for conversation, so there will not be silence.
If we look at actual population numbers then Finland would be the 23th in population after Minnesota but before South Carolina. And 2:d in area after Alaska but before Texas.
Ummm, Finland is about 131,000 square miles, Texas is about 269,000 square miles. So, Finland is not bigger in area than Texas. Checking the size of U.S. states, Finland would come in fifth, after Montana and before New Mexico.
Awkward silence occurs when, for whatever social reason, two or more people are thrown together in a situation where conversation is expected and no one says anything. An example could be where a guy at a bar sitting next to an attractive woman offers to buy her a drink, she accepts, then neither of them speak after she gets it. That would be an awkward silence because he has shown an interest in forming some relationship with her, even if only conversation in a bar, and she has suggested that she has a willingness for such, even if only conversation in a bar. The silence might be awkward because all she was doing was expressing a willingness to accept a free drink, or, it might be awkward because both are interested in a conversation but neither has anything to say. There are other situations where there is awkward silence because it is clear that at least one party wants to have a conversation but no one is saying anything. It is possible that the silence is only awkward for that person.
Small talk is an art that most people are bad at. It serves one of two purposes. The first, and less useful one, is to allow two people to pretend that they care about what the other person has to say. The other, and very useful purpose, is to allow two people who do not know each other well explore various conversational topics until they find one in which they both have an interest, at which point a real conversation commences. Generally, I could do without the small talk which serves the first purpose. However, people who have mastered the art of small talk are actually able to make you think that they do care about your answers. Those who are merely good at it fail to recognize when you have no interest in answering their questions while those who have mastered it do. Those who have mastered small talk will quickly move on to another topic when they see that you are not interested in following up their conversational gambit.
Problem for humans... The effects on the environment and plants/animals are much better understood.
Really? then why do none of these articles actually reference such? All of the articles I have seen just take it as a given that microplastics are bad. None of them tell me how they are bad or what evidence there is for that.
So, in other words, no one has actually done a study to determine if microplastics are a problem, but there are lots of theories about why they might be. Of course, if someone HAD done a study and it turned out that microplastics were not a problem, no one would hear about it anyway.
And yes, wealthier people will take a harder hit than the poor.
And this is why any plan you have for doing so will fail, because the opposite is true. While the wealthy may lose MORE wealth in such a plan, the poor will lose enough wealth to go from "poor" to "subsistence", and those who are already at "subsistence" will die.
The other thing worth noting is that the greater wealth, the slower population growth. Also, the greater wealth, the more people work to reduce pollution.
It is amazing the number of things which you learn in school that just are not so. For example, I learned in school that before Columbus most people thought the Earth was flat. (BTW, I think that most flat earthers learned that as well and still believe it to be true).
They did not say that the federal government does not have the authority to to do so. They stated that none of the laws passed by Congress give the FCC the authority to do so. Congress COULD pass such a law, but they have not done so. The FCC only has the authority which Congress has granted it.
The name sake is that they got infected due to showering in their barracks in France because the water never was hot enough and the Legionnells lived in the water tanks. That is actually where they live, in open water, small puddles, home irrigation systems etc.
To get an AC duct infected by Legionnells, the AC must be in a pretty odd condition.
No, it's name has NOTHING to do with the French Legion. I actually remember when the very first outbreak occurred to a group of members of the American Legion. It was named "Legionnaires Disease" before anyone knew what the cause was. Here is the relevant quote from Wikipedia: "Legionnaires' disease acquired its name in July 1976, when an outbreak of pneumonia occurred among people attending a convention of the American Legion at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. Of the 182 reported cases, mostly men, 29 died.[36] On January 18, 1977, the causative agent was identified as a previously unknown strain of bacteria, subsequently named Legionella, and the species that caused the outbreak was named Legionella pneumophila.[37][38]"
And here is the link to the Encyclopedia Brittanica article on the disease: https://www.britannica.com/sci...'
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More than 50% of the energy in Britain comes from renewables, about a fifth in the US. I
I am going to need a source for that, since the information I can find says it is significantly less than that. (I find several sources which put it at near 30% for the UK, and those all seem to be sources which are more likely to overstate it than understate it) and between !0 and 15 % for the U.S..
And how exactly are we going to use solar instead of coal for power plants when the current technology is unable to replace coal with solar. My problem is that there are too many people who want to shut down the coal plants BEFORE anyone has built the solar plants to replace them.
There are others, but here is one: http://www.philly.com/philly/n...
IN the U.S. the Community banks are all getting bought out because the cost of complying with Dodd-Frank is too high for small banks.
OK, Microsoft introduced the Ribbon interface because OpenOffice.org was getting too close to MS Office in functionality that they needed to introduce a UI that would artificially impose a barrier to converting. This was a resounding success. On the other hand, the Windows 8 Metro interface was introduced to make the PC desktop look like the WIndows Phone UI. The idea being to leverage the ubiquity of Windows to gain market share in the mobile market. This was a resounding failure. These were both about advancing the interests of Microsoft, not about anything benefiting the end-user.
That person works for Microsoft.
Linux has nothing to do with why no one will stand in line to buy the next version of Windows, or even why they won't pay lots of money for it.
The reason no one will do those things is because, as of Windows XP, there are no new compelling features for an OS to offer. Windows XP did everything I, as a private individual, needed an OS to do. Microsoft has added some security features, and some things which I, as a computer professional, appreciate since then. Of course,since Windows 3.1 I have advised people to only upgrade their Microsoft OS when they upgrade their PC.
They did not have that choice. The government mandated that all health records be converted to Electronic Medical Records by a certain date or no more Medicaid payments (you still had to give care to Medicaid patients).
So, in other words, this study has no value whatsoever because there is nothing to actually compare it to. As you might guess, I find all "social science" studies to be somewhat suspect. Every now and again I see one which resembles actual science, but most of the time they are just confirmations of whatever the study author believed to be true.
Oh, you won't need to subscribe to get the important features, like GM being able to track your location and other data mining functionality.
How exactly are you going to control for the variables between the various states? There are a lot of variables which impact employment which vary from state to state and it seems to me that Alaska likely has a lot of things which are different from other states which may impact the degree to which someone chooses to seek a job.
I am confused as to how this study could test their hypothesis. As I understand it, everybody in Alaska gets this money, to whom are you comparing the people who receive this payment so as to see that someone who receives this payment is no less likely to seek a job than someone who does not?
Got it. You're a jerk.
It is not the silence which calls to conversation, it is the situation. Some situations call for a conversation. If one is in such a situation and there is no conversation, the silence is awkward/
Well, yes, a psychologically well balanced person will have something to say in a situation which calls for conversation, so there will not be silence.
If we look at actual population numbers then Finland would be the 23th in population after Minnesota but before South Carolina. And 2:d in area after Alaska but before Texas.
Ummm, Finland is about 131,000 square miles, Texas is about 269,000 square miles. So, Finland is not bigger in area than Texas. Checking the size of U.S. states, Finland would come in fifth, after Montana and before New Mexico.
Awkward silence occurs when, for whatever social reason, two or more people are thrown together in a situation where conversation is expected and no one says anything. An example could be where a guy at a bar sitting next to an attractive woman offers to buy her a drink, she accepts, then neither of them speak after she gets it. That would be an awkward silence because he has shown an interest in forming some relationship with her, even if only conversation in a bar, and she has suggested that she has a willingness for such, even if only conversation in a bar. The silence might be awkward because all she was doing was expressing a willingness to accept a free drink, or, it might be awkward because both are interested in a conversation but neither has anything to say. There are other situations where there is awkward silence because it is clear that at least one party wants to have a conversation but no one is saying anything. It is possible that the silence is only awkward for that person.
Small talk is an art that most people are bad at. It serves one of two purposes. The first, and less useful one, is to allow two people to pretend that they care about what the other person has to say. The other, and very useful purpose, is to allow two people who do not know each other well explore various conversational topics until they find one in which they both have an interest, at which point a real conversation commences. Generally, I could do without the small talk which serves the first purpose. However, people who have mastered the art of small talk are actually able to make you think that they do care about your answers. Those who are merely good at it fail to recognize when you have no interest in answering their questions while those who have mastered it do. Those who have mastered small talk will quickly move on to another topic when they see that you are not interested in following up their conversational gambit.
Problem for humans... The effects on the environment and plants/animals are much better understood.
Really? then why do none of these articles actually reference such? All of the articles I have seen just take it as a given that microplastics are bad. None of them tell me how they are bad or what evidence there is for that.
So, in other words, no one has actually done a study to determine if microplastics are a problem, but there are lots of theories about why they might be. Of course, if someone HAD done a study and it turned out that microplastics were not a problem, no one would hear about it anyway.
If I am reading the summary correctly, what they are saying is that if you have admin rights, you can grant other users admin rights.
And yes, wealthier people will take a harder hit than the poor.
And this is why any plan you have for doing so will fail, because the opposite is true. While the wealthy may lose MORE wealth in such a plan, the poor will lose enough wealth to go from "poor" to "subsistence", and those who are already at "subsistence" will die.
The other thing worth noting is that the greater wealth, the slower population growth. Also, the greater wealth, the more people work to reduce pollution.
It is amazing the number of things which you learn in school that just are not so. For example, I learned in school that before Columbus most people thought the Earth was flat. (BTW, I think that most flat earthers learned that as well and still believe it to be true).
They did not say that the federal government does not have the authority to to do so. They stated that none of the laws passed by Congress give the FCC the authority to do so. Congress COULD pass such a law, but they have not done so. The FCC only has the authority which Congress has granted it.
That might be the first known case in the USA.
The name sake is that they got infected due to showering in their barracks in France because the water never was hot enough and the Legionnells lived in the water tanks. That is actually where they live, in open water, small puddles, home irrigation systems etc.
To get an AC duct infected by Legionnells, the AC must be in a pretty odd condition.
No, it's name has NOTHING to do with the French Legion. I actually remember when the very first outbreak occurred to a group of members of the American Legion. It was named "Legionnaires Disease" before anyone knew what the cause was. Here is the relevant quote from Wikipedia: "Legionnaires' disease acquired its name in July 1976, when an outbreak of pneumonia occurred among people attending a convention of the American Legion at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. Of the 182 reported cases, mostly men, 29 died.[36] On January 18, 1977, the causative agent was identified as a previously unknown strain of bacteria, subsequently named Legionella, and the species that caused the outbreak was named Legionella pneumophila.[37][38]" And here is the link to the Encyclopedia Brittanica article on the disease: https://www.britannica.com/sci...'