> whether a world without iPads or iPods would be any different. I never would have succeeded as a supplier of feminine hygiene products if it weren't for pad casting.
What part of "found no evidence" do you not understand?
“It also appears that one senior NOAA employee possibly thwarted the release of important federal scientific information for the public to assess and analyze,” he said, referring to an employee’s failure to provide material
The "he" in your quote refers to Senator James Inhofe, who requested the inquiry. That this partisan found something he thought to "appear" fishy somewhere in a pile of 1073 emails is unremarkable, and does little to contradict the science.
If Muller's article in Technology Review tells a "joke", here is a comeback:
MM05 [McIntyre and McKitrick] claim that the reconstruction using only the first 2 PCs with their convention is significantly different to MBH98. Since PC 3,4 and 5 (at least) are also significant they are leaving out good data. It is mathematically wrong to retain the same number of PCs if the convention of standardization is changed. In this case, it causes a loss of information that is very easily demonstrated.
The state of the art in Climatology may be horribly wrong, but quoting politicians and skewering scientists who bumbled an FOIA request is not going to correct the science.
> The real issue is how much of that is man made. Looking forward, I'd say the real issue is what mankind can do to avoid/mitigate any catastrophic changes.
> If employees end up leaving as a result, then they probably weren't great employees anyway Yes, all the rats who are abandoning the ship are clearly unfit.
"Non-profit" doesn't preclude extravagant pay or egotistical motivations. Janitorial services and Production can be contracted out, so the "lowest paid employee" could be an engineer making $100K.
The real solution is for The People to quit being terrified of boogeymen and start to use their brains. (A guy can dream, can't he?)
William never published any of his plays. We read his plays today only because his fellow actors John Hemminges and Henry Condell, posthumously recorded his work as a dedication to their fellow actor in 1623, publishing 36 of William’s plays. This collection known as The First Folio is the source from which all published Shakespeare books are derived and is an important proof that he authored his plays.
His poetry, however, he did publish
The Great Bard suffered breech of copyright. In 1609, many of his sonnets were published without the bard’s permission.
> Copyright and patent lawvare all about making sure the people who did the work That may be true for copyright, but patents don't require that the product exist. Lots of patents are about ideas the patent holder could never create.
> you should be embarrassed to quote that tripe from the UN. I've done worse.
> if you can provide it for yourself on a deserted island, it's a natural right. First off, I love this cogent definition. Thanks.
But few of us are on a deserted island. Once an island is densely populated, I'm not sure the same freedoms are possible. Land isn't free for the taking, nor are fruit, seafood, or building materials. Our lives are tangled up with family, friends, and co-workers, who all expect each other to do things for the sake of each other.
The vast majority of resources is posessed by relatively few, who don't tend to share voluntarily. If their wealth is traced back far enough, it almost certainly got into their hands or a predecessor's by corruption, violence, or force. Yet now keeping it is their right, and letting them freely enjoy their wealth apparently is our duty.
So the pure philosophy may be great, but I see no fair, practical standard for a world crowded with 7 billion souls. The UN tripe seems more practical than constitutionally mandating deserted island standards of freedom to residents of downtown Manhattan.
> Where are all of these "human rights" listed, and who gets to update the list? The post you replied to has that answer - the DUHR. The "list" is maintained by the United Nations.
And the USA was not the first to create satellite communication technology.
> "how do I keep it in orbit... with hardly any fuel left over?". Switch to auxiliary power.
> "how do I... move it to a graveyard orbit later Newton's 3rd law. Jettison the fuel tank towards the gravity well. With any luck the tank will burn up in re-entry. Maybe it'll even take with it some of that "space debris", like the ISS and stuff.
Is there some objective standard that we can mathematically derive, or some deterministic algorithm we can apply?
Or is there some global authority that makes the list? Well, it just so happens that the United Nations had a go at listing human rights, and in 1948 issued its "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" (DUHR). Here are some excerpts:
Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 21
2. Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
Article 26
1. Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
Article 27
1. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
Maybe it's not much of a stretch to say internet access should be available to everybody.
> it isn't about whether they are still in use, but whether they still exist in any form Ah, so there's the problem. What target are we aiming at? How do we define the death of a tool?
Here are the definitions/descriptions I found in TFA: 1) "no species of technology that have ever gone globally extinct" 2) "any [invention, tool, technology] that has disappeared completely from Earth" 3) "a tool, an invention that is no longer being made anywhere by anybody" 4) "technology that has disappeared completely"
If something has "disappeared completely", we don't know about it. The game is rigged. By definition.
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Option c: the snippet extracted doesn't tell the whole story.
Specifically, the reason this is "beyond the theoretical limit" is because they
have created a microscope which [beats] the diffraction limit of light ... by combining an optical microscope with a transparent microsphere
Unless it wasn't your boss that was late...
Why the confusion, dear editor? This should be well understood.
If you want to recover, you can't. If you want to erase, you can't. It's Murphy's Law of Data Storage.
You probably have a point about evolution.
But I would think that catastrophes like floods, fires, and pestilences that decimate or destroy entire peoples are actually pretty biblical.
> whether a world without iPads or iPods would be any different.
I never would have succeeded as a supplier of feminine hygiene products if it weren't for pad casting.
I'm not sure I follow your logic, but
ooh look, something shiny
What part of "found no evidence" do you not understand?
“It also appears that one senior NOAA employee possibly thwarted the release of important federal scientific information for the public to assess and analyze,” he said, referring to an employee’s failure to provide material
The "he" in your quote refers to Senator James Inhofe, who requested the inquiry. That this partisan found something he thought to "appear" fishy somewhere in a pile of 1073 emails is unremarkable, and does little to contradict the science.
If Muller's article in Technology Review tells a "joke", here is a comeback:
MM05 [McIntyre and McKitrick] claim that the reconstruction using only the first 2 PCs with their convention is significantly different to MBH98. Since PC 3,4 and 5 (at least) are also significant they are leaving out good data. It is mathematically wrong to retain the same number of PCs if the convention of standardization is changed. In this case, it causes a loss of information that is very easily demonstrated.
The state of the art in Climatology may be horribly wrong, but quoting politicians and skewering scientists who bumbled an FOIA request is not going to correct the science.
> The real issue is how much of that is man made.
Looking forward, I'd say the real issue is what mankind can do to avoid/mitigate any catastrophic changes.
> If employees end up leaving as a result, then they probably weren't great employees anyway
Yes, all the rats who are abandoning the ship are clearly unfit.
"Non-profit" doesn't preclude extravagant pay or egotistical motivations. Janitorial services and Production can be contracted out, so the "lowest paid employee" could be an engineer making $100K.
The real solution is for The People to quit being terrified of boogeymen and start to use their brains. (A guy can dream, can't he?)
Shakespeare was a playwright. His principal medium was not paper, but the stage.
http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/facts/facts.htm
William never published any of his plays. We read his plays today only because his fellow actors John Hemminges and Henry Condell, posthumously recorded his work as a dedication to their fellow actor in 1623, publishing 36 of William’s plays. This collection known as The First Folio is the source from which all published Shakespeare books are derived and is an important proof that he authored his plays.
His poetry, however, he did publish
The Great Bard suffered breech of copyright. In 1609, many of his sonnets were published without the bard’s permission.
> Copyright and patent lawvare all about making sure the people who did the work
That may be true for copyright, but patents don't require that the product exist. Lots of patents are about ideas the patent holder could never create.
> that lets them tap the wire.
Hence the encryption.
> you should be embarrassed to quote that tripe from the UN.
I've done worse.
> if you can provide it for yourself on a deserted island, it's a natural right.
First off, I love this cogent definition. Thanks.
But few of us are on a deserted island. Once an island is densely populated, I'm not sure the same freedoms are possible. Land isn't free for the taking, nor are fruit, seafood, or building materials. Our lives are tangled up with family, friends, and co-workers, who all expect each other to do things for the sake of each other.
The vast majority of resources is posessed by relatively few, who don't tend to share voluntarily. If their wealth is traced back far enough, it almost certainly got into their hands or a predecessor's by corruption, violence, or force. Yet now keeping it is their right, and letting them freely enjoy their wealth apparently is our duty.
So the pure philosophy may be great, but I see no fair, practical standard for a world crowded with 7 billion souls. The UN tripe seems more practical than constitutionally mandating deserted island standards of freedom to residents of downtown Manhattan.
> Where are all of these "human rights" listed, and who gets to update the list?
The post you replied to has that answer - the DUHR. The "list" is maintained by the United Nations.
And the USA was not the first to create satellite communication technology.
If taxpayers were footing the bill, I don't think they'd need to raise money.
And I'm not sure "human property" is a basic right. ;)
> "how do I keep it in orbit ... with hardly any fuel left over?".
Switch to auxiliary power.
> "how do I... move it to a graveyard orbit later
Newton's 3rd law. Jettison the fuel tank towards the gravity well. With any luck the tank will burn up in re-entry. Maybe it'll even take with it some of that "space debris", like the ISS and stuff.
Then sue the sharer for the cost of lost sales in the intergalactic market.
Who says it is not "a human right"?
Is there some objective standard that we can mathematically derive, or some deterministic algorithm we can apply?
Or is there some global authority that makes the list? Well, it just so happens that the United Nations had a go at listing human rights, and in 1948 issued its "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" (DUHR). Here are some excerpts:
Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 21
2. Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
Article 26
1. Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
Article 27
1. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
Maybe it's not much of a stretch to say internet access should be available to everybody.
The world mourned, and was left with only egg nog.
> People who do this sort of thing are rare.
Peacemakers are not rare at all. They're just less famous than the war-mongers.
> The Nobel Peace Prize means absolutely nothing now
Either you don't know what "absolute" means, or "absolute" means absolutely nothing now.
"Seized" is ICE's term, not GP. What GP explained is that their business site was replaced with a big nasty sign about them being criminals.
If it's "pursuant to a warrant", ICE may as well post the warrant too.
> it isn't about whether they are still in use, but whether they still exist in any form
Ah, so there's the problem. What target are we aiming at? How do we define the death of a tool?
Here are the definitions/descriptions I found in TFA:
1) "no species of technology that have ever gone globally extinct"
2) "any [invention, tool, technology] that has disappeared completely from Earth"
3) "a tool, an invention that is no longer being made anywhere by anybody"
4) "technology that has disappeared completely"
If something has "disappeared completely", we don't know about it. The game is rigged. By definition.
Seems like human/animal sacrifices would have been done with blades.
I'm thinking/hoping most medieval torture devices have fallen out of use.