No, there are plenty on the right wing that educate themselves as well. For example Kerry Emanuel and Katherine Hayhoe. But they don't have much power in the arena of right wing politics.
You know, when you start bringing up money in a scientific controversy like global warming it usually leads me to think your opinion on the science is more influenced by your economic ideology than any real science.
The critical phrase there is "... less than natural daily variation in some locations." Get back to me when you have evidence that ocean acidification across the whole ocean is not an issue.
You didn't fix anything. The global temperatures hit a maximum about 8,000 years ago during the Holocene Climate Optimum and have in general been slowly cooling since then... until the past century. Ice caps had reached a point of relatively stable equilibrium since the end of the last glaciation, probably growing a bit since the HCO.
Not all arctic ice is floating in the sea. There is the Greenland ice sheet and many of the other islands around the arctic have lesser ice sheets. The estimates are that if all of the ice sheet on Greenland were to melt sea level would rise approximately 20 feet.
I'm pretty much with you on what you say but I'm not aware of any climate models that attempt to predict phenomena like El Nino (or any number of other phenomena that work on decadal or shorter scales). Most climate modeling is done on a 30 year moving average which means the El Nino/La Nina cycles basically cancel each other out and they can use the average of the cycle.
I had a calculus tutor in high school, he was retired and had to have been at least 70, but he was brilliant and his analytical skills don't seem to have declined at all.
I would expect that the amount you exercise your brain, and how healthy you eat/exercise, plays a big role.
I'm pushing 60 and have noticed that my cognitive abilities have declined. I'm still just as good with stuff I have learned as I used to be, I haven't forgot much. What is declining is the speed that I can learn new stuff. It's takes me more work and time now to pick up on new concepts than it used to.
So I'm not surprised that your calculus tutor is brilliant in a field he's been working in all of his life and perhaps he is one of those exceptional people who don't decline like most but sometimes it's the exception that proves the rule.
I've never seen a keyboard cover that's as easy to use as just a plain keyboard. Also it's better to have continuous cleaning. Apparently the keyboard retracts into its UV lit box whenever it is not in use. Waving your hand over it causes the keyboard to pop back out. If they start selling the price will probably come way down. Under $200 a pop I imagine. Still expensive but affordable in the right situations.
It makes sense that these are meant for hospitals. Anything that can be done to improve the sanitation there is a good thing.
I've been using the same keyboard for over 10 years now. I shudder to think how germy it is. Mostly I just turn it upside down and whack it to get the Cheetos crumbs out. Occasionally I use alcohol to clean off the grime, looks like it's about time to do it again.
Damn, when I first read the headline I thought it said they were going to use VMS, one of the most secure OS's out there. Sounded like a good idea.
As others have said I find it astounding that that there would be customer data stored on an ATM. Perhaps they store a transaction log of some sort as an auditing tool.
I think the difference between left & right is more a matter of what they want to control more than whether they want to control peoples lives. The right wants to control your private life while the left wants to control your public life.
The problem with your disdain of scientists is that all of our modern technology is an outgrowth of scientific research. Engineering after all is just applied science. Science, especially the leading edge science, doesn't always have a clear ending leading to benefits. Often you can't tell until you have gained the knowledge. It's kind of like a photographer might take several hundred photographs to get 10 that are worth keeping but in the end it's worth it.
Watch out who you're calling a layabout. I first payed federal income taxes in about 1965. I own my own home, paid for by myself. My wealth and effort helps support this country.
Another guy who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. I pay taxes so some of my money went into the GRAIL satellites and I have no problem with that.
If we listened to guys like you this would be a poorer world for it. Not all value in monetary. What is the value of information? It really is the source of all other value.
Anyway, the time to complain about the cost was at the start of the project in 2006. The project cost around $500 million. All that money was spent here on Earth paying the wages of the guys who built the satellites and rocket and the people who supplied them. If you're worried about the deficit the first thing to look at is the fact that we spend on much on the military as the next 15+ countries combined.and half of those are allies. The US spends 43% of all money spent on the military in the world.
You may well be right. Exactly when humans arrived in the Americas is pretty fuzzy.
But to the original point it's unlikely that most of the ground under those glaciers has been free of ice in the last 100,000 years if not for more than a million years so there probably aren't any human artifacts under the ice. There may well be some human artifacts within the ice that will become exposed though.
That reminds me of the joke where a guy jumps from the 100th floor of a building and someone asks him as he passes the 50th floor "How are things?" His reply "Couldn't be better!"
The fact is that similar studies have been done in areas where they do have good meteorologic records to validate the the inferences and models that they used. Once you have a good basis for trusting your methods then you can apply them elsewhere.
The real alarmists are the people who say we're going to bankrupt ourselves responding to global warming. Most of the money spent would be the same money we would be spending on non global warming friendly energy anyway. The global warming friendly part just adds maybe 3% from the studies I've seen.
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No, there are plenty on the right wing that educate themselves as well. For example Kerry Emanuel and Katherine Hayhoe. But they don't have much power in the arena of right wing politics.
You know, when you start bringing up money in a scientific controversy like global warming it usually leads me to think your opinion on the science is more influenced by your economic ideology than any real science.
The critical phrase there is "... less than natural daily variation in some locations." Get back to me when you have evidence that ocean acidification across the whole ocean is not an issue.
You didn't fix anything. The global temperatures hit a maximum about 8,000 years ago during the Holocene Climate Optimum and have in general been slowly cooling since then... until the past century. Ice caps had reached a point of relatively stable equilibrium since the end of the last glaciation, probably growing a bit since the HCO.
Not all arctic ice is floating in the sea. There is the Greenland ice sheet and many of the other islands around the arctic have lesser ice sheets. The estimates are that if all of the ice sheet on Greenland were to melt sea level would rise approximately 20 feet.
I'm pretty much with you on what you say but I'm not aware of any climate models that attempt to predict phenomena like El Nino (or any number of other phenomena that work on decadal or shorter scales). Most climate modeling is done on a 30 year moving average which means the El Nino/La Nina cycles basically cancel each other out and they can use the average of the cycle.
I had a calculus tutor in high school, he was retired and had to have been at least 70, but he was brilliant and his analytical skills don't seem to have declined at all.
I would expect that the amount you exercise your brain, and how healthy you eat/exercise, plays a big role.
I'm pushing 60 and have noticed that my cognitive abilities have declined. I'm still just as good with stuff I have learned as I used to be, I haven't forgot much. What is declining is the speed that I can learn new stuff. It's takes me more work and time now to pick up on new concepts than it used to.
So I'm not surprised that your calculus tutor is brilliant in a field he's been working in all of his life and perhaps he is one of those exceptional people who don't decline like most but sometimes it's the exception that proves the rule.
I've never seen a keyboard cover that's as easy to use as just a plain keyboard. Also it's better to have continuous cleaning. Apparently the keyboard retracts into its UV lit box whenever it is not in use. Waving your hand over it causes the keyboard to pop back out. If they start selling the price will probably come way down. Under $200 a pop I imagine. Still expensive but affordable in the right situations.
It makes sense that these are meant for hospitals. Anything that can be done to improve the sanitation there is a good thing.
I've been using the same keyboard for over 10 years now. I shudder to think how germy it is. Mostly I just turn it upside down and whack it to get the Cheetos crumbs out. Occasionally I use alcohol to clean off the grime, looks like it's about time to do it again.
Damn, when I first read the headline I thought it said they were going to use VMS, one of the most secure OS's out there. Sounded like a good idea.
As others have said I find it astounding that that there would be customer data stored on an ATM. Perhaps they store a transaction log of some sort as an auditing tool.
I think the difference between left & right is more a matter of what they want to control more than whether they want to control peoples lives. The right wants to control your private life while the left wants to control your public life.
The problem with your disdain of scientists is that all of our modern technology is an outgrowth of scientific research. Engineering after all is just applied science. Science, especially the leading edge science, doesn't always have a clear ending leading to benefits. Often you can't tell until you have gained the knowledge. It's kind of like a photographer might take several hundred photographs to get 10 that are worth keeping but in the end it's worth it.
What really grinds my gears, though, isn't handicapped spaces. It's those damned hybrid spaces.
Build it and they will come.
Watch out who you're calling a layabout. I first payed federal income taxes in about 1965. I own my own home, paid for by myself. My wealth and effort helps support this country.
Another guy who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. I pay taxes so some of my money went into the GRAIL satellites and I have no problem with that.
LOL No, I probably just submitted it at the wrong time of day and it got passed over because of all the spam that was being submitted.
Sour grapes here. I submitted the story to /. back then but it didn't make it.
What encourages new start-up companies is demand. Taxes have nothing to do with it.
If we listened to guys like you this would be a poorer world for it. Not all value in monetary. What is the value of information? It really is the source of all other value.
Anyway, the time to complain about the cost was at the start of the project in 2006. The project cost around $500 million. All that money was spent here on Earth paying the wages of the guys who built the satellites and rocket and the people who supplied them. If you're worried about the deficit the first thing to look at is the fact that we spend on much on the military as the next 15+ countries combined.and half of those are allies. The US spends 43% of all money spent on the military in the world.
You may well be right. Exactly when humans arrived in the Americas is pretty fuzzy.
But to the original point it's unlikely that most of the ground under those glaciers has been free of ice in the last 100,000 years if not for more than a million years so there probably aren't any human artifacts under the ice. There may well be some human artifacts within the ice that will become exposed though.
Interesting story. Some glaciologists might want to look at your "before and after" photos.
And ironically life has never been better.
That reminds me of the joke where a guy jumps from the 100th floor of a building and someone asks him as he passes the 50th floor "How are things?" His reply "Couldn't be better!"
Now that's an informative comment.
The fact is that similar studies have been done in areas where they do have good meteorologic records to validate the the inferences and models that they used. Once you have a good basis for trusting your methods then you can apply them elsewhere.
The question is not how many people we can squeeze on to the Earth. It's how many can we have and sustain indefinitely into the future.
The real alarmists are the people who say we're going to bankrupt ourselves responding to global warming. Most of the money spent would be the same money we would be spending on non global warming friendly energy anyway. The global warming friendly part just adds maybe 3% from the studies I've seen.