I read recently that 2 nuclear plants were canceled in Ontario because of the cost. It was going to cost $10,800 per kilowatt to build the plants. Don't know if that's USD or CND.
I heard on the radio (so it must be true) that MADD complained about the beer summit where the President met with Gates & Crowley and they had a beer. Apparently MADD said it set a bad example for our young people for them to be drinking beer on the back porch. A bit over the top IMHO.
According to the latest measurements I've seen water vapor is 26% to 70% of the greenhouse effect, and CO2 is 9-26%. It varies across the surface of the planet at any particular time due to local atmospheric conditions. For example in low humidity conditions CO2 will be a larger part of the total greenhouse effect than it will be in high humidity conditions.
Yes, correlation does imply causation. Just because the CO2 lagged temperature increases in prehistoric times for the past megayear doesn't mean artificially increasing it can't lead to temperature increases. It's not an either/or thing. What makes you think it is?
The day length (one sunrise to the next) on Venus is 116.75 Earth days. Interestingly it takes 243 Earth days to rotate a full 360. That's more than a Venusian year (224.7 days)!
Anyway, that long a day would be tough to adapt to. You'd essential have a year in 117 days with very hot summers and very cold winters. But I had a thought that you put a very large mirror in a 24 hour orbit around Venus so as it passes in front of the Sun it provides a simulated night on the sunlit side (I did say very large) and as it passes around to the dark side the elements of the mirror are tilted to provide a simulated day. It might work.
Dogs are like children. You can't leave them on their own for too long without bad things happening.
Cats OTOH can take care of themselves. If I'm going to be gone for a week on vacation I can put out enough food and water and an extra litter box and they won't have destroyed the house while I'm gone (other than coughing up a hairball or two).
With at dog I either have to take it with me or find some other place for it to stay while I'm gone.
Due to natural variability the rate of increase/decrease in sea ice area in any particular period is not particularly meaningful unless the data is used as part of a long term trend. If you set an ice extent minimum record you almost have to be close to a record in area increase that year because the Arctic Ocean will freeze up to the shore again over the winter (in most years anyway) and there's more area to freeze up. More useful information is the ice extent minimum in September of each year and the minimum volume (area * thickness).
Yeah but you are "fucking stupid" enough to believe that the scientists investigating this are stupid enough to have totally missed the problem and took no actions to compensate for the effect.
So what does your Judeo-Christian definition of marriage say about Muslim weddings or Hindu weddings, Wiccan weddings or any number of other religions weddings? What does it have to say about marriages performed by religious orders that are willing to marry gay couples?
This isn't about some definition of marriage. It's about the responsibilities and rights that governments grant committed couples such as inheritance, hospital visitation, medical decision authority, the ability to file joint tax returns and something like 1000 others. Why should those things be denied to committed gay couples? Maybe government should stay out of it but it couldn't and still grant those rights. In a sense any government sanctioned marriage is really a civil union anyway. You can get married by a justice of the peace with no mention of anything religious in nature.
Incest is illegal mainly because of the dangers of inbreeding. Marriages with minors and animals are illegal because they aren't considered legally competent to sign the marriage contract. None of that is an issue in gay marriages.
Who said all relationships are the same as marriage? I certainly haven't. I just don't see why two gay people who have formed a pair bond shouldn't have access to the same civil responsibilities and rights as a straight couple who have formed a pair bond. In what way does that affect your other "96%" and their marriages?
If you're concerned about mercury in the environment then you should be trying to shut down coal fired power plants. 40% of US emissions of mercury come from burning fossil fuels.
You know, you keep bringing it up but I don't see what incest has to do with gay marriage. In terms of a government granted marriage license; all it is is a contract that defines certain responsibilities and rights between the people involved and between them and the government authorities. You don't have to get religious approval to get married. I just don't see why gay couples shouldn't be able to participate in that civic institution. I don't see anyone trying to force religious institutions to perform marriages they don't approve of and I believe it would be unconstitutional to do that.
I heard on the news today that the Australian Weather Service decided to stop calling it a drought because using the word drought implies it will end at some point and they don't see this ending anytime soon.
The R's knew they were going to lose in 2008 by too large a margin to safely get away with rigging the election so they didn't try. Maybe they should have tried in Minnesota (Coleman vs. Franken).
I know perfectly well how to use a computer but if this was an election I could vote in I would have refused to use any balloting system that doesn't produce a hardcopy ballot that I could hold in my hand and personally verify. Voting is too important (although maybe not in this particular election for a neighborhood association) to allow use of a method that is so easily hacked. If I was in this jurisdiction I would file suit to force them to prove that the voting was secure, capable of being accurately counted and recounted and private. No voting over phone lines or the internet can be guaranteed to be private unless perhaps you're using NSA level encryption devices on both ends and even then I'd be suspicious.
You're right, the Chinese are not happy with them but that's a far cry from supporting an invasion. But I don't think the N. Koreans are so crazy that they don't realize if they actually used a nuclear weapon in an offensive manner they would be bringing a world of hurt down on themselves either.
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I read recently that 2 nuclear plants were canceled in Ontario because of the cost. It was going to cost $10,800 per kilowatt to build the plants. Don't know if that's USD or CND.
I heard on the radio (so it must be true) that MADD complained about the beer summit where the President met with Gates & Crowley and they had a beer. Apparently MADD said it set a bad example for our young people for them to be drinking beer on the back porch. A bit over the top IMHO.
And where do you get your nuggets of knowledge?
According to the latest measurements I've seen water vapor is 26% to 70% of the greenhouse effect, and CO2 is 9-26%. It varies across the surface of the planet at any particular time due to local atmospheric conditions. For example in low humidity conditions CO2 will be a larger part of the total greenhouse effect than it will be in high humidity conditions.
Yes, correlation does imply causation. Just because the CO2 lagged temperature increases in prehistoric times for the past megayear doesn't mean artificially increasing it can't lead to temperature increases. It's not an either/or thing. What makes you think it is?
Actually estuaries are among the most productive of marine environments.
The day length (one sunrise to the next) on Venus is 116.75 Earth days. Interestingly it takes 243 Earth days to rotate a full 360. That's more than a Venusian year (224.7 days)!
Anyway, that long a day would be tough to adapt to. You'd essential have a year in 117 days with very hot summers and very cold winters. But I had a thought that you put a very large mirror in a 24 hour orbit around Venus so as it passes in front of the Sun it provides a simulated night on the sunlit side (I did say very large) and as it passes around to the dark side the elements of the mirror are tilted to provide a simulated day. It might work.
Actually all cat can purr but the big cats (lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars) can only purr while exhaling.
Dogs are like children. You can't leave them on their own for too long without bad things happening.
Cats OTOH can take care of themselves. If I'm going to be gone for a week on vacation I can put out enough food and water and an extra litter box and they won't have destroyed the house while I'm gone (other than coughing up a hairball or two).
With at dog I either have to take it with me or find some other place for it to stay while I'm gone.
It's kind of like how otherwise rational slashdotters believe climate change is a hoax.
Due to natural variability the rate of increase/decrease in sea ice area in any particular period is not particularly meaningful unless the data is used as part of a long term trend. If you set an ice extent minimum record you almost have to be close to a record in area increase that year because the Arctic Ocean will freeze up to the shore again over the winter (in most years anyway) and there's more area to freeze up. More useful information is the ice extent minimum in September of each year and the minimum volume (area * thickness).
Didn't Atlanta already try to privatize their water system with rather poor results?
Watch any political speech.
And if they're on the opposite sides of a ridge there may be little correlation between them.
Yeah but you are "fucking stupid" enough to believe that the scientists investigating this are stupid enough to have totally missed the problem and took no actions to compensate for the effect.
So what does your Judeo-Christian definition of marriage say about Muslim weddings or Hindu weddings, Wiccan weddings or any number of other religions weddings? What does it have to say about marriages performed by religious orders that are willing to marry gay couples?
This isn't about some definition of marriage. It's about the responsibilities and rights that governments grant committed couples such as inheritance, hospital visitation, medical decision authority, the ability to file joint tax returns and something like 1000 others. Why should those things be denied to committed gay couples? Maybe government should stay out of it but it couldn't and still grant those rights. In a sense any government sanctioned marriage is really a civil union anyway. You can get married by a justice of the peace with no mention of anything religious in nature.
Incest is illegal mainly because of the dangers of inbreeding. Marriages with minors and animals are illegal because they aren't considered legally competent to sign the marriage contract. None of that is an issue in gay marriages.
Who said all relationships are the same as marriage? I certainly haven't. I just don't see why two gay people who have formed a pair bond shouldn't have access to the same civil responsibilities and rights as a straight couple who have formed a pair bond. In what way does that affect your other "96%" and their marriages?
If you're concerned about mercury in the environment then you should be trying to shut down coal fired power plants. 40% of US emissions of mercury come from burning fossil fuels.
You know, you keep bringing it up but I don't see what incest has to do with gay marriage. In terms of a government granted marriage license; all it is is a contract that defines certain responsibilities and rights between the people involved and between them and the government authorities. You don't have to get religious approval to get married. I just don't see why gay couples shouldn't be able to participate in that civic institution. I don't see anyone trying to force religious institutions to perform marriages they don't approve of and I believe it would be unconstitutional to do that.
I heard on the news today that the Australian Weather Service decided to stop calling it a drought because using the word drought implies it will end at some point and they don't see this ending anytime soon.
Give the Pelosi jet thing a rest. As Speaker of the House she is third in line for the Presidency. The Secret Service won't let her fly commercial.
Yeah but the presidential election was in 2008. 2007 was an off year election.
If it was me I would have refused to use such an insecure, hackable method of voting and would have demanded a paper ballot.
The R's knew they were going to lose in 2008 by too large a margin to safely get away with rigging the election so they didn't try. Maybe they should have tried in Minnesota (Coleman vs. Franken).
I know perfectly well how to use a computer but if this was an election I could vote in I would have refused to use any balloting system that doesn't produce a hardcopy ballot that I could hold in my hand and personally verify. Voting is too important (although maybe not in this particular election for a neighborhood association) to allow use of a method that is so easily hacked. If I was in this jurisdiction I would file suit to force them to prove that the voting was secure, capable of being accurately counted and recounted and private. No voting over phone lines or the internet can be guaranteed to be private unless perhaps you're using NSA level encryption devices on both ends and even then I'd be suspicious.
You're right, the Chinese are not happy with them but that's a far cry from supporting an invasion. But I don't think the N. Koreans are so crazy that they don't realize if they actually used a nuclear weapon in an offensive manner they would be bringing a world of hurt down on themselves either.
The only way that has a chance of working is if China is in on the invasion. If they're supporting the N. Koreans it doesn't stand a chance.