*better, not bitter. Alternatively, we could complete the fragment: "The performance of the web site should get better in a while. Visitors from slashdot should only be bitter for while."
I doubt there's any reliable data on earthquakes from the 1700's.
Thank you.
There is no reason to doubt the actual occurrence of the listed events in the 1700s: they really happened and the dates are well established. Granted the magnitudes are educated guesses, but these megaquakes left a significant trail in the geological record. Your doubt more likely rests on the possibility there were unrecorded megaquakes that snuck by without notice. I personally doubt that megaquakes would have gone unrecorded after 1750 (when sunspot records began) anywhere on the planet except Antarctica or the mid-Atlantic rift. Someone should've taken notice - whether by empire-building Europeans in Australia, New Zealand, the Americas, South Africa, India, Hispaniola,... or by resident cultures in quake and / or tsunami prone areas like Turkey, Pakistan, Hawaii, Indonesia, Japan, China, India, Korea, Kamchatka, the Aleutian Islands and such. But allowing the possibility of a megaquake sneaking by without shaking or swamping anybody, the seismometer was well refined and widely distributed by the late 1800s. There is no plausible case for "missing megaquakes" after 1890. Even when the starting point of the analysis is moved to that decade, the point remains unchanged: an unusual cluster of 8.5+ earthquakes has occurred since 2004.
With regard to the apparent preference for megaquakes to occur during solar minima, I would not toss the data going back to 1750. There is no plausible selection bias for preferentially observing and recording 8.5+ quakes that favors those that occur during solar minima over those that occur at other periods.
There have been FIVE magnitude 8.5 or greater mega-quakes since 2004. This seems odd since there have only been two dozen of these bad boys since the 1700s.
Hmmmm. We're just coming out of the deepest solar minimum in the last century or more. Wonder if other mega-quakes happened around solar minima? Yup. November 1755 (Lisbon), November 1833 (Sumatra), August 1868 (Arica Peru), November 1922 (Valenar Chile), March 1964 (Prince William Sound Alaska), February 1965 (Rat Islands Alaska). Could there be a link between the solar cycle and plate techtonics? Think interplanetary magnetic fields and remember that we're riding big plates that float on a molten spinning magnet.
Step 1: Get a list of reaaallly big quakes since the 1700s. 8.5+. The interplate kind, not the run-of-the-mill intraplate stuff. You can find a list here. Or get a fuller list of historical quakes at usgs.gov.
Step 2: Get the monthly sunspot numbers since records were kept. The Royal Observatory of Belgium has a data set here.
Step 3: Note the correlation between mega quakes and low sunspot numbers. The median sunspot number is 47, the median sunspot number at the time of 8.5+ quakes is 23. (Same when you move the hurdle down to 8.3+ and include a lot more earthquakes) Make an x-y scatter plot in OpenOffice Calc or MS-Excel. Visually note how many occur within a few months of solar minimum.
Step 4: Recall that the next solar minimum is due in ten years.
The motion picture INDUSTRY cranks out product art too. Green screens and CGI abound. But Hollywood puts on better self-congratulatory award shows. Sometimes.
Just in case... what minearl would you want to have in plentiful supply near your new nuclear reactor? How about galena. The raw mineral form of LEAD should absorb a few screaming subatomic particles. I think Galena, Alaska is a terrific place for this project.
My heart sunk when I clicked on the second link... it lead to a junk engineering article in the Wall Street Journal. Where would I go for an unbiased engineering assessment of "redundancy and good planning"? Technology Review, New Scientist, even Wired... anywhere but the homepage of Rupert Murdoch's cadre of shills for corporate interests. He makes such brilliant observations as "water doesn't burn." No, it evaportates. Next, it dissociates in the presence of heat and certain catalysts like the zirconium cladding of fuel rods... and then it EXPLODES.
"holding individuals at a company accountable for certain protections has worked with environmental regulations and Sarbanes-Oxley"
Sure. Ask all those shareholders left holding the bag of excrement at Lehman Brothers, Countrywide Financial, GMAC, Wachovia, CitiBank,... even though the SarbOx forms were filled out and signed by the respective CEO (not one of which has been "held accountable").
This whole thing smells of situation ethics. Is discrimination on the basis of {gender} the right thing to do? Certainly: when {gender A} requests the exclusion of {gender B} it is okay. However when {gender B} requests the exclusion of {gender A} it is clearly evil. Why? To grok that, we have to consider the entire social, political, economic, religious, and cultural heritage with their interwoven sensibilities, sensitivities, and non-sequiturs.
I call bullsnap.
This whole thing smells of situation ethics. Is discrimination on the basis of the right thing to do? Certainly when requests the exclusion of it is okay. However when requests the exclusion of it is clearly evil. Why? To grok that, we have to consider the entire social, political, economic, religious, and cultural heritage with their interwoven sensibilities, sensitivities, and non-sequiturs.
Make that "a disheveled computer geek who smelled as if he hadn't bathed in days..." I've always thought that Swedish women had better taste than this. According to the NY Times' Eric Schmitt: “He was alert but disheveled, like a bag lady walking in off the street, wearing a dingy, light-colored sport coat and cargo pants, dirty white shirt, beat-up sneakers and filthy white socks that collapsed around his ankles. He smelled as if he hadn’t bathed in days.”
Women dominate in certain fields of endeavor and it is generally accepted that the female brain is wired for social interaction. Men routinely dominate Jeopardy's Tournament of Champions. Perhaps there is something in the wiring of the male brain that favors the accumulation of arcane bits of knowledge. If so, then forcing gender balance in Wkipedia makes about as much sense as forcing gender balance in the LaLeche League.
Proportional to which value? Patents are a temporary barrier to entry that give inventors a head start as an incentive to toil away. Compulsory licensing reduces the incentive. With infinite competition, the value is the marginal cost. With no competition, the value is the price that maximizes "monopoly rents." As a result, licensing diminishes value.
Possible solutions? Replace long usernames in the menu with either the numeric id or something generic like "User Info" or "About You". You could also simply drop this link from the menu entirely... the same link is already in the sitewide header.
Every chemist knows that pure ethanol is odorless and every reputable reference book describes it that way. And yet the wikipedia article on ethanoI to this day describes ethanol as having "a strong characteristic odor." I have tried to correct this obvious error but my edits are quickly reversed. Perhaps this is a small internet hoax that is being perpetuated so police can continue to attest that the "smell of alcohol" was on drunk drivers' breath? (That smell actually is from aldehydes and esters produced when ethanol is broken down in the liver.)
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Should get bitter in a while.
*better, not bitter. Alternatively, we could complete the fragment: "The performance of the web site should get better in a while. Visitors from slashdot should only be bitter for while."
I doubt there's any reliable data on earthquakes from the 1700's.
Thank you.
There is no reason to doubt the actual occurrence of the listed events in the 1700s: they really happened and the dates are well established. Granted the magnitudes are educated guesses, but these megaquakes left a significant trail in the geological record. Your doubt more likely rests on the possibility there were unrecorded megaquakes that snuck by without notice. I personally doubt that megaquakes would have gone unrecorded after 1750 (when sunspot records began) anywhere on the planet except Antarctica or the mid-Atlantic rift. Someone should've taken notice - whether by empire-building Europeans in Australia, New Zealand, the Americas, South Africa, India, Hispaniola, ... or by resident cultures in quake and / or tsunami prone areas like Turkey, Pakistan, Hawaii, Indonesia, Japan, China, India, Korea, Kamchatka, the Aleutian Islands and such. But allowing the possibility of a megaquake sneaking by without shaking or swamping anybody, the seismometer was well refined and widely distributed by the late 1800s. There is no plausible case for "missing megaquakes" after 1890. Even when the starting point of the analysis is moved to that decade, the point remains unchanged: an unusual cluster of 8.5+ earthquakes has occurred since 2004.
With regard to the apparent preference for megaquakes to occur during solar minima, I would not toss the data going back to 1750. There is no plausible selection bias for preferentially observing and recording 8.5+ quakes that favors those that occur during solar minima over those that occur at other periods.
There have been FIVE magnitude 8.5 or greater mega-quakes since 2004. This seems odd since there have only been two dozen of these bad boys since the 1700s.
Hmmmm. We're just coming out of the deepest solar minimum in the last century or more. Wonder if other mega-quakes happened around solar minima? Yup. November 1755 (Lisbon), November 1833 (Sumatra), August 1868 (Arica Peru), November 1922 (Valenar Chile), March 1964 (Prince William Sound Alaska), February 1965 (Rat Islands Alaska). Could there be a link between the solar cycle and plate techtonics? Think interplanetary magnetic fields and remember that we're riding big plates that float on a molten spinning magnet.
Step 1: Get a list of reaaallly big quakes since the 1700s. 8.5+. The interplate kind, not the run-of-the-mill intraplate stuff. You can find a list here. Or get a fuller list of historical quakes at usgs.gov.
Step 2: Get the monthly sunspot numbers since records were kept. The Royal Observatory of Belgium has a data set here.
Step 3: Note the correlation between mega quakes and low sunspot numbers. The median sunspot number is 47, the median sunspot number at the time of 8.5+ quakes is 23. (Same when you move the hurdle down to 8.3+ and include a lot more earthquakes) Make an x-y scatter plot in OpenOffice Calc or MS-Excel. Visually note how many occur within a few months of solar minimum.
Step 4: Recall that the next solar minimum is due in ten years.
Steps 5-9: ...
Step 10: Profit!
The motion picture INDUSTRY cranks out product art too. Green screens and CGI abound. But Hollywood puts on better self-congratulatory award shows. Sometimes.
Just in case ... what minearl would you want to have in plentiful supply near your new nuclear reactor? How about galena. The raw mineral form of LEAD should absorb a few screaming subatomic particles. I think Galena, Alaska is a terrific place for this project.
My heart sunk when I clicked on the second link ... it lead to a junk engineering article in the Wall Street Journal. Where would I go for an unbiased engineering assessment of "redundancy and good planning"? Technology Review, New Scientist, even Wired ... anywhere but the homepage of Rupert Murdoch's cadre of shills for corporate interests. He makes such brilliant observations as "water doesn't burn." No, it evaportates. Next, it dissociates in the presence of heat and certain catalysts like the zirconium cladding of fuel rods ... and then it EXPLODES.
"Never mind who we are. Your telescope is now classified Top Secret. Hand it over."
Make that 70% of our base.
Build teleconference virus to call 1-900 number that charges $$$ per minute
Deploy to 150,000 devices
PROFIT!!
In communist China, expensive phone number calls you.
Sorry, I couldn't stop myself.
Sure. Ask all those shareholders left holding the bag of excrement at Lehman Brothers, Countrywide Financial, GMAC, Wachovia, CitiBank, ... even though the SarbOx forms were filled out and signed by the respective CEO (not one of which has been "held accountable").
This whole thing smells of situation ethics. Is discrimination on the basis of {gender} the right thing to do? Certainly: when {gender A} requests the exclusion of {gender B} it is okay. However when {gender B} requests the exclusion of {gender A} it is clearly evil. Why? To grok that, we have to consider the entire social, political, economic, religious, and cultural heritage with their interwoven sensibilities, sensitivities, and non-sequiturs. I call bullsnap.
I call bullsnap.
A slashdot member posted in 2005 (almost six years ago) that he was using a LinkSys router for an ipV6 trial.
Make that "a disheveled computer geek who smelled as if he hadn't bathed in days ..." I've always thought that Swedish women had better taste than this. According to the NY Times' Eric Schmitt: “He was alert but disheveled, like a bag lady walking in off the street, wearing a dingy, light-colored sport coat and cargo pants, dirty white shirt, beat-up sneakers and filthy white socks that collapsed around his ankles. He smelled as if he hadn’t bathed in days.”
Women dominate in certain fields of endeavor and it is generally accepted that the female brain is wired for social interaction. Men routinely dominate Jeopardy's Tournament of Champions. Perhaps there is something in the wiring of the male brain that favors the accumulation of arcane bits of knowledge. If so, then forcing gender balance in Wkipedia makes about as much sense as forcing gender balance in the LaLeche League.
So what happens when hundreds of gallons per minute are spewed at high velocity directly downward into a less-than-fully-stable watercraft?
I used to attend as a zombie. Especially those 8 am classes in Differential Equations.
Proportional to which value? Patents are a temporary barrier to entry that give inventors a head start as an incentive to toil away. Compulsory licensing reduces the incentive. With infinite competition, the value is the marginal cost. With no competition, the value is the price that maximizes "monopoly rents." As a result, licensing diminishes value.
Possible solutions? Replace long usernames in the menu with either the numeric id or something generic like "User Info" or "About You". You could also simply drop this link from the menu entirely ... the same link is already in the sitewide header.
rome browser (8.0.552.237) running on Win7 Ultimate.
e menu on the left side is too wide and cuts off the main panel.
rhaps my username has more characters than you expected?
It appears that putting working links in slashdot posts is non-trivial.
...as well as his roommate Leonard Hofstadter and friends Howard Wolowitz, and Raj Koothrappali.
Every chemist knows that pure ethanol is odorless and every reputable reference book describes it that way. And yet the wikipedia article on ethanoI to this day describes ethanol as having "a strong characteristic odor." I have tried to correct this obvious error but my edits are quickly reversed. Perhaps this is a small internet hoax that is being perpetuated so police can continue to attest that the "smell of alcohol" was on drunk drivers' breath? (That smell actually is from aldehydes and esters produced when ethanol is broken down in the liver.)
Antisemitics: "[Jews] are [feeding on our babies' blood] and must be eradicated."
AntiFOSSes: "[Open Source developers] are [putting back doors into our computers] and must be eradicated."