Journalists have a strange way of muddying the waters of studies like this with regards to intent and theory, so I won't make any conclusions as to the validity of the study, but there are a few points that need to be made.
While this study will be informative as to the pathways pollution will take, I'd really like to know how a 1 month venture is going to address something like climate change. Climate change is something that happens over hundreds of years on a very broad scale. Even though Beijing is a very large city, the pollution there (or lack thereof) will have little (if any) measurable effect over a 1 month period.
The Newsweek article also posts some of the theories which are speculated by Scripps as scientific fact when they are to be determined by the article - which has the above problems. I can see validity to studying pollution effects on people and where the pollution goes after it leaves Beijing, but climate change is really a stretch.
Gee, great, because you know most geeks only love computers and don't have diverse interests.
Your statement confuses me. You state a known fact but seem to do it with a sarcastic tone!
Are you saying there's something more to life than dual booting?
Does this seem a bit obvious to anyone
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As pressure increases, boiling point rises for (almost?) any substance.
As heat increases, density decreases due to increased movement of the particles.
Therefore, shouldn't water at the bottom of the ocean have an unusually high boiling point - and water which is heated to near that boiling point be much less dense?
To me it seems like they're backing up existing thermodynamic properties with evidence
It went to public schools and immediately got stupid, pregnant and started to post on Myspace. What started out as a promising bright young thing, turned into a huge disappointment. So AI is Lindsay Lohan?!
Well, when you have a candidate with no experience who says everyone should put their faith in his superior judgment, but that judgment is shown to be poor, I suppose manipulation of information will have to suffice.
I look forward to the installation of my giant telescreen and the newspeak of Big Brother Obama and his minions with their manipulated information. I know that their orthodoxy will be double-plus good for all of us in Oceania! Ahem...
Um sir, Excuse me...
You dropped your tinfoil hat.
News fails to take responsibility according to one internet poster.
More at 8.
Re:What about the pressure?
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I'm sure that quote was with regard to the conditions of Mars.
You are also correct to assume that Martian pressure is nowhere near what is required for room-temperature dry ice. In fact it's about 1% that of earth's atmosphere. More reading here.
Honestly, the generation that gets their information from the internet (instead of cable or newspapers) is going to have a much more liberal bias in general. All you have to do is look at age group demographics for any polling done and you'll see the heavy liberal skew to the younger ages.
With that being said, there are already going to be many, MANY more blogs with a pro-Obama, anti McCainb standpoint than the alternative already. Having a few more people bump some anti-McCain articles may bump them up a couple slots, but I guarantee with the demographics of internet users, those articles probably weren't doing badly on their own.
Besides, republicans already have their propaganda machine too *cough* Fox News *cough* Ann Coulter *Cough*
IE comes with MSN as the default page and has links to tons of Microsoft products and services whereas Firefox leans away from most Microsoft-based sites. I'm sure these bugs will be fixed eventually... but I'm also pretty sure Microsoft wasn't too worried about launching Hotmail without Firefox support.
Spin in however you like, no matter how you look at this, the Democrats caved to a bill overwhelmingly supported and started by Republicans. Pathetic. There we go - fixed.
I don't know if that's a swipe against Democrats in general... but at least about half of them stood up and said no.
The government may have been the ones that asked, but the phone companies did their bidding, they though it was a good idea and went through with it. Only Qwest denies the requests, IIRC.
I always hate the comparison...but 'i was just following orders' is not and never will be an excuse to do wrong. I agree completely which is why I said... and I'll quote myself directly: "I don't like seeing the telco companies getting of completely"
It was wrong, and blatently so... I completely agree with you on that account.
You say no, tell people what was wanted of you and keep saying it is wrong.
This isnt some 3rd world shithole where this deal took place.
There were phone calls and meetings between business men and US government officials. No one was going to be beaten, families raped, or killed for not following orders of the government. But the government DID say it was a matter of national security and if they were not afforded that power then the lives of Americans would be at risk. This bill passed from a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11 that we now know was a bit unfounded. Additionally it was the Bush administration that was feeding us some bad information at the time.
The worst threat anyone in the administration or government had was to TRY to threaten a loss of government contracts. I could also see planting of stories in the media possibly but not really likely...
There was no down side to saying no to questionable requests. NONE.
What the hell ever happened to Question Authority? I'll end saying that you also read something into my post that wasn't there. I still think it's bad that the telcos are potentially being let off free, but like I said... if the government itself wouldn't have started such a horrible policy in motion, we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place.
I never said the telcos were right... in fact I think they are wrong for carrying out wiretapping and as I said before I don't agree with them getting off completely free.
What I did say though is the government is much more at fault for making the demands. This is kind of the same as the Nuremberg trials too as you brought up. Yes, the people carrying out the orders in holding such trials were definitely wrong and should not get off completely free, but the government that gave orders to sentence those thousands of people to death is absolutely reprehensible.
That is the only point I was making and I feel you read something into it that wasn't there.
You know, as much as I don't like seeing the telco companies getting of completely, I must admit I blame the government more than the companies themselves.
It was the government that started this whole ball rolling and the telcos were (more or less) just following orders.
Actually, (and even though this was meant as a joke) This brings up a great point.
There have also been studies suggesting that Men (straight only in the study I saw) have a higher median number of sexual partners. While the average is (of course) the same for both genders, the deviation lies at the top of the female curve (no pun intended) actually by quite a bit. What this suggests is that most women prefer finding a single partner and settling down, but a much smaller portion are sleeping around more than even the most promiscuous Men.
I think it's probably the case (and note this is only a postulate) that those women who end up hurt and abused in the "bad boy" relationships are the same ones closer to the top of the female chart. (the term "village bicycle" comes to mind)
The point is, these "bad boys" may get more women... but I think it's the same pool of women whom every other "bad boy" has also been with.
I for one am quite proud I didn't settle for someone like that in retrospect.
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Journalists have a strange way of muddying the waters of studies like this with regards to intent and theory, so I won't make any conclusions as to the validity of the study, but there are a few points that need to be made.
While this study will be informative as to the pathways pollution will take, I'd really like to know how a 1 month venture is going to address something like climate change. Climate change is something that happens over hundreds of years on a very broad scale. Even though Beijing is a very large city, the pollution there (or lack thereof) will have little (if any) measurable effect over a 1 month period.
The Newsweek article also posts some of the theories which are speculated by Scripps as scientific fact when they are to be determined by the article - which has the above problems. I can see validity to studying pollution effects on people and where the pollution goes after it leaves Beijing, but climate change is really a stretch.
In other news, last year's Super Bowl was actually two guys playing Madden '08.
Yeah, sorry about the Patriots guys...
My wife wouldn't stop nagging me to "stop playing that stupid game."
Good call.
It's way too unstable before the first couple rounds of updates anyways.
Gee, great, because you know most geeks only love computers and don't have diverse interests.
Your statement confuses me. You state a known fact but seem to do it with a sarcastic tone!
Are you saying there's something more to life than dual booting?
As pressure increases, boiling point rises for (almost?) any substance.
As heat increases, density decreases due to increased movement of the particles.
Therefore, shouldn't water at the bottom of the ocean have an unusually high boiling point - and water which is heated to near that boiling point be much less dense?
To me it seems like they're backing up existing thermodynamic properties with evidence
Toothpaste eh? Working porn DVD and clean teeth, all in one swoop!
Oh man...
Please no "pearly white" comments to this.
Now we don't have to do it the old fashioned way.
Lynx 2.8.6... yep, I'm up-to-date...
in a manner of speaking.
Saddly, the summation of Slashdotters will slowly slaughter the spotlighted server.
I wouldn't be so sure!
Well, you could take the specification from the customer, to the programmers.
If you've got people skill that is.
Woah... don't jump to conclusions!
Even better is if the machine was re-designed to detect magazines and other pictures of people and actually did dispense pictures of cigarettes.
The machine could even keep their money, because I doubt a teen is going to report a cigarette machine took it!
BTW it is easy to fix this if the machine asks the people to move
Or better yet, add a second eye to make sure the subject has... depth!
I look forward to the installation of my giant telescreen and the newspeak of Big Brother Obama and his minions with their manipulated information. I know that their orthodoxy will be double-plus good for all of us in Oceania! Ahem...
Um sir, Excuse me...
You dropped your tinfoil hat.
News fails to take responsibility according to one internet poster.
More at 8.
I'm sure that quote was with regard to the conditions of Mars.
You are also correct to assume that Martian pressure is nowhere near what is required for room-temperature dry ice. In fact it's about 1% that of earth's atmosphere. More reading here.
I know martinw89 linked a page containing all of the links, but in case that was too confusing, I better link them again:
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
Article 4
Article 5
Article 6
Article 7
Article 8
Article 9
Hope that helps
Honestly, the generation that gets their information from the internet (instead of cable or newspapers) is going to have a much more liberal bias in general. All you have to do is look at age group demographics for any polling done and you'll see the heavy liberal skew to the younger ages.
With that being said, there are already going to be many, MANY more blogs with a pro-Obama, anti McCainb standpoint than the alternative already. Having a few more people bump some anti-McCain articles may bump them up a couple slots, but I guarantee with the demographics of internet users, those articles probably weren't doing badly on their own.
Besides, republicans already have their propaganda machine too *cough* Fox News *cough* Ann Coulter *Cough*
IE comes with MSN as the default page and has links to tons of Microsoft products and services whereas Firefox leans away from most Microsoft-based sites. I'm sure these bugs will be fixed eventually... but I'm also pretty sure Microsoft wasn't too worried about launching Hotmail without Firefox support.
I don't know if that's a swipe against Democrats in general... but at least about half of them stood up and said no.
I always hate the comparison...but 'i was just following orders' is not and never will be an excuse to do wrong. I agree completely which is why I said... and I'll quote myself directly: "I don't like seeing the telco companies getting of completely"
It was wrong, and blatently so... I completely agree with you on that account. You say no, tell people what was wanted of you and keep saying it is wrong.
This isnt some 3rd world shithole where this deal took place.
There were phone calls and meetings between business men and US government officials. No one was going to be beaten, families raped, or killed for not following orders of the government. But the government DID say it was a matter of national security and if they were not afforded that power then the lives of Americans would be at risk. This bill passed from a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11 that we now know was a bit unfounded. Additionally it was the Bush administration that was feeding us some bad information at the time. The worst threat anyone in the administration or government had was to TRY to threaten a loss of government contracts. I could also see planting of stories in the media possibly but not really likely...
There was no down side to saying no to questionable requests. NONE.
What the hell ever happened to Question Authority? I'll end saying that you also read something into my post that wasn't there. I still think it's bad that the telcos are potentially being let off free, but like I said... if the government itself wouldn't have started such a horrible policy in motion, we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place.
I never said the telcos were right... in fact I think they are wrong for carrying out wiretapping and as I said before I don't agree with them getting off completely free.
What I did say though is the government is much more at fault for making the demands. This is kind of the same as the Nuremberg trials too as you brought up. Yes, the people carrying out the orders in holding such trials were definitely wrong and should not get off completely free, but the government that gave orders to sentence those thousands of people to death is absolutely reprehensible.
That is the only point I was making and I feel you read something into it that wasn't there.
You know, as much as I don't like seeing the telco companies getting of completely, I must admit I blame the government more than the companies themselves.
It was the government that started this whole ball rolling and the telcos were (more or less) just following orders.
Actually, (and even though this was meant as a joke) This brings up a great point. There have also been studies suggesting that Men (straight only in the study I saw) have a higher median number of sexual partners. While the average is (of course) the same for both genders, the deviation lies at the top of the female curve (no pun intended) actually by quite a bit. What this suggests is that most women prefer finding a single partner and settling down, but a much smaller portion are sleeping around more than even the most promiscuous Men. I think it's probably the case (and note this is only a postulate) that those women who end up hurt and abused in the "bad boy" relationships are the same ones closer to the top of the female chart. (the term "village bicycle" comes to mind) The point is, these "bad boys" may get more women... but I think it's the same pool of women whom every other "bad boy" has also been with. I for one am quite proud I didn't settle for someone like that in retrospect.