But.... isn't Venus warmer because of the excess CO2, which is the result of lack of plate tectonics, which these guys say is the result of Venus being warmer? Who lit the fuse?
Read Flash Boys, that new book on highspeed trading. After the protagonists build their HST-proof exchange, and clients of big brokerage houses and banks specify that their trades be done through it, the brokers frequently just ignore them and use their internal exchanges, making the brokers more profit, but exposing the clients to the costs of HST forerunning, etc.
If employers have the right to decide whether your healthcare includes contraception or not, I would imagine they have the right to decide whether your programming work kills people or not.
At least, old fender ones anyway. I found an old fender reverb literally buried in a snowbank. There was a hole through the speaker cone and the handle of the power switch was snapped off. Took it apart and marveled that it looked to be mil- spec inside. Replaced the speaker and the switch and it's been perfect.
I have a 1990 Saab 9000, with all the original parts. It is close to hitting the 400,000 kilometer mark. The "onboard computer", as it is grandly called ( basically a piece of electronics computing instantaneous and average fuel consumption, as well as capable of predicting ETA based on a rolling speed average ) still works perferctly. Just like the Bosch cassette player. And the engine.
that's impressive. I was just wondering the other day what happened to all the old Saabs. Since the company folded, they seem to have vanished. And it's not as if the owners weren't devoted to them
Made the mistake of vowing never to buy a flatscreen to replace any of my Sonys unless they die. The last trinitron that gave me trouble was still the rotary channel changer variety. Since they went to digital tuning, they just sit and laugh at me. It's like having a pet parrot. They're going to outlive me.
Apart from cockroaches, the Model M keyboards will be the only things to survive a nuclear blast.
also the old landline phone system. We got a tour back in high school; they really were engineered to function during emergencies, nuclear war included. That's why I'm keeping mine, even though I can't change the ringtone.
A publication stands or falls on its own merits. Anybody at all familiar with publication knows that more often than not there were a hell of a lot of failed attempts, wrong headed hypotheses, blunders, technical mistakes, etc before our during the process of reaching the goal. These are typically not included in the final publication, for much the same reason recipes in magazines don't include things like "don't accidentally substitute salt for the sugar, and don't try to bake it at 500 rather than 350 because you're in a hurry"
There isn't any scientific value to be gained in the snipe hunt through personal emails, but there's always hope they'll stumble upon something like "I'm beginning to believe this is all a wild goose chase" or "maybe I'm completely wrong about this" which they'll trot out to the usual "experts" on the WSJ op-ed page, for perpetual parroting by the usual crew so enamored of their ability to see through the conspiracy of scientists.
Future study has a 50% chance a priori of finding that that planet is warming up, at which point we will be bombarded with millions of posts by idiots telling us that this proves AGW to be a hoax.
Arguably, the worst piece of design in the human is the apparently irresistible drive to avoid doing everything our bodies are designed to do well and with long term reliability, and replace those activities with ones which damage our bodies.
Interesting, slightly tangential weird news item from last November; apparently in Kenya, a couple of farmers who were having predator trouble with a pair of cheetahs, CHASED THEM DOWN ON FOOT AND CAUGHT THEM! then donated them to a wildlife refuge or somewhere.
RESPECT!
I suspect the immune system and messy neural system have the same basic trait; generate a chaotic initial state, and let reality shape it. In the case of the immune system, after mix and matching the heavy and light chain genes, then kill of all the immature ones which are being stimulated, presumably by native bodily proteins; the survivors are specific to foreign antigens. In the case of the neutral system, strengthen cells which are stimulated while immature, and kill of those immature cells which have never been stimulated by anything in the environment. As in, apoptosis, those old experiments on kittens raised in the absence of horizontal lines, etc, the huge difficulty of kids born deaf in acquiring speech compared to those who go deaf later in infancy, etc. And you get a brain which had specific responses to specific basic features of the environment. Hell of a lot easier than trying to code that much very precise information in sloppy old DNA.
Two things humans have going for us; built in language acquisition and development engine; and no fear of vacuum cleaners. And I haven't tested whether chimps can match us on the latter.
Medical research has not been piling up suggesting that standing all day at your desk is good for your health. Waking all day is good for your health, though, and I await the first company to switch to a walking office.
Now you've done it. Not only don't suicides "count" as bad things to the love besotted firearm husbander, petrified every day by new tales of how Any Day Now Obama will make him sign a paper saying he owns a.22 varmint rifle; but in fact, by restricting the would be suicide's options, you would be trampling on his freedom.
That's the problem with a literate society. You can't just make up nonsense and pretend it's reality. Any one is free to dig up primary sources (or even secondary sources) and demonstrate just how much of a corrupt piece of shit you are.
Nobody ever does, mind you, but they absolutely are free to.
But who would want to amend as successful a document as the second amendment? Without it, we would be mere subjects of tyrants, like Australians or Swedes.
What about all those times the armed portion of the public rose up as one in the spirit of liberty and forced the government to back down from putting Japanese Americans into detention camps, forced the government to protect the civil rights workers rather than look the other way and let them be murdered in cold blood, forced the government to remove the National Guard from college campuses before they could shoot unarmed students?
Why, even now you can feel the fire of liberty building, and any day now the armed citizenry will rise as one and force the government to take back Obamacare, and won't that be a glorious day celebrated throughout history?
Yes, as the second amendment protectors tell us, obviously we owe all our freedoms to their keeping a gun around to defend us from our elected officials. Who would tamper with such a perfect piece of legislation?
I'd say the mere fact that this ex-justice feels the need to add words to the Second Amendment to specifically alter and limit its context says to me he knows full well what the Founders intended. Now one can certainly debate whether the Second Amendment is still useful or desirable or however you want to frame it, but whatever side of the gun debate you sit on, to pretend that the Founders meant anything other than general gun ownership is revisionism of the most extreme kind.
To pretend that you can read the mind of not only Justice Stephens, but retroactively the founding fathers is a superhero comic book plot.
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But.... isn't Venus warmer because of the excess CO2, which is the result of lack of plate tectonics, which these guys say is the result of Venus being warmer? Who lit the fuse?
I think "The Mule" would be the first portent of doom.
That would have been GWBush.
Read Flash Boys, that new book on highspeed trading. After the protagonists build their HST-proof exchange, and clients of big brokerage houses and banks specify that their trades be done through it, the brokers frequently just ignore them and use their internal exchanges, making the brokers more profit, but exposing the clients to the costs of HST forerunning, etc.
If employers have the right to decide whether your healthcare includes contraception or not, I would imagine they have the right to decide whether your programming work kills people or not.
Indeed. Going over to the dark side is easy. Coming back from it is hard or impossible.
Just shave off the goatee.
So why didn't they just blow up the planted demolitions and frame bin Laden or whoever? Why the whole airplane jive?
At least, old fender ones anyway. I found an old fender reverb literally buried in a snowbank. There was a hole through the speaker cone and the handle of the power switch was snapped off. Took it apart and marveled that it looked to be mil- spec inside. Replaced the speaker and the switch and it's been perfect.
I have a 1990 Saab 9000, with all the original parts. It is close to hitting the 400,000 kilometer mark. The "onboard computer", as it is grandly called ( basically a piece of electronics computing instantaneous and average fuel consumption, as well as capable of predicting ETA based on a rolling speed average ) still works perferctly. Just like the Bosch cassette player. And the engine.
that's impressive. I was just wondering the other day what happened to all the old Saabs. Since the company folded, they seem to have vanished. And it's not as if the owners weren't devoted to them
Made the mistake of vowing never to buy a flatscreen to replace any of my Sonys unless they die. The last trinitron that gave me trouble was still the rotary channel changer variety. Since they went to digital tuning, they just sit and laugh at me. It's like having a pet parrot. They're going to outlive me.
Apart from cockroaches, the Model M keyboards will be the only things to survive a nuclear blast.
also the old landline phone system. We got a tour back in high school; they really were engineered to function during emergencies, nuclear war included. That's why I'm keeping mine, even though I can't change the ringtone.
A publication stands or falls on its own merits. Anybody at all familiar with publication knows that more often than not there were a hell of a lot of failed attempts, wrong headed hypotheses, blunders, technical mistakes, etc before our during the process of reaching the goal. These are typically not included in the final publication, for much the same reason recipes in magazines don't include things like "don't accidentally substitute salt for the sugar, and don't try to bake it at 500 rather than 350 because you're in a hurry" There isn't any scientific value to be gained in the snipe hunt through personal emails, but there's always hope they'll stumble upon something like "I'm beginning to believe this is all a wild goose chase" or "maybe I'm completely wrong about this" which they'll trot out to the usual "experts" on the WSJ op-ed page, for perpetual parroting by the usual crew so enamored of their ability to see through the conspiracy of scientists.
Future study has a 50% chance a priori of finding that that planet is warming up, at which point we will be bombarded with millions of posts by idiots telling us that this proves AGW to be a hoax.
Arguably, the worst piece of design in the human is the apparently irresistible drive to avoid doing everything our bodies are designed to do well and with long term reliability, and replace those activities with ones which damage our bodies.
Interesting, slightly tangential weird news item from last November; apparently in Kenya, a couple of farmers who were having predator trouble with a pair of cheetahs, CHASED THEM DOWN ON FOOT AND CAUGHT THEM! then donated them to a wildlife refuge or somewhere. RESPECT!
Have to remind ourselves that the most successful animals on earth are beetles. Presumably their design features are superior.
Also selected a propensity for occasionally jerking awake and saying "I thought I was falling! "
I suspect the immune system and messy neural system have the same basic trait; generate a chaotic initial state, and let reality shape it. In the case of the immune system, after mix and matching the heavy and light chain genes, then kill of all the immature ones which are being stimulated, presumably by native bodily proteins; the survivors are specific to foreign antigens. In the case of the neutral system, strengthen cells which are stimulated while immature, and kill of those immature cells which have never been stimulated by anything in the environment. As in, apoptosis, those old experiments on kittens raised in the absence of horizontal lines, etc, the huge difficulty of kids born deaf in acquiring speech compared to those who go deaf later in infancy, etc. And you get a brain which had specific responses to specific basic features of the environment. Hell of a lot easier than trying to code that much very precise information in sloppy old DNA.
Two things humans have going for us; built in language acquisition and development engine; and no fear of vacuum cleaners. And I haven't tested whether chimps can match us on the latter.
And fer crissake, put a little more effort into the risk identification and avoidance module. The stock version is damn near useless.
Medical research has not been piling up suggesting that standing all day at your desk is good for your health. Waking all day is good for your health, though, and I await the first company to switch to a walking office.
Now you've done it. Not only don't suicides "count" as bad things to the love besotted firearm husbander, petrified every day by new tales of how Any Day Now Obama will make him sign a paper saying he owns a .22 varmint rifle; but in fact, by restricting the would be suicide's options, you would be trampling on his freedom.
Can has gunburger?
That's the problem with a literate society. You can't just make up nonsense and pretend it's reality. Any one is free to dig up primary sources (or even secondary sources) and demonstrate just how much of a corrupt piece of shit you are.
Nobody ever does, mind you, but they absolutely are free to.
But who would want to amend as successful a document as the second amendment? Without it, we would be mere subjects of tyrants, like Australians or Swedes. What about all those times the armed portion of the public rose up as one in the spirit of liberty and forced the government to back down from putting Japanese Americans into detention camps, forced the government to protect the civil rights workers rather than look the other way and let them be murdered in cold blood, forced the government to remove the National Guard from college campuses before they could shoot unarmed students? Why, even now you can feel the fire of liberty building, and any day now the armed citizenry will rise as one and force the government to take back Obamacare, and won't that be a glorious day celebrated throughout history? Yes, as the second amendment protectors tell us, obviously we owe all our freedoms to their keeping a gun around to defend us from our elected officials. Who would tamper with such a perfect piece of legislation?
I'd say the mere fact that this ex-justice feels the need to add words to the Second Amendment to specifically alter and limit its context says to me he knows full well what the Founders intended. Now one can certainly debate whether the Second Amendment is still useful or desirable or however you want to frame it, but whatever side of the gun debate you sit on, to pretend that the Founders meant anything other than general gun ownership is revisionism of the most extreme kind.
To pretend that you can read the mind of not only Justice Stephens, but retroactively the founding fathers is a superhero comic book plot.