My dog caught onto this once but was never able to figure it out again. I therefore defined it as the absolute limit of his abstract reasoning capacity.
Now now, it's not fair making them think, when they've got a nice pithy sound bite that expresses their tribal shibboleth. And here you come bringing up things like confidence intervals and length of period being averaged and all that stuff. You could be responsible for their blowing a mental fuse.
"Hah. Government at all levels is bigger than ever before, being funded at higher levels. I only WISH that the EPA couldn't be started now."
At 19.5 percent of GDP, G is down from the 21.5 percent it hit in the worst days of the Great Recession. AsÂCatherine RampellÂof theÂNew YorkÂTimes pointed out last week, itâ(TM)s also below the 20.3 percent average of the available data back to 1947. For most of the past 65 years, federal, state, and local governments had a larger direct economic role producing goods and services than they do today.
Iâ(TM)m out-of-town and so away from my tape recorder. So I asked Goreâ(TM)s staff about the line and they have Gore saying:âoeThe scientists are now adding category six to the hurricane...some are proposing we add category 6 to the hurricane scale that used to be 1-5. âoe
The current nuclear industry and reactor designs are modeled on the great success of the nuclear navy in its startup days under Admiral Rickover, apparently anybody noticing that it was being run as a completely authoritarian, no evasion of reponsibility, buck stops here, no excuses, nonprofit, spare no expense, government project, the exact opposite of a for profit corporation. After all, the entire reason for the invention of the limited liability company is/was to insulate the owners against liability for deliberate or accidental mismanagement.
All we need is a for profit company which is willing to pay the extra costs to be as safe as possible and to cause as little damage to humans and the nonhuman world as possible. And there are sure plenty of those around, as the history of the energy industry abundantly demonstrates.
The issue isn't that we're concerned about the über wealthy losing money. The issue is that, unless you can get every single nation in the world to agree on certain environmental and worker health and safety standards, you're fighting an uphill battle. We enact stronger regulations so they just pick up their factories and move them to Burma or some other place. Then they have even less incentive to reduce their emissions. You have to solve the problem of globalization in order to solve the problem of industrial pollution. Otherwise we'll lose the jobs and pollution will likely get worse.
No, the issue is that there are approximately 5 trillion dollars of fossil fuel still in the ground, and there will always be plenty of people willing to kill somebody for a even a small piece of that money; whereas there are not 5 trillion dollars to pay people to NOT do so. That's capitalism for ya, eh?
The trouble with trying to figure out how our minds model reality is that the only view we have or reality show what our minds model If cutting edge physics teaches us anything it's that reality is not all that well described by our mental image except on the most immediate and local scale. In effect we are trying to model the function y =f (x) when all we have is y without any data re x.
We only impute intelligence in other humans by generalizing our own internal private processes and much of the time it's pretty hard to do so anyway. in this instance the definition of intelligence is so vague that the word soul might as well be used.
With modern and future technology you don't need to go anywhere you can teleprescence yourself and it becomes sillier and sillier to transport objects when you can just communicate the plans and create them on site.
Few years back I was chatting with a senior in a top ivy league school premed and I pointed to they gray green fuzzy mold on his orange and said "hey, penicillin" and he didn't have the faintest idea what I was talking about.
Well, technically, aspirin also contains varying levels of salicin and acetic acid from hydrolysis. Plus of course the inert ingredients to make a pill and whatever trace compounds are left after purification.
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And yet it's considered perfectly ethical to eat a pig.
My dog caught onto this once but was never able to figure it out again. I therefore defined it as the absolute limit of his abstract reasoning capacity.
Well actually, it has been warming over the past 200 months, whether you take the monthly averages
http://www.skepticalscience.com/pics/Skeptics_v_Realists.jpg
Or the yearly averages
http://blogs-images.forbes.com/petergleick/files/2012/02/GlobalT-15yrs.png
It's funny that the same people who crow that the"hockey stick" graph has been "debunked" despite a 50 year long acceleration in increasing temperatures, are the first to identify a permanent downturn in temps on the basis of maybe a decade.
Now now, it's not fair making them think, when they've got a nice pithy sound bite that expresses their tribal shibboleth. And here you come bringing up things like confidence intervals and length of period being averaged and all that stuff. You could be responsible for their blowing a mental fuse.
"Hah. Government at all levels is bigger than ever before, being funded at higher levels. I only WISH that the EPA couldn't be started now."
At 19.5 percent of GDP, G is down from the 21.5 percent it hit in the worst days of the Great Recession. AsÂCatherine RampellÂof theÂNew YorkÂTimes pointed out last week, itâ(TM)s also below the 20.3 percent average of the available data back to 1947. For most of the past 65 years, federal, state, and local governments had a larger direct economic role producing goods and services than they do today.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2012/07/31/has-the-u-s-government-gotten-bigger-or-smaller-yes/
It's basically useless. Anything less obvious than a charging tiger just doesn't register.
Because if we can't ridicule Al Gore that means that AGW will win!
And God fuming "how many signs and portents do they need before they get a clue? What's wrong with those people? "
I believe the Canadian health plan only gives you coverage for a couple of weeks outside the country.
You just know that it will just be a short time before terrorists hijack the controls for directing the beam and Stephen Baldwin has to save us.
Garbled in cut and paste. Check original.
http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/23/al-gore-and-category-6-hurricanes/
Iâ(TM)m out-of-town and so away from my tape recorder. So I asked Goreâ(TM)s staff about the line and they have Gore saying:âoeThe scientists are now adding category six to the hurricane...some are proposing we add category 6 to the hurricane scale that used to be 1-5. âoe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_by_death_toll
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/pgms/worknotify/uranium.html
http://m.deseretnews.com/article/250010691/Uranium-mining-left-a-legacy-of-death.html?pg=all
http://journals.lww.com/health-physics/Abstract/1992/11000/Navajo_Birth_Outcomes_in_the_Shiprock_Uranium.5.aspx
Etc
The current nuclear industry and reactor designs are modeled on the great success of the nuclear navy in its startup days under Admiral Rickover, apparently anybody noticing that it was being run as a completely authoritarian, no evasion of reponsibility, buck stops here, no excuses, nonprofit, spare no expense, government project, the exact opposite of a for profit corporation. After all, the entire reason for the invention of the limited liability company is/was to insulate the owners against liability for deliberate or accidental mismanagement.
All we need is a for profit company which is willing to pay the extra costs to be as safe as possible and to cause as little damage to humans and the nonhuman world as possible. And there are sure plenty of those around, as the history of the energy industry abundantly demonstrates.
The issue isn't that we're concerned about the über wealthy losing money. The issue is that, unless you can get every single nation in the world to agree on certain environmental and worker health and safety standards, you're fighting an uphill battle. We enact stronger regulations so they just pick up their factories and move them to Burma or some other place. Then they have even less incentive to reduce their emissions. You have to solve the problem of globalization in order to solve the problem of industrial pollution. Otherwise we'll lose the jobs and pollution will likely get worse.
No, the issue is that there are approximately 5 trillion dollars of fossil fuel still in the ground, and there will always be plenty of people willing to kill somebody for a even a small piece of that money; whereas there are not 5 trillion dollars to pay people to NOT do so. That's capitalism for ya, eh?
A penguin can fly if you fling it. Knowing that is what makes us human.
The trouble with trying to figure out how our minds model reality is that the only view we have or reality show what our minds model
If cutting edge physics teaches us anything it's that reality is not all that well described by our mental image except on the most immediate and local scale. In effect we are trying to model the function y =f (x) when all we have is y without any data re x.
We only impute intelligence in other humans by generalizing our own internal private processes and much of the time it's pretty hard to do so anyway. in this instance the definition of intelligence is so vague that the word soul might as well be used.
The past future was awesome. The future future sucks.
With modern and future technology you don't need to go anywhere you can teleprescence yourself and it becomes sillier and sillier to transport objects when you can just communicate the plans and create them on site.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6bpIbdZhrzA&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D6bpIbdZhrzA
Few years back I was chatting with a senior in a top ivy league school premed and I pointed to they gray green fuzzy mold on his orange and said "hey, penicillin" and he didn't have the faintest idea what I was talking about.
Well, technically, aspirin also contains varying levels of salicin and acetic acid from hydrolysis. Plus of course the inert ingredients to make a pill and whatever trace compounds are left after purification.
People over 55 who drink less than 28 cups a week are at greater risk of feeling like they are dead.