Idiot. You think the Earth gets "hotter" when it gets closer to the sun, too? That's absolutely not true. Distance from the sun has a minimal impact on temperature. Angle of sunlight through the atmosphere (affected by the tilt in the Earth's axis of rotation) is responsible for the seasons. So if distance from the sun doesn't heat or cool the Earth, imagine what an impact it has on Uranus. Zero.
The amount of light from the sun is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the sun. For Earth, that would mean we receive at aphelion 93.533% of we get at perihelion. On Uranus due to its more eccentric orbit, that figure is 83.716%. Those figures are based on orbital data on wikipedia so may not be entirely accurate, but it does show that Uranus is more susceptible to change based on what part of its orbital cycle it is in than Earth is.
Ok, there are probably some places that are largely unchanged. But look at the Mississippi. It was at least a mile wide for a large part of its course, back in the day. Now it runs in a narrow channel to the sea, minus what we take out to purify for our needs. That is a major continental change in wetlands. Just that 1 river.
I would absolutely love to see this go to court. Please, oh please let this go to court. Let Comcast seek damages for your posting of public court documents.
Never going to happen. These clowns (Comcast's lawyers), as soon as they saw the website was contesting it, realised that this particular line of bullshit litigation would be shot down in flames immediately by the first judge who saw it. Its one thing being creative with interpreting laws relating to technology and explaining it to old men with no idea what you're talking about, quite another trying to do the same with legal procedure to a guy who both knows damn well how the law works, and has the power to slap you down if he thinks you're trying to step on his toes.
Do you have any idea how many millions of square miles in the US (much less Canada) are untouched by humans? Well over 90% of the US is undeveloped land.
Those are two entirely different things. Untouched by humans would indicate that the land is in its natural state, and if you use that definition it is a lot closer to 0% than 90%. It may be undeveloped and unused, but the wetlands have been mostly destroyed, and the megafauna slaughtered. These both have a massive effect on the ecology, sometimes for hundreds or even thousands of miles around.
Falsification of science absolutely should be a big deal. The person responsible should face serious consequences, and hopefully it remains rare enough that it's big news.
I agree with the sentiment, but I am inclined to believe the "awkward choice of words by a non-native speaker of English" argument. It's not like that particular choice of words is even unambiguous to native speakers; if I said "I'm going to make up a batch of beer", friends will be calling around looking for a drink.
No, in theory if a mutation which does away with the appendix proves advantageous, then it will become widespread. It depends on what other characteristic changes come bundled.
I'm sure it could very well be, if viewed from the correct position inside it. You missed the point; the word "galaxy" is derived from the latin for milky way.
She was unprofessional as a journalist and came off as immature as well. These people weren't squirming, they were just answering this bull dog's questions as best they could without getting fired in the process. She was clearly interested in painting them in a negative light so I would not attribute journalist credentials to her in this exchange. They did clearly state that policy makers hand down the requirements of their job--in other words the NSA doesn't choose targets the politicians do. End of story really. She seems angry.
I can't comment on this apart from the partial transcript, because the blog is down. But from what i read, it was perfectly acceptable behaviour from a journalist. Perhaps you are not familiar with journalists who ask hard, uncomfortable questions to someone's face. If you are in the US, you are probably used to interviews where the questions are vetted beforehand, and "questioning" is done in the absence of the questioned in clearly biased opinion broadcasts. Professional journalism in a functioning democracy consists of asking people hard questions to their face, and either have them answer them fully or partially, make a promise to give an answer if they don't know, or obviously refuse to answer them. An important part of that sentence is the bit allowing them to answer the questions; "opinion" televeision does not allow that. The only time I saw an american president being asked hard unscheduled questions in a live interview, it was a foreign journalist who later received death threats for being "rude" enough to ask the president a question he had not agreed beforehand was an acceptable one for him to answer. And you call yourselves the land of the free.
I must be missing something here. How does being a college/university student equate with being rich and/or spoiled? Everyone goes to college. Not all of us are rich.
Not as much as your attitude. I commented on the fact that an article is bullshit. You insult my reading ability because I read it in a manner you are unaware of and yet still disapprove of. You may notice I did not mention your rather ironic writing failure when criticizing my ability to read.
I'm done now with reading your trolling. Be sure to get the last word in.
Hopefully you have learned that you aren't very good at scanning at perhaps should read things properly.
Not at all. I spent longer writing this reply than I did coming to the conclusion that the article was a load of rubbish. Far better than having read it all.
The electrical grid is essentially a big pile of copper. Solar storms might knock out transformers and such, but the bulk of the infrastructure would be unaffected. You wouldn't need to rebuild, just repair the delicate parts. It could be time consuming, but not unmanageable. With modern sun monitoring, we would probably know about any really big storms and just shut down the grid, so that we'd only have to worry about what harm comes from inducted currents. Electronic equipment might be a different story.
BS alarms ringing after reading this bit:
"It is already the practice of the encyclopedia to create a database dump, a record of the data from the Wikipedia database, on a regular basis. This data is compressed using the highly efficient Honda-Beech data compression method, which compresses the data by a ratio of up to 1,000,000:1."
Slashdot Mirror
Idiot. You think the Earth gets "hotter" when it gets closer to the sun, too? That's absolutely not true. Distance from the sun has a minimal impact on temperature. Angle of sunlight through the atmosphere (affected by the tilt in the Earth's axis of rotation) is responsible for the seasons. So if distance from the sun doesn't heat or cool the Earth, imagine what an impact it has on Uranus. Zero.
The amount of light from the sun is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the sun. For Earth, that would mean we receive at aphelion 93.533% of we get at perihelion. On Uranus due to its more eccentric orbit, that figure is 83.716%. Those figures are based on orbital data on wikipedia so may not be entirely accurate, but it does show that Uranus is more susceptible to change based on what part of its orbital cycle it is in than Earth is.
That isn't really even needed. Lots of advertisements on "legit" sites that redirect to dodgy ones, and pull images from those dodgy ones.
Stop making masturbation jokes, and stay focused.
Last I checked, you started your doctorate after getting a degree.
Ok, there are probably some places that are largely unchanged. But look at the Mississippi. It was at least a mile wide for a large part of its course, back in the day. Now it runs in a narrow channel to the sea, minus what we take out to purify for our needs. That is a major continental change in wetlands. Just that 1 river.
I would absolutely love to see this go to court. Please, oh please let this go to court. Let Comcast seek damages for your posting of public court documents.
Never going to happen. These clowns (Comcast's lawyers), as soon as they saw the website was contesting it, realised that this particular line of bullshit litigation would be shot down in flames immediately by the first judge who saw it. Its one thing being creative with interpreting laws relating to technology and explaining it to old men with no idea what you're talking about, quite another trying to do the same with legal procedure to a guy who both knows damn well how the law works, and has the power to slap you down if he thinks you're trying to step on his toes.
Do you have any idea how many millions of square miles in the US (much less Canada) are untouched by humans? Well over 90% of the US is undeveloped land.
Those are two entirely different things. Untouched by humans would indicate that the land is in its natural state, and if you use that definition it is a lot closer to 0% than 90%. It may be undeveloped and unused, but the wetlands have been mostly destroyed, and the megafauna slaughtered. These both have a massive effect on the ecology, sometimes for hundreds or even thousands of miles around.
Pakistan != Palestine
Palestine GDP per capita (From the always correct and unfailingly infallible wikipedia, but I'll use it anyway)
$1924 (West Bank)
$876 (Gaza)
We're not talking orders of magnitude in difference.
Falsification of science absolutely should be a big deal. The person responsible should face serious consequences, and hopefully it remains rare enough that it's big news.
I agree with the sentiment, but I am inclined to believe the "awkward choice of words by a non-native speaker of English" argument. It's not like that particular choice of words is even unambiguous to native speakers; if I said "I'm going to make up a batch of beer", friends will be calling around looking for a drink.
/sigh
was Uncle Marvo
Are you saying system administrators are gods?
No, we're more in the Lord of the Files territory.
No need to worry, sales aren't reading this. They're at a party with cocaine and hoo... *ahem* at a sales meeting.
No, in theory if a mutation which does away with the appendix proves advantageous, then it will become widespread. It depends on what other characteristic changes come bundled.
I'm sure it could very well be, if viewed from the correct position inside it. You missed the point; the word "galaxy" is derived from the latin for milky way.
Pluto was the eleptical orbit witch
I always knew orbital mechanics was a dark art.
She was unprofessional as a journalist and came off as immature as well. These people weren't squirming, they were just answering this bull dog's questions as best they could without getting fired in the process. She was clearly interested in painting them in a negative light so I would not attribute journalist credentials to her in this exchange. They did clearly state that policy makers hand down the requirements of their job--in other words the NSA doesn't choose targets the politicians do. End of story really. She seems angry.
I can't comment on this apart from the partial transcript, because the blog is down. But from what i read, it was perfectly acceptable behaviour from a journalist. Perhaps you are not familiar with journalists who ask hard, uncomfortable questions to someone's face. If you are in the US, you are probably used to interviews where the questions are vetted beforehand, and "questioning" is done in the absence of the questioned in clearly biased opinion broadcasts. Professional journalism in a functioning democracy consists of asking people hard questions to their face, and either have them answer them fully or partially, make a promise to give an answer if they don't know, or obviously refuse to answer them. An important part of that sentence is the bit allowing them to answer the questions; "opinion" televeision does not allow that. The only time I saw an american president being asked hard unscheduled questions in a live interview, it was a foreign journalist who later received death threats for being "rude" enough to ask the president a question he had not agreed beforehand was an acceptable one for him to answer. And you call yourselves the land of the free.
Always at -1. Know the enemy, and know those he has wronged.
I must be missing something here. How does being a college/university student equate with being rich and/or spoiled? Everyone goes to college. Not all of us are rich.
Face it, your scanning sucks.
Not as much as your attitude. I commented on the fact that an article is bullshit. You insult my reading ability because I read it in a manner you are unaware of and yet still disapprove of. You may notice I did not mention your rather ironic writing failure when criticizing my ability to read.
I'm done now with reading your trolling. Be sure to get the last word in.
Hopefully you have learned that you aren't very good at scanning at perhaps should read things properly.
Not at all. I spent longer writing this reply than I did coming to the conclusion that the article was a load of rubbish. Far better than having read it all.
I was just scanning it for anything that looked interesting, didn't give it a proper read. That was the first thing that jumped out of the page at me.
The electrical grid is essentially a big pile of copper. Solar storms might knock out transformers and such, but the bulk of the infrastructure would be unaffected. You wouldn't need to rebuild, just repair the delicate parts. It could be time consuming, but not unmanageable. With modern sun monitoring, we would probably know about any really big storms and just shut down the grid, so that we'd only have to worry about what harm comes from inducted currents. Electronic equipment might be a different story.
BS alarms ringing after reading this bit: "It is already the practice of the encyclopedia to create a database dump, a record of the data from the Wikipedia database, on a regular basis. This data is compressed using the highly efficient Honda-Beech data compression method, which compresses the data by a ratio of up to 1,000,000:1."
Where in the world do you get that idea from?
From TFA, as in these lines:
So, we’ve constructed the patent system: people have a 17 year exclusive right to such public goods. That is, we’ve made them excludable by law
That doesn't tell us anything about what he thinks though. That is merely a comment by him about what we, as a society, have put in place.