Ireland is sadly one of those countries that is in debt up to their eyeballs, what they should be focusing on is how the fuck to dig themselves out of the debt not coming up with aspirational ways to increase it even further.
Compared to which other countries? Countries with worse debt to GDP ratios include Japan, Canada, France, UK, & the USA amoung others. it is about 16% above the world average, so it isn't the best, but defiitly not the worst. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'll believe the government is serious about getting off fossil fuels when I see them taxing wind and solar, and removing taxes from gasoline and diesel fuel.
This is nonsense. Giving petroleum a tax advantage over wind and solar will not be encourage investment in wind and solar.
Government should not be "investing" in any business or industry, full stop.
It can put laws and policies into effect to encourage or discourage certain things but it should not be both a participant in business and the regulator of business. That's how you grow crony-capitalism and I think we've all had enough of that horseshit.
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Depends on how you run your government. The Norweigan government has about $200k in the bank for every citizen.
Holding significant investment in fossil fuel companies creates a potential conflict of interest with regard to passing laws involving regulation or infrastructure investment.
By divesting this conflict of interest is partially eliminated.
300 million euro is a lot of money for a person, but even for a small country like Ireland you're still only talking about roughly 0.09 % of GDP, and they'll invest it somewhere else. This is a symbolic gesture that costs nothing.
I was thinking that rebound would push land above where it was years ago, making the sea relatively higher in the past. But I followed some of the links from the page I posted, and yes, the Baltic used to be a lake.
The graph is about the Baltic region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Without delving into it too closely, I am assuming that the blip is due to the huge isostatic rebound in the area following the start of the current interglacial.
BTW: Europe is big. It is impossible to have no wind all over Europe at the same time.
Europe is tiny. I can drive across it in a day, it takes me 7-9 days to drive across Canada, if I drive 14hrs/day. Ontario is roughly the size of UK, Spain, France, Germany, NL, and Italy, and we've just had 11 days with pretty much zero wind.
Europe is bigger than Canada, by slightly less than 2%.
There's two problems with that: 1) Police all over the world have a record of making their job easier by taking the most convenient suspect and getting them convicted. They seem to generally prefer to have honest evidence, but they sure don't require it.
Britain is a civilised western democracy, and its police come under intense scrutiny given its abysmal historical record in Northern Ireland. They don't want to fuck things up
2) The system as reported isn't even good enough for your idealized use case. I'm assuming that it's the same system that was reported a couple of days ago where a representative of the company that sells it was saying it wasn't good enough for this use case.
The reporting is rubbish. It equates the percentage of false positives out of of all reported positives with the false positive rate, which is absolute nonsense. All the reports I've seen say it has a false positive rate of 98%, whereas the true fale posititive rate, from what numbers I have been able to find, is under 1.5%
My reading of the story was that his contract hadn't expired, he was 8 months into a 3 year contract. He said they changed systems, and his existing contract was not entered into the new system. Same end result, but slightly different cause.
Also, don't start with something as silly and foolish as: "it's hard to remember a more contentious period between the two countries in recent times". Really? Is it that hard to remember more contentious countries? Let me get you started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Wouldn't cutting emissions 40% - 60% in the first world cause hundreds of millions or even billions of deaths in places dependent on western aid? Or is that part of the plan?
Given that less than 0.005% of global economic output is spent on food aid, that is highly doubtful.
92% of positive results being incorrect is not a 92% false positive rate. Without knowing the total number of images checked, the numbers in the article are worthless for making any judgement.
This was in the UK. Without a full risk assessment, the idea of anyone touching the shelves is laughable. So, no, he wasn't allowed to work with his hands.
In fact, it's probably because of "health and safety" that the carpenter would not do the job until the books were stacked.
What a load of horseshit... have you ever been on a building site? I have, for computer work, and if you think a few books on the ground are hazardous, you never should be on one. The carpenter was a lazy shit, probably on university payroll. Get in a chippie on contract, price for work done and he'd have the place sorted out in no time. He'd probably do a far superior job too.
Not sure where the 242 million years comes from, the last ice age - the glacial period - ended about 12,000 years ago.
That's the beginning of the current interglacial period of the current ice age, which started ~2.6 million years ago and is ongoing. The last major ice age was the Karoo Ice Age
After all, during the last ice age there was no "Great Barrier Reef" as the sea-level was some 50 meters lower than now.
The world has changed so much since the last ice that it is probably difficult to say with any certainty what elevation the location of the barrier reef was at. But it is true, the reef itself did not exist then. It's only about 18 million years old, so that's about 242 million years after the last ice age.
Once targeted ads started becoming a thing I noticed a precipitous drop off for ads for singles in my area and feminine hygiene products. So I consider it a plus.
Yeah, I usually get ads for backup solutions, CRM packages, etc. now. Definitely better than having half naked people following you around the internet all the time.
Just put Alexa in a robot, or in a self driving car. Done now it's a person, and any accident it gets into is the fault of the, er, person, not Tesla. Makes a lot of sense to indemnify a corporation in this way.
If you make it a person, then it needs to be paid a wage. Including enough to insure itself against any liabilities it may incur.
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Ireland is sadly one of those countries that is in debt up to their eyeballs, what they should be focusing on is how the fuck to dig themselves out of the debt not coming up with aspirational ways to increase it even further.
Compared to which other countries? Countries with worse debt to GDP ratios include Japan, Canada, France, UK, & the USA amoung others. it is about 16% above the world average, so it isn't the best, but defiitly not the worst. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'll believe the government is serious about getting off fossil fuels when I see them taxing wind and solar, and removing taxes from gasoline and diesel fuel.
This is nonsense. Giving petroleum a tax advantage over wind and solar will not be encourage investment in wind and solar.
There is a difference between investments and subsidies.
Government should not be "investing" in any business or industry, full stop.
It can put laws and policies into effect to encourage or discourage certain things but it should not be both a participant in business and the regulator of business. That's how you grow crony-capitalism and I think we've all had enough of that horseshit.
Strat
Depends on how you run your government. The Norweigan government has about $200k in the bank for every citizen.
Holding significant investment in fossil fuel companies creates a potential conflict of interest with regard to passing laws involving regulation or infrastructure investment.
By divesting this conflict of interest is partially eliminated.
300 million euro is a lot of money for a person, but even for a small country like Ireland you're still only talking about roughly 0.09 % of GDP, and they'll invest it somewhere else. This is a symbolic gesture that costs nothing.
I was thinking that rebound would push land above where it was years ago, making the sea relatively higher in the past. But I followed some of the links from the page I posted, and yes, the Baltic used to be a lake.
The graph is about the Baltic region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Without delving into it too closely, I am assuming that the blip is due to the huge isostatic rebound in the area following the start of the current interglacial.
It's not news if it doesn't contain any BS.
It's not real trolling if it doesn't remove context from quotes. All-time records obviously only apply to those times for which we have records.
BTW, I checked your claim about Ontario. It's about half the size you said.
BTW: Europe is big. It is impossible to have no wind all over Europe at the same time.
Europe is tiny. I can drive across it in a day, it takes me 7-9 days to drive across Canada, if I drive 14hrs/day. Ontario is roughly the size of UK, Spain, France, Germany, NL, and Italy, and we've just had 11 days with pretty much zero wind.
Europe is bigger than Canada, by slightly less than 2%.
Water vapour is the number one cause of heat retention, not of rising temperatures. Also, cattle don't dig up buried carbon.
There's two problems with that:
1) Police all over the world have a record of making their job easier by taking the most convenient suspect and getting them convicted. They seem to generally prefer to have honest evidence, but they sure don't require it.
Britain is a civilised western democracy, and its police come under intense scrutiny given its abysmal historical record in Northern Ireland. They don't want to fuck things up
2) The system as reported isn't even good enough for your idealized use case. I'm assuming that it's the same system that was reported a couple of days ago where a representative of the company that sells it was saying it wasn't good enough for this use case.
The reporting is rubbish. It equates the percentage of false positives out of of all reported positives with the false positive rate, which is absolute nonsense. All the reports I've seen say it has a false positive rate of 98%, whereas the true fale posititive rate, from what numbers I have been able to find, is under 1.5%
My reading of the story was that his contract hadn't expired, he was 8 months into a 3 year contract. He said they changed systems, and his existing contract was not entered into the new system. Same end result, but slightly different cause.
The abstract of the study linked in the National Geographic article says 20ng per litre, and that this is a level found in some rivers.
Also, don't start with something as silly and foolish as: "it's hard to remember a more contentious period between the two countries in recent times". Really? Is it that hard to remember more contentious countries? Let me get you started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That made no sense.
Wouldn't cutting emissions 40% - 60% in the first world cause hundreds of millions or even billions of deaths in places dependent on western aid? Or is that part of the plan?
Given that less than 0.005% of global economic output is spent on food aid, that is highly doubtful.
False positives I mean.
Then that is under 4% positives.
92% of positive results being incorrect is not a 92% false positive rate. Without knowing the total number of images checked, the numbers in the article are worthless for making any judgement.
This was in the UK. Without a full risk assessment, the idea of anyone touching the shelves is laughable. So, no, he wasn't allowed to work with his hands.
In fact, it's probably because of "health and safety" that the carpenter would not do the job until the books were stacked.
What a load of horseshit... have you ever been on a building site? I have, for computer work, and if you think a few books on the ground are hazardous, you never should be on one. The carpenter was a lazy shit, probably on university payroll. Get in a chippie on contract, price for work done and he'd have the place sorted out in no time. He'd probably do a far superior job too.
I thought they just wave their wand and say "Accio Zuckerberg"
Not sure where the 242 million years comes from, the last ice age - the glacial period - ended about 12,000 years ago.
That's the beginning of the current interglacial period of the current ice age, which started ~2.6 million years ago and is ongoing. The last major ice age was the Karoo Ice Age
After all, during the last ice age there was no "Great Barrier Reef" as the sea-level was some 50 meters lower than now.
The world has changed so much since the last ice that it is probably difficult to say with any certainty what elevation the location of the barrier reef was at. But it is true, the reef itself did not exist then. It's only about 18 million years old, so that's about 242 million years after the last ice age.
Once targeted ads started becoming a thing I noticed a precipitous drop off for ads for singles in my area and feminine hygiene products. So I consider it a plus.
Yeah, I usually get ads for backup solutions, CRM packages, etc. now. Definitely better than having half naked people following you around the internet all the time.
Just put Alexa in a robot, or in a self driving car. Done now it's a person, and any accident it gets into is the fault of the, er, person, not Tesla. Makes a lot of sense to indemnify a corporation in this way.
If you make it a person, then it needs to be paid a wage. Including enough to insure itself against any liabilities it may incur.