You may be correct that dark matter and dark energy may not be the only possible explaination, but the point Megol made still stands. OP claims that that science lays them out as fact and says our observations are wrong, which is complete nonsense. Dark matter/energy are modern equivalents of "here be dragons", we know something is going on but we are unsure of the exact nature of that something. Continuing observation is used to narrow down the possibilities. The article was about finding a galaxy that is extraordinary in that we can understand everything that is happening, the first time we can say that out of the approx. 400000000000 galaxies in the observable universe.
I actually listen to some of those youtube astral projection hypnosis videos when going to bed sometimes because I find them relaxing and they help me get to sleep but yeah, actually believing in it is a load of bollocks.
The solar system is about 40AU (depending on your definition of planet).
There are many more sattelites of the sun than just the planets, some with known orbits that go far beyond 40AU out. You can look at some of the known ones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... There are doubtless many more that have not yet been observed.
But your net trade surplus in your example should be positive -- if it's negative, you're borrowing money.
If you're in the business of printing money and other people are happy to be paid with it rather than their own currency, you're in a pretty strong position with your creditors.
Unfortunately paying attention as a driver is no immunity from getting hit as a pedestrian. It doesn't matter if I have the right of way, I'll be the one injured, crippled or dead. And when you know that by far most of the adult population have a driver's license so when you're scraping the bottom of that barrel there's some pretty terrible drivers out there. Looking out for yourself is simple self-preservation, not matter how much the rules say you shouldn't have to.
There are some pretty terrible pedestrians out there too (don't get me started on cyclists, most of them are fine but some of them are the biggest wankers on the road). I once saw a guy practically run into traffic and get mowed down. To be fair, by the look of him he was a junkie and probably off his head, and it was slow traffic so he probably lived, but I was driving the other direction with my window open and there were some pretty nasty crunching noises. The woman who hit him looked like she was about to have a heart attack, really felt sorry for her.
This whole article is clickbait trolling, getting the fanboys out to bloviate about how the Apple ecosystem is more than the sum of it's parts, and the haters to then reply about how that is comical horseshit, proven by single anecdote; etc.
Welcome to the new Slashdot.
OK, I'll try to answer honestly without being a fanboi or "hater".
"We don't want people to have to focus on bits and bytes and feeds and speeds. We don't want people to have to go to multiple [systems] or live with a device that's not integrated. We do the hardware and the software, and some of the key services as well, to provide a whole system. We do that in such a way that we infuse humanity into it."
I want to be able to focus on bits and bytes when I want to. I don't care if systems are integrated unless I want them to be. I'm not looking for humanity in a computer, I am looking for functionality and obedience.
The US scores a shitty 74 on the corruption perception index and the last score was completed for 2016 before the orange turd took office so it will be plummeting probably out of the top 50 by the end of 2018.
It is a perception index, not an actual corrpution index, so while the positions of countries on the list relative to each other may well reflect reality, the scores of countries might not. Besides, over 50% of the countries on that list got half or less of the USA's score.
While I can understand some approximation error, the math should still stand unharmed!
True. But it is also 2.559 tons, and 2.866 tons, and 2.388 tons, and probably some other values as well. Welcome to the joys of the imperial measurement system.
Good to know our U.S. government aren't the only idiots to declare war on ideological and intangible things. You want to fix a problem, then work towards a solution instead of chest-beating and pretending to "declare war" on it.
I didn't see anything about anyone in the French government saying anything about "declaring war", just some trashy American news site I'd never heard of before in the linked article. The same article that makes the bullshit claim in the same headline that France makes no attempt at the liberty & fraternity parts of its motto. How the hell does drivel like that end up here?
People at lower incomes generally aren't paying taxes in the first place, so they have nothing to avoid.
Yes they are. They pay sales taxes on pretty much all their earnings, while rich people pay sales taxes on a tiny fraction of their earnings.
Even low income earners ought to pull at least some of their weight, and currently that's not happening. It's why upper income earners get so mad every time people talk about lowering their taxes as a "giveaway to the rich."
Low income earners pull most of the weight. They work as hard or harder than high income workers, but are no better off at the end of the year than the start.
Funny that you think that, given that the source linked in the Breitbart article mentioned 400 full time jobs and 1800 interns. And that is from the companies that responded, not all did. Besides, why would you imagine that people who don't speak German and who have little in the way of relevant qualifications would be working in the top few companies in the country? How many people working in top Silicon Valley companies today arrived in America as asylum seekers within the past 18 months?
I have an HP LJ 4L printer which I bought new in 1992. I put a new cartridge in it ($10) every year or two and it just keeps printing as good as the day it was new.
The entire range of Laserjet 4 printers from HP was awesome. I used to "repair" them back in the day when printers weren't considered to be below my paygrade, and that pretty much consisted of fuser and pickup roller replacements.
Today, each bitcoin transaction requires the same amount of energy used to power nine homes in the U.S. for one day Sorry, we all know that mining is energy intensive, and transactions are not that cheap...
But the number above makes no sense at all.
A lot of the numbers in the summary (no, I didn't RTFA) make no sense. 31 terawatt hours per year is slightly less than 85 gigawatt hours per day, but it is apparently increasing at a rate of 450 gigawatt hours per day?
You understand that there are millions of citizens that go hungry in this country while you're eating your $12 per pound roast, right? You probably litterally could feed dozens of people with what you spend for that one meal.
Ok...so,what exactly are you saying?
Are you saying because some in the world aren't as fortunate as me, that I should forever deny myself a few worldly pleasures, such as cooking and eating a nice meal with my family?
I think it is likely that he thinks that the money you spend on preparing a nice meal for your family simply disappears into the ether, rather than being recycled into the economy and stimulating further economic activity, and that therefore any minor luxuries enjoyed by anyone other than himself are a frivolous waste of resources.
Incorrect. Turkey is the best, most flavorful, most nutritious meat available, if it's done correctly. This applies to wild turkeys and not farm raised turkeys. The best way to cook a turkey is to deep fry it. The USA was once thick with wild turkeys, but now they are mostly dead. Fun fact: I once almost hit a turkey with my car on Thanksgiving.
Not from the US, so we only get imported turkeys here, but I really can't imagine any turkey being as tasty as goose. There's certainly more meat on them, but for flavour you can't beat goose.
Realise that coal and oil, the main sources of the CO2 in the atmosphere, was buried far underground in structures that are difficult to put wood back into. And that coal and oil are both much more carbon rich than plain old wood, so they can fit more carbon into the same space as wood does.
The carbon can be extracted from the wood. I read somewhere years ago that it is possible to use wood as an energy source by making charcoal, and only burning the gases produced by the process. The charcoal itself can be compressed and buried. Obviously, that is not going to be very useful as an energy source, but it could at least make it easier to bury the stuff.
1. Asia's carbon footprint is larger than the north American continent and European continent combined.
Asia's landmass is 28% larger than North America's and Europe's combined, and it's population is 3.4 times that of North America and Europe combined. What exactly is your point?
2. The US population is entirely developed within civilization while large chunks of Africa still have mud huts as the pinnacle of civil achievement.
Again, not sure what your point is. Are you saying that because colonial policies in Africa impoverished the entire continent, we should now keep them at the same level relative to us forever?
3. The US has winter. Keeping out cold that can kill in an hour or two is carbon expensive. Ask Canada.
You don't "keep cold out", you keep heat in. Insulate your damn house.
5. The US still produces things of value that others consume while the carbon output stays on the US. Africa doesn't produce anything of value at all outside of BBC nature documentaries.
Like what? The Kardashians? The new reality TV show "Whitehouse"?
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...Which is exactly what they want. Mission accomplished.
I dunno, this mission sounds impossible.
So who elected Germany as head of the EU ?
Huh?
You may be correct that dark matter and dark energy may not be the only possible explaination, but the point Megol made still stands. OP claims that that science lays them out as fact and says our observations are wrong, which is complete nonsense. Dark matter/energy are modern equivalents of "here be dragons", we know something is going on but we are unsure of the exact nature of that something. Continuing observation is used to narrow down the possibilities. The article was about finding a galaxy that is extraordinary in that we can understand everything that is happening, the first time we can say that out of the approx. 400000000000 galaxies in the observable universe.
I actually listen to some of those youtube astral projection hypnosis videos when going to bed sometimes because I find them relaxing and they help me get to sleep but yeah, actually believing in it is a load of bollocks.
The solar system is about 40AU (depending on your definition of planet).
There are many more sattelites of the sun than just the planets, some with known orbits that go far beyond 40AU out. You can look at some of the known ones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... There are doubtless many more that have not yet been observed.
But your net trade surplus in your example should be positive -- if it's negative, you're borrowing money.
If you're in the business of printing money and other people are happy to be paid with it rather than their own currency, you're in a pretty strong position with your creditors.
Unfortunately paying attention as a driver is no immunity from getting hit as a pedestrian. It doesn't matter if I have the right of way, I'll be the one injured, crippled or dead. And when you know that by far most of the adult population have a driver's license so when you're scraping the bottom of that barrel there's some pretty terrible drivers out there. Looking out for yourself is simple self-preservation, not matter how much the rules say you shouldn't have to.
There are some pretty terrible pedestrians out there too (don't get me started on cyclists, most of them are fine but some of them are the biggest wankers on the road). I once saw a guy practically run into traffic and get mowed down. To be fair, by the look of him he was a junkie and probably off his head, and it was slow traffic so he probably lived, but I was driving the other direction with my window open and there were some pretty nasty crunching noises. The woman who hit him looked like she was about to have a heart attack, really felt sorry for her.
This whole article is clickbait trolling, getting the fanboys out to bloviate about how the Apple ecosystem is more than the sum of it's parts, and the haters to then reply about how that is comical horseshit, proven by single anecdote; etc.
Welcome to the new Slashdot.
OK, I'll try to answer honestly without being a fanboi or "hater".
"We don't want people to have to focus on bits and bytes and feeds and speeds. We don't want people to have to go to multiple [systems] or live with a device that's not integrated. We do the hardware and the software, and some of the key services as well, to provide a whole system. We do that in such a way that we infuse humanity into it."
I want to be able to focus on bits and bytes when I want to. I don't care if systems are integrated unless I want them to be. I'm not looking for humanity in a computer, I am looking for functionality and obedience.
The US scores a shitty 74 on the corruption perception index and the last score was completed for 2016 before the orange turd took office so it will be plummeting probably out of the top 50 by the end of 2018.
That score is good for 18th place. Denmark scores a 90. So no, there are a fair number of countries with far less corruption than the US.
numbnuts.
It is a perception index, not an actual corrpution index, so while the positions of countries on the list relative to each other may well reflect reality, the scores of countries might not. Besides, over 50% of the countries on that list got half or less of the USA's score.
25 years of data? Why not 26 years of data?
I'll believe you the moment the faggots in San Francisco drown.
No, because TOPEX/Poseidon was launched into orbit in August 1992. Good luck getting data from it from before it was operational.
Given Soul is 8 billion km from Planet, I find yor Calculators amuzing.
Aprox. 0.15 billion km buddy.
While I can understand some approximation error, the math should still stand unharmed!
True. But it is also 2.559 tons, and 2.866 tons, and 2.388 tons, and probably some other values as well. Welcome to the joys of the imperial measurement system.
Except it is. You messed up.
705600000 / NTSC_FREQ_EXACT is integral.
It's exactly 11771760.
Hint: x / (a / b) = x / a * b. NOT x / a / b.
Actually it is x * b / a
Good to know our U.S. government aren't the only idiots to declare war on ideological and intangible things. You want to fix a problem, then work towards a solution instead of chest-beating and pretending to "declare war" on it.
I didn't see anything about anyone in the French government saying anything about "declaring war", just some trashy American news site I'd never heard of before in the linked article. The same article that makes the bullshit claim in the same headline that France makes no attempt at the liberty & fraternity parts of its motto. How the hell does drivel like that end up here?
People at lower incomes generally aren't paying taxes in the first place, so they have nothing to avoid.
Yes they are. They pay sales taxes on pretty much all their earnings, while rich people pay sales taxes on a tiny fraction of their earnings.
Even low income earners ought to pull at least some of their weight, and currently that's not happening. It's why upper income earners get so mad every time people talk about lowering their taxes as a "giveaway to the rich."
Low income earners pull most of the weight. They work as hard or harder than high income workers, but are no better off at the end of the year than the start.
That's crazy. Sunrise time changes by more than 4.5 hours over the course of the year, more for people near the poles.
So you agree then that the statement you made, that only 54 refugees in Germany had found jobs, is nonsense?
The numbers of asylum seekers who are likely to find work is minimal. Of the million plus migrants who arrived in 2016 only 54 found a job
http://www.breitbart.com/londo...
Funny that you think that, given that the source linked in the Breitbart article mentioned 400 full time jobs and 1800 interns. And that is from the companies that responded, not all did. Besides, why would you imagine that people who don't speak German and who have little in the way of relevant qualifications would be working in the top few companies in the country? How many people working in top Silicon Valley companies today arrived in America as asylum seekers within the past 18 months?
I have an HP LJ 4L printer which I bought new in 1992. I put a new cartridge in it ($10) every year or two and it just keeps printing as good as the day it was new.
The entire range of Laserjet 4 printers from HP was awesome. I used to "repair" them back in the day when printers weren't considered to be below my paygrade, and that pretty much consisted of fuser and pickup roller replacements.
Today, each bitcoin transaction requires the same amount of energy used to power nine homes in the U.S. for one day ...
Sorry, we all know that mining is energy intensive, and transactions are not that cheap
But the number above makes no sense at all.
A lot of the numbers in the summary (no, I didn't RTFA) make no sense. 31 terawatt hours per year is slightly less than 85 gigawatt hours per day, but it is apparently increasing at a rate of 450 gigawatt hours per day?
Ok...so,what exactly are you saying?
Are you saying because some in the world aren't as fortunate as me, that I should forever deny myself a few worldly pleasures, such as cooking and eating a nice meal with my family?
I think it is likely that he thinks that the money you spend on preparing a nice meal for your family simply disappears into the ether, rather than being recycled into the economy and stimulating further economic activity, and that therefore any minor luxuries enjoyed by anyone other than himself are a frivolous waste of resources.
Incorrect. Turkey is the best, most flavorful, most nutritious meat available, if it's done correctly. This applies to wild turkeys and not farm raised turkeys. The best way to cook a turkey is to deep fry it. The USA was once thick with wild turkeys, but now they are mostly dead. Fun fact: I once almost hit a turkey with my car on Thanksgiving.
Not from the US, so we only get imported turkeys here, but I really can't imagine any turkey being as tasty as goose. There's certainly more meat on them, but for flavour you can't beat goose.
"Massive advances in satellite internet"
Yes, all you need to do is repeal the laws of physics. Simple.
Indeed. Geosynchronous orbit is at 35786km altitude. A satellite connection has a minimum 239ms overhead in space travel round trip time.
Realise that coal and oil, the main sources of the CO2 in the atmosphere, was buried far underground in structures that are difficult to put wood back into. And that coal and oil are both much more carbon rich than plain old wood, so they can fit more carbon into the same space as wood does.
The carbon can be extracted from the wood. I read somewhere years ago that it is possible to use wood as an energy source by making charcoal, and only burning the gases produced by the process. The charcoal itself can be compressed and buried. Obviously, that is not going to be very useful as an energy source, but it could at least make it easier to bury the stuff.
1. Asia's carbon footprint is larger than the north American continent and European continent combined.
Asia's landmass is 28% larger than North America's and Europe's combined, and it's population is 3.4 times that of North America and Europe combined. What exactly is your point?
2. The US population is entirely developed within civilization while large chunks of Africa still have mud huts as the pinnacle of civil achievement.
Again, not sure what your point is. Are you saying that because colonial policies in Africa impoverished the entire continent, we should now keep them at the same level relative to us forever?
3. The US has winter. Keeping out cold that can kill in an hour or two is carbon expensive. Ask Canada.
You don't "keep cold out", you keep heat in. Insulate your damn house.
5. The US still produces things of value that others consume while the carbon output stays on the US. Africa doesn't produce anything of value at all outside of BBC nature documentaries.
Like what? The Kardashians? The new reality TV show "Whitehouse"?