Ducks Unlimited is, I beleive, the largest owner of wetlands in the United States. More than the gov't. In the Bay Area, they allow year-round access to the lands for bird-watching, hiking, etc.
Ducks Unlimited is, essentially, a bunch of duck hunters who realized that if there were no wetlands for ducks to breed/live in, there wouldn't be any hunting, so they pooled money to buy wetlands, and restore wetlands, buying small tracts from farmers, or bits and pieces all over the place that the gov't wouldn't be interested in. Result is an enormous amount of acerage, all privately owned, and not at all exploited.
Yes, they hunt on it, but due to having preserved the acreage that they have, they aren't negatively impacting the populations (in fact, they've positively impacted them).
this has been my experience, as well. $10 cables that come with the gear sounds like crap, but moving up to the cheapest of "audiophile" cables yields a big increase in sound, especially in the low frequencies.
I did this at a Hi-Fi stereo shop that knew me, and I was questioning their cables. We A/B tested them, and I was surprised at the difference. Now, go form the $30 cables to the $100 cables, and there's no difference, and the HiFi place even said so, but they have customers that want to buy the cables, so they stock them.
And by that, neither are HDs, as the heads tend to park, and you can usually seek to locations near the beginning of the disk faster than the edge of the disk.
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A) They didn't have good jaws
B) They had WAY overprice jaws.
Unless he was an idiot/improperly trained, and tried to "spread" the lock, which doesn't work with hardened steel. Now, the Hurst "heavy cutters" make very short work of hardened steel, just make sure you're not on the path that the two halves will go when they finally separate.
(I'm a volunteer firefighter with a decently good bit of education/practice/use of Hurt's jaws).
From the people that I've met, being able to make those leaps and those discoveries isn't related to what education that they have.
Therefore from my experience, it appears that saying that we need the educational institution that we have to develop these sorts of things is wrong.
I know many MIT grads, not all are equal. The best tended to work in the labs, and do cool and interesting things while they were getting their degrees. (not necessarily well-rounded people, but people that concentrated on more than grades).
Xerox Parc may have a bunch of PhDs working there, but is it the PhD's that each has, or is it environment, and a place to bring brilliant people together to work together on new ideas?
My parents intervened more than that, and it really showed with my youngest brother, however when he hit his teens, he had to become the "oldest", as I was in college, and it was him and our middle brother, who has Down's Syndrome. That pretty radically changed his temperament, having to pick up that responsibility.
A lot the friction between us was erased about then, when HE was now the one in the position of responsibility, and the one that would get in trouble when the parents came home and found things not left to their liking.
You can put my grandfather into that category (actually, stopped at the 7th grade). That in no way hampered is ability to be very intelligent, read any book he could get his hands on, become a sucessful businessman, and instill a strong work-ethic into both his kids and his grand-kids.
Why? because while he hadn't gone on to school (dirt poor and needed money growing up), he still valued learning (no cares about education, but learning was key).
Always quick to teach small lessons about things, the way they worked, and to give you mental puzzles to work on. The house was full of mental/spatial puzzles.
Years spent on education just really has not (in my experience) provided any correlation with future success (or lack of ignorance).
He could do math at 80, with a 7th grade education (from the 20s) than most high school graduates that I know, right out of high school.
Just because you have the physical attributes of an adult doesn't mean that you have the mental ones.
Anyone in that category wasn't raised to be an adult would be my take. How else are you going to mature? It doesn't happen magically.
I was lucky enough to be pulled from public schools in 1st grade, after the teacher wanted to send me back a grade, since I wasn't doing anything in class.
My parents looked at the ciriculum, noted that it was mostly stuff I'd learned when I was 3, and then pinched enough pennies to send both me and my younger brother to a private elementary school where you set your own learning pace, with a minimum pace set by the school (which wasn't slow, I went the minimum pace in math, and went through 1.25-1.5 texts a year).
At hte end of 6th grade, I was ready for my HS's 9th grade english class, and 8th grade math and science classes, and was similarly ahead in history, art, and social sciences.
Unfortunatley, that made Jr. High a compound hell of dealing with moving from a 30 student school distributed from K-6 to a 180 students per grade, and dealing with being bored out of my gourd for 6 hours a day in class. Good thing I read lots of books...
HS was better, but the regimented pacing was horrid in classes like English. Being able to outread all but a few other classmates makes 1 month dedicated to slowly going through 1984 very painful when you read it in a few days (or less).
I really think that being able to adjust the teaching rate for each student is by far the best method. That way they get to learn as fast as they can (or want to), and don't have to get mired down by other students. And then the slow students don't get heavily penalized for being slow, instead they just don't learn as much, or learn as much in the same period. They may have other subjects that they are much better in.
And after interviewing piles of students with undergrad and grad degrees in CS, CE, or EE for programming positions, a degree doesn't mean jack about thier ability to:
A) Write good code B) Think about their designs C) Produce even an estimate of commonly used algorthms that are taught as part of any CS curriculum.
I'm sorry, but if you give me a blank stare when I ask for rough version of a singly-linked list insert routine, you're not getting hired. Not to work on my product, that is. Especially when after having explained what a singly-linked list is, they can't pseudo-code it (in case they just never actually touched algorithms/data structures, but can solve problems using programming)
However, doing it in the early teens gets the kids being more self-reliant for things earlier in their lives.
Which, to me, is a good thing.
Get them dealing with problems themselves, instead of running to mommy and daddy. A boarding school environment may not, exactly, be the wrong place. It would depend a LOT on how the school was ran.
And if they feel they need to talk to their parents, modern communications make this utterly cake-walk.
Make the kids start to deal with teachers and their parents as if they were adults, and slowly give them more responsibility, and then turn them over to college, where they are their own masters, entirely, kick off the security blanket of the college administration, and then maybe we'd get more emotionally mature, self-reliant people in their early 20s than we do now.
It would appear that 100 years ago, one could apprentice themselves into a trade, and become a journeyman at it in thier teens, and a journeyman was considered an "adult" and could open their own shop. However, this thought is completely held as wrong in the current social environment, as 16-18yos aren't "mature" enough to be allowed to do such things.
Frankly, I think they're right. But for the wrong reasons. They're right because they were raised to not be an adult, but to be a kid. Raise them to be an adult, and *surprise* they tend to be adults.
Statistics, statistics, statistics. It's all based on statistics (I know someone that builds the statistical models for home-owner's insurance).
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In order for an area to form with enough salt in it to be a good salt mine (such as detroit and cincinatti), it has to be very geologically stable, and have no groundwater, as the groundwater will quickly pull the salt out of the area.
And there are materials that aren't concerned about exposure to saltwater (titanium oxide, for one).
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Salt mines. Stuff the crap under detroit. It's not like it's going to do any more damage, and very few things are as stable, geologically, as a salt mine.
California and PG&E have programs for net-0 houses. Houses which pull from the grid at night/in the winter, and feed back into the grid during the day.
It helps the utilities by lowering their production costs, and it helps the home-owners by decreasing their usage.
The deal is that if you produce as much in a month as you consume, you pay nothing for service. Over the year, this is very unlikely, due to cloudy days and wintertime lack of sun.
Houses with electro-mechanical meters will literally spin backwards and production negates consumption.
The other big benefit is that hot summer days, the days with the most solar power generation capability are also the days of the highest use due to air conditioning loads.
Nope. I have respect for the clear distinction that they make as to what's in the bible, and what is codified rabinical law, derived from discussion of what's in the bible.
Especially in that they actually discuss the reasons for why rules came about, and why some things are wrong and others aren't.
A lot of the kosher diet, for instance, is how not to die from your food when wandering around as a nomadic sheep-herder in the desert.
I left because I was tired of being told what I should think, when it was self contradictory, and being smart enough to read the bible and come to my own conclusions, decided that the religion, as a an organized body, wasn't right, or not right for me.
I'm not really sure what I beleive at this point, but I do think that Paul did the early Christians a great disservice. The differences between things Jesus said and Paul said are substantial, and it seems that most churches go more by Paul than by Jesus, which to me, is wrong.
I have more respect for the old testament, and the rabinical law than I do the new testament and the derivatives from there (like the various flavors of Catholic mythology, no offense meant).
There are other reasons as well. It's a long list. I don't agree with major portions of the doctrine, I don't agree with the application of the doctrine, and I especially dislike how most people I know who are Christians really are sheep that blindly go wherever they are told.
I'm too autonomous for that.
I know several Christians that are devout to thier beleifs, and I respect that, when they aren't self-contradictory and not cherry picked. And it does happen, and I have a great respect for that. People who have Faith, and follow thier Faith is very impressive, but I can't walk the same path as them.
I think you've touched on some good things here, but I want to go further with them:
"As a conservative, I thought it was the exact opposite, especially for religious conservatives. "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." (Proverbs 22:6) Whether a person is good or bad (not using absolute theological terms here) is seen as being determined by how they are raised. It's largely determined by the home environment, school environment, and community. This is why the family and one man-one woman marriage is so important to the right. Religion assumes nurture over nature. It acknowledges tendencies of nature (lust, jealousy, etc.) but advocates choosing good no matter what you feel or rationalize."
It seems like the teachings of various religions get swept under the rug when incidents like 9/11 and Iraq come up. "Turn the other cheek," isn't exactly the response that came from 9/11, although it would be the correct response from a very devout Christian. Block the blow if you can, but don't strike back in anger.
I find this hypocricy of the religious right very disturbing. I don't understand how they can claim so much of the core Christian viewpoint, and then completely ignore other parts of it. Picking religious tenets by convenience isn't something I like.
This is one reason why I no longer identify myself as Christian, but as agnostic. I was raised Christian, but when I hear comments like "I'm glad we had a good, strong, Conservative Christian in office when 9/11 happened!", I get scared...
Capability in a situation like that should have nothing to do with religious views...
Liberals seem to think that most criminals and "bad" adults can be easily reformed by government programs or UN programs if we're talking about terrorists.
And here, I agree with you 100%.
You contradict yourself here. Before, you said liberals were the ones that believed that people could choose to change.
I don't think either of the Parties, or either the Convervatives or Liberals can actually put together an internally-consistent view of their party/beleif system. Which further makes the two-party system a complete farce.
Ok, from the original phrasing, I thought they were saying that they were discontinuing shortwave broadcasts to the US, which from your link, may or may not be the case. However, shortwave is useful in that if you set your receiver up right, you can pull stuff in from just about anywhere in the world, depending on atmospheric conditions.
So if they still broadcast on shortwave in Europe, you'll be able to recieve it in the US. However, after this, you might just need a larger antenna to pull the signal in (if they shut down US-based transmitters).
I would consider alice surfing the 'net akin to her driving a car.
And of course, car analogies are bad. Just like all other analogies.
Of course, for MS, they can make existing copies of windows more secure for about the cost of Ford sending out letters saying that their car could blow up on them.
5 miles from the CO, area hasn't been "upgraded" for use with cable-modems by comcast (was supposed to be live in January of this year), and ISDN is >$120/mo.
Your taking it in the wrong direction. If Alice has failed to maintain her car, for instance not getting the brake inspected (and pads replaced when needed), and then fails to stop at a stop-sign one day, and hits Bob (who's walking across the street at the pedestrian crosswalk just past the stop-sign), then she's held responsible for that.
The fact that she hit him because her brakes failed when she was trying to stop doesn't change the fact that she's negligent for not having properly maintained her vehicle.
The same applies to the 'net. People who are negligent about maintaining their computer, whose computers are compromised and then used to "do wrong" (ie, spam bots, DDoS, etc) are partially responsible for the hijaker in the first place.
Some states have laws that if someone breaks into your house, and steals you gun, YOU are responsible for anything they then do with that gun. The logic being that a gun is a dangerous weapon (as is a car), and must be properly stored (ie, if they crack your gun-safe, it's a bit different, but loaded and next to the (unlocked) front door is considered negligent.
On a tour of a research vessel that I took in HS, the flow-rate for Lake Huron is so small compared to it's size that it takes 300 years to flow across the lake from Mackinaw to Detroit.
And this lake is pretty much in series with Niagara, so most of the flow over niagara (3-4 FEET thick wall of water ~100 yards wide rushing over it), and they've got so much cooling capacity that they really don't have much to worry about...
Unless they do something stupid like pump the warm water back into the bottom of the lake. It should be inserted back into the lake at the appropriate depth for the new temperature of the water (or just put on top, or on land, to drain back in via ground water channels.
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Ducks Unlimited is, I beleive, the largest owner of wetlands in the United States. More than the gov't. In the Bay Area, they allow year-round access to the lands for bird-watching, hiking, etc.
Ducks Unlimited is, essentially, a bunch of duck hunters who realized that if there were no wetlands for ducks to breed/live in, there wouldn't be any hunting, so they pooled money to buy wetlands, and restore wetlands, buying small tracts from farmers, or bits and pieces all over the place that the gov't wouldn't be interested in. Result is an enormous amount of acerage, all privately owned, and not at all exploited.
Yes, they hunt on it, but due to having preserved the acreage that they have, they aren't negatively impacting the populations (in fact, they've positively impacted them).
this has been my experience, as well. $10 cables that come with the gear sounds like crap, but moving up to the cheapest of "audiophile" cables yields a big increase in sound, especially in the low frequencies.
I did this at a Hi-Fi stereo shop that knew me, and I was questioning their cables. We A/B tested them, and I was surprised at the difference. Now, go form the $30 cables to the $100 cables, and there's no difference, and the HiFi place even said so, but they have customers that want to buy the cables, so they stock them.
And by that, neither are HDs, as the heads tend to park, and you can usually seek to locations near the beginning of the disk faster than the edge of the disk.
A) They didn't have good jaws
B) They had WAY overprice jaws.
Unless he was an idiot/improperly trained, and tried to "spread" the lock, which doesn't work with hardened steel. Now, the Hurst "heavy cutters" make very short work of hardened steel, just make sure you're not on the path that the two halves will go when they finally separate.
(I'm a volunteer firefighter with a decently good bit of education/practice/use of Hurt's jaws).
From the people that I've met, being able to make those leaps and those discoveries isn't related to what education that they have.
Therefore from my experience, it appears that saying that we need the educational institution that we have to develop these sorts of things is wrong.
I know many MIT grads, not all are equal. The best tended to work in the labs, and do cool and interesting things while they were getting their degrees. (not necessarily well-rounded people, but people that concentrated on more than grades).
Xerox Parc may have a bunch of PhDs working there, but is it the PhD's that each has, or is it environment, and a place to bring brilliant people together to work together on new ideas?
My parents intervened more than that, and it really showed with my youngest brother, however when he hit his teens, he had to become the "oldest", as I was in college, and it was him and our middle brother, who has Down's Syndrome. That pretty radically changed his temperament, having to pick up that responsibility.
A lot the friction between us was erased about then, when HE was now the one in the position of responsibility, and the one that would get in trouble when the parents came home and found things not left to their liking.
You can put my grandfather into that category (actually, stopped at the 7th grade). That in no way hampered is ability to be very intelligent, read any book he could get his hands on, become a sucessful businessman, and instill a strong work-ethic into both his kids and his grand-kids.
Why? because while he hadn't gone on to school (dirt poor and needed money growing up), he still valued learning (no cares about education, but learning was key).
Always quick to teach small lessons about things, the way they worked, and to give you mental puzzles to work on. The house was full of mental/spatial puzzles.
Years spent on education just really has not (in my experience) provided any correlation with future success (or lack of ignorance).
He could do math at 80, with a 7th grade education (from the 20s) than most high school graduates that I know, right out of high school.
Just because you have the physical attributes of an adult doesn't mean that you have the mental ones.
Anyone in that category wasn't raised to be an adult would be my take. How else are you going to mature? It doesn't happen magically.
I was lucky enough to be pulled from public schools in 1st grade, after the teacher wanted to send me back a grade, since I wasn't doing anything in class.
My parents looked at the ciriculum, noted that it was mostly stuff I'd learned when I was 3, and then pinched enough pennies to send both me and my younger brother to a private elementary school where you set your own learning pace, with a minimum pace set by the school (which wasn't slow, I went the minimum pace in math, and went through 1.25-1.5 texts a year).
At hte end of 6th grade, I was ready for my HS's 9th grade english class, and 8th grade math and science classes, and was similarly ahead in history, art, and social sciences.
Unfortunatley, that made Jr. High a compound hell of dealing with moving from a 30 student school distributed from K-6 to a 180 students per grade, and dealing with being bored out of my gourd for 6 hours a day in class. Good thing I read lots of books...
HS was better, but the regimented pacing was horrid in classes like English. Being able to outread all but a few other classmates makes 1 month dedicated to slowly going through 1984 very painful when you read it in a few days (or less).
I really think that being able to adjust the teaching rate for each student is by far the best method. That way they get to learn as fast as they can (or want to), and don't have to get mired down by other students. And then the slow students don't get heavily penalized for being slow, instead they just don't learn as much, or learn as much in the same period. They may have other subjects that they are much better in.
And after interviewing piles of students with undergrad and grad degrees in CS, CE, or EE for programming positions, a degree doesn't mean jack about thier ability to:
A) Write good code
B) Think about their designs
C) Produce even an estimate of commonly used algorthms that are taught as part of any CS curriculum.
I'm sorry, but if you give me a blank stare when I ask for rough version of a singly-linked list insert routine, you're not getting hired. Not to work on my product, that is. Especially when after having explained what a singly-linked list is, they can't pseudo-code it (in case they just never actually touched algorithms/data structures, but can solve problems using programming)
However, doing it in the early teens gets the kids being more self-reliant for things earlier in their lives.
Which, to me, is a good thing.
Get them dealing with problems themselves, instead of running to mommy and daddy. A boarding school environment may not, exactly, be the wrong place. It would depend a LOT on how the school was ran.
And if they feel they need to talk to their parents, modern communications make this utterly cake-walk.
Make the kids start to deal with teachers and their parents as if they were adults, and slowly give them more responsibility, and then turn them over to college, where they are their own masters, entirely, kick off the security blanket of the college administration, and then maybe we'd get more emotionally mature, self-reliant people in their early 20s than we do now.
It would appear that 100 years ago, one could apprentice themselves into a trade, and become a journeyman at it in thier teens, and a journeyman was considered an "adult" and could open their own shop. However, this thought is completely held as wrong in the current social environment, as 16-18yos aren't "mature" enough to be allowed to do such things.
Frankly, I think they're right. But for the wrong reasons. They're right because they were raised to not be an adult, but to be a kid. Raise them to be an adult, and *surprise* they tend to be adults.
Statistics, statistics, statistics. It's all based on statistics (I know someone that builds the statistical models for home-owner's insurance).
In order for an area to form with enough salt in it to be a good salt mine (such as detroit and cincinatti), it has to be very geologically stable, and have no groundwater, as the groundwater will quickly pull the salt out of the area.
And there are materials that aren't concerned about exposure to saltwater (titanium oxide, for one).
Salt mines. Stuff the crap under detroit. It's not like it's going to do any more damage, and very few things are as stable, geologically, as a salt mine.
California and PG&E have programs for net-0 houses. Houses which pull from the grid at night/in the winter, and feed back into the grid during the day.
It helps the utilities by lowering their production costs, and it helps the home-owners by decreasing their usage.
The deal is that if you produce as much in a month as you consume, you pay nothing for service. Over the year, this is very unlikely, due to cloudy days and wintertime lack of sun.
Houses with electro-mechanical meters will literally spin backwards and production negates consumption.
The other big benefit is that hot summer days, the days with the most solar power generation capability are also the days of the highest use due to air conditioning loads.
Nope. I have respect for the clear distinction that they make as to what's in the bible, and what is codified rabinical law, derived from discussion of what's in the bible.
Especially in that they actually discuss the reasons for why rules came about, and why some things are wrong and others aren't.
A lot of the kosher diet, for instance, is how not to die from your food when wandering around as a nomadic sheep-herder in the desert.
I left because I was tired of being told what I should think, when it was self contradictory, and being smart enough to read the bible and come to my own conclusions, decided that the religion, as a an organized body, wasn't right, or not right for me.
I'm not really sure what I beleive at this point, but I do think that Paul did the early Christians a great disservice. The differences between things Jesus said and Paul said are substantial, and it seems that most churches go more by Paul than by Jesus, which to me, is wrong.
I have more respect for the old testament, and the rabinical law than I do the new testament and the derivatives from there (like the various flavors of Catholic mythology, no offense meant).
There are other reasons as well. It's a long list. I don't agree with major portions of the doctrine, I don't agree with the application of the doctrine, and I especially dislike how most people I know who are Christians really are sheep that blindly go wherever they are told.
I'm too autonomous for that.
I know several Christians that are devout to thier beleifs, and I respect that, when they aren't self-contradictory and not cherry picked. And it does happen, and I have a great respect for that. People who have Faith, and follow thier Faith is very impressive, but I can't walk the same path as them.
I think you've touched on some good things here, but I want to go further with them:
"As a conservative, I thought it was the exact opposite, especially for religious conservatives. "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." (Proverbs 22:6) Whether a person is good or bad (not using absolute theological terms here) is seen as being determined by how they are raised. It's largely determined by the home environment, school environment, and community. This is why the family and one man-one woman marriage is so important to the right. Religion assumes nurture over nature. It acknowledges tendencies of nature (lust, jealousy, etc.) but advocates choosing good no matter what you feel or rationalize."
It seems like the teachings of various religions get swept under the rug when incidents like 9/11 and Iraq come up. "Turn the other cheek," isn't exactly the response that came from 9/11, although it would be the correct response from a very devout Christian. Block the blow if you can, but don't strike back in anger.
I find this hypocricy of the religious right very disturbing. I don't understand how they can claim so much of the core Christian viewpoint, and then completely ignore other parts of it. Picking religious tenets by convenience isn't something I like.
This is one reason why I no longer identify myself as Christian, but as agnostic. I was raised Christian, but when I hear comments like "I'm glad we had a good, strong, Conservative Christian in office when 9/11 happened!", I get scared...
Capability in a situation like that should have nothing to do with religious views...
Liberals seem to think that most criminals and "bad" adults can be easily reformed by government programs or UN programs if we're talking about terrorists.
And here, I agree with you 100%.
You contradict yourself here. Before, you said liberals were the ones that believed that people could choose to change.
I don't think either of the Parties, or either the Convervatives or Liberals can actually put together an internally-consistent view of their party/beleif system. Which further makes the two-party system a complete farce.
Ok, from the original phrasing, I thought they were saying that they were discontinuing shortwave broadcasts to the US, which from your link, may or may not be the case. However, shortwave is useful in that if you set your receiver up right, you can pull stuff in from just about anywhere in the world, depending on atmospheric conditions.
So if they still broadcast on shortwave in Europe, you'll be able to recieve it in the US. However, after this, you might just need a larger antenna to pull the signal in (if they shut down US-based transmitters).
Poorly written article (from a tech perspective).
that makes no sense, you know. Shortwave is broadcast in the UK, and received in the US...
I found out when google changed their banner...
I would consider alice surfing the 'net akin to her driving a car.
And of course, car analogies are bad. Just like all other analogies.
Of course, for MS, they can make existing copies of windows more secure for about the cost of Ford sending out letters saying that their car could blow up on them.
But the point of demarcation is usally a normal old telephone jack, with your entire household wiring pluged into it.
I often use mine to trouble-shoot if the problem is internal house wiring, or telco-wiring.
Hop a fence, disconnect the house from the box, plug in a $10 cheap phone, make your call, and then plug the house back in again.
Or simply non-availability...
5 miles from the CO, area hasn't been "upgraded" for use with cable-modems by comcast (was supposed to be live in January of this year), and ISDN is >$120/mo.
Your taking it in the wrong direction. If Alice has failed to maintain her car, for instance not getting the brake inspected (and pads replaced when needed), and then fails to stop at a stop-sign one day, and hits Bob (who's walking across the street at the pedestrian crosswalk just past the stop-sign), then she's held responsible for that.
The fact that she hit him because her brakes failed when she was trying to stop doesn't change the fact that she's negligent for not having properly maintained her vehicle.
The same applies to the 'net. People who are negligent about maintaining their computer, whose computers are compromised and then used to "do wrong" (ie, spam bots, DDoS, etc) are partially responsible for the hijaker in the first place.
Some states have laws that if someone breaks into your house, and steals you gun, YOU are responsible for anything they then do with that gun. The logic being that a gun is a dangerous weapon (as is a car), and must be properly stored (ie, if they crack your gun-safe, it's a bit different, but loaded and next to the (unlocked) front door is considered negligent.
On a tour of a research vessel that I took in HS, the flow-rate for Lake Huron is so small compared to it's size that it takes 300 years to flow across the lake from Mackinaw to Detroit.
And this lake is pretty much in series with Niagara, so most of the flow over niagara (3-4 FEET thick wall of water ~100 yards wide rushing over it), and they've got so much cooling capacity that they really don't have much to worry about...
Unless they do something stupid like pump the warm water back into the bottom of the lake. It should be inserted back into the lake at the appropriate depth for the new temperature of the water (or just put on top, or on land, to drain back in via ground water channels.