Not really... I mean in the past, music in restaurants/bars/public houses/coffee shops was there to be listened to, as part of the entertainment. Now it is just a base level of background noise? When is the last time you sat in one of these places and actually listened to what was blaring over the speakers, rather than just tuning it out as additional noise.
The interesting thing is that 'muzak' in these places isn't common in other countries. I spent a number of years living abroad where this practice is not so common, and it wasn't until I came back to the US I realized how ubiquitous it is in most restaurants here. To be honest, you just get desensitized to it. I've now been back long enough that I'm again desensitized to it, and don't really notice it, but I do feel it has an effect on the flow of conversations and fatigue, since you are subconsciously having to tune out constant background noise...
Guess what glaciers are! A huge storage of snow built up over many, many years!
So connect the dots here... glaciers shirking means?? Thats right! Less snowfall staying around year-to-year to replenish the glacier! It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out the direction of this trend line...
What you seem to be claiming is that there will be more snow because of the changes in climate. However, your claim is directly contradicted by observations (and the very article you are commenting on). Glaciers are melting and receding all over the world. If your claim was true that there would be more snow due to the warming climate, then we should see the glaciers growing in size, not drastically shrinking in size.
The problem that will be faced, that pretty much all scientists agree on, is that any precip falling in the mountains, even as snow, will melt at a much higher rate due to the higher temps, meaning by early-late summer, all the snowpack will have melted, leaving no moisture to feed the rivers downstream of the mountains, leading to major problems in any population centers that rely on that water source. This is why you see many places (e.g., the Rockies Front Range in the US) working to expand their mountain reservoirs in the coming years. Snowpack alone won't be sufficient to supply a year's water needs, so we'll need to rely more on manmade water storage.
Thats the warming effect due to CO2 only. Unfortunately on the Earth, there are many other coupled forcings (albedo, cloud cover, permafrost, etc) which will also have an effect which will greatly magnify the effect due to CO2 alone.
Good example of why the Autobahn is safer. It is illegal to pass on the right, which means you can only pass on the left. Furthermore, you can only be in left lanes if passing, so as soon as there is space on the right, you need to move over. Refusing to leave the left lane to allow a faster vehicle to pass is a finable offense.
In any case, get over yourself. You are not the police, and you have no right to try and enforce the laws on the road. In fact, your pig-headed behavior makes things less safe for everyone else!
Do you have any examples of French words where the pronunciation is different than how they are supposed to be pronounced? I can't think of any examples of this... all words I can think of are straightforward to pronounce if you know the rules.
Maybe go figure out why the Hanseatic League was such a big deal when it started, you'll understand that 'free trade' didn't really exist before controls were put in place.
Sorry, you're the one who made the claim that Hillary should go to jail, not me. So following your logic Trump should also be in jail. Then you accuse me of a double standard? Look in the mirror dude...
And who says I'm part of Hillary's tribe... is everything so black and white to you that you don't understand there is more than us vs them?
Please work on your reading comprehension. I post the raw data that was requested and you keep saying its not available. Then again you provide a link to a completely different dataset that has nothing to do with the raw data I posted. Typical denier misdirection. I guess if the facts aren't on your side, all you can do is attempt misdirection.
What does that even have to do with what I posted. Your article is talking about tree ring reconstructions. The links I posted are of temperature station data having nothing to do with tree rings. Please try to keep up...
And what really pisses me off about this whole thing is Walker turned down government money to build a high-speed rail between Chicago/Milwaukee/Madison/Minneapolis, which would have provided many tourism and rail jobs in Wisconsin. He felt it was 'government waste' in that case, only because the money would have been from the Obama administration...
To add insult to injury, the Spanish train company Talgo had planned to build trainsets for the rail line at their plant in Milwaukee - further adding jobs. But since the rail deal never went through, they've since significantly downsized their operation in Wisconsin...
Planes used to get lost at sea all the time in the era before GPS navigation. I'd be curious to see if the incidence rate of planes disappearing in the 'Bermuda Triangle' is any higher than any other ocean expanse during those times...
No we have capitalism and 'freedom of choice' because it is the best system to further pad the pockets of the ultra-wealthy and allow them to control the masses. Do you really think capitalism is working that well for 99% of the population in the US?
Actually, the US was pretty backwater until WWII, at which point we became the biggest economy in the world because all of our competitors' industrial capacity got wiped out during the war.
Theft is also to take something without paying for it. So if you are living in a Western society, you are benefitting from everything provided by the government (laws, infrastructure, military, police, fire departments, crop subsidies, etc). Therefore just by living in the country and taking advantage of these things, you owe the government...
Also add CD Projekt Red (CDPR) to that list. They self publish games in the Witcher franchise. Super awesome company - games are very high quality, and they don't try to screw their customers with things like nonsense DLC content. Yes, they do offer DLCs, but these are essentially whole new stories in the game with the two expansions offering as much gameplay as the Witcher 3 base game itself (40+ hours). CDPR has also released numerous patches to the base game for free many years after release.
But even your numbers are skewed. Federal dollars per capita doesn't really illustrate who are the 'givers' and who are the 'takers'. I don't have the time right now to find the figures, but what would illustrate this the best would be the ratio of federal dollars received vs federal taxes paid.
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Not really... I mean in the past, music in restaurants/bars/public houses/coffee shops was there to be listened to, as part of the entertainment. Now it is just a base level of background noise? When is the last time you sat in one of these places and actually listened to what was blaring over the speakers, rather than just tuning it out as additional noise.
The interesting thing is that 'muzak' in these places isn't common in other countries. I spent a number of years living abroad where this practice is not so common, and it wasn't until I came back to the US I realized how ubiquitous it is in most restaurants here. To be honest, you just get desensitized to it. I've now been back long enough that I'm again desensitized to it, and don't really notice it, but I do feel it has an effect on the flow of conversations and fatigue, since you are subconsciously having to tune out constant background noise...
Guess what glaciers are! A huge storage of snow built up over many, many years!
So connect the dots here... glaciers shirking means?? Thats right! Less snowfall staying around year-to-year to replenish the glacier! It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out the direction of this trend line...
What you seem to be claiming is that there will be more snow because of the changes in climate. However, your claim is directly contradicted by observations (and the very article you are commenting on). Glaciers are melting and receding all over the world. If your claim was true that there would be more snow due to the warming climate, then we should see the glaciers growing in size, not drastically shrinking in size.
The problem that will be faced, that pretty much all scientists agree on, is that any precip falling in the mountains, even as snow, will melt at a much higher rate due to the higher temps, meaning by early-late summer, all the snowpack will have melted, leaving no moisture to feed the rivers downstream of the mountains, leading to major problems in any population centers that rely on that water source. This is why you see many places (e.g., the Rockies Front Range in the US) working to expand their mountain reservoirs in the coming years. Snowpack alone won't be sufficient to supply a year's water needs, so we'll need to rely more on manmade water storage.
Thats the warming effect due to CO2 only. Unfortunately on the Earth, there are many other coupled forcings (albedo, cloud cover, permafrost, etc) which will also have an effect which will greatly magnify the effect due to CO2 alone.
Good example of why the Autobahn is safer. It is illegal to pass on the right, which means you can only pass on the left. Furthermore, you can only be in left lanes if passing, so as soon as there is space on the right, you need to move over. Refusing to leave the left lane to allow a faster vehicle to pass is a finable offense.
In any case, get over yourself. You are not the police, and you have no right to try and enforce the laws on the road. In fact, your pig-headed behavior makes things less safe for everyone else!
Do you have any examples of French words where the pronunciation is different than how they are supposed to be pronounced? I can't think of any examples of this... all words I can think of are straightforward to pronounce if you know the rules.
Maybe go figure out why the Hanseatic League was such a big deal when it started, you'll understand that 'free trade' didn't really exist before controls were put in place.
They used to publish a newspaper - that ended in 2013 unfortunately :(
Sorry, you're the one who made the claim that Hillary should go to jail, not me. So following your logic Trump should also be in jail. Then you accuse me of a double standard? Look in the mirror dude...
And who says I'm part of Hillary's tribe... is everything so black and white to you that you don't understand there is more than us vs them?
Please work on your reading comprehension. I post the raw data that was requested and you keep saying its not available. Then again you provide a link to a completely different dataset that has nothing to do with the raw data I posted. Typical denier misdirection. I guess if the facts aren't on your side, all you can do is attempt misdirection.
What does that even have to do with what I posted. Your article is talking about tree ring reconstructions. The links I posted are of temperature station data having nothing to do with tree rings. Please try to keep up...
So following this logic, Trump should be in jail because he is using an unsecured phone for all of his presidential activities...
What about states where they're not permitted (MN, WI, MI, IL)? What do you propose then?
Easy. 'Hockey stick data' is at https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/... You will find raw station data at https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/h...
Like Geoffrey said, all the data is available. Your lack of searching doesn't mean it isn't there.
In this case, I would say it is definitely spending money, as most Wisconsin taxpayers will see little benefit from this deal.
And what really pisses me off about this whole thing is Walker turned down government money to build a high-speed rail between Chicago/Milwaukee/Madison/Minneapolis, which would have provided many tourism and rail jobs in Wisconsin. He felt it was 'government waste' in that case, only because the money would have been from the Obama administration...
To add insult to injury, the Spanish train company Talgo had planned to build trainsets for the rail line at their plant in Milwaukee - further adding jobs. But since the rail deal never went through, they've since significantly downsized their operation in Wisconsin...
Easy, the moon is fixed in the firmament... duh!
Planes used to get lost at sea all the time in the era before GPS navigation. I'd be curious to see if the incidence rate of planes disappearing in the 'Bermuda Triangle' is any higher than any other ocean expanse during those times...
No we have capitalism and 'freedom of choice' because it is the best system to further pad the pockets of the ultra-wealthy and allow them to control the masses. Do you really think capitalism is working that well for 99% of the population in the US?
Actually, the US was pretty backwater until WWII, at which point we became the biggest economy in the world because all of our competitors' industrial capacity got wiped out during the war.
Hold my beer...
Fiat Chrysler recalls 4.8 million US cars: http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...
Whoosh!
Theft is also to take something without paying for it. So if you are living in a Western society, you are benefitting from everything provided by the government (laws, infrastructure, military, police, fire departments, crop subsidies, etc). Therefore just by living in the country and taking advantage of these things, you owe the government...
Also add CD Projekt Red (CDPR) to that list. They self publish games in the Witcher franchise. Super awesome company - games are very high quality, and they don't try to screw their customers with things like nonsense DLC content. Yes, they do offer DLCs, but these are essentially whole new stories in the game with the two expansions offering as much gameplay as the Witcher 3 base game itself (40+ hours). CDPR has also released numerous patches to the base game for free many years after release.
But even your numbers are skewed. Federal dollars per capita doesn't really illustrate who are the 'givers' and who are the 'takers'. I don't have the time right now to find the figures, but what would illustrate this the best would be the ratio of federal dollars received vs federal taxes paid.