Humans evolved on a planet with a robust atmosphere and a magnetosphere. Some estimate we actually have the atmosphere we have because of the magnetosphere that earth possesses. The Martian magnetosphere is just too weak to protect the planet, and anything crawling on it, from the many forms of radiation that humans cannot tolerate. Underground dwellings just may do it, but expect that to be of limited benefit in the end. First, create a robust magnetosphere, and then we'll see what happens.
Why anyone trusts FB for more than posting videos of your pets and vacation photos is beyond me. Even those might be heavily plagiarized or from third parties, but at least they are relatively harmless.
With that much fresh water entering the north Atlantic, it could well shift the North Atlantic current and that could more drastically affect the climate of Europe and create some dramatic cooling there. That might, in the long run, be worse for Europe than the rising sea levels.
Right you are sir, there are crazies all the time. But would the ACLU be this excited if the occupant was a Democrat? As a political independent, that's what I want to know.
As long as I can still get parts for the wife's Audi, I'm OK. She plans to live another 50 years and will not surrender the car. I will likely die before she is willing to give that up.
I know that it's been a few years since the federal government did this, but Jeff & Co. could start their own program up to get some polluters off the road and on to the moon.
When you put lots of money into lots of research by lots of people, this is the result. I should expect that Chinese universities have the same requirements for tenure depending on submitting of published work, result: lots of papers.
Is the back room where the support staff ordered the pizza? Which track has that record? What about the track with the switchboard calls from the astronauts' groupies? That's gotta be interesting, right?
Blue has been making very decent studio-quality mics for over 20 years. No, they are not up there with Neumann, but the large-diaphragm condensers have a very acceptable sound and that's a good alternative to other studio mics for those who want that sound. I like AKG in that price range and have always liked Shure and Audio Technica in the lower price ranges. I have not used their USB mics and don't have a need.
For those who really like the studio mics, this could end up being like CBS purchasing Fender in 1965. It will take a while, but commoditization will drive out the things that made the products what they are.
So, I was not aware that all the mice dads were in the drive-thru at McDonald's and ordering Domino's while playing Nintendo on the couch. What news that is!
There seems to be no shortage of uncertainty on that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Personally, I'm going with Augustus Caesar - owning Egypt would be cool.
I remember hearing this a lot from my TV over the past few years: "WE DON'T MAKE A LOT OF THE PRODUCTS YOU BUY. WE MAKE A LOT OF THE PRODUCTS YOU BUY BETTER." That was the BASF slogan for a lot of years. It certainly takes on new meaning with this article.
Haven't we all been expecting news like this for a while? Seems like there is such a mutual dependency between the device makers and what they want vice what Facebook is willing to provide.
Even though I don't drink, I would like a robo-assistant to be able to generate drunken emails in the middle of the night to random folks on my contacts list. Can it do that? If not, meh.
The most effective form of advertising makes you forget that a product is involved at all. Watch the Mad Men episode "The Wheel" and see how that goes. Kodak's campaign is essentially selling you your memories, at least in the idealized way, not a slide projector. That was a powerful thing to realize. Now all our memories are divorced from film and embodied on our hard drives.
The bigger deal has been the history of Winnie the Pooh. Although Mickey is obviously the 'face' of Disney, those who control the IP of the Milne books (not the Milne family for some time now) have continually lobbied Washington DC lawmakers for extended copyright over Winnie the Pooh. Once that lapses, Disney, Inc. will no longer need to pay Milne, Inc. for those rights and a large revenue stream becomes even larger. I dare say that at that point, the Pooh merch revenue stream should easily rival the Mickey merch revenue stream.
JPB was on a TV show in about 2002 where he represented artists interests against the likes ot the RIAA and Napster. After the show, I emailed him about how many times I had purchased his, and others', music just to have it on different media (vinyl, cassette, CD), and that I had hoped that artists were not getting bypassed in royalties. Moreover, I mentioned that I felt that I had already paid the labels their due and would hope that I could just pay the artists now if I got music on new media. His reply was very cordial and he agreed with my position, even though there was no mechanism in place to do that at the time.
RIP gentle man.
Ibuprofen has had several advantages because it has such a wide dosage range between minimally effective, maximally effective, and toxic/damaging. Even taking 2400 mg per day (maximally effective prescribed dosage) seems to be well below the point where any organ damage is generally observed. OTOH, for acetaminophen, taking the maximum effective prescribed dosage of 3250 mg/day seems pretty close to the level at which damaging effects are observed in kidneys and perhaps the liver. Now, with this result, are we back to aspirin?
**I am not a doctor, but I am willing to have a look. Put your feet in the stirrups.**
It looks pretty clear that some warming has occurred in the past 100 years. It is also pretty clear that there is no consensus on how much warming has occurred and to what that might be attributed. A notionally good starting point for making an assessment of all this data is to base it on the principles of information theory. As a starting point, calculate the entropy of raw measurements in the data sets and then the entropy of adjusted measurements to determine if the information content is the same. Other entropy-based calculations could possibly lend support to correlating conditions in the environment - perhaps for attribution. This sort of mathematics could provide a more compelling substantiation than mere political grandstanding based on models. In any case, such attribution is too weak to be used to establish legal liability.
Full disclosure: I am much less skeptical of the warming phenomenology than I am that we can know how much the environment has warmed based on models.
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Humans evolved on a planet with a robust atmosphere and a magnetosphere. Some estimate we actually have the atmosphere we have because of the magnetosphere that earth possesses. The Martian magnetosphere is just too weak to protect the planet, and anything crawling on it, from the many forms of radiation that humans cannot tolerate. Underground dwellings just may do it, but expect that to be of limited benefit in the end. First, create a robust magnetosphere, and then we'll see what happens.
Why anyone trusts FB for more than posting videos of your pets and vacation photos is beyond me. Even those might be heavily plagiarized or from third parties, but at least they are relatively harmless.
That robot was another in along line of men in robot suits.
The only downside that I see is that in order to get a free house you have to be Yoko's housemate. That girl is CRAAAZY.
With that much fresh water entering the north Atlantic, it could well shift the North Atlantic current and that could more drastically affect the climate of Europe and create some dramatic cooling there. That might, in the long run, be worse for Europe than the rising sea levels.
Right you are sir, there are crazies all the time. But would the ACLU be this excited if the occupant was a Democrat? As a political independent, that's what I want to know.
As long as I can still get parts for the wife's Audi, I'm OK. She plans to live another 50 years and will not surrender the car. I will likely die before she is willing to give that up.
Hey - can we now revisit the whole cola war episode? Maybe the EU courts could straighten all that out.
I know that it's been a few years since the federal government did this, but Jeff & Co. could start their own program up to get some polluters off the road and on to the moon.
When you put lots of money into lots of research by lots of people, this is the result. I should expect that Chinese universities have the same requirements for tenure depending on submitting of published work, result: lots of papers.
Is the back room where the support staff ordered the pizza? Which track has that record? What about the track with the switchboard calls from the astronauts' groupies? That's gotta be interesting, right?
Blue has been making very decent studio-quality mics for over 20 years. No, they are not up there with Neumann, but the large-diaphragm condensers have a very acceptable sound and that's a good alternative to other studio mics for those who want that sound. I like AKG in that price range and have always liked Shure and Audio Technica in the lower price ranges. I have not used their USB mics and don't have a need. For those who really like the studio mics, this could end up being like CBS purchasing Fender in 1965. It will take a while, but commoditization will drive out the things that made the products what they are.
So, I was not aware that all the mice dads were in the drive-thru at McDonald's and ordering Domino's while playing Nintendo on the couch. What news that is!
Mongo only pawn in game of life.
There seems to be no shortage of uncertainty on that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Personally, I'm going with Augustus Caesar - owning Egypt would be cool.
It's quite a common word down our way, Dr. Johnson.
I remember hearing this a lot from my TV over the past few years: "WE DON'T MAKE A LOT OF THE PRODUCTS YOU BUY. WE MAKE A LOT OF THE PRODUCTS YOU BUY BETTER." That was the BASF slogan for a lot of years. It certainly takes on new meaning with this article.
Please tell me that I can still pick up stuff for the coven at Ray's Occult Bookstore! If he shuts the doors, I just don't know what I would do.
Haven't we all been expecting news like this for a while? Seems like there is such a mutual dependency between the device makers and what they want vice what Facebook is willing to provide.
Even though I don't drink, I would like a robo-assistant to be able to generate drunken emails in the middle of the night to random folks on my contacts list. Can it do that? If not, meh.
The most effective form of advertising makes you forget that a product is involved at all. Watch the Mad Men episode "The Wheel" and see how that goes. Kodak's campaign is essentially selling you your memories, at least in the idealized way, not a slide projector. That was a powerful thing to realize. Now all our memories are divorced from film and embodied on our hard drives.
The bigger deal has been the history of Winnie the Pooh. Although Mickey is obviously the 'face' of Disney, those who control the IP of the Milne books (not the Milne family for some time now) have continually lobbied Washington DC lawmakers for extended copyright over Winnie the Pooh. Once that lapses, Disney, Inc. will no longer need to pay Milne, Inc. for those rights and a large revenue stream becomes even larger. I dare say that at that point, the Pooh merch revenue stream should easily rival the Mickey merch revenue stream.
JPB was on a TV show in about 2002 where he represented artists interests against the likes ot the RIAA and Napster. After the show, I emailed him about how many times I had purchased his, and others', music just to have it on different media (vinyl, cassette, CD), and that I had hoped that artists were not getting bypassed in royalties. Moreover, I mentioned that I felt that I had already paid the labels their due and would hope that I could just pay the artists now if I got music on new media. His reply was very cordial and he agreed with my position, even though there was no mechanism in place to do that at the time. RIP gentle man.
Ibuprofen has had several advantages because it has such a wide dosage range between minimally effective, maximally effective, and toxic/damaging. Even taking 2400 mg per day (maximally effective prescribed dosage) seems to be well below the point where any organ damage is generally observed. OTOH, for acetaminophen, taking the maximum effective prescribed dosage of 3250 mg/day seems pretty close to the level at which damaging effects are observed in kidneys and perhaps the liver. Now, with this result, are we back to aspirin? **I am not a doctor, but I am willing to have a look. Put your feet in the stirrups.**
It looks pretty clear that some warming has occurred in the past 100 years. It is also pretty clear that there is no consensus on how much warming has occurred and to what that might be attributed. A notionally good starting point for making an assessment of all this data is to base it on the principles of information theory. As a starting point, calculate the entropy of raw measurements in the data sets and then the entropy of adjusted measurements to determine if the information content is the same. Other entropy-based calculations could possibly lend support to correlating conditions in the environment - perhaps for attribution. This sort of mathematics could provide a more compelling substantiation than mere political grandstanding based on models. In any case, such attribution is too weak to be used to establish legal liability. Full disclosure: I am much less skeptical of the warming phenomenology than I am that we can know how much the environment has warmed based on models.