Serious question for you - why would you assume the earth would settle at CO2 levels we have now? Since the rise is artificial, once the CO2 is absorbed back into the system, and human output decreases over time (inevitable given the uptake in alternative energy), WHY would you, or how could you assume the CO2 levels today are anywhere near a steady state?
Fair question, and perhaps I shouldn't, but not really for the reasons you're pointing at. A better assumption (barring large scale CO2 removal efforts) would have steady state (for purposes of human time spans) be higher than where we are now, into mostly uncharted territory (> 5My).
Indeed a rise of 2C of warming means lots more flourishing plant life around the globe. Guess what plants absorb from the atmosphere...
Yes, thank you for pointing that out./s
While I too agree that CO2 will likely be absorbed back into the system, even the sharpest drops in CO2 concentration in NOAA ice core data have a drop of ~100 PPM over 10,000-20,000 years, longer than our written history. That's not a time scale that allows us as a species to do little about it. We're going to be dealing with this one way or the other. The only question is how much it's going to cost.
This is yet another demonstration that CO2 by itself is not causing much warming.
Serious question: Why do you think so?
The rapid rise in atmospheric CO2 in the past ~150 years is essentially an impulse to what is admittedly a complex system. The "demonstration" is that system at something much more closely resembling steady state. So while this "demonstration" isn't a smoking gun of what will happen, but a suggestion of what is possible once the system settles (since I'm not sure we have a comparison of solar output, etc). But it's certainly not evidence that CO2 "isn't causing much warming". Seems to me you have a simplistic picture on how quickly the system would respond to a boost in CO2.
For those of us with degenerative a corneal disease, this sounds pretty wonderful. Of course, the cost will be exorbitant and perpetually 10 years away...
3. Eliminate the`requirement to fully prefund employee retirement health benefits - You do realize the Post Office is actually a privately owned company which just has a continual contract, right? This is one corporation you don't want screwing people out of their benefits once they retire. They should have the same protection as police officers and firemen do. (Wait...*looks at latest news about Chicago*...maybe I should rephrase that.)
Both you and the parent don't understand the exact nature of the prefunding problem. Congress has been requiring the USPS to prefund the next 75 years worth of benefits over a ten year period. That means they have to "fully fund" benefits for decades of employees they don't even have yet, over a far shorter period than is remotely reasonable.
Maybe I'm missing something, but the GP is 100% correct. This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. I fail to see how China making a manufacturer insert a backdoor is any "better" than relying on zero-day. This is just another hypocritical points-scoring exercise by a government.
... where the police having this technology use it on a whim, without a warrant, and with absolutely no oversight.
Oh, wait. That's already happening and doesn't require a "sophisticated hacker".
I'm sure there's definitely a measure of marketing going on here on the part of the smaller folks. Any chance they have to score some points against Comcast/Tier-1 is an opportunity they'll take. However, I don't think the math supports that as the primary motivator.
Comcast, in it's wireline business has to support both ends: backhaul and last mile. The smaller providers support last mile and pay a tier 1ish provider for the backhaul. Tier 1s are going to charge the small guy for bandwidth whatever their cost is plus a magin, so unless the smaller provider is completely skimping out on their last mile (a distinct possibility for CLECs) there'd be no way for them to undercut the large players by the margins that they are and still be profitable. This is even more clear in the case of MVNOs, who pay Verizon for everything, but still undercut big red by a considerable margin.
The simple answer is that the smaller players are willing to accept a lower profit margin than the large players are. Whether that rises to the level of gouging or not is a different conversation, but when the smaller players tell you that they don't worry about transit (backhaul) costs when they accept thinner margins than tier 1, it's likely the truth. Or they're lying and will be driven out of business by the backhaul costs. Time will tell.
Given that these "tiny no-name" (and Frontier is anything but tiny) providers are all using the tier-1 providers, just as MVNOs are using Verizon and T-Mobile's networks, they're actually great proxies for how much maintaining that infrastructure actually costs. Think about it - they're renting time/space/bandwidth/whatever from the "big boys". Those "big boys" are charging the MVNOs/small providers market rates which give the "big boys" a profit for doing so. If the MVNOs' costs are dropping, when they're effectively actual cost + Verizon/T-Mobile's profit margin, then the can tell us lot about how much it actually costs. Or are you saying that the smaller guys are somehow paying less than it costs Verizon/T-Mobile to maintain it?
I think it's even odds that the complete destruction of world-wide manufacturing capacity after WW2 (aside from the United States) is by far a bigger contributor. Japan has a similarly stringent (if not even more so) work ethic, and I think we've all seen what it's gotten them over the past decade or two.
That's about as much a "call to prosecute 'deniers'" as Sarah Palin is still a governor. On a related note, when you resign your job before finishing your term, you also cease to have the right to be called "governor".
I know how much you ACs love to hate on the president, but at least get your facts straight. The last time a president had as few executive orders per year (over the term of his presidency) as Obama was when Grover Cleveland was president. So if you're going to bitch and moan about Obama exercising his presidential authority, remember that presidents like Reagan did a lot more "ram rodding their way down everyone's throats" than Obama has (to the tune of 50% more).
source: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
The TSA-approved luggage locks were never very high security devices to begin with. “I’m not sure anyone relied on these kinds of locks for serious security purposes,” he says. “I find it’s actually quicker to pick the TSA’s locks than to look for my key sometimes.”
Given how the government does "security" for us (IRS, OPM hacks), I don't want them anywhere near access to my phone.
Your definition of "heavy user" is definitely different from mine. 12 Mbps is just enough to have a single download from steam while not being able to do anything else. I was on 12 Mbps for a long time, so I speak from experience. When I upgraded to 105 Mbps, the difference was night and day.
Agreed - USB-C is definitely superior to micro B.
The one part of the lightning connector that Apple has right is the physical design. USB-C and USB in general has always had the problem of the male connector being in the device. With USB-C, that little tab inside the port on your device is smaller (and more brittle) than ever. Break that and you're screwed. The lightning connector has the male portion on the the cable, with all the pins around the outside of what you insert into the device. Superior design, in my mind. I'm curious as to why USB didn't do that originally - although, I guess it didn't much matter with the original USB connector sizes.
Apparently you missed the GOP debate last night. Ben Carson's idea for the department of education is to have them " monitor our institutions of higher education for extreme political bias and deny federal funding if it exists". If that's not attempting to restrict free speech, I don't know what is.
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Serious question for you - why would you assume the earth would settle at CO2 levels we have now? Since the rise is artificial, once the CO2 is absorbed back into the system, and human output decreases over time (inevitable given the uptake in alternative energy), WHY would you, or how could you assume the CO2 levels today are anywhere near a steady state?
Fair question, and perhaps I shouldn't, but not really for the reasons you're pointing at. A better assumption (barring large scale CO2 removal efforts) would have steady state (for purposes of human time spans) be higher than where we are now, into mostly uncharted territory (> 5My).
Indeed a rise of 2C of warming means lots more flourishing plant life around the globe. Guess what plants absorb from the atmosphere...
Yes, thank you for pointing that out. /s
While I too agree that CO2 will likely be absorbed back into the system, even the sharpest drops in CO2 concentration in NOAA ice core data have a drop of ~100 PPM over 10,000-20,000 years, longer than our written history. That's not a time scale that allows us as a species to do little about it. We're going to be dealing with this one way or the other. The only question is how much it's going to cost.
This is yet another demonstration that CO2 by itself is not causing much warming.
Serious question: Why do you think so?
The rapid rise in atmospheric CO2 in the past ~150 years is essentially an impulse to what is admittedly a complex system. The "demonstration" is that system at something much more closely resembling steady state. So while this "demonstration" isn't a smoking gun of what will happen, but a suggestion of what is possible once the system settles (since I'm not sure we have a comparison of solar output, etc). But it's certainly not evidence that CO2 "isn't causing much warming". Seems to me you have a simplistic picture on how quickly the system would respond to a boost in CO2.
Or maybe it's because robocalls have more than doubled in the last two years, according to the FTC statistics.
Obligatory: Kane lives in death!
For those of us with degenerative a corneal disease, this sounds pretty wonderful.
Of course, the cost will be exorbitant and perpetually 10 years away...
Right to repair laws can't come soon enough.
The law has an "opt-out" provision, provided a referendum is approved to do so.
3. Eliminate the`requirement to fully prefund employee retirement health benefits - You do realize the Post Office is actually a privately owned company which just has a continual contract, right? This is one corporation you don't want screwing people out of their benefits once they retire. They should have the same protection as police officers and firemen do. (Wait...*looks at latest news about Chicago*...maybe I should rephrase that.)
Both you and the parent don't understand the exact nature of the prefunding problem. Congress has been requiring the USPS to prefund the next 75 years worth of benefits over a ten year period. That means they have to "fully fund" benefits for decades of employees they don't even have yet, over a far shorter period than is remotely reasonable.
Given that the GOP (and Bush's tax cuts) are what created huge numbers of the non-paying citizens, you're being more than just a little disingenuous.
Maybe I'm missing something, but the GP is 100% correct. This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. I fail to see how China making a manufacturer insert a backdoor is any "better" than relying on zero-day. This is just another hypocritical points-scoring exercise by a government.
I should have said "bonds far more readily" than O2. I didn't know about the bond duration though - thanks for that tidbit.
CO is specifically bad because it bonds to hemoglobin better (far, far better) than O2 does.
... where the police having this technology use it on a whim, without a warrant, and with absolutely no oversight.
Oh, wait. That's already happening and doesn't require a "sophisticated hacker".
I'm sure there's definitely a measure of marketing going on here on the part of the smaller folks. Any chance they have to score some points against Comcast/Tier-1 is an opportunity they'll take. However, I don't think the math supports that as the primary motivator.
Comcast, in it's wireline business has to support both ends: backhaul and last mile. The smaller providers support last mile and pay a tier 1ish provider for the backhaul. Tier 1s are going to charge the small guy for bandwidth whatever their cost is plus a magin, so unless the smaller provider is completely skimping out on their last mile (a distinct possibility for CLECs) there'd be no way for them to undercut the large players by the margins that they are and still be profitable. This is even more clear in the case of MVNOs, who pay Verizon for everything, but still undercut big red by a considerable margin.
The simple answer is that the smaller players are willing to accept a lower profit margin than the large players are. Whether that rises to the level of gouging or not is a different conversation, but when the smaller players tell you that they don't worry about transit (backhaul) costs when they accept thinner margins than tier 1, it's likely the truth. Or they're lying and will be driven out of business by the backhaul costs. Time will tell.
That's a fair point - I should probably have stuck to the MVNOs.
Given that these "tiny no-name" (and Frontier is anything but tiny) providers are all using the tier-1 providers, just as MVNOs are using Verizon and T-Mobile's networks, they're actually great proxies for how much maintaining that infrastructure actually costs. Think about it - they're renting time/space/bandwidth/whatever from the "big boys". Those "big boys" are charging the MVNOs/small providers market rates which give the "big boys" a profit for doing so. If the MVNOs' costs are dropping, when they're effectively actual cost + Verizon/T-Mobile's profit margin, then the can tell us lot about how much it actually costs. Or are you saying that the smaller guys are somehow paying less than it costs Verizon/T-Mobile to maintain it?
I think it's even odds that the complete destruction of world-wide manufacturing capacity after WW2 (aside from the United States) is by far a bigger contributor. Japan has a similarly stringent (if not even more so) work ethic, and I think we've all seen what it's gotten them over the past decade or two.
That's about as much a "call to prosecute 'deniers'" as Sarah Palin is still a governor. On a related note, when you resign your job before finishing your term, you also cease to have the right to be called "governor".
... that this will be secured in a fashion consistent with the auto industry's stellar record on vehicle security.
I know how much you ACs love to hate on the president, but at least get your facts straight. The last time a president had as few executive orders per year (over the term of his presidency) as Obama was when Grover Cleveland was president. So if you're going to bitch and moan about Obama exercising his presidential authority, remember that presidents like Reagan did a lot more "ram rodding their way down everyone's throats" than Obama has (to the tune of 50% more).
source: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
Given how the government does "security" for us (IRS, OPM hacks), I don't want them anywhere near access to my phone.
Your definition of "heavy user" is definitely different from mine. 12 Mbps is just enough to have a single download from steam while not being able to do anything else. I was on 12 Mbps for a long time, so I speak from experience. When I upgraded to 105 Mbps, the difference was night and day.
Agreed - USB-C is definitely superior to micro B.
The one part of the lightning connector that Apple has right is the physical design. USB-C and USB in general has always had the problem of the male connector being in the device. With USB-C, that little tab inside the port on your device is smaller (and more brittle) than ever. Break that and you're screwed. The lightning connector has the male portion on the the cable, with all the pins around the outside of what you insert into the device. Superior design, in my mind. I'm curious as to why USB didn't do that originally - although, I guess it didn't much matter with the original USB connector sizes.
The point obviously being that it's not even close to an apples to apples comparison. How about we compare 14nm ARM to 14nm Intel?
Apparently you missed the GOP debate last night. Ben Carson's idea for the department of education is to have them " monitor our institutions of higher education for extreme political bias and deny federal funding if it exists". If that's not attempting to restrict free speech, I don't know what is.