You are right, although researchers in the USA were amongst the first to document the danger of cellphone usage whilst driving, the USA is a relative late-comer in banning its occurrence, no doubt due to the usual "my voters don't care what science says" attitude of US politicians.
"I'd venture to say the typical "climate denier" is more often denying that humanity is in control of the climate" Only once their denials of any climate change even occurring have been proven wrong.
Making a massive leap of faith based on highly dubious doctrines and then refusing to acknowledge the proven falsities is fundamentally anti-science. Whereas reducing God simply to a "force which sparked the big bang" is fundamentally anti-religion.
"Both IE9 and Chrome are now FAR better browsers than Firefox 4/5/6."
That's a pretty subjective assertion. If you like those browsers better, good for you, use one of them.
In terms of resource usage though, at least Firefox (and Opera for that matter) actually reports it's resource usage readily rather than hiding half of it in worker threads like Chrome and IE do.
So you live in Manhattan and say it's a "scam" that trucks can't park outside your building?!? WTF, you are living in Manhattan FFS!
Why live in the most densely populated area of the country and then expect a service suited for areas of low population density? It's a pay-off you make for being surrounded by restaurants, bars, employment and everything else. What's more, even within Manhattan, if people being able to park right outside your building is really so important to you, simply live in a building with facilities for parking!
But there never was any evidence from the emails of a cover-up, there was just politically motivated loud mouths screaming "conspiracy, conspiracy" until some people believed them. Most of the key data was already publicly available, but some wasn't released due to contractual reasons. Not that the accusers were clamoring to use the data, few would have the slightest clue what to do with it.
It's the same old usual story, clueless politically motivated people like politicians shout the loudest and so get listened to more than the scientists and people who actually know what they are talking about.
So, is climate change responsible? Or is it simpler, Occam - like growth of the species allowing a return to former breeding grounds? Guess it depends on your/the 'viewpoint' you need to support...
Or, even more probable, both are correct. Throughout history species have taken advantage of changes in regional climate (and in particular its effects on other fauna and flora) to expand into new localities.
In the ocean, even a slight change in temperature can cause massive changes in algae and hence crustacean populations, as has been much documented. However if you RTFA the direct reason for their return seems to be the now regular summer thawing of the North West Sea Passage, which is seen as evidence of climate change.
In terms of present day speed and not requiring connecting infrastructure they're superior, but that's about it. On the other hand they require more infrastructure at each end, have far increased per-passenger-mile fuel costs (increasing exponentially unless you pack people in like sardines) and are more susceptible to service disruptions from factors like weather. Unlike airports, train stations can be put right in the center of cities, even underground as they have done in many places in Europe.
Logically, high speed rail just make more sense for high-demand intercity routes. Airplanes use most their energy traveling perpendicular to the desired direction of travel (i.e. getting up to 33,000 ft). As technology develops and you create increasingly ideal conditions at ground level (ultimately this means Maglev inside vacuum tunnels) the result is going to be inherently superior to transportation requiring a costly and uncomfortable vertical dogleg.
The USA ruled the second half of the 20th century because unlike others, we had taken the plunge and invested in 20th century infrastructure (interstate highways, airports) whilst most the world was stuck with 19th century infrastructure. Now, whilst our politicians procrastinate, China are investing in 21st century technology, whilst we are stuck with 20th century technology. The result is obvious.
Oil has double in price over the past decade. All indications are we will be lucky if it only doubles in price over the next decade, as costs and demand both rise. In thirty years time these infrastructure projects will be worth their weight in gold (as ours from the 50s/60s proved 30 years later) whilst countries like ours will become less and less competitive as fewer and fewer can afford to utilize our inefficient, oil-dependent 20th century infrastructure.
That's exactly my point. The "plan" is to use a nice underground multi-story carpark. Until bean counters decry it's cheaper to just tarmac over everything which has no direct commercial value.
Looks very nice with the stunning scenery of a forest. Really brings out the building. As we all know though, in reality the scenery of such designs usually gets switched from the beautiful parklands, lakes or forest in to a giant car park with a tree and a puddle in the corner.
It's the surroundings which make a good building into an amazing design, and it's the surroundings which most often fail new builds.
Strange conclusion to make considering the communist governments (and former ones) are the main ones against carbon taxes. China and Russia's objections are the only reason some form of international carbon taxes don't already exist....probably just part of the conspiracy I assume.
I really think you have to make a big distinction between the first half of the first season and the rest of SGU.
Those first half shows were undeniably slow, boring and empty (with just a couple of exceptions). But after those first very poor episodes, the show became great and I too really loved how "real" it always felt (the storylines, the acting), it was one of the shows biggest strengths.
The first half of the first season of SGU was absolutely awful. Since then SGU has actually been pretty exciting and entertaining, with actual 'sci-fi' stuff happening, but unfortunately it had already lost 75% of it viewers within that first half of season 1 and its fate was pretty much sealed.
Add to that, Syfy playing a game of musical chairs with its schedule and giving it minimal promotion (instead focusing on monsters and wrestling instead), couldn't have helped either. Many people I know who watched the show didn't even know the show was on at times, and it's frustrating trying to pickup a continuing story arc halfway through, so not surprisingly many didn't bother.
I thought SGU was a great innovation for the franchise to make, they couldn't keep doing the exact same format forever. Unfortunately SyFy (with bigboy NBC input) utterly screwed up. Not that they care, they're going after the lowest common denominator now with shows like wrestling, reality ghost shows, and similar rubbish.
The water won't be *gone*, but once it's left the aquifer and flowed into the sea it's a heck of a lot less useful than when it was back in the aquifer. Also, it depends on your opinion on what counts as "replenished", the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System under the Sahara for example ain't going to be replenishing any century soon.
Ground water isn't a closed system in any sense. If water is taken from an aquifer at a rate greater than it is replenished then the level of the aquifer will fall and even temporarily dry up until the water levels can replenish, this could take a months, years or even centuries dependent on local geography and climate.
In many places, aquifer depletion is a major engineering obstacle necessitating boreholes to be drilled ever deeper to maintain their rate of water extraction until the point they are simply no longer economic to operate and a new aquifer must be found.
We keep hearing about this massive "treasure trove" of intelligence seized, but what I don't understand is then why haven't the US/Pakistan military been spending the last few days conducting similar operations based on this intelligence? By now Al Qaeda must know the information is compromised, so its usefulness is decreasing dramatically everyday.
Many wasted hours studying history has taught me wounded enemies are usually defeated when the momentum of initial victories is kept up and enemy routs turned into heavy defeats. The momentum seems to be none-existent in this case.
My very point is there's nothing to read, it's just some latest model with no particularly innovative features. I bet there was half a dozen other near-identical products announced today too.
...and actually I did read the article first, I had been hoping there was going to be some great new features, there weren't. Hence my post, I guess it's been too long since I've used the term 'desktop' (not that I actually think there's anything wrong with them).
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Cellphone driving bans of one type or another are present in most developed countries. http://www.cellular-news.com/car_bans/.
You are right, although researchers in the USA were amongst the first to document the danger of cellphone usage whilst driving, the USA is a relative late-comer in banning its occurrence, no doubt due to the usual "my voters don't care what science says" attitude of US politicians.
The even easier answer is just to ignore idiotic security guards talking out their backside, claiming they have legal powers that they do not.
No philosophical discussions about the role of government in society required.
"I'd venture to say the typical "climate denier" is more often denying that humanity is in control of the climate"
Only once their denials of any climate change even occurring have been proven wrong.
Making a massive leap of faith based on highly dubious doctrines and then refusing to acknowledge the proven falsities is fundamentally anti-science. Whereas reducing God simply to a "force which sparked the big bang" is fundamentally anti-religion.
"Both IE9 and Chrome are now FAR better browsers than Firefox 4/5/6."
That's a pretty subjective assertion. If you like those browsers better, good for you, use one of them.
In terms of resource usage though, at least Firefox (and Opera for that matter) actually reports it's resource usage readily rather than hiding half of it in worker threads like Chrome and IE do.
So you live in Manhattan and say it's a "scam" that trucks can't park outside your building?!? WTF, you are living in Manhattan FFS!
Why live in the most densely populated area of the country and then expect a service suited for areas of low population density? It's a pay-off you make for being surrounded by restaurants, bars, employment and everything else. What's more, even within Manhattan, if people being able to park right outside your building is really so important to you, simply live in a building with facilities for parking!
It's not a scam, it's plainly clear. You park where you aren't allowed to park you pay fine. You break basic road laws, you pay fine.
If you don't like it go to one of the many failed states of the world where laws aren't upheld.
LOL. The link to such a blatantly partisan website is to prove this statement correct, right?
LOL, my thoughts exactly.
Someone using an iPad at a restaurant, is categorically NOT a techie on 2 counts.
But there never was any evidence from the emails of a cover-up, there was just politically motivated loud mouths screaming "conspiracy, conspiracy" until some people believed them. Most of the key data was already publicly available, but some wasn't released due to contractual reasons. Not that the accusers were clamoring to use the data, few would have the slightest clue what to do with it.
It's the same old usual story, clueless politically motivated people like politicians shout the loudest and so get listened to more than the scientists and people who actually know what they are talking about.
So, is climate change responsible? Or is it simpler, Occam - like growth of the species allowing a return to former breeding grounds? Guess it depends on your/the 'viewpoint' you need to support...
Or, even more probable, both are correct. Throughout history species have taken advantage of changes in regional climate (and in particular its effects on other fauna and flora) to expand into new localities.
In the ocean, even a slight change in temperature can cause massive changes in algae and hence crustacean populations, as has been much documented. However if you RTFA the direct reason for their return seems to be the now regular summer thawing of the North West Sea Passage, which is seen as evidence of climate change.
"They're superior in every respect"
In terms of present day speed and not requiring connecting infrastructure they're superior, but that's about it. On the other hand they require more infrastructure at each end, have far increased per-passenger-mile fuel costs (increasing exponentially unless you pack people in like sardines) and are more susceptible to service disruptions from factors like weather. Unlike airports, train stations can be put right in the center of cities, even underground as they have done in many places in Europe.
Logically, high speed rail just make more sense for high-demand intercity routes. Airplanes use most their energy traveling perpendicular to the desired direction of travel (i.e. getting up to 33,000 ft). As technology develops and you create increasingly ideal conditions at ground level (ultimately this means Maglev inside vacuum tunnels) the result is going to be inherently superior to transportation requiring a costly and uncomfortable vertical dogleg.
The USA ruled the second half of the 20th century because unlike others, we had taken the plunge and invested in 20th century infrastructure (interstate highways, airports) whilst most the world was stuck with 19th century infrastructure. Now, whilst our politicians procrastinate, China are investing in 21st century technology, whilst we are stuck with 20th century technology. The result is obvious.
Oil has double in price over the past decade. All indications are we will be lucky if it only doubles in price over the next decade, as costs and demand both rise. In thirty years time these infrastructure projects will be worth their weight in gold (as ours from the 50s/60s proved 30 years later) whilst countries like ours will become less and less competitive as fewer and fewer can afford to utilize our inefficient, oil-dependent 20th century infrastructure.
That's exactly my point. The "plan" is to use a nice underground multi-story carpark. Until bean counters decry it's cheaper to just tarmac over everything which has no direct commercial value.
Hopefully Apple can get it right.
Looks very nice with the stunning scenery of a forest. Really brings out the building. As we all know though, in reality the scenery of such designs usually gets switched from the beautiful parklands, lakes or forest in to a giant car park with a tree and a puddle in the corner.
It's the surroundings which make a good building into an amazing design, and it's the surroundings which most often fail new builds.
Hopefully Apple can get it right.
Strange conclusion to make considering the communist governments (and former ones) are the main ones against carbon taxes. China and Russia's objections are the only reason some form of international carbon taxes don't already exist. ...probably just part of the conspiracy I assume.
Wow, that's some optical illusion. It looks like an article on optical illusions when in fact if you look really closely, it's a 502 page.
This is a guaranteed fraud magnet.
I really think you have to make a big distinction between the first half of the first season and the rest of SGU.
Those first half shows were undeniably slow, boring and empty (with just a couple of exceptions). But after those first very poor episodes, the show became great and I too really loved how "real" it always felt (the storylines, the acting), it was one of the shows biggest strengths.
The first half of the first season of SGU was absolutely awful. Since then SGU has actually been pretty exciting and entertaining, with actual 'sci-fi' stuff happening, but unfortunately it had already lost 75% of it viewers within that first half of season 1 and its fate was pretty much sealed.
Add to that, Syfy playing a game of musical chairs with its schedule and giving it minimal promotion (instead focusing on monsters and wrestling instead), couldn't have helped either. Many people I know who watched the show didn't even know the show was on at times, and it's frustrating trying to pickup a continuing story arc halfway through, so not surprisingly many didn't bother.
I thought SGU was a great innovation for the franchise to make, they couldn't keep doing the exact same format forever. Unfortunately SyFy (with bigboy NBC input) utterly screwed up. Not that they care, they're going after the lowest common denominator now with shows like wrestling, reality ghost shows, and similar rubbish.
The water won't be *gone*, but once it's left the aquifer and flowed into the sea it's a heck of a lot less useful than when it was back in the aquifer. Also, it depends on your opinion on what counts as "replenished", the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System under the Sahara for example ain't going to be replenishing any century soon.
Ground water isn't a closed system in any sense. If water is taken from an aquifer at a rate greater than it is replenished then the level of the aquifer will fall and even temporarily dry up until the water levels can replenish, this could take a months, years or even centuries dependent on local geography and climate.
In many places, aquifer depletion is a major engineering obstacle necessitating boreholes to be drilled ever deeper to maintain their rate of water extraction until the point they are simply no longer economic to operate and a new aquifer must be found.
We keep hearing about this massive "treasure trove" of intelligence seized, but what I don't understand is then why haven't the US/Pakistan military been spending the last few days conducting similar operations based on this intelligence? By now Al Qaeda must know the information is compromised, so its usefulness is decreasing dramatically everyday.
Many wasted hours studying history has taught me wounded enemies are usually defeated when the momentum of initial victories is kept up and enemy routs turned into heavy defeats. The momentum seems to be none-existent in this case.
My very point is there's nothing to read, it's just some latest model with no particularly innovative features. I bet there was half a dozen other near-identical products announced today too.
Several years ago, Jobs referred to Blu-Ray licensing as a "bag of hurt." I tend to doubt it's gotten any better.
Wow, Jobs complaining about licensing?!?
The iTunes 3rd party software development license is about the biggest "bag of hurt." in existence.