4/3 pi 3960.75^3 - 4/3 pi 3960^3 = 4/3 pi (3960.75^3 - 3960^3) = 147823591.42729045764684076422549 cubic miles. Multiply by 70% for the amount of surface the oceans cover and you get 103476513.99910332035278853495784 cubic miles.
Pro tip: if you want to convince us of your scientific prowess, don't quote so many significant digits. 32 of them are enough to express the diameter of the known universe to a precision of one micrometre.
The one best reason not to impeach Trump is named Mike Pence. Last person you want as president is a right-wing fundamentalist fascist Christian controlling all of the nukes.
Look, I'm no fan at all of Mike Pence (or anyone else in the Trump administration.) However, I'm not sure on all of your claims.
Right wing? Check. Fundamentalist Christian? Most definitely. But fascist? Citation please.
At one point in history, more than 98% of scientists thought the earth was flat. Huzzah Galileo!
Actually it was long before Galileo that the flat-earth hypothesis was challenged. Aristotle, around 350 BC, summarized the weaknesses in this view that had accumulated up until then.
A flat-earth hypothesis is perfectly reasonable as long as you are dealing with a small local area. But as you travel longer distances, the Earth's curvature begins to matter. For more information, consider this famous essay by Isaac Asimov.
TL/DR: generally, new science does not invalidate old science, but instead shows where it is incomplete.
I don't think you can blame Windows 10 on Bill. He left Microsoft in 2006.
Of course, there are other things about the Gates-era Microsoft that make me grind my teeth. But I grudgingly give Bill a pass because of all the philanthropy he does now.
LOL an argument against democracy. Don't let those people vote, they might choose wrong! I love how people go for fascism as soon as they don't get the "correct" result. That's democracy folks: you can't always get what you want.
If you're so much in favour of democracy, then I suppose you'd be okay with abolishing the electoral college?
Sadly some feminists groups are doing a very fine job of destroying the meaning all on their own. Equal rights is a much better definition that covers the entire spectrum including ethnic issues regardless of gender.
You have a point. However, I'm inclined to defend feminism as a useful word because it identifies whose rights you think are diminished.
But perhaps, as you say, the word has become too loaded with the outrage of those with extreme views. And that's a shame. If that weren't the case, then those of us who support equal rights could comfortably call ourselves feminists (regardless of our gender) without fear of being mischaracterized.
Good. The more anal Microsoft is, the more incentive to rescue these refurbs from the dark side, and install Linux or FreeBSD on them. In the long run, we are not helping poor people by giving them computers with "free" closed source OSes.
This, for the love of FSM. The best "restore" disk is one that restores your freedom.
Too bad Eric Lundgren didn't offer Linux/*BSD in the first place -- he'd have made the world better without breaking the law.
The point is not by how much the Trump administration is cutting the budget, it's where.
Links in TFA indicate that an RIF in the forecaster staff was contemplated before Trump's residency. Fine. No union can expect to get a no-layoffs clause in its contract.
The point here is that it's the Trump administration, not the NWS, that is indicating where the cuts need to be applied. That's micromanaging.
And per TFA, the cuts "caught the agency by surprise" as well, not just the union.
I don't need 248 to tell me what a single app can do in real time with better accuracy.
Lol, right.
You don't need weather forecasters. You don't need weather satellites. You don't need weather stations. You don't need weather-forecasting models. You don't need supercomputers to run the models. You don't need a communication infrastructure to deliver the results.
I think a lot of rural people would choose to have an unsafe bridge their kids cross on the way to school fixed before getting subsidized broadband. And there are an awful lot of those unsafe bridges in rural America.
I'll admit... I'm not an actual climentoligist, but has anybody thought about maybe just making a bunch of ice and hauling it down to Antarctica? I mean if its getting warm, throw some ice on it instead of sitting around poking and measuring it.
It's pretty clear you aren't a climatologist when you can't even spell the word, but it's also clear you aren't a scientist or an engineer. The laws of thermodynamics, let alone the sheer magnitude of the logistical/technological problem, mean that making ice for Antarctica is a non-starter. You need to consume energy in order to move energy around.
Better to stop the Sun's energy from being trapped by greenhouse gasses, and harvesting the same energy (via wind and solar) for our needs, rather than using carbon-based fuels. But if you want to make ice for Antarctica with renewables, by all means knock yourself out.
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More significantly, don't equate "one foot" to "0.75 miles". That curious bit of elision is how he arrives at those ridiculous numbers.
I saw what you did there. You are right indeed. But others have covered 0.75 mi != 1 ft adequately.
I think we can conclude that significance, on many levels, is not something sexconker is up on.
Bush oversaw the largest socialization of private industry in the history of the US, and yet nobody calls him a socialist.
Must ... resist ... oh damn, here I go.
First of all, which Bush?
Second, exactly what "private" (in your view) industry did he "socialize?"
Third, are you seriously claiming that Bush (41 or 43) is a socialist?? Dude, your tinfoil hat is on too tight.
4/3 pi 3960.75^3 - 4/3 pi 3960^3 = 4/3 pi (3960.75^3 - 3960^3) = 147823591.42729045764684076422549 cubic miles. Multiply by 70% for the amount of surface the oceans cover and you get 103476513.99910332035278853495784 cubic miles.
Pro tip: if you want to convince us of your scientific prowess, don't quote so many significant digits. 32 of them are enough to express the diameter of the known universe to a precision of one micrometre.
World sea levels go up three meters? A quick computation shows that is "probably" very very wrong.
Kindly share your "quick computation." And explain why it disproves the conclusions of the paper linked in TFS.
There are violent movies and video games in other countries and they don't have the same issues with gun violence.
This. Trump, and others, are once again trying to blame gun violence on everything but guns.
Very interesting. Thanks for that.
The one best reason not to impeach Trump is named Mike Pence. Last person you want as president is a right-wing fundamentalist fascist Christian controlling all of the nukes.
Look, I'm no fan at all of Mike Pence (or anyone else in the Trump administration.) However, I'm not sure on all of your claims.
Right wing? Check. Fundamentalist Christian? Most definitely. But fascist? Citation please.
At one point in history, more than 98% of scientists thought the earth was flat. Huzzah Galileo!
Actually it was long before Galileo that the flat-earth hypothesis was challenged. Aristotle, around 350 BC, summarized the weaknesses in this view that had accumulated up until then.
A flat-earth hypothesis is perfectly reasonable as long as you are dealing with a small local area. But as you travel longer distances, the Earth's curvature begins to matter. For more information, consider this famous essay by Isaac Asimov.
TL/DR: generally, new science does not invalidate old science, but instead shows where it is incomplete.
things are much more complicated than scientists previously believed
No doubt. And that will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future.
I see no hubris here. Rather, the humility of realizing there is more to understand.
This. Trashing science is easy. Doing science is hard.
+1 irony. Or -1 whoosh. Hard to tell. Let's ask Poe?
I don't think you can blame Windows 10 on Bill. He left Microsoft in 2006.
Of course, there are other things about the Gates-era Microsoft that make me grind my teeth. But I grudgingly give Bill a pass because of all the philanthropy he does now.
LOL an argument against democracy. Don't let those people vote, they might choose wrong! I love how people go for fascism as soon as they don't get the "correct" result. That's democracy folks: you can't always get what you want.
If you're so much in favour of democracy, then I suppose you'd be okay with abolishing the electoral college?
"My job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt" - a candidate to lead the Democratic Party.
A third-place candidate who received twelve votes and dropped out.
And the Republicans were unable to stop Trump from ascending to the top of their party.
My point? Democracy is fragile. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
I'm not sure what your point was.
People who want equality are egalitarians. Feminisim is about promoting females. Its name betrays its intent.
Or perhaps it identifies a body of thought that claims women have been oppressed historically, and seeks to remedy that.
Sadly some feminists groups are doing a very fine job of destroying the meaning all on their own. Equal rights is a much better definition that covers the entire spectrum including ethnic issues regardless of gender.
You have a point. However, I'm inclined to defend feminism as a useful word because it identifies whose rights you think are diminished.
But perhaps, as you say, the word has become too loaded with the outrage of those with extreme views. And that's a shame. If that weren't the case, then those of us who support equal rights could comfortably call ourselves feminists (regardless of our gender) without fear of being mischaracterized.
AI is not real. No amount of wishing it make it real.
Artificial Intelligence != Human Intelligence. I think this is the important distinction.
Nevertheless, AI has achieved human-like qualities in many areas, and it is getting better. So I'd say it is indeed real. It's just not human.
M$ also has an extremely shallow soul.
Good. The more anal Microsoft is, the more incentive to rescue these refurbs from the dark side, and install Linux or FreeBSD on them. In the long run, we are not helping poor people by giving them computers with "free" closed source OSes.
This, for the love of FSM. The best "restore" disk is one that restores your freedom.
Too bad Eric Lundgren didn't offer Linux/*BSD in the first place -- he'd have made the world better without breaking the law.
The point is not by how much the Trump administration is cutting the budget, it's where.
Links in TFA indicate that an RIF in the forecaster staff was contemplated before Trump's residency. Fine. No union can expect to get a no-layoffs clause in its contract.
The point here is that it's the Trump administration, not the NWS, that is indicating where the cuts need to be applied. That's micromanaging.
And per TFA, the cuts "caught the agency by surprise" as well, not just the union.
Further, the union president is the last credible source. His primary job is to extract money from the treasury to line pockets.
No, his job is to protect the jobs of union-members. That makes him a biased source, but not necessarily a dishonest one.
"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."
-- from the twitter feed of @realDonaldTrump
I don't need 248 to tell me what a single app can do in real time with better accuracy.
Lol, right.
You don't need weather forecasters.
You don't need weather satellites.
You don't need weather stations.
You don't need weather-forecasting models.
You don't need supercomputers to run the models.
You don't need a communication infrastructure to deliver the results.
You just need an app. Wow, the savings.
I think a lot of rural people would choose to have an unsafe bridge their kids cross on the way to school fixed before getting subsidized broadband. And there are an awful lot of those unsafe bridges in rural America.
Oh really.
Why can't they have both?
I mean it says so right in the summary.
Eligible != Dedicated.
Broadband may get money. Or it may not.
I'll admit... I'm not an actual climentoligist, but has anybody thought about maybe just making a bunch of ice and hauling it down to Antarctica? I mean if its getting warm, throw some ice on it instead of sitting around poking and measuring it.
It's pretty clear you aren't a climatologist when you can't even spell the word, but it's also clear you aren't a scientist or an engineer. The laws of thermodynamics, let alone the sheer magnitude of the logistical/technological problem, mean that making ice for Antarctica is a non-starter. You need to consume energy in order to move energy around.
Better to stop the Sun's energy from being trapped by greenhouse gasses, and harvesting the same energy (via wind and solar) for our needs, rather than using carbon-based fuels. But if you want to make ice for Antarctica with renewables, by all means knock yourself out.