I have an Arris TM502B running Docsis 2.0, and having played a bit with its terminal console, it says that is supports ipv6, although of course there is no way to test it for me without my provider.
Wow, normally I won't complain, but the spelling here is getting awful. Dear editors, please consider using some kind of software like After The Deadline to reduce this again.
I thought the same thing. Contact with the IT department at my university has been very pleasant. Working on the different clusters, they told me where there were free resources, less users, managed to increase the length of my queue, informed me when jobs were not displaying normal behavior etc.etc. Same goes for the few companies I worked with. But then, none of those had more than 100 employees.
Absolutely correct, but in my understanding 4000 is way too low. But as it's pretty much impossible to attribute cancer etc. to a specific incident, it's going to be very hard to argue otherwise. I have noted in another reply that this study is pretty much bullshit (as someone else said: Greenpeace estimates 200k), but I wanted to make the point that using the most optimistic number there is, is not really fair either. In the end, it is really moot using Chernobyl to argue about this anyway, because just so much was wrong with that reactor, that comparing it to anything in the Western world is at best inconclusive.
Nice to see there are some other people who know about it. Studies have shown (sorry, I have no link), that the expected human sick days (iirc), where higher with antibiotics than without, because the side effects were more likely to manifest than a serious infection, which could be treated anyway. Also, there are results hinting at the possibility that treating otitis media with antibiotics results in higher recurrence rates, cause afaik unknown.
I only know about the affair of otitis media in children, but there, antibiotics are reserved for the more severe cases. But this is because research has shown that the chance of side effects of antibiotics is higher than the chance of complications, which then can still be treated by antibiotics.
Convenient how you read only the first part of my sentence. "although the same may be said about coal" was meant to say exactly what you are ranting about... Same goes for the 1 million number. "i could just take" and argue with that was just meant to open your eyes on how wrong the 4000 deaths number most likely is. It might well be around a few ten-thousand, and that it's really in the region of millions is very unlikely. If you had even taken a look at the link, you would have noticed that they also assumed 170k deaths in the USA as a result from Chernobyl.
The problem with this is, and I have pointed this out numerous times here on slashdot, that the 4000 deaths for Chernobyl are not very realistic and are the very lowest number and estimation one can find anywhere. While also not very believable, I could just take the numbers of a few million deaths, that others supposedly observed. There are, for example, Russia estimates of nearly a million killed. So that one accident killed as many as your 2300 coal plants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl:_Consequences_of_the_Catastrophe_for_People_and_the_Environment In addition to deaths, radiation also causes lot's of non-terminal cancer, although the same may be said about coal.
What I really mean to say is: Don't get all your numbers from nuclear fan boys and realize that the picture is not even close to the black-and-white you portrayed here
Germany also reached its Kyoto protocol dictated savings. But much of this was due to the economic melt-down of eastern Germany after reunification and a final massive fall thanks to the current economic crisis. Still, Germany and the EU have committed to cutting 30% of their CO2 emissions as well as opting for 40% if the other countries internationally agree to do the same to a certain degree. So there are countries putting out.
Public universities do it too, in Germany. At least the university of Karlsruhe, now known as the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, which have mandatory passing requirements for anyone to get past the 3rd semester.
As this is a PDF, here is the full answer: "An open Letter to Jerry Coyne: Dear Jerry, Your distorted reading of my motivation for not releasing the video of our conversation in Kentucky has given birth to an inordinate number of hostile letters to me. Because of misleading statements on your website (11/1/2011), I have received a considerable amount of hate mail, often laced with obscenities, though often also tempered with inquisitive politeness. The mail mostly complains about my “cowardly” reneging on an alleged agreement that you falsely assume I made to post online the video of our panel at the University of Kentucky. When I was in Kentucky I was never asked to do so. Later, after reflecting on what to me was a most unfortunate event I wrote to Prof Rabel requesting that any video not be released. Anyway, Jerry, your own words impute cowardice to me for this refusal, but how do you know that’s the reason for my reluctance? Here is a typical reaction stirred up by your remarks: “What a pathetic, sociopathic dweeb you are. Hiding behind your sick belief system you call a religion. You are an insult to academia, and a dim bulb for the uninformed masses. You deserve the insults you are getting and should be fired. Coward, liar and fool you are, loser. And no doubt a Republican too!” (I’m tempted to say that I can live with every accusation except the last.) I want to make it clear that Rob Rabel at the University of Kentucky has confirmed that I never gave permission before or after the panel to post the video. You need to make this clear to your audience. I never broke the agreement that you have unkindly caused your readers to assume I made. However, the more interesting issue has to do with my reasons for refusing permission to post the video, and whether it was wrong for me to do so. I have no regrets about anything I had to say during the panel, and if you agree to post this letter on your site I will be happy to have the video released unedited, for public scrutiny. Those who are reading this blog are free to look at other videos of my comments on science and religion available online. They will see that I have no need to hide my views from the public, and in fact I am quite eager to have my thoughts made available provided they are presented accurately and fairly. Why then do I hesitate in this case? It has to do with you alone, Jerry, not anyone else, including myself. I have had wonderful conversations with many scientific skeptics over the years, but my meeting with you was exceptionally dismaying and unproductive. I mentioned to you personally already that in my view, the discussion in Kentucky seldom rose to the level of a truly academic encounter. I agree that it was probably entertaining to the audience who gave us a standing ovation at the end. Nevertheless, instead of being flattered by this I went away terribly discouraged at what had just taken place. I wish to emphasize that I do not exempt myself from criticism."
I know quite a few people, actually, who have done exactly that and that would be lost in a typical BIOS with all its acronyms. Part of the reason is that most of the software they use on windows (firefox, thunderbird, Libre-/OpenOffice) is there as well, so they already know the names.
Well, there are a multitude of car sharing companies in every major German city. So I think this is much more a case of reporters believing the marketing than anything else. The one I use has a monthly fee of 5 Euros, the other one I use has no monthly fee.
This is definitely not the first electric car sharing program, see the comment about Witkar. But it also isn't the first commercially successful or anything. The German railway association (Deutsche Bahn) has their Flinkster program, which includes electric and "normal" cars, depending on what you need. In my opinion a perfect fit for the current generation.
I have heard this argument so many times before, but it is just stupid to say: You can only use 400MBit, so better keep your 100MBit instead of getting that full GBit, as you would not be able to use it fully. It might not be 10 times faster, but it still is 4 times faster, which might well be worth the price to some.
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I have an Arris TM502B running Docsis 2.0, and having played a bit with its terminal console, it says that is supports ipv6, although of course there is no way to test it for me without my provider.
Wow, normally I won't complain, but the spelling here is getting awful. Dear editors, please consider using some kind of software like After The Deadline to reduce this again.
So you are basically saying that your IT is seriously incompetent and sucks at communicating. This should not be (and I think is) not the common case.
I thought the same thing. Contact with the IT department at my university has been very pleasant. Working on the different clusters, they told me where there were free resources, less users, managed to increase the length of my queue, informed me when jobs were not displaying normal behavior etc.etc.
Same goes for the few companies I worked with. But then, none of those had more than 100 employees.
So because everything would be without meaning otherwise, there has to be something transcendental? Many people seem to make that deduction.
Same thought crossed my mind. In Germany, it's completely forbidden I guess, because I never received a single spam SMS in the 10+ years of use.
I said in another reply that my personal estimate, without me being particularly informed, would be several ten thousands as a worst case.
Absolutely correct, but in my understanding 4000 is way too low. But as it's pretty much impossible to attribute cancer etc. to a specific incident, it's going to be very hard to argue otherwise. I have noted in another reply that this study is pretty much bullshit (as someone else said: Greenpeace estimates 200k), but I wanted to make the point that using the most optimistic number there is, is not really fair either.
In the end, it is really moot using Chernobyl to argue about this anyway, because just so much was wrong with that reactor, that comparing it to anything in the Western world is at best inconclusive.
Nice to see there are some other people who know about it. Studies have shown (sorry, I have no link), that the expected human sick days (iirc), where higher with antibiotics than without, because the side effects were more likely to manifest than a serious infection, which could be treated anyway.
Also, there are results hinting at the possibility that treating otitis media with antibiotics results in higher recurrence rates, cause afaik unknown.
I only know about the affair of otitis media in children, but there, antibiotics are reserved for the more severe cases. But this is because research has shown that the chance of side effects of antibiotics is higher than the chance of complications, which then can still be treated by antibiotics.
Convenient how you read only the first part of my sentence. "although the same may be said about coal" was meant to say exactly what you are ranting about...
Same goes for the 1 million number. "i could just take" and argue with that was just meant to open your eyes on how wrong the 4000 deaths number most likely is. It might well be around a few ten-thousand, and that it's really in the region of millions is very unlikely. If you had even taken a look at the link, you would have noticed that they also assumed 170k deaths in the USA as a result from Chernobyl.
The problem with this is, and I have pointed this out numerous times here on slashdot, that the 4000 deaths for Chernobyl are not very realistic and are the very lowest number and estimation one can find anywhere. While also not very believable, I could just take the numbers of a few million deaths, that others supposedly observed. There are, for example, Russia estimates of nearly a million killed. So that one accident killed as many as your 2300 coal plants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl:_Consequences_of_the_Catastrophe_for_People_and_the_Environment
In addition to deaths, radiation also causes lot's of non-terminal cancer, although the same may be said about coal.
What I really mean to say is: Don't get all your numbers from nuclear fan boys and realize that the picture is not even close to the black-and-white you portrayed here
The "piles of garbage" seem to have been the tents, laptops and other necessities of the occupants.
To be fair, this incident resulted in several people getting prison time.
Have a look at http://www.neverwet.com/ They also have some amazing case studies showing off what the material can do, and where some use cases are.
Germany also reached its Kyoto protocol dictated savings. But much of this was due to the economic melt-down of eastern Germany after reunification and a final massive fall thanks to the current economic crisis.
Still, Germany and the EU have committed to cutting 30% of their CO2 emissions as well as opting for 40% if the other countries internationally agree to do the same to a certain degree. So there are countries putting out.
Public universities do it too, in Germany. At least the university of Karlsruhe, now known as the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, which have mandatory passing requirements for anyone to get past the 3rd semester.
As this is a PDF, here is the full answer:
"An open Letter to Jerry Coyne:
Dear Jerry,
Your distorted reading of my motivation for not releasing the video of our conversation
in Kentucky has given birth to an inordinate number of hostile letters to me. Because of
misleading statements on your website (11/1/2011), I have received a considerable
amount of hate mail, often laced with obscenities, though often also tempered with
inquisitive politeness. The mail mostly complains about my “cowardly” reneging on an
alleged agreement that you falsely assume I made to post online the video of our panel
at the University of Kentucky. When I was in Kentucky I was never asked to do so.
Later, after reflecting on what to me was a most unfortunate event I wrote to Prof Rabel
requesting that any video not be released.
Anyway, Jerry, your own words impute cowardice to me for this refusal, but how do you
know that’s the reason for my reluctance? Here is a typical reaction stirred up by your
remarks: “What a pathetic, sociopathic dweeb you are. Hiding behind your sick belief
system you call a religion. You are an insult to academia, and a dim bulb for the
uninformed masses. You deserve the insults you are getting and should be fired.
Coward, liar and fool you are, loser. And no doubt a Republican too!” (I’m tempted to
say that I can live with every accusation except the last.)
I want to make it clear that Rob Rabel at the University of Kentucky has confirmed that I
never gave permission before or after the panel to post the video. You need to make
this clear to your audience. I never broke the agreement that you have unkindly caused
your readers to assume I made.
However, the more interesting issue has to do with my reasons for refusing permission
to post the video, and whether it was wrong for me to do so. I have no regrets about
anything I had to say during the panel, and if you agree to post this letter on your site I
will be happy to have the video released unedited, for public scrutiny. Those who are
reading this blog are free to look at other videos of my comments on science and
religion available online. They will see that I have no need to hide my views from the
public, and in fact I am quite eager to have my thoughts made available provided they
are presented accurately and fairly.
Why then do I hesitate in this case? It has to do with you alone, Jerry, not anyone else,
including myself. I have had wonderful conversations with many scientific skeptics over
the years, but my meeting with you was exceptionally dismaying and unproductive. I
mentioned to you personally already that in my view, the discussion in Kentucky seldom
rose to the level of a truly academic encounter. I agree that it was probably entertaining
to the audience who gave us a standing ovation at the end. Nevertheless, instead of
being flattered by this I went away terribly discouraged at what had just taken place. I
wish to emphasize that I do not exempt myself from criticism."
I know quite a few people, actually, who have done exactly that and that would be lost in a typical BIOS with all its acronyms. Part of the reason is that most of the software they use on windows (firefox, thunderbird, Libre-/OpenOffice) is there as well, so they already know the names.
When you take out all the middle men, are there even more hoses in the pool or less?
Well, there are a multitude of car sharing companies in every major German city. So I think this is much more a case of reporters believing the marketing than anything else.
The one I use has a monthly fee of 5 Euros, the other one I use has no monthly fee.
This is definitely not the first electric car sharing program, see the comment about Witkar. But it also isn't the first commercially successful or anything. The German railway association (Deutsche Bahn) has their Flinkster program, which includes electric and "normal" cars, depending on what you need. In my opinion a perfect fit for the current generation.
Where exactly does periodic scheduling not work? I am using it all the time with Lightning.
Nope, we build and just finished a new pipeline exactly for this reason.
I have heard this argument so many times before, but it is just stupid to say: You can only use 400MBit, so better keep your 100MBit instead of getting that full GBit, as you would not be able to use it fully. It might not be 10 times faster, but it still is 4 times faster, which might well be worth the price to some.