Oh, at the moment, I am just dabbling in Kanji reading - just to see if I can get a hang of it at all. Consider me a language nerd. Just being curious when it comes to any language that catches my fancy. I neither have a professional interest in Japan nor in China - it is just a general cultural and linguistic curiosity on my part. Getting my hands on a cheap version of Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" in a local bookstore pushed me in one direction for now.
That summary page is called the IPCC report. Or at least, that is the plan behind it. Good summaries for the generally scientific literate person are also to be found on realclimate.org.
I actually don't think that Mandarin is as hard as it is always made out - structurally, it looks quite friendly to me. I'd mostly struggle with the tones, I guess. But three months is good lol-material, indeed. I want to give it a try one of these days, but I am kinda stuck up with French, Swedish and refreshing my Latin these days. With a dose of Kanji reading practice on the side:P
The group has, unfortunately, created a near-perfect echo chamber - and it's exposing their offspring to it full force. I don't think this will be gone within a generation.
Your run-of-the-mill literalist is "King James Version"-only, though. Textual analysis of the sources with common methods of literary science and interpretation is generally the realm of educated theologians, which generally don't happen to be literalists.
I thought the Creationists moved the goalposts again by now? "Macroevolution" is not about speciation any more, it is about development of wholly different body plans now. Same old, same old...
Yeah. That's the core of Marx' theory. Never mind the couple of thousands of pages of economic analysis, in the core, they are after Religion. "Opium of the masses", right? Ever thought what that means? Marx didn't talk about opium as a drug here, he talked about it as medicine. The medicine that the impoverished masses under inhumane early capitalism couldn't even afford - and that's why they turned to religion, because it made their daily lives bearable. Much of Communism's goals is removing that unbearable state. Removing the necessity of numbing medicine to get through your life is a simple consequence, not a goal as such. Don't confuse Marx with Stalin. The latter is just another run of the mill totalitarian dictator.
Never really got why one would use thermometers, timers and stuff like that for grilling. On a low-temp slow roast, perhaps, but mostly just poke it with your fingers. They are great sensors. Shitload of nerves in your fingertips, they will tell you all you need to know as long as you actually care to learn how to read the data. Well, you probably have more sensory nerve endings in the glans penis, but I don't think poking grilling steaks with your dick is a prudent idea....
Indeed. That's proper food geekdom - not some gadgets of marginal use. I'd throw in a few slices of lime and a bit of chopped cilantro for the marinade, but hey, you can play with the taste.
On the phasing down of German reactors - so far, we only shut down export capacity. Germany had a massive overcapacity of nukes that were actually not needed for local production. We are still not a net importer. That's the interesting fact for me - what exactly did they have to run the rundown Isar I block in my backyard all these years? I have not seen any data on the importers of that energy. How they compensate now, I have no idea. Anyway, in the words of a professor of reactor engineering who gave a talk at a meeting I attended last months - the shutdown will have no significant consequences on the European energy grid. According to current projections, part of it will be replaced by renewables, most of it by natural gas. The climate consequences are another matter, naturally. I'd say we put up all the wind, solar and geothermal we can and get our asses into gear building a new reactor generation that does not suck as much as those currently being shut down. The research money for that, interestingly, is still there and largely unaffected by the shutdown - still way too small, though.
We have no home-grown cars in Europe outside of France anymore? Excuse me while I roll around laughing on the floor of my Munich office for a while, ok?
Well, personally I am against GM crops in their current implementation because I am against monocultures. Agricultural diversity is a good thing - in terms of resilience against pests as well as in culinary terms. The way Monsanto is steamrolling what is left of that diversity doesn't sit well with me.
And yes, I am a city dweller. As for hunting though, go for it. I prefer fishing, myself.
When it comes to agriculture, it's less about rioting and more about farmers blocking streets with their tractors and hauling truckloads of manure to the entrance of the offending party's headquarter, though. What can I say, it seems to work...
Using a 30-tank experimental system, we manipulated CO2 levels to simulate doubling and three- to fourfold increases [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projection categories IV and VI] relative to present-day levels under cool and warm scenarios. Results indicated that high CO2 is a bleaching agent for corals and CCA under high irradiance, acting synergistically with warming to lower thermal bleaching thresholds.
If your opinion about AGW is formed by rants of slashdotters instead of looking at the science, the problem might be on your side. However, I do agree that resource depletion will bite us in the arse before AGW will. In particular considering peak oil.
If you had any clue, you'd know that influences on the water cycle are long since part of climate models. But you are not interested to have a clue, are you, you have an opinion instead.
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Oh, at the moment, I am just dabbling in Kanji reading - just to see if I can get a hang of it at all. Consider me a language nerd. Just being curious when it comes to any language that catches my fancy. I neither have a professional interest in Japan nor in China - it is just a general cultural and linguistic curiosity on my part. Getting my hands on a cheap version of Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" in a local bookstore pushed me in one direction for now.
That summary page is called the IPCC report. Or at least, that is the plan behind it. Good summaries for the generally scientific literate person are also to be found on realclimate.org.
Optimist indeed. Here's to hope, though!
I actually don't think that Mandarin is as hard as it is always made out - structurally, it looks quite friendly to me. I'd mostly struggle with the tones, I guess. But three months is good lol-material, indeed. I want to give it a try one of these days, but I am kinda stuck up with French, Swedish and refreshing my Latin these days. With a dose of Kanji reading practice on the side :P
The group has, unfortunately, created a near-perfect echo chamber - and it's exposing their offspring to it full force. I don't think this will be gone within a generation.
Your run-of-the-mill literalist is "King James Version"-only, though. Textual analysis of the sources with common methods of literary science and interpretation is generally the realm of educated theologians, which generally don't happen to be literalists.
I thought the Creationists moved the goalposts again by now? "Macroevolution" is not about speciation any more, it is about development of wholly different body plans now. Same old, same old...
Yeah. That's the core of Marx' theory. Never mind the couple of thousands of pages of economic analysis, in the core, they are after Religion. "Opium of the masses", right? Ever thought what that means? Marx didn't talk about opium as a drug here, he talked about it as medicine. The medicine that the impoverished masses under inhumane early capitalism couldn't even afford - and that's why they turned to religion, because it made their daily lives bearable. Much of Communism's goals is removing that unbearable state. Removing the necessity of numbing medicine to get through your life is a simple consequence, not a goal as such. Don't confuse Marx with Stalin. The latter is just another run of the mill totalitarian dictator.
Never really got why one would use thermometers, timers and stuff like that for grilling. On a low-temp slow roast, perhaps, but mostly just poke it with your fingers. They are great sensors. Shitload of nerves in your fingertips, they will tell you all you need to know as long as you actually care to learn how to read the data. Well, you probably have more sensory nerve endings in the glans penis, but I don't think poking grilling steaks with your dick is a prudent idea....
Lol, Heston's classic indeed. Was my first thought, too.
Indeed. That's proper food geekdom - not some gadgets of marginal use. I'd throw in a few slices of lime and a bit of chopped cilantro for the marinade, but hey, you can play with the taste.
Fair, Schmair... I'd so watch that show. Thunderdome for biochemists. Then again, I am a biochemist...
And there they got you. You do know about the nanotransponders suspended in all major coffee brands today, do you? No? Oh my....
On the phasing down of German reactors - so far, we only shut down export capacity. Germany had a massive overcapacity of nukes that were actually not needed for local production. We are still not a net importer. That's the interesting fact for me - what exactly did they have to run the rundown Isar I block in my backyard all these years? I have not seen any data on the importers of that energy. How they compensate now, I have no idea. Anyway, in the words of a professor of reactor engineering who gave a talk at a meeting I attended last months - the shutdown will have no significant consequences on the European energy grid. According to current projections, part of it will be replaced by renewables, most of it by natural gas. The climate consequences are another matter, naturally. I'd say we put up all the wind, solar and geothermal we can and get our asses into gear building a new reactor generation that does not suck as much as those currently being shut down. The research money for that, interestingly, is still there and largely unaffected by the shutdown - still way too small, though.
We have no home-grown cars in Europe outside of France anymore? Excuse me while I roll around laughing on the floor of my Munich office for a while, ok?
*Cough* *Cough* dimensions of 1:4:9 - the first three integers squared.
Bad monkey, no evolutionary boost for you!
Well, personally I am against GM crops in their current implementation because I am against monocultures. Agricultural diversity is a good thing - in terms of resilience against pests as well as in culinary terms. The way Monsanto is steamrolling what is left of that diversity doesn't sit well with me.
And yes, I am a city dweller. As for hunting though, go for it. I prefer fishing, myself.
When it comes to agriculture, it's less about rioting and more about farmers blocking streets with their tractors and hauling truckloads of manure to the entrance of the offending party's headquarter, though. What can I say, it seems to work...
As long as they keep their Monsanto crap out of the feed for my poulets de bresse...
Oh, yeah? Just one link, 30 sec of googling:
Using a 30-tank experimental system, we manipulated CO2 levels to simulate doubling and three- to fourfold increases [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projection categories IV and VI] relative to present-day levels under cool and warm scenarios. Results indicated that high CO2 is a bleaching agent for corals and CCA under high irradiance, acting synergistically with warming to lower thermal bleaching thresholds.
Nevermind. Now go and get yourself more coffee! ;)
Ehm, I did not answer to you, but to the poster above. How do you get the idea I am a denier?
If your opinion about AGW is formed by rants of slashdotters instead of looking at the science, the problem might be on your side. However, I do agree that resource depletion will bite us in the arse before AGW will. In particular considering peak oil.
As an exercise for home: Does your strawman burn carbon neutral or does it affect atmospheric CO2?
If you had any clue, you'd know that influences on the water cycle are long since part of climate models. But you are not interested to have a clue, are you, you have an opinion instead.