The effect of sulfur aerosols has been known for ages and is pretty well accounted for. The only interesting thing is that given China's massive growth of late, sulfur and particulate emissions have risen so fast that they may temporarily mask some of the effects of the as massive increase in CO2 caused by the same factors. In the long term, it doesn't matter, since atmospheric retention time of CO2 is orders of magnitude above that of SO2, therefor it will dominate the equation in the end.
To elaborate on that, the incompleteness theorem is an essential part of the time-honored slashdot tradition of proof by anal extraction. Bullshit - it ain't just for breakfast any more.
True, but I fear what they might be able to conjure up if they follow down this path. This summary is not that far from "IA! IA! AZATHOTH FHTAGN! IA! IA! AZATHOTH NEBLODZIM FHTAGN!" And we all know where that ends.
Thanks for the translation. The summary really could have been some random gibbering from a not yet fully grown spawn of an avatar of the Crawling Chaos. Horrid, but incomprehensible.
Well, there are biology nerds. I happen to be one of them. While I don't particularly agree with the presentation of the story, the factoid itself is of interest to me. A weird evolutionary path. Fascinating.
Do the horses use cars to prepare for the race? No? Thought so. I still go out to the local track to place some bets once or twice a year. It's not that computers can win against humans which puts me off these days, it's that human playing gets shaped by computers, by means of extensive analysis offloaded to the machine.
To be honest, since the advent of computers in chess I lost most of my interest - even in human tournaments. Every top player does lots of preparation by computer analysis these days. If I want to see some interesting and creative games, I usually grab a commented tournament book from the 20s or so, whenever I get my hands on one.
The internet as force for democratization has long since failed. People tend to use it so selectively that they create their own echo chambers, doing nothing than reinforcing their previous beliefs. I think we had an article on that lately, and it is most definitely my experience when I talk with other people about what they are actually doing on the net.
Heh, viewing it as a simulated annealing prozess is quite interesting. However, I for one, do not welcome our new optimization overlords and rather stick with my personalized Monte Carlo approach to bar hopping - random jumps from bar to bar with the hopping frequency modified by the distance to my desired optimum, following the gradient of perceived quality while being between bars. Steepest descent, naturally:P
I used to draw the layout by hand on a transparent sheet, then photo-transfer it to a circuit board with a light-sensitive coating on the copper. Develop the stuff, wash away the light-exposed parts and etch. No "prototyping" though - just a teenager building radios and amplifiers in his basement lair....
Yeah, well, that's the point I was on about stated a bit more seriously. In the end, it has no style. It's needy as hell. I don't prowl the streets for a hookup. I just, well, go out. If I meet a girl I like and something develops - fine. If not, then not. Checking the gender ratio in a bar? Please. If I like a bar, I like the bar. Mostly men in there, no "targets"? Fine. Maybe I find a decent new drinking buddy in there. Besides hooking up, bars tend to be a great place to drink in peace and have discussions over weird stuff and meet people you'd never get into contact with under other circumstances.
Gender ratio? Are we minmaxing on the chances for a bar hookup now? Powergaming the scene? Casual fucks for munchkins? Come on, guys, what happened to just hitting the road and, you know, just go out? First hole in the wall that strikes your fancy? You never know what you will find. Oh, and get off my lawn and take your smart-arse-phone with you.
Great, now he has the ingredients. You conveniently forgot the part of hunting down a copy of the Necronomicon - the Alhazred original, not the cheap Dee knockoff - and drawing the summoning circle from p. 366 with the penguin blood, positioning himself inside the circle and repeatedly chanting "IA! IA! AZATHOTH! IA! AZATHOTH MANA-YOD-SUSHAI NEBLODZIM!". When the portal opens, gulp down the mixed ingredients and immortality shall be granted - a timeless, mindless eternal life in the Court of the Demon Sultan himself. Easy, really. MUHAHAH!
Don't get me wrong, I don't catch and release for the fun of it, I usually fish to get something for the pan. However, you can't always predict what you catch - your tackle selection can only get you so far. So if I go for pike perch with barely over 50 cm, which technically is legal to take out, I'd rather let him swim. Way too young - I'd rather have him live on and reproduce a bit more to get the population more stable and rather take an older one that has done his reproductive duty. Other case - say I am going for trout and some small red-eye takes the bait. What shall I do with it? If I kill it, it goes to waste as I do not have any culinary use for it. I'd rather let it swim again, but the law prohibits it. Letting it swim is better than throwing it away or feeding it to the cat, isn't it?
I agree that pure C&R, just to get the fish for a photo session, like some "carp hunters" around here practice it, should not happen.
As long as you don't live in a dictatorship, you can easily flee the coercion to pay taxes - just leave the country and move to Somalia. As practical as avoiding the landlord's coercion to pay rent and go homeless, but still the option is there.
It's the mindset of a certain radical subgroup of animal rights activists. That has as much to do with liberalism as lynching them niggers has with conservatism. But go ahead, the debate ain't polarized enough these days.
Or raw beef, pounded so thin you can see through it. A drizzle of good olive oil on top, some equally thin cut parmigiano, fresh herbs to taste, splash of lime. Food worthy of a god..
I personally don't give a rat's arse about pets, but in this case, the pet industry got my support. In my country, the same sort of PETArds are currently after anglers. Yep, fishing is cruelty. The retard fraction has already managed to get a ban on catch and release. Yep, that's right. Applied animal rights - if I catch a fish, I gotta slaughter it, releasing it would be cruelty, as I obviously only treat it as a sports object. Killing and eating is still fine, though. Never mind taking care of a proper population in your lake or stream, where no naturally stable population has existed for decades without care anyway.
True, this might be some sort of selection bias. I am just observing that the most vocal "radiation is harmless" posters are suspiciously quiet here. You are completely right that this thread is more likely to be populated by the "TSA is evil crowd", which might not at all intersect with the former. Doesn't help either side to escape from their ideological boundaries, though.
Hm, Hm, Hm... I thought all the Fukushima threads had established that low-dose radiation is far from harmful, and actually promoting your health? Where are the nuclear proponents now? All I see in this thread so far is decrying of the evil government raining down destruction by means of scanning machines. Cognitive dissonance, anyone?
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The effect of sulfur aerosols has been known for ages and is pretty well accounted for. The only interesting thing is that given China's massive growth of late, sulfur and particulate emissions have risen so fast that they may temporarily mask some of the effects of the as massive increase in CO2 caused by the same factors. In the long term, it doesn't matter, since atmospheric retention time of CO2 is orders of magnitude above that of SO2, therefor it will dominate the equation in the end.
To elaborate on that, the incompleteness theorem is an essential part of the time-honored slashdot tradition of proof by anal extraction. Bullshit - it ain't just for breakfast any more.
True, but I fear what they might be able to conjure up if they follow down this path. This summary is not that far from "IA! IA! AZATHOTH FHTAGN! IA! IA! AZATHOTH NEBLODZIM FHTAGN!" And we all know where that ends.
Thanks for the translation. The summary really could have been some random gibbering from a not yet fully grown spawn of an avatar of the Crawling Chaos. Horrid, but incomprehensible.
Well, there are biology nerds. I happen to be one of them. While I don't particularly agree with the presentation of the story, the factoid itself is of interest to me. A weird evolutionary path. Fascinating.
Paging the ER, paging the ER! We need a humor transplant, STAT!
Do the horses use cars to prepare for the race? No? Thought so. I still go out to the local track to place some bets once or twice a year. It's not that computers can win against humans which puts me off these days, it's that human playing gets shaped by computers, by means of extensive analysis offloaded to the machine.
To be honest, since the advent of computers in chess I lost most of my interest - even in human tournaments. Every top player does lots of preparation by computer analysis these days. If I want to see some interesting and creative games, I usually grab a commented tournament book from the 20s or so, whenever I get my hands on one.
The internet as force for democratization has long since failed. People tend to use it so selectively that they create their own echo chambers, doing nothing than reinforcing their previous beliefs. I think we had an article on that lately, and it is most definitely my experience when I talk with other people about what they are actually doing on the net.
Heh, viewing it as a simulated annealing prozess is quite interesting. However, I for one, do not welcome our new optimization overlords and rather stick with my personalized Monte Carlo approach to bar hopping - random jumps from bar to bar with the hopping frequency modified by the distance to my desired optimum, following the gradient of perceived quality while being between bars. Steepest descent, naturally :P
Nah, no one is going to the cool places anymore. They are too crowded.
I used to draw the layout by hand on a transparent sheet, then photo-transfer it to a circuit board with a light-sensitive coating on the copper. Develop the stuff, wash away the light-exposed parts and etch. No "prototyping" though - just a teenager building radios and amplifiers in his basement lair....
Yeah, well, that's the point I was on about stated a bit more seriously. In the end, it has no style. It's needy as hell. I don't prowl the streets for a hookup. I just, well, go out. If I meet a girl I like and something develops - fine. If not, then not. Checking the gender ratio in a bar? Please. If I like a bar, I like the bar. Mostly men in there, no "targets"? Fine. Maybe I find a decent new drinking buddy in there. Besides hooking up, bars tend to be a great place to drink in peace and have discussions over weird stuff and meet people you'd never get into contact with under other circumstances.
Gender ratio? Are we minmaxing on the chances for a bar hookup now? Powergaming the scene? Casual fucks for munchkins? Come on, guys, what happened to just hitting the road and, you know, just go out? First hole in the wall that strikes your fancy? You never know what you will find. Oh, and get off my lawn and take your smart-arse-phone with you.
Great, now he has the ingredients. You conveniently forgot the part of hunting down a copy of the Necronomicon - the Alhazred original, not the cheap Dee knockoff - and drawing the summoning circle from p. 366 with the penguin blood, positioning himself inside the circle and repeatedly chanting "IA! IA! AZATHOTH! IA! AZATHOTH MANA-YOD-SUSHAI NEBLODZIM!". When the portal opens, gulp down the mixed ingredients and immortality shall be granted - a timeless, mindless eternal life in the Court of the Demon Sultan himself. Easy, really. MUHAHAH!
Don't get me wrong, I don't catch and release for the fun of it, I usually fish to get something for the pan. However, you can't always predict what you catch - your tackle selection can only get you so far. So if I go for pike perch with barely over 50 cm, which technically is legal to take out, I'd rather let him swim. Way too young - I'd rather have him live on and reproduce a bit more to get the population more stable and rather take an older one that has done his reproductive duty. Other case - say I am going for trout and some small red-eye takes the bait. What shall I do with it? If I kill it, it goes to waste as I do not have any culinary use for it. I'd rather let it swim again, but the law prohibits it. Letting it swim is better than throwing it away or feeding it to the cat, isn't it?
I agree that pure C&R, just to get the fish for a photo session, like some "carp hunters" around here practice it, should not happen.
As long as you don't live in a dictatorship, you can easily flee the coercion to pay taxes - just leave the country and move to Somalia. As practical as avoiding the landlord's coercion to pay rent and go homeless, but still the option is there.
Nope. Efficiency is in the eye of the thermodynamicist, and that eye is a lean, mean analysis machine.
That is a natural consequence of the fact that the numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
It's the mindset of a certain radical subgroup of animal rights activists. That has as much to do with liberalism as lynching them niggers has with conservatism. But go ahead, the debate ain't polarized enough these days.
Or raw beef, pounded so thin you can see through it. A drizzle of good olive oil on top, some equally thin cut parmigiano, fresh herbs to taste, splash of lime. Food worthy of a god..
I personally don't give a rat's arse about pets, but in this case, the pet industry got my support. In my country, the same sort of PETArds are currently after anglers. Yep, fishing is cruelty. The retard fraction has already managed to get a ban on catch and release. Yep, that's right. Applied animal rights - if I catch a fish, I gotta slaughter it, releasing it would be cruelty, as I obviously only treat it as a sports object. Killing and eating is still fine, though. Never mind taking care of a proper population in your lake or stream, where no naturally stable population has existed for decades without care anyway.
I think you misspelled "fap, fap, fap, ..., fap" there...
True, this might be some sort of selection bias. I am just observing that the most vocal "radiation is harmless" posters are suspiciously quiet here. You are completely right that this thread is more likely to be populated by the "TSA is evil crowd", which might not at all intersect with the former. Doesn't help either side to escape from their ideological boundaries, though.
Hm, Hm, Hm... I thought all the Fukushima threads had established that low-dose radiation is far from harmful, and actually promoting your health? Where are the nuclear proponents now? All I see in this thread so far is decrying of the evil government raining down destruction by means of scanning machines. Cognitive dissonance, anyone?