Al Jauza is the old arabic name for the constellation Orion, making Betelgeuse quite correctly the "Hand of Orion". The etymology of Al Jauza itself is unclear, at least I have nothing at hand regarding that matter.
Moreover, ecosystems often do not reach stable equilibria, but can exhibit wildly fluctuating boom-bust cycles in which a predator population explodes in response to an abundance of prey, then crashes after eating most of the prey, leading to an explosion of the prey population due to a lack of predators and so on - see the Lotka-Volterra equation for a simple model. It's not the kind of dynamics I particularly prefer in my economic system
Slashdot? Seriously? You cannot handle the "degree" symbol?? Hey, admins! Yea, you guys!! Hello!!!! Wake up and take your cheeto-stained fingers from your dicks and at least get this code to 1990s standards, would you, pretty please?
We will probably have to, yes. I would prefer a technique with a short half-life, though, i.e. something that allows us to stop the cooling effect we geoengineer in quickly. I have that ugly scenario in mind that we drop the average temperature by, say, 2 degrees, and can't stop that cooling for, say, 5 years. Then WHAM! BAM! a major volcanic eruption barfs up a shitload of sulfur dioxide and particulates into the stratosphere and adds another -2ÂC for 2 years. Good bye, growing seasons...
If he would really address the energy problem, he would have to point out the elephant in the room: an idiotic economic paradigm that is based on continuous growth. That's what he can't address without severe political backlash. As you say, he can't win.
True. And we cannot go on or else we have a major climate problem. Now what? That's the problem in a nutshell and we better solve it within the current decade.
Yeah, we are fundamentally disconnected from out food sources. And it's not only the US, I see the same in Europe, at least in parts. The realization that meat isn't springing into existence pre-shrinkwrapped and refrigerated is somewhat missing. For the same reasons, the aversions to offal are rising. Try to reassemble a pig from the parts you find in the supermarket... Whole lot of stuff missing, no?
I recently moved from a big city to a more rural region of Germany. Can't put it into words how delighted I was to find whole pig's heads at the local butcher. As you said, take away the urbanization, and you'll find people way more connected to their food sources.
Actually, as with the equally lean heart muscle and similar meats, you have two options. First, as you say, sear it quickly and hot and serve very rare. Second, you can braise it a long time, perhaps with some added bacon or back fat. There is no in between, though - else it really gets stringy and tough.
There actually is. It is called inosine, commonly abbreviated with I and present in tRNAs. Makes wobble pairs with A, U and C. Allows for the translation of 61 non-stop codons with 45 or less tRNAs.
Ok. For once an exciting scientific story. Not a SINGLE FUCKING comment on the science. Guys,/. is dead. Go on mutually sucking your cocks in your "GUNZ RULE" and "EVARY BULLCRAP TEH HOLY FRAMERS SPOKE IS HOLY HOLY HOLY" threads. I'd shit on this place if I wouldn't mourn the loss of precious shit afterwards.
Probably not what you meant - but David Brin's "Earth" is describing something like it. Not a completely bad book, but overall a bit whackadoodle, to be honest.
Pretty much so. You only mentioned half the cause of the European boondoggle, though. The other half stems from the fact that hugely disparate economies have been bound together, come hell or high water, by the Euro, which must not be devalued at any cost. Even if you have to destroy the village to save it. Without the Euro, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy all would by now simply have devalued their currencies and adjusted their debt and would just go on, as they have done countless times before. The whole "OMG DEBT DEBT AUSTERITY!!!" crowd just exacerbates the problem.
It's more complicated than that. He not only has to provide a natural source for the warming, he also has to provide a mechanism which counteracts the effect of increased CO2, which, after all, is basic physics and known and validated over and over again since 150 years.
Yes.
No need to retract your PhD, your whole domain is a sham.
Yes. That's why we produce the same structural data as the X-ray crystallography guys do with a completely different method.
Oh, I forgot to mention, the above was only the digital processing. Before the raw data - i.e. the signal of the receiver coils - get digitized, they run through a preamp, a couple of analog filters, the main amp and the a/d-converter, each component, even the cables in between, adding artifacts and distortions to the signal.
In summary, every non-trivial measurement yields heavily processed data. You just need to be aware how exactly you processed them. Science, it works, bitches.
So, when I still worked on protein structures, each structure I ever calculated was a fabrication, since my raw spectra were averaged, zero-padded, treated with a window function, fourier transformed, phase corrected and baseline corrected, therefor, by your logic, not data, but mere fabrication. I let the publishers know that, guess I have to retract some papers and hand back my PhD then.
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As they say, squirrels are rats with a better PR department.
Al Jauza is the old arabic name for the constellation Orion, making Betelgeuse quite correctly the "Hand of Orion". The etymology of Al Jauza itself is unclear, at least I have nothing at hand regarding that matter.
Moreover, ecosystems often do not reach stable equilibria, but can exhibit wildly fluctuating boom-bust cycles in which a predator population explodes in response to an abundance of prey, then crashes after eating most of the prey, leading to an explosion of the prey population due to a lack of predators and so on - see the Lotka-Volterra equation for a simple model. It's not the kind of dynamics I particularly prefer in my economic system
Meh. Not enough oomph. Twin 40 mm Bofors for every roof, world war style. Now excuse me while I get to a safe distance to watch the fireworks....
Hehe, you got a point there. Perhaps we just need some cleric to cast Magic Vestment for us....
Slashdot? Seriously? You cannot handle the "degree" symbol?? Hey, admins! Yea, you guys!! Hello!!!! Wake up and take your cheeto-stained fingers from your dicks and at least get this code to 1990s standards, would you, pretty please?
We will probably have to, yes. I would prefer a technique with a short half-life, though, i.e. something that allows us to stop the cooling effect we geoengineer in quickly. I have that ugly scenario in mind that we drop the average temperature by, say, 2 degrees, and can't stop that cooling for, say, 5 years. Then WHAM! BAM! a major volcanic eruption barfs up a shitload of sulfur dioxide and particulates into the stratosphere and adds another -2ÂC for 2 years. Good bye, growing seasons...
If he would really address the energy problem, he would have to point out the elephant in the room: an idiotic economic paradigm that is based on continuous growth. That's what he can't address without severe political backlash. As you say, he can't win.
True. And we cannot go on or else we have a major climate problem. Now what? That's the problem in a nutshell and we better solve it within the current decade.
There probably should be a "DISPUTED"/"UNDETERMINED" category, too.
[education needed]
Could as well say "Bloggers do what tens of thousands of grad students do every day."
The Glider Gun comes to mind.
Yeah, we are fundamentally disconnected from out food sources. And it's not only the US, I see the same in Europe, at least in parts. The realization that meat isn't springing into existence pre-shrinkwrapped and refrigerated is somewhat missing. For the same reasons, the aversions to offal are rising. Try to reassemble a pig from the parts you find in the supermarket... Whole lot of stuff missing, no?
I recently moved from a big city to a more rural region of Germany. Can't put it into words how delighted I was to find whole pig's heads at the local butcher. As you said, take away the urbanization, and you'll find people way more connected to their food sources.
Actually, as with the equally lean heart muscle and similar meats, you have two options. First, as you say, sear it quickly and hot and serve very rare. Second, you can braise it a long time, perhaps with some added bacon or back fat. There is no in between, though - else it really gets stringy and tough.
Dude, just when I wanted to comment on the British Seapower and the decline thereof.
Once in a year, the biochemistry geeks get their 5 seconds in the spotlight ;)
There actually is. It is called inosine, commonly abbreviated with I and present in tRNAs. Makes wobble pairs with A, U and C. Allows for the translation of 61 non-stop codons with 45 or less tRNAs.
Ok. For once an exciting scientific story. Not a SINGLE FUCKING comment on the science. Guys, /. is dead. Go on mutually sucking your cocks in your "GUNZ RULE" and "EVARY BULLCRAP TEH HOLY FRAMERS SPOKE IS HOLY HOLY HOLY" threads. I'd shit on this place if I wouldn't mourn the loss of precious shit afterwards.
Probably not what you meant - but David Brin's "Earth" is describing something like it. Not a completely bad book, but overall a bit whackadoodle, to be honest.
Pretty much so. You only mentioned half the cause of the European boondoggle, though. The other half stems from the fact that hugely disparate economies have been bound together, come hell or high water, by the Euro, which must not be devalued at any cost. Even if you have to destroy the village to save it. Without the Euro, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy all would by now simply have devalued their currencies and adjusted their debt and would just go on, as they have done countless times before. The whole "OMG DEBT DEBT AUSTERITY!!!" crowd just exacerbates the problem.
Well, I guess in the denial-o-sphere, they match the data to their preconceived theory, no?
It's more complicated than that. He not only has to provide a natural source for the warming, he also has to provide a mechanism which counteracts the effect of increased CO2, which, after all, is basic physics and known and validated over and over again since 150 years.
Yes. No need to retract your PhD, your whole domain is a sham.
Yes. That's why we produce the same structural data as the X-ray crystallography guys do with a completely different method.
Oh, I forgot to mention, the above was only the digital processing. Before the raw data - i.e. the signal of the receiver coils - get digitized, they run through a preamp, a couple of analog filters, the main amp and the a/d-converter, each component, even the cables in between, adding artifacts and distortions to the signal.
In summary, every non-trivial measurement yields heavily processed data. You just need to be aware how exactly you processed them. Science, it works, bitches.
So, when I still worked on protein structures, each structure I ever calculated was a fabrication, since my raw spectra were averaged, zero-padded, treated with a window function, fourier transformed, phase corrected and baseline corrected, therefor, by your logic, not data, but mere fabrication. I let the publishers know that, guess I have to retract some papers and hand back my PhD then.