there aren't any experiments you can do to demonstrate evolutionary theory.
Sure there are, but they may take a few million years to get results.
Using microbe strains it can be done a lot faster. And it is being done, see Lenski et al. Of course, the fundie creationists replied that the results showing evolution were obviously faked, since there is no such thing as evolution.
A hot-water spa in Iceland using the waste water from a geothermal power station, its intake is 2000 meters down. Great place, I was surprised to find that the water is salty, at about 1/3 the salinity of ocean water.
If you fly trans-Atlantic, make a stopover in Iceland and spend a day at that spa. It's worth it.
Actually they do have to comply with the law and with requests from the police. It's just that with the VPN solutions the retained traffic data are meaningless. Better than wearing Anonymous masks wherever there's a surveillance camera.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords isn't particularly liberal but is one of the 20 in Congress "in Sarah Palin's crosshairs" for her vote on health care reform..
I think you mean health insurance reform, which is what the bill is all about. The opponents call it care reform, so so they can shout "Death Panels!11!!"
The rest of the world, huh? Have you ever had a look north of the US border?
Tell me, are your absolute poorest covered by national health insurance, or are they just brought into ER and dumped back out on the street when they have been resuscitated? If a type-1 diabetic can't afford to buy insulin, does he depend on charity, or will the larger society take care of him? Do you ever compare the US to other countries (e.g. Northern Europe) with a similar economic and technological level, or just to the so-called third world countries?
As someone here has in the sig, " I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization".
you -could- just compost it yourself. But you won't cause it's more work than you would like and smells bad.
Except that it's trivially easy, and doesn't smell bad (or at all) if you do it right.
And doing it right is not very difficult.
Plus you get excellent free fertilizer (organic, even!) for your garden, trees or lawn.
Exactly. If your clippings are stinking up the area you're composting it wrong.
And if your community has a pick-up service of this kind they will probably also give brief courses in home composting. When you really get into it, buy a hot-compost container for your food scraps and stop flushing them down the grinder into the sewage. Do the hot-compost right and it doesn't smell bad either.
During early winter our yard has an almost 6-inch layer of leaves. If a service would scoop them up and take them away for free, they could use them for fuel. It would benefit 3 parties: us (leaf removal), the leaf processing company, and The Planet.
Even simpler: set them on fire. As a bonus, you get your house heated.
And you get to enjoy allergies, as well as torturing your allergic neighbours...
OTOH, municipal waste is incinerated in this town to provide hot water on a scale that allows thousands of oil-fired furnaces of all sizes to be shut down. This, plus scrubbing in the incinerators, improves air quality in the city.
+5 informative, and interesting.
It's been a long time since I did any serious flying, but when I went through security in a Japanese airport, it was always a cute girl wearing white cotton gloves who patted me down after asking, "May I touch you?".Yes (..oO - please.)
No ball check.though,
Our version of ASCAP - TONO - wanted businesses to pay a fee for every company PC that was equipped with a sound card... all they got was "see figure 1".
One provision in the EU Data Retention Directive says that ISPs must store information about recipients of all e-mail that their clients send. Now if Opera can offer EU users a webmail service outside the countries implementing the DRD that's a good deal.
Previous large eruptions have caused mini ice ages.
They have. This is actually not a large eruption. However, if the nearby Katla volcano should erupt, that may become a largish eruption. It seems to have had a minor burp ca 1955, but that caused "only" a large flood of meltwater and didn't put lava or ash out of its glacier cap. Let us sincerely hope that it will not be much worse this time. (3 out of 4 times that Eyafjallajökul erupts, so does Katla a few weeks/months later.)
Loki does seem to be the closest deity, yes. In fact, in one variety of modern Norwegian the word "loge" means "flame". And he is an unreliable trickster, too!
Laki is/was in fact not a single volcano, but a long fiery crack in the ground - 130 craters in the 1783 eruption.
Oh well - Iceland keeps growing, and Europe and North America keep drifting apart.
Some people have a tendency to split Norwegian words that shouldn't be - sometimes changing the meaning altogether: "Tunfiskbiter i vann" : tuna chunks in water, says the can label. The store may write a poster that says
"Tunfisk biter i vann" -tuna fish bites in water. Or "lammelår" - legs of lamb - becomes "lamme lår" - paralyzed legs. Gaah.
Heh - he'll have to turn in his iPad at customs when he gets here- its transmitter is too powerful according to EU regulations, which Norway follows.
The Crown Prince is stranded in London on his way home from a visit in Qatar, but at least he can make it home via ship from Newcastle to Bergen.
The worst problem Norway faces is emergency services for the dispersed population in the north of the country. Locally, helicopters provide ambulance services - and what used to be a half-hour helicopter flight might now be several hours by land ambulance - or boat. Health authorities are worried.
For non-emergency situations, it will now take 2 days or more to get from the south end to the north end of the country, with a normal flight it's less than 3 hours.
One positive side: maybe politicians will finally realize that they need to stop talking and actually doing something about the appalling state of our railways and some of our roads!
You must be Swedish.
s/hedonistic/heathen/ although I think that these days we're all hedonistic up here on the top of Europe.
Norse is what we spoke about 1000 years ago - and I have met exactly two foreigners who spoke accent-free Norwegian: a Swedish radio man and the German chancellor Willy Brandt. You probably have a similar situation in Sweden - like Japanese, you almost have to grow up here to speak it correctly and without an accent:-)
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there aren't any experiments you can do to demonstrate evolutionary theory.
Sure there are, but they may take a few million years to get results.
Using microbe strains it can be done a lot faster. And it is being done, see Lenski et al. Of course, the fundie creationists replied that the results showing evolution were obviously faked, since there is no such thing as evolution.
A hot-water spa in Iceland using the waste water from a geothermal power station, its intake is 2000 meters down. Great place, I was surprised to find that the water is salty, at about 1/3 the salinity of ocean water.
If you fly trans-Atlantic, make a stopover in Iceland and spend a day at that spa. It's worth it.
Actually they do have to comply with the law and with requests from the police. It's just that with the VPN solutions the retained traffic data are meaningless. Better than wearing Anonymous masks wherever there's a surveillance camera.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords isn't particularly liberal but is one of the 20 in Congress "in Sarah Palin's crosshairs" for her vote on health care reform. .
I think you mean health insurance reform, which is what the bill is all about. The opponents call it care reform, so so they can shout "Death Panels!11!!"
The rest of the world, huh? Have you ever had a look north of the US border? Tell me, are your absolute poorest covered by national health insurance, or are they just brought into ER and dumped back out on the street when they have been resuscitated? If a type-1 diabetic can't afford to buy insulin, does he depend on charity, or will the larger society take care of him? Do you ever compare the US to other countries (e.g. Northern Europe) with a similar economic and technological level, or just to the so-called third world countries? As someone here has in the sig, " I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization".
When that law was passed here in Norway it was quipped that a man would have to get consent in writing from the woman before having sex.
Of course, software patents are not valid in all countries, so Linux will survive, somewhere, somehow.
you -could- just compost it yourself. But you won't cause it's more work than you would like and smells bad.
Except that it's trivially easy, and doesn't smell bad (or at all) if you do it right. And doing it right is not very difficult. Plus you get excellent free fertilizer (organic, even!) for your garden, trees or lawn.
Exactly. If your clippings are stinking up the area you're composting it wrong.
And if your community has a pick-up service of this kind they will probably also give brief courses in home composting. When you really get into it, buy a hot-compost container for your food scraps and stop flushing them down the grinder into the sewage. Do the hot-compost right and it doesn't smell bad either.
Even simpler: set them on fire. As a bonus, you get your house heated.
And you get to enjoy allergies, as well as torturing your allergic neighbours ...
OTOH, municipal waste is incinerated in this town to provide hot water on a scale that allows thousands of oil-fired furnaces of all sizes to be shut down. This, plus scrubbing in the incinerators, improves air quality in the city.
+5 informative, and interesting. It's been a long time since I did any serious flying, but when I went through security in a Japanese airport, it was always a cute girl wearing white cotton gloves who patted me down after asking, "May I touch you?" .Yes (..oO - please.)
No ball check.though,
"God is real - unless declared integer" - following the FORTRAN naming rule.
ITYM DC-8
Our version of ASCAP - TONO - wanted businesses to pay a fee for every company PC that was equipped with a sound card ... all they got was "see figure 1".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_v._International_Business_Machines_Corp._et_al.
One provision in the EU Data Retention Directive says that ISPs must store information about recipients of all e-mail that their clients send. Now if Opera can offer EU users a webmail service outside the countries implementing the DRD that's a good deal.
Sure they are. Just not for grants from politicians.
Previous large eruptions have caused mini ice ages.
They have. This is actually not a large eruption. However, if the nearby Katla volcano should erupt, that may become a largish eruption. It seems to have had a minor burp ca 1955, but that caused "only" a large flood of meltwater and didn't put lava or ash out of its glacier cap. Let us sincerely hope that it will not be much worse this time. (3 out of 4 times that Eyafjallajökul erupts, so does Katla a few weeks/months later.)
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Loki does seem to be the closest deity, yes. In fact, in one variety of modern Norwegian the word "loge" means "flame". And he is an unreliable trickster, too! Laki is/was in fact not a single volcano, but a long fiery crack in the ground - 130 craters in the 1783 eruption. Oh well - Iceland keeps growing, and Europe and North America keep drifting apart.
ITYM Laki whose wrath may have hastened the French revolution and caused the Mississippi to freeze at New Orleans.
Some people have a tendency to split Norwegian words that shouldn't be - sometimes changing the meaning altogether: "Tunfiskbiter i vann" : tuna chunks in water, says the can label. The store may write a poster that says "Tunfisk biter i vann" -tuna fish bites in water. Or "lammelår" - legs of lamb - becomes "lamme lår" - paralyzed legs. Gaah.
+10 insightful
The Crown Prince is stranded in London on his way home from a visit in Qatar, but at least he can make it home via ship from Newcastle to Bergen.
The worst problem Norway faces is emergency services for the dispersed population in the north of the country. Locally, helicopters provide ambulance services - and what used to be a half-hour helicopter flight might now be several hours by land ambulance - or boat. Health authorities are worried.
For non-emergency situations, it will now take 2 days or more to get from the south end to the north end of the country, with a normal flight it's less than 3 hours.
One positive side: maybe politicians will finally realize that they need to stop talking and actually doing something about the appalling state of our railways and some of our roads!
tempers flare The threat of Open Source indeed.
You must be Swedish. s/hedonistic/heathen/ although I think that these days we're all hedonistic up here on the top of Europe. Norse is what we spoke about 1000 years ago - and I have met exactly two foreigners who spoke accent-free Norwegian: a Swedish radio man and the German chancellor Willy Brandt. You probably have a similar situation in Sweden - like Japanese, you almost have to grow up here to speak it correctly and without an accent :-)
Hilsen naboen