I hate to play this game, but local anomalies can occur.
Over the last two decades my central Pennsylvania home has seen it go from rarely snowing in October (Halloween), definite by Thanksgiving, and certain by Christmas to rarely by Christmas. Consistency is the key.
Last year it was -20 F nights around this time of year, 18-22 F days. I know this figure because I was out writing articles about the insane people who the media like to do stories on for going out in -20 F paper. Same for photos of frozen cups of coffee. This year? One night broke -8F, but we've been having 50F days as recently as last week. It has only snowed once deep enough all year to merit breaking out the shovels.
Scenario 2? Could be a fluke. That is why a global average is done. Scenario 1 does show a warming trend for my immediate area. Scenario 2 is no different than Warming Deniers claiming it can't be true because of a Blizzard coincidentally happening on the same day as a global warming conference.
I swear, if I didn't know better I'd be willing to call graphene an elaborate prank at this point. Groups of scientists trying to one up each other over what this thing can do. Two months before it can transmute gold?:P
Yes, yes, only dirty Brits, I mean communists, sorry wrong era again, reverse-Americanized-Euroized-socialists-Islamo-Fascistic-Chinese-double-agent-super-terrorists-Illegal-Immigrant-Emigrants wouldn't comply.
Perhaps we should conduct a raid to find some evidence we can use to get a warrant to justify the raid to have you detained indefinitely?
Not the first time. Look up Kimba the White Lion. Disney had Pinochio created and in the can waiting to go public at the first possible moment the original copyright on Pinochio faded to public domain.
That's Disney's general M.O. for self produced movies.
The EU isn't that weak. The EU is sort of a cross between the UN and the USA (If you consider each state to be sovereign states instead of egotistical providences). I don't know how close to which end of the spectrum it is, however.
1) Basic computer literacy, if you can manage that. My school had typing or basic computer literacy mandatory. Strange as the computer literacy course included a section on typing. My school had two programming courses.
2) Increasingly dependent on the few? This isn't limited to just computers. How many of us here on/. can sew our own clothes from scratch? Have gardens capable of feeding our families year round? Able to repair our own cars? Fix our televisions, built our furniture, make the thread used to sew our clothes, possibly even wire and pipe our own homes? And the time to do it all?
Anyone can learn all of this, including coding, but is it time effective? It is a trade off for living in these interesting times. Somewhere, on some thing, we will always be dependent on others. A bit of mandatory coding isn't going to change this. As a geek I'm tempted to say this is a good idea. Then I step back and ask myself do I really want sewing, small engine repair, gardening, etc. all to be mandatory?
Yeah. As much I dislike the policies (TSA as a whole) the screener his/her-self should be given props for sticking to their guns as a security person even with a Senator and the son of a Presidential Candidate.
Lobbying is you giving money to someone who is already in line with your thinking and you want to help.
Bribery is giving someone money to do what you tell them to.
Very clear difference. I mean it is piratically ketchup and catsup clear. Basically that is what happened here. Dodd stating "we gave you money, you better listen!" may have crossed that very fine line. Otherwise, he could have just been supporting people he agreed with.
Listen to the what the Republican voters are cheering. Gingrich wants adults janitors from school greatly reduced and replaced by poor kids (literally poor kids because they need the on-job education more), and made to clean their schools. During the school day. More well off kids will keep their normal schedules.
Romney wants to drop taxes for companies that can afford sending jobs overseas to 0%. Companies that can't send jobs to China will be taxed at 15%.
Republican state governments have been pushing for public job related union killing bills, and declaring emergency take over of poor towns and cities (including Detroit). Emergency take over meaning they give the power of complete rule to an appointed person. Any voted position is now a figurehead position.
NDAA, SOPA? We are slowly going to become China at this rate.
Probably HDMI. DVI is a buffed up, HD capable VGA sized port. HDMI plays a similar niche for casual electronic enthusiasts, it is a port used by practically all electronics already and it is smaller.
VGA were the safe, stable port. Above a threshold, DVI took off like crazy. They never took off for the most part. I would liken DVI to the clear improvement, but it just didn't take off in the general population. HDMI, dear god HDMI. I think even my toaster has an HDMI port. This thing is the clear next safe, stable port.
HDMI is being widely accepted. DVI wasn't. It is time for VGA to die. *Takes off hat, and mourns*. The logical thing from a business standpoint is just go all in with the new format. Doubly so with the apparent trend of twiggy portable devices.
My state had a judge sentence kids to a private prison that made donations to him. Pennsylvania.
You see 50 million "pirates". The military complex and privately run prison system sees 50 million scapegoats that just paved the golden road to profits.
No. Ethanol is an oxidizer. It is gasoline for the same reason lead was once in gasoline and whatever replaced lead was. Now, we can put less ethanol into gasoline if that is your goal. I don't know how by how much, however.
You can even get rid of ethanol entirely. The thing is, something is going to replace it. Good ol' 100% honest-to-God gasoline is a myth or legend that likely pre-dates practically everyone alive today. It is just as silly as calling modern corn, corn or domesticated dogs natural.
It'll deter many, but solve the problem. The "professionals" going so far to steal manhole covers will likely just change tactics. Instead of selling it for scrap they'll be selling it as black market "less likely to be stolen cable" in Mexico. The amateurs will see copper and then complain about the salvage yard jipping them on money.
This is a threat to national infrastructure, to a degree. Rural area, 13% poverty rate, the power companies and rail yard get hit near constantly.
They can say they oppose it, but do they oppose it enough to actually Veto it when/if it gets passed? Or will it be "We'll sign it, but we'll say we disagree adamantly on this post-it not attached to it!"
Well, I don't know to be honest. I could pull numerous possible reasons out of my nether regions: 1) Smaller bandwidth footprint due to the size. Each small file adds up. Making the files smaller helps a lot. If the Pirate Bay has to resort to another ISP with lower quality bandwidth.
2) If the entirety of Pirate Bay can be hosted on a thumb drive then it is hard to simply nuke the Pirate Bay. Just give a few trusted people thumb drive copies as backups.
3) If the Pirate Bay gets torched, you can have many clones pop up in no time. You could do 1A with bigger storage mediums, but if the site is fitable on a thumb drive then it is small enough to get these clones uploaded quicker.
The government has been doing this for decades, i.e. the comments about Hoover. The old joke that there were more CIA agents in the Communist Party at one point than communists.
The tools change is all. The only worrying thing is how flippant and overt the government is becoming about this. It is like they don't even want to bother pretending to do this covertly any more.
I wouldn't say evil, but kind of like the real life version of a Dungeon Master. Sometimes they are evil, sometimes they are too far the other way, but get too many munchkins getting into a meta war you begin to appreciate them.
That is how it is where I work. I actually felt bad that I just threw on half an hour of out of work time (I even wanted it straight since I was on vacation) because one morning one group woke me up, and when I was done with them I had two other groups pestering me immediately for information questions. So I charged that half-hour out of spite/principal. Some of it through emails.
Work gave me two hours because technically it was a call-in.
We set a record for the highest out-voting of a candidate since 1980 in getting rid of Santorum. It sent a signal. It helped get us PIPA. Well, it'd still be here. Santorum would still have voted for PIPA.
Except for PIPA and the NDAA, Casey was the preferable option by far.
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I hate to play this game, but local anomalies can occur.
Over the last two decades my central Pennsylvania home has seen it go from rarely snowing in October (Halloween), definite by Thanksgiving, and certain by Christmas to rarely by Christmas. Consistency is the key.
Last year it was -20 F nights around this time of year, 18-22 F days. I know this figure because I was out writing articles about the insane people who the media like to do stories on for going out in -20 F paper. Same for photos of frozen cups of coffee. This year? One night broke -8F, but we've been having 50F days as recently as last week. It has only snowed once deep enough all year to merit breaking out the shovels.
Scenario 2? Could be a fluke. That is why a global average is done. Scenario 1 does show a warming trend for my immediate area. Scenario 2 is no different than Warming Deniers claiming it can't be true because of a Blizzard coincidentally happening on the same day as a global warming conference.
I swear, if I didn't know better I'd be willing to call graphene an elaborate prank at this point. Groups of scientists trying to one up each other over what this thing can do. Two months before it can transmute gold? :P
Yes, yes, only dirty Brits, I mean communists, sorry wrong era again, reverse-Americanized-Euroized-socialists-Islamo-Fascistic-Chinese-double-agent-super-terrorists-Illegal-Immigrant-Emigrants wouldn't comply.
Perhaps we should conduct a raid to find some evidence we can use to get a warrant to justify the raid to have you detained indefinitely?
There is a fine line though at what point an idea becomes something more tangible. With something like you would need to look at intent and motive.
Not the first time. Look up Kimba the White Lion. Disney had Pinochio created and in the can waiting to go public at the first possible moment the original copyright on Pinochio faded to public domain.
That's Disney's general M.O. for self produced movies.
The EU isn't that weak. The EU is sort of a cross between the UN and the USA (If you consider each state to be sovereign states instead of egotistical providences). I don't know how close to which end of the spectrum it is, however.
1) Basic computer literacy, if you can manage that. My school had typing or basic computer literacy mandatory. Strange as the computer literacy course included a section on typing. My school had two programming courses.
2) Increasingly dependent on the few? This isn't limited to just computers. How many of us here on /. can sew our own clothes from scratch? Have gardens capable of feeding our families year round? Able to repair our own cars? Fix our televisions, built our furniture, make the thread used to sew our clothes, possibly even wire and pipe our own homes? And the time to do it all?
Anyone can learn all of this, including coding, but is it time effective? It is a trade off for living in these interesting times. Somewhere, on some thing, we will always be dependent on others. A bit of mandatory coding isn't going to change this. As a geek I'm tempted to say this is a good idea. Then I step back and ask myself do I really want sewing, small engine repair, gardening, etc. all to be mandatory?
Yeah. As much I dislike the policies (TSA as a whole) the screener his/her-self should be given props for sticking to their guns as a security person even with a Senator and the son of a Presidential Candidate.
Claim he has Venusian Scorpian blood?
Lobbying is you giving money to someone who is already in line with your thinking and you want to help.
Bribery is giving someone money to do what you tell them to.
Very clear difference. I mean it is piratically ketchup and catsup clear. Basically that is what happened here. Dodd stating "we gave you money, you better listen!" may have crossed that very fine line. Otherwise, he could have just been supporting people he agreed with.
Listen to the what the Republican voters are cheering. Gingrich wants adults janitors from school greatly reduced and replaced by poor kids (literally poor kids because they need the on-job education more), and made to clean their schools. During the school day. More well off kids will keep their normal schedules.
Romney wants to drop taxes for companies that can afford sending jobs overseas to 0%. Companies that can't send jobs to China will be taxed at 15%.
Republican state governments have been pushing for public job related union killing bills, and declaring emergency take over of poor towns and cities (including Detroit). Emergency take over meaning they give the power of complete rule to an appointed person. Any voted position is now a figurehead position.
NDAA, SOPA? We are slowly going to become China at this rate.
So... DVI is kind of a step backwards? What is the point of it then?
Probably HDMI. DVI is a buffed up, HD capable VGA sized port. HDMI plays a similar niche for casual electronic enthusiasts, it is a port used by practically all electronics already and it is smaller.
VGA were the safe, stable port. Above a threshold, DVI took off like crazy. They never took off for the most part. I would liken DVI to the clear improvement, but it just didn't take off in the general population. HDMI, dear god HDMI. I think even my toaster has an HDMI port. This thing is the clear next safe, stable port.
HDMI is being widely accepted. DVI wasn't. It is time for VGA to die. *Takes off hat, and mourns*. The logical thing from a business standpoint is just go all in with the new format. Doubly so with the apparent trend of twiggy portable devices.
My state had a judge sentence kids to a private prison that made donations to him. Pennsylvania.
You see 50 million "pirates". The military complex and privately run prison system sees 50 million scapegoats that just paved the golden road to profits.
No. Ethanol is an oxidizer. It is gasoline for the same reason lead was once in gasoline and whatever replaced lead was. Now, we can put less ethanol into gasoline if that is your goal. I don't know how by how much, however.
You can even get rid of ethanol entirely. The thing is, something is going to replace it. Good ol' 100% honest-to-God gasoline is a myth or legend that likely pre-dates practically everyone alive today. It is just as silly as calling modern corn, corn or domesticated dogs natural.
Wait, they killed it.
Crap, now it is going to be a Vampire Zombie P.O.S. *runs after holy water*.
Or just steal more of the cable. I mean I freaking live in a state where two men stole a BRIDGE for scrap: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15344442
It'll deter many, but solve the problem. The "professionals" going so far to steal manhole covers will likely just change tactics. Instead of selling it for scrap they'll be selling it as black market "less likely to be stolen cable" in Mexico. The amateurs will see copper and then complain about the salvage yard jipping them on money.
This is a threat to national infrastructure, to a degree. Rural area, 13% poverty rate, the power companies and rail yard get hit near constantly.
They can say they oppose it, but do they oppose it enough to actually Veto it when/if it gets passed? Or will it be "We'll sign it, but we'll say we disagree adamantly on this post-it not attached to it!"
Well, I don't know to be honest. I could pull numerous possible reasons out of my nether regions:
1) Smaller bandwidth footprint due to the size. Each small file adds up. Making the files smaller helps a lot. If the Pirate Bay has to resort to another ISP with lower quality bandwidth.
2) If the entirety of Pirate Bay can be hosted on a thumb drive then it is hard to simply nuke the Pirate Bay. Just give a few trusted people thumb drive copies as backups.
3) If the Pirate Bay gets torched, you can have many clones pop up in no time. You could do 1A with bigger storage mediums, but if the site is fitable on a thumb drive then it is small enough to get these clones uploaded quicker.
The government has been doing this for decades, i.e. the comments about Hoover. The old joke that there were more CIA agents in the Communist Party at one point than communists.
The tools change is all. The only worrying thing is how flippant and overt the government is becoming about this. It is like they don't even want to bother pretending to do this covertly any more.
I agree, It is always cool to see stuff like this. The only problem is that it always gives me a terrible urge to go check up on The Singularity Hub.
I wouldn't say evil, but kind of like the real life version of a Dungeon Master. Sometimes they are evil, sometimes they are too far the other way, but get too many munchkins getting into a meta war you begin to appreciate them.
That is how it is where I work. I actually felt bad that I just threw on half an hour of out of work time (I even wanted it straight since I was on vacation) because one morning one group woke me up, and when I was done with them I had two other groups pestering me immediately for information questions. So I charged that half-hour out of spite/principal. Some of it through emails.
Work gave me two hours because technically it was a call-in.
Back in 2006 this was my ballot:
Bob Casey - Senator - D: Co-sponsor of PIPA: http://sopatrack.com/congressperson/C001070-sen-bob-casey
vs
Rick Santorum - Senator Incumbent - R: Watch the news to see what he is up to.
We set a record for the highest out-voting of a candidate since 1980 in getting rid of Santorum. It sent a signal. It helped get us PIPA. Well, it'd still be here. Santorum would still have voted for PIPA.
Except for PIPA and the NDAA, Casey was the preferable option by far.