By Robert Sapolsky [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sapolsky], professor of biology and neurology at Stanford. It's a marvelously deep but excellently and entertainingly readable discussion of causes of behavior, ranging from molecular processes in neuron synapses in the brain to societal and environmental factors.
Rubbish comment, this is no way a counter example. The Fire Dept traffic were not asking for priority, just for equal access; they were being throttled. What's more the Fire Dept were not exceeding any cap, they paid for unlimited data.
Climate change isn't necessarily gradual. For example, with all the fresh water coming into the north Atlantic from melting Greenland glaciers, the Gulf Stream is slowing and may shut down, no longer warming northern Europe.
It's unlikely that science or technology can provide "ample means of addressing these problems"
This Australian study: https://researchonline.jcu.edu... found that adding seaweed to the diet of cattle reduced their methane emissions by up to 99%. That seems a lot simpler and faster than breeding for reduced methane; in any case the special breeds probably wouldn't have 99% reduction. Let's do both.
Your assumption that terrorists are people driven by desperation is an outmoded idea that's leading to non-solutions. Research shows that most terrorists are actually motivated by unmet needs for social contact - they just want to acquire social status.
"Photos taken on Mars' surface of a Viking magnetic experiment on both landers show material clinging to the magnets. That suggests to Levin that whatever the surface processes are on Mars, they are not innately highly oxidizing. A highly oxidizing soil would convert magnetized materials to oxidized forms. Therefore, the magnet would be free of such particles.
"Similarly, the Mars Pathfinder mission in 1997, Levin added, also had significant amounts of magnetic material adhering to magnets attached to the spacecraft.
"Levin said that the paradigm of a Mars sterilized by a highly oxidizing surface is "too embedded in our scientific fabric to be set aside even by demonstrated proofs. He points to a John F. Kennedy quote that says 'the great enemy of truth is often not the lie --deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.'"
Specify use of an open source compiler, and leave the editor to the students. Demo simple emacs and recommend vi too. Set up ssh to individual student accounts on a linux box at the college, and collect homework by having sourcecode dropped on your linux box. Then just teach the language. From personal experience, this works well -- students start thinking.
No, MS probably DO want hardware openness. In recent conversations and interviews Gates has been pretty outspoken against DRM in BluRay and HD-DVD both, emphasising the same "consumers want to move their stuff" ideas.
Although H2 isn't a great idea for storing energy from coal, it's got potential for storing energy from solar. Things that move need energy storage, and researching the technology for that make sense (just not H2 burning fireplaces!)
fwiw the US prohibition of alcohol was largely due to a $4 million campaign by Rockefeller (sp?), equivalent to about $400M now, to stop alcohol so that his oil investments should have no competition. Before that most rural internal combustion engines were fueled by homebrew.
Alcohol is still the most environmentally friendly way to run ICEs -- in S. California alternate cropping of beet and cane getting two crops/year gave about 4,000 gall of ethanol per acre.
am I the only one who finds the new Wells Fargo ATM key response time to be laggardly?
After I enter my pin, the beep sound and the asterisk that's displayed take so long that I think i've miskeyed, so press again getting a double entry which i have to cancel and slowly and carefully retry.
Is it because of being Windowized, or just bad programming? The old OS/2 ATMs responded instantly.
gee, where was Tesla all these years? Did you never hear of transformers? Of course the cable to the car can have higher voltage, just transform and rectify before the battery, duh.
Unfortunately there _are_ a lot of people whose scenario includes welcoming The End: strange sects who think their salvation depends on fire and brimstone arriving for the rest, and soon. They're not so much in sight in Europe, but here in the US (specially the red US) they are all looking forward to disaster, so they can be Right and Saved. The Resident is close to that viewpoint too, unfortunately.
Commercial use of microwave frequencies is swamping essential weather forecasting, as in this article at the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4104355. stm which notes how the critical frequencies are being gobbled.
To quote: 'Dr Steve Foreman of the Met Office told the BBC: "We're in a David and Goliath situation, arguing to the ITU for the safety and humanitarian uses of frequencies against some applications with very strong financial backing."'
Does anyone really think Goliath should win in this? Isn't the need for weather-prediction pretty obvious now?
Don't forget to include the installation & ancillary costs, which ae a big hunk of the expense for a "stiff" PV system and will probably be an even larger percentage for flexible (I haven't read the original article, this is/. after all -- just may be that flexible panels are cheaper to mount, but you still need the inverter etc.)
Not to decry the advantages of flexible low cost arrays, but the latest PV arrays are getting upwards of 20% (with 28% reported for some) and higher efficiency really is the holy grail for PV.
> So the scientists would have to show that any Kyoto-agreement like cut would be beneficial overall
Actually, the major flaw of Kyoto is that it implies that limited reductions in emissions are going to help. We actually need reductions in the order of 70% to make a real difference, and Kyoto lulls people into thinking everything will be ok.
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By Robert Sapolsky [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sapolsky], professor of biology and neurology at Stanford. It's a marvelously deep but excellently and entertainingly readable discussion of causes of behavior, ranging from molecular processes in neuron synapses in the brain to societal and environmental factors.
Rubbish comment, this is no way a counter example. The Fire Dept traffic were not asking for priority, just for equal access; they were being throttled. What's more the Fire Dept were not exceeding any cap, they paid for unlimited data.
very nicely put! a smell test reveals quality
Climate change isn't necessarily gradual. For example, with all the fresh water coming into the north Atlantic from melting Greenland glaciers, the Gulf Stream is slowing and may shut down, no longer warming northern Europe.
It's unlikely that science or technology can provide "ample means of addressing these problems"
This Australian study: https://researchonline.jcu.edu... found that adding seaweed to the diet of cattle reduced their methane emissions by up to 99%. That seems a lot simpler and faster than breeding for reduced methane; in any case the special breeds probably wouldn't have 99% reduction. Let's do both.
Sites using Cloudflare: https://github.com/pirate/site...
Thats wicked. Evil. What is the company that digs this grave?
Well on some/many systems # doesn't skip the message, it puts you into voicemail, or hell, or somewhere else
Your assumption that terrorists are people driven by desperation is an outmoded idea that's leading to non-solutions. Research shows that most terrorists are actually motivated by unmet needs for social contact - they just want to acquire social status.
Or maybe not, based on data from the Viking missions:
http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/viking_life_010728-1.html
"Photos taken on Mars' surface of a Viking magnetic experiment on both landers show material clinging to the magnets. That suggests to Levin that whatever the surface processes are on Mars, they are not innately highly oxidizing. A highly oxidizing soil would convert magnetized materials to oxidized forms. Therefore, the magnet would be free of such particles.
"Similarly, the Mars Pathfinder mission in 1997, Levin added, also had significant amounts of magnetic material adhering to magnets attached to the spacecraft.
"Levin said that the paradigm of a Mars sterilized by a highly oxidizing surface is "too embedded in our scientific fabric to be set aside even by demonstrated proofs. He points to a John F. Kennedy quote that says 'the great enemy of truth is often not the lie --deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.'"
This is where the UK needs a "Move On" to organise citizen opposition. Britons should stop thinking of themselves as "subjects".
Specify use of an open source compiler, and leave the editor to the students. Demo simple emacs and recommend vi too. Set up ssh to individual student accounts on a linux box at the college, and collect homework by having sourcecode dropped on your linux box. Then just teach the language.
From personal experience, this works well -- students start thinking.
No, MS probably DO want hardware openness. In recent conversations and interviews Gates has been pretty outspoken against DRM in BluRay and HD-DVD both, emphasising the same "consumers want to move their stuff" ideas.
nice! how about a link into google earth?
Although H2 isn't a great idea for storing energy from coal, it's got potential for storing energy from solar. Things that move need energy storage, and researching the technology for that make sense (just not H2 burning fireplaces!)
Only imported African messenger pigeons are available in the US now, since the last passenger pigeon was deleted March 24 1900.
If you want earlier posts please set your clock back prior to that date.
fwiw the US prohibition of alcohol was largely due to a $4 million campaign by Rockefeller (sp?), equivalent to about $400M now, to stop alcohol so that his oil investments should have no competition. Before that most rural internal combustion engines were fueled by homebrew.
Alcohol is still the most environmentally friendly way to run ICEs -- in S. California alternate cropping of beet and cane getting two crops/year gave about 4,000 gall of ethanol per acre.
thanks -- please add me (as anadem@gmail.com) to your ogg sending
am I the only one who finds the new Wells Fargo ATM key response time to be laggardly?
After I enter my pin, the beep sound and the asterisk that's displayed take so long that I think i've miskeyed, so press again getting a double entry which i have to cancel and slowly and carefully retry.
Is it because of being Windowized, or just bad programming? The old OS/2 ATMs responded instantly.
gee, where was Tesla all these years? Did you never hear of transformers? Of course the cable to the car can have higher voltage, just transform and rectify before the battery, duh.
Unfortunately there _are_ a lot of people whose scenario includes welcoming The End: strange sects who think their salvation depends on fire and brimstone arriving for the rest, and soon. They're not so much in sight in Europe, but here in the US (specially the red US) they are all looking forward to disaster, so they can be Right and Saved. The Resident is close to that viewpoint too, unfortunately.
Commercial use of microwave frequencies is swamping essential weather forecasting, as in this article at the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4104355. stm which notes how the critical frequencies are being gobbled.
To quote: 'Dr Steve Foreman of the Met Office told the BBC: "We're in a David and Goliath situation, arguing to the ITU for the safety and humanitarian uses of frequencies against some applications with very strong financial backing."'
Does anyone really think Goliath should win in this? Isn't the need for weather-prediction pretty obvious now?
Don't forget to include the installation & ancillary costs, which ae a big hunk of the expense for a "stiff" PV system and will probably be an even larger percentage for flexible (I haven't read the original article, this is /. after all -- just may be that flexible panels are cheaper to mount, but you still need the inverter etc.)
Not to decry the advantages of flexible low cost arrays, but the latest PV arrays are getting upwards of 20% (with 28% reported for some) and higher efficiency really is the holy grail for PV.
> So the scientists would have to show that any Kyoto-agreement like cut would be beneficial overall
Actually, the major flaw of Kyoto is that it implies that limited reductions in emissions are going to help. We actually need reductions in the order of 70% to make a real difference, and Kyoto lulls people into thinking everything will be ok.
Read the excellent book The Boiling Point http://new.heatisonline.org/ by Ross Gelbspan for lots of detail.
we (liberals that is) need to reframe popular thinking.
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read Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff (http://http//www.chelseagreen.com/2004/items/ele