And you think your maths and computer knowledge makes you an expert on climate change?
This does make him an expert in a different field. We call it specialization and is very important. An expert in one field is *required* to be able to communicate to people in other fields since most work is cross expert boundaries (modern science). Example, the simulation code is software with lots of math. Why the hell should he not be able to follow it?
Experts are often from other backgrounds too. I work in biology yet did my masters in physics and a PhD in computational biology. Switching fields is resnably common and not a black mark.
Finally there is no way to be "ordained" a climatologist. These guys are not the friken pope. They are not infallible or even special in any way. When they bring science into the public eye it is their *job* to explain to the rest. But if you think they can't even do that for a mathematician... well they are not very good at their job.
PS the IPCC report has a lot of "authors" who are not even scientist let alone climatologists.
I don't want to piss around waiting for my laptop to be given back (I never said anything about important data/backups). And i don't, along with a lot of work mates, we just don't go to USA anymore.
Read the studies. They are as bad as the power lines cause leukemia. Why? Leukemia is exceptionally rare. Thus even 10000 people in a study is no where near enough to say anything (about 1 expected case --you need about 20 to have decent power). But they do anyway and leave out other controls that have even higher leukemia rates. Of course none of these places has higher leukemia rates outside normal random variation.
But hay medical journals publish just about anything (sample size 10 even), and newspapers go nuts with an exaggerated headlines.
A much more important consideration with nuclear power plants and heath, is that the "radiation" and radioactivity is *directly* measurable. We can *know* if there is any difference between living next to a power station verse living somewhere else with a Geiger counter. If the counts are the same as somewhere else with the standard background spectrum, the power station cannot be casual anymore than a switched off cell tower.
It should be pointed out that most measurement of radioactivity is higher around coal plants, with nuclear power getting nothing outside background outside the compound.
...nobody wants to be next to nuclear or coal plants.
Or solar plants, or wind farms... Even the Luddites want to have and do have an energy foot print as large as what it is today, and yet protest every from of energy expenditure and generation.
Thats what a shock wave is. It moves faster than the local speed of sound of the medium its moving into. Behind the shock wave, the hotter, higher pressure gases has a much higher local speed of sound and the flow is "subsonic".*
* this is for all normal shocks, such as those from explosions. Oblique shock waves have different properties.
I can get ebooks from my Library too. And CDs and DVDs etc... Library's have been moving with the times. They are not going anywhere anytime soon. Just like real books.
Not in any library I go to. And i go to a lot of different Library's in quite a few different countries. Perhaps you should not assume that your library is a good indication of the rest of the library's on the planet. Grandpa wouldn't make that mistake.
There are quite a few of us tring to write and provide free textbooks. The reason: As a text book aurthor of a book thats sold over 3000 copies, guess how much i get? Nothing. And I don't have permision to use the book in my classes.
So we do the Creative Commons thing. Make it free and the class can get the book any way the want. Once these "book printing machines" become more common, people will even be able to buy a hard copy if thats what they want.
They are also free to download or otherwise get bootleg copy's from the US of A and tell the USA to stick it. They are not Bern convention signatories IIRC.
This is not Team America, other countries can and do have different laws.
Hay at my mums school, one guy made a gun in metal work. He also shot the principal. So perhaps it wasn't such a good idea. Sorry couldn't find a link.
What about fault lines? LA, Tokyo, San Fransisco? Get a big quake in one of these places and i can't see the death toll at less than 1 million in a place like Tokyo and government "intervention" cause insurance companies are too big to fail...
Here in Austria, if an area gets flooded too often the insurance company can offer relocation instead. The all houses rebuild/fixed after that in that area can't get any insurance. Makes sense really.
Not really. Well not IMO. The point of DNS is to take something human readable and perhaps human memorable and turn into something that the protocols can use. In fact there really is no need for levels and dots at all, well not technically.
There is no material that we can make that is strong enough and light enough. Theoretical strength doesn't count and thats a bigger problem than just funding. Even the best contender --nanotubes- may not have the required strength onces scaled up due to dislocations.
We are not paid to teach. Really. If i spend 30 hours a week teaching for a whole year, and explain thats why I have less publications/research done that the other guy that did 30 hours teaching for the whole year. They just say your not doing your job, contract not renewed...
If thats the incentive, are you surprised at the result?
What we are doing is not coming to America... That works even better. You want me to get a ficken netbook just cus Team America are going to save the ficken day by taken peoples laptops?
I don't quite understand what you are saying. But for the record the point was that Chenobyl was bound to happen with that design. Also i live not 50km away from an operating reactor of the same design.
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And you think your maths and computer knowledge makes you an expert on climate change?
This does make him an expert in a different field. We call it specialization and is very important. An expert in one field is *required* to be able to communicate to people in other fields since most work is cross expert boundaries (modern science). Example, the simulation code is software with lots of math. Why the hell should he not be able to follow it?
Experts are often from other backgrounds too. I work in biology yet did my masters in physics and a PhD in computational biology. Switching fields is resnably common and not a black mark.
Finally there is no way to be "ordained" a climatologist. These guys are not the friken pope. They are not infallible or even special in any way. When they bring science into the public eye it is their *job* to explain to the rest. But if you think they can't even do that for a mathematician... well they are not very good at their job.
PS the IPCC report has a lot of "authors" who are not even scientist let alone climatologists.
Airplanes create downward trust from the air they move through. ie they deflect the air downwards...
You speak like a fag....
I don't want to piss around waiting for my laptop to be given back (I never said anything about important data/backups). And i don't, along with a lot of work mates, we just don't go to USA anymore.
|I loved that movie just for that one Samuel L Jackson scene...
Read the studies. They are as bad as the power lines cause leukemia. Why? Leukemia is exceptionally rare. Thus even 10000 people in a study is no where near enough to say anything (about 1 expected case --you need about 20 to have decent power). But they do anyway and leave out other controls that have even higher leukemia rates. Of course none of these places has higher leukemia rates outside normal random variation.
But hay medical journals publish just about anything (sample size 10 even), and newspapers go nuts with an exaggerated headlines.
A much more important consideration with nuclear power plants and heath, is that the "radiation" and radioactivity is *directly* measurable. We can *know* if there is any difference between living next to a power station verse living somewhere else with a Geiger counter. If the counts are the same as somewhere else with the standard background spectrum, the power station cannot be casual anymore than a switched off cell tower.
It should be pointed out that most measurement of radioactivity is higher around coal plants, with nuclear power getting nothing outside background outside the compound.
...nobody wants to be next to nuclear or coal plants.
Or solar plants, or wind farms... Even the Luddites want to have and do have an energy foot print as large as what it is today, and yet protest every from of energy expenditure and generation.
Don't worry, nuclear power can use *dry* cooling towers that don't release any of this invisible climate killer.
Thats what a shock wave is. It moves faster than the local speed of sound of the medium its moving into. Behind the shock wave, the hotter, higher pressure gases has a much higher local speed of sound and the flow is "subsonic".*
* this is for all normal shocks, such as those from explosions. Oblique shock waves have different properties.
I can get ebooks from my Library too. And CDs and DVDs etc... Library's have been moving with the times. They are not going anywhere anytime soon. Just like real books.
Not in any library I go to. And i go to a lot of different Library's in quite a few different countries. Perhaps you should not assume that your library is a good indication of the rest of the library's on the planet. Grandpa wouldn't make that mistake.
I just got 3 new books for $16 including postage. $5 for ebooks is too much when thats what i can get real books for.
There are quite a few of us tring to write and provide free textbooks. The reason: As a text book aurthor of a book thats sold over 3000 copies, guess how much i get? Nothing. And I don't have permision to use the book in my classes.
So we do the Creative Commons thing. Make it free and the class can get the book any way the want. Once these "book printing machines" become more common, people will even be able to buy a hard copy if thats what they want.
They are also free to download or otherwise get bootleg copy's from the US of A and tell the USA to stick it. They are not Bern convention signatories IIRC.
This is not Team America, other countries can and do have different laws.
Hay at my mums school, one guy made a gun in metal work. He also shot the principal. So perhaps it wasn't such a good idea. Sorry couldn't find a link.
What about fault lines? LA, Tokyo, San Fransisco? Get a big quake in one of these places and i can't see the death toll at less than 1 million in a place like Tokyo and government "intervention" cause insurance companies are too big to fail...
Here in Austria, if an area gets flooded too often the insurance company can offer relocation instead. The all houses rebuild/fixed after that in that area can't get any insurance. Makes sense really.
Not really. Well not IMO. The point of DNS is to take something human readable and perhaps human memorable and turn into something that the protocols can use. In fact there really is no need for levels and dots at all, well not technically.
There is no material that we can make that is strong enough and light enough. Theoretical strength doesn't count and thats a bigger problem than just funding. Even the best contender --nanotubes- may not have the required strength onces scaled up due to dislocations.
University's primary output is Research. Teaching is needed, but only to ensure a fresh crop of grad students each year ;)
We are not paid to teach. Really. If i spend 30 hours a week teaching for a whole year, and explain thats why I have less publications/research done that the other guy that did 30 hours teaching for the whole year. They just say your not doing your job, contract not renewed...
If thats the incentive, are you surprised at the result?
What we are doing is not coming to America... That works even better. You want me to get a ficken netbook just cus Team America are going to save the ficken day by taken peoples laptops?
I don't quite understand what you are saying. But for the record the point was that Chenobyl was bound to happen with that design. Also i live not 50km away from an operating reactor of the same design.
Profit is the evil of money grabbing greedy corporations, everyone knows good services are provided for free if they really cared.
/sarcasm
In other news, I haven't had a raise in 3 years!
You are also permitted to use your eyes when required.