It's also not as new as people are making it out to be, besides being a variant of a scatter plot, they've been around for awhile. To murder a quote from Hamlet:
There are more things in infographic design, OldBaldGuy, Than are dreamt of by Microsoft Excel.
Let's not, and say we didn't. GDP is a bogus metric. It measures the absolute value of the money flow. Prisons and insurance claims boost, instead of diminish, the GDP. If you use an alternative metric such as the GPI, you see that we don't do as much as you might think (and are relatively stagnant to boot).
Even though we are adding water to the system (fossil water from aquifers), which would lend some credence to your supposition, water has an incredibly short cycle. CO2, on the other hand, is quite persistent. For an idea of the scale of these systems (and and others) I recommend "Cycles of Life" by Vaclav Smil.
Actually no. Global warming is exactly the right term. The neocon's reframing of it as "climate change" is improper as it does not indicate what's happening. An ice age is climate change too.
The hypothesis is most definitely that it will result in an increase of *global average temperature*; through trapping emitted infrared radiation. Might this lead to local cooling? Sure. More energy in the system leads to more extremes, particularly given its chaotic nature. Just because you freeze your ass off for an extra week in Kamchatka, that doesn't negate the two extra weeks of sweltering heat in Atlanta, D.C. and Lisbon.
We've been monitoring CO2 for decades, and have taken glacial cores to determine CO2 levels for thosands of years back. Where the fuck do you think Al Gore got his pretty little graph from?
Acid rain is primarily the result of SOX emissions, and to a lesser extent NOX. CO2 is not a major factor (this is why it was a regional issue in Canada/New England tied to Ohio Valley emissions).
Thanks for playing, but you might do better if you started with a full deck.
It depends on the genre, it can be very difficult. It's probably doable for a classical station. For my own favorite, indie on 3WK, it's painful. The owners would be happy to do so if there were sufficient material available however, they don't have the time or resources to actually track down 100% "free" content. In addition, they'd really like to be able to play the occasional track from Modest Mouse or Beck, as their mood suits them.
No you don't. You should learn to be aware of them, as should the other party, but that's not a sufficiently compelling reason to expunge them from your noggin; because some might not grok your froodiness. How mind-numbingly bland, man.
Woohoo, thank Bob for the Libertarians, they will save us all. The Freemarket's as good as soma. Nice way to get off-topic by a seemingly relevant analogy though.
>There are, and have been, enough great God-believing physicists, >that you at least have to wonder if there's something wrong with the concepts of atheism. There are, and have been, enough great atheistic* physicists, that you at least have to wonder if there's something wrong with the concept of religion.
That's some beautiful logic there.
As for the rest, not all atheists are "evanegelical," and you're description places you in the agnostic realm rather than the atheistic.
Just because you choose to arrive at nihilism and hedonism does not mean it need be that way. Others would be apt to think that the point is one's legacy i.e; contributions to the progress of human knowledge. How does a genetic predisposition towards believing in invisible friends relate to that?
At some point many people have believed the Earth is flat, or that it was held up by some beast (Atlas, Great Turtle [with and without elephants]). Have we spontaneously lost these genes in the intervening millenia? Pshaw. Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. What about, "Never try attribute to genetics what can be explained by stupidity/indoctrination"?
And that is why we need corporate charters, businesses should exist to the benefit *of humanity*. The pursuit of profit without any guiding principles is perilous.
I don't know what *they're* thinking, but I'm thinking a mandated vaccine against *some* strains of HPV (which *may* rarely cause a curable form of cancer) is a huge fucking waste of money when there are more significant public health issues which could be addressed 'm-k?
True, though you should note that NOx are largely dependent upon combustion conditions and not so much fuel source; fuel + air (80% N2) at several thousand degrees = NOx. Luckily, that provides us with a reason to mobilize lots of platinum and rhodium.
Ermm no, see. You can say that the short-term self-interest which passes for capitalism does not generally arise in efficient system such as this, but that does not mean that the systems can only exist within a socialist regime. See also Industrial Ecology (yes, many of the best known instances are in Europe, but there are several in the US as well). Furthermore, public utility ownership in the US has been far more prevalent then you probably realize. I can think of a half a dozen systems off the top of my head, many of them still running, including the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.
Cogeneration only wastes about 1/3 of the energy. That's not too far off from the Carnot efficiency of 86% for a combustion temperature of 2000 centigrade. And even the reamining "waste" heat could be used if better planning happened: district steam, drying and other industrial uses.
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No, probably more like a synaesthetic describing what it's like to taste blue or hear cinnamon.
What's the point? We have Mozilla's GRE (plus XUL), and Apache's whatever-they-call-it?
Actually, this is the antithesis of chartjunk.
It's also not as new as people are making it out to be, besides being a variant of a scatter plot,
they've been around for awhile. To murder a quote from Hamlet:
There are more things in infographic design, OldBaldGuy, Than are dreamt of by Microsoft Excel.
Let's not, and say we didn't. GDP is a bogus metric. It measures the absolute value
t Indi/gpi/gpi_main.shtml
of the money flow. Prisons and insurance claims boost, instead of diminish, the GDP.
If you use an alternative metric such as the GPI, you see that we don't do as much
as you might think (and are relatively stagnant to boot).
http://www.redefiningprogress.org/newprograms/sus
Even though we are adding water to the system (fossil water from aquifers),
which would lend some credence to your supposition, water has an incredibly short cycle.
CO2, on the other hand, is quite persistent. For an idea of the scale of
these systems (and and others) I recommend "Cycles of Life" by Vaclav Smil.
Actually no. Global warming is exactly the right term. The neocon's reframing of it as "climate change"
is improper as it does not indicate what's happening. An ice age is climate change too.
The hypothesis is most definitely that it will result in an increase of *global average temperature*;
through trapping emitted infrared radiation. Might this lead to local cooling? Sure. More energy in the
system leads to more extremes, particularly given its chaotic nature. Just because you freeze your ass
off for an extra week in Kamchatka, that doesn't negate the two extra weeks of sweltering heat in
Atlanta, D.C. and Lisbon.
We've been monitoring CO2 for decades, and have taken glacial cores to determine CO2 levels for
thosands of years back. Where the fuck do you think Al Gore got his pretty little graph from?
Acid rain is primarily the result of SOX emissions, and to a lesser extent NOX. CO2 is not a
major factor (this is why it was a regional issue in Canada/New England tied to Ohio Valley
emissions).
Thanks for playing, but you might do better if you started with a full deck.
It depends on the genre, it can be very difficult. It's probably doable for a classical
station. For my own favorite, indie on 3WK, it's painful. The owners
would be happy to do so if there were sufficient material available however, they don't
have the time or resources to actually track down 100% "free" content. In addition,
they'd really like to be able to play the occasional track from Modest Mouse or Beck,
as their mood suits them.
No need to weep for the sharks just yet, as the law is rather local.
Even in the U.S. there are individual bar exams per state.
No you don't. You should learn to be aware of them, as should the other party,
but that's not a sufficiently compelling reason to expunge them from your noggin;
because some might not grok your froodiness. How mind-numbingly bland, man.
Yes I know, I can read wikipedia too. However, "holding up the sky" isn't a spectacularly different
concept from "holding up the Earth."
1. or \*r, (.)o.(*)r\ cj [ME other, or, fr. OE oththe; akin to OHG eddo or]
1: - used as a function word to indicate an alternative {coffee ~ tea}
You did everything but mention it. It's not my religion, though your OP gives the impression it is yours.
Yeah, but try reading the Texan constitution. http://www.religioustolerance.org/texas.htm
Woohoo, thank Bob for the Libertarians, they will save us all. The Freemarket's as good as soma.
Nice way to get off-topic by a seemingly relevant analogy though.
Le mot vous cherchez est "secular," et je crois qu'en francais c'est "laique."
(The word you're looking for is "secular," and I believe in French it's "laique")
>There are, and have been, enough great God-believing physicists,
>that you at least have to wonder if there's something wrong with the concepts of atheism.
There are, and have been, enough great atheistic* physicists,
that you at least have to wonder if there's something wrong with the concept of religion.
That's some beautiful logic there.
As for the rest, not all atheists are "evanegelical," and you're description places you
in the agnostic realm rather than the atheistic.
*atheist simply means non-believing
Just because you choose to arrive at nihilism and hedonism does not mean it need be that way.
Others would be apt to think that the point is one's legacy i.e; contributions to the progress
of human knowledge. How does a genetic predisposition towards believing in invisible friends
relate to that?
At some point many people have believed the Earth is flat, or that it was held up by some beast
(Atlas, Great Turtle [with and without elephants]). Have we spontaneously lost these genes in
the intervening millenia? Pshaw. Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
What about, "Never try attribute to genetics what can be explained by stupidity/indoctrination"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenic_maize
And that is why we need corporate charters, businesses should exist to the benefit
*of humanity*. The pursuit of profit without any guiding principles is perilous.
I don't know what *they're* thinking, but I'm thinking a mandated vaccine against *some* strains of HPV
(which *may* rarely cause a curable form of cancer) is a huge fucking waste of money when there are more
significant public health issues which could be addressed 'm-k?
True, though you should note that NOx are largely dependent upon combustion conditions
and not so much fuel source; fuel + air (80% N2) at several thousand degrees = NOx.
Luckily, that provides us with a reason to mobilize lots of platinum and rhodium.
Ermm no, see. You can say that the short-term self-interest which passes for capitalism does not generally arise in efficient system such as this, but that does not mean that the systems can only exist within a socialist regime. See also Industrial Ecology (yes, many of the best known instances are in Europe, but there are several in the US as well). Furthermore, public utility ownership in the US has been far more prevalent then you probably realize. I can think of a half a dozen systems off the top of my head, many of them still running, including the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.
Cogeneration only wastes about 1/3 of the energy. That's not too far off from
the Carnot efficiency of 86% for a combustion temperature of 2000 centigrade.
And even the reamining "waste" heat could be used if better planning happened:
district steam, drying and other industrial uses.