The problem is that many of them possess extra-ordinary cognitive dissonance abilities, buy into various conspiracy theories or in some other way believe that everything is A-OK.
Many "modern" diseases also originate in the tropics, which through a variety of socio-economic and political reasons tend to be poor. Historically in Europe they also sprung up when man and animal where continuously in close proximity. The might want to at least consider rifling through Guns, Germs and Steel. Certainly interesting/insightful, even if not authoritative/complete theory.
The premise of the post is a fallacy, but everything you wrote is as well.
The post is wrong for the same reason people who hype hydrogen as the solution are wrong. Ethanol and hydrogen are storage mediums, not energy sources. It's true that ethanol is traditionally dervied from fermentation, but in this case the energy source is *biomass* not ethanol. It's technically no different than tossing logs into the boiler of a train.
>Well, farming the corn necessary to fuel the US will need far more land than >there is in the US... Ah, so you must be the inspiration for the "95% of statistics" quip. And there's no reason it has to be corn.
>And processing the corn needs energy, too. Nah shit Sherlock, and that's taken into account. That's why, if my memory serves me, the conversion efficiency to delivered energy for bimoass ethanol is some 70-odd percent.
>Petroleum rules for a very good reason: it has the highest energetic density, which was >attained through millions of years of insolation used to grow the plants that became oil. Spend less time reading Slashdot and more time reading, oh I dunno, a science book not published in Kansas; because that statement was complete and utter bullshit.
I recommend Arimaa. It's a really nifty game with simple rules. It was actually designed by a father and son, and it turns out to be "harder" for computers than chess while more intuitive for organic beings. It should be playable and enjoyable by anone, not just children.
Boo hoo. You keep throwing about "cross-subsidiezed" as if it's some mortal sin. You're an artist. Artists starve. That or they do something else to eat. Most cartoonists have side jobs. Many musicians, etc. etc. If you're lucky enough to make a living from your art (or playing a fucking game), you're just that *lucky*. There's no right to profit, there's no right to make a living at what you want. Yes, it sucks.
Waitress:...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam. Wife: Have you got anything without spam? Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Except that it is not so *tightly integrated*. I would certainly argue that this phrase could be read "near", and there are certainly plenty of other people who write of the tight integration of explorer and the kernel. And if you don't agree, well then who's splitting hairs:-P
Seriously, I use Windows, Solaris and Linux daily and the latter two almost exclusively without a GUI. You cannot tell me that KDE or Gnome are part of the OS.... GNU/Linux/KDE?
You're a troll but you still need to be whacked with a clue-by-four, a desktop and windowing environment is not "a part of the OS" in linux. At least not as you intend to parrot in your mangle way. The complaint about MS is the running of said things in or at the kernel. HAND
>Why should we call it a "sleeper patent"? Because he wasn't spending his life I think that's what I said, but with less hyperbole.
They are in two different markets as well. Say by some quirk Listerine were patented. If I find I can make a really good adult beverage, call it a "Flaming/." with many or all of the same ingredients as the patented recipe, it is asinine that I should be held as infringing.
Patents, like much of the law are fuct and not about what is right, but about a self-perpetuating set of rules and world view.
I think North Americans tend to think of Math as a collective noun, like fish. Of course there are very rare occurences where it is appropriate to say fishes, but they are few and far between and it still sounds wrong.
So call it a sleeper patent, because the dude was a sleep at the wheel. Seriously, if you think somehting is "important" enough to patent, and you do jack shit in due diligence to keep up on infringers OR to try and license or employ it you (should) lose; doubly so if the latter. Obviously extenuating circumstances could be considered if he had no lawyer on retainer/his family didn't know and he was in a coma or stuck on a desert island for a few years...
Misc. tidbits after grepping my mind and flipping though my library:
Plants are, afterall, what gave us an oxygenated atmosphere in the first place (well, a large part was done by their ancesotrs the blue green algae). Methane is more absorbant but less stable than CO2 (carbon dioxide is an incredibly stable molecule thermodynamically, and the methane autooxidizes). Plants produce oxygen and CO2 as well (they burn sugar they produce with photosynthesis during the day when resting at night (no sunlight)... why else would they make it?). Water vapor is actually the primary greenhouse gas, and we do exacerbate that as well (e.g; pump it into the desert where it can evaporate quickly). Marine vegetation probably provides about a 1.5 Gt carbon sink a year. Terrestrial carbon flux is rather complicated as soil health plays a major role in the net uptake (soil carbon load is about double that of all vegetation). Plants seem to be sinking a good 3-4 Gt of C, about half of what we were dumping into the atmosphere in 2000 (the mount is growing quickly).
See _Cycles of Life_ by Vaclav Smil published by Scientific American.
Slashdot Mirror
The problem is that many of them possess extra-ordinary cognitive
dissonance abilities, buy into various conspiracy theories or in
some other way believe that everything is A-OK.
M-x spook
I wonder if it's backronym out of spite
Many "modern" diseases also originate in the tropics, which
through a variety of socio-economic and political reasons
tend to be poor. Historically in Europe they also sprung up
when man and animal where continuously in close proximity.
The might want to at least consider rifling through Guns,
Germs and Steel. Certainly interesting/insightful, even if
not authoritative/complete theory.
The premise of the post is a fallacy, but everything you wrote is as well.
The post is wrong for the same reason people who hype hydrogen as the solution
are wrong. Ethanol and hydrogen are storage mediums, not energy sources. It's
true that ethanol is traditionally dervied from fermentation, but in this case
the energy source is *biomass* not ethanol. It's technically no different than
tossing logs into the boiler of a train.
>Well, farming the corn necessary to fuel the US will need far more land than
>there is in the US...
Ah, so you must be the inspiration for the "95% of statistics" quip.
And there's no reason it has to be corn.
>And processing the corn needs energy, too.
Nah shit Sherlock, and that's taken into account. That's why, if my memory
serves me, the conversion efficiency to delivered energy for bimoass ethanol
is some 70-odd percent.
>Petroleum rules for a very good reason: it has the highest energetic density, which was >attained through millions of years of insolation used to grow the plants that became oil.
Spend less time reading Slashdot and more time reading, oh I dunno, a science book not
published in Kansas; because that statement was complete and utter bullshit.
Well now you have a reason don't you? I mean, if you want to
customize a site's interface register as a user. What's so
hard abotu that?
I recommend Arimaa. It's a really nifty game with simple rules.
It was actually designed by a father and son, and it turns out to be "harder"
for computers than chess while more intuitive for organic beings. It should
be playable and enjoyable by anone, not just children.
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa
Boo hoo. You keep throwing about "cross-subsidiezed" as if it's
some mortal sin. You're an artist. Artists starve. That or they
do something else to eat. Most cartoonists have side jobs. Many
musicians, etc. etc. If you're lucky enough to make a living from
your art (or playing a fucking game), you're just that *lucky*.
There's no right to profit, there's no right to make a living at
what you want. Yes, it sucks.
Spam spam eggs and spam is redundant, get it?
Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Wife: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Except that it is not so *tightly integrated*. I would certainly argue that this phrase could be read "near", and there are certainly plenty of other people who write of the :-P
tight integration of explorer and the kernel. And if you don't agree, well then who's splitting hairs
Seriously, I use Windows, Solaris and Linux daily and the latter two almost exclusively
without a GUI. You cannot tell me that KDE or Gnome are part of the OS.... GNU/Linux/KDE?
Oh, so the NSA has a field office over there in Gondwanaland?
Nimrod.
You're a troll but you still need to be whacked with a clue-by-four, a desktop and windowing environment is not
"a part of the OS" in linux. At least not as you intend
to parrot in your mangle way. The complaint about MS is
the running of said things in or at the kernel. HAND
That must have changed because I can su without a password on my older knoppix disc (no idea what rev off hand).
>sudo su
What's wrong with just su?
Mandate that anyone under 13 use Yahooligans.
>Why should we call it a "sleeper patent"? Because he wasn't spending his life
/." with many or all of the same ingredients as the patented recipe,
I think that's what I said, but with less hyperbole.
They are in two different markets as well. Say by some quirk Listerine were
patented. If I find I can make a really good adult beverage, call it a
"Flaming
it is asinine that I should be held as infringing.
Patents, like much of the law are fuct and not about what is right, but about
a self-perpetuating set of rules and world view.
I think North Americans tend to think of Math as a collective noun, like fish.
Of course there are very rare occurences where it is appropriate to say fishes,
but they are few and far between and it still sounds wrong.
Compare Math & Science and Maths & Sciences.
That's not math, this is math (Jason's Nerd Search).
So call it a sleeper patent, because the dude was a sleep at the wheel.
Seriously, if you think somehting is "important" enough to patent, and
you do jack shit in due diligence to keep up on infringers OR to try and
license or employ it you (should) lose; doubly so if the latter. Obviously
extenuating circumstances could be considered if he had no lawyer on
retainer/his family didn't know and he was in a coma or stuck on a desert
island for a few years...
Misc. tidbits after grepping my mind and flipping though my library:
Plants are, afterall, what gave us an oxygenated atmosphere in the first place (well, a large part was done by their ancesotrs the blue green algae). Methane is more absorbant but less stable than CO2 (carbon dioxide is an incredibly stable molecule thermodynamically, and the methane autooxidizes). Plants produce oxygen and CO2 as well (they burn sugar they produce with photosynthesis during the day when resting at night (no sunlight)... why else would they make it?). Water vapor is actually the primary greenhouse gas, and we do exacerbate that as well (e.g; pump it into the desert where it can evaporate quickly). Marine vegetation probably provides about a 1.5 Gt carbon sink a year. Terrestrial carbon flux is rather complicated as soil health plays a major role in the net uptake (soil carbon load is about double that of all vegetation). Plants seem to be sinking a good 3-4 Gt of C, about half of what we were dumping into the atmosphere in 2000 (the mount is growing quickly).
See _Cycles of Life_ by Vaclav Smil published by Scientific American.
a) You have the order wrong
b) I suspect he meant overdrive i.e; wheels turning faster than the engine
Actually, the "article" itself makes the ID linkage.
Well the OS is there (Linux/BSD). Just throw a new CD drive in your safe with the ROMS.
TFA's title: Dying Star Reveals More Evidence... /. post doesn't imply this is the first
Even the