Girls who are hotter on the inside are cooler on the outside because of the greater effectiveness of their insulation layers.
Hey, a girls - AGW analogy that actually works!
If you are a Republican, this is not a justification for raping girls who give you the cold shoulder on the grounds that "she must be hot for me inside". I shouldn't need to say that, but having heard some of the utter crap coming out of American politicians mouths in the last few months, one has to make that clear.
Your analogy needs it to be raining lightly, and for the man to be using a large-bore hose going full power. There is a natural production of CO2, but it's between a tenth and a hundredth of the human production, depending on the volcanic activity in any particular year.
Agreed ; "pandemic" definitely does not equal "bio(-logical warfare) attack".
This approach has some past justification (Accenture being fuckwits and the DHS being scumbags notwithstanding). A year or two ago, some epidemiology people discovered that they could predict the progress of IIRC annual influenza epidemic by tracking the use of search terms such as "sniffles", "aches and pains", "headache" etc. IIRC, they used Google's zeitgeist to access the data.
How effective it is to extend this sort of approach to other media, and other sets of symptoms, is an open question. But it passes my "is this an approach worth evaluating or trialling" threshold.
There certainly was major cultural change consequent on the Black Death, including a substantial rise in the value of labour - which effectively ended the existence of slavery / serfdom within Britain (if not Europe overall) ; debt bondage still existed, but that's a substantially different thing to slavery. Freedom of travel became much more important de facto, as former serfs could move to work as paid labourers. A lot of changes in agriculture too, though I don't think you could sustain a claim that it averted ecological catastrophe - the Enclosures of a couple of centuries later were probably much more important.
Faith in religion though... continued pretty much un-changed. At the time, the Church suffered a considerable loss in authority, which probably helped foster the schism of the Reformation a couple of generations later. But that was just substituting one pile of religious shit for another pile of shit. The smell didn't improve for centuries. It's only just starting to improve in the last couple of generations.
The bit about assuming the same density is the killer. The pressure deep in the Earth is sufficiently high that the mineralogy at depth is more dense than the mineralogy that is stable at the surface. If we *knew* what the mineralogy at depth was (we don't) and if we knew the equation of state for those minerals, at those pressures and temperatures, for exactly those compositions, then we could calculate the density at each pressure, and thus the exact relationship between mass and radius.
What we can measure, on Earth, is the velocity of compressional and shear sound waves (seismic waves) from point to point across the surface. There are still significant arguments about the composition of the Earth's core, to several percent of components. The core is too light to be simple nickel-iron, but does it have several percent of sulphur, or oxygen. Or potassium (put that in your core and smoke your primordial versus radiogenic heat models)? All would work, closely enough to fit the measurements.
At this range, with this lack of precision of analysis, debates over the surface gravity are really likely to affect the number of angels you can fit per pinhead dance floor.
It is unreasonable - there's no medical use to seeing the images from an 8 year-old scan
Bollocks.
If something has been noticed in a recent check-up, then examining a record from 8 years ago to see if the problem was there (but not noticed) back then, can be a powerful tool to determining how fast an issue is changing. In my case, because I routinely get exposed to TB, I've had to go back to examine 10-year old records regularly when I've had another exposure event. This case... echo cardiograms... I can think of several reasons where I might want to look back at data from that time period (if I'd had any cardiograms done).
What the fuck the machine manufacturers are doing not having access to their own image formats after a mere 8 years is another question. It's on CD, so hardware to read it shouldn't be an issue. The format of data on the CD... well, that's mainly the domain of the hardware-software writers. But the commissioners of buying the equipment should have insisted on getting the specifications of the data formats before signing contracts. (People we develop stuff for insist on getting that from us. So we put the important stuff into the program code, not into the data files.)
So creative that, without watching any of the trailers, I could predict what was going to happen at almost every turn. It is, for fucks sake, a Bond movie ; it's got a formula to fit and it knows it.
As Bond movies go, it's a perfectly good one ; of all the Bonds, Craig is doing a good job in the role and is pretty much the only real competitor to Auld Reekie's milkman. But the rest of it - here a pre-credits chase sequence ; there some gadgets from Q ("R", whatever) ; multiple skin-of-the-teeth escapes. The climactic scene in the church was a reprise from OHMSS.
I paid my (and the wife's) £7.50 saw the movie ; didn't demand either my money or 2 hours of our lives back. And nothing unexpected in the movie at all. Even the flirting with Miss Moneypenny at the end was classic Bond.
Oh, hang on - they missed the hat frisbee-ed onto the hatstand. Oh, right ; now I feel cheated. Or was I laughing into the wife's ear and missed it? It's not worth £7.50 to go and find out.
Speaking as someone who first un-docked at Lave in late 1988 (when I got my first computer), and who has been happily searching out the Thargoid invasion fleet for the last couple of years in Oolite, you CAN recapture your youth (OK, late 20s) and have as much fun as you had then.
From one of TFAs, "A district court judge ordered that Galveston County polling locations stay open an extra two hours today. Polls will close at 8:54 p.m."
So, is that badly-written, or is normal ballot closing time 6:54pm? We're 07:00 to 22:00 here (discarding the am/pm ambiguity) and we still find people unable to get to the ballot in time.
With a paper-and-ink ballot system, some constituencies make a bit of a sport of trying to return the first results, taking just a few hours to count and check the votes.
At least, I've always used a pen rather than a pencil. But since I carry a pen everywhere (and a pencil too), I'm not sure what is in the voting booths, never having looked for something to write with.
Second, the penalty for not insuring your car is your registration gets cancelled/not renewed. If you don't have a car, it's not an issue. Fine, don't let me register the car I don't have.
I'm not sure quite what "registration" means in your jurisdiction. But for around 10 years I didn't own a car and therefore didn't have car insurance (I didn't have a TV or a TV license either, not that that's germane here ; but I still got the regular threatening letters). However I'd occasionally (several times a year) need to borrow the works van, or rent a car for a weekend to holiday with the wife.
So, if I'd been in your jurisdiction, and I'd been "de-registered", then what? Before being allowed to drive again, I'd have to re-sit my driving test? Or I'd have to go into the local DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority ; or your local equivalent) and do some paperwork to re-register? Bearing in mind that the work's van is fully insured and that I'd be using it with permission (so that the insurance applies) ; and normal hire-car insurance in this country includes fully comprehensive crash-and-walk-away (in US-ian, "CDW"?) levels of insurance.
I think you'll find that the machine is ageing, but hasn't died yet. Which is why the OP is looking at virtualising it, taking an image from the working system and such solutions.
But it hasn't died. Yet.
So, the PHB is taking a gamble on getting promoted out of the firing line for this problem before the problem is realised. That is weighed up against the (presumably well-constructed) CapEx proposals from the nerd farm to actually fix the problem. When you look at it in that light, it may be a fucking stupid decision (to not fix the problem), but it's not an irrational decision.
Possibly the PHB doesn't actually understand the problem. That's an educational issue for the denizens of the nerd farm ; they may or may not have succeeded in that. It may be a lost cause. They may not actually have the authority to tell the PHB that black is black and that white isn't black. But that's not a technical problem.
I wasn't talking about the PV panels falling on you, I was talking about the trees falling on you.
I misunderstood you. You had a bit of a blow recently somewhere in America, didn't you?
Trees should not be located where they can fall on people, not near the sides of the roads (where they can ALSO be run into by a car that is forced off the road and the people die)
I'd disagree. I've had to shovel people's brains back inside their heads after they'd wrapped their car round a tree. Having trees along the sides of roads, close in, so that drivers who are driving too fast for the road know that they are at danger of dieing is a very good use for a tree. After the first couple of decades, the tree generally comes off best. The trees also protect the people and property along the sides of the road from murderous / suicidal drivers.
Slowing down dangerously fast drivers by putting them into fear of their lives is good. It's the same logic as the "Nader spike" - a 2ft razor-sharp barb in the centre of the steering wheel of the car. It reduces the desire of the driver to drive excessively fast for the road conditions. I believe that modern technology could adapt the explosive pre-tensioners for seatbelts so that, after the seat belt has saved their lives, the mechanism garrotts them, slowly. As the saying about admirals goes, "Pour encourager les autres."
On long-distance, out-of-town roads where pedestrians and cyclists are not allowed, yeah, sure, let the cars go as fast as they like ; by definition, they can't hurt non-car users when they're (effectively) separated from the non-car-users. But even there, one of the most cost-effective, low maintenance ways of catching flying cars is scrub and bushes. Sometimes the drivers can even walk away.
and not near their houses where the trees can fall on those houses and kill the people inside.
Having spent the last 15 years fighting a tree that was too close for my liking to the house, I agree with the conclusion, but for different reasons. A large tree close to a house may - just may, just once in it's life time - be blown down causing injury to the occupants. But it's pretty unlikely. (If you live in a tornado or hurricane belt, YMMV. Your choice.) However, almost every year the tree is going to be causing damage to the foundations of the building, directly by root penetration and indirectly by soil heave associated with the water extraction of the tree.
Rule of thumb : there's as much of a tree below ground as there is above ground. So, if you keep that "overhang" of the tree onto the soil away from the shadow of your house, you're unlikely to get a significant foundation problem. (Note caveats concerning "trees grow", and "drains don't necessarily go where you think".) In the event of the tree toppling, you might get minor structural damage from the distal branches scraping the building, but you could count yourself "unlucky" (but not "reckless", which matters in court) if anyone was injured.
I've done more felling and arboriculture work than most people, and done it with teams of volunteers : when a tree comes down, it makes a hell of a din, and very few people fail to get the message and be "elsewhere" when one comes down. That includes when one tree brings down another (that was a pig of a site to manage). In the unlikely event of me buying a house with a "tree problem" (because I looked for these things when I was house-hunting ; ditto flooding problems), then my friend the bow saw and my bag of "silly rope tricks" would have reduced the tree to an appropriate size within days of moving in. (As it was, the people we brought from had already cut down the potential problems, leaving me with a minor stump problem. Big fucking deal.)
I've no sympathy for people who do this !@#$ to themselves. Wake up and smell the coffee and bite the damned bullet already. No sympathy.
I rather get the feeling that, if you were to turn up at this workplace with a roll of duct tape, an apple (fruit or computer ; doesn't really matter as long as it will fit into the target's mouth well enough to muffle the screams), a selection of home-made stun guns, barbed-wire whips and chilli-powder-coated butt plugs, and set about "persuading" the PHB responsible for this situation to think more rightly, then many of the people massaging these ancient machines will be ecstatic to see you.
But pending such a re-education campaign, less drastic methods would be needed, and there's your problem. PHBs who see the annual maintenance cost as more desirable than submitting a CapEx line for a system that is working.
But surely your ghost can sue the dickhead who didn't invest adequately in maintenance of the roof of the house, or strengthening it when putting a substantial load up there. Or would that dickhead be the guy lying dead under the (probably easily repaired) PV equipment with the cheapskate inadequate mountings.
[SIGH] I've spent the evening checking out the prices quoted for components for re-building the bathroom. I believe it's a concept called "due diligence". You do check these things before agreeing to a contract, don't you? (Well, I do.) And what do I find in the "News for Nerds" corner of the 'Net where I come for entertainment? Someone who doesn't even think of checking things out before doing them.
... which is morning one of your basic fire training. By the end of the second day, you've got over your panic attacks, and while you recognise that this is a serious, rapidly fatal situation, it's not exactly the first time that you've done this (what have you been doing for the last couple of days, after all?).
Days 3 and 4 you got breathing apparatus. And the temperature in the fire rooms went up a hundred degrees (Kelvin).
You did take the fire training courses that you were offered when you started work, didn't you? It's sweaty, somewhat dangerous, unpleasant, but ultimately confidence inspiring.
Checking the archives of SOE, the spy training schools (probably at GCHQ these days) and anything similar has a fair chance of revealing what classes cypher/ encryption were in routine use in the appropriate time interval. Which is a significant step to speeding up the overall task.
It would be wildly optimistic to hope to come across a decoded report from a spy that said "I told you last week that [...something..] but you've not acknowledged receipt of that news". But weirder things have happened.
The canister in which the message was found is of a type known to have been used by SOE (British spies ans saboteurs working in Fortress Europa). It's not impossible that it was an attempt by the German spooks to double-bluff the Allies... but you're stretching it a bit thin.
I'm sorry Mr Perens, it needs two or more Pythonians together to perform The Parrot Sketch. Or do you know more than you should about your FBI and/or RIAA surveillance teams?
Smoke-free zones were started in the largest cities in the late 1950s, particularly after the "great smogs" in London in IIRC 1956-7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_1956 tells me it was a little earlier.
The move to natural gas from the late 1960s made a big difference too.
I'm not sure if you can still buy plain un-treated coal. I'll have to keep my eyes peeled - good for fossils, and you occasionally get some nice iron pyrites crystals too.
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Go back and read it again.
Trying to drag the quality of First Post comments up is always going to be a futile game. But thanks for trying.
Whatever, it's an analogy. Pass some grease and we can have fun with it.
Hey, a girls - AGW analogy that actually works!
If you are a Republican, this is not a justification for raping girls who give you the cold shoulder on the grounds that "she must be hot for me inside". I shouldn't need to say that, but having heard some of the utter crap coming out of American politicians mouths in the last few months, one has to make that clear.
Your analogy needs it to be raining lightly, and for the man to be using a large-bore hose going full power. There is a natural production of CO2, but it's between a tenth and a hundredth of the human production, depending on the volcanic activity in any particular year.
This approach has some past justification (Accenture being fuckwits and the DHS being scumbags notwithstanding). A year or two ago, some epidemiology people discovered that they could predict the progress of IIRC annual influenza epidemic by tracking the use of search terms such as "sniffles", "aches and pains", "headache" etc. IIRC, they used Google's zeitgeist to access the data.
How effective it is to extend this sort of approach to other media, and other sets of symptoms, is an open question. But it passes my "is this an approach worth evaluating or trialling" threshold.
Faith in religion though ... continued pretty much un-changed. At the time, the Church suffered a considerable loss in authority, which probably helped foster the schism of the Reformation a couple of generations later. But that was just substituting one pile of religious shit for another pile of shit. The smell didn't improve for centuries. It's only just starting to improve in the last couple of generations.
What we can measure, on Earth, is the velocity of compressional and shear sound waves (seismic waves) from point to point across the surface. There are still significant arguments about the composition of the Earth's core, to several percent of components. The core is too light to be simple nickel-iron, but does it have several percent of sulphur, or oxygen. Or potassium (put that in your core and smoke your primordial versus radiogenic heat models)? All would work, closely enough to fit the measurements.
At this range, with this lack of precision of analysis, debates over the surface gravity are really likely to affect the number of angels you can fit per pinhead dance floor.
FTFY
Oh it's just Americans murdering other Americans. Nothing important.
What is a "live account", and why would I want (or need) one?
Bollocks.
If something has been noticed in a recent check-up, then examining a record from 8 years ago to see if the problem was there (but not noticed) back then, can be a powerful tool to determining how fast an issue is changing. In my case, because I routinely get exposed to TB, I've had to go back to examine 10-year old records regularly when I've had another exposure event. This case ... echo cardiograms ... I can think of several reasons where I might want to look back at data from that time period (if I'd had any cardiograms done).
What the fuck the machine manufacturers are doing not having access to their own image formats after a mere 8 years is another question. It's on CD, so hardware to read it shouldn't be an issue. The format of data on the CD ... well, that's mainly the domain of the hardware-software writers. But the commissioners of buying the equipment should have insisted on getting the specifications of the data formats before signing contracts. (People we develop stuff for insist on getting that from us. So we put the important stuff into the program code, not into the data files.)
So creative that, without watching any of the trailers, I could predict what was going to happen at almost every turn. It is, for fucks sake, a Bond movie ; it's got a formula to fit and it knows it.
As Bond movies go, it's a perfectly good one ; of all the Bonds, Craig is doing a good job in the role and is pretty much the only real competitor to Auld Reekie's milkman. But the rest of it - here a pre-credits chase sequence ; there some gadgets from Q ("R", whatever) ; multiple skin-of-the-teeth escapes. The climactic scene in the church was a reprise from OHMSS.
I paid my (and the wife's) £7.50 saw the movie ; didn't demand either my money or 2 hours of our lives back. And nothing unexpected in the movie at all. Even the flirting with Miss Moneypenny at the end was classic Bond.
Oh, hang on - they missed the hat frisbee-ed onto the hatstand. Oh, right ; now I feel cheated. Or was I laughing into the wife's ear and missed it? It's not worth £7.50 to go and find out.
Why?
So, is that badly-written, or is normal ballot closing time 6:54pm? We're 07:00 to 22:00 here (discarding the am/pm ambiguity) and we still find people unable to get to the ballot in time.
With a paper-and-ink ballot system, some constituencies make a bit of a sport of trying to return the first results, taking just a few hours to count and check the votes.
At least, I've always used a pen rather than a pencil. But since I carry a pen everywhere (and a pencil too), I'm not sure what is in the voting booths, never having looked for something to write with.
I'm not sure quite what "registration" means in your jurisdiction. But for around 10 years I didn't own a car and therefore didn't have car insurance (I didn't have a TV or a TV license either, not that that's germane here ; but I still got the regular threatening letters). However I'd occasionally (several times a year) need to borrow the works van, or rent a car for a weekend to holiday with the wife.
So, if I'd been in your jurisdiction, and I'd been "de-registered", then what? Before being allowed to drive again, I'd have to re-sit my driving test? Or I'd have to go into the local DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority ; or your local equivalent) and do some paperwork to re-register? Bearing in mind that the work's van is fully insured and that I'd be using it with permission (so that the insurance applies) ; and normal hire-car insurance in this country includes fully comprehensive crash-and-walk-away (in US-ian, "CDW"?) levels of insurance.
But it hasn't died. Yet.
So, the PHB is taking a gamble on getting promoted out of the firing line for this problem before the problem is realised. That is weighed up against the (presumably well-constructed) CapEx proposals from the nerd farm to actually fix the problem. When you look at it in that light, it may be a fucking stupid decision (to not fix the problem), but it's not an irrational decision.
Possibly the PHB doesn't actually understand the problem. That's an educational issue for the denizens of the nerd farm ; they may or may not have succeeded in that. It may be a lost cause. They may not actually have the authority to tell the PHB that black is black and that white isn't black. But that's not a technical problem.
I misunderstood you. You had a bit of a blow recently somewhere in America, didn't you?
I'd disagree. I've had to shovel people's brains back inside their heads after they'd wrapped their car round a tree. Having trees along the sides of roads, close in, so that drivers who are driving too fast for the road know that they are at danger of dieing is a very good use for a tree. After the first couple of decades, the tree generally comes off best. The trees also protect the people and property along the sides of the road from murderous / suicidal drivers.
Slowing down dangerously fast drivers by putting them into fear of their lives is good. It's the same logic as the "Nader spike" - a 2ft razor-sharp barb in the centre of the steering wheel of the car. It reduces the desire of the driver to drive excessively fast for the road conditions. I believe that modern technology could adapt the explosive pre-tensioners for seatbelts so that, after the seat belt has saved their lives, the mechanism garrotts them, slowly. As the saying about admirals goes, "Pour encourager les autres."
On long-distance, out-of-town roads where pedestrians and cyclists are not allowed, yeah, sure, let the cars go as fast as they like ; by definition, they can't hurt non-car users when they're (effectively) separated from the non-car-users. But even there, one of the most cost-effective, low maintenance ways of catching flying cars is scrub and bushes. Sometimes the drivers can even walk away.
Having spent the last 15 years fighting a tree that was too close for my liking to the house, I agree with the conclusion, but for different reasons. A large tree close to a house may - just may, just once in it's life time - be blown down causing injury to the occupants. But it's pretty unlikely. (If you live in a tornado or hurricane belt, YMMV. Your choice.) However, almost every year the tree is going to be causing damage to the foundations of the building, directly by root penetration and indirectly by soil heave associated with the water extraction of the tree.
Rule of thumb : there's as much of a tree below ground as there is above ground. So, if you keep that "overhang" of the tree onto the soil away from the shadow of your house, you're unlikely to get a significant foundation problem. (Note caveats concerning "trees grow", and "drains don't necessarily go where you think".) In the event of the tree toppling, you might get minor structural damage from the distal branches scraping the building, but you could count yourself "unlucky" (but not "reckless", which matters in court) if anyone was injured.
I've done more felling and arboriculture work than most people, and done it with teams of volunteers : when a tree comes down, it makes a hell of a din, and very few people fail to get the message and be "elsewhere" when one comes down. That includes when one tree brings down another (that was a pig of a site to manage). In the unlikely event of me buying a house with a "tree problem" (because I looked for these things when I was house-hunting ; ditto flooding problems), then my friend the bow saw and my bag of "silly rope tricks" would have reduced the tree to an appropriate size within days of moving in. (As it was, the people we brought from had already cut down the potential problems, leaving me with a minor stump problem. Big fucking deal.)
I rather get the feeling that, if you were to turn up at this workplace with a roll of duct tape, an apple (fruit or computer ; doesn't really matter as long as it will fit into the target's mouth well enough to muffle the screams), a selection of home-made stun guns, barbed-wire whips and chilli-powder-coated butt plugs, and set about "persuading" the PHB responsible for this situation to think more rightly, then many of the people massaging these ancient machines will be ecstatic to see you.
But pending such a re-education campaign, less drastic methods would be needed, and there's your problem. PHBs who see the annual maintenance cost as more desirable than submitting a CapEx line for a system that is working.
[SIGH] I've spent the evening checking out the prices quoted for components for re-building the bathroom. I believe it's a concept called "due diligence". You do check these things before agreeing to a contract, don't you? (Well, I do.) And what do I find in the "News for Nerds" corner of the 'Net where I come for entertainment? Someone who doesn't even think of checking things out before doing them.
Days 3 and 4 you got breathing apparatus. And the temperature in the fire rooms went up a hundred degrees (Kelvin).
You did take the fire training courses that you were offered when you started work, didn't you? It's sweaty, somewhat dangerous, unpleasant, but ultimately confidence inspiring.
It would be wildly optimistic to hope to come across a decoded report from a spy that said "I told you last week that [...something..] but you've not acknowledged receipt of that news". But weirder things have happened.
The canister in which the message was found is of a type known to have been used by SOE (British spies ans saboteurs working in Fortress Europa). It's not impossible that it was an attempt by the German spooks to double-bluff the Allies ... but you're stretching it a bit thin.
I'm sorry Mr Perens, it needs two or more Pythonians together to perform The Parrot Sketch. Or do you know more than you should about your FBI and/or RIAA surveillance teams?
The move to natural gas from the late 1960s made a big difference too.
I'm not sure if you can still buy plain un-treated coal. I'll have to keep my eyes peeled - good for fossils, and you occasionally get some nice iron pyrites crystals too.